Mount Faber Park Ice cream vending machine displays Hokkien vulgarities on LED screen
A visitor to Mount Faber was recently met with a bizarre sight — an ice cream vending machine displaying two Hokkien vulgarities in bright purple text across its LED screen.
On Monday (25 Aug), a TikTok user shared a video of the incident, showing the Wall’s ice cream vending machine repeatedly flashing the expletives.
Source: @dashamin666 on TikTok
“Vulgar Chinese messages displayed on a vending machine,” the Original Poster (OP) wrote in their caption.
While the OP claimed the vending machine was at Mount Faber Peak, the management has refuted this claim and clarified that the vending machine in question was located in Mount Faber Park.
The OP also tagged the machine’s operator, Happy Ice, urging them to look into the matter.
Netizens divided between laughter & concern
The video has since racked up over 36,000 views and more than a hundred comments. Netizens expressed both amusement and concern.
Many users speculated how the vulgar language ended up on the machine’s LED screen.
Some suggested that the machine had been hacked, while others cheekily suggested a disgruntled staff member might have programmed the vulgarities in.
Source: TikTok
Of course, plenty took the opportunity to crack jokes. One commenter warned that those who buy ice cream from the machine might also get “scolded with vulgarities”.
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As Mount Faber is a popular tourist spot, another joked that at least foreigners could now learn a bit of “local lingo” from the cheeky machine.
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Speaking to MS News, a representative of the Mount Faber Leisure Group, which manages Mount Faber Peak, clarified that the vending machine was actually located in Mount Faber Park, not Mount Faber Peak.
MS News has reached out to the OP, Happy Ice, and NParks, which runs Mount Faber Park, for statements.
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Featured image adapted from @dashamin666 on TikTok.
