Coming
from a city like Berlin, you cannot really expect a nightlife like
there twice in the world. There’s nothing comparable. But still I
wanted to give the local nightlife a try. From what
I’ve heard by fellow expats is that clubs here are pretty much like
catwalks: it’s about to see and even more about being seen. Which means
you have to dress up in order to catch up with Mongolians…AND you have
to drink a lot of alcohol. It seems no night
out is a real night out without being totally drunk and vomit the
dinner out of you. In short – not my cup of tea AT ALL!
But
there is this other place that kind of kept my attention from the
beginning. It’s called TEMPLE and considers itself as an alternative
place, off mainstream music with no prestige claims.
So in late October I eventually managed to get there. The venue was surprisingly huge: a generous
dance floor, good sound system, a cozy seating area in the front and an
even larger one in the back, a smoking area and two bars.
All covered in red light and shaped like an actual temple from the
inside. It was such a cool venue, actually. But it was so, so empty.
OMG,
how sad to see this cool place with literally no one in there. But what
can you do about it?! If you pay 30,000 MNT cover charge and 8,000 MNT
per beer (WTF?), you will have to dance it
off. And actually once my people and me began to fill the floor, a few
more did so as well and around 2 or 3 it was almost half full. I was
very surprised the club played till 7 in the morning and the electronic
music wasn’t too bad after all.
Oh...and also a good moment to mention I'm doing my own kind of electronic music myself https://soundcloud.com/fossit.
