Salvadors sells good milk.

There are a lot of small, family run hardware stores scattered throughout the city, but range is usually limited and prices pretty high. B&Q in the north near the Expo Gardens is pretty good and you can find most things you may need there, as well as more obscure foreign stuff, but again, prices can be above average.

Within city limits the best place to go is probably the hardware market on Da Guan Road (大观路) about 100m before the amusement park on your right as you approach it. Here you'll find a large area full of independent stores selling mostly everything in which to build something.

The second hand market on the second ring road is also great for buying cheap power tools and the like.

Stayed there when it first opened maybe about 2 years ago. Got a suite room and it was definitely international 5 star standard. Very comfortable bed, rainforest shower, flatscreen tv and a private courtyard. The grounds are nice and being on the edge of the old town makes it easy to get up and just wander in. As it just opened the restaurant was still finding it's rhythm, so it could be better now. I would stay there again.

When the folks come to town or for that special occasion, there's two restaurants i usually go to, Jia Yan (嘉宴) and Wei Cai (味彩). Both are in the Green Lake area with the former set in a beautifully restored house of a former governor of Yunnan, and the latter in gardens on the edge of the lake which is great for lunch on a warm sunny day. Wei Cai also has a plush new sister restaurant on the fourth flour of the Shun Cheng building on Nan Ping Jie. Both restaurants specialise in upscale versions of the local cuisine (滇彩) but are also heavily influenced by both sichuanese & cantonese cuisines. If you go to Jia Yan go for the Qi Guo Ji (Steamed Chicken Soup), the roast chicken or the suckling pig. It's pretty easy to order in both given the picture menus.

Both are pretty expensive in relative Kunming terms, but on that special occasion, worth it.

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