Inside China’s Most Controversial Region (Uyghur Autonomous Region)
I am in Xinjiang West China the most controversial region of the country and in this video we will get impressions of this region that often makes headlines in the western media there is a lot of curiosity and speculation about what life is really like here in this video I want to see it for myself welcome to you oh thank you very much but we do have cameras everywhere such a different s to China we will explore the ancient Old Town meet local weer people tried their food and I also plan to visit one of the largest mosque in all of China I'm also curious how this region compares to the other parts of China I have visited before but is this place even safe to explore as a foreigner there are also a two heavily armed military guys let's find it all out feel free to join okay I am in the city center of Kashgar or Kashi which is in the very far west of China very near the border of Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and also Pakistan and yeah this city has about 800,000 people living here and about 85% of these people are Uyghur Muslim people so I think it's a very interesting City to explore and there it is the eat car mosque I'm actually not sure how to pronounce the name but yeah this is the largest or one of the largest mosque in China and the last time I was in Xinjiang earlier this year I tried to visit mosques but they were all closed but I heard that this mosque is actually open to visit for tourists so let's see if that's true and after the mosque we're going to explore around the markets here there's actually a lot of things going on here and over there is a food Street where we can try local food but first things first let's see if we can enter the mosque here first of all I really like the design of the building look at that I like the yellow color and then we have the little towers here on the left on the right side that looks very cool oh you have to pay to enter I think if I understand this correctly price 30 unit minut again uh I can visit I would like to visit the m if that's possible okay yeah but 20 minutes later okay with it I need to wait 20 minutes and I have to buy a ticket here yes ticket yes okay I come back in 20 minutes thank you very much you're welcome okay so you can visit the mosque although I am a bit confused that uh you have to pay entrance I think I've never heard about a mosque that charges entrance fees but uh yeah we're going to wait a few minutes actually what I'm going to do in the meantime because it is actually pretty cold here we are currently having 3° and when I planned this trip the temperature here was 15° so I have a a jacket a thin jacket a hoodie underneath but maybe I need something for my hands and my hat so let's see if I can maybe buy some gloves and something to cover my hat and then we're going back to the mosque hello ni do you have a gloves for the Hat what about um for my head over there okay yeah we have a souvenir shop here or all many souvenir shops actually because yeah the city center here is actually quite touristy not with foreign tourists but I think Chinese tourists are coming here mainly okay okay thank you oh look at the beautiful Street here oh that looks lovely yeah there's a very ancient town here the history of this town dates back to the times of the Silk Road back then this town used to be a big trading hub so it is a town with a lot of history if you love history then this town or the whole area here is probably very interesting for you we're going to explore more around the old town later in the video but this is already a very first Glimpse that we are getting here I mean look at all these buildings here I really like the architecture the design and probably many of these buildings are quite old and yeah it feels to me it feels more like in the Middle East here a mix of Central Asia and Middle East and actually geographically we are basically in Central Asia here ah I found someone here selling gloves and he also has like smaller ones hello nio is this your shop how much are the the gloves here how much Sha Sha 10 10 10 can I try them okay yeah that's okay I only need them for a few days I think so 10 10 10 okay 10 yeah take a photo sure how do you say hello in your your WEA language right you speak WEA language Mandarin ni and here in kashka youash that's hello okay good to know okay got some gloves now I only need a hat so yeah we have a mandarine Chinese here and then we also have the RGA language here in Ching Jiang so also the the signs that you can see on the streets for example they have usually both languages written on it so the typical Chinese because here this is still China after all but in this region of China we also have the RGA language it says according to document number 62 issued by the kazakstan municipal government all types of Motor Vehicles are prohibited not sure why it says kazakstan but I think the sign basically says that you're not allowed to drive with a motorbike here interesting sign the bad is remembered for a curse the good for praise decide for yourself which one you want this city is actually one of the oldest cities in the world one of the oldest cities that is continuously inhabited the history here dates back to over 2,000 years ago so I really like to imagine how it was to walk around