Everybody needs to go to the toilet. We may not always talk about the experience of using public toilets, but in fact we have a quest for quality deep in our hearts.
Different people have different concerns about the quality of toilets. Two “post-90s” youngsters were born with poor stomach health, so they pay particular attention to the cleanliness of public toilets. They have even founded a webpage to compare the hygiene conditions of different toilets, and remind users that to show their own quality and civic virtues when using toilets is the key to maintaining the hygiene of public toilets. Sociological scholar CHONG Yuk-sik searched for the origin of public toilets in Hong Kong and found that public toilets were mostly set up by merchants more than a century ago, while the enhancement of the hygiene quality of streets was due to economic incentives. Nowadays, architectural designers of public toilets have to rack their brains, hoping to improve the quality of public toilets. A small toilet can also be an important factor to upgrade a city’s taste.
To have a happy and carefree toilet experience, quality, virtues and taste are all indispensable.
人人都有如廁的需要，在街上使用公廁的經驗，我們未必經常宣之於口，但在心底裡卻有一種對「品」的追求。
不同人對廁所的「品」，有不同的關注：兩個九五後的年輕人，天生腸胃差，特別留意公廁的清潔程度，還建立了一個網上專頁，比較廁所的衞生情況，提醒用家上廁所要有品有公德心，才是保持公廁衞生的關鍵；社會學者莊玉惜，尋找香港公廁的由來，發現百多年前公廁多數由商家設立，街道的衞生品質，原來源自經濟誘因；現今公廁的建築設計師，則花盡心思希望改進公廁的質素，一個小小的廁所，可能也是提升城市品味的重要因素。舒暢的如廁經驗，品質、品德、品味，缺一不可。
