Fear is both self-fulfilling and self-defeating, for xenophobes and paranoids alike.
Fear is both self-fulfilling and self-defeating, for xenophobes and paranoids alike.
Dude says communication is important, woman should speak English. Wonder how his Chinese is, or whether that has occurred to him.
What kind of people are you asking about?
Was possible to get a Chinese visa in Kathmandu in 1986, if that's any help, and you could enter by land from Nepal to Tibet as an independent 3rd-country national then. I suspect that times have changed for that kind of trip.
My phone was damaged Sunday night, didn't get it working until yesterday afternoon. Had a really nice 48-hour vacation from it.
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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.
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
Posted byWhen I hear Blackwater I think of armed mercenaries - as Peter says, American - but not the sort who fought as the Flying Tigers. I hope we hear accurate reports as to what these guys/this guy is/are going to do here in this super-rapidly growing economy.
Old Kunming apartment complexes looking to build new elevators
Posted byHope they're not going to go and put them in everywhere, including where they're not needed.
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
Posted byTerms of what they are planning to do would be nice, but in the meantime this does not sound good at all. Anybody who'd been associated with Blackwater...
Police shoot axe-wielding man in central Kunming
Posted bySeems to me the cops involved might be commended for handling the situation rather well.
Committee proposes renaming Kunming's Dongfeng Square
Posted by@ Dazzer: Wha...?