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[@Photojouralist123]

I'm an American from Seattle been living in Malaysia for the past 23 years and its fantastic. I love it. Will never go back to Seattle for sure. The food is amazing and cheap. I get my Soc Sec and my investments in the US and I live a fantastic life.

[@jehanc]

Malaysia has AirAsia like the USA. They are main carrier of South East Asia with the twist of of very cheap flight.

[@thatlee93]

@@jehanc Ryan Air of Asia but less sketchy

[@shamshulanuar7718]

I used to study at Seattle Universiti. I remember places like Walla Walla, Tacoma, Yakima, Northgate, Wenatchee, Chief Seattle, Snowqualmie Park

[@Photojouralist123]

@@shamshulanuar7718 I went to Seattle U also hahah.

[@jehanc]

@@thatlee93 AirAsia has been the most frequent Airlines through the South Asia and South East Asia. But we are talking about traveling in between the states and AirAsia the most frequent domestic flights.

[@InMemoryOfUteh]

I'm Malay my grandmother is Chinese, my dad is Malay and my mom English Malaysia Truly Asia Proud to be Malaysia God save the King and Queen Allah Selamatkan Raja dengan Permaisuri from Warrington, England.

[@TheCommodity]

Love it! Love the multicultural family!

[@khadijahbintihasan1314]

quite mix🤣🤣🤣☺

[@astrangerontheinternet1719]

@@TheCommodity a lot of us are😂 im malay mixed too

[@Galiharya11]

Saya ingin ketawa. Cuma takut di banned awoakwok. Selamatkan raja dan ratu

[@AmsyarBrosku]

an interesting mix ngl

[@Photojouralist123]

If you guys ever come, let me take you around I speak the language and will feed you like a champ. BTW going to East Malaysia is no big deal tons of flights to Sabah and Sarawak daily.

[@dkebun7577]

Go during Gawai (1-2 June) ... It's our annual harvesting festival

[@axstradexstra60]

@@dkebun7577 Gawai (Sarawak) 1-2 June, Kaamatan (Sabah) 30-31 May

[@duschseitkleines-1193]

Better go to malaysia while they fasting😅 more foodsss

[@relaxchil5796]

@@axstradexstra60 go during this period especially if u love drinking, watch sumandak (beautiful girls) and probably married one ;)...learn the culture and enjoy the native food and drinks

[@axstradexstra60]

@@relaxchil5796 im actually a Sabahan lol

[@Photojouralist123]

There are Mexicans in Malaysia from the Mexican embassy. And by the way, Mexican food is getting more and more popular. Taco's and Tex Mex is growing fast

[@TheCommodity]

Happy to hear that! -Phezz

[@jehanc]

Why worry about Mexican or Mexican food. In Malaysia, you have so much food to eat you forgot about Mexican.

[@flyingfox3766]

@@TheCommodity phezz we desperatly need good authentic mexican food here. But the first taco bell is opening and that has generated a lot of hype lol

[@dnalnc9918]

my dad is mexican and that's true

[@dhrgkbqxtjr2743]

The first ever Taco Bell is supposed to open up in Malaysia sometime this year. I can't wait! Had Taco Bell when I visited Singapore and it was the tastiest fast food cuisine I ever ate in my life. 😆

[@tykaatiq1032]

- Peninsula Malaysia n Borneo Malaysia are just Malaysia. - - Borneo more biodiversity and so much exotic species. - Kenyir lake are Man made lake. - We hate our political drama for now. But we love all our Kings soooo much!! Only the stupid don't. - yeah we british accent, but now more to Manglish 😂 include me.🤪 as long u can understand that communication. - Malaysian also loves Ayam Penyet from Indonesia.

[@jehanc]

Very few westerner but lot of retired british, american and european retired in Penang using the My Malaysia second home visa.

[@tsukishirayuki7343]

Hello, I'm Malaysian from Sarawak in Borneo. I'm one of the 20% living there, I can say I'm Malaysian, but not Malayan, and I'm half Malay, half Bidayuh. To answer your question about the travel between Peninsular and Borneo, it only takes almost 2 hours or less by flight. If you ever come to Sarawak, I recommend you to try Laksa Sarawak and Kolok Mee. Its really delicious, thus, they are also other local cuisines such as Linut, Ayam Pansoh, and Midin. BTW... Love your reactions.

[@nickryan6787]

Ok I'm 50% Iban, 30% Bidayuh and 20% Chinese lol I'm a kuchingite too :)

[@tsukishirayuki7343]

@@nickryan6787 whoa.. Im from Kuching too...

[@voonaiphing5505]

Hi me too

[@Neo_Tridagger91]

agik idup, agik ngelaban

[@rajatugau4232]

8:57 Fun fact: The first ever Perodua's car; the 'Perodua Kancil' is name after this animal, The Mouse Deer. Inspired by a Malaysian folklore animal called 'Sang Kancil', a trickster mouse deer that is very smart & cunning. I guess it's kinda similar to American Folklore, The Tale of Brer Rabbit .

[@ZK-hh2or]

Kancil is on the banknotes too

[@marinaau8551]

Best part about Malaysia is the food. If you travel 365 days in Malaysia.... you will find 365 different food varieties. Cheers

[@davies-ds5pg]

Yeah you found different dishes everyday

[@thatlee93]

Malaysia has a Motorbike culture, the bikes are used for daily drive like going to work, shopping and other stuff. Some people in the southern part of Malaysia would ride to work to Singapore everyday in a bike and earn 3 time the salary of an average Malaysian worker. Car is like a weekend commodity or used for "Balik Kampung" (Road Trip back to our hometown) during festive seasond or school holidays.

