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Forums > Study > Yunnan Daxue, Yunnan Shifan Daxue

There are lots of factors that will affect your experience at a uni. incl:

Quality of teaching
Resources
Teaching facilities - classrooms, language labs.
Course materials
Quality of teaching
Accommodation

The ranking of a university is a mixture of these, and more. But the ranking is based on the Chinese student experience. It may not reflect what an overseas student will experience.

I went to a good uni in Shanghai to study Mandarin. However, the uni did not run the course itself, it had separate management. It was not a well run course.
Another thing I have noticed with all universities in China. The paying student is not seen as 'the customer' (unlike back home), they are merely the cash cow.

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Forums > Food & Drink > A good hamburger?

When I first arrived in Shanghai there were lots of places selling 汉堡 that consisted of about a tablespoon of oily minced beef and sometimes garlic, smeared into a burger bun.

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I think of it a bit like an open belt, a strip or swathe. Or if the roads are the lines of communication/trade, then the area of influence (political/economic) along the road is the belt, Others may see if differently.

Definition from Merriam Webster

Belt - an area characterized by some distinctive feature (as of culture, habitation, geology, or life forms); especially : one suited to a particular crop the corn belt

Dali will change even more, but that rate of change may be faster. What will change is the crowds and prices for accommodation. If it follows the pattern of Lijiang and other places, locals will sell up and outsiders will move in, either as buyers or long term renters.

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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.