@nnoble
No I haven't tried to take ham myself. The only meat products I have taken back to EU (succesfully but probably against regulations) have been those small candy-like bags of meat and spicy chicken feet in consumer packages from Carrefour etc.
exhausted: ""Do you know how long they will take to process the vert at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs"
Processing times, fees, and other official information seems to be here:
On the topic of English translation, you may have have to do the whole notarization and two-level legalization separately for the translation - so the final users of the document can trust that the translation was done by a proper entity.
That starts with finding a certified translator, which the local notary office will recognize, and then to Beijing...
Process of notarization and legalization of documents to be used in another country is almost always the same in every country (save cases when the two countries recognize simplified apostille process - China is not signed to that).
A locally notarized (that's the first step) document is double-legalized (two more steps) first in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country where the document originates from, and then in the consulate of the country where it is intended to be used in.
In your case:
First you notarize the original document in the locale where it is originally produced, I guess in Kunming. I remember the office that can do that is in Baoshan Lu close to Nanping Jie. Here they stamp it to verify that it was really granted by the real police department.
Then you get it legalized in China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. There they stamp a certificate that the previous step (notarization) was done by approved authority.
Finally you take it to US Consulate in China (probably Beijing, since they are in same area with China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs), where they make a second legalization stamp indicating that the stamp from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is genuine.
Now you have a chain of trust that makes the document usable in USA.
A shortcut (or pitfall) which may be possible, is that after the local notarization you could go to China's Foreign Affairs Office in Kunming, and they could mail the document to Beijing to be handled.
They provide (or did provide anyway) service that gets the stamps in Beijing done at both Mininstry of Foreign Affairs, and a chosen foreign consulate, and then sent it back to Kunming where you could pick it up.
However as pitfalls go, we tried this a few years ago, and the document got lost on the way. The Chinese claim it was delivered to my home country's consulate, and my consulate claims that if it was, the delivery person would have been given a receipt, which was nowhere to be found. In the end I had to fly there myself to do it.
Well certainly if you bring home something equivalent of Han, it will be just a Chinese souvenir rather than something specifically from Yunnan.
Comparable to let's say mooncakes as someone suggested, or dumplings or hot pot ingredients, or chopsticks - nothing particularly local.
On the topic of dishes (really), if weight is not an issue you could bring some dried Yunnan ham.
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Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted by@sezuwupom : "JanJal is living the good life [...] Igor's delivers to your door."
You forgot to mention that I recycle and care for environment, which is why I would prefer to pick up my bakeries on my way rather than have someone on scooter deliver it wrapped in plastics. Even if it would leave the plastic maker and the scooter driver jobless. They could find new jobs in Just Hot, which I keep in business.
But I wish best of luck to Igor's. If location is everything, they have some catching up to do to reach out to potential customers like they are doing in this paid review..
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted byWent here one morning after grocery shopping in nearby Walmart.
No surprise, shelves were less than half-empty like they are in all upper scale bakeries I've visited in Kunming, specifically in the mornings before lunch.
They all seem to get stocked up few hours after lunch time, which for me is too late because I like to consume my sweets at home(=office) couple of hours after lunch, without making a separate trip for it.
Thus my staple bakeries remain from big and soulless chains like Just Hot, that have their donuts ready before 11am.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byThey also say time is a healer, and it takes time to grow. While time does get peope killed, it also helps greatly in reproduction. Without time, we would not have gotten where we are now - nor would we get to develop into extradimensional beings bound by neither space nor time, if we ban it now.
What I propose, is that we do not ban time, but instead develop ourselves beyond time, so that we no longer depend on it, and becomes indifferent to us.
On a related but more serious note, should humanity also develop beoynd organic in our feeding patterns?
For most people, things like "organic" or "free range" has already developed past hunting wild game and gathering roots and berries. For the minority that still practises such, our current methods to grow our food must appear as strange as eating protein grown in reactors would sound to many of us.
What does organic mean in China?
Posted byA store we frequent for vegetables and meat is Q+Life in B1 level of TKP Shopping Mall (Beijing Lu / Baiyun Lu). My wife has bought for their green advertising, I cannot vouch either way but I'm satisfied with the quality.
It's official: Yunnan facing serious drought
Posted byWell, we are having minor thunderstorm right now. Earlier in the week my phone's weather forecast showed daily rain drops in Kunming from end of this week til end of eternity, Or was it just the two weeks ahead it can show.