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Forums > Living in Kunming > Why do miserable foreigners remain in China?

If you've not lived outside your own culture, before, the first 6 months or so are usually the hardest - some adapt faster than others. Best not to overprotect yourself with familiar things too much, at least for a time, & realize that cultural differences are also psychological differences and the formation of appropriate habits and not about what you might take to be 'common sense', which is not culturally neutral and not a matter of conformity to some objective standard. When you find yourself obsessed by minor annoyances, chill out & realize you've simply got a way to go before things will begin to fit together comfortably. Minor annoyances will become just that - minor. But zillions of people manage to do it successfully.

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Good article. Note also the lack of peace in Muslim areas near the Bangla Deshi border, the population of which has suffered considerable violence over the past 4-5 years or so. Hard to say that peace-building has been going on there.

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Rocher's account of his travels, which took place during the final years of the Panthay Rebellion, also has plenty on the silver mines in the nearby area, where conflicts between Han and Hui took place over mining rights, etc., the mines themselves being one of the major reasons for the later building of the RR from Haiphong to Kunming and the establishment of the French in Mengzi and Yunnan in the first place.

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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.