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Eh my mom went to China about a decade ago she was there for 10 days and pretty much said the same things you are saying and she never went off the beaten path. She's just stubborn and persistent in asking questions and getting answers. So 10 days in China and she was like "yup this country got problems". Thing about touristy areas is you have plenty of distractions to take your eye off the problems. They are still there but you have to be willing to look beyond the illusion that the CCP presents.
This naive young woman is so insanely grateful to you and whatever Fate was pulling strings - I found your channel just in time to reverse a decision to go and teach in China through a firm I have since discovered to be less than prudent. It is crazy how negligent, if not deliberately obscuring, reporting on China is. Thanks for all you do.
I honestly feel bad for the people that live in rural villages in China. They are already poor and neglected by their government, and in the worst cases, the big cities pollute the rivers that the villages depend on.
Moreover, all the tax collected by the government are embezzled by the officials and their relatives, or pour into city constructions, cooking up the house price in big cities. Then the youth from villages have to slave to buy a tiny apartment if they want to stay in a city.
@@Fomites I hope you end up side by side with the uygurs. Since y'all CCP shills claim there are no camps, you wouldn't mind having the same life experience as a uygur, right?
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This reminds me of my first day in Bangkok, I was walking towards a tourist cafe when I saw 2 Thai policemen with motorcycles on a side road and as I walked a further 50 yds a Thai guy sat on a parked scooter asked me if I wanted to buy crystal meth tablets, I told him in no uncertain terms I was not interested, as I was about to go into the cafe I spotted a Swiss guy who was on the same flight as me from Delhi to Bangkok and he was talking to scooter guy, I made a bee line to them and more or less dragged the Swiss guy away from him, we entered the cafe and the waiter asked what was happeneing outside, I told him what was going on and he went around warning the tourists in the cafe. As we left and walked down the street there was a police presence and two male tourists being handcuffed and scooter guy was stood there laughing at them. He had sold them something and then turned them in to the police which is a regular thing in Thailand
Ya ba they call it or crazy medicine in Thailand. The government has cracked down very hard on it, and the problem is about half of what it used to be.
Good on ya man. When I was in BKK once, there was a police checkpoint stopping taxis and looking inside. If they see a falang they make you get out and search you. Got to be careful out there.
i think the bike and the shirtless thugs were the scariest story in this video. If something had gone wrong - falling off your bike and such - you would've been a goner and no one would've found out until years later or perhaps never. Its probably the closest to death you've gotten apart from the sickness
The scary story in Taiwan is more like a Halloween experience where there was no real danger. The rest are the real scary ones. Geez. Glad you pulled it through.
Yea.... Finding some skeletons that are just from a poorly planned grave site is like oh neat. That's why in places like Louisiana they have concrete above-ground graves, to prevent erosion and flooding from uncovering them. Being chased for MILES by gang members who want to rob you and leave you stranded in the desert at BEST is wayyyyy worse. Think he mixed those two up.
That’s because he only added that in there to try to hide the shocking narcissistic actions he took to dig up a dead body and laugh at it. Watch Daniel Dumbril’s video on it and you’ll see that this video is a not-so-subtle way of trying to make himself look better about it (without actually addressing it). Anyone with a brain cell can see what laowhy is trying to do here with this video, which is why Max Yi is so perplexed as to why this incident was even included in the list
Rural China is pretty wild. I spent some time there for a job. Just a few months. The insane level of poverty, the crime, how many government officials were interacting with organized crime. Many of local governments didn’t have any social safety nets. It was wild. But one thing they stood out to me was the open prostitution in parts of rural China.
Have you ever tried to go and track down that doctor in laos who saved your life? im sure he would be tickled pink to see what your doing now and knowing he helped allow it to happen
Huh I remember when I developed stomach ulcers and was helplessly barfing up bile every 20 minutes given my stomach was empty. I hadn’t drank, been able to keep down any water before I finally dragged my sorry hide into my local ER. After two and a half days without water they immediately got me started on a saline IV drip. They saved my life that day as I likely wouldn’t have lasted another 24 hours. It took several injections of cyclizine to finally stop me vomiting and not feeling nauseated, plus 3 units of blood and an iron medication to counter the anemia the ulcers had caused by bleeding and an endoscopy to confirm the problem. But it was the fluid IV that saved my life. True I regained the ability to drink small amounts of water two days into my hospital stay but it was 9 more days before I could handle food. Altogether 11 days without eating. Luckily I was a bit overweight and lost my extra padding. But I know how scary it can be-and I was at my local NHS hospital in the UK. Can’t imagine being so ill yet somewhere primitive.
Duuuuuuuude these stories are insaaaaane. Thank you for sharing and documenting all of your wild experiences. Like, some of this stuff can form the premise of a horror story or thriller. Like No Country for Old Men, China edition.
Hey Laowhy86, I'm the one that posted that 4chan screenshot on reddit. I appreciate the fact that you've listened to the advice and gave it a shot. It's a great video, thanks a lot :)
very interesting to hear these stories, ever since you and Winston left china your content has become more interesting now you can talk more openly about your time in china. Love these kind of videos, thanks dude :)
Man, I thought the first story was horrifying enough already.. that’s only ranked number 5? I am glad you are alive and well, thanks for sharing your adventures!
