Sarah, just go to Yuanyang and stop worrying. As everybody here has said, your chances of getting Japanese encephalitis here are way below your chances of tripping while walking on a flat sidewalk near your home, falling and crushing your skull on impact. I'm sure there are places in the world where the disease is really rampant, but not in Yunnan.
So you answer it, they want personal info and you don't give it - what's the problem?
I know it is possible to get the disease in Yunnan, but is this a big worry? Malaria is also possible, but pretty unlikely, even in Banna in rainy season.
Might be better to answer, somebody might be checking to see if you're apartment is empty - business name cards left on apartment doors are sometimes for this purpose - if the cards are still there a day later, some thief may figure you're out of town. Or so my landlady says.
Terrible idea.
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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.
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.
Too bourgeois.
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.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
The southern China sunrise tour
Posted by@Campo: the phrase appears in the middle of a discussion of Yangshuo. Anyway, the Mosuo are matrilineal, not matriarchal, and under what definition of 'tribe' are they considered a 'tribe'?
The southern China sunrise tour
Posted byNice article and nice photos, but which 'community' is supposed to be a 'tribe' that is 'matriarchal'?
Yunnan Drifter: A homecoming
Posted byNice chapter, presents a little local foreign/dropout history that a lot of new arrivals may not know about. Bird Bar, yeah.
US Ambassador to China visits Yunnan
Posted byA good film on the subject would be most welcome, but hagiography is a bad idea.
Lijiang to restrict risqué ads targeting tourists
Posted byI mean the brainwash of 'modernizing' everything, converting all into 'entertainment'. It sells tickets.