@@alxr-pg3d675 I'd enjoy seeing this! I'm wanting to try Chinese alcohol but it's daunting going into 99 Ranch and seeing the sheer selection available.
Btw none any of these alcohols are actually American. Absolut = Swedish Johnnie Walker = Scottish Bombay Sapphire = English Jägermeister = German Baileys = Irish Fireball = Canadian Probably just meant what is popular in America
@@Pino1536That's possibly the worst example you could've picked. 1) The prime meridian is the standard, but technically everywhere is center as earth is a sphere. 2) Many, many different countries do this. For example, china or Japan. And if you don't believe me, I've been to china many times as a Chinese american. 3) having a country centric map does not prove rewriting history whatsoever. Not only is it geography and not history, people will obviously create a map centered around their target audience. There is no intention of "rewriting" in this case as there's nothing to rewrite. Simply a different perspective from the standard, but correct nevertheless.
@@Pino1536not to mention how blatantly false this is. I can't speak for other school districts, but as a AP world student, I can assure you my classroom is filled with the standard world maps. Yes with the prime meridian as the center.
@@Skadia0 and how do you calculate coordinates on the planet, where is east and west? the difference to other countries is that america was a new country in a time where standards already exist. it was simple ignorance. they think they are god on this planet but actually they developed more and more into a 3rd world country and every year more people realize it. even small false statements like saying something is from American could let people think the USA is really the big dream. the truth is: china has no homeless people, a healthcare system for every citizen... when we look at the citizen density and the fact china hasn't all those good international economy opportunities than Chinese people shouldn't think usa is in any way better. its simple western brainwashing.
All these people were friendly. Dude with the Zim shirt seems like a total blast to hang out with lol. Love seeing "man on the street" type interviews in China with fun topics like this, I don't come across them as much as I'd like!!
Fun fact they offer bombay sapphire, jagermeister, absolut vodka at the clubs in Shanghai too haha ive gotten them as bottle choices just last week Also the red label whiskey I got from the family mart right next to me before same exact bottle. Baileys and Fireball is the only thing kinda new here
You guys definitely needs Sheldon lol. His mandarin is super good for someone who is CBC and Cantonese as his mother tongue. You guys should vlog a day in the life with the 3 of you on your second channel and only speaking Mandarin.
Funny that they never heard or tried Johnnie Walker Red label. It's the most familiar drink for overseas Chinese during weddings simply because it has a red label, it's a bad Scotch if you are a Scotch connoisseur !
The Green Label is hugely popular in Taiwan because the color is seen as lucky. I also wouldn't be surprised if Gold Label is also a big seller in China.
@@etow8034 Should have been more accurate. South east asian chinese demand blue label and Martell Cordon Bleu at weddings. which part of the world are you from?
@@lagofala Martell Cordon Bleu is considered a cheap brand especially their Cognacs here in North America. Johnnie Walker Red label is the go to drink for toasting a weddings especially if you're from the Guangzhou, Hong-Kong Cantonese speaking regions.
Dude in the white shirt knew what he was doing! Next get your western friends to try Moutai (aka the worst tasting alcohol in existence that somehow still costs 1000$ for a 750mL bottle)
i just came back from chengdu and when i had dinner with my gf's family, all they drank was bai jiu and beer haha. The bai jiu has a very strong taste as well.
Yeah, older chinese people LOVE treat guests with their best Bai jiu, you will find that it is very rare for young people to be drinking that crap, especially gen Z
I'd be interested in seeing the older generation of more traditional chinese folks trying these alcohols! I feel like it'd be either very fun or very educating!
00:49: Norwegian here.. a lot of hard alcohol, even well known brands, are sold at 60%. I take it this in some sense is to keep people away from homebrewing liquor, as many at least in the countryside, distill their own 96% that they drink. Yes, 96%. The very max you can drink before dying. 53% is not a very serious percentage. Also, outside of Norway, if you take Rum for example, there are PLENTY that sit at 80% or more.
I'm not sure you're separating "percent" from "proof". For example, it's very rare to find a commercial liquor that exceeds 40% (80 proof) in N America.
