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Was the real bad experience “drinking baijiu”?
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Feb 1, 2021 01:21
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Was the real bad experience “drinking baijiu”? no it was drinking baijiu and taking some weird obsolete OTC muscle relaxant from a Chinese pharmacy drinking baijiu was good before that very early in my china adventures I would mix baijiu with orange fanta which 'sort of helped' but also not really. I even got to drink home made baijiu at my buddy's farmhouse out in the country that his dad made, it was pretttty rough but I downed a whole tumbler of it and earned his father's respect. I had a close friend who loved baijiu, she would drink coffee mugs of it when we had parties and she ended up dying in china  I have a bottle of 'decent' baijiu i found at an asian grocery store here years ago and every now and then maybe once a year i'll have a sip for old times sake. Smell is supposed to be the strongest memory trigger and dang if it doesnt bring me right back because god drat it smells like poo poo. For about six hours after. hakimashou fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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Feb 1, 2021 01:25
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hakimashou posted:I had a close friend who loved baijiu, she would drink coffee mugs of it when we had parties and she ended up dying in china drat, the baijiu got her.
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Feb 1, 2021 02:59
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Taiwanese made Kaoliang, which is a lighter aroma style of Baiju, is real good and what I take to parties
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Feb 1, 2021 03:25
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kaoliang still sucks and whenever I see people drinking it, they look sad
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Feb 1, 2021 03:35
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Blistex posted:It's going to be like an episode of 1990's era Law and Order. They show up, start asking questions, and inexplicably a 
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Feb 1, 2021 03:40
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Blistex posted:It's going to be like an episode of 1990's era Law and Order. They show up, start asking questions, and inexplicably a 
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Feb 1, 2021 05:09
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i fuckin love baiju and my friends dad used to get gifted maotai on the reg from his chinese grad students so he just would give it to me  thank you mao for solidifying the legacy of the finest liquor ive had outside of central europe
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Feb 1, 2021 05:12
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Excellent post but excuse me they don't get deported they are told they probably miss home and conveniently brought to their airport with guards for the own protection. (China safe but there are foreign criminals.) "Never come back" is a mistranslation although now that you've hurt feelings you cannot come back.
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Feb 1, 2021 05:39
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Feb 1, 2021 06:57
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GoutPatrol posted:kaoliang still sucks and whenever I see people drinking it, they look sad I brought a bottle from Taiwan and it's still unopened. Because I'd have to be drinking it alone and it would make me sad too.
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Feb 1, 2021 10:20
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Is kaoliang gaoliangjiu? Sorghum hooch? That poo poo is rank I’d rather drink baijiu
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Feb 1, 2021 11:15
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that entire category is sorghum, incl baiju itself
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Feb 1, 2021 11:16
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bob dobbs is dead posted:that entire category is sorghum, incl baiju itself Nah real baijiu is made from assorted agricultural waste and sewage runoff that they ferment in big tin barrels in the sun then distill over burning rotten trash to give it the special terroir like how Isley malts are just smokey since they burn smokey peat
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Feb 1, 2021 11:18
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Unironically want to see a contest where you compete to use the trashiest materials and process to win a taste test. Oh this? Yeah we put cardboard to soak in the vat. The ingredients? How should I know I just cleared the discount bakery shelves.
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Feb 1, 2021 11:47
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I'll put up with a lot of bullshit but I will not hear of anyone speaking ill of Kaoliang.
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Feb 1, 2021 12:18
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Grand Fromage posted:Ming River is the only widely sold one in the US that I'm aware of. It's supposedly pretty decent for baijiu, but I'm not going to investigate personally. It's terrible if you compare it to like anything else but very good for baijiu yeah. Tastes like nail polish remover, instead of liquid pain.
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Feb 1, 2021 15:01
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Bright Bart posted:Unironically want to see a contest where you compete to use the trashiest materials and process to win a taste test. 50 passes through a Brita Filter later and it tastes better than top-shelf.
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Feb 1, 2021 16:51
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One of my friends brought out a bottle of Baiju one time when some of our group (90% pasty white boys) was over at his house to play Smash Brothers. We were all around 20 and I was pretty much the only person who had ever been truely drunk, having already acquired a taste for rye, gin, and bourbon. Our friend dared us all to take a shot. One person person couldn't suppress his gag reflex long enough to drink it, the other took a tiny taste and did a spit take before refusing the rest, a third got it down but immediately ran to the washroom and threw up violently. At this point our host, barely containing his laughter, took his shot, grimaced slightly and passed me mine. I will admit that I was nervous at this point but I figured what was the worst that could happen and took the shot. It honestly burned on the way down in a way that I had never experienced prior and have not since. Thankfully I only coughed a little bit and managed to impress my host who kindly offered me a second shot. Which I accepted, but turned down the third one in what was described to me as a sounding like wheezy cartoon voice when someone eats a hot pepper. I definitely had a bit of a buzz and Smash Brothers was pretty entertaining at that point, but I wouldn't describe myself as drunk. I've also had it a few times over the years and it never burned quite as much so I'm not sure if that's a sign of quality or not. I am reasonably certain the bottle he had listed it's alcohol by volume at 60% so that probably explains it since the other brands I've had were only around 40% to 50%.
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Feb 2, 2021 05:45
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40% ain't baijiu, that's bullshit. The lowest I've ever seen was 52, 60 is normal.
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Feb 2, 2021 05:54
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In Taiwan, the major brands stocked at 7-11 sell 58% and 38% varieties. I'm pretty sure the 38% is for day drinking.
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Feb 2, 2021 06:07
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Real Baiju should be strong enough to make you able to eat Beijing breakfast
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Feb 2, 2021 06:08
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Bright Bart posted:Unironically want to see a contest where you compete to use the trashiest materials and process to win a taste test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mWK_kcZMs
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Feb 2, 2021 06:15
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Barudak posted:Real Baiju should be strong enough to make you able to eat Beijing breakfast I am not even sure I am brave enough to figure out what that is but I assume it involves gutter oil.
