What a stupid title! The same casino operator setting up shop in Macau and bringing its own brand image and design from Las Vegas is not called a knock off, it is called a chain operation. Stop perpetrating the stereotypical western prejudice against China, especially coming from an Iranian.
You do not want to trust to them they are spy and double agent for the west.🤔 They are mostly bashers because of jealousy and the inability of fulfilling their own dreams.😂
As a Westerner I have no problem with Las Vegas and Macau being identical......Why? Because I don't gamble so in the end I win.......But the trips to China from where I live are great value for money and the people are nice......Traveling makes you realize all people are similar......we all care about our kids and wants the best for our families.
actually i want to say that both places aren't identical and i agree with you that everyone is actually pretty similar and just want the best for their families, every place has their own specialty
Stop using 1990s stereotypes and calling everything a knock off. All of the hotels that look like Vegas ones are owned by the exact same companies in both Vegas and Macau. Macau is also far classier, more civilised, safer, and cleaner than anything Vegas can offer.
americans who haven't gone out of the states think that murica is still the greatest country in the world lol. Even our subway system sucks compared to the ones in Asia
Its not a stereotype if its the truth. China literally knocks offs everything. And its not classy at all when its using money from slave labor in imitation vegas buildings. Get rekt.
You only showed a few of the casinos and called the city a knockoff. You didn’t show the rest who are nothing close to Vegas. Half of the casinos operators in Macau are Vegas based, but not the rest. The Grand Lisboa or Studio City casinos for example. Quite a few misinformation in your video. All Macau resident with a permanent resident card gets money from the wealth partaking scheme, the full 10,000 MOP every year, without having to earn any income. I don’t even live in Macau and have never worked there but I still get paid just because I have the citizenship.
Hey getting paid for doing nothing especially when it comes from people that have a poor grasp on statistics sounds pretty good to me but whether it a copy in Vegas or in Macau it still a copy so don't blame TH-cam creator casino aren't anything new after all.
@@rho88 Well I have never been to Macau but the hotel I stayed in last time I was there was demolished so I guess technically could be true but casinos are still casinos, where people knowingly or unknowingly donate vast sums of money to them for entertainment purposes.
Shouldn't the question be why these western companies decided to build the EXACT SAME REPLICA in China? I hate seeing the same building in two different places, it's so creepy.
You have a point. LV's first casino opened in 1906, but gambling was not legal until 1931. Gambling was legalized in Macau as early as 1849. Casino owners make much more money in Macau than in LV. So who has the knock offs?
Been to both. Although Macau casinos are bigger i like Vegas a lot better. Both are hot as hell in the summer time. Macau is hot and humid while Vegas is just plain hot which is still better. Once you stepped outside during the summertime in Macau you will be drench in sweat due to the humidity.
Macau is in the tropical jungle weather. Much worse weather. Vegas is not bad if you're in the shade but it's just best to avoid Vegas from June-Aug. Macau also seems like it's only better if you are a high stakes gambler and JUST want to gamble.
@HomerOJSimpson agreed. I live here in California and love the weather. I use to visit China every year and take the ferry to Macau also. I notice all the gamblers there bet big, even the Blackjack table minimum bet starts at $100 USD. Most people i see bet at least $500-1000 minimum. I was never a into gambling until 6 years ago. Went to a local indian casino here in California and won my first handpay jackpot playing video poker within 5 minutes and I got hooked that very moment. Long story short now 6 years later I lost over $5 million which was my life savings. Biggest regret of my life, could of move to another state and retired with the $5 million and maybe work part-time at the age of 34. Now I'm 40 and am pennyless and have a huge 6 figure credit card debt all from gambling. Sad thing is when I went to Macau and in Vegas I didn't gamble at all, I only play the stupid video poker machine at the same local Indian casino.
@@Ex-PokerGuy I'm so sorry. I personally never liked gambling. It's okay for a little bit but it's too stressful for me. When I do gamble, I feel comfortable saying "okay, I'm only going to use this $100 and if I lose it, I'm done". The lows are too low for me to keep playing so If I start with $100, I might just stop at $60.
@HomerOJSimpson wish I had your mentality. I play high limit betting $30-$250 a spin. I've won thousands of jackpots ranging from $1200-$50k. One time I won a $48k jackpot and instead of leaving I kept playing until I lost all $48k and then started chasing and lost $100k of my own money all within 12 hours. Everyday I regret I ever won that very first day I enter the casino. Wish I lost and never went back.
