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I thought of recommending you to visit this place in northern Thailand a few weeks ago and didn’t know you have been there before and you are there now, great and interesting content, Ken.👍 The Chinese signboard at hotel reception is about shooting range for tourists. Hope you enjoy your stay there. Viel Spass!😃
Please note: "Mandarin" is a Western term for a fruit, but this word means nothing in Chinese language! You can simply say: Putonghua (lingua franca of China) or Zhongguohua (national language of China)!
Ken if you're riding motorcycle on the stepping road and it doesn't quite strong to go up, you must riding it zig zag It's gonna be smoothly easy to climb up
This place looks very similar to Yunnan province, China , blue sky and lots of mountains, you should come to Yunnan, very beautiful and exotic place, a lot to explore.
The troops who failed in the Chinese civil war did not fled to Thailand at first. Instead they fled to northern Myanmar. The Nationalist Party who lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan wanted them to be a power to fight back to the mainland, so they informed the troops to stay there and keep harassing China Mainland's frontier. However, in order to get the source of income, the troops started to trade drugs, which caused severe problems which are still affecting today. The Myanmar government couldn't stand such a power occupying their own country, so they asked and cooperated with the People's Liberation Army to battle with them again and drove them to the boarder between Myanmar and Thailand. Due to the uprising internation pressure, the Nationalist party eventually managed to bring a part of soldiers and relatives to Taiwan, but the rest ones were still left in Thailand. For the purpose to get the nationality, they chose to fight with the Thai communists. After years past, these people all put down their weapons, so China Mainland just simply consider them as normal Thailanders.
Thanks for the history. Exactly the same I had read about. Western media used this part of the history to smear China. Time has changed and they probably haven't been here recently. It looks more like Maco financed by Chinese money and tourist. Just like Vegas. It has a dark and gangster past. Western media is still living in the dark ages. Don't know their motives. But, seeing is believing.
Oh wow, this whole video is just a vibe. Well done, Ken. Wonderful to see you explore this small Chinese village in the mountain of Chiang Rai - Mae Salong. Truly appreciate your sharing as this video is interesting, informative, knowledgeable and entertaining. Thank you very much/Xie xie/Khob Khun Kha.
Love this video. I've been coming to Thailand for over 40 years and have lived in Chiang mai for the last 18+ years....never heard of this place.....will be visiting real soon.......thx so much for opening up my world even though I live here....awesome brother
Hi Ken. Just to help with the translations on 4:00, the women was probably speaking a Chinese dialect to her co-worker. Other than that, when she was speaking to you after words she was speaking just normal mandarin and asked if you understood mandarin!
I really, really enjoyed this video, Ken. There were so many interesting things you observed. My mother came from Northern Thailand (Lampang), and I have visited Chiang Rai before. But I never learned all that you have learned in your video. You are also so kind to the locals. I enjoyed this video. 😊
10:25 That wooden top game is popular within the Hmong, too. Our male elders normally play this at tornaments. It's not as popular anymore, but it still exists even in the US. Good content!!
You are generous, Ken. You understand that these local vendors have fewer customers and you are helping their local culture as well as supporting their daily income. Aussie Ian
Ken, I like your travel videos more and more. The place you are in is the urban tribe where the descendants of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who participated in the Second World War against Japanese fascism live. I am very happy to see your video. The current flag of the Republic of China is the flag used in Taiwan, China. This flag can also be seen in the Mainland China Museum. The name of the flag is: (Sunny Day, White Sun, Full of Red Earth). You can really show the pictures you took in your video. I am looking forward to seeing the relevant videos in the museum. In recent years, more and more mainland Chinese citizens have gone there to look for relatives/visit. This is real history. I am very happy to directly understand their work and life status through your travel video. It's very cool! I hope your fans will break through 500,000 soon, love from Chinese fans❤️
I saw a chicken running for its life as u were riding yr bike😄 Stopping by the stall for a lemonade n a bite of green tea biscuit n continue yr journey until u reached a place where a group men playing tuo luo. Is an eye opeing game to me. The roti looks yummy. Bon appetit, Ken.😋 Ilike the Chinese village. The place looks peaceful n serene. I wish I could try some of the sweet sour meatballs. Delicious!! No wonder there is Chinese influence there. Is is bcos of the growth of drugs those days. Excellent video!! I like wat I see. 👍🙏 I enjoyed watching this video. Awesome!!
