One and a Half Years Later. 🇺🇦

[@Vbluevital]

How nice, Im pleased to see your subscribers are donating to NAFO.

[@mikedang3613]

Those 2 old Vietnamese dudes were so chill. My family is Vietnamese and I'm so glad you visited that shop and supported the owners. I honestly feel so bad for the Vietnamese people going through the war in Ukraine, simply because I know what our people have been through already. Of course, nobody deserves war, but frankly, it feels like watching my own family navigate a brutal and indiscriminant war (for the second time). Tragedy.

[@Bonney-c6s]

❤

[@Bernard-wv7sr]

There is also vietnamese in Armed forces of Ukraine , cuz for many Vietnamese , Ukraine became a homeland

[@MrsSmitaSinha]

Hey Johnny.. we are coming back to Kyiv soon from India. Hope to meet you. Much much thanks to show the current daily life of Kyiv as our relatives and friends were too worried about our going back. But now I can show them you videos. Thanks a lot. ❤

[@LeonidAndronov]

For information, the babuska with melons at the clothing market buys her produce at a huge vegetable market near the trucks with watermelons. You can have better deals there 😉 I spent my first 23 years of life there and I was attacked just a couple of times, so it's not especially dangerous. I can see that these places have not changed since I left Ukraine 11 years ago.

[@colinmeikle7115]

2:44 Honestly hearing about how companies in the West are still doing business in Russia just under different brand names, really pisses me off! We had an agreement as nations that came together to sanction the hell out of Russia for their acts of aggression and here we have companies not honoring that agreement by selling the products through secondary networks through Turkey and Georgia. A lesson we all seem to keep forgetting myself included is that corporations are not your friends and will sellout your country and it's allies for a few extra billion dollars... then again it's what General Motors and Coca cola did as well in WW2 they can deny it all they want and say they "lost control over their factories in Germany" but there is documentation in both the US and German archives proving that they did aid the Nazis in WW2 and in fact have profited off of forced labor camps in Germany to make a quick buck. At this point if we truly want to help Ukraine we must Boycott the companies that still have shops in Russia especially the one's hiding under a different brand name cause even though it's a different brand or name the money is still going back to the PARENT company and do what we did to Russian billionaires by seizing their wealth and assets as punishment for their treason.

[@yuliiar9067]

We still don't know how russia avoiding sanctions, which helps continue building rockets and weapons. Announcement of EU and US was very loud.

[@artemiogomez606]

​@@yuliiar9067tru 3rd countries bordering Russia their was a documentary a month ago about that the US and EU know how they doing it Kazakhstan for an example was exporting in electronics before the war let's say 2 millions a month for example and after the sanctions they were exporting 5 million and they never were doing that in years of buying electronics and all of a sudden now they are they didn't get Richer over night they got richer ones the sanctions were in place theirs charts of export and import of all the countries anyone can look at those same charts before the war what they were buying and the amount and after the war all those countries bordering Russia started buying more of those sanctions good what the US and EU is hit those countries with secondary sanctions and fined those companies billions in dollars fines for bypassing the sanctions to the Russian helping the Kremlin fuel his war machine.

[@MikeOxlong-]

@@artemiogomez606 Yep, you’re 100% right and it’s beyond disgusting.

[@MikeOxlong-]

You should see just how bad it really is! I’m not kidding, some of these conglomerates are truly vile and evil… Pringles chips (which btw is owned by Kellogg’s, and boy do they have a lot of brands in desperate need of boycotting) have gone so far as to change their labeling on their cans to having a giant Z with the wording “to victory!” written in big, bold lettering… I kid you not, and other brands through the corporate are doing similar marketing as well. Truly disturbing… 🤦‍♂️

[@allwrighty100]

Russia seems to have lucked out! They've still got all the good stuff and don't have the crap like McDonalds. 🤣

[@nicholasjenner2640]

Absolutely great what you do JFD..

[@nozhki-busha]

This Bazaar is when I first encountered Johnny and watched him ever since. I used to be a big fan of Ben, but I stopped watching him after how he treated Roman (NFKZ) when the war started, not nice at all! On the plus side, thanks to Johnny I learned lots of interesting things, found Starsky and Brendan and other channels, and switched from learning Russian to Ukrainian. Slava Ukraini!

