Alabar

Alabar is a karioke bar and an excellent place to spend good hard earned cash for over priced and poor quality alcohol and sing loudly to people you hope will never ever remember you.
The good thing about Alabar is that you can sing in Mandarin, Cantonese, English, and just about any language you want to all night long until 5 or 6AM.
The bad thing is it gets so crowded on the weekend with other drunks trying to get the mike that you become sober waiting unless you spend rots and rots more money on bad alcohol.
When to go: Any week night the place is dead.
Crowd: Mostly alcoholics then after 2AM, those trying to still find a special friend to go home with or convince to go home with that they brought. So, not really a pick up bar.
Type: It’s an older crowd.
How to go: Kinda like Vegas or Macau, bring a limited amount of cash and order bottles. If you order cocktails, the bar men will make up prices and the more hammered you are, the higher the price. So set your limits.
Décor: This is a dark bar that when they turn on the lights to make you leave you realize the flooring is teeming with it’s own life form.
The décor is a lounge bar, 2 tier, and gaudy. The karioke system works well. Speakers all over so you will NOT miss any songs sung badly, off tune, by anyone. It’s an open mike.
Who to go with: heh heh heh, see comment on Crowd above. Most people go with someone they are already hanging with for the night or go to close the deal. Others like me, just wanna sing. I used to practice my 3 karioke songs there on a week night until the bar manager got ticked off with me and said: Poreeeeseee sing something else!

A neighbourhood bar in Happy Valley. From the outside, it looks very discreet. you can barely tell it’s a bar. actually it’s hard to find the name of the bar even. It’s just a wooden wall with a curtain — rain or shine, the curtain is there!
I’ve lived in happy valley for a few years but only hit up this place once, which another fellow happy valley-​er brought me after drinks one day, late late.
I think alabar is the only late bar that is opened in happy valley after 2am. As you walk in, you will notice that it’s quite a local bar. as in it’s very Chinese. it’s an open karaōke lounge. It’s very spacious, has a lot of tables and space to move around. When we got in, there were people singing karaōke. My friend wanted to get a cocktail, which they did have, often local bars don’t serve this, so i was surprised.
They have all the other drinks you would expect from any bar. nice selection actually.
What I found that I didn’t like about this bar is that it was very smoky — typical at local bars. People all over were smoking, i actually felt my lungs getting darker as i was sitting there.
Overall, the crowd here is a little older, like 35+. The environment is pretty nice. I can see that some people have a really good time here, especially those who like to sing here and there.