Great video Ken. I went near the triangle border 30 years ago in my first trip to Thailand. I never heard about that story, it is interesting. Under previous king patronage, they turned to tea plants growing about 1990. There is now a speed train from southern China to Thailand via Laos....and SRT opened the Ventiane-Bangkok line this year (2024).
The pronunciation of “90” in Thai is exactly the same as in Cantonese.😂 The road signs in Chinese indicate the Chinese Museum and Tomb of a Famous Chinese General who brought the soldiers to Northern Thailand, as there are occasionally some Chinese or Taiwanese tourists visiting this area, Chinese road signs are helpful for them to find the way. FYI, the ROC government abandoned these soldiers after it fled to Taiwan. Life was tough at that time, the soldiers had no choice but growing opium to survive. Decades later the ROC government in Taiwan remembered these brave soldiers and brought their children to Taiwan for studies and allow some of them settle down in Taiwan, they have very close relationship with Taiwan and many Chinese language teachers in the village are from Taiwan. Nowadays life is much better, other than tea plantations they also build restaurants and hotels to make a living.
The pronunciation of "90" is the same in both Thai and Cantonese because Thai is in the same language group as the Zhuang people in Guangxi, and Guangxi is adjacent to Cantonese.
New knowledge for me！ So sad this series only has 4 episodes. I can sense the difficulty you must be facing in this series without a strong grasp of chinese, but you're really pulling it off well!
I enjoyed your video because i visited that village a few years ago, The views were amazing, nice coffee shops and restaurants, You have to make sure you have good brakes for coming down the hill
Actually as you go up the mountain for the view point looking behind you we can see the steepness of the road but not in front of you. The animal in the souvenir shop is called a caterpillar in English, and yes becomes a butterfly 😊 Great video and yes I recognise the area from your visit 3 years ago!
Ooh , those meat balls look yummy and l’m vego! Lovely video thanks Ken. I walked through the mountains from Chang mai, many years ago and it is so beautiful in the north. Thanks for showing us such a variety of things. ❤
I am very glad that you can come to China. I am proficient in Chinese, English, and Russian, and I have created several Chinese teaching videos for you to try learning Chinese❤❤❤❤
Nice video. Love your sense of adventure. I think the ladies selling honey, coins, and bags are Hmong, which is why they didn't understand your Chinese translation! Google Translate does include Hmong.
I'm a Malaysian and have been to multiple countries. Thailand is the best where locals are really down to earth and very accommodating. Since your basic spoken Thai is good, I reckon spend more time and make more videos out of it there. Pom poot pasa Thai meuan gan. Soo soo na pee! =)
Ken, I suggest that you can visit the cities at the junction of Vietnam/Laos and China, where are also greatly influenced by Chinese culture. Then enter the country by walking or other means of transportation (not by plane) as the starting point of your next travel series to China.
You are very rigorous.I can see this in the way you introduce the history of that village. I saw some TH-camrs take snippets they find online as factual information and confidently share them, but you are not like that. I believe it's the most important quality for all TH-camrs,and you have demonstrated it.
Dear Ken. Sometimes when you hear Chinese in Thailand it can be other dialects than Mandarin. Many Thai-Chinese speak languages like Teochew, Hakka, Hokkien, Hainanese etc. They usually also speak Mandarin because some of them had a Chinese school education or have business with China. Thailand and China have had cultural, commercial and other relations over the centuries. Thailand has a strong identity that is unique, and some different influences pay homage to their welcoming land of the Free. Kind regards from Switzerland.
Thank you for sharing - you might not realise but you have plenty merit. In a by the way manner, I grew up as a Buddhist bcos my family is Buddhist but thru the yrs exploring Thailand, it is 2 German Buddhist abbots in Ubon Ratcathani whom teach in English that gave me better understanding of Buddhism ie esp the all important practice of meditation.
Was there in 1992, every thing was so different. Been there again few years pre-Covid. The town has not changed much since. Stayed at the same hotel which was very Chinese.
This highland village is so remote and the history of it is interesting too.I could hardly see any tourists besides you.The overall atmosphere of this place seems to be very peaceful and calming.Nice for a retreat for sure.Waiting for your Cambodian series next.Safe flight Ken.🙏💕🇲🇾
Please note: "Mandarin" is a Western term for a fruit, but this word means nothing in Chinese language! You can simply say: Putonghua (lingua franca of China) or Zhongguohua (national language of China)!
The hotel is called 芙蓉宮 (Fu Rong Gong) - Hibiscus Palace 🌺 No idea what “Wang Put Tan” means. Could be in a different dialect or completely different meaning.
