Do foreigners in China still have questions about China?? (yes they do)

[@Ychinamedia]

What other questions do YOU have about life/food/habits in China? And if you have answers for the questions in the video, please let us know in the comment section below!

[@mikicerise6250]

Why does China support the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

[@gzwang7733]

@@mikicerise6250 Where did you see China support Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[@sweetcandysugaarmy8480]

@Dord Dord Chinese Football? 😂

[@NicKYKmic]

dear 老外. 外 also means distant. in the content of 外婆, it actually means grandma that lives in distant. traditionally, women are married far away from their home, even in the case of nearby, the wife usually lives and joins with the husbands family. when the child is born, the grandparents from mother's side will be in distant. that is how the name implies, about distance not "foreign". 外公外婆 （grandparents）are definitely part of the family and 親人.

[@dabainiu5288]

yeah, it is something to do with our inheritage system, 父传子家天下，the asset and the name will only inherited to sons, especially for the empire Kings. That is why we call Kings' wive family as 外戚，also, means they are out of the range of the King's power's candidates' list, in other words, they are away from the power. So, in a word, 外 was not only for foreign, and in fact, foreigners, being used as a term, 外国人，was coming out very late and recent

[@林飞-b2k]

叔叔、伯父、姑父、姨父、舅舅....一个英文词全代表了....这是图省事吗？

[@yorkgrass]

Oh just call them Laolao Laoye. better?😆

[@yujiewu3161]

很多语言都在称谓上区分父系和母系亲戚，暗示这种称呼代表什么都是ignorant的英语人

[@hclau362]

@@yorkgrass Silly suggestion... it is just the cultural language . learn it and let that be the end if it. Trying to impose your own linguistic desires on another language is just jingoism. My question : Why do you call you "second cousin, second cousin". Is he or she the second cousin that you know of, after the first? Try answering that and you will know how silly it is to ask a 5000 years old civilization to change they linguistic definition.

[@SpikeOuu]

The words "grandmother" 外婆and "grandfather" 外公do not mean discrimination, they are just to distinguish the mother's family from the father's family. We eat fish with bones because basically all the fish we produce in China are of this kind. Ancient China was a land-based country, and the bones of animals were also very nutritious for our growth(we Chinese think so). The heating systems in the north and south of China are different. The north is the hot air system暖气,炕kàng and the south is the stove 火炉. China's diverse ingredients and cooking practices originate from China's unified multi-ethnic regional culture and hard-working Chinese people.😊

[@talkthetalk3798]

This is another part of the sophistication of Chinese language. It generally goes with this: the more primitive a language is, the less clearness in defining those kind of things such as grandparents from father side or mother side. In Chinese, you can know exactly those difference. In some African countries such as Guinea, it's very difficult to figure out even some simple relationship between people of the same family.

[@timmychan6282]

You are not completely correct about 外婆. 婆婆 means the grandmother that lives with the family, while 外婆 means the grandmother who lives outside of the house, therefore "外". Then 外婆 later got attached to the meaning of the mother of a mother.

[@ea7366]

@武鸣 邓, it does not necessarily mean you eat the fishbone but you cook the fish with the bones in it because it is considered healthy too. There is no wrong with it. But these white people just want the Chinese to cook it by the way they cook it..trying to dictate Chinese...lol

[@talkthetalk3798]

@@ea7366 Yeah! Poor whites just know eating fish fillet, chicken fillet, fries, burgers......

[@ea7366]

@@talkthetalk3798 , exactly!!! fries and burgers..bigggg burgers and loads of fries....reason for being obese

[@宽-r9o]

Glad to see your videos again. Keep going!

[@Jimmy_Chow]

哈哈哈，都很有意思的问题。期待末尾的亮叔彩蛋👍

[@leungserena4740]

You guys haven’t updated for long time. Have been waiting, waiting… Lol Finally gets the new clip. :)

[@ngjerry5301]

Nice video & topic! I’m so happy to see more foreigners like China! Keep up your good work!

[@NeMayful]

Thank you for sharing the love around. Thank you!

[@gingermintrose]

One of your funniest episodes and a very revealing one at that!

[@linphilip6389]

中國人認為在煮肉類時保留骨頭的話令到肉質更為美味。另外，也有不少人喜歡啜骨頭。

[@sfz7307]

食髓知味。

[@gonku]

喜欢啜骨头✋

[@a523158313]

骨头富含脂肪，我试过单鸡胸肉 去骨鸡腿 带骨鸡腿 整鸡切块，带骨头的确实香不少

[@weizhang2834]

口感不一样。中国人知道有机结合

[@thelittleking6447]

I like the background music , trumpet sounding is really cool, bringing an energetic vibe around this video.

