It is so weird watching your old haunts, knew exactly where you were when your vlog started. When we were kids growing up there it was a small English type village and across from our house were paddocks, Used to feed my lunch to a horse on the way to school. Towns evolve and yes it is now predominantly Indian. Love watching.
I used to have a shop in the mall at Old Papatoetoe (what the second Papatoetoe you went to is known as locally), while the first one is known as Hunters Corner. Burnside Brothers, next to the railway bridge you walked up, has been operating there for over 60 years! By the way, Indians refer to Papatoetoe as Little India, as it has a very high number of Indian residents and business owners.
@@davidbeazley1958 I think I remember it. Was it was in an upstairs part of the mall, over the old electrical appliance shop that faced the carpark, and then became a bike shop, or something?
@@davidbeazley1958 Yes, it was an electrical appliance store first. I bought my first electronic calculator there, a Panasonic one that only had four functions, but cost $340 in today's money! I still have that calculator, and the box it came in, 48 years later!
Yah, my sister lives there. Lots of Indian stores. Free pools down the road. Food market under the mall Friday night. Hundreds of different food stalls.
That closed historical building is the Papatoetoe town hall. Built in 1917, was used as a dance hall and a cinema. Fun fact: In or around 1960 local service clubs began organising regular Saturday night youth dances. These were a great success for some years, but in the 1960s reportedly began to attract a rough element (described in one newspaper as “louts and fighting gangs”). In December 1968, because of problems with violence and bad behaviour, Papatoetoe Borough Council forbade any more public dances at the hall (the ban was lifted five years later).
It may not be the fanciest of places but you still see the positives, you genuinely look happy just to have nice stroll and look around. Love your vids, humor & your good vibes ❤
Bro i love that you are making V-LOGs of my country, its so cool to see places ive known my whole life, through a new set of eyes, i hope you really enjoy your time here in our beautiful country, keep doing what you are doing bro, it's really cool thanks brother much love god bless
Very entertaining stuff mate. Would be very interesting to hear more about things you find on your travels that are different/peculiar compared to what you’re used to back in the UK
You should try the night markets in Auckland they sell heaps of food and is pretty packed. The food selection overall is better there so Otara and Mangere is good for island food and bakery’s.
I used to go through Papatoetoe train station a fair bit because it used to be the main link station when getting public transport from the Airport. I didn't quite realise there was a whole mall a bit further across. Nowadays they've refurbished Puhinui and Manukau Stations to make them the main hubs linking rail to airport with the aid of buses
i hope you made your way around GI and the bucklands / eastern beach peninsula, there are some decent walking tracks to get in amongst nature while never leaving the suburbs
Local Chambers are like a mini local council building. We have one in Roskill I used to go to with my granny when she went to pay dog licence, power, gas etc
I was raised in Papatoetoe.. and yes that closed building WAS the Papatoetoe Town Hall.. Papatoetoe was actually a formal City , of it's own. OWn council. Mayor, roading and traffic policing staff and budgets. The second civic shopping area IS the main street; St George Street. The first shoppping center you went intoo was/is Hunters Corner. Papatoetoe was very much a ppakeha lower-to-wealthy middlle class area , with 1/4 sections and 3-4brm houses for its 23,000 people. It's been swallowed in an amalgamation into Manukau SuperCity , and changed dramaticlly. My guess is that there'd be at least 80,000 people iiving there now due to infill housing, , and the influxed mainly Indian community (good thing) with it's culture of multi-generations living in a family house .. amd yup, mate, you got i... if you want sublime Indian food, you won't beat TwoToes ( its nickname backin the 60s) . I still go there when driving into Auckland to pick up a decent Rogan Josh.
My mother grew up in Papatoetoe and my grandparents still live there to this day so I've been most weeks of my life to be honest and I like the area. South Auckland unfortunately gets a bad wrap even when it's some of the most welcoming friendly people on the face of the earth there.
