See lup sup bar on Wiktionary
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"text": "2005 December 12, Master Cartwheeler, 7 years later.., blog entry\nAll that is lacking is some mamasans walking in with some bar girls holding XO bottles in their hands (would like to clarify that I've never been to a lup sup bar.. but i think this is how it looks like, right?) http://sevenyrslater.blogspot.sg/2005/12/first-time-at-lup-sup-bar-oops-i-mean.html"
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"text": "2014 November 2013, CowBoy Johnny, Redwire Times: REVEALED: What Goes on in Singapore’s Seedy KTV Bars, An Ex-Bouncer and Lup Sup Bar Hopper Talk to Redw, online\nRedwire spoke to one bar-hopper who used to frequent lup sup bars in Duxton when, in his words, it was still an area known for cheap pinoy prostitutes, Chinese pei jiu mei (drinking kaki girls) and high-class ang moh callgirl https://web.archive.org/web/20160727232011/http://redwiretimes.com/cow-beh-cow-bu/revealed-goes-singapores-seedy-ktv-bars-ex-bouncer-lup-sup-bar-hopper-talk-redwire/"
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