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Very weirdly shaped peppers.

Very popular and these ones are toasted walnuts.

Let's get a mint dove and for example cucumber, Italian red meat.

Just blend up the coconut.

Exactly.

We'll go through everything in detail here but I'll give you this type of purple.

And apparently it's very controversial as well.

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and get started okay so we are now going down into the Chinese grocery store.

This grocery store is underground.

And Walmart is the biggest chain here in Beijing.

And I believe it is from Beijing, Walmart.

Although most people now just buy their groceries online.

It looks like there's a food court here in the beginning.

You can see a food court.

And over there is the grocery store.

You want to get something to eat first?

Let me check the time.

11 .45.

I'm kind of thirsty.

Yeah, we can get like a milk tea or something to drink inside.

We could just get a drink from here.

I mean, we're going to the grocery store anyway.

So now let's go into Woomart.

Okay, first things first, they're selling you half a watermelon with a spork.

But why does it look like they chopped it in half with their hand?

You know, it's not like clean cut.

Usually when a watermelon is full of sugar, you just tap it and it splits.

So that's probably what happened here.

Here they have some too.

That's actually interesting.

I guess it's kind of like a bowl

but in the beginning here they have a bunch of fruit what's

that no idea what's

that is this a mango oh no this is a papaya this is what the grocery store looks like

and the shopping carts are actually like miniature like i don't know

if you can tell on camera

but they are quite small anyway let's walk through the grocery store here here they have eggs

so for 30 eggs it's about

three to four u .s dollars i think these are eggs too

but like oh they're like gifts oh

that looks like a gift you know like a gift package here

we are in the produce area is this the one

that they smash and make that salad out of i think

so have you seen it's like viral on like tick tock

but most cucumbers are like a little bit spiky yeah i think

so but now they've genetically modified them

so they aren't spiking anymore these are some very weirdly shaped peppers look at the shape of this thing

this is what we get in north america

it looks more like this not like this what's this a banana pepper they have beans what's

that it's like it's like a squished eggplant yeah honestly it probably is an eggplant

because the eggplant is right across oh true yeah it looks exactly like that

but just in ball form here

we are inside the fresh produce section of a grocery store in china the store is spacious brightly lit

and organized into different sections people usually visit grocery stores to buy food

and household supplies for the next few days

or for the entire week they may create a shopping list beforehand compare different brands check expiration dates

and examine fresh produce carefully some shoppers buy only what they need

while others fill an entire cart prices can vary depending on the brand quality season

and size of the package fresh produce is sometimes sold by weight, so the final cost depends on how much a customer selects.

Many grocery stores also offer sales and special promotions.

A discounted item costs less than its regular price, while a promotion may encourage customers to buy several items together.

Checking prices carefully can help shoppers save money and avoid unnecessary purchases.

Is that tea or alcohol?

Baijiu.

Baijiu?

Yeah.

What is that?

It's like Chinese rice wine.

Chinese rice wine?

Like soju.

Exactly.

Oh, what's this?

This is rock sugar.

Rock sugar?

Yeah.

Damn.

So you can just self -serve yourself sugar, rice, beans.

Oh, here's the OG soybeans.

Soybeans.

This is what unprocessed soybeans look like.

And over here you have...

Is that kubusa?

We have like Beijing style, Beijing smoked chicken.

That's crazy.

That's like vacuum sealed.

You have like sausage and other stuff.

That sausage looks very similar to Ukrainian sausage.

That looks like salami.

They have like another half chicken there.

Oh my gosh, dude.

This stuff is amazing.

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This, we're going to get this.

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Let me get, get the 20 pack.

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Or I'll just get a big bottle.

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Well, you'll find where the drinks are over there somewhere.

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Yeah, I'll get a big bottle, but this is really good.

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This tea, I recommend that.

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Okay, so here we have some walnuts.

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Walnuts are very popular, and these ones are toasted walnuts.

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These ones are not toasted.

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I just guessed that, but...

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Here you have some dates.

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It looks like it's right.

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They do look toasted.

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They've got, like, some char on them.

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These right here are dates.

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Oh, ice cream.