Hi Ken, subscriber here in USA. Great video and informative about what I suspected, Chinese moving in on countries peacefully to take over. Although many travelers are going to China as tourist to its beautiful cities, must consider what they are doing politically outside of China. Some involve human rights besides territorial.
About the temples: they are financed by donations from regular people. Maybe sometimes somebody rich will donate but mainly, its the people because they love Buddha
I could seriously live in tis village and I'm thinking i might take a vacation there to recce it out and build a little holiday home it must be cheap there ..
Thanks Ken, good video, a bit more about the Chiang Kai Chek and the nationalists movement in 1995 would have been good. Many of the Tai living in southern Yunnan moved to Chiang Rai too, some of them members of the former royal family of the Tai Leu who still number around a million people in southern Yunnan. I look forward to Cambodia.
Sweet and sour pork is not Cantonese dish, originally. It is actually Hokkien/Fujian Overseas dish called Kolobak, and its chicken variant Koloke which now very popular celebratory dish in Indonesia's Moslem population along with Rendang and Soto. Cantonese food is not generally sweet. Hokkien Overseas dishes are distinctive with some overly sweet for Chinese food. There are many varieties of sweet desserts called kue or kueh in Indonesia. I saw similar sweet desserts in Thailand and Philippines, although they might be called differently. Philippines even adopts one dish lumpia to be its national dish, although lumpia is not exclusive to Philippines. Lumpia literary means fried savory pastry in Hokkien. We have lots of pia, or pastry in Hokkien for some region in Indonesia. We have Lumpia Semarang, and Pia Balong etc. Pia might as well the origin word for pie in English. We already have teh for tea in English, and bok for book in English. Those words were different in pronounciation Mandarin. But they have the same Chinese characters, spoken in Hokkien in South East Asia. I read once that one Overseas Fujian dish Babi Kecap made sensation in Germany. It is a sweet pork stew heavy in kecap manis or Indonesian sweet soy sauce. I heard that South East Asian style sweet and spicy meat breads are increasingly popular in Germany and Netherlands.
🕞 Time 13:00 Top/陀螺/Gasing/Kreisel - There are various types of top competitions including the annual world competition. Some compete for the longest spinning time and some strikes the opponent's top to stop or out of the competition ring which looks like is the game here. There are many types and sizes of tops. The material used to make the top can be from traditional hardwood to modern plastic and others. The tops played here are considered big. 🤔 Q: May I know is this village in Mae Selong? (You did mention Chiang Rai which can be the province or province capital. ) 🤓 🇹🇭 In Thailand, the province and province capital always has same name. 🙋🏻♂️ A suggestion: If possible please mention the place of video taken which you usually 🙅🏻♂️ don't or 🤦🏻♂️ forgot. 🙏🏼 Thank you 🙏🏼
This is the 3rd episode of the series, where we are visiting Chinese related places all around Southeast Asia. Each episode is in another country. New video out every Friday, feel free to subscribe to follow the journey. More interesting places are coming
2nd episode from a special Chinese zone in Laos th-cam.com/video/3vHmD40t3Wc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GOVkOLK41NrkL2EA
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I thought of recommending you to visit this place in northern Thailand a few weeks ago and didn’t know you have been there before and you are there now, great and interesting content, Ken.👍 The Chinese signboard at hotel reception is about shooting range for tourists. Hope you enjoy your stay there. Viel Spass!😃
Hello Ken.. Have you heard of Singkawang n Pontianak in Kalimantan (Indonesia) You can do some research on it
คนไทยเชื้อจีนที่นี่คิอกองพล93 ก๊กมินตั๋ง ก็คือส่วนหนึ่งที่บุกเบิกแผ่นดินไทย พวกเขาคือคนไทย100%
Please note: "Mandarin" is a Western term for a fruit, but this word means nothing in Chinese language! You can simply say: Putonghua (lingua franca of China) or Zhongguohua (national language of China)!
Ken if you're riding motorcycle on the stepping road and it doesn't quite strong to go up, you must riding it zig zag
It's gonna be smoothly easy to climb up
Good job Ken! Beautiful place definitely will go and check it out!
Can highly recommend 🙏
This place looks very similar to Yunnan province, China , blue sky and lots of mountains, you should come to Yunnan, very beautiful and exotic place, a lot to explore.
Great and interesting sharing. I love it very much. Thanks Ken.👍👍👍😍😍😍
👍your kindness and generosity to the locals !
Welcome back to Thailand Ken!
