Hard to find an English-speaking driver. Why not have the boy and Mom learn simple Chinese?
Hard to find an English-speaking driver. Why not have the boy and Mom learn simple Chinese?
Is this really so difficult? I think the way you meet Chinese women is not too different from the way you meet women from anywhere else.
This is not proof, scientific or otherwise.
@Serrure: If there are problems about one-way inbound tickets then you might consider flying to Hong Kong and coming in by land. If this is your first trip to China then you'll probably get a kick out of seeing the landforms, towns, perhaps chatting with people on the train, etc.
I don't doubt Lance's comments about how bad it can be, but my several experiences at 3 different hospitals in Kunming, plus at the health center where health checks are given to students and others wanting visas, have been pretty good.
I'm happy enough to see this here, but it's obviously an advertisement and might well appear in the classifieds.
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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.
Woman's child murder conviction reversed after 13 years
发布者Yet another reason for getting rid of the death penalty.
Beleaguered Kunming metals tycoon missing
发布者Wouldn't call it a house of cards, but there are indeed rats in the woodwork.
Yunnan fossil brings human evolutionary timeline into question
发布者Necessary to remember that 14,000 years ago the world's climate, and Mengzi's climate, was a lot colder than it is today. Info from Tang & later times wouldn't, I think, reveal much about the period in question.
Yunnan introduces health insurance program targeting poor
发布者True about reserved hospitals for ruling classes, tho I'm not sure what percentage of the people we're talking about. The barefoot doctors were certainly not highly qualified, but this was an extremely important beginning for health care in the countryside, where there'd been virtually nothing before. China simply did not have enough highly trained doctors, and they obviously could not have been produced. overnight. The barefoot doctors were a good idea at the time.
Preserving minority culture: Yuansheng Music and Dance Festival
发布者All good, Jeff. But who does the choreography?