Comments on: On to the EastNorth

By: Benjamin Ross

Benjamin Ross — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:42:57 +0000

Cathy-
Interestingly enough, I just read that Anhauser-Bush got baught out by a Belgian company? Maybe now it won’t taste like stale urine anymore.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:49:14 +0000

Granted this is China so all bets are off, but the way region controls usually work is that they prevent products famous and/or labeled as being from one region from being produced in another region. E.g., champagne. Although anyone can make sparkling wine, you can only call it champagne if it truly was made in the champagne region. But then you can sell it anywhere.

Interestingly, I thought I read that Anheuser-Busch bought the Harbin beer brewery. Which leaves me a little surprised that I can’t find it anywhere. I just figured it wasn’t really known outside the region.

I did really like it, but I’m hardly a beer connoisseur, so what do I know?

By: Benjamin Ross

Benjamin Ross — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:55:09 +0000

@Cathy and Kent

Interestingly enough, I remember several of the bars in Fuzhou used to sell Harbin beer as their default cheap beer when they ran out of Snow and Sedren (the Fujian local brand). It always seemed like a random beer to have in stock. I wouldn’t doubt that there is a regulation in place like Kent mentions, by which a particular beer from one province isn’t officially allowed to be sold in different regions. Then again, iPhones aren’t officially being sold now in China either. Gotta love the 水货.

By: kent.ben

kent.ben — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:43:55 +0000

sorry, it is “can only be “

By: kent.ben

kent.ben — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:42:49 +0000

I remember you left fujian and came back to U.S for work, now you are travelling in China again.

to cathy:
you may do not know one fact that in China the beer producing and selling has region district, for instance, haerbin beer can not be produced and sold in heilongjian province, due to the region protection policy.

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:13:58 +0000

Hi, Ben, it’s a fucking long time since i saw you last time, haha.

How’s everything going with you now?

I’m now doing foreign trade with customers from North America and European countries.

Looking for your reply, and tell me what’s going on.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:04:14 +0000

Enjoy Harbin! Part of my family is from there — instead of fleeing Russia west to America, they fled east to Manchuria — so I visited it two years ago. The original European architecture in the old city center is still pretty well preserved (with some modern upgrades), to the point that it looks a lot more like St. Petersburg than Beijing.

I also really liked the Harbin beer, which I never found outside the area but was sold at the local Walmarts…