I started watching you video back during covid shut-down, hearing you say 'Sawas dee krup' again feel so nostalgic!
Your video about Thailand and Philippines is always fascinating, I enjoyed watching it
Ken，you have a lot of fans in China and I am one of them. I know you from Bilibili，and I came here to support you.Hope you visit China again!😊
Is he on bilibili ?
@@Q_QQ_Q他在bilibili没有账号，是网友转发的TH-cam的视频
T他找到了流量秘码？没必要过分兴奋支持
Such an unique place, though kind of isolated. It deserves more visitors.
The troops who failed in the Chinese civil war did not fled to Thailand at first. Instead they fled to northern Myanmar.
The Nationalist Party who lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan wanted them to be a power to fight back to the mainland, so they informed the troops to stay there and keep harassing China Mainland's frontier. However, in order to get the source of income, the troops started to trade drugs, which caused severe problems which are still affecting today.
The Myanmar government couldn't stand such a power occupying their own country, so they asked and cooperated with the People's Liberation Army to battle with them again and drove them to the boarder between Myanmar and Thailand.
Due to the uprising internation pressure, the Nationalist party eventually managed to bring a part of soldiers and relatives to Taiwan, but the rest ones were still left in Thailand. For the purpose to get the nationality, they chose to fight with the Thai communists. After years past, these people all put down their weapons, so China Mainland just simply consider them as normal Thailanders.
Thanks for the history. Exactly the same I had read about. Western media used this part of the history to smear China. Time has changed and they probably haven't been here recently. It looks more like Maco financed by Chinese money and tourist. Just like Vegas. It has a dark and gangster past. Western media is still living in the dark ages. Don't know their motives. But, seeing is believing.
还有这样的历史啊😮
KMT army didnt fight with Thai communist they fought against Thai communis after they won Thai King grant them citizen
Wherever the Chinese go, regardless of nationality, they cause divide rather than anything.
@@MacsallehChinese are Jews of East doing dirty work of others to gain favours. Business as usual
Oh wow, this whole video is just a vibe. Well done, Ken. Wonderful to see you explore this small Chinese village in the mountain of Chiang Rai - Mae Salong. Truly appreciate your sharing as this video is interesting, informative, knowledgeable and entertaining. Thank you very much/Xie xie/Khob Khun Kha.
Thanks chaw 😊
Sawadeeka/Ni hao/Good evening, Ken and everyone. Wishing all a happy and blessed weekend.
I have been to Mae Salong last year. An amazing and not easy place to visit. Really interesting history
Love your video's Ken ❤❤😊
9:30 I’m so glad you were able to connect with the boys at the 陀螺 field - they loved having you there!
Thanks again for your help 🙏
Love this video.
I've been coming to Thailand for over 40 years and have lived in Chiang mai for the last 18+ years....never heard of this place.....will be visiting real soon.......thx so much for opening up my world even though I live here....awesome brother
Highly recommend visiting 🙏