[@RobinsWood1]

Nice channel....great content as well. I like it ! It seems like a big international family having a good time in China. Keep up the good work connecting people. One love bro!

[@jennyohara4011]

Ychina is such a great channel, always such interesting topics

[@EricChien95]

That football question... damn critical hit.

[@dysonyamagata1133]

hahahaha

[@cheyliyang9447]

As a Chinese, This question....um, I also want to know why .

[@michael511128]

Why leave the bone in the chicken is a good question. It’s because it taste better. It’s similar to steak or pork chop with bones. The meat adjacent to the bone is tender and juicy. A chicken is best when slow cook whole to well done or 90%. Fish is a different matter, a lot of them are river fish that are small and boney. The bones cannot be removed before cooking. But think of all the things you can do practicing your tongue skills. Go get some Chinese kisses and find out.

[@4KSnSLifestyle]

Not just taste better. It's how the Chinese get their calcium from the bones.

[@RespectOthers1]

‘I’ve been here for a long time…’ He meant at the bar, right?! :D

[@mckenthyaus5915]

终于更新了！

[@sleepya3129]

OK.If life is happy, everyone is happy together, so it doesn't matter😂

[@yms9829]

Nah in 10 years there will be massive propaganda saying Chinese are “invading” taiwan

[@棒子的祖宗]

关于暖气这件事，我作为北方人可以解答一下。在中国北方，冬季长期处于零下，零下气温时期能维持3-5个月，-20℃-30℃都是常有的事情。在北方，如果没有暖气，为了活命，就需要家家户户自己燃烧木材，煤炭来取暖（空调要达到类似的效果开销会大量增加）。在南方，虽然也会冷，但是这种冷还是能够克服的，至少不致命。所以出于环保，经济的综合考虑下，只有北方采取了集中供暖的方式来保证民生。其它地区每年最冷的时间不超过1-2个月，集中供暖的建设维护成本远超于自行采暖的成本。

[@kyliex6310]

可是南方最冷的那两个月可以要你的命呢

[@棒子的祖宗]

@@kyliex6310 。。。你看，你还是没搞清楚状况。在北方，如果没有采暖设备，没有人能在零下20到30度的低温环境下活过几个晚上，穿多厚都没用。但是南方最冷的一两个月，穿厚一些就够了。不南不北靠中间的个别地方气温会到零下，但持续时间真的很短，如果这些地方也搞集中供暖，政府成本和个人成本都非常划不来，不如自己取暖了。 说白了，就是羡人有恨己无。

[@韩歌来了]

我是南方人 现在住在北方 如你所说 北方的冷没有暖气真的会冻死 在南方加条棉被搞定

[@蝦米-z1i]

在山东上学的表示大一的时候暖气坏了（整个冬天）学校也没采取什么额外措施 （有询问过我们要不要额外的棉被--花钱的）

[@liberal8083]

@@蝦米-z1i 山东冬天本来就不算很冷……极端情况下也就是零下20度……隔壁就是江苏上海，

[@思涌熊]

对于未来的中美关系我是抱着悲观的态度的，中国要崛起，美国要统治全球，美国失去科技和军事的优势就会走向穷凶极恶的反扑，势必要走向对立，这次疫情就可以看出来，全国在合作的地区屈指可数，美国带来的是生物实验室，是高价疫苗，是价值对立，是种族歧视，是贫富差距，是后疫情时代的金融危机，是战争的阴影和肮脏的阴谋，中美必将走向对立，而中国也必将战胜美国，团结全世界，自古得道者多助，失道者寡助，我们都是见证历史的一代

[@jacintochua6885]

"Mian Zhe" means face. To give someone "means zhe" basically means to give consideration to others, to have empathy for others. "Foreign grandparents" refers to grandparents on mothers side. Westerners literarily translated directly from Chinese. There are many Chinese expressions the meaning of which just can't be translated literally. To "beat down someone " means to defeat someone. Not to physically beat up someone. Foreigners shouldn't try to translate Chinese expressions without proper knowledge. If the translation makes no sense, it's because the foreigner did it wrong!

[@singularityagi5562]

As a Chinese myself, it’s so interesting to hear people with different cultural backgrounds share their views about China and Chinese.

