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Friday Night Blog
You guys have read my nightlife articles, but now it's time to give you an inside look into how I get down on a Friday night in Shanghai.
Last Monday, Mattia Visconti, one of Shanghai's top promoters, asked me if I would like to help promote his upcoming Flower Power party at Bar Rouge. I spent the next few days going out wearing my signature panda hat getting numbers and inviting people to the party. By the time Friday came around, my partner and I realized that we had enough interest to organize a party bus for the evening.
Friday night we rolled up to both FuDan and Dong Hua universities, picked up a couple hordes of international students and took them over to C's for some cheap, subterranean raging. Once people were sufficiently inebriated we took the crew across town to the Bund while dancing on the bus' middle aisle to the tunes of Otis Redding and Skrillex.
Wearing a bright neon Jimi Hendrix headband and an baggy, purple nylon shirt, I realized I was one of the only patrons at the upscale bar not dressed in a button down or sexy black dress. However, this fact did not deter me from busting out my craziest of dance moves. My antics were wild enough to grab the attention of a predominantly Chinese group that showered me in test tube shooters and then won me a spot at a table of Turkish and French ballers. After running around the club some more, I rocked out with a group of cute Israelis who offered me RMB1000 to "dance" at their bachelorette party the next day. I gave them my card but they never called... All in a Friday night, dear Watson, all in Friday night.