[@yumyuen4673]

But not in east malaysia

[@adam_zul1271]

East tu kawasan Sabah Sarawak kan

[@daisuke910]

@@adam_zul1271 yup. East Peninsular refer to Kelantan, Terengganu (Pantai Timur)

[@duschseitkleines-1193]

It's habit not culture

[@RavenAii]

I'm one of those 20% Malaysian who lived in the Borneo part of Malaysia. I'm definitely Malaysian, but I'm not Malayan, because I live in Borneo, and I'm not Malay, because I'm Melanau, one of the diverse ethnics in Malaysia. Transportation wise, Borneo, especially in Sarawak region where I lived, most people here owned either an AWD or 4WD vehicles. Sarawak and Sabah of the Borneo owns the highest amount of off-road vehicles compared to the Peninsula. The most popular vehicles here is the Toyota Hilux, a vehicle very similar in size with the Toyota Tacoma, which is very reliable. Then there are also other vehicles such as the Nissan Navara(Frontier in the US), Ford Ranger, Isuzu D-Max, Mitsubishi Triton, and other pick-up trucks. We don't really have any choices but to buy these types of vehicles as some parts of the region doesn't have proper roads built, and some places are like literally in the middle of nowhere in forests and swampy areas. Protons and Peroduas also have their shares in Sarawak, but these cars mostly used in the cities. There was rumours years ago about Proton having a pickup truck prototype, but it never went into production. Edited: Also, you can try watch this, a jamboree event held in Sarawak. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l16xZZh_ZrBgpZo

[@terencelee880]

Hi, I am also from Borneo Malaysia.

[@olyviachan3153]

I know melanau..🙋but I can speak bit melanau language

[@dylanleey6305]

Hello, I'm also from Borneo. From Saaaanaaa Ranau Sabah. 🙂

[@MrRofino6]

also don't forget we in borneo that 1 person can speak multi language in besides their mother tongue language.some sarawakian can speak melayu sarawak,iban,bidayuh,english,melanau even orang ulu.same goes to sabahan.we mix well in boneo. :-)

[@RavenAii]

Oh yes I can speak Malay, Sarawakian Malay, Melanau Baie(one of those different Melanau language haha), English obviously, a bit of Iban language, was learning Chinese for a bit but most of the time came out as gibberish when I speak it out hahahaha. I have a few Sabahan friends and their language and slang also very interesting. Borneo is one of the place in the world where our community mix very well with no problems of integration, and we respect each of different culture that we have on our land. Much love. ❤️

[@faristont4561]

British took the red and white stripes from the old Majapahit empire that rule large portion of our region back in 13-15th century cause they're a powerhouse of the sea trade. our decision to have that on the flag is not colonial reason. it's part of our own history

[@Celestetanrq]

Mexicans are not common in Malaysia.. although Phezz might get mistaken as a Malay. Mexicans and Malays can look similar. There have been cases of Malays getting mistaken as Mexicans in the US.

[@marinaau8551]

Yeah, we have a lot Malay students in US mistaken for hispanics. Malay Students in NZ mistaken for maoris. Malay students in UK/EU mistaken for south americans and Malay Students mistaken for Chinese Muslim Ugur.. We have a universal face. Cheers

[@TheCommodity]

Lol -Phezz

[@yumyuen4673]

Phezz have doppelganger from malaysia..

[@alwaysagoodboy]

in Klang Valley, there is quite a number of Latin American expats - Mexicans, Argentinian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Chilean, Peruvian, Ecuador, Cuba, Brazilian etc and annually there is the Latin American Film Festivals and Latin American Fest being celebrated

[@sonofpharaoh9716]

Some Malay looks like Chinese, Indian, Thai, Vietnam, Indonesian, Pinoy, Cambodian, Taiwanese, Uighur, maori, timor leste, papua, pacific islander, european, jews, arab, african, hispanic, mongolian, pakistani, afghan, Nepalis, congo, south African, zimbabwe, armenian, turkish, eskimo, chickano, apache, tibet, persian, maldives, japanese, korean, middle eastern, portuguese, burmese, bangla, etc...My brother went to Mexico, everyone call him " Amigo, Amigo".. when he answered to them in English m, they faces expression automatically changed, lol.. when he showed his passport, they looked surprised and happy.. When I was in Europe, everytime I met hispanic people, they speak Spanish to me.. Hola, de donde eres? Soy de Malasia.. lol.. muchas gracias.. le presento mis amigos......, me hablar en Ingles.. lo siento pero paracute porla... si senor.. hasta la proxima... I met an Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Honduras even Spanish thought I were Hispanic.. some of them were 100% looks like Malay.. I was mistaken too... Hasta la proxima.. Adios

[@zanzillahsaruji9966]

Anthony Bourdain said Sarawak Laksa is the breakfast from God. If you want to make tradional Tattoo just like Anthony Bourdain do come to Sarawak. Sarawak also organised World Music Festival every year. Most Malaysian are English spoken. Most American like to eat roti canai and nasi lemak. You can search Kuching City in youtube and see the condition of Kuching City. Kuching City is the biggest city in Borneo..

