Having initially expected people in China to be “unfriendly and rude”, a Singaporean man said hitchhiking across the country had changed his perspective.
Ng Yi Hui, 27, documented his hitchhiking adventures across Thailand, Japan, and China on social media, with videos of his unconventional travels leaving many netizens intrigued.
On June 10, Ng flew to China and embarked on a week-long hitchhiking journey across the country.
Documenting the adventure in a six-part video series, he shared several hitchhiking experiences with locals. The series went viral, with two of the videos garnering over a million views each.
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Speaking to Stomp, Ng said the trip changed his perspective of people from the country, whom he had expected to be “unfriendly and rude” based on how they are often portrayed on social media.
Instead, he said he encountered the exact opposite during his week on the road, thoroughly dismantling those perceptions.
‘Hospitality beyond what I imagined’
Ng told Stomp that he did not expect all Chinese people to be “unfriendly and rude”. However, he said his perception had been shaped by stories from individuals who had travelled to China, as well as viral social media posts that portrayed them in a negative light.
Before embarking on the trip, he said he tried to “withhold judgment”, but admitted he could not completely shake off the impressions that had inevitably formed from what he had seen and heard.
Ng said he flew from Singapore to Hainan Province, before taking a boat to Xuwen Port in Guangdong Province, where he began hitchhiking. From there, he travelled through Zhanjiang, then to Dianbai, Hailing island, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Huizhou before ending his journey in Shantou – he estimated that the total distance travelled was about 1,000km.
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