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Forums > Food & Drink > Mushrooms of Yunnan

Yes, probably every year somebody gets the wrong mushrooms and actually dies, but considering the number of mushroom hotpot restaurants ,and the popularity of mushrooms locally, the percentage of those who are seriously poisoned must be pretty low - it's unlikely that they will be a major danger to you here (cf traffic, various 'natural' causes, etc.)
I have personally known 2 people (in 13 years) who got high by accident from mushrooms, one at a restaurant and one when her father cooked some up (her father wasn't affected at all by the same dish, for some reason).

Have eaten a few recreational shrooms while here myself - they were local, I'm pretty sure - were not fantastic as a high, although there are SO MANY varieties in Yunnan that there must be somebody somewhere who knows which ones to get. However, I wouldn't trust my own judgement to pick any, and in the market I only buy the few that I recognize to cook with.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Mushrooms of Yunnan

Local mushrooms are plentiful and excellent and are available in many restaurants, some dedicated only to mushroom dishes. They will not make you high, although I've heard a couple of stories of people getting the wrong mushrooms, by accident, in some restaurants.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Kunming to Guangzhou train

Tiger's info is correct. However, the new train to Guangzhou, Z212 - about 17 hours instead of 24-5 - is the same price as the 24-5 hour train, Y346 for hard sleeper.

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I read Winnington's book - pretty sure the guy was a British Communist - and I disagree about the comparison with Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, which was sheer colonialist racism (fictional, of course).

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Dai, Lowland Lao and Thai peoples all have ancestors from China - not all within China became 'sinicized' - the Dai did not, though they have been becoming increasingly sinicized more recently. Until recent centuries, and even into recent centuries, contact between the Dai and Lao and Thai and other Tai groups continued - modern nationalist borders are more strongly established, and the areas within them more culturally colonized, than those of former empires and kingdoms.

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Try other night market areas in Kunming, the one on Wenhuaxiang has gotten...weird, over the last 4-5 years. I have a feeling many of the folks who go there, mostly in their 20s & 30s, to 'shop', think of it as somehow a 'fashionable' place.

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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.