I just don't like the idea of adding to large corporate wealth. There are plenty of good restaurants in Kunming.
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.
Government looking to step up supervision of Erhai
Posted byNasty influence of concentrations of private money/power.
Government looking to step up supervision of Erhai
Posted bySeems necessary - purely local administrations are unlikely to consider the effects of their actions on areas under other local administrations. On the other hand, if this just means Kunming-based Yunnan administrators making all decisions for local inhabitants without their consultation it will likely not work, or will lead to other problems. But something does need to be done about Erhai.
Fundraiser: buying rice threshers for Guizhou farmers
Posted byLocal cash contributions? Where?
Fundraiser: buying rice threshers for Guizhou farmers
Posted bySeems like a decent idea - anybody know these people?
Urban management officers replaced by plants
Posted byI wonder if any of the problems that have to do with unlicenced vendors etc. might have something to do with a (relative) downturn in an economy, a lack of well-paying jobs for those with few formal qualifications, and an increasingly unequitable socio-economic system?