Chinese military exercises have indeed interfered with air travel lately, but at any rate air travel is twanky, polluting and resource-wasteful while the trains usually run on time and are a lot friendlier.
@yankee: Oh those nasty locals! It's so dangerous here, even if you prefer to eat junk! Get thee to a nunnery!
Try Alei's - an atmosphere different from any other place I know in Kunming - you may or may not like it, I'm not promoting it, just saying it is unique here.
@pip: Enough with the attitude about 'young Chinese women' awready - which nationality do you think it's ok to marry with? Or are you suggesting that one should only consider marrying old Chinese women?
If you take the bus you might see something.
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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.
National park system in the works for China
发布者Vaguely remember rumors about Rose Niu a few years back, can't remember what they were.
Green Drinks film screening: Great Gamble on the Mekong
发布者@Don't follow you Peter - yes, he's just presenting - he's a journalist, I think that's what journalists do.
Jin Feibao cycling across United States
发布者This guy never stops - kudos to him. But I always wonder who finances his trips & expeditions.
Green Drinks film screening: Great Gamble on the Mekong
发布者The issue Fawthrop will be dealing with is an important one for a very large number of people, and personal contacts lead me to believe that he will do a good job in dealing with it.
Dali Old Town to charge entry fee
发布者The number and attitudes of tour groups have been screwing up Dali for years, and I don't think this move will do anything to improve the situation.