My First Time in Chengdu (My Favourite City in China?) 🇨🇳
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Say “ We Sheen” instead of “ We Chat” and you will go far!
I never been to Chengdu, but my roommate in China used to spend all summer there. He loves it. I need to visit soon!
I am from Chengdu.I'm so happy to hear that you like Chengdu.
Hey josie! We postgraduates in Chengdu love spending the Friday night at 金色印象, where we enjoy a massage while watching movies. Actually this place even provides a buffet with a variety of small, exquisite dishes, really helping us unwind from the week's stress.
Remember to make the reservation in person at the store; phone reservations are not accepted😹
金足印象，（golden foot impression）
@@QiLan-n6f 金色印象是它的竞争对手，有后发优势
It’s happy to see that Michael feels good now😂
Me too.
Chinese is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, with 1.4 billion users. China has a unique culture and language. So Chinese people don't know English, but young people can speak some English. If you live in China for a long time, you can learn some simple Chinese conversations.
Private coffee shops will be more expensive, but cheaper in coffee chains, such as Lucky Coffee
没多少人去，所以单价设高点才能赚钱。
Chengdu is probably the most tourist-friendly Provincial capital city in China. Jiuzhaigou or Kangding are only a few hours drive from Chengdu.The ancient town of MOXI磨西, located at the foot of the 7,500-meter Minya Konka, is worth a visit. In addition to the snow-capped mountains and huge glacier landscapes, the hot springs there are also very good
I’m impressed with how many Chinese vocabularies you’ve picked up, Josie! You don’t need to speak Chinese fluently in order to navigate through China, you really just need some key vocabs to get by. Good job!
Chengdu is the largest breeding base in the world, with more than 200 giant pandas inside. The best viewing time is: 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., otherwise the giant pandas will sleep.
I am from Chengdu! Hope you love Chengdu, I love this city so much!
Life is interesting! 6:51 The Yishon Store, I used to go there to buy clothes back in 2007, while studying in Sichuan Uni. After graduation, I came to Sydney and settled until now. While 2024, I see you and Michael, two Australian walking pass that store. It is like our life cross paths, but at different times. ❤
你是84年的？
Thanks!
Thank you!
After July 10th live in HK and Macau foreigners can use the card to China stay for 90 days and used for 5 years.
Hi Josie
Just want to let you know you have a such great personality and I love to see your videos. It’s so energetic and fun!!
Hope you all the best in china!!❤❤❤
I just noticed UA-cam flashes the subscribe button in rainbow color on desktop when you mention "subscribe" in the video 0:15. I've never seen that before.
You like coffee then try to find Luckin Coffee (Chinese version of Starbucks but many times cheaper than Starbucks). They are quite good
Almost nobody understands "WeChat" because its Chinese name is "WeiXin" pronounced like: "We Seen"
Yeah I left comment before that told Josie in China it's We Sin
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Your chinese may be simple, but i've noticed that you've really improved, i hope you consider learning more of the language, i am sure you will be able to speak it fluently someday
Thank you very much!!! I definitely tried very hard to learn more of the tones this time!! I will admit, I didn’t learn as much Chinese as I usually would learn other languages, it took me so long to remember it is one of the hardest languages for me to learn, but I’m sure I will learn more for my next visit! Thank you! 😊😁
@@josievlogsthingskudos to you. You are awesome for keeping trying and learning😊
As a Chinese, I like your vlog very much. Have a good time in China💚💛🧡💜💙
1:42 I only know how to say ‘hello’ on the phone in Mandarin, which is ‘wèi,’ because my friend from high school speaks Mandarin
"Wei" should be the 2nd tone, not in the 4th tone!
@@Marilina_Cao Okay
Maybe, if you wanna sound aggressive, 4th tone works well 😂
For the Aussies and Kiwis not live in HK and Macau can used the passport for 15 days visa free no need to apply the visa to China.
住宿食物在中國比較便宜 而且景觀優美豐富文化人們和善 是一個非常適合旅遊的國家
Accommodation and food are relatively cheap in China. The scenery is beautiful, the culture is rich, and the people are kind. It is a very suitable country for tourism.
Josie your Chinese is improved so much! Awesome!
Definitely one of my favourite cities back in China.
Me too! I liked this one and Guangzhou!
The camera in the street flashed/captured every car because it's purpose to monitor this road traffic volume to see how many cars went through this street per hour(how busy in different time a day).This is one part of Chinese traffic system and quite common everywhere.
You sure get around fast!
Chengdu is one of the China’s most chill city. It ranked first in terms of number of bars and second in number of coffee shops in China.
至于咖啡门店数量第一，哈，我都不用想，没有城市赢得过上海
@@Hacksilber 必需的😄
Welcome to my hometown.
Haven't been back to china for many years. That Seafood matket in downtown recall my memory. Enjoy your trip
Apparently, there are many panda-related merchandizes in the city. Can try sport or souvenir shops, maybe you can find Bing Dwen Dwen (2022 Beijing mascot) in one of them. Oh, spicy and skewers hot pots are must-try.