@@Ex-PokerGuy it’s good and bad. The good is it means I can’t enjoy gambling. The bad is that is probably related to how hard I am on myself so losing in anything makes me feel bad thus why I can’t enjoy gambling.
Never watched anything from this createor but gave this video a thumbs up after 30 seconds in. I love when creators use awesome cameras and the resulting footage to present their content and this is impressive!
I didn't expect China to have such a fun place, Nice video!Before coming to China, the media coverage on China l had come across was usually negative.Many people in my country including me mistakenly believed that China was a poor country, where there was only oppression without freedom.But when l came to China, l found China is AMAZING! l dare say China is better than the West in many ways.Modernization, convenience, hospitality, safety, all of these has left a positive impression on me.
Chinese love to gamble but gambling is illegal in mainland China. That is why we have Macau. Not just Chinese but most Asians and some westerners gamble in Macau. It actually earns more gamble revenues than Las Vegas
Not sure what you're talking about, but casinos, other than in Macau, have never been legal in China. So, I completely don't understand why you said since the 2000's, Macau is the only place in China where casinos are legal. Well, before 99, no casinos in China were legal). After 99 when China took back Macau, Macau has been the only place in China where casinos are legal. That's not exactly 2000's. Casinos have always been legal in Macau and have never been legal in China (Macau being the only exception).
@@Hhhh22222-w Yes it is counted. It is counted as part of the gambling revenue as that is why the figure is so misleading. 90% of the "gambling" is just buying $10 million in chips, playing a couple hands, and then asking to be cashed out via their overseas bank.
Nobody is rich in macau, the amount of unemployment in people between their 20s and 30s is insane, and companies will prefer to hire mainland people because of cheap labour… and macau people only receive 10k mop a year, that’s about 3 months of a parking slot in downtown.
@@Dept246 doesn’t mean anything? I’m macau resident and I know people here the last 3 years people suffer a lot! And that’s pure BS or probably fake numbers because the avarage income of a macau local is not more than 9K mop which is not even 13000 us a year
Love your videos. Very informative. I recently just went to Macau this year. The Portuguese heritage is very noticeable in the city planning, architecture, food, and language. If you ride the bus in Macau, they say everything in four languages Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. So this city is accessible to all visitors.
There are two MGM and two Wynn Two MGM’s are MGM Cotai and MGM Macau Two Wynn are: Wynn Macau and Wynn palace There are difference (Note:you won’t learn anything)
Asians are the biggest gambler. For years you would see large number of Japanese in Vegas big gambling tables and last decade Chinese have now joined. I imagine Macao us receiving not only Chinese but Japanese and Koreans in large numbers
Is it really a knock off if the casino builders in Vegas were the ones beating down China's door and clamoring to build these casinos over there to get that sweet sweet Chinese market moolah?
Are you joking? Macau, in terms of casino scale and revenue, is more than twice that of Las Vegas, and its history is also longer than that of Las Vegas. Why don't you say that Las Vegas is a knock off of Macau?
Not true. Over 90% of the revenue in Macau is due to money laundering and not straight gambling. Macau is a money laundering center the Chinese use to get their money out of China. It is not about gambling.
we understood that well, that now it is biggr than Vegas, he said that many times. it is a knock off because Vegas was first. But I think Vegas is also a knock off of whichever smaller unknown town, those must exist since forever.
@@fin2064 Vegas wasn't first though lol. Gambling was legal in Macau since the 1850s, 50 years before Vegas even existed as a city. The ignorance is strong with US-Americans.
Went to Macau last month on my annual Hong Kong trip (minus 20-22 because of covid restrictions). Was first time I visited since I lived in HK in 2016. I think something that really gets lost is all the old Portuguese architecture such as Ruins of St Paul's & Senado Square. And even the old town of Taipa near the ferry terminal where the bars and street food vendors are. The 'Strip' is crazy and a must visit. But as non-casino gambler (usually just sports betting) the other parts I enjoyed a lot more. But another great video Uptin, keep it up mate🙌
Actually Macau put more emphasis on entertainment and shows like sports games, teamlab, shows, concerts, cirque du soleil, etc, please check your facts
OMG…you need a better title to your video. The casinos in Macau are NOT knockoffs. You are misleading your viewers. These iconic Las Vegas casinos went to Macau to build their brand identity there to make money.
Macau is a Portuguese territory, or at least WAS, which is why it looks more like this than the rest of China. Hong Kong was British and surprise, looks the way it does cause of the Brits, not because China had any say in it.
