Saturday, March 11, 2006

Flushing Brothel shutdown

Flushing made the frontpage of yesterday's New York Times, albeit under the fold. A brothel run by a couple of Koreans at 57-24 164th Street was shutdown by authority. What's interesting is "there were two prices in place, for some unexplained reason: $150 for Chinese patrons, and $200 for Koreans." So it's true, there is discount for Chinese...for sex. [picture copyright of the New York Times, of course]

update:
This probably inspired a story by Chinese American novel writer Ha Jin.

1 comment:

  1. You know I wouldn't and I won't. So just stick with your Thai connection in Hong Kong if you will.

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