New Victory For Client

I just received this from one of my victims, Elise Lefebvre:

“Yesterday night, I was invited for dinner at a Chinese friend’s place for what seemed to be the last of the Chinese/lunar new year celebrations, with his family and extended family. After a delicious meal of taro cooked in coconut milk, pigs trotters cooked in coca cola and other specialties, my friend unfolded two dice games mats, and the ten of us or so around the table started a two-hour game of, well, let’s call it saï dïe (small big). It was in fact two types of board or dice games in one.

They briefly explained me the rules in English, but really, with a minimum of sense of observation and a few words of Cantonese, I was able to understand AND play with them. And in Cantonese. All I needed to know was four names of animals (we’d learned two already in “class”), numbers, big and small, the word for “dollar”, two symbols (which I had to learn) and a couple of inoffensive swear words which I had a very good knowledge of already. We played for two hours, and there was NO need for English since I understood all the words. Wine was flowing, every one was merry (someone even thanked me for the wine, although I hadn’t brought any, perhaps he wanted to thank my country for making it), the game was exciting… it was all a fascinating, heart-warming experience. And I needed the warmth as it was 7 degrees went I left the New Territories at around midnight.

I was still gambling on hens and double fours in my dreams at night.. all in Canto.”

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