Hi Peter & Yen! Loving all your reviews & contents on your vlogs..from the Moon cakes,🥮 your bro’s ceramic pot plants to the largest NZ temple, Auckland botanic gardens & the Satay noodle house! Thank you for sharing the Cambodian family success story. The Cherry blossom 🌸🌸🌸 trees are one of my fav so thank you guys for hunting around for us Cherry blossom fans. Once they bloom & petals fall it’s like watching snow flakes falling. Hope your prayers, wishes & blessings come true! God bless 🙏
Hello Pat 🙂👋 Thanks so much for your kind words 💕 we had an wonderful day out making the most of the unexpected great weather! We saw some photos of people who went to the botanic gardens and cornwall park recently, looks like they're in bloom now too 😁🌸🌸🌸 and then in November the ones at the temple should come out 🙂👍 it really is like watching snowflakes when the petals fall 😍 Take care and you have an awesome week! Blessings to you too 💕🙂
Another amazing vlog guys! So much beautiful footage. Keep up the great work and thanks for the Cherry Blossom locations. Many blessings to you and your family. It was lovely to have mentioned Bun’s Cambodian family life accomplishments and their restaurant. God willing we will be able to visit them all next year. Hoping your wishes and prayers at the temple come true 🤞🤍💗👍
Thanks so much TJ! ❤️❤️🙂 It was a very last minute kind of day since we weren't really planning on vlogging initially with the bad weather forecast but then since it was so sunny and nice we thought we better make the most of it 😁 Bun's family and story are incredible, such an amazing show of perseverance ❤️ Blessings to you and your family too 🙂💖👋 Hope you have a lovely week ahead!
Hey Peter and Yen!! Love that you're in South Auckland today. That's so sweet your friend had these moon cakes for you. Potted plants are so good for keeping the air clean.. so nice!! The temple is so cool to see! We really enjoy going to temples and this is really stunning and love the beautiful Quan Yen statue!! That was nice that they let you into the exhibition by yourselves even when it was closed. Love that it's done by one particular artists. That's cool you took your wedding photos here!! The Botantical Gardens are magical. It looks like spring is well underway there!! The curry looks really delicious.. we love curry and one of our favorites to eat. You don't get those size bowls of curry here!! You get 1/4 of that.. for full price!! Thanks for taking us with you and love you guys to the moon!
We had to cover all 4 directions in Auckland hahaha 😁👍⬆️⬇️➡️⬅️ we love plants too 😍🌱 even better when they have gorgeous pots to sit in! Yes we were incredibly grateful Fo Guang Shan allowed us to film inside and even gave us a tour plus taught us lots of things too.. down to even what the proper Buddhist way of holding joss sticks are 🙂 It's so nice there when the cherry blossoms bloom! Theirs comes out a lil later so we're looking forward to going back when they're in bloom again 😁🌸💕 wow only a 1/4 of the size? I'd feel so ripped off haha. Satay Noodle House was delicious! 😋 So glad we finally got to try it 😁 Thanks girls! Take care and have an awesome week 👍
Morning guys😊 We love the Botanical Gardens, absolutely beautiful their😍 8:55 we love Crystal and Bob, like you two, they know a lot of good foodie places💯. Missing South Auckland❤️
It's so pretty at the gardens right now Seliama! 😍🌸 Since we made this vlog, we have seen that the cherry blossoms are in more bloom now from other people's photos 😍 might have to go back again just to see them hahah a bit obsessed ay lol 😆🌸🌸 Dollo and Bobby been raving about Satay Noodle House so much it definitely stuck in our minds 😁 Glad we finally got to try it!
@@PeterandYen Hi Peter and Yen! Some of my fave places in Papakura/Takanini (aside from SNH) are Friends of the Farmer, Clevedon Bakery and The Sugarloaf ^_^ I'm so happy you guys featured South Auckland! 🥳🥳
Aw thanks for all those recommendations Naomi! 👍 We'll have to remember for next time we're passing through 🙂 Glad you enjoyed our vlog from South Auckland! You have an awesome week ahead 😁👋
those mooncakes look very tasty a visit to a temple too cool art there the botanic gardens look nice with the spring blooms and then no surprise somewhere to eat *👍thumbs up like👍Au😀👍always a full view 😀*
Yea! Love them so much!! They're now fully in bloom at the botanic garden from what we've seen in others photos so might need to make another trip back there lolol 😁🌸🌸🌸
Those moon cakes are sooooo pretty. They have to taste amazing homemade. What a beautiful area guys and so great that they let you record. It’s a gorgeous temple. Those trees!! ❤️
Oh my goodness. The lights on the trees in the exhibition is so beautiful! And wow this place was the place you shoot wedding photos! Nice choice! Such a beautiful place for a special photoshoot. 😊
It is ay? NZ has so many amazing places but this one was great being Chinese so was the perfect mix for us 😁 I'd love to go around NZ and just do more wedding photoshoots lol 😆
Wow!!! art gallery in the temple's amazing n those cherry blossom trees are forever so beautiful too....love it. hmmmm...noodles looks yummy too...must go try .
Yea very cool getting to see that After a thousand miles exhibition 🙂👍 The cherry blossoms are apparently even nicer now 😁🌸🌸🌸 Satay Noodle House was delicious 👍 You've got lots of places you need to try now mum ❤️🙂 We'll tick them off one by one!
Yaaayyy more places for us to visit! I want to go and visit the temple and botanical gardens! Oh man that food looks amazing too! I love cambodian food as well so I'm keen to try that next time we swing past papakura ways 🙏🏽 Thanks for another amazing vlog guys! 🙏🏽💞🥰👍🏼
Wow such a beautiful place, and it's awesome they allowed you to film back during your wedding and today! (Whenever you went) And we get to enjoy this! We feel so special, that's one of the million reasons to follow every one of your adventures
Yea! It was nice to be able to share this place properly with our viewers after all these years! 🙂👍 We did a vlog in their vegetarian/vegan cafe a long time ago too but that was just inside the cafe 💕
That satay meal looks delicious, making me hungry just watching - when I'm home visiting Ireland, usually have the satay sauce over the chips & chicken - yummm so good !!