@@michaelccozens no yeah after a little googling their national alcohol must contain AT LEAST 37.5% to be considered authentic, but usually around 40%, even up to 50%. and thats just the one. so it seems somewhat feasible. just think about moonshine here in the us, you can get it into the 80%s pretty easy with vapor distillation.
0:06 _"... These are Chinese locals trying popular american alcohol drinks for the first time"_ Baileys is Irish, Jägermeister is German, Bombay Sapphire is British, Fireball is Canadian, Absolut is Swedish, Johnnie Walker is Scottish. These drinks may be popular in america, but none of them is truly american.
not sure if there are any American alcohols readily available in China, but it would be cool if they tried Jack and moonshine, (if they could sneak it in somehow)
Fun fact: The company that produces baiju, Kweichow Moutai, is the second biggest food and beverage company in the world at $270 billion market cap, slightly behind Cola. It is also the second biggest company in China.
Also, cinnamon is only rarely used as a sweet flavor in traditional East Asian cooking. You can find it in lots of savory dishes, but finding it mixed with sugar for desert type stuff (or sweet like in Fireball) is a lot less common.
"Chinese don't use cinnamon." the first thought that came into my mind was "Y'all must be northerners." (i didn't notice they're in Baoding at first) 🤣 We also use cassia cinnamon, not ceylon cinnamon, the two has a somewhat different flavour and fragrance.
I'm from South Africa and would like to try the Asian drinking culture. I think the South African's really love drinking. Let me know if it would be possible to come on one of your video's to bars to drink with you and experience to difference between the two side. In South Africa there are lots of different races and cultures, but when it comes to drinking, we all become one.
Johnny Walker. Is good Uisce. We say in Irish Uisce batha for Irish whiskey. Uisce in Irish means water. Uisce beathe. Means water of Life in Irish. Or Whiskey
My family like to make rice wine and all kinds of fruit wine and it’s high percent of alcohol and drink 白酒 also but I think Chinese people like to make there own wine but 白酒 is definitely must have on the dinner table I know there are more like herbal wines also
We can too, you just have to put a brown paper bag over the alcohol container. Yes, it's very silly on the face of it, but the reason those laws are on the books is rooted in historic racism against minorities. Creating such laws that can easily be selectively enforced allows for the oppression of some people but not others. The brown paper bag to get around public drinking laws remains as an expression of our shared, American culture. We remind ourselves of our mistakes and strive to be better. For what it's worth, in most cities, the public drinking bans have been removed.
You got a new subscriber with this vid! Love food, simple but well done food and learning about other cultures. This vid touched my heart, love noodles but not pasta (makes me fell to stuffed). Sadly I have not found a Chinese restaurant here that serves food like the stuff I got when in China, especially Canton area. Our Thai food is OK, at least the small places. What about classic Swedish "husmanskost" and maybe some of our specialities (fermented herring, blood dumplings, reindeer and moose meat etc).
A Chinese worker who lived in my share house bought Baijiu and made us drink it. It was the hardest to drink spirit I've ever had, and I've drunk Absinthe before.
it brings me back to my days as a guinea pig at bars and clubs when i would have bartenders throw anything at me that they wanted to test out before serving it to everyone else.
@@kaiserxblue no idea actually because i also was a lot of the time the person that drove other people home after all of that. i don't ever recommend that since i had some walking blackouts. i retired because of gut issues not related to the drinking. plus most of the friends are no longer here on earth and others moved away.
@@MrThedr1975 Dude, based on that story then you got lucky, like for real! being the designated driver when drinking and somehow you made it in one piece? I know it's in the past but shit man.,... you really picked hard mode in life.
Awesome! Love the reactions. One thing that very few people will have tried or know is Malort from Chicago. They’ll hate it too! Nothing as bad as a grapefruit that got rotten in gasoline…😂
I‘m suprised not everyone likes jägermeister, it‘s one of my favorites but i guess it just might be me because i even like when my tea tastes like medicine
Weird how they haven’t had walker before considering it’s all they drink usually w/ chivas being another one. But it’s usually black or gold they drink
I'm currently studying in China and next to my dorm, they sell vodka. They don't even check your IDs or anything. The other day, I found a Maotai ice cream shop but didn't try any since I had to catch a train on the same day
Where to next for our alcohol series? 🤔
Koreaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
could you have colab with ryan higa or kevjumba please ?
