Last weekend I went to Elektro in Taipei. My friend, Diane (name changed) invited me to go. She said it was her friends birthday party and they had a table and they said it was ok for her to bring along friends. I asked how much it was and if I could bring a friend so that I would have someone I knew there. She says she doesn’t know the price because she never pays when she parties with him. She said I could bring a friend so I asked my Canadian friend H to go. H and I got there at 12 and met up with Diane and the birthday guy at their table. Diane said they got there at 11:30 and introduced us and the birthday guy poured us some drinks. Everything was fine until the bill came. The birthday guy paid for everything on his card and then requested 4000 from H and I. He showed us the bill was 22,000 and said that the bill is split between only the guys. We were surprised cause I remembered Diane saying she never pays when she parties with him. We forked over 8000, but didn’t see any of the other guys fork over any money…I was confused because usually everyone pays their share equally. Just wanted to know if this is the norm here. Sorry for the big block of text.
Forgot to include that there were about 3 guys and 5 girls there when we got there
In my experience it’s normally the birthday guy who settles the bill. If the bill is to be split (by prior agreement) then it is split equally between everyone … although depending on exactly who is banging whom it might end up being the guys who actually pay.
I don’t get the birthday guy’s calculation. 22K divided by 4000 is not a round number.
The closest English word would be ‘bogan’, I guess. Do the guys have tattoos on their legs?
If there’s a split, it normally works like this: bill divided by number of people, with some of the girls being covered by their bf’s, if they roll that way.
In that case, 8,000 definitely doesn’t sound like your share of a 22,000 bill. Did you two do more drinking than the others? This seems highly irregular, especially since the inviter usually treats the invitee, unless the bill is being equally split.
Exactly what @finley said, it depends on the crowd and who’s banging who. If they’re suits, might be finance/bank guys, they can’t be that bad with numbers can they?
Your story is probably one of the main reasons why I gave up on the club scene here in Taiwan. It’s always a friend of a friend’s bday and they have a table. At the end of the day, I end up forking over 3-4000NT and all I had were a few shots and a mixed drink. Hell, if I spent 4000NT at the bar, I’d be on the ground crawling home.
I learned my lesson from last time to be sure to ask the guy if its ok with Diane bringing me along and I even asked beforehand the price so that I could be prepared but I was not prepared for the 4000
My friend Diane said she’s know him for like 4+ years and her and her girlfriends have never paid once when shes partying with the birthday guy or even in other groups.
