It's been a decade and a half since I lived in VN, but that "HOW MUCH YOU WANT???" was so pitch-perfect it brought me right back, and twisted my stomach into all kinds of terrified knots.
I once got a really good deal at an art gallery in Shanghai just by legitimately being undecided. The owner kept dropping the price until I finally walked away to check out some other galleries. But when I came back I asked if her last offer was still good, and it was. Which was convenient is it happened to be as much cash as I had on me. (This was before everyone paid with WeChat.) I had a Chinese friend with me, but she just translated.
I lived in China for over 20 years. I don’t need to look like a local. I thought my parents to do it without even speaking the language, it’s not hard🤷♂️
There’s nothing more comforting than the “oh fuck” look a seller gets when they see you have a local friend/partner with you. The “I know you were trying to scam my gullible tourist friend” glare is accurate.
Extra bonus bargain points too, because the seller is now flustered and ready to put up with more bargaining once they've been caught "lying" about the price
To me its not a scam if its still cheaper than home. Idk like i saw an Egyptian scarf on here sold for $10 and everyone was saying the guy got cheated because it would be $5 for and Egyptian but its still 1/3 of the price it would cost to buy here.
This is 100% true! My SO is Chinese, and when we'd go shopping together in her hometown, she'd go in separately and act like we didn't know each other until she'd negotiated the price, then I'd swoop in with the money. The seller's disappointment was usually palpable
I remember watching my mom bargain with every shop owner. For her, haggling was just like a fun leisurely activity. Meanwhile me, I either buy something at full price because I want it, or refuse to buy it even when they try to offer me a discount to sway my opinion because I am just not interested.
🤣🤣That I wish I could see. I guess they'd hike the price up for some Americans too. I'm black and they give me weird looks sometimes just walking into some Asian stores. But some are nice, I like to ask them for advice.
I once went to an Arabian market and asked the guy how much for a coat and he was like £100. I called over my mate, Azad, and the look in the guy's eyes was as close as I've seen to that of a kid who threatened to beat me up watching my big brother approach.
I’ll never forget the first time I witnessed my Korean mom haggle in Korean. I’ve only seen her in her American persona where her second language kept her soft and humble. The bag of rice started at $50 and her Korean sound effects started raging. She raised her voice and the rice was half that. She looked 2 ft taller and the confidence was unreal. I was never so amazed at the person my mom is - that is hidden because of the Karen’s that baby talk her all day. 😢
@@Kay-kg6ny can you intersperse your second language in with your own language to give yourself confidence when you need to? Throw the Karen’s off a little too by making them feel a little uneducated. Haha. Give it a shot!
@@iHeartAmySue As someone who have worked as an assistant for a lot of Korean people in Indonesia, Koreans are the most racist people I've worked for but they really go all timid when they're faced with educated Arabs, Japanese and Europeans. I think your people are only timid when they're faced with Karens or Maryams, otherwise you really are vile, especially older Korean women like ur mom unfortunately.
My Dad was in the US Navy, and he told me that (at least in the 40's and 50's) it was embarrassing and insulting not to bargain in Asian countries! He had a friend (also US) who was a keen bargainer, and the shop keepers *loved* him.
Someone tell my mom! We travel and that woman will bargain like nobodys business! She was in Dubai arguing over gold neclaces 💀💀💀 That middle aged Black woman knows what shes doing, hell she'll bargain in New York if you let her 🤣
Damn, the guilt trip 😅 Comeon ma dude, I can't buy literally everything I see 😅😅 Aah I hate bargaining, it makes me feel so uncomfortable hahaha I am not cut out for markets at all
In Vietnam, we have a phrase which can be roughly translated into "to talk like the ladies at the seafood market" (or just "market" in general), which means talking aggressively and vulgarly.
It’s funny, we had it for centuries in Poland too, but for sales-ladies from Cracow market. And then ppl try to tell me that women in the past were those delicate little flowers 😂😂😂 yeah so much that market ladies are considered about as bad as sailors in speech and really mean like centuries later
My ex boyfriend was British and he visited me in Turkey. Before we went to sit anywhere, I always told him at the door, do not speak, only say hello and thank you in Turkish, and never talk to them. If he opened his mouth, they’d try charging us 3x the amount 😭
Vay canına. Ayıp be. (Goodness, that is shameful) In Türkiye, we sat down at a place and they gave us water bottles, but we didn't ask for them - if you opened them, you had to pay for them - we should have said: Vay, vay, abi. Bak nasıl musafire güzel, güzel bakıyor. Bedava su vermişler. Bu türkler zengin'dir. (Wow, wow, brother. Look how nicely they look after their guests. They gave us free water. These Turks are rich.)
