I walked a MARATHON through the WORLD'S BIGGEST wholesale trade market 🇨🇳 逛遍全球最大的批发市场，没想到全是我童年的记忆！

[@kats_journey_east]

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[@kuantanzai]

环保工作者真的三句不离环保😂😂😂

[@fangminmin-y9i]

谢谢你喜欢我家的地毯。欢迎有空再来义乌。

[@xiaozhaozhao1749]

这是雇了维族小助理呀，found yourself an Uyghur assistant

[@hangzeng1491]

哈哈，上周天去的吧。晚上回杭州的高铁下车的车门那儿看到你俩就站我前面，可惜你戴着耳机没听到我喊阳离子。（这可是我第一次偶遇关注的博主🤣）

[@cheungchingtong]

Gina Raimondo: "I'm gonna 1000% tariff that blanket!"

[@kats_journey_east]

Lmao

[@madsam0320]

China made American flags is already banned in US military and Congress passed a bill requiring federal government to buy all American flags only made in USA, with pride. I guess it’s a security risk in case they cannot get any flags if a big war with China is looming.

[@greggpon7466]

😂

[@greggpon7466]

😂

[@electromega3077]

Definitively overcapacity.

[@billinsf88]

Hello Katherine, please believe me I don’t mind you showing your meals🤭 especially the one you enjoy!!

[@kennethkan53]

At 11:19 those little boys playing "picture cards" was my childhood games with friends and is surprise to find these children games still playing with young generations! Just wonderful! Thanks Katherine 😊

[@zxbc1]

Yeah I was about to comment, it's not something they invented it's literally one of the oldest children's games called "拍画“ - it's like a CCG where you collect little picture cards, but the objective is simply you lay them on the floor face down and you use your hand in a cupping motion to slap the ground to create a gush of wind to try to flip the cards. You get to keep what you successfully flip, and take turns and so on. Different cards have different perceived value of rareness and effort is made to flip the most valuable ones. We used to play it back in the late 80s and early 90s, and as far as I knew my parents played it too.

[@guilinsrecumbents350]

现在的小朋友流行玩这种游戏，但他们只收集大人烟盒上的卡片，不象我们以前印刷的人物内容丰富，又可以涨知识。

[@albertotankuong2941]

What a nice video…I love the classic jazz,gipsy jazz ..etc ..you choice in your blog..fine and classy..

[@一门用光的艺术]

视频充满了轻松愉快的氛围，阳离子的特色

[@AndrasBuzas1908]

Best videos on KZbin!

[@quantum9571]

@16:40 The marble or glass balls, childhood memory, we play a version of mini-golf with them, so much fun!

[@jrzhen9064]

thanks for your introduction to this place. eye opener!

[@simonyang-pe3ux]

this is the most beautiful time of the year

[@lawrencecheong29]

This market looks incredible almost surreal.Everything you never imagined existed is there.

[@RespectOthers1]

What an eye candy of a video for our enjoyment. Definitely a place where you can literally buy anything from children’s toys to adult toys! :D

[@kats_journey_east]

there were indeed a hella lot of adult toys but unfortunately had to leave them out of the video so it wouldn't impact my Adsense rating or enrage any ppl who might watch this with their kids LOL

[@jurrasicpig2426]

@@kats_journey_east oh no, would love to explore the adult toys section!

[@thomasantn]

Adult toy😂

[@alessiii58]

@@kats_journey_east可以另外拍一集成人的😂

[@peterlai9018]

@@kats_journey_east You can blur out the thing 😉

[@omegabulldog5001]

Oh boy~I better not take my nephew to the toy section there;- Those bugs and centipedes thingies are his favorite....He'll probably not be going home.

[@stevenkyle9426]

me too, lol

[@linlai701]

好喜欢你说那句：不同的文化，和谐共处。

[@internationaldaily9820]

Wow! It's rare to see Katherine in the city, much less to see her in a 5 km+++ mall. You walked over 40km... in these two days... Oh my... Yiwu is such a fascinating place... Love you guys... Enjoy... 😍🥰😘

[@kats_journey_east]

it's too dang hot to go outside LOL! and my upcoming video was filmed at night 😂😂 anything to avoid the heat

[@dcauninaivonarck5266]

I always hear people talking about YiWu. But I have never thought it is something like this out of the world. Thank you for sharing!!!

[@ww1970sg]

Welcome to my hometown!