here like 2,000 years ago I'm not interested in that some souvenirs here I want to buy a hat yeah uh hat yeah yeah but small small this oh but that's too big you have something small this small small small yeah yeah yes small this this yes small yes can I have a look not really the type of hat I'm looking for this is good it's very tight very tight no this this this this this you have a mirror here yes oh it feels very tight not really comfortable to be honest oh but it's too tight not too tight this rosi from Russia rosi ah oh yeah it looks like a Russian head right R but it's sh no it feels too tight this too not too tight if I wear this for 1 hour I get headache this me okay let's try again this good is good no I don't think so how much is this 450 how much 450 450 oh that's like $60 $60 I'm only here for three days huh I only need a head cover for 3 Days $60 is more than I need to spend for days much I understand this is maybe expensive but I don't want to spend more than 50 50 I understand this one not 50 but I I will find something else for this price okay 350 no no no remember I know but I actually I don't think it's good and it's way too much money this good this good no I'm sorry no 250 okay no it's okay no how much I don't think I I really like this so I don't I want to buy something different I want to find something else 200 okay no 200 yes 200 no it's it's okay but thank you very much for showing me 150 okay no no no I don't want no no no no it's not about the price it's not about the price but thank you very much for showing me have a good day oh did you see how far he went down from 450 to 150 yeah but I didn't really like the style of it so even if you would have said 50 in the end I uh I think I prefer to continue because that was a bit too much like I'm just hello ni hello are you from here H kashar from kashar oh my first time here ah I'm from a du gery Germany welcome toar oh thank you very much I want to see the Mosk now MOS yeah here we have it this is the type of hat I am looking for we even have Adidas and Puma here German Brands how much is this one 15 15 15 okay can I try it sure okay either this one or the Adidas one I can play a g ball Maj B ma B cash one of the the rare occasions where I can't pay with alip pay sometimes the vendors only accept a weet yeah for situations like this I always have cash with me as well okay okay I just decided I want to change to the Adidas one supporting German brands in China oh yeah he has a scissor great okay she thank you very much okay now I feel prepared to explore the city getting close to 0° but now with the gloves and the hat I'm prepared and let's check out the mosque and we had a mosque here the official name is ITA mosque I'm not sure if I pronounce it correctly this mosque was built in 1442 and sometimes this mosque is even named as the biggest mosque in China but sometimes also the great Mosque of Chiang is named the biggest mosque in China and yeah about 20,000 people are fitting inside here to be honest it looks way smaller than that I can't imagine that there's space for 20,000 people in there now I can visit no what time two okay a bit confusing like half an hour ago they told me come back in 20 minutes and now they're telling me the same again so what's up with the mosque here can I visit or not yeah then I think we're going to uh explore the food street over there first and then I will come back again and the last time I was in Ching Jang and maybe you saw my video from earlier this year where we explored urumi which is the capital of of the Ching Xiang region um I also tried to visit some mosque and they were all closed and the guy who speaks English I think he's just calling me back I'm really sorry yeah uh after ludan come back is it Beijing time luding Beijing time 6:00 6:00 no uh yes yes yes not 20 minutes 1 2 3 4 5 yes not five uh five five no no no six six six yes so 1 and a half hours uh 2 hour later 2 hour later 2 hour later why is it uh closed now uh 70 720 720 yes so 6 or 6 or 1 hour later okay is it oh no no no 2 hour later okay so I can come back at 6 or at 7 yes 6 yes so in 1 hour 1 hour 20 minutes yes 720 uh close close yes 6:00 I can yes okay so 6:00 6:00 I can okay why is it closed now because now praying time yes yes yes praying time yes okay thank you so much yes yeah that was actually my guess that uh turists are not allowed inside during praying times and maybe it is praying time right now now and if you're wondering about the time it is currently 4:40 p.m. and yeah he said I can come back at 6:00 if we understood each other correctly now so uh yeah we're going to come back here at 6 then let's go on a little food Adventure first because yeah the last time I was in Ching Jiang I absolutely loved the food here they have so many delicious uh barbecue Meats lamp meat goat meat let's see what we can find I think there's a big street food market even over there and then we're going to come back in 1 and a half hours and see if I then finally will be able to have a look inside a mosque in China would be my first time oh look at the beautiful little houses here is this maybe a little uh oh no I think this is the entrance to an underw walk I would guess wow I really have the impression here so far that they really try to uh keep the ancient culture of the city I mean the whole look here