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0:00Bro,
0:01look at these straight lines.
0:04The air pollution here is outrageous.
0:08There's a places [music] in China like
0:10this, bro. Look.
0:12That looks so good, bro. We need to
0:14leave that.
0:16Walking in the downtown Wuhan, lads.
0:19Bro, I don't know if it's just me, but
0:23we all know Wuhan, right? Did anyone
0:24else have this sort of image of this
0:28place being
0:30a small sort of
0:32little town. Not a city, but sort of
0:35little city.
0:37I did. I don't know why.
0:40Cuz it's Wuhan. Who Who even knows of it
0:43other than what happened here 6 years
0:45ago, right?
0:46Cuz I'm telling you
0:49the size of this place. By the way, the
0:52population is like 12 and 1/2 million
0:55people.
0:56So, it's like it's got the same
0:58population as like New York, but it's
1:00like um seven times larger. All right?
1:04It's crazy. Anyway,
1:07but the downtown here goes on forever.
1:09So, we're in one tiny part of the
1:10downtown. We're near the river.
1:13If it has a tourist destination, we're
1:15near it. So, yeah. They got a They got
1:17slums here. They have
1:19this one particular area that is
1:21notorious.
1:24>> [cough]
1:26>> Bro,
1:26I swear to God.
1:31The air pollution here
1:34is outrageous.
1:36Can I just start off by saying that?
1:38And I'm not trying to be on some
1:40hating China stuff. I love China.
1:43This is like the sixth city in China
1:45I've been to. I love Shenzhen.
1:48I love Shanghai. I love Hong Kong.
1:50Guangzhou's all right, but like I love
1:53China.
1:54Right? From that perspective, I prefer
1:57China than Japan. And if you've been to
1:59China, you'll understand what I'm
2:00saying.
2:01But this place, from my hotel room,
2:05cuz the whole place is smoke.
2:07This morning I woke up and I'm like,
2:09"There's no way that's pollution."
2:12I seen it when I was flying.
2:14And I was like, "No, but has to be um
2:17mist or a bushfire." Nah, bro. This is
2:20one of the most polluted cities on Earth
2:22and there is so much thick pollution
2:25uh ChatGPT explained to me that the
2:27reason why there's an odorless pollution
2:30and you may find it hard to breathe, but
2:32there's no odor, is because a certain
2:34toxin, it's like PMA.5,
2:37some stupid chemical compound,
2:39uh in the in the pollution
2:41binds with the humidity and creates a
2:43thick gray blanket that blocks your
2:46vision that won't leave cuz the humidity
2:49keeps it trapped. Brother, I'm telling
2:51you, if we can get a hot You can't see
2:53it cuz the buildings are so close, you
2:55know? Like you have to look. But look,
2:57even just there, things start smoking
2:59out just down the end of the street. I'm
3:01in my hotel and bro, the whole thing is
3:03like a bushfire.
3:05And when you walk around, you it
3:08it's sort of like
3:09you got a little spur in your lung or
3:12you got that dry throat and it's like it
3:13hurts and it makes your eye water.
3:15That's what it's like breathing in
3:16Wuhan, brother. Anyway,
3:19um let me get back more to the point. I
3:22just had to get that out the way cuz
3:23just paint the picture of where we are.
3:26There's a place here. There is a It's
3:28called Hanli
3:32community. And it's dead set like The
3:35comparison is made here to when in Hong
3:38Kong they had that Kowloon
3:41Walled City and it is like bro, it's a
3:43full proper slum. It's a full proper
3:44slum here in the middle of Wuhan. You
3:47want to know what's even worse?
3:49Guess what's in
3:51this slum area that we're going to,
3:54the wet markets. The wet markets where
3:57the story goes the person ate the bat
3:58and it all started
4:01like the wet markets of
4:04Wuhan is literally two streets away
4:07from
4:09the slums we're going to eat in.
4:12Like it just couldn't it couldn't have
4:13all got any better.
4:15It couldn't have all got any better.
4:16So anyway, we're going to catch this
4:18line four.
4:19It's about maybe about stops from here.
4:22Um
4:24but it's a direct train.
4:25We get off
4:27forgot the station's name. The station's
4:29about 15 minutes away.
4:31And we're going to walk straight past
4:33the Wuhan wet markets.
4:35Um but they're closed down. They've been
4:36closed down since like the start of um
4:39since COVID started. It's been
4:40permanently closed. It never started
4:42again. But um yeah, we're going to walk
4:45straight past the front of it and we'll
4:47see it all blocked off. And literally
4:49about two two streets behind it.
4:52But by the way, people sneeze. How did
4:54you hear that? But people do not care.
