Karaoke aka KTV

For a true Beijing experience, we went out for Karaoke on Monday night. It's REALLY popular here.
Different from what I knew before, you do not sing in public in a bar here, though. You book your own separate room in a Karaoke place just with your group of friends. We were 20+ people from our language school and had a lot more fun than I ever thought we would. In a glitzy state of the art Karaoke establishment called Melody, we had three screens, a large selection of English and Chinese songs, two microphones, a small stage, room to dance, and couches. We even had Schellenkraenze and Rasseln. No idea what those are called in English. My pictures don't show it, but I sang a lot.... ;-) No worries, I didn't embarrass myself. It was all good fun. We stayed for over three hours and ended the evening with some multi-lingual acapella performances.