I Was Wrong About China... So I Came Back
I was wrong about China last year I visited Shanghai in Beijing and it's safe to say everything went wrong in Beijing I can't take a camera they're not letting us through it acquires an appointment one day in advance can't go paying with cash not knowing how to book tickets to attractions and only visiting the two biggest cities well this time I'm here to fix that yes I read the tens of thousands of comments and I'm determined to set some of them straight for those of you who gave me tips and welcomed me to China thank you and for those of you who accuse me of being to visit well I wasn't and I'm not this time and I have one message for you today is the start of a 5we journey across China that'll see me taking cities of all different tears histories and security levels but this time I've made sure I at least have WeChat so let's start this epic journey across China right here in guango as I travel back to China for the first time grab this for breakfast first ohow I don't know pop one yeah it's okay there's no pop ones left yeah yeah it's good so one I'm not eating it one one one one one I want try one of those as well this try this one one SC this yeah yeah yeah so now we can use it yeah all right this our first time using it okay got it yeah yeah done good okay he get the voice oh yeah oh yeah s yeah I've got two things I've got Shong Bell which is a pork bun and then this is like a Spong cake it's super floppy oh there's no taste so I'm going to walk in here and grab a CA for Michael but I can buy ni I can buy on we now uh poo oh yeah how much play I'll scan and you can help me I'll get her to put the money in and trust her because I don't know what it is now I scan hers ah there we go all right can you put it okay okay here got it byebye see here last time I came to China I didn't find any like good coffee shops and if you know me you know I love coffee so as we were coming in I saw this coffee shop on in the corner and now I'm going to try it I actually had it in my second Channel but I think it was really good and I haven't been able to find a really good coffee so far me how uh I do ice latte ice latte not one okay okay no sugar okay yes yes like yes yes okay y this one sure hey you're turn we chat my scanning yeah this one okay wow I cannot believe how much easier this is makes being here heaps better I'm going to link my last China trip down below but we didn't have WeChat and I'll get on to that a little bit later as to why we have but it does make it so much easier we're carrying cash around and people were like what's this so now we don't even have to carry anything it's it's actually super helpful and I was very stubborn last time and didn't want to admit it would make my time easier but it has it has are you from Guang yes you've been here your whole life yes wow that's cool I like it yeah this is my second time in China uh the first time I did Shanghai in Beijing uhuh but I like it here it's nice guanga is really nice how do I say it Guang guango Wango guango yes thank you I'm trying so hard I just can't say it properly last time I struggled with mandarin really bad and this time I'm also still struggling so I'm trying my best so when I bought that coke earlier I just gave her my phone and let her put in how much it cost and there is literally no other country that I can think of in the whole world that we've been where I'd feel comfortable or trust the person who's selling me the product putting in the price of the product and me just being yep pay like and she's putting in the right numbers like we've bought many Coke so I mean just then as well when I bought the the coffee she didn't didn't even check that I paid the right amount for the coffee it didn't even make a noise she just trusted that I'd paid there is like a sense of I feel like trust here in in China that I I honestly haven't felt anywhere anywhere before like some of the time here we've we've bought something and they've shoved us away before that like our payments even come through like trusting us that we've done it it is a little bit crazy it's a bit different before we head to the Metro I am just trying to learn a little bit more U Mandarin I am very bad at it I learn the basic of basics of every language that of every country that we travel to but this has been by far the hardest I know niow and um which is like hello and thank you and then I want to learn thank you very much because as we know manners are always important got it there you go WAOW you yeah Australia yeah yeah what's St uh New South Wales yeah me too yeah New South wal Sydney yeah oh nice I live uh uh pon pon yeah yeah darling Harbor darling Harbor yeah yeah I live in West oh oh West yeah yeah what food do I have to have here sorry what food is good to have here what what food yeah di some di some egg everywhere yeah yeah everywh I got to some Mand is yeah okay the some yeah nice but but some um uh little little bit expensive okay all right they chunk guys sh yeah yeah all right should we go we get moving yeah we'll get moving okay thank you thank you so much and how you byebye byebye thank you see you in Australia Italian ciao so I just wanted to take a second to show you how I fully access the internet here in China so the internet is obviously essential when you travel I don't need to explain that to you you can post photos find where you're going talk to friends or family for fun or mostly even safety but here in China especially um they don't use cash it's basically obsolete so you need the internet in order to do literally anything a local Chinese SIM card blocks a lot of Western applications like Instagram YouTube Google doesn't even work here so an eim is literally essential for your trip to China and I use hly so by using hly