Your guys content is awesome! My family and I are from NZ and currently residing in Australia. Your insites on New Zealand is informative, aesthetic and fun. Your personalities bring life and originality to your videos and as a Maori I appreciate your pronunciation on the native language ❤ Thank you guys! Keep making your amazing videos 😊❤
Thanks so much Latasha! Hope you and your family are enjoying your time in Australia 🙂👋 Are you missing NZ much? We've been trying our best with our Te Reo so it's always great to hear we're doing ok! We've botched a few words up in the past just coz it's what we constantly heard growing up here but now we're definitely making the efforts to get our pronunciation good so others can hopefully learn too 👌🙂 Thank you for the encouragement! ❤️❤️❤️😁 Take care and have an awesome week!
Very nice mooncakes your friend made for you! Very lucky 👍 Really enjoyed watching your visit to Fo Guang Shan Temple. Beautiful looking architecture! Yay mission accomplished finding a beautiful cherry blossom at the Botanic Gardens.
Super lucky! When Ting Ting has food for us we can't say no haha 😁👍 She's a great cook 💕☺️ It's pretty amazing to have that temple here in NZ. Totally feels like you're in another country when you visit! 🌸🌸
Haha yea it's also known as mid-autumn festival but just so funny, we asked so many of our Asian friends and family and all didn't really know why we celebrate mooncake festival 😂 ended up having to Google it lolol 😅
Satay Noodle House looks like a great spot to getting a good Cambodian food 👍 The chicken curry looks totally hitting the spot, yum! Peter's pork stew looks amazing too. Nice find guys 👏
Looool Peter back to his outfit so soon 🤣 omgggg love the cherry blossom, not super bloomed but it's pretty though!! Free entry is definitely a plus point!
He couldn't wait to be back in shorts and jandals lolol.. finds it so uncomfortable in pants and shoes for some reason 😅 The cherry blossoms in that place are now fully bloomed and so pretty! 😍🌸🌸
“Preventing evil and doing good” I like it... sounds like the directives for a superhero😁 Thanks for taking the extra steps to get permission to film inside the temple to give us a chance the see how beautiful it is:) Was very cool to hear the restaurant’s owner’s story as well☺️ Thanks for a great vid~~
It's the Bodhisattva way! 😁👍 Learnt some great stuff that day including how to pronounce that word lol 🙂 It was really kind of Fo Guang Shan to let us film inside and even give us a tour. Hopefully more locals will go visit coz it's a great place 👍🌸🙂 Satay Noodle House and their incredible family's story has been featured on an NZ tv show here before called The Project. Always amazes me the tenacity some people have despite unthinkable hardships ❤️ Thanks Hans 👋🙂 Have an awesome week!
@@PeterandYen Definitely inspiring to see the tenacity and will some people have... thanks for sharing not just the food, but a small excerpt of his story~
Yea it's crazy what happened with the Khmer Rouge and even crazier it really wasn't all that long ago that such an atrocity occurred @.@ we watched many documentaries on it before and while we were in Cambodia so it's just incredible hearing Bun's family story ❤️
Neither are we, but we enjoyed it 🙂👍 it was the first time I tried mock meats.. and when we were in Cambodia this mock meat vegan place was one of my fave places to eat lol. I don't think it's for everyone.. but I enjoyed it! More than Peter I think though he seemed to like it too 🙂 it's also a tea house from memory btw 😁👍
great to go back to your wedding photos place, what a nostalgic, and the botanic garden is so beautiful, could imagine when that cherry blossoms even more blooming.
Hi Peter, Hi Yen That was a excellent video I loved your wedding pictures , They where beautiful. That's another thing I want to see before I leave this world cherry blossom tree and a panda, Keep up the good work ...👍👍
Thanks so much P Trevino 😁❤️ It was a beautiful place to take photos! We had to get permission to take them back then too but pretty special we even have a place like this in Auckland ay 🙂💕 I hope you get to see both and tick them off your bucket list! 🐼🌸
What an amazing temple! That placed looked stunning! Great choice of location for your wedding photos. Also i also know another Cambodian guy called Bun who owns a restaurant in Adelaide. For a moment I thought it was the same guy! Great video as always!
Hahahaha such a coincidence! 😁👍 Satay Noodle House was so yum. Glad we finally got to eat there! And yes beautiful temple isn't it? We were really glad we got to learn and see so much that day thanks to Fo Guang Shan for letting us vlog and giving us a guided tour too! 🙂❤️🌸
aaaw so cute Alison saying "mama". I used to think mooncake festival was because it's a full moon and welcoming the new season. but i think that's totally wrong =P. LOL what da, no sandal or shorts for Pete! Awesome looking temple! Amazing you were able to see the museum all to urself!! More beautiful cherry blossoms.
See that would be nice and logical but I don't think it was that either 😂 there's apparently a folk story and that's the reason 🌙 Haha yea had to dress appropriately for the temple visit. It was really nice to get to see all the places in private though 👍🙂 cherry blossoms are the best.. so pretty 😁🌸🌸
Hahaha he's let go a bit with his eating 🤣 he still works out every day so he can eat whatever and not gain too much weight though lol. We're so lucky to get to eat Ting's mooncakes (and other cooking!) 😁✌️
Thanks Mandy! We bought our masks from Charlie's Laundry 🙂 left the details in the description in case you're interested 😁👍 Do you know why we celebrate mooncake festival? 😆
Fo Guang Shan has improved a lot since the last time I was there some years ago. The Botanic Gardens is always a good place to go for a walk and the Satay Noodle house looks interesting also. Good video guys, as always.
It looked like the same beautiful well maintained temple to us that we've visited over the years 😅 Food from Satay Noodle House was delicious 👍 Glad we got to eat there finally!
