In response to Hiketsu, our listings section is offered free of charge to local businesses... also, only one of the 40 candidates for a Best of Kunming Award is a paid advertiser on this site.
Hiketsu is correct in saying that many of the candidates are concentrated in one part of the city. It seems that only 14 of the 40 candidates (just over one-third) are more than a kilometer from Yunda, but that is not so surprising as the Yunda/Cuihu area is well known for its food and drink options and it is not so easy for new restaurants or bars to survive far from the center of the city.
Yuquanzhai (www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item.php?listing_id=287) - the restaurant Ahmet is referring to in the above post - has recently moved across Yuantong Jie and is now just a few meters east of Yuantong Temple. In addition to the main restaurant, it has a small noodle shop and vegetarian grocery store.
There is also Green Mountain Vegetarian Restaurant (www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item.php?listing_id=111) an Indonesian/Chinese vegetarian restaurant in Guanshang near the airport, which offers a more Southeast Asian menu and does some rather convincing fake meat. A bit of a journey for most people in Kunming, but it's a good way to get off the beaten path and try something different.
Moonlight Corner Thai Restaurant (www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item.php?listing_id=100) in the Expo Gardens near the Golden Temple in northeast Kunming is not a vegetarian restaurant, but its Thai cooks are very accommodating to vegetarians. They are happy to make virtually any dish on their extensive menu without meat, except for obvious ones like grilled chicken or fish. Their green and red veggie curries are as authentic as you'll find anywhere in China.
Check out the calendar, there's plenty of English corners coming up at TCG Nordica... also I believe there's an English corner across from Green Lake Hotel at Cuihu Park on Thursday evenings...
Error corrected, thanks. The English report I cited made a few mistakes in the conversion of Chinese numbering to Western-style numbering, including saying there were 474,000 foreigners living in Yunnan... I mistakenly thought I'd caught them all.
Great show all around... one of the highlights for me was during the aforementioned sound problems, when Sinne decided to finish the second song (I think) without the microphone and nailed it. Janus, JQ and Martin were all in top form too. JQ mentioned that they might pass through Kunming again in half a year or so, I'm sure they'd pack the house again.
I remember an old guy with a monkey that used to take photos with tourists on one of the stone bridges in Dayan several years back, pretty sure that was someone else but I may be wrong.
My favorite Tengchong-style restaurant in Kunming. Their ersi and erkuai are trucked over from Tengchong and are the real deal — Kunming ersi and erkuai do not compare.
The restaurant itself is a bit jumbled, but there are a couple of tables outside in the courtyard that are nice to sit at when the weather's pleasant.
Don't believe them when they say they don't have lufu.
Book Review: China on the Wild Side, Volume II
发布者@laotou: They're 180 yuan each at Mandarin Books... I think I saw them for 110 yuan at the Beichen Prague, but I may be wrong.
Yunnan census results released
发布者Error corrected, thanks. The English report I cited made a few mistakes in the conversion of Chinese numbering to Western-style numbering, including saying there were 474,000 foreigners living in Yunnan... I mistakenly thought I'd caught them all.
Interview: Sinne Eeg
发布者Great show all around... one of the highlights for me was during the aforementioned sound problems, when Sinne decided to finish the second song (I think) without the microphone and nailed it. Janus, JQ and Martin were all in top form too. JQ mentioned that they might pass through Kunming again in half a year or so, I'm sure they'd pack the house again.
Interview: Eddy Di Natale & Lucio Cascavilla
发布者@Giddyup! - Well spotted, it is indeed The Box's bathroom.
Getting Away: Shuhe
发布者I remember an old guy with a monkey that used to take photos with tourists on one of the stone bridges in Dayan several years back, pretty sure that was someone else but I may be wrong.