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Rodrigo Duterte, Kim Jong-un impersonators cause wild scenes in Hong Kong at fast-food restaurant and church

  • The men impersonating the Philippines president and North Korean leader caused a frenzy at Filipino fast-food restaurant Jollibee on Sunday
  • They visited areas packed with hundreds of Southeast Asian domestic workers on their day off

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Impersonators Howard X as North Korean President Kim Jong-un and Cresencio Extreme as Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in Hong Kong. Photo: Tory Ho

Scenes of hysteria swept Hong Kong Island on Sunday when a man impersonating the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte paid the city an unexpected visit.

Dressed in a crisp, white traditional barong tagalog shirt with black trousers and sporting the Presidents’ trademark utilitarian haircut, the 57-year-old drew excited crowds as he greeted the public, which included hundreds of Southeast Asian domestic workers gathered in Central on their day off.

Less than a year after the real president made an unofficial visit to Hong Kong and dined at popular Filipino fast-food restaurant Jollibee, his doppelgänger spent his first Sunday in the city attending a sermon at St. Joseph’s Church and eating a fried-chicken lunch at the chain’s Central branch.
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Onlookers cheered as the fake president, who goes by Cresencio Extreme, polished off a leg of meat and recited some of Duterte’s profanity-laden, anti-drug rhetoric, which has seen the President draw both controversy and praise in the Philippines.

As a crowd pressed in tightly, Cresencio stood up for a signature Duterte soapbox speech: “When I arrived at Hong Kong airport, I didn’t see any beautiful ladies, but now I realise that Jollibee is where they are all hidden.”

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