Our Terrifying Chinese Mafia Experience

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  • Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
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  • @ADVChina
    @ADVChina  3 года назад +107

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    • @BoycottChinaa
      @BoycottChinaa 3 года назад +4

      The first to have won the change of the thumb from zero to one... Thanks for another great episode!

    • @craigcutler6919
      @craigcutler6919 3 года назад +2

      It doesn't matter if they like drinking in business, them designating a person to drink for them is an affectation that shows they are in power and better than you. How are you so slow that you haven't figured this out? Pay attention.

    • @SparkCroft21
      @SparkCroft21 3 года назад +1

      Why the heck you have so few subscribers? I was subscribed to both of you before you had a collab. Got unsubbed a few times but damn we gotta pump those numbers up.

    • @richjudas6499
      @richjudas6499 3 года назад +2

      Nord tracks your keystrokes
      Widely known and avoided among those in crypto

    • @velkylev4217
      @velkylev4217 3 года назад +1

      21:50 BIIRRRDDDSSS

  • @brandonb9664
    @brandonb9664 3 года назад +1222

    The reason those thugs didn't turn into the Petro station was because Winston was standing there in in a suit looking like a professional hitman

    • @White_Recluse
      @White_Recluse 3 года назад +63

      His a professional hit man

    • @humphrex
      @humphrex 3 года назад +35

      @@White_Recluse he´s

    • @rotshepherd3817
      @rotshepherd3817 3 года назад +21

      @@humphrex hees

    • @b.elzebub9252
      @b.elzebub9252 3 года назад +54

      @@humphrex Hiss like a professional hitmom

    • @snigie1
      @snigie1 3 года назад +14

      Hurrrr

  • @tarik1845
    @tarik1845 3 года назад +271

    My Father was born there. White Russian. When the Chinese revolution happened it was China for Chinese people so he was takin in by Australia. His father, my grandfather,escaped the Russian revolution to end up there in Harbin China.
    So lucky.

    • @screamindemon9324
      @screamindemon9324 3 года назад +1

      Bro what country do you live in if you say my country i will move before the coming revolution lol... just kidding hope you and your family are secure and safe nowadays

    • @Snapper238
      @Snapper238 3 года назад +1

      @@screamindemon9324 he/she said 'my country'? Whoops, misread due to the lack of punctuation marks.

    • @tarik1845
      @tarik1845 3 года назад +9

      @@screamindemon9324 Australia.
      I could do with some hard knocks Grandfather was a structural engineer, miner, then went onto become a language teacher (5 languages) by the end at UQ IN Queensland. Lucky they where white.... White Australia Policy was is full swing just it time for when they needed it.
      Get this though. They sent my grandfather to australia and my grandmother, with two children, to chilli!
      Only after 4 years did the mother and kids get status in Australia. (Probably wanted to see how my grandfather performed). The month before they were to leave Chilli to come to Australia, my would be uncle contracted the flu and died. My grandmother went crazy shortly after they landed in Australia. Likely due to the experiences she had in Chilli. (She didn’t know Spanish. They just sent them over and threw them in a box to fend for themselves back in those days.)
      I’m fucking boring 🤣

    • @screamindemon9324
      @screamindemon9324 3 года назад

      @@tarik1845 thats crazy man well i am glad your doing ok

    • @bobobobo3142
      @bobobobo3142 3 года назад

      @@tarik1845 bro are you muslim?

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera 3 года назад +365

    Hiring blind people as massage therapists is actually genius. I know someone with a blind family member who can't work; I should suggest that, and see if they had ever thought of it before.

    • @captainmorgen486
      @captainmorgen486 3 года назад +48

      "And see "

    • @ashamon99
      @ashamon99 3 года назад +22

      Its quite common in Asia. I know in India and massage in Sri Lanka is often recommend to be done by a blind masseuses.

    • @black_rabbit_0f_inle805
      @black_rabbit_0f_inle805 2 года назад +3

      There's a movie At First Sight with Val Kilmer thats about that

    • @johnrhodes3350
      @johnrhodes3350 2 года назад +8

      My stepmother is totally blind and was a Physiotherapist. That was quite a common profession choice from 45 years ago. I don't know if it still is

    • @pillalam
      @pillalam 2 года назад +2

      Malaysia too had a street full of blind masseurs

  • @atomicdancer
    @atomicdancer 3 года назад +545

    *Chinese Mafia* : "Don't disrespect the police - not even the fake police!"

    • @m.chumakov1033
      @m.chumakov1033 3 года назад +32

      Now that's a uniquely Chinese mafia.

    • @LelouchVelvet
      @LelouchVelvet 3 года назад +65

      Proves that police and the mafia are the same there lol.

    • @MrNajibrazak
      @MrNajibrazak 3 года назад +27

      The CCP is the patron for established triads of South East Asia. While USA have to employ agents to be their eyes and ears the CCP are using the triads, in return they are given consessions to operate in China as long as they do not prey on the mainland society namely in online scam, gambling and flesh trade.

    • @Dowent
      @Dowent 3 года назад +16

      @@MrNajibrazak This sounds so much like a conspiracy theory, until you listen to the testimonies of the victims, especially the escaped slaves. It's chilling that this still takes place in a relatively developed country, or well, anywhere. It is extremely chilling.

