Forty years ago Dino DeLaurentis opened a food store on Columbus Ave in the 80’s. I lived nearby. Early one Saturday morning I stopped in for coffee beans. I was out. The clerk who waited on me quoted me $15 a pound when Zabars nearby was selling whole beans for about $7 a pound. I asked if I could just rent and left.
There’s a coterie of high end escorts (incidental pun) who travel Asia spending a week or so in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, etc. often out of Dubai.