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MY CHINESE BROS CHANGED HOW I SEE CHINA!Added:
Too juicy.
>> Juicy onions is the best way to >> Yeah. Filia feels I think it's more expensive than the Philippines.
>> I don't like >> Oh, you don't like onion?
>> Cheers, Shirley. Cheers.
>> Yeah. Cheers.
>> Cheers. We're We're going to the noodle restaurant as well.
>> Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
It's our second day here in Shanghai, China. And for today guys, actually long weekend Shanghai. So my Chinese friend suggested places if you want to see countryside village. It's called DNA. DNA DNA para co-working space village if you want to reset if you want to meet other digital nomads as well or if you just want to rest here in China for like few days Actually in the past few weeks it's also a nice way for me to reset hotel with his mom store Chinese.
That's the name of the store.
And here is Pablo, guys.
So, he recommended this uh local breakfast uh restaurant, >> Shaolong Ba.
>> Yeah, >> let's go.
So, guys, this is the fried shaolong ba.
Oh, that's why it's toasted like the the bottom of it. Yeah, it's toasted.
>> And we're just waiting for the other.
>> So, this is your favorite.
>> Come to China. Uh come to Shanghai and my dad came to me to eat this one.
>> Oh. When you were 8 years old? Yeah.
>> And then you you said you thought it's very delicious.
>> Young dumpling.
>> Young dumpling as well.
>> So it's hot though.
>> Do you sip the or not?
>> Actually, yes. But >> it's hot.
>> Okay. Yeah.
>> Maybe I can get two little Fried them. I don't eat it.
>> It's hot.
>> Yeah, but it's toasted.
>> It's too juicy.
>> Juicy?
>> Yeah.
>> Are you the vinegar?
>> Oh. Do you drink it here? And then >> Yeah.
>> But can I eat it?
>> Yeah. The original. Yeah. copper >> because the original shaolong ba in Taiwan we put a hole here.
>> Yeah.
>> Is it the same?
>> You know actually this the naning Chinese government in charge by government and this capital is So >> so when they go to the Taiwan, they make weight.
>> So actually is just from Taiwan.
>> Oh, from Nani from Nani.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, so guys is originally from Nanjing.
>> Yeah. And then maybe it was just adopted by the Taiwan people because I think originally they the Taiwan people are the main difference.
>> Oh, but they have different uh Oh. Oh, yeah. I can see the shaolong in Taiwan is a little bit different.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, it's juicy, right?
>> Yum. The soup inside is very good.
>> Yeah.
>> What I love about it, there's a lot of uh soup in it.
>> Yeah.
>> Sometimes Shaolong Bao doesn't have much soup, but this has a lot.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, it's good.
>> We also have guys soup dumpling.
You guys just call a dumpling. But we got a lot of different name for >> Okay. Okay.
>> But also look like dumpling.
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> All right. Oh, thank you. Thank you.
And we also have this guys like a noodle.
Yeah.
It's good.
>> Is there like a creamy flavor or milky flavor? What is that?
>> A little bit cream.
>> Yeah, creamy flavor.
>> So guys, uh, in Pablo's hometown, they had this huge shaolong bao and he put a straw on it to sip the soup.
>> That's so fun.
>> That's fun, you guys. Currently it's 13 14° 11° 25 April April Shanghai.
So this is our train and this is the station. the train will stop and then ours is just this I we need to go to an >> we can't buy the tickets here so we just buy the ticket to and we just after that we just stand to then we call the staff to pay the extra money to this money >> because there's no illegal but it's okay you know >> so there there's no like direct ticket >> because it's the holiday guys So we just bought so we just bought the short ticket and then we stand >> stand for to but we need to we need to tell the drivers we need to buy to pay the extra money to this waste money.
>> Okay. Got it.
>> So it's a little bit cheap but >> it's okay.
>> All right. Sure.
>> Okay. So we haven't filmed because we were almost late but we're already here at the train station.
>> In this is the best way to >> because it's a 5day holiday. Is it five day holiday five day?
>> Five day holiday here May 1 to May 5.
And there's a lot of people.
>> One of the biggest holidays, right?
>> Yeah.
>> We forgot to film because we were rushing. We're running.
>> Did you film the station?
>> No. So many.
>> So many people. There's crowded, >> but we were we're almost late with the trip. So, we have to hurry.
So guys, we arrived. Here's a station.
It's called Angie.
Here we are. It's still about 1 and a half hours. Yeah.
Actually guys, the bulletin China 1 hour and a half hour even Shanghai countryside.
Anganda train station.
Okay.
