Beijing is BETTER Than We Expected ¦ Beijing China Guide 2024

This forbidden city is so massive and they all have Beijing on the back. That is so ugly. Oh my god, I can't believe it. Let's wait for Peter. That was really nice. Okay, Alipay. Yes. They put just... I think it's the way like this, right? You put this a little bit in. Look at that scorpions here. Oh, what's up guys? Welcome to a new video. My name is Oliver and today's video we're going right there, all the way to the top. We just exited the forbidden city. If you haven't seen that video, then make sure to hit the link in the description to check that out. After you watch this video, of course, now... Oh my god, it's so busy. I can barely talk. There are toys in here as well. Oh, there are big fish here. Oh, and small fish. That is cute. Well, we have to walk around this. We have to follow the whole crowd because probably everyone wants to go into Lingshan Park. To the top there, to the lookout. That's what we're gonna do. So, we have the views all over the forbidden city. Actually, the temperature is really nice. Like, it's very pleasant temperature. It's not too hot, but just in the sun, it is too much. I don't even know how many degrees it is right now. This is the line for tickets. This is the line for, like, annual subscriptions. So, we need to be in this one to pay a ticket. Let's see how much it is. Two yuan. Oh, that's nothing. 30 cents. Oh, look. He has coins. That is funny. Yeah, 41. We need 41. Keep the two, eh? You can keep those because we only need to pay 41. So, we're gonna get one yuan back. She's like, no, no coins. It was five. Yeah. What is five? They don't need. She said we don't have five yuan in coins. So, they don't have five yuan in coins. It's five cents, apparently. Even cheaper. Okay, here we are. Oh, it's nice and cool. Oh, there's something to eat. Okay, let's try. Let's see. Let's go. Beautiful. That's like a small terrace. Do you want a flower ice cream? No, you. Here, you have an iced tea deal or something. Qingma Coffee. An iced coffee sounds about very delicious. Yeah, you want it? Okay, can I have two iced latte? Yes, and two burger. Chinese burger. 50, 60, 70. Nice. We tried Chinese hamburgers and an iced coffee. Sit nicely outside if there's a table. Oh, there's no table outside. No table outside. We can sit here and then wait for a table outside if it's free. No, but there's no table outside. It's all taken. Oh, nice. This is literally what I wanted. And it looks good. Oh, and it's cold. It looks good, no? Chinese hamburger. It's hot. You burned my hand. Here, it's too hot. We cannot eat it yet. We have to wait. Just blow. You just have to eat and then drink. Eat and drink. No, I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna wait. How do you like it? The inside hot as well? Not so much now. To me, this really tastes like China. What a temple looks like, that's how this tastes. It's really weird. It doesn't taste like a burger. No. It doesn't even look like a burger. It looks like pulled chicken or something. Yeah, pulled chicken. I think it's pulled chicken. But I like it. It's approved. That's the first snack. I could have eaten everything. All right, we are walking again. We quickly peed there and we're trying to find our way up. This one is a coast here. No entry. So we'll probably have to walk all the way around it and go up. They love to make us walk, you know. But I don't mind because there's enough shade, so it is good to walk. The temperature is nice. I have an iced coffee, so it is all perfect. And it is a cute Chinese garden. It's very green. It's obviously a park because of that. Peter is my paparazzi. Paparazzi Peter. PP. PP. That's my Chinese name. PP. PP. PP. PP. Okay, let's go up the hill here. I don't even have a Chinese name. It's just PB. PB. It will fit here as well. Yeah. PB. I need a Chinese name as well. What could my Chinese name be, guys? You gotta tell me. Because I know that my nickname is like Miss Bro or something. They call me that on Bilibili. But I don't know. I obviously don't have a Chinese name, so I need to come up with a Chinese name. But I think the best way to get a Chinese name is let the Chinese people decide to give me a Chinese name. What is that? It's from Kung Fu Panda. The strongest attack you can do. You have to grab it, the pinky, and then lift it up. Okay, I'll remember it for when I get kidnapped. Well, guys, as you can see, we're walking up. It doesn't really look that steep, but it is kind of steep. Well, not here, but you see it there in the end. You see it going up there. It's an exercise, a good exercise. I'm very curious to see the views over the whole city of Beijing and the Forbidden City. And we were just there. So if you haven't seen that video, then definitely click the link in the description. I'll put it there. I'll need my sunnies right now because it's pretty sunny here. Let me see if this is it. Wow, you already have beautiful views here. Oh, big stadium there. Oh, nice. Oh, pee pee. It's already jumping on it. Wow, look at that. I thought we were already there, but there's apparently more stairs to climb here to the main one, apparently. Here it is. Yeah, this one is a bit bigger. Why did you take a photo of her? I don't know. This Forbidden City is so massive. You see the walls around it with the little lookout towers, next to it, all the way in the corners there. And then the big walls that surround the whole Forbidden City with the huge temples and huge buildings in the center. Oh, I may have it. It's really, really