[@null7879]

What did Ben do to Roman??

[@jippee1]

can you elaborate on how he treated him and where can I see this?

[@Larvik74]

Super thanks from me 👍 I see you in Kyiv in november or desember after I have delivered drone equipments 😉🇺🇦

[@kool_thing]

Back in the 90s and beginning of 00s when malls were very rare, you could buy stuff only in such markets. I'm still traumatized by trying on clothes in freezing cold and stading on a piece of cardboard so my feet don't freeze lol Edit: Such a sweet lady at the fruit stand

[@JohnnyFD]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm glad I never had to go through that clothes shopping experience!

[@MikeOxlong-]

Lol! 😂 I can see how a little child or even a teenager would feel in that sort of predicament… 🤣 I don’t mean to laugh, but at the same time I can’t help myself - hahaha!! 😝 Surprisingly, even here on the other side of the globe we had quite similar experiences, though they weren’t due to the lack of malls or places to go clothes shopping. In a good number of cities we had (and still do) weekly flea markets (which are typically called farmers markets), and you can buy everything from soup to nuts in these places, always for extremely cheap prices (compared to regular stores). Usually the clothing and higher priced goods were housed inside buildings onsite (filled with vendor stalls), and it was only the foodstuffs outdoors (except for meat products - they were indoors too). However, there were a number of sellers who either couldn’t afford an indoor station or booked a spot too late (of the available stalls that weren’t already rented seasonally) so you ended up with the same situation. Thankfully the times I remember going there as a child and trying stuff on (in the winter) usually was limited to a new coat or other outdoor apparel… Still chilly, but certainly nothing like trying on a t-shirt or underwear!! 😂😂😂 You’ll get over it someday, right?!? 🤭

[@natalliya2703]

I've hardly ever felt threatened in Kyiv. As a young girl I used to go out later after work and even coming back after dark by myself I never felt endangered. Now I'm in Europe (Budapest) and even in the middle of the day this place freaks me out sometimes. The worst part is not all the homeless/drunk/mental people, but the fact that in case someone acts aggressive, the people around don't do ANYTHING. I've witnessed a couple of ugly scenes, and there were multiple folks standing around, able to stop it, but did jack shit.

[@Gt-ko7km]

i miss the movies of you and Bald !

[@stevesane800]

@JohnnyFD sorry I’m late, just catching up on your older videos. That market reminds me of one in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I got to try camels milk & horse meat. Wild experience. At least you speak Ukrainian! I knew a very little bit of Russian enough to get by. The younger generation spoke great english & the older generation spoke a mixture of Kazakh & Russian. Great seeing your adventures!👌

[@nicholasjenner2640]

I am English along with Bald and I don't slurp anything. I like to eat quietly!

[@alexandraokhrimchuck620]

OMG, i live near this market, visited it 5-6 years ago) and of couse I couldn't even guess that I can try Vietnamese cuisine there)

[@JohnnyFD]

Try it! I hope you like it!

[@trianapark1787]

Wow, I didn't know that in Kyiv so many Vietnamese people 😯

[@sergeorl]

There are even more Vietnamese in Odessa.

[@thedude6688]

Johnny is always starving😂😂

[@sonicmoj1]

He seems to getting bigger as well.

[@sonicmoj1]

@@kenbaustin4533 100%. If you told me this is a supposed perk of being a digital nomad then a big no for me. lol

[@thevibeinc]

Can someone PLEASE tell me why even his friend isn't correcting him when he says vietMANese 1 million times instead of vietnamese. Maybe it's his new Ukrainian accent but he also says Pho so unique. Love the videos tho! Keep them coming!

[@jacovandermerwe84]

Thanks Johnny! Very enjoyable video with great content. Thanks for highlighting that not all stores are suffering like Eldorado. I agree that this "rebranding" of labels and continuation of trade in Russia is unacceptable. I have made a note of each brand highlighted, and will personally not support them again. Slava Ukraini!!!!

[@MikeOxlong-]

Better add Kellogg’s to that list (and the brands they have in their repertoire are pretty big)… Go check out what Pringles has done with their labeling in ruZZia. Should make your head spin!

[@somelikeithot444]

Hello Johnny,glad u r OK.Thank u for taking us to the market😊

[@JohnnyFD]

Any time!

