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Pay to drink at a stranger’s home? Home bars a growing trend in China’s lonely big cities
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Mr Ken Yang has converted the living room of his one-bedroom apartment into a cosy bar.
ST PHOTO: AW CHENG WEI
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BEIJING – Mr Ken Yang, 32, carefully picks up cubes of ice from a plastic box for a martini, before weighing the other ingredients: vermouth and gin.
Around him are shelves and cabinets well stocked with cans and bottles of alcohol; on a wall hangs a banner that says in Chinese: “Since you are here, let’s drink together.”
