Ocean,

Thanks I'll have a look at Paul's. Hopefully the expiration dates won't have been erased.

AC,

After the heinz ran out I tried another brand they were selling (now also sold out) called AYAM. Don't know if these are the Shanghai brand to which you refer, but they were definitely inferior. I'd be interested to try your 'from scratch' beans.

I think they were 9.9rmb per can.

Magnifico,

Tried two other carrefour stores, no luck.

baifulan,

What is the address for the Kunming warehouse and are the beans heinz?

Does anyone know where I can get Heinz baked beans in Kunming?

I used to buy them from Carrefour, but they ran out of stock about 4 weeks ago and don't seem interested in re-stocking.

Having citizenship to another country and getting a passport for that country are two different things. If you should wish to leave China with your son on a foreign passport then you will have to renounce his Chinese citizenship and get the necessary exit stamps in his new passport.

I have to agree with blobbles as regards the strengths and weaknesses of the western and eastern schooling systems, which is in part why we decided to combine the two.

One interesting phenomenon that I have observed is that children raised in monolingual english speaking countries will usually not be interested in learning mandarin, even with their parents being Chinese immigrants who spoke mandarin at home.

I can't help but feel that parents in our situation are doing their children a disservice, by not allowing them to spend as much of their early years here in China as practicable.