No Chinese Allowed: Thai temple builds new toilets just for locals and other foreigners

Iconic Thai tourist site Wat Rong Khun, also known as the White Temple, has been having problems with mainland Chinese tourists for some time now. Just earlier this month, Chinese tourists were briefly banned from the Buddhist temple in northern Chiang Rai province for defecating in the urinals, stealing toilet paper and sticking sanitary napkins to the walls.

According to various Chinese-language reports, however, management has now come up with a drastic solution to the problem: building new facilities for the use of Thai nationals and foreigners from which Chinese tourists will be banned.

The temple's architect Chalermchai Kositpipat has told the press that the washrooms became "unusable" for other visitors every time a Chinese tour group passed through and segregating Chinese from other foreigners was the only way around the problem.

Although there was never actually any "No Dogs and Chinese Allowed" sign hanging above the entrance to Shanghai's Bund Park (as depicted in fiction and nationalist histories - redundancy alert), it wouldn't too out of place at the White Temple's new latrines.

And this time, Bruce Lee won't be around to kick it into pieces, either.

During the Lunar New Year holidays, Thai tourism authorities issued a guide to suitable behavior just for mainland travelers, reminding them not to cut queues, manhandle cultural artifacts or treat the streets like toilets.

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