Shanghai is NOT What You Expect

I spent a few days in Shanghai, China. What an incredible city with amazing skyline view at the Bund, great atmosphere and I even got a haircut. Come along with me on this journey, where I share my real experience and the truth about China :)
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[@beautifulplanet193]

beautiful country with disciplined and civilised people❤

[@madhavvishnoi]

@adolft_officialproud to be uncivilized, rather than living under an authoritarian regime

[@Anonymous------]

@@madhavvishnoi China is a much more free country than any other country you know. Ask Indians who have lived or are living in China, they tell you China has more freedom than India. You are proud to be uncivilized Indian? The whole world knows this fact already.

[@eaglestar2962]

@@madhavvishnoi if China govt is really authoritarian, why there are a lot of nail houses. Also, according to world bank and un, the govt has successfully raised over 800 million out of poverty.

[@gugordon2363]

In Shanghai, in order to facilitate smooth traffic, many roads are one-way and no riding is allowed. In this video, it is the Bund area. There are 10 vehicle lanes, but bicycles are not allowed to pass. For the beauty of the city and smooth traffic. thanks for your cooperation. The police in Shanghai are very friendly. Peoples can ask for help if they have difficulties.

[@rubenvandewiele]

I agree, friendly people

[@cloudwithwind574]

VSP is a security company, not a police officer! The security personnel in the video mainly manage the order of the Bund scenic area!

[@vitamin5544]

What a blue sky!

[@kakaxifx4913]

Air polution is gone for many years.

[@greentea8852]

BBC will say it's edited. A grey sky will be the right one.

[@irritatedanglosaxon1705]

@greentea8852 LOL

[@pingpong7810]

Hong Kong country 🎉

[@kakaxifx4913]

@@pingpong7810 HK is not a contry

[@katkrist6409]

what a good weather! What a great city! And you are so positive, Ruben.😄

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thank you :)

[@wx365]

Nice video, and haircut as well. It is way better than Time Squre, cleaner, safer, more modern. Time Squre smells.

[@YoYo-cf8bn]

纽约时代广场不仅仅臭，还有人销售大麻

[@Summer-nt8qb]

oh, such a lovely city! Stunningly beautiful.

[@rubenvandewiele]

It is!

[@LW78321]

I enjoy your calm and positive personality, thanks for sharing! Beautiful day to be out exploring China 😊

[@rubenvandewiele]

Appreciate it!

[@foodparadise5792]

5:44 " You can not ride that way. You can put the bike back there."

[@atillateymuroglu5861]

Amazingg contentt

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thank you!

[@boothbuilder]

My god. I live in Shanghai. I haven't realized how awesome it is.

[@Sara-cx5it]

Hi Ruben, very nice video n Welcome to Shanghai.

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thank you :)

[@KC-ls8zn]

Keep up the good work man, very positive, good vibes, easy video to binge through, just came across your channel, i will be watching back all previous episodes. ❤

[@rubenvandewiele]

Appreciate that & welcome!

[@eaglestar2962]

Why seemingly most walkways and parks are sooo freaking clean and flawlessly manicured? The government and the people must spent a lot of efforts and money for those meticulous maintenance to keep most places that clean and orderly.

[@rubenvandewiele]

They do! It’s very well maintained

[@cloudwithwind574]

Every street in China has government hired cleaners! they clean the streets every morning! On the other hand, most people in China now have a good habit of maintaining cleanliness and will not litter the ground!

[@ABritishRefugeeinChina]

We have charging for our EV's in our home car park. Also shopping mall car parks etc all have charging.

[@Seven.Heavenly.Sins.666]

Thank you for making such a great video about Shanghai ❤

[@jogana6909]

A great city

[@oliviahuang8467]

You do even know how to buy items online in China 👏👏👏👏

[@frontline324]

sunny day. good mood for sure

[@rsiow2]

Wow, that is superb weather

[@maremare3073]

enjoying it bro have a great time！

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thank you!

[@holly6789]

Go hiking in Tiger Leaping Gorge, absolutely beautiful scenery

[@rubenvandewiele]

I’ll keep it in mind :)

[@ABritishRefugeeinChina]

Welcome to Shanghai!

[@wanghaley417]

Try the train. From Shanghai to hangzhou. 50mins. First class. A speak experience. You can order any food when you in the train. Guess what? The food will deliver in front of you at the next stop without any additional charge.

[@rubenvandewiele]

That’s cool, I will remember this

[@liamporter1137]

Thanks for sharing.

[@Kevin-u5i]

wow🎉

[@BB-yi6qn]

You are lucky to be in Asia. There are China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the north, and Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia in the south. You can have a lot of fun in Asian countries.