I think your Chinese pronunciation has improved a lot, Josie! At least the apple seller understood and responded correctly!❤Come on! Keep it up ,sure influnt Chinese you'll speak very soon!🎉🎉🎉
Just a friendly note from a native speaker🥰
A more natural way to say “no worries” or “all good”would be 没事 (mei2 shi4)* or 没关系(mei2 guan1 xi)*. The expression没问题would be more appropriate for “no problem” or “sure thing” as in someone asking for your opinion on something, for example: let’s go grab a coffee after this? And you can go - sure, no probs! (好啊，没问题!)The differences may sound subtle in English but are sometimes enough to confuse the Chinese person you’re trying to have a conversation with.
Btw love your vids josie and your dedication to learning casual Chinese! :))
*numbers to suggest the tone
Chengdu has the biggest Tibetan population outside Tibet, lots of Tibetan people move down to Chengdu for higher oxygen level.
I always stay in a hostel in another part of Chengdu, the Wuhou district. I like it there a lot more than the district you stayed.
My favorite chengdu food is rice bean soup? not soup but a risotto kind of textured rice and bean porridge. U can try this if you can't eat much spicy! It is called "dou tang fan" 豆汤饭
Thanks for the walk around Chengdu. Great to watch. 🙂
Josie's Chinese improved so so so much👍🏻👍🏻😂 just keep exploring, there's so much interesting thing waiting for you two😊😊❤❤. one tip, when you say 'wechat' ppl actually don't understand😂😂
It is time to switch coffee to tea. With 28 CNY, you can find a tea house and drinking their tea all a day. 😂
Great, Michael is still alive lol
I don't know why I'm watching this. I'm a Chengdu woman who lives in Brisbane, I guess I just miss my homewown too much, and I'm going back to visit family this December 😂
The flash camera is usually used to take pictures of each car, so as to see clearly whether the people in the car are wearing seat belts or using mobile phones.
- 春熙路 ChunXi Road
- 锦里 Jinli
- 宽窄巷子 KuanZhai Alley
- 人民公园 people's park
- 熊猫基地 Panda base
If u have time, u can go to DuJiang Yan and Qing Cheng Mountain, also some ancient cities, there are a lot of things to see in and around Chengdu. Don't forget to try Hot Pot and Chuan Chuan (ask not too spicy, otherwise u go toilet a lot lol )
Thank you for sharing, this was fun to see the different shops/restaurants available and all the sweet 🐼
Chagee did a local thing. It just open in Chunxi Road-one of the most busy spots in CD. We name Chagee as China Starbucks. If you don't like tea thing then forget it.
go visit tibetan circle dance in the evening....happens daily in chengdu's tibet town
Wow! I love Chengdu! Thank you for sharing!❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍
In China, Mandarin is the national language. Yet in different locality, they speak their own language. China has some 56 ethnic groups, and they speak different languages. Many of them have even their own writing. That is totally different from each other. But interestingly, many, though speak differently, are of same writing. That is same writing but different pronunciation.
You should try tea at people.s park. Tea and a bag of fried sunflower seed, find a seat , enjoy the whole arvo there. Lot of people there though
Happy couple I love you two!😊😊😊
24:08 The cameras check speed, and they also detect if the driver is using a cellphone while driving or not wearing a seatbelt. I think they use at least one camera per lane to provide more accurate results?
Great video! Did you just return from Lahsa? How is Michael, has he recovered from the altitude sickness?
Yes! He felt better literally as soon as we landed here and got out of Tibet! The second we left high altitude!
Fan of you and your Marco's channals
Thank you!!! 🙏 😁😁
Wechat is actually “wei xin” in Chinese. If you say wechat probably the Chinese people do not understand it, instead you should say wei xin they will understand
Welcome to my city！enjoy the journey！
Camera to check does the driver fasten their seatbelt, but you know sometimes it will be best trace for some criminal
The price for the twin bed room is around less or more, $59 / night. 😅
拉萨国内价格一般三星左右的就20美元以内，估计外国人住价格贵，当然不知道国外的都是哪个平台推荐的，一般国内用飞猪，携程，同程，价格100左右的民宿或者好点的酒店，不是节假日的话
First 60! Hopefully Michael recovers from the high altitude reaction😁
街上安装高速摄像头给每辆车拍照主要是为了避免司机超速。一旦超速的车被拍到了，司机会得到罚单。
那地点是四川省政府的大门，所以管理的严，其他地方不会每辆车都拍
Your chinese is getting better and better
Your Mandarin is getting better and better
You are fairly good at getting the very basics of Mandarin.
You have been so used to the high altitude, now the heavier air is getting you.
Micheal is fairly close to what it is. The people you have come across, some cannot understand English spoke to you in Chinese, but they just spoke normally. They don’t mind your “off tone” Mandarin, they just try to kindly teach you how to say it correctly.
I just love following your journey as you explore and learn.
A bit quieter? Perhaps try Kunming or Dali.