4:58I genuinely feel like I should be for
5:00the first time in my life wearing one of
5:02those
5:03masks.
5:07Two streets behind those wet markets is
5:09the slums.
5:10Hanli community is the exact name of it.
5:13Hanli community.
5:15So, let's go.
5:24Very unique entrance to the train
5:26station.
5:27Like a convenience store.
5:29Like an OG 7-Eleven. Wow.
5:32Okay.
5:36>> [music]
5:40>> All right. So, we're here Hongshan
5:42Square and we're catching the pink line
5:44all the way up across the river.
5:46This is all the downtown, by the way.
5:48Up, up, up, up to
5:51here, Hankou Railway Station,
5:54which is 15 minutes from the wet market,
5:57which is 5 minutes from the slums. Let's
6:00do this.
6:15Just in case you didn't know, entering
6:17any train station, anything is a full
6:19security like an airport terminal. So,
6:21you got to turn the camera off and go
6:23past these officers. And Alipay
6:26is your ticket to everything.
6:30That's my barcode.
6:34Okay, maybe not.
6:37All right, sorted.
6:39Then touch.
6:42I just asked the security. It's a
6:43different inside the Alipay. There's a
6:46different little sec anyway for
6:47transport. Anyway, it's called Jiefang.
6:54All right, that's us.
6:56You know what I appreciate? Like, they
6:57have English.
6:59Like, I know English is
7:01the bee's knees of languages and it's
7:03everywhere, but some places just don't.
7:06Like, well, in Japan,
7:08they don't have English on barely
7:09anything. You'll be at a subway,
7:11straight Japanese every single word. But
7:13here in China,
7:15who
7:17are evidently
7:19less
7:20with the times than Japan is, but they
7:22got English everywhere, cuz I appreciate
7:24that.
7:25They understand this thing,
7:26international language of business. Line
7:282 to Tianhe International Airport.
7:30That's huge.
7:34Where are we? Hongshan Square.
7:36And we are going
7:40to one of these.
7:42It's one of them. They're Hang Hau.
7:45So, there 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 10
7:49stops.
7:50Let's get cozy.
7:52Oh, there's a lot of people with
7:53luggage. This is the international
7:55airport line. So, that's why everyone's
7:57coming
7:58with their with their luggage. They're
7:59all going to the airport. I see a few
8:00foreigners, too.
8:02All right. All right.
8:04This little train will be nice and
8:05packed.
8:09>> [music]
8:18>> Oh, I love the color scheme, cousin, and
8:20the decorations.
8:24The whole train, like it's like one of
8:26those arcades where you win the
8:29Yeah, win the teddy bears.
8:33All right. We're the next stop. Hang Hau
8:35station.
8:36It wasn't a long 15 minutes or
8:38something.
8:49>> [music]
8:53[music]
8:56>> It looks cloudy,
8:58but it's 31° C today.
9:01It's hot, brother. It's sticky as.
9:05>> [music]
9:12>> All right.
9:13Welcome to Hang Hau.
9:16>> [music]
9:24>> All right. We're running off Apple Maps
9:25GPS blue dot direction.
9:29It's this way.
9:31It's through there. Is that like a
9:33Chinese KFC, but I I have KFC in China.
9:36What am I talking about? Tell me Maydi's
9:38logo ain't a full rip off of in of KFC.
9:42Buzz.
9:45Tell me that's not a
9:47full throw off Chinese version of KFC.
9:49That's not a straight out copy, lad.
9:51That's not Colonel Sanders, brother.
9:53That's Colonel Ping, lad.
9:55Colonel Ping's special recipe.
9:59>> [music]
10:05[music]
10:09>> I'll tell you something with Chinese
10:10cities.
10:11They're either
10:13super tech with the times
10:15or completely left behind.
10:17There's no There's no like middle
10:18ground. Like you'll go to one city and
10:21there won't even be a petrol scooter.
10:24It has a lot of scooters and like mopeds
10:26and that. They're fully electrified in
10:28some cities. Like everything's battery,
10:31every car is battery operated. The
10:33streets are quiet because there's like
10:34see how that one's electric? See, it
10:36made no noise.
10:38But
10:39then you go to another and like all the
10:41police vehicles that What What made me
10:43think it is that old police riot van.
10:46Some of the police vehicles will be so
10:48advanced, they're like little space
10:49station things. It's weird. Then you go
10:51to another city
10:53and it's all old school petrol
10:55like that, you know what I mean? And
10:57they'll have old school cop cars and
10:59there's just nothing in between. It's
11:01either in the 70s or it's 2000 2050, you
11:04know what I mean?
11:06All right, we're now in the suburb that
11:08the Wuhan wet market is in.
