Big and heavily hyped is obvious; teams are all national teams. Everybody wants 'my COUNTRY' to win. Maybe that's okay, but it carries over, and is a carryover. Root a toot toot.
Great athletes, great sport, yes.
Indeed a big and heavily hyped show, nationalist to the bone.
There are things I don't like about Lonely Planet but they do have practical info about seasonal weather and cheap places to stay that is useful.
I second what Campo says, would only add that in most of the places I've been in Yunnan I can get a room for less than 150rmb per night. My hotel room in Jinghong was 60rmb - not lux, of course, but everything more or less worked, including the tv & air conditioner (which you do not need).
Presently in Jinghong - rains every day, probably more than once, but only briefly, although it can be hard rain; otherwise humid. Temperatures during the day are up to about 28-30 degrees C, pleasant in the evening. Sunlight right now, 6:30pm. My local contact says this has been a wet summer, but it seems to be tapering off a bit.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Infrastructure money continues to pour into Kunming
发布者@Haali: Yes, but I'd call it the modern competitive/capitalist dream - culture of the country reflects a more fundamental reality (not that other historical class societies didn't present something similar).
Infrastructure money continues to pour into Kunming
发布者Rather than a whole lot more local highway interchanges and aerial roads, etc., I'd be happy if they'd tax the hell out of private cars and use the cash to do something about the air, water, waste disposal, etc., but I have a strong feeling that nobody in government is going to listen to my suggestions. Public city transport, yeah, okay, despite the expense.
Kunming's former party boss charged with corruption
发布者Yeah, but what has this development meant in terms of income distribution, especially that for the corrupt and their victims?
Yunnan mulls "total ban" on tobacco product advertising
发布者Only thing I'd add to my last post is that no one should expect smoking to disappear entirely, at least not for a century or so. But I think that's all right - moves like the US Prohibition (of alcohol) Amendment, which caused more trouble than it alleviated for 10 years (1920s), would be a bad idea.
Yunnan mulls "total ban" on tobacco product advertising
发布者Seems to me it's changing - diminishing - worldwide, though rather slowly in China. I'll guess (hunch) you'll see significant differences within the next 10 years. Of course the tobacco industry has to be dealt with, but by whom? The state makes money from it.