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BadAstronaut posted:Oh you got to me, that much is clear. The way you quoted a post I made some months earlier when you made me lose it - so you made it your mission to troll and troll and troll until I lost it? Good job. I was starting to like you and then you showed how you couldn't hang again. So close. Yet so far.
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Really though he's like the knee-jerkiest poster ever
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Let's move on. I wish harmony and prosperity for this coming year of the pony.
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So, coming up to a Nanjing trip for a few days. We'll be staying right on the river and wanted to check if any of the goons can recommend some must sees there? We have four days, so will probably check out - Ming Palace - Nanjing Massacre Memorial - sun-yat Sen mausoleum - The old city walls And maybe the mountain and the nearby hot springs depending on the weather. Other than the well-known stuff I can easily Google, can any of you suggest anything else you enjoyed while there? BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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I'm doing a graduate program in Nanjing but am out of town. If you're going to the city walls, Jimingsi Buddhist temple is right off one of the wall exits and might be worth bundling into your city wall day trip(they have a really nice vegetarian restaurant inside). If you're looking for some fresh air, Xuanwu Lake has a park with a nice strolling path and if pollution isn't bad, it's worth going for a run there. Fuzimiao has a few Confucian buildings but having been there it's mostly been swallowed up by retail/shopping. If you're aiming to pick up cheap souvenirs for friends/coworkers, though, I'd recommend going.
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BadAstronaut posted:So, coming up to a Nanjing trip for a few days. Go to that food chain that sells frogs in all sorts of ways. It's all over Nanjing. Prepare to be weirded out as tourists take weird pictures of themselves smiling in front of mass graves at the memorial!
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SB35 posted:Please report back on this. As I've heard tell they exist, but never actually had any. VideoTapir posted:Seriously, does there exist a Chinese wine that is even drinkable let alone good? Kasumeat posted:I don't think I've heard a single person make this claim who wasn't a Chinese winemaker.
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Does higher proof count or are we just talking about grape wine? Huangjiu can taste pretty good. And I like micro shots of wuliangye.
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I think alot of the wine here hides its lack of structure behind a tongue sucking astringency. Drinking a bottle of anything domestic which cost less than Y120 is like snogging a vacuum cleaner nozzle.
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caberham posted:Does higher proof count or are we just talking about grape wine? We're talking about wine.
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A few of the people I work with drink wine almost exclusively, and I've never seen them ordering a Chinese bottle. Mrrrmrjt did you get any response in your sommelier thread post recon?
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If I buy random wine I always go Chile or Argentina. Malbec is the best thing.
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Magna Kaser posted:Prepare to be weirded out as tourists take weird pictures of themselves smiling in front of mass graves at the memorial! This sounds awesome. And yeah, I guess frog eating will happen. Had it once before - like little chicken.
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BadAstronaut posted:A few of the people I work with drink wine almost exclusively, and I've never seen them ordering a Chinese bottle. You mean other than the one I just posted?
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Ah - I'm so used to your emptyquoting posts that, like banner ads, these days my eyes seem to auto-ignore them. Edit: OK, I've mailed a friend if mine. Long-time professional wine writer about Chinawine BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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I also have a friend.
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I used to go to wine parties hosted by the head of Japan Airlines in China, and this wound up being my favorite. Get a pack of smokes for only $25 more!
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I had some blueberry wine from a department store once and it was delicious. It reminded me of Boone's Farm but with much more alcohol. Good stuff. Happy Spring New Year Festival in the year of the rear end™.
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Wine info from my friend. Not much at all, even with a bit of digging:quote:There may be. I have zero experience, and haven't heard anything that exciting. from what I understand it is mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and the place that's apparently quality focused is the Ningxia Province. BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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BadAstronaut posted:...Ningxia... Ningxia doesn't actually exist you know. I could totally see that area being good for grapes though: there isn't alot of rainfall and the soil is right (you don't want super rich soil that leads to big, fat juicy grapes for wine - small shriveled grapes are the best) and Hemu, which is just up the railway line by about a thousand kilometers or so, is famous for melons and such. When I lived in Gansu you could buy water melon slices for a few jiao a piece during the summer. That said, I have never drank anything from "The Ningxia Province" (knowingly), so it needs to do something about its image beyond having wine awards that nobody cares about. Qingdao was allegedly one of the first places in China in which industrial wine making began - but the climate doesn't seem right to me. More like an "alcohol+foreign" association really. Maybe in ten years if the broader middle class develops some semblance of taste. Maybe. But probably not. And it's Cabernet Sauvignon because the Cabernet bit hides many sins. If you can find a Chinese red that doesn't involve Cabernet (where grapes are listed at all) then I'll be impressed. Like a student making curry: if you can't make it well then you might as well make it spicy. GuestBob fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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I'd only drink Chinese wine if they'd boil it first.
