Thursday, March 11, 2010

Good Name for a Foodcourt?

When things come to a critical point to be settled, they come with friends, family members, peers, colleagues well almost every Ah Kow, Arumugam and Ali (together with their wives, no doubt) one least expected.

Yes, being bogged down with deadlines from all corners of my life. The unmistaken fruit from my massive Procastination Tree.
*sigh*

But everyone has to breathe. Here's a quickie.Definition of CHOW


noun
Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. Slang eats, grub. Ingestion.

verb
To take (food) into the body as nourishment: consume, devour, eat, fare, ingest, partake. Idioms: break bread, havetakea bite. See ingestion.

But in a bustling capital city of Kuala Lumpur where Cantonese dialect is widely spoken, the word sounds like ..
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Why don't you tell me? ;D

12 comments:

choi yen said...

chow = stinky?

Babe_KL said...

LOL Mimi!!!

Din know Chow Foodcourt (originated from The Weld) branches out its wings!

Ciki said...

hahahaha ... CCB :P

Lyrical Lemongrass said...

I dun spik chineze!

HairyBerry said...

for the love of food, what were they thinking!?? hahaha!

then again, reading their slogan, i guess it won't bother most of the customers lah. hahaha!

Rasa Malaysia said...
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UnkaLeong said...

I second Ciki's comment :P

choi yen said...

tell me tell me!!!

Big Boys Oven said...

hahahah Chow Yuen Fatt!

Hazza said...

smelly indeed! what a name!

Tummythoz said...

Hahaha u all so funny-lah.

Lily Lang said...

That it is . Your article are useful for me.
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