Nicely done, but have always thought the scariest tale you have told was of your final departure via HK. Surprised it didn't make this list, unless you consider it a stand alone story.
Dude, you got so lucky with the malaria depending on how badly you get it and/or how long leave till you treat it, effects whether you can cure it or not. My grandad got it during the war and it took him when he was 78. many die much younger usually.
I could literally listen to stories like this all day. I visited China for about a month back in 2005, and even in that short time, I had a lot of really fascinating experiences, some good and some sobering. I hope there is a time in the future where China has cooled off a bit, and foreigners are welcome again.
Typhoid fever is no joke. I almost died from it in Indonesia (or was it Typhus? I never really knew, they call it "gejala tifus"). That made me stay away from Asia for a couple years.
My best friend in high school died of malaria while visiting the African Garelis. He actually flew back to the US and was treated for the wrong strain and died afew days later. You are truly a lucky man.
Love to hear these off the beaten track stories. How about another episode some time on the ‘5 Most Surprising...’, ‘5 Funniest...’ or ‘5 Weirdest...’ experiences? Keep up the great work 👍
In '95, traveling by myself by public transport. I did a lot of filming with no problem, but things went askew one can see. Already at that time I wanted to take one of the slow boats down the river to HK, after leaving Kunming, but the month before they had stopped running them. I don't know if one could have gotten a Chinese license at that time. It did not seem so. Oh, yeah, and back in '88, in a small Chinese village in trying to buy some local basketry, the town took it upon themselves to advise the guy selling. Like we were out to cheat him by asking him to sell the items. The modern scene is another thing now. Thanks for your work!
I like these stories, they show your human side. I always thought you are a superman --- nothing could happen to you. The final ADV China videos make one forget about the dangers you guys are facing. Well done man.
Aside from having a SWAT team interrogating me, I've had a similar experience to number one on the list. It also happened near the Chinese-Inner Mongolia border. After I stated that I intended to return to China, the Mongolian officer refused to let me enter the country. He claimed I was a Russian spy who spoke four different languages, which is false because I am not even Russian and only speak two languages. I had to wait 4 hours for an interrogation (because they needed someone to translate English) and then 30 minutes to an hour of interrogation. They called me back in after they cleared me out because apparently someone with the same first and last name had passed through that border before, and they wanted to see if there were people in my country with the same first and last name, which obviously exist even in China. But everything was fine; Chinese officials were friendly with me and did not treat me harshly in the end. Definitely a scary experience!
@@Leshic2 You're welcome; I thought someone might find it interesting, just as I find the stories of Laowhy and Serpentza to be interesting and educational.
My grandfather was stationed in china during the occupation, he drove a triumph motorcycle around China! Your video made me think of his exciting long years there. He was a sniper, a boxer & a Sargent in the US army.
When I was a kid in the early 90's here in Sweden me and my friend found human bones that we played with. Wasn't a full skeleton but I remember I had a femur bone that I used as a club as it was shaped kinda like a hammer. Turned out it was dirt that came from an old graveyard that our neighbor had got to fill up his yard around the house, don't know if it's haunted or something today but if I ever see a ghost or zombie around here I think I know where they're coming from ;)
Great video and commentary CMILK. I remember some of the stories from previous ADV posts but they were even better with added information. Your experiences in other SEA countries were fascinating. Quite a few of your "9 Lives" used up but still more to use in the future.
Glad you addressed the Taiwan bones video. I saw that bouncing around on Reddit and while it's not as bad as they said, it isn't a good look. You're able to admit mistakes and address criticisms which is good - especially with the lengths people will go to trying to discredit you and Winston. The CCP, tankies and wumaos just hide from their past mistakes. Keep up the good work.
'....it isn't a good look.' What do you mean? Finding a skeleton on a beach is gold dust for a TH-camr! Would I go poking around with a stick to find the skull? You bet I would! I would've come back with a metal detector and tried to find some buried treasure.
Im in Okinawa and been watching for years. I traveled to just about every country throughout the far east. Taiwan was the most welcoming (that was in 2019) but I never visited China before. Maybe I can visit after the CCP falls. Whenever that is.🙁
If you visited Hong Kong and almost everybody has, then you visited China. It's just less democratic since 2020 with newspaper editors and reporters and politicians being arrested for saying bad things about the CPC. 😃 😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣
You can visit Taiwan. It’s like a better version of China. Plus they preserved the culture and history that the CCp destroyed. Also lucky. Okinawa is one of my dream places to visit. So pretty. And extremely nice beaches.
@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Russia was a surprise. If more Real Estate companies collapse, the CCP might topple. Most middle class Chinese have their savings in empty 2nd or 3rd homes and often construction has not started. But what replaced the Communist Party in Russia was just as Totalitarian and repressive. The same would happen in China. 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓
I've lived and worked all over the world. You get a much deeper understanding of the people you're working for, and their problems. Which are not very different from everywhere else in the world.
