She is here on a long-term social visit pass and for this reason, she refuses to give us her contact number or name the individual clubs. Miao Miao, 25, who is from Shanghai, China, says: "I just want to save myself from any potential trouble, be it with my clients or the authorities.
Miao Miao says that is bad news for her. As it is, when Las Vegas De'Palace closed its doors last June, she saw her monthly income drop by "a drastic 30 per cent". She says in a dramatic resigned tone: "How am I going to survive if the other three clubs do the same?
Then tell me if that is easy for you," she challenges me. She reveals that in the first month of working, "there wasn't a night when the toilet bowl in my home was clean of puke". But that was eight years ago. She has been trained to hold her liquor well now. And she has grown to recognise the various drinks just from a sniff of the glass. Like the incident early Monday morning. Five men were arrested after a fight over a pub hostess erupted into a violent confrontation in a private housing estate.
The incident erupted after the Filipino hostess cosied up to a man while they were at a pub on Orchard Road, and this is believed to have angered the hostess' boyfriend. Miao Miao says: "That is why I don't have a boyfriend until now. Not many men like the idea of other men pawing their women, or even worse, having sex with them. Are you really so naive to believe that everything is just clean singing and drinking?
Miao Miao concedes that there are the rare hostesses who adhere strictly to their self-imposed rule of not providing sexual services. It is not wise to end up getting drunk on your customers, worse if you throw up on them. It helps to settle your stomach before drinking.
