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Is Singapore's Chinatown the dirtiest place in Singapore?
Well, according to a person from China who is in Singapore, the answer is "Yes, very likely".
TikTok video admonishing fellow Chinese to be hygienic
A TikTok video put up on July 16 by a student from China, who is currently residing in Singapore, provided a hot take on the state of Chinatown here.
The video has been watched more than 200,000 times in two days.
Here is a translation of what the student said in the video in Mandarin:
This could be the messiest and dirtiest place in Singapore.
I came to Singapore's Chinatown recently.
Following the reopening after the pandemic, it got more congested, and the hygiene level has become intolerable.
I can't imagine how this area is still considered part of the world-renowned garden city.
Every country will have areas that have shortcomings in cleanliness, which can be challenging when trying to maintain a certain level of hygiene, but Chinatown in Singapore is beyond just a shortcoming in hygiene standards.
In Singapore, Chinatown here has become synonymous with dirty and messy.
Previously, I was living in New York, Chinatown in Manhattan has also come to represent mess and rubbish.
Chinatown is actually a window for people to understand China.
It is a place for overseas Chinese to interact with one another and feel at home.
It is a place of significance in the hearts of Chinese.
My friends from school will hang out in Chinatown to eat as the cuisine and delicacies are authentic.
To see Chinatown in Singapore become a degraded and dirty environment, I do not understand.
I only have one saying to go by: When overseas, let us be conscious of our own behaviour.
https://mothership.sg/2022/07/chinatown-singapore-dirty/