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It doesn't matter if they like drinking in business, them designating a person to drink for them is an affectation that shows they are in power and better than you. How are you so slow that you haven't figured this out? Pay attention.
Why the heck you have so few subscribers? I was subscribed to both of you before you had a collab. Got unsubbed a few times but damn we gotta pump those numbers up.
My Father was born there. White Russian. When the Chinese revolution happened it was China for Chinese people so he was takin in by Australia. His father, my grandfather,escaped the Russian revolution to end up there in Harbin China. So lucky.
Bro what country do you live in if you say my country i will move before the coming revolution lol... just kidding hope you and your family are secure and safe nowadays
@@screamindemon9324 Australia. I could do with some hard knocks Grandfather was a structural engineer, miner, then went onto become a language teacher (5 languages) by the end at UQ IN Queensland. Lucky they where white.... White Australia Policy was is full swing just it time for when they needed it. Get this though. They sent my grandfather to australia and my grandmother, with two children, to chilli! Only after 4 years did the mother and kids get status in Australia. (Probably wanted to see how my grandfather performed). The month before they were to leave Chilli to come to Australia, my would be uncle contracted the flu and died. My grandmother went crazy shortly after they landed in Australia. Likely due to the experiences she had in Chilli. (She didn’t know Spanish. They just sent them over and threw them in a box to fend for themselves back in those days.) I’m fucking boring 🤣
Hiring blind people as massage therapists is actually genius. I know someone with a blind family member who can't work; I should suggest that, and see if they had ever thought of it before.
The CCP is the patron for established triads of South East Asia. While USA have to employ agents to be their eyes and ears the CCP are using the triads, in return they are given consessions to operate in China as long as they do not prey on the mainland society namely in online scam, gambling and flesh trade.
@@MrNajibrazak This sounds so much like a conspiracy theory, until you listen to the testimonies of the victims, especially the escaped slaves. It's chilling that this still takes place in a relatively developed country, or well, anywhere. It is extremely chilling.
You missed one of the big fun parts of Harbin. Deep underground, in the area for about a kilometre radius from the St Sophia church is an network of old 'fallout' tunnels that have been converted into long, skinny shopping malls. Deep in Winter you go down 3 long flights of steps from street level to get there. Most of the above ground streets have been replicated in tunnels. There's even an underground McDonalds. In winter it provides good protection from the -25º C topside.
The bird thing makes me laugh every time also. It is horrible that Mao killed millions, but so many of the things he (Mao) did are so hysterically stupid. "I want everyone to make steel in their backyard".
Love the comment about birds in China. When I lived in Guangzhou we had a lonely bird making a lonely sound. We called the the Guangzhou bird. The only one in town that hasn’t been eaten!!!
To be fair, there are birds in china. Zhejiang province seems to have more sparrows than the UK. However, in general, the UK is absolutely replete with birds, and the dawn chorus in summer sounds like a jungle. Not so much in china, which is weird given that it's mainly subtropical. Most of the countryside that I saw in china is depleted. Many European countries are much more densely populated than china yet retain a fair amount of wildlife and 'unspoilt' nature. That was one of the many things that made me glad to return to the UK after my stay in china.
@@markvogel5872 we saw 2 a few years back in cali. im guessing he came here cause the state would pay him 3 gold pieces per day for existing and being short. his coffers are overflowing
More content of the north would be brill! I’m really fascinated by the fusion of Russo-sino cultures in the northern region and also the Mongolian aspect. Loved Conquering Northern China! Hoped you guys go back to that region perhaps Russia or Mongolia to do a docu series.
Out of the 4 times I've visited China I was in a car accident every time and the 4th time was the worst. Our car rolled twice and landed on it's side. This one lady told me I should get a massage at the scene lol. She was a masseuse and she wasn't joking. It hurt, but the next day I wasn't sore at all. She said she treated lots of car accident victims.
@@vortexfatwhale That's because every other race is texting and driving, Asians only occasionally use the calculator app while driving, and only for equations over 4 lines or 14 digits (including decimal point) atleast 40 digits without 😉
64-year-old Navy veteran, I enjoy everything you all do. Here and there have a different point of view on a couple of things but that is normal when anyone talks to anyone. I've learned a few things from y'all and y'all have learned things from other people as you grow older. Keep up the great work! 👍🏻
I lived in Changchun (Jilin Province/Dong Bei region) and I can attest to how freezing cold it is, especially when the wind picks up from the Gobi desert. It's insane. Changchun was unreal. 4 years of absolute pandemonium that can't even be explained.
@@rizkiramadhan9266 up until I was a teenager I never visited Southern China, I only ever lived in Northern China. It was a weird experience walking out of the Guangzhou airport and being able to see well above everyone's heads, despite the fact that I'm about average height for my age in Northern China.
Great video, guys. I love this format. I enjoy all the videos y'all put out. The northern region topics have been my favorite. I will never have the opportunity to travel to China. Thank you for providing the vicarious life I never thought I would get!!!!!!
You guys did some crazy stuff lol. I wouldn't be caught dead in many of the places you went. I have a lot of respect for what you guys did. Extremely interesting and informational.
Oh man, I just recently discovered your channel and I am amazed with how much interesting content you guys produced! Great, interesting stuff that helps to know more about parts of the world that are simply inaccessible to me. Seriously - why consume regular tv broadcasting when there is so much worthwhile stuff available on channels like yours! Thank you and wishing you all the best!
@@benbowland yeah, it was weird she just was on and on about how much better China was than here. Like maybe I'm being too harsh about it and she just really liked it, but it had a weird vibe.
