Straight from the tap is a bad idea, I think - Chinese people and others who've lived here a long time don't do that.
Nestle would not be my favorite corporation - dodgy things in their corporate history.
I don't necessarily disagree with anything anybody has said, but I have merely been boiling my drinking water in Kunming for 13 years with no noticeable negative consequences. I don't know if 'most people' use bottled water or not, but many certainly do not.
Dr. Robert Detrano gives the place a plus for the examinations they carry out. I can vouch for the person who did the ultrasound on me there some years ago, who turned up something with considerable accuracy, but I question the work of the guy who did the chest X-ray, who seemed to be mostly asleep.
I would expect the person's name, at least. Probably shouldn't be too difficult for the press to find his/her nationality and other particulars as well.
Has anybody pinned down whether there was, in fact, a foreigner killed in a traffic accident in Kunming recently, and if so who was she/he? Might be a good thing to do before any more discussion of the topic of foreigners being killed in Kunming traffic.
Furthermore, if there was a person killed, is there any particular significance to his/her having been a foreigner?
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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.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
Posted bySocial cooperation is also hard-wired into the individuals of an innately social species such as ourselves, without which the individuals of our species would not have survived to pass on any genes..Rouseau's 'noble savage' never existed, both he and Hobbes were wrong.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
Posted bySubjective reports of happiness mean something, but I'm not sure what.
Kunming smells part II: The good, the bad and the ugly
Posted byYou get used to it all after awhile, as most of Kunming's 7 million inhabitants surely have.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
Posted by@nnoble: don't follow - who or what is rotting? I can think of various candidates, but I'm not sure which one you're talking about.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
Posted byThere are economic issues concerning education in China for very poor communities, which obviously need a bigger share of the economic pie than they are getting. Yet China's 'socialist market economy' is increasing the overall level of economic resources within China.
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