[@YangYuPing]

There are many children's toys in toy section,these little toys are interesting and funny. I like this cool section.😎

[@greggpon7466]

You could do your power walking through that mall for weeks every day and not get bored.

[@liamporter1137]

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

[@brianquinn5060]

what a wow factor. China.

[@marcc1830]

Can you imagine someone from the Victorian era here... Somewhere a time portal opens in Yiwu and a child in Victorian clothings steps through with a oil lamp in one hand. He takes a look around and exclaims in rapturous joy, " it does exist... Genie...thank you... I found Santa's workshop!". 😂

[@soponchanseatipon7761]

Hey Katherine , Yiwu is the market that sale everything . It is supposed to be a wholesale market too.

[@brandonso]

Absolutely love that you and Aysajan got toys for yourselves.

[@iamnotfooled]

Oh wow. This is sooooo interesting!! Thanks for showing us

[@ptiz6231]

A few years ago I was shocked reading that you can find probably the most authentic middle east cusines in Yiwu. Not in big international cities, not on western border, not in a muslin autonomous region, but YIWU!

[@kats_journey_east]

it was literally so good that it's worth taking a trip from Hangzhou to Yiwu just for the food LOL

[@WellMax-M]

@@kats_journey_east 你去的是哪个店，贝迪还是苏坦？我前阵子带客户都去吃过，他们说贝迪的更好

[@summmmmmable]

Thanks!

[@kats_journey_east]

thanks for supporting this channel ❤️

[@qiyi8624]

🤣"But" , egg and tomato ,lmao😂you are really an chinese meme expert now!

[@wushantao]

It's such an amazing market, there are even people from Xinjiang who will videotape you, try strange exercise machines for you, and even giggle at you from the bottom of their hearts!

[@wsl-yn8ie]

He is Katherine's boyfriend. I guess.

[@maxyang7919]

@@wsl-yn8ie Be more confident. Remove the "I guess" part.

[@viperwb]

Yiwu is so popular now, lots of young people go there to start online businesses after pandemic.

[@yiuhingwong5897]

陽離子 黄昏好🤗

[@AnguoChen]

你终于来义乌了呀！阳离子！欢迎来到我的家乡！可惜我现在还在美国 😭 如果有机会你再来的话我能请你吃饭吗？带你尝尝义乌本地的美食 😬

[@킴머췬]

哇，你中文讲的这么厉害👍，太不可思议了

[@RichWalter-yn8dz]

她中文一直都挺好的，在中国读硕士到毕业，现在已经待了好几年了

[@hellokitchen]

Been there some 15 years I was totally overwhelmed by its scale and way of merchandise display. Like 500 exact same tiny little stores selling socks in a building.

[@jascforfun7576]

But Kathy, the people want to see what is the BEST Indian and Turkic food you've ever had in China! Better yet, you and your man eating it Lady and the Tramp style!

[@kats_journey_east]

next time 😂😂😂 I hate being filmed eating 😂😂 idk how food vloggers do it

[@micheal_kane]

@@kats_journey_east There‘s an Australian KZbinr named 'Blondie in china', she might help you break down that psychological barrier and liberate yourself. Lol

[@maxyang7919]

@@kats_journey_east You can ask your friend Amy (doge) Basically, feed the camera, take 1 bite and describe, and then don't film yourself eating, instead, move on to the next thing, rinse and repeat.

[@maxyang7919]

1 people here who might have seen it already but on Bilibili from another vlogger. Lao Wang from Iraq (he's literally from Iraq) to be specific. He went to Yiwu and enjoyed the authentic Arabic cuisine.

[@jennyohara4011]

Amazing China!

[@brandonso]

What an incredibly cool place. Thanks for sharing this awseome walkthrough.

[@pandabearoceanpark]

Thank you for showing up the China most of us don't get to see, even online!

[@bhf3089]

谢谢分享

[@cabasadefogo9533]

I would be totally overwhelmed with that place, too many choices, giving me migraine just watching the video LOL

[@Skeleman]

This is like a place from a sci fi videogame. This is the one room with every THING inside it. There are guides for hire that now where specific stores which sell specific things are.

[@marcc1830]

@@Skeleman Dude, you are so right. This is like the secret developer room that is locked away where all the gaming assets are laying there

[@linpin2358]

Omg finally , I was waiting for you to upload

[@wangskim3465]

All coexist in harmony, maybe in the future..

