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.
Around Town: Yunnan University Museum of Anthropology
Posted byLooks like there are indeed some interesting exhibits. However, I get the impression that the focus of the museum is primarily on non-Han peoples and/or on somewhat 'exotic' practices, whereas anthropology in fact can and does include the study of any and all human cultural practices. It is often the typical behaviour and culture of 'ordinary' people, whenever and whatever that might involve, that is the least understood, perhaps because all too many of us assume that we already understand it.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
Posted byBut of course the Chinese state has been extremely responsible, environmentally, for banning logging in China in 1998 - since when Chinese loggers have been raping northern Myanmar.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
Posted byIsn't profit-driven development wonderful?
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
Posted by@Kate, your question: I think anyone can do this.
Scores of Kunming officials investigated for corruption
Posted byCrackdown on corruption, ok - but then there has been an unleashing of mindcops.