A quick google search shows 2 different answers: Monte Carlo, Monaco & Atlantic City. I think there lots of different answers among the top 4 (who is #1?) based on how it's measured. Pure gambling amount spent or total amount spent in the general industry. Macao (as Uptin noted) gets about 80% of it's industry money directly from gambling. Monaco is probably going to be similar. Vegas & Atlantic City get a HUGE amount from hotels & entertainment. Google search appears to show average stay in Mac. I believe a high number of people who visit Macao is about 1.5 days and that close to half the vistors are one day only visits. Probably rich people who fly in to gamble a few hours then fly back home late evening.
@@se7enzee444 Google usually shows Monte Carlo, Monaco & Atlantic City as #3 but singapore is often right behind them or ahead of one of those two in some of those results.
I initially had thought you were a different Western persona, bringing a new perspective that humanizes China and its inhabitants. But I was wrong. Unsubscribed and will never come back.
@@Shepardofman Everyone copies, and China does it too. But the matter is that he specifically uses a rhetoric implying that China copies more than other peoples, engages in more illegal activities, which is wrong (not the truth) and racist. Also, it's hard you to argue against my point when you piece of unseasoned chicken is clearly racist and have an ulterior motive (cough, cough, racism against China) to portray it in a negative light, so leave your ad hominem alone and give me one argument why you think I'm actually wrong -- but you can't right?
If you were born yesterday maybe you don't know that in Las Vegas there is Paris and there is New York New York, so don't just blame Chinese for these knockoffs. You guys are just as guilty.
Extremely offensive title. Macau is not a Vegas knockoff, it is its own unique city with a blend of Chinese and Portuguese cultures. Sickenly how non-chinese people go into China just to make videos with inflammatory titles just for views. I'm reporting you.
@@kevinl8440 Because “they”, as in Chinese, did not copy it, MGM, Las Vegas Sands and other large U.S. casino companies did. They replicated what worked in Vegas and brought it to Macau. It’s like saying the McDonalds in Paris is a knockoff of the McDonalds in New York. Sheldon Adelson before he died made more money in Macau than in Vegas. Vegas is not the only city that has a big gaming sector and Macau is an older, different city than Vegas and gambling is not the only thing that defines the city. Saying that Macau is merely a copy and paste of Vegas is extremely reductionistic and wrong.
@@kevinl8440 did you not watch the video? It wasnt the macau governemnt or chinese it was the American chain brands who brought and built those buildings
Macau has its own flag emoji 🇲🇴🇲🇴🇲🇴 Using the China one 🇨🇳 can mislead. For example, US passport holders can enter Macau without Visa but not Mainland China
Yeah. Especially look at the wages on the gambling tables and I'm not even talking about those in the VIP rooms. And the mall connecting to those casinos have the ALL luxury brands such as Frank Muller, Blancpain, Harry Winston, Hermes and others.
I had a bouncer force me to delete footage of the gaming floor. And I was told I could not sit at a slot machine unless I was playing. Plus they don't serve alcohol. Macau is Vegas without the fun.
No alcohol? Good, they don't need drunks ruining other better's games, and ofcourse if you aren't playing why take the seats of the slots when other people could be playing
@@Shepardofman Okay troll. If you think everything China does is in plastic, please petition your government to return all the antique "copied and plastic" items in MoMa stolen from the burnt Summer Palace. Oh wait?! You won't do that, because as difficult for you to admit, you love Chinese culture and want to keep their age old rusted items in glass exhibitions.
No it is not. A simple look at Google maps can tell you Las Vegas is way bigger. And 90% of Macau revenue is just money laundering for Chinese to get their money out of China
I'm wondering why they're not showing their culture and architecture? Then copying western countries particularly the USA? Are they ashamed of their culture?
No lol, they didnt decide to copy, those are part of the las vegas chains who moved from las vegas, they built those, not the macau governemnt, secondly it's to attract westerners to come and spend their money, also makes sure that the vibe is different from mainland China as gambling is prohibited in China, effectively mainlanders feel like they are in another country when they gamble
Macau's casinos generated about $36 billion in revenue in 2019; Nevada, the home of Las Vegas, reported just under $12 billion in gambling revenue over the same period.
why use the word "knock off", as if it's fake? all the casinos are legit run by the same operators as vegas. kinda racist to be honest... especially coming from someone like you. macau trumps vegas in that it earns 3X more revenue.
China/Macau didn't copy/paste Vegas; it's arguable that it was the other way around. Macau had legalized gambling since the 1850s, 50 years before Vegas even existed as a city and a full 100 years before Vegas took off. The only reason you see Western brand hotels there now is because they entered Macau recently (since 2000).
