Sherman Lui Siu Yung, doctor, Hong Kong
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Devil. Whale. Chlorophyll, Violante, Treacle — you name it, Hong Kong probably has someone who goes by it. Inquisitive, enterprising and...
I guess it's a he?
ReplyDeleteThere was a waitress who was called Sherman at this restaurant that we once went to on a weekly basis with grandpa. She said that she just liked the name. I didn't mention to her that it is most famous as the name of a US tank from WW2.
I also guess this doctor is male, and probably stick thin.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been even funnier if your Sherman waitress was a huge strapping bulk of a woman whose every step would make the restaurant tables shake! However, using the generalizations and averageness of the local Hongkie population, she was most likely a dainty little thing! Lol.
Sherman was not large, though the restaurant was in Burwood, which, while populated with some Hongkies, isn't quite as bad as HK.
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