- Henry the Cook: [reading a meal order and switching back and forth between English and Chinese or Cantonese] Egg rolls, sweet and sour pork, won ton soup. Five won ton soup
- [speaks a few words in Chinese or Cantonese]
- Henry the Cook: . We don't have won ton soup. We have won ton spelled backwards: 'not now.'
- Jo: This mystery is appropriately Chinese: what's not there seems to have just as much meaning as what is there.
- Jo: [voice-over narration after Steve has talked in a demeaning way about Chan Hung - the missing Chan of the title - as being a naive, humorless 'Fresh Off the Boat' immigrant who didn't know when Steve was joking about wanting an expensive pair of pants that Chan once wore] The 'F.O.B.s,' Fresh Off the Boat, as Steve called them, didn't come off of boats. They came off of jumbo jets. Steve doesn't realize the joke about the pants is really on him. Chan Hung told me he sometimes play up being an F.O.B., just to make Steve mad. Chan Hung does have a sense of humor that doesn't translate into English. Like
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- Jo: in Chinese.
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