Some people are really affected negatively by msg - a small percentage. For those who are into 'Nature' and think that Nature is good' (really, folks, Nature doesn't give a damn), it is a naturally-occurring substance, not something hatched in a lab.
I don't get it about 'foreign-branded establishment'.
I respect anyone's reluctance of having to inhale 2nd-hand smoke in public places, though I can't see why there can't be sections of cafes and bars, or separate cafes and bars, in which people can smoke. As a bartender friend of mine said once: "People don't come here for their health."
I do get tired of moral outrage over smoking, though - look, you're right, smoking is bad for you, you shouldn't have to inhale smoke alla time, but what are your priorities in terms of moral outrage? Or do you just get outraged over everything that you think is wrong, or maybe just that you don't like? Why not get outraged at people who pay taxes to warmongering governments first? Like I said, as a smoker I respect your rights, but please, a little perspective.
Qipaos began in the eraly 20th century.
yes, 24 hours, but they usually are flexible, but I wouldn`t push it for more than 3 days or so. Never heard of telling them you`re going to leave before you go.
Guangzhou to Kunming by train is 25 hours.
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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.
Counting down Kunming's Top Ten Smells
发布者Don't worry about it.
Counting down Kunming's Top Ten Smells
发布者Yeah, well, it's perhaps useful to tourists and very new arrivals.
Counting down Kunming's Top Ten Smells
发布者Wet markets, smells - yeah, but not all bad. Cf. sterile supermarkets.
Counting down Kunming's Top Ten Smells
发布者Nice article, Ginger, and on a subject that one might not think about until, once one does, it's obvious that it should be explored.
The point about foreigners particularly applies, as you indicate, to people from milk-product-using 'western' countries and, as you indicate, it is one picked up in some southeast Asian countries as well - but foreigners from other areas will be pegged also (e.g., South Asians who use many different 'curry' spices, etc., that are not used so much in China).
And then there is the widespread smell of tobacco, noticeable primarily by those foreigners who don't use it. Baijiu has a particular smell also.
Food and Drug Administration issues southern China alcohol alert
发布者Those responsible should have their faces publicly rubbed in the dirt.