fr i went turkey and the bus ride was 5 lira for kids and we looked like kids and he told her to pay if we didn't have our passports to see if we were kids so my mum paid a bit more but then another family got in and they had kids around my age and he made them pay the usual 5 lira
Same think happened to me in Japan, except that I'm korean and he's British, but he can speak Japanese. The level of confusion about who to haggle with was priceless 😂
Not in a foreign land but in my own country and in our capital,New Delhi, year 2019,i was new comer in New Delhi,first day of job, there's also two new guys who joined that day,2 guys from South India,and i,from the North East,lunch break,our 250+ colleagues left us alone 😂(maybe they thought we were newcomers so we are insignificant 😂) 3 of us decided to head out the street to eat and get personal office supplies, at the restaurant,the 2 guys stood looking at me keenly,(at that point we were conversing in English, because I don't know their language and they don't speak mine, here's crazy thing,both of them speak different language too) i asked them what they will be eating,? They both pointed out the Bhav Baji (a loaf bread with curry) but said "we don't speak Hindi so we don't know how to order"! It dawned on me that most South Indians and North Easterners doesn't speak Hindi language 😂😂 as for me I can understand basic Hindi words from my time watching Bollywood movies 😂but unable to speak out the right sentences and my accent so bad even stray Dogs will laugh at me😂😂 but i tried to slowly converse with the eatery owner,and I swear he got amused , after lunch we hit the market and proceeds to find stuffs, the drama started when the merchants expected the two guys besides me to haggle and ignored me (I look foreign 😂 I am Indian that looks a thoroughbred East Asian and female😂) i started my own way of bargaining meanwhile conversing in English with my two guys about the price they want to pay, one merchant was so frustrated and amused he sighed to his staff "Two desis(Indian) who can't speak Hindi,and one "chini"(Chinese) who can speak Hindi"What world are we living in?"he said that out loud in Hindi and i understood and replied, That's "offensive to call me "Chini", I am pure Indian ,you should go to Pakistan because you look like a Pakistani!😂😂😂
I have this in Egypt. But I don’t bring forth my wife. No. I deploy the Mother in Law. I’ve seen street vendors almost give away their wares for free just to be rid of her 😂
Not even just traveling. My partner is Indonesian and in a shop locally in Montreal I wanted a ring, went oh it's 30$ he went "no, it is not" and schmoozed the owner, after a few moments it was 10$ somehow. I am so confused as it seemed they were having just a nice but slightly tense conversation, suddenly the owner went "I like you, here 10$" and put her hand out for my cash. I love that man honestly I'd be lost without him 😂
@@m.i.t.c.h. hey don't come for my cheap jewellery 😂 it's a nice enamel painted metal ring. It's cool it has a cool green and black pattern, more hottopic than clairs but idk if that helps lol. I would have paid 30$ especially cause it was a small local shop, but 10$? In a usual barter free culture? That's pretty good. It has not even tarnished years later like my other shitty rings all have, I'm very happy with my purchase and thankful my bf wanted to have some fun there when he saw the shop owner was also south Asian lol. (With that said I totally get stuff for myself when shopping at clairs for my niece LOL)
The merchant looks forward to haggling or bargaining and they are comfortable with the lower price determined subjectively. It’s not exactly adversarial, when they want to discount.
My parents have perfected this. My mother and I normally walk infront of my dad a few paces apart, if she wants something she then picks it up nods her head but walks away. He then goes and bargains with the merchant xD.
@@anonymousmc7727 Yeah, its not like she looks like a blonde german woman and my father and I look like we were taken right out of turkey, with no familial connection that would be crazy right? And its not like they perfected their method over the last 35 years that they are married right? And as if its not enough of a coincidence, it is not like it works all the time and we always pay local prices right?
This is how I traveled China with my Mandarin speaking daughter. The faces of the people when she opened her mouth to bargain like a local was priceless 😂
My sister was studying abroad in China. She said that people would try to rip her off, but once she spoke fluent Mandarin, the prices magically changed. I guess a six foot lady who knows your language makes a world of difference.
Wow, I am Brazilian, and I thought the "more expensive for traveler" was a joke, at least here in Brazil, I'm making self notes in case I travel some day.
@@terucat675A lot of people do. I'm not even a foreigner but sometimes vendors talk to me (a kid) and never stops until my mom comes up! It's really annoying and it makes me want to leave even more
This happened so much when we traveled to Mexico for a cruise trip! They were tryna upsell their things for 2x what they originally were until i started speaking spanish and they decreased it significantly
Same happened to me! I was in Mexico at the time and I was helping some people who spoke English (idk where they were from), but as soon as I started speaking in Spanish they said: For you $10, for them $15 xD Shirts were hella well made TBH. I still have a few and it's been YEARS.
Had a family go there and he speaks Spanish incredibly well, but he told us that the moment he spoke everyone knew he was not a local. Not sure if was still ripped off or not.
@@popenieafantome9527 This is typical in Spanish speaking countries. I grew up speaking Puerto Rican Spanish. When I speak with a Mexican or Spaniard friend, it’s very obvious where each of us are from. We can understand each other perfectly 95% of the time. Some words have different meanings by country, and the pronunciation is also different between countries. So it becomes obvious, especially if you mention popcorn. Nobody can seem to agree on what popcorn should be called.
my bf is mexican and they went to mexico, the price they were given at first in english was 100 dollars for a tour. then his mom started speaking spanish to him, and he changed it to 50!
When I studied abroad in Italy my friends were all way too shy to bargain so they made me do it for all of them (I learned young from my Nonno). So I can relate. 😂
I felt so awkward about the idea of bargaining in Italy lol. I'd say my Nonna is an expert and my uncle (both parents italians, but doesn't speak italian at all) bargained for almost EVERYTHING (in spanish lol), which made me feel even more awkward lmao
@@SidMaron Probably ok on a market (every town has one a day on the week, at least up north) and some stores. Tourists stores are ok too, usually those are owned by people from other countries and are eager to bargain, in my experience at least lol I still felt awkward. And usually they round down the prices to a more convenient number (once a lady charged me €15 instead of €18 without me asking for anything and people sometimes ignore the cents because it's a pain in the ass, so they could charge €10 instead of €10,20) Maybe OP could add something else.
