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Originally Posted by oilyfan
This drinking thing must an Asian phenomenon. I was in China a couple of years ago on business and literally every night was a drunk fest. And I thought I could drink but this brought it to a new level.
The first night they asked me if liked beer, I said who doesn't? Well that was an open invite, with a quick wave an entire 24 pack of tall bottles of beer was brought into the room, and it was only 4 of us at the table! It was a point of pride to keep my glass filled at all times, so I lost count of how many I drank. And then they asked me if liked Chinese wine...
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Yep. Definitely common out in Asia. The last time my family came to visit China and we were out for dinner with my Chinese relatives and business associates the dinner started out with wine glasses poured 3/4 full with baijiu for me and the family's business associates. My dad just had a 3 litre bottle of cognac placed next to him. That was lunch. I didn't make it to dinner.
Koreans are recognized as the most intense drinkers of the east Asian countries though. They seem to hold the bar at an astonishingly high level of sustained, acceptable public drunkenness when it comes to business.