Word: tsingtao
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...Finally, get primitive at Banpo Beer Hut, tel: (86-10) 6525 5583, the little grotto that can. Named for the Neolithic settlement outside Xi'an, this underground pub on central Wangfujing Street is so bad it's great. Sip a Tsingtao on the heated platform beds, necessitated by the chilly air-con. The friendly staff is in on the joke, hyping the primordial kitsch while urging you into the karaoke cave. Chest thumping accepted; hair pulling discouraged...
...would have pursued him anyway." Yi played sparingly in the game, but he offered a fitting capstone to the season, stealing an inbounds pass in the final seconds for a breakaway jam. At the team's postgame meal, agents and reps crowded around the teenager, toasting him with Tsingtao beer until his face turned beet...
...ever-flowing Tsingtao beer was supposed to loosen our tongues. We had been detained while covering peasant riots in the coastal province of Zhejiang, where farmers are terrified that patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, are being quarantined in their midst. Naturally, we didn't want to hand over our notebooks to the irate security officials who could arrest those we'd spoken to for illegally fraternizing with foreign journalists. After a couple hours of unsuccessful interrogation, the local cops changed their tactic: they would forcibly invite us to attend a banquet thrown on our behalf. The copious...
...hours into the lavish meal?where we mostly matched their Tsingtao toasts with shots of Coca-Cola?the only people who were beginning to talk frankly were the Yuhuan county officials. They thanked us for giving them an opportunity to enjoy such a lavish meal, showed off their new cell phones?"only $360 for this Motorola," said one, citing an amount equivalent to half a year's net income for a Yuhuan farmer?and began to disparage the panicked peasants in their charge. "Local farmers aren't very well educated," said Hu Hong, a director at Yuhuan's Foreign Affairs...
...Premium Gold Lager outside Hong Kong only a few months ago. Though the company has expanded its production, the focus is on providing diversity to local tipplers stuck in an unimaginative market. "With most bartenders, if you ask for a Hong Kong beer, they'll give you a Tsingtao," sniffs Docherty...