I always laugh when people try stopping me and my hubby at flea markets or outdoor market venues to try and negotiate in Spanish lol I'm like, "Huh?!?" My husband's covered in tattoos and has gauges in his ears so when he starts speaking to them in Spanish at 200mph they lose their shit 😂😭💀 My Spanish sucks but he was raised by his grandparents so hia is perfect lol
I tried to stop my husband the first time he haggled in front of me. I insisted he was being rude. The shop keeper ended up giving him an even BIGGER discount simply because he was happy to haggle with someone so persistent.
Haggling is actually the norm for the majority of the world. I couldn't do it, and I'm sure if be terrible at it if I tried, but in most places across the globe it's just a totally normal part of the shopping experience. It's kind of crazy to think about.
Same thing with my brother in Rome with a street seller. My mom wanted a specific scarf and my brother asked her how much she wanted to pay and then haggled down to it. The seller gave it to him even cheaper because he had a lot of fun.
Being a southeast asian haggling is a big part of my culture and I wish I could have the guts to do it but because I'm so scared of upsetting the vendors I'd always pay even though I know the price is not appropriate.
Pro tip if you are at a market/bazaar in holiday and the vendor ask for your nationality. Don't tell them that you come from a rick western country or Russia. You can tell them that you are Romanian and be able to get 50% off.
my mom would make me and my siblings promise that we wouldn't speak while we went to the markets bc our accents would give us away immediately and the prices would spike lmao
I remember talking to a woman selling stuff on the beach in Thailand. We started chatting and she told me her pricing strategy was based on nationality lol.
In Bali its flat out same 😂 no matter what is your nationality. Eventough chinese and indian tourists are always makes them suffer pretty hard for always bargain in an outrageously super low price for almost anything they tought they can bargain.
@@anna-ranja4573 Yeah, you can't push that too far though. It's going to backfire on you eventually. There are a ton of travel warnings from tourists now when it comes to Eqypt. For example, people saying 'once and never again' or 'beware of the scammers, especially the taxi drivers (who now have a reputation among tourists for being the worst)'.
The funniest thing is that local sellers ignore your existence and they only refers to the white person not knowing you’re the one who decides😂. My boyfriend is German and I’m Dominican, I couldn’t describe it better than Uyen, so funny😂❤
Me and my Filipino boyfriend just visited the Phillipines for the first time this month and this is sooo true 😂 They'll try to charge at least double most of the time if I don't get him to deal with the buying of stuff in places without marked prices (for the record, most places 🙄) Sometimes I'd wait somewhere when it's a particularly big haggle for a trip or something even for the average Pinoy and then when they see me they'll notice they've been duped and do a double take 😂 Travelling is something else sometimes...
Yo! The way my mom will throw some spanish together to get a good deal is CRAZY! Im like its already dirt cheap, but she wants 3 for the price she bargained down to 😂
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That's literally me and my husband 😂 but in our case he is the local one and I'm the white foreigner. They tell me some crazy high price and then I shout out BAABEEEEEEE!! 😂😂 Their face quickly turns from happy to disappointed once they see his face. 😁
This is true. My boyfriend is Asian and when we went to visit my family in Mexico there was a fortune teller lady trying to haggle him! Luckily I was there to save him too 😊
Hello, I am here to present my resume I can cook, clean, I've been told I have a great sense of humor, and my bar for dating standards is subterranean.
When I went to a Hong Kong market when I was a kid, I managed to accidentally bargain down a silk robe thing from $10 to 20c. I was just asking how much and then said thank you and tried to walk away to see what designs other people had. But still it was the most successful I've been at bargaining to this day
this is how hong kong markets are 😂 you tell them the next shop over has cheaper prices and you start to walk away, they’ll call you back and make it so cheap.
In Thailand there is a "foreigner tax" in many official places - national parks for example, you'll get charged mors than 10 times the price, even if you live here (you used to get discount if you show a work permit, but that hasn't been for many years now). Very frustrating going hiking with my Thai friends (who earn a similar wage to me).
Uyen looks like a straight up action hero with the dramatic windswept hair. I love it
Don't need a hair blower there.
When you've got nature's windblower aka the beach also the sea salt spray treatment is free.
She also looks fierce as a vendor 😂
Don’t get confused she’s the Villain
She did not need the fan for this one lol
I miss the videos where she uses the fan/hair blower
the aggressive panic when she says "how much you want?!" when he starts walking away, so accurate
OMG YES WHEN I WENT TO ANOTHER COUNTRY OF I TRIED TO WALK AESY THEY GOT SO DESPERATE 😭😭😭
😂😂😂 💯
I never know how to handle that when i am in latin america.
@@sigilofgremory9671just tell them you'll be right back
@@barah15 Lying is a sin. Please repent and ask GOD for forgiveness in JESUS name. Please pray to GOD to save you in JESUS CHRIST'S name. ❤❤❤
Their battle will be legendary
So legendary in fact it can only be conveyed in a Michael-Bay shot.
Worthy opponent!
And that kids is how I met your mother
😂😂😂😂
@@tbk2010this is genius 😅
It's been a decade and a half since I lived in VN, but that "HOW MUCH YOU WANT???" was so pitch-perfect it brought me right back, and twisted my stomach into all kinds of terrified knots.
