When I was in Korea I hardly saw anyone drinking hard liquor, and even had a hard time finding hard liquor as well.
Of course I saw beer literally everywhere instead, like even in the family marts they'd have a giant bin of 20oz beer cans like those dvd movie bins you'd see in a Walmart electronics section.
From what I understand, beer-drinking wasn't common until westerners brought the brewing practices over in the last century or so. Before then it was more often baijiu which usually has a high alcohol content (think rum and vodka) and huangjiu which is closer to wine in terms of alcohol content.
It varies by region, like I think huangjiu and mijiu (with 20% alcohol) are more popular in the south, but people in North China absolutely get fucking wrecked on baijiu. Although people tend to drink baijiu more at parties/events, and do their everyday drinking with beer. But that depends on the person.
Do people really drink Baiju to excess?
I assumed China would still just drink beers, like in Japan and Korea.
When I visited Korea people drank soju like water. Not exactly hard alcohol, but definitely more alcoholic than beer.
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Man beer and soju is good stuff. I'm a lightweight, so just one or two of those was usually enough for a good time for me.
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More like wine, yeah. And that's true. They did have soju damned near everywhere when I visited.
When I was in Korea I hardly saw anyone drinking hard liquor, and even had a hard time finding hard liquor as well.
Of course I saw beer literally everywhere instead, like even in the family marts they'd have a giant bin of 20oz beer cans like those dvd movie bins you'd see in a Walmart electronics section.
From what I understand, beer-drinking wasn't common until westerners brought the brewing practices over in the last century or so. Before then it was more often baijiu which usually has a high alcohol content (think rum and vodka) and huangjiu which is closer to wine in terms of alcohol content.
It varies by region, like I think huangjiu and mijiu (with 20% alcohol) are more popular in the south, but people in North China absolutely get fucking wrecked on baijiu. Although people tend to drink baijiu more at parties/events, and do their everyday drinking with beer. But that depends on the person.