Bards and bars

Jiangmen is not known as a party town, but there are places to shake your tush if need be

Jiangmen?s nightlife centres around two streets: Bar Street and the historic waterfront district (see page 12). While Bar Street has several well lit restaurants, an excellent coffee house (see page 13), and some very nice noodle shops, the clubs are mostly well past their sell-by dates. An exception is the recently renovated Wang Qing Bar. It?s clean, brightly lit, and friendly and there is live music on holidays. As with most of the clubs in town, it?s open 7.30 pm to 3 am, but ? as the manager says ? they won?t chase you out the door as long as there are paying customers.

Wang Qing Bar

No 4 De Xing Lane (near Bar Street), Jiangmen

Tel: (0750) 337 8991

Things are hopping seven nights a week at the Oriental Disco in the newly opened Yucca Hotel. At the karaoke next door you might even be dragged up onto the circular stage that surrounds the bar for a duet with one of the performers from the disco. The requisite Filipino band in the Boston Cafe, just off the hotel?s lobby, is another welcome addition to this laid-back city?s nascent nocturnal scene.