Introduce Chinese alcohol to Americans
@@alxr-pg3d675 I'd enjoy seeing this! I'm wanting to try Chinese alcohol but it's daunting going into 99 Ranch and seeing the sheer selection available.
You need to try some midnight moonshine.. so smooth and dangerous...
The dude with the Z im shirt was so personable and cool, open minded and engaged!
fr he seems fun to get drunk with
All my brain is saying when he's on screen is "Jimmy Kimmel's lost Chinese brother." But yeah, I agree. heh
>Z
Oh no
@@Xottapchenko Z V O!
Yeah I think he is really cute.
Btw none any of these alcohols are actually American.
Absolut = Swedish
Johnnie Walker = Scottish
Bombay Sapphire = English
Jägermeister = German
Baileys = Irish
Fireball = Canadian
Probably just meant what is popular in America
i was looking for this comment
americankis always creating a different history. Even their school world maps show America in the center instead of the Prime meridian.
@@Pino1536That's possibly the worst example you could've picked.
1) The prime meridian is the standard, but technically everywhere is center as earth is a sphere.
2) Many, many different countries do this. For example, china or Japan. And if you don't believe me, I've been to china many times as a Chinese american.
3) having a country centric map does not prove rewriting history whatsoever. Not only is it geography and not history, people will obviously create a map centered around their target audience. There is no intention of "rewriting" in this case as there's nothing to rewrite. Simply a different perspective from the standard, but correct nevertheless.
@@Pino1536not to mention how blatantly false this is. I can't speak for other school districts, but as a AP world student, I can assure you my classroom is filled with the standard world maps. Yes with the prime meridian as the center.
@@Skadia0 and how do you calculate coordinates on the planet, where is east and west? the difference to other countries is that america was a new country in a time where standards already exist. it was simple ignorance. they think they are god on this planet but actually they developed more and more into a 3rd world country and every year more people realize it.
even small false statements like saying something is from American could let people think the USA is really the big dream. the truth is: china has no homeless people, a healthcare system for every citizen... when we look at the citizen density and the fact china hasn't all those good international economy opportunities than Chinese people shouldn't think usa is in any way better. its simple western brainwashing.
i love how Mike's just using chinglish throughout the entire video lmao
the more I drank, the more it came out 🤣
All these people were friendly. Dude with the Zim shirt seems like a total blast to hang out with lol. Love seeing "man on the street" type interviews in China with fun topics like this, I don't come across them as much as I'd like!!
I wanna see more of this. The interactions are hella fun and authentic.
Props to you for taking all those shots with all those different people thats a lot 😂
its not that hard long as he takes time in between
They wernt full shots they were just sips.
taking shots is the worst way of experiencing alcohol
gotta get the everclear in on this please
Awww hellll nahhh! They gonna get messed up LMAO
lmfao i remembered everclear. knocked out half the people at the party in my college days
trust me , dont poison them like that
No that’s not normal alcohol 😂
nah thats too much people could get sick
Mike you mean percent* not degree I'm dying 😂
I was curious too. i thought i was saying it all wrong all this while
In mandarin we call alcohol percentage ‘degree’, not sure why but that’s how it’s said. 40% alcohol we call it 40 degrees
@@mochagreen ahh thanks for sharing! Learned something new!
the more I drank the more I started to mix english and chinese lol. As someone mentioned above in mandarin percentage is translated to degree
But in English a degree of alcohol is only 1/2%
Those young’s showing respect in the toast is everything
They are so sweet and polite! Absolutely love them
Fun fact they offer bombay sapphire, jagermeister, absolut vodka at the clubs in Shanghai too haha ive gotten them as bottle choices just last week
Also the red label whiskey I got from the family mart right next to me before same exact bottle.
Baileys and Fireball is the only thing kinda new here
they are all accessible in family mart in shanghai lol
Great vibes from all involved here.
