A video clip of a quarrel between Hong Kong and mainland passengers on a Hong Kong MTR train has sparked widespread online debate on the mainland.
The video, uploaded by a Hong Kong internet user on YouTube, records a war of words between two groups after some angry Hongkongers tried to stop a mainland girl eating a snack on the train on Sunday.
The video has been watched by about 200,000 internet users on Tudou, an online video site. The popular sina.com.cn portal even launched a survey of views on the incident.
At the start of the video, a Hong Kong man demands an apology from the girl and her mother but the tourists refuse, saying it is not a big deal. Others then join in on both sides.
One of the Hongkongers presses the emergency button and notifies platform staff. An MTR employee tells the tourists they can't eat inside the train and a mainland woman says sorry in English. A Hong Kong man then says sarcastically: 'Oh, she knows English'.
A mainland woman tries to explain the situation to the MTR staff member but is interrupted by the Hongkongers as the quarrel resumes. At the end of the video, a Hong Kong man says: 'No need to speak to them. That's what mainlanders are like.'