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Feb 2, 2021 06:15
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Zushio posted:I am not even sure I am brave enough to figure out what that is but I assume it involves gutter oil. AFAIK its a Jian Bing, which I quite like, but I don't load them up with weird sausages and whatnot.
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Feb 2, 2021 06:24
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The sausages are garbage, but the mystery meat you get from the street carts is good
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Feb 2, 2021 06:30
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 My worst baijiu experience was on this stuff. The timestamps between the this photo from the start of the business dinner and the photo of me having 5 empty bottles in front of me is about 2.5 hours. Would not recommend. I'm glad there was a toilet ensuite off the dinner room. I probably came out with a mild level of permanent brain and/or organ damage from consuming it. I'm a baijiu business dinner newbie in the scheme of things, but my tactic is to use snow beer or some other basic lovely lager to help wash out the flavour. It's functionally close enough to water when it comes to adding additional booze to the night, but it's got flavour unlike water so it helps mask the hellscape that is your taste buds after that horror. Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 07:33
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yaffle posted:AFAIK its a Jian Bing, which I quite like, but I don't load them up with weird sausages and whatnot. Nah I was thinking of 豆汁儿 /Douzhi which isdrinking fermented mung beam juice and pretending its soup. Every "true beijinger" is so proud of it but you'll note they all started eating other regions breakfast food but nobody outside of beijing eats that garbage for breakfast. God I want some rouganmian right now
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Feb 2, 2021 08:12
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baiju mixers in increasing hopelessness order: 1. lemonade. almost decent 2. pineapple juice 3. lemon lime sodas 4. coca cola 5. cream (milk will give you a cement mixer, basically) 6. amari 7. coconut milk 8. margarita mix. lime juice is great but triple sec and baiju do not mix well never gonna happen w the typical 50yo balding man crowd who actually go hard on the stuff but if you're willing its possible bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 10:41
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A shot of kaoliang with a Taiwan Classic beer chaser was quite enjoyable. I couldn't really drink Taiwan Classic any other way. The old tile layer I would drink with would mix his (and this my) kaoliang with tea. It was drinkable.
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Feb 2, 2021 14:42
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I went to a wedding once where the father of the bride was a major baijiu distributer and every table at 600+ yuan bottles of baijiu. There's not much difference between 6 yuan and 600 yuan baijiu except some slight smoothness. This was the opposite to another wedding I went to, a shotgun wedding, where the lazy Susan had a cigarette plate. Chinese weddings own.
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Feb 2, 2021 15:59
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Chinese weddings are top notch and unlike American ones Im usually excited if we can go to one when Im visiting family in mainland. Why yes Id like free lunch and some booze in exchange for like 10 minutes tops of pretending to pay attention.
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Feb 2, 2021 17:12
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Barudak posted:Chinese weddings are top notch and unlike American ones Im usually excited if we can go to one when Im visiting family in mainland. Why yes Id like free lunch and some booze in exchange for like 10 minutes tops of pretending to pay attention. The fancy one had an electric violin performance and the MC was a local TV host. It's like a game show and wedding reception in one.
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Feb 2, 2021 17:16
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Nam Taf posted:
I like all the elaborate anti counterfeiting stuff all non-cheap baiju has on it. I don't how else you'd tell cheap stuff from expensive stuff as it all tastes like poo poo (I love baiju). This bottle of Wulangye my FIL gave me has like 7 different seals and an RFID tag that you can check with some sort of app. It probably costs around 1000 RMB a bottle, but it really doesn't taste functionally different from Red Star Erguotou (which is like 20 RMB a bottle). Especially not after the first shot.  If you're going to buy baiju just get Red Star, only drink expensive stuff if you get it for a present. Or just keep it on your shelf because it looks cool. It all fundamentally tastes the same (bad). Like others in the thread it is a guilty pleasure when you want to drink self destructively. SerCypher fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 22:31
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Ars Technica did a deep dive on the newly released beta of HarmonyOS, Huawei's new OS intended to replace Android It's literally an Android clone
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Feb 2, 2021 22:40
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Also props to that article for linking me to an analysis on China's domestically produced CPU benchmarks, where I learned that if you're using a Chinese CPU and want to play Civ VI, you'll be waiting 15 minutes per turn in an average lategame (the manufacturer wants 1000 bucks for the system)
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Feb 2, 2021 22:46
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Fojar38 posted:Ars Technica did a deep dive on the newly released beta of HarmonyOS, Huawei's new OS intended to replace Android I like how they require a photo of your passport and credit card in order to access the SDK. You can just download Android's.
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Feb 2, 2021 23:03
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McGavin posted:I like how they require a photo of your passport and credit card in order to access the SDK. You can just download Android's.
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Feb 2, 2021 23:52
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I suspect that the NSA or any government intelligence agency could probably come up with fake documentation if they really, really wanted a piece the oh-so-valuable Android fork We're going to get a situation where the NSA inflitrates Chinese networks by slipping a backdoor into an Android build and letting the Chinese copy it
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Feb 3, 2021 00:01
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Fojar38 posted:Ars Technica did a deep dive on the newly released beta of HarmonyOS, Huawei's new OS intended to replace Android It was mentioned when they announced it, just another clone like Amazon's Kindle, to avoid Google licensing. Just like the China homegrown CPU, it's homegrown with Chinese characteristics (TM). https://new.qq.com/omn/20190819/20190819A0H6JI00.html https://www.anandtech.com/show/15446/zhaoxins-x86compatible-cpus-for-diy-enthusiasts-now-available MrMoo fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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