I have been to the Temple back in the day, a friend invited my mum and I to attend a service, it was a good experience and it's so huge too! (I remember when they were first building it and you could get your name on a tile/brick if you made a donation). I attend church in South Auckland so I'll be sure to check out The Gardens and Satay house afterwards, great variety and it's cool that Southside made your list, great video as always team 👍👍👍
Yea that's right! We remember that too 🙂👍 we were glad we finally got to try Satay Noodle House in Papakura! We had heard only great things about the place but a few times we wanted to go before the timing just didn't work out. It was worth the wait though 😁👌 Aw nice! Hope you enjoy the gardens and the restaurant next time you're out that way! Let us know what you think 😁🌸👍 btw I in Daiso yesterday, thought of you haha 😁
@@PeterandYen That's so cool that the Satay place didn't disappoint - I'm looking forward to trying it out in a fortnight time 🤤. How fortunate the monks were accommodating with your visit and also to film inside too, so beautiful 😍. That's crack up that you thought of me on your Daiso visit, well if you need a stationery or washi tape buddy then I am happy to sub in for Peter 🤣, actually I just finished watching a stationery haul and journaling video too, I think this shows how serious I take my stationery 🤣🤣🤣
Yea really nice they let us film inside then we can share the place with everyone else through our vlog 🙂🌸🌸 hahaha Peter can't last long in Daiso or stationery shops usually ay 😅 but honestly the ones in Japan are just so awesome! I find washi tape really pretty but no idea what you use them for? Is it mostly decorating journals and scrap booking stuff? I love how passionate you are about stationery hehe 😁 do you by any chance like gift wrapping too? I really like wrapping paper, ribbons and wrapping gifts up 😅😅💕 I'll often go into like 123$ kinda shops just to see what new gift wrap they have 😂🎁 sometimes you get some really nice designs 😍
@@PeterandYen Omigosh Yen, I think we are stationery soul mates, I LOVE wrapping presents and I even have a folder for wrapping in Pinterest. Washi tape is for decorating purposes, like putting it in your journal or on your letters to penpals - for those of us that penpal we will even send mini samples (washi wrapped around a piece of card) to each other. Daiso has a nice selection, but Etsy is the place to buy really nice washi 👌👌👌
Oooooo that red curry looks delicious!! Damn that braised pork belly, give me those fatty pork! 😍 Chicken satay looks yum too! Slightly different from our satay coz of the sauce drizzled on the satay already, love the creaminess!
Yea that's right! I thought the same thing but we don't mind that coz it was yum and saved us the work of putting the sauce on ourselves lol 😁👍 the food there was great! Glad we got recommended it ☺️
Hiya Dina 👋😁 Thanks hun, how have you been? Yes!! So glad we finally got to try SNH too! We had been meaning to go for some time but had timing issues etc so am glad we finally made it there 😊 Totally delicious 👍😋
Those mooncakes look very delicious 😋 I hope they taste as good as they look 😍 8:05 Big WOW 😮 😯 😲 I agree Pretty Impressive 😊🌹🌹 I love travelling and travel vlogs and podcasts and I like your channel a lot 😊🌹 I'm subscribing and dinging the bell for you guys 😊 Have a happy Sunday 😊 Mike
Thanks Mike 😁👋 Welcome to our channel and thanks for the support! 💕 We appreciate it ☺️🌸 Hope you'll enjoy all the travel videos we share! They're all from NZ again at the moment given the pandemic but there's so many awesome places to visit here so we're grateful 😁👍
😁👌 I think you'll like next week's vlog Felix! Maybe some extra spots to add to your nz bucket list 🤞 One really cool "bridge" that's more like an open cave? 😅 And a really beautiful waterfall 😁 We also visited an actual cave lol but that's too dark for photos 😆
Hahaha thank you.. definitely aged though! Btw those weren't pre wedding photos, they were actually the very next morning right after our wedding day 😁🌸 Did them before we did our tea ceremony ☺️
So nice to have special permission to film. Did you guys apply a permit or just email them? So, without permission, filming is banned inside the temple?
Peter called them and they had to check with their director and called us back to let us know if was ok and to meet their staff when we got there. Yup without permission no filming allowed inside. Even when we did our wedding photos in there last time we had to get permission too 📸
Love this episode it makes me miss home so much 😍😍 Also do guys ever age? I mean y’all would have fooled me and said so we took some photos earlier today & would have been like oh yeah but damn what’s the secret? Lol
Thanks so much again for the recommendation realG! 😁 You're back in Auckland in Dec right? 🙂 SNH will be waiting 😉 Hahaha thank you.. you're too kind. I reckon the secret is look old when you're young then when you're old you just look the same hahahaha 🤣
Yooo what up guys i know im late but i just noticed you guys came to papakura and i was like ayyyy wtf yoo 😂😂😂 its funny too because my brother said he saw u guys driving up the road one day and i was like naahh no one ever comes to the south side lol
😂 South side has so much good food though. Yen n I used to always go to manukau shopping mall then stop off at that food court near by for Malaysian or Korean 😁🤙🍜 small world 🌎 that your brother saw us driving there 😅 south side ❤
Cheers X. Levi 🙂👍 Ohh so much awesomeness in NZ but would have to say that right now it's gotta be the fact we're corona free again and able to travel all around the country enjoying its beauty ay 🙂👌🇳🇿
Your wedding photos are stunning 🤩 That so interesting about the moon cakes. My Chinese students always try to explain mid- autumn festival to me, so it was nice to learn more about it from you both :) Are the moon cakes sweet? Or can they be savoury too? Mmm braised pork belly is a winner! Looks delish. I love watching your videos, always gives me a quick fix of NZ when I’m missing home ☺️❤️.
