After a day of trying to understand HKU campus and the way Asians run things, we decided to take our night time excursion to Wan Chai ('little bay'). It's mainstreets are Jaffe, Lockhart, and Hennessy. Wan Chai has a history during the Vietnam War as the "anything-goes-district". I can certainly see why as soon as I step out from the MTR station. Both side of Lockhart RD is filled with night clubs/dance clubs. There are white tourists roaming the streets being bombarded by Asian boss ladies sitting outside of the club. This is exactly why Hong Kong attracts people who want oriental wives. These night clubs...well are more like strip to sex clubs. First the boss ladies try to get you to go in by saying "come in have a drink with our girls". I peeked inside the "San Francisco club" saw Asian girls dancing on poles, tables, laps, faces. Then if you like the girl, you can start by buying the drinks at these clubs (extremely overpriced). You buy the drinks for the girl, eventually she will ask you to pay her for a good time. However, something that troubled my thinking - these girls don't look that hot and they don't look like Hong-Kongness. And why would anybody waste their money (and possibly attract STDs by the end of the night) in these clubs? Like the smart-froogle-college student I am, I stayed away from this while other people in my group thought this was fucking awesome. Even with Berkeley-goggles on at the time, I still couldn't bring myself to like this. (maybe I was too drunk to tell they were actually not bad looking?)
What I did most of that night was going in to 7 & 11, buy beers at a cheap price and drank them with my UCSD friends, Will and Peter outside the clubs. My impression of Wan Chai overall was not so great, but if you got yellow fever and money, this is the place for you.
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