Forums > Living in Kunming > Cheapest hostel which writes registration form? I don't have a direct answer, but some of the hotels are cheaper than the hostels. There is an international hotel that you can see from Kunming main railway station, on Beijing Lu. I was told that it was cheaper than one of the main hostels in Kunming. I am told that as you stand outside the railway station you will see the name of the hotel (in English) using the word international, on the side or top of the building.
I am sorry that I cannot remember the full name of the hotel, or answer your question more specifically.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Hardware Store Some of the local stores sell at the lowest possible price, you get the lowest quality, and both can be very low. It is worth the journey to the decorating markets, and finding trade suppliers, or the extra money at B&Q, or buy online.
Forums > Living in Kunming > No water in flat If you have not water, speak to the building management, they will know of any problems with the supply. If there is, they will know if and when there is a water bowser delivering water to your development, you will need to go down and queue with your bucket.
They will also be able to tell you if your water has been cut off for any other reason, like the owner has not paid the bill.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cycling clubs? I have been contacted by one Wechat group now, thanks Haali.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Jade fainter Within Chinese culture, jade has an intrinsic value that is not related to any great rarity. I was given a jade toy, that was valued at 60 000 rmb 10 years ago. I know someone with an 'antique' jade bead bracelet valued at 200 000. Personally, I think it is overvalued, with prices driven by the nouveau riche, collectors, conspicuous consumption, and in some cases blind avarice. I have read that the piece concerned, priced at 45k was valued at 26k.
Now gold (not jewelry) is a bit more universally recognized and easy to value correctly.
New taxi placards target 'civility'
发布者I have noticed a lot more 'black' cabs where I live. One advantage of the little guy now owning a car. They will negotiate, some are greedy just find the next one. They actually line up like a taxi rank where I live.
Kunming reservoir levels rising, officials remain cautious
发布者Enough water for 9 months.
China's diabetes rate passes 11 percent
发布者I agree that the problem is related to the moving away from the Paleao diet. The big shift seems to be more meat (they love high fat cuts), more oil, more noodles, and perhaps more than anything more rice.
Western fast foods, do not exist in my wife's hometown, diabetes, is a major problem there too. The people are also more active than I see in Kuming. The key change in their life has been more affluence.
The population is eating a lot more food generally than they did before. Blaming obesity on western fast food is easy, but I am not sure there is solid causality. Western fast-foods arrived arrived at the same time as more affluence.
The affluence coincided with more processed foods (a western style diet, but not fast foods, or western corporations). Perhaps it would be fairer to call this a developed countries bad diet.
In the supermarket we can see how much store space is dedicated to high fat,high sugar, snacks. These are mostly home market products. Some of the local drinks are much more prevalent than Coke, and have more sugar in them. For the supermarket it is a no brainer what to give shelf space to, as these foods all have high profit margins.
Buying oil and meat used to be a luxury. Now everyone can afford much larger portions, and more frequent consumption of both. My mother in law will admit to consuming more meat in some meals now than she used to get in a month. In the past her main source of oil was rendered animal fats, vegetable oil was store bought and rare.
I see my kids in school. Half of them have parents who understand nutrition, and the kids are consuming a Paleo diet. The other half consume a lot of high carb snacks between meals and eat huge portions of rice and oily foods at the canteen. WangLaoJi is seen as a semi-medicinal stimulant.
Or could draw a correlation between student diet and performance, but that would be unreliable as the kids on a healthy diet have parents who seem to make better choices generally. The educational attitude may also reflect the family values.
China's diabetes rate passes 11 percent
发布者Yes, when I first came to China 10 years ago I would maybe see one morbidly obese person, usually a pre-teen, about once per month. Now I see many more daily, and I also see more morbidly obese adults. You can't blame this all on western fast food.
I will use about 5 ltr of oil per year, mostly for baking bread, and less than 1 ltr for frying food. I see a neighbor coming home from the supermarket with that much every week.
People also think Asians are skinny because they eat rice. But rice is a simple carb. Lots of rice leads to fat. Add to that all the oil and sugar.
As for sedentary life, it is a problem, but 11% of the popn. do not live a sedentary life.
Metro Line 1 begins passenger trial period
发布者Yankee
They were waiting until you moved to open the bit up BJ Lu.
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