MSG is a natural product. The consensus is that it is not harmful. FDA rated GRAS (generally recognized as safe).
I am sure the resident conspiracy theorists will have a different opinion, based on years of surfing the internet.
BOC may not be in many cities outside of Bangkok for exchange of money.
Agree the towns can smell. I think the cesspits are under the houses.
From wikipedia, who I trust more than posters on here
An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing. The word comes from the Latin terms ex ("out of") and patria ("country, fatherland").
Attempts at literal definitions of some words just don't work.
@tallamerican
I agree with you but the discussion is pertinent as someone is trying to discredit the validity of the original discussion through pedantry. Or maybe he is just trolling
Maybe not even the government, but perhaps a local headmaster or the wife of some local small time official. Crony-ism and nepotism are rife in Kunming, there are a lot of small time crooks who seem to have a finger in everything.
Retaliations can take many forms. You bad-mouth a group of people on the English speaking network. A group of Chinese start bad-mouthing an 'outsider' on both the guanxi and the local Chinese gossip net. Who do you think will come off worst?
When it comes time to renew licences you may find it harder than it needs to be. Your rent may go up. You may get more visits from small time officials, some of whom seek a little money (graft).
Local teachers may be asked by their headmasters to not recommend you, or even to suggest to parents there is a problem with you; a hint from a teacher is all that is needed, no accusations need to be made. With quality Chinese retaliation, you won't even know you are being attacked, you will just seem to be having a lot of difficult days.
The other thing to think about is this. You lose a lot of kudos when you badmouth others. This is the same in most cultures across the world. In China, if you make someone lose face, it is at the cost of your own as well.
If you do a blacklist the risk of retaliation is high.
You don't know who are other stakeholders in a company.
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Swedish design ideas, kunming build quality. i have bought lots of ikea stuff in the past, the furniture at #11 are poor facsimiles of genuine item. Yes stuff is affordable, but poorly made and overpriced in my opinion. we took a good look around and looked closely at build quality and walked away.
The Irish are not known for French anything, to be fair.
Let us know how you get on a give your new rating.
It might be worth identifying which Prague venue you are reviewing.
When I first arrived in Kunming I did a tour of Wenlin Jie. I did't like the look of Prague.
More recently I have used Prague in Beichen a lot and I like it.
Ref the comment @nonsecond about being made sick from raw apple, WTF?
Nobel laureate Mo Yan's Yunnan connection
发布者Didn't look like a jest.
Sounds like someone else is rewriting the past.
Chinese college freshmen increasingly unfit
发布者I agree that it is not the fault of the university. The university is just where these out of shape kids end up.
There is a cultural issue and the parents are part of the problem. Most parents would let their kids study longer and sleep less, which is why laws were introduced to limit school hours.
The only way to effect uniform change is for sport to be mandatory in schools. If all kids spend a few hours less in the classroom there is still equity of learning hours in all schools. Some of the heat of GaoKao will be off, not increased.
The levels of fitness will vary, as kids from the countryside often do help on the farm, especially at harvest. Harvest is just before kids go off to university. However, the kids from the countryside are less likely to have had access to an education that will set them up for entry to China's elite universities in Beijing or Shanghai.
The study harder, get better grades, get to a better school, get better grades IS a virtuous circle. But only if you look at grades and forget the whole person. These kids may be top academically but may be physically, and emotionally damaged. This also impacts in their future families and this will affect society.
Yunnan Shanquan to raise prices 50 percent
发布者50% margin sounds like a lot, but actually it isn't for this type of industry. The margins on some of things you buy can be as high as 300%.
We think of low margins when we look at mass selling, dry grocery in the supermarkets for example. Unless a product is ONLY available in the supermarket, and supermarkets only compete with each other, we don't see low margins. A lot of products in the supermarkets (e.g. chips and soda) have margins of 30% plus).
Yunnan Shanquan to raise prices 50 percent
发布者It is only a matter of time before others follow.
To be honest, I was amazed that they could do it for 10rmb.
Green Lake to get wetter, brighter, noisier
发布者If the picture in the article is recent, it also shows another design problem with Chinese fountains.
All the pipework and lights are usually above the water. This is easier for maintenance, but in the 99% of the time when the fountain is not operating, it is an eyesore. Putting the pipes, etc. below the water is done in most other countries, that way people can enjoy the ambience of the lakes waters most of the time.