It’s right on the verge of that graveyard formerly known as
Sanlitun South Bar Street
. You have to hold the toilet door closed
while you do your business. And the music lineup features I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston), Making Love Out of Nothing at All (Air Supply) and Hello (Lionel Ritchie). Even so, the owners are friendly and the place draws a somewhat steady flow of expatriates and locals, including M-Dawg. One weird incident: a guy dressed in a floppy neon orange Crocodile Dundee hat and fluorescent green vest came in, went behind the bar, pulled out a couple of microphones, did about 200 sound checks, and then started scatting to dance music. Horrible, but five bucks says he ends up on TV within the next six months.
(From Beijing Boyce XVI, first emailed on May 11, 2006)
