guys let's talk about the Malaysian
culture sharks if you're new here I'm
sky and for the past four months I have
been living in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
before I get started I do want to say
none of this is meant to be offensive it
is just purely my perspective as a
foreigner living in Malaysia so let's
get into it I'm going to start with the
closest thing I can get to food because
if you're not new here you'll know how
much I absolutely love Malaysian food so
number one is these Fork and Spoon so in
Malaysia you guys eat with a fork and
spoon that is crazy to me in the UK
where I'm from we would only ever eat
with a fork and a knife so eating dinner
with a spoon is something which was
pretty shocking to me and something
which I've had to get used to but not
only that you guys have told me that
there is a specific way that you eat
with the fork and the spoon left hand
Fork right hand spoon where I'm from in
the UK the only thing we'll ever use a
spoon for is dishes like soup or
desserts or yogurt those kind of things
we would hardly ever ever eat a dinner
or lunch or breakfast with a spoon but
this is really really shocking to me all
the other Asian countries I've been to
have been Chopsticks but Malaysia is
fork and a spoon alternatively to the
fork and the spoon Malaysians love to
eat with
now I've tried this once before and
whilst I was doing it I did kind of
actually enjoy it though it is still
very very strange to me this wasn't
planned but I do want to say also the
food in Malaysia is so
stupid ass so spicy like everything is
super spicy you ask for something not
spicy and it'll be spicy anyway
Malaysians absolutely love their spice I
mean if you watched my Magi padassa Gila
video you would see how spicy that was
for me but yeah food in Malaysia is
super spicy and if you haven't watched
that video go watch
number two I actually think is quite
funny and that is the
off Uncle sis the whole family thing
which goes on here in Malaysia so I was
on Tick Tock and I was live and I kept
getting a lot of people saying hey sis
how are you sis what you're doing today
sis and I was like why did you keep
calling me a sis and then I realized
that in Malaysia anyone that is like a
woman a girl that somebody knows or
maybe it's if they don't know them I'm
not sure let me know in the comments but
all I know is that people keep calling
me sis I'm not there sis but I actually
think it's quite cute I actually kind of
like the whole SIS thing though it was
kind of shocking I was like what's going
on along with sis there's also aunt and
uncle so I think on is for like older
women so people would call somebody they
know well maybe don't know that's older
than them Aunt auntie and then for the
man it would be uncle so this is pretty
funny being from the UK we only ever
refer to people in our family as our
Auntie is our Auntie Aunt uncle with
Uncle and sister's sister the next one
is security guards and uniformed
security guards something which I've
noticed particularly in Kuala Lumpur is
that security are everywhere and also
armed security so often you'll find in
the super big malls the popular malls
there's always security guards at the
doors the entrance and the exit but not
only that when you go past the really
really expensive shops and you will
often find armed security guards as well
I was super super shocked by this when I
came to Malaysia you will also see
security guards at pretty much every
apartment and hotel in Kuala Lumpur this
is quite shocking but also I think it's
really really a good thing and it's kind
of makes you feel really safe and secure
in the city the next one is Jay walk-in
okay so I've been to other Asian
countries such as Vietnam and Thailand
where traffic is just crazy there's not
much structure to it but it just kind of
works but the difference in Malaysia is
something called the power of the hand
now those of you who don't know what the
power of the hands is in many Malaysian
streets there aren't many traffic lights
so for a British person that's crazy we
would always cross the street at traffic
lights unless you're a bit of a crazy
person and would just run across the
road but here in Malaysia when there's
busy traffic but you want to cross the
road with no traffic lights you just go
like this
and you wake your way across the street
but it works like the cars actually stop
for you and it's really really
surprising I'm not gonna lie I'm still
terrified to do it so I think this is
something that I needed to tell you
about because I think it's kind of funny
but also kind of shocking the next one
isn't too much of a culture shark I mean
it was a shark but it's also really cute
and really endearing and that is how
Malaysian people reply to thank you I
said this to Charlie and ever since I
said it he now notices it every single
time so let me give you an example when
you go to the Patronus Twin Towers
there's so many men around there that
want to take a photo of you like a
little business they take a photo and
it's a really good one as well and you
pay them for it you'll often get asked
so many times when you walk around there
and you're like no thank you and then
they'll be like welcome so that's just
one example but in the UK If somebody
asked you if you wanted something and
you said no thanks they'd just be like
hmm but in Malaysia they say you're
welcome it kind of doesn't make sense
but it kind of does make sense you would
more say you're welcome if you were like
doing something for someone if that
makes sense so if somebody asked you for
you wanted to have a sprayer perfume he
said yes please and then you say thank
you and then they'd be like you're
welcome because they did something for
you but in Malaysia they'll say you're
welcome even if they don't do anything
for you so yeah that's really really
cute but also it
it was a little bit shocking when I
first heard it and then started to hear
it everywhere but it's super sweet and
it's really really yeah it's just sweet
okay next let's talk about air
conditioning all over Malaysia you'll
find aircon and thank you so much for
that because you really really need it
especially when it's like 30 degrees
outside however it's not just any old
ordinary aircon in Malaysia they love to
whack that up to the highest that it can
possibly go aircon is super cold in
Malaysia so I noticed this particularly
when I go into grabs when I get a grub
car and I'm there in the backlight
please can you turn the air con down
because it's so cold another one is when
you go to the cinema it's on Full
Blossom it's freezing cold and there's
no one to Really Turn it down because
there's no one there so make sure you
take a a little jacket or something with
you if you go to that Cinema but pretty
much everywhere the aircon is so gold I
don't know if I'm the only one that
thinks that let me know in the comments
below is the air con just extra extra
cold in Malaysia okay the last culture
shock and something which happens
probably all over Malaysia but I've
spent most of my time in Kuala Lumpur
and that is Fridays I mean Fridays
happen everywhere but I'm gonna get into
it so on Fridays in Kuala Lumpur you'll
notice that the atmosphere in the city
is kind of it changes a little bit
obviously because Malaysia is a
predominantly Muslim country Fridays are
the day for prayer so I think maybe at
around 12 1 o'clock correct me if I'm
wrong they go to prey and so the shops
will basically just close for example I
went to kampung baru which is a super
local area to eat uh to eat Malaysian
food in Kuala Lumpur and I went on a
Friday and everything was basically
closed like in the middle of the
afternoon because the people go to pray
and so you kind of do feel like the city
becomes a little bit more like chill a
bit more slow because of the Friday
prayer obviously not everywhere closes
because not everyone in a Kuala Lumpur
is Muslim so that is actually another
thing that I wanted to mention and that
was kind of shocking is that Malaysia is
made up of like three different
groups of Malaysians if that makes sense
so we have like the Malay Malaysians the
Chinese Malaysians and the Indian
Malaysia this was something that did
actually surprise me because I'd never
really seen that in every any other
country before but I think it's really
really good and I think it's really
really cool that you have those
different parts of different cultures
kind of in one country because
especially for the food you've got
Chinese food Malay food and Indian food
all combined to make Malaysian food and
it is
said that Aquila absolutely love it
anyway I'm gonna start rambling I hope
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