I was in Southern California this past weekend and visited a restaurant in Irvine. It was a Persian restaurant which was pretty packed and they had live music and a belly dancing show. The first thing I noticed was that the girls were not Persian at all, they were American. There were 4 girls and they did several different routines on stage, changing costumes and doing different songs. At the end they split up and danced all around the restaurant, soliciting dollar bills which were placed in their waistbands or cleavage by the customers. It was really an odd scene as this was clearly a family restaurant and they even ended by pulling some young (5-7 year old) girls onto the stage with them at the end.
The dancers were decent belly dancers and one or two of them were really good. But when they began soliciting dollar bills I could have sworn it was very strip-club'ish. The girls themselves were really comfortable with this role so I figured they were either current or former strippers. They weren't naked or even risque in the way they dressed at all. And their moves were more or less belly dancing, with a little stripper flair. I was curious if anyone has seen something like this or even participated. I wasn't offended and everyone seemed to have a good time. I was just taken by surprise as I didn't quite expect this approach but I really never go see belly dancers so who knows?



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She did tip her though




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