S1E32: Chinese' salve for loneliness: Pay to drink at strangers' homes
The rise of home bars in cities across China shows how young Chinese are craving for companionship but without having to invest in relationships.
Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times chats with ST’s correspondents in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe, about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises.
#family-style bars is now a search term for listings of home bars, not just for first-tier cities Beijing and Shanghai, but also Zhengzhou in central China, Chengdu in the south-west and Hangzhou on the eastern coast.
Instead of going to…
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