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FreeSoul

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 06:19 AM
Post subject: FreeSoul---What kind of drink do you preffer?

Hi,

We are FreeSoul, newly opened bar on Fa Hua Zhen Lu.
We are studying to add more drinks in our menu and need customer's opinion.

What kind of drinks do you like? Tell me your favorite drinks and brands.
Beer, Whisky, Cocktail, Wine, any opinion would be appreciated!!

Thanks a lot!!
FreeSoul Wink

http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?module=microsites&file=freesoul
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Just opend New Bar!
Free Soul

Friendly staffs with fluent English. Strong drink with reasonable price. Free pool on the 2nd floor and table football game on 1st floor.
Sattelite TV channels(more than 20 channels, e.g. ESPN) with big screen on the 1st floor.

Want international, casual, comfortable home bar? All you need is to come here and FREE YOUR SOUL!! Happy hour buy 1 beer and get 1 free from 7pm till 9PM. Every Thursday night free cocktail (Cosmopolitan) for lady.
Open till 3am!

3 minutes from Crown Plaza Hotel by taxi.

Please check our website with map.
http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?module=microsites&file=freesoul

#897, Fa Hua Zhen Lu (Next Yan An Xi Lu)
Phone: 62821810 (Sky) Wink

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Goosie

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 06:22 AM

How much do I have to pay the "friendly young girl staffs"?

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Magnolia
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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 07:35 AM

Okay...

Jack Daniels
Vodka
Malibu (in the summer)
Jaeigermeister

Drinks
Jack and Coke
Vodka and Coke
Singapore Sling
Chilled Jeager
Parish Priest (vodka, Kahlua, Guiness, coke)
Margarita on the rocks, with the proper salt
151 Strawberry Daquari
Pina Colada (but only when on a beach, in the afternoon)

Now I have some questions...

1. Why does the Happy Hour start at 7:00? Don't they traditionally start at 5:00pm so people can come after work in the hopes that they will stay longer? And why is it only beer????

2. Why is the free drink for ladies on Thursdays assigned? Why not let them chose which drink they would like?

3. Are you primarily catering towards men? I ask because all of the posts have included the bit about "friendly young girls"... Even if you are, it kind of cheapens the women.

Anyway. Best of luck!!

queenmab

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 08:54 AM

MY FAVORITE DRINKS ARE:

ORGASM
PALOMA
SEX ON THE BEACH
CUBA LIBRE
BANDERITA
PERRO SALADO
PIÑA COLADA
MIDORI SOUR
WHISKEY AND RED BULL

fav alcohol
whiskey
vodka
tequila
baileys

queenmab

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 08:54 AM

oops somethings wrong with my computer

Caesara

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 09:23 AM

I currently seem to like things in tall glasses. Cosmopolitans, Jaffas, Butterscotch martinis, vanilla vodka/cranberry martinis . . . Strawberry (or mango) margaritas in the summertime. Lime daquiris.

Of course, it all goes out the window when the shots are go on the bar! Had a delicious coffee-based shot at the Pudong Blue Frog the other night . . .

Kiwi

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 09:36 AM
Post subject: Re: FreeSoul---What kind of drink do you preffer?

Freesoul, you sound like just another confused local bar, desperate for the 'laowai' business, yet clueless about how to get it.

Some thoughts for you. . .

A bar in which the bar management has to solicit on the Internet for information on what people like to drink does not sound very international.

A bar with "Friendly young girl staffs with fluent English" doesn't sound like it could also be a "casual, comfortable home bar". I don't know about the other posters here, but my home doesn't have any freindly young female stuff.

Any bar called 'Free Soul' isn't to be trusted. In fact it probably deserves to be firebombed.

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 10:22 AM

Quote:

CUBA LIBRE

gawd i miss those, used to makE somE deaDly oneS back IN the Day.

wolfy
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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 12:07 PM

Kiwi, you old curmudgeon. Give the girl a break. She's only trying to drum up some business. Don't ridicule her for that.

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 01:44 PM

Kiwi has a point, wolfy. When advertising "Friendly young girl staff" my first thought is Julu Lu. And the happy hour/ladies night drinks are very limiting. If FreeSoul is asking for advice then that's what they're getting.

curmudgeon! Laughing

I can only picture some ticked off old sailor yelling that word.

ARRRRR!!!!

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 02:19 PM

kiwi is a bitter man isn't he? just leave him alone to suck on lemons like the childish crybaby he is.

The_Shanghai_Stinker

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 03:02 PM

skyline5k wrote:

When advertising "Friendly young girl staff" my first thought is Julu Lu.

I can hear them now ...

Welcome ...

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 03:04 PM

skyline5k wrote:

When advertising "Friendly young girl staff" my first thought is Julu Lu.

I can hear them now ...

Welcome ...

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 03:07 PM

skyline5k wrote:

When advertising "Friendly young girl staff" my first thought is Julu Lu.

I can hear them now ...

Welcome ...

skyline5k
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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 03:28 PM

3 times, that must've peaked your interest.

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FreeSoul

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 04:35 PM

Thank you for all the replies and lessons.
We are getting better step by step with customer's voices.

Hope to see you all at FreeSoul!! Wink

dannyboy

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 07:07 PM

My favorite drinks are:

1) Free ones
2)Strong ones
3)Cheap strong ones

I have 100RMB that says this bar is tits up by September 15th.

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 07:56 PM

Get some Ruby Porto Wine...no one ever seems to have 'em!! I can drink that stuff forever! I know 3 bars that buy them regularily cuz i drink there (after 3 months!!).. Sad

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 09:00 PM

In answer to some uninformed opinions on here I just wanna say I've been down to freesoul and it's a pretty cool bar. Sure, it might be unexpected to find it, but I had a great time swiggin beers and playin pool & foosball. And no. It's NOT a girly bar. Just a good neighborhood hangout. Check it out if you're near Fahuazhen & Yanan Lu.

FreeSoul

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Posted: June 30, 2005 - 09:42 PM

Hi shiftee,

We are really happy to have a good customer like you who understand our style!! Very Happy

We are looking forward to seeing you again at FreeSoul. Wink

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Posted: July 01, 2005 - 11:02 AM

Perfection is easy. Why 90 percent of the bars in Shanghai cant make a decent cocktail is beyond me.
Get a clean 16-20 oz. tumbler. Fill halfway with ice. Fill a little over half the glass with decent, drinkable vodka (nothing below Absolut). Fill to the top with cold tonic water- youre looking for a 50/50 mix of liquids. Squeeze a fresh, clean wedge of lime. Throw in a stirer.

Magnolia
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Posted: July 01, 2005 - 11:11 AM

Need to come back into this thread and say that I think Free Soul is working to make the bar a success or at least listen to potential customers. I haven't been there, but FreeSoul responded via PM to all my questions in a very professional manner.

Enough so that I may have to go try it one night.