Betelnut Girls

Have you ever been attracted to those beauties in sexy as well as appealing dresses? If you get the chance to experience, you are sure to be surprised by Taiwanes Betelnut Beauties.

One of the features of Taiwan appealing to international media is “betelnut girl”. Sprinkled with numerous transparent boxes with twinkling neon lights, the interchange in Taiwan is known as a display for betel nut girls. As a stall, the showcase displays these betelnut beauties in sexy outfits.

(Photo: Tobie Openshaw)

Formerly, people selling betelnut are from diversity of ages and could be a male or a female; gradually, for the sake of attracting customers, the boss of betelnut stalls came up with an idea to hire young and beautiful girls in fascinating outfits as clerks. Obvious, it is a successful business strategy so betelnut girl has become a burgeoning industry in Taiwan. You may wonder why most stalls are located on interchanges and that’s because trunk drivers are the chief group who support this betelnut industry. In order to keeping alert and energetic, trunk drivers like to chew betelnut while they are on a long-way driving. Accordingly, situated on interchanges, they are sure to do more business.

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Betel nut, which can be used as drug, is the fruit of areca catechu growing in Malaysia and the tropics originally. In addition to Taiwan, many other countries in Asia have the custom of chewing betel nut such as India, Vietnam or Malaysia. Aboriginals in Taiwan regard betel nut as snacks and part of their lives. It is the essential gift in a wedding and serves as a kind of food when it comes to social intercourse. One of the tribes even treats it as rent for their chieftain.

(Photo: Tobie Openshaw)

Serving as betelnut beauties, those girls are the same as showgirls in car exhibition. Apparently, most of us take a wrong attitude toward them. Instead of committing crimes, they are dedicated to their career by entertaining customers and taking their career seriously.

"Visit Tobie Openshaw's gallery of betelnut girl photos, taken over a five-year period: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobie_openshaw/sets/72157594581621891/ "