It's because it was probably her first time there, a honeymoon phase. Or because she doesn't speak any Chinese, so as a foreigner in China not being able to speak Chinese you're pretty isolated. You're usually only exposed to the good stuff, not to mention that you make way above an average local salary, so of course you'll think only the best of China, until you have to deal with health issues or law issues that is.
SerpentZA and Cmilk are still number one bloggers maybe not in China but about China topics, here in America , Chinese massage is WAY different if you know what I mean
Loads of sex-trafficking. Our small town had a problem with them. They basically ruined things for CA massage therapists here. Therapists have to jump through expensive hoops now.
@@rizkiramadhan9266 That's true, and we shouldn't put up with it when we have the ability to shut them down for good. They screwed up a great situation in a few towns with their antics. Costs go to the clients. Nobody is happy.
@@sorongana5346 Don't get me started on residential property taxation! THAT'S not home/land ownership. Not when every cent you earn is triple taxed, excluding insurance, annual or bi-annual occupational licence fees! We are strangled by taxation and don't get the benefits! We need a serious accounting and overhaul of this thievery. It really pisses me off that OUR tax dollars funded the gain of function research that wrecked our lives. What about that sex-abuse slush fund the Congress had? 😖 No more!!!
Don’t forget the Four Pests campaign-one of the first actions taken in the “Great Leap forward”. The thrust of this campaign was to eliminate four pests-rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. One was known as “Smash Sparrow”, a campaign in 1958 by Mao Zedong. Mao felt that sparrows ate too much grain and thus decreed that all sparrows be killed. Nobody knows how many sparrows were killed but estimates say that even if everyone killed at least one sparrow each, more than 600 million sparrows would have been killed, making it an extinct bird in China. Maybe that’s why you only saw one sparrow, not a flock of them?
@@user-xq4st9ie7r I had to look this up: The "Four Pests" campaign was introduced in 1958 by Mao Zedong, as a hygiene campaign aimed to eradicate the pests responsible for the transmission of pestilence and disease: the mosquitos responsible for malaria the rodents that spread the plague the pervasive airborne flies the sparrows-specifically the Eurasian tree sparrow-which ate grain seed and fruit[1] By April 1960, Chinese leaders changed their opinion due to the influence of ornithologist Tso-hsin Cheng[6] who pointed out that sparrows ate a large number of insects, as well as grains.[7][8] Rather than being increased, rice yields after the campaign were substantially decreased.[8][9] Mao ordered the end of the campaign against sparrows, replacing them with bed bugs, as the extermination of sparrows upset the ecological balance, and insects destroyed crops as a result of the absence of natural predators. By this time, however, it was too late. With no sparrows to eat them, locust populations ballooned, swarming the country and compounding the ecological problems already caused by the Great Leap Forward, including widespread deforestation and misuse of poisons and pesticides.[9] Ecological imbalance is credited with exacerbating the Great Chinese Famine, in which 15-45 million people died of starvation.[10][11] The Chinese government eventually resorted to importing 250,000 sparrows from the Soviet Union to replenish their population.[12]
@@Ass_of_Amalek Taxonomy labels are all subjective unscientific garbage, and macro-evolution is racist shit. The mind is FREE to think ergo is NOT A SLAVE to physics which make it NOT PHYSICAL, so it is IMPOSIBLE for genetic evolution to make a speices into a smarter (or dumber) one. Therefore, the very act of thinking proves the British atheist creation myth wrong irrefutably. But you can maintain the contradiction that the free equals the slave. Atheist fanatics confuse correlation with causation saying brain scans prove the brain is the thinker. When the Nintendo controller is broken, the player isn't necessarily dead. I had a taxonomy professor lament that all of the taxonomy he was taught i now OBSOLETE. Truth, on the other hand, has no expiration date.
The idea of banning something to get rid of "a poor look" rather than worry about the actual poor makes my head spin. It's so pretentious, and layered in its pretenses for the very assumption that something like a bike "looks poor." It is also very sad as it will mean a great deal of nonsense to cut through not only in the practical, but the mental and with the attitude for such a place to ever truly improve and be free.
Enjoy watching your video. I am Chinese myself from 湖南. I can feel you guys really know today's Chinese culture, that is really different from what looks like in Chinatown or from curious foreigner vlog!!
7:48 those are Slavic pancakes, it's milk, flour and egg plus whatever you can imagine to add. We usually make plain ones and just fill them, for example in my country, most commonly with white cheese and sourcream, spiced minced meat, shrooms. You can eat them as they are, sweetened or salty. They take basically no time to make, as you pour the mixture on the pan and it fries almost instantly. I like the spinach, shrooms and mozzarella ones the most, my boyfriend loves to put jam or Nutella on them so it's actually one of the most versatile and easy to make dishes ever😄😄
Guys I see to God I've watched every video on every single channel u guys both have and you guys have helped me get through a lot of depression and thank you so much for that this means a lot to me and I feel a lot better like I know you guys almost LOL I feel like you guys are my friends LOL NOTHING BUT LOVE HERE FROM MILWAUKEE WI. USA 💪😎💯
Interesting fact: Harbin was the largest Jewish center in the far east before the establishment of Israel, with a Jewish population numbering 250,000 at its peak.