[@joachimsimon286]

Well, i was there in the area a few days ago but not at the market, its to bad i have to go back to Sweden and work but im coming back soon!

[@andy-kai-chan]

Happy to see such a normal situation.

[@claylover9845]

Just had a bowl of Pho today for lunch. Unfortunately, the bowl cost me me $12.00....man, it's so expensive to eat one of my favorite meal! Georgia, USA.

[@modelcitizen9279]

It's true, we don't have slurpable food apart from gravy in the UK and you sip tea not slurp it 🤣

[@ivabiggen6876]

Where can I get a full link to that shootout at 0.49?Also is that scene at 1.03 from a movie?

[@EdgyNumber1]

*Johnny this sounds a bit of an odd thing to think about* but I was talking to an Estonian friend of mine who's in Poland right now and we were talking about the difference between being inside of Ukraine and outside. Being a designer and thinking about colour and aesthetics a lot, she felt like it wasn't so much about being in night and day but rather that being in Poland or Estonia felt like being in full glorious technicolor but felt that crossing over the border, those colours get washed out and feels more grey. I see what she says. One of your older videos showed you and a friend heading off to a Polish shopping centre to get McDonalds, and it felt lively and vibrant like any European city. But watching you cross over the border and travelling for a while, it sort of felt grey, even though your camera depicts a lot of activity going on over there. You get the feeling that, just over the wall life is going to be grim. But I watch this video, and whilst I see people are doing the best that they can - despite the potato head in the Kremlin, the Ukraine's inhabitants seem to still have a warm character to them which helps to repaint the colour back into the picture. Apologies for using this analogy but its great to see you bring all aspects of Ukraine on to the screen for us to see. I will one day visit Ukraine. 🇺🇦 ❤ 🇬🇧

[@JohnnyFD]

Interesting observations, I would agree.

[@michaelgarn5330]

Good show thanks.like to see more shopping like different convenience stores grocery stores if possible

[@justown6653]

Johnny your friend is cool

[@GrandHuevotes]

What happened to your two properties you purchased before the war? Are they ok?

[@samparkerSAM]

Johnny, I was at Wall 🧱 Green S's They have Two Skin Care companies, One is Called Vichy??? The Other Sara V's ; both show typical Blond 👱‍♀️ gals , I was flabbergasted... one has what looks like a Gefreiter ? Either Way Excellent Choice for Eats !!! The Vietnamese Make the Best Po - Boys Bread 🍞 in New Orleans, My favorite Po - Boys are from a Shop Called Adam Street Groceries. We have a Awesome Vietnamese Community in New Orleans Louisiana, Lots of Love ❤️ from New Orleans Louisiana !!!

[@yaguori]

Great video hope to see more of Joe

[@dunkenrunten4593]

Your russian is improving dude, you understood almost everything that lady at the market said to you

[@AxeKopello]

I'm Ukrainian, but I slurp my noodles like an Asian. Always thought it's a half of taste.

[@JohnnyFD]

You're smart! The intake of air (through the slurp ‘n’ suck technique) exposes the noodles and broth to oxygen. This has the effect of bringing out more flavours through the process of aeration. It all sounds very scientific, but people who are supposed to know about these things (chefs, scientists…..food bloggers), tend to agree that the process leads to a fuller, richer, smoother taste. Wine tasters follow a similar practice: allowing air into their glass, mouth and nasal passages in order to get a full spectrum and spread of flavours. Interestingly, the same argument could be made for the benefits of eating with your mouth open (there goes another established Western ‘table manner’).

[@Bonney-c6s]

Thank you, that makes me so happy, I literally want to cry... 🌻🇯🇵💛💙🌻🇺🇦

[@chubbawubba4287]

Good to see you post something. Be safe and be well.

[@Ourjudd]

@jonny only southern British people are like bald. Scottish and northern English don’t care about slurping and stuff. He’s from Brighton and they’re all posh.

[@beorlingo]

Hey Johnny, did you dismiss bald?

[@CymInUA]

You eat everything like that, though 🤣

[@Bonney-c6s]

THANK YOU for mentioning the slurping thing, coz! Also Joe is 100% correct about how my people eat ramen. (Btw, does he have a girlfriend? - just asking for a friend.) If I am not allowed to slup, I would rather not eat it, it's just not the same. Also just loved the multi-cultural-ness of this video. I think there is a lot in common with the culture of embroidery, and meanings in colors and themes used in traditional clothes.

