Samoana's info can be found here:
Samoana's info can be found here:
Tobacco (near Yueyatan Park) can sort you out with a place to smoke shisha, they also sell all kinds of pipes, but I'm not sure if they sell hookahs:
This forum thread may help:
www.gokunming.com/en/forums/thread/3030/best_gyms_in_kunming
Pipes of all kinds are available at Tobacco www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item/tob_32403/tobacco the best tailor I know of recently sold her shop and I have no idea where to get a decent Irish single malt whiskey in Kunming. If you can make it to Dali, there is an amazing selection of single malt whiskeys at the new-and-improved Lazy Book www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item/laz_250/
this thread is locked, as it should be a review. luckily skittles has already posted a review on Lost Garden Guesthouse & Restaurant's GK listings page:
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Happy ninth birthday Sal, you've made Kunming a better place.
Four stars for a great restaurant with friendly staff.
I give Tusheng Shiguan a fifth star for its goal of promoting environmentally sound food production.
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.
Tom and Jiajia have been baking up a storm lately. Thanks to them I have delicious sourdough bread to toast on the space heater in the office.
The Bircher muesli is probably the healthiest and most delicious breakfast around.
Pound for pound, one of the best little Western restaurants in China. 佳佳万岁!
Just had gnocchi in mushroom sauce and a glass of wine for dinner on the balcony in mid-January. Awesome.
Li Wei: From rural Yunnan to the center of nationwide scandal
Posted byGotta love Caijing's English website's headline for this story: "A Pubic Nepotism"... can't figure out if it was a mistranslation of the Chinese story's title or if they knew exactly what they were saying.
english.caijing.com.cn/2011-02-14/110640687.html
Interview: Sahra Malik
Posted byThe mistake was mine... it appears I could have used another cup of coffee when I wrote this. Correction has been made, thanks to all for setting the record straight.
Book Review: Joseph F. Rock and His Shangri-La
Posted byAccording to Goodman's book they did cross paths, and Rock was not very fond of Goullart.
Getting Away: Golden Temple
Posted bythe official name of the bell in Chinese was 乾隆吉祥钟, I doubt it has much to do with any emperors and is probably less than ten years... creative name though
Getting Away: Golden Temple
Posted byThis is true, thank you Able, corrections have been made.