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Entertainment
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Guangzhou has its own
opera style
, superficially similar to Beijing's, but more rustic. It doesn't get much of an airing any more, though you might see travelling amateur groups performing in the parks at the weekends. The Cultural Park on Liuersan Lu has a proper stage, and hotel staff can usually translate announcements of forthcoming events in local newspapers for you.
Nowadays,
eating out
is the main preoccupation. Cantonese youngsters also flock to the
cinema
to see Hong Kong kung fu epics or Western action films, both usually subtitled in English and Chinese, while there are also discos/karaoke sessions at many of the tourist hotels. Guangzhou also has, for China, an unusually high number of
nightclubs
, along with a number of "beer cellars" and bars, all patronized by a mix of young Chinese and foreign workers - both a useful source of information of other nocturnal hotspots. Other useful information
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