    • @turningnull2538
      @turningnull2538 3 года назад +5

      They should go like:"fk tthe police"

  • @radrose4864
    @radrose4864 3 года назад +102

    The birds thing gets me every time. Also your nordvpn ads. So funny !!

    • @jeffczermanski2993
      @jeffczermanski2993 3 года назад +12

      The bird thing makes me laugh every time also. It is horrible that Mao killed millions, but so many of the things he (Mao) did are so hysterically stupid. "I want everyone to make steel in their backyard".

    • @hobog
      @hobog 3 года назад +1

      Maybe an exception, but Central Guangzhou has an okay variety of subtropical birds. The variety may wain with more distance from PRD

    • @panier66
      @panier66 3 года назад +2

      There's one at 21:52

    • @garthtube6116
      @garthtube6116 3 года назад

      Don’t be fooled by these lies there are plenty birds in China 😂

    • @symphantic4552
      @symphantic4552 3 года назад

      21:49 ;)

  • @randybrinsfield9391
    @randybrinsfield9391 3 года назад +119

    Love the comment about birds in China. When I lived in Guangzhou we had a lonely bird making a lonely sound. We called the the Guangzhou bird. The only one in town that hasn’t been eaten!!!

    • @hobog
      @hobog 3 года назад +10

      I'm in gz now, and there are suspiciously more birds than there were ten years ago

    • @Jonasjordan1
      @Jonasjordan1 3 года назад +23

      @@hobog Positive news, hope it continue to grow.

    • @robertbobbypelletreaujr2173
      @robertbobbypelletreaujr2173 3 года назад +6

      Thats a really sad story.

  • @agalah408
    @agalah408 3 года назад +455

    You missed one of the big fun parts of Harbin. Deep underground, in the area for about a kilometre radius from the St Sophia church is an network of old 'fallout' tunnels that have been converted into long, skinny shopping malls. Deep in Winter you go down 3 long flights of steps from street level to get there. Most of the above ground streets have been replicated in tunnels. There's even an underground McDonalds. In winter it provides good protection from the -25º C topside.

  • @YGZ
    @YGZ 3 года назад +125

    NO BIRDS IN CHINA!! I am anxiously awaiting a mass upload of pigeon videos from the shills and salty China bloggers lol!

    • @rizkiramadhan9266
      @rizkiramadhan9266 3 года назад +3

      The only shills I see around here are NATO/US shills

    • @YGZ
      @YGZ 3 года назад +26

      @@rizkiramadhan9266 lol, who ever explicitly supported a government here?

    • @SuprizePlayz
      @SuprizePlayz 3 года назад +11

      @@rizkiramadhan9266 Who dafuq iz you bruh

    • @entyropy3262
      @entyropy3262 3 года назад +3

      They do not know, what birds are.
      This generation did grow up without birds, without knowing how nature sounds.

    • @MrBlaxjax
      @MrBlaxjax 3 года назад +14

      To be fair, there are birds in china. Zhejiang province seems to have more sparrows than the UK. However, in general, the UK is absolutely replete with birds, and the dawn chorus in summer sounds like a jungle. Not so much in china, which is weird given that it's mainly subtropical. Most of the countryside that I saw in china is depleted. Many European countries are much more densely populated than china yet retain a fair amount of wildlife and 'unspoilt' nature. That was one of the many things that made me glad to return to the UK after my stay in china.

  • @williamwaite3989
    @williamwaite3989 3 года назад +116

    More content of the north would be brill! I’m really fascinated by the fusion of Russo-sino cultures in the northern region and also the Mongolian aspect. Loved Conquering Northern China! Hoped you guys go back to that region perhaps Russia or Mongolia to do a docu series.

    • @blake219
      @blake219 3 года назад +2

      Russo culture is also present in south China. Stem from USSR reoccupation during WWII, Korean war, etc

    • @charlesseymour1482
      @charlesseymour1482 3 года назад

      What is brill mean? Drill whale food?

    • @charlesseymour1482
      @charlesseymour1482 3 года назад

      C r i l l small 🦐

    • @johnlacey3857
      @johnlacey3857 2 года назад +2

      @@charlesseymour1482 Actually that’s krill

    • @charlesseymour1482
      @charlesseymour1482 2 года назад +2

      Brilliant

  • @cartwright8920
    @cartwright8920 3 года назад +20

    SNOW beer is easily confused as MONS beer if you read it wrongly on the bottle or can.

    • @atomicdancer
      @atomicdancer 3 года назад +2

      Mmmmm, Mons 🍺

    • @cliffc2546
      @cliffc2546 3 года назад

      Too much to drink last night.

    • @joriankell1983
      @joriankell1983 3 года назад

      Mons only turns to snow when you upend the bottle

  • @stevehanson5556
    @stevehanson5556 3 года назад +18

    Talk about a stereotype that guy looks like something you'd see in an old martial arts flick

  • @igottheshaft
    @igottheshaft 3 года назад +5

    20:50 There's a wild bird flying, shortly after you challenged us to freeze every frame. Lol.

  • @DrakeStoneDS
    @DrakeStoneDS 3 года назад +10

    Great video, guys. I love this format. I enjoy all the videos y'all put out. The northern region topics have been my favorite. I will never have the opportunity to travel to China. Thank you for providing the vicarious life I never thought I would get!!!!!!

