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• • July 12, 2011
  • Exhibition to offer Kunming a glimpse of the deep sea
    

    Can't wait to see it!

• • March 24, 2011
  • Interview: Wu Hao and Kang Mao
    

    Great show!

• • December 23, 2010
  • Wenhua Xiang filling up with financially overextended youth
    

    @SSeminari Yeah man, it started out innocently enough about a year ago when there were only a few people out from time to time but in recent months it really has gotten way too out of control. And the fact that the Chengguan leave at the same time every day only encourages more and more people to come as they know it will be fine after 9ish. Now I think there are more illegal vendors in w.h.x. than legal ones hahaha! It makes it harder for anyone to get in and out of w.h.x. and makes being in w.h.x. more hectic, I suppose it's possible that scares some people from coming into the alley indirectly affecting Sal's business but really it's the noise, garbage and the fact that it's difficult to walk around anymore that is the most dissapointing about all this. The neighborhood has been hijacked. I liked it better when w.h.x. was quiter. Great chatting with you all about this.

• • December 22, 2010
  • Wenhua Xiang filling up with financially overextended youth
    

    @SSeminari The problem of regulating traffic in w.h.x. seems so simple. Your plan is a very good idea and I pray that it could be implemented ASAP. We have all had similar ideas, 'a gate with a card, members only, no through traffic' maybe even one-way and otherwise totally pedestrian. Everyone has talked about this for years but alas apparently it still is a little dreamy :)

• • December 22, 2010
  • Wenhua Xiang filling up with financially overextended youth
    

    The vendors are a big part of the crowd that you see when the vendors are out, from my observation the people that end up looking at their stuff were already walking by anyway and just kind of congregate and didn't come to wen hua xiang just to go to the 2 hour market, and as you said those buyers just buy cheap stuff and dawdle in the street making noise and are not spending much money in the shops.

    Everyone agrees that cars shouldn't be allowed in wen hua xiang, I say start with the kids that park on both sides of the street selling stuff out of their trunks (because they figured out they can just shut the trunk and walk away and the cheng guan can't do anything to their cars) They now park in their spots for the night in the daytime and come back later making the already bad w.h.x. traffic worse all day.

    There are at least four apt complexes and a police station in w.h.x. all of those places have cars that come and go. Late at night a good portion of the cars trying to get in and out of w.h.x. actually live there and have more right to be there than anybody as the man in this story was quoted as saying...

    'at 10pm the racket is only starting. The noise interferes with kids doing their homework and elderly people sleeping." He added that the booths often block the way when he is trying to drive his car home.'

    I know there are many other cars that shouldn't be there and I say get rid of them now, but if illegal vendors stop one person who lives in w.h.x. let alone dozens from getting to their rightful, expensive homes on a daily basis it's a problem.

    Of course the vendors want to be there, they can sell lots of stuff without paying any rent, utilities, taxes, salaries etc. They are exploiting a weak enforcement system and they obey no laws be it traffic, commerce, taxation, sanitation, environmental or even politeness. They block the road for the cars and pedestrians with zero remorse or regulation. There is smoky shao kao sometimes now and kids with powered subwoofers playing disco music and garbage, garbage, garbage and endless car horns honking. This isn't Khao Sarn road ya'll. A few hundred people have homes with windows that face the street.

Latest Forum Posts

• • May 26, 2012
    
  • Forums > Living in Kunming > Which Teresa's Pizze...
    

    Yeah it's on Wen Lin Jie not far from Prague cafe on the corner of Fu Yong Dao right by the bus stop across from the school.

• • January 16, 2012
    
  • Forums > Living in Kunming > trampolines in kunming
    

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• • November 25, 2011
    
  • Forums > Living in Kunming > E Bike Crisis
    

    Cars too btw hehe

• • November 25, 2011
    
  • Forums > Living in Kunming > E Bike Crisis
    

    Finally! Thank goodness! I sure hope they are illegal soon! Everybody get back on your bicycles! They are safer, more environmentally friendly, better for your health and take up less room on the streets and parked on sidewalks. E-bikes are a nuisance! Down with e-bikes!!!

• • September 1, 2011
    
  • Forums > Food & Drink > Feta Cheese
    

    Salvador's sells hormone free Wild Acres artisan feta.

Latest Reviews

• • Krismoonpie
    August 12, 2011
    
  • Kunming > Lost Garden Guesthouse & Restaurant
    一丘田七号客栈

    Nice place, a little hard to find the first time but just give a call and they'll help you find it. Really enjoy the quiet locale and the pizza is really good. Great job!

• • Krismoonpie
    December 2, 2010
    
  • Kunming > Aiyouduoshen
    爱有多深

    Good food, nice staff, clean and tasty! Will go there often.

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