Anyone else who thinks that this movie is overly nationalistic (even for Chinese movies) and deeply racist in it's depictions of the evil, evil foreigners doing bad things to the oh so good Chinese guys? I guess one should be happy for the Japanese if the Chinese movie industry changed it's aim but seriously,, shouldn't a Rocky IV knock off like this belong to a different era?
I might be up for a game and yes as Sean says without at least a small buyin poker just goes la la la very quickly but I can understand why you wouldn't advertise that in a public forum. Where do you guys play?
Been around a handful of banks and none of them wanted to issue Visa or Mastercards unless you either deposited 50.000 to get a Visa or showed proof of long term stay (z visa wouldn't do) to get a credit card. I don't have 50 grand so I guess that's out of the question. I was slightly surprised to find out that BOC doesn't want to give Visa/MC to foreigners although the woman I talked to seemed kinda clueless about the whole thing and had to call around. China Merchants Bank couldn't help either although they were very friendly and did their best to assist me. They even suggested I could try the Bank of Communications but I didn't get around to that yet.
Can anyone recommend a bank that issues Visa or MC debit cards to foreigners without too many restrictions? I feel it would be for the best if I could take out money if I am on holiday or visiting my native country.
Thanks,, does anyone know if HSBC has branches here in Kunming and where? Went to their site and Kunming didn't show up on their map but I could have sworn I have passed by a branch at some point.
My girlfriend is currently looking for a place to take the advanced teaching instructor course in yoga here. I don't know much about it but I can give you the prices we found. The beginners course is about two weeks (usually 9-10 hours a day) and it costs around 2000 kuai. The advanced course takes 1.5-2 months and the price is around 6000. Higher levels are hard if not impossible to find in Kunming so you would probably have to go to one of the tier 1 cities for that afterwards.
Chinese massage is an excellent choice of you enjoy beating the crap out of people and can find some clients who are into masochism.
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The comment from Chris had deserved a wider audience. Beluga?
Went there yesterday and it totally made my week. Nice decor and friendly staff and a real salad bar. Sadly we both wanted mexican food so I can't really say much about their other courses. The food was great but just a tad spicier would have improved the dish. The best thing was that we almost had the place to ourselves and we could have a quiet conversation without shouting, spitting Chinese people in the background. I realised how much I had missed that since coming here.
We went to Chicago Coffee a couple of days ago and it was a nice experience. The place is cozy with soft comfy chairs (I realized how much I have missed one since coming here) and they have a nice little collection of English language books in the corner consisting mainly of classics and travel litterature. I was looking forward to trying their advertized tortilla bar but it wasn't up and running that evening.
Instead we went for 2 12 inch pizzas -roast chicken and pepperoni- but we quickly realized that 1 would have been enough. Those things are heavy. I am mainly into Italian style pizza but Chicago's double layered pizzas are well worth a try. Their coffee seems to be a bit on the expensive side but people say good things about it and they have got a nice selection. I wouldn't mind dropping by again some day,, hopefully when they've got the tortilla thing going. English speaking staff btw.
Yunnan spirulina tainted with lead
Posted byI know China has a hard time taking a much need Great Leap Forward on Chinese medicine but being allowed to market products with ",,a weight loss product, a palliative for heart disease, an anti-cancer agent and as a health supplement for pregnant women." without documentation and scientific testing is just plain wrong. A former co-worker of mine still has a 3 page folder on some sort of fish extract from Guangdong. He used to joke that it was easier to list the diseases that the stuff DIDN'T cure, according to said folder.
2012: Three game-changers for Kunming
Posted byI'm not sure I understand what PAGE actually is supposed to do. Can someone gist me in nong min terms?
Charcuterie: Taking food safety into one's own hands
Posted byMy parents used to do that. Split it with another family so they'd have half a pig to charcuterie,,charcute,, cut up and deposit in the freezer. I remember it took the better part of a day, but definitely worth considering around these parts. Mind if I ask how much you guys had to fork (ho ho) over for 200 kilos of Porky?
Forgotten British consulate getting Chinese facelift
Posted byMust have walked past that gate a handful of times not noticing anything inside. I'll go there tomorrow to take a look I think. @Jarhead: I'm not sure where Chris has his info from but according to the locals here Tengchong fell without much fighting inside the city limits so it's at least a reasonable assumption to think that the Japanese made their last stand in one of the few solid stone structures of the period at the time of Tengchong's liberation, hence were subjected to a lot of rifle fire with possibly a few rounds of small size shells thrown in.
Interview: Fried Feige
Posted byAh yes. Waking up after a cheap vodka fest in a corn field in Kaplachistan. Nothing quite like it. I remember Fried vividly from the Hump. Spent many a drunken night watching his table-dancing, glass juggling, chair-surfing antics. Good times indeed.