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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
How confident are you of the authenticity of it all? Here in Shanghai there is loads of Scotch available too, but over 80% of it is not the genuine article. That includes the bottles available in retail as well as in good restaurants.
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I've never doubted the authenticity of the scotch. I've had probably thirty or forty different bottles since I've been here and there hasn't been anything about them; either quality of the drink, or packaging, or anything else that's made me question whether I'm drinking the real thing or not.
Given the political situation between the ROC and the PRC it seems as though importing counterfeit goods from the mainland is challenging. There also doesn't appear to be a great deal of counterfeiting that goes on here, at least that's available in Taipei. I hear down south it's a little more like the wild-west, but here pretty much all the fake stuff is hard-goods and restricted to the night-markets.