I don't know about back 500 years in time, but it still is a great place, although the tourist thing has been developing over the past 3 years or so in the usual ominous direction - so go now. Sideng, the main town, was very well 'preserved' by a Swiss project which began some 10 years ago - but then Lijaing was reconstructed very well after the earthquake, and then got invaded by the usual disneyland commerce and clientele.
Considering the importance of learning English and the average income levels, isn't Y150/hr. a matter of servicing the (relatively) rich?
Geogramatt, check out the social-scientific theme of 'McDonaldization of society'.
Faraday, now, after telling us what's WRONG with McDonald's, why don't you tell us what's good about it? And who is this 'we' that is taking over the world? Somehow I don't feel like I'm a member. Why do you want to 'take over the world', anyway? Such attempts usually annoy people.
I think it's all okay and that the discussions pretty much reflect the attitudes & mindsets of the contributors, for better or for worse.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Portraits from the Tea Horse Road
发布者Terrific photos, great portraits.
Mike, I don't understand about the 13 centuries, or what era is ending.
Yunnan Baiyao "secret" ingredients found on US websites
发布者In referring to 'the Chinese' and 'the US' I assume you mean certain bureaucracies located in China and the US. A common way to speak, admittedly - but doesn't it (subconsciously) corrupt the way we tend to think? Surely only a tiny percentage of real people are involved - we all know this, of course, and we forget it all the time. No blame on JHC, just a reflection that, um, we might all reflect on more often. Managed thought is dangerous and manipulative, let's not assist the managers out of carelessness and lack of attention to what really goes down.
Yunnan Baiyao rebounds after rough start to 2013
发布者Have scientific tests ever been done on this stuff (i.e., by other than company personnel) - not just on what's in it, but on what it can/does or cannot/doesn't do? I'm not suggesting it's bunk or anything like that, I'd just like to know.
Book Review: Unsavory Elements
发布者Somewhat stereotypical impression of 'foreigners' too, although I think I may have seen these 2 before.
Zhaotong official may face resentencing following weibo uproar
发布者I fail to see the point of an execution, public or otherwise. Has somebody confused vengeance with justice?