Chinese Night Life – St. Patrick’s Day
Ninety percent of the Chinese people we talked to didn’t know what St. Paddy’s Day was — granted we only talked to like five. So we didn’t really know what to do besides go to Paddy O’Sheas, “the most genuine Irish bar pub in Beijing.”
As soon as we got there it was obvious that no Chinese people knew what was up. The bar was packed with Westerners. It was seriously all white people. It totally killed the novelty of seeing another Westerner in Beijing. These people are everywhere now! I think it made me a tiny bit racist. [Reverse racist. Technically. Something I learned in college.]
Anyway, the white people weren’t the only problem. It was also the Jews. Kidding. Jeesh. The other problem was paying 55 kuai for a Guinness that tasted like shit. So we packed up and moved to a bar called Smugglers — which I love.
At Smuggler’s I got six Tsingtao’s for 60 kuai. I think we did what any real Irish person would’ve done. (Except a real Irish person would have bitched about having to drink this “cheap Chinamen piss water,” but done it anyway.)
[Pretty sure this post is the most racist thing I've ever written.]
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Paul Crowder
03/18/10
I Lol’d.