Yep, there are some great Indian suburbs here! If you come to Wellington you'll find some *awesome* Indian restaurants too - most of which have home-delivery. I particularly like the Kerala (south India) cuisine - lots of dishes with coconut in them - mmmmmmmm........ :)
Compare them to Liverpool curries 🤢 I got a delivery during lockdown and it was literally ketchup and coconut (could have been 'butter chicken') hahaha have had sagwala too was fking gross and made me gag and also the peanut one (forgot the name haha) it was yum but very very sweet. I've given up on trying to find a good curry in Liverpool
@@Chevyforlifeeeeee UK is has an extremely high population of Indians, bangladesh, pakistani etc in some areas of London it is densely populated by these communities. Curry is the no.1 meal in the UK. I'm glad that NZ does not have many curry shops because it would be way too overpowering and overbearing with just that strong scent.
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I’m glad you go outside the usual touristy parts of NZ. I’m from NZ and have lived in Australia for over 30 years. My Aussie husband and I had to make a quick dash back home and stayed in South Auckland. We stayed at a pretty basic Motel and walked around looking for somewhere to eat. We got scared because these local thug type guys started walking towards us. Of course we thought the worst that they were going to mug us, beat us, whatever. Actually, they said “Kia ora Aunty” have a nice day. We felt stupid
Used to work with a few Maori boys and everytime I would use one of their names everyone would start laughing. I questioned this one day and it turned out my interpretation of his name was the same as the car called out, well it was surprisingly similar his actual name. Anyway after apologies I thought it only appropriate that his new name be 'Fluffy' which didn't please him but everyone thought was a good idea.
All the white dresses for kids could be something similar to what I grew up with in the Presbyterian church called ‘white Sunday’..all the kids and grown ups dress in white for church… .. I thought White Sunday, was to counter ‘Black Friday’😂😂😂
60 yr old kiwi here mate, so sad to see what has happened to my home town....globalization swept the real kiwi culture away , it was fantastic when it was a safe town and people looked out for each other now its just bloody dangerous and full of crime, this is why I had to leave......peace
Lol... It was always rough there, massive brawls outside Club Enough on Saturday nights. I went to Aorere college in the 80's. Get off Facebook bro, you even spell globalisation the American way...
Agreed It definetly has changed since the 80s and 90s that I grew up in? I totally understood what you meant and not crying like the sooky comment by David lol, yes saturday nights were rough back then but there wasn't a meth epidemic like there is now.
It is so weird watching your old haunts, knew exactly where you were when your vlog started. When we were kids growing up there it was a small English type village and across from our house were paddocks, Used to feed my lunch to a horse on the way to school. Towns evolve and yes it is now predominantly Indian. Love watching.
I used to have a shop in the mall at Old Papatoetoe (what the second Papatoetoe you went to is known as locally), while the first one is known as Hunters Corner. Burnside Brothers, next to the railway bridge you walked up, has been operating there for over 60 years!
By the way, Indians refer to Papatoetoe as Little India, as it has a very high number of Indian residents and business owners.
Do you remember the nightclub at the back of the mall? I used to spend hours riding my grifter around the velodrome as a kid... 😅
I think it was called Billy Joe's.
@@davidbeazley1958 I think I remember it. Was it was in an upstairs part of the mall, over the old electrical appliance shop that faced the carpark, and then became a bike shop, or something?
@@BeachcomberNZ that's the one... I just remember it as a bike shop... The appliance store must've been before my time. 🙂
@@davidbeazley1958 Yes, it was an electrical appliance store first. I bought my first electronic calculator there, a Panasonic one that only had four functions, but cost $340 in today's money! I still have that calculator, and the box it came in, 48 years later!
Yah, my sister lives there. Lots of Indian stores. Free pools down the road. Food market under the mall Friday night. Hundreds of different food stalls.
That closed historical building is the Papatoetoe town hall. Built in 1917, was used as a dance hall and a cinema. Fun fact: In or around 1960 local service clubs began organising regular Saturday night youth dances. These were a great success for some years, but in the 1960s reportedly began to attract a rough element (described in one newspaper as “louts and fighting gangs”). In December 1968, because of problems with violence and bad behaviour, Papatoetoe Borough Council forbade any more public dances at the hall (the ban was lifted five years later).
wow
Typical councilors, out to spoil everyone's fun!
It may not be the fanciest of places but you still see the positives, you genuinely look happy just to have nice stroll
and look around.