17:30 I remember you mentioned that in a previous video, where you said you got better treatment in Southeast Asia than you ever/often did in China; however, I didn’t know the full context of the scenario. It’s crazy to hear the full story of that. Also I love that, “rare Pokémon of illnesses,” analogy. 😂 I love your videos, dude! 继续当一位老赢家，老外兄弟。 ✌️
Xi Jinping's face in public occasions makes me laugh so hard. You can see he smiles and acts like a sort of saint/father/benevolent god. Who the hell he believes he is. Pathological narcisism at its best. I think people should be visited by psychologists before being elected in every country.
@@killerman19880385 and despite all of his crime being exposed by former Soviet itself, some tankies still think Stalin was a great guy (just like Womao think Mao and Xi are good).
I've always been subscribed to this channel but I dont think I've ever watched anything but always known I wanted too...well this whole video terrified me 😨 I lived in Vietnam for a year and it was a little bit of this and that but nothing like this...nothing..I will pray for everyone in China for the rest of my life 😞
Would be interesting to hear about the general drug situation in china? Prevalence of common western drugs? How illegal it really is? Any unique local drugs?
Man, you had some dangerous stuff... 😳 But in the end you were still lucky. What you can get in the jungle is scary AF! Bacteria that practically eat you is a nightmare I have since I did see that first time in a travel video from my father in Peru. He moved there from Germany something around 15 years back.
C-Milk! I just wanted to try to bring to your attention a particularly dangerous 'Super Shill' I have come accross. Anthony Morse is the host of Channel News Asia's pro CCP, pro belt and road initiative series called 'THE NEW SILK ROAD'. This series is high budget and very convincing. It follows 'Super Shill' Anthony Morse as he travels the world highlighting the glories of the belt and road initiative. People who are not in the know and watch this series could easily be convinced. Great video and thanks for all your hard work. 👍
Is this the Canadian guy that reads 10 min scripts to a zoom audience of 7 that don't speak a single word back and the whole comment section is just people having the exact same view?
@@latinEU No, it's a high budget television series on Channel News Asia or 'CNA'. Anthony Morse is the host that travels the world promoting the CCP''s Belt and Road Initiative.
You and Winston are doing very important work. To everyone seeing them and their recent videos for the first time - They are NOT exaggerating in anything that they are talking about. Highly recommend that you check their other channels (you can find them by clicking on their YT user profile and going to 'Channels').
The rare pokemon of diseases 😆😆 thanks for sharing, and by the way that was some ketamine they were doing in the drug city , and since around 2011 china has been the # 1 supplier to the US (and id imagine elsewhere) of black market ket. The trade is run by the Triads in Chinatown in NYC , previously India was top export but their local DEA / gov did a huge shut down and the chinese hopped in quick. Sadly on a harm reduction side they use much cheaper ingredients and research chemicals (made in china right?) and ive seen health complications in users rise dramatically. Anyway hope someone finds that somewhat interesting.
23:05 the picture of the SWAT Team was probably sourced from the Japan Times article "Chinese elite police join Serbian units in first European drills as Beijing's influence spreads to Balkans". The team memers probably were just borrowing the AR's that the Serbians had, as that as far as I am aware of, Norinco does not make rails and gas blocks like that for its CQ-A (a clone of the M4A1), and it is illegal to export weapon parts and even some acessories to China from the United States or European Union (if you look on Magpul's website, it says that even little grips are regulated by ITAR/International Trafficing of Arms Regulations or EAR/Export Administration Regulations).
Wow that's some amazing stories! Glad you made it back in one piece. I love adventuring off in foreign lands. I had went solo through Eastern Europe in 2019. I'd stay the hell away from China. Been binge watching your videos. Amazing life you've had!
C-Milk ...you are a gangsta with your experiences lol. Almost can't believe all these crazy stories happened until I realize that it wasnt too long. You and Winston will be those old timers sharing these stories and kids will be in awe lol
There's coverage of the dog meat markets, but it makes you wonder if they have human meat markets, and or the trafficking tunnels from 4chan's /x/ screenshot.
Love your commentaries - so informative and personal. Thing is you just don't quite know if you're being followed there, as I was, just browsing in a museum - fortunately I was with influential friends!!! But not a scary as your episodes!
thanks for reminding me of what it was like to travel after a while-- not all the thriller moments so much as the peaceful scenes in Laos and Thailand, the lesser known border towns and such. Those places are like magic. But they lack such key ingredients that it makes me want them to compile a list of missing supplies, like a large town-sized grocery run: "you need lots of pedialite and powdered whey. . . okay and?"
Eating dog isn’t good… butttt for me the part that really gets to me is the thought that beating and flooding the meat with adrenaline makes it taste better and better for your chi….. completely opposite to what every hunter prays for,” a clean quick kill”
Thanks for pointing it out, everyone just loves to skip over that fact when talking about how much they like other things about China, for me it just ruins any interest I had before. It’s sickening to boil a dog alive.
Wow! Long time fan here! Gotta say it’s super nice seeing you do travel and story videos. I know the “denouncing the ccp” stuff is necessary and moral but it’s also very nice to see crazy travel stories :)
22:35 I love this caption on the photo and it makes me feel like I'm there because I've had similar situations where I'm hiding for my life and could imagine seeing that and laughing in my mind while also being consumed with my terrible imagination.
