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Forums > Living in Kunming > A lot of rich Chinese here

There are very cheap health clinics and nearly free education up through middle school. It hasn't been the same over the past 65 years, by any means, and I don't see why it would be the same over the next 100.
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Forums > Living in Kunming > BREATHLESS at The Park

The Park is a really nice place with a patio run by a foreign resident not me, nor am I an employee) - located within the Lotus Temple in Cuihu Park - see listing, today's calendar.
Remake was Richard Gere - I agree, lousy remake.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 12345 - Mayor's Hotline

In some places, at any rate, it used to be (still is in some places, I think) that foreigners were not legally allowed to stay in just any hotel they wanted to, but were legally restricted to certain hotels.

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@Peter: Yes, It was his map that was the most widely-used one among western foreigners for quite awhile, but unfortunately y copy of the book does not have the map. However, in Davies' 1895 itinerary of his 2nd trip, her makes Nakoli at 4600 feet altitude, 12 miles north of Simao.

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@Xiefei: H. R. Davies, in his YUN-NAN: THE LINK BETWEEN INDIA AND THE YANGTSE (pub. 1909; p. 99) writes that he started from Simao and started north (?) for Puer; road was "fairly easy"; they went up to 6,300 feet and descended to "Na-k'o-li" in one day, then spent the night there; following day they went 12&1/2 more miles to "Pu'erh Fu, the most important official town as Ssu-mao is the chief commercial town in this part of Yun-nan."
So, yeah, the names of the places are a little confusing.

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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.