Exuding a slightly shady vibe, Pedi Restaurant and Bar (or Pedi Bar and Café, depending on whether you’re looking at the signage or the menu) appears to have been consciously constructed to give the air of the illicit. Glowing with a lurid red, its walls are lined with sexual photography – is that a man parking his pint between a girl’s fleshy cheeks? – partnered with carpe diem cliches, such as Ernest Hemingway’s: “When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
Suitably vampish waitresses smile suggestively, while asking if you like a good suck – on hookah pipes, that is. It’s all just a touch seedy and yet utterly harmless, so you can feel a bit dangerous without being in any actual danger.
Shisha seems to be the specialty at Pedi, which stocks all the typical flavors, including grape, cherry and watermelon (RMB50).
You can also opt for a Pedi special (RMB75), which uses a hollowed-out, bisected apple as the bowl for your fruity tobacco – it’s meant to add an extra layer of taste to your smoke.
If you get thirsty, Heineken is on tap (RMB45), and standard cocktails, from maragaritas to cosmos (both RMB55), are all on the menu, mixed strong to make up for the mediocre skill of the bartender. If you get hungry, salads (RMB40-65), sandwiches (RMB30-45), humongous pizzas (around RMB125 for 60 centimeters) and other snacks are there to sate the appetite.
Pedi doesn’t take it’s whole ‘den of iniquity’ shtick too seriously, and there are fun little touches like the chemistry class con- traption dominating the bar, which reminds one of something Walter White might have used in Breaking Bad. Ample chairs, stools and couches are all nice and comfortable, so you can slouch back, pick up a pipe and breathe out all of the day’s frustrations in a cloud of mint-scented air.
// 1 Jianshe Liu Malu, Yuexiu District 越秀区建设六马路1号
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