usually CH is very modern and you see a lot of skyscrapers and modern buildings you don't see that here at all it's all these old buildings everything looks like brownish sand color very typical Middle Eastern or Central Asia like looks like they really try to maintain that here which is great so let's cross through this underw walk here okay and here we are on the other side and there is the entrance to the market I would be curious what's written on the on the gate there any one of you can translate that please do so in the comments and I also see these little buses everywhere here I would guess that these are tourist buses so maybe you can hop on one of these and then have a tour around oh but this looks beautiful here probably a very old gate maybe this once used to be the entrance to uh the city okay we have a little security area here nothing unusual at popular places in China and here we are oh this looks interesting look at the streets here full with Market stalls and then here I think we have the food section oh and it smells delicious here already oh let's have a look around and then yeah I'm looking for something very specific one of uh the favorite foods that I had when I was in Ching Jang the last time oh we have the typical Nan bread here that also looks delicious this looks like a kebab here similar like a Duna Kebab in Germany which is actually from Turkey original but very popular in Germany oh look at this this looks huge this is rice I think with a lamp and look at the huge pot he has here wow I think this is the biggest cooking pot I've ever seen in my life reminds me a bit about the food Street in Chiang where I have also been earlier at the beginning of the year and in the middle of a Chiang also a town that has a lot of Muslim influences uh there's also a food street that is similar like this one oh and I see it over there this is what I was looking for meat filled pastries here hello ni I would like to buy one of these how much 2.5 okay can I get one yeah this is probably with a goat or beef and yeah these uh meat filled pastries are very very delicious okay sh I pay a b yeah yeah okay and yeah these meat fil pastries are made in Clay Oven I think right here oh can I have a look oh this is a oh yeah he's making a new fire now and then yeah this is a typical Clay Oven and then inside these ovens that's where you also make the Nan I guess and also these uh meat filled pastries the name is actually samsa if I remember correctly similar like a samosa in India for example but a very different taste actually okay let's see if uh it's still as good as I remember it from the last time when I was in Chang let me just bite inside M oh this is so delicious so we have meat inside also onions I can definitely taste the onions as well and then the the bread or the pastri is uh from the outside very crispy but it's actually not that thick it's very thin oh so good now I'm not sure what type of meat is in here I could imagine it's either goat or beef I will probably say this is one of my favorite foods in all of China although this is very different compared to the typical Chinese food you can find all over East China for example but this is uh very very delicious and wow this street goes on and on and many of the Stalls are actually not open at the moment I could imagine that's maybe because today is a Wednesday so during the week maybe most of these stalls are only open at the weekend hello ni H what are you selling here you make some juice juice I think it's cranberry I think how much how much 15 I think 15 five 15 right yeah I try to learn the the the sign with the finger 10 right this 10 I think this is 10 10 yeah yeah one please yeah yeah I I would like to try the juice here so he puts it in here so already peeled all the the seeds out of the fruit it's cranberry right pomegranate ah yeah yeah oh yeah I think I was mistaken a pomegranate with a cranberry pomegranate juice yeah okay let's have a look so he's freshly squeezing it out with the help of this machine here and then the juice is falling into the cup here so freshly squeezed juice and yeah usually pomegranate juice is quite expensive compared to other juices like orange juice for example but I have the feeling that it's a bit cheaper here in Ching Jang so I could imagine that actually the fruit is coming from Ching Jang does this fruit grow in Ching Jang yeah oh okay so local fruit here Shin Jang Kash from kashka ah it's a from this town actually or from this region here from Kashi or kashka so he's actually squeezing quite a lot of them so I think you have to uh peel a lot of these fruits just to get one juice can I can I do yeah I would like to do that you can have fake a video okay let's see if I can do that too oh you have to actually use a lot of muscle power again okay and now again actually you have to use a lot of muscle power to uh properly squeeze all the juice out are you from Kashi M yeah okay I'm from Dua Germany yeah oh and here's the the fresh juice oh that looks delicious and the store okay and now let's try it okay not my first time trying pomegranate juice but the last time was a long time ago oh so rich in flavors oh it has a very strong taste very nice taste similar like grape juice definitely worth to 15 maybe it's a different exence here in the far west of China I already paid we are ear