Karaoke bar8/30/2023 ![]() However in China when a bunch of guys are heading to a KTV is a very different setup. And I guess in America it must be pretty much the same. ![]() If you have never been to Asia or watched Lost in Translation, you might think of a “KTV” as a lame bar where people start to sing “Yellow Submarine” or “Satisfaction” after they drink seven vodka and Redbulls. “KTV” is what the Chinese people call karaoke. There are the massage parlors and beauty centers that welcome you with pink lights and couches full of half-naked girls playing with their cell phones…Īnd then the queens of the Chinese sex industry, the KTV girls (the Anhui’s girl whom I talk at the beginning of this article is one of them). You can always find a dancer that is willing to play perudo (a popular dice game) and maybe leave the club with you as long as you pay for her Ballantines with green tea (although having sex with her will probably cost you an extra fee). You will meet hairdressers that invite you for a “massage” in the backroom of their shops and girls that will hand out their business cards on the street promising “24 hours on call for service and please” as in the photo. There are girls that call you at your hotel room to ask if you need some “help” – the (in)famous ding dong girls. With time, I understood that – especially around Nanjing Road, the most touristic pedestrian road of Shanghai – it’s easier to find a hooker than a decent pizza (unless you like Pizza Hut). I had this conversation during my first year in China, 2010, when it still surprised me if a girl I met in the daytime turned out to be a part or full-time prostitute. “Oh shit, another prostitute!” I think while I give up and order a Carlsberg. “和你聊天跳舞,你给我钱吗?” ( If I talk and dance with you, will you pay me?) “我在Muse, 你干什么?” ( I’m at Muse, what are you doing?) I’m more bored than ever and I decide to contact a girl from Anhui province that I met two days ago on the pedestrian bridge at the intersection between Yan An Road and Xi Zang Road. It was firstly published in another website, but the website closed down last year, so we decided to republish the story here on SDC, as we think it’s still interesting, and relevant! A nice encounter
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