Love how he said „popular American drinks“ in the intro when not a single drink in the video is American 😂
XD i was just thinking that when he showed the list
My favorite Chinese food is quesadillas
@@jeddunning7058 more like orange chicken
@@someone________2502 no… that’s my favorite Mexican dish
Popular drinks in America possibly.
I think this is a terrific series - people are just people you know?
If they were my China office colleagues, we'd have a grand time together.
You did them dirty bruh. Following up Baileys with Jager
I love how everyone, including the host and the guests, is fluidly going back and forth between mandarin and English to best understand each other
You guys definitely needs Sheldon lol. His mandarin is super good for someone who is CBC and Cantonese as his mother tongue.
You guys should vlog a day in the life with the 3 of you on your second channel and only speaking Mandarin.
Wow I just want to say that the editing for this video is really well done. Props to the editor.
Funny that they never heard or tried Johnnie Walker Red label. It's the most familiar drink for overseas Chinese during weddings simply because it has a red label, it's a bad Scotch if you are a Scotch connoisseur !
The Green Label is hugely popular in Taiwan because the color is seen as lucky. I also wouldn't be surprised if Gold Label is also a big seller in China.
Overseas chinese will only take blue label haha
@@lagofala No blue label here, plus light blue is bad luck in Chinese culture !
@@etow8034 Should have been more accurate. South east asian chinese demand blue label and Martell Cordon Bleu at weddings. which part of the world are you from?
@@lagofala Martell Cordon Bleu is considered a cheap brand especially their Cognacs here in North America. Johnnie Walker Red label is the go to drink for toasting a weddings especially if you're from the Guangzhou, Hong-Kong Cantonese speaking regions.
All of them were so chill!!
Dude in the white shirt knew what he was doing! Next get your western friends to try Moutai (aka the worst tasting alcohol in existence that somehow still costs 1000$ for a 750mL bottle)
Bro was having flashbacks
I've had Kweichou Moutai. I didn't care for it, but it wasn't that bad. Airag is much worse. I couldn't even finish a single cup.
It's so expensive because they only make 1 bottle everytime they sell one because nobody wants to drink it and they never know if they'll sell or not.
these videos are strangely addictive, same as the 'chefs try this and that for the first time' ones
Great interaction. Chinese people are awesome.
15:26 click here if you're cantonese
those 2 guys in the z shirt looked so cool and chill.
i just came back from chengdu and when i had dinner with my gf's family, all they drank was bai jiu and beer haha. The bai jiu has a very strong taste as well.
Yeah, older chinese people LOVE treat guests with their best Bai jiu, you will find that it is very rare for young people to be drinking that crap, especially gen Z
"No no, I should go home now." That dudes cool as hell.
The guy in the white shirt is a connoisseur of drinks, my man!
I'd be interested in seeing the older generation of more traditional chinese folks trying these alcohols! I feel like it'd be either very fun or very educating!
Drinking Jägermeister at room temperature is the worst. It needs to be ice cold then it is perfect. Good video! Greetings from Germany!
Looked like everyone had a good time!! ❤❤
He just straight up told a woman he just met "You have a great tongue."
I'm in awe.
00:49: Norwegian here.. a lot of hard alcohol, even well known brands, are sold at 60%. I take it this in some sense is to keep people away from homebrewing liquor, as many at least in the countryside, distill their own 96% that they drink. Yes, 96%. The very max you can drink before dying. 53% is not a very serious percentage. Also, outside of Norway, if you take Rum for example, there are PLENTY that sit at 80% or more.
I'm not sure you're separating "percent" from "proof". For example, it's very rare to find a commercial liquor that exceeds 40% (80 proof) in N America.
@@michaelccozens no yeah after a little googling their national alcohol must contain AT LEAST 37.5% to be considered authentic, but usually around 40%, even up to 50%. and thats just the one. so it seems somewhat feasible. just think about moonshine here in the us, you can get it into the 80%s pretty easy with vapor distillation.
96 isnt the max you can drink without dying it just the highest percentage you can distill alcohol to
Would definitely like to see more content with interactions and opinions of people in China, something you don't see as often
Sue wasn't talking about an emotional or personal connection. She meant connections that benefit your professional and social standing.
