@ Alex: I can't guarantee anything. Which non-Chinese cooking oils can you guarantee etc.?
@ Geezer: I haven't denied anything. I do not have a blase attitude towards the lives of children. I'm aware that cooking oil can sometimes be polluted by mixing. I'm just suggesting that distrusting all Chinese cooking oil products because they are Chinese might not be warranted. I don't know who 'most of (us)" are or on what most of 'you' base your general suspicions, or why so many foreigners here think they are so exraordinarilly different from suspicions one might have elsewhere. Note that many Chinese are aware of food safety issues. If you, or anyone, find further examples of such mixing etc. you should tell us about them, the brand name of any oil used, etc., and hopefully publicize your evidence.
Yes, I also believe that regulation of foods in China is not as strict as it is in some other countries, and there have been articles in the press of incidences involving food safety in general. I have merely pointing out that not everything is poisonous, only some things, and that some degrees of fear are perhaps unwarranted - agreed? Of course you can be afraid of anything if you try hard enough. Is there also some reason to suspect olive oil available here that is imported from Italy?
@ Alex: Is there any evidence of peanut oil in what is branded as corn, rapeseed or canola oil? I would imagine there may have been a phony brand or two discovered at some point, and I know about the gutter-oil thing, but I doubt that most Chinese-produced cooking oils are so corrupted. There seem to be quite a few brands of cooking oil - of course you can suspect anything, but which ones are actually suspicious?
There are locally available cooking oils without peanut oil in them, and there are several convenient places to buy olive oil, mostly imported from Italy - certainly no need to bring your own oil from some other country.
I wonder what the prevalence of nut allergies is in China, or Yunnan, vis-a-vis in other areas - I know nothing about this, but it seems to me it may be at least partially genetic. Anybody know?
Some dishes have such nuts, and peanut oil is often used in cooking, but so are other oils. Should be easy to avoid the nuts, but, not having this problem, I'm not sure what it would take to avoid peanut oil - you may need to insist on an accurate answer at restaurants.
@ AlPage: Appreciate your situation, not too dissimilar to mine (have to leave every 60 days). Thus bureaucratic absurdity can contribute to air pollution & depletion of natural resources (long-distance day trips merely to shop & get yr ticket stamped again).
A really fascinating period, and Pat has written a fine summary - but there is more. These events, which occurred in what the overall Allied Command considered the least important military front, but were crucial to the Chinese war, which really began with the Japanese taking of Beijing in 1937, are full of good stories and fascinating characters. A new museum to be built in Baoshan will cover the frontier war with the Japanese who came up through Burma, hopefully without intentional distortions.
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.
Preview: 2015 Tuborg Greenfest Music Festival
发布者Hopefully some of these musicians will have something to "say".
Remembering Yunnan's role in World War Two
发布者Nowhere does the state want to get over the past, especially the one that the state chooses for the purpose of enhancing its own present and future.
Remembering Yunnan's role in World War Two
发布者A really fascinating period, and Pat has written a fine summary - but there is more. These events, which occurred in what the overall Allied Command considered the least important military front, but were crucial to the Chinese war, which really began with the Japanese taking of Beijing in 1937, are full of good stories and fascinating characters. A new museum to be built in Baoshan will cover the frontier war with the Japanese who came up through Burma, hopefully without intentional distortions.
Kunming History: Queen Elizabeth's 1986 visit
发布者Theatre for the masses, manufactured everywhere & distributed worldwide. Disneyland uber alles.
Anning refinery fined for violation of national environmental laws
发布者Dudeson's point, yes, but also Alex's. Long way to go, but at least there's some motion.