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.
Daughter of Flying Tiger visits memorial 73 years after father's death
Posted byThe AVG, the original flying Tigers, were a mercenary group of American airmen under the command of Claire Chennault. The AVG was disbanded in July of 1942, but following their disbandment the name was attached to the airmen of the regular US Army Air Corps, who flew out of Kunming, for the most part, until the end of World War II. Some of the original AVG members resented this, but the name pretty much stuck and was used in war propaganda. William Wallace must have been a member of the US Army Air Force (Corps?), to judge by the dates of his participation in the war effort and of his death.
Both the AVG and the air force played very significant parts in providing air cover for ground operations and shooting down Japanese airplanes.
Yunnan to spend 500 billion on roads
Posted byGood, important.
But of course the machine running this operation is still going to be producing increased relative poverty.
Yading Nature Reserve: A hidden gem in southwest China
Posted byLooks & sounds beautiful. I agree with you about the wisdom of a bit more acclimatization.
When Yunnan's Yi dress up as tigers
Posted byPlenty of tigers in Yunnan a century ago, especially down around the borders with Laos & Myanmar.
Spring Festival news: Drugs, fraud and saving the Nujiang
Posted byArticles 1 & 3: capitalism marches on.