- 10 craziest things you can buy in China.
Now, we know that in China
you can buy all sorts of crazy things,
but how crazy can they be?
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The very first one, live crabs from vending machines.
Now, we love crab.
Not the other video that we did, actual--
- [Woman] Potato the crab.
- [Dan] Yeah, not that crab, this kind of crab.
Vending machines, actually, I think that's pretty creative.
- [Woman] How could they keep it fresh?
- [Dan] It's frozen.
- [Woman] Well, it's actually a fridge
so the temperature is kept inside.
- Kind of like Coca-Cola. - Kind of chill.
- But they're alive, so they keep them
at a temperature where it keeps them just alive,
just enough to stay alive.
- [Dan] Also, there's a period of time
in Hong Kong, in China.
(speaking foreign language)
There's certain types of crab.
I don't know what's in England.
- Fall season. - Fall season, right?
- From a certain lake, a certain area in China.
Very, very famous, right?
They have a lot of those miso, the crab miso.
Very well known.
- Crab ring (laughing).
- Yeah, crab ring which is beautiful.
Tastes really, really good.
One of my favorite.
They sell that, you can see in Hong Kong during that season,
a lot of the stores on the street would sell that.
- [Woman] Very popular, yes, very delicious.
- [Dan] Very delicious, yeah.
It is also a family thing to get together
and eat each crab together.
- [Woman] They sell in all the airports.
- [Dan] All the airport.
- These boxes-- - Even for gifts, yeah.
So vending machine is actually not that weird to me.
Number two, panda tea.
Panda tea.
- Panda tea? - Panda tea.
You heard of the cat poop coffee,
which is the most expensive coffee in the world.
This is like panda poop tea.
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- [Woman] And this is how expensive it is.
- [Dan] This is how expensive it is, listen to this.
- [Woman] One dry kilo of the tea runs you about $77,000 US.
- [Dan] $77,000 US, one kilo.
That is even more expensive.
The cat poop coffee thing is $3,000.
- For a small cup. - For a small cup.
Think about it, one sip, $1,000.
Just $1,000, $2,000, just like that.
Why is it so expensive?
Obviously, panda is very precious.
I believe you're not gonna get this from certain store.
You probably get it from certain destination area.
- [Woman] I think there's a special panda garden.
- [Dan] What is it, kind of like a gift shop,
after merchandise, after the tour maybe?
Can you imagine, after you see the panda,
"Hey, you want to buy some panda poop tea?
"$77,000."
Hey, I'm just looking for keychain (laughing).
Why buy $77,000 tea, right?
That's kind of a little strange.
- [Woman] I don't know if you guys have ever seen,
there's a live panda TV and you can see
live stream inside the garden of panda.
They actually poop a lot.
- Because they eat all the time.
- But this big a pile.
- Yeah, they gotta clean it. - Couldn't be that expensive.
- They turn the trash into $77,000 per kilo.
- It's so exclusive because pandas only live in China.
- Also, they have some special
government connection to do this.
Interesting.
Number three.
Food prepared, cooked, and served by robots.
That's interesting.
They're talking about these robots are being
mass produced for the equivalent of $2,000 US dollars.
Over 3,000 of them have been sold.
This, I could actually see.
I think not just in China.
I think now more artificial intelligence over the world,
which is a little bit scary, listening to Elon Musk.
More, a darker view of this.
Sooner or later, I think within X amount of years,
you go to the fast food store, you're not talking to human.
You're talking to robot, right?
Then you have your wallet, which is part of your iPhone
and then you get the food.
I can see that already happening.
Another one, canned air.
We talked about this.
- Yes we did, in another episode.
If you haven't seen it make sure to check it out.
- You can see the other episode.
- Yes, definitely I think it's still a hot commodity there.
I know China has been putting in efforts,
they've announced a lot of things that
they're doing to clean up the air.
- [Dan] They're very serious about this.
- They are very serious, but at the same time,
it's still so polluted at the moment
that people are still continuously buying clean air.
It's almost like doing drugs.
Let me take a sniff of this can
but not too much because this can of air is expensive.
They get doses of clean air.
- I bet those even air filter kind of machines--
- Purifier? - Purifier.
- [Woman] Oh, they're selling crazy.
- [Dan] Like mask, they must sell very, very well.
Whoever's selling that is making a fortune.
I could see that.
Traffic jam stand-ins.
What does that mean?
- You know in China, in another episode we talked about
people say traffic jams in LA are crazy,
but you go to China, traffic jams can last for weeks.
- [Dan] Yeah, days and weeks.
- [Woman] Literally weeks.
Obviously, you don't want to be stuck in a car
so you hire someone to come and find your car
and sit in your car for you
while you go and get a meal, use the washroom.
- [Dan] That is awesome.
- It's not so different from people,
they pay you $20 to stand in line.
- Yeah, you know, people lining up for Apple.
I could see that, pay the guy.
I could actually see this.
