Singapore's last Chinese hostess bar: Sin Po Po Bar
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Where do lounge hostesses go when the bloom of youth is gone? Where can they turn when cheeks become a little hollow and laugh lines appear, and customers drift away in search of younger companions?
They might come to where I am now: Sin Po Po Bar (新宝宝高级半夜酒廊).
Here, in this windowless space, it is dark, darker than any cinema. That makes it harder to see the skin that sags, the bodies grown less firm. Sin Po Po is a forgiving place.
Four or five women, painted and primped, are scattered around the booths, their faces lit by mobile phones, reading glasses perched on heavily powdered noses.
They wait for customers that might never come. Because their clients, like them, are ageing out of the game.