Now, in stark contrast to Wednesday’s video footage showing two men fighting, a picture went viral yesterday showing them shaking hands and patching up.

Goh Yap Eng, 49, the grocery store owner, said he and his “foe” reached an agreement to withdraw their police reports when they held a meeting in front of the investigating officer on Monday.

“We’re OK, we’re (now) OK. On Monday, we went to the police station and settled it, withdrew the case. After all, we’re all Malaysians, so no fighting.

“We apologised and resolved it. He also apologised and told me he was drunk.

“I advised him not to use that as an excuse – if you can’t control it, give up the liquor,” he told Bernama at his grocery store here today.

Goh, who is the father of two sons, aged 13 and 18, admitted the brawl sent the wrong message to the rest of the country.

“I was arrested on Thursday, remanded for two days and released on Saturday, and I started thinking: how did it end up this way?”

The certified black belt taekwondo instructor said he had once aspired to go far in the martial arts scene before dropping the idea to run his father’s grocery business.

Penang police chief Hamzah Ahmad confirmed that the two men had withdrawn their police reports and the case now classified as “no further action (NFA)”.