Slow living. Slow life because we've been through a lot of fast-paced environment.
Slow life dinner fields.
What are these plants?
>> Strawberry.
>> I don't know.
>> I think it's a type of berry.
>> Yeah, maybe. Maybe >> cranberry. Yeah, cranberry. Oh, >> I think this is my first time to see a >> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. cranberry plant.
>> Yeah. Watch out.
>> All right. Thanks.
Actually, guys, activity every day. I'm not really sure. Tea party or living space.
Explain.
I'm grass. here. Grass. Where are you from?
>> I'm from China. Like sorry.
>> Which part?
>> Like Jang >> Djangu Jang. Right. Right here. Right here.
>> Oh, just here. Okay.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Nice to meet you, too, >> guys.
>> There's a lotelcome.
>> Thank you so much.
>> There's a lot more people here, guys.
Thank you. You too. How long have you been staying here?
>> Oh, one maybe maybe a year.
>> A year.
>> A year and a half. Yeah.
>> Wow.
>> It's a lot of time and a lot of time.
>> You must have been enjoying here. You stayed one year.
>> Yeah, it's it's a nice place. It's a full love. There's a lot love.
>> Oh, nice. I love it.
>> And that dog, he's the owner of the dog.
>> Which one?
>> Oh, you own the dog.
>> Yeah, the dog like uh where where there >> Oh, >> dumbling. The >> Oh, this one.
>> This one.
>> So, guys, I forgot to introduce where we are. So, we are actually here in DN DNA.
I think it's like a what do you call this like a community >> community like a >> social >> social community co-l livingiving space or co-working space like people from different parts of China sometimes they just go here live together for some of them lives here for years some of them months well past just >> just days a week yeah and then yeah you you can just socialize with different people here for Pablo and I, we're we're still shy in the beginning because we're a little introvert. Are you intro introvert? Like >> Yeah, I'm introvert.
>> Yeah, but Arie, look at Arie.
>> He's literally talking to anyone like he's extrovert. So guys, so I actually met a friend here.
>> Hi, I'm Shirley. I'm in a gap here.
>> He she's in a gap year. And then you plan to study >> in Spain.
>> In Spain. Wow. My dream. My dream to study. Yeah. Nice to meet you and see you around here. Hi everyone. Byebye.
Community or common living. So digital nomads private rooms shared rooms are nature nature activities sports for examp City 1 and a half hour from Shanghai common space pick Piata magigital working areas arts and hello.
>> I am vlogging. Do you want to say hi?
>> Hey. Hi.
>> Hi. What's your name again?
>> Shiaoai.
>> Shiaoai. Yes. Shiaoai.
>> Nice to meet you. Welcome to DNA.
>> Thank you so much. I'm just showing them the areas and all that.
>> Thank you. See you later.
>> Okay. Sure. So, guys. So frisbee that's their team basketball court if you want basketball actually Basketball courty areas guys. So working area Hello.
What I love about this space.
Free drinks, rooftop and all that. other spaces digital nomad or actually digital nomad.
For example, cityanghai.
Some people though they live here for a few months and a half year.
You can leave on those ganyan privacy or washing machine four bedroomedroom airport hotel room.
This is my room.
Private garden.
room toilet basically.
It's a perfect lately.
No pressure travel.
English translate announcements.
So, I just want to relax today actually.
Chinese.
Second floor digital nomad area. So if you want to work here, let's look at the view.
view moya with all the glasses and boys kitchen first floor kitchen and game room. So mag table tennis my mini gym dinym workout sound of nature dining area pala guys dining area free equipment microwave Mave oven more ingredients after you label community living space look at them no they really love the sun I don't know why but I don't know Arowanto arrow.
Oh, you draw this.
>> Who is this? Like random people or the just the school to the nurse?
Okay.
>> It's just like give you a picture >> and a real guy in the in the picture and >> and then you draw it.
>> You draw it in this way.
>> Oh, like >> that way. Like is this pencil?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Pencil >> different pencil.
>> So for your course, do you need to be a good drawer?
>> For your >> Yeah, it's important.
>> It's important.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. We're just discussing about his drawing and for your That's good.
>> Look. Look at that, guys. just like playing some hands.
>> Yeah. Man, you know, superhero number one.
>> Yeah. So, you need to be good at drawing for your course, right?
>> Yeah. Like drawing or our, you know, >> that's the main skill.
>> It's not the main. It's half half we need to learn the uh English Chinese learn history.
>> Okay.
>> Something like it's a half and the half is ma is math.
>> Yeah. What's the name of your course again?