    • @owenhe7513
      @owenhe7513 2 года назад

      anyway,welcome to China one day

  • @ThinWhiteAxe
    @ThinWhiteAxe 3 года назад +41

    Wow those dancing dudes were genuinely mesmerising to watch. Love that Russian looking architecture too. More northern China please!

  • @aeridgway
    @aeridgway 3 года назад +7

    More northern China content would be fantastic. This was tremendously interesting. Thanks Winston and C-Milk.

  • @immersivegamer7640
    @immersivegamer7640 2 года назад +5

    Oh man, I just recently discovered your channel and I am amazed with how much interesting content you guys produced! Great, interesting stuff that helps to know more about parts of the world that are simply inaccessible to me.
    Seriously - why consume regular tv broadcasting when there is so much worthwhile stuff available on channels like yours!
    Thank you and wishing you all the best!

  • @leemitchell8501
    @leemitchell8501 2 года назад +9

    I lived in Changchun (Jilin Province/Dong Bei region) and I can attest to how freezing cold it is, especially when the wind picks up from the Gobi desert. It's insane. Changchun was unreal. 4 years of absolute pandemonium that can't even be explained.

  • @Shmityorshen
    @Shmityorshen 3 года назад +20

    The guys dancing at 15:45 are KILLING it

  • @LivingInAnInverseReality
    @LivingInAnInverseReality 3 года назад +3

    I lived in China for 4.5 years and have been watching y'all for about 5 years. Good work. I've learned a lot from this channel. Thanks

  • @williamscoggin1509
    @williamscoggin1509 3 года назад +21

    64-year-old Navy veteran, I enjoy everything you all do. Here and there have a different point of view on a couple of things but that is normal when anyone talks to anyone. I've learned a few things from y'all and y'all have learned things from other people as you grow older. Keep up the great work! 👍🏻

    • @anonmouse4626
      @anonmouse4626 2 года назад

      How do you feel about the transvestite 4 star Navy Admiral that made it into the news recently?

  • @nikedoesthings
    @nikedoesthings 3 года назад +168

    "What's at the end of the rainbow? -Xi Jinping propaganda." Way to ruin my dreams C-Milk... never looking for that leprechaun again ;o;

    • @markvogel5872
      @markvogel5872 3 года назад +7

      The leprechaun was last spotted in Mobile Alabama....I wanna know where the gold at.

    • @rattyratstuff7125
      @rattyratstuff7125 3 года назад

      youll find a leprechaun. but he isnt paper white with red hair. hes a little chinese man that tries to sell you to a farmer

    • @rattyratstuff7125
      @rattyratstuff7125 3 года назад

      @@markvogel5872 we saw 2 a few years back in cali. im guessing he came here cause the state would pay him 3 gold pieces per day for existing and being short. his coffers are overflowing

    • @lemonZzzzs
      @lemonZzzzs 3 года назад +1

      dat leprechaun is a CCP operative

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 2 года назад

      Space therefore aliens.
      Rainbows therefore leprechauns.

  • @dougmcleod3413
    @dougmcleod3413 3 года назад +46

    The Legends are back!!

  • @spookerd
    @spookerd 3 года назад

    I've been meaning to watch both Conquering Northern China and Conquering Southern China and all these "director's commentary" videos over the last month or two have finally pushed me over the edge I need more and that's the only way I'm gonna get it!

  • @Os.-
    @Os.- 3 года назад +2

    Hard to believe Conquering Northern China is 3.5 years old now and I still have the poster! :)
    Keep up the great work guys, enjoying the range of vids and live sessions (though wrong TZ for me)

  • @cmax4488
    @cmax4488 2 года назад +5

    You guys did some crazy stuff lol. I wouldn't be caught dead in many of the places you went. I have a lot of respect for what you guys did. Extremely interesting and informational.

  • @legaleagle7226
    @legaleagle7226 3 года назад +66

    the character 蒙on the number plates is Meng for Mongolian. Which explains why the locals are so tall. Probably not Han if they are tall.

    • @nickevans8990
      @nickevans8990 3 года назад +10

      It's an Inner Mongolia plate.

    • @legaleagle7226
      @legaleagle7226 3 года назад +4

      @@nickevans8990 Yes, exactly. That's my point.

    • @rizkiramadhan9266
      @rizkiramadhan9266 3 года назад +13

      I used to live in Northern China. The people are ridiculously tall, even the women

    • @nickevans8990
      @nickevans8990 3 года назад +20

      Legal The point is that not everyone in 哈尔滨 is Mongolian. The diet and habits are different so even Han Chinese will be taller

    • @dvf1736
      @dvf1736 3 года назад +9

      @@rizkiramadhan9266 up until I was a teenager I never visited Southern China, I only ever lived in Northern China. It was a weird experience walking out of the Guangzhou airport and being able to see well above everyone's heads, despite the fact that I'm about average height for my age in Northern China.

  • @Aaa-ct4xb
    @Aaa-ct4xb 3 года назад +68

    Keep you videos all my family 👪 is watching because of I'm Tibetan. We all support you to keep up thanks for videos

    • @rattyratstuff7125
      @rattyratstuff7125 3 года назад +2

      stay safe out there!

    • @MALAY_TENGU
      @MALAY_TENGU 3 года назад +1

      I like genkhis khan

    • @breatheasy2693
      @breatheasy2693 3 года назад

      One day, Tibet will be free. Stay safe.

