Secret Bars and Street Art
Boha Glass’s Recent Asia Expedition
As some of you might know, Boha is on tour in Asia at the moment, looking for up-and-coming artists, across a wide array of artistic fields. From local pottery to stone-carved smiling Buddha statues, mosaic-rimmed mirrors to beautifully embroidered traditional clothing, and much more besides.
After arriving in Kuala Lumpur, we heard about the secret bars that dotted the city and made a plan to try and discover as many as possible – purely for research purposes of course (cough!).
We found ourselves ringing doorbells in strange alleyways, slipping through backpacker hostels with sleepy, confused, just-off-the-plane guests, stood in their room doorway, wondering why smartly dressed people were wandering the corridors outside their room at 1 am. We climbed dark, spiral staircases – hidden at the back of busy restaurants and this one was the best of all…
From the outside, it looked like a