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Dude, is that pea bean -flavored ice cream?

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Like, green bean flavor?

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What?

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They have bean flavor ice cream, bro.

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I always see people have that one.

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What's another popular one you always see?

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That one right there, that one with the cow?

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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People always have that one.

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The Olympic one?

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Yeah.

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What else do they got here?

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Some corn dogs.

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That ice cream flavor looks very interesting.

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Look at that one.

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Yeah, the pea flavor?

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Hell no, dude.

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Oh, people also have that one a lot.

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I see that one a lot on the street.

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And this is like a frozen section.

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A lot of yogurt.

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At least the yogurt and milk is in the fridge.

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I've seen a lot of countries that don't do that, which I find weird since in Canada we do freezer section.

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And it's very interesting to me that they also like crawfish because that's like a southern thing.

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I haven't really seen it outside of the states

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but i've seen it a lot here in beijing crawfish seen

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it almost i've seen like crayfish uh hot pot restaurants yeah

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but they just sell that yeah

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and here they have the pre -sliced beef for you that's convenient

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so we've got one of these this is like the most famous chili oil

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laogonma maybe ask the ask the viewers what the difference is with this one

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i know it's kind of like a green stripe

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and it says zero percent here so maybe this is like less oil

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or less salt or something yeah what's the difference between those two

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but i'm guessing that that one's the original yeah we'll take we'll take

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that one just in case okay you guys

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so we've got two packs of noodles here this one is beef sour cabbage

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and this one is braised beef noodle i know

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that cabbage one's gonna be good that cabbage one is gonna be fire

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because i don't know i love sour things with beef

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so i think that will be very good

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but yeah this is the dry noodle section

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but i think that's good enough for noodles we do have a whole list of stuff

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that we want to get okay

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so over here is the chocolate bar section i think

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this is a chinese brand right dove in north america dove

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is a soap brand oh porridge oh no those are just oats

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it's not porridge like in south africa they have like really good porridge flavors

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you know yeah here's your white rabbit oh white rabbit yeah

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i found it right there okay do you guys know what this is white rabbit candy

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i believe this is the most like famous chinese candy ever

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if you're chinese you definitely recognize this white rabbit i think

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i'll also get some dove let's get a mint dove

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and a white chocolate dove let's get these two as well put those in there what else should we get

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you think some of these chinese porridges would be good look at

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that blueberry or blackberry porridge or this one lotus porridge or this one corn porridge.

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Dude corn would actually be good.

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That looks like that

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South African one.

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That looks like cassava.

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It's corn and cassava.

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That one actually looks really good.

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So these are all just packages here and it looks like it's porridge.

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Okay this is something.

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Oh these two.

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This is something I've really been looking for and it's this.

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Oh man.

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Someone recommended this to me and they said that if you like coconut milk then get this.

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And also this is like a very controversial brand

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because of their marketing I mean as you can see I'm sure you can tell why

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But they say this is the best one.

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So I'm going to definitely get this.

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So we've added a few more items to our cart.

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We've added these.

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These.

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Some QQ gummies.

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White rabbit you already saw.

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And also these.

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But I think I'm going to get a can to go.

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Ooh, too bad it's not cold.

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Let me try it.

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We'll also get one of these.

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A can of these to try.

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Put that in here.

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over here we have all the chips flavors

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so you can see they have a bunch of unique flavors

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for example cucumber italian red meat flavor texas grilled barbecue flavor mexican chicken tomato flavor kimchi flavor like there are

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so many flavors here here they have more roasted seaweed flavor they have a lot of options here okay

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so we kind of just went through the whole store on that side

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and now we're at the drink section we're gonna get a cold drink i know this drink is very popular

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and it's good i've had it it's like iced tea but my favorite drink here

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is let me just find it my favorite drink here is not cold they didn't put it in the fridge

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so there's no cold one that's sad okay

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so this is our shopping cart you can see it's really small

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now you can see it's smaller you can push it it's either that or leon is really big but anyway Jack.

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Jack.

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Jack.

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Jack.

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Oh!

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Watch out, dog.

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Watch out for the robot.

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Hello.

