- 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.
@tamar: Her new shop is on Shiqiaopu, I've updated the address and phone number, map point may be slightly off, but it's a short street so you should be able to find it:
It turns out that there may have been a third beating victim and the security guards may have been from a nearby KTV, but media reports on the matter have been all over the place. This post/video on Shanghaiist sums up the Chinese media's rather difficult job:
@Tim_W: As you probably noticed, the AFC website doesn't say where fixtures are scheduled to be held. I'm guessing there won't be any further matches at Tuodong Stadium, but I'm happy to be wrong. Unfortunately, events like this aren't promoted so well, and even buying tickets usually requires knowing someone - not surprising in a town that scrapped its initial plans for the Olympic torch to pass through town and then made it a VIP event out at Yunnan Minorities Village at the last minute.
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.
Interview: Bunny
Posted by@tamar: Her new shop is on Shiqiaopu, I've updated the address and phone number, map point may be slightly off, but it's a short street so you should be able to find it:
www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item/bun_119/
Giveaway: "Chinese Standards"
Posted byCongratulations to Dave Schilling, who will be on the guest list plus two at "Chinese Standards" Saturday night at Nordica. The answers:
1. Which TCG Nordica founder won a Nobel prize this year? -Tomas Tranströmer
2. In what category did he/she win the prize? - Literature
3. What does the 'TCG' in 'TCG Nordica' stand for? - Tranströmer Culture Gallery
Fatal beating puts spotlight on security guards
Posted byIt turns out that there may have been a third beating victim and the security guards may have been from a nearby KTV, but media reports on the matter have been all over the place. This post/video on Shanghaiist sums up the Chinese media's rather difficult job:
shanghaiist.com/2011/10/12/cctv-journalist-kunming-psb.php
China's men's footballers remain undefeated in Kunming
Posted by@Tim_W: As you probably noticed, the AFC website doesn't say where fixtures are scheduled to be held. I'm guessing there won't be any further matches at Tuodong Stadium, but I'm happy to be wrong. Unfortunately, events like this aren't promoted so well, and even buying tickets usually requires knowing someone - not surprising in a town that scrapped its initial plans for the Olympic torch to pass through town and then made it a VIP event out at Yunnan Minorities Village at the last minute.
Giveaway: 500KM City Music Festival
Posted byCongratulations to reader Bryan Allen, who was the first to provide us with all four correct answers:
1. Wild Horses
2. lip-syncing
3. Lijiang
4. Devils on the doorstep (鬼子来了)
Thanks to Bryan and all who participated in the giveaway... watch this space for more giveaways in the future!