The high-class foreign prostitutes usually had a foreign bawd as her agent, who was apt at dealing with the upper class society. They would formally post a small ad for selling honey, gin, brandy or champagne in a Western paper. Experienced customers could tell these were in fact “Yellow Classified Ads”, and could go to the address provided for service. Each prostitute’s apartment was meticulously decorated, rich in European flavor. And the prostitutes had been given professional training by the bawds, so besides sexual transaction, they would mix cocktails and light cigars for the clients, making the clients, who had traveled miles across the oceans, feel they were home away from home. As they provided high-class service, they paid full attention to protecting the privacy of their clients. They also had another selling point - clients who were “drunkards not interested in activities in the bed” could choose to drink and have intimate talks with the prostitutes in the living room, enjoying a taste of Platonic moments.

Oh! Why does the King’s Theatre look like this? You know, the area around Wynham Street, Lynhurst Terrace, Wellington Street and Hollywood Road in Central was the hub of high-class foreign prostitutes in the past.

In the early days of Hong Kong, foreign prostitutes came from all over the world, and Portuguese women were among the majority. Why? It was because before Hong Kong opened its port, its neighbor port, Macau, had already been developed flourishing. Lots of Portuguese women left their home country to make a living in Macau. However, with the sudden opening of the Hong Kong port, its development surpassing that of Macau all at once, lots of people crossed the sea for Hong Kong, and the Portuguese women had to follow the trend..