@@jasperbudiono295 Probably because in order to actually sell food in "western" countries, the companies actually need to sell a genuine product. Chinese companies really aren't above running two lines, one to produce genuine product, and one to dilute the product by bulking it out with chemical flame retardant, because using something like dextrose or something is for capitalist pussies.
it's so so true!in Australia we have a milk powder shortage because of Chinese people buying out all the milk powder here. it's so annoying and frustrating.
Breast milk provides protection against infections, is perfectly composed, hygienically packaged, always prepared, the right temperature. Easily accessible and inexpensive.
true, but a mom can't always be with her kid, but then ofcourse you can put it in bags and freeze it since women always make way more milk than a single child needs
My sister used to host exchange students from China for the summer. The first thing they wanted to do is to go shopping. My sister suspected they were buying to resell because the items were always some sort of prestigious items and the quantities were not consistent for personal use or even for family members. I kept thinking while watching this video is I am grateful my ancestors came to the US during the Qing rule. (Yes, that long ago.)
Three PRC navy ships visited Sydney the sailors were on the news buying up huge amounts of milk powder when asked why they answered what else would they do in Sydney. Really sad
I worked in an Australian supermarket. As soon as the shop opens on Wednesdays, Chinese people would go straight to the baby section. They would fill up their trollies with baby formula. The shelves would be empty afterwards. Australian citizens would ask me if there was any baby formula for their baby, in the back of the supermarket.
Aaron joel because there is only so much room in a stores back stock to store it. They also have to keep some back stock of the other items on the floor. And you can’t store baby powder outside so yeah.... they can only order what they have space for on the floor and what they can keep in the back stock.
he meant buy it directly from the company who makes them.. not the seller who sells them as merchandise.. if you can buy it from company as a wholesale you sale shyt tons of money!!!
Sonam Bhutia I took it as he’s asking why not Store buy more from the supplier. But if they can find out who the supplier is then maybe they can buy it from them. I know some suppliers will only sell under a contract if you buy it from them and you have to buy so much each year and then they’d probably get taxed a lot in order to be able to buy it from the supplier and have it shipped in to mainland China and they have it shipped into Hong Kong where are they going to have it shipped into that becomes the next question. 🤔 but then again I’m not going into this business so meh
When I was little living in southern China, my mom would go to Hong Kong and buy bags of milk powder for me and my sister (I’m a twin). Because she knew about the fake powder. She used her great effort to get the best of her effort to me and my sis. It’s kinda far journey for her to go to Hong Kong and back to Guangzhou. So, I hope you people respect your mothers nicely even if their yelling at you.
@@balupton brest feeding might not lead to a higher intelligence. It could just be that a higher intelligence of the parents and therefore the kids intelligence is correlated with breast feeding. Correlation dosen't equal causation.
Bartimaeus 666 just because you were raised on formula doesn’t mean you have to get defensive. Its common sense. Breast milk Formulated in a lab derived from cows is not as good for a child as natural breast milk. It boosts a child immunity’s, it lowers risk of diabetes and obesity. Children raised on formula have a higher chance of developing allergy’s and so on. And yes, study’s show that children raised on formula on average have lower IQs on a rage of 2-3 points. Whether you choose to believe that study or not majority of water used to mix baby formula contains fluoride a neurotoxin known to negatively effect the cognitive development on average lowering the IQ by 7 points. You can even find ‘fluoridated Infant water’ almost anywhere in the world
@@gratefulbear2183 I wasn't raised on formular for that manner, I got breastfed. I'm just talking about good scientific practic. It is mandatory in all scientific fields to show that the correlation is a causation. A twin study where one gets formular and the other one gets breastfed could prove or disprove it. Anyway we wouldn't even know if it was the contents of the milk, or the intimacy with the child that coused the IQ difference. Even if such a twin study where conducted. It would probably need a number of triplet studys where there one child gets formular, one gets milk from the mother in the bottle and the last gets breastfed to prove or disprove this hypothesis. But this study design might actually course ethical concerns. I'm not saying, that it nesacaraly isn't true that the contants of the milk are causal, I'm just saying that what you said itself isn't enough to draw the conclusion that the one option is better than the other. Recommending something like that on the basis of such a smal correlation isn't enough. And what I just said isn't nitpicking eighter, it could bring serious lifestyle issues if you were to breastfeed exclusively... I'm trying to get some scientific standards into the discussion because I don't think that people have high enough standards when it comes to that. People make lifestyle choices on such stats, but that might not be necessary.
Bartimaeus 666 your an idiot and I’m not reading all that nonsense. As a father I researched this shit heavily, you on the other hand are a dumb child who googled baby formula effecting IQ and only read the first page of the thesis. I can assure you that many people stand by that study and when you have a kid you wouldn’t dare be so ignorant
Not to put too fine a point on it, but China does not believe in free trade. We do. We could probably show some better restraint on who we offer that to, but we don't improve our own lives by copying the practices of those who aren't as well off as we are.
@@vzwc89 This is not the point. The world trade organization decided that developing countries can have tariffs, but developed countries don't. Because tariffs are beneficial for developing countries and they want to make the world market more equal.
American here, we have watched our economy go to shit because our richest 1 percent bought the Government and sold off our manufacturing base. This made these bastards even richer, so they bought all the TV News and Newspapers to keep most Americans not knowing their Government was bought by Corporations. Trumps election was a combination of telling the Democrats that we do not want Hillary because you cheated Bernie Sanders and the uneducated Christian base, Rich People, and the People that wanted to through a crazy man ( TRUMP ) grenade at Washington DC. Expect people running for President in 2020 promising Zero trade. Americans are getting very angry that our Government will not protect jobs or help the citizens, 2 million people are in jail because the factories are gone. That is why Trumps racism works, the uneducated believe him when he says foreigners are coming here to take your jobs , when the truth is that some rich bastards imports destroyed the market. In America, divorce is up, suicide is up, our standard of living is lower than South Korea, our Health Care system sells medicine cheaper to the world than its own citizens. We have more Propaganda on television than they accuse other Countries of doing, we have had some protest but the Police crack their heads and it disperses. The wealthiest 1 percent have taken everything from the citizens that are armed with the most guns in the world. America is a powder keg, if there is a National Emergency where food or gas can't be purchased for 6 weeks, violence will ensue. Our hope is that the educated Millenials now outnumber the Christians that are uneducated, 2020 should be the first election where the Youth of America outnumber uneducated retired people that live their lives with jobs and growth and do not care about anyone else.
They don't produce milk there because they are almost all lactose intolerant. They don't drink cold drinks either so milk would spoil to fast. They rely on milk powder to nourish babies because it can be served at room temperature. Not really the people's fault
It is really nuts in Sydney. Chinese buying milk powder here to send it home. You see bus loads of Chinese tourists buying milk powder. A mother here said it best recently, why should we not let our Chinese friends feed their children well? In Australia, kids are usually fed on the boob. Culturally, it's considered better and milk powder is viewed as somewhat scammish. Nestle and these companies convince developing nations that breast feeding is wrong...
Well, there are many babies who can't be breastfed. There is a place for formula. Its just not right that Australian mothers go without so that Chinese gangs can profit.
@@alphabet_soup123 It is really tragic that in China people have been caught putting toxic plastic protein in their milk powders, making dumplings from chemically treated cardboard, using unsafe human effluent in farming, reclaiming soiled cooking oil from sewers to use again and harvesting organs from the living incarcerated. The Chinese have no reason to trust companies in China to have their best interests at heart. Australia should be aggressively selling to that market (not just products either!).
You should make a shuttle bus to the milk powder plant and back, then they could buy as much as they like to at a better price without being an nuisance to the locals.
A couple of years ago I was wondering about why in some stores in Berlin, Germany the buying of milk powder was restricted to 3 packages per person. I was then so surprised to hear that's because of all the Chinese tourists. You explain why they are doing all that. Thanks.
I'm more interested why they don't use breast pumps or breastfeed directly. Breast milk is good for babies and here in the US it's encouraged for the women to try and do it. Not every baby will latch on, and not ever parent has the time or patients to try. Is it because the average Chinese person is not as well nourished as a Western person?
Meeker Extreme - only thing I could think, China isn't restricting pollution and chemicals so women might not want to pass that from their breast milk.
Meeker Extreme In Europe, well at least in my country very common to sell (or donate for free) the extra milk from those mothers who have to those one who don't. Or at least used to be when I was a baby LoL. My mom did it too. Both of that actually bought and sold too. If you would ask her she would never give powder milk to us. We feed the the pigs with that sort of "food" she would of say. All the natural medicine and healing in China and no breast feeding?