Thanks Lana 💕😁 we had to Google about the moon cake stuff coz no one seemed to know but just enjoys giving and eating moon cakes 😂 They're a mix! You have the savoury salty egg yolk but then the bean paste is usually sweet 🙂 Satay Noodle House was so yum! Really glad we got recommended that place 👍 we're happy our videos can give you your NZ fix ❤️🇳🇿😉👋
Hahaha ninjas are cool so thanks Anant 😁 I reckon it's my full black outfit (minus my white shoes) ay 😆👍 Plus gotta have that black facemask to top it off 😁🖤
Hahahaha it's ok Sue! Maybe it's just the soil or the climate there makes it difficult 🤣🌱 we love plants too though.. use to have so many in our place! Apparently it was the reason our friend Kawa got interested in plants too so we're happy to get to shout out his business! 🌱🌱😁❤️
It's in Flat Bush, Manukau and demographics-wise would say there's quite a lot of Asians that live around there but it's not in a Chinese area as in there aren't any other Asian shops and restaurants there.. (except for its own cafe inside the temple). It's not in a Chinatown like other cities have. There's pockets of that elsewhere in Auckland. This temple sorta stands just on its own in a very residential area.
Hi Peter & Yen! Loving all your reviews & contents on your vlogs..from the Moon cakes,🥮 your bro’s ceramic pot plants to the largest NZ temple, Auckland botanic gardens & the Satay noodle house! Thank you for sharing the Cambodian family success story.
The Cherry blossom 🌸🌸🌸 trees are one of my fav so thank you guys for hunting around for us Cherry blossom fans. Once they bloom & petals fall it’s like watching snow flakes falling.
Hope your prayers, wishes & blessings come true! God bless 🙏
Hello Pat 🙂👋 Thanks so much for your kind words 💕 we had an wonderful day out making the most of the unexpected great weather! We saw some photos of people who went to the botanic gardens and cornwall park recently, looks like they're in bloom now too 😁🌸🌸🌸 and then in November the ones at the temple should come out 🙂👍 it really is like watching snowflakes when the petals fall 😍 Take care and you have an awesome week! Blessings to you too 💕🙂
Aw love those little snaps from your wedding photos!! 😍😍 We wanna see more!! hehe
Hahaha there's so many photos from the wedding just share a few 😅
Can't not have satay at a place that has it in it's name! All the dishes look so yummy especially the braised pork 😋
The braised pork was bomb 💣 so soft and tender mmmmm feeling like some braised pork right now 😋
Another amazing vlog guys! So much beautiful footage. Keep up the great work and thanks for the Cherry Blossom locations. Many blessings to you and your family. It was lovely to have mentioned Bun’s Cambodian family life accomplishments and their restaurant. God willing we will be able to visit them all next year. Hoping your wishes and prayers at the temple come true 🤞🤍💗👍
Thanks so much TJ! ❤️❤️🙂 It was a very last minute kind of day since we weren't really planning on vlogging initially with the bad weather forecast but then since it was so sunny and nice we thought we better make the most of it 😁 Bun's family and story are incredible, such an amazing show of perseverance ❤️ Blessings to you and your family too 🙂💖👋 Hope you have a lovely week ahead!
Hey Peter and Yen!! Love that you're in South Auckland today. That's so sweet your friend had these moon cakes for you. Potted plants are so good for keeping the air clean.. so nice!! The temple is so cool to see! We really enjoy going to temples and this is really stunning and love the beautiful Quan Yen statue!! That was nice that they let you into the exhibition by yourselves even when it was closed. Love that it's done by one particular artists. That's cool you took your wedding photos here!! The Botantical Gardens are magical. It looks like spring is well underway there!! The curry looks really delicious.. we love curry and one of our favorites to eat. You don't get those size bowls of curry here!! You get 1/4 of that.. for full price!! Thanks for taking us with you and love you guys to the moon!
We had to cover all 4 directions in Auckland hahaha 😁👍⬆️⬇️➡️⬅️ we love plants too 😍🌱 even better when they have gorgeous pots to sit in! Yes we were incredibly grateful Fo Guang Shan allowed us to film inside and even gave us a tour plus taught us lots of things too.. down to even what the proper Buddhist way of holding joss sticks are 🙂 It's so nice there when the cherry blossoms bloom! Theirs comes out a lil later so we're looking forward to going back when they're in bloom again 😁🌸💕 wow only a 1/4 of the size? I'd feel so ripped off haha. Satay Noodle House was delicious! 😋 So glad we finally got to try it 😁 Thanks girls! Take care and have an awesome week 👍
Keep up the good work. Peter & Yen. Those moon cake and chicken satay look Yum!
Thank you Raymund! It was a very last minute day since we didn't expect such great weather but felt we had to make the most of it 🙂👍🌸
Morning guys😊 We love the Botanical Gardens, absolutely beautiful their😍 8:55 we love Crystal and Bob, like you two, they know a lot of good foodie places💯. Missing South Auckland❤️
It's so pretty at the gardens right now Seliama! 😍🌸 Since we made this vlog, we have seen that the cherry blossoms are in more bloom now from other people's photos 😍 might have to go back again just to see them hahah a bit obsessed ay lol 😆🌸🌸 Dollo and Bobby been raving about Satay Noodle House so much it definitely stuck in our minds 😁 Glad we finally got to try it!
Mmm the curry, pork belly, and satay all look so comforting! And Peter's reaction to the pork belly alone is convincing enough to visit that spot!
Mmmmm hard to resist a soft melt in your mouth pork belly 😋
Yeyah!!!! Papakura, represent!!!