as my e with its own VPN means I can find places to come and get coffee and pay for it and this and you can use Google Translate so I used hly for my last trip to China and this one and a few other countries in between with literally Flawless uninterrupted unlimited 5G data the the whole entire time the fact that it is so easy is the best part all you do is download the hall ofly app type in what country you want to go to and then pick how many days you need it for so thanks to H ofly for partnering with me on this video as I already bought the eim before they wanted to partner with me thank you for being my reliable eim um provider of choice so like I said there's a link in the description bar get it for yourself for your next trip and enjoy internet as soon as the plane lands okay so far I love it here more than Shanghai and Beijing from my last trip I feel like everyone here is so friendly so much more friendly not that they weren't friendly there but just here everyone is like really happy to help us and help me with my uh language which is very helpful here I just really like it I feel like it's a more chill this city for me feels a little bit more like lived in if that makes sense and I'm just I don't know I don't know how to describe it I just really like it here okay so now we're heading to the metro and we're going going to take it to a fake Market if you watch my last series I got a Stanley Cup but it was honestly really dodgy and I overpaid so I'm going to try again so I have heard the Metro is one of the best in the world but I've also heard that this one in Guang guango is packed it's too busy so let's see for ourselves shall we I saw a Tik Tok of people buying their own handles that suction onto the wall so they can have something to hold on to on the bonj Metro really yeah they're buying suction handles they carry with them and I saw a picture of someone they called it the Florida of China and these people took a outside park bench and brought it into the things they could sit on it cuz there's no seats so we have to buy a ticket do you need English do you need to translate it says current location I understand Beijing L it's not showing you on the map I don't know where it is on the map right I don't know where we are it's not telling us where we are so I'm supposed to know where we are oh yeah Beijing but it doesn't tell you we have to work it out right price quantity G two 4 you1 we chat yeah this makes life so much better yeah but it also makes me spend more spend more money so you scan this this really makes this trip so much easier than last trip we couldn't even take the metro last time could we cuz it didn't take cash no we did we had to use cash we had to use cash and it was hard and they had to help us yeah they had to help oh all right it does look very busy so one stop all right so another cool thing is they have these massive red stands which are showing you where the lines are for the Metro so the stand's there and the Metro is just there and the other thing we noticed when we were just traveling through the Metro is that unlike Beijing we don't have to carry passports with us whereas last trip we had to have our passports if we wanted to catch the metro so here it just feels a bit more chill there is still a lot of electric bikes though and if you're not careful they will they get very close to hitting you oh my goodness last time you were all telling me to get off like to get out of Shanghai and Beijing and I totally get it I love Wang Xiao and it by no means is just off the beating track right now it's a tier one city I totally understand but we have a lot of different cities and different places coming up so make sure you subscribe cuz I am going to get off the beating track well off the beating track well off the beating track so I think all those people were telling me to get out of Shanghai and Beijing and to see the rest of the country the real china the real china it's coming up it's coming up so subscribe and turn the notification Bell on all right let's go get a fake fake cop and not get a real cop yeah but it's not it's a fake Stanley you know yeah all right let's go there is cup after cup here I'm so excited no Stanley though okay we'll keep looking oh I like this moreall better than the one from Shanghai already okay there is a lot here I am a little overwhelmed with how many choices there are of things but they're not like they're not all the the brand and a fake of that brand if that makes sense they're like their own brand that looks like the product does that make sense um so I want a fake Stanley I want one I want a Jupe not a counterfeit no I want a counterfeit not a Jupe I want a counterfeit so this mall we thought was a counterfeit mall but it's essentially like set up a shop here and sell stuff so no it's like walking around inside Alibaba or I was getting there in my joke but yeah it's about walking around inside like Alibaba or or like Amazon or whatever so all the products here these people would also sell online but this is like where they have their physical shops so we will find some counterfeit stuff and we'll find some like branded things and some jupes like as you can see over there there's Dyson that's clearly Dyson even though it doesn't say it on there so I think you will find your copy I do think you'll find your copy um it's just how many choices you have as opposed to the counterfeit one maybe we go to the counterfeit one I don't know is it worth going to should we go to it's called b or something like that b b Market is it worth going to let us know this one might have a Stanley maybe no it looks just like the own Brands again maybe this one no the but do you have Stanley no no okay okay look at them what look at this what [Music] they moving bags 28 wow 288 