Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles by no means am I judging or am I saying that this is 100% true this is just off my eyes of what I can see it's just kind of very shocking to me to believe that the people don't feel safe in their own country so after settling in and dropping off our luggage and our apartment we decided to go out and just spend the night exploring going to a couple different locations that we have written down that we really want to see and kind of just trying to make the most out of it's like six seven days we have it's $15 so we'll be in Hong Kong for seven days and let's see if you can guess where we're going next we have mentioned it previous videos so if you can guess let us know in the description or in the comments below I am honestly in complete awe of Hong Kong right now like we're at the like the sunset time like the light soft light is hitting all the buildings but you have such a huge mix of like very new modern development and buildings with like very old buildings that have been here for a really long time like it's a really good interesting mixture plus like the street vendors aren't normal like they're selling iPhones the iPhone 11s like those just came out like a week ago and the street vendors on the streets are selling those now I'm not sure if they're knockoffs or not but that's quite interesting it looks like a movie theater with all these different like old-school New York style it's the first time taking the subway and I think we picked the absolute worst time to try taking the subway in a new country it's clock so here before we can go anywhere you need to have the Octopus card I really want to know what it was but like it's so easy to remember you need after this card you have to deposit 58 I think it's 50 you Hong Kong dollar right for the card but you can get it back when you actually leave the country you can go to any translation that is a machine that you can get a deposit money back so we use the card we bought it at the airport we take this card out to Tommy Shaw charming show some support so you can basically use this card on all buses Subway's main transportation throughout the city there's no map the only thing they have here is here guys one good thing is so you can use Google Maps to help you so let's uh let's get out the phone timing and we'll just do that I love Google fly one rate so we're gonna go down and find line one we want to know what the night markets just happened to break my sandals so I need new sandals all right I may speak before I should but it's not so crowded in here right now so let's hope it stays that way for at least a couple stations it's similar to something in Hong Kong is not quite complicated they are mainly airport line Disneyland line the East line line line and then six different color next station is principal and chewy it's Monday and that was actually very easy very quick and really not that crowded so we might just be really lucky and not on a super popular line but I'm not sure it's the subway always not so crowded like do a lot of people not ride the subway in Hong Kong let us know below exit after about three stops on the subway one about 4.6 Hong Kong dollars so I don't think you're gonna beat that very affordable tonight in subway and the bus I mean the bus all the way from the airport to our apartment was only 33 so it's like three dollars two and a half dollars really cheap the city seems like it never slows down like it's just so busy you know what I love about this market one thing is that every store they put the price tag on it so you know exactly what you are going to pay I know you are local Oh either you are tourists you pay the same price 20 Hong Kong dollars 30 Hong Kong dollar $65 $1 for our boxers you want that life dude I need boxers oh they got don't up to through their silkiness it seem to be very comfortable bit chain 20 oh my god guys 30 Hong Kong dollar for glasses we had my kid guys so big market around some was I called Tommy Chong Xue Shan Shan cool mattress some some straight-pull chun chiu whole metro station exit deep to not be one know if you walk out exit d2 you can literally just walk right into this market and it is the whole street lined with different shops and cars this is like a Southeast Asian style night market I like it yeah I'd like you to I like it a lot and it's it's way less mentioned when people talk about food Wall Street but basically sham Shui PO is the subway station is well known for shopping so people come here mainly for shopping either it be Street Market like this or electronic stuff and we're in Hong Kong and I just bought the pants and she goes Cheech here which is thank you in Mandarin but that's like kind of a little disrespectful at the point in time where Hong Kong is and China is the don spacious ya know they speak a completely different dialect of Mandarin yeah even though like Hong Kong basically it's like one country true system so technically Hong Kong is part of China but they have totally different way of govern government government and language yeah so it's called one country to system but you can't just like thing and assume that they are per se because she said when I said she she just started laughing she got like serious and then started laughing so like they understand that you might mix it up and confuse it and mess it up a little bit but just instantly Thai was like oh I'm so sorry so sorry so sorry she's like no no it's okay it's okay so like one of the main costs and staying Hong Kong is real estate and like apartment rental once you get past that so far it seems quite affordable quick stuff it's supposed to be Quicksilver it's really interesting because like everything we're running into is like 20 Hong Kong dollars like everything so so because uh my sandals just broke while we're in Korea I needed to get a new pair coz we're going somewhere tropical next well not next but coming up and so I picked up a pair for 28 but I got this money like change it's crazy look at that that's so colorful it kind of looks like the Canadian money because it's like plastic where you can't really rip it but it's so interesting in colors and the coin and then the coin is like super thick and it has writing down the middle of it that's so interesting this is a heavy coin like a flower plague oh yeah look like a flower shape I may have spoken a little too soon about that not packed subway thing because it's way back this time one of the more interesting things that I've actually recently read is Hong Kong is now getting rid of their neon signs so as time goes on more and more signs disappear and you can actually look up on these buildings because we're at temple night market temple street night market you can actually actually look up on these buildings and you can see where the neon signs used to be I don't know it is quiet because of what's going on in Hong Kong nowadays but it's really really quiet right now it's Monday and right now is what time is it that like I think about 7 7 p.m. maybe it's gonna get like way crowded way my fear as Tom plus 5 right now 7 p.m. very quiet nobody I mean even the plane on the way here when we got on the plane like every other person had their own row on the plane because there was nobody on the plane on the way to Hong Kong and it's really sad because of everything that's going on but unfortunately I think it's drastically influencing and affecting their tourism let's see street food yet mainly is like the one that we're in India in Papua which is