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What about ice cream?

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Oh, for real.

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You think they got that mangosteen ice cream that we missed last time?

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Yeah, right there.

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Ooh, low -key.

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Have we eaten anything today?

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I think we deserve an ice cream.

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Okay, so now we're checking out.

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Low -key bought a lot.

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You think we can put this all on a bike?

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I'll give you a hand with the bagging.

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Yeah, put the heavy stuff on the bottom.

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Weren't you a bagger once?

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Never.

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Okay, guys, so we just finished shopping.

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You can see we have all our shopping beside us.

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I'll actually try this while I eat.

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I think this is probably one of the coolest, like, packaging I've ever seen i'm not gonna lie what was the controversy it's

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because it was like very sexual so they got sued a lot of times for

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that for like the packaging i guess because it's not like conservative

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but anyway this is what we got for lunch

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this is braised pork with a little soup on the side we both got the same thing

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and right now we're just sitting in this food court dude

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look at this you can get like a five gallon jug of coconut water yeah

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this one is i hope it's coconut milk it's coconut milk

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so i thought it was coconut milk hopefully that's what it is well we're about to find out

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but anyway we're sitting inside this food port yeah it's a little dim but

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but it's the vibes it's a nice vibe it's quiet let's try

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this food this is the plate let's try it try

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it rate of one through ten one bite everyone knows the rules okay

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now let's mix it up they put a lot in here oh yeah

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they put a lot we have a soya sauce egg

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also this is like the sausage we saw in the in the grocery store

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I wanted to try the sausage it looks like kuba sauce yeah it's literally 99 % kuba sauce

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but it's good it goes well with everything it's salty

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I wish it was a little bit sweeter yeah that's where the pickled radish comes in just as that sweetness I

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hope it's coconut milk cuz I've been under the impression

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that it's coconut milk i like coconut water but only

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if it's cold

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so i really hope it's not coconut water oh no it's milk thank god i was a little bit scared

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because this this is like clearly coconut water

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but this you can see the inside oh yeah that's white and you know how they make coconut milk

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they just blend up the coconut exactly yeah they blend it as much as they can and they strain

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the chunks from it holy that's good if this was cold man

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if it tastes this good warm try that that is some good stuff wow smells a little bit like coconut

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that's really good i think there's a little bit of sugar added

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but that's pretty pretty natural and if it was cold man that'd be

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so good good thing we bought like two large containers of

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that okay so that was the grocery store we went to

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and now we're leaving i don't know how we're gonna bring this home

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because we only have a bicycle so we're gonna check

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if this could fit in the basket on the bicycle since we only have one bag yeah

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i don't know about you guys

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but i would say it fits i'll just have to hold

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it here leon's over there maybe i'll give him some stuff off.

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But I would say, overall, this is not too bad.

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You can see there are just a bunch of bikes here.

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And this is something I love about China.

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You can just rent a bike anywhere.

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You just have to scan this QR code.

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And it's just so convenient.

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And it's a lot of the time faster than public transportation or taking the metro or bus.

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Because the bikes are just everywhere.

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And it's just very convenient.

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But anyway, that's where the WooMart was.

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And now we're going to head home, back to our hotel, so we can drop this off and then continue shopping.

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Okay, guys, so we got all the goods behind me, as you can see, and we're going to go through each

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and every one of the items we bought at the grocery store in Beijing.

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Let's start over here.

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As you can see here, we got four cans of Lay's chips.

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These look very similar to Pringles.

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We'll go through everything in detail here, but I'll give you a quick overview.

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So we got some

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Lay's chips, some coconut milk, ramen noodles, tofu snacks, spicy sticks, more ramen, more chips, and some traditional Chinese snacks here.

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So most of the items I have behind me are very popular traditional Chinese snacks and chips flavors.

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All of these were recommended by the internet, by ChachiBT, and by DeepSeek AI.

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So all of this stuff was recommended through various sources online some of the stuff i got

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because i thought it would taste good let's start over here cucumber flavored chips

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i have never seen this anywhere else in the world except for in china you guys can let me know

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if you've ever seen this in your home country

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but i'm pretty sure this is from china and i have tried them

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and contrary to logical thinking it does not taste like water

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it tastes like slightly sweet it doesn't taste like cucumber in my opinion

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because cucumber is like 90 % water or something like that.