Environmental >> environmental design. It's not major but yeah >> it's like is it under architecture environmental design or it's a different one.
>> It's not like architecture. Architecture is a more >> buildings >> more like building more like numbers.
>> But for us we more like design like like this put some tables >> some chairs or maybe maybe the other color on the wall. It just waited. So you designed the whole place for example >> design like a like a space >> more like a space design just this space.
>> Yeah.
>> We need to design.
>> Is it different from architecture?
>> Yeah. I mean to be honest architecture build design with some tall buildings like they need to >> they need to know the number pressure of the you know the bottom or something like that. We don't need to >> worry about that much.
>> Just the design. You just focus on the design.
>> We focus on the design. Oh, get it. We need to make it beautiful. I get it now.
Guys, town center restaurants.
Let's go.
I can see the sign here.
>> Especially the DNA signs there.
>> So, these are the menu.
>> This is what >> What is that?
>> DNA.
>> Oh, the DNA.
>> The DNA. Guys, that's the name of our community >> cuz this famous restaurant here, lots of people love it. So, they just gave them the >> nice. Wow.
>> So, these are the food that they offer.
>> Yeah. The food there.
>> And the price is actually not too bad though. 20 15 yuan.
>> Some appet Is it maybe an appetizer?
>> What?
>> No. Is it a noodle? I don't know.
>> No, it's not noodles. Like a potato with >> a crunchy potato.
>> Peanut >> peanut and onions. Let's go.
>> I love it.
>> You like it?
>> M. I love it.
>> I like it.
>> There you go. You like French fries?
>> No, it's like French fries.
>> How do you rate it?
>> Uh, 6.5.
>> 6.5. How would you rate?
>> Eight. It's a nine. It's a nine for me.
Maybe because it's like French fries for me.
>> Salty.
>> I think the onion flavor is so strong.
>> Oh, you don't like onion?
>> Oh, you don't like onion?
>> Oh, I I like onion.
>> Is this a common Chinese dish? This is my first time to see this to see this.
>> Not common. This is like a special food from that area >> for this area.
>> For that area. Yeah.
>> Oh, yeah. That's why it's my first time.
So there's rice, onion, peanut >> like pork chop. Pork chop and vinegar.
>> Pork and vinegar. Wow, the serving is so big.
>> Have a look.
>> Okay, try this guys.
>> Oh, >> what? Sour.
>> Vinegar.
M.
>> Sweet and sour. Mhm.
The scrunching.
>> You like it?
>> Yeah.
>> Finally. Pablo likes it.
>> 10 out of 10 this day.
>> Maybe mine is 9.7.
>> Really?
>> Not high.
>> Pablo.
>> 5.5.
>> Oh, 9.5. Wow. Sweet, sour, crunchy.
>> Mhm.
>> A really strong flavor that you have.
>> Jordan, that's the mushroom. fried mushroom. And this is like sweet and sour pork or I don't know.
>> Wow.
>> Sour pork.
>> Sour pork. Okay.
>> Sour pork.
>> Yeah.
Add some.
>> Ah. Okay. Add some some of that.
>> Mhm.
>> Okay.
>> It's like a pickle, but it's sour pickle. All right.
>> Tastes like kimchi.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow. Kimchi.
>> What is kimchi?
>> The Korean.
>> Oh yeah.
>> Yeah. Guys, the serving of the food are really really big.
>> China, baby. But the price is just maybe in the Philippines 175 pesos, 200 pesos.
I think it's more expensive than the Philippines.
>> It's so cheap.
>> And the serving was so big guys.
>> Maybe the provinces, the countryside of China is really, really cheap.
>> No traffic, fresh air.
>> You see the small town, baby.
>> Yeah. Small town vibe.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow.
>> Oh, fresh grocery stores.
We can we can take you to a snack snack stores full of snacks >> for like Chinese snacks.
>> Chinese snacks.
>> It's called Okay.
>> Yeah. Really good.
>> You can find it everywhere.
>> All right.
>> Yeah. Like you can find it everywhere and it's really famous. Full of like snacks, little snacks. You can buy a lot to have a taste.
>> All right.
>> Yeah. See you guys. I uh see you guys in the evening. We can just try some different kinds of snacks. Snacks. Yeah.
>> All right.
>> Uh hot or the cold one?
>> The cold one, please.
>> Lining coffee, guys.
>> Sugar, right?
>> Uh sugar.
>> Maybe do is it 50% sugar? No.
>> Original one. Lining coffee.
>> Yeah, guys. Lining coffee. Very famous one. Ari told me that these are like fake price. They have >> like 11.9.
>> That's a different app.