Vegas is still 1000% better, and the Paris (Parisian) Venetian, and Wynn are all Vegas classics. It’s more widely known because it’s become more than just gambling.
What a stupid title! The same casino operator setting up shop in Macau and bringing its own brand image and design from Las Vegas is not called a knock off, it is called a chain operation. Stop perpetrating the stereotypical western prejudice against China, especially coming from an Iranian.
Hey he didn't mention your sewer oil production. 😂😂😂😂
He's India!🤣
@@jimmylabb5868 no wonder. Indians are the biggest haters of China I hear
what do u expect? this guy channel always anti china since day one btw
You do not want to trust to them they are spy and double agent for the west.🤔 They are mostly bashers because of jealousy and the inability of fulfilling their own dreams.😂
As a Westerner I have no problem with Las Vegas and Macau being identical......Why? Because I don't gamble so in the end I win.......But the trips to China from where I live are great value for money and the people are nice......Traveling makes you realize all people are similar......we all care about our kids and wants the best for our families.
actually i want to say that both places aren't identical and i agree with you that everyone is actually pretty similar and just want the best for their families, every place has their own specialty
Stop using 1990s stereotypes and calling everything a knock off. All of the hotels that look like Vegas ones are owned by the exact same companies in both Vegas and Macau. Macau is also far classier, more civilised, safer, and cleaner than anything Vegas can offer.
exactly
americans who haven't gone out of the states think that murica is still the greatest country in the world lol. Even our subway system sucks compared to the ones in Asia
Its not a stereotype if its the truth. China literally knocks offs everything. And its not classy at all when its using money from slave labor in imitation vegas buildings. Get rekt.
More money funnels through Macau in a month than what Vegas does in a year now, Vegas is more of a knock off.
Still Chinese knockoffs lol
You only showed a few of the casinos and called the city a knockoff. You didn’t show the rest who are nothing close to Vegas. Half of the casinos operators in Macau are Vegas based, but not the rest. The Grand Lisboa or Studio City casinos for example. Quite a few misinformation in your video. All Macau resident with a permanent resident card gets money from the wealth partaking scheme, the full 10,000 MOP every year, without having to earn any income. I don’t even live in Macau and have never worked there but I still get paid just because I have the citizenship.
Hey getting paid for doing nothing especially when it comes from people that have a poor grasp on statistics sounds pretty good to me but whether it a copy in Vegas or in Macau it still a copy so don't blame TH-cam creator casino aren't anything new after all.
@@southcoastinventors6583 judging from your reply you have never been to Vegas or Macau, and barely understood the video. But ok.
@@rho88 Well I have never been to Macau but the hotel I stayed in last time I was there was demolished so I guess technically could be true but casinos are still casinos, where people knowingly or unknowingly donate vast sums of money to them for entertainment purposes.
@@southcoastinventors6583 a casino is a casino but doesn't mean it's a copy of anything... that's where you are wrong.
Except Macau is clean, safe, no homeless roaming around the streets, and security actually doing their job .
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Still I'd love to be in Vegas 100/100 times as I'm not as st*pid as you.
But you have a communist government watching your every move.
Communism is doing its job 😅
@@RudieObias
There is nothing communist about Macau
Las Vegas is much more fun you can’t even compare the two. Atmosphere is one major difference
Shouldn't the question be why these western companies decided to build the EXACT SAME REPLICA in China? I hate seeing the same building in two different places, it's so creepy.
Was there a couple weeks ago. It’s better than vegas
Bigger , cleaner, more expensive
Saves money probably. Take the blueprints from Las Vegas and make an copy in Macau.
The buildings in Vegas are replica too.
You have a point. LV's first casino opened in 1906, but gambling was not legal until 1931. Gambling was legalized in Macau as early as 1849. Casino owners make much more money in Macau than in LV. So who has the knock offs?
Calling Macau a Las Vegas knock-off is ignorance/arrogance given that Macau is better and makes more money
Been to both. Although Macau casinos are bigger i like Vegas a lot better. Both are hot as hell in the summer time. Macau is hot and humid while Vegas is just plain hot which is still better. Once you stepped outside during the summertime in Macau you will be drench in sweat due to the humidity.
Macau is in the tropical jungle weather. Much worse weather. Vegas is not bad if you're in the shade but it's just best to avoid Vegas from June-Aug. Macau also seems like it's only better if you are a high stakes gambler and JUST want to gamble.