[@gabriellagirardi4741]

Wow! This wholesale trade market would be the right place to spend a whole day watching and buying some of these items! It is so big that it is difficult to manage trying to choose the best thing. I think that both adults and kids enjoy it very much! Great video and thank you for sharing 🍀🪻

[@frankfu-q6r]

whole year you still can not walk through all booth 😅

[@xz7359]

you have no idea about how big it is.

[@雅痞三叔]

有个统计，如果你在每一个店铺停留5分钟，逛完整个义乌小商品市场需要3年

[@龚术]

错！你需要一个月时间😂😂

[@gabriellagirardi4741]

@@xz7359 Wow!

[@lyndonlisk8961]

Yiwu is a hoot. Even things you would not/could not even imagine.

[@YeZhuang-by1cx]

40 kilometers in a market is just wild😂！

[@summmmmmable]

This definitely an eye opening place! Thanks Cat!

[@Jaya_qu-je2xv]

Thank you for the exploration. Mind has literally been opened by the tour. Keep them coming. Can’t wait for the next one.

[@zactianne6331]

It was quite an experience for me too, Katherine! Wow!

[@edwardhu1209]

I went to Yuwu market some 12 years ago. I was eye opening and it is bigger than before.

[@SamYU-e3i]

welcome to Yiwu， I am your fans from Yiwu!😊

[@AudreyHong-e1w]

Thanks for taking us through this warehouse market. I'll always think about it when I look at doohickies made in China!

[@gryblk21]

I’ve heard about this place and thought it sounded like an interesting place to work. You can meet people from everywhere in the world.

[@gloucesterjet1]

Yiwu is truly amazing!

[@In-eg2qq]

Many years ago, I visited this place, at where I realized that the money is better way for communication than language.

[@frankfu-q6r]

calculator is more efficient than language😂

[@KyinVan-wj1el]

😂🇨🇳

[@ExpatNatt]

Very nice! Hope y’all have a lovely weekend ❤❤

[@chenglamchin446]

Dubai's Dragon Mart (Mall) shares the same concept - ALL China made goodies in a 4 km mall.

[@michaelp9061]

I miss going to these pi fa markets. Yiwu is gonna be the biggest one.

[@stevenkyle9426]

omg, that is truly eye-opening

[@MarkMiller304]

12:08 perfect floor mat

[@osuan9]

nice..

[@jerometsowinghuen]

It would take a whole day to explore the entire wholesale trade market.

[@kats_journey_east]

I spent two whole days and still it wasn't enough LOL

[@SunnyWei89]

One report pointed out that if a person stayed in each store for three minutes and the store was open for eight hours a day, it would take a year to visit all the stores. Another report also mentioned that if a person stayed in each store for three minutes for eight hours a day, it would take a year and five months to visit the entire trade city.

[@JC_auto]

need one month

[@xiaoshan-mj9xb]

@@SunnyWei89 USA spy

[@rebecca2950]

❤ You are super energetic

[@PeterSzeto-es6em]

When China does it, it does it bigger and better. Gutted, by the way, that you did film the restaurant that you went. Would have loved to see it. Interesting video as always 👍.

[@kats_journey_east]

I hate being filmed while eating 😂😂 next time 😂 the food was so good its worth taking a trip to Yiwu from Hangzhou just for the restaurants

[@000T00b]

That guy in the Christmas shop who won’t decorate his house with his goods. Understandable. After all, I wouldn’t want to decorate my crib as the office that I work at ! 😅. Also, Katherine why did you not use the picture of the kid literally giving the Finger as your thumbnail ? Lost opportunity. 😅

[@pooi-hoongchan8680]

Katherine is wonderful

[@maniaouri2146]

Love all your videos Katherine, However referring to ''minute 0:08 / 16 :49 its shows cheap copies of Greek/Byzantine Orthodox icons and the ''evil eyes protector'' which is also Greek because it' s compbines with the icons. But Turkish people also have the evil eyes protector without the icons. Thank you for your lovely video.

[@xiaoshan-mj9xb]

USAs p y

[@maniaouri2146]

@@xiaoshan-mj9xb ???

[@despinachristakis1050]

The Orthodox Church does not approve of the Evil Eye.

[@maniaouri2146]

@@despinachristakis1050 S'efharisto Despina Kalimera apo Guangzhou

[@ahkoy973]

Amazing

[@halnicholas3791]

Heard of this place but this is the first good look I’ve had. Amazing!

