I had no idea milk has to be denatured before making yoghurt... Another plus for imported milk powder from a major supermarket is that it's probably genuine & risk of contamination is negligible. New Chinese parents certainly remember the melamine in babymilk disaster; I've been asked where to get imported milk powder a couple of times.

The big supermarkets (Walmart, Carrefour)

also stock imported powdered milk. It was about RMB70/kg last year. You can make around 10L yoghurt from a kilo. I had a machine that came with starter culture,

but discovered that ready made yoghurt from the supermarket worked fine as a starter, if I'd finished off the last batch.

With the yoghurt makers so cheap on Taobao, there's really no need to put up with the supermarket stuff. It's probably worth looking for a machine with a stainless steel liner (不锈钢内胆) - they're really easy to keep clean if you don't scratch them.

Looks like the Chinese name is 妈富隆 (Ma1fu4long2) and it's about RMB42 for 21 (see links). It might help to show the boxes in the 2nd link to pharma staff. Or maybe you could just get a friend to order you some from Tmall...

zhidao.baidu.com/question/2776999.html

www.tmall.com/mlist/cp_wui4u8KhMjHGrL_at_6x3NTQ0qk.html

Thanks folks! (for some reason I didn't a notification about these replies)

This is their working website:
www.robertschinese.com/index.php?lang=en

I'm considering attending small group classes there, but just noticed the last review attached to their GKM listing is from someone who claimed they botched his visa:
www.gokunming.com/[...]

However, that was quite a long time ago. So I was wondering: does anyone have

more recent experience of this school (both in terms of study & their ability to handle visas...)?