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 2 года назад

      DO you support Hawaiian freedom from US of AIDS occupation?

    • @tomx641
      @tomx641 2 года назад

      @@scintillam_dei They can have a referendum if they like.

  • @davebaz8142
    @davebaz8142 3 года назад +3

    I bet NordVPN bloody love you two!
    Usually any kind of sponsorship gets skipped immediately (and I’ll often miss 10-30secs over-skipping sometimes).
    But I watched the whole thing 😂
    (Definitely skipping it if it’s in another vid tho!)

  • @hiroshinagoya2469
    @hiroshinagoya2469 3 года назад +5

    Nice episode guys I always wanted to go to Harbin; unfortunately, due to my poor to none Chinese language proficiency I could never travel outside of Guangzhou every time I visited China; well I only went to Hunan once because a friend booked the train tickets for me to visit her. Have a great day everyone and be safe.

  • @benji2886
    @benji2886 3 года назад +23

    Watching your channel has encouraged me to travel abroad, I am going to Europe first tho not China. Thanks for the video!

  • @skafabafa
    @skafabafa 3 года назад +2

    Really cool upload, my vote goes to more videos about northern china :)

  • @ChristiaanHartNibbrig
    @ChristiaanHartNibbrig 3 года назад

    Another great video. Really interesting stuff, as always. Thanks.

  • @paulbeebe9182
    @paulbeebe9182 3 года назад +56

    I had a blind Masseuse in Hing Kong and he was a beast but he found every injury I ever had just by his hands.

    • @rizkiramadhan9266
      @rizkiramadhan9266 3 года назад +6

      When he lost his sight, he probably sharpened his other senses. I had a blind masseuse back home too.

    • @rizkiramadhan9266
      @rizkiramadhan9266 3 года назад +3

      @manx77 ah yes, thanks

    • @none8708
      @none8708 2 года назад

      Might u pls post his contact number plssssssssss.

  • @michaell.2744
    @michaell.2744 3 года назад +4

    Thanks serpentza and lao why keep spreading truth!

  • @smokysmokee1
    @smokysmokee1 3 года назад +1

    Love the videos; keep em coming!

  • @brandonchen7139
    @brandonchen7139 2 года назад +5

    I wanna say, the character in the car number plate is not Hei黑, it is Meng 蒙, meaning Inner Mongolia, another northern province.

  • @orneryokinawan4529
    @orneryokinawan4529 3 года назад +113

    Out of the 4 times I've visited China I was in a car accident every time and the 4th time was the worst. Our car rolled twice and landed on it's side. This one lady told me I should get a massage at the scene lol. She was a masseuse and she wasn't joking. It hurt, but the next day I wasn't sore at all. She said she treated lots of car accident victims.

    • @berryreading4809
      @berryreading4809 2 года назад +8

      Yeah that's (Insert Asian driving joke) haha 😐🤷‍♂️

    • @silvervixen007
      @silvervixen007 2 года назад +2

      @@dustedpinstripes happens a lot😂😂

    • @declineofthewest.
      @declineofthewest. 2 года назад +4

      Good luck everybody eeeelse!

    • @vortexfatwhale
      @vortexfatwhale 2 года назад

      @@berryreading4809 Asians have the lowest accidents among all races in the west

    • @berryreading4809
      @berryreading4809 2 года назад

      @@vortexfatwhale That's because every other race is texting and driving, Asians only occasionally use the calculator app while driving, and only for equations over 4 lines or 14 digits (including decimal point) atleast 40 digits without 😉

  • @gerwinfriedrichs6237
    @gerwinfriedrichs6237 3 года назад +3

    I've been to Harbin in winter. The Ice City is unbelievable. That was beginning of the eighties. Loved it!

  • @rolandocastaneda4429
    @rolandocastaneda4429 Год назад +1

    Love your stories guys! Glad you made it out alive.

  • @jeffd6540
    @jeffd6540 3 года назад +1

    Hey guys, Love your stuff. Nice video.

  • @TheGokki
    @TheGokki 3 года назад +21

    21:48 - there's some birds, i counted 3 in a few frames in the background.

    • @navidpey194
      @navidpey194 3 года назад +12

      Are you sure those are not bats 😂

    • @sebastianbach6102
      @sebastianbach6102 3 года назад +5

      More likely drones, to remind the people to wear masks

    • @TheGokki
      @TheGokki 3 года назад +1

      @@navidpey194 might be bats, can't really see from that.

    • @MM-pj8ct
      @MM-pj8ct 3 года назад +2

      Maybe sparrows. Bats come out after dusk. But I get the point😂

  • @juliushowlett7247
    @juliushowlett7247 3 года назад +24

    4:54 - 蒙 means "mongolian" and it's pronounced 'meng' (2nd tone) :)

  • @marshall_rblx7521
    @marshall_rblx7521 3 года назад +1

    Hello from Chicago! I love your content I’ve been watching your videos for years now and it’s so informative and the shots are magnificent. Stay safe out there and keep on spreading awareness and knowledge to the rest of the world. - OVOMarshall

  • @dan55ellis
    @dan55ellis 3 года назад

    Your presentation is much more polished and a needed participation in our lives

  • @jldonnell1
    @jldonnell1 3 года назад +9

    I always thought that was “MONS” beer.