I still remember when I was a student in china i went to a club and was drinking with my friends and suddenly a woman came to interact with me and asked me that if she can join us, offcourse we said yes and then we were quite drunk and went to washroom to do some obvious things and I don't know from where her husband came and he pulled out a knife on me😭😭 thank god I was not alone and I had a Chinese friend who solved the problem 😂
Chinese girls are so much excited to see foreigners once I was approached by a couple to do certain things with his wife while he watches😂😂fetish all around hahaha
I bet NordVPN bloody love you two! Usually any kind of sponsorship gets skipped immediately (and I’ll often miss 10-30secs over-skipping sometimes). But I watched the whole thing 😂 (Definitely skipping it if it’s in another vid tho!)
The whole birds going missing scenario reminds of a guy I met who lived somewhere North of Africa. So where I live birds would walk up right next to you like a boss and he was shocked to see that, because in his country people eat birds so you never them as close.. they always miles away.
Nice episode guys I always wanted to go to Harbin; unfortunately, due to my poor to none Chinese language proficiency I could never travel outside of Guangzhou every time I visited China; well I only went to Hunan once because a friend booked the train tickets for me to visit her. Have a great day everyone and be safe.
TY for confirming my suspicion about the birds. When teaching my students (remotely) , I used to object to the lesson material that claimed squirrels , birds and deer "live in the mountains". I used to say, " Actually, elk live in the mountains. Deer live everywhere. Squirrels and birds live everywhere. Rabbits live everywhere. I live in the city. I can see a squirrel outside my window." My higher level ( elite-level) students would tell me they never see squirrels or birds in the city, so I stopped saying those things.
I love Heilongjiang province. I lived there for close to 2 years in 2016/17, and the people were so hospitable and kind! Maybe I'm biased as my wife is from there. Daqing was a great city to live in.I couldn't handle baijiu though.
Hard to believe Conquering Northern China is 3.5 years old now and I still have the poster! :) Keep up the great work guys, enjoying the range of vids and live sessions (though wrong TZ for me)
I enjoyed my time in Heilongjiang provence in 2001. I travelled to Harbin and stayed in Mudanjiang as part of a trade delegation representing New Zealand grain growers. We travelled with local Police and spent a day and night at a Government resort at Jingpo lake. They played Kenny G on the loud speakers all day. Very nice place. When I was discussing prices with NZ over the phone the connection keep cutting out. I knew someone was playing with us.
@@joelcornfoot9646 So he's a traitor for doing business in China? Seriously? Get a grip.. it's more like former national leader Don Key and his clique who sold out the country
Dongbei people tend to spread out and do business in tourist areas all over. When one goes to Lijiang, Yunnan or certain spots in Sichuan, instead of local business owners, there are lots of Dongbei people. Would you agree?
I'm glad you have so much footage to go through, but a lot of it must be so old by now. I hope you both go out on a road trip soon to gather new videos. This channel feels like its spinning in place with the same stories, same footage, same messages, etc.
It's actually a nasty Chinese habit they picked up - Chinese tend to all talk at the same time or not wait for the other person to "finish" before they voice their thoughts. It's not really considered rude in China... I do it all the time back home here in Canada and everyone looks at me like I am rude. I explain to them, it is possible to talk and listen at the same time. Chinese do it very well!
Says the guy with a Ukrainian flag in his pfp. Imagine idolizing the poorest European country with the most crime, the most nazis, and the most child sex trafficking.
There's only one thing you can be sure of when you're dealing with a gang or mafia... You are dealing with someone who cannot stand on their own two feet.
The situation you depict reminds me soviet union before collapse. There was time called "perestroyka", which means "rebuilding" or "refreshing"- an attemt to obtain a western face without of real shifts from communist pheodalism. Almost everyone was sure that the soviet course will last forever. I remember that people have speculated about how su will overcome US in 2000. But the things was spurred dramatically so fast than a whole generation was lost in desperate. I live in Ukraine, and here it took more than 20 years from 1991, before people start asking themselves who they are and what they need...
I've been meaning to watch both Conquering Northern China and Conquering Southern China and all these "director's commentary" videos over the last month or two have finally pushed me over the edge I need more and that's the only way I'm gonna get it!
In Harbin i was feeling like in my home city( Toruń, Poland) similar look of buildings from early XX century (secession). Unfortunately i missed a few times Winter Festival
I totally agree boys, Snow beer is at the bottom of my list. For the better-known beers in China, Harbin is my favorite, then Qingdao, then Snow at last (prefer not to drink it). There are other local beers that are amazing. But drinking Snow beer in Harbin is blasphemy!
That's really interesting how they were hostile to American and not to British. I wonder how much the average Chinese person knows about the Opium Wars.
Hatred begets hatred, the anti China sentiments is just as strong in the USA as much, if not more than the anti-American sentiment is in China. On the other hand UK today is merely seen as a henchmen of USA they could barely influenced in any aspects today as they use to be in the past. Same case with Japan although with the dark history they've had together in the past, they know that present day Japan couldn't touch China, They realize the threat US posed to them in SCS, Taiwan, Xianjiang and Hongkong.
northeast was the most developed area in china before 50 years, with contribution of russian and japanese. but fall behind in economic now, and young people leave there to east and north. you can see northeast as Detriot in china.
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It doesn't matter if they like drinking in business, them designating a person to drink for them is an affectation that shows they are in power and better than you. How are you so slow that you haven't figured this out? Pay attention.
Why the heck you have so few subscribers? I was subscribed to both of you before you had a collab. Got unsubbed a few times but damn we gotta pump those numbers up.
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21:50 BIIRRRDDDSSS
My Father was born there. White Russian. When the Chinese revolution happened it was China for Chinese people so he was takin in by Australia. His father, my grandfather,escaped the Russian revolution to end up there in Harbin China.