[@kerstiny4698]

Personally I don't like the term "Foreign Grandma" either, this is mostly used in the southern part of China. I much prefer the term being called in the northern part, "Lao Lao" & "Lao Ye". Grandparents from different sides don't have to share the same addressing to establish equality. Matter of facts, all relatives are being categorized with much more precision and details than in the west. However, the word foreign does sound like it's bit more distant, more dividing, and less involving...Even when "foreign" might not be the true explanation of the name, but the chance of it being misunderstood is just not worth it. I think the root cause of this word, is the fact that females were once considered to "distant" to her birth family after marriage. Similar as explicitly changing family names in the west, Chinese women, in the past days, were predominantly regarded as member of her husband's family after marriage. To put it simply, she would become a leaf node in the family tree of her birth parents., and her bloodline continues only in her husband's genealogy archive. Things definitely change, and daughters are being cherished no less than the boys these days. As for me, I think these terms can be changed too, but people are just getting so used to it, to the point that they don't double think about the word as "adjective + noun". Most just treated it like a fixed term and that's it.

[@inesdelahoya2045]

The「外」in「外婆」means “outside”, NOT “foreign”. In a paternalistic concept, “maternal” - as in “maternal grandmother” - is indeed considered「外」- it does NOT imply any farther distance than a “paternal” grandmother, but is to specify the relationship in subject. The American woman here, sounding critical, is obviously stereotypically ignorant and arrogant.

[@kathleensem2689]

You are spot on. Chinese people are very specific about relationships among family members.

[@tsftsf9539]

Thank you for clarifying that.

[@lulalala_]

thank you! I would like to add on that in different parts of China we have various ways to call our grandparents, as for me I call them 姥姥 and 姥爷，there is even no 外 at all.

[@Jh-yj9zr]

这是血缘关系，外祖父母和祖父母没有血亲，所以分祖父母和外祖父母

[@Jimmy_Chow]

简而言之，再中文的世界里有很多一词多义的

[@mochichichi2458]

Question with German school system: Yes, German school system is much easier. I switched from Abitur to IB Diploma and it is so much harder. German Abitur is a joke

[@linfeng5423]

外 is an attribute to describe and define 婆 is not from our family. Coz in China most of kids named after father, so kid and father are in the same clan, then kids will call mother's mum is 外婆 means grandma from another clan. Vice versa, in particular circumstance, if kid named after mother, the kid will call father's mum 外婆.

[@Youngcl77]

4:40 that’s one goood questions, I’d love to see the answer from my Chinese bothers and sisters!!!

[@wendyzhang9754]

We have got the same question for men's football as well.

[@gaoming521]

5:03 the guy asked a very very good question.

[@kyliex6310]

Indeed, I really like that question!

[@j.z.3129]

歪果仁频道，被限流了，订阅了，开小铃铛了，但是完全不推送，只能点进来看了！！

[@kevinchen7903]

Love this channel

[@cocutou]

For the bones in fish, once you know the anatomy of a fish it is very easy to eat it without ever picking out a bone. There's always a technique to these things.

[@envy6971]

哈哈来个高佑思和竹内亮互相采访？

[@internationaldaily9820]

I just like to reiterate here that Chinese prefer to have the meat with the bones intact because of taste and nutrition. Many people here have answered this question. Actually, on the other hand, Chinese usually ask why do Westerners remove all the bones in something which Westerners think is the obvious thing to do. Imagine your fried chicken wings without the bones. Sometimes, Chinese debone the meat but you still have the flavors of the bones. 其实中国人吃的比西方人还要有讲究的多了，比如中国人用筷子就是最好的一件事了！

[@csong4809]

You always have the best questions

[@minimade7756]

why are there never any cold drinks, even their fridges in stores the sodas in the fridge is ... Room temp aaah. this is so frustrating during summer in Chengdu which is pretty humid and terribly hot.

[@ongsengkee2530]

May the world be peaceful, healthy and happy

[@philwang2835]

4:20 That's a questions the entire Chinese population would like to have answered as well.....

[@hello-q5u2v]

I'm Chinese. We Chinese and colleagues don't usually show our unhappiness. When we show it, it means it's time to do something.

[@talkthetalk3798]

Food culture is part of the civilization of a country. China has about 5 K yrs of history therefore her food culture must be sophisticated as well, its ways of cooking and way of grabbing food and eating. Chopsticks must have been used long long time ago. It reflects what kind of food they eat and how they think about grabbing food sending into mouth. If you eat hotpot you definitely cannot use your bare hands to grab food and fork or spoon won't work well either. Just looking at how many different cooking styles and dishes on Chinese tables you can have a pretty good idea about this country's civilization level in a historical perspective.

[@大阪のウルトラマン]

Because the Chinese men's football team ate too many sea cucumbers.

