Originally Posted by anacapamalibu
I would imagine ice has the same type of contaminents as tap water.
Must say I have ordered a lot of cocktails in China " jia bing". Never
have gotten sick from them...might be that alchohol kills whatever
makes you sick.
Or perhaps it might be the less metaphysical explanation that any establishment knowing what a cocktail is and serving it to Westerners knows perfectly well to boil its water before making it into ice?
Ice is perfectly safe in upmarket establishments in China, including all the hotels discussed above, in McDonald's, etc.
Originally Posted by Northbrook60065
well, drinking water would have come up and without your warning I'd have been stupid and gotten sick.
This is hardly profound advice or inside knowledge, and one of the first things a traveller considers when going anywhere, surely. Any guide book can tell you this and much other basic advice, which is not of 'awesome quality'. But if it truly seems so, the 'stupid' thing, as you put it, would be not to do some reading before travel.
Peter N-H