[@dkebun7577]

Please don't forget about Gawai

[@abolishma63proposedbymalay17]

@@dkebun7577 *All Borneo territories are not geographically and not originally part of Malingsia anytime our garbage documents of the stupid Tunku Abdul Rahman's dream of proposal of merging or landgrabbing Borneo Colonies to Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) through garbage Malingsia Agreement 1963 (MA63) or Malingsia formation are trash abolish dissolve and thrown away forever. We Malingsians will surely return to our nightmare of original territory of Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) who became independent territory since August 31, 1957 while Borneo are British Colonies without MA63.* *No Borneo. No Spratly Islands. No China Dispute. No Philippines Dispute. No Malingsia-Indonesia Borneo Border. No Malingsia Borneo Flag. No Malingsian Bornean Citizenship. No Malingsian Bornean Language. No Malingsian Bornean Military.* *We only returned to our nightmare of Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) since 1957 without stupid Tunku's MA63 without Borneo territories anymore.* 😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾 🚮🗑️💩 *MA63* 👎🚫🇲🇾😭 *SABAH SARAWAK KELUAR MALINGSIA.* *SABAH DAN SARAWAK BUKAN MALINGSIA.* 🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾

[@melvinballin5032]

@@abolishma63proposedbymalay17 we don't care

[@abolishma63proposedbymalay17]

@@melvinballin5032 *"Our Borneo people can no longer PRETEND to be named as MALINGSIAN citizens from Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) since August 31, 1957 without the dream of Stupid Tunku's MA63" anytime our signatories of United Kingdom terminate the dream of garbage stupid Tunku's MA63 upon the request of our Borneo people's population that we will surely became our nightmare that we return to our original territory of Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) without Borneo anytime stupid Tunku's Malingsia Agreement 1963 (MA63) are trash abolish dissolve and thrown away forever.* 😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾 🗑️🚮 *MA63* 👎🚫🇲🇾😭 *SABAH SARAWAK KELUAR MALINGSIA.* *SABAH DAN SARAWAK BUKAN MALINGSIA.* 🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾

[@melvinballin5032]

@@abolishma63proposedbymalay17 im a proud Malysian citizens living at Borneo so please SHUT UP

[@miyanasir7897]

I’m a ‘Malaysian Borneo’ from Miri, Sarawak living in the Peninsular Malaysia for the past 25 years. Most of my families are still in Sarawak and we travel for regular visits twice a year or more by taking a 2 hour flights to and fro. Business people normally take daily flights, a day trip or sleeping over for 1 or 2 days. So it’s very easy to travel from the East to the West of Malaysia and vice versa.

[@lelouchzuzu5939]

hi mirian.. sama

[@aqimjulayhi8798]

Eyyy orang Miri! Kecik jak dunia. Haha

[@brotherjack2067]

All about Malaysia, thanks *The Commodity*

[@zidane247]

Mousedeer is kancil in our language. In our folklore, its a cunning animal usually outsmarting the crocodile and tiger.

[@theamazingjack8373]

In sabah there is a language called KadazanDusun and a lot of people dont believe it existed or just dont know only in sabah and im grateful that im sabahan and im kadazan

[@faizsuria]

Go to sabah to experience majestic island. Or east peninsular, the perhentian island.

[@TheBranjoez]

Make sure you rent a 4wd. Lots of beautiful villages to experience. Also, lots of potholes once you go out from the city. The roads might kill you.

[@alifiefarhan9363]

Miles seems more talkative now, unlike before 😆

[@krisdavis8405]

Malaysia and Malaysian are most mixed races. Diversity in all things is Malaysian. I am Malaysian mix and it’s amazing to be part of my background.

[@MrBen101199]

I had to take Spanish language as an elective subject during my university days, and my teacher was a Mexican lady who married a Malaysian Chinese. So, you will not be the only one.

[@TheCommodity]

Dope

[@mibchannel8385]

actually at sarawak east malaysian we also have malay or melayu there.

[@zulmx]

Family

[@zulmx]

Family

[@Yuqinyt]

no

[@mibchannel8385]

@@Yuqinyt yupp..we have malay there.they call melayu sarawak.melayu sarawak ancestor came from kesultanan melayu brunei.

[@mibchannel8385]

@@Yuqinyt you're not bumiputra malaysia or orang asal sarawak.only us dayak,melayu,iban,melanau and the other ethnic have a rights to talk about our land.you're chinese people came from mainland china,you don't have a rights to talk about our country.go back to your mainland china.don't you ever dare to came here again.bring all your family back to china.

[@syadiqeenrcworld1149]

For borneo malaysia... We speak different language, different culture and lifestyle from the peninsular malaysia... Its like a different country... For eg: UK and french and germany... Its not a slang, they re total different language/culture... But we are still united as bumiputra and malaysian... we married and love each other... Malaysia have a lot of mix races... Its like the nation of europe under one country... Diversity...

[@hplagt6880]

Hi I'm from Sarawak Borneo(East Malaysia). You have to fly either via Malaysian Airline System (MAS) or Air Asia. It takes about 1hr 50mins - 2 hrs from Kuala Lumpur (KL) to Kuching the capital of Sarawak. In Kuala Lumpur apart from the 3 main races, there are many expats also living there. So when you miss American or Mexican food or other international cuisine...no problem..we've got them. But with so much variety of food to try i doubt that you'd have the chance to miss American food. By the way, we Malaysians love burgers v v much. The famous one is called the Ramly Burger.

[@abangazuwan4973]

i'm from Borneo..Sibu Sarawak

[@AlexSDU]

@@abangazuwan4973 Yeah, my kampung. Originally from Kampung Datuk, but grew up in Kuching

[@ahchairoy2005]

Im from Malaysia borneo Sarawak. In borneo we are rich with oil and gas. If u looking for beautiful beach go to sabah borneo. You going to love the island.

[@Crygear]

Fun facts:Mangosteen and Durian work together because Durians heat you up and Mangosteen cool you up

[@andrewchong2616]

14:00 that clear water is at sipadan. It’s in sabah.. one of the top 10 diving sites in the world..

