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Forums > Living in Kunming > Heroin - Yunnan

Perhaps you know something that I don't, but I think it's been increasing for some time in Yunnan. I'm not sure what you mean by 'will be seen in the West' - you mean a large increase in heroin use? As for the brick in the head, I'm not going to worry about it - heroin, after all and unlike some other hard drugs, does not tend to make people violent except if they need cash to get it and can't get it any other way (petty theft is much more popular).

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Finding a Chinese girlfriend

@yankee: condoms are not all that expensive, considering the risks of going without them; giving away free things is not something that the ideology of private enterprise is likely to promote.
@chris: my understanding is that you are essentially right about intravenous drug use and HIV in Yunnan.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Jobs for foreigners

@nevet, I don't know who you are, but if you would have starved to death without Salvador's you must have lived a pretty restricted existence here.

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Wouldn't be a bad idea for people to use their own brains and start not screwing up the planet, rather than continuing to do so until they are ordered not to and then complaining about the source of authority.

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The amazing thing is the degrees to which some tourists go in causing trouble over the smallest and most minor things. A commodity -ownership mentality ("I bought my visit to these exotic and weird people and I have a right to do whatever I want to with them").

I do indeed believe in the need to prevent the biting and slapping of tourguides, even though they are major players in the whole commercialized circus, which spreads its tents wherever there are packages to be sold and money to be made.

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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.