Comments on: Book Lovers Unite.

By: Rummuser

Rummuser — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:06:05 +0000

Looney, you keep going up in my esteem by leaps and bounds, as you quietly keep letting new information leak out about you.

By: Looney

Looney — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:51:16 +0000

I was tempted to comment earlier on your weak kneed westerners post. When I was in college studying engineering, I took a few years of Chinese classes. My mother-in-law lived with us a few years and this reinforced things since she doesn’t know any English. There are too many western males with wobbly knees who are good at Platonic relationships as long as they can’t communicate!

By: Rummuser

Rummuser — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:40:23 +0000

Wow Looney, you know Chinese too! You amaze me. No wonder that I instinctively added you to my list of heroes.

By: Rummuser

Rummuser — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:39:28 +0000

My pleasure.

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:12:59 +0000

I copied and pasted, and it opened for me. Thank you.

By: Looney

Looney — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:07:20 +0000

I double checked and it still works. Maybe Chinese characters don’t work on your browser?

Also, y’all might like to know that Wong Fook Hing is almost certainly the shop owners name. Wong is a common family name, while Fook Hing is a given name meaning something like “prosperous recovery”.

By: Rummuser

Rummuser — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:01:12 +0000

Let us do some research!

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:01 +0000

Looney, that link didn’t work for me.

By: Rummuser

Rummuser — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:59:30 +0000

Thank you. I did enjoy the experience!

By: Looney

Looney — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:33:27 +0000

Rummuser, I haven’t seen it but we can narrow the search considerably. Most of the closing Chinese shops around here are Mandarin speakers, but the shop is Cantonese. The last few characters of their sign indicate they are selling high school text books. My guess is the shop is in Hong Kong given the lack of an American address. After a little more search:

http://www.hkbsia.org/index.php?gOo=goods_details.dwt&goodsid=268&productname=

Enjoy!