[@rhsmedia79]

fun fact: that roundabout also hold the record for the longest roundabout name in the world edit: the name is - Persiaran Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah

[@mumtazahmustajab9870]

I studied in Arizona in my younger days and that time people sometimes mistakenly thot that I was a Chicano. And yeah.....I love burritos, chimichangas....

[@anissyamimi6987]

I'm from Kedah. It's located at north of the Peninsular Malaysia. So if you wanna go to Thailand, you can just drive the car by yourself but don't forget to take the insurance though🤣 You also can take the train to Bangkok. Malaysian love to go to Thailand especially Phuket (well known for the beaches) or Hatyai. Everything is pretty cheap there. There are plenty of delicious food too😋 Those who lives in Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan State are very lucky because they have 2 option to go there which is using a Passport or Border Pass. But Border Pass is only applicable for the permanent resident of these states.

[@AlexSDU]

In Sarawak, we also can use the Border Pass when entering Kalimantan Indonesia.

[@aminhassan9554]

mousedeer - kancil, there's where perodua take perodua kancil name..

[@Nexus104]

Also the first perodua symbol.

[@angahsyber9342]

I have Perodua Kancil 😅

[@zackrocky8027]

For the system of road and highway in Malaysia we follow British system. Our road on the left and for our car steering wheel will be on the right

[@gamegaman8392]

Malaysia is a Federation, it's basically like the UK where you have England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Malaysia has Malaya, Sabah (previously known as North Borneo), and Sarawak. Singapore was part of Malaysia, but separated in 1965, while Brunei opted not to joined the Federation. a little bit of history from me haha. Another interesting fact is Malayan people have to use a passport to come to Sabah or Sarawak while Borneon people don't have to use a passport to come to Malaya.

[@gamegaman8392]

@Hello there yup now you can use IC, but they give you a slip that you need to give back before you fly out of Sabah, lose it then you need to make a police report.

[@abolishma63proposedbymalay17]

@@gamegaman8392 *All Borneo territories are not geographically and not originally part of Malingsia anytime our garbage documents of the stupid Tunku Abdul Rahman's dream of proposal of merging or landgrabbing Borneo Colonies to Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) through garbage Malingsia Agreement 1963 (MA63) or Malingsia formation are trash abolish dissolve and thrown away forever. We Malingsians will surely return to our nightmare of original territory of Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) who became independent territory since August 31, 1957 while Borneo are British Colonies without MA63.* *No Borneo. No Spratly Islands. No China Dispute. No Philippines Dispute. No Malingsia-Indonesia Borneo Border. No Malingsia Borneo Flag. No Malingsian Bornean Citizenship. No Malingsian Bornean Language. No Malingsian Bornean Military.* *We only returned to our nightmare of Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) since 1957 without stupid Tunku's MA63 without Borneo territories anymore.* 😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾 🚮🗑️💩 *MA63* 👎🚫🇲🇾😭 *SABAH SARAWAK KELUAR MALINGSIA.* *SABAH DAN SARAWAK BUKAN MALINGSIA.* 🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾

[@cityliving-rainforestperson]

Lots of foreigners don't know that Malaysia has two parts. In fact, I've come across some visitors who were surprised when I said I'm from East Malaysia... they thought I'm from the East Coast! Not all Chinese in Malaysia are Peranakans. 😄 There are Chinese and there are also Chinese Peranakan. Confusing, yes. The term "Orang Asli" is usually used to refer to the indigenous people in Malaya while the term "Orang Asal" is used to refer to the whole indigenous people in Malaysia. The indigenous people in East Malaysia now has adopted the term "Dayak" to refer to their race. The reason why non-Malays Bumiputera prefer not to be classified as Malays is due to the federal constitution's definition of "Malay" especially the part where Malays are Muslims but a lot of the other indigenous people are either animists or Christians... in other words, their belief systems disqualifies them from being Malays. The Dayaks in Sarawak consists of not less than 27 ethnics while Sabah has not less than about 35. Oh by the way... the White Rajah came in in 1841. An accidental Rajah. Watch the movie about James Brooke to have an insight into how he became Sarawak's Rajah. The movie has changed it's title to: Edge of the World (formerly known as "Rajah"). The video about Malaysia is very Malaya Peninsular-centric, so if you do get to Sabah and Sarawak... you'll find that the atmosphere is quite different because 2/3 of Christians live in East Malaysia.

[@sawaalbino]

I'm from peninsular malaysia. I had been working in sabah (part of borneo) for 2 years, 5 years ago. It is 2 hours and 45 minutes flight from Kuala Lumpur. So, Bandung, indonesia is nearer than Sabah

[@Glee73]

Another interesting thing we have in Malaysia that has something in common with the US.. look up "Tugu Kebangsaan" or National Monument, which is dedicated to men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving this country. The monument was designed and sculpted by Felix de Weldon who also did the same with the famous Marine Corp "Iwo Jima" monument located at Arlington.

[@user-np1gd2jx7y]

It takes 2 1/2 hours flying from the West Malaysia to Borneo (Sabah) and less than that to Kuching Sarawak by low cost air carrier..we used to have cruises sailing from Pahang to Borneo in the 80s but the project was later stalled due to some mishaps on the cruise ships..trivia:We do have quite a number of Mexicans and other Latin Americans living in Malaysia

[@anizat7]

Sarawak & Sabah has their own autonomy as they agreed to form Malaysia together with Singapore & Malaya. For example if you came from Malaya (Kuala Lumpur to Kuching (Sarawak) or Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) you will need to go immigration once again even though you are Malaysian from West Malaysia. For West Malaysian if they want to work, live or study in East Malaysia they also need to apply Visa for them to be allowed to stay in the States. All of these autonomy has been agreed in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).