@HomerOJSimpson agreed. I live here in California and love the weather. I use to visit China every year and take the ferry to Macau also. I notice all the gamblers there bet big, even the Blackjack table minimum bet starts at $100 USD. Most people i see bet at least $500-1000 minimum. I was never a into gambling until 6 years ago. Went to a local indian casino here in California and won my first handpay jackpot playing video poker within 5 minutes and I got hooked that very moment. Long story short now 6 years later I lost over $5 million which was my life savings. Biggest regret of my life, could of move to another state and retired with the $5 million and maybe work part-time at the age of 34. Now I'm 40 and am pennyless and have a huge 6 figure credit card debt all from gambling. Sad thing is when I went to Macau and in Vegas I didn't gamble at all, I only play the stupid video poker machine at the same local Indian casino.
@@Ex-PokerGuy I'm so sorry. I personally never liked gambling. It's okay for a little bit but it's too stressful for me. When I do gamble, I feel comfortable saying "okay, I'm only going to use this $100 and if I lose it, I'm done". The lows are too low for me to keep playing so If I start with $100, I might just stop at $60.
@HomerOJSimpson wish I had your mentality. I play high limit betting $30-$250 a spin. I've won thousands of jackpots ranging from $1200-$50k. One time I won a $48k jackpot and instead of leaving I kept playing until I lost all $48k and then started chasing and lost $100k of my own money all within 12 hours. Everyday I regret I ever won that very first day I enter the casino. Wish I lost and never went back.
@@Ex-PokerGuy it’s good and bad. The good is it means I can’t enjoy gambling. The bad is that is probably related to how hard I am on myself so losing in anything makes me feel bad thus why I can’t enjoy gambling.
Never watched anything from this createor but gave this video a thumbs up after 30 seconds in. I love when creators use awesome cameras and the resulting footage to present their content and this is impressive!
I didn't expect China to have such a fun place, Nice video!Before coming to China, the media coverage on China l had come across was usually negative.Many people in my country including me mistakenly believed that China was a poor country, where there was only oppression without freedom.But when l came to China, l found China is AMAZING! l dare say China is better than the West in many ways.Modernization, convenience, hospitality, safety, all of these has left a positive impression on me.
Nice try wumao, now check your account for the 50 cents.
+1000 social credit points
Because they are good at covering all their dirty deeds by putting up this perfect and clean city as a facade.
@user-st3bm4fu6igdp per capita doesnt matter if 30% of the wealth is owned by 1% LMAO
We, an Asian. We do gambling seriously
I can tell! Even Las Vegas is filled with Asian gamblers too, Crazy!
Majority of High Limit room are Asians, not Blacks or White.
I thought it was Macau casino
Gambling is forbidden in religion.. Allah is your truly god Muhammad and Isa are messenger of Allah let's us worship Allah
Chinese love to gamble but gambling is illegal in mainland China. That is why we have Macau. Not just Chinese but most Asians and some westerners gamble in Macau. It actually earns more gamble revenues than Las Vegas
Gambling is forbidden in religion.. Allah is your truly god Muhammad and Isa are messenger of Allah
Las Vegas itself is a knock off. Calling Macau a knock off is quite mean.
Las Vegas is not a knock off. It is an entirely unique city not ever seen. Unless you are just talking about some buildings
@@kevinl8440 The buildings of course. Not the concept of the city
I think he's North American. He sounds very provincial.
@@FifthGate Hes from the states.
@@Beat562 eiffel tower, venician canal etc
All the money from Macau is coming to Vegas, because most of the gaming companies are headquartered in Las Vegas.
Not sure what you're talking about, but casinos, other than in Macau, have never been legal in China. So, I completely don't understand why you said since the 2000's, Macau is the only place in China where casinos are legal. Well, before 99, no casinos in China were legal). After 99 when China took back Macau, Macau has been the only place in China where casinos are legal. That's not exactly 2000's. Casinos have always been legal in Macau and have never been legal in China (Macau being the only exception).
The revenue is completely misleading. It is mostly from money laundering and not straight gambling.
Money laundering aren't counted or publicised, that's kinda the point
@@Hhhh22222-w Yes it is counted. It is counted as part of the gambling revenue as that is why the figure is so misleading. 90% of the "gambling" is just buying $10 million in chips, playing a couple hands, and then asking to be cashed out via their overseas bank.
Knock off?? Dude r u kidding? That eiffel tower in vegas aren't even the original
Nobody is rich in macau, the amount of unemployment in people between their 20s and 30s is insane, and companies will prefer to hire mainland people because of cheap labour… and macau people only receive 10k mop a year, that’s about 3 months of a parking slot in downtown.
