To unlock this venue badge, check in 5 beers at different Japanese restaurants.
Originally any Asian restaurant counted towards On a Roll! But in 2018 it was restricted to Japanese Restaurants, Sake Bars, Sushi Restaurants and Japanese Curry Restaurants. As with all venue badges, Untappd relies on data from the Foursquare app.
The country badge for China. Have 5 beers brewed by breweries in China, Hong Kong or Macau to get this badge.
Beer in China is dominated by light, mass-produced lagers. Snow beer, made in Beijing by a government owned company, is the world’s biggest selling beer by volume. Over 9 billion litres of the stuff is sold annually.
Other major brands include Tsingtao, Yanjing, Harbin (owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev) and the Zhujiang, or Pearl River, brewery.
This is a regional badge covering all of South East Asia: Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei and, somewhat surprisingly, Taiwan.
Each of these countries has its own generic lager, with the most widely known being Singapore’s Tiger beer (owned by Heineken). Others include Thailand’s Singha and Chang, The Philippines’ San Miguel Pale Pilsen (Kirin), Indonesia’s Bintang (Heinekin), Vietnam’s Saigon and Hanoi, Cambodia’s Ankor (Carlsberg), Laos’ Beerlao lager (also Carlsberg) and the ROC’s Taiwan Beer.
Fun Fact: Taiwan Beer sponsor a basketball team (called the Taiwan Beer) in their national basketball league.
There is also a slowly growing craft movement with a notable mention going to the Pasteur Street Brewing Company in Vietnam. Craft beer faces significant challenges in the region, both because of the dominant Muslim religion in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia and a ban on breweries that produce less than 10 million liters a year in Thailand.
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