[@zeyrie]

You guys should check out the Tiga Island (Pulau Tiga) and plan a trip there. Tiga Island became well known through the Survivor television series. It was the setting of Survivor: Borneo, the first American season of the Survivor show.

[@oscarschell]

15:20 we are not decendent from sumatra. We are from here, this land tanah melayu (malaysia), the oldest civilization in south east asia (kedah tua). We are the oldest how come we came from sumatra. Lol.

[@yazhari3589]

Yeah, it's illogical. Must be from mainland to islands

[@joelconolly5574]

Probably from the Parameswara story where he ran away from Indonesia for killing a Srivijaya king and British officer in Singapore before settling down and creating his own kingdom in Melaka.

[@oscarschell]

Lol jeol, no. Read the history. Kedah is the oldest. The problem with the history is its started from parameswara. They forgot about kelantan, terangganu and kedah where have the oldest monuments there.

[@joelconolly5574]

@@oscarschell yup. That's why. Even our orang asli is not considered under Malaysian descendants since "our DNA doesn't match up" and our written history always begun in Melaka. The archives are full of historical background but our government doesn't agree otherwise.

[@oscarschell]

The history state that parameswara came alone and created the nation but where the people came from? Indonesia? No the history didn't stated that. Can he built the nation alone? He even changed his name? Who changed him? Melaka tree? 😂 There is a new research about our origin. Actually we are the second oldest people in the world after arab.

[@khairiahjusoh5333]

It is like a teacher explaining about Malaysia. They covered almost all interesting stories about us. Thanks so much or Tq.

[@TheCommodity]

Glad you liked it!

[@khairiahjusoh5333]

You are most welcome

[@enchesoyaregaliaatriadelig5951]

Checked! Anyway, we also have chinese & indian pranakan ( both assimilate with local via inter marriage hundreds of years ago during Malacca Sultanate )... We are the AirAsia hub, so you can travel between west n east Malaysia & surrounding SEA regions for less than USD25. Good job guys! P/s : for great video about Petronas Tower n our new Merdeka 118, do react skyrun Malaysia video...

[@chinkang3566]

Speaking of beaches, you can go to Port Dickson from Kuala Lumpur (KL) by road within one hour.

[@EeFfFfIiEe]

Hi there! I’m from Sabah, Malaysia. It took around 2.45hrs from Kuala Lumpur To Kota Kinabalu by flight

[@ceceliautom8075]

You guys should have The Dayak Tatoo that called 'Bungai Terong' that is suppose to be as the most famous International legend tatoo ...go checkfor it..can get it in state of Sarawak, Malaysia.

[@TheCommodity]

That sounds dope. Thanks for the idea! -Phezz

[@j.d.3550]

Late of Anthony Bourdain got one 'tribal tattoos' - Bungai Terong as well.

[@iker_officialmif2979]

That's dope👍

[@pmartyr]

From KL to Borneo average flight time 2 hours, + / - depending on final destination. Internal flights are also available. Road trips are possible; a drive from Kuching to Kota Kinabalu, passing through Brunei (at least 7 border crossings) takes about 14 hours, no delays, no stops, no breaks.

[@mohdrozanyharith6801]

Malaysian are the friendliest people you could ever find. There is no hate crimes here. We respect all races. We believe that no one is superior than others except on the basis of personal piety and righteousness.

[@officialphobia7755]

Actually,the stripes in Malaysia and America is not from British..British get the idea from The Majapahit Empire flag in the Southeast Asia which is on that time it's uncluding Malaysia..And British bring it back to the europe

[@hairulhairi5522]

Hey...im from the other part of Malaysia that u guys didn't know that is Sarawak...so from Sarawak u can just drive to Sabah through Brunei...and it will take about 16 to 20 hours drive... that's my estimation hehehe...and from Sarawak or Sabah to the Peninsular Malaysia is about 1 and a half-hour to 2 hours flight...

[@the_notorious_puppet]

SARAWAKIAN!!!

[@hairulhairi5522]

@@the_notorious_puppet Yeah!!! I'm a Sarawakian and proud to be one!!!

[@AlexSDU]

Yeah, Sarawak! Woohoo!

[@abolishma63proposedbymalay17]

@@hairulhairi5522 *All Borneo territories are not geographically and not originally part of Malingsia anytime our garbage documents of the stupid Tunku Abdul Rahman's dream of proposal of merging or landgrabbing Borneo Colonies to Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) through garbage Malingsia Agreement 1963 (MA63) or Malingsia formation are trash abolish dissolve and thrown away forever. We Malingsians will surely return to our nightmare of original territory of Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) who became independent territory since August 31, 1957 while Borneo are British Colonies without MA63.* *No Borneo. No Spratly Islands. No China Dispute. No Philippines Dispute. No Malingsia-Indonesia Borneo Border. No Malingsia Borneo Flag. No Malingsian Bornean Citizenship. No Malingsian Bornean Language. No Malingsian Bornean Military.* *We only returned to our nightmare of Federation of Malingsia (Malaya now Peninsula) since 1957 without stupid Tunku's MA63 without Borneo territories anymore.* 😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾😭🇲🇾 🚮🗑️💩 *MA63* 👎🚫🇲🇾😭 *SABAH SARAWAK KELUAR MALINGSIA.* *SABAH DAN SARAWAK BUKAN MALINGSIA.* 🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾🖕🇲🇾

[@iwanasy7309]

Just take a look at the distance between peninsular and borneo island then compare it to United kingdom and france..How far is that..