So lucky.
Bro what country do you live in if you say my country i will move before the coming revolution lol... just kidding hope you and your family are secure and safe nowadays
@@screamindemon9324 he/she said 'my country'? Whoops, misread due to the lack of punctuation marks.
@@screamindemon9324 Australia.
I could do with some hard knocks Grandfather was a structural engineer, miner, then went onto become a language teacher (5 languages) by the end at UQ IN Queensland. Lucky they where white.... White Australia Policy was is full swing just it time for when they needed it.
Get this though. They sent my grandfather to australia and my grandmother, with two children, to chilli!
Only after 4 years did the mother and kids get status in Australia. (Probably wanted to see how my grandfather performed). The month before they were to leave Chilli to come to Australia, my would be uncle contracted the flu and died. My grandmother went crazy shortly after they landed in Australia. Likely due to the experiences she had in Chilli. (She didn’t know Spanish. They just sent them over and threw them in a box to fend for themselves back in those days.)
I’m fucking boring 🤣
@@tarik1845 thats crazy man well i am glad your doing ok
@@tarik1845 bro are you muslim?
The reason those thugs didn't turn into the Petro station was because Winston was standing there in in a suit looking like a professional hitman
His a professional hit man
@@White_Recluse he´s
@@humphrex hees
@@humphrex Hiss like a professional hitmom
Hurrrr
Hiring blind people as massage therapists is actually genius. I know someone with a blind family member who can't work; I should suggest that, and see if they had ever thought of it before.
"And see "
Its quite common in Asia. I know in India and massage in Sri Lanka is often recommend to be done by a blind masseuses.
There's a movie At First Sight with Val Kilmer thats about that
My stepmother is totally blind and was a Physiotherapist. That was quite a common profession choice from 45 years ago. I don't know if it still is
Malaysia too had a street full of blind masseurs
*Chinese Mafia* : "Don't disrespect the police - not even the fake police!"
Now that's a uniquely Chinese mafia.
Proves that police and the mafia are the same there lol.
The CCP is the patron for established triads of South East Asia. While USA have to employ agents to be their eyes and ears the CCP are using the triads, in return they are given consessions to operate in China as long as they do not prey on the mainland society namely in online scam, gambling and flesh trade.
@@MrNajibrazak This sounds so much like a conspiracy theory, until you listen to the testimonies of the victims, especially the escaped slaves. It's chilling that this still takes place in a relatively developed country, or well, anywhere. It is extremely chilling.
They should go like:"fk tthe police"
You missed one of the big fun parts of Harbin. Deep underground, in the area for about a kilometre radius from the St Sophia church is an network of old 'fallout' tunnels that have been converted into long, skinny shopping malls. Deep in Winter you go down 3 long flights of steps from street level to get there. Most of the above ground streets have been replicated in tunnels. There's even an underground McDonalds. In winter it provides good protection from the -25º C topside.
Where is the entrance for this mall🧐?
that's so cool
Sounds cyberpunk af
@@jeffbrownstain well it’s not
this is in every city not just harbin
The birds thing gets me every time. Also your nordvpn ads. So funny !!
The bird thing makes me laugh every time also. It is horrible that Mao killed millions, but so many of the things he (Mao) did are so hysterically stupid. "I want everyone to make steel in their backyard".
Maybe an exception, but Central Guangzhou has an okay variety of subtropical birds. The variety may wain with more distance from PRD
There's one at 21:52
Don’t be fooled by these lies there are plenty birds in China 😂
21:49 ;)
Love the comment about birds in China. When I lived in Guangzhou we had a lonely bird making a lonely sound. We called the the Guangzhou bird. The only one in town that hasn’t been eaten!!!
I'm in gz now, and there are suspiciously more birds than there were ten years ago
@@hobog Positive news, hope it continue to grow.
Thats a really sad story.
NO BIRDS IN CHINA!! I am anxiously awaiting a mass upload of pigeon videos from the shills and salty China bloggers lol!
The only shills I see around here are NATO/US shills
@@rizkiramadhan9266 lol, who ever explicitly supported a government here?
@@rizkiramadhan9266 Who dafuq iz you bruh
They do not know, what birds are.
This generation did grow up without birds, without knowing how nature sounds.
To be fair, there are birds in china. Zhejiang province seems to have more sparrows than the UK. However, in general, the UK is absolutely replete with birds, and the dawn chorus in summer sounds like a jungle. Not so much in china, which is weird given that it's mainly subtropical. Most of the countryside that I saw in china is depleted. Many European countries are much more densely populated than china yet retain a fair amount of wildlife and 'unspoilt' nature. That was one of the many things that made me glad to return to the UK after my stay in china.
"What's at the end of the rainbow? -Xi Jinping propaganda." Way to ruin my dreams C-Milk... never looking for that leprechaun again ;o;
The leprechaun was last spotted in Mobile Alabama....I wanna know where the gold at.
youll find a leprechaun. but he isnt paper white with red hair. hes a little chinese man that tries to sell you to a farmer
@@markvogel5872 we saw 2 a few years back in cali. im guessing he came here cause the state would pay him 3 gold pieces per day for existing and being short. his coffers are overflowing
dat leprechaun is a CCP operative
Space therefore aliens.
Rainbows therefore leprechauns.
The Legends are back!!
I had a blind Masseuse in Hing Kong and he was a beast but he found every injury I ever had just by his hands.
When he lost his sight, he probably sharpened his other senses. I had a blind masseuse back home too.