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Then we got barbecue flavor.

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You can kind of hear.

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I think some of the chips cracked because we brought them on a plane.

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But here we have roasted seaweed flavor.

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This one sounds like it really broke up.

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I'm not even sure.

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Can you guys translate that for me?

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What flavor is this?

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It looks like some sort of like flat Chinese pancake

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or something but yeah then we have candied walnuts

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so these are walnuts covered or coated in a thin layer of sugar

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so you could call them candied walnuts these should be really good here we have some noodles these are thick

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and chewy noodles you can see these noodles are thick they're not thin noodles they're thick

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and it comes in a container

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so you just need to pour water in this container

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and then close the lid for a couple minutes

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and it'll be ready you don't need to get a separate bowl like you do with these.

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With this pack of ramen you need to take out the individual packet

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and get a bowl and then put hot water in

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that bowl and make it like that as you see in the image.

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This one you don't need to because it comes with a bowl.

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This package is a beautiful purple color and the flavor is beef sour cabbage.

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I have tried it because I bought a small bowl to try and it was very good.

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So I do like these ones a lot and I like the color of this packaging.

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It's very nice.

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I like this type of purple.

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This is a very popular Chinese coconut milk as well.

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I'm sure if you're Chinese you have had this

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and apparently it's very controversial as well because of the advertising as you can see here.

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But I tried it and it is quite good.

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I like coconut milk.

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You can't really go wrong.

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Let me know.

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Do you like coconut milk or not?

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Here we just have some sunflower seeds.

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I'm sure everyone knows what these are.

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In Canada we have a sunflower seed brand called Spitz

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and they're flavored and they are very very good

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and in Canada the way we eat sunflower seeds is we take like a handful not a huge handful

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but a decent handful and we put it all in our mouth

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and we put them to one side

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and then you suck on them to get the flavor

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because we have like barbecue flavor all seasoned salt salt

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and pepper we have many different flavors and you put it to one side

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and then when you want to eat one you bring it to the other side of your mouth.

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You crack it, take the seed out, eat the seed and spit out the shell.

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That's how we do it in Canada.

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But I have seen other people.

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They just bite it and take the seed out, bite it one at a time and take the seed out in Canada.

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I guess we're skilled or maybe other parts of the world also do that.

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Here we have some spicy nuts, spicy, spicy.

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And here we have, I think the most famous chili oil in China, Lao Gon Ma, Lao Gon Ma

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or something it's uh it's this grandma as you can see

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but i don't think i've ever really tried this before

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so i'm really looking forward to trying this and

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if you guys want to see me try all this stuff let me know in the comments

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and i'll make a video so we're done on

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that side now let's go over to this side over here here

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we have some more noodles this one is just

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i think braised beef noodles you can see the package is bright red my favorite color color is red

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so my favorite color is red

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so i i like this packaging tell me do you have

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we have another bag of chips here this one is texas grilled barbecue flavor

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i did see a lot of like texas and like american flavored chips

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which i found quite interesting but I got this to try as well.

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Over here, I know this is very popular as well in China.

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It's a hawthorn.

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Hawthorn.

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That's what it looks like.

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It's really popular.

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They come in rolls or in like these discs

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and I just got the disc one but these are very popular as well and I like the packaging.

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The packaging is very simple and clean.

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I think this is the most famous candy.

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White Rabbit.