ลูกข่าง แต่ก่อนมีเล่นอยู่ทั่วไป สมัยเด็กๆก็เคยเล่น ที่จริง ไทยมีการละเล่นในแบบไทยๆหลายอย่างมาก บางอย่างก็ต่างกันไปตามท้องถิ่น แต่ทุกวันนี้สูญหายไปหมดแล้ว ขอเพิ่มเติม เรื่องชาวเขาปลูกฝิ่นนะ ยุคเมื่อย้อนหลังไปสัก 1960-1970 ชาวเขาทำอยู่2อย่างแหละ ไร่เลื่อนลอย กะปลูกฝิ่น แต่ขบวนการฝิ่นนี่ ฝั่งนี้จะมีการเกี่ยวข้องกะพวกกระเหรี่ยงในฝั่งพม่า พวกนักรบกระเหรี่ยงที่หาเงินด้วยการปลูกและขายยาเสพติด ถ้าจะเคยได้ยินชื่อ จาง ลี ฟู คนไทยเรียก ขุนส่า คนนี้ ที่จริงไม่ใช่กระเหรี่ยงนะ แต่ด้วยอิทธิพลที่ใกล้ชิดระหว่างชนกลุ่มน้อยกระเหรี่ยงในพม่ากะพวกจีนฮ่อพวกนี้(ฝั่งพม่าก็ปลูกและเป็นโรงงานผลิตด้วย) ขุนส่าก็สร้างชื่อสร้างตัวมา จนได้เป็นผู้นำกระเหรี่ยง แต่ตอนหลังผิดใจกันระหว่างจีนฮ่อ กะพวกกระเหรี่ยง และเป็นช่วง ร.9 เข้าไปพยายามหยุดการทำไร่เลื่อนลอยกะหยุดฝิ่น เพราะเราถูกอเมริกาบีบด้วย พวกจีนฮ่อก็เลยร่วมมือกะทางไทย ทำสงครามกะกระเหรี่ยงบ้าง สงครามกะคอมมิวนิสต์บ้าง ด้วยข้อตกลงว่า จะให้ดินแดนดอยแม่สลองนี่แหละ ให้เป็นที่ตั้งรกราก....ที่จริงจีนฮ่อพวกนี้ เป็นกลุ่มที่แยกมาจากแทบชายแดนพม่า-จีนนะ แถวโก้งก้าง ชิน นั่นแหละ.....ส่วนถ้าไม่รู้ว่าจีนฮ่อมาได้อย่างไร ค่อยถามทีหลังนะ เพราะประวัติศาสตร์พวกนี้ คนรุ่นปัจจุบันแทบไม่รู้กันแหละ ส่วนตัวเคยไปเที่ยวเมื่อสัก30กว่าปีที่แล้ว ที่สภาพยังเดิมๆ ตอนนั้น คนแก่รุ่นบุกเบิกยังมีชีวิตอยู่บ้าง ทุกวันนี้ก็ไม่เหลือแล้ว ตามรายทาง หมู่บ้านอื่นๆก้เป็นชาวเขาเผ่าอื่น เราเรียก อีก้อ มูเซอ ม้ง เย้า มีหลายชนเผ่าอยู่ พวกเค้าก็เป็นพวกเร่ร่อน ทำไร่เร่ร่อนเรื่อยมาจนมาอยู่ในเขตไทย อีกส่วนก็พวกหนีสงครามการสู้รบในพม่ามาอยู่ไทยแล้วก็ตั้งรกราก พวกหนีสงครามมานี่ ส่วนมากจะอพยพมาสักสักช่วง 30-40ปีที่แล้วนี่แหละ ก็เป็นพลเมืองไทยไปแล้วล่ะ
Hi Ken. Just to help with the translations on 4:00, the women was probably speaking a Chinese dialect to her co-worker. Other than that, when she was speaking to you after words she was speaking just normal mandarin and asked if you understood mandarin!
Good video..good job Ken👍👍
Your generous treatment of the people selling souvenirs is noteworthy and the views were great.
Great video and I learned something new as a Chinese
The history was what i heard for 40 years. Wow very nice area
hey ken thank youn man your video is tuning myself in a good way and next time you replied me and i am enjoying reading
I really, really enjoyed this video, Ken. There were so many interesting things you observed. My mother came from Northern Thailand (Lampang), and I have visited Chiang Rai before. But I never learned all that you have learned in your video. You are also so kind to the locals. I enjoyed this video. 😊
Thank you 😊
They will remember you Ken for your kindness. Beautiful sharing. Thank you.
Hi Ken. Thanks for another great video 😊
Thanks for watching 🙏
Very good video. Culture is amazing
10:25 That wooden top game is popular within the Hmong, too. Our male elders normally play this at tornaments. It's not as popular anymore, but it still exists even in the US. Good content!!
It is a Hmong game.
You are generous, Ken. You understand that these local vendors have fewer customers and you are helping their local culture as well as supporting their daily income. Aussie Ian
Ken, I like your travel videos more and more. The place you are in is the urban tribe where the descendants of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who participated in the Second World War against Japanese fascism live. I am very happy to see your video. The current flag of the Republic of China is the flag used in Taiwan, China. This flag can also be seen in the Mainland China Museum. The name of the flag is: (Sunny Day, White Sun, Full of Red Earth). You can really show the pictures you took in your video. I am looking forward to seeing the relevant videos in the museum. In recent years, more and more mainland Chinese citizens have gone there to look for relatives/visit. This is real history. I am very happy to directly understand their work and life status through your travel video. It's very cool! I hope your fans will break through 500,000 soon, love from Chinese fans❤️
These are the same people as my grandfathers
我看他说的是后来国共内战时候跑过去的国军
并不是 里面明确显示他们是泰北残军 是解放战争后期才逃过去的 而且远征军的后裔是在缅甸不是泰国
部分是遠征軍的/部分是國軍轉移部隊留存的後代@@Gu0xy
The blue-sky white sun flag is the real flag of China, not the dubious five-star flag.
