Hookah at Shi Chai

On Center Street in Riverwest, lies a small Middle Eastern Restaurant and Hookah Bar. Recorded outside on a slightly rainy day, this sound has an odd texture to it. The sound is made up of bubbles trapped in a water chamber that move up the stem of the pipe. In the recording you can also hear, for a few seconds, the coal igniting the tobacco in the top of the pipe, as well as the restaurant patron blowing smoke out of the pipe to clear the chamber of air.

--Recorded 9-27-07 around 3:30 PM.