11:10This is the This in itself like who's
11:12ever seen the suburbs a neighborhood or
11:14got an image? Like what image did you
11:16put to your mind of that place?
11:20Like I said, I got a
11:21I definitely didn't get the a downtown
11:24hood image. I got sort of like small
11:28town rural vibes, industrial area by the
11:31water, wet markets, like sort of like a
11:34seafood market on a bay in a small town.
11:37That's the vibe I got. But, no. We're
11:40very much in a downtown
11:43sort of ghetto slum
11:45in a city of 12 million people.
11:47Like, right outside the central business
11:50district.
11:51>> [music]
11:56[music]
12:01>> Significantly rougher housing starting
12:04to appear.
12:09>> [music]
12:15>> But, it's so hot and sticky
12:19and
12:20wet
12:22and dirty the air polluted and hard to
12:26breathe. You know what? Guys, like,
12:27without the backstory, I can fully
12:29understand just by being here if the
12:33story is true and if it goes
12:36the way it way it went with the whole
12:38COVID thing. Who knows? That's Who knows
12:40what happened? Irrelevant.
12:43If that is the way it went down and the
12:46outbreak was here and they Someone ate a
12:48bat. Whatever. Whatever the official
12:50story is. I'm telling y'all, I can fully
12:52understand how a it happening in a place
12:55like this.
12:56Just by by everything about it cuz just
12:59the thickness and the smells and the
13:01density and choose could get a
13:04a feel for the air. It's so weird
13:06because it's amongst the dirtiest air
13:08I've ever breathed in my life, if not
13:11the dirtiest. Well, I think the world's
13:13most polluted city with the worst air is
13:17Dhaka? Is that the capital of
13:19Bangladesh? Dhaka? I think that's the
13:21place.
13:23Um
13:24but I've never been there.
13:26And I'm telling y'all, this is the
13:28worst air I ever breathed.
13:43We are right next to the wet markets.
13:46It's just on the other side of this
13:47highway.
13:48I just don't know. This looks like a
13:50dead end. We're like barbed wire.
13:54What is this little foot path there?
13:56Because it's it's it's just through
13:57there.
13:58All right, we're like 100 m away.
14:00As the bird flies, 2 minutes, but it
14:02might still Bro, it looks rough through
14:05there, cuz.
14:07It looks rough through there. This makes
14:09it all so much more eerie.
14:12Do you know what I mean? This makes the
14:14whole back story, coincidentally to this
14:18place,
14:19so much eerier that it's
14:22here.
14:29All right, this lad just walked across a
14:31footbridge. So, there is
14:43There's so many towers there, and they
14:45are huge, bro. Oh, no, he didn't.
14:49Oh, he walks from down there.
14:56All right.
14:59Maybe there's a way down here.
15:11I don't know if you heard that.
15:13In China,
15:15you can always hear
15:17a Chinese man,
15:20usually about 40
15:22to 70 years old.
15:25Sneezing or coughing or spitting
15:29really really loudly or blowing their
15:32nose onto the floor.
15:34Like
15:35just like yeah or burping.
15:38They're always doing some really loud
15:40crack [ __ ] like that. Like you'll be two
15:43streets AWAY JUST HEAR
15:47LIKE IT'S IT'S I SWEAR.
15:51WHICH WAY AM I supposed to be going? All
15:53right, this way. That way's for the the
15:55bikes.
16:00WAIT, WHAT?
16:03BUT I SHOULD HAVE GOT A MASK but I
16:05straight out.
16:32All right. So, we just come through
16:34these flats here and we've come to a
16:36main road
16:37and this is pretty much outside.
16:41This is this is the wet markets. They're
16:43closed down, you'll see. This side here
16:45that you see is like
16:47um
16:48it's shops. You'll see in a second. This
16:51is on the side of the markets.
16:55All right. This is it. This is the
16:57street. The wet markets are on either
16:59side of us. Look.
17:06>> [music]
17:09>> Look at that.
17:13That's crazy. They've got these big blue
17:15walls here now across the whole thing.
17:19So, there were two sides of it, on
17:20either side of the street. That whole
17:22thing there,
17:23and everything right behind us, behind
17:25this wall. Look, the whole street's
17:27blocked off.
17:28And it's like two big auditoriums.
17:31But, the both the whole bottom floor is
17:32not in use.
17:38[ __ ] Like I said, if you asked me where
17:41it was situated, there's no way that I
17:44would say it was a street like this. No
17:47way I would have thought that.
17:54That's crazy, bro. They're actually
17:56really big.
17:58So, the fence is so high, these
17:59barricades are so high, you can't even
18:02get a glimpse into what it was.
18:05But, when you're looking in, you can see
18:06like alleyways and stuff.
18:10Look, there was like a side sheltered
18:11entrance there.
18:13That's all covered up now.
18:18Look.
18:20I'm trying not to be sus because
18:22there's surveillance everywhere. We're
18:23in China, and I don't want them to think
18:25I'm on I'm doing some anti-China
18:28propaganda or something. Do you know
18:29what I mean? Cuz if they think that,
18:31they'll probably come and
18:32arrest me or delete my camera or
18:35send me home or something.
18:37Woah.
18:40So, I'm trying not to be too sus, but at
18:42the same time,
18:44you can see inside the building. Look at
18:45it, it's all old and decaying.
18:48All right.
18:49We got to make our way through these
18:51flats here,
18:53and the slum is literally just on the
18:55other side of this.
18:58The entrance to to the suburb, there's a
19:00whole suburb. There's a whole like
19:01ghetto little suburb that Hanly
19:04It's a whole It's a whole little ghetto
19:06suburb, but the specific little Hanly
19:09community is just like full slum view.
19:12You'll spin out when you see it. There
19:14it is, bro. That's crazy. That's the
19:16street. That's the notorious street.
19:20The notorious Wuhan wet markets.
19:36>> [music]
19:43[music]
19:48[music]
19:53[music]
20:09[music]
20:13>> That looks so good, bro. We need to eat
20:15that.
20:16We need to eat that.
20:19Cuz that looks cracker.
20:28>> [music]
20:36[music]
20:49[music]
20:54[music]
21:01[music]
21:06[music]
21:13[music]
21:21[music]
21:29[music]
21:37[music]
21:44>> Shisha.
21:46Thank you.
21:50Don't ask me what that is. Don't ask me
21:52what we're about to eat because it looks
21:54cracker.
21:55And it's exciting, lads. That's mad,
21:58brother. I'm glad we found that little
21:59spot. Let's go pump this. I reckon it's
22:02cracker, lads. She was pumping. But I
22:05was like fifth in line. I had to stand
22:07there for like 20 minutes. That's a
22:09ouch.
22:11We're not quite We haven't entered
22:12Actually, we haven't entered the slum,
22:14but we're in the hood. We're in the
22:15ghetto part of Wuhan, lads. So, we can
22:17start munching now. You know what I
22:19mean? We going to munch a little tiny
22:21bit early. Other than
22:24chicken schnitzel,
22:27shredded cucumber,
22:29look like pickled carrot, look like
22:31pickled um
22:34What would they be? Spring onion or
22:36maybe shredded turnip?
22:38And a whole lot of sauces and chili.
22:41Um this is like a fried dough with egg
22:43spread on it.
22:45Some brown sauce, maybe hoisin. I have
22:47no idea cuz
22:50it's very soft. It's sort of pancakey.
22:54It's pancakey. As opposed to a
22:56flatbread, it's more like a pancake.
22:59All right, that's it.
23:01It's It's so hot. Oh, and there's a big
23:03crispy thing in there.
23:06Like a big wafer. Maybe like a pork
23:08crackling. Like a big pork Nah, I don't
23:11know. I don't know, anyway.
23:16Oh.
23:17Mhm. The chicken's like KFC, bro. I
23:19swear.
23:24It's like tastes like KFC chicken.
23:27That's nice.
23:29KFC sort of chicken
23:32on
23:34Doesn't taste like pancake. Tastes like
23:36bread.
23:38Can't taste the egg. KFC sort of chicken
23:40with cold veggies
23:42with an Asian chili sauce as as the
23:45flavoring. You know, Asian chili sauces
23:47are really hard to explain. Chinese
23:49chili sauce. The typical Not Sriracha.
23:52The That other one. That more
23:54oily chili that they use.
23:56Um
23:58That's pretty much what it tastes like.
23:59It's nice.
24:01There's nothing mind-blowing.
24:06I wish it didn't have that piece of
24:07lettuce on it.
24:08That one piece of lettuce. I'm going to
24:10take it out.
24:15I don't like the that.
24:18When lettuce is cooked, like let lettuce
24:20is made hot, it wigs me out. When you
24:22make a a hot feed, a hot roll, a hot
24:25kebab, a hot sandwich, and then you add
24:27the salad,
24:28I like that.
24:30But when the salad's like hot,
24:32like if you put the salad in and then
24:34cook it,
24:35it wigs me out, bro. I can cop the
24:37cucumber and onion, but not the lettuce,
24:39bro.
24:41It is all right.
24:43It's not very flavorsome.
24:46It's not full of flavor. Like even that
24:49Asian chili flavor, it's very very
24:52light.
24:54It's probably closest to
24:57a hot toasted
24:59chicken lettuce
25:00onion sandwich with chili sauce.
25:03Best way I can explain it.
25:06It was 9 yuan, by the way.
25:089 yuan.
25:101 yuan is 20 cent Australian.
25:12So, 9 yuan is $1.80.
25:1510 yuan $2.
25:17That was $1.80. I ate half of it.
25:18There's still another half there.
25:20I won't eat the other half.
25:23All right, let's keep going.
25:36All right, it's just starting to
25:38sprinkle.
25:39I do not need it to rain.
25:41Don't rain, bro. Don't rain.
25:55Yeah, I don't know how the day's going
25:57to go, but we'll figure it out.
26:01All right, I'm 90% sure that the
26:03entrance to the slums is right there.
26:06Left in here.
26:08Have a look at these lads under the
26:09bridge here playing like cards or Yeah,
26:12they're playing cards.
26:18It's extremely busy here at the
26:19entrance.
26:22Yeah, it is.
26:24It is.
26:25It's the exact buildings that I seen
26:28when I seen pictures of this place. That
26:30That blue gate, that blue entrance
26:32there,
26:33that's the entrance I seen.
26:36We're in. We're going in, lads. It's
26:38huge.
26:49You know, I'll sort of go back on what I
26:51said a bit before. A lot of these
26:52scooters are electric.
26:54They just weren't in the downtown
26:56further for some reason.
27:08I don't know what that bloke's fixing,
27:10something.
27:29The little barber.
27:38What this bloke's getting now.
27:40There's a little street barber here
27:41right in the entrance of the hums lay
27:42land. That's mad.
27:49Oh, he's got machines as well. The
27:50bloke's getting a razor cut, but he's
27:51got machines.
27:56I want to get one.
27:57I want to get a fade. I need the side of
27:58my head done.
28:00For real.
28:06Oh, yeah, nearly 2 2 yeah, almost almost
28:092.
28:10They're spinning out of my height.
28:11They're making me stand back.
28:13And they're all like measuring
28:14themselves about me.
28:19>> [laughter]
28:20>> He's asking me if I'm 2 m 2 m high.
28:23They're spinning out of me.
28:25I gave him translation to say I'm from
28:26Australia. I'm a YouTuber. Australia.
28:29Australia, yeah.
28:33He's going on to his mates about how I
28:35should be playing basketball and stuff.
28:37And they're like imitating slam dunks
28:39and asking like you? And like nah.
28:42Nah.
28:44Let's go.
28:46Beautiful.
28:48I'm excited.
28:51Ah, yeah.
28:57Thank you, sister. Sister, let's go.
28:59>> [music]
29:04[music]
29:12[music]
29:16[music]
29:17>> Now, he's blending the sides.
29:25Thank you, bye.
29:26Thank you. Thank you, bye. Bye.
29:29Did it go all right?
29:31Did it go all right, lad?
29:33Yeah, haircut was 30. I paid him 200.
29:37And he's looking at me like, "What are
29:38you doing?"
29:39I'm like, "Bro, it doesn't matter."
29:40200's What's 200?
29:4440 bucks. Have a That's how much a
29:46haircut is in Sydney. You can have it
29:48here in China, too.
29:51If I can pay it in Sydney, I can pay it
29:52in China, brother.
30:00I'm going to be covered in hair, bro.
30:02Cuz it's full human, and obviously I
30:04can't wash my hair.
30:05I'm going to spend the rest of the
30:06evening covered in hair. It's going to
30:08drive me nuts, lad.
30:17All right.
30:18This is it.
30:20This is the community
30:22we're in, brother.
30:23We're in, people.
30:37Why's there
30:40What?
30:43What am I breathing?
30:44Oh my god.
30:47I choked and had the sneeze at the same
30:49time. What am I breathing here, lad?
30:57Bro.
30:59Look at this street, lad.
31:05Cars.
31:15Nah, this is rough, bro.
31:18I knew it was tight living like that.
31:20But I didn't know it was this slum.
31:24Bro, dark, lad.
31:26Just This is bad.
31:31>> [music]
31:39[music]
31:48[music]
31:52>> Bro, this
31:52staircase was
31:54scary.
32:16Nah.
32:17There's no way that's a clothesline,
32:19bro.
32:20There's no way matey's rocking that as a
32:22clothesline.
32:23It's in the middle of the street. That's
32:24hectic.
32:42>> Guys, is this safe? Is this safe, lad?
32:46You know what I got to do? I got to stop
32:48flexing gold chains
32:50when I do these episodes.
32:52Like it's safe. It's safe, but
32:59Bro, mate, he's house. Can I get Can I
33:02just do a slow walk past? Look at this.
