The Kunming Book club will next meet at 7:30pm, November 19, at The Park, on the island in the middle of Cuihu, to discuss P. G. Wodehouse's collection of short stories, VERY GOOD, JEEVES. Abut 2 copies are left at the usual place at Salvador's - note that these copies are for people who plan to attend the Nov. 19 meeting. The copies are 15rmb each, payable at the meeting. Bring another book along that you would like us to discuss at the following meeting.
It's ok, Keats is better.
@JanJal: The coverage is insufficient for nonchinese? Or for anybody?
@JanJal: What level of protection is probably not sufficient for nonchinese?
Note that health care in China is much cheaper than in many western countries. It also seems that teachers working on contract for universities have either free, or extremely cheap, access to health care through the university, but I don't know details.
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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.
A quick guide to Kunming's Metro Line 2
发布者85 bus, as well as others, is particularly infrequent now from about 5-6:30, you might have to wait as much as 20 minutes. Thank widespread private automobile ownership here for that. 8 years ago you could get any bus anytime anywhere (before about 10:15PM) in about 5 minutes, and no journey within the city limits took more than 1/2 hour. Progress is wonderful - now, for several zillion dollars, the metro will make this possible again - just stay out of the automobile sewers, which spill over onto the sidewalks.
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
发布者No, just keep him locked up.
Snapshot: Saima Jie, Yunnan's Tibetan horse festival
发布者Control freakery > annoyance & resistance > more control freakery > more...> ... > disasters.
As rainy season comes to a close, reservoir levels look encouraging
发布者Good question - it started in May rather than late May or early June this year, dumped more water than usual all summer, and now we're in late September - a lot more rain in September than usual.
Things change.
Chenggong holds no-car day with eye on future
发布者Be nice if they'd do this more often in the rest of the city too. And 'no car' days are nice, but they need to get serious over the long run.