pay okay that was very good sh thank you very much okay bye-bye oh had some delicious food already delicious juice if you love food and you think about visiting China China has great great food all over the country but the food here I can really recommend uh visit Chang and try the local food here oh what are they making here that looks interesting what is this uh candy candy I can try oh okay oh uh there's a camel on there maybe this is made with camel mil M oh it's a bit dry similar texture like a cookie and a Milky aftertaste you're selling it uh how much uh how much uh should I get this for 20 I want to ask if this is a made with camel mil because there's a camel literally printed uh on the candies here and then yeah she has a very interesting machine here so it's one big stick and then the machine just cuts it into small pieces and prints the the camel on it is it made with camel milk yeah ah okay so it is indeed made with Cam milk okay sh thank you very much very interesting great little SN machine that she had there right okay so this area the old town is yeah I would call it a touristy area of course not many foreign tourists are here but local tourists and you can see yeah we have all these souvenir shops here and also many science explaining things so I would definitely call this area a touristy area but later in this video we're also going to leave the ancient city the historical touristy City Center and we're also going to explore normal regular areas of the city so I'm also very curious for that but now actually I'm going to head back to the mosque it's almost 6:00 p.m. and then let's see if we can finally enter the mosque I just got lost again in some side alleys and have a look at this wow I definitely feel like uh I'm somewhere in the Middle East now such a different site to China but yeah China is a huge country of course you have Hello Hello China is a very uh diverse country country because of its size one of the largest countries in the world by population and by size and you can see that so here in the far west of China it looks very different compared to the Far East of China where I have also been at the beginning of this year in case you don't know I already visited China a few times before I think I filmed already 15 videos in China so if you haven't seen my previous China videos feel free to check them out wow look at this WOW imagine to live here in one of these ancient streets where people already used to live hundreds and thousands of years ago so interesting but also here as usual in China and I know many people will disagree with this in the comment section but we do have cameras everywhere so even here in these ancient small roads a high level of surveillance and yeah this is always a controversial Topic in my comment section whenever I'm posting videos about China most of the people who disagree with so many cameras everywhere are westerners and most people who say oh this is not a problem this is actually something good are usually Asian people in the comment section but my opinion personally I agree with so many cameras around because it makes the city a very safe place I have absolutely zero safety concerns walking around here on my own even after Sunset I would feel safe and comfortable able walking around on my own and the reason is or one of the reasons is that yeah there are literally cameras everywhere so I would imagine that the crime rates are very very low as in most other Chinese cities as well but yeah feel free to let me know your opinion about this in the comment section I'm always curious at TR read opinions even if it's a different opinion than mine I really seem to like German Brands here we have a Audi German brand and Mercedes oh but I have one already I don't need another one I just find it interesting that all the hats here have German brands on it Audi Mercedes Adidas yeah we have a little Street Market here so these ladies here they are selling mostly clothes winter clothes on the streets here cuz yeah I think kashka also gets the proper winter with the like - 10 -5 - 20° a lot of snow not still at the moment not but I think soon in the next weeks probably it's going to be a proper winter here and you can see people are probably already preparing for that I have just been to a section of the market where I don't really belong to it's like hidden you walk down the stairs here and then there's a section of the market where there are selling like underwear for women things like that it's not a typical section where a man usually walks through I think so I got a lot of uh looks not sure how I ended up there I was just walking around but yeah you can literally find uh everything here on the streets oh look at a little goat here probably a carriage for children so if you have children you can put them in here and then the goat drives them around hello so we have goats here we have horses and then of course also the camels which are rating right here 1 2 3 4 five camels look at B smaller compared to the camels I have seen a few weeks ago in Pakistan maybe you remember I think camels are very interesting animals I really like camels so I guess they are all used here for tourism purposes so probably you can uh rent them or have a ride around with them for like 10 minutes 15 minutes maybe it's also interesting here I think you can