Western backpackers accidentally gatecrashed a funeral in Thailand after they embarrassingly mistook the venue for a restaurant, per a video eliciting cringes online.
“I went over to speak with them, and they asked if the place was a food court,” a wake attendee, Charantorn Chaloemkiad, told Viral Press of their “White Lotus”-evoking faux pas. He was reportedly greeting mourners at the traditional service on January 31 in Nakhon Si Thammarat when he observed a couple of German tourists enter the premises, thinking it was an eatery. The humiliating clip shows the pair sitting at a table waiting for a menu, oblivious to the fact that they were in the midst of a mourning ceremony.