Interesting places you visited.
hai ken .greetings from brunei 🇧🇳🇧🇳 love all your video..wish you all the best
Thanks a lot 🙏
i hope one you can come visit brunei
What an interesting series. Not sure if anyone has done such!
Thailand is such a beautiful country - great nature and friendly people
incredible view
another great vlog. I hope one day I can travel around the world
I saw a chicken running for its life as u were riding yr bike😄 Stopping by the stall for a lemonade n a bite of green tea biscuit n continue yr journey until u reached a place where a group men playing tuo luo. Is an eye opeing game to me. The roti looks yummy. Bon appetit, Ken.😋 Ilike the Chinese village. The place looks peaceful n serene. I wish I could try some of the sweet sour meatballs. Delicious!! No wonder there is Chinese influence there. Is is bcos of the growth of drugs those days. Excellent video!! I like wat I see. 👍🙏 I enjoyed watching this video. Awesome!!
Thanks for watching 😊
Great video Ken. I went near the triangle border 30 years ago in my first trip to Thailand. I never heard about that story, it is interesting. Under previous king patronage, they turned to tea plants growing about 1990. There is now a speed train from southern China to Thailand via Laos....and SRT opened the Ventiane-Bangkok line this year (2024).
Roti ! sai = put in, Kai = egg
Lovely video Ken in this beautiful charming village with gorgeous views
Great video
Have been to mae Salong for a day trip. Many teas and I bought a special tea only from China there. Very nice town and I saw no dark side.
Enjo your journey and always safe
Thank you 😊
Fantastic video the place the ppl like a dream .... So unique ... stay safe n thank you,
Love the vibe of the Chinese village in Chiang Rai
The pronunciation of “90” in Thai is exactly the same as in Cantonese.😂 The road signs in Chinese indicate the Chinese Museum and Tomb of a Famous Chinese General who brought the soldiers to Northern Thailand, as there are occasionally some Chinese or Taiwanese tourists visiting this area, Chinese road signs are helpful for them to find the way. FYI, the ROC government abandoned these soldiers after it fled to Taiwan. Life was tough at that time, the soldiers had no choice but growing opium to survive. Decades later the ROC government in Taiwan remembered these brave soldiers and brought their children to Taiwan for studies and allow some of them settle down in Taiwan, they have very close relationship with Taiwan and many Chinese language teachers in the village are from Taiwan. Nowadays life is much better, other than tea plantations they also build restaurants and hotels to make a living.
The pronunciation of "90" is the same in both Thai and Cantonese because Thai is in the same language group as the Zhuang people in Guangxi, and Guangxi is adjacent to Cantonese.
Because a large part of the numeral vocabulary of Thai, Lao, Zhuang, Bouyei and similar languages are borrowed from Middle Chinese (中古汉语).
New knowledge for me！ So sad this series only has 4 episodes. I can sense the difficulty you must be facing in this series without a strong grasp of chinese, but you're really pulling it off well!
I enjoyed your video because i visited that village a few years ago,
The views were amazing, nice coffee shops and restaurants,
You have to make sure you have good brakes for coming down the hill
Actually as you go up the mountain for the view point looking behind you we can see the steepness of the road but not in front of you.
The animal in the souvenir shop is called a caterpillar in English, and yes becomes a butterfly 😊
Great video and yes I recognise the area from your visit 3 years ago!
Oh you really remember my visit in 2021, that's cool
Nature is beautiful overthere man😍💪🏻 reminds me of your Northern Thailand series!
Oh you remember the series from 2021, that's cool 💪
Ooh , those meat balls look yummy and l’m vego! Lovely video thanks Ken. I walked through the mountains from Chang mai, many years ago and it is so beautiful in the north. Thanks for showing us such a variety of things. ❤
Thanks for watching 🙏
It's quite ironic to see statues of Chiang Kai-shek in Thailand at the same time they are taking them down in the Republic of China/Taiwan.
Chiang is god in taiwan lol
蒋公千古。
These chinese villager are combatting against communist in thailand long time ago. So they are supporting chiang kai shek....
ken is amazing
great content
Thanks 🙏
I am very glad that you can come to China. I am proficient in Chinese, English, and Russian, and I have created several Chinese teaching videos for you to try learning Chinese❤❤❤❤
HI KEN, I enjoyed so much watching your videos very nice.MABUHAY.❤
Mabuhay🙏
I have been there . Love this video.
