[0:12]So, our um our boss man here, he said that we can take these ones to go to the morning market. We just cannot go together on one because legally only one adult is allowed to go on the electric bikes in Hangzhou. You cannot have like two adults. You can have an adult and like a 14-year-old or 13-year-old or under, but yeah, we can't both use it. So either we both take one and we go there and we come back to explore, or we can call like a ride sharing app. What do you think? I think this will be more fun, but are you comfortable riding a electric scooter? It's just like the bike, but you don't have to pedal. Maybe I can just quickly practice. This is the accelerator. Turn it on here. These are the brakes. Okay. Remember to hold it to brake. Wow, it's fast.
[1:17]It's too bad we couldn't both fit on it because that would be more fun. But one each will do.
[1:31]Full battery. Ready? Ready? Let's go. You're leaving now? Yes, we're leaving. You can pay when you return. Okay. Are you nervous? Not really, are you? Are you nervous for me? I'm nervous for you. Okay, let's go. 26 minutes, 8 kilometers.
[2:11]So where are we going, babe? Oh, we're going to the morning market. It's called Da Ma Long. So we'll get some breakfast, some traditional breakfast there. Actually, this doesn't go more than 25. Yeah, 25 is the max speed.
[2:28]I'm going about 16 kilometers an hour. And we'll try to stay on the bike path. This is a great idea. I need to get used to this. I'm not used to this. So much fun. We're blocking the traffic. These electric bikes are so common here, and it's such a great idea because it keeps the noise pollution down, and the roads here are built for this. So this is West Lake. Wow, yeah. That's so beautiful. I think that is one of the famous causeways. It's called Su Causeway, I think. It's just you can see all the trees lining that road and it goes in the middle of the lake. We'll come back to explore it later, but it's just so beautiful, I have to stop and take a look.
[3:27]What happened? Can you see that? Yes. I break, but I didn't use both breaks. So I slowly just hit him barely, but he was like, what the hell? Embarrassing. Is the bike okay? Yeah, we're both okay. Use both brakes. The left and the right. I think if you're comfortable with this bike, you're ready to ride the scooter in Taiwan. That's three times the speed, two, three times the speed. But it's easy. It's easy. Just take a little use to, but you did a good job. Only ran into someone once. And you only ran into me once. I wish I had this in Samui. You know how it's it's hard to get around in Samui, and I wasn't comfortable with the scooter, but this is perfect. We can park right here. We made it. We made it alive. And we still have full battery. Isn't that insane? I guess maybe you can go more than 20 kilometers, but he's just being safe.
[4:49]Wow, this is This is a first for me, too. It's such a traditional like rustic market. You have everything. We have everything in a residential neighborhood, so you can tell that it's people from here. Everything seems so fresh. The freshest bamboo shoots, chicken, meats. The eggs The eggs over there still was like in hay. Everything is so fresh as you said. Even turtles. Yeah, turtles. They do eat turtles here, but we don't have to eat turtles. Let's see what else there is to eat. Okay. So we are now at the morning market called Da Ma Long. That's what I think it's called, at least. Uh, it is one of the oldest residential areas in Hangzhou. And and that looks delicious. I know, right? What is that? Some kind of pancake. Oh, yeah. Should we try it? Should we? Yeah. Okay. Can I have one order? You want the 6 yuan or 10 yuan one? The 6 yuan one. So what is it? Uh, this one is like a pancake, and then inside he has green onions, green onions and Vegetarian Goose? I think it's vegetarian, so Vegetarian Goose. Like fake, like fake meat. You know what I mean? There is no meat in it. You could put like, um, that kind of vegetarian goose, which is like a fake meat, but I chose for the 6 yuan one, which has nothing. It's just a pancake and the green onion and the sauce. So I added chili sauce and sweet sauce. You took the bite of two pieces at once. Yeah, you're supposed to.
[6:54]He put the sauce in between so you eat it together. That's good. It's like eating Peking duck, but without the duck, but you get a crispy pancake. Wow, and the chili sauce is really spicy. He already said it's less spicy for me. Look how popular.
[7:19]We started the trend. Everyone's getting it now.