>> It It's a app. It's on the lucky.
>> Oh, the locking app. Okay. I don't have the app, but yeah, you can actually pay for less than the price, but this is actually cheap already, but you can pay lesser than that if you have the app. 11 number butter coffee during the night.
Tabaho. Others are just doing their craft here. And hi guys.
>> Some are doing some what do you call this? Uh >> drawing. Are you Tik Tok?
>> Uh YouTube in YouTube.
>> YouTube.
>> Yeah.
Some are just drinking alcohol with that this energy. Others are working. And Shirley is gonna This is Pablo.
>> Yo.
>> And Shirley is going to make us some milk tea.
>> Your camera is >> Osmo. Yeah, the DJ >> three. Yeah, three.
>> Actually, it's pocket five.
>> No, there's no pocket five yet.
>> Now the new version is only the Pocket.
>> The four. Yeah.
>> Yeah. I think you can mix this together.
Oh no no no no no.
>> Trust me it will taste for phenomena.
>> No >> guys >> it will be horrible.
>> Thank you so much.
>> It's okay >> guys. Shirley gave us a black milk tea.
>> Black milk tea.
>> Pablo. Do you want some milk tea?
>> No.
>> No.
>> Thanks.
>> Come on.
>> Oh why? Milk is good.
>> Let's this. Cheers, Shirley. Cheers.
>> Yeah. Cheers.
>> Cheers.
>> Oops.
>> Oh, I love it. I love this. Thank you.
>> Oh, it's so good.
>> If it's a blonde one, I I look like Trump.
>> Oh, yeah. It actually looks good on you.
>> You can quit again. China. China. China.
Guys, it's another day and Ari is going to work today because he need to finish his design. So, good luck on your design, Arie.
>> I'll see you >> guys. It's another day here in DNA in the community. So, work design. I think Pablo is pa Hello Bobo friends.
What are we going to do activities today?
Start holiday later this afternoon. So 10 a.m.
next time GChat morning yoga.
actually so you can just join GC very quiet digital nomads.
So good morning.
So guys, I've decided So it's better the three letters Google Drive.
So I need to use it.
Okay. for some of the biscuits from China.
Okay guys, transfer files 11414 files. Lucky transfer 30 minutes Every connection last year.
So firewall or something location.
Yeah, I think China vlogs.
This is a sign. This is a sign from weeks.
We're going to the noodle restaurant.
Let's go. And we're fitting ourselves in a very small motorcycle.
>> I think it's designed for the single person.
>> Yeah, I think it's But are is it allowed here or? No, >> it's okay. It's okay. No, >> let's go. Look at our background, guys.
Wow.
>> Village live. Countryside live. I I love that. Like in the morning when I wake up like fresh airs, you know. Wow.
Sunshine, fresh air.
>> Yeah. Right.
>> That's amazing. I think when I when I when I retired, I just You want to live in this kind of house. I'm random house in the countryside and Yeah. Yeah. And if you have a house in a place like this, guys, look at that.
>> And Yeah.
>> Wow.
>> Amazing, man.
>> Amazing. What What are they? What are these plants, Ari?
>> Uh, >> to be honest, I don't know. You have no idea.
>> I don't know. I don't know.
>> I already mentioned that this place is tea, right?
>> Yeah. Tea. But no te's here. Te's are you in behind us? Tees. The te's here.
>> By the way, Pablo is still sleeping, so we don't want to wake him up. Maybe you still want to sleep until the afternoon.
>> Yeah. When do you wake up?
>> I wake up at around 10 probably.
>> Yeah. To me, I I wake up at 9.
>> 9. Okay.
But to be honest, I >> the restaurant I bring you to is the famous noodle restaurant. Yeah. Right.
But I think the one near that that restaurant is better.
>> The one what?
>> The one near that restaurant.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, it's better.
It's good.
>> It's good, right?
Super good.
It's like an oven, right?
>> Yeah, like oven.
>> There's two and three pieces inside. I order I ordered the chicken with the stinky tofu >> taco.
>> Oh, really? But it's a fried one, right?
>> Yeah, it is fried.
>> The other >> It's not the original one. Super stinky, right?
>> This is This is not that strong.
>> Okay. Yeah. So, it's a fried chicken with a fried stinky tofu.
>> That's how they do it. They put it inside the wrap.
Okay.
And chicken.
>> Wow. They just put some sauce here. This is a sweet sauce. I recommend you to have one.
>> Sweet one.
>> Sweet sauce. This is good. This pickle is good.
>> It's like kimchi, right? Is it?
>> It looks a little more like a pickle.
