One disappointing thing in China is beer. Chinese beer ranges from tolerable (the better ones from Qingdao) to stuff that barely manages to exceed even American beer in flavour. It's because of this that I have to keep scanning Taobao for bargains on imports. Like this:
BEER!
That's 48 half-liter tins of German beer. It's exported German beer, so pretty much the worst of the breed. Still, worst of breed from Germany exceeds best of breed in China so that's fine by me!