{"id":17228,"date":"2012-11-16T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovenmo.com\/?p=17228"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:53:54","slug":"drinking-jiaxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovenmo.com\/en\/drinking-jiaxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking @ Jiaxing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not everyone in China drinks like this, but this is how things are at our company right now.<\/p>\n\n

Eight of us drank 19 bottles of Kuaijishan (a brand of huangjiu). If I remember correctly, I accounted for almost two bottles.<\/p>\n\n

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Every drinking session is a battle of wills, because I don\u2019t enjoy drinking. It\u2019s not that I can\u2019t drink, but I can\u2019t let myself get truly drunk. Once, I was drinking at midday with Mr. L, a veteran at a machinery company. The three of us drank nearly two bottles of baijiu in two hours. I ended up sleeping from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. (Shrug.)<\/p>\n\n

That gave me a scare. (Shrug.) Better not to drink like that, no matter how old you are…<\/p>\n\n

Then there\u2019s always that colleague who usually looks half-drunk anyway, but goes down in no time once the drinking starts. Our colleague W is a champion of the sudden collapse. It\u2019s not that one drink knocks him out\u2014he can hold his liquor\u2014but you never know when he\u2019ll hit the floor.<\/p>\n\n