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Forums > Living in Kunming > Interested in Kunming

International Teaching? I'm sure IT is not a commonly accepted acronym for that - I'm pretty sure we all thought you meant Information Technology (computers).

Anyway, yeah with international teaching you can squeeze in with the legion of other people trying to get a teaching position. If you have the right qualifications you can expect to find a visa-powered job with a wage anywhere between 3000 and 10000 RMB/month, but the well-paying jobs are scarce.

If you don't, you're SOL and you'll probably have to study for your visa or come in on a tourist visa, either of which would land you in illegality and hassle. Good if you're really young, but it gets old quickly.

On such a wage and very likely a difficult and unpredictable schedule, weekend trips to Beijing and Shanghai will also be rather scarce, but you may be lucky.

Personally I think a trip around the province is much more rewarding anyway.

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If you were joking and IT is what it is supposed to mean anyway, we may need someone at our organisation (NGO-ish), if not you could start your own business or go to Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai or Chongqing. But Kunming is far superior to live in, unless you're the couchy kind of person, then it's probably Shanghai or Hangzhou.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > SIM-Card for Tourist

You can get a SIM card at any outlet, China Mobile or China Unicom, if you bring your passport and cunning explanation skills. Maybe just let the people at Lost Garden help you.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Yunnan motorbike to Vietnam

Good idea, I'd like to find out more. When I come back, I'll pass by the VN consulate in Kunming and ask, but they weren't exactly helpful the last time I went there for an inquiry.

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Check out Quan Lan island too - four hours away by boat from Ha Long City (160 000 VND five years ago).

There's no electricity on the island - they run a generator from 6-8 pm and so most tourists stay away. There are a few small hotels and restaurants, though, and you have most of the island for yourself: beaches, mangroves and dunes. But the best of it all is that, for a fraction of the price of a junk cruise, you tour through the exact same rock formations of Ha Long Bay.

There's also a ferry to and from Cam Pha.

Pictures:

www.crazyguyonabike.com/[...]

I beg to differ that Germany is home to lots of variety. Indeed the purity law was more or less accepted as a way to get Bavaria to join the German Union, favouring their beers (uniquely wheat and pilsner beer) over the much more varied, northern beers. As a result, the variety completely disappeared and the purity law really is a load of hogwash.

The implied purity is not guaranteed because you only use barley, hops, water and yeast - you can still get yeast infections in your beer.

So really it was a political decision which erased Germany's beer variety and gave neighbours like Belgium the competitive edge.

What Germany _does_ have, however, is some of the best Pilsner and wheat beers in the world. But those are hard to come by outside of Germany (think Jever and Rothaus).

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.