[@talkthetalk3798]

@@大阪のウルトラマン As far as sports go, I never pay much attention to it. It's no difference than an entertainment in my eyes. Black people dominate physically challenging sports in USA but it doesn't mean anything about their IQ level or how good they could do with economy. Economy is the only thing I care most when talking on a country.

[@hello-q5u2v]

Why is there heating in south China and no heating in north China? I'm Chinese. I'll answer because it will be very cold in winter in northern China and not too cold in southern China. South China has a tropical climate, so the south doesn't need heating, and the air conditioners in southern China don't need to buy heating effects.

[@Jojosselinn]

Completely agree with fishbones.... Soooo. Hughhhhh. It kills the pleasure

[@XmarfishX]

you should try those sea fish, they tend to be boneless.

[@richardlou9802]

@@XmarfishX But river fish cuisine is very important part of Chinese food, they are popular along the Yangtze River...I would suggest only try the meat without small bones , but they are only small part..

[@FrankXLiu]

Practicing chopsticks more, and you will open a new world~

[@Jojosselinn]

@@FrankXLiu you wrong. Chinese in front of me separate Bones on mouth. Dont speak about chopsticks im good with.

[@FrankXLiu]

@@Jojosselinn lol, maybe you can try some fish with less bones~

[@dabainiu5288]

Regarding 外, it is something to do with our inheritage system, 父传子家天下，the asset and the name will only inherited to sons, especially for the empire Kings. That is why we call Kings' wive family as 外戚，also, means they are out of the range of the King's power's candidates' list, in other words, they are away from the power. So, in a word, 外 was not only for foreign, and in fact, foreigners, being used as a term, 外国人，was coming out very late and recent

[@s._3560]

Bones add sweetness and more umami to the dish when cooked together. Actually It isn't that hard to eat fish with bones. There are ways of removing the meat from the main spine so that only few of the bones would detach. The positives of eating fish with some bones still in it, is that whilst you will have to eat it on its own (to avoid choking on a bone), it allows you to better savour and appreciate the delicate sweetness of its flesh. In many parts of the world, people would cook meat with bones in them. Most Western countries have everything filleted and sanitised for them into a headless, boneless nondescript piece of meat.

[@mysterybae]

It's very interesting to investigate the emerged feelings. I somehow get annoyed by the questions of some of them and feel comfort with some other opinions. As I start to realize, many times we may think those are very "stupid" questions, but since we never thought about it we never asked why about it, that's why people get annoyed, because we don't know how to answer. But I also have to say that, being sensitive to sarcasm and with China that has been criticized unfairly for so many years by the western mainstream media, maybe the sensitivity towards the sarcasm comes exactly from there. It's what stops me from a conversation where maybe I was ready to reveal lots of different points of view and insights. I think everyone would feel the same in a similar circumstance. Maybe at the end it's not really because of the question but has to do with a certain kind of attitude. Still navigating into it..

[@baatarbeifong7869]

omg it's Ryo Takeuchi!

[@murrymu4632]

5:36 好问题，我也超喜欢茄子。 歪果仁总是有各种有趣的话题。

[@dyrectory_com]

This was a nice episode. 👏🏻 🍚 🐟

[@fannybirot2362]

外公外婆comes from外家，which is also called 娘家，外家means the other home/another home of the wife,. Because in China, a woman married normally lives with her husband's family, so her born family is called 外家，still her family, but another one, not the one she is actually living with. So everybody from this other family will be called 外。外公外公外祖父母外孙外外甥....

[@AZ-rg3rf]

So what is Ychina's opinion on the China vs Taiwan Independence conflict?

[@FoieGras]

Why? Because the chef is NOT going to be able to debone a carp! Lol.

[@maxsheng8215]

Chinese culture all revolve around dinner table. If you understand the dinner table, you understad Chinese people.

[@billco73]

What city was this filmed in?

[@han7nah]

下一集訪問亮叔嗎？😁

[@hlam2364]

Great video

[@neutrallogic9260]

wow...I mean wow..I think their mandarin is even better than I do even though I am Chinese born in other country. Unbelievable😂😂😂

[@Max-um4ze]

Is it easy to become a police officer in china? or do you need some guanxi

[@robertreiku2554]

You have to pass the civil service exam if you want to become a police officer. It's easier compared to jobs in other government sectors, because police officers earn less and work more. Guanxi is not necessary for the exam. But after you become a police officer, if you want to get promoted, guanxi is what makes you the most competitive one.

[@oomboo7648]

Auxiliary police is so easy but poor and busy .

