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This thread is the absolute best free expat advertising for the Kunming Burger King franchise. Everyone just sees the words Burger King on the forums everyday now.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > USAmericans: Healthcare Registration

Deadline to enroll for this year just passed. If you file taxes in the USA and have over 10K USD in income, you will pay a 1% penalty. Next year its 2% if you still don't bother to enroll. You pay the penalties on your next year taxes. If your state set up a healthcare website you have to use it, if not enroll in federal one. Enrollment is a pain as you need to do a lot of tax, income, and id verification online. Also, almost all the plans only cover USA hospitals. That being said, the plans are very useful as they pretty much cover everything and come with reasonable copays and deductibles. Plus if you do make very little income, the plans monthly cost is reduced a lot. It's like offering work level or better health insurance to low income or self employed, both of whom used to just go without and pray they never have to visit an ER or go bankrupt as soon as someone got sick. Of course, if you are young and healthy and invincible to illness and accident, you are paying for someone else more or less. If you make any decent amount of income then you end up paying the same rate for health insurance, but having to buy a policy that provides more so you're overall payments go up. These are the highlights; there are a whole host of exemptions and other details, though I wasn't aware of the expat one atwilden mentioned.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Map showing un-destroyed bits of Shangri La?

They are all gone. 70% of old town burnt down. Everything around the square and all buildings heading uphill are just burnt out brick piles now. Only a handful of hostels and bars toward the back lower parts were left untouched. Its miraculous how those were left untouched and buildings across were vaporized. I don't think Noah was inside old town. Businesses just outside old town if closed, are due to low season or other reasons not fire related.

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The free PDF is pretty good resolution on my tablet. However, I wouldn't exactly use this as a field guide to picking your own mushrooms, but might be slightly useful a market buying guide, except as noted, no Chinese names.

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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.

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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.

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Far out, less people. Big enough to get lost in. Pretty and quiet near dusk. 20yuan entrance fee.

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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.

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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.