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Spin-the-Bottle Diner Owner to Star in Road Trip Documentary

By Serena Dai | October 30, 2014 7:46am
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EAST WILLIAMSBURG — A self-proclaimed "professional party guy" who's opening a 24-hour diner with a dedicated "Spin the Bottle" table is the star of a forthcoming documentary chronicling his cross-country road trip in search of the rockstar lifestyle.

The film, "Sexy Enough for Chang," follows Chang Han, 48, of Amancay's Diner, on a trip across the U.S. with his family and the Danish band Brothers Moving.

Han initially asked filmmaker Karin Oleander to follow the band on tour in an effort to promote its music. But Oleander ended up focusing more on Han, naming the film after the slogan on tank tops that he distributes to women he deems attractive. The film is set to be released next year.

"He’s an awesome, crazy and interesting person," Oleander said. "It's impossible to describe him. It's like describing a color to someone who is blind."

Han, who wanted to fulfill the "rock 'n' roll" part of the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" motto, said he set out to find a band to work with because he didn't know how to play an instrument himself.

He found Brothers Moving playing in the Union Square subway station six years ago and asked them to perform at his now-closed East Village restaurant Gama.

"To make my rock 'n' roll dream come true, we need stars," Han explained. "If I went to a famous band, then I'm a hanger-on. But I'm trying to make the band, what they're going to be."

The Bushwick resident brought his wife, Chris, on the 21-day trip this past summer because she wanted to travel the country — with her agreeing to let him party and bring home "hot girls."

He traveled with his two college-age sons so he could eventually drop them off at the California Institute of Technology and Pomona College.

But Han said he learned the rock 'n' roll dream can be tough to achieve with family around and the tour bus hopping from city to city every night.

"There was not nearly enough sex," he said.

Oleander said the documentary has many threads, including Han's efforts to make the tour bus — filled with 16 people total — both family- and rock star-friendly.

"It can be hard to party that much sometimes," she said with a laugh.

Han's lifestyle has received criticisms, with local media calling him "shady" and "creepy" after DNAinfo New York wrote about his past of Jell-O wrestling with 21-year-old women and hosting weekly "Spin the Bottle" parties.

But the longtime restaurateur's outlandish personality isn't creepy — it's "awesome," Oleander said.

Meanwhile, Han shrugged off the comments and said he thought it was "funny as hell."

He claimed several "hot girls" contacted him to play Spin the Bottle after stories about his upcoming diner were published. He was befuddled, but said he complied.

"I’m not crazy," he said. "They’re crazy."