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Q: How do price of cocktails in the big cities compare with back home?
Relative to the 'lower' salaries we're making compared to back home, but with higher purchasing power here in China, how 'fair' are the prices for cocktails here.
Most of the places I've been going to in Beijing charge 40-50 RMB per drink.
In my case, it is harrd for me to give you a qualified answer becasue of the way I am. Not stingy, but at a bar, I do not drink anything out of an open bottle because I do not have enough trust on the quality or purity of whatever is inside the bottle. And I am not about to buy a whole unopened bottle to have a cocktail made. So, at bars I stick to beers, or a whole bottle of wine, depending on how long I will stay. Beer runs from 15 to 25 yuan, wine as much as 180 yuan.
For cocktails I do have a well stocked bar at home.
If they are imported drinks they could be more. If you get those cocktails back home they will be cheaper. Most of the imported stuff in China if not all the imported stuff will become higher in prices because they need that extra bit of amount to make any real money.
That's probably how it is in most places 40-50 rmb sounds about right to me! It's too expensive!
that is an okay price i guess nothing like the vfw put but okay.
It all depends on where you go, but I find on average drinks in expat bars are the same if not more than at home. Anywhere from about 30-80 rmb depending on what you order.
Hong Kong is the worst, especially after 9pm.
Chinese bars will be cheaper but not by much......unless you order 12 beers at a time.
60rmb for a Caipirinha. I almost choked!! ....roughly the same in UK.
