Battle over $5 Chicken Fry Rice;
Chinese family refutes Keys resident allegations

By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief-SKNVibes.com

CHINESE NATIONALS: [L-R] Wu Xiao Jun, Huang Jin Biao,  Cao Yao Tong and Wu Zhi Quan

Alton ‘Wadada’ Silcott, an employee of the Royal St. Kitts Golf Club, told SKNVibes that he was badly beaten by four Chinese nationals after he complained about the quality of an EC$5 Chicken Fry Rice he purchased from the Hong Hing Chinese Restaurant at Baker’s Corner, Basseterre on Monday, August 4.

When contacted, Wu Zhi Quan, elder son of the proprietor, told this media house that Silcott started the fight and his parents were at no time physically involved in it as stated by the Keys resident.

Quan admitted that his mother, Wu Xiao Jun, did not serve Silcott any salad with his Fry Rice, but denied that his brother, Huang Jin Biao, had assaulted him.

“The man came into our restaurant with three children in their early teens…two girls and one boy. After my mother served him and he

Wu Zhi Quan displays the hand on which he was bitten by Silcott

“My brother then pushed them out of the restaurant. When he came back inside the man was adding ketchup to his Fry Rice, and when he was finished he went up to my brother and started pointing his finger in his face. Maybe he was annoyed because my brother put the children out,” Quan said.

He added that Silcott was quarreling with his brother and continued to point his finger in the young man’s face.

“My brother pushed his hand away and the man pointed his finger again in my brother’s face and it touched him. So my brother pushed the man and told him in Chinese, ‘Don’t make trouble in here’. The man did not understand. He put down the food on a table and asked my brother, ‘You want something with me?’ 

“My brother did not understand what he said and went into the kitchen. The man then started to hit on the counter and my brother came out from the kitchen and joined my mother, who was at the counter. The man then picked up the bottles with the ketchup and pepper sauce and pelted them at my brother. My brother then came from behind the counter and pushed him and the man started to fight with him.”   ~~Adz:Left~~

Quan said he rushed from behind the counter, held Silcott around his neck and was leading him out of the restaurant and “the man bite me on my right hand”.
 
“Me and my brother finally got him outside of the restaurant and I released him. But the man attacked my brother again and I hold him around his neck and he bite me again on the same area that he did the first time.”

Quan stated that while he was holding on to Silcott a security guard arrived on the scene and separated them. He further stated that the security guard advised them not to fight but Silcott again attacked his brother.
“The security guard left and went in the direction of the police station. My father was upstairs and after he heard the noise he came downstairs to investigate. We then decided to hold the man and take him back inside the restaurant until the police arrive, but he cuffed my father.

“We finally got him inside. He cuffed my father again and a Rastaman came in the restaurant to represent the man and he picked up an empty beer case and hit my mother on her head and burst it. The Rastaman then left the restaurant and my father locked the door but opened it shortly after when a police officer arrived,” Quan said.

Quan said he and his mother were taken to the JNF General Hospital by a unit of the Emergency Medical Services while the police officer took Silcott to the Basseterre Police Station.

He was told of Silcott’s allegations to which he said, “They are all lies! Neither my father nor my mother touched that man. My father did pick up a piece of wood and threatened him not to move until the police arrive, but he didn’t hit the man. ”

SKNVibes journey to Keys Village and spoke with Silcott, who maintained that his version of the incident is the truth.

When asked if he bit any of the Chinese nationals, Silcott replied in the positive and noted that was his main strategy of defence. He however pointed out that the Rastaman never went into the restaurant and he did not inflict the wound on the Chinese woman’s head.

“While they were beating me outside of the restaurant, the Rastaman, who lives in my Village, was passing with his girlfriend and, after recognising it was me, he stopped and told them to stop beating me. However, his girlfriend pulled him away and told him not to get involved, and they went along their way. Therefore, the Chinese boy is lying!”

Silcott also maintained that not only the two brothers had beaten him, but also their parents. He claimed that the father struck him on his head with a piece of wood and the mother must have suffered her injury when “the four of them were each trying to get in a blow”.

SKNVibes spoke with four children who reside within proximity of the Chinese Restaurant and they all claimed to have seen what transpired on the day in question.

The eldest of the four girls, a 10-year-old, said she saw when the proprietor, Cao Yao Tong, “hit the black man on his head with a piece of wood and the Chinese woman was also hitting him while he was fighting with the boys”. 

Another of the girls said she too saw when two of the Chinese nationals “dragged the man in the restaurant and all four of them were beating him, and nobody could have helped him because the door was locked”.

SKNVibes contacted the Police and was told that investigations were ongoing.

Alton ‘Wadada’ Silcott points to his busted lip and displays the bite marks on his right hand	Silcott points to the injury he sustained on his neck during the fracas

               
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