Forums > Living in Kunming > Just landed. Looking for an apartment There are plenty of for rent ads in the classifieds. No Chinese required.
I have only met one local agent with ok English skills. A young guy at the agency closest to the McDonald's drive thru menu at the bottom of Hongshandong Lu.
You really should find a Chinese speaker to assist if you plan on dealing with agents.
Forums > Food & Drink > McDonald's More interesting than Prince George bday photo.
Update to this meat scandal should you care. Seems a single supplier is to blame.
www.bbc.com/news/business-28399162
This will just mean a faster shift to purchasing their chicken meat from the plant Cargill built near Nanjing.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Temples, are Chinese on good behavior? I'm actually going to conclude that Chinese are on excellent behavior in temples since the expat community sensitive to this stuff has not seen it occur inside temples. None of the four 800+ posters has been able to give an example, me included. I assume the rest have none either.
As to fishing for dirt or trolling, I've got zero history of doing that and I find my entertainment elsewhere. As stated above, other threads got me thinking on where in public would the Chinese restrain themselves from some behaviors vulgar to our Western sensibilities. I mean they will smoke and spit in/on elevators, fine carpeting, and hospital wards. I searched my recollections of public places I didn't recall such behavior occuring. As memory is fallible and one data point insufficient, I went "fishing for dirt" or "trolling" as Dazzer says.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Tiger skin trade It's always the rich nations that a hundred years ago cut down their old growth forests and extincted the majority of their native species and/or peoples that seem to have the biggest hearts.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Smoking in Starbucks Chinese people, mostly the poor, try and use the laws and lose all the time. Plenty have been driven off their land. Plenty of lawyers who stand up for them end up in jail. So the law is a win for foreigners complaining about tickytacky stuff like 2 kuai on a taxi ride.
Kunming Railway Station attackers charged in mass stabbings
发布者I was pretty sure at the time the terrorists probably attacked poor migrants as they are the majority of anyone/everyone I see in rail station ticketing areas. Now confirmed.
Snapshot: Torch Festival at the Stone Forest
发布者The Earth God gave him that for his assistance in the battle.
Paleontologists unearth 520 million year old brain in Yunnan
发布者4 breasts, blue, wore red lipstick, had antennae. Martian hooker crash landing site.
Around Town: Yunnan University Museum of Anthropology
发布者The entrance to this place is weird. Like some waiting hall toa Bond villain's hideout.
Book Review: Mushrooms for Trees and People
发布者The free PDF is pretty good resolution on my tablet. However, I wouldn't exactly use this as a field guide to picking your own mushrooms, but might be slightly useful a market buying guide, except as noted, no Chinese names.