Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, The coming land of voyeurism and lewdism [1, 2]
Long story short, tourists found homestay operator installed spycam in the room, called police, homestay owner said tourists intended to con RM400 fees of the night, police advised tourists to remove evidence and post from social media. Tourists checked out the very next day. No action taken and investigation into the homestay owner voyeur fantasy operation.
What. The. Actual. Fuck ?
We need to know which homestay to avoid it completely. Homestay, AirBnB and the like are seemingly worse than Hotel these days.
PS: the news didn't get reported in other daily other than chinese media.
[1] Chinapress [民宿插座藏摄录头 女子吓到不敢脱衣洗澡] (https://www.chinapress.com.my/20230922/%e6%b0%91%e5%ae%bf%e6%8f%92%e5%ba%a7%e8%97%8f%e6%91%84%e5%bd%95%e5%a4%b4-%e5%a5%b3%e5%ad%90%e5%90%93%e5%88%b0%e4%b8%8d%e6%95%a2%e8%84%b1%e8%a1%a3%e6%b4%97%e6%be%a1/)
[2] Sinchew [沙巴蜜月 揭民宿藏针孔镜头 “吓到洗澡都不敢脱衣] (https://www.sinchew.com.my/news/20230922/nation/5001368)
Ignore the obvious siew yok, the herbal tea is also steep, that's the profit margin that funded the stall operators. And since it includes Service Tax, presumably their total taxable services exceeded RM1.5mil for a calendar year.
Yet, the furniture in the stall (or restaurant) are pathetic, dirty and all plastic, look at the plates, table, chairs....
The food stall / restaurant owner is a half Nigerian half Zimbabwean origin running a successful business here, making a great life here than his previous career in remote call center pretending to be Leonardo DiCaprio, or Justin Tremblay.