This feels like a flashback episode of a sitcom lol I've seen or heard of everything that you mentioned on this video on other videos that you or Winston have done previously. Not that it took anything away from the video. I wish you guys could ride in China again one day in peace.
Hey, what was that huge boiler the woman was sealing at 1:33? It almost looked like the bottom of a still or something, but the other one had fish in it... I think. Very curious...
My favorite places I visited when I was in France for summer school were all the neat little working class towns and non-touristy places. People were shocked anyone would be visiting their area and it was super fun and helpful with practicing my French. I love seeing where the real people live and not boring touristy parts!
It's interesting how in my country the USA we invite people from all countries and all backgrounds and all beliefs to partake in business and schooling but if we are in these areas you can get attacked criticized and arrested by the government.
Keep the good good. I used to want to go and live in China, I thought it was the best nation in the world. But you and Serpentaza changed my mind. I remember the first video I watch from you guys was about public toilets in china.
China is basically in the "wild west" phase of there country like America in the 1800s, no police presence, no regulation, corruption everywhere etc. It's actually fascinating, history reoeats itself
"We were just there to milk some horses":)))) It's something you don't hear every day. And I am writing this while also actually trying it, fermented and not fermented too. This stuff is very popular in Central Asia, for example in Kazakhstan. In various places it's called Kumys. I also ate sausages made of horse meat. It's very tasty by the way.
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@@NomadBlack you'll never know.
Because they'll never tell you.
Eh my mom went to China about a decade ago she was there for 10 days and pretty much said the same things you are saying and she never went off the beaten path. She's just stubborn and persistent in asking questions and getting answers.
So 10 days in China and she was like "yup this country got problems".
Thing about touristy areas is you have plenty of distractions to take your eye off the problems. They are still there but you have to be willing to look beyond the illusion that the CCP presents.
This naive young woman is so insanely grateful to you and whatever Fate was pulling strings - I found your channel just in time to reverse a decision to go and teach in China through a firm I have since discovered to be less than prudent. It is crazy how negligent, if not deliberately obscuring, reporting on China is. Thanks for all you do.
You’re always welcome in Vietnam
His portrayal of China is nothing like reality. I've been going there for 19 years. It's fine.
@Peter Johnson - ok we believe you now, thanks
@@Fomites lmao
You're going to judge a country with 1.4 billion people because of his channel? How dumb can a person get...
I honestly feel bad for the people that live in rural villages in China. They are already poor and neglected by their government, and in the worst cases, the big cities pollute the rivers that the villages depend on.
Moreover, all the tax collected by the government are embezzled by the officials and their relatives, or pour into city constructions, cooking up the house price in big cities. Then the youth from villages have to slave to buy a tiny apartment if they want to stay in a city.
@@尊重蔡霞 That's rubbish. Stay in Taiwan.
@@尊重蔡霞 judging by your username i’m guessing you’re living in china still, i wish the best for you honestly
@@Fomites I hope you end up side by side with the uygurs. Since y'all CCP shills claim there are no camps, you wouldn't mind having the same life experience as a uygur, right?
@@thefreestylefrEaK unless you born there 😂
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This reminds me of my first day in Bangkok, I was walking towards a tourist cafe when I saw 2 Thai policemen with motorcycles on a side road and as I walked a further 50 yds a Thai guy sat on a parked scooter asked me if I wanted to buy crystal meth tablets, I told him in no uncertain terms I was not interested, as I was about to go into the cafe I spotted a Swiss guy who was on the same flight as me from Delhi to Bangkok and he was talking to scooter guy, I made a bee line to them and more or less dragged the Swiss guy away from him, we entered the cafe and the waiter asked what was happeneing outside, I told him what was going on and he went around warning the tourists in the cafe.
As we left and walked down the street there was a police presence and two male tourists being handcuffed and scooter guy was stood there laughing at them.
He had sold them something and then turned them in to the police which is a regular thing in Thailand
Thanks for the information.
You can get the death penalty for drugs in Thailand. Good on you for staying away and warning others.
@@Ziggy9000 that’s for importing drugs. Possessing drugs or buying drugs has a harsh sentence, but not death
Ya ba they call it or crazy medicine in Thailand. The government has cracked down very hard on it, and the problem is about half of what it used to be.
Good on ya man. When I was in BKK once, there was a police checkpoint stopping taxis and looking inside. If they see a falang they make you get out and search you. Got to be careful out there.
i think the bike and the shirtless thugs were the scariest story in this video. If something had gone wrong - falling off your bike and such - you would've been a goner and no one would've found out until years later or perhaps never. Its probably the closest to death you've gotten apart from the sickness
The scary story in Taiwan is more like a Halloween experience where there was no real danger. The rest are the real scary ones. Geez. Glad you pulled it through.
Yea.... Finding some skeletons that are just from a poorly planned grave site is like oh neat. That's why in places like Louisiana they have concrete above-ground graves, to prevent erosion and flooding from uncovering them.
Being chased for MILES by gang members who want to rob you and leave you stranded in the desert at BEST is wayyyyy worse. Think he mixed those two up.
