Grammar question leads to foreigners insulting Chinese - really great, folks.

@Gompo: you are right all the way, Gompo - probably is better not to eat the turkey.

We are more or less indoctrinated everywhere to celebrate all sorts of things from a self-congratulatory perspective. However, it's not impossible to adapt different, more useful perspectives.
@Magnifico:Nope, I don't expect it, but it's not impossible to, at the least, bring people to the awareness that there can be more to history, and therefore to an understanding of the present, than the fairy stories we've been brought up on. So eat the turkey if you want (sorry, Gompo) and use yr head, and that will be one more person with a little more clarity. Ignorance of the past means inability to understand the present and inability to act for the future, which is not set in concrete but which grows out of what we do or don't do daily. Everything has consequences, as the Indians who took up the offer of the Pilgrims who threw the party found out - we should, and can, know more now than they knew then.

@jhding: If your main goal is improving your Chinese, I suggest you 1. take classes and 2. hang around your neighborhood, friends and any family you might have - hell, there's no problem finding Chinese speakers in Kunming. Learning Chinese over foosball at Moondog strikes me as weird; I'm not too sure about museums & concerts for learning to speak Chinese. Drinking in bars where virtually all customers are Chinese might be a good idea.

Some great street food in Kunming, I find la duzi very much a rare exception.