Hainan-Sanya-Haikou Expat

Happy Hour Daily from 11 AM ? 6 PM
每日的欢乐时光 11:00 ? 18:00

All Australian Beer: 29 rmb
所有澳洲啤酒: 29 rmb
House Well w Mixer: 20 rmb (juice/soda)
可选任何款烈酒，加果汁或苏打水, 苏红伏特加、龙舌兰、白橙皮、
哥顿金酒、Blanca rum朗姆酒 20 rmb果汁/苏打水
S. Africa Wine: 25 rmb/glass 125/bottlee
南非葡萄酒 25rmb/杯 125/瓶

Monday: ALL DAY LONG 每周一 全天
Chicken Quesadilla: 29 rmb
鸡肉馅饼 29rmb
ALL Australian Beers: 29 rmb
所有澳洲啤酒 29rmb

Every Tuesday: ALL DAY LONG 每周二 全天
Taco Tuesday : Mixed Taco Platter: 59 rmb
每周二墨西哥风味烤肉每份 59 rmb
Margarita: 29 rmb
玛格丽塔 29 rmb

Every Wednesday: ALL DAY LONG 每周三 全天
Roasted Half Chicken: 59 rmb
脆皮烤鸡 59 rmb

South Africa Wine: 25 rmb/glass 125/bottle
南非葡萄酒 25rmb/杯 125/瓶

Thursday: ALL DAY LONG 每周四 全天
Australian Rump Steak 250 G: 169 rmb
澳大利亚牛臀肉排 250 G: 169 rmb

Santa Rita Wine: 35 rmb/glass 160/bottle
桑丽塔 35rmb/杯 160/rmb

Friday: ALL DAY LONG 每周五 全天
Fried Calamari: 29 rmb
蒜味鱿鱼圈 29rmb
Mango Slush: 29 rmb
芒果鸡尾酒 29rmb

Saturday: ALL DAY LONG 每周六 全天
Rib Eye Steak: 119 rmb
牛眼肉排 119rmb

Mojito: 29 rmb
莫其多 29rmb

Sunday: ALL DAY LONG 每周日 全天
Save 10 rmb off all specialty burgers
所有特色汉堡减10rmb
Bloody Mary: 29 rmb
血玛丽 29rmb

Here's a quick set of tips and recommendations for the Sanya beaches as we approach the Chinese New Year in Sanya.

Yalong Bay - This is a great beach to spend the day. If you want fancy, park at the Sheraton/Marriott/Hilton/Ritz end. If you want to enjoy a great beach on a budget, park at the Holiday Inn end of the beach and you will find many beachside vendors offering typical low priced Chinese street food/barbecue and drinks. In front of the Aegean Conifer is a barbecue/snack cafe on the beach with nice tables and chairs in the shade.

Dadonghai - The center of this beach rates a a big time AVOID. If you stay the far west end (near the Dadonghai Square and South China hotel) or east end (near the Jin Ling and Shan Hai Tian hotels) the beach area and boardwalk is great. Find Wave Bar for cheap beers at the beach. If you stay in the middle of Dadonghai, stay ONLY at the beachfront. 30 meters back its a filthy Armageddon leaving me wondering why any tourist in their right mind would ever voluntarily sit street side to have a meal and feel happy.

However, suffer the neighborhood to enjoy Marco Polo Italian restaurant, Pattaya Thai restaurant on the beach in front of the InTyme resort, and the 2nd floor Hong Kong Dim Sum restaurant at the BaoHong hotel. Also heard recently that Blue Lotus russian restaurant is currently serving up really good chow.

Sanya Bay - What's better than a 20km long sunset beach lined with tropical palm trees and grass for shady areas to picnic? However, the water and sand are below what one would hope. The best of Sanya Bay is at Jin Ji Ling Lu where you'll find Fat Daddy's and Casa Mia and the Japanese restaurant. Also, drive about 5 km further up toward the Howard Johnson and look for lantern lights on the beach where you'll find local vendors with chairs and tables right on the beach doing barbecue and cold beers...fabulous.

Cheers, M

Does our venerable and respected real estate veteran Sam Crispin hit the mark with his round two jab on the continued boiling cauldron of real estate stew here in Sanya?...

Sam recently weighed in with this insightful and important comment:

"Rumours about of Hainan offering visa free access for nationals of over 20 countries and that the real estate market, as I and not Mario predicted, is going nuts again. Watch what happens over Chinese new year, that's the peak sales season in this hot, hot, hot market! Mario, there's more than one beer riding on this."

