In Lan Kwai Fong, there is a novel ice vodka bar in a Russian restaurant called Balalaika. It is set at zero degrees celsius and offers fur coats for those entering to do vodka shots of every flavor known to mankind. Lan Kwai Fong is a popular expat entertainment center for drinking, clubbing and eating. Many of the venues are those where people have to explore and/or know where they are located as it is not just a horizontal center but also a vertical one with 'hole in the wall' establishments in random buildings with very few signage.
Of course, those who visit the ice vodka bar are usually somewhere between tipsy and smashed. Encased in a voluminous fur coat, I overheard one of the patrons bragging that it really wasn't that cold. He had not seen the ice blocks and was feeling the tiles. So I challenged him to sit on the ice block with his bare bum. To his credit, he was game. Good thing he had a friend with him who stopped him from putting his family jewels against the ice block when I further dared him. A word to the wise, it is always good to have a designated person to guard one against crazy photo ops during drunken stupors.
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