Hi Ken, interesting video
Nice video. Love your sense of adventure. I think the ladies selling honey, coins, and bags are Hmong, which is why they didn't understand your Chinese translation! Google Translate does include Hmong.
I translated into Thai which they understood
This village looks quite clean.
I'm a Malaysian and have been to multiple countries. Thailand is the best where locals are really down to earth and very accommodating. Since your basic spoken Thai is good, I reckon spend more time and make more videos out of it there. Pom poot pasa Thai meuan gan. Soo soo na pee! =)
Oh what nice vlog💗💗💗💗🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
Hi Ken thans for the upload, The Chinese village is interesting. Where exactly is the village?
It's called Mae Salong
@@KenAbroad Danke
Ken, your video is very timely, because I'm actually eating right now😂
Enjoy the meal🙏
hy ken Ashwini from India
love ur videos 😊
Thanks! Greetings to India 🇮🇳
Ken, I suggest that you can visit the cities at the junction of Vietnam/Laos and China, where are also greatly influenced by Chinese culture. Then enter the country by walking or other means of transportation (not by plane) as the starting point of your next travel series to China.
You are very rigorous.I can see this in the way you introduce the history of that village. I saw some TH-camrs take snippets they find online as factual information and confidently share them, but you are not like that. I believe it's the most important quality for all TH-camrs,and you have demonstrated it.
Glad you back in Thailand. The best of all the southeast asia
17:23 hey I recognize that steam bun place, thats the same place that True Budget Travelling guy get same bun, what a coincidence 😂
Dear Ken. Sometimes when you hear Chinese in Thailand it can be other dialects than Mandarin. Many Thai-Chinese speak languages like Teochew, Hakka, Hokkien, Hainanese etc. They usually also speak Mandarin because some of them had a Chinese school education or have business with China.
Thailand and China have had cultural, commercial and other relations over the centuries.
Thailand has a strong identity that is unique, and some different influences pay homage to their welcoming land of the Free. Kind regards from Switzerland.
这些人对肯说的是普通话
@@nadeLuo-lv4tq I cannot read in Chinese
There's actually an entire opium museum up there, not to hard to learn about that part of the history there. Worth checking out!
Thanks Ken.
Keep going😊
Very kind of you to the old lady❤
Thank you for sharing - you might not realise but you have plenty merit. In a by the way manner, I grew up as a Buddhist bcos my family is Buddhist but thru the yrs exploring Thailand, it is 2 German Buddhist abbots in Ubon Ratcathani whom teach in English that gave me better understanding of Buddhism ie esp the all important practice of meditation.
1st hello ken
First 💪
@@KenAbroad Love your videos man keep up the good work!
LOL… Chinese are all over the world. There is a large Chinese community in New York City. Please come visit. 😂
Anyway, love and enjoy your videos.
They are not called Jews of the East for no reason
Was there in 1992, every thing was so different.
Been there again few years pre-Covid. The town has not changed much since.
Stayed at the same hotel which was very Chinese.
Food in Thailand is on another level - fresh, very tasty and inexpensive
This highland village is so remote and the history of it is interesting too.I could hardly see any tourists besides you.The overall atmosphere of this place seems to be very peaceful and calming.Nice for a retreat for sure.Waiting for your Cambodian series next.Safe flight Ken.🙏💕🇲🇾
Great vlog Ken interesting😅
The game is gasing in Malay. This game plays in Malaysia. Traditional game.
Please note: "Mandarin" is a Western term for a fruit, but this word means nothing in Chinese language! You can simply say: Putonghua (lingua franca of China) or Zhongguohua (national language of China)!
“Mandarin”其实是葡萄牙语的“官话”，这其实是对“普通话”最佳的翻译。
@@wang-x7b No！你错了！官话包括一系列不同的汉语北方系方言，不等于普通话（现代标准汉语/中国国家通用语言）！除了普通话作为“标准官话”，所谓的官话还包括东北官话、兰银官话、中原官话、江淮官话、西南官话等很多不同的分支方言！请你不要混淆官话与普通话！
@@dushuzaigo Please respect other people, Jappp!!
@@Kawah_Kawah差不多的了😅管好自己别强迫别人。真这么较真那中文要改的更多了，你先让中国人管荷兰人改口叫尼德兰人再说😅这种词汇流变造成的词意偏差指代偏差数不胜数，中文里的各种外来词汇也一大堆错译，反而对着外国佬吹毛求疵。你要求英语念中文词汇，那你有没有考虑过英语字母和拼音字母发音不一样呢？如果你没法给出更符合英语发音的汉语词罗马化拼写方式，那就闭嘴，别指手画脚，己所不欲勿施于人😊
Mandarin (language) actually comes from Malay word ‘Menteri’ which means officials as Ming officials would use that language
The hotel is called 芙蓉宮 (Fu Rong Gong) - Hibiscus Palace 🌺
No idea what “Wang Put Tan” means. Could be in a different dialect or completely different meaning.
