Haitun Road, a two-lane suburban street lined with auto repair shops and business selling building supplies, leads most traffic out of Kunming, southwestern China, to mountains and farms.
Taxi drivers in the city, the capital of Yunnan Province, say they seldom go out that far and those who do risk not finding a fare back to town.
It was out there last year that two college women would undress and lie face up on the tables in the wood-paneled rooms of a Japanese restaurant as customers slipped off their shoes and waited for sushi to be served on the women's bodies.
In April 2004, someone spread word of the eatery's ancient Japanese dining tradition to local newspapers and touched off an ethics debate.