It extends to anywhere where there are people who are willing to profit by selling to China. Typically this will be mainland Chinese people who are living abroad who don't care what this practice does to local supplies and those who actually rely on them.
If this thing happens in India, that dairy company CEO will be lynched in public. Indian govt cannot suppress protests like China does. But adulteration is fairly common if it is from dairy company. We can get really pure Cow or buffalo milk is really high quality especially in small towns and villages as they are run by individual farmers instead of diary company.
my mum always buys ferrero rocher chocolate as gifts when we visit China and when I asked her why she said because it looked "looked" expensive enough to be given as a family gift
Ferrero Richer is nice Chocolate, because I live in the UK it is not that Expensive, My favourite chocolate are the Belgium Chocolate Guliyan Sea shell truffles.
I live in Europe in an area with many Chinese students and even here some supermarkets have limited how many packs of milk powder you can buy, so that the Chinese students won't just empty the whole store and leave nothing for the locals.
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If this were significant, then a huge amount of the population on earth would have breast cancer, because they are drinking milk. But they do not. Even if there were a breast cancer study tied to milk, you could not link the cause of the cancer to milk under all circumstances. People who dont consume milk may as well dont consume red meat. And processed red meat is, as far as i know only probably linked to heart disease. I could count hundreds and hundreds of people that i know, that consume milk and dont have breast cancer.
During the milk powder crisis many stores even here in Germany have limited the amount of milk powder units one person is allowed to buy. The shelfs in Germany were cleared off milk powder and our own citizens had a bad time to feed their children with milk powder. The prices here went through the roof and the manufacturers here had difficulties to keep up the production. That happens when a county of billions of people buys from markets that is accustomed to only serve several dozens of million people.
It's a shame you don't have a leadership that works for its own people instead of been a doormat for anyone who wants to strip a bit more from your nation!
I’ve heard about the milk powder scandal on the news and seen lots of videos of people bulk buying or buying in groups - I actually didn’t know the reason as to why they were doing it so this video was very informative. It’s sad that the local businesses did that to the milk powder and I feel sorry for the infants and families that were affected by the faulty powder.
That infant formula thing haunts me.. One of the surviving kids asked his mom, "Why did you bring me into this world to suffer?" As this child survived with permanent side effects..
You should start your own milk powder brand. Uncle Serpentza milk powder - your kid will grow strong and stay awesome. Im sure you would pick up quite a bit of money. Youd be credible cause you are foreign.
I wish I knew which coat/jacket he was wearing; I am trying to find a new one and most types lately are terrible, but I really like his in the video. I'd trade three containers of ferrero rocher for it ! 😉
I remember friends in China around 2008 asking me to send milk powder to them from Japan. They payed back with a wire transfer but the Chinese bank ripped me off by charging me 2500 yen on wire transfer fees. . .so I helped my friends out but got ripped off in the process. . . THEY should have added more money into the wire transfer.
@@pinkgoergefloyd8340 Atleast American citizens have rights and the consitution to protect them from a possible tyrannical regime, Chinese citizens don't have anything like that.
In the Netherlands we had a milk powder shortage too. A few of my friends work at the supermarket and they told me that there are lots of rules to prevent smuggling, like there's a limit on how much someone can buy and they can only buy milk powder if they're also buying other products. Some stores even refused to sell milk powder to asian looking people.
Leelicious you do realise that a whole country has shortage because of chinese buying it all. I worked at a store in the netherlands and we were only allowed to selll one for each person and keep track of tbe chinese because they would just send their whole family one by one
After the 2008 melamine milk scandal my Chinese sister in law would pack her suitcase full of Australian powdered milk before returning home to visit her parents. It was amazing to watch. An entire suitcase, just full of milk!
If you did that in South America you would never get out of the airport. Each and every one of those cans would be tested for drugs to the most minute level
@@AlfoncinaMatilda Happened to me in Mexico City while i was coming back from Central America but with a whole travel bag full of homemade cocoa (we also had 2 big suitcases full of it in the plane). They didn't say that they thought it was drugs but explosives and i told them what it was and to test it but they wouldn't give it back without signing for it so i just left without them, they were very lax about it in Central America when we told them tho.
Sooo why don't they just do more breastfeeding? I still don't understand that. Isn't it unanimously healthier? (and of course cheaper??) Shouldn't the health of the baby come first???
They’re not open about bodies,sexuality,body part issues,etc. I have elderly relatives here in the USA who are even embarrassed that I breast fed my kids. They were so afraid ppl would think we’re poor. It’s just pure ignorance. And that’s exactly how China is. Must save face at all costs.
@@alison2649 what does breast feeding have to do with sexuality and saving face? Breastfeeding is done indoors in private. Nothing, you are talking nonsense. The fact is that they being so small do not produce much milk, genetically. Almost all Chinese girls are completely flat.
Working at Costco in Irvine California, I often see Chinese people come and buy very large amounts of pharmaceuticals for resale. Learning to understand some Chinese has made it clear about what they are doing by listening.
Max McCree you're probably talking about the vitamin supplements and not actual medications. Medications are cheaper in China but vitamins and supplements are insanely overpriced. Like a bottle of vitamins that you get at Costco for $15 is $100 at Sam's Club in China (Sam's club exists there) and even pricier if you're not at a warehouse store. Honestly if you want to go to China and make some friends bring some vitamins over.
BS. You obviously don't know what EBT is or how it works. It's so simple to just look it up before using it in a stupid comment. At the very least, look up what the acronym E.B.T stand for.
The whole international student muggling stuff thing really bothers me at night. EVERYONE is doing it! Most people only smuggle a little bit for their family and close friend, which I guess it's in the grey area of law, and I don't (and can't) mind since it's literally everyone. And a small amount of people do this for pure profit, and many work for full time organized professionals (usually smuggling luxury bags and shits I don't understand). These professional are sometimes kinda like family business, run by a few relatives who have local property and are permanent local residence, and students working on buying stuff or sorting or running taobao stores and shit. Now I love Winston cover this unique phenomena and actually hitting the jack spot analyzing it. But in the mean time I dread at the extra reason local people can hate international students for. It's as if they are not already in tons of trouble, and caught on between two societies, neither recognizing them as their own.
i sell cherries in Melbourne Australia, and have done since 2006. Although all races have there quirks, most Australian Chinese and Indians are by far the worst! They are horrified when there is no self serve, even after allowing them to see, taste and decide. They seem to have this incredible fear that if one cherry has a blemish of any kind, their lives will collapse. They will bring back 2 cherries and swap them, hours later!! I have never had any other race do this, ever! I can have many people waiting to be served, so picking your own for 30 mins is just silly. After giving permission for the buyer to taste, I've watched them 1 by one take a cherry, the whole frigging family thinks they have a right to munch down as many as they please. A lot forget i have peripheral vision. Culture Smulture. It's right and wrong, there's no respect, it's just a bunch silly people with silly ideas and passing there rubbish to their kids.
Calm the fk down, it's not like they're asking free cherries from you lol. Atleast here in India, South Asia, you are allowed to pick your own fruits and vegetables. Because vendors can't be trusted anywhere in the world. Just because you're in a first world country, doesn't make you vendors angelic and honest. Tbh I'd never take the veggies or fruits picked by a vendor unless it's pre packaged. I don't trust these lower level vendors who'll do anything and everything to make a buck or two at the cost of your health.
My Sister in law buys baby formula in NZ by the crate load and drives all over Auckland every day to every supermarket. She gets 100 tins a day. She triples her profit and sometimes more than that. She's making us a killing. The Chinese think NZ is the best for quality. your giving me ideas to start my own chocolate business and wrap it in shiny red and gold foil wrap. NZ is the worlds cow.
So your sister is one of the hated locusts snatching up gobs of product and preventing good people from buying what they need. We've had to limit what people can buy bc of the GD Chinese buying up things. They can't run an efficient country so they go to better run places and inconvenient others.
Biggest airport in my country (Denmark) almost always have milk powder ads displayed exclusively in Chinese. Was confused why, thanks for clearing it up
Great video. Also I can shed some light on the popularity of the Ferrero Rocher chocolates. This product was introduced in China in the early 1980s. The advertising agency had very wisely introduced the brand as "金莎" or "gold sand". The name was especially auspicious for gifting around Chinese New Year and other holidays. Its popularity just scaled up when it was made available in mainland China
Very interesting videos. I keep coming back for more. Would you ever make a video of the lifestyle of people in China, the poor, the middle class and the top 1%. Thanks. Stay Awesome, as always!
I use to work in airline cargo and have sent many many tonnes of them to China from Australia. Local shops here restricted amount of tins u can buy too per person but the enterprising Chinese daigou would just hire teams of international Chinese students to hit shops and just keep buying until they are refused then move onto other shops. I feel a bit embarrassed now (being of Chinese extraction myself) when I go buy milk formulas for my niece cus of the suspicious and sometimes hostile looks I get.
