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Pan Jiang Road West, Kunming, Yunnan, 650032, China
Red Dirt
Zig Zag bridge to the islands
The Always Wedding Company
The Bai Village
Hi pengyous,
Does anyone know a bar that might show the AFL grand final this Sunday?
Thanks.
Grand final is played Saturday so even if you find a bar that is showing it - you might be 24 hours late.
Have not been to Kunming for 14 years and I guess things have changed a little since then - the people in the bars I used to frequent had not even heard of Australia - let alone the AFL!
Try dropping an email to the AFL (google for the address) they might help.
Hope you can sort it out mate!
Jack
contact THE HUMP,maybe they will
lanny
Hi Mate!
By now our glorious Swans have won, and I have boasting rights from Sydney. I listened to it here in Kunming on the internet on 2GB, and then on Sunday, while I was teaching, my Parramatta went down 29-0, so this weekend, I will listen as my second NRL team Wests Tigers defeat the Cowboys! There is no TV coverage that I can find anywhere except for soccer. How about a beer one day?
Cheers for now, Wacca, alias Bill.
Tourists, especially malaysians tend to think that 1 "kati" (or "gan" in cantonese, "jin" in mandarin) = 600gm.
The mainland Chinese don't think that way, their 1 kati = 500gm, so they are not really cheating when you find your purchase lighter than you think.
However, in Kunming (and Yunnan in general), when the vendor mentions "yi jin", it means 1 KG, where as "yi shi jin" = 500gm.
At home I have a regular swim routine, and one of the first things I did when I arrived in Kunming was find a swimming pool. It was not to had to find, I big red building right off of Dong fen Lu next to the Yunnan Normal university. The pool was not so bad, slightly heated, had a small slightly cool hot tub. Only cost 10 RMB, plus another 10 RMB deposit for a lock for the locker. In Chinese style the staff were a little cool (unfriendly) at first. The life guards had on some fancy red track suits, and I think none of them had been in the water. The only swim suit that I had was my bright yellow, green and white Hawaii flower print shorts from home, and my super fly extra large goggles. SO after I changed and was walking to the pool, I notice that just about everyone has stopped to watch (or admire my fancy swim suit) me, I also noticed that the standard Chinese swim suit was a pair of tight black spandex shorts with a whit stripe down the side. So, me being a white person, bright shorts, big goggles and have more body hair than the average Chinese person, I kind of stood out. But once I jumped in the water and my eyes stopped burring from the chlorine and stared to swimming, but only after about 10 stokes I was out of breath. (swimming at 6000ft elv. is a little more difficult and tiring than swimming at sea level. Plus breathing in cigarette smoke while swimming at theses heights takes the wind out of you even faster. At home everyone swims in the same direction as the painted lines on the bottom of the pool, and at the pool where I normally swim at, it you even slightly swim out of the lanes, the life guards will let you know.
I did not think about this till I was broad sided about half way down the lane by some lady doing the panda stoke ( Panda stoke is kind of like slow breast stoke. Just fast enough to keep you from sinking, but not to fast to get you hair or face wet so your head will always stay above water so your cigarette will not get wet while you swim)
Then I realized that they swim in China the same way they drive, if there is an open space it should be used. So people just kind of swim where every there was an opening. At first I hit (swam into) a few people, but once I got into the flow of having to keep one eye open to watch out for incoming traffic, and having to swim around other swimmers, my swimming experience was not to bad.
I did not swim for about 2 weeks so after school I went to the pool to swim, and to my surprise the pool was no more, same building but the pool was filled in and it was a cel(edited)ar phone shop. And that was the end of my swimming in Kunming.
Most of the staff how worked at the pool nice people and became friendly after I start swimming on a regular basis. (they even stop making fun of my swim shorts to my face)
A net over a coalfire to BBQ the Er Quai, which is one of the 18 strange things about Yunnan.
Er Quai is made from cooked rice. This is different from other chinese pancakes (papa) which are usually made from rice flour or wheat flour.
Pots of sauces, both savoury and sweet, and spicy.
Just tell them what you like.
About RMB 1 per piece. BBQ Er Quai.
You may add You Tiao to it. (RMB 0.50 extra) Er Quai = RM 1 per piece.
Yunnan is famous for its wild mushrooms. This restaurant serves exactly that.
Chinese modern classic deco restaurant, with bamboo curtains. A gas stove pit in the middle of each table, because you are expected to use it to cook the mushrooms.
The waitress likes to pour chicken fat into the soup once in a while, so if you don't like it too fattenning, stop her.
Menu in chinese. Just pick any mushrooms on the menu, or rely on the recommendation of the captain, or have a look at the real samples and decide which fancies you most. You can pick a few of course.
Steamboat style. The stock is hot chicken soup.
Some of the mushrooms are poisounous until fully cooked. So while it is cooking, don't pour the soup into the condiment dish. The condiment is made up of certain local herbs, when mixed with the soup, it serves as a dip for the mushrooms.
You can also order beef, and have a beef shabu-shabu.
You can have a day visit to Xi Shan from Kunming. The local bus leaves you at the foot of the mountain and you may walk towards the lime rocks area and pass three Buddhist temples on the way there. The temple's gardens are nice and probably the most interesting thing to see (beside lime rocks, hmm) on the way up -or down Xi Shan.
There is also nice view at Dianchi lake.
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