@manx77 ah yes, thanks
Might u pls post his contact number plssssssssss.
More content of the north would be brill! I’m really fascinated by the fusion of Russo-sino cultures in the northern region and also the Mongolian aspect. Loved Conquering Northern China! Hoped you guys go back to that region perhaps Russia or Mongolia to do a docu series.
Russo culture is also present in south China. Stem from USSR reoccupation during WWII, Korean war, etc
What is brill mean? Drill whale food?
C r i l l small 🦐
@@charlesseymour1482 Actually that’s krill
Brilliant
Out of the 4 times I've visited China I was in a car accident every time and the 4th time was the worst. Our car rolled twice and landed on it's side. This one lady told me I should get a massage at the scene lol. She was a masseuse and she wasn't joking. It hurt, but the next day I wasn't sore at all. She said she treated lots of car accident victims.
Yeah that's (Insert Asian driving joke) haha 😐🤷♂️
@@dustedpinstripes happens a lot😂😂
Good luck everybody eeeelse!
@@berryreading4809 Asians have the lowest accidents among all races in the west
@@vortexfatwhale That's because every other race is texting and driving, Asians only occasionally use the calculator app while driving, and only for equations over 4 lines or 14 digits (including decimal point) atleast 40 digits without 😉
Talk about a stereotype that guy looks like something you'd see in an old martial arts flick
64-year-old Navy veteran, I enjoy everything you all do. Here and there have a different point of view on a couple of things but that is normal when anyone talks to anyone. I've learned a few things from y'all and y'all have learned things from other people as you grow older. Keep up the great work! 👍🏻
How do you feel about the transvestite 4 star Navy Admiral that made it into the news recently?
Wow those dancing dudes were genuinely mesmerising to watch. Love that Russian looking architecture too. More northern China please!
The guys dancing at 15:45 are KILLING it
Fr. Mesmerising
He wasn't dancing. He was trying to find two ferrets that had escaped into his pants.
@Mynameis Myname not cringe
@Mynameis Myname agree!!!
They're non-conformists by conforming to a subculture....
More northern China content would be fantastic. This was tremendously interesting. Thanks Winston and C-Milk.
I lived in Changchun (Jilin Province/Dong Bei region) and I can attest to how freezing cold it is, especially when the wind picks up from the Gobi desert. It's insane. Changchun was unreal. 4 years of absolute pandemonium that can't even be explained.
the character 蒙on the number plates is Meng for Mongolian. Which explains why the locals are so tall. Probably not Han if they are tall.
It's an Inner Mongolia plate.
@@nickevans8990 Yes, exactly. That's my point.
I used to live in Northern China. The people are ridiculously tall, even the women
Legal The point is that not everyone in 哈尔滨 is Mongolian. The diet and habits are different so even Han Chinese will be taller
@@rizkiramadhan9266 up until I was a teenager I never visited Southern China, I only ever lived in Northern China. It was a weird experience walking out of the Guangzhou airport and being able to see well above everyone's heads, despite the fact that I'm about average height for my age in Northern China.
Great video, guys. I love this format. I enjoy all the videos y'all put out. The northern region topics have been my favorite. I will never have the opportunity to travel to China. Thank you for providing the vicarious life I never thought I would get!!!!!!
anyway,welcome to China one day
Keep you videos all my family 👪 is watching because of I'm Tibetan. We all support you to keep up thanks for videos
stay safe out there!
I like genkhis khan
One day, Tibet will be free. Stay safe.
DO you support Hawaiian freedom from US of AIDS occupation?
@@scintillam_dei They can have a referendum if they like.
SNOW beer is easily confused as MONS beer if you read it wrongly on the bottle or can.
Mmmmm, Mons 🍺
Too much to drink last night.
Mons only turns to snow when you upend the bottle
You guys did some crazy stuff lol. I wouldn't be caught dead in many of the places you went. I have a lot of respect for what you guys did. Extremely interesting and informational.
Hi guys, both NATO and G7 are being a bit critical of the way CCP acts internationally right now, ain't it great?
Yes and no because now the gloves are off.
I am legally blind and I love your videos. But sadly I miss alot on your channel due to that. The content is interesting always. Thanks.
20:50 There's a wild bird flying, shortly after you challenged us to freeze every frame. Lol.
Oh man, I just recently discovered your channel and I am amazed with how much interesting content you guys produced! Great, interesting stuff that helps to know more about parts of the world that are simply inaccessible to me.
Seriously - why consume regular tv broadcasting when there is so much worthwhile stuff available on channels like yours!
Thank you and wishing you all the best!
21:48 - there's some birds, i counted 3 in a few frames in the background.
Are you sure those are not bats 😂
More likely drones, to remind the people to wear masks
@@navidpey194 might be bats, can't really see from that.
Maybe sparrows. Bats come out after dusk. But I get the point😂
Watching your channel has encouraged me to travel abroad, I am going to Europe first tho not China. Thanks for the video!
The gangsters kind of look like they should be dancing to Gangnam style lol
They should, we should have a dsnce party with them
Had a friend teaching english in that area. She came back very brainwashed about the CCP. It was sad.
You've got to be pretty gullible to get brainwashed by the CCP when teaching English in China
@@benbowland yeah, it was weird she just was on and on about how much better China was than here. Like maybe I'm being too harsh about it and she just really liked it, but it had a weird vibe.
@@markvogel5872 Manchurian candidate lol.
