Forums > Food & Drink > Best / Worst Kunming Food 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.
Forums > Food & Drink > Vego Food 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.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Nightlife in Kunming, exactly how bad? Nobody will look at you strange for having drinks on Tuesday.
Forums > Living in Kunming > English corners in Kunming - where and when? 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...
Li Wei: From rural Yunnan to the center of nationwide scandal
发布者Gotta love Caijing's English website's headline for this story: "A Pubic Nepotism"... can't figure out if it was a mistranslation of the Chinese story's title or if they knew exactly what they were saying.
english.caijing.com.cn/2011-02-14/110640687.html
Interview: Sahra Malik
发布者The mistake was mine... it appears I could have used another cup of coffee when I wrote this. Correction has been made, thanks to all for setting the record straight.
Book Review: Joseph F. Rock and His Shangri-La
发布者According to Goodman's book they did cross paths, and Rock was not very fond of Goullart.
Getting Away: Golden Temple
发布者the official name of the bell in Chinese was 乾隆吉祥钟, I doubt it has much to do with any emperors and is probably less than ten years... creative name though
Getting Away: Golden Temple
发布者This is true, thank you Able, corrections have been made.