What is different here, you actually get a chance to buy the alcohol the customs confiscated from Muslims that tried to smuggle it in the country. This is something the Bangladeshi government is not taking lightly.
There is no logic in the prices, whisky is 9$/bottle regardless of the size or brand. It makes the shopping experience similar to one at a garage sale in the US, you never know what you will stumble upon.
And yes, there was some Bangladeshi that actually tried to smuggle in a bottle of Romanian wine. I wanted to buy that, but I would hate myself for enjoying it knowing it's somebody's loss.
You should have bought it even if only to save an otherwise precious resource bottle form indignity. Later on, for drinking,you should have bring on the highest honors, in order to make a good cause for that someone else's loss. That would have saved you from not enjoying it. Pitzi
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