Shanghailist article interesting, but I haven't had any problem. Santiago, I think your chances are pretty good.
No problem.
For most nationalities, yes.
Probably safe enough.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Mid-Autumn Festival, China's harvest celebration
Posted byBrilliance of classical Chinese for poetry: 20 Chinese characters, how many English words? How many letters? All those Indo-European articles, prepositions, verb endings, even pronouns (the person could be anyone, including the reader) - unnecessary.
Mid-Autumn Festival, China's harvest celebration
Posted byIn obvious fact an adaptation of Li Bai's concise poem.
Buddhist mountaineers: The Bulang of Xishuangbanna
Posted byLot of lumping went on to create the 56 official 'nationalities' (minzu) of China back in the early-mid 50s.
Saving ancient Tibetan scrolls discovered in Shangri-la
Posted byThanks for this one - sounds like a large, extremely interesting source.
New Kunming hospital to spearhead provincial heart health drive
Posted byGood.