pay money to uh play with the pigeons and to take a pictures with the pigeons I think that's their house probably that's why they are not flying away because they are living here and they get food here every day oh yeah she has a corn in her hands so the pigeons are staying on her forearm and he's taking some pictures but yeah I am back at the mosque right here and it is exactly 6:00 now so let's have a look if I can finally have a look inside okay third attempt to visit the mosque can I I enter now you need passport photo is okay 30 right 30 okay let me uh put of my cap when you enter a mosque or any religious places should not wear something on the head I think and here we go you need to see the ticket okay okay here we are actually not sure what to expect here um but yeah here yeah 1442 that's the year when the mosque was built and I think we have the same sign here in the RGA language so yeah as usual always in two languages the RGA language and then mandarine Chinese and this seems to be the Garden area very wellmaintained very clean and all these trees have right painting at the bottom I wonder what's that for that looks interesting literally all the trees here have that but yeah let's see if we can enter the the main area of the mosque over there and yeah if you enter a mosque you have to uh put your shoes off of course please take off your shoes and go inside okay let's have a look my first time visiting a mosque in China and yeah there's a sign here tourist stop so I could imagine that not every area of the mosque is open for tourists which I can totally understand if you are a Muslim and you come here to uh practice your religion of course you don't want to be disturbed by a tourist uh visiting your religious house every day right so also here oh there's just a man coming out of this building and this is not a building for tourists so this was probably a local Muslim are practicing his religion Insight because yeah I am not allowed to enter here I think there's another quite large area here so it's actually interesting some of the areas to pre seem to be outside and some areas seem to be inside so I think we have seen everything already here so we have uh the one Hall that I just visited which was open for tourists and then I think there's another Hall and maybe a third one over there which is not uh accessible for tourists and then we have the quite large Garden area here and I think that's it okay and this was mosque in China the last time I tried to visit a mosque in one of my videos earlier this year the mission failed but now we have seen a mosque in China so I am not an expert when it comes to visiting mosque I haven't visited that many mosqu in my life but all the mosque I have visited so far in different countries I never had to pay an entrance fee so I'm not sure how normal it is for a mosque to charge an entrance fee for tourists if you have visited more mosque around the world I would love to hear your thoughts about this in the comments especially if you are a Muslim let me know what you think of that that the MOs charges an entrance fee from the tourists I could imagine though that the money is used to maybe repair the mosque or maintain the mosque keep it clean things like that so maybe it is something good after all but yeah like I said I'm not an expert when it comes to this topic so I'm curious to hear your thoughts about it in the comments and yeah now we have seen a lot of uh the ancient Old Town the touristy part of kashar so now I'm also very curious to see the regular normal areas the non-touristic areas of the city okay I have three goals for today first I would like to get a haircut at the local R baraba shop and after that I see if I can find a restaurant where I can find a very specific dish something that I really liked when I was in Ching Xiang earlier this year and then I want to end the day at a place that is a bit controversial here but more about that later now one point I would like to mention as well is um the security levels here so throughout the whole city you see a lot of police police vehicles and I don't really want to point my camera to them but for example at the the street corner behind me there's a police van parked at the at the side of the road and there's a policeman standing next to the car observing the area and I have seen plenty similar situations like this all around the city I also saw some military vehicles driving around but I also have to mention it's less here compared to urumi where I have been at the beginning of the year there in the city center I saw way more police and military presence but also here you can see it actually a lot and right over there at the other street corner there's another police van uh parked over there so you can see a lot of police here and more compared to uh cities I have been to in east or Central China definitely oh and in this case the police went over there there are also two heavily armed military guys next to the police car and yeah I always think there must be a reason for such a strong police and military presence in the city right and let me catch the green light here that's what I love in China you can always see how many seconds you have left of green light that's something we don't have in Germany I know these uh policemen and military men are here to make it more safe but