The Blue Lotus Nightclub is a Shanghai nightclub/opium den where customers can indulge in opium smoking. The club is run by local Japanese agent Mitsuhirato. Behind it is where the local members of the Kih-Oskh Brotherhood in China assemble. The Blue Lotus Nightclub is only featured in The Blue Lotus. At ten o'clock on an unknown day, Tintin visits the Blue Lotus Nightclub because he receives a telegram from an unknown sender. The telegram reads: Tintin finds that if you take the first two letters of each word, it will reveal a secret message. The message was: