Denys Parsons, Funny
Amusing and Funny Amazing (London: Pan Books, 1969), p. 47.
CHINESE PUZZLE
The American woman tourist insisted on buying the
material for a coat, and brushed aside the protests of the Chinese salesman.
She just loved that authentic Chinese lettering on the material.
But when the woman collected her new coat and put it
on, Chinese children kept following her in the street, says Gene Gleason in his
book ‘Tales of Hongkong’ (Robert Hale, 25s). And in a restaurant everyone
stared at her in amazement. They seemed intrigued by the Chinese lettering,
which was across her chest. At last, the woman’s husband asked a waiter to
explain the characters. The translation was ‘condensed milk’. -- Weekend
