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Qingdao, China
5 customs and traditions in Qingdao — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
Draught Tsingtao sold by weight from barrels into bags, drunk with a straw. Entirely normal here.
Two weeks in August, and the largest beer festival in Asia.
The city's beaches have been a resort since the German period; winter swimming clubs are serious.
Twenty years of German rule left the architecture, the brewery and the drainage the city still uses.
A local craft using the abundant shells of the Yellow Sea coast.