It's because it was probably her first time there, a honeymoon phase. Or because she doesn't speak any Chinese, so as a foreigner in China not being able to speak Chinese you're pretty isolated. You're usually only exposed to the good stuff, not to mention that you make way above an average local salary, so of course you'll think only the best of China, until you have to deal with health issues or law issues that is.
@@vladislavMALETIC she spoke Chinese...not sure her level.
SerpentZA and Cmilk are still number one bloggers maybe not in China but about China topics, here in America , Chinese massage is WAY different if you know what I mean
Loads of sex-trafficking.
Our small town had a problem with them. They basically ruined things for CA massage therapists here. Therapists have to jump through expensive hoops now.
Stuff like that happens all over the world
@@rizkiramadhan9266
That's true, and we shouldn't put up with it when we have the ability to shut them down for good. They screwed up a great situation in a few towns with their antics.
Costs go to the clients.
Nobody is happy.
@@ruthanneseven pure truth. It's similar to when property taxes have to go up because larger tax payers leave areas.
@@sorongana5346
Don't get me started on residential property taxation! THAT'S not home/land ownership.
Not when every cent you earn is triple taxed, excluding insurance, annual or bi-annual occupational licence fees! We are strangled by taxation and don't get the benefits! We need a serious accounting and overhaul of this thievery. It really pisses me off that OUR tax dollars funded the gain of function research that wrecked our lives.
What about that sex-abuse slush fund the Congress had? 😖
No more!!!
The Communists have one thing right at least: Given the right environmental and societal pressures, anyone can become a sheep.
communism is worldwide
It's hard for humans to turn into sheep. Usually it kills the human during the transformation. I wouldn't recommend it
Not anyone. It's just that those who don't, are locked up somewhere away from general public.
@@zilun well yesn't
Basically what cnn does to the USA. Both commies
Don’t forget the Four Pests campaign-one of the first actions taken in the “Great Leap forward”. The thrust of this campaign was to eliminate four pests-rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. One was known as “Smash Sparrow”, a campaign in 1958 by Mao Zedong. Mao felt that sparrows ate too much grain and thus decreed that all sparrows be killed. Nobody knows how many sparrows were killed but estimates say that even if everyone killed at least one sparrow each, more than 600 million sparrows would have been killed, making it an extinct bird in China. Maybe that’s why you only saw one sparrow, not a flock of them?
Mao had his smash sparrows campaign which killed a lot of birds. Maybe that had a lasting influence to this day.
Why wanted Mao all the birds dead?
@@user-xq4st9ie7r I had to look this up:
The "Four Pests" campaign was introduced in 1958 by Mao Zedong, as a hygiene campaign aimed to eradicate the pests responsible for the transmission of pestilence and disease:
the mosquitos responsible for malaria
the rodents that spread the plague
the pervasive airborne flies
the sparrows-specifically the Eurasian tree sparrow-which ate grain seed and fruit[1]
By April 1960, Chinese leaders changed their opinion due to the influence of ornithologist Tso-hsin Cheng[6] who pointed out that sparrows ate a large number of insects, as well as grains.[7][8] Rather than being increased, rice yields after the campaign were substantially decreased.[8][9] Mao ordered the end of the campaign against sparrows, replacing them with bed bugs, as the extermination of sparrows upset the ecological balance, and insects destroyed crops as a result of the absence of natural predators.
By this time, however, it was too late. With no sparrows to eat them, locust populations ballooned, swarming the country and compounding the ecological problems already caused by the Great Leap Forward, including widespread deforestation and misuse of poisons and pesticides.[9] Ecological imbalance is credited with exacerbating the Great Chinese Famine, in which 15-45 million people died of starvation.[10][11] The Chinese government eventually resorted to importing 250,000 sparrows from the Soviet Union to replenish their population.[12]
@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 wow that was extremely helpful. Thank you very much.
4:54 - 蒙 means "mongolian" and it's pronounced 'meng' (2nd tone) :)
"famous herons"
my dudes, those are cranes.
...Herons are a type of Crane.
DxBlack not at all, they're actually in different phylogenetic orders.
@@Ass_of_Amalek Taxonomy labels are all subjective unscientific garbage, and macro-evolution is racist shit. The mind is FREE to think ergo is NOT A SLAVE to physics which make it NOT PHYSICAL, so it is IMPOSIBLE for genetic evolution to make a speices into a smarter (or dumber) one. Therefore, the very act of thinking proves the British atheist creation myth wrong irrefutably. But you can maintain the contradiction that the free equals the slave. Atheist fanatics confuse correlation with causation saying brain scans prove the brain is the thinker. When the Nintendo controller is broken, the player isn't necessarily dead.
I had a taxonomy professor lament that all of the taxonomy he was taught i now OBSOLETE. Truth, on the other hand, has no expiration date.
Thanks serpentza and lao why keep spreading truth!
Met a few of the mafia guys in my day.
Thankfully, it was pre-conflict and they liked me.
Still quite sketchy tho…
Unlike in japan where a mean looking yakuza was handing out cute pink sheep phone straps and posed for a photo.
They say not to judge someone by how they look but tattoos on someone tells you a lot about them, like desperate desire to fit into a group.
@@scintillam_dei it's mob mentality. They look for protection within a group which becomes their identify
@@jeygee3736 Yeah, like people waving the US flag.
I wanna say, the character in the car number plate is not Hei黑, it is Meng 蒙, meaning Inner Mongolia, another northern province.
I always thought that was “MONS” beer.