[@countpuchi]

If you guys ever come here you gotta do a whole lot of travelling. I would suggest doing a video on visiting the beaches but would recommend going to the best beaches which is located at East Malaysia like Sabah (Mainly) Then Sarawak, (Peninsular Terengganu and Kelantan.) Even food wise theres a whole lot of places and both Peninsular and Borneo have their own distinct food. One of my personal favourite is the Laksa Sarawak, which have its own turf wars of its own between Laksa Sarawak, Laksa Johor, Laksa Penang where all 3 have the same name Laksa but totally different in terms of ingredient and taste. The late Anthony Bourdain voted for Laksa Sarawak but you guys gotta try all 3 when you guys do come here. Funnily enough my Boss at work is from UK (Leeds) and it seems like hes not going back to UK anytime soon.. so yeah probably Miles you might not be the only White guy here hahaha... For Mexicans i have seen a few, although not much. Probably the fact that the skin tone is so similar its abit hard to differentiate between culture unless you hear them speaking their mother tongue. This holds true for Philippine and Indonesian people.

[@suhainisuhaini506]

Few things. 1 GEeorgetown 2. Foods and sports unites us 3. Duhh! I lived im Sabah. The East part of Malaysia. The nofthenmost part 4. Miles kinda cute.

[@TheCommodity]

Thank you :) -Miles

[@summeratthelonghouse5455]

Thanks for share your thoughts, Your reactions are amazing!

[@lohleeyang7988]

Malaysia have beautiful beaches in the east coast of peninsula Malaysia. Like the Perhentian island, Tioman Island. And in the west coast , Pangkor n Langkawi island.

[@mnasirmnor]

The state in Malaysia:- 1) Perlis 2) Kedah 3) Pulau Pinang (Penang) 4) Perak 5) Selangor 6) Negeri Sembilan 7) Melaka (Malacca) 6) Johor 7) Pahang 8) Terengganu 9) Kelantan 10) Sabah 11) Sarawak WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN (federal territory) 1) Kuala Lumpur 2) Putrajaya 3) Labuan

[@luqhakim5711]

Hey guys! Was watching a bunch of your vids. Loving the reactions and it warms my heart how sincere you guys are in your interest with the SEA region. Im sorry if that sounds mean, but just we Southeast Asians are often overlooked as East Asia, South Asia and.. heck, the Middle East gets more attention than us. And yes, I am Malaysian ofc, Selangor-born. Anyways, to answer your question about the commute between Peninsular and East Malaysia, airplane flights are the only way of travel. So, sorry man.. no English Channel style swimming across the South China Sea lol. Due to a lot of East Malaysians travelling back and forth from East to West Malaysia because of work or studies related stuff. Same goes for those at the West side. Flights to the East region take about from 1.5 to 2.5 hours.. yep, its pretty long. Prices are nothing to sneeze at, either. But yeah, we all somehow manage and stuff.

[@julianalangit7916]

I love Kuala Lumpur 🥰❤️ very much ! I live in the west of Malaysia past 26 years originally from Limbang Sarawak Borneo,5th division peninsula,east malaysia.I visit family back home in Borneo every once a year on Christmas 🎄 via Brunei between Miri/Brunei/Limbang.Driving from Miri to Brunei take 3 hours and Brunei to Limbang just 30 minutes or there is other option take the air plane ✈️ from Miri direct to Limbang by Foker just 20 minute ! Flight journey.In KL what I love the most is I like the hubs-transportation,hospital,shopping mall,eatery places every where,nice islands 🏝 I have been to almost every island in kuala lumpur such as Tioman Island,Langkawi,Redang,Genting Highland,Cameron Highland,Taman Negara Pahang,Pangkor Island,Perhentian Island,Janda Baik,Templer Park WaterFall,TADOM Hills Banting and many more and not forget to mention man made Snow ❄️ ⛄️ in Genting 🤭 We have a group of friend who love travel it’s fun and adventrous ! Imagine We drove for almost 15-16 hours all the way to Kelantan toward Penang Island,Ipoh Perak and Singapore.The fact is that we embrace the joy between working and travel.We work as a nurse at one of the private hospitals in Selangor.As time fly and goes by,what is remain untold has no longer a secret anymore.I came out from the seashell,once I get to work in KL at early age of 19 years old,the environment is so different as well the weather and the time zone one hour different at first landed my feet on the ground,the food,the people I met and so on,that was my first experienced 26 years ago and today I am proud to say that I love KL ! I purchased small apartment 698 squarefeet.Work harder in this so called KL city day and night not to mention about no resting 24/7 consider 365 days a year I hardly get off day holidays.From 8.30am until 8-9pm daily juggling between two job is not easy,past 26 years.You’ll meet all kind of peoples in a walk-talk of life.There are amazing people out there as I treasure them #I love lone ranger travellers and I have made it to Bali in 2010 almost make it to Edmonton Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 Visa done approved last minute cancelled and I am going to make it again to France 🇫🇷 🔜 - London + Switzerland 🇨🇭 bucketlist (Europe Germany + Amsterdam ) #I love grouping travellers

[@iker_officialmif2979]

22:18 it's about 2hours flight from peninsular Malaysia to Borneo Malaysia🇲🇾🇲🇾

[@sammasri8514]

Our flags not actually derived from Britain's flag.. it derives from the East India companies's flag which derives from the old malay kingdom of majapahit's flag..

