Pig head on vouchers offends Chinese tourists
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Pig head on vouchers offends Chinese tourists
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2005-07-29 10:23
A pig's head drawn on the breakfast vouchers of 344 Chinese tourists in Malaysia might have been to distinguish them from nonpork-eating Muslims and was not meant to cause offense, the Malaysian consul general in Hong Kong said Wednesday.
The tourists staged a protest Tuesday at the First World hotel in the Genting Highlands resort. They wanted to express their anger about the "demeaning" pig heads drawn on their meal vouchers.
Abdul Aziz bin Harun, Malaysia's consul general in Hong Kong, said the incident was more than likely a misunderstanding. "The summer has been a high season for Muslim travelers, my good guess is the hotel staff were using the sketch to distinguish hala (Muslim) diners from non-halal diners," Aziz said at the launch of a Chinese-language Web site to promote Malaysian tourism.
"But as the hotel staff speak only English and Malaysian, while the tourists speak Mandarin or Cantonese, communication has broken down," Aziz said. The protest escalated into a scuffle when police and security guards arrived with guns and dogs. The incident was eventually resolved five hours later after the hotel offered a letter of apology and each tourist between 50 and 100 Malaysian Ringgit (US$13.37 and 26.74) in the presence of a Chinese embassy official.
Malaysian Deputy Tourism Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the hotel had fired the three workers involved in the incident. "We are very regretful things have to happen that way because we value very much Chinese tourists," said Malaysian tourism board director Noridah Kamarudin. Aziz said the incident would not tarnish Malaysia's image. "Racism is not an issue there. It is an isolated case. It is not the policy of the Malaysian Government or the hotel." -
LMAO.
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that's why I never go to places with such eating problems, halal or non-halal.
vegetarians are another kind of problem.........it's all food, just eat lah~!!
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This news like 2 mths back liao
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they can't really do this kind of things back home .... so once they are out of the country a lot of them take "political activism" to a whole new level ....
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Moral of the Story??Originally posted by Fatum:they can't really do this kind of things back home .... so once they are out of the country a lot of them take "political activism" to a whole new level ....
must ACT and pretend at appropriate times!!! -
Aiya. Simple solution to this.
Get the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar to declare that pork is halal can liao.
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Originally posted by TIB1133B:Aiya. Simple solution to this.
Get the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar to declare that pork is halal can liao. -
at least in m'sia not singapore
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a typical case of the malaysians not understanding the chinese culture.
chinese dont like to be called zhu tou. -
why need to draw a pig head out?
so troublesome....
just put hala non hala can liao mah....
sheesh.... -
yah lor, purposely want to insult them one lah.Originally posted by digicharat:why need to draw a pig head out?
so troublesome....
just put hala non hala can liao mah....
sheesh.... -
the staff uneducated wat. illiterate mahOriginally posted by digicharat:why need to draw a pig head out?
so troublesome....
just put hala non hala can liao mah....
sheesh.... -
The purpose of going on holiday is to have a good time isnt it? Instead these PRC folks chose to get all riled up because of a perceived slight. Blow up the matter, create trouble for themselves and their hosts. Now that China is growing stronger, the people are also getting more prideful. Throw their weight around...
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