From one joshwa to another: ;)
From one joshwa to another: ;)
I had no problem at the wangba in the beichen walking street (near samoan IIRC). I think I showed my passport and they wrote it down, but it was a while ago so I'm not sure.
(it occurs to me I also should have asked *which* Walmart?)
mehnyaa: Where in Walmart did you see the fish sauce? Have been looking for proper vietnamese fish sauce without any luck (have only seen chinese fish sauce, which is not the same thing).
We ended up going to the clinic on 121 street affiliated with Yunnan Agricultural University. We took an interpreter with us (can recommend her! Monica 15334396163). The vet and the techs were polite and helpful but the place was not modern by any stretch. Kitty is doing a little better now, but the way he explained the surgery options was not comforting (and I peeked in the OR. A little scary). We had to really dig in to get him to explain the risks and the prognosis.
Too soon for a verdict, but thus far a mixed bag.
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Have been going here since they opened. Thoroughly enjoy the pizzas and the authentic american-pizzeria-type salads!.
The staff, while not always attentive, is at least very nice and patient with language difficulties. Their English is pretty good compared to almost anywhere else in KM. Earlier service problems referenced below have long since been dealt with.
(Restaurant management tip: make sure that whatever place your front-of-house staff has to hang out while working, it has view of the tables so they can occasionally pick their heads up and see what's going on.)
New! They have revised their menu recently, with the option to have fresh tomatoes instead of tomato sauce! This is excellent, as I've previously had to order this myself so they seem to have gotten the idea.
However: Since they changed the menu, I have ordered pizza 3 times, both with sauce option A (just fresh tomatoes), and I have received option B every single time. (They aren't just reversed— I've ordered B and gotten B, also). Very frustrating!
The B sauce isn't terrible, but it's not a standard Neapolitan sauce (uncooked canned crushed tomatoes, a little minced garlic or garlic powder, sugar, and salt), but more of a Sicilian sauce (cooked tomatoes, onions, oregano). On a Sicilian thick-crust pizza it'd be great, but a Neapolitan crust deserves a Neapolitan sauce. Yes, I am a spoiled NYC food snob, but when the kitchen gets it right, it's quite fantastic, and I forget that I am in KM!
(Almost. Except for the cheese. If I opened a pizzeria I'd fly in Mozzarella di Bufala nightly, and each pie would cost 250RMB. Back to reality.)
New! they now have proper takeout pizza boxes, so I can grab a few pies to go and eat in front of the TV.
However: The pizza oven only fits one pie at a time, so it takes forever, especially if there are other customers ahead of you. By the time I get home one pie is still warm but the other is quite cold since it had to sit and wait while the other one cooked.
Please, Lost Garden, get your sauce ordering system right, and build a bigger pizza oven!
And delivery! Delivery would be unspeakably awesome, even though I'd probably gain 50lbs and go bankrupt since I'd use it so often.
The address listed here is incorrect— it's on Jindingshan Lu, not Bei Lu.
If that's not enough for your taxi driver, tell him that it's on the western end of Jindingshan Lu, and to ignore the street numbers, as they are not in any logical order.
Corrupt former Yunnan official avoids death penalty
Posted byIs Kappa the official supplier of Chinese prison uniforms?
Official proposes reopening Wujiaba Airport
Posted byCat-II or III ILS [1], with the addition of ASDE-X [2] solves the fog problem. Many of the international fleet are already outfitted; I'm not sure of the pervasiveness of the equipment on the domestic fleet...
[1] en.wikipedia.org/[...]
[2] en.wikipedia.org/[...]
Changshui once again closed by fog
Posted byThey need to install more sophisticated instrument landing systems— according to what I can find online, they only have ILS CAT I, and their charts demand a RVR (runway visual range) of 720m!
If they installed Cat III they could land in visibility of just 200m. Of course, this will do no good if the Chinese airlines don't have the necessary equipment installed in their fleets...
Riding into Kunming's future
Posted byHire a car service to pick you up— there are a few listed in the GoKM classifieds section.
Changshui Airport set to debut
Posted byI believe that it will keep the KMG designation (as the old airport will be shut down and the two will never operate concurrently).
When performing searches in various travel systems, I continue to see the KMG code being available, e.g. on cathay's site, or using KVSTool.