September 20, 2005

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It's official: after opening 140 other outlets in China, including inside the Forbidden City, Starbucks is opening a store at the Badaling section of the Great Wall. Any modern day Mongol hordes can stop for a latte before driving on towards China's old Imperial capital. Of course, the demand must be there for the savvy cafe-preneurs to be setting up shop at the Wall, from hordes admittedly coming from the capital, with new sections of wall created daily by the pile-up of the tour buses.

To be sure, a piping hot coffee would have hit the spot after my first encounter with the Badaling section of the Wall in February 1988, when the structure had been covered in ice and snow... Globalization waits for no one.

posted by HK Dave on 09.20.05 at 07:07 PM in the




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Starbucks breaches Great Wall of China
Excerpt: Starbucks' long march into China has breached the Great Wall itself. Tourists will be able to drink cappuccino, frappuccino and other coffee co...
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