User profile: Alien

User info
  • Registered
  • VerifiedYes

Forum posts

0
Forums > Living in Kunming > And all in the best possible taste

No weasels. As for small shops, I think you'll find those who run the ones you use regularly will get chatty after awhile, though there's one woman who sells cigarettes & so forth in my neighborhood whom I've been working on for quite awhile who doesn't seem to loosen up. Others, however, have invited m in to eat with them. Not necessary to take them up on it, but the polite chatty friendliness can last, & improves the overall atmosphere.

0
Forums > Living in Kunming > New Subway

Anything to discourage people from driving all these dam# automobiles and/or taking taxis alla time.

0
Forums > Living in Kunming > And all in the best possible taste

@Dudeson: sorry that happened, but you know it's not typical. My method works for me. And I greet people when I enter a shop and can't remember getting dumb stares. I've been in China a long time.

0
Forums > Living in Kunming > And all in the best possible taste

@Magnifico: Yes, you do, but it's rarely hostility, especially in Yunnan, and when it is it does not lead to anything unless you make it do so. And then there's the issue of mistaking a certain annoying attitude for hostility when it is only a sort of childishness - I think all of us are subject to doing this from time to time. And there are plenty of bad attitudes among the foreign community as well.

In short, let it roll & don't participate.

Classifieds

No results found.

Comments

•

Social 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.

•

There 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.
What's wrong with this picture?

Reviews


By

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.


By

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.


By

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.