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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What Chinese brands of cigarettes are preferred by you foreign smokers?
What is worth trying and what's going to split your lungs open on the first drag?
I like Honghe. Not the best but they are cheap. Double Happiness/hongshuangxi isn't bad either. If I want something more expensive, Nanjing is pretty nice tasting.
Most of anything else I've tried has been awful.
I cant write Chinese.. i smoke a white packet... 5mg.... cheap 10rmb. its from Shanghai Tobacco Group.
kchur:
Zhongnanhai? Supposedly that is the "foreigner cigarette". They taste more like American smokes but are dry and burn up quick
i like mini cigars so i smoke shipai but here i am beginning to fall in love with an expensive (18rmb) great wall mini unfiltered cigar
kchur: i am not sure where they from.... but if imported they dam cheap. i like it as its low in nicotine and tar.
红双喜, cheap and classics
中南海10mg (hard to get) are even cheaper and kinda like marlboro
熊猫with 85RMB bloody expensive, but smooth taste
Double Happiness seem to be the best for me, but sometimes they aren't the real deal, they still charge you 7rmb. Not sure why but they are hard to get as the shop keepers usually only get one carton a week.
Don't smoke the fake ones (similar looking pack) 2.5 rmb per pack, man they do blow your lungs and burn your tongue
luggi:
They are not fake, but made from Wuhan Tobacco. The 7 kuai ones are from Shanghai Tobacco... but true enough they are disgusting lol^^
Huanghelou from Wuhan and Furongwang from Hunan.
I like double happiness too.
When I fisrt came to China I smoked Zhonghua cigarretes that cost 40-50 rmb a paquette. I realised one day that there is very little diference between one paquette of cigarettes in China to another. Thats when I started buying 5 rmb paquettes, Hatamen, Honghe, etc. Very cheap and not too bad. On certain occasions I smoke Lanzhou black that cost 20+ rmb, I'm not sure, however if they taste different or if I am just fooling myself in to thinking they taste better.
One thing I am sure about is that the difference is minimal and you can spend hundreds on cigarettes that are very similar to the cheap ones. In China people use cigarettes to show off. They will buy an expensive paquette if they go to a meal with other people, like a show of wealth whether they are wealthy or not. Appearances are everthing in China and it can be a difficult game to play or to even understand.
One word of warning: I've tried a few cigarettes that cost less than 5 rmb and the difference is huge. Better just throw them away as they are unsmokable.
Huanghelou, around 200 rmb a pack....but only on special occasions!! My smoke of choice is Lushan, 5 RMB for a pack of 20, failing not being able to get those i get Shuangxi Gold at 16RMB.
南京is my favorite but in a pinch I'll smoke the local stuff 白将军。