I've eaten real lamb in Kunming also. List your restaraunts, as I'm dubious of your qualifcations as a connoisseur of anything. For instance, lamb does tastes better than goat, but your willing to equate the two.
The other poster who mentioned rat was for some other meat scandal. You just expediently turned it into your claim.
Everyone who has had lamb back home and then turned up in Kunming and had a "lamb" skewer off the street in Kunming has deep down always suspected it's not as advertised. But given most foreigners are trusting and accepting and then it's reinforced by every vendor in the city selling the same thing more or less and calling it lamb, most of us just accept it. I just returned from Qinghai and Gansu province and I can tell you what we eat is not lamb. Furthermore, even some locals in Lanzhou are suspicious of their own street market bbq sellers of passing off mystery meat as lamb, and that's in the heart of sheep rearing country. What do you expect we are going to get in Kunming, where honestly, where has one even seen a sheep? We have plenty of goats, and since yang rou can mean goat, that's what I think we are eating, but I could easily believe it's a duck goat combo, but lamb it is not. A week ago, I had real lamb bbq and skewers in Xining and Lanzhou.
You're the only one who said lamb barbecue is rat meat. Others have claimed its duck, or goat (as I have), or some other mystery meat.
This thread is becoming typical. First four comments pretty useful and informative. Then mmkunmingteacher shows up. Sadly, I bit into the troll bait as so many others have...guess it was a slow week for everyone. I apologize, please ignore my prior comment. It's lamb we are eating. End of story. No one make any responses regarding lamb or my comment on mmkunmingteacher. I would prefer this thread to stay about people's experiences with red wine in Kunming, and not about mmkunmingteacher.
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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.
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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.
Kunming Fair again sets records
发布者This is becoming a major draw for locals, nearing the crowds of the auto fair. Traffic around the area was a nightmare though. Also, this fair was open to public (ticket 30rmb).
Getting away: Haba Snow Mountain
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That is if you are lucky and the guard station is off eating lunch or break. Or you can show up at night. Last time I went through on the east entrance, the guards chased me down in a minivan and demanded I pay the 50rmb (now 65) entrance ticket, even though I was just planning on passing through.
No guards care if you are leaving TGL at either entrance, but if you weren't checked entering, then that's good luck.
Getting away: Haba Snow Mountain
发布者Yet another 15rmb increase. Though Tiger Leaping is one of the fees I think is well worth it.
The scenery on the East Ring that Geogramatt mentioned is wonderful. You'll need raingear cause your riding with the clouds at one point. Bit spartan on services, so bring some energy bars and extra bottle of water. If your in good shape, you can make the halfway point of 白水台 in a day by bike.
Detecting heart defects in Kunming schoolchildren
发布者Like + bump. Good one.
Jinning county disappearances possibly linked to slave labor
发布者WTF is all I can say. WTF WTF WTF. I will not be buying ostrich meat from any countryside farmers for like...ever.