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You could see i opened up the packaging here

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and i tried one um it's very hard it's very hard i will say

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that the candy i don't know if you have to just suck it

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or you chew it

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but i did notice it's quite a hard candy it does get like softer as you chew it

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but it's not like hard like uh like a jolly rancher

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or something but it's not soft either you know like a starburst

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but yeah i think these are the most famous chinese candy white rabbit

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but i did like it it was like a like a little bit creamy

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it was pretty good i did like this one over here another very popular snack

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i believe this is squid i could be wrong

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but i believe this is squid here i know these are very popular too

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this is like uh spicy sticks

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i'm not really sure what this is made out of i tried

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it you can check out my other video where i tried a bunch of convenience store food in china

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i tried this i'm not a fan

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but my brother i guess he loves it

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because he was just eating it in the hotel room after he was just eating them

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and i'm like not not really my thing you know not really my thing

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but yeah he liked

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this one what else do we got oh these ones pickled pepper bamboo shoots

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i bought this one at 7 11

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because i couldn't find this in any of the grocery stores

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i went to i went to the moo mart i believe it was called

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and also to uh to another one i went to another really big one

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but i couldn't find these but when i was in 7 -eleven i found them

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so i'm going to try these two

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and the last few snacks we have are all pretty similar these are like tofu snacks

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i believe this one is tofu and chicken tofu and chicken

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and mushroom this one is dry tofu dry tofu

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this one is oh yeah this is the store

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i bought these from with the cow this one is marinated tofu spicy flavor.

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And this last one is Juicy Burst Mountain Delicacy Tofu.

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So I believe those are all the snacks I got.

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You guys can see it doesn't look like a lot of snacks but this took up about half of my suitcase.

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So I got all these snacks.

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I will definitely try them all.

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If you guys want to see a video on that let me know in the comments.

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But tell me out of all these snacks which ones have you tried and which snacks are your favorite.

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We will now have a shadowing segment here.

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Here we can see all the food and snacks we bought during our grocery trip in China.

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Everything is spread out on the bed so we can look at it clearly.

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There is a wide mix of items including chips, crackers, instant noodles, packaged snacks,

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drinks, and a few products that are unfamiliar to us.

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The colorful packaging immediately stands out

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and makes the whole scene look exciting a grocery store usually

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offers a broader selection than a convenience store instead of only selling quick snacks

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and drinks grocery stores often have a larger variety of packaged foods household items cooking ingredients

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and everyday necessities in this scene we can see

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that we did not buy just one type of product we picked up several different snacks and foods so

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So we could try a range of flavors.

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Some items look savory while others seem sweet or spicy.

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We have potato chips in canisters, bagged snacks, instant noodle cups and other packaged foods that may have very different textures.

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Some will probably be crunchy and salty while others may be soft, chewy or strongly seasoned.

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that variety is part of what makes grocery shopping in another country so interesting

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looking at everything together feels satisfying

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because it shows how much we found in one trip

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it is also a fun way to compare products notice the packaging

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and get ready to taste things we have never tried before this scene feels like the beginning of a food adventure

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “What I Bought in China”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: flavor, store, coconut, grocery. This video has 462 sentences and 4540 words to shadow. The speech runs for 25:24. The speaker talks at a natural 179 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
flavor noun	/ˈfleɪvə/	The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
grocery noun	/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/	Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
coconut noun	/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/	A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
package noun	/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/	Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
snack noun	/snæk/	A light meal.
chip noun	/t͡ʃɪp/	A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
candy noun	/ˈkæn.di/	Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
rabbit noun	/ˈɹæbɪt/	A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)
spicy adjective	/ˈspaɪsi/	Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
walnut noun	/ˈwɔlnət/	A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
beef noun	/bif/	The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
dove noun	/doʊv/	A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred…
pepper noun	/ˈpɛp.ə/	A plant of the family Piperaceae.
bean noun	/ˈbi(ː)n/	Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
sausage noun	/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/	A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
start over verb	to begin again; to return to the beginning
break up verb	To break or separate into pieces.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
look forward to verb	To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.
make out of verb	To construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance).
open up verb	To open.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

You want to get something to eat first?
What's another popular one you always see?
Where would you like to travel?
Have we eaten anything today?
Weren't you a bagger once?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've now added · have you seen · they've genetically modified
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are toasted · is marinated · is sometimes sold
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the biggest · the most important · the most famous
Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain	may create · may encourage · may have

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 104 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, thin /ˈθɪn/, thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, hawthorn /ˈhɔ.θɔɹn/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/, disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, shell /ʃɛl/
Long words — get the stress right: controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/, unnecessary /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like flavor, grocery, coconut.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?