at the same time it makes me also feel a little bit more un safe because I always think there must be a reason for all of this military and police presence but overall I can say so far um I feel actually very safe here in the city okay and we are now in a random local neighborhood a bit outside of the ancient city center so a bit away from the touristy area of the city and here yeah the city looks very different it looks like a typical Chinese City not like this Middle Eastern style that we had in the city center and also here same as in all the other Chinese cities I have visited before the city looks very very clean and you actually see many people all around the city probably employed by the city who are cleaning the floor swiping the boardwalk picking up the trash things like that so they really tried their best to uh keep all the places clean here and as you can see around me not only in the touristy center of the Town also here in the random local neighborhood we have residential buildings right here small little shops here and as you can can see it just looks very clean around here and I already know there will be plenty of comments again accusing me of being paid by the CCP because I'm only talking positive about China every time I'm posting a video about China there are tons of comments accusing me of being paid by the CCP and it's so funny like many of the other vloggers who have been to China this year many of them I know personally and we are all getting exactly the same types of comments accusing us of being paid by the Chinese government and it's so funny we are all really laughing about these comments so if there would be something bad to talk about here I would do that if there would be trash lying around here I would point that out and tell you about that but that's not the case also there are no people here trying to scam tourists like me so so far I haven't seen anything really negative here so I'm asking you where are the bad things do you see anything negative around me at the moment oh look at the a bridge here it's like a market Bridge you can buy watches here all types of socks belts and yeah I wanted to across the street because I spotted another Street Market here which looks similar like the market we have seen earlier but this time must be a local market not a touristy market so I'm just curious to see what they offering here and maybe I can also find a barber shop somewhere at the street oh we have a chicken here some types of chicken I don't speak Chinese I'm from Germany yeah yeah okay you're from kashar Kar Kar did she say Kore Oh you mean I'm I'm tall oh I don't understand Chinese unfortunately my phone iPhone need iPhone my phone not iPhone iPhone I use a Samsung if you can translate what just happened uh please do so in the comment section I'm a bit confused what she was asking about my phone but yeah we have a juicy looking chicken here chicken wings noodles okay I think I see a haircut place here cuz I saw an international symbol no matter where in the world you are you can always recognize barber shops by these colors here maybe the barber is sleeping hello can I get a haircut here just cut hair okay okay how much how much with uh yeah with washing oh okay yeah how much 30 okay okay can I make a video about haircut okay oh okay yeah okay perfect oh thank you sh okay oh I'm sorry I don't speak Chinese okay okay Germany later okay let's wash the hair first you're from kashka oh yeah okay he's a local so we're starting with washing the hair the water is warm ah he's using a shampoo or soap as well smells good a very nice smell if you're getting your hair washed at a laa shop it's at the same time also like a hat massage that was a great start to the experience okay okay the line here and the Fate okay sounds good yeah this is the example picture I always show what is your name H your name ABD Salam ABD Salam okay nice to meet you I'm Ken I'm Ken Ken and Ken Ken yeah my name is Ken not a typical German name but I am from Germany this is actually the first time I'm getting a haircut in China although this is my fourth visit to this country but I've never gotten a haircut here I actually like the shop here looks well designed with all the blue colors here very beautiful and he has some uh items placed in here so not only like perfume or shaving room so also some decoration up here adds a nice unique touch to the shop he's very careful with what he's doing sometimes the the Bara shops when they are doing my life with razor they're very harsh but he's very careful he's always disinfecting everything that he uses so every time he uses a different razor he sprays on the spray every time he uses a new blade he sprays it on and now we're starting with the sides okay this looks interesting now so the very end is basically at zero now and then he's going through the fade here but so far he's really doing a good job I really like it he's also working really accurately but a fate is starting to look like a fate okay I think he's finished with the sides so this might be the final result already cuz he got out the scissors again to uh thin out the hair not to cut it anymore just to thin it and he's actually working still on the Fate with the scissors now it's very accurate work on the Fate I think I've never seen that before that AB baraba uses this type of