[@internationaldaily9820]

Nice. Nice Nice. Nice haircut, nice massage, nice food, nice service, nice shopping, nice bike, nice people, nice vibes, nice tech, nice city, nice country... nice everything... what more can I say... Enjoy...

[@rubenvandewiele]

Cheers :)

[@rickysun8983]

If have time, it is very recommended to ride on the riverside walk along the Huangpu River in Pudong district, you will experience the charm of this city

[@bunnyyi]

感谢宣传❤

[@DW-op7ly]

Nice haircut

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thanks!

[@justingriffin2546]

Nice info, thanks,..your audio that you edited in is super loud, have to keep adjusting my volume.... Keep up the good work...

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thanks for letting me know

[@syncmaster915n]

Looks like you're a fast pace guy, right at home in Shanghai 🙃

[@RoachSanderson-v3c]

Most interesting video about shanghai ever, keep going 🥇

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thank you! More to come

[@Red_tide_armed_forces]

handsome clever boy~~~~

[@charleneji6759]

Wow, you use Alipay like a local. Seems you've really done some research before arriving in China. 😁 Too many cars these days. Not enough cycle lanes. I think the Netherlands is probably more bike friendly? Somehow I have an impression that you're Dutch.

[@rubenvandewiele]

You guessed it right! The Netherlands is very bike friendly.

[@josephdewuhan]

You have a flat country, even below sea level mostly. You can’t be bike friend in hilly city, say for example Chongqing. But E-bike is ok with battery power to help a bit.

[@anonymintheworld9781]

Thanks for sharing

[@ggh202]

Welkom! Have a nice trip!

[@yangliu519]

very nice video，thanks for sharing！

[@rubenvandewiele]

Cheers!

[@danlin-cn6mn]

nice video.

[@boothbuilder]

Welcome to Shanghai.

[@qiongwu6507]

You get a haircut at the barber shop in the mall! ! That’s so expensive!LOL

[@yudonghui]

If u get haircut at the roadside stand, jut 1 euro😊

[@ericchen4549]

I like the Luckin Roast Coconut Latte🎉.

[@rubenvandewiele]

Good choice

[@chiyiu0815]

Interesting video! I am curious who is the girl eating with you at the restaurant.

[@yudonghui]

new made girl friend😂

[@kofeesala23]

What a beautiful, clean, modern and comfortable place!🍓 The bund is a bike-free area.🦘 The haircut was successful.🕊

[@123man371]

haircut is extremely important to me

[@osuan9]

nice..

[@idofdm7625]

In my opinion, this is good time to travel to China when tings are still very affordable. Once a country is in a later stage of development, it will be very expensive, like Tokyo or Singapore!

[@gugordon2363]

When waiting Taxi or DIDI, have you noticed the solid yellow line on the side of the road? It is better to get on and off on the dotted line.

[@fziyi]

哇！這個外國人在上海玩的真溜啊

[@CNHI1987]

Underground parking lots, residential parking lots, and many places will have charging piles.

[@LW78321]

Man you are living the good life in China! I'm new to your channel. Do you live in China or are you visiting?

[@rubenvandewiele]

Good to have you here, I was visiting!

[@LW78321]

@@rubenvandewiele you seem like you've been living in China for awhile from the way you navigate the streets and livee there 😄

[@rixiang]

city walk

[@whokiss2035]

enjoy it，love from china

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thank you!

[@Whatis2468]

👍👍👍👍

[@CNHI1987]

Shanghai is a beautiful city, where we China people live happily and freely.

[@rubenvandewiele]

Beautiful city indeed

[@dreamdream773]

You are so good at getting around in China using deal vouchers 😊

[@JZ689]

cool

[@medialcanthus9681]

What time of the year is best to visit Shanghai? Like cool n crisp maybe chilly but not too cold .?

[@rubenvandewiele]

Right now I’d say, April

[@medialcanthus9681]

@@rubenvandewiele thank you 😀

[@ChloeChineseClass888]

Oh my gosh!😂

[@cloudwithwind574]

"bike no stop" ,hahaha, it's english with chinese style！ the meaning is is: cycling is prohibited here

[@icantwait]

Hello gorgeous ~ I see handsome ppl, I click the video 😊

[@rubenvandewiele]

Good to have you here

[@junyuguo4250]

nice

[@Albert_Einstein_not]

10:47 … nice… I meant the curry of course

[@treeoflife5142]

What’s the name of place that you mentioned as time square ? (Towards ending ) how many days are enough for shanghai ?

