[Mai pauses there a moment. Then she can't help but note with some humor:]

You know, before I started working there I would have agreed with you. Dingy, shady and really who would go to that kind of place.

[Then she gives her shoulders a lax shrug.]

My opinion has changed a little now though. If that's not the kind of place you want to go though, definitely look elsewhere.

[But... she grins.]

You sound a little scared of it though.