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good morning you guys from China we're here
in the capital of Beijing which is a mega
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City and has over 20 million residents
and it's over 3,000 years old which is
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so crazy to me I know I'm so excited to
be here you guys so we are utilizing the
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144-hour visa-free transit so we only have
a few days here it's the perfect amount of
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time for us to get our first impressions
of the city and this country look how
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beautiful this place is too we have perfect
weather today it's going to be a fantastic
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day we're just heading over to jingshan
park right now it's supposed to have like
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the highest point in the old city and offer
like really amazing views over the Forbidden
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City so that's what we're headed now so the
first thing I noticed when coming here to
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Beijing is how quiet everything is for a
huge City with so many people like we're
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walking down one of the main roads now and
most cars are electric which is really nice
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so I can talk on the side of the road
without worrying about the noise it's
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just so surprising how quiet and peaceful
everything is Plus all the greenery it's so
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pretty [Music] okay we just made it to Jing
Chan park it was 10 R&B a person to get in I
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did read that they raised the prices slightly
between April and May because there's so many
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beautiful flowers and so obviously the
entrance goes up because more people
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come to visit the park and immediately as
soon as we stepped in you can just like
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smell all the flowers and see all of the
beautiful flowers so yeah excited to be
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here wow look at these red ones
these are so pretty they smell
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amazing wow this park has such a great Vibe
it is so quiet and peaceful it's great to see
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everybody enjoying it especially all the locals
everybody with their huge lenses taking so many
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photos and the variety of flowers is blowing my
mind a little bit so QA Boll Montage of all the
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flowers okay I think we made up to the main
viewing point up here that's where all the
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people are lined up it overlooks the entire
forbidden city which is so cool snagg us a
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spot how beautiful is this view right I know
I love all of the orange roofs this is so nice
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and the weather today is so good right so this is
actually an artificial Hill so whenever they were
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building the Forbidden City and like Excavating
the moat basically they took all of the dirt
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from the moat and put it in this big pile here
and this hill now looks over the Forbidden City
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so that's how this hill was made it's pretty cool
actually I know fun fact I wonder if they planned
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it that way or just happened to be I think they
did plan it it's like very funu everything is
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very methodical I think perfect it's okay man
thank you thank you beautiful you guys thank
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you okay got my photo that was interesting what
were you taking a photo of this the sign at the
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ground says the central point of Beijing but it's
so funny I was standing next to it and then like
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10 people like one after after just go in front
of me for their photo I keep trying but I don't
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think I'm going to get up there people just go
in front of me I can't be passive here can't be
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passive so that thing I said earlier about being
very quiet and peaceful I take it all back now I'm
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just joking it's just so busy up here there's so
many people enjoying the views of the Forbidden
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City everybody's so friendly too been asking
everybody if I can take photos of them and
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said yes good start for our time here in Beijing
yeah it's so it's so fun it's just I love it so
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at the very top Viewpoint you can go to the other
side not facing the Forbidden City it's a little
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bit quieter not quite as crowded but the views are
just as good I feel like I'm very surprised by all
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the greenery here in Beijing you have the river
over here behind me and all these trees it is so
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beautiful I need food time you hungry yeah
I'm hungry everything takes a lot longer
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than you think with Tommy filming people
it it does take quite a oh we'll have a
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quick trip to the park and then we'll go get
some food and now I'm like really in need of
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food
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thank so good so good so
beautiful you guys thank you great
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manate awesome views great weather all the
friendly people yeah and yeah just great sites
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of the whole city and I worked up an appetite
so what's our first meal here going to be peek
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and duck peek and duck it's not actually our first
meal we had a meal last night which was delicious
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so good what' you have oh we had officially
had Kung Pow chicken oh it was so good though
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it was amazing and then we had this like um
this beef dish with like chiny celery it was
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so spicy that it burned Tommy's tongue and made
it numb yeah my tongue was numb for like hours
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but the host we had was so sweet he let us try
their plum wine too which was so so delicious
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served with these flowers cheers to China huh
to China and we had a a beer a Chinese beer a
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few beers cuz my mouth was on fire but such
good food so far anyway let's go eat [Music]
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[Music] amazing thank you
perfect man so [Music] good
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awesome
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hello chances are if you're coming to
Beijing you're going to order the duck
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so we're in the diman area it's basically
like the road that's leading from where
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this morning jingshen Park to the drum and bell
towers that we're going to next and this little
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roast duck shop just happened to be like on the
way um and I think a lot of the locals just call
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it roast duck they don't call it like peeking
duck or Bing duck they just say roast duck and
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the name of the shop is deanan roast deck so so
I was asking our waitress I was like oh can I
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get shots of the chef preparing the duck she
pointed behind me right in the entrance door
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when we walked in I missed it they have all these
ducks in this refrigerator system they take them
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out hang them up outside this fireplace and then
