‘How can I not love this place’: Hong Kong folk praised online after ‘deeply moved’ mainland Chinese woman watches subway riders aid vomiting student
- Passengers on city subway rush from every direction to help sick student with offers of tissues and their seats
- Fellow traveller from mainland China who witnessed collective act of kindness shares what she saw on social media, prompting praise for city
Multiple acts of kindness on board a subway train have moved a mainland woman studying in Hong Kong to take to social media in praise of the city and its people.
The young woman, who goes by the nickname “yeaholiday” and shares photography on her page on the social media platform Xiaohongshu, somewhat provocatively began a post in mid-April by saying: “Someone vomited on the MTR and I thought ...”.
She describes how she was travelling on the city’s mass transit railway system, or MTR, when a student suddenly took off a mask and began to vomit.
The watching woman thought other passengers would “run away in disgust”. She was wrong.
Immediately, two nearby passengers “took paper tissues out of their bags and handed them to the sick student.”
A parent with a child some distance away from the scene also “walked over with a tissue” while others offered both dry and wet wipes to the student.