😁👋 any other local recommendations from Papakura? We loved Satay Noodle House! 🔥🔥🔥
@@PeterandYen Hi Peter and Yen! Some of my fave places in Papakura/Takanini (aside from SNH) are Friends of the Farmer, Clevedon Bakery and The Sugarloaf ^_^
I'm so happy you guys featured South Auckland! 🥳🥳
Aw thanks for all those recommendations Naomi! 👍 We'll have to remember for next time we're passing through 🙂 Glad you enjoyed our vlog from South Auckland! You have an awesome week ahead 😁👋
those mooncakes look very tasty a visit to a temple too cool art there the botanic gardens look nice with the spring blooms and then no surprise somewhere to eat
*👍thumbs up like👍Au😀👍always a full view 😀*
Thanks Billy! It was a great day filled with culture, art, nature and delicious food indeed 😁🌸❤️👍
Cherry blossoms never get old - always a wonderful sign of Spring
Yea! Love them so much!! They're now fully in bloom at the botanic garden from what we've seen in others photos so might need to make another trip back there lolol 😁🌸🌸🌸
The botanical gardens in Auckland look great! The sakura trees are always so lovely to look at glad there was at least on in bloom 😍
Yes! So pretty 😍🌸🌸 they're out fully now since that vlog was from a few weeks ago 👍🙂
Those moon cakes are sooooo pretty. They have to taste amazing homemade. What a beautiful area guys and so great that they let you record. It’s a gorgeous temple. Those trees!! ❤️
😁 it's really rare for architecture like this to be in New Zealand so it's nice to see. Especially since it's just randomly in a suburban area
Honestly just had brunch but now I’m hungry again lol
Heya Sione! 👋😁 Hahaha hope you got a mean feed for lunch 😋👌
Wow those mooncakes look SO pro!! Such a great way to celebrate the mid-autumn festival!
Yo boba moon cake 🥮 make it happen 😂
Lovely flashback! Such beautiful cherry blossoms. Thank you for taking us around guys. Have a lovely week.
No worries thanks for watching appreciate you dropping by 😁👍 hope you both have an awesome week too
Oh my goodness. The lights on the trees in the exhibition is so beautiful! And wow this place was the place you shoot wedding photos! Nice choice! Such a beautiful place for a special photoshoot. 😊
It is ay? NZ has so many amazing places but this one was great being Chinese so was the perfect mix for us 😁 I'd love to go around NZ and just do more wedding photoshoots lol 😆
Wow!!! art gallery in the temple's amazing n those cherry blossom trees are forever so beautiful too....love it. hmmmm...noodles looks yummy too...must go try .
Yea very cool getting to see that After a thousand miles exhibition 🙂👍 The cherry blossoms are apparently even nicer now 😁🌸🌸🌸 Satay Noodle House was delicious 👍 You've got lots of places you need to try now mum ❤️🙂 We'll tick them off one by one!
Yaaayyy more places for us to visit! I want to go and visit the temple and botanical gardens! Oh man that food looks amazing too! I love cambodian food as well so I'm keen to try that next time we swing past papakura ways 🙏🏽
Thanks for another amazing vlog guys! 🙏🏽💞🥰👍🏼
Haha yes! Definitely check all these places out when you're in the area 🙂 so much goodness ❤️❤️😁 Thanks Marie, have an awesome week 👋
Wow such a beautiful place, and it's awesome they allowed you to film back during your wedding and today! (Whenever you went)
And we get to enjoy this!
We feel so special, that's one of the million reasons to follow every one of your adventures
Yea! It was nice to be able to share this place properly with our viewers after all these years! 🙂👍 We did a vlog in their vegetarian/vegan cafe a long time ago too but that was just inside the cafe 💕
That satay meal looks delicious, making me hungry just watching - when I'm home visiting Ireland, usually have the satay sauce over the chips & chicken - yummm so good !!
That sounds sooo yum 😋😋 making us want some of that too 🤤 but yea Satay Noodle House had some very delicious food and great value too 👍🙂
Your guys content is awesome! My family and I are from NZ and currently residing in Australia.
Your insites on New Zealand is informative, aesthetic and fun.
Your personalities bring life and originality to your videos and as a Maori I appreciate your pronunciation on the native language ❤
Thank you guys! Keep making your amazing videos 😊❤
Thanks so much Latasha! Hope you and your family are enjoying your time in Australia 🙂👋 Are you missing NZ much? We've been trying our best with our Te Reo so it's always great to hear we're doing ok! We've botched a few words up in the past just coz it's what we constantly heard growing up here but now we're definitely making the efforts to get our pronunciation good so others can hopefully learn too 👌🙂 Thank you for the encouragement! ❤️❤️❤️😁 Take care and have an awesome week!
Very nice mooncakes your friend made for you! Very lucky 👍
Really enjoyed watching your visit to Fo Guang Shan Temple. Beautiful looking architecture!
Yay mission accomplished finding a beautiful cherry blossom at the Botanic Gardens.
Super lucky! When Ting Ting has food for us we can't say no haha 😁👍 She's a great cook 💕☺️ It's pretty amazing to have that temple here in NZ. Totally feels like you're in another country when you visit! 🌸🌸
Love the story behind Satay Noodle House
It's pretty incredible ay!
Those mooncakes look delicious 😋 wouldn't have guessed they are homemade! They look so perfect 😊
They do right! Ting is such a good cook so we're really lucky to get to eat her cooking and baking! 😋👍
Omg those are some fine looking mooncake there! So talented of your friend!
She is such a great cook! 😍💕 We're very lucky 😊
Wow that restaurant has a soul! Would love to eat there.
Looking delicious, especially the curry
The food at Satay Noodle House was great and amazing their family story ❤️❤️
Handmade Moon cake yaaaaay. Oh we didn't know there is a Moon cake festival. It must be a cool festival with yummy moon cake 😁😁😁
Haha yea it's also known as mid-autumn festival but just so funny, we asked so many of our Asian friends and family and all didn't really know why we celebrate mooncake festival 😂 ended up having to Google it lolol 😅
Those are some great moon cakes!! Wow! Enjoy guys
We did! Thank you 😁 Ting is a great cook 💕😊
Oh I have been here before. Very peaceful place
It is a very peaceful place 🙂🌸👍💕
the restaurant owner history is so inspiring and could see how his hardwork paid off. ahh yes we love your Cambodia series!
That's a real success story right there so cool right ✅ inspirational
You guys have an excellent way of describing this.
Thanks for the tour, folks. Great job on the editing. I'm sure it takes time. Keep up the good work.
Like you wouldn't believe haha 😅 Thanks George, glad you enjoyed the vlog! We were really happy we got to do so much before the cold snap came in 👍🙂
Satay Noodle House looks like a great spot to getting a good Cambodian food 👍
The chicken curry looks totally hitting the spot, yum!
