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Forums > Food & Drink > Non-meat food in Kunming? (Fish is OK :) )

There is a wealth of different kinds of tofu to try as well. China is used to vegetarians and special diets for religious reasons.

But really you are better off cooking at home.

The 'wet' markets have many vendors of fish, most alive, and they will kill and clean them for you. These are mostly river species, and river fish have an earthy flavour. There are also farmed turbot, and lots of crayfish and other shell fish.

Metro is a local cash and carry wholesaler (easy to get a card) and they also do a reasonable range of frozen sea fish.

As already mentioned, lots of fresh veg, many of them wild. You can try lots of new things. There is also a big range of fresh fungi available.

Eggs are easy, and cheese (rare in supermarkets) is available for specialist local shops, run by expats.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Rental cost for a SMALL place near the Yunnan Shifan Daxue

There is a lot of apartment sharing and sub letting of rooms going on. Rooms come up from about 600/m.That is an option for you.

There are some apartments that come up cheap, but you need to be prepared to jump in in June-August after the end of the academic year to get a good one. Lots of people want them in September.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > The Horror

I see them use a lot of unrefined rapeseed oil from local farmers. It is dark brown and thick looking.
It has not had a lot of that nasty natural stuff taken out and so in not clear. They say that some of it is even organic, whatever that means it can't be any good, shock horror.

If you see the stories nearly everyday, they have probably been recycled.

Yes a lot of bad things happen in China. Not all food is safe. But that is still a small percentage of the whole. These 'horror stories' are exactly that. Hence them doing the rounds.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > China-related conferences?

I assume you are already located in China.

Unless you are a mandarin speaker, the biggest problem will be finding a conference in which English is spoken. Or where they have simultaneous translation.

I can only offer suggestions, not answers.
Your best bet would be to check with the international affairs departments of the major universities in China as they will be the ones holding the international conferences.
You could also contact the educational affairs departments of the embassies of the major English speaking countries. They may know of a website listing conferences.
Check to see if the China education ministry has a webpage for conferences.

Contact the Confucius Institute HQ in China for info as they seem to have a finger in every pie.

Also check to see if there are any conferences running in parallel with the Education Fairs and Book Fairs.

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If they worry about cost, and only provide minimum service until things pay for themselves, then they will always be in a debt cycle. For example, if the service only runs the cheapest (minimal) service from 9-5 people cannot possibly use it for work. They screw themselves.

There is a real need to bite the bullet. Then the best returns can be realised, only if they take the risk and run the service as a viable alternative to driving. Short term loss will be high, but utilisation will follow very quickly.

There is a need to follow the models of service provision in Shanghai and Beijing, but accept that the break even point in Kunming will take longer to realise. However, if you don't, the losses will continue for many years.

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Not sure, but would that be transiting? I think transit ticket is for an onward journey to a third country.
Perhaps you could fly from somewhere, via Kunming, to HK or vice vesa.

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Shanghai and Beijing are also major business hubs and doing a few days extra business, while breaking a long haul trek, makes sense. Also, both cities are tourist centres in themselves.

Kunming is neither. Kunming wants to be a trade centre with ASEAN, but that is not yet happening. Kunming is not really a destination, more of a spring board to Yunnan (which you cannot do in 3 days). All you can really do is play golf, which some people do.

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I think the crime was getting caught, and so publically. Getting caught on camera and having it go viral is an embarrassment to gov. This is not good for social order.
There has also been a trend towards more unruly behaviour at airports, some of which have gone viral (like the Shandong woman in Guangzhou airport). This case in Kunming might be an exemplory/detterent sentencing.
Either way, it is a step in the right direction.

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.