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Great video! You made it to Zhujiajiao finally. I was thinking of recommending this place but worried that you might not have enough time for your 144 hour visas. Next time you visit China you may want to visit West Lake in Hangzhou (50 mins away from Shanghai on HSR), which is more beautiful.
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Regarding flute, because it is a game made in Japan. In fact, during the period when Japanese anime was popular, many were adapted from Chinese legends, such as "Records of the Three Kingdoms" which is a historical story of China. For example, in Journey to the West, it was changed to Dragon Ball. Many characters in the animation also use traditional Chinese stories.
You can actually visit the two nearby provinces, namely Jiangsu and Zhejiang with your 144-hr transition visa. Great cities, including Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Suzhou, are all in these two provinces.
I'm so blessed to see this interesting ancient town, Zhujiajiao, which is known as the Venice of Shanghai on your video. Truly appreciate you both capturing those breathakingly beautiful footages....love those amazing old buildings. Yeah, those bread twisters are super yummy, a good snack indeed. Aaah...great you both like that Chinese sticky rice dumpling which is called "Zongzi". It's wrapped in bamboo leaf. That old man on the bridge is playing a very famous Chinese song, titled "Shanghai Bund" with his "erhu", a traditional Chinese musical instrument. Another fantastic video with great content. Thanks a bunch for this awesome China series, Steve lvana.
Zhongi is not dumpling at all. the closest to it is Tamale in Mexico. watercress is called western vegetable to identify it's from elsewhere. Erhu, the 'hu' identified it is from the near east.
Welcome to my hometown, the place where I spend my childhood Summer holiday. I remembered in that river my brothers are swimming there.How quite and peace the Zhu Jiajiao was. One interesting thing is the Watertown’s name read use Shanghainese sounds like ‘Chicago’ In the video The Grand North street was the old main commercial street ，now it is full of all kinds of snacks .But a lot of them are not local snack 😅
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@@VerkaterterStiefel I do not like people to spread hatred, and I did not say anything about hatred, I just wanted to clarify some misunderstanding about China, I did not say anything bad about any country, people are all equal. I thought you were a robot account sending grabage comments, so I said bad words to you, that is the reason, very simple. Now I am wrong, you are not a robot account, so I apologize for the misunderstanding and any bad mood to you. And nowadays it only let me know how bad the Internet environment is, even I am defending China, I still get attacked by some Chinese, some of them are just hungry beast waiting for showing their "loyalty", that is not anything loyal at all, they just want to pleasure themselves. They just make me so upset, I am tired of all these trash, I will not try to do anything about these topics from now on. Have a good day.
Thanks for the introduction to Shanghai after experiencing those GOOD FOOD in KL, Ipoh and Penang Malaysia, keep up the good work guys! Thanks a lot for the tour! 😀😍🖐✌🤟👍 Greeting from Ipoh, Malaysia , anyway!
The crispy fried bread thing you gave 6 stars for is called 麻花, and the flavor is 葱香 (as mentioned by the lady when you asked). you can find them in packages here in Vancouver, so I bet you should have them in Toronto as well... though I doubt it would taste the same as the fresh ones...
@5:15 Lovely that you mentioned the Qing dynasty! Can't resist sharing some bits of Chinese history: Ever since the very first Qin 秦 (without a G) imperial dynasty's founding in 221BCE, the Chinese dynasties continued one after the other, for over a 2000 year period. Sometimes minor dynasties co-existed with the major one of the time, but whenever one fell, China would always be re-constituted by another -- ever-continuing. The last one as you mentioned, was the Qing 清 (with a G). Ending with a transition to a modern-style government in 1912, thus ending over 2000 years of the dynastic tradition, but also marking a new chapter for the civilization. Of course, if one considers the Zhou 周 dynasty, that takes you back to 1045 BCE, and if the Shang 商 before that, 1600 BCE. And if the earliest as per the Chinese historiographical tradition, but contended among historians, the Xia 夏 preceded the Shang.
There are several similarly beautiful ancient water towns near Shanghai...Tongli, ZhouZhuang, Nanxun, Xitang, WuZhen. While not water towns, nearby Suzhou and Hangzhou are 2 great day or weekend trip locations a short distance away from Shanghai by high speed rail
China is very big from east to west and from south to north have their own culture , dialects, foods and environment difference, I bet you need years to explore , hope you guy can come to Dali (Kunming province), Chungqing, they different vibe.
The first snacks‘s name you bought is Má Huā，in Chinese you can see “ 麻花 ”，the word is meaning something twisted . And the waitress said "Cōng Xiāng" , is the flavor of the Mahua，means Green onion .🤝
The guy who plays erhu he plays the theme song from TV Drama called Shanghai Bund a very famous drama in 80s starred by Chow Yun Fat..famous actor from Hongkong 👍
Foreign friends who want to see the larger and more beautiful water towns in the south of the Yangtze River can try to go to Wuzhen. They will not be disappointed.
17:40 The 144-hour transit visa is valid to Shanghai and two neighboring provinces, Zhejiang and Jiangsu which have much more similar touristy water towns.
Lived in Shanghai for 10 years and China is amazing. Maybe explore Chengdu surrounds for great food and scenery. Otherwise Hangzhou and Suzhou have lots more cultural attractions plus easily accessible from Shanghai.
There are a lot of this kind of "watertown" in Jiangsu province nest to Shanghai. Actually this Is kinda unique style of our "areas South of the yangtze river".
My, how did uou understand 10 Yuan? The girl showed a gesture that resembles Chinese character 10. I almost missed how amazing it was because it's natural for us to recognize the meaning, since we write it that way. Then I realized that you very likely don't know how to write Chinese. Simply amazing comprehension skill!
another awesome video! zhujiajiao is the closest ancient water town near shanghai, it's so picturesque and vibrant. i used to go there when i was living in shanghai.
Yeee in the shop in which there was the quails I took the frogs legs last week 🧏🏻♀️🧏🏻♀️ And the ‘Zongzi’s made with glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves were truly delicious and comforting that cold and rainy day I was there!! Really loved that place~~
Sticky rice in bamboo leave - zong zi (there is special date for it on lunar fifth day of fifth month, remembering Qu Yuan) Musical instrument -er hu and the song he played is famous OST of TVB drama The Bund or in mandarin called as Shanghai Tan (revolving republican era of Shanghai and starred famous Chow Yun Fatt).
Loved this one as well. Actually I have been there in August of this year. But dont recall seeing those places and food. Consequently, I believe I will have to be back there 😂
Here is what I found about the 144-hour transit visa-free policy: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are linked 144 hours a day. Foreigners can choose from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, Pudong International Airport, all seaports and railway ports with passenger transport functions in Shanghai, Zhejiang Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Ningbo Lishe International Airport, Jiangsu Nanjing Lukou International Airport When entering or leaving the country at any port of the airport, you can stay within the administrative areas of Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu provinces (cities) for 144 hours.
@@louxuan1 Breaking the rules always has consequences. First, you can't use your passport and visa to check in hotels etc. Secondly, your visa may be cancelled and you may be on the blacklist from now on. So be wise and obey the rule.
2:53 you asked the name, the girl told you the flavor(葱香 Congxiang means onion flavor).🤣 actually, it is called 油赞子(You Zanzi), a famous Ningbo snack. imo it is not that different from 麻花(Mahua) within some seaweed flavor.
The Qing Dynasty was the final dynasty in China, and if you watched the movie "The Last Emperor", it features the boy emperor Puyi who became emperor at the age of 2 and abdicated the throne in 1912 at the age of 6... he was the last emperor of China.