Today in Australia several large supermarket chains took the most popular (with the Chinese) brands off the shelf due to the Chinese buyers and is now sold in a controlled manner at the checkouts... Crazy..!
Yes also in the netherlands only 2 tins/bags per customer.. I have seen chinese people fighting outside the shops in my country... Crazy!! Btw dairy products are of very high quality in the Netherlands and world famous.. Nutrilon fe... Very famous baby milkpowder.. Made in Holland.
The deliberate restriction of supply is the genuine problem. Manufacturers know exactly what they are doing, it's the oldest trick in the book. They love being able to point the finger at big bad China while they gradually raise their prices.
I'm amazed at how much of Chinese culture you could apply to Brazilian culture. I've been living here (BR) for 16 years and you could literally switch out the word "China" for "Brazil" in 80% of your videos. It's weird, you would think they'd be polar opposites.
This is funny because I've always been curious myself working in a supermarket in the U.K. as to why Chinese tourists always purchase tons of ferrero rochers haha
Hi David Renwick ok I will try lindt chocolate I think I've seen it at my discount store. I do however firmly believe that Cadbury is as close to the heavens as chocolate will ever be there's this aftertaste of purple fakeness that I just can't get enough of.
The milk powder shelf was empty at my local major chain food store in Seattle haha as a liquid milk drinker I have no issues only giggles with this, thanks for supporting American businesses whoever buys all these here
David Brown just out of curiosity, how are the Chinese supposed to be grateful? They pay taxes, they study hard, work hard, don't commit much crime nor rape and don't get political much. They aren't being a pain in the ass. And what do u mean 1939? Please elaborate😀
More and more Chinese mothers are realizing that breastfeeding is a good way to go because doctors are starting to tell them that it's healthier for the baby. In my neighborhood quite a few mothers are breastfeeding. Of course, for working mothers its not an easy option, and in big Chinese cities unless the husband is pulling in a decent salary (say 8k+ a month) then the mother pretty much needs to work.
So if I smuggle chocolate to China, do you recommend to cover it with HEROIN so that the officers will say "it's just heroin, let him in"? P.S. how did you manage to smuggle CMILK into china ? (:
I remember in 2013 the UK limited the amount of formula anyone person could buy because of the Chinese milk fraud. In fact some retailers still limit it.
I've noticed Chinese students bulk buying pharmaceuticals in the UK and Australia. The pharmacies have placed buying constraints on all consumers to narrow demand. Suspiciously young looking shoppers might also be deterred when asked "what is the purpose of your purchase?" . It's a nuisance for commonwealth locals, but I find it all very interesting none the less
@@inthefade because that would affect the consumer/ regular consumer directly and the image of the company. You could rise the price if the general population you serve were to increase demand but thats not the case here, its an "outsider" group who is buying it all. Its pretty much the same thing with the miners buying all the graphics cards for bitcoin ot ethereum moths ago. The gamer comunity suffered the most of the shortage and higer prices.
My local supermarket had to put purchase limits on milk powder sales after Chinese customers kept cleaning out all of the milk powder as soon as it hit the shelves. Chinese nationals had their teams going around to all of the supermarkets buying up all of the available stocks of milk powder, to be collected and bulk shipped to China. It only stopped when the supermarkets refused bulk sales and set maximum purchase limits.
AUSSIEDAVEROCKS yep in Australia it happens here and they have multiple warehouses full of it and is causing a very heated political issue. I think they might have to soon having it behind glass unfortunately
Some supermarkets in The Netherlands have permanent empty shelves with a big sign telling customers to ask for milk powder at the service desk, which has to come out of specially locked cabinet.
But why should the supermarkets order more for the 9 out of 10 situation that the rinse and repeat happens of chinese coming in and raking up all the forumla
My uncle was an IT technician at a factory that made Ferrero Rocher chocolates. He gave me a tour of it. It's interesting to see where all this stuff goes after it's bought.
henk that is disgusting. The laws must protect local children. How about unlimited power for Dutch and no powder for Chinese tourists and students. Show your residency or FUCK OFF.
Last year I participated in the Milk Powder distribution project. My factory sales agent had a baby girl. I would go to Costco and purchase ten Containers of Infamile milk powder, bring them home and repackage them in Food Saver vacuum bags. Fit them into UPS Flat rate boxes and send them off. Even after my agent paying the powder and shipping, she was very happy to get them at such a low price, what?? Low price? Hardly! People always assume everything in China is dirt cheap. We in the west have a lot to learn about China. Thank you for your videos Winston!
Milk powder buying is very topical in Australia. Regularly in the news it shows Chinese people lined up buying all the milk powder and leaving none to the locals, so they are introducing buying limits, but then they bring friends along. It is giving the Chinese a bad name. All of the Chinese I have come across buy products from the chemists for friends and family back in China.
You’re not kidding about the difference between Hong Kong and mainland China. I lived in Hong Kong from 93 until late 95 and the first time I went over the border to mainland I was absolutely amazed. First most people had a basic command of English in HK but on the mainland only scammers and hustlers spoke English. Second was the feeling that you were being ‘watched’ everywhere you went. I also found the quality of people, and this is general and of my own experience, to be better in HK. They were better travelled and definitely benefited from the UK in a lot of ways like that. Idk I enjoyed Shanghai but things weren’t like they are now on the mainland as far as being as technologically advanced and so forth. Anyway great vid Winston
AmericanJustice underTHE laws Cantonese are ancient, original national language of Tang dynasty, the peak of chinese history. The Vietnamese and Japanese imported our language and set it as their backbone of their own national language. That's why they sound similar to us because they learned the language from the South. Unlike the Northern Chinese are actually Mongolians, Huns, Manchurian mixed breeds. During Northern and Southern dynasty, Southern Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty and Qing dynasty, the Northerners are always the first to surrender themselves to barbarians and lick their boots. During Yuan dynasty, the Northerners are actually tamed like a dog and dressed like an actual Mongolian, instead of keep on resisting the Mongolians like the Southerners did. 越语汉语分不清, 尽作胡儿语为汉语。可悲。
Are you an alien? Have you no idea of the past 100+ years of history? Hongkong is an ex-British colony. Its still heavily influenced by Britain, the European banking cartels and Western economic giants have a massive input into Hong Kong. Hong Kong didnt exist before the opium wars.
Why referencing Opium Wars? You never see Indians talking about anything before colonization, because we appreciate unity, we appreciate modern day peace. We appreciate democracy.
it's called milk powder, because that is expensive but still much cheaper than infant formula, which is filled with special nutrients etc. Milk powder is cheaper, what do you think they will buy? everybody drinks milk, only babies get formula . . .
Nelson Di Salvatore Once the trust is lost, it is a challenge to regain it. Parents do not want to risk their child's health/life because they heard/read, "the milk powder is now safe again. Really. Trust us."
maybe but once you have a reputation for not being safe, and killing children you have to really work hard for a long time to recover, they might get there reputation back in 50 or so years.
Same thing in Vietnam lol. I live in Sydney and i get an insane amount of requests from my friends. Most popular items are milk powder, cosmetics and medicines. A lot of people do this, its called “hand-carried goods business”. You can find many online shops on Facebook. I’ve thought of doing this myself since the money is good, but when i think about the embarrassment every time I check out with a basket full of milk powder and cosmetics... its just too much lol
Hi Winston. Excellent work on producing these educational and entertaining looks at China and the culture. We see so little of what life is like overseas, especially in places like China where media and internet is so tightly regulated. You and CMilk really provide an honest and penetrating look at the inside of daily life. Just wanted to let you know FERRARO ROCHER means "Iron Boulder". There are several other translations of each word and the two combined, (such as FERRARO= Smith or Gold Smith) but the most prevalent translation seemed to be iron boulder, which makes sense. Anyways cheers and keep it up. Or "Stay Awesome" ;)
This happened in Denmark aswell. Chinese people would empty the stores with trolleys and trolleys of milk powder. Specially the organic powder was popular, and could be sold for alot of money. It became such a problem that there wasnt any powder available to the local people, so the stores had to put a limit on how many you could buy.
Alos just wanted to say your videos are awesome. Ive never had much interest in china but your videos are quite entertaining and informative. I originally started watching because of the motor cycles but even with out them the videos are still awesome!
In spite of my comment below this one and even tho I knew quite a bit about this topic, it’s is a really informative and eye opening report, so thanks Winston.
