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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Never gotten sick once at Sals. Their food is TexMex, so yeah, not authentic Mexican food, but pretty authentic as TexMex goes. Burrito wrap has improved a lot. Like the draft beer option now.
If you haven't had dairy products in a while, and do eat here, best forgo the sour cream. Nothing wrong with it, in fact it's the best sour cream in Kunming, but if you've eaten Chinese for month or months with no dairy intake, your system will react to sour cream or probably any liquid dairy product not so well. Maybe that's what happened with nailer and tallamerican.
Update:
It's now 5 working days for regular processing. So I submitted my application a bit before 5pm on a Friday and was told to pick it up next week Friday after 5pm.
Cost is now 400rmb for a single 30 day entry. Or that was what I was charged anyways. There are no posted prices and its cash only with no receipt except for your passport pickup. That's like $65 USD.
You can pay another 150rmb for 2 day or 100rmb for 3 day processing. For 400rmb, they should process it in three days like they used to before, but now you'd pay 500rmb. The office is still like deserted most of the time, so why does it take longer now and cost extra. If you opted for 2 day, thats like $90 usd. All other neighboring countries charge like $25usd.
The rest of and cope review is still good for hours and location.
Far out, less people. Big enough to get lost in. Pretty and quiet near dusk. 20yuan entrance fee.
Like everyone else says, best Indian food in Kunming. They have lunch plates and dinner plates. Show up before 1pm for lunch.
They are on the 4th floor of the half empty shopping mall. Best way is too take the elevator past the KFC around the corner from Starbucks.
Most individual dishes can feed only two hungry guys, so order more if you are starving. Naan order can take care of one only.
Five stars for the food. Go with Yereth's recommendations, plus any vegetable the waitress says is fresh.
Beware that Xue Fu lu is one way, so many taxis have to take a roundabout way to get here.
Getting Away: Cycling around Dianchi
发布者Any hotel in Kunming probably can, but as you venture out to the smaller cities of China, you will find that many hotels are not setup to register foreign guests. When you get very rural, it's actually easier to find lodging as many places then don't bother with registration. The rule is still on the books, but most big city hotels can comply now and most small village ones don't bother. It's 3rd tier non-tourist towns where you tend to encounter this issue.
Getting Away: Cycling around Dianchi
发布者After Haikou, the ride sounds ugly. I've found nice side roads through the villages up till Haikou.
An end to hand, foot and mouth disease?
发布者I like vaccines. Wish we had one for dengue and malaria. But kudos for Yunnan coming up with one HFMD.
Lijiang blaze destroys old town businesses
发布者Wow, only 13 businesses lost and zero death toll. That's the best bad news possible out of a fire in old town. It could of easily been 130 businesses and worst. The might of the Chinese populace. 1000 for the bucket brigade.
Getting Away: Songming's Crystal Palace
发布者The caves look very unspoiled for a tourist attraction. Worth a look.