EUROPEANS Things That Asian Find Weird!! (Belgium, Swiss, Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden) 

I am from Ukraine and I very adore Sweden! Ukraine and Sweden forever!🇺🇦💞🇸🇪

Ukrainian here. So, in Ukraine: 1. The way you greet people really depends on the level of your relathionship. You may give a handshake, just say hi, hug, kiss etc. 2. Cold drinks are popular when the weather is hot, at least in the cities, and we drink all possible kinds of coffee. But even espresso is rarely served with a glass of water. 3. Markets are really usually closed on Monday (or at least most of sellers will have a day off on Monday). Some small shops and cafees are closed on weekends, but mostly they work every day. We have supermarkets that used to be 24/7/365 before the war started 4. About paying for public restrooms it really depends. But I prefer the ones that are not free because it`s usually much more clean, and you really see what you payed for 5. Never tried any doft drink made out of milk whey))) and we also put literally everithing to pizza 6. We usually don`t drink tap water, so if you ask for water at the reaturant, they will bring you bottled unless you specify. And you`ll have to pay for it

Well it was nice to see a Latvian person in these types of videos, it's not often that happens, very proud of my country 🇱🇻💪

Notice how Sofia (Sweden) is squirming uncomfortably and staying quiet when everyone starts talking about kissing on the cheek. 😂 Yeah in Sweden we might hug you in public if you're family or bff but that's it. Kissing as a greeting is only done by grandmas or if you're in a relationship.

The hug and kiss on the cheek aren't common just in Europe , in Latin America is pretty common , some African countries as well , but yeah could be weird

As a Ukrainian I can say that restaurants are open on Sunday and many shops are open as well but close earlier. Also I would not say that greet with cheek kiss is very common in Ukraine. Usually girls do that but it depends. Boys greet with a handshake.

Latvian here. 1) Alice was right. Kissing as a greeting is uncommon. 2) In hot weather iced americanos are advertised on many coffeeshops. So in these days it's not uncommon. 3) Sundays are a time where offices, post and banks are closed. Some restaurants are closed too, but everything else works, however they close earlier than usual. 4) In capital city we have free restrooms in supermarkets etc, but in other places in capital city it's paid. Once you're out of capital city it varies a lot. In gas stations restroom is usually free all around the country. 5) Our national soft drink is not made of milk whey. 6) You have to pay for water. Fun fact - the tap water in capital city is not drinkable, but outside of it it can be or can not. Best to always ask locals about the quality of it.

In Ukraine, particularly in Odesa, before the war: Everything works from 10.00 -22.00 every day. There is no rest and breaks. Maybe 1 day a year 1 January, because people are simply too drunk. Restaurants and clubs used to work till the last customer. We adore cold coffee. There is a lot of coffee spots with broad menus of cold coffee beverages. But yes, we drink hot tea whole year. We kiss on cheeks with sb who we like ))) And smile towards them too. There is no polite smile in Ua. When ukrainians try to make a polite smile it is miserable and little scary😂 We weren't taught to do that. Restrooms are not enough. So when you find one in your needy moment you usually do not pay attention on the price 😅 Weird thing for foreigners is salo, ofc. It's those white part of bacon but not cooked and very, very fat)) Milk kakao is yammi. In Odesa you have to pay for everything, but if you are a pretty girl you are an always ask for an exception, just for you and the waiter does them thousands during the day 😂

Swedish person here: 1. We usually don't greet with a kiss, if you did most people would probably be surprised. But if it's an older person you've known since before, you might get a kiss on the cheek. 2. We don't particularly drink iced americanos, but we do drink cold drinks when it's hot. We love coffee though, so we buy anything that contains coffee all year round. 3. Things usually aren't closed on Sundays, it's exactly as the swedish girl said. 4. In a lot of places you do have to pay for the bathroom. But sometimes in shopping malls you can go for free. And at gass stations it's free. At cafés, if you're a customer you can go for free and sometimes even if you aren't a costumer. 5. Never tried a soft drink with milk whey, not sure if we have anything like that? But we probably do 6. Tap water is always free and even other drinks come with the meal a lot of the time

German chef here: whether the tap water costs money is up to the owner. Most of the time, the cost is justified by the associated service. A waiter has to take and deliver the order, the bartender has to make the drink, and a waiter has to serve it.

Can we just take a moment out to appreciate how calm the voice was of the girl from Switzerland 😊

Haha, so funny to see Mykoreandic as a guest on this channel.

