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hi
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so thank you for actually clicking into
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this video and if you do it means you're
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interested on like what we actually
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think about well culture in hong kong so
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first of all uh we're gonna go introduce
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ourselves right my name is irene so i'm
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here in hong kong for the past six years
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and i'm from indonesia
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i'm jay i've been here for the past
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seven years and i'm from singapore my
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name is valentine i've been here for
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four years and i'm from france
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my name is melissa and i'm from
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switzerland i come back here every
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summer
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i'm from germany and i've been here for
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something like nine years
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so
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maybe first things first you know i'm
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actually terrified of riding mini buses
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mainly because you have to shout in
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cantonese oh yeah i'm not sure have you
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ever
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wrote
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read mini bosses i tried now they have
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the one with the button you can just
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press the bells oh no no but those red
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ones they have buttons but sometimes
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they ignore the buttons yeah oh like
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i've pressed buttons in red minibuses
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and the
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driver just scrolls it scrolls me and
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tells me i should tell him instead of
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pressing the button in cantonese then
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what's the button for i don't know but
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because the bus comes with the button
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but the driver doesn't work so he score
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you in cantonese expecting you to
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understand cantonese but that happens a
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lot anyway so that's fine i'm used to
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that that's actually a good you know
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good segue like getting scolded all
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right so um
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not just minibus we're talking about day
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to day so my i think my main like
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culture shock the very first time is
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going to the place in jordan the
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breakfast place also a restaurant and
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they give you literally five seconds to
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look at the menu so i'm not sure if you
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guys experience yeah yeah i know i i've
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seen it actually not just in that
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restaurant like my my first year in hong
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kong it was so stressful going to the
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task and then i give you not just one
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menu they have like five different menus
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and some is like breakfast and afternoon
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afternoon tea and lunch and then you get
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these sets all in chinese and after a
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few seconds they like look at you and
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they stare at you and i start scolding
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and then you try to order their food
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[Laughter]
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just give me time and then and then
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they'll just walk away yeah and i'm like
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what happened so i think for people who
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are used to more like a calm restaurant
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experience where people pay attention to
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you and are patient and wait for your
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order that's a big shock i kind of like
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it now but my first year it was like
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sweating every time it's not like that
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back in germany right no but in germany
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you wait like half an hour for the food
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to arrive
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so i got used to hong kong fast oh
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that's scolding but food comes fast you
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can relate to that
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so how long does it take back home to
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wait for food maybe even more than half
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an hour they also also spend at least
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two at least two hours
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in the restaurant in the restaurant what
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happens if you stay two hours in cha
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chanting
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it
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i don't think anyone has tried because
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that's like suicide they just like throw
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the bill
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and sometimes they ask you are you done
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and they like are about to take your
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plate even if you're not done yeah i
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think i think as a as a when i first
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came here as a tourist i was actually
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very shocked by this whole like coming
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sitting down and immediately asking you
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to to to order the food and eat and then
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go away and some people think it's very
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rude yeah especially i think my when i
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was tourist i didn't really know about
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hong kong culture i was like wow this is
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so rude no service
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whatsoever uh but when it's like once i
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really came here and i settled down and
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settled in and then i started to realize
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hey actually there's a kind of like a
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nice side maybe i like being scolded by
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them
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it's like a family feud today i think i
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think this is a different topic but
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here i get scolded by mini bus drivers
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for giving the money the wrong way or
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something like that we're going back to
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the mini bus seems like it's a
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i mean it's traumatic for foreigners it
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is that's why actually it's been six
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years here i've never taken the minibus
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alone
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i only take it with like local people
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who speak cantonese oh my god you should
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try
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wait you've done you have done it before
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yeah yeah yeah
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i do like every day brave
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i don't it's just so tense okay first
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they drive so fast so fast yeah yeah i
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like it yeah me too like a roller
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coaster yeah sometimes it's it gives you
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i know it's dangerous and it's probably
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not good advice but you know when you're
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really tired and you want to go home and
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then at night you're sitting in this
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mini bus and speeding like crazy on a
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highway
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of the limit like warning of driving too
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fast it gives you this this feeling of
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yes i i'm being taken care of i'll
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arrive home really fast it reminds you
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of home right wait i have a really
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serious question so here we have people
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who enjoy
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dangerous driving
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someone who said he enjoys getting
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scolded so i'm like okay i'm wearing
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seat belt though okay almost no one in
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him in this wearing seat but i'm the
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weird kuilo who wears a suit
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i've never heard this
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oh really i never wore it i never wore a
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seat belt in hong kong in general
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in germany you can i drove 200 on the
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highway
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because there's no speed limit
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germany is the only country in the world
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with no speed limit on a highway but
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politicians are talking about abolishing
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it because it's bad for the environment
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and it does produce car crashes
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i mean that's why that's why he enjoys
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the very because it reminds me of home
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yeah exactly and you enjoy getting
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scolded because it reminds you of home
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oh so
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you're meeting our subconscious well
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that's re well does uh is there
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something in hong kong that reminds you
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of home
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i don't think so oh
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yeah
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okay okay okay fair enough all the
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french
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like all the things that are named after
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french names or whatever this is you see
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that everywhere and i don't get it
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[Laughter]
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we have so many commercials where i say
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made in france it comes from france and
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i've never heard about
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it sounds sexy right yeah i know is it
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legal
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is it like labeled it as like made in
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france and it's not even french
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but i understand it's just to make it
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more
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kind of fancy or prestigious but yeah i
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mean you should be happy there's like a
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brand of france right yeah let's say
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that the question is do you think people
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here have a good knowledge of where
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you're from or is there a lot of
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assumptions
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mostly good things yeah
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and then i always tell them the bad
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things
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oh too bad let's not include that and i
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actually want to ask jay is that um i'm
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not gonna say names but he lived in this
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space for like five years
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um i think some of you might know i'm
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not sure if you know what i'm talking
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about but
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it's famous for being very minimalistic
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what's what's your comment about it
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it's very cozy that's a word that you
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use i rest in hong kong where you look
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for like apartments but they tell you
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cozy uh that means small
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but they just make it a nicer way but
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how small are we talking uh we're
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talking about basically um if we sleep
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side to side like that's the width of
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the room
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oh you can actually fit two people uh
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hardly like one one but you have to be
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like yeah we have to like
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like this let's just okay visualize this
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okay
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i enter a room what do i see
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you see the bait that's it
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there's nothing that's no wardrobe no
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space you open the door yes cable no
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table i bet takes
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yeah you open the door the
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door
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almost touches the the bit
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and uh
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that's the bait and then that's it so
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it's like capsule hotels when you're
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traveling low budget it's worse than
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that it's oh wow okay well yeah now you
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probably have tvs and stuff like that
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there's nothing there yeah
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so it's basically
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four brick walls
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a door and a bed wooden wall do you have
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a window
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uh the window is like
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the window is the this this thing this
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leg that's still okay and what what view
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do you have uh the back alley there's no
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view
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i think only hong kong has this i've
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never opened that window in the five
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years that i lived there five years
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though i mean like how
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i still find crazy five years and you
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decided time to move out to a more i
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don't know it's just
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it's cheaper than what you can get
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outside i would say and uh it's it's a
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nice place how much was it in hong kong
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around 3 000
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3002.
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oh you'll get a fancy place in indonesia
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with the backyard sounds like bali
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yeah maybe where's your bathroom then
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bathroom how many people
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uh
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there's three bathroom and you share
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with 20 people oh
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wait this is not a joke a lot of joking
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i think it's everything so compact here
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hong kong city of exhaust pipes and it's
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so freaking quick like pace yeah yes
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everything's high speed high speed i'm
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not sure how quick it is back at your
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own places that's the thing i keep
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saying
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over and over i always say oh wait what
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takes me one hour in hong kong would
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take me an entire day in the front and i
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get so used to that pace and efficiency
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then when i come back in france i'm
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frustrated right afraid yeah
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can you guys hurry up a bit yeah the
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cashier you and you have that old lady
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like especially because i don't i'm from
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suburb city when you have that old lady
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just talking and
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landing behind
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hurray
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[Music]
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no but that's one thing escalators in
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hong kong right like if you send where
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do you stand again right side right side
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it's basically muscle memory now right
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side and then people who wants to walk
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on the left side that does not happen in
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indonesia then when i went back i'm like
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come on guys give me way to walk and my
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mom is like why do you want to walk it's
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an escalator
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who wants to became homecoming i know
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and i realized that i can't stand still
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like after years and years here my mom
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don't get why i'm rushing she's like are
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you rushing to like commit like robbery
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or something like why are you walking so
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fast but i don't know even escalators
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are really fast and then when i go back
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to singapore and i take the mrt which is
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the mtr in hong kong and then they
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escalate once i step on the escalators
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yeah right it's like am i moving am i
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yeah taiwan as well right in taiwan the
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escalator taiwan is like half the speed
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i think it's kind of so normal for
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people here before i come from
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absolutely not normal if you're going to
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lift the lift close button
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doesn't exist in germany okay we don't
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have that many lifts but when we do have
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lifts either the button isn't there or
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the button is there and no one ever
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presses it because we even like i think
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when young when we're young we grow up
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in germany we see a lift and we press a
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button it doesn't do anything the doors
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don't close any faster we learn from
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young age this button doesn't do
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anything and then we apply it and when i
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was in hong kong first and i sent and i
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just wait until the doors closed and
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then everyone stares at me when i'm near
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the buttons like preston
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you know yeah and and it took me a few
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weeks to learn but now i'm so used to go
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back to germany and i try to press the
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button and i can't find it so close the
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door i hear that
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yeah exactly hong kong has loved faster
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and now i love it too in this sense i
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became 100 hong kong yeah it's like come
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on like then what's the button for if
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it's not i don't know i think maybe they
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ordered a panel of buttons but it's not
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wired up or something or the algorithm
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of the door it's like it slows it down
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so much that it's the same as just
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waiting for the doors to go so they're
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just standing there and wait and waste
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like a few seconds of their life
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basically
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one of my hong kong friends visited
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germany and accidentally pressed the
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alarm button
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because you actually wanted to press the
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door close button which didn't exist in
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that lift and then accidentally press
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the alarm button because it was next to
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the open button the fire mankind uh no
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oh
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yeah yeah and then no one answered which
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is also very european
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i hope there was no like real accident
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happening here but here is crazy the
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efficiency you know if you press that
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button here it immediately closes i love
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it
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yeah it's good though like hong kong
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it's like a place i'm really surprised
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because before coming here i thought
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that yeah i just need english man and
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i'm done
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i came here and i realized that it's so
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different from what was portrayed in
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like you know the sort like media or
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like films and stuff it's so different
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yeah but
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ah actually it it is better than what i
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thought yeah meet us like okay you know
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what i'm gonna stay here for longer than
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what i expected and i explore a little
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more for me i still believe there's so
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much thing about hong kong that we
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haven't actually discovered so
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despite all the you know like super fast
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minibus and all the
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craziness
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super quick and yeah even though like
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maybe people will push you in mtr and
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stuff i still think it's amazing so
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