Skip the car - one thing we don't need more of here - and think twice about Metro & Carrefour (how is it that nonspecific foreigners are thought to need these things)?
Wicker Basket for bread generally - the elongated-rugby-ball loaves with about 5 different grains in them will last a week or more in the fridge (if you don't have them slice it) and are near as good as bread can get.
BE AFRAID - BE VERY AFRAID etc.
Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas & other such holidays become popular because they are 'western', and 'western' is confused with 'modern', here and in many places - as is, sometimes, Christianity. 'Modern' and 'progress' are also confused, despite the fact that it has been 'modernity' and 'Progress' (the latter concept very much related to Abrahamic religion), under globalizing/globalized capitalist relations of production, that have led to nations armed to the genocidal/mutually-suicidal teeth, and to irresponsible and probably irreversible damage to the planet and therefore to the very possible extinction of humanity and the remaining other species.
So I think we might as well celebrate Halloween everywhere, as it's more fun to harmlessly scare people by dressing up as the devil or Maggie Thatcher or somebody, before we all bow out & collectively leave The Big Stage.
P.S. I'm tired of reading that threads are locked - do cops come & tell you to do this, or are you self-censoring?.
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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.
China's foreign minister shelves trade concerns, turns to Myanmar's Rohingya crisis
Posted byI second cloudtrapezer.
Obituary: Yunnan says goodbye to pioneering musician Ai Yong
Posted byCannot say I knew Ai Yong, although I met him a few times. However, I'm familiar with Shanren, and just last Saturday became aware of Kawa - friend of mine and I, hearing the recording, were trying to figure out just where it was coming from; we asked and were told it was Kawa, and then I got the obvious, excellent Wa influence.
There are beginning to be quite a few good musicians here in Kunming, and they deserve respect. Sorry to hear that Ai Yong will not be among those who will continue to produce and invent the music.
Thank you Kunming! Have a Heart charity event raises 64,000 yuan
Posted byWas indeed a worthwhile and fun event.
China's foreign minister shelves trade concerns, turns to Myanmar's Rohingya crisis
Posted by@michael: Don't know why you think that's the bet solution for the Rohingya, since it's not the one they want - just who might be legitimately authorized to implement such a policy? Anyway, it would not take care of the problem of the Burmese military.
China's foreign minister shelves trade concerns, turns to Myanmar's Rohingya crisis
Posted bySo he suggested truce and then figure out what to do next. OK, as far as it goes.
Seems to me the problem is the Myanmar military, who've had over 60 years of experiences of privilege, corruption, uselessness and/or brutality and who have yet to be reduced to the level of ordinary people. Should have had the hell reduced out of them many years ago.