{"id":61422,"date":"2026-06-17T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61422"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:12:59","slug":"malaysian-tourists-in-china-scorned-for-calling-locals-smelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61422","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian tourists in China scorned for calling locals \u2018smelly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/17\/8c99ed27-8fe4-45d4-9e00-b3a9d11d9e1f_d776e6a8.jpg?itok=lyHVeeql&amp;v=1781669248\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A group of Malaysian tourists is facing intense backlash for filming strangers and mocking locals in China as \u201csmelly\u201d, sparking debate on travel etiquette and national image.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The clips, which also appeared to show the visitors shouting insults in Malay while travelling in the country, were allegedly first posted on TikTok by user @ekyn.wong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They were later deleted from the account when checked by This Week in Asia, but not before going viral on Malaysian social media, where users panned what they called the guests\u2019 crude and entitled behaviour.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In one video, a woman could be heard saying, \u201cYou all stink. You stink. Do you all not bathe?\u201d to a crowd of Chinese commuters waiting to board a bus. Another clip showed her complaining about noisy people on a train.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She also recorded an e-hailing driver in a separate video, saying, \u201cUse deodorant, please. It stinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cYou go to another country and bring this kind of manners? So disrespectful. Please mind your behaviour when you are in someone else\u2019s country,\u201d said a user on the account where the videos were reposted, garnering more than 920,000 views and thousands of comments.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The individual added that the \u201crude\u201d conduct could jeopardise other Malaysians abroad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/people\/article\/3357374\/malaysian-tourists-china-scorned-calling-locals-smelly?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Malaysian tourists is facing intense backlash for filming strangers and mocking locals in China as \u201csmelly\u201d, sparking debate on travel etiquette and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[3452,832,2037,6686,24902,24779,5593],"class_list":["post-61422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-calling","tag-china","tag-locals","tag-malaysian","tag-scorned","tag-smelly","tag-tourists","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}