Your limited China experience makes you defend Kunming on an absurd "take it or leave it" level. I like this city, but if anyone in my family needs to go to the hospital or see a doctor on a regular basis, I'd easily choose HK over Kunming.
I eat in all the alleys where the locals eat.
I have lived in three Chinese cities. More diarrhea in Kunming than Chongqing and Shenzhen. More than Chongqing was a surprise since its quite dirty and spicy, but I guess they use less gutter oil there.
I have traveled to over twenty other major Chinese cities for extended time, very little diarrhea unless I eat around the train station. I've been to a lot more villages and small towns, but Chinese food is safer and tastier in those, so that's not a fair comparison.
@lalataille, mmkunmingteacher, etc.
Your views are nonsense. People get diarrhea all the time from eating out in Kunming. In fact, Nailers view is actually closer to the truth. Kunming is the most unsanitary city to eat out in China. Poor quality oils, unsanitary conditions, and excessive chili oil. I used to think Chongqing was, but no, definitely Kunming.
Have you accessed healthcare in HK? If so, you wouldn't of even made that last idiotic statement.
@JoseandLena
HK air is nothing good now anyways thanks to being next to Guangdong. I'd choose Kunming over HK if you can earn more here and someone else takes care of the China visa for you and your family. Also, we have lots of direct flights to hkg and its a short flight, so you can visit HK easily. You will end up cooking at home a lot, as eating out here equals a high chance of diarrhea or worse.
If you cannot tolerate people spitting and second hand smoke everywhere you can think of and places you can't believe, then don't come.
If you cannot tolerate cars and ebikes honking horns constantly behind you and not bothering to give you right away, then don't come.
If you or anyone in your family has chronic health issues, then don't come.
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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.
Snapshot: Grand Canyon of the East
发布者I think you guys went back for the food! Man that last picture is making me hungry.
Getting Away: Vang Vieng
发布者Regarding the roads, my impression was the opposite. I left Vientiane for VV via bus and found the road ok. From VV to Luang Prabang the road was quite miserable.
Nothing better than floating down the river with some of your friends; however, avoid the bar with the giant concrete slide. A Swiss guy drowned last year after using the slide, and it's cause innumerable other injuries to party-goers. Also, the tube doesn't make up for not being a good swimmer.
Safety concerns plague national school lunch program
发布者Very happy that poor kids are getting a free meal at school...Very sad they are forced to eat spoiled food at times.
I think the children should be given 3rmb food vouchers to be spent with the local chefs and vendors outside the school. No more troubles for the schools to operate a kitchen, and the children can decide with their pocketbook (aka vouchers) which vendors food tastes best. If no food vendors can make decent food for 3rmb per child, then the gov't knows why the schools are forced to use rotten stuff at times.
First-hand account: Setting up a guesthouse in Xishuangbanna
发布者Has The Balcony Guesthouse opened for business? Would be very curious if there was an update to the article, which was excellent reading.