Once, when Wang was in America, she wanted to buy a rolling pin to make Chinese you bing pancakes, but she didn't know how to explain what she wanted in English. After a great struggle, she found a short club in a store that she thought would do. When she was settling the bill, the cashier told someone to get the other half of her purchase out of the stockroom.
王佩晴也曾在美國超市想找一根做油餅的桿麵棍卻不知怎麼說，好不容易找到一根可以湊合著用的短棍，結帳時店員要服務員拿來棍子的下截，王佩晴當場昏到，原來她拿的是吸馬桶器。