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I just don't like the idea of adding to large corporate wealth. There are plenty of good restaurants in Kunming.
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I just don't like the idea of adding to large corporate wealth. There are plenty of good restaurants in Kunming.
Would not recommend hotel buffets.
KIA is nondenominational and has a Christian focus.
Forever Bright works well. Don't worry about not speaking Mandarin in Hong Kong, or having a problem using English. You won't need Cantonese either.
Cheap accommodation Chungking Mansions Tsim Sha Tsui.
You can avoid the service fee by going directly to the visa office and doing it yourself, it's not that hard. You won't need to go to a consulate for anything.
This method worked well for me in 2008, 2009 & 2010 - since then I havenn't been a student, but I doubt anything has changed.
"Friendship between" Country X & Country Y merely means that the powerful in the two countries perceive mutual advantage in cooperation in the short run.
Political hype language is obscene when it ruins decent words. Blame Edward Bernays, not for honestly revealing the process, but for encouraging it; and the advertising-and-PR industry. Don't even mention democracy or the sovereignty of the people.
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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.
Forgotten Flying Tigers headquarters and barracks found in Kunming
Posted byWas his name, I think.
Update: Kunming Metro Line 3 open as of August 29
Posted byFocusing only on 'sites' is no way to come to understand a city, even in a short time.
Yunnan chemical factory becomes testing ground for citizen lawsuits
Posted byI hope this is well-publicized in the Chinese press.
China cracks down on pyramid scheme "epidemic"
Posted byYES - hammer these greedheads!
But it might be better to consider that societies that reward the greedy with what is considered to be 'success' are very likely to see greed proliferate, which will, in turn, piss a lot of people off, sooner or later.
Film Review: Animation Dahufa stirs up controversy in China
Posted byFor really interesting works on the history and development of Chinese animation over many years, see the works of Weihua Wu, including CHINESE ANIMATION, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE DIGITAL CULTURE (another possible title: THE AMBIVALENT IMAGE FACTORY: ANIMATION, CULTURAL INDUSTRY AND THE I-GENERATION CHINA).