check it out everybody today we are in a place that some people are calling the miami of jakarta
because we are down by the shoreline and there are only two words i can think of to describe
this area and it is mansions and yachts now there are some apartment buildings but i'm sure
a single unit in one of those buildings would still be well
out of our budget as travel vloggers because this is the rich and famous area here in jakarta
and honestly i think it's time where i stopped comparing jakarta to other cities you guys know
we had a taste of brazil in jakarta with the live music and the dancing in the street with
the costumes we definitely felt like we were in tokyo at one point with the glow in the
dark bridge surrounded by tall buildings and of course we spent so much time in street markets
where it really felt like india with the traffic and the sort of beautiful chaos all around you
and so i think it's time we stopped comparing jakarta to other
cities including miami and we realized that jakarta is a beautiful land of its own with
lots to do because we are down here looking at some of these houses and some of these yachts
and it's like wow jakarta has a little bit of everything every continent every country
it all comes together in such a beautiful city now ivana and i are going to lunch now
in this beautiful rich area and later in the video we will make it to hopefully chinatown so
i put the camera on this angle on purpose so you can see the houses behind me uh seriously palaces
but next stop let's go eat some food right here in the miami of jakarta oh right here perfect timing
oriental thai and seafood ivana has their eyes set on this place
even the restaurant looks like a palace oh like a castle okay let's uh make my can
okay bit of a bummer but the local thai restaurant is closed for construction
maybe renovating in order to keep up with the houses right next door
so what we'll do instead is go for a local chinese food restaurant it's like two doors
down not bad at all ivana dinner beside a yacht
nice restaurant i guess they serve seafood
we came to the front and now we're sitting beside a yacht just great thank you perfect
all right a beautiful pit stop for some salted egg squid by the way shout out to salted egg
because i swear the first time i had it i vomited a little bit and now i love it
so more evidence that people can change man speaking of change i was calling the squid sotong
because i was just in malaysia but it turns out squid is now called chumi so shout out to greg
and chumi now one thing i noticed was why don't indonesian apartment buildings have balconies
must be a 25 story building back there in paradise no balcony a little disappointing now the reason
we came to this residential neighborhood here was because you guys the audience asked if we
could show the more posh side of jakarta and so i think we showed the posh side because
some of these houses have like four or five yachts parked out front i'm not sure if he's having
a party or if he just has a different yacht for every day of the week but i would imagine there's
some movie stars and there's some celebrities living here although as far as tourism goes
there's nothing to do here it's not a tourist attraction it's a residential neighborhood that
just happens to be very beautiful especially from the sky some of the drone shots are very
beautiful but as you can see we are just in a residential neighborhood we did our best to walk
around all of it and it's just a bunch of streets and nice houses that's right mansions and streets
and not very exciting for a tourist attraction for tourist attractions right so with that in mind we
are now going to chinatown which should keep the theme of the video going because this particular
chinatown is brand new and also very fancy so from fancy houses to fancy chinatown let's go
can you believe it can you believe it from miami to beijing in less than 30 minutes no
i'm kidding i'm kidding i've really got to stop comparing jakarta to other cities because my
guess is if you lived in jakarta for let's say one year living and working i think you would not be
able to see all the different corners and all the different nooks and crannies and all the different
experiences there are to have in jakarta if you guys have been following along with our journey
we've been three weeks or so so far and every week we go on a new adventure and we
end up in a new spot we'll have to pardon the loud music that is not music added by me we are in a uh
oh maybe some pork rice later doesn't that look so good pork rice but we are in a brand
new chinatown here that i'm just walking through for the first time and i'm just amazed at how
awesome it is looks like everywhere you point the camera is an opportunity for an instagram photo
and i'm sure there are lots of instagram people here as well as food in these really nice
buildings i mean what a nice chinatown so i've lost ivana hopefully she's
still here i guess it's pretty big here and there's lots going on and happy faces all around
but loving these bridges that i guess are over some small ponds and walking through chinatown
can not beat it for me the next stop would be hopefully a cold beer and maybe some pork rice