That’s because he only added that in there to try to hide the shocking narcissistic actions he took to dig up a dead body and laugh at it. Watch Daniel Dumbril’s video on it and you’ll see that this video is a not-so-subtle way of trying to make himself look better about it (without actually addressing it). Anyone with a brain cell can see what laowhy is trying to do here with this video, which is why Max Yi is so perplexed as to why this incident was even included in the list
@@mikew3194 Well he was on a pretty good bike. There was no chance in heck the gangsters would get to him
@@mikew3194 I'm not that educated in this field but they could be mass execution sites
@@doaa7941 Good point, I really don't know anything about the sovereign nation of Taiwan's history.
Rural China is pretty wild. I spent some time there for a job. Just a few months. The insane level of poverty, the crime, how many government officials were interacting with organized crime. Many of local governments didn’t have any social safety nets. It was wild.
But one thing they stood out to me was the open prostitution in parts of rural China.
Nice!
Have you ever tried to go and track down that doctor in laos who saved your life? im sure he would be tickled pink to see what your doing now and knowing he helped allow it to happen
I second that. Hopefully he survived Covid
you're.
Doesnt matter thats medics job they get paid for doing that
They will never go back at this point
Huh I remember when I developed stomach ulcers and was helplessly barfing up bile every 20 minutes given my stomach was empty.
I hadn’t drank, been able to keep down any water before I finally dragged my sorry hide into my local ER. After two and a half days without water they immediately got me started on a saline IV drip.
They saved my life that day as I likely wouldn’t have lasted another 24 hours. It took several injections of cyclizine to finally stop me vomiting and not feeling nauseated, plus 3 units of blood and an iron medication to counter the anemia the ulcers had caused by bleeding and an endoscopy to confirm the problem.
But it was the fluid IV that saved my life. True I regained the ability to drink small amounts of water two days into my hospital stay but it was 9 more days before I could handle food. Altogether 11 days without eating. Luckily I was a bit overweight and lost my extra padding. But I know how scary it can be-and I was at my local NHS hospital in the UK. Can’t imagine being so ill yet somewhere primitive.
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Duuuuuuuude these stories are insaaaaane. Thank you for sharing and documenting all of your wild experiences. Like, some of this stuff can form the premise of a horror story or thriller. Like No Country for Old Men, China edition.
Hey Laowhy86,
I'm the one that posted that 4chan screenshot on reddit. I appreciate the fact that you've listened to the advice and gave it a shot. It's a great video, thanks a lot :)
very interesting to hear these stories, ever since you and Winston left china your content has become more interesting now you can talk more openly about your time in china. Love these kind of videos, thanks dude :)
Man, I thought the first story was horrifying enough already.. that’s only ranked number 5? I am glad you are alive and well, thanks for sharing your adventures!
Nicely done, but have always thought the scariest tale you have told was of your final departure via HK.
Surprised it didn't make this list, unless you consider it a stand alone story.
I covered it in such detail on it’s own fairly recently, so I figured it was a bit cheap
@@laowhy86 what's it called I don't see it in your videos
Edit: the TH-cam overlords were listening and suggested it for me.
@@leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget what's it called ? On which of their channels is it ?
@@laowhy86 Matt what was the most hostile unwelcoming Chinese city you've ever been to?
Dude, you got so lucky with the malaria depending on how badly you get it and/or how long leave till you treat it, effects whether you can cure it or not. My grandad got it during the war and it took him when he was 78. many die much younger usually.
Damn sorry to hear that
I could literally listen to stories like this all day. I visited China for about a month back in 2005, and even in that short time, I had a lot of really fascinating experiences, some good and some sobering. I hope there is a time in the future where China has cooled off a bit, and foreigners are welcome again.
@@zeeshandogar9406 Like the two Michaels were welcomed?
You can visit or stay there now. You don't know what you are taking about.
@@Fomites Never said you couldn't, Peter. I'm not claiming China has closed borders.
Foreigners are welcome, just don't be a sexpat
You'll have to wait for another revolution
Typhoid fever is no joke. I almost died from it in Indonesia (or was it Typhus? I never really knew, they call it "gejala tifus"). That made me stay away from Asia for a couple years.
Typhoid. Tifus in Indonesian. I'm Indonesian, never had typhoid my whole life. Until I went to China. Best to stay away from street vendors.
Typhoid fever and tyfus are the same thing.
@@ETS186 and it's "tipos" here in the Philippines. shows how much we share common terms like pintu/ pinto (door) with our Indonesian cousins.
‘It’s illegal to ride it in China but I bought it anyway’
This type of atritude is what makes people in my area hate tourists
My best friend in high school died of malaria while visiting the African Garelis. He actually flew back to the US and was treated for the wrong strain and died afew days later. You are truly a lucky man.
Love to hear these off the beaten track stories. How about another episode some time on the ‘5 Most Surprising...’,
‘5 Funniest...’ or ‘5 Weirdest...’ experiences?
