Bloody marys and Andy Warhol provide an exotic rustic mix
As dusk falls on Bishan village in Anhui province a bar is crammed with villagers downing bloody marys and margaritas after a hard day's toil on the farm. The bar's name, Dog's Bistro, and the interior decorating are straight out of England, yet of the many locals enjoying the evening here, some have never crossed the borders of Anhui province.
Outside the bar, the rest of the village, made up of several hundred white houses with black-tiled upturned eaves, Hui-style architecture common in the area, falls into slumber.
Li Guoyu, owner of the bistro, says the cocktails ritual is the way villagers indulge their fantasies about living like city slickers, and one of the kicks this gives them is knowing that no other villages in these parts can claim to have a bar.
