Mango Bar, Swan Lake Rd., Changping, Dongguan
Just FYI, I met Brian one of the managers at Mango – that bar on Swan Lake road where the modus operandi may just better suit some of you who are more used to the way things work in other countries. Brian is Cantonese speaking AND quite conversant in English/actually going to advanced English lessons during the daytime and is just a nice, eager and helpful guy overall.
Basically, Mango is a stand up bar with some live music where the girls just hangs out, ready to be sat and or taken out - pretty well the same way that Pick-up joints like Neptune or those in Bangkok, the States etc works. They’ve got their own in-house girls at 2-5-8 AS WELL AS girls from various KTV’s/BBS’s/Saunas’ just hanging out and partying themselves – so it’s a wide open field!
They’ve got 4 KTV rooms at the back, but these are not that popular as most guys – especially singletons – prefer to just hang around the main bar area to scout around – or just to party/enjoy the music and the scenery.
Beer is RMB 300/dozen whilst hard liquor is available by the bottle at around RMB 500-600 including some mixers. Right now, they’ve still got their promotion of “no minimum charge” and thus theoretically, you can still go in and just have one beer at RMB25@ - but who goes to a bar and only order one drink – especially when you’d want to be buying drinks for a gal/gals you’re targeting. Note that since this is a bar set-up, that you shouldn’t expect to be “served” as is expected at a regular KTV – rather, you’d have to make your own moves and act the way you’d act in a pick-up bar anywhere in the world – including of course making sure that her “rate” is indeed gonna be 2-5-8 PRIOR to you having her sit for longer than a few initial minutes etc.
OTOH, there’s nothing to stop you from just joining a girl out on the dance floor whilst she’s dancing and then asking her to join you for a drink or 2 (or indeed any girl even if she’s not dancing of course!) – but on this, you may want to ask Brian to help you out as it’s not really cool to have any misunderstanding – especially in a place like Mango as most of the patrons are quite “local” and one really does not want to have any controversies.
It’s also a good place to go to if you’re on a “date night” as the live music, interspersed by some pretty good KTV singers ain’t bad at all and probably a helpful respite from trying to converse with your date if you’re not fluent in Chinese!
Please PM me if you want to have Brian’s contacts etc
SEAJ
Ps Edit
Just a point of clarification, Brian is just a guy I met who I think is an earnest, eager and quite straight forward manager at Mango. You'd have to deal with someone anyway if you want to go to Mango and I figure that its probably helpful to some of you guys if you deal with someone straight and who can speak Cantonese and more than a smattering of English.
[ Last edited by SEAJ at 5-10-2011 17:14 ] | |
