Budapest Sexguide

This post is not about helping you to discover the sex-life of Budapest. But rather about to prevent you being robbed, cheated, blackmailed and overbilled in the Budapest nightlife.

There is a website called Budapest sexguide that created a blacklist of the most dangerous bars in Budapest. They are regularly updating this list.

Actually, as a Hungarian, I know exactly which are the places you have to avoid. I do not need any blacklist because its very simple. All (I mean ALL) the strip-bars, sex-bars are about cheating and fooling tourists.

Anyway, here are some examples from the recent blacklist:

Jolly Roger's Bar

Éden Nigh Club

Broadway Café

White House Night Club

Beside avoiding these nightclubs, you might be aware of some misleading strategies in Budapest.

- the walking hunting girls on the Váci street

- the duplicated price list in bars

- taxi drivers that offers the worse places for you

- misleading escort services

To read more about these strategies visit www.budapest-sexguide.com/cheats

The embassy of the United States also published a detailed list of risky places in Budapest:

American citizens are strongly urged to avoid these clubs and restaurants due to multiple reports of victimization received by the Embassy:

This list is not all-encompassing, so please use common sense and take note when/where one or more local women approach U.S. citizens in the guise of friendship. Please note that most of these places are located in Budapest's fifth district, on/near the main tourist street, the Váci utca.

• Diamond Club
  Budapest II district, Bimbó út 3.
• Eden Night Club
  Budapest VI district, Andrássy út. 54.
• Galaxia étterem, bár
  Budapest V district, Bécsi utca 3.
• La Dolce Vita
  Budapest V district, Október 6. utca 8.
• Mercy Club and Lounge
  Budapest VII district, Dohány utca 88.
• Pigalle Night Club
  Budapest VIII district, Kiss József utca 1-3.
• Városközpont (accessible by outside elevator)
  Budapest V district, Váci utca 16.

New Budapest Movie

“We wanted to introduce Budapest as a city which is more than a mass of buildings. We wanted to look behind the buildings and show the intellectual power and invention potential that we have”, said István Madarász, the multiple award-winner director of the Get Engaged! movie.

You can watch the movie on Budapest Business Region's website.

Liberty bridge (Szabadság híd)

The Szabadság híd or Liberty Bridge (sometimes Freedom Bridge) in Budapest, Hungary. It is the third southernmost public road bridge in Budapest, located at the southern end of the City Centre.

At its two ends are:

Gellért tér (at the foot of Gellért Hill, with the Gellért Spa and Hotel Gellért) and

Fővám tér (with the Great Market Hall and the nearby Budapest University of Economics).

The bridge was built between 1894 and 1896 to the plans of János Feketeházy. Although radically different in structure, the bridge imitates the general outline of a chain-type bridge, which was considered an aesthetically preferable form at the time of construction. The bridge was opened in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph; the last silver rivet on the Pest abutment was inserted into the iron structure by the Emperor himself, and the bridge was originally named after him.

It is 333.6 m in length and 20.1 m in width. The top of the four masts are decorated with large bronze statues of the Turul, a falcon-like bird, prominent in ancient Hungarian mythology. Many trams used to cross the twin-road bridge, which was also heavily burdened with car traffic, and there is an initiative to convert it to a pedestrian-only crossing once the fourth underground metro line is completed in Budapest in the coming years.

Momotaro Chinese restaurant

Better known as Momotaro Ramen, this was the restaurant where we met up for our Singaporean Meetup. Most of us were relatively surprised to find the small number of Singaporeans living here in Budapest.

We were extended a warm welcome with the real yuntun soup, two big dumplings served in the traditional chinese soup bowls and Zsolt noticed the small details other than the decorations on the ceiling, the couplets on the wall, and also, we were using the chinese soup spoons.

It was followed by lots of their 'Chef's recommendations' such as Kong Bao Chicken, Stir-fried beef, Steamed fish, bitter gourd or the bitter melon. All of which were served on the Lazy Susan of the big round table. We were hosted with much hospitality in a bigger room in part of the restaurant by the boss of this restaurant.

One of our favourite is the steaming hot xiao long bao. We noticed that there was a dish with very thinly sliced beef and it tasted really good. There were also vegetable bao. The staples of chinese food was the fried rice. We had some white rice too.

Finally we were served the black sesame seed tang yuan coated with coconut flakes - a nice light dessert to round up the night. Only 9 of us were at this meetup but we hope there will be a bigger group the next time.

Getting there:

metro (red line) Kossuth Lajos tér station

tram/ streetcar: number 2 or 2A

bus number 15

Momotaro Ramen Budapest is very close to the Parliament, the Basilica and Roosevelt square with the Chain Bridge & the Gresham Palace:

Address:

Széchenyi u. 16 District 5, 1051 Budapest

Reservations: +36-1 269 3802