HELPPP 😭
I'm Vietnamese and that the skill every mother use when they're at the market😅
😂😂😂😂😂
Sounds familiar. My wife is from China. When we traveled there she would tell me to go away so she can get a cheap price.
I understand. 😮😊
I had the same treatment in China
I once got a really good deal at an art gallery in Shanghai just by legitimately being undecided. The owner kept dropping the price until I finally walked away to check out some other galleries. But when I came back I asked if her last offer was still good, and it was. Which was convenient is it happened to be as much cash as I had on me. (This was before everyone paid with WeChat.) I had a Chinese friend with me, but she just translated.
I lived in China for over 20 years. I don’t need to look like a local. I thought my parents to do it without even speaking the language, it’s not hard🤷♂️
@@portalinawhats not hard the Chinese language????😂😂😂 Cause it's the most difficult language in the entire world 😂😂
Uyen can literally make her own movie and play all the characters lol. Just get the boyfriend to be the main character to get his PoV
And to hide his face with over-the-shoulder camera angles or convenient foliage
Yessss an all-first-person-pov action movie and he gets very few lines and then it’s just Uyen for every other character 😂 thatd be hilarious.
@@azutheboredcat2441 like when they try to hide the belly of pregnant actresses when their character is not supposed to be pregnant!
At least hes not locked in the closet still 😂
THIS X
There’s nothing more comforting than the “oh fuck” look a seller gets when they see you have a local friend/partner with you.
The “I know you were trying to scam my gullible tourist friend” glare is accurate.
Extra bonus bargain points too, because the seller is now flustered and ready to put up with more bargaining once they've been caught "lying" about the price
To me its not a scam if its still cheaper than home. Idk like i saw an Egyptian scarf on here sold for $10 and everyone was saying the guy got cheated because it would be $5 for and Egyptian but its still 1/3 of the price it would cost to buy here.
It's not that much money to you, just pay what they ask
@@radhiadeedou8286 it usually actually is. They attempt to rip you off:)
"Oh fuck, yet another cheap ass tourist wanting to pay the same as a local although he prob earns 10x more"
There, fixed it for ya
It's even funnier to be of mixed origin. You can play both roles or even impersonate nationalities, who you look like😂
We must have a part 2.
I know right? I’m invested now!
Part 2 pleaseeee
WE MUST KNOW
Im expecting like full blown kung fu fight xD
Fight 😂
When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
Who is immovable object here ? Vendor lady i suppose 😅
Bargaining is sooooooooooo much fun.
@@itsbonkerjojo9028 deffo the vendors. they stay resolute in their overcharging.
@@itsbonkerjojo9028honestly i’d say both works
@@itsbonkerjojo9028 That's why they used both adjectives you don't know which one's which
As a Vietnamese, who just came back from the summer holiday in Vietnam with a European husband, I can fully relate to this 😂.
Thank you for protecting us unaware european partners 😂😂 you and Uyen are doing angels work 😂
🤣🤣🤣❤️🙌
I legit dont even carry money in Vietnam, my wifr handles it.
@@adrienwatson2179 so tru dude. Lol.
I mean..are they all crooks?!
The way he fell straight back and quickly! That's talent.
That "how much do you want" when they see you leaving is so on point. 👌🏽
My girl was having her disney moment before he interrupted 😂😂
Yep, and she'll probably wanna get back to it ASAP, so the haggling won't take long. The seller doesn't stand a chance!
@@poopdotzilla6192This feels like a pokémon battle😂😂
Wait until u see the epic fight happening. The bargain crowns asian girls.
This is 100% true! My SO is Chinese, and when we'd go shopping together in her hometown, she'd go in separately and act like we didn't know each other until she'd negotiated the price, then I'd swoop in with the money. The seller's disappointment was usually palpable
😂😂 This is beautiful
I remember watching my mom bargain with every shop owner. For her, haggling was just like a fun leisurely activity.
Meanwhile me, I either buy something at full price because I want it, or refuse to buy it even when they try to offer me a discount to sway my opinion because I am just not interested.
🤣🤣That I wish I could see. I guess they'd hike the price up for some Americans too. I'm black and they give me weird looks sometimes just walking into some Asian stores. But some are nice, I like to ask them for advice.
😂😂😂
3.6k likes and no replies? let me fix that
“Dormamu! I’ve come to bargain!”
- Dr. Strange
For the locals, its the equivalent of darth vader pulling out his light saber.
UyenNinh:I am your counter
shop keeper:NOOOOOOOO!!!
Hahah
I once went to an Arabian market and asked the guy how much for a coat and he was like £100. I called over my mate, Azad, and the look in the guy's eyes was as close as I've seen to that of a kid who threatened to beat me up watching my big brother approach.
@@WolfbloodJakeWilliams so later, how much you pay in the end?
😂🤣😂🤣
“You can’t defeat me!”
*”I know, but she can”*
Enter Uyen :)
😂😂😂
Facts❤
Love that scene and it works so well here lol
💀
Fr tho 😂
I’ll never forget the first time I witnessed my Korean mom haggle in Korean. I’ve only seen her in her American persona where her second language kept her soft and humble. The bag of rice started at $50 and her Korean sound effects started raging. She raised her voice and the rice was half that. She looked 2 ft taller and the confidence was unreal. I was never so amazed at the person my mom is - that is hidden because of the Karen’s that baby talk her all day. 😢
Aw this is so poignant. I can also totally see how it happens: I'm a lot more shy and apologetic in my second language
@@Kay-kg6ny can you intersperse your second language in with your own language to give yourself confidence when you need to? Throw the Karen’s off a little too by making them feel a little uneducated. Haha. Give it a shot!