[@StormSongs7]

I’ve been looking for alternative products that don’t sell in the land of the orcs…it ain’t easy but I’m not giving up. Keep safe & hope to see you back on GMK when it resumes in September. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@Sciencedroppa2700]

Not gonna change anything anyway 😂😂

[@markmitchell457]

Johnny, your Ukrainian has gotten much better in the last 18 months.

[@mguzjebesku2591]

His Ukrainian has gotten much better!? Please explain. Do you mean Ukrainian food, Ukrainian T-shirt, habits, dirt, wife...?!

[@allwrighty100]

@@mguzjebesku2591 Without having to think about it too deeply, I thought he meant language.

[@Maaruks]

nice video, I would love to visit the market

[@Bonney-c6s]

Btw, on a serious note, thank you for shining the light on what the likes of Zara, Reebok and Levis are doing. So shameful. You too, you Japanese companies who are still in Russia. You may be feeling smug now, but justice comes for all eventually.

[@bazlur-Vancouver]

I could talk in Russian after 3 months in Zaparozhia and at that time no internet or mobile phone or computer(1974) after 10 months went to University in Petersburg. Johnny in Ukraine for over 3 years and ni-boom boom.

[@MsAnjel84]

😂

[@PenttiParviainen-j1l]

I've been in Kiev even on Soviet Times. There was a good train, Helsinki - Kiew. I was born on 1969 so I managed to visit in CCCP quite a wild ,😉🧐🤖🙈👀👣

[@sherrillwhately7586]

I love that Lviv accent you picked up from Orest Zub!

[@JohnnyFD]

What, nemaye, what Lviv accent? 😂

[@sherrillwhately7586]

@@JohnnyFD Oh, oh…

[@adriennecruz3843]

People working hard to make honest living.

[@cscreen8]

Shame on reebok! Money doesn’t smell they say. But it actually does.

[@modelcitizen9279]

10:37 we have authentic Vietnamese people here 😂

[@sergeorl]

Thanks Johnny for exploring Kyiv city, the place where I live now 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🤝🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💪✌️

[@nurseSean]

I wish that a privateer law would be passed in the USA. We never signed the Paris Declaration of 1856. I would love to seize some of these shipments and sell them to someone else.

[@modelcitizen9279]

18:58 should be thumbnail. No way this was coincidence. 😅

[@JohnnyFD]

Haha it was supposed to be. =)

[@fabrizio_pisani]

Troeshchyna is no more dangerous than other districts. Also I think you used a clip from a music video.

[@tetiana3604]

Johnny says that it WAS dangerous, and that is true. And now, yes, it is just a normal sleeping hood

[@rbir2653]

There is nothing dangerous about Troeishina.

[@andrewshore2898]

I had to look away, and turn the volume down when you ate those noodles 😂

[@StevenKeery]

It seems like a normal market to me, I don't know what the reputation is about. The tougher meat you chewed on could be just a poorer area only being able to afford cheaper cuts of meat. The store rebranding could be copy-cat stores, sourcing the genuine goods through other countries. I dislike slurping too, in the UK it is a sign of poor manners. Cultural differences I suppose.

[@Tetiana-wh7bh]

Johnny, you are very cool American Ukrainian, especially when you say Salo(lard) 👍😎🇺🇲🇺🇦❤️💙💛

[@vitamin.2570]

Джонi красень !!!! 😎 Здорова " пропаганда " одного з найкращого мiста в свiтi 🤙 Киева 😍🤩😘 i Украiни в цiлому 👍💪

[@jojobee42]

Okay, so now I understand why Johnny slurps! It was always a bit annoying, to say the least... but now I understand it's his culture. (Not the American, but the Asian)

[@saintmichiel]

amazing people 🎉

[@senbm4095]

My grandma said,when Japanese invited you for a soup,make sure u slurp to show appreciation, outside Asia is a sign of no table manners😂,make sure where your table is.

[@3-dhistory495]

Yes, he Johnny sometimes leaves out imp. details, this (slurping) survives in Asia bc Asia is very non verbal, it's most imp as a sign to show "thanks." That is why it remains in use.