Here in Australia, every 2 or 3 months, the news/current affairs program will talk about the shortage of milk powder due to the Daigou buying them all. The last episode I saw, the manufacturers were providing a website where you could order directly to get a guaranteed supply, and that was the "solution"...I'm willing to bet the Daigou will be using that site too.
Some of the most insightful, honest & brilliant analyses of communist China I’ve seen‼️👍🏼 Even during some of your more negative comments about Chinese society it shows that you love China, it shows that you love the people, it shows that you care about the nation, and I think that’s something they should lift you up for‼️ Though they’re idiots who hate accountability & wont.
I wanted to thank you for your videos! As I said under a earlier video that I soon go to Chengdu, iam now back from Chengdu. As I can say now iam very thankful for your rants and Tipps that you give in your video. It helped me to keep me out off trouble and avoid unnecessary risky actions. It made my experience in Chengdu really wonderful, I loved it! Thank you and keep on making videos!
Hey I've seen your videos for a long time .But It's my first time to leave comments on your channel . I'd ever stayed in Guangdong as a exchange student for almost six months . During the period , I visited Shenzhen and Hong Kong .Those places are very attractive and modern I've never seen . But today , I've come back to Taiwan and I still cannot forget those wonderful places. What I wanna say is your videos always can bring those good memories to me and make me have more understanding of those places . Thanks so much ~ I wouldn't say I started seeing your videos is for training my English listening 😂. You are one of several English speakers I could understand what u say haha. Thanks again ~ 😀
David Brown Definitely from YT. Some of the crazy shit on here gets seen all over the world. I’ve seen serpentza and c-milk mention things like “manspreading” before (poking fun at the idea). They try and steer clear of political talk, but they’ve hinted where they stand on some of the Western world’s issues. I enjoy hearing the opinions of what an “outsider” thinks of the ongoing cultural issues in the West-such as SJW extremism-as brief as it may be.
We had a guy in Japan who bought a can of dried squid from China...... got sick, went to hospital, when they tested it, it turned out to be PLASTIC!
Is there an article you could link to this? I'd appreciate it.
I know of Chinese ris containing plastic.
Brent Barnhart my wife bought some fake salted duck eggs from fucking china . One could play ping pong with it.
The Bui That made me crack up
1:53 why is this perv looking at my children? "fk it take a kid I have enough"
Even the Chinese don't feel confident in their products
Obviously since they know first hand how untrustworthy they are, Which is why they regard anything from the west so highly.
@@fredrickeriksson1965 China could have been a great country if it's wasn't for the POS Mao
@@bryanmartinez6600 nah. The people define it
@@jasperbudiono295 Probably because in order to actually sell food in "western" countries, the companies actually need to sell a genuine product. Chinese companies really aren't above running two lines, one to produce genuine product, and one to dilute the product by bulking it out with chemical flame retardant, because using something like dextrose or something is for capitalist pussies.
the Chinese don't feel confident in their products, because they feel confident in Japanese, American and Australian products
it's so so true!in Australia we have a milk powder shortage because of Chinese people buying out all the milk powder here. it's so annoying and frustrating.
@SamuraiKage1 But then the ccp is gonna say that it is "mistreatment against Chinese foreigners" (Yet they treat foreigners like shit in china)
Be grateful. Breast is best
SamuraiKage1 yeah because increasing world tensions is something we all need
Isn't Australia a huge cattle country like the US?
@@Seth9809 not more than India !
The fact that anyone would counterfeit children’s milk formula or medicines is absolutely sickening.
Breast milk provides protection against infections, is perfectly composed, hygienically packaged, always prepared, the right temperature. Easily accessible and inexpensive.
Anders Ljungberg dem Chinese titties got no milk to suck. Too small
true, but a mom can't always be with her kid, but then ofcourse you can put it in bags and freeze it since women always make way more milk than a single child needs
@@micheleeeable ok boomer.
michele wu hahaha
@@missyc13 but dear,, child is also not 24 hours hungry. When she will comeback infant will have the best milk for him or her
My sister used to host exchange students from China for the summer. The first thing they wanted to do is to go shopping. My sister suspected they were buying to resell because the items were always some sort of prestigious items and the quantities were not consistent for personal use or even for family members.
I kept thinking while watching this video is I am grateful my ancestors came to the US during the Qing rule. (Yes, that long ago.)
Qing dynasty, so early 1900s, 1800s, or 1700s?
@@edwhatshisname3562 The Qing dynasty started in 1644.
Three PRC navy ships visited Sydney the sailors were on the news buying up huge amounts of milk powder when asked why they answered what else would they do in Sydney.
Really sad
I was low key expecting them to also ship back some kangaroo meat as a new delicacy
what kind of culture can't provide safe milk for infants?
The Red Chinese kind.
Country
And not let allow import that with low tax? Incredible
American culture. We don't provide insulin for diabetics, any kind of treatment for anyone unless you're rich. We need Chairman Mao over here!
COMMUNISM
I worked in an Australian supermarket. As soon as the shop opens on Wednesdays, Chinese people would go straight to the baby section. They would fill up their trollies with baby formula. The shelves would be empty afterwards. Australian citizens would ask me if there was any baby formula for their baby, in the back of the supermarket.
Why not just buy more from the supplier to make more money? Surely there can't be a limit right? Thats what I'm confused about
Aaron joel because there is only so much room in a stores back stock to store it. They also have to keep some back stock of the other items on the floor. And you can’t store baby powder outside so yeah.... they can only order what they have space for on the floor and what they can keep in the back stock.
he meant buy it directly from the company who makes them.. not the seller who sells them as merchandise.. if you can buy it from company as a wholesale you sale shyt tons of money!!!
Sonam Bhutia I took it as he’s asking why not Store buy more from the supplier. But if they can find out who the supplier is then maybe they can buy it from them. I know some suppliers will only sell under a contract if you buy it from them and you have to buy so much each year and then they’d probably get taxed a lot in order to be able to buy it from the supplier and have it shipped in to mainland China and they have it shipped into Hong Kong where are they going to have it shipped into that becomes the next question. 🤔 but then again I’m not going into this business so meh
@@coolasta1987 you spot on
This is one of the best cross cultural exploration channels.
When I was little living in southern China, my mom would go to Hong Kong and buy bags of milk powder for me and my sister (I’m a twin). Because she knew about the fake powder. She used her great effort to get the best of her effort to me and my sis. It’s kinda far journey for her to go to Hong Kong and back to Guangzhou. So, I hope you people respect your mothers nicely even if their yelling at you.
sad
@@balupton brest feeding might not lead to a higher intelligence. It could just be that a higher intelligence of the parents and therefore the kids intelligence is correlated with breast feeding. Correlation dosen't equal causation.
Bartimaeus 666 just because you were raised on formula doesn’t mean you have to get defensive. Its common sense. Breast milk Formulated in a lab derived from cows is not as good for a child as natural breast milk. It boosts a child immunity’s, it lowers risk of diabetes and obesity. Children raised on formula have a higher chance of developing allergy’s and so on. And yes, study’s show that children raised on formula on average have lower IQs on a rage of 2-3 points. Whether you choose to believe that study or not majority of water used to mix baby formula contains fluoride a neurotoxin known to negatively effect the cognitive development on average lowering the IQ by 7 points. You can even find ‘fluoridated Infant water’ almost anywhere in the world
@@gratefulbear2183 I wasn't raised on formular for that manner, I got breastfed. I'm just talking about good scientific practic. It is mandatory in all scientific fields to show that the correlation is a causation. A twin study where one gets formular and the other one gets breastfed could prove or disprove it. Anyway we wouldn't even know if it was the contents of the milk, or the intimacy with the child that coused the IQ difference. Even if such a twin study where conducted. It would probably need a number of triplet studys where there one child gets formular, one gets milk from the mother in the bottle and the last gets breastfed to prove or disprove this hypothesis. But this study design might actually course ethical concerns.
I'm not saying, that it nesacaraly isn't true that the contants of the milk are causal, I'm just saying that what you said itself isn't enough to draw the conclusion that the one option is better than the other. Recommending something like that on the basis of such a smal correlation isn't enough. And what I just said isn't nitpicking eighter, it could bring serious lifestyle issues if you were to breastfeed exclusively...
I'm trying to get some scientific standards into the discussion because I don't think that people have high enough standards when it comes to that. People make lifestyle choices on such stats, but that might not be necessary.
Bartimaeus 666 your an idiot and I’m not reading all that nonsense. As a father I researched this shit heavily, you on the other hand are a dumb child who googled baby formula effecting IQ and only read the first page of the thesis. I can assure you that many people stand by that study and when you have a kid you wouldn’t dare be so ignorant
China is allowed to have a 20% tariff on all imported goods, but when America has tariffs they are considered anti free trade.
