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.
'Kunming Foreigner Street' tenants speak out
Posted byI don't know any of the local residents on Wenhuaxiang, but I'd be very surprised if they like the current situation.
'Kunming Foreigner Street' tenants speak out
Posted byInteresting to read this & compare with the mess the street is now. The zoning laws must be goofy, or avoided for a price, if indeed they exist at all.
China's national meat scandal hits Yunnan
Posted byProfit motive puts greed before any sense of social responsibility.
Climate change goals could cost China 41 trillion yuan
Posted byExcellent! Other nations should follow suite (note that US citizens still produce more greenhouse gases, per capita, than do Chinese citizens). Governments of poorer countries are going to need economic help from the richer ones to do likewise if they are not to further damage the situations and living conditions under which the people that they control live.
First commercial e-vehicle rolls off Kunming assembly line
Posted by@Voltaire: really interesting article.