Perhaps Sam hits on some encouraging thoughts here with some substance behind them. In fact, with the Chinese New Year holiday coming, he is right on the mark regarding the seasonal bump in asking prices heading into the Chinese New Year season, so there is some truth to the idea that the market is "heating up" a bit. After all, I hate to be a touch negative but the holidays are the perfect time to find more suckers bidding prices unreasonably higher and higher just like the stock markets. And if they're willing to come to Sanya that week paying full airfare and 5000rmb/night for a 15000rmb room, by all means, let them pay inflated prices for Sanya's property too!

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Many of us enjoy tropical beaches and Sanya is China's only true, genuine tropical beach destination. Over the past 3 years of development "Sanya" has become the catch-all word comprising the 160kilometer south/southeast coastline starting from the Kempinski Resort at Sanya Bay running up through Dadonghai, Yalong Bay and Haitang Bay to the Le Meridien Resort at the northern side of Shimei Bay. Over a period of four years since first arriving, Sanya has been good to us and many of our friends. I have gotten to know her intimately, in great detail, both personally and in terms of business and market research.

Today, I cannot encourage you to join the speculative fools playing the Chinese real estate and stock markets right now, including Sanya's property market. This is an ugly and unfortunate scene, with prices way too high, way too fast, even though it might continue a while longer. Less than 1 1/2 years ago a very knowledgeable local business owner and I sat over coffee discussing that prices in the area will most likely reach 20,000rmb per square meter "someday", probably two to three or five years later. Since then, prices have rocketed to over 30,000rmb psqm and higher. The cauldron of witches brew is boiling and buyers are stepping back.

Andy Xie, ex-Morgan Stanley China analyst in the U.S., has recently called the real estate and stock market rise in China a giant ponzi scheme. Strong words from a person we can rightfully call in the know. Please be sure to at least read his remarks further on down in this report. After exhaustively analyzing and watching both markets, I am grateful for the returns I've made and now I am getting very jittery at these heights, in full agreement with Mr. Xie.

"Looking more broadly beyond the real estate market, we can also sense there is a strong case of bias emerging from Chinese big business to subtly push foreigners out of China, as they come up with one big event excuse or another (Beijing Olympics, 60th National Day Anniversary, next the Shanghai World Expo) to severely limit visa permissions and make it harder to do business according to the recent scathing European Commission Annual Position Paper. The Chinese are perhaps starting to enjoy their little victory party as they seem to be the pied piper leading the world out of its economic crisis. America is cash broke. Europe is cash broke. Asia is flush with cash starting with China. That's the economic reality and in fact we should appreciate its importance and value." Mario Cavolo

Indeed, the global depressed economy is causing companies to cutback on expenses and one way to do that is to localize the expat management positions and send the expats packing as many companies have needed to do.

As I am the only person on planet earth who writes and publishes a reasonably accurate and detailed Sanya Real Estate Quarterly Report, that makes me the de facto investment real estate analyst of the moment whose job is to sometimes go out on a limb and call the bubble. There is always some possibility the bubble will continue for a few more years to even dizzier heights before it inevitably will burst. If so, it is I who am the fool today. If not, it is I the revered wizard analyst tomorrow. If prices are substantially higher in the next 2-3 years, that state of economic affairs will probably also reflect severe inflation and currency devaluation issues worldwide as the underlying financial crisis continues to unwind in ways we haven't seen yet. The unwinding of the crisis is far from over and we shall see.

Going into the background analysis of the property market here, I start by enabling you our valued and appreciated readers to understand this bubble very quickly by making you a genuine Sanya real estate apartment offer. Do take a moment to compare this sample Sanya real estate offer to other possible choices you have in China, and also compared to other possible countries in Southeast Asia, North America, Australia/New Zealand and the European Continent.

Go to the next page to view today's amazing ocean-view luxury apartment offer and judge the lunacy for yourself!

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Lots Happening This Weekend in Sanya!

GOOD THROUGH THE END OF SEPTEMBER ONLY - You can't sneeze at Fat Daddy's 50% off specials for their "Saturday is Family Day" promotions...that's this Saturday from 3pm to 6pm

This Sunday Sept 20th brings you to the SanyaExpat Coffee Mixer from Noon to 2:30pm at CoffeeWorld Dadonghai...the first 20 guests arriving enjoy any drink on the menu FREE! Come meet new friends, stay in touch with the community and learn what's happening in the area.

This Monday at Fat Daddy's begins their Monday Night Musicians Open Mic / Live Jam Session. If you're a professional musician in town be there....musicians will receive restaurant credit but MUST talk to the owner Sheldon or myself first...Cheers, M