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Mulled wine is pretty good.
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Has nobody here read that piece bout how more than half of Chinese wine is fake and no even made from fermented grapes?
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You can't ask that without posting it.
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Mrf can't find it but I do remember them saying that there are several times more bottles of Chateau-Lafite '82 in China than France ever exported. One figure was 70% of wine in China is fake: either cheap local wine in relabeled bottles, or cheap imported wine in reused incredibly expensive bottles, or fake Changyu or Great Wall filled with water, industrial alcohol and artificial flavors. On a personal note, I'm pretty sure I drank a fake bourbon with isopropol alcohol once. Got incredibly shitfaced on a surprisingly small amount and then felt like I was going to die.
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BadAstronaut posted:The fireworks outside are going absolutely gangbusters. Yuyao just gave it the old college try. Slightly disappointed that nothing exploded within 50 yards of me this year, but hey. Can't have it all.
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MeramJert posted:Mulled wine is pretty good. You can't let mulled wine boil or the alcohol evaporates, you need to warm it just below boiling.
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tacoman165 posted:You can't let mulled wine boil or the alcohol evaporates, you need to warm it just below boiling. Yeah I know you don't really boil it
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Zhenping Road is now guaranteed spirit-free until at least 2017
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FYI VPN-needers: New 10 year deal for 660rmb if for some reason you don't want to splash out on Astrill http://xiami1.com/service.html Better than 380rmb for one year
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tacoman165 posted:You can't let mulled wine boil or the alcohol evaporates, you need to warm it just below boiling. Maybe that's why my gluhwein always tasted like poo poo.
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All my visa stuff finally came through, so in the not so distant future I'm going to be a Tianjin goon!  Any suggestions on stuff I should bring with me? Anything that's difficult/expensive to obtain that you wouldn't expect?
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blackbox posted:All my visa stuff finally came through, so in the not so distant future I'm going to be a Tianjin goon! Shoes can be a bitch to get from brick-and-mortar (my bad, this is China: concrete-and-concrete) stores if your feet are large. I wear size 12-13 sneakers (48-50ish here) and even in Beijing it was a bitch to find a pair. You can always use Taobao, though. Same problem/solution exists for winter clothing. Don't bring food. It's not worth the weight, really. In Tianjin you'll probably be able to get anything you'd want anyway. Spices are a possible exception. My wife brought a bunch of them over this tour and they've been nice to have, especially since some of them are impossible to get where we are. Anime body pillows and blow-up dolls can be a challenge to find if you want good quality, but no doubt a departing goon will sell you his secondhand.
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blinkyzero posted:Shoes can be a bitch to get from brick-and-mortar (my bad, this is China: concrete-and-concrete) stores if your feet are large. I wear size 12-13 sneakers (48-50ish here) and even in Beijing it was a bitch to find a pair. You can always use Taobao, though. Same problem/solution exists for winter clothing. I don't have very big feet (US 10.5) but if you're in a bigger city that has an official Nike/Adidas/etc store they will have bigger sizes of most shoes. The prices are pretty comparable to the US.
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blackbox posted:All my visa stuff finally came through, so in the not so distant future I'm going to be a Tianjin goon! If GBM talks about Amber, smile politely and find an escape route
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Magna Kaser posted:I don't have very big feet (US 10.5) but if you're in a bigger city that has an official Nike/Adidas/etc store they will have bigger sizes of most shoes. The prices are pretty comparable to the US. Yeah, but not all of us want to wear 1200 RMB basketball shoes. Blinky is right, if you have big feet EU 45 (US 10.5) or larger expect to have shoe finding difficulty.
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SB35 posted:Yeah, but not all of us want to wear 1200 RMB basketball shoes. Blinky is right, if you have big feet EU 45 (US 10.5) or larger expect to have shoe finding difficulty. I bought a pair of pretty normal street shoes at the Nike shop in Shanghai for 338rmb (not on sale). I guess if you want to go real cheap and get some li nings or something you can go that way, but my last 200rmb pair of li nings crapped out after like 6 months whereas the last decent pair of shoes I brought from the US cost about the same as these Nikes and lasted over a year. I'm just saying there are shoes at those places that are like 50-60USD which is not a bad price for shoes. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Feb 1, 2014 |
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