0:06 _"... These are Chinese locals trying popular american alcohol drinks for the first time"_
Baileys is Irish, Jägermeister is German, Bombay Sapphire is British, Fireball is Canadian, Absolut is Swedish, Johnnie Walker is Scottish.
These drinks may be popular in america, but none of them is truly american.
shouldve at LEAST had some Jack lmao
not sure if there are any American alcohols readily available in China, but it would be cool if they tried Jack and moonshine, (if they could sneak it in somehow)
… it says populair in america not made in america. Like nacho’s and pasta are popular in the netherlands. But are from totally different places.
@@harutherogue5116 sneaking something into china seems like a brilliant idea.
And James Bond, famous whisky drinker...
Omg the shotgunning was everything 😂😭
Is the name of the channel a combination of Cantonese and Mandarin? Loved the video! The two guys that were there, did they speak Mandarin?
Shawn really pulled one over on your guys. He had it all already he just wanted free drinks. 😂
Afternoon from the U.K and it's interesting to see other cultures trying new drinks, some of those people were swing 😂😂😂😂, but thanks for sharing ❤
Guy in the white Carhartt shirt looks like a younger version of 杜俊緯 🤣
This was cool. Seeing the chill side of China is becoming a rarity these days.
excited for the next R&D video!
Great video! I enjoyed this one.
Fun fact: The company that produces baiju, Kweichow Moutai, is the second biggest food and beverage company in the world at $270 billion market cap, slightly behind Cola. It is also the second biggest company in China.
She said “Chinese people don’t use cinnamon as a flavouring” meanwhile…. Chinese Five Spice is 1/5th cinnamon 💀
She means main or dominant flavouring.
Also, cinnamon is only rarely used as a sweet flavor in traditional East Asian cooking. You can find it in lots of savory dishes, but finding it mixed with sugar for desert type stuff (or sweet like in Fireball) is a lot less common.
Cassia Cinnamon (Chinese cooking) and Ceylon Cinnamon taste is totally different
"Chinese don't use cinnamon." the first thought that came into my mind was "Y'all must be northerners." (i didn't notice they're in Baoding at first) 🤣 We also use cassia cinnamon, not ceylon cinnamon, the two has a somewhat different flavour and fragrance.
And Jager tastes like star anise which is an even stronger flavor of 5 spice.
white tee english speaking dude cool af 😎
editing is so good and funny 😂
This was so fun to watch. Do tequila next ✨
the auntie who watched you guys shotgun beers looked so disappointed
I'm from South Africa and would like to try the Asian drinking culture. I think the South African's really love drinking. Let me know if it would be possible to come on one of your video's to bars to drink with you and experience to difference between the two side. In South Africa there are lots of different races and cultures, but when it comes to drinking, we all become one.
Great vid keep up the good content
Mike, my friend had to catch my head when I drank Fireball as I was passing out. OMG, never again! ✋🏻🤚🏻🙆🏻♂️🥴😵💫🇺🇸🤝🇨🇦
I want to try Chinese street food! In China. Learn about Chinese culture . It looks amazing.There 12:07 . Everyone is very welcoming there ❤
Johnny Walker. Is good Uisce. We say in Irish Uisce batha for Irish whiskey. Uisce in Irish means water. Uisce beathe. Means water of Life in Irish. Or
Whiskey
Great result for Absolut, makes me happy as a Swede :D
My family like to make rice wine and all kinds of fruit wine and it’s high percent of alcohol and drink 白酒 also but I think Chinese people like to make there own wine but 白酒 is definitely must have on the dinner table I know there are more like herbal wines also
Hi dear North American people, can you see we can literally drink in public kkkkkk
We can too, you just have to put a brown paper bag over the alcohol container. Yes, it's very silly on the face of it, but the reason those laws are on the books is rooted in historic racism against minorities. Creating such laws that can easily be selectively enforced allows for the oppression of some people but not others. The brown paper bag to get around public drinking laws remains as an expression of our shared, American culture. We remind ourselves of our mistakes and strive to be better. For what it's worth, in most cities, the public drinking bans have been removed.
Good stuff subbed 😎
Use Jamaican Wray and nephew next 😂
This is was so chill. he needs to do seoul korea next.