[7:27]That's yummy, right? You explained it perfectly as Peking duck. Without the duck. You didn't quite explain about this market. You got distracted. This market is one of the oldest residential neighborhoods that is left in Hangzhou, and the cool thing about it is this is one of the only morning markets left too. So it really caters to the local people and it's known for having some Hangzhou specialty foods, especially for breakfast. Apparently it is. It says, yeah, right in front of her store, it says this is Hangzhou people food. I think the first part of the market is more like fresh vegetables and and, um, fruits and stuff, and then we get into the meat. And we're going to see I think some duck, or is it goose that is like marinated in soy. That's that's also one of their specialties. And then if we keep walking, I believe there's a lot more breakfast food to choose from. So far, our experience of China, like visiting Shanghai and the main part of Hangzhou. We feel like it's very modern, and they've really changed up a lot of the public spaces to be quite modern and convenient.
[8:53]But coming to this market, you can see how traditional it used to look and it's really nice that they have maintained this market and that local people are still so actively using it because this is really, I think, what life is like in China. This one looks popular. So are we trying this, too? Yeah. I'm not 100% what this is. I just know it's like a fried fish, but everyone's lining up for it. And that reminds me of something my mom used to make when I was, uh, young. She made it for grandpa. Grandpa, Shanghai. So I think maybe that's a specialty, but if I remember correctly, and it's the same fish, there is a lot of bones. Oh. But the bones are big. Would it be the same fish as this fish? Yeah. Yeah. The body of that fish. They're probably going to make soup with the fish head later. Does this Does this turn you off? A little bit. I don't know why. I'm like, I guess because I go to the wet market, the what my mom's sometimes when I was younger, so I'm like, it's okay. And I work in the kitchen. It's just weird that it's outside. Nice. Wow, look at this. That looks so crispy, that looks good. So they deep fried it, and then they put it into like a sauce, like a soy sauce marinade. I think it's slightly sweet. And then they drain it, so then it's not too wet. But you can see the sauce still underneath. Oh, good. Can we get some steamed buns to go with it? Yeah, I saw this look at that. That looks so fresh, that is. Should we get the purple one or the white one? Purple one. Wow, look at them. They look so soft. Boss lady, how much for one? 1.50 for one. I'll have one. Oh, I'm excited. This does smell really nice. It would go well with the buns. Fresh out of the steamer. Why is it purple? She said it is black rice and millet. What is millet? Like a type of grain. Like a wheat. Like riceberry. Uh, no. I think smaller than riceberry. But it's like a healthy grain. People were buying 10 of them, 8 of them, 5 of them. I feel like one is not going to be enough. And one is only one, no, 1 and a half yuan for one.
[11:32]Yummy. Let me try the fish. Oh my God, that's delicious. Somehow I was expecting it to be fishy, but it's not. It's sweet and crispy. There's bones. Really? I just saw a bone. Yeah, it's crispy. Oh. Oh, well, that's convenient. Go perfectly with the bun.
[12:18]So how does it feel for you to be in China? I was going to say back in China, but you never live there. Yeah, I mean, I, I lived in Hong Kong for a bit growing up, but I don't really know China. Like this trip was the first time I actually looked up the different regions in China, the different cities in China, what they're called, what their provinces are, what do you see, like, what are the attractions? And even the language, I have to almost like brush it up because I've never officially learned Mandarin before. It's always through movies and TVs and music. So it's it's a bit foreign to me, but at the same time, coming here, the people have made me feel really welcome. And I speak enough to get by that, um, I don't find it difficult. I almost feel like being taken care of by like some distant relative. That's what it feels like. So you wouldn't get offended anymore when next time you go back to Canada and people say, go back to China. That'll be like, oh, yeah, I love it. And then I'll be like, oh, now I have a proper visa to come back. It was kind of hard for me using a Canadian passport to come here.