Keep up the great work 👍
In '95, traveling by myself by public transport. I did a lot of filming with no problem, but things went askew one can see. Already at that time I wanted to take one of the slow boats down the river to HK, after leaving Kunming, but the month before they had stopped running them. I don't know if one could have gotten a Chinese license at that time. It did not seem so. Oh, yeah, and back in '88, in a small Chinese village in trying to buy some local basketry, the town took it upon themselves to advise the guy selling. Like we were out to cheat him by asking him to sell the items. The modern scene is another thing now. Thanks for your work!
Keeping it real. Love your off the beaten path stories.
I like these stories, they show your human side. I always thought you are a superman --- nothing could happen to you. The final ADV China videos make one forget about the dangers you guys are facing. Well done man.
Aside from having a SWAT team interrogating me, I've had a similar experience to number one on the list. It also happened near the Chinese-Inner Mongolia border. After I stated that I intended to return to China, the Mongolian officer refused to let me enter the country. He claimed I was a Russian spy who spoke four different languages, which is false because I am not even Russian and only speak two languages. I had to wait 4 hours for an interrogation (because they needed someone to translate English) and then 30 minutes to an hour of interrogation. They called me back in after they cleared me out because apparently someone with the same first and last name had passed through that border before, and they wanted to see if there were people in my country with the same first and last name, which obviously exist even in China. But everything was fine; Chinese officials were friendly with me and did not treat me harshly in the end. Definitely a scary experience!
Wow..
Thank you for sharing the story.
You must have a really common name
@@Leshic2 You're welcome; I thought someone might find it interesting, just as I find the stories of Laowhy and Serpentza to be interesting and educational.
@@irvingchies1626 John Brown or John Smith would work well, lol.
My grandfather was stationed in china during the occupation, he drove a triumph motorcycle around China! Your video made me think of his exciting long years there. He was a sniper, a boxer & a Sargent in the US army.
I remember watching the hitmen hotel story when you were in China. It is good that you revisited these stories. Keep up the great work!
👏👏👏 thank you. I enjoyed the video. Learning so much about China
Dude the adventures you go on, even if you think you're gonna die it least you get to understand the world more, I'm so jealous
It looks so worth it, I want to travel more
Just done watching a video from Winston and I see this uploaded, lucky!
Yes true UwU
When I was a kid in the early 90's here in Sweden me and my friend found human bones that we played with. Wasn't a full skeleton but I remember I had a femur bone that I used as a club as it was shaped kinda like a hammer. Turned out it was dirt that came from an old graveyard that our neighbor had got to fill up his yard around the house, don't know if it's haunted or something today but if I ever see a ghost or zombie around here I think I know where they're coming from ;)
Yes no dead bodies in my back yard =)
@@ArcGamersRepublic That you know of.
"I didn't know it at the time, but this is when my love of Black Metal was born."
Hmm sounds fishy
@@yeshuaislord6880 , Swedish Fish, fishy? (Swedish fish are a candy in USA) haha🤪
This was an awesome video Lao!
Great video and commentary CMILK. I remember some of the stories from previous ADV posts but they were even better with added information. Your experiences in other SEA countries were fascinating. Quite a few of your "9 Lives" used up but still more to use in the future.
The Skeleton you saw could be the result of landslides of burial sites that was washed down from the mountains after a Typhoon.
Glad you addressed the Taiwan bones video. I saw that bouncing around on Reddit and while it's not as bad as they said, it isn't a good look. You're able to admit mistakes and address criticisms which is good - especially with the lengths people will go to trying to discredit you and Winston. The CCP, tankies and wumaos just hide from their past mistakes. Keep up the good work.
@@clieu2349you are a crazy little pinky
The wumao have been out in full force against Laowhy. He's getting on their nerves for sure.
'....it isn't a good look.' What do you mean? Finding a skeleton on a beach is gold dust for a TH-camr! Would I go poking around with a stick to find the skull? You bet I would! I would've come back with a metal detector and tried to find some buried treasure.
@@paulwally9007 It’s not a good look for the Taiwanese. KenTing is THE major tourist hotspot in Taiwan
Jake Paul isn't a good look, no.
Very good use of title in this video, surprised its not a 1M+ view video. Great content keep exposing terrible china!
Im in Okinawa and been watching for years. I traveled to just about every country throughout the far east.
Taiwan was the most welcoming (that was in 2019) but I never visited China before. Maybe I can visit after the CCP falls. Whenever that is.🙁
If you visited Hong Kong and almost everybody has, then you visited China. It's just less democratic since 2020 with newspaper editors and reporters and politicians being arrested for saying bad things about the CPC. 😃 😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣
You can visit Taiwan. It’s like a better version of China. Plus they preserved the culture and history that the CCp destroyed.
Also lucky. Okinawa is one of my dream places to visit. So pretty. And extremely nice beaches.
Its not gonna happen soon
@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Russia was a surprise. If more Real Estate companies collapse, the CCP might topple. Most middle class Chinese have their savings in empty 2nd or 3rd homes and often construction has not started. But what replaced the Communist Party in Russia was just as Totalitarian and repressive. The same would happen in China. 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓
Awesome video man
As always i truly loved your story telling and the content, keep up your work it's important.
I've lived and worked all over the world. You get a much deeper understanding of the people you're working for, and their problems. Which are not very different from everywhere else in the world.
