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As I used to say on my TV program; what kind of wok can't you cook on?

Of course, the question would confuse the viewers of my television program, but the answer is obvious.

It's rare for there to be a false friend between Cantonese or Mandarin aka Chinese and English because Chinese and English are very different languages and belong to different language groups and often sound very different. By the way, the TOTW definition for a false cognate is wrong. A "false friend" is what you're looking for. It's two words in different languages that sound the same but have different meanings. A false cognate is similar, but the words have different etymologies. A cognate is words related in origin that descended from the same root, the etymology. Capiche?

Perhaps the TOTW could have been; things are not always the way they appear