Sarah, just go to Yuanyang and stop worrying. As everybody here has said, your chances of getting Japanese encephalitis here are way below your chances of tripping while walking on a flat sidewalk near your home, falling and crushing your skull on impact. I'm sure there are places in the world where the disease is really rampant, but not in Yunnan.
So you answer it, they want personal info and you don't give it - what's the problem?
I know it is possible to get the disease in Yunnan, but is this a big worry? Malaria is also possible, but pretty unlikely, even in Banna in rainy season.
Might be better to answer, somebody might be checking to see if you're apartment is empty - business name cards left on apartment doors are sometimes for this purpose - if the cards are still there a day later, some thief may figure you're out of town. Or so my landlady says.
Terrible idea.
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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.
Book Review: Great Leaps
发布者And a nice review, Pat.
Book Review: Great Leaps
发布者Heaps of congratulations on the quality of the book and on getting it out - takes awhile, I know (I speak as one who's been trying to write basically the same book for almost 40 years).
Recipe: Twice cooked pork belly with kumquats
发布者Damn that looks good!
China's first 'school of yoga' to be established in Kunming
发布者PS Note that Miaoxiangguo would then be the translation of the meaning of the word Gandhara, not the transliteration - it's Qiantuoluo that's the transliteration, right?.
China's first 'school of yoga' to be established in Kunming
发布者OK, well, if Qiantuoluo is the transliteration of Gandhara, then tuodong = East Gandhara makes sense & is logical - just, man, you said 'Kandahar' & that was quite a few jumps away within a bad memory.
And of course India has influenced Yunnan, no surprise. & more to the OP, the yoga - Chinese-meditation connections are many.