Chinese military exercises have indeed interfered with air travel lately, but at any rate air travel is twanky, polluting and resource-wasteful while the trains usually run on time and are a lot friendlier.
@yankee: Oh those nasty locals! It's so dangerous here, even if you prefer to eat junk! Get thee to a nunnery!
Try Alei's - an atmosphere different from any other place I know in Kunming - you may or may not like it, I'm not promoting it, just saying it is unique here.
@pip: Enough with the attitude about 'young Chinese women' awready - which nationality do you think it's ok to marry with? Or are you suggesting that one should only consider marrying old Chinese women?
If you take the bus you might see something.
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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.
Jinghong dam release aimed at easing SE Asian drought
Posted by@Lemon: I take it you are not a Vietnamese farmer.
Seems to me the river, and other international rivers, should be managed in some manner that is democratic (taking demography into consideration) and compulsory for all who share its waters.
Monkey mayhem descends on downtown Kunming
Posted byRun, you guys! & best wishes.
A trip to Yunnan's Jurassic Park
Posted byIs it privately run or is the government responsible?
Kunming driver boldly goes where few have before
Posted byAre auto insurance rates high here and rising? 'These idiots' means, what, people who drive into rivers?
Yunnan Foreign Business Club charity event for Heart to Heart
Posted byReally an excellent idea, folks. Count me in.