Macau per capita income in 2019 before the pandemic was $83,000 US dollar one of the highest incomes in the world.
@@Dept246 the highest in the world
@@Dept246 doesn’t mean anything? I’m macau resident and I know people here the last 3 years people suffer a lot! And that’s pure BS or probably fake numbers because the avarage income of a macau local is not more than 9K mop which is not even 13000 us a year
@@Alesscamera I am sure you are a fake macau resident. Bye.
Love your videos. Very informative. I recently just went to Macau this year. The Portuguese heritage is very noticeable in the city planning, architecture, food, and language. If you ride the bus in Macau, they say everything in four languages Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. So this city is accessible to all visitors.
It's not a knock-off. It's owned by the same companies.
There are two MGM and two Wynn
Two MGM’s are
MGM Cotai and MGM Macau
Two Wynn are:
Wynn Macau and Wynn palace
There are difference
(Note:you won’t learn anything)
Asians are the biggest gambler. For years you would see large number of Japanese in Vegas big gambling tables and last decade Chinese have now joined. I imagine Macao us receiving not only Chinese but Japanese and Koreans in large numbers
Is it really a knock off if the casino builders in Vegas were the ones beating down China's door and clamoring to build these casinos over there to get that sweet sweet Chinese market moolah?
The Venetian does not have a 5 min in Vegas. It’s 20 min
Are you joking? Macau, in terms of casino scale and revenue, is more than twice that of Las Vegas, and its history is also longer than that of Las Vegas. Why don't you say that Las Vegas is a knock off of Macau?
It's more like 4-5 times the revenue of Vegas.
Not true. Over 90% of the revenue in Macau is due to money laundering and not straight gambling. Macau is a money laundering center the Chinese use to get their money out of China. It is not about gambling.
we understood that well, that now it is biggr than Vegas, he said that many times. it is a knock off because Vegas was first. But I think Vegas is also a knock off of whichever smaller unknown town, those must exist since forever.
I think because Vegas is much more known. 😂 I didn’t hear about Macau until now.
@@fin2064 Vegas wasn't first though lol. Gambling was legal in Macau since the 1850s, 50 years before Vegas even existed as a city. The ignorance is strong with US-Americans.
Went to Macau last month on my annual Hong Kong trip (minus 20-22 because of covid restrictions). Was first time I visited since I lived in HK in 2016. I think something that really gets lost is all the old Portuguese architecture such as Ruins of St Paul's & Senado Square. And even the old town of Taipa near the ferry terminal where the bars and street food vendors are. The 'Strip' is crazy and a must visit. But as non-casino gambler (usually just sports betting) the other parts I enjoyed a lot more.
But another great video Uptin, keep it up mate🙌
Macau has been investing a lot on non-gambling elements in recent years. It is a place also good for non-gambling visitors.
Playing baccarat in Macau was an experience. 50$ minimum tables. Only there for a day and left up 300$!!! That was enough for me.
I will take Vegas any day of the week
Actually Macau put more emphasis on entertainment and shows like sports games, teamlab, shows, concerts, cirque du soleil, etc, please check your facts
why would you call Macau a knock off. The Vegas players built Macau
More like Las Vegas extension just like chain stores. This place is so even gorgeous than LV itself even India dream about.
Only $1200 per year for residents. That is nothing.
No income tax, no sales tax, all stores are duty free…
I've never been paid to be a resident, sooooo that's definitely something to most of us outside of Macao. lol
Macau is a far nicer place than Vegas. Safer. Cleaner. Friendlier. It's not a copy, it's the superior model.
Very interesting.... some of the Las Vegas casinos are replicas but China casinos are called knock off by the same companies. What gives?
Simple Asians people love to gamble
Yes and no, majority of asian countries prohibit gambling and the few that allow, tightly control and restrict it.
Wow, finally watching a video about my hometown Macau, it has been so difficult for me to introduce my hometown to people :)
OMG…you need a better title to your video. The casinos in Macau are NOT knockoffs. You are misleading your viewers. These iconic Las Vegas casinos went to Macau to build their brand identity there to make money.
Good luck finding a $5 table in Venetian
Macau is a Portuguese territory, or at least WAS, which is why it looks more like this than the rest of China. Hong Kong was British and surprise, looks the way it does cause of the Brits, not because China had any say in it.
Great coverage! What’s the third biggest destination for gaming?
Probably Atlantic city?
