Wiener Fest at Computex - Taipei Times

The bar was full, but despite the fact that Wednesday was ladies night, most patrons were male. If you were there to drink and hang out, it was a great place to be, but if you were a man and looking for romance, the odds were stacked against you.

“Everybody knows about Carnegie’s — a place where ladies dance on the bar — but seriously, there were too many blokes in there,” said Tony Ricardi, sales and marketing director for Mesh computers. “It’s a wiener fest.”

Which should not have come as a surprise: men far outnumber women at Computex. “Of course, it’s like that every year,” said Carnegie’s manager Jonathan Wy, who estimated there were 400 people inside the bar on Wednesday and another 150 to 250 outside. “If it were a fashion show, it would be a different story.”

Not everybody was willing to deal with the five-to-one ratio of guys to girls. One Computex trader from Mexico, who will be known simply as Tony (no relation to Ricardi), said in Spanish: “The girls are very beautiful in Taiwan. But there are too many hombres here. I need to find a woman. Can you tell me where the red light district is?”