25-06-2015, 03:30 AM
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Topless bars, bikini-clad escorts and smelly bean curd : HK’s 1980s tourist guide
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Topless bars, bikini-clad escorts and smelly bean curd: Hong Kong’s official 1980s tourist guide
From warnings about Chinese food so smelly "even a Frenchman" couldn't get past it, to telling readers "engage a bikini-clad escort for a truly enjoyable day at the beach", the Hong Kong Tourist Association's official guidebook of 1981 is full of politically incorrect advice
Adam Renton
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 24 June, 2015, 12:21pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 24 June, 2015, 8:50pm
"Topless bars abound in Tsim Sha Tsui and Wan Chai (but the bottomless craze has not reached the colony yet so you won't be able to find out 'if it's true what they say' that way)," the guide notes.
Hong Kong welcomed more than 2 ½ million overseas visitors in 1981, drawn here by the world famous harbour, bargain shopping, and, if the official tourist guide is anything to go by, topless bars and bikini-clad escorts. Although the then-crown colony had become an electronics production centre in the 1970s, the first phase of the MTR had opened in 1979, and an increasing number of skyscrapers pierced the skyline with the city on the cusp of the 1980s economic boom, political correctness had yet to arrive on these shores …
Thanks to Jack Greenwood-Allum and James Taylor
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