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Forums > Food & Drink > Best Pizza in Kunming

For those who've curiously passed by Green Lake's Yunn Coffee Roasters and spotted their pizza and creamy pasta poster boards. Their dinning facility, dubbed Slow Food Park, is equipped with a giant masonry wood-fired brick pizza oven on the second floor open kitchen.

I'm not attempting to rate the newcomer as one of the top pizza joints in town compared to Humdinger or Sals, but they certainly have potential based on several visits.

A few photos uploaded below:

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Customers can choose to dine outside. First floor patio is spacious under the canopy of trees. Impressive ambience and view overlooking the lake.

For early risers, first 10 customers (who request it) would receive a free cup of Americano. During this trial business operations, Yunn cafe opens at 8am, and restaurant at 10am.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > COVID 19 vaccine for foreigners

FYI, residence permit is a paper from your local police station, which requires an extra step of getting a stamped letter from your building's property management to verify your residence there. The paichusuo will retain that letter for their records? Maybe I misread.

I know quite a few foreigners who got vaccinated in Yunnan without insurance, such that I don't believe "以上3项缺一不可" on paper is ironclad in practice. Rather, fulling all three requirements is subject to loose enforcement depending on location and timing.

As national inoculation goalpost sets further to two billion from one for achieving the hopeful "herd immunity," the vaccination red tapes for foreigners ought to gradually wane as time passes. That appears to be the trend for locals registering for jabs. Getting on the wait-list was competitive a while back. The entire ordeal was much more arduous than it is now as the vaccination red carpets are being rolled out throughout visible locations in town under blue canopies.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Keep Calm and Carry on

For those unable to access Youtube, I've taken the liberty of uploading today's 8-hour "One World: Together At Home Special to Celebrate COVID-19 Workers" live stream from Global Citizen.

Download link expires after 7 days of after 100 downloads:

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"ARTIST Lineup:
Hours 1 & 2

Adam Lambert
Andra Day
Black Coffee
Charlie Puth
Eason Chan
Hozier & Maren Morris
Hussain Al Jassmi
Jennifer Hudson
Jessie Reyez
Kesha
Lang Lang
Liam Payne
Lisa Mishra
Luis Fonsi
Milky Chance
Niall Horan
Picture This
Rita Ora
Sofi Tukker
The Killers
Vishal Mishra

Hours 3 & 4

Adam Lambert
Annie Lennox
Ben Platt
Cassper Nyovest
Christine And The Queens
Common
Delta Goodrem
Ellie Goulding
Finneas
Jack Johnson
Jacky Cheung
Jess Glynne
Jessie J
Juanes
Kesha
Michael Bublé
Rita Ora
Sebastián Yatra
Sheryl Crow
Sho Madjozi
Sofi Tukker
The Killers
Zucchero

Hours 5 & 6

Angèle
Annie Lennox
Ben Platt
Billy Ray Cyrus
Charlie Puth
Christine And The Queens
Common
Eason Chan
Ellie Goulding
Hozier
Jennifer Hudson
Jessie J
John Legend
Juanes
Lady Antebellum
Leslie Odom Jr.
Luis Fonsi
Niall Horan
Picture This
Sebastián Yatra
Sheryl Crow
SuperM"

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Wearing Masks

I agree with you on mask wearing, however...

colinflahive wrote: "Yes, I know there is little scientific evidence that masks are that useful, at least when used how most of us are using them, and they might even help spread contagions more."

Is the source of this information from the U.S. CDC? They've advised Americans not to wear masks if healthy, but to wear masks only when ill.

As the United States reported 977 new cases and 18 new deaths just yesterday, there are signs that U.S. health officials (e.g. State Dept. of Health) are waking up to the prevalence of asymptomatic cases of transmission. The asymptomatic spreading to 80 contracted attendees of a Biogen tech conference in Massachusetts raised new alarms, though substantial empirical evidence of asymptomatic spreading have already been documented in China, as backed by peer-reviewed studies.

Those who are unknowingly infected yet show no symptoms (asymptomatic), may cough or sneeze viral droplets inside an elevator. Those floating droplets could possibly suspend in air, such that next passengers risk inhaling them. This highlights the importance of mask wearing even if you feel fine.

The point of mask wearing despite feeling healthy is made clear by President Xi as he made victory laps in Wuhan while donning a mask. He is intentionally setting an example to the public at large.

So perhaps no, it is not "only a false sense of control" as some camps in the U.S. would have you believe.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Keep Calm and Carry on

Patrons of will be allowed to dine inside restaurants, not just take out, starting tomorrow throughout most of Kunming.

Is Colin in Thailand, or is he back to open Sal?

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Located at very top in editor's note, this article is clearly described as a "sponsored post" which is a win win win for expat community in Kunming, Igor, and GoKunming.

My only critique is the name "pain campagnard"... such a added-value fancy way of saying country bread to mark up the price of bread.

But like tasting omelets, gauging the skill of a chef sometimes requires tasting their simplest goods, such as the French bread tucked between the owner's arm.

Good sponsored post.

Looks like we found a place for chess players to meet over coffee and pastries. A chess master awaits your next move.

Igor's may be a sight for sore eyes. I'm tired of the gastronomic staleness of mainstream bakery chains in JustHot, Breadworks, BreadTalk, Holiland (though their warm fresh-out-of-oven almond danish isn't bad), and particularly Jiahua Bakeries.

Some landmark attractions such as Pudacuo National Park, has already become your dreaded "tourist theme park." Unless you trek off the beaten track by not getting on the park shuttles.

A bit of devil's advocacy...

So what if Shangri-La's popularity was based on a novel? At face value it's not. The bulk of tourists are Chinese who've probably never heard of Lost Horizon.

And if you think about it from another perspective, the majority of human race base their faiths/lifestyles on books such as the Bible, Quran, or the Pali Canon. Entire nations have become theme parks of a different variety.

Books dubbed holy are culminations of hearsay folklore verbally passed down for centuries, subject to distortions, before being written down and revised in various editions to reflect the social norms of their times. They are texts which elicit the hope of a glorious, eternal paradise in the afterlife, despite no actual proof of existence let alone vulnerabilities to scientific debunking.

Nevertheless, billions of souls on this planet await their interpreted versions of Shangri-La-ish Garden of Eden, which would put James Hilton's "mythical" one to shame. We'll never actually know if the deceased will reach that promise land. At least readers of James Hilton's novel won't be totally disappointed when arriving at actual geological wonders bordering Tibet, Sichuan, and Yunnan.

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