Dalian Nightlife

Banana is a great place to go with friends. It is filled with thumping music and people. The prices are a bit high but by paying a bit extra you get to have a great time until 4:00 AM when the club closes. If you are a guy, expect to have Chinese girls all over you.

Dress Code: Pretty much anything is accepted here. Dresses, suit and tie, jeans, skirts, tennis shoes, or heels.

This is my favourite bar in Dalian. Its small, cool, with a great outside terrace for sitting out at night. The music here is eclectic - there's jazz, blues, world, folk, and one of the owners, a guitar player from Beijing, often plays live. Some people sometimes jam - its a nice scene.

Dress Code: this place is cool, no regulations about what you should wear

It's really loud Chinese karaoke until 11:00. Then, afterwards, most of the foreigners in Dalian come to dance on the glass stage to whatever music people bring (so bring some if you can't stand listening to Kylie 500 times).

Dress Code: Casual, but if you dress up, no one will look at you funny

This is probably the most important thing about Dalian. I didn't know about this at all when I first came here back during the summer of 2001. However, after weeks of rumor and going to the wrong place and getting frustrated because the taxi drivers never know what I'm talking about, I found it: David Bar.
The bar's name sounds kinda hokey, but after staring at Birvon's ugly mug for a long time and not seeing any other people who spoke English, I decided I was going crazy. David Bar is agreed upon as THE expat bar in Dalian. Lots of Russians, Japanese, Australians, Brits, Americans, and Chinese, too. The beer is around 5 yuan for warm K-Lion, and 10 yuan for a mug of cold, yes cold, Budweiser. So, not only can you meet people from all over the world that are also living in Dalian, you can live it up and get schnockered for virtually nothing. The bar's atmosphere varies from evening to evening. It can be anywhere from loud and crazy to calm and mellow, depending on when you go and who you're with. I'm usually there Friday and Saturday nights.

Dress Code: Jeans, I guess...There really is no dress code. It's VERY laid back.

Bearing in mind that Yingkou is a small place, other than karaoke, there is not much of a nightlife to speak of. We walked the main strip in about 20 minutes and went to the grocery store but I'd have to say the most interesting thing we did is to go to a street BBQ. There had to be about 20 up and down this one street and they offer all sorts of delicacies...lets see there was of course chicken, pork, and beef, prawns, octopus, dog, grubs (or something really close to that) and of course fresh pigeon. And I do mean fresh...plucked and eviscerated just meters away from the fire! The source of some of the fires were also coming out of the street (like they were tapped into the city gas line). Just for the record, we didn't eat dog meat, grubs or pigeon - just the basics. It wasn't gormet but it was an experience!

With a very relaxed atmosphere, you can mingle with the locals, watch sports or chat with your friends.

Dress Code: Anything is OK as long as you're not naked (unless you're a sexy blond girl ; ) )

if i m not wrong!!!!!!!!!
it is Friendly Square!!!!!amazing right!!!!!

dalian night is forever young!!!!!!!