"It's always 'happy hour' at the xiaomaibu."
Callow youngsters - and writers in the expat magazines here - will from time to time extol the virtues of trying to save money by fuelling up at the start of the evening on cheap beer and/or baijiu from a neighbourhood store.
This supposedly canny stratagem of thrift fatally overlooks two things: 1) once you're drunk, you tend to want to carry on drinking; and 2) it's too darned expensive these days to undertake hardcore drinking in a bar other than during the early evening 'happy hour' offers.
Thus, I say, it makes far more sense to do your modest, social drinking at the start of the evening, when it's vaguely affordable in bars.... and then, if you want to get completely wrecked, stock up on pocket-friendly booze from your local vendor on your way home to your DVD collection a few hours later.
Think about it. You'll see I'm right.
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