Learning Mongolian gaoxing? I also didn't hang out at Salvadors too much, but I didn't find anyone snooty there, well not any more snooty than sitting in a nice cafe in the West.
Anything in Mongolia that is interesting? I thought about biking through there at one point, those massive wide open plains.
@JanJal - you probably can. But we don't want to risk that you cannot or that someone in the airline you board in the foreign country (Chinese airline) says "you cannot board the plane, because you cannot legally enter Hong Kong" even if you are in transit only. Or some official in Hong Kong doesn't quite know the rules (or is being obtuse).
As Tiger says - never assume. I think we will keep avoiding Hong Kong until all PRC citizens have free entry.
We are living outside China now. When we return to visit we actively have to avoid Hong Kong as the Chinese Embassy in our country apparently cannot process a Hong Kong entry visa for Chinese citizens from outside the main cities. So it doesn't get any better if you try to visit Hong Kong from overseas.
Ha haaa, great comment. Particularly ugly or plain apartments are now to be referred to as "sky turds". That is 95% of the ones you see when you look around.
Pretty easy way to test if this is a genuine Chinese person or not - ask them to start replying to questions in Chinese. Then get your wife/friend to read it to see if it makes sense.
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So fast, so convenient. One star off for opening before the train station stop is connected!
Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.
We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.
If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.
Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!
One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)
This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.
You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.
Great bus though if you can catch it!
Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!
English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!
Nobel laureate Mo Yan's Yunnan connection
Posted byI have also noticed some post publishing "fixes" where the story is quietly changed after posting. This is NOT a good look for any site that reports news. Looks like I will be taking everything reported from GoKM with a grain of salt in the future if this is how you operate now...
Recommend you change your internal procedures - any changes to articles should be clearly noted at the bottom of your story, either in comments or attached to the story. Otherwise you are asking for trouble. And you come off looking especially bad when acting like you didn't make a change when you did... not impressed.
Getting Away: Sapa
Posted byAhh yes, but where does tramping and rambling come in?
Truncated subway Line 1 to open New Year's Eve
Posted byCheck out the one in England they want to build across the country. Estimated completion date 2023! Actual completion date likely to be 2025 if ever!
I also find it strange that in the west our trains are almost always late. Yet in China and Japan it virtually never happens. I have taken the overnight train to Guangzhou a couple of times and both times it got into the station within 5 minutes of the stated time, awesome!
A question about the last picture: Are the subway lines going to be single track with some double track for passing? Or is that only one tunnel, there is another tunnel next to that one for trains going the other way?
Chinese teens murder seven before arrests
Posted byIt does make one think: Imagine how many would have died if they had guns?
Columbine - 2 teenagers with guns - 15 dead and 21 injured in less than an hour.
These two - 2 teenagers with their hands - 7 dead in 10 days.
Makes you glad that guns aren't available!
The Box says goodbye
Posted byOh yeah - very sad to see the box go - not many foreign food places left, if Salvadors shut down for the same reason it would be an international incident.