I've been in my flat (renting) for over ten years, was built about 1993 - solid enough but a bit ratty, but a lot of people in the compound seem to have fixed up their flats, glassed in their small balconies, improved kitchens etc., and they look okay. Stairwells are rather grotty. Value of these properties has increased a great deal since I moved in, but I don't know about the future.
As the polar ice caps break up and various glaciers cleave off into the sea they will have icebergs along the China coast to take care of it.
Maybe too many people got off on that movie.
Can't one use plastic in India these days? Or perhaps not on a Chinese bank?
I can only tell you that I had a number of interesting evenings with a guy who formerly ran the Shane school in Yuxi - I've had a lot of experience teaching English and the guy I was talking to sounded as if he really knew what he was talking about, as far as teaching is concerned, though we didn't necessarily agree about everything.
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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.
'Potato college' serious, Chinese netizens less so
Posted byI personally look forward to the spread of the baked potato.
China, Laos agree to $500 million railway loan
Posted byTrue about how Laos has little credit, but it seems you're comparing Lao-Chinese national relations with those of brothers, and I think that kind of metaphor is a bit overused - national ruling classes, who make or break agreements and devise policies etc. in the name of 'nations', have interests, not friends, as has been famously stated by...who was that guy? Sometimes these interests coincide, at least for a while, but there is usually a dominant partner/class group.
China, Laos agree to $500 million railway loan
Posted byA little confused, not sure how to think about this - seems to me that both Chinese and Lao interests will benefit from the RR - so why should Laos have to pay for ALL of it?
Shangri-la old town reopens two years after devastating fire
Posted bySounds okay so far, near as one can tell - but an open question: who benefits most, in terms of money and/or power (or, or that matter, anything else), from the creation of such tourist spaces and cultures, and where do they live? Is it all win-win? And how might it be calculated?
Stone Forest tourists surpass four million in 2015
Posted byWent there once and found it interesting just to wander around the surrounding area on my own - plenty of interesting limestone outside the designated area, & people you meet are neither tourists nor people trying to sell you tourist experiences. And of course it's free.