- If you know you're gonna be stuck at weeks at a time,
it makes sense.
- That's kind of funny.
- Why you wanna do it in the first place
if you know you're gonna be stuck.
- You gotta go someplace.
- During the period of time, it's already happening.
- You know they probably can't take
your car anywhere because it's stuck.
- I guess in China the human labor is really cheap.
- Yeah, you spend a bit of money, they will do that.
Number five, dwarf tours.
I think I've seen this before.
It's kind of like, even if it's a miniature,
then they have this dwarf tours.
Not different than Lord of the Ring, The Hobbit.
- [Woman] The Hobbit.
- [Dan] Yeah, it's kind of similar to that.
It's kind of like the culture.
I can see that.
That is actually not that strange to me.
This is number six.
Obama fried chicken, now this is neat.
This is totally racist.
- [Woman] Obama, check this out.
- [Dan] From the old white man, it becomes Obama.
- OFC. - OFC.
- [Dan] It goes to show you the whole,
the copyright infringement and all of that from before.
Now it's better, but before it doesn't mean shit.
It doesn't mean anything in China.
Now they are being more conscious
about the copyright infringement.
They can actually trademark and everything else.
That is one good photo.
That is so awesome and look at the smile.
- [Woman] Exactly same smile (laughing).
- Exactly the same smile, right?
OFC.
You know, if I go to China, I would only try this.
I just want to see what's the difference.
Get some OFC.
Number seven, live turtle keyrings.
I've seen this.
I actually think this is a little bit cruel
because the turtle will die.
They won't last.
They fill the bag with bubbles
and nutrition and feed the culture.
- [Woman] Only lasts for a certain time.
- Certain time. - Three to four months.
- They're trapped in there. - They're trapped in there.
- [Dan] Ideally if you actually buy it
and you bring it home, they'll bring it home
and you actually feed it, but if you actually
just put a key chain, I think this is cruel.
This is one of the things I do not like.
Sometimes China, they just make money.
They don't treat the animals very, very nicely.
That's just wrong.
Number nine, white people.
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This is actually no exaggeration,
I'll share a story with you.
The Chinese, they like to show off,
because they view that the Western businesses
and businesspeople, the "white guys,"
they like the, it gives them the prestige.
So if-- - International--
- International, I'm doing some business,
I've got some business upon oversea,
Really, like, you can talk about the guy that we know,
she can share that story.
- Well yeah, basically, I know a really big business owner
in China, and that he hire a Caucasian guy, in Canada,
and then asked him-- - Paying salary, everything.
- And then asked him to be the president--
- And the guy's very incompetent, just so you know.
- (laughs) We're not giving names, but yeah.
And then, basically, hired this guy for years,
but then basically just want him
to bring him back to China once a year,
to show him off to all his business friends in China.
That's, I think that's his only purpose.
- Yeah, yeah, so the guy's not actually,
he's doing some work, but really it's to show off
and bring him in, and he would take him everywhere
to meet with all these Chinese government officials,
"Oh, look at my partner from North America,"
blah, blah, blah, blah.
So that's actually important, because the way he sees it,
I kinda hire this guy, it makes me look good,
gives me prestige and status, but at the same time
he also impressed the other potential partners,
"Oh, you're international,
"you do business with people, American, that's awesome,
"maybe I should do business with you."
So you know what they're thinking.
But you can actually rent, like this,
that's what we mean.
You buy that status, not actually for the work,
it's just for that, right?
That actually happens. - Like marketing.
- It's part of marketing, branding.
Number 10, last one,
tea picked by the mouth of a virgin.
- What? - Tea picked
by the mouth of a virgin.
This is, reminds me of the marketing gimmick
where the Cuban cigar kind of like,
they roll the cigar on the thigh of a virgin,
it's kind of similar idea.
- Oh, that's just really--
- What's very interesting, in the job,
the job hiring ad for this,
they want the girl to be a virgin,
only also C-cup and up.
So they put, you can see the picture,
to put the little basket between her breasts--
- Oh. - So you grab it
with the mouth, right, you get it with the mouth,
put it here. - That's like, so low-class.
- Very labor-intensive.
- Yeah, labor-intensive. (laughter)
- But, you know--
- So they make it very sexual,
there, that's a selling point.
- That's so uncomfortable,
for women to see this. - Right?
I think they would sell more if they actually filmed that.
Like, this is the back of tea leaves--
- They must work that. - You gotta show, right?
- By this lady, by this girl--
- (laughs) No, it could be, that's the infomercial
but the reality, they have like, 65-year-old,
like grandma, (laughter)
fucking licking up the leaves
and putting-- - It's an old man--
- Fuck, it's a guy. (laughs) - Yeah.
- That's what would happen, I'm--
- "Why is my tea not working?"
- Grandpa. - "How come--
No, "how come my tea tastes funny?"
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A lot of crazy things you can buy in China,
a lot of weird things you can buy in China.
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