I have been living here so long that it often fails to occur to me just what a weird place it is. Sometimes, though, I get a wakeup in the form of "What the fucking fuck did I just experience?!"
This is one of those wakeup calls. I introduce to you "马奶酒" (horse milk spirits):
If you think the bottle is weird, wait until you hear what's inside it! The name is not symbolic or poetic in any way. It's a direct description of what this liquid is.
This is a (mostly) Mongolian thing: double-distilled fermented mare's milk. It turns out that mare's milk is one of the very few milks that has enough sugar in it to properly ferment by itself. So of course those crazy Mongols figured out a way to make an alcoholic beverage from it: Kumis. Then the crazy Han said "we can distill this!" The result is quite possibly the weirdest hard liquor I've ever let pass my lips.