Forums > Living in Kunming > Johnnie Walker It's Formaldehyde Walker and knowing this it brings tears to my eyes.
(Sorry, bad humor :)
I think Metro is your best bet. You may be able to find it on Taobao (read the reviews). People with taste will tell you if it's the right stuff. Or just trust your own taste-buds if you have drank it before.
Forums > Food & Drink > suggestion on redwine About baijiu, I have tasted it before. I don't know if they use it to make the wine what it is (grape juice + alcohol), increase the alcohol % or if they want to appeal to a market which is so addicted to baijiu that they have to have the flavor of it in the wine. (Same like how some French wine makers (probably) like smoking and like the "cigarette flavor" also in the wine (either that or they dropped their cigarettes by accident into the tank while busy stirring).
About tainted (tinted) wine, if you mean colored wine, then here's 3 suggestions:
1. Look at the color. If it is fake (even a paint- purple or even dull / matte, or no dynamic color range in the light) you can tell sometimes by just looking.
2. Useful, but not always fool proof / full-proof is the "tissue test".
You need 1 single sheet of tissue or toilet paper (that is "sheet" with double "e" and not an "i".
Pour a couple drops of wine in the middle an wait. Wine color is part of the wine (part of the water. All wine contains water). If it's an added color it is mostly a solution but not adhering to the wine (thus floating around as loose particles).
Look at the transition ring(s) of the wine. If the color stays clearly behind and the outside ring is broad and clear, most likely color was added (or water in some cases). If the color transition is very gradual, it's most likely real. Also, just so you know, this test doesn't usually work well with white wine.
Please note: This is subject to the type of wine, (expert's) interpretation and is not always accurate (some people use high quality color additives). Some wines are flimsy. Sometimes the paper is the wrong kind to work as a proper filter.
3. Know your wines and above all: grapes. It is true that wine-makers can manipulate wine into anything nowadays, but still, if you know what a wine made of a certain grape tastes like, then you can tell more or less if it's really that grape. If it's very manipulated it doesn't always make it a bad wine. It just makes it a "manipulated wine".
Forums > Living in Kunming > Forums are quickly deteriorating I definitely second Liumingke1234's comment with a STRONG EMPHASIS on the words "DEGENERATION" / "DETERIORATION".
I have considered several times to just leave the forum because of all the name-calling and off-topic unfounded arguments that add up to countless posts.
My grandmother always said: "If you have noting good to say, don't say it at all."
Forums > Living in Kunming > What do you love about Kunming? Very funny yankee00, I love the order and focus on drinks and food.
I have to second the food. Definitely a lot of variety (many fruits and vegetables I've never seen or eaten before and I was always anti-vegetable). I just hope I stay / get healthier because of all the stuff they put on the plants and in the ground. Anyhow, I'm glad I eat more veggies.
Good beef. Darn am I glad there is tasty beef here. I'm staying away from pork though, but can't help but love the beef. BBQ, dried beef, beef sticks, beef strips, ground beef, orange beef and ground beef in eggplant.
My favotire drink: warm sweet-corn juice and WLJ/DJB. Why don't they sell this in the rest of the world?
The other thing: no begging, nagging, attacking, bugging or mugging people, children and gangs. (and no significant amount of homeless). There's work for everyone even if it pays only a little. And people are willing to work. They don't ask for "Change..."
And no tipping! (not for deliveries, taxi, restaurants, bars, or simply getting a haircut) Pretty awesome! (although I'd think people should do it in moderation in restaurants). I think it's good so staff are not suffering from a bad day. At least there are no employers who steal tips (like in France) thus no disgruntled staff because of it.
Forums > Food & Drink > suggestion on redwine @ The Dudeson,
Thanks for the reference. I very much appreciate that.
Yes, we have do a (wine)bar, but actually we're Yunnan's largest American wine importer.
Lijiang vendors strike, protesting old town entry fee
Posted byThe moment something is registered as UNESCO, the place is leached. UNESCO and government both take part of the pot. Never expected to pay $16 to see a ruin that wasn't even maintained with unsafe pathways (not Lijang). UNESCO, just like UNICEF are UN progams, so just do the math. 49.9% for one, 49.9% for the other, 0.1% for the safety-ribbon, and 0.1% for the water-based paint.
Wanda opens 15 billion yuan Yunnan resort
Posted byThis article needs a serious correction. Wanda is owned by the Chinese government, run semi-privately and invested in by shareholders, investment groups and also the government.
Wang Jianlin is rich and he is the chairman. He is not the owner and it's not "his empire".
Burmese soldiers reportedly killed near Chinese border
Posted byWaste of space argument. Please delete all the above argument for all our sakes. Thanks for your consideration.
Kunming researchers map superfood DNA
Posted byHear hear. It's indeed a nice thing for food and food supplements.
If you're interested in trying the highest quality food supplements (including Moringa), contact me. Our new state of the art laboratory and factory work together with Yunnan University and local governments in developing the purest quality food supplements.
China massively scales back fracking plans
Posted byFrack that!
(Reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica series)