9am banging at your door and as soon as you open the door 11 police officers barge in speaking only enough English to say, "Pass-port, now".
This is what happens when your house keeps doesn't know what hookah is and calls the police to report foreigners staying in the hotel were drug traffickers and had tons of drug paraphernalia everywhere in the room.
11 police officers in the room in a frenzy, pointing and speaking in Chinese (which I don't speak). After about 15 minutes it became apparent that they were trying to investigate all of my hookah stuff. Going as far as taking out a chemical test and testing the water that was inside the hookah glass! Taking pictures, rubber gloves, and even internet searching (I would say Google, but that's blocked here) our names to see if they could find any relevant info.
All in all, I was able to give my partners a call to rush over to the hotel and translate on our behalf to find out that the officers were tipped off about drugs in our room and would not reveal who gave them this info.
On the flip side, the hotel was fined $5,000 US dollars by the police for not informing them that they had foreign guests check in. What a morning!
-Hookah Hustler