[@pacifist9805]

​​@@3-dhistory495 I remember hearing that burping in Taiwan or China is a compliment to the host but in Japan it's not good manners.

[@maedero05]

Love to see some of your girlfriends wear such a traditional dress !

[@quantumeseboy]

Troyeschina isn't the worst, not even historically, Lesnoy is hell, at least used to be in 1980s-1990s. I doubt it could change.

[@JohnnyFD]

I went furniture shipping in Lisova (Lisovyi masyv) it's quiet and nice now.

[@quantumeseboy]

@@JohnnyFD It was always deceivingly and eerily quite and deadly :)

[@jerry50bmg65]

It's all about the MONEY

[@NewEnglandwilderness]

Hahaha, in Italy their is a proper way of eating pasta too. Do not use a spoon but people slurp.

[@fightingfinn1503]

The best places are always the hidden ones

[@Terryadfg]

Pathetic with the products changing their names the noodles, like when I go to fireworks, ooh, ahh, lol

[@jerrykorolchuk6114]

Johnny i really love your content i give u like 👍.

[@JohnnyFD]

Thanks for watching!

[@ogenry8746]

Thank you Johnny for support to Ukraine. Idea for your next video is Museum of transport. There you can find many interesting aircrafts.

[@prinzpoldi]

Super cool video, learned so much new stuff culturewise.

[@JohnnyFD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@procurepro]

Not sure about this polish brands - Reserved, cropp, house - apparently they said that it was selled in russia to some chineese companies. Needs to be verified.

[@mirzagoralija4492]

Come to the Bosnia again !!! 😀😀😀

[@living-wellon-less5669]

I asked my wife about Troieshchyna Bazaar and she laughed and said you just have to hold your money tight. The problem is with rival gopnik gangs who fight each other like Crips and Bloods in America but with less guns. Have you made a video about the Park Of Partisan Glory, that's the place my wife is afraid to go.

[@LeonidAndronov]

Yes, there are small groups of gopniks but no real gangs, it's not like organized crime. I've lived there for many and never seen a fight between gopnik gangs. And the Bazaar itself is a very safe place, I've never seen theft there actually. You can only imagine how much cash the shop owners carry every day and most of them don't even have guns.

[@living-wellon-less5669]

@@LeonidAndronov I have noticed my wife tends to exaggerate a little but she lived in Kyiv her whole life so that is the only experience she can relate to! When I was there I had to keep reminding her that I have lived in Detroit and if I can handle that there's nothing in Kyiv that worries me!

[@Nator_Hard]

@@living-wellon-less5669 Nowadays Park of Partisan Glory is renovated and maintained, i haven't seen any of gopnics for about 8 years, it is now a rly safe and chill place for hiking and biking, with several ponds to swim in.

[@living-wellon-less5669]

@@Nator_Hard I still can't talk my wife into going there, she was born and lived in Kyiv until 1 month after the war started!

[@Nator_Hard]

@@living-wellon-less5669 Okay, understandable) U are living in Kyiv now, aren't u?

[@flysky6248]

Them noodles really got me,it was so proper😂.Thanks Johnny,be safe.

[@monsieurmike2072]

Legend

[@gmo4lfe]

Watch out for the SBU!! 😂

[@Bobwa2008]

I’d rather go to the second market then the shiny mall

[@uptone12111]

I dont like the slurp lol

[@geoffsoltes2022]

Your Ukrainian is getting better! Keep going!

[@JohnnyFD]

Thanks! 😃

[@MANSACProductions]

ukraine is great but you have not been recently. shopping with johnny in a mall. johnny in a park. johnny does more lame stuff. does the FD stand for freaking dull?

[@jimmya1646]

12:40 I ate Misu Ramen today and I slurped like a mf... You really have to! :D

[@saintmichiel]

to live near or in your building, which suggestion do you give to expats

[@jaz061459]

Johnny, you still can't say a basic phrase in russian or Ukranian... after spending there more that 2 years.. :(

[@siqck]

Careful out there lol... Escalator could get you :P

[@pacifist9805]

I learned today how to eat soup Asian style. I'm going to try next time. I was in a similiar kind of clothing bazaar in Latvia and I liked the atmosphere so much so I bought a shirt I never used after. Your place looks even more inviting. If there are any Vyshyvankas under 200 euros, one would leave with me.