Peter's pork stew looks amazing too. Nice find guys 👏
Glad we got recommended Satay Noodle House 😍 The food was delicious! 😋👍
Nice Done watching amazing video LIKED IT WOW👍❤️✨🦋
Looool Peter back to his outfit so soon 🤣 omgggg love the cherry blossom, not super bloomed but it's pretty though!! Free entry is definitely a plus point!
He couldn't wait to be back in shorts and jandals lolol.. finds it so uncomfortable in pants and shoes for some reason 😅 The cherry blossoms in that place are now fully bloomed and so pretty! 😍🌸🌸
Woow that’s some place ! I wanna go there 📸👍🏻
It's pretty awesome we have such a beautiful temple right here in Auckland 🙂🌸👍 Totally feels like you're in a different place!
Nice sharing like 👌👍🙏😘❤️🌹😍🔔
“Preventing evil and doing good” I like it... sounds like the directives for a superhero😁 Thanks for taking the extra steps to get permission to film inside the temple to give us a chance the see how beautiful it is:) Was very cool to hear the restaurant’s owner’s story as well☺️ Thanks for a great vid~~
It's the Bodhisattva way! 😁👍 Learnt some great stuff that day including how to pronounce that word lol 🙂 It was really kind of Fo Guang Shan to let us film inside and even give us a tour. Hopefully more locals will go visit coz it's a great place 👍🌸🙂 Satay Noodle House and their incredible family's story has been featured on an NZ tv show here before called The Project. Always amazes me the tenacity some people have despite unthinkable hardships ❤️ Thanks Hans 👋🙂 Have an awesome week!
@@PeterandYen Definitely inspiring to see the tenacity and will some people have... thanks for sharing not just the food, but a small excerpt of his story~
Yea it's crazy what happened with the Khmer Rouge and even crazier it really wasn't all that long ago that such an atrocity occurred @.@ we watched many documentaries on it before and while we were in Cambodia so it's just incredible hearing Bun's family story ❤️
Gosh i love moon cake even if it's super super fat haha Can't wait to see this temple!!!!
Hahahaha they can get really addictive ay 😆👌 Hope you'll enjoy the temple when you visit! There's also a vegan cafe inside too btw 👍🙂
@@PeterandYen I'm not vegan but thanks haha
Neither are we, but we enjoyed it 🙂👍 it was the first time I tried mock meats.. and when we were in Cambodia this mock meat vegan place was one of my fave places to eat lol. I don't think it's for everyone.. but I enjoyed it! More than Peter I think though he seemed to like it too 🙂 it's also a tea house from memory btw 😁👍
@@PeterandYen so much nice stuff haha ok I go next week!
Hahaha enjoy! Just remember facemask, dress properly and be cautious of what they allow and don't allow photography-wise. Enjoy your time out there 😁👍
great to go back to your wedding photos place, what a nostalgic, and the botanic garden is so beautiful, could imagine when that cherry blossoms even more blooming.
😁 yeah the temple is even more grand when the cherry blossoms 🌸 are out. We had regular wedding photos as well as these temple ones
Hi Peter, Hi Yen That was a excellent video I loved your wedding pictures , They where beautiful. That's another thing I want to see before I leave this world cherry blossom tree and a panda, Keep up the good work ...👍👍
Thanks so much P Trevino 😁❤️ It was a beautiful place to take photos! We had to get permission to take them back then too but pretty special we even have a place like this in Auckland ay 🙂💕 I hope you get to see both and tick them off your bucket list! 🐼🌸
What an amazing temple! That placed looked stunning! Great choice of location for your wedding photos. Also i also know another Cambodian guy called Bun who owns a restaurant in Adelaide. For a moment I thought it was the same guy! Great video as always!
Hahahaha such a coincidence! 😁👍 Satay Noodle House was so yum. Glad we finally got to eat there! And yes beautiful temple isn't it? We were really glad we got to learn and see so much that day thanks to Fo Guang Shan for letting us vlog and giving us a guided tour too! 🙂❤️🌸
aaaw so cute Alison saying "mama". I used to think mooncake festival was because it's a full moon and welcoming the new season. but i think that's totally wrong =P. LOL what da, no sandal or shorts for Pete! Awesome looking temple! Amazing you were able to see the museum all to urself!! More beautiful cherry blossoms.
See that would be nice and logical but I don't think it was that either 😂 there's apparently a folk story and that's the reason 🌙 Haha yea had to dress appropriately for the temple visit. It was really nice to get to see all the places in private though 👍🙂 cherry blossoms are the best.. so pretty 😁🌸🌸
The lights are mesmerizing 4:53 Love that you guys shared some wedding photos also. Peter you look so serious!
Thanks Matt! Hahaha his posing ay 😆
I remember growing up and this whole area was farmland 👌
Yea that's right... then boom! Suddenly a big as temple and houses everywhere ay 😮
wow guys! that temple is beautiful! who would have thought that was in NZ?! those cherry blossoms are beautiful!
I know right it was a shock for us to find this place first time too. Right in the middle of suburban flat bush hahaha
Yum homemade mooncakes!
It's amazing, they looked store bought 😮
Can we please have those mooncakes made by Ting Ting too 😱😋 If Peter, a strict dieter can eat mooncakes then we are up for them!
Hahaha he's let go a bit with his eating 🤣 he still works out every day so he can eat whatever and not gain too much weight though lol. We're so lucky to get to eat Ting's mooncakes (and other cooking!) 😁✌️
Chúc hai bạn có những trải nghiệm thú vị
Yen's black face mask is nice. Love mooncakes too...
Thanks Mandy! We bought our masks from Charlie's Laundry 🙂 left the details in the description in case you're interested 😁👍 Do you know why we celebrate mooncake festival? 😆
Woww,.. Nice View..
Namo Buddhaya..
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Those moon cakes look crazy!
