Growing up in Eugene, I was always known as "Oh! You’re Hana’s Restaurant!” For those of you that don’t know Hana’s Restaurant, I should slap you… just kidding. In 1993, my uhm mah (mom in Korean) Mia, started a Japanese/Korean/whatever she felt like cooking restaurant near the University of Oregon campus called Hana’s.
Uhm mah said she named the restaurant after me, her one and only daughter, her pride and joy ;) but decided to spell the name differently for the following reasons:
1. Hana has multiple meanings in a variety of languages:
· Korean: One
· Japanese: Flower, nose
· Other meanings: Favorite, grace, happiness
2. My Favorite reason: (If you ask her, this is exactly what she'll say)
“Hannah has too many letters, 6, too expensive when you make sign, so I spell Hannah with 4 letters: H-A-N-A, save me lots of money. Geeze, your mom is so smart, huh!”
So Hana it was.
I used to always tell my little brother Daniel that she would name her next restaurant after him, ha, yeah right. Who wants to go to a restaurant that means "God is my Judge"
3 comments:
I love your mom's logic in shortening the name Hannah...brilliant.
So Stuart means "Keeper of the estate" ... I cant tell if that is cool or creepy.
hahaha i laughed out loud at the thought of a restaurant named after your bro... love it.
LOL!!!!!
My name means Captivating...III know. ;-)
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