The idea of banning something to get rid of "a poor look" rather than worry about the actual poor makes my head spin. It's so pretentious, and layered in its pretenses for the very assumption that something like a bike "looks poor." It is also very sad as it will mean a great deal of nonsense to cut through not only in the practical, but the mental and with the attitude for such a place to ever truly improve and be free.
Enjoy watching your video. I am Chinese myself from 湖南. I can feel you guys really know today's Chinese culture, that is really different from what looks like in Chinatown or from curious foreigner vlog!!
7:48 those are Slavic pancakes, it's milk, flour and egg plus whatever you can imagine to add. We usually make plain ones and just fill them, for example in my country, most commonly with white cheese and sourcream, spiced minced meat, shrooms. You can eat them as they are, sweetened or salty. They take basically no time to make, as you pour the mixture on the pan and it fries almost instantly. I like the spinach, shrooms and mozzarella ones the most, my boyfriend loves to put jam or Nutella on them so it's actually one of the most versatile and easy to make dishes ever😄😄
"Almost like a burrito" That's a straight up CREPE dude. They are eating crepes in northern china, love it!!!
Aren't crepes sweet? Am I missing something absolutely great?
@@pitmezzari2873 You can literally put anything in a crepe. Sweet or savory, whatever you want. That's why I love them :)
@@pitmezzari2873 try with ham and cheese :))
Guys I see to God I've watched every video on every single channel u guys both have and you guys have helped me get through a lot of depression and thank you so much for that this means a lot to me and I feel a lot better like I know you guys almost LOL I feel like you guys are my friends LOL NOTHING BUT LOVE HERE FROM MILWAUKEE WI. USA 💪😎💯
15:02 it's Morpheus 🤣🤣🤣
Interesting fact: Harbin was the largest Jewish center in the far east before the establishment of Israel, with a Jewish population numbering 250,000 at its peak.
That's so interesting. What more can you tell us about that?
@@gordonliu3972 it's why Hitler wanted to rid germany of them. It's the reason china is how it is today. But he won't tell you that
@@CeeBarrio1 are you on that Chinese meth?
@@gordonliu3972 we hate jews all over the world... Stay away from europe
*Definitely doesn't make me think twice about how they pointed out all of the Banks*
I still remember when I was a student in china i went to a club and was drinking with my friends and suddenly a woman came to interact with me and asked me that if she can join us, offcourse we said yes and then we were quite drunk and went to washroom to do some obvious things and I don't know from where her husband came and he pulled out a knife on me😭😭 thank god I was not alone and I had a Chinese friend who solved the problem 😂
In any country if a random girl or guy want to join us it's a no. It's awkward and inappropriate.
You were set up. Surprised he didn't demand money.
@@larrysmith2123 and an obvious criminal trap.
Or I'm really just suspicious
@@kabardino1337 Who knows but East Asians normally and especially females aren't very open and friendly to total strangers.
Chinese girls are so much excited to see foreigners once I was approached by a couple to do certain things with his wife while he watches😂😂fetish all around hahaha
I bet NordVPN bloody love you two!
Usually any kind of sponsorship gets skipped immediately (and I’ll often miss 10-30secs over-skipping sometimes).
But I watched the whole thing 😂
(Definitely skipping it if it’s in another vid tho!)
The whole birds going missing scenario reminds of a guy I met who lived somewhere North of Africa. So where I live birds would walk up right next to you like a boss and he was shocked to see that, because in his country people eat birds so you never them as close.. they always miles away.
16:40 - is "designated drinker" a job foreigners can apply for? Asking for a friend...
You don't want to drink what they serve. It's rot-gut and you taste it when you burp for the next 3 days. Yes, it's on purpose, too.
That’s an Inner Mongolian license plate, not Heilongjiang!
蒙 A
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Nice episode guys I always wanted to go to Harbin; unfortunately, due to my poor to none Chinese language proficiency I could never travel outside of Guangzhou every time I visited China; well I only went to Hunan once because a friend booked the train tickets for me to visit her. Have a great day everyone and be safe.
TY for confirming my suspicion about the birds. When teaching my students (remotely) , I used to object to the lesson material that claimed squirrels , birds and deer "live in the mountains". I used to say, " Actually, elk live in the mountains. Deer live everywhere. Squirrels and birds live everywhere. Rabbits live everywhere. I live in the city. I can see a squirrel outside my window." My higher level ( elite-level) students would tell me they never see squirrels or birds in the city, so I stopped saying those things.
I love Heilongjiang province. I lived there for close to 2 years in 2016/17, and the people were so hospitable and kind! Maybe I'm biased as my wife is from there. Daqing was a great city to live in.I couldn't handle baijiu though.
Hard to believe Conquering Northern China is 3.5 years old now and I still have the poster! :)
Keep up the great work guys, enjoying the range of vids and live sessions (though wrong TZ for me)
I enjoyed my time in Heilongjiang provence in 2001. I travelled to Harbin and stayed in Mudanjiang as part of a trade delegation representing New Zealand grain growers. We travelled with local Police and spent a day and night at a Government resort at Jingpo lake. They played Kenny G on the loud speakers all day. Very nice place. When I was discussing prices with NZ over the phone the connection keep cutting out. I knew someone was playing with us.
Traitor,
This is why nz is in the condition it's in.
Thanks for selling us out!!
@@joelcornfoot9646 So he's a traitor for doing business in China? Seriously? Get a grip.. it's more like former national leader Don Key and his clique who sold out the country
Lol at C-Milk's hair in the intro! Looks like an impressively sweaty emo-dude!