[@ahfez]

I'm from East Malaysia in the northern state named Sabah. We have a lot of nice places to visit here and the top list is the one near my hometown. It's the second-highest mountain in southeast Asia called Mount Kinabalu. It's a beautiful mountain and not so hard to climb even for the average person.

[@clarissachan-day1871]

We taking road trip to Penang when you come btw the best food is there Georgetown

[@AHcold]

Great reaction!!!... I originated from peninsular (the state of Perak and i growing up in KL), but i live 3 years in the state of Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo or from you guys perspective, the other part of Malaysia 😂)... I live 3 years in the city of Bintulu, Sarawak, by flight it takes around 2 hours from KL, also i live 6 months in capital state of Sarawak, Kuching City, and flight from KL to Kuching takes 1 hours 30 minutes and flight from Kuching to Bintulu takes 45 minutes... Sarawak is the largest state by area (as almost same size of Mississippi) but less population (as same as Kansas), just sarawak geographical shape much longer than Mississippi... Fyi, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia are almost the same size but population in peninsular much more dense (28 million people)... Idk, i see Sarawak more developed than my original state of Perak just Sarawak lack of highway connection, but overall Sarawak are developed, i think as level as state of Johor...

[@nellyanaksinggawmoe6072]

From Kuala Lumpur to the northern tip of Sabah (Malaysia Borneo) is about 3 hrs. flight. To Kuching city (western tip) where i live, it takes about 1 3/4 hrs. across South China Sea

[@tobbyhudson2743]

Basically, Malaysia are two parts, Peninsular And East Malaysia comprises of Malaysian state of Sarawak and State of Sabah. Before Malaysia was founded in 1963, the two east Malaysia states which is Sarawak and Sabah was a British colony. An idea to form a Federation of Malaysia which comprises of Singapore, Brunei, Sarawak, Sabah and Federation of Malaya(not Malaysia yet until 1963) was an idea of 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman. This idea was success by merging all of this countries or former British colony to single federation but Brunei withdraw at the last moment for several reasons and Singapore was expelled from the Federation in 1965 bcs of the rising tension between the ruling political party of Singapore that time, People Action Party or PAP and the Malaysia Federal government on the racial equality

[@jehanc]

He is wrong. There is the Chinese and there is a Chinese who inter married with the local Malay called peranakan which only about O.50% but the classify as Chinese.

[@rei8182]

and they never mentioned Sabah and Sarawak's indegenous people which is different than the Orang Asli in the peninsular

[@daisuke910]

My mom is Chinese descent and my dad is a Malay descent. It is not uncommon to have mix parentage in Malaysia. But she is not Peranakan. She was raised by a Malay family since little and considered as Malay (this is during the period of WW2).

[@lynncomel]

I heard Chinese peranakan are Chinese who integrated some Malay culture into their own and the mix became their lifestyle which then got them the name. The most noticeable part is the food and clothing. Mixed marriage between Malay and Chinese don't make them into peranakan. Otherwise I would be one of them. Haha..

[@jehanc]

@@lynncomel The practice of those who of Chinese decent who intermarriage with the so called Malay that are non-muslim but following their father side with the religious belief of the Chinese gods and speak local Malay and dress the kebayan are the practice of the peranakan and all using Chinese names. Therefore, if just being like you a Malay and having Malay names not practicing the Chinese in Culture will not make you a peranakan.

[@calvyncraven1141]

There are mexicans but not common. KL have quite a few mexican restaurants.

[@mofb8331]

Well one of the most successful football(soccer) club in Malaysia..Johor or JDT is coach by a mexican Benjamin Mora

[@Ken8989]

I'm a Malaysian born Portuguese descendance, a Catholic by faith and we practice our religion freely in this beautiful country with lots of beautiful and unique Churches. Feel free to visit our country as we have beautiful Muslim nations not as many part of the world sees about Muslim because Malaysia is a diversity country and we live together without serious problems even our faith are different. It is the culture of respect and love what makes Malaysia a home for every ethic and race. Besides that you won't get lost as we speak english well and we do have signboard in english besides Malay for foreigners to understand. So ya..this is Malaysia 🇲🇾☺️💐

[@clementwilliam9395]

welcome to Sarawak..Malaysian Borneo one of the state on Borneo Island...you can have original native Iban tatoo its unique natural only in Borneo Island.Yes Malaysians look like Mexican in USA...it takes 1hr 30 minutes to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Sarawak capital Kuching and 2 hours to Sabah..Kota Kinabalu.across south china sea.

[@firdausahsin3898]

Malaysia and indonesia just like siblings. We laugh, we fight and do what siblings do. But we love each other.. 😂😂😂.. Just like the rendang incident at british master chef. Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore together protest the judge for calling our chicken rendang not crispy.

[@gradin6615]

Thank you for the good reactions on my country. We are a safe country, no doubt. MAJORITY of Malaysian can speak good english & friendly though.

[@aliey9330]

From kuching sarawak state, you go by airplane with only just one hour and 15minutes or maybe half to arrive at kuala lumpur Airport.

[@hikmahuddinhasbullah3928]

there is neighbours calling us culture thieves and lands thieves..for the one that calling us as the culture thieves,they always ignore that we came from a same race and we speak the same language just different in dialect..for the ones that calling us land thieves,the previous owner of the lands(Brunei) never gave that lands to the other neighbour🤣🤣

[@aqimjulayhi8798]

I’m from Miri city on Malaysian Borneo, right next to the border of Brunei. To answer your question about how hard is it to cross the sea, it’s not hard because we have flights. From Miri to Kuala Lumpur it’s almost a 2 hour flight. I’m not sure about boats, almost everyone uses planes. When it comes to driving, Miri to the western pointy end of Malaysian Borneo takes about 14 to 15 hours because the roads suck. Nice to see people interested in our little country.