@@iHeartAmySue As someone who have worked as an assistant for a lot of Korean people in Indonesia, Koreans are the most racist people I've worked for but they really go all timid when they're faced with educated Arabs, Japanese and Europeans. I think your people are only timid when they're faced with Karens or Maryams, otherwise you really are vile, especially older Korean women like ur mom unfortunately.
Yessss I have the same feeling with my mum and the possibly equally harsh raised tones of Cantonese 😂
Its not other womens fault your mum doesnt know english well enough to rage like a karen in english as well as korean.
i’m mixed (half brown middle eastern half white european) and this is my dad helping my mum every time we go shopping😭❤
I'm Cuban and Spanish so the art of the deal is a serious thing.
If you're Asian, you have to bargain.
My Dad was in the US Navy, and he told me that (at least in the 40's and 50's) it was embarrassing and insulting not to bargain in Asian countries! He had a friend (also US) who was a keen bargainer, and the shop keepers *loved* him.
Someone tell my mom! We travel and that woman will bargain like nobodys business! She was in Dubai arguing over gold neclaces 💀💀💀 That middle aged Black woman knows what shes doing, hell she'll bargain in New York if you let her 🤣
Also if you’re North African, my mom bargains anywhere in Algeria
Even in africa we bargain all the time
Does that mean Dr Strange is Asian after the first movie?
I always get "You Dutchies always the same. Look, look, but don't buy!" 😅🤣
Kijken kijken niet kopen idd
Damn, the guilt trip 😅
Comeon ma dude, I can't buy literally everything I see 😅😅
Aah I hate bargaining, it makes me feel so uncomfortable hahaha I am not cut out for markets at all
We’ve been warned, we know better than to try and beat the merchants at their own game 😂
Hahahahahaha
lol
also, for us awkward people the "let me ask my boyfriend first" and *poof * disappear
I do that all the time . Except my excuse is ' Let Me ask my mom first '
😂 for me it’s let me check with my husband first… meanwhile I’m not even married lol
@@Jeah1911You are not alone. 😅
Me because I'm high anxiety and fear rejection/confrontation 😭😭
@@hannahkhin4938 same 😂😂😂 I’m 20 and I still do that
In Vietnam, we have a phrase which can be roughly translated into "to talk like the ladies at the seafood market" (or just "market" in general), which means talking aggressively and vulgarly.
It’s funny, we had it for centuries in Poland too, but for sales-ladies from Cracow market.
And then ppl try to tell me that women in the past were those delicate little flowers 😂😂😂 yeah so much that market ladies are considered about as bad as sailors in speech and really mean like centuries later
My ex boyfriend was British and he visited me in Turkey. Before we went to sit anywhere, I always told him at the door, do not speak, only say hello and thank you in Turkish, and never talk to them. If he opened his mouth, they’d try charging us 3x the amount 😭
Yo pal! You needn't have mentioned about our country. You've done the right thing, tho. Here they'd try to rip outlanders off.
Vay canına. Ayıp be.
(Goodness, that is shameful)
In Türkiye, we sat down at a place and they gave us water bottles, but we didn't ask for them - if you opened them, you had to pay for them - we should have said:
Vay, vay, abi. Bak nasıl musafire güzel, güzel bakıyor. Bedava su vermişler. Bu türkler zengin'dir.
(Wow, wow, brother. Look how nicely they look after their guests. They gave us free water. These Turks are rich.)
fr i went turkey and the bus ride was 5 lira for kids and we looked like kids and he told her to pay if we didn't have our passports to see if we were kids so my mum paid a bit more but then another family got in and they had kids around my age and he made them pay the usual 5 lira
I see why he's your ex. Pillock couldn't do as he's told.
He earns at least 8 times the money by purchasing power though, 3x koymaz adama.
“Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.”
🤣🤣🤣
I was going to say exactly this! 😂 Great minds think alike 😎
LOLOLOLOLOL..
EXACTLY
Imagine Dr Strange is an Asian... 🤯🤯🤯
Uyen's bombastic side eye gave me ✨CHILLS✨
🥴🥴
😂🤣😂
us*
oh
its not a funny meme :D
I always get "You Dutchies always the same. Look, look, but don't buy!"
