KUALA LUMPUR: While hiring boyfriends to bring home for Chinese New Year is a legitimate business in China, in Malaysia, men are offering themselves up for public hire as a joke – and in some cases, being taken seriously.
One of them is 26-year-old Zeann Jian, who had offered to play the role of dream boyfriend to introduce to “concerned” family members for RM88 (US$20) a day, RM188 (US$42) a reunion dinner or RM888 (US$200) for the entire festive season.
Among the services he offered, according to a Facebook post, were finishing leftovers from his date’s plate, answering difficult queries from aunties, calling his date’s parents Pa and Ma, providing a photo album of himself with his date and even pretending to be engaged to be married.