[@teohjohnny]

I am from the state of Penang in Malaysia. Our state capital is Georgetown.

[@lulu9421]

I feel like doing a reaction vid of Petronas tower IN PERSON would definitely be something for yall (and the viewers!). I lived in Malaysia all my life and I'm still easily awed while standing below the tower.

[@TheCommodity]

We cannot wait to see it in person! -Miles

[@Neo_Tridagger91]

it's a 1 hour 45 minute flight from Penang International Airport to Kuching International Airport... also cost roughly 200 o 600 RM depends on seasons.

[@WilfredDennis]

Besides Georgetown, Penang similar to the US and also we have Beaufort, Sabah similar to the City of South Carolina.

[@MrAirpearl]

Flying from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah in Borneo takes about 2 hours 45 mins (equivalent in distance as New York-Miami), while a Kuala Lumpur to Kuching, Sarawak flight takes 1 hour 40 minutes (equivalent to Seattle-San Francisco).

[@yenyen7671]

This remind me back my friend from USA Illoins , living Malaysia Sabah for 5 years he very good attitude friendly. He going back to US coz this pandemic COVID 19

[@alphonsusjimos9758]

No worries. Majority of Malaysian do look like Mexican. Both love hot spicy foods loll

[@aimansafwankamaruddin8369]

And brazilian...the complexion and the look are quite similar

[@momoy88]

Especially malay. Their skin same like south american latin.

[@predfir5823]

It takes around 40 usd to take from west to east malaysia and around 1-2.5 hours depend from where and where u wanna be

[@nellyanaksinggawmoe6072]

I m from the eastern part of Malaysia (On Borneo Island). In west Malaysia, the majority of the population are Malays whose religion is Islam. The Borneo part of Malaysia where i live are mostly Christians just like myself. Here, English is not a problem, even toddlers can speak English well. In this eastern part of Malaysia, subjects like Science, Mathematics (pure sciences ) & technology are taught in English since primary schools.

[@Nexus104]

Yeah we rarely have huge disasters but stuff like flooding happens every year

[@edpotter1170]

We're having Ramadhan soon! Ramadhan is the month in Muslim calendar when we'd be fasting through the month. Highly recommended to come around the last few days of Ramadhan! We get VERY festive around this time, you're gonna enjoy our Ramadhan 'bazaar' (night market usually opened daily throughout the month from 5PM to 7PM) there's A LOT of food. Don't even get me started with Eid (after Ramadhan). It's like Christmas for Muslims but different purpose; to celebrate the 30 days of fasting. There's even more food, lots of gathering (during Covid we may have some restrictions tho, but usually we go all out on this), we wear traditional, new clothes, fireworks and more!

[@DearWinnie]

love this reaction. Love Malaysia too

[@arii1987]

I am an Indian (Tamil) from West Malaysia married to a Tidong girl from Sabah (East Malaysia).

[@IZZULFAIZAM]

Peninsular Malaysia is more developed than the East Malaysia because it’s the centre of administration. However, the East Malaysia is rich in natural resources that contribute a lot to the country’s economies.

[@matdanih]

Yes, true. But i got something to add. Aside of being the administrative centre, Peninsular Malaysia benefits more from the Straits of Melaka and offshore rigs at Terengganu.

[@hakimijamai720]

Speaking of discord, I really want to join but first I need to upgrade something. Just watching at your KZbin videos and commenting would help a lot!

[@meowgod_]

N Malaysia has the coolest slogan.. Malaysia , Truly Asia...

[@jemimychannel7893]

Funfact: the largest roundabout in the world also hold title as the longest road name in the world... Love you guys reaction about malaysia divided by 2 land

[@aimisakee867]

Peninsular Malaysia to East Malaysia takes about 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours. Depending on which state; Sarawak or Sabah. So it's not bad

[@faieziabubakar207]

It's about 2 hours flight to get to east malaysia (borneo island) from klia..and mostly they are protected rainforest so if you love nature, it's heaven

[@user-hh9sk4ft1s]

2.45 to be exact

[@MrIsemetalmulisha]

from KLIA (Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia) to Sabah took 2hours and 35min in average... the length about about 1,600++ kilometers..

[@putrawk]

Hi Guys! To get to the Borneo side from Kuala Lumpur will take you roughly around 1.5 hours , just like from San Diego to Albuquerque or from LAX to Salt lake City by air. There are no commercial ferries as the South China Sea is quite rough.

[@mosebrneo3646]

Flying from K.L city(Malaya) to KK city( East malaysia) will take abt 2.45 hrs..

[@ahmadkamal3003]

There is new tower which is higher that the Petronas tower called Merdeka 118. It is being built in a new area called Tun Razak Exchange (new Malaysia’s Financial District)

[@augustinechau]

Im Auggie from East Malaysia Sarawak..and u need to take a flight 2 to 3 hrs..more if u wanna visit Sabah..first season of Survivor was shot there, fun fact!

[@ZamYie]

That's quite interesting when they curious abt how to run 2 separate parts of country like Malaysia. Well, it just matter of system and allocated fund. It'll be fine as long as both elements well managed no matter how far different parts of country being separated.

[@arry8148]

Omggg finnaly some American watch i didn't find any youtuber do it thank u

[@TheCommodity]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@antipnmy6109]

The distance between peninsular to Borneo is around 460miles