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Cash-strapped Beijing drinkers turn to unlicensed homebars

Spread of illicit speakeasies underlines weak consumption in world’s second-largest economy

Ken and Dolores’s unlicensed Beijing bar lies behind an unmarked door in a gritty residential tower where a rowdy group of men play cards in the foyer.

In the converted apartment in Beijing’s Olympic Park area, Ken, a civil engineer by training who asked to be identified by his English nickname, serves quirky cocktails at prices half or even less of those charged by the Chinese capital’s conventional drinking establishments.

The couple’s “homebar” is one of dozens that have sprung up across the city as a domestic economic downturn drives cost-conscious consumers to desert more expensive traditional alternatives.

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