Friday, 24 August 2007

When it's good to look Chinese

As a postscript to my first ever post, I'd like to say that although our Belgian masseur was mistaken about my heritage, my new Chinese landlord agent-to-be certainly wasn't. He manages the property for a Shanghai-based landlord and the flat seems to have only been previously let to Chinese students. One of the first things he said to me was "Are you part Chinese?". I said yes and told him the (slightly exaggerated) story of my grandfather fleeing the communists, said "Gong Hee Fat Choi" and we secured the flat - score! Now let's just hope the reason it's so cheap isn't because of dodgy Triad links...

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