One of my earliest memories of a TV personality (on par with Mister Rogers, in my three-year-old estimation) was of a Chinese chef named Dan. He wore aprons with funny slogans on them, and his TV show was called 'Wok With Dan'. My mother once even took me to sit in the studio audience and watch his show being taped.
Years later, I saw another Chinese cooking show with a different title and a chef named Martin Yan, and I thought Martin was Dan's older brother. Fortunately it didn't take very long for me to figure out that the other show had not been called Wok With Dan, and that it was actually the same guy. (I was a little white girl from farm country in Canada, and I'd never met anyone named Yan. It was an easy mistake.)
So I'm a lifelong fan. If I'm home on a Sunday I still watch Martin Yan's Chinatowns while I eat lunch.
A childhood belief about tv shows
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.— Adriana
- I thought the tip jar at the restaurant was so people could give the chef cooking tips for how to cook better.Anon
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- I used to believe Martin Luther King chose your birthday.Anon
- I used to think that every time a show came on tv, that the actors were inside my tv acting out the show.Anon
- I used to believe that there was an actual show, listed in the various guides, called "To Be Announced."— Donna