A Questionable Dish
A German merchant dining with a Chinese Mandarin at Hongkong, seemed to be very much pleased with the foreign dishes. He had just been enjoying a roast, when the disquieting thought struck him, that he might have been dining off a cat, as he had been told that the Chinese ate cats as well as rats. He determined to find out. But unluckily the Chinaman did not speak German, and the German did not understand Chinese, so the latter pointed at the dish saying: “Miau, miau!”
“Wow, wow!” said the Chinaman, shaking his head.