Smell like kimchi.
>> It's actually really good.
>> Yeah, it's good.
>> Cheers.
>> Chinese burger. Chinese taco.
It's really good.
Before my I only know a little a little bit of Chinese dishes.
>> Mhm.
>> But in this town, I've experienced a lot of >> first time dish that I've tried. Really, really good.
>> We're just buying some items and Pablo just scanned the cure code. No one's in here. The owner is just on the TV.
This is so high tech. This is like normal for you guys.
>> Yeah. No, no, maybe not. No. Maybe not.
>> Okay. And there's just a camera. So, just pay there.
Wow. Technology.
You can escalate there. Bante banti actually lot of people here.
>> Okay, we're just walking to the viewpoint, guys. Maybe 20 20 minute walk neighborhood.
Come on, Arie.
Why there's no one?
>> Where's the cellar?
>> But it's all empty.
>> Oh, it's empty. Okay.
>> Again, guys, there's like a bazaar going on because it's the holiday. It's a long holiday here.
Pablo's awake. He's finally awake.
So, cute stalls where you can buy Oh, go downstairs.
>> All right.
Tea tea plant. So, it's like a tea mountain.
if you want.
>> Yeah. Go Pablo asked me.
>> So guys, tea tea plantation viewoint holiday.
So what are they doing there? Like just taking photos, right?
>> I think it's taking Oh.
Or this is the cafe maybe here. This is the cafe there.
>> Where's the cafe?
>> This?
>> Yeah, this is the cafe.
>> Oh, okay. Downstairs.
>> Well, they need to pay.
>> Yeah. Yeah. But I think it's also the same view here, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. So, we're going to hike this mountain. I don't know what's our plan.
>> Just I just randomly asked, let's hike that mountain. So, we're going to hike that snakes.
>> Okay. The snake >> running water.
trip.
>> Damn. I think he's waiting for us. So, Ari's over there. Look out. We got to see.
>> I think he just need to find a way to go.
>> Oh, okay.
>> You can see.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Use the stick.
>> Yeah, it's really crazy.
>> So, we're just waiting here.
>> It's so hard to get.
>> It's so hard to get off.
>> Yep.
It's uh like all the tea were cut so it's slippery. The mountain is very slippery. But Aris is a crazy guy. So we let him do what he wants and we wait for him.
>> And we just for some snakes or >> Yeah.
>> spider or something.
>> Some snakes could be there.
I don't know. Let's just wait for him here.
This is the view, guys.
Wow.
partas is the most adventurous friend ever.
Actually adventurous fashion. Pablo is fashion boy.
Fashion trip dinner for three for three people.
>> Yeah. Living the life.
See the outside of DNA.
Guys, look at Ari's uh student ID. He's like a gangster. Like he's like someone who punch faces of students or someone who bullies who bullies, you know.
>> He's like >> I'm still a gangster.
>> He's like a bully.
>> I'm still a gangster.
>> Yeah, he's like the gangster in the school.
>> He actually looks like look the same, right?
>> Actually, you you still look the same, but you're more gangster when you were younger.
>> Dancing sugar.
>> Dancing sugar. So you eat this when you were young.
>> How about No, no. It's not means like when I eat our dancing. It means like the sugar will dancing inside your mouth.
>> Oh, it's like pop. It will pop in your mouth.
>> Like jumping sugar.
>> No, I haven't tried it.
>> You never tried it before.
>> Yeah, let's let's try it, guys.
>> What? The sugar. Pull the sugar >> on your on your tongue and then close your mouth.
>> Okay. Yeah, let's try it.
And then close your mouth.
>> Your eyes are like dancing in your mouth.
>> It's my first time trying.
>> Yeah, they're like dancing in your mouth, right? Oh, >> it's really funny, >> guys. Try it. Try it.
>> Try it, guys.
>> If you can find this in your country, but yeah, it's it's a really funny things. Dancing sugar.
>> If you're like listening to music like >> Yeah.
That's so cool.
>> You're waiting in the club because >> Yeah.
>> Try it. You don't want to try it.
>> What?
>> You don't want to try it? You're used to >> Oh god.
>> Yeah.
>> I've been long time.
>> You love it. You try it out.
>> Actually strong.
>> Strong one.
>> Yeah. The strong one.
dancing.
>> Guys, I think that's it for today. No reset slow.
I don't want to pressure also myself to vlog.
I met a lot of people.
people surprisingly digital nomad area from the Philippines. Dried mangoes.
So I think I have to end the vlog tomorrow.
Guys, I think I have to end the vlog for today and I'll see you again on the next one.
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