A quick google search shows 2 different answers: Monte Carlo, Monaco & Atlantic City. I think there lots of different answers among the top 4 (who is #1?) based on how it's measured. Pure gambling amount spent or total amount spent in the general industry. Macao (as Uptin noted) gets about 80% of it's industry money directly from gambling. Monaco is probably going to be similar. Vegas & Atlantic City get a HUGE amount from hotels & entertainment. Google search appears to show average stay in Mac. I believe a high number of people who visit Macao is about 1.5 days and that close to half the vistors are one day only visits. Probably rich people who fly in to gamble a few hours then fly back home late evening.
@@uptin Cambodia
It might be Singapore even though it only has 2 casinos.
@@se7enzee444 Google usually shows Monte Carlo, Monaco & Atlantic City as #3 but singapore is often right behind them or ahead of one of those two in some of those results.
Great video very informative keep uploading stuff like this
Vegas is much more dangerous
Hehe 😈
I bet you Macau’s Sportsbooks sucks compared to Las Vegas.
You know you are not supposed to film inside the casino in Macau yet you did it anyways.
Hopefully the casino managements don't see this video or else there's a strike incoming
Why did they knock off the Effiel Tower of Las Vegas?
Why did you say that? They just made a replica of the original Eiffel Tower in Paris because the casino is called The Parisian Macao.
Having been to both of these places, I find this video quite strange. He literally just hand picked like 3/4 places then calls it a knock off.
Because it was built by the same company.
Gambling is forbidden in religion.. Allah is your truly god Muhammad and Isa are messenger of Allah let's us worship Allah
I initially had thought you were a different Western persona, bringing a new perspective that humanizes China and its inhabitants. But I was wrong. Unsubscribed and will never come back.
Truth hurts Wong
@@Shepardofman Everyone copies, and China does it too. But the matter is that he specifically uses a rhetoric implying that China copies more than other peoples, engages in more illegal activities, which is wrong (not the truth) and racist.
Also, it's hard you to argue against my point when you piece of unseasoned chicken is clearly racist and have an ulterior motive (cough, cough, racism against China) to portray it in a negative light, so leave your ad hominem alone and give me one argument why you think I'm actually wrong -- but you can't right?
If you were born yesterday maybe you don't know that in Las Vegas there is Paris and there is New York New York, so don't just blame Chinese for these knockoffs. You guys are just as guilty.
It's easier to make a garish copy of a garish, modern place like Las Vegas than Hallstatt, Tower Bridge, etc... but why?
Extremely offensive title. Macau is not a Vegas knockoff, it is its own unique city with a blend of Chinese and Portuguese cultures. Sickenly how non-chinese people go into China just to make videos with inflammatory titles just for views. I'm reporting you.
Lol How in the world can you say Macau is NOT a Las Vegas knockoff??? They literally copied the layout and every building.
@@kevinl8440 Because “they”, as in Chinese, did not copy it, MGM, Las Vegas Sands and other large U.S. casino companies did. They replicated what worked in Vegas and brought it to Macau. It’s like saying the McDonalds in Paris is a knockoff of the McDonalds in New York. Sheldon Adelson before he died made more money in Macau than in Vegas. Vegas is not the only city that has a big gaming sector and Macau is an older, different city than Vegas and gambling is not the only thing that defines the city. Saying that Macau is merely a copy and paste of Vegas is extremely reductionistic and wrong.
@@kevinl8440 did you not watch the video? It wasnt the macau governemnt or chinese it was the American chain brands who brought and built those buildings
Wow this was very interesting. Greetings from over Europe ✌️
Macau has its own flag emoji 🇲🇴🇲🇴🇲🇴 Using the China one 🇨🇳 can mislead. For example, US passport holders can enter Macau without Visa but not Mainland China
@:29 you said that Macau doesn't have a big ben?? You might want to edit that. Oops😅😅😅
its not a knock off if the people who own las vegas is the same owners as macau
This is not a knock off lmao. Many of the themed hotels are owned by Sands, a company which started its business in Las Vegas!
Visit South Africa
In short, Las Vegas is to Bangkok, as is Macau to Singapore.
Venetian Vegas doesn't have $5 tables. lol. Mostly 25, 50, 100 minimum with an occasional $15 table that doesn't stay $15 long.
I can promise you the tables at the Venetian in Vegas are not $5-10 bet. More like $15-25.
Las Vegas is poor man's Macau
Yeah. Especially look at the wages on the gambling tables and I'm not even talking about those in the VIP rooms. And the mall connecting to those casinos have the ALL luxury brands such as Frank Muller, Blancpain, Harry Winston, Hermes and others.
Not really. Vegas is bigger. Over 90% of the revenue in Macau is just money laundering from Chinese getting their money out of the country.
