She marveled at the technicolor coral reefs and rainbow-colored fish. She gaped at the double rainbows stretching the mile-wide Waimea Canyon, along the Na Pali coast's jagged cliffs, and over the beautiful Wailua Falls.
Back home in Shanghai, Mingmei grinned in anticipation of her parent’s reaction to the expensive Hawaiian souvenir she had bought them: a wooden sand and seashell laden “Aloha” picture frame.
However, her happiness quickly changed to embarrassment when her parents turned over the picture frame to reveal a “Made in China” stamp.