33:09Did you say that, lad?
33:11I'm going to do a throw-off. Look at
33:13Look at the lanes, cuz.
33:18Did you see that?
33:24Bro, this is worse than I thought, bro.
33:28Pictures don't Pictures don't do this
33:29place justice, lad. I'm telling you
33:31that.
33:42That is worse than the slum that I
33:44walked through in the Philippines.
33:47And that was pretty much
33:50the worst slum I ever walked through in
33:52the Philippines.
33:54This is worse.
34:05The strip in the middle.
34:07Does have good stores, though. Well,
34:10I don't know if they're good stores, but
34:11they're open.
34:15Oh my god, the smell Oh my god, lad, the
34:18smell, lad. Oh my god.
34:21I'm just going to keep a smile
34:25so I don't get chopped by triads. I'll
34:27just keep a smile like I'm having fun
34:29here.
34:29This is a mad little spot, though.
34:35It's like a model spot.
34:44Oh, you pick your own food like a little
34:46buffet in a in a container.
34:50You pick your own food in a little
34:51buffet in a container.
34:53And you weigh it, and then you pay it.
34:56Let's eat here. We'll eat here. You grab
34:57one of these.
35:00And then you pick anything you want.
35:01Look at the buffet, lad.
35:04This is cracker.
35:17Obviously, I need two hands, so I'm
35:18going to have to stop filming. I'll fill
35:20up some mad food in this from the
35:22buffet. And we weigh it there.
35:24And then we
35:25we'll go smash it in there. And we get a
35:27drink.
35:31We got a big thing of rice that's huge.
35:35Mad, little food haul.
35:37This is cracker, lad.
35:40All right.
35:42The foods I got were all right. I got
35:43some like marinated chili potato.
35:46Some cauliflower with this that looked
35:48mad, like roast cauliflower. Then I got
35:50green beans beans mixed with like it
35:52looked like Chinese sausage, and then a
35:54bit of rice.
36:05Yeah.
36:07Wow, it's spicy.
36:10Soup. Soup. Soup. The soup? Yeah, but
36:12the same as all the soup.
36:15That's our mate from the baba.
36:17Wow, that's hot.
36:19Every day the potatoes are so spicy, but
36:21beautiful, man.
36:25But straight out, this is mad proper
36:27nice.
36:28Not like that other sandwich we had
36:29before. This is my proper nice.
36:39The cauliflower is sort of like, um,
36:42pickled and then cooked. It's mad. It's
36:44got like a a vinegary taste, but at the
36:46same time it's hot and crispy.
36:51This is a gun dish.
36:54This is like a really nice Chinese dish,
36:56like
36:57but top quality, I'm telling you.
37:03The individual taste in the things that
37:05I got
37:06are all the standard of any Chinese
37:08restaurant I've been to.
37:10Like legit,
37:12authentic, proper Chinese. I don't mean
37:14like
37:15all the ones in Sydney, you know what I
37:16mean?
37:19That's beautiful.
37:24Thank you. Bye. Bye.
37:27Oh, where's the beans?
37:32Wow, that was hectic. That was mad, bro.
37:37That was so nice, like.
37:39Hot, too. Proper chili.
37:41Oh, bro, I just I drilled my foot on a
37:43rock on that rock.
37:46The biggest, spikiest rocks just kicked
37:48back there.
37:55By the way,
37:5712 yuan.
37:58Mathematics, mathematics, mathematics.
38:01$2
38:0240.
38:06$2.40.
38:09They weigh it. I didn't feel the
38:11container much, but
38:13$2.40.
38:15Oh, food's cheap as here.
38:18Down down these lanes is savage, like.
38:21Down these lanes, he's savage.
38:27>> [music]
38:36[music]
38:36>> What's what is this little staircase?
38:40What is this little staircase? [music]
38:55>> [laughter]
38:56>> Forgive me if I'm mega paranoid, bro.
39:06Bro, how random.
39:09How random for there to be a little
39:10billboard section.
39:16Where am I going to pop out, lad?
39:25This is crack up.
39:37All right.
39:39Oh.
39:43That goes under the railway track.
39:45So, the railway track
39:48and that goes under. I forgot to tell
39:50youse
39:51that this um place is situated between
39:54three railway lines. That's why it has
39:57become a slum because it only has one
40:00entrance in and out
40:02and it's completely triangled by three
40:04different rail lines. So, that's like
40:06our thing to go underneath and pop up on
40:08the other side of it.
40:10Holy, bro.
40:14Did you see down that lane?
40:16Bro, I'm to walk in that cuz
40:22These cameras have
40:24I love these cameras.
40:26Um if you just want to know, I use a DJI
40:28Action 6.