That's because China is ran by commies, and almost everyone on the planet is misanthropic.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but China does not believe in free trade. We do. We could probably show some better restraint on who we offer that to, but we don't improve our own lives by copying the practices of those who aren't as well off as we are.
Two wrongs don't make a right
@@vzwc89 This is not the point. The world trade organization decided that developing countries can have tariffs, but developed countries don't. Because tariffs are beneficial for developing countries and they want to make the world market more equal.
American here, we have watched our economy go to shit because our richest 1 percent bought the Government and sold off our manufacturing base. This made these bastards even richer, so they bought all the TV News and Newspapers to keep most Americans not knowing their Government was bought by Corporations. Trumps election was a combination of telling the Democrats that we do not want Hillary because you cheated Bernie Sanders and the uneducated Christian base, Rich People, and the People that wanted to through a crazy man ( TRUMP ) grenade at Washington DC.
Expect people running for President in 2020 promising Zero trade. Americans are getting very angry that our Government will not protect jobs or help the citizens, 2 million people are in jail because the factories are gone. That is why Trumps racism works, the uneducated believe him when he says foreigners are coming here to take your jobs , when the truth is that some rich bastards imports destroyed the market. In America, divorce is up, suicide is up, our standard of living is lower than South Korea, our Health Care system sells medicine cheaper to the world than its own citizens.
We have more Propaganda on television than they accuse other Countries of doing, we have had some protest but the Police crack their heads and it disperses. The wealthiest 1 percent have taken everything from the citizens that are armed with the most guns in the world. America is a powder keg, if there is a National Emergency where food or gas can't be purchased for 6 weeks, violence will ensue. Our hope is that the educated Millenials now outnumber the Christians that are uneducated, 2020 should be the first election where the Youth of America outnumber uneducated retired people that live their lives with jobs and growth and do not care about anyone else.
The whole milk powder scandal just shows how Chinese people become victims of their own dodgy mentality that puts profits before safety and quality.
They don't produce milk there because they are almost all lactose intolerant. They don't drink cold drinks either so milk would spoil to fast. They rely on milk powder to nourish babies because it can be served at room temperature. Not really the people's fault
its corporation putting profit before safety, same same in the USA.
Loxodon- it's the same.
Father Bertolucci that doesnt happen anywhere else...
nigel lei ... the usa has more safety standards/laws than china
So basically it is all C-Milk's fault
Counterfeit-Milk?
In Francex Ferrero rochers are considered shitty gifts u buy last minute when u forgot someone's birthday lmao
Really? Here they are kind of expensive but not an usual gift.
@@catalina3710 where are you from?
Yeah cause French people don't find Italian things fancy.
Usually they do not last very long , 😆
Haha! That makes perfect sense. I thought cannelles were pretty great, but what is considered high end in France?
It is really nuts in Sydney. Chinese buying milk powder here to send it home. You see bus loads of Chinese tourists buying milk powder. A mother here said it best recently, why should we not let our Chinese friends feed their children well? In Australia, kids are usually fed on the boob. Culturally, it's considered better and milk powder is viewed as somewhat scammish. Nestle and these companies convince developing nations that breast feeding is wrong...
Well, there are many babies who can't be breastfed. There is a place for formula. Its just not right that Australian mothers go without so that Chinese gangs can profit.
@@alphabet_soup123 It is really tragic that in China people have been caught putting toxic plastic protein in their milk powders, making dumplings from chemically treated cardboard, using unsafe human effluent in farming, reclaiming soiled cooking oil from sewers to use again and harvesting organs from the living incarcerated. The Chinese have no reason to trust companies in China to have their best interests at heart. Australia should be aggressively selling to that market (not just products either!).
@@sentientbean1 Are you serious? Chinese companies are literally producing inedible trash and labeling it as food? Is that even legal?!
@@ghostofmisao. In China if no-one dies then it's legal, particularly if a CCP member is doing it.
You should make a shuttle bus to the milk powder plant and back, then they could buy as much as they like to at a better price without being an nuisance to the locals.
A couple of years ago I was wondering about why in some stores in Berlin, Germany the buying of milk powder was restricted to 3 packages per person. I was then so surprised to hear that's because of all the Chinese tourists. You explain why they are doing all that. Thanks.
It is restricted in Hong Kong, but surprised to learn it even extends to Europe.
I'm more interested why they don't use breast pumps or breastfeed directly. Breast milk is good for babies and here in the US it's encouraged for the women to try and do it. Not every baby will latch on, and not ever parent has the time or patients to try. Is it because the average Chinese person is not as well nourished as a Western person?
Meeker Extreme - only thing I could think, China isn't restricting pollution and chemicals so women might not want to pass that from their breast milk.
Meeker Extreme In Europe, well at least in my country very common to sell (or donate for free) the extra milk from those mothers who have to those one who don't. Or at least used to be when I was a baby LoL. My mom did it too. Both of that actually bought and sold too. If you would ask her she would never give powder milk to us. We feed the the pigs with that sort of "food" she would of say. All the natural medicine and healing in China and no breast feeding?
It extends to anywhere where there are people who are willing to profit by selling to China. Typically this will be mainland Chinese people who are living abroad who don't care what this practice does to local supplies and those who actually rely on them.
I thought we Indians were the cheapest people but the Chinese beat us there too.
Pravin Patil chinese jews!
I really really love indian humor.
You can't beat the master.
If this thing happens in India, that dairy company CEO will be lynched in public. Indian govt cannot suppress protests like China does. But adulteration is fairly common if it is from dairy company.
We can get really pure Cow or buffalo milk is really high quality especially in small towns and villages as they are run by individual farmers instead of diary company.
nope you guys will lost to us
my mum always buys ferrero rocher chocolate as gifts when we visit China and when I asked her why she said because it looked "looked" expensive enough to be given as a family gift
Vicky SUnshine actually it is quite expensie considering that for that money you can buy something larger and better
Asobimo
It’s cheap ass chocolate. I see them in Costco
Ferrero Richer is nice Chocolate, because I live in the UK it is not that Expensive, My favourite chocolate are the Belgium Chocolate Guliyan Sea shell truffles.
tyrant gold wrappers
So overpriced and flaky. Much rather have a block of Toblerone then those
I like this kind of video. You driving through China and letting us see the city as you explain your content
See the city?! Lmao he could have been anywhere in the world. He was just stuck in traffic
I live in Europe in an area with many Chinese students and even here some supermarkets have limited how many packs of milk powder you can buy, so that the Chinese students won't just empty the whole store and leave nothing for the locals.
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Correction Guy ....since 1970. Lower intake all Dairy products .. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Nutrition_and_Human_Needs
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If this were significant, then a huge amount of the population on earth would have breast cancer, because they are drinking milk. But they do not. Even if there were a breast cancer study tied to milk, you could not link the cause of the cancer to milk under all circumstances. People who dont consume milk may as well dont consume red meat. And processed red meat is, as far as i know only probably linked to heart disease. I could count hundreds and hundreds of people that i know, that consume milk and dont have breast cancer.
During the milk powder crisis many stores even here in Germany have limited the amount of milk powder units one person is allowed to buy. The shelfs in Germany were cleared off milk powder and our own citizens had a bad time to feed their children with milk powder. The prices here went through the roof and the manufacturers here had difficulties to keep up the production. That happens when a county of billions of people buys from markets that is accustomed to only serve several dozens of million people.
Heffen89 doesnt milk powder will give you gas? hence the smog in china?
This happened in the UK as well guess every European country has been hit by this buying limit due to high demand from China.
It's a shame you don't have a leadership that works for its own people instead of been a doormat for anyone who wants to strip a bit more from your nation!
Finally, common sense. Limits.
Same here in the Netherlands 😂
2018: "China and Hong Kong is complicated"
2020: 🔥🔥🔥
Mission has been completed comrad !
😂😂😂
I’ve heard about the milk powder scandal on the news and seen lots of videos of people bulk buying or buying in groups - I actually didn’t know the reason as to why they were doing it so this video was very informative. It’s sad that the local businesses did that to the milk powder and I feel sorry for the infants and families that were affected by the faulty powder.
Soooo, basically I could wrap anything in gold colored foil and get rich in China? Awesome!
yea and also a good chance of spending half ur life in a chinese gulag
Damn 🤔 thats kinda weird, and I don't care it has never changed my life in any important way
Pfft.... Hey you... Yeah you.... Wan some good stuff? I got chocolate bar and milk powder... Shhhh not to loud... They're watching...
30% single tax on a goods is massive, China is taxing massivly all quality goods from the western world.
stefan matvei swietoniowski that’s how they gain power over people. To silence people using force today that force is isms racism,sexism
That infant formula thing haunts me.. One of the surviving kids asked his mom, "Why did you bring me into this world to suffer?" As this child survived with permanent side effects..
