Peter Sung also recounts how once when the company put up a Chinese ceremonial arch in New York's Chinatown, the ceramic tiles-of a type widely used in Taiwan for centuries-were not up to the cold of the continental winter. In the first year the colored glaze on them flaked off, so Sung had to send staff all the way to New York to replace them.
宋文堯記得，他們在美國紐約的唐人街做過一座中國牌坊，在台灣廣為使用數百年的陶瓦，竟然耐不住大雪的冰凍，當年冬天瓦上的釉色就紛紛剝裂，他們還遠道前去補了半天。