Got a hankering for a big bowl of bowels?

Found this o-motsu restaurant on the way home from the office a few weeks ago. At first I thought it was just another variation of the “nantoka-don” restaurant (bowl of rice topped with beef or chicken or what have you), and that my man needed to turn on his spell-check function.

My Japanese colleagues set me straight, however, noting that this sign is for a place specializing in o-motsu, which translates as giblets or umbles (Space ALC online dictionary).  A thesaurus can be a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands …