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Forums > Living in Kunming > just arrived in kunmin!

I take it you mean 'community of foreigners'. I'm not sure that there's only one, but you might start at Salvador's Coffee Shop to meet foreigners and some Chinese who speak English. Some francophones hang out at the French Cafe, just around the corner from Salvador's. And the foreign (mostly US) Protestant Christian folks are likely to be found at the Wicker Basket (bakery-restaurant - excellent bread - 2 locations), as well as at their English-language church services.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > foreign doctor

Kunming Nos. 1 & 2 hospitals, and at least some others, practice western medicine. If you can't speak Chinese yet you might want to take along a Chinese friend to help you - many of the doctors will be able to speak some English, but other staff will not.

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OK but them sings are right there in the train toilet, and there are plenty of other ones that could of bing avoided in 30 minutes or less for less than a hundred rmb.

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About time.

Why is it that state organizations, as well as private ones, don't bother to find a native English speaker and pay him 50 kuai or so before designing a sign? Note that toilets on all the trains I've ever been on (probably near a hundred) in this, the world's most populous country, have a sing reading "Please flush closet pot".

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For foreigners here without families to go back to, the Spring Festival is a bit inconvenient; for everybody, the travel situation is annoying. However, I still really like the idea that, once a year, the population says 'Enough already! Stop everything, we're going home to be with our families, everything else can be on hold.'

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Example above should be cousin, not 'couson'.

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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.