Toilet read offers advice for mainland visitors caught short

A guide to finding toilets in Mong Kok has spread rapidly among mainland internet users since it was posted on social media website Weibo on at the weekend.

From Hong Kong with Love - the Complete Guide to Finding a Toilet in Hong Kong has been shared some 23,500 times and had generated almost 5,000 comments by last night.

It appears to have been written by a young Hong Kong man. The writer says he took half a day off work to walk around Mong Kok before writing the guidebook, which includes recommendations, maps, photos of toilets and jokes.

It comes in the wake of a furore over a mainland couple who chose to let their child urinate by the roadside during a trip to the city.

"As a Hong Kong citizen, I can choose to follow the mainstream and start shouting with my hands on my hips," says the author in the book's foreword. "But I hope I can make even the slightest contribution to healing the wound.

"I wish to end the hatred where it started," he writes, referring to the furore over the behaviour of mainland visitors to Hong Kong, 

The book gives five stars - its highest rating - to toilets in McDonald's for their ease of location and use, but just three stars for cleanliness.