[@rubenvandewiele]

East Nanjing Road

[@chiyiu0815]

Shanghai has developed transportation connected with several cities nearby so it depends whether you want to visit those cities. But for Shanghai only, three/four days with three evening is better.

[@treeoflife5142]

@@chiyiu0815thanks man .

[@treeoflife5142]

@@chiyiu0815 do you have some idea about shanghai planetarium ? I checked couple of site but most of them mentioned it’s closed for renovation.

[@Anonymous------]

No gas station in the middle of downtown in any big city in USA. Easy to find electrical outlet anywhere in a city which EV owners can get permission to use for a short time to charge the car.

[@王向威-b8i]

欢迎，发型不赖

[@rubenvandewiele]

Thank you

[@92wsnqyf]

帅哥

[@hippocreation]

Sure China does not have Human Rights like in the USA, but Chinese have the Freedom of walk late night streets without worry of being robbed or raped.

[@seanxhuo]

is it your second trip?

[@rubenvandewiele]

No filmed this a while ago :)

[@Sunkishy]

🙂

[@wanghaley417]

Also go to Xi an

[@alexxgalaxy]

Your video is pretty fast pace. 😂

[@left_right_men]

As a mainland Chinese, let me say that apart from the relatively limited political freedom of speech, everything else in mainland China is still quite good.welcome to china

[@left_right_men]

but I'm not sure if a multi-party system is necessarily better; after all, it can easily lead to party strife.

[@gtlover2011]

Multi political parties means it could be intervened and sabotaged by outsiders. Which is why developing countries most likely stay developing, unless the majority is so determined to get rid of poverty or desperate for improvement but history told us it never last long. According to size of population and similar background of poverty back then, India and China is relatively a good study case.

[@jenme4796]

Are u a model?

[@msbull100]

Xi aprroves yours 😂

[@8964美籍回族人谈耶稣]

Have fun

[@caifrank7425]

would you like to live inside the Bund , Sir , you looks like some great man in the Movie I guess

[@123man371]

i don't like that haircut just like mine recommended by the hairstylist when I was in china

[@Qiminggu]

等樱花全部盛开时会更漂亮的🎉

[@苌正仁]

bike no stop，哈哈正常应该都能懂

[@cloudwithwind574]

"bike no stop" 中式英语，自行车不能停这里！哈哈哈

[@yudonghui]

简洁明了😅

[@edwardlin2941]

😅

[@12gasl]

It looks too westernized (talking about the architeture, specially the ones that are not skyscrapers in the center of the city)

[@sara.cbc92]

If you want to be famous on KZbin, just do Chinese vlogs 😂

[@rubenvandewiele]

Perhaps I should learn Chinese

[@ZhanhuMa-e4k]

欢迎来到中国❤

[@rubenvandewiele]

谢谢

[@123man371]

that is a stupid dumb haircut just like mine back then I hated it

[@Bruce-5588]

If you being a tourist come here, you definetly would feel like: ahh, people are friendly, city are clean and neat, sort of things. But the western meida about the report of China's negative part, sadly, is also a bunch of facts, in my opinion , we should always combine the pros and cons to judge a city, even a country.

[@TBone-xr3xu]

Facts? LOL, what facts do they say

[@TBone-xr3xu]

Most of western media tells you about China are lies

[@bldomain]

The cons are no longer necessary. There are so many KZbin channels (paid by the US of course- Budget of $300M a year for 5 years in the Strategic Competitive Act approved by Senile Biden in 2020) to bad mouth China day and night. As such, many channels are now showing the good side of China to balance it.

[@youwalk433]

You poor thing

[@阿棗]

[@willpaddack2798]

Lovely propaganda I’m sure the CCP is very proud.

[@AhmedIbrahim-or5dg]

Maybe it's the truth

[@lijenhsin421]

Propaganda

[@pingpong7810]

Hong Kong country 🎉🎉🎉

[@roylai9195]

madness

[@KingKong-uf3xq]

Wow…the view amazing. Where is it?

[@rubenvandewiele]

The Bund, Shanghai

[@dandancheng5226]

I like China ❤

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[@tedwang906]

Why many foreigners like Shanghai?Maybe it’s the most international city in China?

[@rubenvandewiele]

I believe so

[@xucg]

One reason ist that Shanghai has many international airline connections.

[@lucienwang9634]

‘Shanghai is NOT what you expect....’ emmm, as a Chinese, i wonder what is you expect?

[@叶耀祖-f71]

中国是不是很干净？

[@tmcj9018]

China gives me the same feeling as North Korea. Every time I travel, I feel on tenterhooks and the people are closed off to information.

[@杨志成-v2i]

你自己的感觉吧😂

[@youwalk433]

You poor thing.how much do you get for this nonsense