You should start your own milk powder brand. Uncle Serpentza milk powder - your kid will grow strong and stay awesome. Im sure you would pick up quite a bit of money. Youd be credible cause you are foreign.
Hahahahaha this
I recommend this Idea.
Good idea !
C-milk has perfect name
someone would probably conterfiet that too, then how would you know which one was Serpentza. Thered be Serpentzaa , Zerperntza, Repenter
I just realized, Winston is not wearing a suit !!! COOL. Like it
Andre K. Winston probably just came back from
C-milk's after riding the bikes 😊
He has a bad boy past.
I wish I knew which coat/jacket he was wearing; I am trying to find a new one and most types lately are terrible, but I really like his in the video. I'd trade three containers of ferrero rocher for it ! 😉
Maybe Google Adsense is going bankruptcy. The Google 50Cents Army is not doing good with their lifestyle on TH-cam.
I remember friends in China around 2008 asking me to send milk powder to them from Japan. They payed back with a wire transfer but the Chinese bank ripped me off by charging me 2500 yen on wire transfer fees. . .so I helped my friends out but got ripped off in the process. . . THEY should have added more money into the wire transfer.
Your videos make me realize how much I should appreciate being a natural born American versus being born in China. *whew*
*Americans being happy to be born in America*
The rest of the developed world: “who’s gonna tell him”
@@pinkgoergefloyd8340 Atleast American citizens have rights and the consitution to protect them from a possible tyrannical regime, Chinese citizens don't have anything like that.
@@DustGamezX, there's this cool continent called Europe. Did you know that it's the same there, as well as in Canada, Latin America and Oceania?
Yeah I've always found Asians a little off
@@pinkgoergefloyd8340 Meanwhile Europe is taken over by people from 3rdd world countries LUL
In the Netherlands we had a milk powder shortage too. A few of my friends work at the supermarket and they told me that there are lots of rules to prevent smuggling, like there's a limit on how much someone can buy and they can only buy milk powder if they're also buying other products. Some stores even refused to sell milk powder to asian looking people.
That's racist as fuck
🤣😂😂
Leelicious you do realise that a whole country has shortage because of chinese buying it all. I worked at a store in the netherlands and we were only allowed to selll one for each person and keep track of tbe chinese because they would just send their whole family one by one
They really should hand out fliers on the benefits of breast milk.
@@Dv-qk8le Russia and Belarus has exess milk production why don't they buy there
After the 2008 melamine milk scandal my Chinese sister in law would pack her suitcase full of Australian powdered milk before returning home to visit her parents. It was amazing to watch. An entire suitcase, just full of milk!
If you did that in South America you would never get out of the airport. Each and every one of those cans would be tested for drugs to the most minute level
@@AlfoncinaMatilda Happened to me in Mexico City while i was coming back from Central America but with a whole travel bag full of homemade cocoa (we also had 2 big suitcases full of it in the plane). They didn't say that they thought it was drugs but explosives and i told them what it was and to test it but they wouldn't give it back without signing for it so i just left without them, they were very lax about it in Central America when we told them tho.
Sooo why don't they just do more breastfeeding? I still don't understand that. Isn't it unanimously healthier? (and of course cheaper??) Shouldn't the health of the baby come first???
ArtforLife maybe if the babies were wrapped in gold foil...
Moms having to go back to work sooner
Tiny Chinese boobs do not give much milk.
They’re not open about bodies,sexuality,body part issues,etc. I have elderly relatives here in the USA who are even embarrassed that I breast fed my kids. They were so afraid ppl would think we’re poor. It’s just pure ignorance. And that’s exactly how China is. Must save face at all costs.
@@alison2649 what does breast feeding have to do with sexuality and saving face? Breastfeeding is done indoors in private. Nothing, you are talking nonsense.
The fact is that they being so small do not produce much milk, genetically. Almost all Chinese girls are completely flat.
The Ferrero Rocher is the "Why" behind the big ammount of chinese visitors in Italy
Working at Costco in Irvine California, I often see Chinese people come and buy very large amounts of pharmaceuticals for resale. Learning to understand some Chinese has made it clear about what they are doing by listening.
Max McCree hmmm, now I know why they always take a full size van to costco, and only a few of them!
Max McCree you're probably talking about the vitamin supplements and not actual medications. Medications are cheaper in China but vitamins and supplements are insanely overpriced. Like a bottle of vitamins that you get at Costco for $15 is $100 at Sam's Club in China (Sam's club exists there) and even pricier if you're not at a warehouse store.
Honestly if you want to go to China and make some friends bring some vitamins over.
BS. You obviously don't know what EBT is or how it works.
It's so simple to just look it up before using it in a stupid comment.
At the very least, look up what the acronym E.B.T stand for.
Those Ferroche Chocolate smugglers will have a heart attack if they ever get inside a US Costco before Christmas and see what's there.
Lol
The whole international student muggling stuff thing really bothers me at night. EVERYONE is doing it! Most people only smuggle a little bit for their family and close friend, which I guess it's in the grey area of law, and I don't (and can't) mind since it's literally everyone. And a small amount of people do this for pure profit, and many work for full time organized professionals (usually smuggling luxury bags and shits I don't understand). These professional are sometimes kinda like family business, run by a few relatives who have local property and are permanent local residence, and students working on buying stuff or sorting or running taobao stores and shit.
Now I love Winston cover this unique phenomena and actually hitting the jack spot analyzing it. But in the mean time I dread at the extra reason local people can hate international students for. It's as if they are not already in tons of trouble, and caught on between two societies, neither recognizing them as their own.
i sell cherries in Melbourne Australia, and have done since 2006. Although all races have there quirks, most Australian Chinese and Indians are by far the worst! They are horrified when there is no self serve, even after allowing them to see, taste and decide. They seem to have this incredible fear that if one cherry has a blemish of any kind, their lives will collapse.
They will bring back 2 cherries and swap them, hours later!! I have never had any other race do this, ever! I can have many people waiting to be served, so picking your own for 30 mins is just silly. After giving permission for the buyer to taste, I've watched them 1 by one take a cherry, the whole frigging family thinks they have a right to munch down as many as they please. A lot forget i have peripheral vision. Culture Smulture. It's right and wrong, there's no respect, it's just a bunch silly people with silly ideas and passing there rubbish to their kids.
Basically, it's cheat or be cheated in China. No wonder Chinese gamers are so good at battle royale, they do it every day!
@@Slenderman63323 most underrated comment on this video
Calm the fk down, it's not like they're asking free cherries from you lol.
Atleast here in India, South Asia, you are allowed to pick your own fruits and vegetables. Because vendors can't be trusted anywhere in the world. Just because you're in a first world country, doesn't make you vendors angelic and honest.
Tbh I'd never take the veggies or fruits picked by a vendor unless it's pre packaged. I don't trust these lower level vendors who'll do anything and everything to make a buck or two at the cost of your health.
Learn to respect people, if you don't like them, refuse the service simple as that.
i always wanted to become an chocolate smuggeler
Shxt me too
Please do a video about the fake EGGs in china, that traumatized me.
Yes, I live in China and this fake product amazes me.
My Sister in law buys baby formula in NZ by the crate load and drives all over Auckland every day to every supermarket. She gets 100 tins a day. She triples her profit and sometimes more than that. She's making us a killing. The Chinese think NZ is the best for quality. your giving me ideas to start my own chocolate business and wrap it in shiny red and gold foil wrap. NZ is the worlds cow.
you obviously have not heard of Ireland
How about you start yr own dairy farm there in China and sell the milk directly to the rich people.
So your sister is one of the hated locusts snatching up gobs of product and preventing good people from buying what they need. We've had to limit what people can buy bc of the GD Chinese buying up things. They can't run an efficient country so they go to better run places and inconvenient others.
Biggest airport in my country (Denmark) almost always have milk powder ads displayed exclusively in Chinese. Was confused why, thanks for clearing it up
Great video. Also I can shed some light on the popularity of the Ferrero Rocher chocolates. This product was introduced in China in the early 1980s. The advertising agency had very wisely introduced the brand as "金莎" or "gold sand". The name was especially auspicious for gifting around Chinese New Year and other holidays.
Its popularity just scaled up when it was made available in mainland China
Very interesting videos. I keep coming back for more. Would you ever make a video of the lifestyle of people in China, the poor, the middle class and the top 1%. Thanks. Stay Awesome, as always!
Ferro Rochets taste amazing.