inside you can see there's like 12 of them already
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roasting in there and the guy takes them out
with the big hook and hangs them out to cool
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off and then one of the guys goes to and cuts
them all up to smell at you guys I am uh pretty
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ecstatic right now so I asked the waitress
what sh she recommends to go with the duck
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and she recommend this Chinese salad which we've
never had before it already looks amazing it has
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some of my favorite things cilantro sesame seeds
noodles looks amazing so you put this one here
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with this okay okay dip this in here yeah okay
and then you put this with this and in here okay
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perfect yeah why do you think she brought
Sephora I like it is time for the first
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bite of roasted dck it looks just like oh
crispy so Juicy and Delicious it's so so good
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I can't tell you how good it is cooked Perfection
so crunchy the meat is so moist this might be the
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best duck I've ever had this is a Lotus Leaf
pancake look how thin it is then I'm going to
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put some duck I'm going to dip the duck in the
sauce ooh that sauce is thick this is cucumber
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and onion I have no idea if we're doing this
right or not I think this might be right the
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duck is so salty and juicy and then the sauce
adds like a sweet touch to it and then with the
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crunchy cucumbers and the refreshing onions it
is so good this is an excellent dish look how
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delicious these look so these are just duck bones
that they cook with salt and pepper this has to
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be my favorite part wow what a delicious meal
that was so good thank you guys byebye byebye
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we read online they actually have to wait in
line to get to some of these duck places but
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this is so convenient we just walked right
in and got a table it was only like $24 too
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so not too bad yeah it was actually very
affordable that was for all of our all of
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our food we did only do half a duck though
it was so good such high quality food though
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yum
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see I have tickets how much were that so it was
30 R&B for both Towers oh scarf 30 R&B for both
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Towers so these are the drum and bell towers the
sign over there side only buy the tickets if you
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can climb the very steep stairs both of them
have very steep stairs so there used to be a
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tradition where at dawn they would I think
ring the bell and then at dusk they would
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bang the drums hope I got it in the right order
um and so they built these drum and bell towers
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all over China the ones specifically here in
Beijing are the biggest in China and they're
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pretty massive and we're going to go climb up the
stairs on both and see the views over the city
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wow it is so stand look at those stairs it down
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bra
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Bravo wow that was so worth the wait I can't
believe how power hole those drums are that was
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so cool that was fun right yeah that was so cool
how does one become a drummer at the drum Tower
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that's what I saw I was like those guys just hang
out well I don't know what they do all day but
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every hour an hour they bang the drums how justes
want to apply for that job I could get down with
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[Music] that well that coffee was just
the pickme up we needed the lady was
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so sweet too a delicious latte yeah and I
had a Lemon Hawthorne Green Tea it was so
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so good it was perfect afternoon pick
me up for sure yes and now I'm ready
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for another little sweet treat and ice cream
good idea the soft serve here looks so good oh
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yeah
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okay we just found a really nice pedestrian only
Street just kind of wandering around has lots of
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like shops souvenir shop snacks to try and I
see my second sweet treat over there you can
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never pass those down no ever since we had
them in Taiwan every time we see them I get
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[Music] one these are so delicious
sugarcoated strawberries juicy
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strawberry crunchy sugar let's hear the [Music]
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crunch oh look at that strawberry it looks
so fresh dang that's good top tip if you're
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coming to China download alipay on your phone
it's it's a um it's an app to pay for things
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it's like cash L you connect your credit
card it's taken more than cash and credit
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card like our credit cards aren't accepted so
you need to download alipay to pay for things
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this is not an ad for alip pay it's starting
to sound like one it's a helpful top [Music]
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tip all right so we made it to the lake area
what's this place called you know yeah well
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it's like a series of lakes but I think this
one in particular is the shahai lake and it's
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surrounded by like a bunch of hutongs and
neighborhoods to explore it's really nice
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it's so beautiful so quiet too I love everybody's
on bicycles or on these little Rick Shaws which
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you can take a ride around on these little paths
pretty sweet way to end our day right yeah it's
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been such a great day Beijing has not been what
we expected at all I definitely expected like a
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loud crazy noisy traffic City and it's truly
been like the complete opposite everything is
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quiet the cars are electric there's so much nature
yeah it's been such a great day everything's so
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green people have been so friendly it's been a
great start toour our 4 days that's all we have
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sad she thank you so beautiful thank you
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this is so pretty this setting slightly stressful
situation just now I left my phone and my charger
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sitting on a bench way down there and we're
already here at the temple and I was like oh
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my gosh I left my phone on that bench it had
been like 10 minutes I ran down and some girl
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was keeping an eye on it until I came back for it
so sweet like what also where's my brain I can't
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believe I left it there but so [Music] sweet
perfect thank you what a perfect spot to end
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our first day here in Beijing we're filming a few
more videos here which we can't wait to show you
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guys thank you guys for watching we love all
you guys can't wait to show you more here in
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China awesome man thank you [Music]