@Alien. Cycling through Kunming traffic and suffering/witnessing all the irresponsible, selfish and dangerous, or inexperienced and reckless ebike and car drivers can build up some serious pressure/steam. Add to that buses that blow coal black 500api smoke in your face.
We have a popular saying on GoK....Matt is that you?
@marcuschen. Most of the shoppers at Metro are local Chinese. So many locals can get and already have membership cards. But yankee00 has a point. The foreigners and Chinese buy different kinds of things because of cultural preferences.
If you can find the neighborhood broken TV, hot plate repair shop, the guy inside usually has a messy desk with circuit boards and solder. I paid a single lonely kuai for him to solder a wire back on. However, it's not a finesse job, big glob, but my bike light works again.
There are various vegetarian buffets throughout the city. One was inside an office tower with interesting wood patio decor and view. In general, they are cheap, but quite oily.
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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.
The drought: Good and bad news
发布者I went up to the roof of our complex a while back. 2 of 6 solar water tanks had pretty leaky pipes. I think your figure of 20-40L is right. The other 60L+ is waste cause water is too cheap and will remain so despite a drought.
Interview: Deng Ling
发布者Interviews and Getting Away articles,; always some great reporting. Add this one to that.
Yunnan goes infrastructure crazy
发布者That's a very good point. I forgot in the USA we don't even have highspeed rail, and the one planned in California will take decades, not years. I shouldn't complain too much.
Getting Away: Nanning
发布者Nanning...still not so good.
Yunnan goes infrastructure crazy
发布者Great update on all the planned transportation. I'll believe it when I see it, or in this case, I ride on it. Kunming subway is taking forever, so not going to hold my breath for that highspeed rail to somewhere.