Wang(วัง) = Palace
Put Tan(พุดตาน) = Hibiscus
@@rck1375 Why of course! Didn’t think of that because it didn’t sound Thai to me. But my Thai is very bad. 🤣
Your channel should be named Ken the traveler.
Hi Ken, subscriber here in USA. Great video and informative about what I suspected, Chinese moving in on countries peacefully to take over. Although many travelers are going to China as tourist to its beautiful cities, must consider what they are doing politically outside of China. Some involve human rights besides territorial.
The writing at 3:12 means “B&B”
3:23 玲福恩(It is the hostel owner's name) 民宿 (hostel more specifically, 民宿 is a kind of villager set up hostel, local style) @Ken Aborad
5:12 She ask you if you could speak mandarin, like a little bit.
Hi Ken, Welcome to Cambodia
Ken have you visited Old Summer Place in China ?
Hello Ken
Hi 👋
民宿 means homestay ❤
About the temples: they are financed by donations from regular people. Maybe sometimes somebody rich will donate but mainly, its the people because they love Buddha
Ken, do you remember Mike & Ivana (Jetlag). She just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.😊
I could seriously live in tis village and I'm thinking i might take a vacation there to recce it out and build a little holiday home it must be cheap there ..
Are there any 50cc bikes to rent in Thailand?
I can only see big ones like 150 cc
Never saw 50cc, but many 125cc
I should visit there sometime in the future
That place is quite near to my grandparents house
Just never visited there somehow 😂
Thanks Ken, good video, a bit more about the Chiang Kai Chek and the nationalists movement in 1995 would have been good. Many of the Tai living in southern Yunnan moved to Chiang Rai too, some of them members of the former royal family of the Tai Leu who still number around a million people in southern Yunnan. I look forward to Cambodia.
民宿 is Hotel,we have same signature in japan. It's for Young Forks and kind like Hostel I think 💬🤔... obviously for Chinese.
Sweet and sour pork is not Cantonese dish, originally. It is actually Hokkien/Fujian Overseas dish called Kolobak, and its chicken variant Koloke which now very popular celebratory dish in Indonesia's Moslem population along with Rendang and Soto. Cantonese food is not generally sweet. Hokkien Overseas dishes are distinctive with some overly sweet for Chinese food. There are many varieties of sweet desserts called kue or kueh in Indonesia. I saw similar sweet desserts in Thailand and Philippines, although they might be called differently. Philippines even adopts one dish lumpia to be its national dish, although lumpia is not exclusive to Philippines. Lumpia literary means fried savory pastry in Hokkien. We have lots of pia, or pastry in Hokkien for some region in Indonesia. We have Lumpia Semarang, and Pia Balong etc.
Pia might as well the origin word for pie in English. We already have teh for tea in English, and bok for book in English. Those words were different in pronounciation Mandarin. But they have the same Chinese characters, spoken in Hokkien in South East Asia.
I read once that one Overseas Fujian dish Babi Kecap made sensation in Germany. It is a sweet pork stew heavy in kecap manis or Indonesian sweet soy sauce. I heard that South East Asian style sweet and spicy meat breads are increasingly popular in Germany and Netherlands.
🕞 Time 13:00 Top/陀螺/Gasing/Kreisel - There are various types of top competitions including the annual world competition. Some compete for the longest spinning time and some strikes the opponent's top to stop or out of the competition ring which looks like is the game here.
There are many types and sizes of tops. The material used to make the top can be from traditional hardwood to modern plastic and others. The tops played here are considered big.
🤔 Q: May I know is this village in Mae Selong? (You did mention Chiang Rai which can be the province or province capital. )
🤓 🇹🇭 In Thailand, the province and province capital always has same name.
🙋🏻♂️ A suggestion: If possible please mention the place of video taken which you usually 🙅🏻♂️ don't or 🤦🏻♂️ forgot.
🙏🏼 Thank you 🙏🏼
Yes it's Mae Salong ✌️
19.20 - It shows your true character👍
Welcome to Thailand sir 🫶🏻🙏🏻💕🇹🇭
Thank you 😊