Bushwick’s newest hot spot has a goal of transporting visitors to a floating world where the jazz age meets the techno dancefloor, in a space that brings to mind movies like Shanghai Triad and the John Wick series.

The Red Pavilion opened last month and doubles as a Chinese teahouse & apothecary by day and a neo-noir nightclub by night. On a recent Friday night, the club was filled to the brim with people from all walks of life, all there to take a room filled with things thoughtfully curated by the Shanghai-born Zoey Gong and Orson Salicetti, the bar’s mixologist. 

The space is the brainchild of the nightlife impresario, Shien Lee, who runs it through her event production company Dances of Vice. Both Lee and Gong identify as queer and Lee told me that a desire to market to the local queer, BIPOC, and AAPI community was what brought them together.