Went to the JianShe Lu hole-in-the-wall-restaurants-you-love-to-hate Dai place for dinner.

It was closed with no sign of activity. Anyone know if it's still open for business?

no, deffinitely not. Closes every year when students are out for summer and Chinese new year break...The boss enjoys going south to laos, thailand, and vietnam during this time to adventure and study cooking styles. should be back open in a few weeks.

Great, thanks for the info. Awesome the boss goes to enhance his cooking.

I'm assuming this "Dai" hole-in-the-wall place on Jianshe Lu is the same one that I've been to, which is popular with Thai, Lao and even western university students studying in Kunming. I went with a friend from Europe and 2 Thai friends back in March I think it was, who told me the food was actually Thai, not Dai.

Since I know Thailand and it's food very well, in my opinion the food was closer to Thai too, rather than Dai, even if it wasn't that authentic but close enough for me. Also, this restaurant's food was definately much less similar to the Dai food you get in various restaurants around the Yunnan University area.

Of course the place had no atmosphere, but the food was surprisingly good despite the questionable food safety standards. Still, I didn't get sick which is a good thing!