Down Under Contest: Free drinks at 12SQM, Ned’s, Mao Mao Chong
Update: Simon ‘The Wild Tiger’ Pendergast of beer distributor Dxcel has upped the prize package by tacking on six VB for 12SQM, six Pure Blonde for Ned’s, and six James Boags for Mao Mao Chong. Grrr…
ANZAC Day is on April 25 and commemorates the war veterans and war dead of Australia and New Zealand (see this page for more info). It is also a day when many of my friends from those two nations get together to share friendship and a few drinks.
You can enjoy those bevvies for free if you win this contest organized with the Aussie-backed bars that make up The Beijing Billabong — 12SQM (map), Mao Mao Chong (map), and Ned’s (map).
Just leave a comment and tell us one thing you like about New Zealand or Australia, and why, and you will be entered in a draw for a mini-pub crawl that includes the following prizes:
- Six Coopers beers at 12SQM. (Plus six VB from Dxcel)
- A bottle of Aussie Cabernet Shiraz and an Aussie pizza at Mao Mao Chong. (Plus six James Boags from Dxcel)
- Six Bundaberg rums (“Bundy”) at Ned’s. (Plus six Pure Blonde from Dxcel)
The deadline is Friday at noon. I will announce the winner Friday afternoon. There is a limit of one entry per person, though feel free to list more than one thing you like (that means you won’t have to choose between Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue or Russell Crowe and Hugh Jacksman).
And look for these specials this coming Sunday, April 25.
Ned’s
From 10 AM: Discounted drinks all day, meat pies, and giveaways, plus a screening of the ANZAC Day football match at 12:30.
12SQM
From noon: Aussie and Kiwi music all to go along with RMB15 Coopers and VB beers, RMB20 James Boags beer, RMB30 Australian wine by the glass, and RMB35 meat pies.
Mao Mao Chong
From 1 PM: Specials include RMB25 James Boags and Redback Wheat beers, Australian sparkling wine, and eight-inch Aussie pizzas (eight-inch), plus free ANZAC biscuits.
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See also:
- Beijing Billabong Bar Crawl: 12sqm, Ned’s, Mao Mao Chong
- Australia Day: The Ned’s, 12sqm, Mao Mao Chong pub crawl, plus more
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Australia brought us Mad Max. New Zealand brought us the Lord of the Rings films.
Thank you, New Zealand. You can have Mel back now, Australia.
My laid back Kiwi business partner, My best Australian mates Stu and Croc, DJ Chunky…….and that Green Coopers at 12sqm……….and Midnight Oil
Gotta be the All Blacks HAKA dance, best sports dance ever, and men at work
I think this McDonald’s ad from 1991 sums it all up!
“Kiwis love… hot pools, rugby balls, McDonald’s, snapper schools, world peace, woolly fleece, Ronald and raising beasts, chilly bins, cricket wins, fast skis, golf tees, silver ferns, kauri trees, Kiwiburger, love one please. Cos we love All Blacks, thermal dacks, egg and cheese, walking tracks, sheep, beef pattie, marching girls, tomato, lettuce, paua shells, gumboots, punga shoots, floppy hats and kiwifruits, beetroot, buzzybees, moggy cats and cabbage trees, onions, kakapos, kia-oras, cheerios, jandals, sandals, ketchup, Coromandels, swandri’s, butterflies, mustard, fishing flies, hokey-pokey, Maori haka, Kiwiburger, that’s our tucker…”
I’ll go one further. Colin Hay specifically.
Meter Maids might be one of the greatest inventions in the history of meters … and maids.
bouncer – the dog from neighbours
@Preston, Mel Gibson was actually born in New York. Another tough battle is to get Australians to claim Russell Crowe.
My favorite things about Australia are the sunshine, the beaches, Australian-hua, bogans, The Castle, Boat Harbor (Tasmania), Boxing Day Cricket at the MCG, David Boon, Coopers IPA, Boag’s St. Georges, Cherry Ripes, Lamingtons, and Barossa Valley shiraz.
the fact that Australia’s the home of Guoan’s Griffiths brothers
Great beaches, great seafood, incredible beef, awesome selection of restaurants, amazing wine from Morning Peninsula and Yarra Valley, Kylie Minogue, Shane Warne, Andrew Bogut, Spring Racing Carnival, Australian Open Tennis Grand Slam, AFL Grand Final, Boxing Day Test Match, MCG, VB, Crown Lager, Carlton Draught on tap and this is just MELBOURNE !
Kangaroo Jack. That movie was the best.
The dole
air supply
les Patterson
vegemite
meat raffles
young talent time when tina arena was on it
division 4 & cop shop
hooning
thongs
eskys
winning the americas cup in 1983
p.s. ‘Kiwi cricket wins’: You havent won a meaningful series since the underarm delivery game 30 yrs ago. Maybe ‘Netball wins’ would be better.
Boyce, i reckon its about time your granted honorary australian status in beijing- you drink beer, dont take yourself seriously and seem to enjoy watching cricket. maybe the ‘beijing billabong’ can make you up an ‘aussie passport’ out of beer coasters and present it on anzac day.
I love the fact that kiwis think New Zealand is a real nation while Australians all know they are just far eastern Tasmanians.
For class – Kenny the movie.
For style – trakkie daks and uggies.
For Grace – Slamming Sam Newman
For poise – Bob Hawke after a drink or two
For entertainment – Hansard
For charm – Chopper Reid
For intellectualism – Home and Away
Australia has it all.
One thing I like about New Zealand – the departure lounge at the airport.
Boyce, you should try to get along to the Anzac Day AFL match between the Beijing Bombers and Shanghai. You will be impressed with the skill, the speed and the teamwork on display – and that’s just the girls selling the pies and beers.
The phrase : “The Dingo ate my baby.”
The evergreen hilarity of this exchange when applying for a visa at Australia House in London:
“Do you have any criminal record?”
“No. I didn’t realise it was still required.”
I love the Kiwis for Flight of the Concords and I love the Aussies for Summer Heights High. On top of that I love Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee). Now, every time I meet an Australian I can do my best “That’s not a knife… THIS is a knife!” impression.
nathalie kelley (the girl from the fast and the furious: tokyo drift)
Much love for jugs of Carlton Draught on a lazy sunday afternoon infront of the big bay window at the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda, while some bluesy solo artist who had a song in 1994 Triple J hottest 100 wafts his introspective tunes over the grimy carpets to the many punters recovering from the previous nights festivities, all the while wondering if a second chicken palma from the downstairs kitchen would be a bit too greedy.
When the National Anthem stirs you so much that you get tears in your eyes and you sing every word at the top of your lungs – that’s what I like about Australia.
best thing to come out of the area? gots to be my newfound partner in crime earth2jo ;-)
Second best is 42below and the various Rums they are starting to produce
kiwis – manuka honey vodka
australia – wallabies
hmmm… now that DXCEL (whom i work for) is contributing to the prize pool, i guess i’ll have to withdraw my entry…
Tim Tams.
I’m the best bloody thing about Australia mate!