scissor to work on the Fate so I think he's very trying his best to do do a very accurate job okay and now he's thinning out the hair at the top which is usually a sign that the haircut is coming to an end I think he wants to uh shave some of the edges so once again very detailed work here I feel very good now ah he wants to take a picture as well so maybe I become a picture at the outside of his store actually I'm surprised I don't see any example pictures inside the shop here usually you know inside haircut shops you can always see many different example pictures hanging on the wall but that's not the case here so here we have the final result I think it looks very good thank you very much thank you very much I can payu yeah okay may or we so yeah as usual in China you pay just via an app neighbor next to me please help me change it okay okay yeah yeah no problem okay so yeah he only offers weet pay here I noticed some of the shops here in Ching especially they don't have Ali pay they only have we pay which I don't have I only have Ali pay but the neighbor has I can pay here thank you very much she that was a really good experience have a good day byebye yeah if you happen to be in kashka and you want to visit his shop as well this is uh the name right here I can't read it of course but uh if you type this into the maps app then you can probably find it okay thank you bye-bye we are very near the People's Park here by the way so give this man a visit he did a really good job I think and yeah I'm looking for a very specific dis dish now I have a screenshot here from one of my Instagram stories from earlier this year when I was in urumi I ate this several times I think it is called PE love it is a yellow rice with tons of lamp meat on top by the way if you're not following me on Instagram yet feel free to do so Ken brought on Instagram I'm posting daily stories behind the scenes live updates and maybe this looks like a Ching Jang food place here maybe they are selling this hello do you do you have this here I'm looking for this food ja you have it here no I can eat here oh unfortunately I don't understand but he's raving me and otherwise I would have gotten out my translation app already uh this one not the same okay they don't have this exact dish uh actually it smelled really good inside there but yeah I am looking for this one specific dish something that I noticed here is that in most of the Chinese cities you don't really see a lot of Street vendors but here in kashka I actually saw a lot of Street vendors like we saw them earlier in the tourist area and also here in the local area you see a lot of especially older people selling like fruits or some clothing some gloves socks just uh by the side of the road like here for example he has this mobile socks store here so just cruising around the the city and selling socks here and of course the bikes here are all electric like in every other Chinese city as well you only see electric bikes around I think it's actually a law in China that non-electric bikes are not allowed anymore I would be curious though if you are from China please let me know in the comments if this is only in the cities or also like on the countryside in small villages okay this is impressive I just took the stairs I thought this is just an under paath to get to the other side of the road but look at this this is a huge underground mall here so the main road is basically up here and yeah I just wanted to cross from this side to this side and then look at this a huge underground mall here that is insane I have seen similar malls many times before in China and it always blows my mind that they can build huge underground shopping centers uh below the main roads and yeah this is the main road so I just crossed from over there to here and found this a huge underground shopping mall I think this is a food court right here but there's a security check to enter okay let's see if I can find the food here oh looks like a like a little food court area right next to a residential area so probably this is a place where the locals come maybe after work on the way home I think this is more like East Chinese food not the Ching Jang food I'm looking for so this is no here Mayo Mayo no okay thank you yeah I think I am in the wrong area to find this dish which is a typical Ching Jang style dish I have to say the contrast between the city center of kashar and this just random normal neighborhood it's actually a quite big contrast it almost feels like a different city here the old town is literally like a 10-minute taxi ride away from here so after 10 minutes with a car you can almost feel like in a complete different city okay I'm giving up I can't find the specific dish I'm looking for I walked around a lot now ask different places so what I'm going to try now is uh the Kebab or the shama that I saw here because that actually looked delicious as well oh wow look at the meat here that looks delicious how hello is this chicken yes chicken chicken chicken and how much is one 10 10 okay can I can I get one yeah I would like to have something like this because that looks delicious looks like a Shaw so maybe this is the Ching Jiang Chinese style of a shama here and yeah the meat here looks and smells really really delicious okay let's see how you will prepare it what I find interesting