cool. What you may have? A bird? Oh, a swallow. Oh, and there you see actually a building with a golden roof. It looks like a pyramid building. I don't know what it is, but it looks really cool. There's just a few skyscrapers all the way there with the typical Beijing Tower as well. Let's walk around it to the other side to see the other side of Beijing, because this is really the center, center of the city. The city is like a square, right? Like a big square. And the Forbidden City and this park, this hilltop, is literally in the center, in the very center of the big city. So you see like a 360-degree view all around it. It's really cool. Wow, this is very green, this side. Oh my god. This is the rest of the park, I think. And then you have a little lake there, pond, it seems. Really nice. Really cute to relax. Oh, and all the way in the distance there's a really weird tower. Yeah, Dr. Dovishmiadz from Phineas and Ferb. Yeah, he's right. You're right. That's funny. All right, we're on our way down, but we are hungry. So we are gonna go to a special street and it's called Wangfujing, Wangfujing Snack Street. I'm probably pronouncing it completely off, but yeah, you probably know where we are heading now if you are Chinese or if you are from Beijing. So it is a street with a lot of street stalls and where they're selling food on the street, like little snacks. So we're going there for lunch. We're gonna buy different things and taste different things. Hopefully, we're gonna get the chance to taste some real local Beijing food that could be really nice to try. Okay, yeah, Qingfeng Xing Snack Street. That's where we're going, right here. Qingfeng Xing Snack Street, yeah. This park is very peaceful. If you're not up there on the lookout where all the people are, it's very peaceful here. You see all the grass, people just chilling, you can have a picnic, whatever. I don't think you're allowed to go on the grass, but you know what I mean. You can just sit on the side on the benches and eat your snacky snacks. There's some Chinese music in the background playing. So actually, it's a really nice, really nice little park. But we're hungry, so we're gonna go to the snack street right now. You know what's funny? The taxi cars here are almost all the same. They have the same layout and they all have Beijing on the back. It's so funny. So you know that it's a Beijing taxi, you know. I think it's something funny. Here, also this one on the front, also Beijing, and then on the back. Oh, okay, that one doesn't have it on the back, but normally they also have it on the back, Beijing. We're waiting on our didi because we're going to the snack place. This one. P89. You go first. Perfect. We're in the taxi. We're on our way to the snack street. Here we go. Are you hungry? I'm hungry, yeah. Oh, I can't wait to see the Chinese snacky snacks here in the street. I heard great stories about it and I also saw some nice videos on WeChat channel. So, oh, look at this little red car. That is funny. I'm very enthusiastic and surprised actually also by all the EV cars, all the electric cars that I see driving here in China. I think the western world don't really know about that, you know, that China already has so many electric cars. Not only Tesla and BYD, but so many different brands. When we go to Chongqing, we have some friends picking us up in a crazy hot Chinese EV car. I can't wait to show you, but you have to wait for that a little bit because we go to Chongqing in one week. So, no thank you. Nice. Here we are. Right on. The snack street. Supposedly, the snack street. Let me just enable my microphone here so you all can hear me better. So, here we are. All the scooters because there apparently is a lot of restaurants here. Apparently and apparently I'm on live television. Yeah, but we're here to try the scorpions. No, we're not here to eat the scorpions. We're here to try the Chinese snacks, but not the McDonald's burgers. But I want to check out McDonald's later because in every country they have different burgers and different McFlurries and I love McFlurries. But I definitely have to check out the burgers later, but now I fancy some more snacks. But this actually looks like a very big shopping street. Not really a snack street, but I think have to go in there. That's good because maybe there's a camera shop there. Yes, maybe. I think we have to go there. Look, PB. Oh, the Jordan. You want to go to the Jordan store first? Well, but of course when we arrived to this snack street, there were a lot of big stores and PB really wanted to go shopping. So, I guess I didn't have a choice at that point. This is pretty cool actually, this section, because this is all the Jordans that were made from the first Jordan in 1984 to the Jordan, the last Jordan in 2015. Wait, is that the last Jordan? No, right? 