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.
Kunming's former party boss charged with corruption
发布者I hope so.
Myanmar accidentally bombs China, worsening tense relations
发布者@Haali: Personally I doubt that this will lead to direct Chinese military involvement in Kokang or anywhere else in Myanmar, but it bears watching.
Bye-bye Nujiang ziplines
发布者The locals will likely want to keep them around if there's economic value (e.g., tourism) for doing so.
Provincial toilets soon to be less disgusting
发布者Can't connect with the link, but I think it's a culture that promotes very high regard for those you know &/or identify with (begins with family) but not a lot of regard for anonymous others - e.g., 'the public'.
Bye-bye Nujiang ziplines
发布者@Alex: tourism & ziplines - tourism probably will do this, make it into just another entertainment - contact Disneyland.