Dongbei people tend to spread out and do business in tourist areas all over. When one goes to Lijiang, Yunnan or certain spots in Sichuan, instead of local business owners, there are lots of Dongbei people. Would you agree?
I've been to Harbin in winter. The Ice City is unbelievable. That was beginning of the eighties. Loved it!
I'm glad you have so much footage to go through, but a lot of it must be so old by now. I hope you both go out on a road trip soon to gather new videos. This channel feels like its spinning in place with the same stories, same footage, same messages, etc.
This gives another meaning to the term "the pigs".
Love you guys. If I was forced to make an observation, I'd prefer Cmilk not interrupting Winston so much and let him finish his thoughts. Thanks, Mom.
it's usually the other way around, they take turns 🤣
C does it way more than s
@@carlosparedes1556 Not really, it's pretty equal just depends on the day
Maybe that's why they each have their own channels.
It's actually a nasty Chinese habit they picked up - Chinese tend to all talk at the same time or not wait for the other person to "finish" before they voice their thoughts. It's not really considered rude in China... I do it all the time back home here in Canada and everyone looks at me like I am rude. I explain to them, it is possible to talk and listen at the same time. Chinese do it very well!
Really cool upload, my vote goes to more videos about northern china :)
Hey guys...I have been to Harbin... I liked Liaoning Shenyang... please show some footage of Shenyang thanks
Fun fact: Canadian Actor Simu Liu was born in Harbin, China
I'm glad you guys make these videos to show the real China. It make it so I never have to go there myself and it confirms that I never should.
Says the guy with a Ukrainian flag in his pfp. Imagine idolizing the poorest European country with the most crime, the most nazis, and the most child sex trafficking.
“So the countries: I’ve got Taiwan, South Africa…”
Nicely done
You guys are going far. I have just subscribed
"I know that sounds like a minor situation." No... no it doesn't! 😳
I really liked Harbin and ate a lot of Russian food while I was there...
far north east china had strong russian influence
i got a big smile on my face when i saw the notification
There's only one thing you can be sure of when you're dealing with a gang or mafia... You are dealing with someone who cannot stand on their own two feet.
Taiwan is a country.
Long story short... my China experience has always been at EPCOT. 😊
My most favourite and most epic duo ever…
I never see men on the Internet that are anywhere close to how cool and ballsy you are. Lucky for you I'm old as dirt. You are safe.
Great video guys.
You ever seen Kung Fu Hustle?
Those are some real Chinese gangsters.
Is Manchuria right? City of outstanding ice sculpture.
Love your stories guys! Glad you made it out alive.
I saw a wild bird @ 20:50. HA! Destroyed with facts and logic.
Winston, your intonations are all over the place. With that said, your Chinese literacy is admirable.
The situation you depict reminds me soviet union before collapse. There was time called "perestroyka", which means "rebuilding" or "refreshing"- an attemt to obtain a western face without of real shifts from communist pheodalism. Almost everyone was sure that the soviet course will last forever. I remember that people have speculated about how su will overcome US in 2000.
But the things was spurred dramatically so fast than a whole generation was lost in desperate.
I live in Ukraine, and here it took more than 20 years from 1991, before people start asking themselves who they are and what they need...
I've been meaning to watch both Conquering Northern China and Conquering Southern China and all these "director's commentary" videos over the last month or two have finally pushed me over the edge I need more and that's the only way I'm gonna get it!
The fake police is a genius idea for drug/drunk drivers… I literally thought it was a real person until it zoomed in😂
In Harbin i was feeling like in my home city( Toruń, Poland) similar look of buildings from early XX century (secession). Unfortunately i missed a few times Winter Festival
Do you know Harbin beer starts 1903 and a Pole started brewing.
He learnt the trade from Germans; Poland wasn't on the map of the world
I totally agree boys, Snow beer is at the bottom of my list. For the better-known beers in China, Harbin is my favorite, then Qingdao, then Snow at last (prefer not to drink it). There are other local beers that are amazing. But drinking Snow beer in Harbin is blasphemy!
That's really interesting how they were hostile to American and not to British. I wonder how much the average Chinese person knows about the Opium Wars.
Hatred begets hatred, the anti China sentiments is just as strong in the USA as much, if not more than the anti-American sentiment is in China.
On the other hand UK today is merely seen as a henchmen of USA they could barely influenced in any aspects today as they use to be in the past. Same case with Japan although with the dark history they've had together in the past, they know that present day Japan couldn't touch China,
They realize the threat US posed to them in SCS, Taiwan, Xianjiang and Hongkong.
Like the conversation between you two
hey come on,
old snow is all right., 😂
And the Korean places are amazing
And yeah Harbin beer has craft beer which is amazing
Since you talk about their beer a lot I'm curious were there any stouts or porters that were notable?
“They start buying horrible jewelry “. That got me, I lol’d
northeast was the most developed area in china before 50 years, with contribution of russian and japanese.
but fall behind in economic now, and young people leave there to east and north.
you can see northeast as Detriot in china.
You need to get Vietnam on that helmet too, @Serpentza Saving the best for last!
HARBIN was set up by Polish people, not Russian. They have also set up the Harbin Brewery. Check wikipedia ;-)
Totally agree
Winston mówił że jego babka byla polką btw
Set up by Polish people in the employ of the Russian Empire. It's a Russian city. And the majority of the population was Russian.
@@andreialexandrunichiforel employ? Wasn't it force labour?
@@yavimayawurm9769 the guy who designed the town? No. The guys working on the railway are a different story, but they were Russian.
Hey guys, Love your stuff. Nice video.