The caption for this photo tells us these guys are “migrant bartenders.” What? What is that? They move from town to town, arriving at the start of drinking season, then pulling up stakes and moving on when the cocktail shakers run dry? 
Is that how it works?
Migrant bartenders practice throwing bottles inside a park in Hangzhou, in east China’s Zhejiang province, October 31, 2006. Chinese officials estimate the migrant population has reached 150 million, doubling over the past decade as poor rural residents flocked to cities to take part in the country’s economic boom. REUTERS/China Daily
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Quietly, we approached. It was a small herd of migrant bartenders. We could hear their braying calls of “Mister, ya gonna order or just sit there.” It was a pristine moment.
Just then, across the clearing, we see the jaded bimbo approaching. Timidly, at first, she steps, steps, steps closer until she notices that the migrant bartenders have young bottles near to hand. Here, we see her nostrils flare.
As she nears, moving from tree to tree, the bartenders first notice, then grin, then turn away as if they hadn’t seen her. It became obvious tha they were wary of her kind.
And so the dance of booze and love begins anew in the Forbidden City.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksBar of Floating Carafes: the musical.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks‘Course, I can handle my liquor.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricksnow i’m living in the city of hangzhou.indeed,there are numbers of migrants woking in the city.they can get more money instead of living in the contryside.also it help the nation to speed the democratic process up objectively.
- Posted by john rigbyHangzhou is a beautiful city,so welcome to here ,may be you can know more about chinese and china’s culture,just another civilization in world,although it drag behind the west world specilly in the feild of politics.
- Posted by john rigby