  • @akersjon278
    @akersjon278 3 года назад +20

    Hi guys, both NATO and G7 are being a bit critical of the way CCP acts internationally right now, ain't it great?

    • @Holuunderbeere
      @Holuunderbeere 3 года назад +4

      Yes and no because now the gloves are off.

  • @clairerobsin
    @clairerobsin 3 года назад

    Excellent work gentlemen!

  • @T-Tuohy
    @T-Tuohy 3 года назад +2

    Don’t forget the Four Pests campaign-one of the first actions taken in the “Great Leap forward”. The thrust of this campaign was to eliminate four pests-rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. One was known as “Smash Sparrow”, a campaign in 1958 by Mao Zedong. Mao felt that sparrows ate too much grain and thus decreed that all sparrows be killed. Nobody knows how many sparrows were killed but estimates say that even if everyone killed at least one sparrow each, more than 600 million sparrows would have been killed, making it an extinct bird in China. Maybe that’s why you only saw one sparrow, not a flock of them?

  • @cjh4467
    @cjh4467 3 года назад +18

    Mao had his smash sparrows campaign which killed a lot of birds. Maybe that had a lasting influence to this day.

    • @user-xq4st9ie7r
      @user-xq4st9ie7r 3 года назад +1

      Why wanted Mao all the birds dead?

    • @500dollarjapanesetoaster8
      @500dollarjapanesetoaster8 2 года назад +6

      @@user-xq4st9ie7r I had to look this up:
      The "Four Pests" campaign was introduced in 1958 by Mao Zedong, as a hygiene campaign aimed to eradicate the pests responsible for the transmission of pestilence and disease:
      the mosquitos responsible for malaria
      the rodents that spread the plague
      the pervasive airborne flies
      the sparrows-specifically the Eurasian tree sparrow-which ate grain seed and fruit[1]
      By April 1960, Chinese leaders changed their opinion due to the influence of ornithologist Tso-hsin Cheng[6] who pointed out that sparrows ate a large number of insects, as well as grains.[7][8] Rather than being increased, rice yields after the campaign were substantially decreased.[8][9] Mao ordered the end of the campaign against sparrows, replacing them with bed bugs, as the extermination of sparrows upset the ecological balance, and insects destroyed crops as a result of the absence of natural predators.
      By this time, however, it was too late. With no sparrows to eat them, locust populations ballooned, swarming the country and compounding the ecological problems already caused by the Great Leap Forward, including widespread deforestation and misuse of poisons and pesticides.[9] Ecological imbalance is credited with exacerbating the Great Chinese Famine, in which 15-45 million people died of starvation.[10][11] The Chinese government eventually resorted to importing 250,000 sparrows from the Soviet Union to replenish their population.[12]

    • @user-xq4st9ie7r
      @user-xq4st9ie7r 2 года назад +1

      @@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 wow that was extremely helpful. Thank you very much.

  • @JR-hc6ur
    @JR-hc6ur 3 года назад +3

    Lol at C-Milk's hair in the intro! Looks like an impressively sweaty emo-dude!

  • @adrianeyre3630
    @adrianeyre3630 2 года назад

    I really like your videos, it’s like we’re with you on your travels. Brilliant guy’s

  • @alphabetazeta5373
    @alphabetazeta5373 3 года назад

    Oh look another episode I got no notification for. Crazy

  • @puremaledark8305
    @puremaledark8305 3 года назад +28

    Met a few of the mafia guys in my day.
    Thankfully, it was pre-conflict and they liked me.
    Still quite sketchy tho…

    • @jackvenables4981
      @jackvenables4981 3 года назад +4

      Unlike in japan where a mean looking yakuza was handing out cute pink sheep phone straps and posed for a photo.

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 2 года назад

      They say not to judge someone by how they look but tattoos on someone tells you a lot about them, like desperate desire to fit into a group.

    • @jeygee3736
      @jeygee3736 2 года назад

      @@scintillam_dei it's mob mentality. They look for protection within a group which becomes their identify

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 2 года назад

      @@jeygee3736 Yeah, like people waving the US flag.

  • @snowblindart
    @snowblindart 3 года назад +27

    I am legally blind and I love your videos. But sadly I miss alot on your channel due to that. The content is interesting always. Thanks.

  • @Cleobonny6
    @Cleobonny6 2 года назад +1

    You guys are going far. I have just subscribed

  • @ToMSpanXXX
    @ToMSpanXXX Год назад +2

    Guys I see to God I've watched every video on every single channel u guys both have and you guys have helped me get through a lot of depression and thank you so much for that this means a lot to me and I feel a lot better like I know you guys almost LOL I feel like you guys are my friends LOL NOTHING BUT LOVE HERE FROM MILWAUKEE WI. USA 💪😎💯

  • @michael8590
    @michael8590 3 года назад +6

    15:02 it's Morpheus 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Ass_of_Amalek
    @Ass_of_Amalek 3 года назад +13

    "famous herons"
    my dudes, those are cranes.

    • @DxBlack
      @DxBlack 3 года назад +1

      ...Herons are a type of Crane.

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek 3 года назад +1

      DxBlack not at all, they're actually in different phylogenetic orders.

