hum bow

English

Alternative forms

  • humbow, hum bao, humbao, hom bow, hombow

Etymology

From Cantonese. The first element appears to be unclear, either 鹹／咸 (haam4, “salty”)[1] or 餡／馅 (haam6-2, “filling”). The second element is certainly 包 (baau1, “bun”), related to English baozi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hum bow (countable and uncountable, plural hum bows)

  1. (Northwestern US) char siu bao with browned glazed bread
    Hypernym: bao

Translations

References

  1. ^ Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia‎[1]: “For example, foods such as barbecued pork buns are called 叉燒飽 / 叉烧饱 (CC) ta-su-baau in many Chinatowns, but in Seattle, they are more commonly known as 鹹飽 / 咸饱 (CC) haahm-baau.”
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