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mahjong

Yes these are bottles, ceramic
bottles in fact (maybe), each
containing 100ml of Chinese spirit
at 53%. I came across them by
accident on a Chinese web site.
They are remarkably cheap but
buying them has proved
impossible. The site I found was
only in Chinese but I was able to
translate the text on it with
Google. It appears to say that
they sell them 5 at a time, at
random. If I bought them I would
want the set (probably 51 different
ones, although Mahjong sets do
vary a bit). I tried to find a way to email them, even going to the trouble of finding the Chinese
characters for email in case the link was on a graphic. No joy there. I then tried to see if any other
site sold them and did find one. The price was double but still very reasonable, although the
postage was twice the bottle price and the postage cost per unit remained the same no matter how
many I said I wanted (very unethical practice as postage does not work that way). This site also
only seemed to sell at random, singly this time. However, there was a recognisable email so I
asked “how much for a full set of 51 delivered?” To which the reply was “they can only be ordered
at random!” Not good marketing.

Whilst looking for another
company that sold the set
above, I came across several
other Mahjong sets, although
only the above, this set, and the
next two appear to be the so
called ceramic ones. I say so
called as the bottles look more
like plastic and the two sets
look the same apart from the trademark. Unfortunately these are for sale on
the same all Chinese web site I found the first set on. Left and right are the
one and five of bamboo. Below is the complete set of spots. All 53%, 100ml.

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