Ting Ting is such a good baker and cook!! They looked store bought seriously 🙂 She's a pro and we're lucky to get to taste her cooking often 😁👍
Awesome video guys,
Thank you! Appreciate it 😁💕👋
Yum, time for brunch 😋
What you having Daryl? 😁
@@PeterandYen bacon, eggs and hash browns.😋
Yummm 😋👌
@@PeterandYen it was :)
Fo Guang Shan has improved a lot since the last time I was there some years ago. The Botanic Gardens is always a good place to go for a walk and the Satay Noodle house looks interesting also. Good video guys, as always.
It looked like the same beautiful well maintained temple to us that we've visited over the years 😅 Food from Satay Noodle House was delicious 👍 Glad we got to eat there finally!
Is that meat or bean in those cakes? Wow amazing spot to tour aye... I need to try that spot for dinner once we are over again!
It's red bean paste 🙂👍 have you guys been into the temple? They opened some years ago! Yeaaa definitely gotta try Satay Noodle House! Food was 🔥👌😋
I have been to the Temple back in the day, a friend invited my mum and I to attend a service, it was a good experience and it's so huge too! (I remember when they were first building it and you could get your name on a tile/brick if you made a donation). I attend church in South Auckland so I'll be sure to check out The Gardens and Satay house afterwards, great variety and it's cool that Southside made your list, great video as always team 👍👍👍
Yea that's right! We remember that too 🙂👍 we were glad we finally got to try Satay Noodle House in Papakura! We had heard only great things about the place but a few times we wanted to go before the timing just didn't work out. It was worth the wait though 😁👌 Aw nice! Hope you enjoy the gardens and the restaurant next time you're out that way! Let us know what you think 😁🌸👍 btw I in Daiso yesterday, thought of you haha 😁
@@PeterandYen That's so cool that the Satay place didn't disappoint - I'm looking forward to trying it out in a fortnight time 🤤. How fortunate the monks were accommodating with your visit and also to film inside too, so beautiful 😍. That's crack up that you thought of me on your Daiso visit, well if you need a stationery or washi tape buddy then I am happy to sub in for Peter 🤣, actually I just finished watching a stationery haul and journaling video too, I think this shows how serious I take my stationery 🤣🤣🤣
Ill be sure to write a review as well as getting back to you with my thoughts 👍
Yea really nice they let us film inside then we can share the place with everyone else through our vlog 🙂🌸🌸 hahaha Peter can't last long in Daiso or stationery shops usually ay 😅 but honestly the ones in Japan are just so awesome! I find washi tape really pretty but no idea what you use them for? Is it mostly decorating journals and scrap booking stuff? I love how passionate you are about stationery hehe 😁 do you by any chance like gift wrapping too? I really like wrapping paper, ribbons and wrapping gifts up 😅😅💕 I'll often go into like 123$ kinda shops just to see what new gift wrap they have 😂🎁 sometimes you get some really nice designs 😍
@@PeterandYen Omigosh Yen, I think we are stationery soul mates, I LOVE wrapping presents and I even have a folder for wrapping in Pinterest. Washi tape is for decorating purposes, like putting it in your journal or on your letters to penpals - for those of us that penpal we will even send mini samples (washi wrapped around a piece of card) to each other. Daiso has a nice selection, but Etsy is the place to buy really nice washi 👌👌👌
Beautiful vlog and a lovely couple. May Allah bless you more Ameen.
Thank you! 💕 Blessings to you too 🙂🌸
Oooooo that red curry looks delicious!! Damn that braised pork belly, give me those fatty pork! 😍 Chicken satay looks yum too! Slightly different from our satay coz of the sauce drizzled on the satay already, love the creaminess!
Yea that's right! I thought the same thing but we don't mind that coz it was yum and saved us the work of putting the sauce on ourselves lol 😁👍 the food there was great! Glad we got recommended it ☺️
love moon cakes especially the snow skin type
Ooo wow haven't tried the snow skin moon cake before. Just Googled it looks really interesting. Does it taste the same as regular moon cake?
@@PeterandYen snow skin nicer cos it is thin unlike the traditional one a bit mouthful.😄
Mmmm sounds tasty gonna try find some next time
Hi Peter and Yen, good video
Thank you! 😁👍
Yummy!
Makes us hungry thinking about the food we had that day again 😆👍😋
Enjoyed this episode 😊 especially happy you tried SNH 😍
Hiya Dina 👋😁 Thanks hun, how have you been? Yes!! So glad we finally got to try SNH too! We had been meaning to go for some time but had timing issues etc so am glad we finally made it there 😊 Totally delicious 👍😋
Those mooncakes look very delicious 😋 I hope they taste as good as they look 😍
8:05 Big WOW 😮 😯 😲 I agree Pretty Impressive 😊🌹🌹
I love travelling and travel vlogs and podcasts and I like your channel a lot 😊🌹
I'm subscribing and dinging the bell for you guys 😊
Have a happy Sunday 😊
Mike
Thanks Mike 😁👋 Welcome to our channel and thanks for the support! 💕 We appreciate it ☺️🌸 Hope you'll enjoy all the travel videos we share! They're all from NZ again at the moment given the pandemic but there's so many awesome places to visit here so we're grateful 😁👍
Cherry blossoms ☺️☺️☺️
We're a bit obsessed haha 🌸
Wow
😁👍 some awesome places huh?
Beautiful temple! Definitely looks like you are somewhere else and not in New Zealand
It totally looks and feels like you're in a different country when you step foot in there 🙂🏯
Good video Your channel is beautiful and I will always follow you.
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Thank you! We appreciate it 🙂👋
Keep those tips coming, all such interesting places! :D
😁👌 I think you'll like next week's vlog Felix! Maybe some extra spots to add to your nz bucket list 🤞 One really cool "bridge" that's more like an open cave? 😅 And a really beautiful waterfall 😁 We also visited an actual cave lol but that's too dark for photos 😆
@@PeterandYen alright sounds wonderful! I'll keep my eyes open for it 😁
I saw your prewed photos - u guys really don't aged a single day at all 😅😂
Hahaha thank you.. definitely aged though! Btw those weren't pre wedding photos, they were actually the very next morning right after our wedding day 😁🌸 Did them before we did our tea ceremony ☺️
So nice to have special permission to film. Did you guys apply a permit or just email them? So, without permission, filming is banned inside the temple?
