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• • August 19, 2011
    
  • Forums > Living in Chengdu > He doesn't want to study in America
    

    Penningnites advice sounds good. You might actually also show him this page and everyone's comments and he will see how his behaviour will be perceived by non-family members and non-Chinese. This kid really needs some kind of shock or scare to force a major change in his thoughts and deeds/

• • May 13, 2010
    
  • Forums > Living in Chengdu > not from concentrate OJ in Chengdu??
    

    hey, have to agree with the above post. You can easily buy a juicer/blender combo for about 300 kuai. I imagine in China a litre of Tropicana costs about 30 kuai a carton. A kilo of oranges might cost about 5. If you want the 'bits', you can juice some, then also blend one or two oranges in to the mix...

• • June 19, 2009
    
  • Forums > Living in Chengdu > music store?
    

    you should be able to find these kind of things around the music university near xin nan men bus station.

• • June 19, 2009
    
  • Forums > Living in Chengdu > Bike? bicycle? I want one...
    

    paying more than 80 is not being hustled - they have some really quality bikes at jiu yan qiao. i recently picked up a 'second hand' electric bike there for 650. seems a lot, but new it would have been 1700.

• • June 19, 2009
    
  • Forums > Food & Drink > Country Style Cooking (CSC)
    

    Yes, CSC is pretty good quality for fast food.I think you can also get as much soup as you like. I'd still rather have an 8 kuai huiguorou in some backstreet or other, though...

Latest Reviews

• • gavinski
    May 19, 2013
    
  • Chengdu > Rice plus
    普乐快餐厅

    I go here at least once a week when I don't feel like Chinese food but don't want to spend much. U can eat various curries for about 20 to 30 rmb including a small side of vegetables and usually with some free soup. In fact they recently introduced some mini set meals at around only 10 rmb!! The green tea and red bean dessert is good too and currently on promotion at a ridiculously cheap price of 3 yuan. The taste of the dishes sometimes changes, at times I feel the food is very tasty, but sometimes they seem a bit heavy handed with the spices and the flavours are not at all well balanced. Decor and ambience could be better, I find the service OK, the manageress is always friendly and smil, sometimes they forget to bring the soup or something, but not the end of the world. All in all, for the price I think this place is pretty good and deserves to be more popular. Worth checking out (on good days!) are the mince and broccoli curry, the THAI curry and the Myanmar curry.

• • gavinski
    May 15, 2013
    
  • Chengdu > Q's Cafe
    邱公咖啡

    I can't believe that I am the first person to review a café in Tongzilin that has been here for years. This place does easily the best Danish pastries I have had in Chengdu. Great Danishes by any standards, in fact, served in a mellow atmosphere, pretty high end decor. Really surprises me that this place doesn't have more business.

• • gavinski
    January 16, 2013
    
  • Chengdu > Han Bar

    Was here last night. Great cocktail (we had a White Russian and an Absinthe, the White Russian was delicious. The interior was nice, more minimal than the average fancy Chinese place. But the music and clientele were straight out of the likes of Muse, very mainstream, cheesy pop and commercial dance music. If Muse did a lounge bar, this is what it would be like. Not my cup of tea... Also the 'buy one get one free deal' seems to have passed. Instead, when you buy a drink, you get one free small shot of mixed spirits...

• • gavinski
    September 19, 2012
    
  • Chengdu > Yujia Chufang
    喻家厨房

    I ate here a few years ago at a dinner organised by a couchsurfer. There were about 15 of us altogether and we were served a lot of dishes. The food here is super high end, exquisitely-presented Chuancai. Every dish was a work of art and the meal was a very memorable experience. I don't remember how much it cost, but somewhere in the region of 2-300 per person, a bit more than we expected due to the cost of that crazy expensive fresh Tsingdao beer that comes in those fancy metal flasks, but all-in-all well worth it, and probably my most memorable meal of my stay in Chengdu so far. Don't expect to leave stuffed though, as dishes are small and delicate. You might want to fill up on Baozi after, lol. Still, it is now easy enough to run up a bill of 200-something per person in pricier western joints like Mandolino, which represents far less of a gostronomic experience in my opinion, so...

• • gavinski
    July 30, 2012
    
  • Chengdu > Yifang Music House
    一方民谣

    I have watched gigs here and also performed here a few times. Yifang is a folk music bar, but different from others in the city in that it has a really first class sound system - hands down the best sound system in the Chengdu folk scene. However, the system is only used to full effect when the sound guy is brought in before ticketed gigs. On other nights, with free admission gigs, the staff may or may not do the sound well.The decor is interesting too - a minimal aesthetic but using warm tones, wood and brick, so that it looks both classy and earthy at the same time.

    Drinks are reasonably enough priced. From what I remember a small Tsingdao is 15, not bad for a place which has clearly spent a lot of money on decor and which has table service.

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