I’ve just found this on a Beijing based message board that is also, in a bizarre quirk of timing, discussing local weirdos.
’There’s a strange English chap who comes in to our local bar and who does the oddest of things. Firstly he wears the most awful clothes, they seem to be an assortment of pastel based oddities paired with the most disgusting trainers you’ve ever seen. He then proceeds to drink a small quantity of lager with his friends and when they buy him shots, he tips them into the plant pots when they go to the loo. He also regularly informs his friends of the differences between using Mandarin Simplified and traditional Chinese when they’re talking about food. We think he’s a complete plank’
