and don't spend enough time at the pub talking to real people in real life, but this guy takes it to another level.

when you say pub I do hope you are referring to "public house"? Because I have never ever seen anything remotely resembling a countryside or even township public house in China, even the best of the so called british or irish bars. They might have (expensive) guinness or even if as a englishman some kind of bitter if you are lucky, but mostly gassy carlsberg or heineken. The only place in China I have seen a pub done right is in HK, and even then only because of british management. I don't think the chinese get or know what a "pub" really is imho.They do have bars though, although a bar means something quite different to an englishman, don't you agree?