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The hotel's huge open-air breakfast room is surrounded by a pool full of fish, mostly multi-hued carp. There's a big cast concrete fish painted with a sign in English and Chinese characters saying “Please don't feed me,” but some people can 't resist. ... Maybe my reading the kid's book made me look less intimidating than the usual big foreigner might seem, so she ginned up the courage to ask me where I was from. I understood her question and responded, “Wo shi Meiguoren. ...