[@MikeOxlong-]

I’d gladly pay $200 bucks for a homemade Vyshyvanka that’s actually embroidered with beads and the like… 👍 I’m positive it’d be a great business (and earnings) opportunity for so many babushkas in Ukraine too if they only had a site setup for their use, plus locals to assist them in getting their makings to market and help them with shipping! I know that even those who put in their 40+ years of work get an absolute pittance for a pension (certainly not enough to survive on), and to think of how much good it could do them (and Ukraine’s overall economy) if all these granny’s were able to sell a few homemade goods like this each month?!? Especially if those helping them weren’t in it only for the money, and possibly even do it pro-bono (minus expenses)…

[@pacifist9805]

@@MikeOxlong- If I heard right, the one in video costs 1800 dollars, which sounds right price for a real handmade national costume. My budjet is under 200 if there are shirts at that price. Doesn't have to be handmade.

[@JohnnyFD]

The price was 1800uah which is $50. =)

[@pacifist9805]

@@JohnnyFD Omg, I'll buy 3 then. They'll probably have to raise prices after war.

[@johnroy7784]

respect the power slurp!

[@Larvik74]

There you have it boald 🤣😂🤔

[@Widdy72]

Like who buys Reeboks anyway probably everyone's grandpa that's about it 😂😂🤣🤣

[@indefatigable7492]

Please dont show bald on your channel lol he broke my heart. Slava ukraini!

[@shwabb1]

Дякую за відео

[@quantumeseboy]

I hate authentic Vietnamese food, I much prefer Frenched-up version!

[@zuzannatruba]

I appreciate you making videos from Ukraine :) However, I wouldn't recommend them to somebody trying to learn more about the country. Eg, "this is the last remaining place in Ukraine where you can get Asian food by Asian people, because everyone left" - huh? Ukraine is a huge country, and I've only been to Lviv (and countryside) recently, but even I know of several Asian food places where food is made by Asians 😄 Please don't generalise and state something that you don't know. It's better to say eg "other Asian places I went to have now closed" or something, but don't try to present something as facts if you don't know. It would matter less if it wouldn't be the war, but these days random propagandists use whetever disinfo they find and try to turn things around, so please keep to personal impressions rather than fuel the barrage of misinformation coming from all places when people try to learn more about Ukraine.

[@JohnnyFD]

Please make a list of restaurants in Ukraine where there are some Asian people cooking. I'm in Lviv now and still haven't found any.

[@zuzannatruba]

@@JohnnyFD You realise you're asking for a full list of establishments in the biggest country in Europe, right?... In Lviv, start with Americano or Lotus Zaika, but there are more. Enjoy!

[@marielacharite-io5iq]

I had a Vietnamese child who stayed with me for school in America and he would slurp and smack the lips…It drove me crazy!! I couldn’t eat with him.

[@3-dhistory495]

Johnny did not explain all of it either. When you do that w you host, the person providing the food, by slurping , you are saying, "It's delicious, thank you." This is why people do bit in my estimation, you just eat and you say "thanks" at the same time.

[@JohnnyFD]

That's on on Marie.

[@ОксанаГусар-щ4ы]

6:41 it was nice time

[@price848]

Johnny's right , you gotta slurp! And they really do in Japan! It is very proper. Good eats!👍

[@living_peace]

I hope peace between Russia and Ukraine ❤

[@charleshorseman55]

Capitalism will find a way.

[@ReallyFarFarAway]

⛔ - What's going on ? ⛔ You're 'hanging out' in a country at war where approx 350,000 - 400,000 young Ukrainan men have died in the last 1.5 years without comitting fully to help your new countrymen as well as your new country of residence !!! Seriously : 🤔 - Who are you as a human .. ? 🤔

[@jerrykorolchuk6114]

U don't worry about him .

[@paulharrison8379]

It seems strange now that Bald used to talk Russian to all of the Babushkas in this market.

[@drthomason7043]

Thought Sara was a Spanish brand.

[@WhoWhoandZulu]

Like # 62 ...good show Johnny ...Z

[@Deines7]

Your eating habits and making these weird noises, Lithuanian people wouldn't like... 😂 I guess in Ukraine it normal.