Love your vids, humor & your good vibes ❤
Born in New Zealand with British citizenship and have just returned from the UK, thanks for seeing the best of my country when sometimes I can’t! 🇳🇿🇬🇧
Far out... Now you're really going back to my childhood. Old Pap as we used to call it. Good stuff bro.
"EAT SOME TEKE" dude that took me out 😂 great video btw!
Bro i love that you are making V-LOGs of my country, its so cool to see places ive known my whole life, through a new set of eyes, i hope you really enjoy your time here in our beautiful country, keep doing what you are doing bro, it's really cool thanks brother much love god bless
Very entertaining stuff mate. Would be very interesting to hear more about things you find on your travels that are different/peculiar compared to what you’re used to back in the UK
You should try the night markets in Auckland they sell heaps of food and is pretty packed. The food selection overall is better there so Otara and Mangere is good for island food and bakery’s.
Keep up the mahi Curls
It's "Papa two toes" Mate !!
I used to go through Papatoetoe train station a fair bit because it used to be the main link station when getting public transport from the Airport. I didn't quite realise there was a whole mall a bit further across. Nowadays they've refurbished Puhinui and Manukau Stations to make them the main hubs linking rail to airport with the aid of buses
Thise little wedding dresses would be first communion dresses I believe..
Also Indian populations tend to dress their kids up like that for some of their holidays.
It's for white Sunday dress as well.
0:59 That's the best Chinese Takeaway, hands down (if the husband cooks lol)
true
Chur brotha always look forward to a new vid
i hope you made your way around GI and the bucklands / eastern beach peninsula, there are some decent walking tracks to get in amongst nature while never leaving the suburbs
Local Chambers are like a mini local council building. We have one in Roskill I used to go to with my granny when she went to pay dog licence, power, gas etc
I was raised in Papatoetoe.. and yes that closed building WAS the Papatoetoe Town Hall.. Papatoetoe was actually a formal City , of it's own. OWn council. Mayor, roading and traffic policing staff and budgets. The second civic shopping area IS the main street; St George Street. The first shoppping center you went intoo was/is Hunters Corner. Papatoetoe was very much a ppakeha lower-to-wealthy middlle class area , with 1/4 sections and 3-4brm houses for its 23,000 people. It's been swallowed in an amalgamation into Manukau SuperCity , and changed dramaticlly. My guess is that there'd be at least 80,000 people iiving there now due to infill housing, , and the influxed mainly Indian community (good thing) with it's culture of multi-generations living in a family house .. amd yup, mate, you got i... if you want sublime Indian food, you won't beat TwoToes ( its nickname backin the 60s) . I still go there when driving into Auckland to pick up a decent Rogan Josh.
👍 "Warzone in Chemist Warehouse". Watching from Australia. Enjoying the NZ tour.
My mother grew up in Papatoetoe and my grandparents still live there to this day so I've been most weeks of my life to be honest and I like the area. South Auckland unfortunately gets a bad wrap even when it's some of the most welcoming friendly people on the face of the earth there.
Yep, there are some great Indian suburbs here!
If you come to Wellington you'll find some *awesome* Indian restaurants too - most of which have home-delivery.
I particularly like the Kerala (south India) cuisine - lots of dishes with coconut in them - mmmmmmmm........ :)
Did you have a feed of some teke? 👀👀
Compare nz curry shops to London curry shops
Pretty sure uk indian food will destroy nz indian curry
@@Chevyforlifeeeeee i think you'd be right
Compare them to Liverpool curries 🤢 I got a delivery during lockdown and it was literally ketchup and coconut (could have been 'butter chicken') hahaha have had sagwala too was fking gross and made me gag and also the peanut one (forgot the name haha) it was yum but very very sweet. I've given up on trying to find a good curry in Liverpool
Can’t beat Brick lane Bangladeshi Curry in London! 🇬🇧🇧🇩🥘🍛
@@Chevyforlifeeeeee UK is has an extremely high population of Indians, bangladesh, pakistani etc in some areas of London it is densely populated by these communities. Curry is the no.1 meal in the UK. I'm glad that NZ does not have many curry shops because it would be way too overpowering and overbearing with just that strong scent.
I was wondering if I would ever see you here in NZ. This is probably as close as I'll get. I'm currently living in Papatoetoe.