OMG GUYS LATVIA LATVIA AS LATVIAN IM SHOCKED I SEE LATVIA SOMEWHERE

"Not in Germany." That made me laugh

Dilara has a heavenly voice 👌🏻

As a Belgian I can say that the 3 kisses are ONLY for special occasions such as a birthday or on New Year’s Eve. Me personally I greet close friends with a hug and even then only when I feel like it. If it’s someone I just met I just nod. That’s for the Dutch part btw, Belgium has also a part where they speak French and also a small part that speaks German. We Flemish (our Dutch accent) people are naturally reserved so we will not quickly touch someone when we don’t know the person. :3

I am not Swedish but Norwegian, so there is cultural similarity. It's not really common to give kisses when greeting. But we know what it means and usually just go along with it if people with other background do it. Even if we find it slightly uncomfortable (when you are not used to it) because we are 'trained' to be tolerant and polite almost no matter what😅. Also in Norway pretty much everything is closed on sundays (and it closes earlier on saturday). There are regulations deciding if you are allowed to keep stores etc open on sundays. So that seems to be a difference between Sweden and Norway here. But the rest seems to be quite similar in both countries.

In my 47 Swedish years I’ve only been greeted with a kiss once; in Czechia of all places.

We definitely don't greet with a kiss in Germany :D And pretty sure Sweden is same. People will be weirded out if you do that.

I got this video recommended and was surprised to see mykoreandic in it, I've been following him for months!

Latvian Man Here, 1} Kissing as a greeting is uncommon to Strangers and Men, me personally i greet everyone with a handshake... even Women since its a formal way of greeting someone, but i notice that alot of girls who are friends greet eachother with kisses in hugs so i think thats more of a girls type thing, i have never kissed someone as greeting, only like hugged family as greeting. 4) In About every city... in Stores and Public places the rest room is free, you can just walk in and use restroom, i believe that only on like Border theres pay toilets, but besides that ive never seen a pay toilet in latvia, only in germany, and its very human to go out and take a piss in the bushes or forest or somewhere private where no one can see. (dont piss on someone elses property) 5) Our National Drink is Balsam, who wouldve guessed that our national drink is alcohol.... knowing that we are the heaviest drinkers in the world (x2 more and heavy than the irish) 6) If you went into a Resturant just for water... some give you water, some dont (the more luxury ones dont)... but if you are Ordering something and ask for water, its free & you can go into like Gyms and some other public places and they will give you good water for free (non-tap water), and you can bring your own water to resturants... so if you cant get water in a resturant for free, just go to like a Gym, ask for water and then return to that resturant.

It's nice to see "My Korean Dictionary" here! 😄 Just him with all these girls huh? Wonder if we'll see them in his next shorts. 😊

They are so friendly and explainable for European people🎉❤.

He is my favorite content creator. İ am so happy for seeing him here 😍

Love Dilara whose way of speaking is so gentle for my ears

I am Asian, and I once received a hand kiss from a French coworker. I was freaked out fr, but I think that's so wholesome and very sweet. Nice experiences from other cultures

In Finland I think the law changed a few years back that you're actually allowed to charge for tap water if it's all they drink. But if they order any other drink with their meal then the tap water will be free. And still not all places charge for tap water even if that's legal now.

i was gonna say that we do have lots of shops closed on sundays in sweden but yeah she might be right about that only being a thing in larger cities. i've never lived in a big city and most shops (except a couple grocery stores) were always closed on sundays.

Ukrainian here! First time i see that our greeting is kissing on cheeks. Like yea, it’s common around close siblings, as well as hugs, but when it’s friends usually the handshake takes place, but the most common are non-touchable greetings, just hello for informal, and good /any day part/ for formal.

Dilara is just amazing

I'm wondering where the belgian girl is from. I'm belgian and commonly, it's just one kiss on the cheek. Three is only for like "happy new year" or stuff like that, so on very rare occasions. In France you have to find out how many it is in the specific region you're in as it varies a lot. When I meet a french person, I just ask them how many it is for them. As for the shops... Not all shops are closed on Sunday. Some are open a half day, like Sunday morning, some are closed on another day. It depends. I think the only obligation is that there is at least one day closed each week. For the water thing... I know in Sweden, anywhere where they sell alcohol, they have to give free water. I think that's a very good thing. For Belgium and Germany, I think if one asks for water to like take some medication or because someone is feeling bad, mostly people will give some. But otherwise, I think you have to pay for water.

