Hooters Beijing opens! (Almost)

Beijing is “whole” now.  Hooters has come to town!  Yesterday, Sunday, was a soft opening, and I was there.  The food and sights, both free.  The official opening is this Wednesday, Sept. 12.  Tonight there’s some VIP event there, but, I’m not a VIP, so…  When you read about Hooters in Beijing on Tuesday,   remember, you heard it here first! Prime real estate! Corner of Gongti and Xin dong lu. (Close to the old Frank’s place) As a couple of my friends said: Sureal.  Enough said. Unfortunately, the prices are a bit high - I think they’re targeting out of town foreign visitors, proper Expats, and well to do local Chinese who enjoy seeing scantly clad women.  So this will most likely not become a more than once monthly occasion.  But the wings? Damn good.  Will need to spend more time researching the difference between the Hooters wings and the Rickshaw’s wings. I found this interesting link, this Andrew guy is dissecting the Chinese name (I also took a picture of it) .  Come on guys… “American Owl (or ‘Cat Head Eagle’) Restaurant”?  Can we not come up with a better name?  Like “美国大乳房餐厅”, or American (da rufang) Restaurant"? (I’m not going to translate da rufang, but you can guess what I wrote).  The name Owl Restaurant really, as Andrew points out, looses it’s meaning.  My proposed name is much better.