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 2 года назад

      @@Ass_of_Amalek Taxonomy labels are all subjective unscientific garbage, and macro-evolution is racist shit. The mind is FREE to think ergo is NOT A SLAVE to physics which make it NOT PHYSICAL, so it is IMPOSIBLE for genetic evolution to make a speices into a smarter (or dumber) one. Therefore, the very act of thinking proves the British atheist creation myth wrong irrefutably. But you can maintain the contradiction that the free equals the slave. Atheist fanatics confuse correlation with causation saying brain scans prove the brain is the thinker. When the Nintendo controller is broken, the player isn't necessarily dead.
      I had a taxonomy professor lament that all of the taxonomy he was taught i now OBSOLETE. Truth, on the other hand, has no expiration date.

  • @ForestTekkenVideos
    @ForestTekkenVideos 3 года назад +1

    Great video 👍

  • @ohmyjosh3065
    @ohmyjosh3065 2 года назад +2

    The whole birds going missing scenario reminds of a guy I met who lived somewhere North of Africa. So where I live birds would walk up right next to you like a boss and he was shocked to see that, because in his country people eat birds so you never them as close.. they always miles away.

  • @happyboy2323
    @happyboy2323 2 года назад +17

    Enjoy watching your video. I am Chinese myself from 湖南. I can feel you guys really know today's Chinese culture, that is really different from what looks like in Chinatown or from curious foreigner vlog!!

  • @moxigeren50gabe23
    @moxigeren50gabe23 3 года назад +46

    SerpentZA and Cmilk are still number one bloggers maybe not in China but about China topics, here in America , Chinese massage is WAY different if you know what I mean

    • @ruthanneseven
      @ruthanneseven 3 года назад +5

      Loads of sex-trafficking.
      Our small town had a problem with them. They basically ruined things for CA massage therapists here. Therapists have to jump through expensive hoops now.

    • @rizkiramadhan9266
      @rizkiramadhan9266 3 года назад +5

      Stuff like that happens all over the world

    • @ruthanneseven
      @ruthanneseven 3 года назад +1

      @@rizkiramadhan9266
      That's true, and we shouldn't put up with it when we have the ability to shut them down for good. They screwed up a great situation in a few towns with their antics.
      Costs go to the clients.
      Nobody is happy.

    • @sorongana5346
      @sorongana5346 3 года назад +1

      @@ruthanneseven pure truth. It's similar to when property taxes have to go up because larger tax payers leave areas.

    • @ruthanneseven
      @ruthanneseven 3 года назад +1

      @@sorongana5346
      Don't get me started on residential property taxation! THAT'S not home/land ownership.
      Not when every cent you earn is triple taxed, excluding insurance, annual or bi-annual occupational licence fees! We are strangled by taxation and don't get the benefits! We need a serious accounting and overhaul of this thievery. It really pisses me off that OUR tax dollars funded the gain of function research that wrecked our lives.
      What about that sex-abuse slush fund the Congress had? 😖
      No more!!!

  • @c.a.sreacts
    @c.a.sreacts 3 года назад +1

    Man I love the promotion skets you guys do so funny for some reason

  • @mike26138
    @mike26138 Год назад

    Like the conversation between you two

  • @BizzeeB
    @BizzeeB 3 года назад +16

    16:40 - is "designated drinker" a job foreigners can apply for? Asking for a friend...

    • @MiaogisTeas
      @MiaogisTeas 3 года назад +4

      You don't want to drink what they serve. It's rot-gut and you taste it when you burp for the next 3 days. Yes, it's on purpose, too.

  • @markvogel5872
    @markvogel5872 3 года назад +71

    Had a friend teaching english in that area. She came back very brainwashed about the CCP. It was sad.

    • @benbowland
      @benbowland 3 года назад +58

      You've got to be pretty gullible to get brainwashed by the CCP when teaching English in China

    • @markvogel5872
      @markvogel5872 3 года назад +30

      @@benbowland yeah, it was weird she just was on and on about how much better China was than here. Like maybe I'm being too harsh about it and she just really liked it, but it had a weird vibe.

    • @kenm4898
      @kenm4898 3 года назад +9

      @@markvogel5872 Manchurian candidate lol.

    • @vladislavMALETIC
      @vladislavMALETIC 3 года назад +44

      It's because it was probably her first time there, a honeymoon phase. Or because she doesn't speak any Chinese, so as a foreigner in China not being able to speak Chinese you're pretty isolated. You're usually only exposed to the good stuff, not to mention that you make way above an average local salary, so of course you'll think only the best of China, until you have to deal with health issues or law issues that is.

    • @markvogel5872
      @markvogel5872 3 года назад +4

      @@vladislavMALETIC she spoke Chinese...not sure her level.

  • @justagirlsd3000
    @justagirlsd3000 2 года назад

    Your content is quite interesting, fascinating. Thanks for showing us the truth.

  • @jameslegrange196
    @jameslegrange196 2 года назад +1

    Ah love you guys, living in Heilongjiang for a year was a beautiful experience for me. Even had a couple of beers with these mafia type guys.
    Food is really delicious and cheap.
    I miss it :)

  • @TheMileswin
    @TheMileswin 3 года назад +5

    I enjoyed my time in Heilongjiang provence in 2001. I travelled to Harbin and stayed in Mudanjiang as part of a trade delegation representing New Zealand grain growers. We travelled with local Police and spent a day and night at a Government resort at Jingpo lake. They played Kenny G on the loud speakers all day. Very nice place. When I was discussing prices with NZ over the phone the connection keep cutting out. I knew someone was playing with us.