like a lot of clothes but this one I feel like it's more knockoff this is one of the most popular night markets in Hong Kong so it's really really well known for the vibrant lights and the temple gates at the beginning of the market but I still can't buy street food yet the first night is always the hardest the first day in any country is always the hardest because you can never find how to get anywhere most the time you struggle to get a SIM card thank God we got at the airport so if you are coming to Hong Kong make sure you pick up a SIM card six days five or six days is like eight dollars see us so it's 72 or 75 Hong Kong dollars and it's three gigs of data really easy they don't even put the price when I say that they don't have the price that I know I order beef pie rice basic but firewall is not the same anywhere you know a window is a simple flea it's a fire eyes in Thailand can be different from sirens in China can be different from high-rises in Korea can be different from fire rise in America so I'm gonna try fire rice in how come I see how it's like I can't see beef I don't mean to complain about a food I want you guys to think that I'm here to review and tell you what you can expect from the restaurant here because one thing that gets my attention is because I see a lot of people eat here but all foreigners after walking around for the last three hours or so from two different markets we were really only to be able to find like two street food stands and it really wasn't much of street food and it's just the only place that we could find that actually has like a sit-down place in this market so we just kind of went with it temperature is not that bad here it's not human at all it's but it's not a minute ago in there we have to see me double there permanently but this darling is pretty good yeah I think that portion is the sign for two for two people at least yeah it's not there's no way that I can eat all this maybe the train station isn't open just like the train stopped and the doors wouldn't open I'll get back to that station that we're just that so I guess it's a common thing that like the train stations all don't open at the same time this local is actually in the same situation or in she says it's because of the protests that the government is actually shutting down that new that metro station so they're supposed to all be open but because of the protest that protest is supposed to be near Prince Edward so there they're shutting the station by no means am i judging or am i saying that this is 100% true this is just off my eyes of what I can see and not what I can read because I clearly can't read the language here but we got off the subway at Diamond Hill and the first thing we saw was a giant wall full of posters blasted about the cops killing the people and them not feeling safe and the locals are scared and that's what I got from seeing the pictures and it kind of gives you an uneasy feeling and then as you're walking up the street it says like free Hong Kong and like they're writing in Chinese along the ground it's just kind of very shocking to me to believe that the people don't feel safe in their own now again don't quote me and don't think that that's what it means but you can see yourself from the footage right here it's such an amazing thing to be in like this huge industrial city but yet here the birds chirping in the morning and watching the Sun rise over the back of a huge mountain it's really really beautiful to see the Sun coming up on my mountain you hear the birds chirping it makes you feel like you're in this like jungle paradise but you're in this industrial city for any one thing I realize about Hong Kong in general anywhere we walk - we walk a lot actually here we either use subway and walk we don't really use taxi yet and I don't think that we're gonna use taxi at all compared to - how she is the bus and subway but anyway I don't see any people gathering outside at all no so this is one thing really make me feel safe a little bit it's really really quiet so that's why we don't know is because of what's going on in Hong Kong right now that's why we don't see any people gathering this is the cutest old Hong Kong man in the world he's like guiding us to the basketball courts thank you so friendly we follow him is it no no no not over there over here over here ah thank you all right guys so we are here at joyful instead and as you can see is all paint in color and it actually was built in 1964 at that time it was like people are struggling in finding place these days that's why government started building up this aesthetic and they proposed is to actually make the affordable housing for the citizens of Hong Kong so they paint all this color because they want to make it look cheerful and encouraging for people to live here my home in Cantonese which is the language to speak in Hong Kong it actually also men means rainbow as well now the reason why I become pretty early in the morning is because what I have done research and from what we have heard is that actually this well it's very crowded late afternoon so basically that would be the time that a lot of poker would play basketball actually use the court so it would not be nice to come here and want to get picked up we don't want to bother any locals who are like using this feel for any activity like playing basketball or doing the so this is chi lin nunnery it was founded in 1934 as a retreat for Buddhist nuns so most of the time you see just temples for monks and things like that but this is specifically for nuns and it's right in Kowloon in this middle of the city it's really beautiful this is such like a peace and quiet place for being right in the middle of the city in Hong Kong I'm so surprised that it's so quiet here like you can't hear any of the traffic all you really hear is praying and the fountains going with the water but it's really nice for Tod because she hasn't been on a Buddhist monk in a walk or a Buddhist temple in a while so it's really nice to be back and she can pray and enjoy the actual culture that she came from so I quickly just learned from the security guard as if he's waving me not to take a picture of the Buddhist statue so you can't do that Buddha Buddhist that you that you can't do that they don't mind you taking pictures of the architecture and videos and stuff from the architecture but when it comes to the actual statues they they frown upon it and they they don't really want you to do that just out of respect I'm guessing do you know the reason honey because in Thailand you can the security guys are like literally following me around because I have a camera on me and they just starts so scared I'm gonna film inside I saw after getting yelled at for filming in the temple we decided to compress the sri cuz there's a mall and cool off it is extremely hot but it's the same I would say it's around the same as Taiwan like it's like very humid midday the mornings and evenings perfect clothes but I'll come people get inside leave no seats in McDonald's so everybody comes and takes it like literally McDonald's is overflowing so much there's literally so many people in McDonald's that they're meeting external thankfully the people are very nice and they're actually it's like do you know Chinese you have to be careful stay with me so we're walking this way because they're actually marching towards us right now so we don't want to be near the cops it's not a good idea are you going to wait long to
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