Delicatessen

I was just at the deli with Lizzie in the cart, (the boys are at school,) and the deli guy looks at Lizzie and launches into "Ni hao!" and something else that he explains means "Aren't you pretty and what is your name?" in Mandarin. He tells me that he thinks babies must be comforted by hearing the language they first heard in the orphanage. This would have all been vaguely offensive if it hadn't been hilarious.