Hunan Beef

S02E11 The Chinese RestaurantretroMar 21, 19965 years later5 posts by 4 posters
🧠 Theory

Fans discuss whether the restaurant name "Hunan Beef" sounds like "Human Beef" and connects to Jerry's closing stand-up about cannibalism in the episode.

5 posts
Cindi White

In reference to the "Chinese Restaurant" episode...The subject of Jerry's epilogue, or closing stand up act during the credits in this episode is cannibalism. What this has to do with the focus of the epsiode itself I don't know, unless he was referring to how hungry you'd have to be to, in fact, cannabalize, and elaine was pretty hungry. But then I remembered the opening shot was of the restaurant itself, the name of which is "Hunan Beef" which at first glance might appear "human", yes? What d'you think? Am I reaching?

THere was this article titled "Hunan Beef" sometime ago saying that the name of the Chinese Restaruant called "Hunan Beef" looks like "Human Beef". Well, I think the word "Hunan" means "South" (nan) of a "lake" (Hu). And Hunan is a (province?) in China.

In article , [email] (Denise Lok Yee Wong) wrote:

i posted a question regarding this episode a while ago but got no responses...i coiuldn't figure out what jerru's stand-up epilogue about cannibalism had to do with the rest of that show (chinese restaurant), but then i remembered the "hunan beef" that at first glance i thought said "human beef"...

In article , [email] (Cindi White) wrote:

Was this by any chance on April, 1 ??????

Obviously it refers to the Hunan region of China, DUH, like the Chinese word for Human sounds anything like Hunan in Chinese.

Yes and yes.

Bob Teeter | "Write me a few of your lines" [email] | --Mississippi Fred McDowell Contra CDA: Reproductive health info is available from Planned Parenthood, 1691 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 287-7526