Navy Vet, there are maps available showing subway stops.
As to DVD shops, Xiefei's post is about right. I also tend to watch DVDs, and know of at least one shop on Wenlinjie and 3-4 within 20-minute walking distance of my flat (near western end of Renminlu just before 2nd Ring Road). None of these are particularly good, at least compared to the ones that were around say 5 years ago.
@Campo: How bad's the air in Lanzhou this time of year?
@Tony: another reason to register is that if somebody breaks into your apartment and you call the cops they can say Oh hey there's no record of you living there, how do we know...? Was the commonsense reason why I finally decided to register after about a year here, 11 years ago.
@Campo: OK. My point was just to query whether one is legally required to let the cops know that you are leaving Kunming BEFORE you leave, either for elsewhere in China or to leave China (at least, for those without residence permits) - don't think you covered that - any info?
I re-entered China with a new visa & new passport in early September, after about 6 weeks out of the country. I went by the local police statyion just before I left to tell them I was leaving and they seemed uninterested, but told me to come back with my new visa etc. when I returned. As it happened, a weekend followed my re-entry and the ordinary office for registration, etc., was closed: I talked to the cop at the entry to the police station and he took down my name, telephone number and said come back on Monday, which I did. Everything done within about 15 minutes, no problem.
I've gone by several times when I'm going to leave Kunming, or leave China entirely, and they always seems uninterested, don't even write anything down, but just tell me to be sure to come by when I return, and I do.
Note: I do not now have a residence permit, just a long-term tourist visa, multiple entyry.
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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.