>>>>>Now Alan, I can pronounce your name. Does that make me nobody? :)
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>>>>Rhymes with Kung-Pow, as in Kung-Pow Chicken. ;-)
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>>>At the end of Popow, the 'ow' is pronounced as in 'slow'. Is that how Kung-Pow is pronounced? I've always pronounced the 'ow' in Kung-Pow as in 'brow'. Of course, I'm not an expert on Oriental pronunciations, so I'd like to know for sure. Maybe that's why whenever I ask for Kung-Pow chicken, I end up with Colonel Sanders. ;)
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>>Then shouldn't you spell your last name "Popo" or "Popoh"? :)
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>I used to tell people it was pronounced "Jones" because, well, it's my last name and I can pronounce it however I want.

It was on the news a few months ago - a mass gathering of Jones-es from around the world, all celebrating their Welsh heritage or something. Turned out though that there's not all that much common lineage as the name is patronymic, coming from a father-figure whose given name is Jon, Joan at al. So many disparate families.

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>>I couldn't tell you one way or another. I don't even know if Kung-Pow chicken is even a real dish in China or something they cooked up to feed to us Americans.
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>>I know one thing, I've tried the real down and dirty Chinese food, and I couldn't stomach it.
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>My friend Lynn and I love dim sum. One day we went to a place near my house called Ruby's on the advice of a Chinese friend. There was not one thing on any of the carts that either of us recognised. We are now happily back to the Canadian Chinese dim sum places where they serve authentic and palatable fake Chinese food.

Had dim sums in HK, all afternoon, with pot after pot of tea. It was to die. Luckily though had a native HK companion with us to guide us through all the steamers :-)

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