[13:50]Wow, I almost fell. You got to stop right there. I get too excited. Look at how beautiful that pagoda is. That is so beautiful. Looks like it's floating. We're now at the famous West Lake, called Xihu, and this is part of a lot of, um, historical Chinese legends and stories and poets like to make up poems about this place because it's so beautiful. And it's quite a big place, so a lot of people either tour this by boat, by, um, kind of electric trams, by bicycles, or of course, you can walk, but I think it's 15 kilometers to do one round. Oh, really? Yeah, it's pretty big. We should do a boat. I think we should do a boat too. There's four types of boats, so let's see at the pier which one, like, which choice we have. Which one is the cheapest? Yeah, let's not go at the expensive one. Because I know there's one where it only seats a few people and then they row the boat by hand. Like a private one. Yeah, that one's gonna be expensive. So this is the boat we want to take. We get to visit all four of those places, and it's 50 yuan for a person. I think it takes about 30 minutes, so I'll just scan and buy our tickets first. Hello. Two tickets. Perfect. This is our boat. It's a 40 minutes, and we'll come back to here, this pier. Perfect. Should we go up top? Oh, I got it. Yeah, see if there's a spot. This is nice. Oh, no, no, 58 yuan for the tea. I guess you can't sit in there unless you buy tea. You want to sit here, you want to go stand downstairs? Can you stand downstairs? I think you can stand downstairs. Let's go. Let's go check it out. Cuz it's a a bit stuffy up here. I like this boat because it has the outdoor option. Yeah. Some of the boats are just sitting inside, like this. Oh, you can also open the window. Excuse me. So I'm trying to get the best seats. Are there two chairs there? Perfect. This is quite nice. Best spot. I think it's pretty nice. Good job. Look at the mountains. Yeah, that looks like a watercolor painting. I mean it's very, very busy, but because West Lake is the most famous attraction in Hangzhou. So no matter what day you come here, it's going to be this packed. I think it's even crazier during the holidays. It's almost recommended not to come during the holidays because it's so packed. I mean, like, don't they work? Don't they have work to do? Don't you see, like, majority of people were retired here. True. True. They're older, older people here. And just the population of Hangzhou itself is over 10 million or something like that. It's pretty crazy. So this is not that many people. I was. Oh, you're right about this part.
[17:33]You can spend 10 hours here and still not able to explore the whole lake. It's huge. The boat cruise was nice in the sense that it gave you a different perspective of different parts of the lake. But it's so different from walking on the path around the lake because you can experience the different gardens, different temples, trees. Yeah, even the trees are intriguing, cuz I've seen these trees before, but only in paintings. Yeah, I've never seen them like in real life before, that like hangs hang like a curtain, very romantic. How much battery do you have? Mine is still full. I think mine is full too. I turn it off right here. That's awesome. Our final stop. Yes. I got our tickets to the Lei Feng Pagoda. And I think they close in 1 hour. So everyone's kind of going up there because you get a beautiful sunset view of West Lake. It's already looks packed up there, so we're going to have to try to find a spot. We're taking the escalator. Yeah, I'm being lazy. I was going to say that they put in the escalator and also they have kind of paths that go that they say it's a bit more wheelchair accessible, but not 100% accessible, though. Because people still have to walk down. There's only an escalator to go up. So I guess it's half accessible. How many stories are there? This is one, two, three, four, five.
[19:51]Five stories. And we need to make a choice here. We either line up for the elevator to go straight up, or we walk five flights of stairs. How long is the line? We should walk. Oh, no. I just asked how long is the line? Oh, okay. So then after he died, Bai Suzhen wanted to revive her husband. So he she went to find some magic herb or something to revive him, but she ended up being trapped in the Leifeng Pagoda, which is this Pagoda right here by the monk.
[20:31]Until one day her son came to this Pagoda and released his mother from this Pagoda. There were two endings to this story, though. One is that she reunited with her family, and they lived a happy life together. The other ending to this story is that once she was released, she became immortal and went up to the heavens and was never able to reunite with her family. I guess both are good for her. Cuz being trapped sucks. Yeah. But reunited with the family ending one is better. I think it's been readapted like many, many times.
[21:30]And this story is essentially about forbidden love and it's about the love between a mortal and immortal and you will see a lot of like Chinese dramas, Chinese legends about that as well because we believe that up in the heavens is, you know, their whole different society, civilization up there. I think the real morals of the story is that you are happy with just the two of you. Don't listen to anybody else. That's true. Don't listen to someone telling you that, you know, your husband and wife is not good. Yeah, that's when you're in trouble. So if you heard anything about me from anyone, it's not true. Well, that was a nice day spent in Hangzhou. Hangzhou. Wow. At the end of the day, it still got the name wrong. It's a very romantic and beautiful city, and looking at all the tourists, you would know that it's a very popular spot for domestic tourism. Yeah. Well, next video will be taking you to another province, another beautiful city. So if you haven't subscribed yet, make sure to do so. And as always, have a wonderful day and we'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye. I feel very accomplished today. I learned how to ride an e-bike. I'm not very good at it, but I survived. I shouldn't drive it in the dark, though. We should return it. The thing is, there are a few incidents we didn't catch on camera. What do you mean? And I tipped over, and then I accelerated, and then the guy was like, let go, let go, let me move it for you. It was four policemen showed up. Yeah, but they were really nice about it. I'll just like, okay, let go. I'm going out. Thank you.
