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Q: Do Chinese have "drink pairings" for specific dishes?
I know this is gonna sound "affluent Western snobby" but here me out.
You know how wines are often paired with different courses and types of meat (and now sometimes beer too); well does that sort of thing exist in China also? "Baijiu" for some dishes, or "huangjiu" for another? What about with different teas?
Anyone know? Chinese users?
Hi! I would loooove to get the answer to this as well. I work in a hotel and whenever I noticed promoting pairings with either baijiu, wine or tea it usually comes from another expat. While at my work I noticed they do not care about what they have their wine or baijiu with at all so it is still a question to me. Maybe some upper class/snobby chinese do.
No, I think it's more of the occasion. I believe many drink wine during Spring Festival and they probably stick with beer on Christmas. Because to them Spring Festival is leaps and bounds more important than Christmas is.
I was asked to choose between white wine and red wine (I think they were calling whiskey white wine), but I couldn't decide because they couldn't tell me what the meat being served was. Of course, everything in China is served like it's a sampler platter anyway...
Scandinavian:
"...would you like a glass of Chardonnay with your pigs stomach Sir ?"
Amonk:
On second thought, I wouldn't want to ruin the taste of good alcohol in my mind.
Absinthe. All day, every day.
Where I'm from there's nothing but moonshine and potatos, you posh twat!
Amonk:
There are at least eighteen thousand drinks you can make with potatoes. Don't be a potatoe.
Lord_hanson:
Where you are from they probably think your a damn commie for coming to China.
