Sunday, June 3, 2007

Walking in the city

Living fairly close to the bar areas of the city, I've taken a liking to walking everywhere especially as the weather turns warmer. Usually, I'm fairly paranoid about safety and back in my home country, I would never wander out into the city late at night without at least one or two friends in tow when walking anywhere. Though Beijing is a big city with it's share of big city crimes, in the bar areas it's crowded enough that I feel fairly comfortable going solo when en route to a destination.

Beijing's catcall to daylight ratio is an inverse one and as the sky darkens, the multitude of catcalls a solitary girl receives goes up exponentially. However local Chinese catcalls and expat catcalls vary substantially in delivery and subject matter. Like my home country, the expat catcalls here hinges on a yelled compliment ("Hey girl, you're lookin fiiiine!") or a inquiry as to your well being ("How you doin'?"). The local Chinese catcalls though are usually yelled out an open window of a car and always involve you joining them for a drink or for a ride in their car. Come to think of it, perhaps the local Chinese catcall isn't so much a catcall but a feeler for if you're a prostitute (hooker-call?).

What's the best catcall (or hooker-call) you've gotten? It's been eons since we last posted so we'll see if anyone really still reads this blog.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

I got an "¡Ai Papi!" from a pair of South American women whilst shopping for new mobile in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Was smiling about it all that evening!

kinaröjare said...

It has been a while since you posted here. You should keep your blog up to date, it's one of my favorite on the Chinablog lists.

Jeff G Deutsch said...

My girlfriend is Brazilian--she tells me the worst one she ever heard was from her doorman in Rio. That day, she was wearing a green dress, and the doorman remarked as she walked past, "If it looks that good when it's green, imagine what it'll look like when it's RIPE."

Heh. Brazilian men.

svye said...

I would think that's the best one, you should hear our spanish guys' ones.... I don't think I could even translate them...

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