00:01
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello, hello.
Hey, guys.
So, yeah, I am so interested in your experience inChina.
So, was things expensive in China?
Um...
Like how... like...
For example, like...
Um...
The hotel, for example.
Was that like...
It wasn't crazy expensive.
Yeah, it wasn't crazy expensive.
Even in Shanghai?
Even in Shanghai, yeah.
It wasn't that expensive.
Like the food?
The food? No, it wasn't that expensive.
Okay.
It was... I would say...
Kind of similar to Japan, I would say.
Okay.
You mean the Chinese food in Japan or...
Like in general?
Like in general.
Like if you go to a Japanese 観光地, they have like a...
You know, maybe like a lunch could be like what?
Nisei or something?
Yeah, it's kind of like that.
Yeah.
Do they have many types of foods?
Like not only Chinese, but like Japanese maybe?
Italian, French?
Um...
I felt...
It felt like it didn't have as much variety asJapan.
Okay.
But they have.
But they did, yeah.
The most I saw was burgers.
I saw a lot of burger shops.
Yeah.
Like a chain?
Yeah, like chain burger shops.
Yeah, and also bakeries.
I saw a lot of bakeries there.
Okay.
Yeah.
Do they have McDonald's and...
They actually do have McDonald's, yes.
Oh, they do?
I actually went to McDonald's.
Oh.
Yeah.
Oh, what's that?
Um...
They had some, you know, different menus.
Okay.
They had some like, yeah, spicy something.
Oh, wow.
But it wasn't like full-on Chinese version.
Okay.
No, like shrimp burgers?
No, it wasn't like...
Yeah, no.
It wasn't like crazy Chinese burger or somethinglike that.
It was, yeah, yeah.
It was kind of American.
Yeah, it was like, yeah.
What I had was, I think it was like a spicychicken...
Spicy fried chicken burger or something like that.
Okay, okay, okay.
It was really good.
It was really good, by the way.
Sounds a bit Chinese flavor, though.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah, it's true.
It's spicy, right?
Sounds nice.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Yeah, maybe I'm like...
Like treating China as a too much, you know, likedifferent world kind of...
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
I thought they don't have, you know, like any ofthe internet services.
Right.
Like...
So, you mean like Line?
Yeah.
Google Maps?
Like Google, also like YouTubes and like...
Right.
So, depending on what eSIMs you buy, if you buy aneSIM from China,
you can't use any of that.
But if you buy eSIMs that are sold in Japan,
you buy from the Japanese brand or some othercountry,
you can actually use Google Maps and all thatstuff.
03:02
Okay.
Yeah.
They have like informations on Google Maps?
They do, actually.
They do?
Yeah, they do.
Okay.
But the most accurate are the Chinese map app.
Oh, yeah, local ones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I can't imagine that.
Yeah.
I see.
So, in China, like Chinese people,
they don't use those like Google Maps, likeYouTube, Twitter...
No, they don't.
They don't.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
They have their own set of social medias.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I see, I see, I see, I see.
Yeah.
Yeah, like WeChat and those ones.
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Another thing that I felt sort of like thecommunist society
was the amount of surveillance cameras.
Oh, really?
There were surveillance cameras in every corner,dude.
Wow.
Especially in subways.
Every stair, there's like a surveillance cameralooking straight at you.
Okay.
It was everywhere.
Wow.
Yeah.
And every...
So, there's a lot of subways, right?
Like in Japan.
Okay.
Very good subway system.
Okay.
But every time you get in, you have to go througha security check.
There's a policeman standing with a metaldetector.
Wow.
And right next to it, there's like the...
You know how in airports, you have to put your bagin like the scanner?
Wow.
Everyone has to do that.
Wow.
Everyone.
Even if you have like a small little bag, yougotta put it there.
And they look at it.
Wow.
Right.
That's very strict.
Right.
So, very safe.
Yeah.
Very safe.
Yeah.
But that's a good thing.
Like especially like metros, like can bedangerous.
Yeah.
Right.
You know how in New York, there's a lot ofdangerous people in like the subways, even in thestreets?
In Shanghai, I hardly saw anyone that was like,
Let's keep distance from him.
Yeah.
In New York, we saw many of those.
Many.
Many.
Yeah.
No, not in Shanghai.
Yeah.
Like there were policemen in the subway platforms,just like standing, just checking everybody.
No, I mean, that's a good side, no?
Yeah.
In terms of safety, yes.
It's very safe.
Yeah.
In terms of safety, yes.
I see.
That's a good, you know, safer is better, like.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
It may be a bit uncomfortable if you're in ahurry, you have to rush in that metro, you have todo that.
Right.
You have to do it.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Uh.
06:02
China's also big with the tea culture.
Tea culture.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In the coffee, and there's one big tea brandcalled Chaji.
Chaji.
Have you heard of the Chaji?
Chage.
Chage.
Chaji.
Chaji, OK.
That milk tea was so good, dude.
Wow.
So good.
私はこんなに美味しいミルクティーを飲んだことはありませんでした。
中国のティー、赤いティーは?
ジャスミンティー、ジャスミンティーラテ。
わあ、とても美味しい。
わあ、とても美味しい。
とても美味しそうな音がします。
そうですよね。
ジャスミンティーラテ。
そうです。
わあ。
中国にはたくさんの素晴らしいことがありますが、私はまだそれらを見たことがありません。
そうです。
まだ見たことがない。
そうです。
中国はとても大きな国で、歴史や伝統、文化などがたくさんあります。
そうです。
そうです。
そうです。歴史について話すと、それは巨大です。
それはとても巨大です。
そうです。
私は本当に中国に訪ねてほしいと言っています。
そうです。
絶対に値段がかかります。
絶対に値段がかかります。
私はたくさんのことを見ました。
私が意識した他のことは、
都市でたくさんの子供がいました。
都市で。
渋谷や新宿に行くとき、
たくさんの子供がいません。
あなたは子供のようなことを意味しますか?
小さい子供。
5歳くらいの子供。
たくさんの子供がいました。
ほとんどの場所で。
安全だったからね。
そうかもしれない。
夜にもたくさんの子供がいました。
一人ではなくて、まだたくさんの子供がいました。
それは素晴らしいことです。
安全だった。
安全な場所だった。
そうかもしれない。
正直に言うと、私は映画、
歴史的なドラマについて太く偏見を持っています。
そうだね。
例えば、それらのものを。
そうかもしれない。
それは足りるでしょう。
そう。
行けるんだよ。
ああ。
ようやく、
みんなに感謝してくれました。
ありがとう。
さようなら。