No idea how many years i’ve been watch you and serpent, mainly on ADV but love the channel man. Thank you for great info
watching*
Interesting stories! Glad you can share and that you are still alive.
Just glad you got out OK.
Love to your family.
Love your channel!
17:30 I remember you mentioned that in a previous video, where you said you got better treatment in Southeast Asia than you ever/often did in China; however, I didn’t know the full context of the scenario. It’s crazy to hear the full story of that. Also I love that, “rare Pokémon of illnesses,” analogy. 😂 I love your videos, dude! 继续当一位老赢家，老外兄弟。 ✌️
dude you are a serious badass. thanks for the epic stories. idk but #2 seems the scariest to me.
Xi Jinping's face in public occasions makes me laugh so hard. You can see he smiles and acts like a sort of saint/father/benevolent god. Who the hell he believes he is. Pathological narcisism at its best. I think people should be visited by psychologists before being elected in every country.
Reminds me of Stalin. Building an entire cult around him as some sort of genius.
@@killerman19880385 Yeah, it's a characteristic of totalitarianisms.
@@killerman19880385 and despite all of his crime being exposed by former Soviet itself, some tankies still think Stalin was a great guy (just like Womao think Mao and Xi are good).
@@enigma6682 Well, there's one to the list. Churchill
I've always been subscribed to this channel but I dont think I've ever watched anything but always known I wanted too...well this whole video terrified me 😨 I lived in Vietnam for a year and it was a little bit of this and that but nothing like this...nothing..I will pray for everyone in China for the rest of my life 😞
Would be interesting to hear about the general drug situation in china? Prevalence of common western drugs? How illegal it really is? Any unique local drugs?
They made several videos about drugs in China on ADVChina
I wonder what the Chinese government is doing about the large amount of drugs being smuggled by the Chinese mafia.
Man, you had some dangerous stuff... 😳 But in the end you were still lucky. What you can get in the jungle is scary AF! Bacteria that practically eat you is a nightmare I have since I did see that first time in a travel video from my father in Peru. He moved there from Germany something around 15 years back.
C-Milk! I just wanted to try to bring to your attention a particularly dangerous 'Super Shill' I have come accross. Anthony Morse is the host of Channel News Asia's pro CCP, pro belt and road initiative series called 'THE NEW SILK ROAD'. This series is high budget and very convincing. It follows 'Super Shill' Anthony Morse as he travels the world highlighting the glories of the belt and road initiative. People who are not in the know and watch this series could easily be convinced. Great video and thanks for all your hard work. 👍
Good job in bringing attention to this.
Is this the Canadian guy that reads 10 min scripts to a zoom audience of 7 that don't speak a single word back and the whole comment section is just people having the exact same view?
@@latinEU No, it's a high budget television series on Channel News Asia or 'CNA'. Anthony Morse is the host that travels the world promoting the CCP''s Belt and Road Initiative.
You and Winston are doing very important work.
To everyone seeing them and their recent videos for the first time - They are NOT exaggerating in anything that they are talking about. Highly recommend that you check their other channels (you can find them by clicking on their YT user profile and going to 'Channels').
The rare pokemon of diseases 😆😆 thanks for sharing, and by the way that was some ketamine they were doing in the drug city , and since around 2011 china has been the # 1 supplier to the US (and id imagine elsewhere) of black market ket. The trade is run by the Triads in Chinatown in NYC , previously India was top export but their local DEA / gov did a huge shut down and the chinese hopped in quick. Sadly on a harm reduction side they use much cheaper ingredients and research chemicals (made in china right?) and ive seen health complications in users rise dramatically.
Anyway hope someone finds that somewhat interesting.
Wow! One of your best vids!
Man, the friend that told the thugs that your bike was "very expensive".... that guy is not a friend.
Like bing your content really lifting the lid with objective journalism, increasingly rare these days
23:05 the picture of the SWAT Team was probably sourced from the Japan Times article "Chinese elite police join Serbian units in first European drills as Beijing's influence spreads to Balkans".
The team memers probably were just borrowing the AR's that the Serbians had, as that as far as I am aware of, Norinco does not make rails and gas blocks like that for its CQ-A (a clone of the M4A1), and it is illegal to export weapon parts and even some acessories to China from the United States or European Union (if you look on Magpul's website, it says that even little grips are regulated by ITAR/International Trafficing of Arms Regulations or EAR/Export Administration Regulations).
Facinating and important perspective! I'm hooked
Pokemon illnesses "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Total support to your hard work!
You did a really great job！👍😄👏
謝謝分享, thanks for sharing！
A friend from Taiwan (not China).
Awesome Video!!!
Wow that's some amazing stories! Glad you made it back in one piece. I love adventuring off in foreign lands. I had went solo through Eastern Europe in 2019. I'd stay the hell away from China. Been binge watching your videos. Amazing life you've had!
New subscriber.
I’m speechless. It’s worse than most people could fathom.
You’ve had some really amazing adventures. But I hear that life can be pretty exciting in Syracuse, NY too.
This content has allowed me to see a China I'll never be able to visit. Keep up the good work.