I live in north europe and everything is open on sundays. Its just shortened hours. Usually from 12-18.00 things are opened, whereas in the work week it might be opened from 10-22.

This thumbnail, omg , funny and weird at the same time , seems like a place that just women go out and he is totally lost , anyway , i loved the video

Spain and Italia are different! And maybe Portugal and Greece too... it's interesting to know all this, but we are Europe too, and we should be answering too...

I am belgian and for the cheek kiss greeting it has always been one where I am, I wonder where she is from in belgium

Each conutry changes much, and depend witch zone your live, and winter/summer change much.

Is this guy who allways said: you want some…???😂😂😂😂

Mykoreandic ❤️❤️

As a Norwegian I love ayran!!. Tasted it first when I visited Tyrkia and did not like it right away, but then it grew on me and now I pick some up everytime I visit a foreign-grocery store here ❤.

It's so good to see you here,@mykoreandic👋🏻

srsly, ukrainian girl mentioned pizza while turkish girl was talking about ayran?what about smetana, kefir, kvas?:))shkvarki (roasted fat)?there is A LOT of weird (yet yummy) food in slavic kitchen

The swiss girl has such a soothing voice wth man

Bank holiday is a particular british thing that continentals don ' t understand. It s actually always used for a free monday.

A kiss on the cheek isn’t the norm in all of Europe. Europe is a continent and not one country! I live and grew up in Norway, northern Europe Scandinavia, and that is not the norm here. Some would even find it too intimate and uncomfortable. Some do it, but it’s imported from either US shows or to seem fancy like the French do, snobbish. A hug is more acceptable or normal of someone you know and are close with. 1st time I heard of the word “skinship” was due to Kdrama🤣🤣🤣

Bank holidays are public holidays 😂 They are usually set by law, that's why shops are closed.

yeah I’m from the uk and everything is closed on Sunday all of these are true it’s so cool :)

In Indonesia 🇮🇩 we do : 1. Greet with Cheek Kiss : ✅ 2. We Do Drinking Iced Americano : ✅ 3. Everything is close in Sunday : It depends (For Government affairs is closed) 4. Have to Pay for Restroom in Public places : It depends (In the mall all restrooms are free, but at the gas station in the toll rest area there are some to pay ) 5. National Soft Drink is Made Out of Milk Whey : ❎ 6. Have to Pay for Water at Restaurants : ✅ no free water here in Indonesia 😢

We also use milk to prepare "ayran" instead of water.

We Italians give kisses too when we get to know someone, informally. The fact is, I always forgot how many kisses I should give and I'm a native Italian 😂

This ,girl from Switzerland is 😮❤

Many times at supermarkets in Spain I've seen people on the queue to pay, at 9:59 PM, and when it was their turn to pay, it was already 10 PM so the cashier told them "sorry, I'm not allowed to sell that, it's 10 o'clock" and the costumers' faces "what!!! You kidding!?" "Not kidding, it's just the law"

im fron Croatia and the thing with kissing we just do it if we really know to person. From the part where i come from you see people drink iced amercano, it's just not that often and usually in summer. The stores are open at Sundays. They just work one hours to 5 or 6 hours less than on other days.

1. The Finns would rather respect social distance than kiss on the cheek. You just wave your arm and say something like "hei", "moi", "terve" or "päivää". I could kiss a nice girl if I feel romantic. 2. A typical Finnish coffee is a hot brewed coffee with milk or cream in all seasons. 3. Finland is a very secular society and nowdays practically all the shops can be open on Sundays, Christmas and Easter if it is economically profitable for shop keepers. There's no law against it and the last restrictions were removed in 2009.

in greece we drink called coffeee and we call it frappe

Interesting info, in Iran we also kiss on cheeks 3 times 😅 but fortunately we don’t have to pay for public restrooms and tap water

those girls do not even know what a bank holiday is

The smell in England, especially London is defo true, I was shocked and I’m Swedish 😂

Wow i too from Latvia❤

I am Swedish and I even feel uncomfortable to hug people that is not like family. 😂 I remember when you grow up in the early teens and everyone started to hug when they greet each other. And I was like "hi". How do you do with the kiss greeting when there is like a ugly stinky one in front of you? 🤔😂

A Public place and you have to pay for it , the korean guy is totally right , it's nonsense at all 😂 , and most of the times is really expensive

I kept looking at the Swedish girl...she looked just as confused at me lol. Most of those points didn't apply to Sweden at all. Just goes to show you can't lump all of Europe together. (I'd like to add that iced coffees/americano have become more popular in recent years, mostly at the chain shops like Espresso House.)

