When a customer enters, the prison-style bar confesses to a crime, takes a mugshot, and then moves to a cell, and can use prison uniforms as well as handcuffs, SCMP added.
Prison-themed bars have emerged like bamboo shoots in various parts of China, and young people who want to experience prison indirectly are taking a long line as it becomes a hot topic on social media.
Prison bars typically charge 50 yuan for drinks such as cocktails, soda water and coffee.
You have to pay an additional 10 yuan to rent an orange suit, which is a prison uniform. Other cell supplies, such as handcuffs, can also be used for a fee.
When a client enters a prison bar, he or she is instructed to sign a confession and receive a criminal document showing the crimes he or she has committed.
Next, take a mugshot photo. After that, it goes straight to the cell.
The bar staff greets customers in prison uniforms. The staff asks what they have committed and reminds them of rules, such as not breaking the table.
Pubs like this have become a hot topic on social media and are spreading throughout China.
A netizen who experienced a prison bar said, “You can easily take attractive pictures there. The light is appropriate and the background is very interesting,” he said.
Another Internet user said, “I went to a bar in Hangzhou at 10 p.m. on weekdays, and I had to wait 20 minutes to get in. It’s so popular.”
Another netizen commented, “The world is going crazy. I don’t understand why it’s a prison bar.”
An expert said, “A prison is a place to punish, educate, and correct criminals. Caricature of a prison can give awe to the law. It can also be rude to victims and their families in particular,” according to the SCMP.
EJ SONG
US ASIA JOURNAL
