Yes, that beer brings back happy memories of sitting on plastic stools, eating lamb and stuff on sticks and chatting to the locals while polishing off a few bottles. The only problem with the stuff could be is that a lot of it is fake, and there is a small risk of waking up dead the following morning. Don't lose any sleep though, one usually survives the China experience and the very very very delicious(it's really, 'really really really') food, with being mildly poisoned a few times.

I do miss China though. England is a pretty boring place and I no longer feel at home. Have you retired to China? I'm asking because I have a Chinese wife and I would come to live in China but I don't know if I could face the border runs or even having to return to England to get a visa every six months.