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Forums > Living in Kunming > Smoking in Starbucks

@Debaser: recognizing something as culture does not make them either right or wrong. Smoking in `a non-smoking place`is offensive or not depending on whether the place is culturally accepted as `non-smoking` or is merely `non-smoking` because some authority - perhaps not one that is respected - passed a law against smoking there.

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@Spartans: Sorry people smoke in restaurants in China where they`re not supposed to, but you react way, way over the line - wars have been started for less. Why not just call in the Marines and be done with it?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Smoking in Starbucks

@HFCampo: no, it wasn`t.

If a habit is not a cultural practice, what is it?

@Dazzer: I agree, not your job to teach `them`, but somehow `the `they` in `they gotta change` presumes something...

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Forums > Living in Kunming > re-registering with the PSB

Have left and returned to Kunming numerous times yearly for over 10 years. If I actually leave China I re-register when I come back to Kunming; if I go somewhere else in China (other than Hong Kong) I don't bother. Cop has visited me once only at my flat, just to see that I really lived there - no hassle. Have never reported leaving town before going.
But yeah, I also think that different local PSB stations perhaps have different attitudes. Anyway, it's all pretty easy to comply with, whatever they want you to do.

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Cannot say I knew Ai Yong, although I met him a few times. However, I'm familiar with Shanren, and just last Saturday became aware of Kawa - friend of mine and I, hearing the recording, were trying to figure out just where it was coming from; we asked and were told it was Kawa, and then I got the obvious, excellent Wa influence.
There are beginning to be quite a few good musicians here in Kunming, and they deserve respect. Sorry to hear that Ai Yong will not be among those who will continue to produce and invent the music.

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So he suggested truce and then figure out what to do next. OK, as far as it goes.
Seems to me the problem is the Myanmar military, who've had over 60 years of experiences of privilege, corruption, uselessness and/or brutality and who have yet to be reduced to the level of ordinary people. Should have had the hell reduced out of them many years ago.

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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.