I grew up in Kentucky. I was disappointed that there was no Makers Mark or Wild Turkey 101. But I really would like to try this baijou sometime.
You got a new subscriber with this vid! Love food, simple but well done food and learning about other cultures. This vid touched my heart, love noodles but not pasta (makes me fell to stuffed). Sadly I have not found a Chinese restaurant here that serves food like the stuff I got when in China, especially Canton area. Our Thai food is OK, at least the small places. What about classic Swedish "husmanskost" and maybe some of our specialities (fermented herring, blood dumplings, reindeer and moose meat etc).
Quite like this, it shows common ground between cultures.
The Red Bull (which is a copy of Thai energy drink) was actually made as a party drink to be drunk with Jaegermeister since the beginning.
A Chinese worker who lived in my share house bought Baijiu and made us drink it. It was the hardest to drink spirit I've ever had, and I've drunk Absinthe before.
Now I want to try Baijo!
“seventeen degrees”…someone was drinking before they filmed 👀
They seem so chill.....
it brings me back to my days as a guinea pig at bars and clubs when i would have bartenders throw anything at me that they wanted to test out before serving it to everyone else.
How is it that you are still alive my dude?!
@@kaiserxblue no idea actually because i also was a lot of the time the person that drove other people home after all of that. i don't ever recommend that since i had some walking blackouts. i retired because of gut issues not related to the drinking. plus most of the friends are no longer here on earth and others moved away.
@@MrThedr1975 Dude, based on that story then you got lucky, like for real! being the designated driver when drinking and somehow you made it in one piece?
I know it's in the past but shit man.,... you really picked hard mode in life.
I love the shotgun inclusion! Great bonus
When I lived in Dongguan I went to a kids bday party and all the uncle's were drink baijiu and I was out after 3 lil shots 😂😂😂 it's no joke
17 degree instead of 17%. Lmao
Awesome! Love the reactions. One thing that very few people will have tried or know is Malort from Chicago. They’ll hate it too! Nothing as bad as a grapefruit that got rotten in gasoline…😂
I‘m suprised not everyone likes jägermeister, it‘s one of my favorites but i guess it just might be me because i even like when my tea tastes like medicine
Man was having some before he started the video😂😂 Kept saying degrees
this was a lot of fun
Weird how they haven’t had walker before considering it’s all they drink usually w/ chivas being another one. But it’s usually black or gold they drink
These are younger generations might have different exposure to drinking preference.
To Mix the Jägermeister with RedBull these Dude knows what he is talking about. Try it i live it. Greetings from Germany
Lol should've warned them (and maybe you did) that they were about to try the American equivalent of Baiju 😅😂👏.
Baijiu is ok. I prefer rum because it's stronger depending on where you get it.
Y'all should do some stuff with Xiaomanyc!
You should have Chinese ppl try Everclear and REAL Moonshine😂
They would have died 😂😂
Those shot glasses look tiny. Can we please send these people Everclear??? 😂
The dude in the white tees goona be a great drinking buddy i guess😂
"nobody likes drinking this " bro i love jägermeister. some of the dopest shit u can do shots on
Ah yes, James Bond, famous whisky drinker 🤣
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Redbull and Jägermeister mix? Brother, you are now an honorary German.
I find it funny how beloved Scottish whisky is. Being Scottish myself, I hate it lol
Do Bourbon next time!
3:48 speak for yourself. I love Jäger
I'm currently studying in China and next to my dorm, they sell vodka. They don't even check your IDs or anything. The other day, I found a Maotai ice cream shop but didn't try any since I had to catch a train on the same day
The white shirt guy with the earring is a certified alchoholic
He just activated all of their lactose intolerance with that first shot of Baileys! 😅
bro this is so cool cuz in chinese
(im)
proof?
same but americanized af
Would love to have a few drinks with the guy in white. He seems to know what he is drinking.
Drinking on the street. What freedom.
BAILEY'S Is always served chilled or with one cube .
Warm is cack .
Goes great with a smoke .
Makes China look like a cool place to go drinking.
Omg a sponsor that’s not square space?!