When Doyle spoke his standard Mandarin with a hint of a Taiwan accent, Teng's Beijing artist friend asked, "Why did this Taiwanese dye his hair brown?"
他那一口帶著一點台灣腔的標準國語，在北京旅館電梯門口遇見台灣建築師登琨豔，讓登琨豔的北京畫家朋友直問：為什麼這位「台胞」朋友要作怪到把頭髮染色？