Will be in chengdu for two years coming end of the month, would love to hangout with you and hope you can show me around and intro me to fellow expats
Hope you have a great trip there! I’m not in China anymore, I’m just a traveler so not an expat myself! Hope you have a great stay there though, I loved it! 😊😊
I was born and raised in China, lived in Europe for five years, and have been living in Australia for eight years, where I settled down. I really think that coffee is quite expensive in China compared to its cost. It seems that around twenty years ago, coffee in China was already about 6 Australian dollars per cup, whereas at that time, coffee in Paris was only 1 euro per cup.
Because Chinese people prefer milk tea to coffee, and coffee is more like a tool for white-collar workers to overcome sleepiness on weekday afternoons, there are not many coffee consumers and the price will not be cheap.
YOU just enter the most busy streets in Chengdu at first....hahahaha. that was a market center for people around southwest China to buy clothes from.!!
Good and welcome to Chengdu! Is the two big cities of Southwest China are Chengdu and Chongqing of the High speed train between two biggest southwest China cities.
Hey, I love your vlogs. I recommend you to visit another northern coastal city, Dalian. That is a very beautiful and stylish city with a lot of European style architectures. I am pretty sure you will have a different experience there.😊
Welcome to my city, Josie
Thank you!!!😊
@@josievlogsthings m still watching this video now, very instersting. next time in sichuan, pls use "How do(g without g) chan(ge without ge)" how duo chan instead of how much in sichuan which makes you more close to them here, it's the sichuan dlact way of saying how much money. :)
Thank you for the tip! 😁🙏
15:58 I think it's unawareness of the difference in languages. I've met people who tried to slowly speak Italian to me after realizing that I can't understand them, same in France, Greece, etc.. Some of us never learnt a second language, they are unaware of the big differences between languages, they just do what people always do when miss a sentence in a conversation: say it again but slower.
Young children start first day in school having to learn mandarin. They first language mandarin. Young people much better than old people to speak mandarin.
Speaking of fruit: try the peaches if they're ripe. You'll never want to eat another Aussie peach again. For some reason peaches such in the southern hemisphere
Looks that Michael has recovered back from Tibet. Josie, you spoke substantial Chinese in this video! Just a tip: people in China don't the WeChat's English name, so you have to call it by its Chinese name: Way sin.
Remember to ask for no spicy… it will turn out still be a spicy one 😀
Girl，you really got the talent of languages
Come to Chongqing so close to chengdu , buy you guys a cafe in Chongqing ( your boy totally feeling safe here 😂)
I'm in Chengdu，have fun🎉
WHAT???Mechanical puppy!？
You guys can stay longer with that lower price hotel.
I am Australian Chinese in Sydney. Watching your UA-cam everyday. Very good video you make one after one. Cities in China you have been are much more than those I have been. Thank you so much for your video. Love you two !
救命，他居然提供了中文字幕，实在是太贴心了。
I just came back from Chengdu today
Compared with Guangzhou, Chengdu is a city of culture, leisure and food. I prefer Chengdu.
Is your husband recovered from altitude sickness in Chengdu?
Yes he felt better as soon as he left Tibet! 😊😁
很好👍，很喜欢看你的视频，让我心情愉悦❤
omg this women still alive !
Sichan Food is my favourite.
欢迎来成都玩❤
你们去的是老城区。你们应该在晚上去逛逛交子大道和双子塔，那才是最繁华的现代成都。
great chengdu
Alipay in Mandarin = Zhīfùbǎo
Welcome to my city🤗🥰
Something you might not know about Chengdu, it holds the largest LGBT population in China. If you want you can’t try some special bars.
Not really, but full of btms 😂
你咱这么搞笑 至少我没见过 我本人就在成都
Take a taxi to Jiuyan Bridge Bar Street (九眼桥酒吧街) at 9pm and ask a passerby which gay bars are there. He will tell you. Btw, it’s crazy inside.
@@fanchameng 那个地方啊 过去是做假证的 现在搞这个 真是服了 估计不是成都人吧 反正我周围没有这样的人
Western media tells me Gays are banned in China.
Welcome to my city!
Thank you!!! What a great city!!
@@josievlogsthings We have been following you and Michael throughout your journey and we have been waiting to see when you are going to reach Chengdu! Please enjoy the city and feel free to reach out if you need any help!
English learning time!
Saw the title, BUT NO! ur favorite city is GUANGZHOU! LOOOOL
All those who like our country and are friendly to China are welcome to come to our country, whether for tourism or permanent residence.
Hey Josie please please go tibetan place in Chendung.
Very Nice Vlog..thank for sharing.🥰
Panda coming next video 😀
The subtitles on your video cannot be translated into the Chinese language. The reason may be that the wrong method or software was used when editing the video. In the previous video, it was no problem to choose Chinese simplified characters, but this time the subtitles are no longer visible in traditional Chinese characters. It is a pity that we cannot know the content of the words in this episode. 😅
Chengdu is the most relaxed city in China. People live very comfortably, with a slow pace of life, enjoying tea and hot pot. We often spend several hours together eating hot pot.