We stayed at the Xinxing Hotel鑫兴大酒店, a typical 3-stars Chinese hotel that suffers from lack of maintenance. But it is conveniently located near the bus terminal in the old part of town and within walking distance to the Qinzhou Bay Square钦州湾广场 with more modern and recent buildings and establishments that we could recognize – like the good old American cuisine called BigMac. I was sad to learn that the famous Food Street in the old town area that my friend told me about have been torn down – all in the name of development.
Entrance to QZ Bay Square’s underground shopping mall, with the only 5-star hotel (White Dolphin Hotel白海豚国际酒店) in the background.
But food is not really what we had in mind for this Expedition. After walking around to check out the square, we decided to get the help of local MotorBike taxis to show us around, and especially to point out where the BBSs are. We did a quick evening tour of the area and dropped off to have a closer look at the BBSs on “Bus11.”
The BBSs we saw were on Wenfeng South Road文峰南路 starting from Nanzhu West Street南珠西大街 and going south towards Xinxing Street 新兴街. There were about 10 BBSs between these two streets and also some potential ones on the side streets that we did not check out. They are easy to identify, most of them only have a door of the roller door opened, with the tell-tale soft pinky light and some of the MMs we saw were really friendly and waving to invite us into the shop. There must be “unwritten rule” that they must not step out of the door to solicit and thus encouraging the customers to get into the shops. Other than a couple of them, all the BBSs seem to provide MMs with very young age – some look as young as 14 and maybe more. Their heavy makeups could not camouflage their young age. These are pedophiles’ traps and we sure do not want to risk potential rottan treatment. However, through our flirtous conversations with them, we found out the charges are 30 for massage and 100 for full job at the site. We did not check out the state of the onsite facilities, but the screaming and moaning at one site could easily be heard and the young MMs were all laughing at the audio entertainment provided. Most do not like to go offsite, but we are sure you can negotiate by offering higher price. We did not see any BBSs on Xinxing Street – but many computer shops there.
One of the BBSs we saw – bad quality (I meant the pic) for obvious reason