2015 is the last edition they made? I think so, yeah. No, it cannot be. But this one is my year, 1998. Look how ugly this is. This is so ugly. Oh my god, I can't believe it. Who would wear this? Like the one? Okay, the one I could live with. This one is okay. This one, the third one is also nice. Oh my god. Yeah, four is also nice. This one is cool too. But no, no. Okay, let's leave this store. Wow, look at this mall guys. That is beautiful. This is cool. It's just like I'm in an episode of Star Wars or something. Look at that. Oh my goodness. This is beautiful. Look, here you have the EV cars. Oh, this looks like a Porsche actually and a Tesla combined. It's really cool. This logo is very cool. I like it. Look at this EV. Yeah. Isn't this like we're in a Star Wars episode? Like what is this? This is beautiful. This is amazing. It's like we're taken back in the future with these futuristic cars. This is like literally a combination between Porsche and Tesla. But all kinds of vintage clothes or just well vintage looking clothes. They're probably not vintage. But yeah, really nice ones actually. We're gonna check it out. This is a beautiful mall. I don't think I've ever seen, well I've seen beautiful malls in Dubai. There's a beautiful one in Singapore as well. And one in, where was it? Miami. Brickle. I also love that Brickle downtown. But this one is certainly in the top five most beautiful malls. Shopping malls. The design is amazing. I'll give you guys credit. This is beautiful. Okay, we're gonna check out one more store for him. Fulcom. He was talking about it, I think. And then we're gonna go to the shopping street, guys. And we're gonna have food. I promise you that. Look, here he is. Oh, nice. A rain jacket. A sun jacket. Sun jacket. Okay. All right, guys. We are here in the street where we were supposed to be. But we had some delay going into the malls there. So this is supposed to be the shopping street or the snack street. I don't really see any street food stands yet. But let's see if we're gonna run into them. At least... Oh, here. These things, I mean. Like, yeah. That's like... Oh, yeah. Like something like that. Yeah. I don't know. We have to see. But there, it all seems to be closed, actually. So I don't know what that is about. But okay. Yeah. Oh, flower tea. Shall we try the flower tea? Oh, it's there? Oh, yeah. Here, look. Here they have the things. Hello. Oh, yeah. They have the duck. Yeah, the duck skin. Oh, here they have the different teas that you can buy. Oh, we have. We have. It's good. It's good. Thank you. Yeah, very sweet. Very sweet, that one. They just want to give us tea, tea, tea. Because obviously they want us to buy tea. But yeah, we don't. We're not gonna do it. We need to go and find the snack street. So maybe here. Look, here's a big gate. Oh, here's your fake shoes. Look at that. I want a power bank, actually. We're just gonna continue this street. And we're walking towards the church there. I don't know if it's a church, but it looks like a church. With the clock that we saw from the park. Yeah, really nice. Oh, guys, look. This is a 3D advertisement billboard. Also the one that we saw in Japan. And oh, look at this. Oh, my God. It's so nice. But you have to stand in the right angle, right? To look at it from the right angle, to see it in 3D. And it's right underneath this church building thing. Oh, look, there's the dinosaur. But this is more for fun. This is not really an advertisement, you know. This is more to attract people to look. And then in between these things, like here, now show the advertisement so everyone is looking. It's actually very smart, I'd say. Okay, guys, well, apparently this is not really a snack street, but more like a mall street. Because there are so many malls everywhere. And they have some food stands like this only, but then with sweets and ice cream and Parisian waffles and stuff. But I want Chinese food, or at least no waffles, you know, like at least a little bit of normal food. Okay, we're looking for a restaurant now, because apparently there's no food stands here that sell a bit of Chinese food, you know. So we have to find ourselves. Oh, wait. What is this? This actually looks nice. Shall we look? Let's have a look. Look, here you see the duck. They have everything here. Maybe we can do this. No, there's a lot of small snacks. How much is that? 38. Okay, we have a look, yeah, around. We have a look. Is that liver? Liver, right? Liver? Yeah, I think it's liver. What do you have? Chicken? No chicken. Beef. Oh, this also beef? Oh, what is that? I've never seen that. Okay, we have a look. We come back. Just want to have a look at everything a little bit to see. Oh, here they have the insects. Yeah, the insects where I was talking about. Look at that scorpions here. Oh my god. Oh my god. Little scorpions also. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Here, crepes. Fried crepes. Oh my god. What is this? Was this a pigeon? I think this was a pigeon. Oh my goodness. What do you think about it? You want to try pigeon? Or a scorpion? The chicken curled up. What are we going to do? Maybe the buns and we can try a few other things, right? Yeah. I also want some pato actually. Some duck. Yeah. But let's see how much that is. Nice. Look at that. Thank you. She's going to bring the duck? Also, Larry, we missed the nicest part of this whole dish. The duck. Look at it. Wow. It's amazing. Okay, so we have nice duck. Delicious duck with some vegetables and a nice duck sauce. It's not soya sauce and it's not vinegar. It's something special. And little pancakes. So how do you say that? Like little... Yeah, you have to take one of these. Okay, so you grab one of these. Then you put just... I think it's the way like this, right? You put this a little bit in and then one, two, maybe three. So like that. And you roll it. You dip it. It's a little bit too much. Oh, it's too much. Oh, my God. This is really good. Oh, delicious. And then you also have the buns. We also have the buns, I mean, with chicken in it. I think it's going to be too much, but whatever. Then we'll take it with us. Is this your first time eating duck? No, right? It's good, right? It's really good. Another good lunch. I don't have any other words. This, guys, is insane.