China boy's public urination peeves Hong Kongers
- Published: 20 Feb 2013 at 18.43
- Online news: Asia
A mainland Chinese mother who asked her son to relieve himself in a bottle in a crowded Hong Kong restaurant has sparked an outpouring of online anger in the latest bitter exchange over etiquette.
A tourist uses binoculars to view the city's skyline over a haze of pollution on a clear day in Hong Kong on February 1, 2013. A mainland Chinese mother who asked her son to relieve himself in a bottle in a crowded Hong Kong restaurant has sparked an outpouring of online anger in the latest bitter exchange over etiquette.
Manners have long been a source of tension in the southern Chinese city, with Hong Kongers routinely complaining about what they see as the unrefined social habits of their "nouveau-riche" mainland counterparts.
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