Chinese are positively fond of the word "romantic". They use it everywhere. My favorite examples are "Romantic Club" karaoke club and 'romantic' roadside sauna.
It looks like somebody told them that the whole idea of something being 'romantic' revolves around human sexuality. While technically quite correct this notion was taken a bit too far. I fail to find anything even remotely romantic in any of the above.
Take for instance the karaoke establishment. It's a place where people pay to sing (quite often badly) and drink ridiculously overpriced drinks with hired and really bored girls who double as prostitutes (for additional fee). What's romantic about paying for company because you suck so much you can't get yourself a girlfriend?
Now sauna would be... just the same, actually. Only difference would be bathing instead of singing, the drinks still would be overpriced and girls bored. That ain't romantic either... not in my book anyway.
... And that reminds me of that fad when people would tattoo some Chinese or Japanese characters on their body without understanding of their meaning. Now this is what I call asking for screw-up!
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