Forums > Food & Drink > suggestion on redwine tigertiger, don't bother answering. mmkunmingteacher's rose colored glasses are so ingrained, that he thinks he is eating lamb when he gets Kunming street meat. Even if he bothered to try a small shop wine and finds out it tastes like fortified grape juice, he'll probably go "awesome, China has great cheap red wine." Seriously, anyone who though Kunming street meat is lamb or a red wine from a small dumpy grocery shop in China is not going to be fortified grape juice probably has no tastebuds or taste.
Forums > Study > Yunnan DaXue knifing? Sadly thanks to all the knifing attacks that makes the headlines now, we get copy cats. Couple of years ago, it was rampages during school pickup times. Now we have traffic jams and cops at every school during pickups.
Forums > Food & Drink > Ducks appearing around town. Tried the 1st location mmkunmingteacher mentioned a while back. Overated. Just oily pressure fried duck. But the hype is there; long ass line and sells out by 5pm. No sauce or rice wraps came with it either, not that it would of made it taste better. But the smell is very good.
Forums > Food & Drink > Import foods expanded in C4 Nan Ya @Peter99
Yeah I agree, Western food availability is quite good given Kunming is a tier 2 city. It honestly adds to the livability of this city. Like most of the expats, I probably eat it only a couple of times a month, but knowing the options are there is nice. As they say, variety is the spice of life.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Why do miserable foreigners remain in China? @mmkunmingteacher
You forgot about your prized Kunming lamb skewers.
Green Lake to get wetter, brighter, noisier
发布者Las Vegas comes to Kunming. 20 minute laser and water show. Captivatingly boring. Started at 8pm. Very crowded.
Interview: Junk artist Gong Yunlong
发布者Kunming has an amazing amount of artistic talent.
Mekong ferry capsizes, 17 feared dead
发布者Very tragic event. But thanks for the article and background info. I didn't realize there were border ferries and Burmese kids would daily use them to go to school in China.
Getting Away: Inle Lake revisited
发布者Wow. Thanks Geogramatt. Good info.
Kunming institute decodes yak DNA
发布者Kunming is actually does a lot of cutting edge plant and animal research given it's access to Yunnan's biodiversity. Even neighboring countries send researchers to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Kunming.
I didn't know till someone showed me, but Kunming houses the second largest seed bank in the world, with an additional focus on preserving animal genetic material also.