Last week's episode of Holland's Got Talent featured a 30-year-old Chinese-born contestant named Xiao Wang, a PhD candidate who moonlights as an opera singer. Xiao was on hand to sing "La donna e mobile," an aria from Verdi's Rigoletto, and performed beautifully.

However, one of the talent judges on the show, a Dutch singer named Cornelis Willem Heuckeroth, used the segment as an opportunity to mock Xiao's Chinese-ness.

Here were a few of Heuckeroth's comments:

"Which number are you singing? Number 39 with rice?"

"This is the best Chinese I've had in weeks, and it's not takeaway!"

"He looks like a waiter from a Chinese restaurant."

"This is the best Chinese person I've ever seen, and he's not even a delivery boy."

Hueckeroth, who for some reason goes by the name "Gordon," also called Xiao's performance a "surplise."

The other two panelists on the show both looked embarrassed by Gordon's remarks; one, an American named Dan Karaty, even told him that he's "really not supposed to say things like that."

***

The incident came after a controversy last month from Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the ABC late-night show, in which Kimmel convened a panel of children for a mock discussion of current events. At one point, Kimmel asked the kids what the U.S. should do about its debt to China.