YOU'RE EVERYWHERE
Omg it's a chicken comment with 4 likes
@@Camfan18YT yezz
Same think happened to me in Japan, except that I'm korean and he's British, but he can speak Japanese. The level of confusion about who to haggle with was priceless 😂
Not in a foreign land but in my own country and in our capital,New Delhi, year 2019,i was new comer in New Delhi,first day of job, there's also two new guys who joined that day,2 guys from South India,and i,from the North East,lunch break,our 250+ colleagues left us alone 😂(maybe they thought we were newcomers so we are insignificant 😂) 3 of us decided to head out the street to eat and get personal office supplies, at the restaurant,the 2 guys stood looking at me keenly,(at that point we were conversing in English, because I don't know their language and they don't speak mine, here's crazy thing,both of them speak different language too) i asked them what they will be eating,? They both pointed out the Bhav Baji (a loaf bread with curry) but said "we don't speak Hindi so we don't know how to order"! It dawned on me that most South Indians and North Easterners doesn't speak Hindi language 😂😂 as for me I can understand basic Hindi words from my time watching Bollywood movies 😂but unable to speak out the right sentences and my accent so bad even stray Dogs will laugh at me😂😂 but i tried to slowly converse with the eatery owner,and I swear he got amused , after lunch we hit the market and proceeds to find stuffs, the drama started when the merchants expected the two guys besides me to haggle and ignored me (I look foreign 😂 I am Indian that looks a thoroughbred East Asian and female😂) i started my own way of bargaining meanwhile conversing in English with my two guys about the price they want to pay, one merchant was so frustrated and amused he sighed to his staff "Two desis(Indian) who can't speak Hindi,and one "chini"(Chinese) who can speak Hindi"What world are we living in?"he said that out loud in Hindi and i understood and replied, That's "offensive to call me "Chini", I am pure Indian ,you should go to Pakistan because you look like a Pakistani!😂😂😂
@@thisnthat7760 omg this is sooo hilarious 😂
@@thisnthat7760 It may be safe to say that was Epic!
What justification would they even have for price gouging tourists in a wealthy developed country like Japan 🧐
oi mate konnichiwa
I have this in Egypt. But I don’t bring forth my wife. No. I deploy the Mother in Law. I’ve seen street vendors almost give away their wares for free just to be rid of her 😂
That’s even better
😂🤣 same, but in Morocco!
😂 smart. Use the weapons you got to their best advantage.
sounds like you and your mother in law are karens
Mother in laws are the bomb . Mine helped me get nearly half off an item in Bangkok and some free items too .
Not even just traveling. My partner is Indonesian and in a shop locally in Montreal I wanted a ring, went oh it's 30$ he went "no, it is not" and schmoozed the owner, after a few moments it was 10$ somehow. I am so confused as it seemed they were having just a nice but slightly tense conversation, suddenly the owner went "I like you, here 10$" and put her hand out for my cash. I love that man honestly I'd be lost without him 😂
Damn Claire’s strikes again😅
@@m.i.t.c.h. hey don't come for my cheap jewellery 😂 it's a nice enamel painted metal ring. It's cool it has a cool green and black pattern, more hottopic than clairs but idk if that helps lol. I would have paid 30$ especially cause it was a small local shop, but 10$? In a usual barter free culture? That's pretty good. It has not even tarnished years later like my other shitty rings all have, I'm very happy with my purchase and thankful my bf wanted to have some fun there when he saw the shop owner was also south Asian lol. (With that said I totally get stuff for myself when shopping at clairs for my niece LOL)
Lol seriously, the demnor works. I love it. The car dealers hate me and I get killer deals.
Indonesian here. Unless it's real gold & diamonds, our rings definitely won't sell for 30 USD & above.
indomie person lol
That bargaining encounter ended up being far more chilling than the showdown in HIGH NOON!!! 😱
Damn those dramatic stares and camerawork ✨masterpiece✨
Some say they’re still bargaining to this day…
Best comment, makes it sound tolkenian.
When they're staring each other down it's so good you forget it's literally the same person lol
I thought the same
She knows how to convey emotion and a story very well
The merchant looks forward to haggling or bargaining and they are comfortable with the lower price determined subjectively. It’s not exactly adversarial, when they want to discount.
Oh there the same I thought everyone looked like that.
LOL - I just started to follow your channel a few weeks ago - but this is handsdown my favorite so far. absolutely hilarious.
🤣🤣As an African with a Caucasian American husband, this hit home because we go through this everytime we go to Kenya
@@babyboomertwerkteam5662why you talking?
😂😂😂 I’m sure your husband is like Olivia to the rescue ❤
My parents have perfected this. My mother and I normally walk infront of my dad a few paces apart, if she wants something she then picks it up nods her head but walks away. He then goes and bargains with the merchant xD.
That's so adorable 🥺💖
😂
She’s not fooling anybody 😂 and those women at the market selling their wares you think you’re gonna fool them…..nope!
Great idea!
@@anonymousmc7727 Yeah, its not like she looks like a blonde german woman and my father and I look like we were taken right out of turkey, with no familial connection that would be crazy right?
And its not like they perfected their method over the last 35 years that they are married right?
And as if its not enough of a coincidence, it is not like it works all the time and we always pay local prices right?
The cinematographic panning is thoroughly appreciated 😅😊
Omg I love how she kept it to our imaginations. You can bargain in the language, voice pitch, body language you choose.
Little did the locals know, he has a ✨Protector✨
"You've betrayed the motherland."
"I'm on the side of love."
the camera angles and movement are so brilliant, this is absolutely brilliantly played 🤣🤣
The negotiation tactics are so accurate, it's like a real-life action movie. Love the cultural insights and strategies used in bargaining!
i know you can't read this but please get off the platform and never come back
Omg the "how much you want?!" after naming a price but seeing you're hesitant is SO accurate! 😂 I seriously can't stop binge watching your vids.
This is how I traveled China with my Mandarin speaking daughter. The faces of the people when she opened her mouth to bargain like a local was priceless 😂
Asians: we know how to bargain
Asian moms : you were saying
😂😂ikr!@uojha
I know they come to stores here and try to negotiate like mamn this is walmart
Middle east: sorry, you were saying
My mom got something that is 500 for 10
@@respawngamer8405 plot twist she bought something for 10 and stole the 500 and lied to you
Uyen is such a beautiful woman. Sometimes I am truly floored by her beauty!