here is that the dough is more yellow than normally when you get a shama you know the typical shawam uh rep has a slightly different color so I guess this will taste a bit different because it looks very yellow oh he even adds french fries that's interesting this maybe is garlic sauce I guess or yogurt sauce and then ketchup and then slicing some juicy pieces of the chicken here fresh from the grill in Germany we call this a Duna Kebab which is originally from Turkey but very very popular in Germany adding some carrots some cucumbers just a bit a bit that's okay already I don't like too much sauce uh this looks like maybe chili or pepper then he wraps it up puts it again in the grill maybe just a few minutes to heat it up I can pay a g b yeah okay can you in okay sh thank you very much and just like that you get some street food here in China interesting all of these stalls here they have a few chairs and tables always behind them so they all hello so they're all offering some uh seating areas as well okay and yeah let just get really cold it is uh 6:30 p.m. now so it's getting cold now so this uh warm meal will probably hopefully heat me up the yellow color looks very unique maybe you saw one of my previous videos from Oman where I tried Turkish style shawam and if you remember the color of there look very different but in Oman they also put french fries inside so let's give it a try oh what I immediately really like here is the fresh kicks that the cucumber and the carot offer and also the the white sauce that he added tastes very light I think it's just a light yogurt sauce and then I can also definitely taste the French rice I think I like this even more than the shama I ate in Oman because the sauce tastes much lighter and I really like the the vegetables in here but yeah does the dough taste different I don't really know because I'm having so many different flavors in my mouth so I can't really identify which of these flavors is coming maybe from the dough that was actually a delicious snack but now let's go to the final place of today a little bit of a controversial place oh look at that there's music playing people are dancing and the music sounds not Chinese to me I think it's a WEA language oh that's lovely oh wow oh I'm just coming when the music is finished they have a loud speaker here let's have a look what's going on here h oh that's so cool to see despite the cold we are having like 0 degrees at the moment people are out here in the park listening to music dancing and I also find it nice to see here it's not only the men's here also the women are dancing here so you see actually lots of females here so seems like everyone is happily dancing here together that was maybe the Highlight for me here in kashar I'm getting happy when I see other people being happy here we are this is the place I was looking for and I will tell you in a second why this place is a bit controversial here I yeah actually I want to I want to say something especially after seeing all the dancing people now but I don't really want to turn into a political Channel I don't want to make political statements here on the channel so I'm hesitating a bit to say that but you know what effort let me just talk about it quick so you read so many negative things about this region of China especially in the western media and I don't want to judge what is true what is not true I'm not here to uh find out the truth I'm not a journalist uh that's not my goal here I'm just a regular tourist here who likes to visit interesting places and this region of China definitely is an interesting place and I'm just experiencing these places as a tourist and then I film videos about my experience expences and I share these videos with you guys so I'm not here to judge what is wrong what is not wrong I mean I'm also just a tourist here I can't really look behind the surface of what's really going on after just spending a couple of days here as a tourist but I can definitely say that I I am getting Impressions and these impressions are very different from what you read in the western media about Ching Jang China and yeah maybe you agree with what I just said that maybe you disagree you're more than welcome to uh share your thoughts in the comments just uh please stay respectful the last time I filmed the video in Ching Jiang China there were many horrible disrespectful uh comments but here we have a statue of Mao the founder of today's China and yeah why is this statue here in the middle of kashka so controversial because the statue symbolizes Ching xiang's integration with ch and it is controversial because it reminds locals of a cultural shift and restrictions on the RoR identity and yeah this is Mao the founder of the People's Republic of China and he led the country from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1976 so I had a lot of fun exploring kashka I think it's a very very unique and interesting City to explore I especially liked the contrast that you have between like Middle East done Muslim influences and then the Chinese influences and if you haven't seen my previous video from Ching Jiang that I filmed at the beginning of this year where we explored the capital urumi then feel free to check out the video right here stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode ciao guys
2024-12-09 18:07