Micha was buying me a cppy bar okay thank you thank you byebye B oh okay we weren't planning to buy that so I don't know what I got but she was so nice um and show show she loves Karas I know you'd like to have this attached to your backpack yeah let's put you would never buy it for yourself so I bought it for you thank you just you okay okay that's enough it's time for some lunch I think maybe we'll go over there to McDonald's that was a joke by the way from my first video here last time if you know you know and if you don't go back and watch it go back and watch it it's linked in the description we can get a d now which is going to make life so much easier than last time we got scammed by the taxi last time in Shanghai now we can actually do what you have to do I just trying to find the right place to get picked up the market where we're going to go to is probably the most famous wholesale kind of fit sort of Market in the world in terms of like the quality you get there there's lots of one for one dupes there which is like the Holy Grail oh wow okay W so we're on the way to the other market now um in the DD that we booked with weat a we have weat wow okay we got out of the car we got hounded by people already this is insanee we've come to this other one and I also can't really see any like duplicate counterfeit cups and stuff it's just all all um what do you call shirts and stuff uh here no no not here okay yes here you have this you want this yeah by many many no no just one or two no not only cloth clothes okay WYA this okay it's okay wub wub wub are you making a video austral as you I'm Russian ohia oh I know [Laughter] Australia he asked if I was Russian I'm going to ask him if my Chinese is good okay I'm going to ask him if he knows where I can get the Stanley Cups uh no no no no no yeah everyone's like why do you only want one just one one I don't know what he's doing he's taking a photo of it and I think it's like showing where they sell oh to [Music] Ah that's a good price it's good price good price okay good price CH about 200 I am B I am B I am I you won last time 70 70 yeah go order online okay yeah better price here thank you all right we're going to go we can't get them here yeah yeah it's we have no problem communicating nice to meet you ni to meet you too yeah meet you English see later you everyone's very surprised only want one Stanley Cup he was telling us and we've kind of realized that you're not just coming to buy once off things they don't really sell them I guess here they were everywhere in Shanghai but I guess here people are doing more big quantities of of of purchases so the once off just isn't really that popular um he told us to go buy it online so I should have bought it at the first place and now we're not there so that's that's my fault and that's a fail today but that's that the guys who do the selling and the Agents like him are saying just go online to buy one like don't even ball looking for it and I've been reading online if you're staying in China and you're in your hotel and you have WeChat you can download the online marketplaces on the mini apps and just buy it to comes to your hotel in 24 hours so while we're walking around looking for a shop to buy a fake Stanley Cup from um I wanted to talk about WeChat I said earlier that I'll talk about it later last time we didn't have WeChat and it was was really hard to get around at that time though it wasn't open to tourists you had to either have like a Chinese someone from China invite you or something it was a whole ordal we couldn't get it as foreigners it was really hard blah blah blah since then and I like to think it was because of my last video cuz it kind of went a little bit viral they've actually opened WeChat two tourists two foreigners so it's been a lot easier of a process to not only obtain WeChat but then obviously to explore China to buy things in China and travel China since they opened up WeChat to tourists but last time we were some of the first people to come to China from when they closed um so it was super hard but now they've made it a lot easier which is obviously really handy for us uh where oh this here yeah I don't no okay that's okay I just want a bloody fake Stanley Cup sell me some can goods place we're in like the thick of but I just want a sty cup I don't want clothes trust me my luggage is already over and I'm a full-time traveler so I'm not going home after this so I need to watch what's in my bag I can't like get any clothes or anything but I can't find anywhere to buy cups a little kid just came and pulled his private parts out and pissed on my foot there's the evidence on the ground it was probably like two and he just pierced on my foot and whipped his things yeah well I've never had that happen before that's for sure so while I was contemplating what I'm doing with my life walking around a million fake markets in China not finding anything that I want to find I'm just looking here and this guy has a VPN Sam that he's promoting and it has like WhatsApp Instagram Facebook Tik Tok like it's interesting that you can just promote that like I don't know isn't that not allowed I don't know it's very very interesting uh oh is that us CH this is you okay yeah I can see that if you are looking for a manufacturer or um to yeah place a wholesale order I can see how You' be very like confused or like overwhelmed by how many options there are um I mean maybe I'll be able to do that one day and come back and look at wholesale options for something but right now I just want one cup and it's not working out so we're going to head back to the first place where I just saw one cup that taxi ride by the way that didd ride cost $250 Australian probably a150 us that is absolutely insane because our trip to Shanghai was just