@satii: "Are you back yet JanJal? Your warm donuts and hot shower await."
If all goes well, we will return to Kunming in Saturday tomorrow. Hot shower after 6 weeks without sounds heavenly.
I'm not sure if regular bakeries are open yet, or decently stocked. Happen to know about Just Hot?
On a quick Google search, "ynkmwqw1" did appear on one China scammers list result page, but there was no further information.
Email and domain addresses in China (especially in public institutions) can be quite cryptic and it's difficult to tell anything based on those alone.
You could play along but refuse to send any money and refuse to come to China on tourist visas.
Have them provide any authorized invitations and financial guarantees that you may need for cultural exchange visas (F-visa I believe) for your team. Your nearest Chinese consulate may be helpful as well.
Them asking for money, or asking to go on tourist visas, indicate obvious fraud.
Lol, well that was obviously unintentional comedy.
Recent developments from the rural Yunnan.
Earlier this week migrant factory workers were allowed to be shipped back to the coastal cities.
The employers had to collect a busfull of people from each village to travel together in a bus all the way from the village to the company housing in Zhejiang for example - no trains or planes allowed. Local hospital provided health screening (chest x-rays etc) before they were allowed on bus.
We would have option to get out of here too, but will probably stay another week because we want to take the aging mother-in-law with us to Kunming, and that takes some preparation.
The pig is still alive, as are the squirrels.
From the GoKunming official page:
"The Entry and Exit Bureau service has not resumed on Monday, February 3. "
I'm assuming this is a typo (not=now), but in case it isn't, is there any new info on this?
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Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted by@sezuwupom : "JanJal is living the good life [...] Igor's delivers to your door."
You forgot to mention that I recycle and care for environment, which is why I would prefer to pick up my bakeries on my way rather than have someone on scooter deliver it wrapped in plastics. Even if it would leave the plastic maker and the scooter driver jobless. They could find new jobs in Just Hot, which I keep in business.
But I wish best of luck to Igor's. If location is everything, they have some catching up to do to reach out to potential customers like they are doing in this paid review..
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted byWent here one morning after grocery shopping in nearby Walmart.
No surprise, shelves were less than half-empty like they are in all upper scale bakeries I've visited in Kunming, specifically in the mornings before lunch.
They all seem to get stocked up few hours after lunch time, which for me is too late because I like to consume my sweets at home(=office) couple of hours after lunch, without making a separate trip for it.
Thus my staple bakeries remain from big and soulless chains like Just Hot, that have their donuts ready before 11am.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byThey also say time is a healer, and it takes time to grow. While time does get peope killed, it also helps greatly in reproduction. Without time, we would not have gotten where we are now - nor would we get to develop into extradimensional beings bound by neither space nor time, if we ban it now.
What I propose, is that we do not ban time, but instead develop ourselves beyond time, so that we no longer depend on it, and becomes indifferent to us.
On a related but more serious note, should humanity also develop beoynd organic in our feeding patterns?
For most people, things like "organic" or "free range" has already developed past hunting wild game and gathering roots and berries. For the minority that still practises such, our current methods to grow our food must appear as strange as eating protein grown in reactors would sound to many of us.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byA store we frequent for vegetables and meat is Q+Life in B1 level of TKP Shopping Mall (Beijing Lu / Baiyun Lu). My wife has bought for their green advertising, I cannot vouch either way but I'm satisfied with the quality.
It's official: Yunnan facing serious drought
Posted byWell, we are having minor thunderstorm right now. Earlier in the week my phone's weather forecast showed daily rain drops in Kunming from end of this week til end of eternity, Or was it just the two weeks ahead it can show.