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."©JOKEDEMO.COM

"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.©JOKEDEMO.COM

The tourist asked, "Can you tell me how this place got a name like 'Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry'?"©JOKEDEMO.COM

The old man answered, "Ahh... Everybody asks me that. It's the name of the owner."©JOKEDEMO.COM

Looking around, the tourist asked, "Is he here now?"©JOKEDEMO.COM

"He is right here," replied the old man. "He is me."©JOKEDEMO.COM

"Really? How did you ever get a name like Moishe Plotnik?"©JOKEDEMO.COM

"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.©JOKEDEMO.COM

The lady at the counter looked at him and said, "and#27011;hat is your name?'©JOKEDEMO.COM

He said, 'Moishe Plotnik.' Then she looked at me and said, 'What is your name?'" I said, 'Sam Ting.'"