I read your description and it says you owe me peanut slab since i subscribed. So please drop it of at McDonald's in queenstown new Zealand when you can and id love to meet you
Lmao the tongan boys in the car I do miss that humour working with the tongans in NZ
The friday night market Under the hunters plaza would’ve been good. St George Street is what we call Old Papatoetoe
I’m glad you go outside the usual touristy parts of NZ. I’m from NZ and have lived in Australia for over 30 years. My Aussie husband and I had to make a quick dash back home and stayed in South Auckland. We stayed at a pretty basic Motel and walked around looking for somewhere to eat. We got scared because these local thug type guys started walking towards us. Of course we thought the worst that they were going to mug us, beat us, whatever. Actually, they said “Kia ora Aunty” have a nice day. We felt stupid
😂😂😂😂😂
so glad you felt stupid.
crystal horse is the 1 of 5 best takeaways in South Auckland
That place has not changed kind of miss that place
So many shops. I wonder how they make a crust?
You follow your nose Curls everywhere you go. The smells of food. I went to High School in Papatoetoe. Aorere College. 1974 to 1977.
Remember to hit me up when you get to Manurewa 😉😉
This shopping centre is on great south road
I grew up in papatoetoe miss home watching this
It used to be a bank many years ago that building
Go to Gisborne , different world from Auckland
That last guy 💀💀🤣🤣
Bahaha, eat some teke 😂
Nah no horse is Papatoetoe mate. Mangere has some though
Also called papa two toes
How's the winter over there treating you? It's getting close to summer here in the Northern Hemisphere now.
Yeah, probably still a lot hotter here still.
Check out titarangi waitakereis.
PAPAKURA NEXT!!
Omg damn you walked right passed my house
I need a visit
Used to work with a few Maori boys and everytime I would use one of their names everyone would start laughing. I questioned this one day and it turned out my interpretation of his name was the same as the car called out, well it was surprisingly similar his actual name. Anyway after apologies I thought it only appropriate that his new name be 'Fluffy' which didn't please him but everyone thought was a good idea.
Go back at night for a good time 🤣
I bought perfume at Chemist warehouse. I think I bought 5 bottles of perfume.
As a South African I loved seeing the South African shops. Yeah you gotta buy Indian curry from Indians just saying 😁
Only if the hygiene is on point - I have seen many many videos on people who get delhi belly.
Hunters plaza has the best night market 💯
Papatoetoe where you go and get a titoe in the nights time😂😂😂😂
🤣. It sounded like you said " Oh, do they sell whores"
Visit manukau
cool
Sup curls
Thats old papatoetoe
Its New Now 😋
I just start to wonder if you're interested to visit Buddhist temples in Auckland?
Absolutely. That sounds cool!
LOL, ‘wedding dresses for kids’. Yeah, nah, confirmation dresses …
Papa two toes
Not a fan of Auckland have been 4 times too many people for me
Lol😂 least you know what teke is
These people aren't from New Zealand, nor are they from papatoe.And they need to stop lying to others ,and saying they are.
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like if i tricked you
Creating content for the Indian TH-cam viewers, you took TH-cam’s advice LOL
Be careful of getting robbed or raped there
bharat mata ki jai ban khalistan support me
All the white dresses for kids could be something similar to what I grew up with in the Presbyterian church called ‘white Sunday’..all the kids and grown ups dress in white for church…
.. I thought White Sunday, was to counter ‘Black Friday’😂😂😂
60 yr old kiwi here mate, so sad to see what has happened to my home town....globalization swept the real kiwi culture away , it was fantastic when it was a safe town and people looked out for each other now its just bloody dangerous and full of crime, this is why I had to leave......peace
Lol... It was always rough there, massive brawls outside Club Enough on Saturday nights. I went to Aorere college in the 80's. Get off Facebook bro, you even spell globalisation the American way...
Agreed It definetly has changed since the 80s and 90s that I grew up in?
I totally understood what you meant and not crying like the sooky comment by David lol,
yes saturday nights were rough back then but there wasn't a meth epidemic like
there is now.
@@jotown1465 spooky comment? Are you 12 bro? You can't even spell. Stfu.
@@davidbeazley1958 I don't do Facebook,that's for morons...