My sister was studying abroad in China. She said that people would try to rip her off, but once she spoke fluent Mandarin, the prices magically changed. I guess a six foot lady who knows your language makes a world of difference.
Do you have any tips ?
The Chinese will rip you off wherever they are.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is very very true that's why I never allowed my husband to deal with vendors when we travel back in the Philippines 🤦♀️
I'm filipino and they do that??? 😨
Wow, I am Brazilian, and I thought the "more expensive for traveler" was a joke, at least here in Brazil, I'm making self notes in case I travel some day.
@@terucat675A lot of people do. I'm not even a foreigner but sometimes vendors talk to me (a kid) and never stops until my mom comes up! It's really annoying and it makes me want to leave even more
@@terucat675 Yes.
This happened so much when we traveled to Mexico for a cruise trip! They were tryna upsell their things for 2x what they originally were until i started speaking spanish and they decreased it significantly
Same happened to me! I was in Mexico at the time and I was helping some people who spoke English (idk where they were from), but as soon as I started speaking in Spanish they said:
For you $10, for them $15 xD
Shirts were hella well made TBH. I still have a few and it's been YEARS.
@@alice20001 did they really make them pay 15??
Had a family go there and he speaks Spanish incredibly well, but he told us that the moment he spoke everyone knew he was not a local. Not sure if was still ripped off or not.
@@popenieafantome9527 This is typical in Spanish speaking countries. I grew up speaking Puerto Rican Spanish. When I speak with a Mexican or Spaniard friend, it’s very obvious where each of us are from. We can understand each other perfectly 95% of the time. Some words have different meanings by country, and the pronunciation is also different between countries. So it becomes obvious, especially if you mention popcorn. Nobody can seem to agree on what popcorn should be called.
my bf is mexican and they went to mexico, the price they were given at first in english was 100 dollars for a tour. then his mom started speaking spanish to him, and he changed it to 50!
I love your shorts and videos! You're so funny 😂
The “how much you want?” Is so accurate😂 and when you say the number, they always act surprised like your number is super low😂😂
When you are just a simple traveling merchant pushing cheap stuff to tourists at the beach, and suddenly the boss music starts out of nowhere..
When I studied abroad in Italy my friends were all way too shy to bargain so they made me do it for all of them (I learned young from my Nonno). So I can relate. 😂
I felt so awkward about the idea of bargaining in Italy lol. I'd say my Nonna is an expert and my uncle (both parents italians, but doesn't speak italian at all) bargained for almost EVERYTHING (in spanish lol), which made me feel even more awkward lmao
I didn’t know bargaining was a thing in Italy
I'm going to Italy next week. Now I'm in panik mode where to bargain and where not to. 🤯 Help.
@@SidMaron Probably ok on a market (every town has one a day on the week, at least up north) and some stores. Tourists stores are ok too, usually those are owned by people from other countries and are eager to bargain, in my experience at least lol I still felt awkward. And usually they round down the prices to a more convenient number (once a lady charged me €15 instead of €18 without me asking for anything and people sometimes ignore the cents because it's a pain in the ass, so they could charge €10 instead of €10,20)
Maybe OP could add something else.
@@ItsJustValHere Thank you! 🥰
You're a true inspiration.
I always laugh when people try stopping me and my hubby at flea markets or outdoor market venues to try and negotiate in Spanish lol I'm like, "Huh?!?" My husband's covered in tattoos and has gauges in his ears so when he starts speaking to them in Spanish at 200mph they lose their shit 😂😭💀
My Spanish sucks but he was raised by his grandparents so hia is perfect lol
Are you German?🙂
@@divine_simplicityshe's a white washed Hispanic/ no sabo kid
I love it. People want to take advantage until they see u have backup. Lmfao
I tried to stop my husband the first time he haggled in front of me. I insisted he was being rude. The shop keeper ended up giving him an even BIGGER discount simply because he was happy to haggle with someone so persistent.
Haggling is actually the norm for the majority of the world. I couldn't do it, and I'm sure if be terrible at it if I tried, but in most places across the globe it's just a totally normal part of the shopping experience. It's kind of crazy to think about.
Same thing with my brother in Rome with a street seller. My mom wanted a specific scarf and my brother asked her how much she wanted to pay and then haggled down to it. The seller gave it to him even cheaper because he had a lot of fun.
Being a southeast asian haggling is a big part of my culture and I wish I could have the guts to do it but because I'm so scared of upsetting the vendors I'd always pay even though I know the price is not appropriate.
Pro tip if you are at a market/bazaar in holiday and the vendor ask for your nationality. Don't tell them that you come from a rick western country or Russia. You can tell them that you are Romanian and be able to get 50% off.
Does this actually work?
Thanks for the tip.
Not sure if I can pull this off speaking English with my accent.
💀 💀 as a Romanian this tip should work at 100% full effectiveness
*Australian noises*
Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
The wind is a paid actor
As a Malaysian with a white, British partner, this hit right in the feels. I was raised better than to pay the sticker price for anything!
No System is neccasarily wrong it's just here in the west we don't really have a haggling culture. It's different strokes for different folks.
the story telling in her shorts is awesome! her style is simple without any extra needed, yet so unique funny and cool!
You naturally make genuine asian accent is brilliant
my mom would make me and my siblings promise that we wouldn't speak while we went to the markets bc our accents would give us away immediately and the prices would spike lmao
you don’t understand how much i love this 😂
I remember talking to a woman selling stuff on the beach in Thailand. We started chatting and she told me her pricing strategy was based on nationality lol.
