Evan now has a favorite Chinese TV show. It comes on at 7:00 am every morning and while in Mandarin, is clearly about the adventures of Marco Polo (Te shi "Marco Polo"!). It's basically the Marco Polo story we all remember from school - you know - how the great Khan (who appears to be some sort of benevolent Chinese Santa Claus) commanded the Italian explorer Marco Polo (played by a blond-haired American with a Tom Selleck mustache and a sword as big as your leg) to travel through out China and use his amazing gung foo powers to right wrongs and thrash villains. He is accompanied by a merry band of follows - there's a big muscular guy with a beard who braids his hair from the back of his head around under his chin. He doesn't have any weapons but just picks up the bad guys and dashes them to the ground while going grrrrr - there's also a little guy who has all these really quick moves with two short curly swords. He grins manically while he chops everyone to pieces. These also a comic servant who get beat up a lot but also has some sort of power hand move. It seems you have to get really pissed off first before the power hand works. The servant always gets beat up at the beginning of the episode and then in the big fight scene at the end something happens to get him really pissed off - then he squats down like he's really constipated, sticks his right hand straight out and runs around blowing everything up. Needless to say Evan loves this and can't get enough.
This evening we got some even better news for Evan. Steve Ottman, Chia and I stopped for dumplings after having the visa pictures taken of our kids and Chia asked Lily what it big theater next to the hotel was showing. Lily said they do live gung foo shows every night! I've arrange for Evan to go either tomorrow or Tuesday, so lookout Marco Polo!
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