40:30Um a lot of people ask. These cameras
40:32have a habit, like iPhones, of making
40:35dark situations. Like to me, this lane
40:38in front of me is full dark.
40:40But when I look at the back of this
40:41camera, that's full lit up.
40:44IRL
40:45These lanes are dark as bubba.
41:07There's a little convenience store.
41:09We do need a drink. I haven't I didn't
41:11get a drink with either of those feeds.
41:13We do need a drink.
41:21That looks mad. That looks mad. Like a
41:24grapefruit.
41:26Grapefruit drink.
41:32That looks hefty.
41:36Grapefruit tea.
41:41Takes a long time sometimes.
41:43Beautiful.
41:45It was five, bro. Look at this lane. I'm
41:47walking this lane.
41:49I'm walking this lane.
41:51This lane ahead of me is the worst one
41:53so far and I'm walking it.
41:56It was five. Their price was five. I
41:58paid 20.
42:00Which is what a
42:01a dollar.
42:03Theirs was five, so
42:0425 cents. 25 cents.
42:08See what it tastes like.
42:14Absolu- hectic.
42:16Um
42:18grapefruit green jasmine tea. I can't
42:21even read it. I know what it is. It's
42:23grapefruit.
42:25Grapefruit green jasmine tea. Grapefruit
42:28green jasmine tea. It's a bit of a
42:29tongue twister.
42:32Cuz
42:33that was cracker.
42:35See this lane?
42:39We're walking this lane cuz I'm walking
42:41it.
42:42I might have to put the camera in night
42:43mode. Give me a second cuz it's dark
42:45down there.
42:46I'll put the camera in night mode, so
42:49it should be
42:51lit up bright for yous.
42:53Though it's heaps dark for me. I can see
42:54a cat there.
43:05>> [music]
43:12[music]
43:14>> This is crazy.
43:17Bro, what?
43:19There are smells
43:21and changes of air temperature.
43:29I'm going to be quiet because
43:32there's people on these balconies above
43:34me and I just feel like they they know
43:36there's a white guy with a camera down
43:38here. [music]
43:41I might just accidentally drop
43:42something.
43:49>> [music]
43:51>> Oh, what's that?
43:53I'm going to turn on my back on that
43:54entrance. What was that?
44:04>> [music]
44:16[music]
44:25>> They live in there.
44:27Like this is this is not abandoned. This
44:29is a sting. You heard her cough. There's
44:31a lady up there coughing.
44:33Well, she cleared her throat.
44:35But that's an entrance to someone's
44:36house. This is not an abandoned one.
44:41And there are people
44:44above me quite often.
45:07Wow, that's crazy.
45:10There is heaps of those lanes.
45:13Heaps of them.
45:17And look at that.
45:19That one's a dead end. The end of that
45:21one's a dead end. Bro, I'm not going to
45:22lie, considering that this is the
45:24surroundings,
45:28the convenience stores are quite
45:31good. They're They're quite good
45:33considering that that's the
45:35surroundings.
45:38And then the whole distance there,
45:41you can see the buildings of the CBD in
45:43the distance. The skyline of the city
45:47as you come out here.
45:50Look at that. And that's one of the
45:52world's tallest buildings. I can't
45:53remember the name of it. It's a garden
45:55something.
45:56Completely covered in smog of the city
45:58like I said before. Can you see the smog
46:00now?
46:01But look at bro.
46:03Can you believe
46:07these this
46:09these are places in China like this,
46:11bro. Look.
46:28>> [music]
46:35[music]
46:41>> Woah, woah, woah.
46:45This is crack on.
46:46Look at my little underpass, this little
46:48walkway. Look.
46:50We can walk here.
47:01What are they doing with that, man?
47:06This is crazy.
47:08This is crazy, man.
47:12This is crazy.
47:22All right.
47:24That was mad.
47:30Some reason this side's walled off.
47:32It's not like as if it's splitting the
47:35slum from something else because that
47:36side
47:38of the wall that we've been walking on
47:40looks just as bad.
48:00>> [music]
48:07>> Oh, this is back to the front.
48:09Yeah, so this is where we got the
48:10haircut. See that blue gate? That what
48:13That's the entrance. That blue gate is
48:15the only way in and the way out. And
48:18there's a massive highway, that highway
48:20that we walked along, and there are
48:22train tracks surrounding us. So, it is
48:24between a huge highway
48:27like
48:29with overpasses and train tracks train
48:31tracks and train tracks. And right here
48:34is the point where you go right or you
48:36go left and it opens up in a big
48:37triangle. And everywhere we walked was
48:40like right in it. And this seems to be
48:42like See, this is the start here.