Same in Egypt. The first price is always the highest especially for the tourists of the USA.
did she give examples?
In Bali its flat out same 😂 no matter what is your nationality. Eventough chinese and indian tourists are always makes them suffer pretty hard for always bargain in an outrageously super low price for almost anything they tought they can bargain.
@@anna-ranja4573 Yeah, you can't push that too far though. It's going to backfire on you eventually. There are a ton of travel warnings from tourists now when it comes to Eqypt. For example, people saying 'once and never again' or 'beware of the scammers, especially the taxi drivers (who now have a reputation among tourists for being the worst)'.
This actually made me chuckle this morning
These are the kind of videos by couples that I actually enjoy ahaha
She squared up like a kid in the bushes in a Pokemon game
The camera pan, the music, the glare.
Perfection👌🏾
Your nails match this blouse so much!
The funniest thing is that local sellers ignore your existence and they only refers to the white person not knowing you’re the one who decides😂. My boyfriend is German and I’m Dominican, I couldn’t describe it better than Uyen, so funny😂❤
Me and my Filipino boyfriend just visited the Phillipines for the first time this month and this is sooo true 😂
They'll try to charge at least double most of the time if I don't get him to deal with the buying of stuff in places without marked prices (for the record, most places 🙄)
Sometimes I'd wait somewhere when it's a particularly big haggle for a trip or something even for the average Pinoy and then when they see me they'll notice they've been duped and do a double take 😂
Travelling is something else sometimes...
First!!! This is so true 😭My mum speaks Spanish so we get all the deals 😂
Yo! The way my mom will throw some spanish together to get a good deal is CRAZY! Im like its already dirt cheap, but she wants 3 for the price she bargained down to 😂
That's cool, where does she bargain in Spanish? In my country I've never seen that
@@BunnyFoooFooFor some reason she just finds them near wherever we are staying when she goes 😭😭Not sure how tbh
@@blaackberryEXACTLY 😭
@@jazzywazzywoo1that's amazing😂
This is the best thing I’ve seen this week lol
The music choice is awesome!
What is the song called?
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Cover by Marilyn Manson @@piglinprince
@@xembie7665 thanks you rock
@@piglinprinceSweet Dreams by Puppetmaster
I cannot ever relate to any of your content, but I just genuinely love it so much. You're so fun to watch and is probably the most wholesome creator I'm following♥️
The camera work omg I literally got chills!!! 5 times in a row when rewatching!!!!
Love your videos. Always make me smile 😊
"A worthy opponent..."
"Our battle will be legendary!"
I must say, earlier when the algorithm introduced your video to me, it is not something I prefer to watch but over time your videos kinda grew on me and I started enjoying them.😊 Thats some quality content as a creator, as opposed to some random shit people put out ❤
That's literally me and my husband 😂 but in our case he is the local one and I'm the white foreigner. They tell me some crazy high price and then I shout out BAABEEEEEEE!! 😂😂 Their face quickly turns from happy to disappointed once they see his face. 😁
That's why when you're traveling you always need some of that local rizz
His voice and accent is too cute and pure. They are both too sweet
German Boyfriend's camera work here is really impressive.
This is true. My boyfriend is Asian and when we went to visit my family in Mexico there was a fortune teller lady trying to haggle him! Luckily I was there to save him too 😊
Their bargain will be legendary ❤
I hope one day I'll defend my future partner from the caribbean vendors like that too 😭🙏🏾
same 💀
also kusuo's girlfriends?!
@@Jesus____ OMG JESUS HI I'M A BIG FAN 🥺
Hello, I am here to present my resume
I can cook, clean, I've been told I have a great sense of humor, and my bar for dating standards is subterranean.
me, the friend who is always saved from overpaying 😂
Implying that you purposely are seeking for a non Caribbean partner?
Uyen ready to fight herself is amazing
It's like the final gunfight scene in The Good, The Bad, and The YouKnowWhat.
Nothing beats going to a new country with a local on your side 😅
"Come here, come here" "wait" "how much you want" swear these are the common words they say when they bargain
"WHAT IS THE LAST PRICE??" 😂👌
🤣🤣🤣
Probably 50
Maybe 45 and a few free items included
@@None_of_your_business_boo. that's sure with Uyen 😂😂
was letzte preis
The nature is always on her side lmao (The dramatic sunsets the wind etc😭)
I can relate to this. My wife is a Philippina, and she the one who buys from local vendors.
Bhahaha this is hillarious! I bet the boss music starts in the backgroun every time this happens to you two
When I went to a Hong Kong market when I was a kid, I managed to accidentally bargain down a silk robe thing from $10 to 20c. I was just asking how much and then said thank you and tried to walk away to see what designs other people had. But still it was the most successful I've been at bargaining to this day
this is how hong kong markets are 😂 you tell them the next shop over has cheaper prices and you start to walk away, they’ll call you back and make it so cheap.
In Thailand there is a "foreigner tax" in many official places - national parks for example, you'll get charged mors than 10 times the price, even if you live here (you used to get discount if you show a work permit, but that hasn't been for many years now).
Very frustrating going hiking with my Thai friends (who earn a similar wage to me).
we should make similiar tax for Asians in EU/US to let know them how we feel xD
The self stare down was something else legend has it she is still at it