My Name Is Yu Ming – Humour

www.atom.com — A bored Chinese shopkeep learns Gaelic and moves to Dublin only to find the locals no longer speak their mother tongue. Follow Yu Ming as he pursues his dream of life in the Celtic world. (Stumbled on this today...a tad amateurish, but poignant and charmingly quirky)

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