Peter called them and they had to check with their director and called us back to let us know if was ok and to meet their staff when we got there. Yup without permission no filming allowed inside. Even when we did our wedding photos in there last time we had to get permission too 📸
Love this episode it makes me miss home so much 😍😍 Also do guys ever age? I mean y’all would have fooled me and said so we took some photos earlier today & would have been like oh yeah but damn what’s the secret? Lol
Thanks so much again for the recommendation realG! 😁 You're back in Auckland in Dec right? 🙂 SNH will be waiting 😉 Hahaha thank you.. you're too kind. I reckon the secret is look old when you're young then when you're old you just look the same hahahaha 🤣
Yooo what up guys i know im late but i just noticed you guys came to papakura and i was like ayyyy wtf yoo 😂😂😂 its funny too because my brother said he saw u guys driving up the road one day and i was like naahh no one ever comes to the south side lol
😂 South side has so much good food though. Yen n I used to always go to manukau shopping mall then stop off at that food court near by for Malaysian or Korean 😁🤙🍜 small world 🌎 that your brother saw us driving there 😅 south side ❤
good video
Thanks Joseph 👍
Love this channel. What is the best part in living in NZ? :)
Cheers X. Levi 🙂👍 Ohh so much awesomeness in NZ but would have to say that right now it's gotta be the fact we're corona free again and able to travel all around the country enjoying its beauty ay 🙂👌🇳🇿
Your wedding photos are stunning 🤩 That so interesting about the moon cakes. My Chinese students always try to explain mid- autumn festival to me, so it was nice to learn more about it from you both :) Are the moon cakes sweet? Or can they be savoury too? Mmm braised pork belly is a winner! Looks delish. I love watching your videos, always gives me a quick fix of NZ when I’m missing home ☺️❤️.
Thanks Lana 💕😁 we had to Google about the moon cake stuff coz no one seemed to know but just enjoys giving and eating moon cakes 😂 They're a mix! You have the savoury salty egg yolk but then the bean paste is usually sweet 🙂 Satay Noodle House was so yum! Really glad we got recommended that place 👍 we're happy our videos can give you your NZ fix ❤️🇳🇿😉👋
@@PeterandYen Oh nice! Which ones do you guys prefer? Salty or sweet? Yum! Would love to try it sometime! ☺️
Oh I meant it's a mix haha it's both sweet and savoury in one moon cake 😁 hope you get to try a good one one day! 🙂💕
@@PeterandYen Oh I see! That’s so interesting. I haven’t tried one yet! 😃
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wow handmade mooncakes?? thought mooncakes always machine made as it's not easy to make, the egg yolk is our fav part in mooncakes.
I thought they were machine made too 🤔 🙂 know better now
Yep Asian pork belly is the best 😋 sweet savoury and fatty meat, so hungry now 😅
Haha so good right 😁👍
The total was only $25usd? Wow! Great price for a restaurant in Australia
New Zealand haha 🤣✌️🇳🇿
@@PeterandYen oh my God, why did I write Australia?? I meant NZ
My bad, my brain is failing me
Thanks for correcting me
Hahaha no worries! Maybe you had Aussie on your mind 😂💕
@@PeterandYen hahaha maybe hahaha
NO SHORTS & JANDALS for Peter 😭 I FEEL EMPTY
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Miss Yen, you really looks like Ninja ^^
Hahaha ninjas are cool so thanks Anant 😁 I reckon it's my full black outfit (minus my white shoes) ay 😆👍 Plus gotta have that black facemask to top it off 😁🖤
I looooove potted plants... But tried planting anything, all didn't make it after few months :( so Puri just totally ban me from having any plants
Hahahaha it's ok Sue! Maybe it's just the soil or the climate there makes it difficult 🤣🌱 we love plants too though.. use to have so many in our place! Apparently it was the reason our friend Kawa got interested in plants too so we're happy to get to shout out his business! 🌱🌱😁❤️
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Thanks for being first and second guys 😁🥇🥈 You're awesome!
Damn what a shame you guys should have visited south mall best place in South Auckland
Peter no jandals and shorts, hence the special permission granted 😋
Hahah yup 👍💯😂
Back in shorts 😜😂😂
He had them underneath his long pants and was ready to go 😂👍
sup peter and yen have you guys uploaded your other vid yet? the new plymouth visit?
What's up Charlie not yet the video should be up in two weeks 😁👍
@@PeterandYen cant wait! 😁
Hey...u guys didn't eat at the restaurant at Fu guang shang
Not this time around but we've made a vlog from there before too when we did a vegan food episode 😁👍🥕
@@PeterandYen oh...didn't see that vlog...I love the Place...not far from home...n the resturant food is also nice
Yea it's great! We enjoy the food there too 👍🙂
this place at chinese\asian area?
It's in Flat Bush, Manukau and demographics-wise would say there's quite a lot of Asians that live around there but it's not in a Chinese area as in there aren't any other Asian shops and restaurants there.. (except for its own cafe inside the temple). It's not in a Chinatown like other cities have. There's pockets of that elsewhere in Auckland. This temple sorta stands just on its own in a very residential area.
awesome :) deffo gonna get some of that pork belly ;) i made my first vlog in auckland check it out !
Nice one! 😁👍 Let us know what you think if that pork belly if you go to try it 👍🙂
“My wish if you read this, sub to Peter and Yen” 😂
Hahaha that was Peter's wish 😂🤞
2:36 *Antarctic. Pete's put on some weight since the wedding so he must be happily married! lol.
O yea antarctic.. I remember seeing some articles that said arctic and others that said antarctic 😆😆 haha Peter's weight goes up and down easily!
Why we celebrate moon cake?
Well we don't know
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We had to end up googling it hahaha 🤣
It is not good to you guys anybody. Please stop it.