- If eating at home, Kunming has loads of delicious vegetables, and we are lucky enough to have some organic vegetable, dairy and egg options now.
- There are plenty of fish options in Kunming, ranging from unimpressive bony little fish on sticks to fat imported salmon steaks.
- When eating out, make sure you know how to tell staff in Chinese that you're vegetarian, which should also convey that you don't want any ground meat, ham or soup stock made from meat to be in your food.
- Even if it seems like a menu item should be vegetarian, it is worth mentioning to staff that you don't eat meat. Sometimes seemingly vegetarian items on menus here may be stir-fried with bits of ground pork or ham.
- Kunming does have a few vegetarian restaurants and many restaurants have encountered vegetarian customers at some point, so it's not as foreign a concept as it used to be.
All in all, being a vegetarian in Kunming (or anywhere else in China for that matter) can occasionally be inconvenient, but it shouldn't be a dealbreaker if you're thinking about moving out here.
@mehnyaa: The forum section is not a restaurant review section.
Please feel free to say all the nice things you want about Saramati (www.gokunming.com/[...] or any other restaurants or venues in Kunming on their listings pages.
There's a train that leaves from the main station (Nanyao) at the south end of Beijing Lu at 7:30am.
It costs twelve yuan and takes six hours. I think one may be able to cycle there at the same speed.
Heijing sounds like a cool little town though. Kunming Information Hub just put together a list of the best unknown old towns in Yunnan, they put Heijing in at number 10:
I went there a year ago. It was much more theme park than museum, but the dinosaur fossils were still pretty interesting despite being a small part of the experience.
Overall, I'd say it's a good place to take kids but if you're an adult and a dinosaur/fossil geek, don't expect to have your mind blown.
@The Mask, congratulations and thanks for the kind words. BTW, we serve the English-speaking/literate community, which of course includes most foreigners, but also many locals!
In Chiang Mai now and must say the North Gate Jazz Co-op, just a 10 second walk to the east as you walk out the north gate of the old town, is highly recommended for anyone that likes good live music. Saw 15 musicians tear it up on Tuesday night... the audience wouldn't let them stop playing. Great fun.
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.
Kunming's etymological vapor trail
Posted byCorrect Jarhead, thanks for spotting that. The error has been corrected.
Results: Best of Kunming 2011
Posted by@walter: Thanks for the suggestion.
@The Mask, congratulations and thanks for the kind words. BTW, we serve the English-speaking/literate community, which of course includes most foreigners, but also many locals!
Getting Away: Chiang Mai
Posted byIn Chiang Mai now and must say the North Gate Jazz Co-op, just a 10 second walk to the east as you walk out the north gate of the old town, is highly recommended for anyone that likes good live music. Saw 15 musicians tear it up on Tuesday night... the audience wouldn't let them stop playing. Great fun.
2012: Three game-changers for Kunming
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According to this report, there will be four runways and an eventual annual capacity of 68 million travelers, with total investment at US$3.6 billion.
Forgotten British consulate getting Chinese facelift
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I'm operating under the assumption that the "war" in the penultimate line is supposed to be "wall".