There are plenty of for rent ads in the classifieds. No Chinese required.
I have only met one local agent with ok English skills. A young guy at the agency closest to the McDonald's drive thru menu at the bottom of Hongshandong Lu.
You really should find a Chinese speaker to assist if you plan on dealing with agents.
More interesting than Prince George bday photo.
Update to this meat scandal should you care. Seems a single supplier is to blame.
www.bbc.com/news/business-28399162
This will just mean a faster shift to purchasing their chicken meat from the plant Cargill built near Nanjing.
I'm actually going to conclude that Chinese are on excellent behavior in temples since the expat community sensitive to this stuff has not seen it occur inside temples. None of the four 800+ posters has been able to give an example, me included. I assume the rest have none either.
As to fishing for dirt or trolling, I've got zero history of doing that and I find my entertainment elsewhere. As stated above, other threads got me thinking on where in public would the Chinese restrain themselves from some behaviors vulgar to our Western sensibilities. I mean they will smoke and spit in/on elevators, fine carpeting, and hospital wards. I searched my recollections of public places I didn't recall such behavior occuring. As memory is fallible and one data point insufficient, I went "fishing for dirt" or "trolling" as Dazzer says.
It's always the rich nations that a hundred years ago cut down their old growth forests and extincted the majority of their native species and/or peoples that seem to have the biggest hearts.
Chinese people, mostly the poor, try and use the laws and lose all the time. Plenty have been driven off their land. Plenty of lawyers who stand up for them end up in jail. So the law is a win for foreigners complaining about tickytacky stuff like 2 kuai on a taxi ride.
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Never gotten sick once at Sals. Their food is TexMex, so yeah, not authentic Mexican food, but pretty authentic as TexMex goes. Burrito wrap has improved a lot. Like the draft beer option now.
If you haven't had dairy products in a while, and do eat here, best forgo the sour cream. Nothing wrong with it, in fact it's the best sour cream in Kunming, but if you've eaten Chinese for month or months with no dairy intake, your system will react to sour cream or probably any liquid dairy product not so well. Maybe that's what happened with nailer and tallamerican.
Update:
It's now 5 working days for regular processing. So I submitted my application a bit before 5pm on a Friday and was told to pick it up next week Friday after 5pm.
Cost is now 400rmb for a single 30 day entry. Or that was what I was charged anyways. There are no posted prices and its cash only with no receipt except for your passport pickup. That's like $65 USD.
You can pay another 150rmb for 2 day or 100rmb for 3 day processing. For 400rmb, they should process it in three days like they used to before, but now you'd pay 500rmb. The office is still like deserted most of the time, so why does it take longer now and cost extra. If you opted for 2 day, thats like $90 usd. All other neighboring countries charge like $25usd.
The rest of and cope review is still good for hours and location.
Far out, less people. Big enough to get lost in. Pretty and quiet near dusk. 20yuan entrance fee.
Like everyone else says, best Indian food in Kunming. They have lunch plates and dinner plates. Show up before 1pm for lunch.
They are on the 4th floor of the half empty shopping mall. Best way is too take the elevator past the KFC around the corner from Starbucks.
Most individual dishes can feed only two hungry guys, so order more if you are starving. Naan order can take care of one only.
Five stars for the food. Go with Yereth's recommendations, plus any vegetable the waitress says is fresh.
Beware that Xue Fu lu is one way, so many taxis have to take a roundabout way to get here.
Self-taught villager clears 10,000 mines from Yunnan frontier
Posted byAmazing. Props to this guy. Too bad his country's politicians and my country's politicians refuse to ratify the international ban landmines treaty.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
Posted byThe children need to go to school. Otherwise the medival cycle of having more children to work to support themselves and the farm continues. Their situation is dire no doubt, but if their children grow up without any schooling, the next generation is left with zero hope and left in the same dire situation. In addition, the children want to be in school. I saw a documentary about poor kids in Vietnam, where even subsidized govt schools still require some tuition. It was heart breaking how the kids had to earn tuition money on the side and go to school, but the kids tried their hardest to scrape enough tuition funds together, because school was some hope in their poverty stricken lives. Sadly, in one case, the elder sister who was good at school and earning high marks gave up her slot to her younger brother, since they had only gathered enough money for one tuition slot.
Bye-bye for now Kunming narrow gauge railway
Posted byGood reporting. Those little but very important notices are hard to spot.
Scientists "99 percent" certain SARS originated in Yunnan bats
Posted bySo Easier, where is the proof, that these bats in Yunnan were the ones that started it? Again, the Guardian article never provides details this. If your only point is that the viral precursor is found in this group of bats, then duh? An Aussie led group of scientists found it in horseshoe bats prior to this Yunnan discovery. I'm just saying until you can detail the transmission mechanism from Yunnan bats to humans, it could be any bat colony in any of those other provinces I mentioned that were the originators.
Scientists "99 percent" certain SARS originated in Yunnan bats
Posted byYes, I did. How does the Guardian article refute my point that other bat populations in other provinces might be viral reservoirs also? And where in the Guardian article did they explain Yunnan bats to human viral mechanism or have any other supporting evidence besides the genetic viral code that bats from that Yunnan cave started the SARS outbreak in humans?