OK folks, I think we can find it.
OK folks, I think we can find it.
@ Dudeson: What would be fair?
And they have Russian mountains?
Just goes to show how you can live here for years and still not know much of the city.
What French village? What Russian mountains?
I haven't been to Sichuan in awhile, but it used to be the case that many more hotels were closed to foreigners there - even in Chengdu - than was the case in Yunnan. Provincial governments regs of some sort, I think.
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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.
Cycling From Kunming To The Vietnam Border - Part One
Posted byWifi available in many hotels in cities and larger town in Yunnan. If you say you need wifi, I'll believe you - but why?
Friction of terrain: Cycling through Zomia (part II)
Posted byLending massive amounts of money to countries for projects they can't afford is a widely practiced way in which to control them.
Friction of terrain: Cycling through Zomia (part I)
Posted byRoughly, yes. He offers a very good argument for his thesis, but I don't think he'd insist that it represents the only historical socio-cultural process that has been in operation.
The idea: stay in place and grow rice and be taxed, or run for it. Different strokes.
Friction of terrain: Cycling through Zomia (part I)
Posted byScott's central theses - that centralized states are about dominating populations, that taxing rice farmers is a good way to do it, and that a lot of people could probably see through the trick and therefore ran to the hills to plant potatoes or whatever - make sense to me, in Myanmar or elsewhere.
Friction of terrain: Cycling through Zomia (part I)
Posted byDoubtless a good trip. There are a lot of foreign bicyclists in Laos. The James C. Scott book is worth a serious read.