With 'tornado beer' and brick-breaking, Chinese villager becomes Twitter sensation

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ZHENGYUANSI, China (REUTERS) - In a short online video, a Chinese man with a round face and a buzz cut pops open a beer cap with a single chopstick.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

ZHENGYUANSI, China - In a short online video, a Chinese man with a round face and a buzz cut pops open a beer cap with a single chopstick.A small"tornado" forms in the bottle, and Hebei Pangzai, or"Fatty from Hebei province", as the 34-year-old is known on Twitter, drinks it all in seconds.

Thanks to the internet, Liu now has over 130,000 followers on Twitter, drawn to his beer-drinking clips. This week, he even had three new American friends visit him in his village. In the video, Liu opens a beer bottle with a chopstick, mixes the beer with several other liquors, including baijiu, a potent Chinese liquor made from grain.

He said he knew something was up when he first got hundreds of new followers on Kuaishou, a short video-sharing platform popular among people in small Chinese cities and the countryside. All of them wrote their comments in English.

 

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