I bought a pair of trainers recently from a shop
in Fa Yuen Street –also nicknamed Sneakers Street (波鞋街). It was one of
many shops there as the nickname will tell you, most of them nondescript except for the names of the major brand names emblazoned on
the store fronts.
Got the shoes home and the shopping bag sat there for
several days... This morning I looked the bag they gave me. I laughed.
The word "wank", of course, is British slang, the verb and noun for masturbation. As parochial sexual slang goes, its limited usage means few in the Orient are sensitive to its connotation in a non-Brit setting. It may also be funny to a Westerner, for the "ee" suffix might sound like a caricature (as in Fu Manchu) and "orientalisation" of the word.
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