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Originally Posted by komitsuki
It could be that the Chinese store owners didn't speak Mandarin at all. They could've usually spoken another dialect among themselves and they were awkward of listening Mandarin in a foreign place. Perhaps they typically spoke either Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Shanghaiese, generic Min Nan (including Taiwanese), Taishanese, or Teochew.
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If I know the meaning of "ni hao" i have a hard time believing a native Chinese person would not know the same meaning.