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Forums > Food & Drink > Healthy options - identity crisis.

My avoidance of Chinese food is that I live outside the city and the restaurants here are 'fancy', or unappealing. If I am going out to treat myself, it is with western food. I eat Chinese at home, and so I need a change.
I do avoid fast foods, a lot of my problem was the 'modern' Chinese diet, excessive oil, fatty meat, cooking in pig or chicken fat, salt, MSG, sugar, etc. But you can't tell a 65 year old Chinese mother-in-law how to cook, and you can't throw her out of the kitchen.
I now cook my own food, and to be honest, I don't like most Chinese food. Back home, yes. But here, no. Especially not Chinese home cooking.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Where to buy a decent bike

I want to buy a reasonable quality bike, I am trying to find out locations of GOOD bike shops.

I don't want to spend mega bucks and I am not interested in a 500rmb bone shaker of basic quality. I see there are maybe hundreds of bike shops along the HuanCheng Lu (ring road) selling basic machines.

I would like to know where to find the bigger brands, specific locations if possible. Maybe somewhere with good service (asking too much perhaps).

I am also trying to find something other than a mountain bike or a road/racing/triathlon bike.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How to send knives out of the country?

Actually, the quality Chinese knives are cheaper on Amazon than they are here. Once you mover away from the basic mild steel with wood handle, the prices get silly in China. The same with saucepans, most of which are made in China.

Regards thieves at customs, would you not have the same problem even importing your 'gift' from China?

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As for going after the lower level guys.
The fat cats were milking other fat cats.
It is all the little lower level guys that make life difficult for the guy on the street, and expensive for those on low incomes.
It would be nice to think of an egalitarian round up (tigers as well as flies), but most people are plagues by flies, and are unaffected by tigers.

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There are a lot of restaurants in our area. It used to be that there was congestion caused by cars parked at the side of the road. This was most nights of the week. Some places had exotic dishes and high prices.
Now the roads are clear except for festivals, and prices even a middle income family can afford.
You can draw your own conclussions.

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Talking of construction. One solution is to build a new town from the ground up the adequate infrastructure. This was done in Dali and oops, Chenggong. Shanghai has also built a number of satellite cities/towns.

The accumulated debris is a problem and not all of it is trash, a lot of it is leaves, twigs, and dust/dirt. Often this can not be effectively dealt with until it accumulate. You can have teams going around clearing culverts and grids, but not every bit of debri that could potentially reach the culvert.
This is a universal problem.

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There is the same problem in Shanghai and Beijing, the drains are not up to coping with the heavy rains, even though they come yearly.

Urban planning is often about sprawl, without the effort to upgrade the old infrastructure. The norm is to jus connect the new drains to the old. The new drains may even have sufficient capacity, but there is a bottle neck as water reaches the old drains. Until there is the political will to dig up and replace the drains in the older parts of the city (costly and very disruptive to local residents, traffic, and business) we will continue to see occastional flooding. It used to the be same in many towns in the west.

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This has moved.
The cut flowers are about 700m east on Duonan Jie. The plants and trees are about 700 m west and follow Duocai Section.

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.