Hey man you really do brighten up my day, just watching your videos amd taking in the information is part of my daily routine
I use to work in airline cargo and have sent many many tonnes of them to China from Australia. Local shops here restricted amount of tins u can buy too per person but the enterprising Chinese daigou would just hire teams of international Chinese students to hit shops and just keep buying until they are refused then move onto other shops. I feel a bit embarrassed now (being of Chinese extraction myself) when I go buy milk formulas for my niece cus of the suspicious and sometimes hostile looks I get.
Today in Australia several large supermarket chains took the most popular (with the Chinese) brands off the shelf due to the Chinese buyers and is now sold in a controlled manner at the checkouts... Crazy..!
Yes also in the netherlands only 2 tins/bags per customer.. I have seen chinese people fighting outside the shops in my country... Crazy!! Btw dairy products are of very high quality in the Netherlands and world famous.. Nutrilon fe... Very famous baby milkpowder.. Made in Holland.
Accept bellamy...none at my woolworths
Why not just increase supply to sell to the new customers?
@@Tom--Ace Factory has fixed rate though .The supplier needs to expand if they want to increase the production .
Good!
i fxxking hate those street-blocking suitcases
Seann Huang just kick the suitcases over
Swear to god when i saw this title i thought people were injecting themselves with melted chocolate and cutting milk powder into lines
I work in an Australian Pharmacy and the milk powder thing is a genuine problem.
The deliberate restriction of supply is the genuine problem.
Manufacturers know exactly what they are doing, it's the oldest trick in the book. They love being able to point the finger at big bad China while they gradually raise their prices.
"Milk powder" (奶粉) is what they call it in Chinese, but it's *infant formula,* not milk.
Ok, that made more sense now. I was wondering about that watching the video
You are right.
Winston Posegate - thank you. Winston I was confused because we do have evaporated and dry milk (not infant formula).
I figured it what they called it in British English. In American English it is definitely infant formula.
Winston, thank you for that explanation. Makes sense to me now.
I'm amazed at how much of Chinese culture you could apply to Brazilian culture. I've been living here (BR) for 16 years and you could literally switch out the word "China" for "Brazil" in 80% of your videos. It's weird, you would think they'd be polar opposites.
Is this why certain stores/markets in the US lock their milk powder and other baby formula behind glass?
Probably.
This is funny because I've always been curious myself working in a supermarket in the U.K. as to why Chinese tourists always purchase tons of ferrero rochers haha
Ferrero Rocher are an inferior brand. Try Whittakers (NZ) or Lindt (Switzerland.) Cadburys are crap.
Hi David Renwick ok I will try lindt chocolate I think I've seen it at my discount store. I do however firmly believe that Cadbury is as close to the heavens as chocolate will ever be there's this aftertaste of purple fakeness that I just can't get enough of.
It's even funnier if you consider that the UK is an expensive country with high prices for groceries
The milk powder shelf was empty at my local major chain food store in Seattle haha as a liquid milk drinker I have no issues only giggles with this, thanks for supporting American businesses whoever buys all these here
f111-de He’s Not American.
Liquid milk is being taken by my fellow Canadians, and cheese :D
David Brown you changed your name？kinda miss your comments.
R just said that.
David Brown just out of curiosity, how are the Chinese supposed to be grateful? They pay taxes, they study hard, work hard, don't commit much crime nor rape and don't get political much. They aren't being a pain in the ass. And what do u mean 1939? Please elaborate😀
Someone in china : hahaha I'm the Pablo escobar of milk powder 🤣🤣
Is the penalty doubled for chocolate milk?
More and more Chinese mothers are realizing that breastfeeding is a good way to go because doctors are starting to tell them that it's healthier for the baby. In my neighborhood quite a few mothers are breastfeeding. Of course, for working mothers its not an easy option, and in big Chinese cities unless the husband is pulling in a decent salary (say 8k+ a month) then the mother pretty much needs to work.
with the weeds and snot juice the Chinese lap up, the kids are probably better off getting the infant formula instead.
So if I smuggle chocolate to China, do you recommend to cover it with HEROIN so that the officers will say "it's just heroin, let him in"?
P.S. how did you manage to smuggle CMILK into china ?
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Funny comment.
Funny comment.
Funny comment.
MrUrchu ummm...i know this comment is funny, but WHY is everyone commenting "funny comment"?!?
Desiree S, I guess it's a new meme, if so, I'm even not aware of it.
"We'll get to the chocholates later, let me finish up with the milk powder, we'll get to the chocolates" ~ Winston, 2018.
I remember in 2013 the UK limited the amount of formula anyone person could buy because of the Chinese milk fraud. In fact some retailers still limit it.
I've noticed Chinese students bulk buying pharmaceuticals in the UK and Australia. The pharmacies have placed buying constraints on all consumers to narrow demand. Suspiciously young looking shoppers might also be deterred when asked "what is the purpose of your purchase?" . It's a nuisance for commonwealth locals, but I find it all very interesting none the less
To be fair, what would you buy in bulk for personal use in a pharmacy?
I really don't understand a company wanting to "narrow demand". Why not just increase the price?
@@inthefade because that would affect the consumer/ regular consumer directly and the image of the company.
You could rise the price if the general population you serve were to increase demand but thats not the case here, its an "outsider" group who is buying it all. Its pretty much the same thing with the miners buying all the graphics cards for bitcoin ot ethereum moths ago. The gamer comunity suffered the most of the shortage and higer prices.
@@inthefade 🙄
My local supermarket had to put purchase limits on milk powder sales after Chinese customers kept cleaning out all of the milk powder as soon as it hit the shelves. Chinese nationals had their teams going around to all of the supermarkets buying up all of the available stocks of milk powder, to be collected and bulk shipped to China. It only stopped when the supermarkets refused bulk sales and set maximum purchase limits.
AUSSIEDAVEROCKS yep in Australia it happens here and they have multiple warehouses full of it and is causing a very heated political issue. I think they might have to soon having it behind glass unfortunately
Some supermarkets in The Netherlands have permanent empty shelves with a big sign telling customers to ask for milk powder at the service desk, which has to come out of specially locked cabinet.
AUSSIEDAVEROCKS tell your purchase department to order more.
But why should the supermarkets order more for the 9 out of 10 situation that the rinse and repeat happens of chinese coming in and raking up all the forumla
Kanall Simms Manufacturers and distributors can only produce and ship so much. Scarcity, even an artificial one, causes the prices to skyrocket.
My uncle was an IT technician at a factory that made Ferrero Rocher chocolates. He gave me a tour of it. It's interesting to see where all this stuff goes after it's bought.
Living in australia.... i can confirm this happens
Springvale, Noble park always out or very short on powder
Same in the Netherlands. Since the scandal you can only buy one box of milk powder per person.
What's milk powder
henk that is disgusting. The laws must protect local children. How about unlimited power for Dutch and no powder for Chinese tourists and students. Show your residency or FUCK OFF.
most places in Australia have a purchase limit now though
Last year I participated in the Milk Powder distribution project. My factory sales agent had a baby girl. I would go to Costco and purchase ten Containers of Infamile milk powder, bring them home and repackage them in Food Saver vacuum bags. Fit them into UPS Flat rate boxes and send them off. Even after my agent paying the powder and shipping, she was very happy to get them at such a low price, what?? Low price? Hardly! People always assume everything in China is dirt cheap. We in the west have a lot to learn about China.
Thank you for your videos Winston!
2018: Hong Kong is it's own country...
2021: China, "Hold My Beer!"
Milk powder buying is very topical in Australia. Regularly in the news it shows Chinese people lined up buying all the milk powder and leaving none to the locals, so they are introducing buying limits, but then they bring friends along. It is giving the Chinese a bad name. All of the Chinese I have come across buy products from the chemists for friends and family back in China.
Short sight, quick profit, long term suffering.
I can say this is truth, it is very very enraging.
You’re not kidding about the difference between Hong Kong and mainland China. I lived in Hong Kong from 93 until late 95 and the first time I went over the border to mainland I was absolutely amazed. First most people had a basic command of English in HK but on the mainland only scammers and hustlers spoke English. Second was the feeling that you were being ‘watched’ everywhere you went. I also found the quality of people, and this is general and of my own experience, to be better in HK. They were better travelled and definitely benefited from the UK in a lot of ways like that. Idk I enjoyed Shanghai but things weren’t like they are now on the mainland as far as being as technologically advanced and so forth. Anyway great vid Winston
strangely I think China will become more like HK than the other way around over 50 years
Atheist Dingo .you are brainwashed.....Civilized like the American and British GI Joe's that commit Crimes on Earth for 80 years since WW2
Goddamn, chill out.
AmericanJustice underTHE laws
Cantonese are ancient, original national language of Tang dynasty, the peak of chinese history. The Vietnamese and Japanese imported our language and set it as their backbone of their own national language. That's why they sound similar to us because they learned the language from the South.