Wow, I think I'm going to immigrate to Switzerland.

Maybe it's just my Finnish brain, but I love drinking and eating cold stuff in the winter. One of my favorite things to is to eat an ice-cream while outside in the winter, it's just so refreshing :)

Hii wow nice

HR 🇭🇷 - 1. In Croatia it is normal for people to greet with cheek kiss 2 times and 3 times if it's orthodox family, although it is becoming rarer and rarer. 2. Never saw an iced Americano here in Croatia, doesn't mean that there isn't any. 3. Same as Latvia, Almost everything is closed on Sundays and most places have a shorter working schedule on Saturdays. 4. Only places where you need to pay for restrooms is where tourist attractions are, if you are randomly somewhere in the middle of Croatia restrooms are going to be free. 5. Never saw Rivella nor Ayran, we do have kaymak tho'. National drink for Croatia would be rakija lol. 6. Same as Sweden, tap water is free everywhere, you can ask for tap water even in bakery.

In Switzerland I just really needed to pee and 2 CH at the train station was just so much for my Brazilian currency, i was so mad at that at this point cause in Brazil we would never! cut for when I actually met my Swiss bf and he just sneakily jumped over it 🤡

Happi !!

Restaurants aint closed on sunday, at least in Germany Restaurants are open on sunday, only stores are closed on sunday and public holidays and as far as i know its the same in Spain, Portugal and France.

holy Mykoreandic is here

The cheek to cheek kiss is also common in Filipino culture

Finland here. We definitely do not kiss as a greeting 😮😮😂

dilara is a queen and that's on periodttt

Nothing is closed in Latvia on Saturday or Sunday. All shops and markets are open.

Newcastle? Bonnie lad!

i hate Sundays because everything is closed so my days off are during the weekday

In Romania we kiss on the cheek as greeting, we do not hug. Hugging is lot more personal than kissing.

Here in Portugal we don't have to pay to go to the restroom, if we had to pay I am pretty sure everyone would just do their business in the streets. Nobody should have to pay to go to the bathroom.

Man the girl from Switzerland should open an asmr channel

Bank holidays are the paid days off stipulated by law that can be religious or non religious events. For example lndependence Day, or Christmas day, or New Eve's day, etc. In corporate language they are all called bank holidays.

Where are they filming? Because they are referring to ”here”?

What a lucky bastard!

Never heard about pizza with salmon and avocado in Ukraine, maybe it's just a local thing for that girl. We do have everything closed on Sunday, but cafes and grocery shops are open

I am used to one kiss on the cheek having lived in Latin American countries. I know some European countries do two kisses. I didn't know there was 3 though! Seems a bit excessive 😅

She's wrong about tap water in sweden. Restaurants charge you for water, tap water or not, but sometimes it's included in the "serving fee".

wait! dilara is a pretty common name in turkiye, I didn't know people from Switzerland used this name too

🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Agree with the swiss girl. The public bathroom in Zurich's train station is the cleanest public bathroom I've ever seen. First and only time I dared to sit on the toilet to take a shit.

yeah, but Asia is big, even if people in eastern Asia don't kiss each other, in central Asian and Middle East we do kiss and hug to greet

I'm Asian, but I live in the middle east, which is really different from Korea, China etc. In the middle east it is something really REALLY commun to kiss your friends or relatives on the cheeks and hug them when greeting them, so it's just depends on where EXACTLY do you live in Asia. And to be honest, I thought that this was something wierd in Europe 😂 So you guys must know that ASIA ISN'T A COUNTRY IT IS A CONTENT!

Mykoreandic😍선생님🎉

Dilara looks like a real life porcelain doll!!! How???? It's like someone sat down and designed her to be perfect.

Talking about common European culture makes about as much sense than saying that as Peru is in America, they must eat hamburgers.

Thank God that tap water is also free in Croatia XD

in Latvia a lot of shops are open 24/7, almost no shops are closed on Sunday

Americano is a rebrand of bad American coffee, lol.

I see Yu Dilara! 😁

Latvia represent!!!

"Have to pay for restrooms." Jesus, they still do that.

One for the algorythm.

@mykoreandic seems like such a sweet and polite guy ❤ but my dude, did no one give you a tip about that name choice before you chose it? 😉🍆