I met up with a couple friends to trade UE photo zines and look around an old neighbourhood. After we finished exploring, we went looking for a restaurant in one of the busier nightlife areas. My friends were going by car and I was on my scooter. Little did we know, I would never make it there... on time.
1. On the way, I passed by a building that had a new curtain around it, signaling likely demolition. I figured my friends would be much slower in their car, and having already been kept waiting a couple times that day due to their parking needs, I stopped here and scouted it out.
2. Here's a closer look at the building facade. There was a nightclub in the basement, which I believe I went to briefly over five years ago, and there is also a street food-themed restaurant on the third floor, with the big garish yellow sign.
3. I hurried inside, not wanting to keep my friends waiting too long. Here's the nightclub.
4. And here's the leftover liquor.
5. Here's the nightclub's mascot, maybe.
6. I got out after about five minutes and one shot.
7. After our meal and after sunset, we came back together. On the ground floor we found this weird Luigi thing.
8. Mama mia!
9. I had a closer look at the liquor. We treated it with the assumption it would be retrieved later by the owners.
10. We found a great deal of ID cards, either confiscated, lost, or stolen. Anyone here have any history working at a nightclub know why they'd have so money? My friends thought these are customers who couldn't pay, and I thought maybe they were busted using fake IDs (or IDs belonging to someone older).
11. Behind the bar.
12. In the back, we found a collection of wallets and purses, with a lot of things still in them. No money though. I almost wonder if they had some sort of pickpocketing scheme going on, although I suppose they wouldn't have kept any evidence if they were doing this.
13. We found at least one foreigner.
14. One purse had a bujeok in it, which is a shamanistic talisman. My exploring companion has a
great deal of interest in these and has a huge photo collection of them. They probably have more in common with bindrunes than any written language, although traditional Chinese itself is also very much like bindrunes.
15. Lockers in back.
16. On the second floor, we found the street food restaurant, which had even more IDs and purse contents. The nightclub seemed to skew mostly male, but up here was mostly female.
17. Here's a charcoal heater, probably not a working one ever in this location, as part of the vibe.
18. It was pitch black inside, although we could hear a lot of noise outside as the nightlife was picking up.
19. On around the fourth floor was offices. Someone's birthday was interrupted by abandonment.
20. Then the fifth floor was a spa.
21. The sixth floor was guestrooms of some kind. My friends thought this might have been prostitution, but if it was they would have had bigger beds.
22. And here's the roof of the building.
23. Next door was a video game room.
24. And we could see the crowds across the street.
25. We rejoined civilisation, regrettably, and we all headed home.