    • @joelcornfoot9646
      @joelcornfoot9646 2 года назад

      Traitor,
      This is why nz is in the condition it's in.
      Thanks for selling us out!!

    • @jeygee3736
      @jeygee3736 2 года назад +1

      @@joelcornfoot9646 So he's a traitor for doing business in China? Seriously? Get a grip.. it's more like former national leader Don Key and his clique who sold out the country

  • @matthewhartzell4709
    @matthewhartzell4709 3 года назад +16

    That’s an Inner Mongolian license plate, not Heilongjiang!

    • @tml17
      @tml17 3 года назад +2

      蒙 A

  • @colleen36
    @colleen36 3 года назад

    Another great video

  • @theaveragejoe5781
    @theaveragejoe5781 3 года назад

    could watch these forever!

  • @shaunpearce6846
    @shaunpearce6846 3 года назад +3

    The gangsters kind of look like they should be dancing to Gangnam style lol

    • @rizkiramadhan9266
      @rizkiramadhan9266 3 года назад

      They should, we should have a dsnce party with them

  • @carijay
    @carijay 3 года назад +3

    TY for confirming my suspicion about the birds. When teaching my students (remotely) , I used to object to the lesson material that claimed squirrels , birds and deer "live in the mountains". I used to say, " Actually, elk live in the mountains. Deer live everywhere. Squirrels and birds live everywhere. Rabbits live everywhere. I live in the city. I can see a squirrel outside my window." My higher level ( elite-level) students would tell me they never see squirrels or birds in the city, so I stopped saying those things.

  • @BrokenMan73
    @BrokenMan73 2 года назад

    Y’all are awesome 😎. What kind of bikes are those?

  • @BigHugsFromHell
    @BigHugsFromHell 2 года назад +2

    The idea of banning something to get rid of "a poor look" rather than worry about the actual poor makes my head spin. It's so pretentious, and layered in its pretenses for the very assumption that something like a bike "looks poor." It is also very sad as it will mean a great deal of nonsense to cut through not only in the practical, but the mental and with the attitude for such a place to ever truly improve and be free.

  • @thejakeyl88
    @thejakeyl88 3 года назад +4

    Since you talk about their beer a lot I'm curious were there any stouts or porters that were notable?

  • @ixabepilone1575
    @ixabepilone1575 3 года назад +31

    I still remember when I was a student in china i went to a club and was drinking with my friends and suddenly a woman came to interact with me and asked me that if she can join us, offcourse we said yes and then we were quite drunk and went to washroom to do some obvious things and I don't know from where her husband came and he pulled out a knife on me😭😭 thank god I was not alone and I had a Chinese friend who solved the problem 😂

    • @larrysmith2123
      @larrysmith2123 3 года назад +27

      In any country if a random girl or guy want to join us it's a no. It's awkward and inappropriate.

    • @MargieM10
      @MargieM10 3 года назад +28

      You were set up. Surprised he didn't demand money.

    • @whoelsebutmeofcoursei
      @whoelsebutmeofcoursei 3 года назад +16

      @@larrysmith2123 and an obvious criminal trap.
      Or I'm really just suspicious

    • @larrysmith2123
      @larrysmith2123 3 года назад +19

      @@whoelsebutmeofcoursei Who knows but East Asians normally and especially females aren't very open and friendly to total strangers.

    • @ixabepilone1575
      @ixabepilone1575 3 года назад +9

      Chinese girls are so much excited to see foreigners once I was approached by a couple to do certain things with his wife while he watches😂😂fetish all around hahaha

  • @52cm
    @52cm Год назад

    My most favourite and most epic duo ever…

  • @entertheabzu
    @entertheabzu 3 года назад +2

    I thought this one was sick, would like more Northern China, anyway you have anything in Tibet or nearby? Would be very interesting

  • @TechnoMinarchist
    @TechnoMinarchist 3 года назад +97

    The Communists have one thing right at least: Given the right environmental and societal pressures, anyone can become a sheep.

    • @johnbillson3767
      @johnbillson3767 3 года назад +7

      communism is worldwide

    • @Xxsnipedawg72xX
      @Xxsnipedawg72xX 3 года назад +3

      It's hard for humans to turn into sheep. Usually it kills the human during the transformation. I wouldn't recommend it

    • @zilun
      @zilun 3 года назад +3

      Not anyone. It's just that those who don't, are locked up somewhere away from general public.

    • @Holuunderbeere
      @Holuunderbeere 3 года назад +1

      @@zilun well yesn't

    • @myaccount__7269
      @myaccount__7269 3 года назад +5

      Basically what cnn does to the USA. Both commies

  • @KASPA-KEY
    @KASPA-KEY 2 года назад +3

    I'm glad you guys make these videos to show the real China. It make it so I never have to go there myself and it confirms that I never should.

    • @satouhikou1103
      @satouhikou1103 2 года назад

      Says the guy with a Ukrainian flag in his pfp. Imagine idolizing the poorest European country with the most crime, the most nazis, and the most child sex trafficking.

  • @GravitronGaming
    @GravitronGaming 3 года назад

    I loved that ad it was amazing

  • @tommyliu2580
    @tommyliu2580 3 года назад

    Hello there, I am a big fan of your channel. I was wondering if you would make a video on the types of regional discrimination in China amongst various regions, provinces etc?