With more to do, a better atmosphere, and better resort options.
I had a bouncer force me to delete footage of the gaming floor. And I was told I could not sit at a slot machine unless I was playing. Plus they don't serve alcohol.
Macau is Vegas without the fun.
I wish they would kick non-players off slot machines in Las Vegas like they used to.
@@sexygeek8996 go to Macau!
@@TCGFIX That's probably a good idea. Las Vegas is full of riff-raff these days.
No alcohol? Good, they don't need drunks ruining other better's games, and ofcourse if you aren't playing why take the seats of the slots when other people could be playing
@@Hhhh22222-w they purposely don't put benches or anywhere else to sit and relax. It's gambling, or get out.
Won’t say it’s a knock off but their own Las Vegas I would say
Omg, how we can tell who living in the deeps of the ocean while China has actually Las Aliexpress Vegas...
There are over 1 billion Chinese and the US 300 million...two different locations
It is also way to get billionaires money out of mainland. Gambling.
U.S. farts.
China: let's copy that.
In plastic.
@@Shepardofman Okay troll. If you think everything China does is in plastic, please petition your government to return all the antique "copied and plastic" items in MoMa stolen from the burnt Summer Palace. Oh wait?! You won't do that, because as difficult for you to admit, you love Chinese culture and want to keep their age old rusted items in glass exhibitions.
You are comparing cheap casino outside of the strip to the Londoner… of course is 5$ vs 125$
Macao needs an MSG Sphere now.
Macao is ten times bigger, ten times more luxurious than Las Vegas.
No it is not. A simple look at Google maps can tell you Las Vegas is way bigger. And 90% of Macau revenue is just money laundering for Chinese to get their money out of China
But has 10x less to do, and has 10x worse of an atmosphere.
Respect to China for making gambling illegal.
I'm wondering why they're not showing their culture and architecture? Then copying western countries particularly the USA? Are they ashamed of their culture?
Don’t believe this bias video… he’s barely showing a few of the casinos to fit his narrative.
Are u indian
Vegas is a literal knockoff of Paris itself, so not sure why they're mad China's copying Vegas.
No lol, they didnt decide to copy, those are part of the las vegas chains who moved from las vegas, they built those, not the macau governemnt, secondly it's to attract westerners to come and spend their money, also makes sure that the vibe is different from mainland China as gambling is prohibited in China, effectively mainlanders feel like they are in another country when they gamble
@@Hhhh22222-wWhy would westerners go to a copy of Vegas when they can just go to Vegas😮
No no no...is not copy. You American copy we Chinese...!
Hahaha
I can see whos the one talking english and the other one not talking chinese… hehe
Vegas is the Mecca.
Fascinating
Lots of money laundering going there too
So the MGM built a hotel there and that means Macau “copied” Vegas. Brilliant
There was a time when mainlanders could take a million 🇺🇸 dollars in cash to any bank in Macau and the banks would deposit it with no questions.
Love Macau, from Hong Kong
This is wild! such a fun video!
Mo vlogs had visited manny khoshbin on one occasion.
When are you covering Pakistan? Would be an interesting country to do.
Iran and USA politics next!
And America copy from France 😂😂
Imitation is a compliment but no one wants to go to Macau. American Las Vegas in Asia. US win 👍🏽
Macau's casinos generated about $36 billion in revenue in 2019; Nevada, the home of Las Vegas, reported just under $12 billion in gambling revenue over the same period.
why use the word "knock off", as if it's fake? all the casinos are legit run by the same operators as vegas. kinda racist to be honest... especially coming from someone like you. macau trumps vegas in that it earns 3X more revenue.
Interesting Content. However China's map was wrong.
Isn't Vegas itself a knock off?
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They copied no one
Macau is better
NIce! It's sin city without the sin.😁
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Las Vegas is a sin city but Macao is not. Macao is a safe city and there has no gun shooting.
Macau is safe unless you’re being trafficked.
China/Macau didn't copy/paste Vegas; it's arguable that it was the other way around. Macau had legalized gambling since the 1850s, 50 years before Vegas even existed as a city and a full 100 years before Vegas took off. The only reason you see Western brand hotels there now is because they entered Macau recently (since 2000).
Vegas is still 1000% better, and the Paris (Parisian) Venetian, and Wynn are all Vegas classics. It’s more widely known because it’s become more than just gambling.
Vegas is the usa macau
Las Vegas is better 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Not gonna lie, but the buildings look way better than the ones in las vegas
And Chines LOOOVE to gamble.