the plunger is definitely the most environmentally-friendly way to solve it though, not requiring repeated flushes. Plungers also work really well but remember that the plunger head must be submerged for it to work. The sealing by rubber and water of air in the pipe is what makes it go pop.
Everytime I get a crapper clogged, it just takes one or two stabs with the plunger. No need to waste already scarce water in Yunnan.
every time I ordered delivery, it has been a cold and/or rainy day. While I don't think Teresa's pizza that bad, it most definitely arrived cold and soggy because of the weather and the distance to my house. Not ordering from them again.
Three people I know had their phones show a completely different time even though time zone and time were automatically set by the network. It involved two people in Yunnan and one in Washington, DC. Anyone experienced the same and know why? My phone was off by three hours and some minutes
Metro advertise with delivery to your home. Anyone know how it works and what it costs? Could I, say, call them with a few product numbers I want delivered? 懒癌发作
completely different in content and herbs, as well as the actual rice paper used and the vermicelli inside.
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On my cycling tour through Yunnan into South-East-Asia, I've stopped regularly at Mei Mei for a bit and a lot of drinks.
The service is friendly, the location is great and the prices are reasonable. I'm over the moon about their brownies (served with ice cream) and coffee. Though I've not had everything on the menu, I was pretty impressed with the dishes I ordered.
Don't bother with Mekong café. Mei Mei is as good a place to rest, at night or in the afternoon and has the better food.
This was my first stop in Jinghong when I was cycling down south. I was hungry and in need of calories, so I ordered up the biggest burger on the menu: the imperial with added cheese.
I was sorely disappointed to see the sad pile of gooey beef and bread arrive, covered in half-melted cheese and not much bigger than two McDonald's cheeseburgers stacked on top of each other.
The best thing about this place are tourist informations, for everything else I suggest Meimei nextdoor or Wangtianshu a bit further in town.
Good noodles (well perhaps most Chinese places can pull off a Chinese dish properly). Excellent selection of beer, including my favourite Orval. Beer is chilled to the right temperature indicated on the label. Friendly and good-smiling staff. Fair-priced. Terrace in the sun.
Only complaint? Not enough matching glasses to serve those delicious beers in. See, if that's the only complaint, it's a 5-star review!
Why can't other places be as good?
If I go back, it won't be for the lazy service or the bland spaghetti bolognese. The cosiness and selection of beers could and the game aspect will be the only reasons to go back. Really some places should just try ro be what they are: cafés, not restaurants.
Though happy with the friendly service, I'm not too impressed with the food quality vs. price ratio. Also, the vietnamese coffee comes without condenses milk as it would be served in Vietnam or next door, in vintage.
Yunnan GDP third fastest-growing in China
Posted byPeter99, stay off the drugs man. Indeed, a fast growing economy is not necessarily a healthy one (which is why countries sometimes try to put water on the fire). The article doesn't claim that it is, either. Of course, stable economic growth relies on small and medium-sized enterprises rather than on big business. But big business does contribute to the GDP, hence the impressive figures.
Getting a fast growing economy and high GDP only requires one thing: cheap resources. In Australia's case it's natural resources in the mines of WA, in China it's cheap labour and badly protected worker rights. So it's actually a symptom of the sickness of this country: the income gap, as Alien suggested above, is ever increasing and that's just a recipe for instability.
China's leaders are nicely putting their cash on Caribbean accounts (The Guardian today), for when this can of nitro-glycerine blows.
Myanmar to Tibet: Hiking the Dulong, part II
Posted byUnfortunately we have not a lot of information on this walk; but there are people who do, such as A Luo (in Bingzhongluo). All we know is that you need to know the trails very well, that you'll have to camp or stay in shelters (no real villages) and we can estimate that it'll be a two to three-day walk.
Mountains are _very_ steep so if you end up on the wrong trail you may have to turn back unless you want to risk your life. It'd be an interesting thing to do if you have a tent, time and a GPS.
Yunnan's Stone Treasure: Shibao Mountain
Posted byI'm with flengs on this one. I guided a tour group there last year. Even though I'd prepared, I was able to lead the way but not to explain beyond the very basics the worth and significance of these grottoes and treasures.
If you want to understand what it's all about, what the things you see mean, then you need a guide or at least a fair amount of insight in the history of Buddhism.
If you just want to see a bit of nature and snap pictures of some temples and relics you don't understand or don't care to understand: go ahead, you don't need a guide.
Changshui once again closed by fog
Posted byI inquired a bit the last time I was held up by fog. It was a clear and bright day in Kunming. Turns out the fog was at my destination airport of - waitforit - Beijing. I inquired a bit further. Turns out 80% of Chinese airspace is reserved for military use. That means that when there's difficult weather conditions in those small corridors, planes have no way around it.
Myanmar to Tibet: Hiking the Dulong, part II
Posted byWe didn't see any live monkeys but for the one having a good time counting his legs near the Myanmar border (see part one). I think they're mostly shy outside of parks where tourists give them food or an opportunity to steal. Sneaking up the hills in the northern section, you may catch some snub-nosed monkeys.