If 'people' means 'western foreigners', try the places listed on the gokunming calendar. The DT Bar courtyard on Sundays from 4-5 o'clock on is indeed a good one - laid back, not all noise, but with a little live music on & off - people of various ages & origins, quite a few with kids running around not getting in anybody's way.
Hong Kong train trip: has been 25 hours to Guangzhou for many years, then a quick comfortable fast train to Shenzhen (about 90 minutes), then you just go through immigration about 50 meters from the Shenzhen train station & get on Hong Kong's commuter RR, about 35 minutes to Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon. However, recently I think they have started a service direct from Kowloon to Shenzhen, which should cut the overall time a little.
Hollywood is not always bad, just usually.
Cheapest is to go to HK by relatively non-polluting train.
It's also a shame nobody can stick to the subject of the conversation.
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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.
Rural China and the painful allure of bound feet
Posted byThere is no footbinding anymore. It's necessary to understand the past, useless to condemn it, reasonable to regret it. What needs to be condemned now is that which produces the poverty in which some people live.
But this article doesn't really help one to understand the past, it merely reminds us that there was one.
Getting Away: A return to Shaxi
Posted byNot sure what you men by 'local food', please explain.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
Posted by@tiger: sounds curious, education is compulsory through middle school, and is essentially free - i.e., for Chinese students, the law is that they MUST go to school, therefore some school MUST accept them. Do you think this happened because your daughter is a foreigner? Or another theory?
Yunnan government weathers unexpected power shake-up
Posted byDoncha just love them plastic smiles?
Property giant Agile in freefall over suspect Yunnan land deals
Posted byGood to know they got these guys, but I hope they're not just pickin & choosin.