here's ivana what can you say ivana
it's pretty cute it's something special though yeah it's really nice i like it it's like so
many instagram spots you know it's fun that's what i said that's just what i said because most
chinatowns are are in a beautiful uh a way with a lot of character they're kind of broken right
this one has a lot of character but it's brand new i love the mural over here which is pretty
special and look at this guys ask and you shall receive jumbo beer oh sounds good sounds good
but uh loving the mural over here and so i guess with that we will
find some food and relax this is seriously good artwork there you have it guys like
i said jokingly from miami to beijing in under 30 minutes okay let's uh my chemical
nice
so first things first before we eat ivana and i did not realize how big this chinatown was
yeah and everywhere you go brand new shiny clean and beautiful this is the most fancy chinatown
i've ever been to by far there's not even a close second and if you look way in the distance guys
there's even a pagoda maybe we can go up for a view of the chinatown which is pretty special now
i will say this back there they're selling turtles which are surprisingly big like massive turtles
as well as little geckos for pets so cute i will say this maybe it's because i've come face to face
with the komodo dragon in my life but i don't look at a reptile and think a pet yeah you're right i'm
not convinced reptiles have any compassion at all they're just cool they're just scary
anyway next stop let's jump to the pagoda because ivana and i thought it was all back there in that
little circular place where we walked around and we were ready for dinner but it is going on and on
and on this must be one of the newer uh tourist attractions because i mean it looks brand new so
many food choices too like halal and non-halal both halal and non-halal yes yeah good point
and nice to see it could be side by side yeah it could be a halal restaurant and right next
door they're selling pork and beer that's right so everybody uh co-existing peacefully as we walk
towards the pagoda dude i'm excited this is a pleasant surprise this is my first time here
nice right here last time it did not exist yet so now all right true right
all right let's go next stop pagoda
so many food selection what are you hungry for steve yeah i don't know what to choose here
there's just so many
tahoe look for some important rice to be honest there's indonesian and also chinese food here
oh it's so over there look really good for christmas all right
i think we found what we want here
all right time to make now i will say this it's about six o'clock now and this place is really
starting to fill in when we got here was like 4 30 and it was relatively empty and so my guess
would be once the sun goes down this place will be full and also even more beautiful because we're
noticing the lights are turning on that's true and because of the cool sort of curved chinese roof
as well as the pagoda i'm sure will look really good in the dark now ivana first things first what
does balloon mean balloon balloon not yet not yet yes everywhere i go i keep hearing balloon bloom
oh probably indonesia people say balloon a lot and i'm like what does that mean balloon really
anyway not yet so let's eat we do have food it is it is take out food like in a plastic container
everything here is like in a takeout kind of thing there is no dine in sort of sort of less
than ideal but it is what it is i'm sure it's good and it looks yummy to be honest so i don't mind uh
and nasty complete complete so it's like a char shoe and a rose pork i almost ate rice with a fork
we know what happens if you do that you get a lot of hateful comments
is it good
i got the i guess this is pork satay actually very good food and even a little bag of soup which by
the way if you're a bulay impossible to open this bag of soup without being covered in soup
so i will let yvonne open my soup and put it in my cup because once you open it you're wearing it
see bonus got skill well these we never saw that before in canada we don't have this technology
ivana doesn't spill a drop there you have it guys okay thanks for watching our video
today we had a really nice time the miami of jakarta and also the beijing of jakarta
all jakarta guys it's time for me to stop comparing jakarta to other cities it's all jakarta
it's all jakarta that's it jakarta is a mix of different regions all over the world it's a unique
place and honestly jakarta has a lot to offer for tourism because of that reason wow indonesia
everyone goes valleys but jakarta has that's true jakarta has is a good tourist city yes yes i would
recommend okay thanks for watching our vlog can't take the traffic if you can take the traffic oh
my gosh you guys remember the vlog took us two hours to go 15 kilometers had a breakdown that day
but other than that it's a great place other than traffic it's really nice city okay please
thanks for watching our vlog it's time to do my ken mccann and enjoy the beautiful night here in
that is a bunch of cardboard or some other material pieces
interacting with each other it's not video good job