[@lljia-ni7yn]

been to yiwu once, such a massive market!😊

[@calvinang1]

I see you have recruited a new cameraman. One minute, he is in front of the camera, and next, he is behind. Poor guy 😂 Well at least now you have your nice new angle shots. 👍😅

[@260ants7]

Great video. My factory in Yiwu, we supply suspenders to 20 - 30 clients from USA, i will share this video to them ,they would be very happy to see this video :)

[@longyou8254]

Thx for the update

[@finhas8865]

Dang, I remember playing cards flipping like those kids at 11:18 some 30+ years ago.

[@PFBM86]

This kinda gives me the same vibe as the underground city in Montreal. They actually are pretty similar in size (if google search results can still be trusted), around 4 million square meters

[@charleneji6759]

This is so much fun!!!😁 I wonder how many of the visitors are vendors.

[@jhonlie5460]

🎉🎉😂😂❤❤ is that true 5 km long thatll be every thing you can get their

[@jacobrocks7]

5k long mall? That’s insane.

[@GuoguoZhang-v1v]

Hi Katherine, I heard that Yiwu has the most international food culture. There're more than 100 countries' foods represented there. Could you make a clip on that?

[@peterlai9018]

Katherine, did you see the stove section?

[@22many77]

Okay have you seen George Romero's Dawn of the Dead? Sequel to Night of the Living Dead? Shot in a shopping mall in Pittsburgh? I am having grand visions...

[@kats_journey_east]

Lmao

[@WestBazzi]

Your friend is following you around like a lost puppy.

[@kats_journey_east]

what else is he supposed to do? NOT go in the same direction as me and then we waste a bunch of time finding each other in this 5 km long place? 😂

[@Wonder123-fy2jf]

Katherine, what exactly is it that you bought 11:00?? Some decoration stuff? Can't figure it out from its look so just wondering.

[@kats_journey_east]

it's a sheep 😂 kind of like a coaster to put hot drinks on

[@士雪]

What a wonderful place YiWu is. I was unfortunate that I have never visited there though I have been in HangZhou so many times.

[@davidchen92127]

It is all about supply chain and manufacturing. Pretty amazing! I will be in your neighborhood in early Nov. from SoCal. I will be more than happy to buy you and your partner a lunch or dinner if you show me a good place to eat.我也說中文。

[@RealKevinChan]

Remember those "As Seen on TV" items that were all the rage back when you were a child? Well, they were all made in China too! Guess it's normal progression they decided to put everything into one big mall, so buyers wouldn't have to travel all over China to get the ideal mix of products for their containers 😅

[@xuefulin]

Children's paradise

[@peterg0]

2:03 被動式運動工效不會很高的...Just a gimmick

[@truthbetold001]

Looked up Edmonton mall, read that most of its structure is underground bc of harsh winter & a lot shorter to walk through also caters for humans with waterslider still one of biggest in northern hemisphere, just like most tv commercials , didn't find anything desirable so far in yiwu of shown , for food indian dishes taste better in myanmar than anywhere imo bc of adequate fresh aromatics and superior spices every time I visited, aloo puri, chicken bariyani , favourite dosai, hahaha

[@freefree1219]

Edmonton mall or other huge malls in other countries are for retail. Yiwu malls are for wholesale. The stuff you see on show in each tiny shop front in the mall, are just samples to give you an idea what that merchant can do. Once you're interested, they'll have a big catalog of a lot more variations to place order to ship to you in containers. There are other wholesale malls in yiwu and other cities in China, depending on what range of products you want. The supply chains are insane.

[@blkoay]

I was there in 2004.

[@margaretabendroth8658]

Goodmorning. When I lived in South Korea I went to a similar marketplace. It went for miles. But the buildings were like very old buildings. Three floors up. As you were walking I saw so many things I have bought. Lol

[@yanfang6609]

看见玻璃弹珠，小的时候我只有一个，而小伙伴们也都只有一两个，然后大家一起玩儿😄

[@mslc22]

Toy section, the happiest place in the mall 😁

[@bcjoey9944]

I didn't see an Auntie Anns Pretzel booth.

[@suthamm]

They should have built a hotel inside the complex.

[@nsebast]

I went there once. The amount of stuffs was mind boggling. My brain hurts from the variety of products sold. If you stop by 5 min in every store, I think it would take months to finish.

[@Alan-ed2oh]

Haha, I have that slap watch.

[@hclau218]

There are over 2 million EAN coded items in YIWU!

[@peterlai9018]

That looks like a Cantonese Roast shop?