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Forums > Living in Kunming > Why are you in Kunming/Yunnan?

Another reason to be here is obviously if you speak the language (Chinese, in some form and in some degree), as getting along in places where one doesn't speak any local language is more difficult.

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I'm also here because Yunnan is a border province - square in the middle of large nations one is often propagandized into believing in a homogeneity that does not exist, and I think it's revealing, and ultimately hopeful, to see the world of nations in a different light.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Why are you in Kunming/Yunnan?

So people are here for the weather, to learn Chinese and to escape Legionnaires' Disease? OK, but why Yunnan? There must be good weather in many parts of the world, other places with low incidence of Legionnaires' Disease and plenty of other places in China to learn Chinese.

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The number and attitudes of tour groups have been screwing up Dali for years, and I don't think this move will do anything to improve the situation.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.