Yeah, I'm sure the main group of customers are Chinese for all Chinese airlines, & I think it makes more sense to look at China Eastern in particular. Having said that, I don't remember anything disastrous concerning my very few trips (I rarely fly) on China Eastern - but hearsay, here and elsewhere, plus a few news reports tell me it's poor on average.
Would still like to know what kind of thing it was that set Bluesky off on this thread - might be more useful than guessing - sounds like his/her problem was 'the Chinese people'.
@ Bluesky: How is it that the people of mainland China are the main problem with China Eastern, and why is it worse than other Chinese airlines in terms of rudeness, etc.?
@ vicar: I always assume that various electron jockeys in public employ & elsewhere - bandits, thought police - equipped with ingenious and devilish quantum mechanical devices that cover several parallel universes, can spy out everything I write if they really want to. The surveillance society has been real for quite awhile, here & elsewhere, & becoming realer all the time, but I have to leave that struggle to heroes like Snowden and Assange; I figure there is software that can usually stop most of the little sneakshits who are simply trying to increase their scores in the numerical dollar game they have for lives.
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.
Kunming-based think tank fighting Myanmar forest loss
发布者@Peter, your last statement, cars in Yangon: also furniture and building materials(?), I think, in China, from wood from Myanmar.
Reflecting national trend, Yunnan PSB buys helicopter
发布者@Tony & Pluto (see my response on GoKM saying & doing):
Reflecting national trend, Yunnan PSB buys helicopter
发布者"Watch the skies!" - Fox Mulder
A first-timer's view of Lijiang
发布者Yeah, these photos really show the nicer perspectives of the place.
A first-timer's view of Lijiang
发布者Didn't you find about 10 million other tourists?