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.
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.
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.
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.
Forums > Living in Kunming > China-related conferences? There have been a number of Webinars on the Macmillan Website, some of them are Asia related.
These were in the field of ESL.
What field were you thinking of?
Trafficking in endangered animals on the rise
Posted byThe guys selling pelts usually arrive in late autumn, all over China. The ones I am thinking of look a bit like frontiersmen, with their fur hats and scrawny black beards. These guys sell dog pelts, they are often sprayed to look like leopard, tiger, etc.
Ancient 'Red Deer Cave' people discovered in Yunnan
Posted byThere is a need for people to update knowledge bases
Darwin's Law of Evolution by Natural Selection (traditionally referred to as a "theory" to honor Darwin's original treatise, but now confirmed through observation and experiment) consists of five main tenets.
www.genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/Darwin.htm
Google of [Darwin's Law] will bring up many scientific websites.
The semantic argument that this is a theory and not a law is out of date.
Yunnan's economy outpacing national average
Posted by@blobbles
It was clear to me that this was a year on year growth. Because growth is always expressed in that way.
Kunming discovers two more fake Apple stores
Posted byI did see a report that although the Apple Stores were fake, the products were not.
If true this is more an argument for Apple to license more resellers.
Kunming orders English added to outdoor signs
Posted by@85 cents. The article says 'only relevant to new signs'. In other words traders won't have to pay for a new sign. But when a new sign is required it needs to be in Pinyin or English, in addition to Hanzi.
This sounds good to me. It will help me find places and improve my Chinese a lot. Why will it improve my Chinese? because I will recognise more words that I have learned in Pinyin (many more than I could in Hanzi) and recognising words will help my language acquisition.
If the words are in English it may also help local kids with their English, in the same manner as Pinyin would help me.
Making the road signs in Pinyin and Chinese was a good idea. It has helped me a lot in navigating the city. Extending the policy to shop signs can only add benefit. And nobody has to buy a new sign.