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Forums > Living in Kunming > And all in the best possible taste

No weasels. As for small shops, I think you'll find those who run the ones you use regularly will get chatty after awhile, though there's one woman who sells cigarettes & so forth in my neighborhood whom I've been working on for quite awhile who doesn't seem to loosen up. Others, however, have invited m in to eat with them. Not necessary to take them up on it, but the polite chatty friendliness can last, & improves the overall atmosphere.

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Anything to discourage people from driving all these dam# automobiles and/or taking taxis alla time.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > And all in the best possible taste

@Dudeson: sorry that happened, but you know it's not typical. My method works for me. And I greet people when I enter a shop and can't remember getting dumb stares. I've been in China a long time.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > And all in the best possible taste

@Magnifico: Yes, you do, but it's rarely hostility, especially in Yunnan, and when it is it does not lead to anything unless you make it do so. And then there's the issue of mistaking a certain annoying attitude for hostility when it is only a sort of childishness - I think all of us are subject to doing this from time to time. And there are plenty of bad attitudes among the foreign community as well.

In short, let it roll & don't participate.

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Don't go killing people over an ebike, or firing shots that hit public buses, gunfire makes me nervous. Seems there is indeed a doubt about their having machetes. Apparently no civilian was killed in either this incident or the previous one.
But yeah - catch these guys.

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Edit button unavailable - anyway, the southern sections were actually destroyed earlier, after the Germans took France and Indochina came under Vichy French rule, under the eyes of the Japanese, who took over Viet Nam directly only in 1945.

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Amazing construction project. The railroad never made a profit, but it had a great deal to do with the modern history of Yunnan. The old museum was already good. Marbotte's book, Un chemin de fer au Yunnan: L'aventure d'une famille francaise en Chine, is an interesting read - many of the construction bosses were Italian, and many of the maintenance workers were Vietnamese - within these groups, in later years, Ho Chi Minh and other future Vietnamese leaders were able to move. Southern sections of the RR were intentionally destroyed by the Chinese after the Japanese took French Indochina, to prevent possible invasion of Yunnan.

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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.

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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.

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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.