Since there are a few posts regarding bars in HCMC, i'd share what I know.
I am assuming the focus is on bars, with action, like BBBJ and FJ. Not those bars in Lt Japan where not much action happened despite ladies in sexy dresses.
Okay, right a few shops from where the famous Linh Cherry is, is a bar by the name of Smileys. It's located right between Roseland Corp Hotel and Cherry Hotel. It says Beers and Billards on the signboard, but it has a huge Smiling Face/Icon on the façade of the building. Ladies quality ranges from 4/10 to 6/10 (max).so do not go with high hopes of meeting a 10/10 SYT.
The MO is - walk in the doors, buy a beer for yourself (its heavily marked up - >100k for a bottle of local beer). There will be ladies approaching you as you're seated. If you like the lady, invite her for a seat and buy her a ladies drink. Ladies drinks can cost as much as 150k (Baileys or some watered down scotch). If no, politely tell her to f-off.
Once you've had a few drinks and your lil bro would like to be sucked off, then pls tell the lady and you will be ushered upstairs. You'll be ushered into one of the billiard rooms and have your lil johnny sucked off with CIM. Price depends on how you nego, but anywhere from 1-1.5m VND is sufficient. Of course, you cannot compare this setting to those at NPK, where you can be sucked off from 400k. This place allows you to drink and for you to have a dirty conversation with the lady. As mentioned earlier, face quality is max 6/10, but their service lvl, can go up to 10/10.
I've been patronizing this bar and a few others (Pasteur/29 on Dong Khoi) since ages ago and most of these places did not survive covid. But Smileys did. I walked past it on Monday this week and it was opened.
P/S - pls share FR here if you do try. Lately lots of info has been shared on this thread, but no FR.
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