- If eating at home, Kunming has loads of delicious vegetables, and we are lucky enough to have some organic vegetable, dairy and egg options now.
- There are plenty of fish options in Kunming, ranging from unimpressive bony little fish on sticks to fat imported salmon steaks.
- When eating out, make sure you know how to tell staff in Chinese that you're vegetarian, which should also convey that you don't want any ground meat, ham or soup stock made from meat to be in your food.
- Even if it seems like a menu item should be vegetarian, it is worth mentioning to staff that you don't eat meat. Sometimes seemingly vegetarian items on menus here may be stir-fried with bits of ground pork or ham.
- Kunming does have a few vegetarian restaurants and many restaurants have encountered vegetarian customers at some point, so it's not as foreign a concept as it used to be.
All in all, being a vegetarian in Kunming (or anywhere else in China for that matter) can occasionally be inconvenient, but it shouldn't be a dealbreaker if you're thinking about moving out here.
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There's a train that leaves from the main station (Nanyao) at the south end of Beijing Lu at 7:30am.
It costs twelve yuan and takes six hours. I think one may be able to cycle there at the same speed.
Heijing sounds like a cool little town though. Kunming Information Hub just put together a list of the best unknown old towns in Yunnan, they put Heijing in at number 10:
I went there a year ago. It was much more theme park than museum, but the dinosaur fossils were still pretty interesting despite being a small part of the experience.
Overall, I'd say it's a good place to take kids but if you're an adult and a dinosaur/fossil geek, don't expect to have your mind blown.
I went to open mic night last night to see what was going on and was pleasantly surprised. Acoustic indie rock, a South Silk Road freestyle session with Kris Ariel drumming, Xinjiang folk music by Zhu Xiaolong and then a funky band with an MC, also freestyling. Host Marc Hollingsworth did an excellent job of enlisting performers and keeping the music going. A great first night.
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.
Open mic night and live hiphop at Halfway House
发布者I went to open mic night last night to see what was going on and was pleasantly surprised. Acoustic indie rock, a South Silk Road freestyle session with Kris Ariel drumming, Xinjiang folk music by Zhu Xiaolong and then a funky band with an MC, also freestyling. Host Marc Hollingsworth did an excellent job of enlisting performers and keeping the music going. A great first night.
Hike Xishan with Jin Feibao
发布者Almost... Feb 4.
Kunming International Academy to get new campus in 2008
发布者Thanks Jeff. Mistake corrected.
Interesting Teaching Job
发布者My apologies, absolutely did not mean it in a pejorative way... we're working on limiting our coffee intake in the future.
Kunming to build China's 4th-largest Airport
发布者You are correct: 21 km to the airport and 160 square km Airport Economic Zone. Sorry, my last post was unclear.