Vietnam - Striptease in restaurants

Regular guests call restaurants with striptease a ‘box,’ as each small room is thoroughly secluded by partitions without a window, and each man is coupled with a young ‘worker of entertainment’.

Part 1: Vietnam ladies’ dens for foreigners in city
Part 2: Striptease in restaurants
Part 3: Restaurants offering striptease to be suspended

They are all guarded by bulky men at the entrance gate. Motorbikes are also parked with the number plates facing the wall, as if to hide their owners’ identification.

This kind of service is totally illegal, but it’s interesting to discover that it’s not difficult at all to find such restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City, and in other cities in Vietnam.

VND5 million for two minutes

On a day during the holiday on the threshold of the New Year, in Binh Tan District, which is considered the ‘center’ of striptease restaurants, a group of men got out of a taxi and entered Mai Trinh 1 restaurant.

However, they were sweetly refused service.

The owner, a woman in her 30s, introduced herself as Tuyet. She was friendly with guests, “Pardon me, it’s crowded here now, can’t take you in.”

“Please come to Mai Trinh 2, just close here,” she added.

Less than five minutes after entering the new establishment, some 100m away from the previous one, the men were courted by two girls and Tuyet.

“Why only two? No more?” one of the men asked.

“So many guests now, but these girls come to greet you first and others will follow,” Tuyet replied gently.

After several cans of beer were opened, Tuyet winked at her girls and they began their striptease show.

Underwear was thrown to the floor.

Tuyet was then talking on a mobile phone, giving directions to her restaurants. “Come here quickly, I have both birds perching and flying,” she joked, meaning her girls can meet all desires.

Tuyet also took off her clothes amid cheers by guests and other girls.

One of the girls began her ‘special show’ by picking up banknotes that men scattered on the table as the fee of the show with her genitals.

After receiving a copious tip for the show, the girls turned the music up to maximum volume and danced with all their flesh exposed in front of guests.

The show came to its end with a new scene: beer bathing. All of the girls opened beer cans and took turns pouring it onto each other.

Within just two minutes, the show ended. Beer and tips cost in total VND5 million (US$238).

Saying goodbye to the guests, Tuyet said, “I have to come back to Mai Trinh 1 as new guests are waiting for me.”

She didn’t forget to remind her girls to serve the men wholeheartedly before striking out in her high-heeled shoes out the door.

Without going far, striptease restaurants with similar shows can also be found in the center of Ho Chi Minh City.

The most reputable restaurants are Anh Tuan on Nguyen Van Dau Street in Binh Thanh District, Karaoke New York on Le Lai Street in District 1, and Spa Glee in Tan Binh District.

In some restaurants, the girls are willing to have sex with guests in the rooms or at a hotel at an average price of VND500,000 ($24).

Spa Glee, which even has a collection of male staff members, is reportedly a rendezvous for homosexual men.

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