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On a Manhattan pavement, Harry Kok Siew Yok was teaching New Yorkers to say relax lah.
Not as a bit.
Not ironically.
Except — entirely as a bit, because Harry Kok Siew Yok is a puppet.
Specifically, he is the creation of Malaysian media personality Ryan Matjeraie: a satirical comedy character whose very name is a Manglish pun layered inside a Cantonese food order.
Harry Kok — a riff on talk kok, Hokkien slang for talking nonsense and Siew Yok — crispy roast pork.
Together, the name is essentially Crispy Roast Pork Who Talks Rubbish, which is, by most accounts, an accurate description of the everyday Malaysian he was designed to represent.
And there he was in New York, running strangers through the starter pack: “mak kau hijau, ya lah, don’t worry, diam lah bodoh, ekcelli, your fadder’s road, can laaa, damn bad siaa, boss boss”, and watching them get it anyway.
The energy was universal.
The vocabulary was very specifically somewhere off the LDP.
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