@mike4g: Situation aware in Asia generally is not by any means low across the board - in regard to some sorts of things, yes, in regard to others, no. This includes within China. In regard to driving in China, yes, it's low.
@HFCampo: your diagram is simplistic, I'm afraid, due to vagueness of terms, vagueness of who the 'many people' are, and to its simple linearity.
Question: what may cause cultural change - people just decide to discontinue common habits? I don't think so.
@indosailor: thanks for this news - thru a Hong Kong agent? Do you have any details concerning how/when/why he was charged with visa fraud (e.g., passing thru immigration?)? Also from the US? Anyway, the person I know who did it hasn't been hassled.
@Geezer: I was referring to 1970-75 in Cambodia, massive civilian death, fleeing refugees from bombing into Phnom Penh. Disrupting NVA plans was supposed to be about protecting/advancing Democracy, wasn't it? 3 Million is way too high a figure for Khmer Rouges killings - note that the Khmer Rouge were nobody, had little local support, until after 5 years of US bombing, by which they were strong enough to take power, why was that?...hey, but look, don't think I'm trying to say they were nice guys!
@Geezer what's your point - that crazy bad things can be done in the name of religion? Yes, of course - but note that Cambodia was bombed in the early 1970s and hundreds of thousands of people were killed, all in the name of Democracy.
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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.