Alcohol in Asia

South Korea has the perfect balance of being inexpensive and actually having standardized quality control.

In SEA only Cambodia has cheap beer, everywhere else it's much more expensive than in Europe.
Thailand and Laos have relatively cheap liquors.

>>1153001
Central asia, that's the -stan countries for you, beer in tajikstan and kyrgyzstan is good and cheap especially, in the right places a pint can cost you 55 kygryz somms which is less than a dollar

>>1153030

uzbekistan in july. two pints of beer at the corner store for 1500 som. thats like 75 cents at the official rate of 2500:$1 or 25 cents at the real street rate value of 6000:$1

>>1153027

What? a 0.5l bottle of saigon green costs like €0.50 in Vietnam. And that's in a bar, imagine if you went to a store.

>>1153027
Last time I went to Thailand (3 years ago) beers were cheaper than in France.

>>1153027

Agree found lots of .50Cent pints in Cambodia also it seems they don't tax liquor. Went into a supermarket and found extremely great deals.

very cheap in china, but it's fookin nasty

>>1154022
What about Taiwan?

>>1153027
Agreed with anon above that Vietnamese beer is the cheapest in SEA. It's fairly heavily taxed in Thailand, so it's cheaper than in any Western country but still disproportionately expensive compared to, say, food--not at all uncommon for a large beer to cost twice as much as the plate of food accompanying it in a market. Local spirits (mostly made from sugarcane although they're often styled whiskies, sometimes made from rice) are very cheap, and some are palatable in a bad-hangover kind of way. Cambodian bars often have cheap drink specials. But if you're willing to drink bia hoi, so-called 'fresh beer', which resembles slightly flat draught, you can drink in VN for .25 a glass, or even less outside the big cities. It's pretty mediocre, but very, very cheap.