  • @patrickt6227
    @patrickt6227 3 года назад +21

    "Almost like a burrito" That's a straight up CREPE dude. They are eating crepes in northern china, love it!!!

    • @pitmezzari2873
      @pitmezzari2873 3 года назад

      Aren't crepes sweet? Am I missing something absolutely great?

    • @patrickt6227
      @patrickt6227 3 года назад +1

      @@pitmezzari2873 You can literally put anything in a crepe. Sweet or savory, whatever you want. That's why I love them :)

    • @xDomglmao
      @xDomglmao 2 года назад

      @@pitmezzari2873 try with ham and cheese :))

  • @user-nm7ju5ph6u
    @user-nm7ju5ph6u 2 года назад +16

    7:48 those are Slavic pancakes, it's milk, flour and egg plus whatever you can imagine to add. We usually make plain ones and just fill them, for example in my country, most commonly with white cheese and sourcream, spiced minced meat, shrooms. You can eat them as they are, sweetened or salty. They take basically no time to make, as you pour the mixture on the pan and it fries almost instantly. I like the spinach, shrooms and mozzarella ones the most, my boyfriend loves to put jam or Nutella on them so it's actually one of the most versatile and easy to make dishes ever😄😄

  • @raymondvaughn9723
    @raymondvaughn9723 3 года назад

    Great vid

  • @wisdomleader85
    @wisdomleader85 3 года назад +45

    Interesting fact: Harbin was the largest Jewish center in the far east before the establishment of Israel, with a Jewish population numbering 250,000 at its peak.

    • @gordonliu3972
      @gordonliu3972 3 года назад +4

      That's so interesting. What more can you tell us about that?

    • @CeeBarrio1
      @CeeBarrio1 3 года назад +5

      @@gordonliu3972 it's why Hitler wanted to rid germany of them. It's the reason china is how it is today. But he won't tell you that

    • @ivanyekimov1470
      @ivanyekimov1470 3 года назад +11

      @@CeeBarrio1 are you on that Chinese meth?

    • @deg6788
      @deg6788 3 года назад +3

      @@gordonliu3972 we hate jews all over the world... Stay away from europe

    • @Surai00
      @Surai00 3 года назад +1

      *Definitely doesn't make me think twice about how they pointed out all of the Banks*

  • @MargieM10
    @MargieM10 3 года назад +6

    "I know that sounds like a minor situation." No... no it doesn't! 😳

  • @ihavetubes
    @ihavetubes 3 года назад

    great video😎

  • @tedburycombo2178
    @tedburycombo2178 3 года назад +1

    Hey guys...I have been to Harbin... I liked Liaoning Shenyang... please show some footage of Shenyang thanks

  • @volpe1970
    @volpe1970 3 года назад +3

    Dongbei people tend to spread out and do business in tourist areas all over. When one goes to Lijiang, Yunnan or certain spots in Sichuan, instead of local business owners, there are lots of Dongbei people. Would you agree?

  • @GameTacoFTW
    @GameTacoFTW 3 года назад +6

    I'm glad you have so much footage to go through, but a lot of it must be so old by now. I hope you both go out on a road trip soon to gather new videos. This channel feels like its spinning in place with the same stories, same footage, same messages, etc.

  • @LyndseyMacPherson
    @LyndseyMacPherson 3 года назад

    Loved seeing this, and yes, if you want to focus on other regions of China, that'd be fun, too.

    • @jameslong3058
      @jameslong3058 3 года назад

      They already do look at older videos.

    • @LyndseyMacPherson
      @LyndseyMacPherson 3 года назад +1

      @@jameslong3058 They specifically asked, at the end of this video, if we'd like to see other regions.

    • @jameslong3058
      @jameslong3058 3 года назад +1

      @@LyndseyMacPherson my bad I watched 80% I apologize

    • @LyndseyMacPherson
      @LyndseyMacPherson 3 года назад

      @@jameslong3058 No worries! :)

  • @ThePowerfulOne100
    @ThePowerfulOne100 3 года назад +1

    I'd love to see you two play Geo-Guesser as a fun side video. You've travelled so much on bikes that I'd love to see you both try and figure out where you are!
    Maybe you'll even end up in familiar Chinese places.

    • @rosstee
      @rosstee 3 года назад

      Yeah, can a game be limited just to China?

  • @joesixpence3447
    @joesixpence3447 3 года назад +6

    Is Manchuria right? City of outstanding ice sculpture.

  • @swavekpiwonski1479
    @swavekpiwonski1479 3 года назад +4

    In Harbin i was feeling like in my home city( Toruń, Poland) similar look of buildings from early XX century (secession). Unfortunately i missed a few times Winter Festival

    • @swavekpiwonski1479
      @swavekpiwonski1479 3 года назад +1

      Do you know Harbin beer starts 1903 and a Pole started brewing.
      He learnt the trade from Germans; Poland wasn't on the map of the world

  • @kendonahve924
    @kendonahve924 2 года назад

    You guys bounce off one another in an edgy, interesting and productive way.

  • @LUZ-zv6pq
    @LUZ-zv6pq 3 года назад

    I was just looking at the MONS beer when you said why were we drinking SNOW beer?!..