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‘It’s goose meat, not Chanel’: excited Chinese wife gets dolled-up for top-brand fashion outing only to find husband taking her to meat store

  • Woman in Taiwan spends an hour on make-up ahead of trip to iconic French fashion store only to end up outside a goose meat shop
  • Husband’s tale gets hilarious reaction on social media as he prepares for a roasting from disappointed wife

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A husband in Taiwan is in hot water with his wife after he told her he was taking her on a shopping trip to “Chanel” when in fact they were going to a goose meat shop, the name of which sounds like the French fashion brand in Mandarin. Photo: SCMP composite
Fran Luin Beijing

An excited woman in Taiwan who spent ages preparing and putting on makeup for a shopping trip to Chanel was dumbfounded to discover that her husband was taking her to a goose meat shop, which sounds like the French fashion brand in Mandarin.

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The husband, who posted his prank on social media Facebook in December, said his wife “has disappeared for two days” after he promised to take her to “Xiangnai’er”, a well-known Mandarin transliteration of the French luxury fashion house Chanel.

However, she was crestfallen to find herself outside a goose meat shop also called “Xiangnai’er”, the online news platform HK01 reported on February 19.

The man said his wife was excited about the upcoming “Chanel” trip and spent nearly an hour putting on makeup.

Goosed: the pranking husband is in trouble with his wife after she spent ages getting ready for non-existent high-fashion trip. Photo: Shutterstock
Goosed: the pranking husband is in trouble with his wife after she spent ages getting ready for non-existent high-fashion trip. Photo: Shutterstock

“It is impossible to not wear makeup when going to places like that,” he recalled his wife saying.

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Unsurprisingly, the woman was shocked and speechless when she saw the meat shop and “stopped answering me when I talked to her,” the husband said.

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