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I think there was a hyperlink in the end, and didn't we already agree that verbatim copying is to be allowed in case some foreign links might be impossible to follow from here?
I think there was a hyperlink in the end, and didn't we already agree that verbatim copying is to be allowed in case some foreign links might be impossible to follow from here?
@DanDare: "if they used to eat squirrel in the old days. I think the answer will be, ye"
No doubt. As I wrote, the practise could have been going on all the time, just avoiding my sight. Perhaps in these particular families it is a recently (re)acquired taste, rather than even necessity. Game meat of any sort is not a common dish in these parts, unlike perhaps in the meat markets in Wuhan epicenter for example.
But IF it has become a degree of necessity locally, then perhaps it creates a sort of circular reference to that very epicenter.
Many stranger (to outside observers) dishes, which may be considered delicacies in local cultures, are products of creativity from times of famine. Not only in China too, though China's experiences with that do not go very far back in comparison to famines in developed countries.
Also something that probably happens all the time, but which I have not witnessed in my previous (numerous) visits is that trapping and bbqing squirrels has become something of a fashion now.
Up in the mountains where I am (stuck for third week now), recent develoment is that entry to the nearest town is now restricted to 2 hours every morning. That's where all shopping is done.
We still haven't needed to butcher the last pig, and there are still plenty of chickens.
This is a place so small that you cannot find trusted source (online or at all) other than going in person.
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Letter from the editor: Kunming community spirit in times of Corona
发布者"support the website by making an account, asking questions in the forum, leaving reviews and using the classifieds section to find a job, sell your stuff or rent an apartment."
This (or rather what is not included in that list of to-dos) sums the criticism that I personally have toward the whole ordeal, and how GoKunming (out of no choice I understand) had to respond to it with rest of the nation.
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Ask questions and increase revenue, but feel free to avoid discussing and, heaven forbid, debating anything.
Editorial: Kunming 2020 biological diversity conference should be based on Paris Agreement
发布者Wouldn't you say a new kind of virus adds to biodiversity though? Also in relation to biodiversity, I suppose there is some poetic justice in the virus killing humans.
European visa centers open to Chinese citizens in Kunming
发布者Not sure if this applies to Italy visas, but for many other European countries:
The Joint Visa Application Center that used to be in Beichen, is now relocated to an office building at intersection of .Shibo Road and Bojin Avenue.
New address:
1501D, Building A, Low Carbon Business Center, No. 12 Shibo Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province 650000 China
www.vfsglobal.cn/finland/china/contact_us.html#14
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
发布者I'm not a big fan of croissants anyway, and donuts I have not found in either of the establishments you mentioned.
@Dolphin: "savouring the croissant helps to cultivate appreciation. ie appreciating simple things rather than always feeling discontent that you don't have enough"
Perhaps, but it equally helps to cultivate ignorance of all the labor that has been put into creating that experience for you. At least I would allow you to feel discontent on behalf all the people who don't have enough, whether they had part in creating the croissant or not.
I't shouldn't anymore be about what you have or don't have, but what the other 7.7 billion (minus 1) people have or don't have. That's where the musings of Buddha (as quoted above) go wrong in this day and age.
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
发布者There perhaps was a time, when embracing reality same way you would savour the croissant, could have been beneficial to achieving an enlightened state of mind.
But today, many would call such view on life quite the opposite of enlightened - it could be called ignorance or covering your eyes from all that is wrong. Perhaps that's suitable in Chinese context.
There, I connected the croissant to politics.