[@umliuq]

谁把外婆翻成foreign grandma? 外here merely means maternal side. 我们可以从称呼知道得清清楚楚人的关系，不像英文，aunt, uncle，cousin在我们这儿需要分成几十个很清楚的称谓。

[@徐智源-v5i]

很有趣的影片👍

[@jigigi4289]

生者为过客，死者为归人，天地一逆旅，同悲万古尘！

[@pingdu8674]

brother your video very funny, ......................

[@Guren74]

for most of the people who hate the place but keep living in China the reason, per my experience, is simply job and salary.

[@phangliuca2362]

Cool bro 👍

[@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050]

That lady is obsessed with eggplants. Lol

[@LuyaoMeng]

some questions are reaaaally deep

[@hyuuga9]

之前在和之夢只是說說可以找高祐思，沒想到真的找了呢。

[@handingyinan]

is there a part 2?

[@rabbitazteca23]

this was very fun to watch?

[@qiangwu4917]

哈哈，竹内亮介绍怎么分辨中国人还是日本人的视频有没？

[@srj607able]

The title should have been , Do rich and wealthy foreigners still have questions in China.

[@ziethup1992]

If the local chinese treat all the foreigners the same way as they treat other locals, the foreigners impression on China/Chinese will be completely different...

[@HaidaokuNellG]

geographical discrimination is a social problem that happens everywhere in the world, especially in big countries, not just in China.

[@rogerccconly]

哈哈哈哈哈怎么还有亮叔😂

[@sataniseddie]

Chinese cooking of meat or fish with bones because they can be more tasty. Westerners eat fish without bones because they do not know the tricks of eating fish or maybe they are use to having someone to debone them since young. Do they eat sadines without bones?

[@punkzhang]

That Leica man knows everything！

[@cheese-df1yx]

last one is 亮！

[@birdyashiro1226]

bruh hahahahaahheheheehehe lmaooooooooooooooooo

[@熊辉辉-d6j]

哈哈哈🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣好有意思

[@ahkoy973]

Bones in soup provides high level of calcium

[@roverapple]

女主持人說話的聲音好好聽

[@TechBobaTea]

男足扎心了....哈哈哈哈哈 🙃

[@wwaypenll1868]

又看到星悦了哈哈哈哈

[@taiwaing5410]

👍👍👍

[@iraliuchang]

意大利和法国两个哥们代表了很多外国人的疑惑，尤其是为什么有那么多鱼刺和骨头之类的。

[@Jh-yj9zr]

当外国人学会用筷子时他们就不会嫌弃鱼有骨头了，因为他们用刀叉无法挑除那些细小的骨头

[@weiigel2721]

@@Jh-yj9zr 我最喜欢來筷子吃沙拉，和魚。

[@joeawk]

Not foreign grandma. It is maternal grandma, not a direct ancestral line.

[@zhengluo1463]

if you talk about football,let`s end this conversation

[@irfanadam2163]

China worst

[@stevenkyle9426]

interesting

[@amyhuang8644]

Foreign is call different ... Country Human . Grandma have 2 each is father 's mother and mother 's mother . In China father's mother is call Grandma but Mother's Mother has another name for 区分 different Mother . And China has a man Rights of Culture Country that Father is main of family . So Mother's Mother has another name but it is not call Foreign ! 此外不是彼外。So if father is main = first , mother is second . So 外婆 is Second Grandma .

[@chuckbotowskybotowsky6731]

football team?do we actually have one ?

[@kkjj-p8e]

朋友来了有好酒~~

[@petermanuel5043]

❤️

[@穆川-z3p]

片尾竹内亮叔叔乱入~

[@kwongkwong8520]

最好問題出現啦！連外國朋友都不明白投資這麼多資源中國男足比以前還更差，

[@mingzhu7049]

That drunk Aussie dudu...Wtf

[@NightcorEDM]

Fish bones in soup is very very dangerous man......

[@YoonJintae98]

🥰🥰🥰

[@expatxile]

As an expat myself let me predict this, most of that people at some point will return to their home country. Why? This is my answer based in my experience: when you go to live abroad, you can go either as a turist or as an immigrant. Turists never really mentally leave their country of origin, they learn the basic customs but they don't integrate, that's why they are puzzled about different customs. Tourists can live in a country for years, even decades, but they always be turists. If you seriously go to a country be an immigrant and integrate, don't be a turist.

[@springsealee]

☕️👍🌹

[@xuechunwang7784]

这个夹子音是怎么回事。。

[@xiaoyany]

😂😂😂😍😍😍🌷🌷🌷👌👌👌👍👍👍

[@ekNYC]

4:13 踩我们痛脚是吧？找个意大利人问问他们对2022世界杯的看法！