2:14 #5 "the hitman village"
7:13 #4 "Yulin Dogmeat festival"
10:44 #3 saw skeletons in beach sand in Taiwan
13:42 #2 contracted Typhoid & Malaria
23:12 #1 Interrogated during SWAT raid
C-Milk ...you are a gangsta with your experiences lol. Almost can't believe all these crazy stories happened until I realize that it wasnt too long. You and Winston will be those old timers sharing these stories and kids will be in awe lol
There's coverage of the dog meat markets, but it makes you wonder if they have human meat markets, and or the trafficking tunnels from 4chan's /x/ screenshot.
Love your commentaries - so informative and personal. Thing is you just don't quite know if you're being followed there, as I was, just browsing in a museum - fortunately I was with influential friends!!! But not a scary as your episodes!
Damn. Such stories are scarier to watch than some fiction monster or ghost videos, bc those things here in this video are happening in real life.
thanks for reminding me of what it was like to travel after a while-- not all the thriller moments so much as the peaceful scenes in Laos and Thailand, the lesser known border towns and such. Those places are like magic. But they lack such key ingredients that it makes me want them to compile a list of missing supplies, like a large town-sized grocery run: "you need lots of pedialite and powdered whey. . . okay and?"
Glad you survived!
You've got some awesome stories from China.
Eating dog isn’t good… butttt for me the part that really gets to me is the thought that beating and flooding the meat with adrenaline makes it taste better and better for your chi….. completely opposite to what every hunter prays for,” a clean quick kill”
May China's demise benefit all beings.
Thanks for pointing it out, everyone just loves to skip over that fact when talking about how much they like other things about China, for me it just ruins any interest I had before. It’s sickening to boil a dog alive.
EPIC! That one powerful word describes these stories!
Wow! Long time fan here! Gotta say it’s super nice seeing you do travel and story videos. I know the “denouncing the ccp” stuff is necessary and moral but it’s also very nice to see crazy travel stories :)
You are so lucky,subscribed also Serpentza
Love you guys I learn a lot from y’all! I definitely push your videos in my community so we can stay informed. Keep up the GREAT work ❤️😍
22:35 I love this caption on the photo and it makes me feel like I'm there because I've had similar situations where I'm hiding for my life and could imagine seeing that and laughing in my mind while also being consumed with my terrible imagination.
This feels like a flashback episode of a sitcom lol I've seen or heard of everything that you mentioned on this video on other videos that you or Winston have done previously. Not that it took anything away from the video. I wish you guys could ride in China again one day in peace.
Hey, what was that huge boiler the woman was sealing at 1:33? It almost looked like the bottom of a still or something, but the other one had fish in it... I think. Very curious...
Getting sick in the Middle of nowhere is horrible. Great stories
hey man, not even joking once you told me what "cultivate" does i installed in right away. You sold me!
You've been to Poland! :D How did you like it?
Thanks
Love you guys! ADV all the way!
I spoke out, and I am getting email-bombed by Wu Mao. Can you help? I don't know what to do.
I'm still sad they went straight to Omicron in naming the Covid variants. A Xi variant would have been hilarious.
lmao ccp is going to beat the shit out of who for doing that
@@oni8337 Fort Detrick Virus would be ideal
i’m actually really interested in a video about china’s attempts at american food haha that sandwich alone looked crazy
My favorite places I visited when I was in France for summer school were all the neat little working class towns and non-touristy places. People were shocked anyone would be visiting their area and it was super fun and helpful with practicing my French. I love seeing where the real people live and not boring touristy parts!
This comment is 1 year old, but as a French from the countryside it warms my heart :)
@@tadeusza_2004 they kept asking me "why are you passing Colmar to visit Mulhouse?!" It just was too confusing for people to figure out.
It's interesting how in my country the USA we invite people from all countries and all backgrounds and all beliefs to partake in business and schooling but if we are in these areas you can get attacked criticized and arrested by the government.
Imagine the horrors going on in there, that they worked so hard to avoid you filming it!
That sweet Kawasaki GPZ style (550?) is all I can remember about the story. And that v-twin looked like the old Suzuki Intruder.
As a Canadians I'd be interested in your stories visiting here. Thanks fir all your insightful videos!
Keep the good good. I used to want to go and live in China, I thought it was the best nation in the world. But you and Serpentaza changed my mind. I remember the first video I watch from you guys was about public toilets in china.
China is basically in the "wild west" phase of there country like America in the 1800s, no police presence, no regulation, corruption everywhere etc. It's actually fascinating, history reoeats itself
Taiwan was under Japanese occupation in ww2 so those skeletons could have come from that.
Wake up babe, Laowhy just uploaded
Damn, these are awesome stories. Sounds like a youth well lived.
"We were just there to milk some horses":)))) It's something you don't hear every day.
And I am writing this while also actually trying it, fermented and not fermented too. This stuff is very popular in Central Asia, for example in Kazakhstan. In various places it's called Kumys.
I also ate sausages made of horse meat. It's very tasty by the way.
Where are you from?
Merry Christmas ⛄🎄
Best wishes from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬
@@erturtemirbaev5207 Thank you.
From E.U.