MOISHE PLOTNICK’S CHINESE LAUNDRY
Walking through San
Francisco's Chinatown, a tourist from the Midwest was fascinated with all the
Chinese restaurants, shops, signs and banners.
He turned a corner and saw a building with the sign "Moishe
Plotnik's Chinese Laundry."
"Moishe Plotnik?" he
wondered. "How does that fit
in Chinatown?"
So he walked into the shop and
saw a fairly standard looking Chinese laundry. He could see that the proprietors
were clearly aware of the uniqueness of the name as there were baseball hats,
T-shirts and coffee mugs emblazoned with the logo "Moishe Plotnik's Chinese
Laundry." There was also a fair selection of Chinatown souvenirs,
indicating that the name alone had brought many tourists into the shop.
The tourist selected a coffee cup
as a conversation piece to take back to his office.
Behind the counter was a smiling old Chinese gentleman who thanked him
for his purchase. The tourist asked, "Can you tell me how this place got a
name like "Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry?" The old man answered,
"Ahh... Everybody asks me
that. It's the name of the
owner."
Looking around, the tourist
asked, "Is he here now?" "He is right here," replied the old
man.
"He is me."
"Really? You're Chinese. How
did you ever get a name like Moishe Plotnik?"
"Is simple," said the
old man. "Many, many years ago
when I came to this country, I was standing
in line at the documentation center. The man in front of me was a Jewish
gentleman from Poland.
The lady at the counter looked at him and said, "What is your name?"
He said, " Moishe Plotnik."
Then she looked at me and
said, "What is your name?" I
said, "Sam Ting."
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