November 6, 2007
9519: Your one stop liquor shop?
Most of the time when we need liquor we head to Carrefour, City Supermarket, or any of those types of places; but we are now happy to report that we found one more option: 9519, a Chinese somewhat upscale liquor store that's stocked with baijiu, huangjiu, vodka, gin, vermouth, red and white wines, beers, and even some fancy old-fashioned wine sets (ceramic, similar to a sake/wine set).
The name is meant to sound like 酒,我要酒 (Wine, I want wine), and they have a website where you can peruse what they've got and order online (but the site is all in Chinese). As for prices, we found that the online price of 750ml bottle of Tanqueray will set you back 180 RMB, while the cheapest 750ml bottle of Absolut costs 99 RMB. We're not sure how these prices compare to Carrefour for the same reason we don't know the price of weed—we bum off other people more often than not.
Anyhow, there are three or four of these actual stores, but the major one in central Puxi is the one we walked by, located on Changde Lu, near Changshou Lu (常德路/长寿路). It's a bit out of the way, surrounded by all the subway construction, but if you're in the neighborhood, it might be a worthwhile alternative to Carrefour for a liquor run—certainly, judging from the lack of business happening there when we passed through in the evening, there will be less of a line then what you'd find at Carrefour.
9519
1168 Changde Lu (near Changshou Lu)
Phone: 400-820-9519
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Nice! But I can't read chinese characters... I hope that there will be a english version as well.
Could someone please check whether they sell 'Aperol'? Or does anyone know where to get Aperol?
Thx,
Christof!
I am an incorrigible drunk. And...yawn...their alcohol selection isn't as large as Carrefour's, and it's slightly more expensive.
There's one or two alcohols there that aren't available at Carrefour, and for those alcohols, it's about the same price as going to City Market or foreigner-oriented grocery stores like that. But really there's a million stores just like this all around Shanghai, this store offers nothing cheap or unique, the selection is nothing amazing, and this story shouldn't have been posted in the first place.
Well, the website is an easy way to learn the Chinese names for various types of booze.
The real investigative reporting is - where does Moon River Diner get their Mt. Gay Eclipse rum? That's one decent rum that I haven't seen for sale anywhere else in Shanghai.
i really don't think that there are a "million" of these stores around, especially when this one is over 500 square meters devoted purely to liquor.
my point was not to say that this place is better than carrefour, or to say that the selection is amazing. a place that has better prices and selection than Carrefour would no doubt make for a good post, but until that place exists, we might just have to make do with what is around.
the point of this post was just to alert people to another choice they have in purchasing liquor, especially if they happen to be in that neighborhood and need to buy something and don't want to go to carrefour or some other market.