Unlike the Northern Chinese are actually Mongolians, Huns, Manchurian mixed breeds. During Northern and Southern dynasty, Southern Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty and Qing dynasty, the Northerners are always the first to surrender themselves to barbarians and lick their boots. During Yuan dynasty, the Northerners are actually tamed like a dog and dressed like an actual Mongolian, instead of keep on resisting the Mongolians like the Southerners did.
越语汉语分不清, 尽作胡儿语为汉语。可悲。
@@americanjusticeunderthelaw3383 Troll!
Funny to hear you talking about Hong Kong like it's a different country in 2020
Are you an alien?
Have you no idea of the past 100+ years of history?
Hongkong is an ex-British colony. Its still heavily influenced by Britain, the European banking cartels and Western economic giants have a massive input into Hong Kong.
Hong Kong didnt exist before the opium wars.
@@ThoseWhoHeedTheCall Have you read the news recently?
@@anonpls9909
Have you tried looking at facts?
@@ThoseWhoHeedTheCall Oh, so the hong kong protests were fake?
Why referencing Opium Wars? You never see Indians talking about anything before colonization, because we appreciate unity, we appreciate modern day peace. We appreciate democracy.
A full black market of powdered baby milk in Australia to China. Even truckloads get stolen and moved to rented warehouses for export.
Me to Chinese customs official: "I swear it's not milk powder, it's cocaine" customs guy: "move along"
No. You will be sentenced to death. Don't try.
Unless you brought some dough or have some connection ;-)
The chocolate thing happens at my local Costco I see them buying a lot of chocolate. Now I know why.
Chocolate is scared in my culture. We are still upset that Europeans have turned it unto a commodity
@@NCXitlali its scared ? why is it so afraid ?
@@dariusanderton3760 he meant sacred.
@@dariusanderton3760 LMFAO
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Bro seriously i love you man, you really get down to the real deal and explain to people like me to understand what is happening in china locally
Its called infant formula, not milk powder. But I see your point
Janina Perez this confused me because there’s also powdered milk for baking and I wasn’t sure if he meant that or infant formula.
@Jess A. Kinda petty to bring it up, right? 🤣
it's called milk powder, because that is expensive but still much cheaper than infant formula, which is filled with special nutrients etc. Milk powder is cheaper, what do you think they will buy? everybody drinks milk, only babies get formula . . .
Its called formula in the UK
It's called "powdered milk". It's a raw product for many foods.
You know if the government really wanted they could secure the quality of milk, I dont thing it would be that complicated
Actually the govt has been already very strict on milk production, the thing is that the ppl don't trust any more. Trust is very difficult to recover.
Nelson Di Salvatore
Once the trust is lost, it is a challenge to regain it.
Parents do not want to risk their child's health/life because they heard/read,
"the milk powder is now safe again. Really. Trust us."
I heard that if you put milk powder in checked bags, at the Chinese airports, the security will switch it with counterfeits.
maybe but once you have a reputation for not being safe, and killing children you have to really work hard for a long time to recover, they might get there reputation back in 50 or so years.
Corruption starts at the top and is really hard to get rid off. Especially the people living there will know how corrupt things are.
Same thing in Vietnam lol. I live in Sydney and i get an insane amount of requests from my friends. Most popular items are milk powder, cosmetics and medicines. A lot of people do this, its called “hand-carried goods business”. You can find many online shops on Facebook. I’ve thought of doing this myself since the money is good, but when i think about the embarrassment every time I check out with a basket full of milk powder and cosmetics... its just too much lol
hahaha too much shame bud, you need to let go of your pride, there's serious dollars to be made!
Let's team up I buy em at stores and u distribute lol
I live in Canada we have a big government subsidized dairy market here. How much can I make reselling this powder milk to Chinese?
Hi Winston. Excellent work on producing these educational and entertaining looks at China and the culture. We see so little of what life is like overseas, especially in places like China where media and internet is so tightly regulated. You and CMilk really provide an honest and penetrating look at the inside of daily life. Just wanted to let you know FERRARO ROCHER means "Iron Boulder". There are several other translations of each word and the two combined, (such as FERRARO= Smith or Gold Smith) but the most prevalent translation seemed to be iron boulder, which makes sense. Anyways cheers and keep it up. Or "Stay Awesome" ;)
This happened in Denmark aswell. Chinese people would empty the stores with trolleys and trolleys of milk powder. Specially the organic powder was popular, and could be sold for alot of money. It became such a problem that there wasnt any powder available to the local people, so the stores had to put a limit on how many you could buy.
Alos just wanted to say your videos are awesome. Ive never had much interest in china but your videos are quite entertaining and informative. I originally started watching because of the motor cycles but even with out them the videos are still awesome!
Winston, what you have said is all very true, have seen it all myself. A great vlog mate
lol infowars, among all other news now, is all entertainment =.P
False equivalency. Christ, don't compare anything to infowars...
In spite of my comment below this one and even tho I knew quite a bit about this topic, it’s is a really informative and eye opening report, so thanks Winston.
Just get your own cow and park it in your yard like we do in northern India it's LIT. Fresh milk bro
gurjinder singh he's not talking about powdered milk but infant formula, made for new born children
Cows are awesome. Keep that in the front yard you not only got a cool friend you get fre$h milk. Cash money.
Ain’t no yards with them box apartments in the sky
Here in Australia, every 2 or 3 months, the news/current affairs program will talk about the shortage of milk powder due to the Daigou buying them all. The last episode I saw, the manufacturers were providing a website where you could order directly to get a guaranteed supply, and that was the "solution"...I'm willing to bet the Daigou will be using that site too.
That is called capitalism man
Yet some might still get smugglers to get it for them. Even though there is an direct website. Or it would not be that much of a widespread knowledge.
merinsan The providers are limiting the supplies while the production is abundant
Thompson Tang no it’s called greed and selfishness.
DioMa
Where did you get that information from? I'd like to review the source for it.
As far as I know, their production capacity is the bottleneck.
What happens if a big group starts selling fake imported milk powder? What assurance is there that your "imported" product isn't actually domestic?
Exactly. I asked the same thing.
Neil Baker Hope we didn't give anybody any ideas.
You just game me some very useful hints on what to bring when I visit China next time.
Some of the most insightful, honest & brilliant analyses of communist China I’ve seen‼️👍🏼 Even during some of your more negative comments about Chinese society it shows that you love China, it shows that you love the people, it shows that you care about the nation, and I think that’s something they should lift you up for‼️ Though they’re idiots who hate accountability & wont.
I wanted to thank you for your videos! As I said under a earlier video that I soon go to Chengdu, iam now back from Chengdu. As I can say now iam very thankful for your rants and Tipps that you give in your video. It helped me to keep me out off trouble and avoid unnecessary risky actions. It made my experience in Chengdu really wonderful, I loved it! Thank you and keep on making videos!
How much can you sell a kilo of milk powder for in china?
max thorell more than a kilo of coke 😂
Its funny how they all have these thick bike locks locking their bag to a tiny little cable you could just rip down 😄
They are missing out on Kit Kat Choclate- happy they haven't raided our shelves on them 😂😂🇦🇺
Hey I've seen your videos for a long time .But It's my first time to leave comments on your channel . I'd ever stayed in Guangdong as a exchange student for almost six months . During the period , I visited Shenzhen and Hong Kong .Those places are very attractive and modern I've never seen . But today , I've come back to Taiwan and I still cannot forget those wonderful places. What I wanna say is your videos always can bring those good memories to me and make me have more understanding of those places . Thanks so much ~ I wouldn't say I started seeing your videos is for training my English listening 😂. You are one of several English speakers I could understand what u say haha. Thanks again ~ 😀
Loved the Alex Jones reference. Great video, very interesting.
David Brown Definitely from YT. Some of the crazy shit on here gets seen all over the world. I’ve seen serpentza and c-milk mention things like “manspreading” before (poking fun at the idea). They try and steer clear of political talk, but they’ve hinted where they stand on some of the Western world’s issues. I enjoy hearing the opinions of what an “outsider” thinks of the ongoing cultural issues in the West-such as SJW extremism-as brief as it may be.
Uncle Rico I've listened to Watson off and on since 2004. He was all about big brother government then, and now niche is the "culture wars".
I found this information so interesting. Thank You.
Bro you a real gentlemen. I can tell u come from a great family.
Dude I laughed my ass off at the Info wars reference and Alex Jones clip XD
I can hear Alex's voice in that clip
Those Alex Jones cultists are a very special kind of stupid
Alex Jones is a meme, but memes are what made Trump win.
@@rudyishoggin A generalization and straw man ?
@@Groaznic news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/