48:45Um
48:46This seems to be like
48:48the chill spot.
48:50You know what I mean? Like the maybe the
48:52community spot where people like are in
48:53the community.
48:55And so, like where Yeah, bro, it's mad.
48:58It's mad. And you know what I will say?
49:00How how chill everyone is because
49:05bro, that whole time like Think about if
49:07this was any 99 out of 100 other
49:10countries and that we had to walk and
49:13this was the start of a big secret dark
49:16back lane full of what we just walked
49:18through.
49:19Think about this corner here trying to
49:22navigate past this corner just as an
49:25outsider. Forget a camera whatsoever.
49:27Forget a camera just even as an
49:29outsider.
49:30Can you imagine the amount of predators
49:32that there will be? And I'm in predator
49:35in every sense of the word. Just imagine
49:37in any country in the world. Bro, even
49:39Western countries. Imagine France.
49:42Imagine Brazil. Imagine anywhere, bro.
49:44Imagine Brazil. Imagine this is Brazil
49:47and I walk through the
49:48>> [laughter]
49:49>> Oh, bro.
49:51What's up here?
49:53So, these are the last of the main
49:54shops.
50:06Meat skewers.
50:09It looks like a place It looks like a
50:11place that's got
50:12>> [laughter]
50:12>> sort of soups.
50:22That's a pharmacy.
50:24And that's a doctor.
50:26That's a doctor.
50:30Another soup place. They're like noodle
50:33soups.
50:34Convenience store.
50:36And another convenience store there.
50:39What are they cooking down there?
50:41What's getting bagged up there?
50:45There's no chance that they'd be cooking
50:46something sweet on the streets, would
50:48they?
50:49If not, I'm going back to that place and
50:50getting a Chinese ice cream from the
50:52convenience store.
50:55I know they're bagging up um
50:59They're bagging up
51:01cooking ingredients.
51:05There's a couple more stores there. Let
51:06me go suss them. This is literally the
51:08exit.
51:16Back on plane.
51:18I see you.
51:20Oh, I seen one. White chocolate with
51:22choc chips. The patch.
51:30Wow, little arcade even cars. Wow.
51:36I never thought this.
51:52>> It's all just ingredients though.
51:54Nothing like grabable and eatable.
51:59>> [music]
52:03>> Wait, is this the new Wuhan wet market
52:05like
52:06Is this the new Wuhan wet market at
52:08lane?
52:10Tell me they got
52:12some bat hanging up in that lane.
52:30Hello.
52:30Hello.
52:33How are you?
52:35Hey.
52:37Hello.
52:38YouTube.
52:40YouTube.
52:42YouTube.
52:45Yeah.
52:46So
52:49Liger guy here.
52:51Liger guy here.
52:53Liger guy here.
52:56I don't know.
52:59Yeah.
53:01I have no idea what he's saying.
53:03I wonder if we do that.
53:05Do Do English speakers do that?
53:08Like if somebody clearly doesn't speak a
53:11word of English
53:13do we go up and speak English sentences
53:15to them and when they can't understand
53:18it like zero, they just like smile and
53:21nod, do we just say it louder and louder
53:23thinking that they'll understand it?
53:25What are you doing here? Where are you
53:26from?
53:28Yes.
53:29What are you doing here? Where are you
53:30from?
53:32What are you doing?
53:34I don't know. Do we do that?
53:36Cuz it's happened a few times to me
53:37today.
53:39We're getting ice cream.
53:44I'm winding that off.
53:49What looks the best?
53:51Oh, that looks fancy.
53:53Avocado.
53:55Avocado.
53:56All right, we'll get them now. There's
53:57an avocado ice cream. Are we finishing
53:59with an avocado ice cream?
54:01I want to get the most Chinese thing
54:03there is here.
54:09It's pretty Chinese, my bra. I've got to
54:11say.
54:13[ __ ] you.
54:16It's 4 yuan, so
54:1920 cents.
54:22Takes ages to go through.
54:24Thank you. Cheers, yeah.
54:26All right.
54:28Woah, woah, woah. Settle down. She
54:30swerved towards me. She's bridging up. I
54:31swear to god.
54:33And we shall exit
54:35the slums of Wuhan
54:37eating a good old Chinese avocado ice
54:40cream.
54:47That does not taste like avocado
54:50whatsoever.
54:52It's not avocado.
54:54It's nice.
54:56It's like sweet.
54:58Imagine green tea but with milk and
55:00sugar.
55:02Frozen.
55:04With a hint of grape.
55:09It's really nice.
55:11Definitely ain't avocado. I'll tell you
55:12that.
55:17Buy Hanlin community.
55:19Love youse.
55:20See youse later. That's us.

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