One of the most beautiful women I have ever seen was a hooker that propositioned me for coitus at a Beijing nightclub. Pay-for-play opportunities are very apparent and readily available here, and a young foreign male living in China will inevitably cross paths with a prostitute or two. I just never planned on unintentionally ending up at a brothel, in the company of my girlfriend no less.
This past Saturday I received a call from my friend Roy, a young Chinese student who is preparing to go abroad and study in Australia. He befriended me while he was a student at the public school I worked for in Langfang last year. In many ways he is a very stereotypical Chinese high school student.
Despite a taste for foreign culture- he loves South Park and the NBA- he is mostly quite nerdy, and spends a lot of his time playing World of Warcraft.
The previous two times we talked, he invited me to return to Langfang with him to visit a shop his friend had opened for selling Magic Cards, and to a gaming convention sponsored by Blizzard, the creators of W.
Quite honestly, I should have been more worried about nerds ogling female Night Elves, and not money-seeking skanks. We met Roy and his friends in an area of Beijing called Houhai. Houhai is a small lake that is ringed by restaurants and drinking establishments. It provides a great outdoor drinking experience, and you can even buy some beers and take them along with you for a boat ride on the lake.
