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.
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.