Let's laugh at the funny foreign names shall we?
If I may briefly don the mantle of a moderately educated
bak-gwei, I should point out that this story was originally floated in April 2008 and somewhat discredited at the time.
The fact that the Independent has dug it up again six months later does not in any way reduce the possibility of it being a hoax.
Ah-Hua is predominantly a girls name.
There was no other record of a 'Dong Bi' gang, although in Oriental street markets, traders often shout "Dong buy, it fake" to Westerners looking at their competitors goods.
Dong-Bi is also the name of a town in the Fuqing region, and the source of many amusing postcards from travellers, rivalling Phuket it is said.
I have no problem with a chuckle at foreign names either. Mrs DS(#3) has a name which sounds like 'sewer' in Indonesian.