so costly and expensive about $50 something dollar in Australian so it was not cheap now I'm seeing like the different parts of this country or this place is really different hey I gave up on the fake Market idea and instead we came to Beijing road which is one of the like famous things to do here in guango from all the people we spoke to today like I think I would get along with Chinese people so well if I could speak FL M like I feel like people are actually so funny besides when they pee on my foot um that I really do think I would get along with them I just feel like like them not speaking much English and me not speaking much Mandarin um it definitely puts like a barrier but I feel like the their personalities from what I've seen and how friendly people are and how like they have a sense of humor I found and I I really feel like would get along if I could speak Mandarin so maybe one day the literal only reason why I picked this place is because there people out the front so must be good I'm just going to do a quick translation to see what's actually in them give me one original we C you that's so cool I like that one oh it's very hot oh I haven't seen that before I thought I knew what it was but I don't I haven't seen it before but they're very popular I don't know tell me what this is cold in the comments but it's really really hot and I picked original beef because the other one was spicy can I it kind of smells like a meat pie uh this feels very spicy even though it's original doesn't it there's like cabbage in there I definitely still think there's something some chili just not as much chili as the spicy one kind of just tastes like um the pastry is like a pie or something I like it I'm going to go grab um a a tea I'm not sure if this is like a good place to get tea but there's lots of people there so I'm going to try that one as well and you can't blame me because everyone else is getting it uh the this one peach uh sorry this one one yeah see [Laughter] now it's thinking hey wow $140 okay 71 you all right this was a peach one yeah it's good we actually had this on my second Channel it tastes more like water than um like overwhelming sugar which I actually think I like H so we got that yesterday on my second channel so it's another Channel that I have that is going to have a lot of videos from our trip here in China it's down below so if you want to see more Adventures a little bit more like chatty that's down there and you get to see a whole bunch of things that you probably won't see on this channel so subscribe it's in the link below it's my second Channel and go say hello to me over there as well so I was walking past and this place looks really really popular so I'm just going to try one but I'm struggling to do a translation as to what it actually is so I'm gonna ask her if it's costed oh sorry uh just s uh okay I'll just oh okay uh is it cost what is it may [Music] may okay okay okay okay here I have no idea what the hell these things are yeah um I asked if it was custard cuz it looked like custard and she said no but then I didn't know what she was saying in Chinese and I just scanned the receipt and it says crispy bubbles 1y old hey time to find out are they like old no it wouldn't be that anyway I don't know what they are give them a taste it's the one way to find out I'll try it here yeah try it try it try okay I couldn't buy just two either so here it go I had to buy the whole thing if you know what it is tell us smells good oh what is that is it cream I don't know is it sweet yeah I have no idea what it is like butter and cream mixed together maybe yeah do you like it it's a lot it's it's almost like too much sweet liquid stuff for me that's nice you know we even have this you're all loading to cream not if it's whipped cream well I don't know it's all right more for you we give it to our receptionists yeah let's go back now we'll give that to them so here's a present for you book Thank you and right on Beijing Road okay so you have the toilet in here there's no lights on here we go with lights toilet really nice and this is the twin room it's this one of the smaller options so this was about $80 Australian dollars a night 50 usdish um I'm going to leave it linked in the description bar below if you want to book it so so far this is my favorite city or favorite place that I've been to uh in China and I really really liked it I am just so interested like how many why there's a lot of I guess animosity to the people here because I mean most people have been really nice to me besides the boy that PE on my foot but yeah honestly I really really like it I like this trip better than the last trip that we had so many of you told me the first time um that it's it's better outside of those two cities and so far I really agree so I'm really excited to see more by the way this place is like 50 m from the Beijing walking Street FYI we're going to have a look around this um new part now with like the um big buildings at like a colored I don't really know Michael just said it's must see here so we're going to have a quick look at them so this park has kind of opened up into this big area where there's all these lights on the floor and they're changing colors look now it's green and then you've got this big tower at the end um and everyone's just like hanging out so in the end a fun and enjoyable day exploring a new city in China even if it is another tier one city but at the start of this video I promised you I would be exploring the real this is so different you just have to subscribe and stay tuned for the epic adventure that's on the way over the next 5 weeks as I visit parts of China I never expected to have access to safe to say I've uh never done that before
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