mung

A game similar to tag which the person tags another person and the person is "it". Mung is different that it played amongst boys and the tagging is done by touching the crotch of the person. The person that got tagged in the crotch is munged. All the other players must then much protect their crotch by having their hands over their crotch and the munged have to wait till someone lets their guard down and in striking distance to mung them. Sometimes the tag in the crotch is not just a simple tag. It can be a hard pull. A game of mung can go on for days as long as that munged person is "it". The term mung means to pull in Cantonese or hoisan, hoiping dialects. No one is sure where the game originated from but it most likely came from the Ping Yuen projects of San Francisco's Chinatown since many young residents of the Ping Yuen projects were playing it.