Maxim of the Week is Back!

Ping Yu goes into the stockroom of the Porcelain Emporium and brings out another "rare" Chinese vase to replace the one she just sold.

Maxim:

There's a sucker born every minute.

I thought this particular maxim was fitting after the picture I posted yesterday (see below) and the recent mini-tours through Vancouver's Chinatown that I blogged about over on Décolleté.  I for one don't mind buying genuine fake Chinoiseries!  I was like a kid in a candy store roaming the aisles between shelves crammed and jammed with colourful teapots, figurines, soup bowls, china soup spoons, embroidered linens, silk dresses and bags, and paper parasols; to say nothing of the piles of little doo-dads that one could only marvel at and guess at their use.  The two small items I did buy (for under $5) didn't quite hold together once I removed them from their plastic packaging...Sounds like fodder for another maxim: "You get what you pay for."