Deluxe Milk Storms Shanghai
trevelyan
April 29, 2007 at 01:30 AM posted in General DiscussionThe Shanghai luxury market is INSATIABLE. Was buying breakfast today and saw bottles of deluxe milk gracing the shelves. DELUXE. Curiosity aroused, I forked over 3.5 RMB for a small pack.
Tasted just like regular milk.
vornie
April 29, 2007 at 05:52 AM
we should ask Xia Yao what he/she thinks of the milk.After all cats are quite fussy but love milk....
guest
April 29, 2007 at 05:36 AM
Hennig, I don't think the taste has changed at all, I think we've all just readjusted our concept of what "normal milk" should taste like.
henning
April 29, 2007 at 05:27 AM
If it really tasted like regular milk that would be pure and unrestrained luxury in China, wouldn't it?
Most milk I got in Beijing tasted diluted - and carried that special ash aftertaste. But maybe that changed.
guest
April 29, 2007 at 01:55 AM
Much like toting around an real LV bag made by the same semi-slave immigrant labor that make the fake LV bags, the extra coin you paid for the Deluxe milk wasn't for the milk, it was for the experience of being seen with the milk. They aren't just selling deluxe milk, they're selling the deluxe milk life.
trevelyan
April 29, 2007 at 08:22 PMIt wasn't much of a luxury experience, John. Amber was pretty much the only one who saw me drink it. Maybe the point is to leave the empty packaging lying around the office.
@Henning - I've never had milk here that tasted like liquid ashes. But I can heartily recommend you give "Deluxe Milk" a try if you keep running into the problem.