Living in China: Realistic Daily Life 🍜Dumpling Making + Learning Chinese 🥟+ Q&A
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Living abroad isn't always epic adventures and traveling. Realistically it's learning Chinese and working a full time job. In this video we make traditional dumplings, and I answer some more of your questions about what we eat, difference in work culture and more!
Have you ever made dumplings? I can't believe a few years ago I didn't like them... now I'm obsessed!
Thanks to everyone who submitted questions, keep your eyes out to see if your name appears in the video!
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Natt + Miu
在异乡生活并不总是史诗般的冒险与旅行，现实情况则是学中文与全职工作的加合。在这一集中，我们包了传统的中国饺子！以及回答了友友们呼声比较高的几个问题，比如我们吃什么，以及工作文化的差异性等等。
你以前有包过饺子么？我难以置信几年前我不太喜欢它们….现在真的爱不释手！
谢谢你们对我的支持！最后别忘了点赞、评论、订阅和转发！
谢谢友友们，爱你们！
Natt + Miu
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Excellent film, I got a question for you, and I’m not sure if you’d like to answer it: are you able to make some local or foreign friends on your own, how easy/hard compared to England?
Oh it's super easy as long as both people are open minded. Some of my best friends are locals, but I do also have foreign friends. The foreigners here become friends very quickly since we all feel united in living abroad, however if you are willing to learn the Chinese culture and respect it it can be very easy to make local friends. Some foreigners don't make many local friends because they don't put in the effort to understand the cultural differences. Almost all of my friends here I have made on my own and later introduced them to Miu and they then became his friends too haha!
@@ExpatNatt Thank you so much for answering my question. I think you set a great example for those who are abroad to make friends with people from various backgrounds.
Thank you ❤️
@@ExpatNatt I am very happy that you can integrate into life in China. I know some foreigners in China and complain to me why they can’t make local Chinese friends, but many of them have settled in China for more than five years, and their Chinese proficiency is still very poor. Can carry out the most basic communication, such as "hello" and "thank you", many people don't even want to learn Chinese
@@陳鋒-i3j I agree. My Chinese is still very poor but I am trying (yesterday I went into a hotel to ask for directions, I practiced my Chinese and tried so hard, and the man behind the front desk replied in perfect English 😂😂)
i can honestly say your dumplings look the most authentic - i don't think any sane person would disagree with that - well done
Thank you! 😅❤️
Dumplings and fried chicken - the best combination in this or any other possible multiverse world !
It was truly wonderful 😍
Your dumpling hands down look more well made and beautiful than your friends! 😂
Thank you! They didn’t fall apart when cooking thankfully! 🥰
So nice to see some more of your daily life. And your dumplings were INCREDIBLE ?! You need to teach me 🥰
Thank you! I’d happily teach you, it’s so much fun! ❤️❤️
The view in the video looks like 松江 songjiang, nice place!!!
Yes it is! 🥰
Natt this was SO good! I enjoyed it so much. And your dumpling skills are amazing! haha
Thank you so much! We’ve been making them together for years so I’ve certainly improved a lot since the first time I made them 😂❤️
@@ExpatNatt I am really surprised by so many expat RUclipsrs in Shanghai producing fine videos. You, Melissa and Ecesis Diaries are the best which includes Ben Coleman and Tim Chambers form the UK, Part Time Travelers and Ruchi in China from India, Fun Fancie from Thailand. It is not easy to produce high quality and interesting videos. There are so many poorly produced videos from Shanghai vloggers that do not deserve attention, but not from the aforementioned.
@@chirkchu3903 It’s funny because a few months ago it felt like there were no vloggers left in Shanghai but it’s so nice to see new ones emerging which I love to watch too! ❤️
Hi. You visited beautiful places and you too.
hi! love your vlog keep sharing
Thanks for watching! ❤️
Even your daily life looks beautiful. Peaceful video 🤩👏
Nice video Natt.
Thank you for watching! You’ve got some great videos too, I’m subscribed! ❤️🥰
Your dumplings look the best. On the job culture, it's not so rosy in the UK though; high earners are expected to start early and stay late, and there is an overtime dependency among the low pay ones. Love the video by the way.😊
Oh yes it’s definitely long hours in England too however I could imagine the outrage if people had to work on Saturday to get a bank holiday Monday off of work! 😅
8:53 so pretty
Thank you! ❤️❤️
Awwww, why u not adopting Chucky and give him the good home 😢?
I wish I could but our landlord doesn't allow pets and we both work too much and don't spend enough time at home to give him the love he deserves 😭😭😭😭😭. Chuck seems very happy being free though, I often see him playing with the other stray dogs in the area and they all look healthy and happy.
There is one student in the USA that he takes the plane from LA to Davis back and forth everyday to go to school. IT is cheaper because people rip off since it is quite a popular in the US
Dumpling 🥟 festival is coming soon. In my country, the big dumpling is somewhat different. Usually wrapped with bamboo leaves and with different kinds of fillings. 5th of the 5th lunar month.
That sounds wonderful 😍😍😍
Love that hotpot, badly!
