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from the owner, wishing success to the business
and lifelong happiness to everyone at the table.
Following the toast, as per tradition, everyone
proceeded to down the baijiu by doing Ganbei
(bottoms up). Fortunately, I didn’t have to drink as
I was the translator for my French customers. As
more and more empty bottles piled on our round
table, topics of discussion drifted from matters of
business to personal. We talked about politics,
Chinese proverbs and poems, the personal lives
of each and everyone at the table, and even the
definition of “love”, making my job of translating the
drunken talk a tad bit difficult. Nonetheless, like any
drunken conversation, after each of them finished
more Baijiu, things became easier, as the language
barrier was no longer in th