It is of course pure coincidence that This short report just hours after (finally) took place at the Zurich Botellon Blatter meadow appears (seen from a distance it appears that Switzerland, apart from the severance of Mr. Nef, only deals with Massenbesäufnissen). Actually, but this is not the subject of this report, but I suppose that earth-shattering event to be happy to discuss the drinking customs in China, in my personal view and experience something discuss it further.
No, I have a Botellon here really experienced yet in Beijing, but who knows when these types of events are held there. That does not, however, that the Chinese do not more or less close contact with alcoholic beverages maintain. I once read that half of the Chinese, the enzymes needed to break down alcohol in the blood does not have. I do not know if that's true, but I can say from (bitter) experience, only that the other half apparently with double the amount of enzymes with it. The trend I have learned that alcohol southern Chinese tend to be less tolerated than the inhabitants of the northern provinces (the "liquor trench" runs, however, in the truest sense of the word very fluent).
Many Chinese are in fact rather modest, often shy people. For important business meetings that take place are often not in a meeting room, but at a meal in the restaurant, alcoholic beverages are consumed in order to achieve a slightly more relaxed mood. They want to know (better), and personal issues are well discussed, the transaction is even often relegated to the background (meetings with strict opening and closing times and a prepared agenda of all are often unknown). It gives off and also with foreign business people as notorious "binge drinking" and that can also pretty neat to go to the liver. But I think that these drinking habits tend to be rather slow . Die Especially in privately owned companies can be regular "failures" on key employees (usually women are spared from these booze-ups) no longer afford.
drunk is usually the local "white wine (bai jiu), but beware, this white wine should not be confused with our Chablis or Aigle. This is
is a brandy with volume often 60 percent or more (the more alcohol the more expensive). Almost every region in China produces its own specialty drink. Famous (and expensive) is the "Maotai" from the province of Guizhou. Here is
in Beijing, especially the notorious "He Guo Tou" (pictured right) is very popular, is a half-liter bottle of it already for about two francs. Especially among the better-off layers Mitel but now more and more "normal" wine drinking. China is also increasingly a country of beer, currently with an average consumption of about 24 liters per capita per year. This quantity as the Czechs drink beer drinking champion (over 150 liters per head) for breakfast, but the growth rates in China are still a year of more than 5% is very impressive. So it's no accident that actually establish all the great international beer companies here in China and partly in particular younger Audiences are very popular (including Corona). In China itself but also very good, rather light beers brewed. Known to us is the Tsingtao beer of more than 100 years of German brewery founded in the city of Qingdao, Shangdong Province. There are, however, probably almost as many beer breweries and varieties such as Belgium, is worth including the HAPI from Harbin and Shenyang in the SNOW-BEER. Yes, even in the inhabited mainly Muslim Xinjiang Autonomous Region is a very neat light and dark beer is brewed.
Here in Beijing Yanjing is the dominant brand of beer, a bottle (6 dl) of the simple variety is to have been for 30 cents. And Yanjing is doing everything that it remains, despite the increasing competition from home and abroad also No. 1 in Beijing.
Recently I met in a small restaurant Wang Lili, who was dressed as Yanjing ambassador, the guests at the influence of drinks accordingly. Its charm has made it then, that the writer has ten clock in the morning ordered the first Yanjing. Perhaps worth mentioning is the fact that Wang Lili comes not from Beijing but from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, but that does not stop, motivated for a good product to use in Beijing.
sports and beer go together like Siamese twins, apparently. There may be no sporting event that is not sponsored by any brand of beer. While we had to add to the dictates of the EURO 2008 Carlsberg, it was during the Olympics after all a choice. Tsingtao, Budweiser (which in the U.S., of course) and Yanjing all just came into some form on as sponsors.
Conclusion: No Botellon die of thirst in Beijing, but here visitors have not won!
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