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Forums > Food & Drink > Healthy options - identity crisis.

My avoidance of Chinese food is that I live outside the city and the restaurants here are 'fancy', or unappealing. If I am going out to treat myself, it is with western food. I eat Chinese at home, and so I need a change.
I do avoid fast foods, a lot of my problem was the 'modern' Chinese diet, excessive oil, fatty meat, cooking in pig or chicken fat, salt, MSG, sugar, etc. But you can't tell a 65 year old Chinese mother-in-law how to cook, and you can't throw her out of the kitchen.
I now cook my own food, and to be honest, I don't like most Chinese food. Back home, yes. But here, no. Especially not Chinese home cooking.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Where to buy a decent bike

I want to buy a reasonable quality bike, I am trying to find out locations of GOOD bike shops.

I don't want to spend mega bucks and I am not interested in a 500rmb bone shaker of basic quality. I see there are maybe hundreds of bike shops along the HuanCheng Lu (ring road) selling basic machines.

I would like to know where to find the bigger brands, specific locations if possible. Maybe somewhere with good service (asking too much perhaps).

I am also trying to find something other than a mountain bike or a road/racing/triathlon bike.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How to send knives out of the country?

Actually, the quality Chinese knives are cheaper on Amazon than they are here. Once you mover away from the basic mild steel with wood handle, the prices get silly in China. The same with saucepans, most of which are made in China.

Regards thieves at customs, would you not have the same problem even importing your 'gift' from China?

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Not sure if the question is serious, but here is a serious attempt at an answer.

In the last month or so we have had a lot of rain over a prolonger period, and it has helped a lot. But there has been a 4 year deficit of rainfall vs water use. This has depleted water stocks.

Water stocks consist of rivers and lakes, reservoirs, and most importantly ground water. To replenish the stocks there needs to be rain over a prolonged period. Long periods of consistent light rain are far better at replenishing water sources than heavy rain over short periods.

Shorter periods of heavy rain increase surface water. In urban areas, the concrete buildings and roads prevent the rain water from going into the ground and you get floods and most of this runs off into water courses.
In non-urban areas the surface water can run over the ground with only a small percentage actually soaking in. There is also run off to water courses, flash floods etc.
Water courses, including rivers and many shallow lakes don't really store the extra water, it just runs through.
Where there are deeper lakes and reservoirs water is stored, but this is only a small part of the water reserves.
It takes time for water to permeate the deep ground to replenish aquifers.

Not a perfect answer, I know.

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Visited one just over the border in Guizhou. The pans had not been flushed and there were piles of poop. There was a matong (a sitter shiter) but it was smashed, like have the bowl was gone and jagged edges. No seat (obviously) and it had been used. Build up of green gunk on the porcelain suggest a time lag since any real cleaning had been done.

I think the governer will be regretting his off hand remark, not realising it would go on record.

What ever happened to the 2 flies rule?

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.