It’s soooo good 😍😍
Hmm I'm fully Chinese, London born and can say I never made any dumplings before 😅 maybe should give it a try. Though I do cook every kind of food dish from around the world. Just strangely realised never made dumplings 😂
Oh my goodness! You should definitely try! Even if they turn out awful I think everyone should try to make them once in their life hhhh
I enjoyed the Q&As in this video-some seem random but amusing. I think the height of a person in China is more of a concern for men than for women as if their future, in terms of finding a partner, depended on it. There are always exceptions of course. I like your dumpling folding job much better because they look consistent and attractive. I have heard many good things about HSK, which I believe offers certificate upon completion for each level, if I am not mistaken.
Thank you, yes some of the questions were quite random and made me laugh so I decided to include them. You can take an exam at the end of HSK units if you do it through a school or want the certificates, but for me I don’t care about a formal qualification at this point, I just want to be able to communicate better in Chinese 😂 Most if the Chinese I have learned is from everyday life rather than the HSK books but they do help to reinforce certain “rules” of the language ☺️
My fav number is the number 3
Your dumplings looked the most appetizing of them all. I thought they resembled Japanese gyoza (or whatever the deep--fried, small, pork filled dumplings are called at Japanese restaurants)! Hopefully, a Chinese viewer will call animal control on those dogs lol
I must admit, my dumplings were the only ones that didn't fall apart when cooked hahah 😅
中国大部分人不吃狗肉，你们怎么不说韩国吃狗肉，那是他们的传统？？？还有越南人，他们是大多数人吃，中国大部分人是不吃的，
日本饺子，也就是所谓的“gyoza”，本来就是中文饺子（Chinese pinyin: Jiǎo zi）的罗马音音译，他们国家喜欢用油煎着吃，而在中国，水饺有很多种吃法，油煎只是其中一种，我们通常会叫它：煎饺，或者锅贴（pot sticker）。欢迎你来中国品尝地道多样化的水饺❤️
I can't help but noticing your beautiful and very clean English. Can I ask which International School are you teaching at ?
Thank you, I work for Xiehe Education. They have a couple of campuses across Shanghai with very good quality teachers! 🥰
@@ExpatNatt That is excellent. Thank You.
fantastic video, wish u best
Thank you so much ❤️
You enjoying your life with your husband wishing you happy marriage 💑
Thanks so much! ❤️
excellent 👌👍💯🆗😃
Thank you! ❤️
Of course China has sick leaves, otherwise you could file a complaint to the Labor Bureau about your company
Yes, I meant that locals don’t have the same sick pay advantages that some foreigners are offered (reduced rate, maximum/minimum day requirements. Many companies get 5 days a year for locals). Also, most people in China have caught Covid this year and used all our sick days to Covid 😅😅 (at least that is the case where I work!) after we’ve used up these sick days it’s unpaid leave. Hope that helps to clear it up a bit, my bad!
If you ever move back to the UK permanently, it's okay. You guys can always visit China.
Yes exactly. I don’t know what the future holds for us but for now we are quite happy in China ☺️
Not a good time to be in the UK at this time. I hear inflation has gone through the roof.
@@simunooi5306 I heard that a packet of digestive biscuits was £5 instead of £1.50 like they were when I left the UK. I hope that person was wrong 😂😂
Oh...we are about the same height...
Yay!! Almost everyone I know is taller than me 😂❤️
Gosh that looked quite a perilous daily commute with all those wild dogs and big chunks of missing gutter pavements !
It's a developing area but it is very peaceful with the flower meadows and birds singing and waterways. The commute sucks but I often do work on my phone during the commute and make the most of it.
Well careful not to concentrate too much on the phone screen when prancing to work or else you might trip on one of those potholes and become a doggies breakfast! 🐕
Don’t worry, I only look at my phone whilst stuck on the metro. I would definitely fall off a curb if I wasn’t paying attention, I’m rather clumsy 😂😂
关注你了，很喜欢你的视频。好像你离你工作地方有点远。
感谢您的订阅。是的，很远。大约2小时的通勤时间。
Labour Day is only an one-day holiday by Chinese Law, hence the need of make-up days to make it a five-day holiday. Incidentally, the Labour Day holiday in the UK is also an one-day holiday. And, it is not correct to say that there is no sick pay in China. It is a socialist country! Like the rest of the world, sick pay varies from one company to another in China; some are more generous and some aren't, but the employees' right to sick pay is guaranteed by Chinese Law, albeit at a reduced rate. In the UK, companies don't have to pay sick leaves; most do, but if you work for an agency, typically for a low pay position, you may not get pay for sick leaves; you can apply for Statutory Sick Pay which only pays from the 4th day of your time off work. So if you are off sick for 3 days or less, you get nothing. It's okay, Natt, I think you simply misspoke. Still love your videos.😊
Yes, I find it very interesting the way they move holidays around so you have make up days. I don’t think there is a Labour day in England but we do have single day bank holidays like May Day which you only take as the one day. I can imagine the disruption it would cause in England to make up days on weekends 😅 There are also unions that locals can join in China which covers them for some sick pay rights although this isn’t an option for me at my job so I don’t know much about it. Thank you for correcting me, I was mostly trying to highlight the need for a doctors note which you don’t really need in England for one day of sick leave 😂
1 May is International Workers' Day which is honoured in many countries including the UK. In China it's called Labour Day. May Day in the UK, and you get one day off for it. If 1 May is not a Monday, then the first Monday in May will the Bank Holiday. Some unions or labour organisations in the UK do organise marches on May Day, although there is little media coverage nowadays. 😊