okay it's mark Wiens here lately I've
been getting a lot of comments and
questions about Who I am how I started
traveling and how I started eating so I
just wanted to share a little bit about
that in this upcoming video okay so I
was born in 1986 in Phoenix Arizona my
mom she's actually Chinese but American
born in Hawaii so I'm actually half
Chinese and that's sort of the reason
why I think I love Asian food so much my
grandfather was actually a Chinese chef
so I definitely have some roots with
food okay so my parents are Christian
missionaries so when I was five years
old we moved to France and believe it or
not that's where I attended my first
year of school unfortunately I don't
speak any more French really anymore but
I wish I did
then after France we moved to Democratic
Republic of Congo and back then it was
known as that year I think we lived
there for about three and a half years
or so and I was home-schooled but it was
in Congo that I did a lot of awesome
things like run around in the jungle
with no shirt on and eat all kinds of
jungle creatures I used to go with a
slingshot and shoot little birds and eat
them and I'd also eat all sorts of other
jungle creatures like flying termites
grubs delicious things like that but
then when war broke out we relocated to
Nairobi Kenya and that's where I
attended school for about eight years
until graduating from high school I went
back to the United States and I attended
Arizona State University for four years
until graduating with a degree in global
studies but throughout university I
worked full-time and also I started a
small little business selling things on
eBay and of course throughout my
university years I continued to eat as
much as I could but after I graduated
from university since I had been working
I had a little bit of savings and so I
decided to head down to South America
I was in South America for about six
months until decided to go to Asia and I
flew into Bangkok and then traveled
around Southeast Asia for about six
months but then I was starting to get
low on money so I decided to
go back to Bangkok and I actually signed
a contract to teach English for one year
and so I did I did teach for a full
years but I'd have to say that English
teaching is not really for me it was
definitely a good experience but
definitely not something I'd like to do
long term so the good thing is that
during that year I was able to take
blogging really seriously I did a lot of
hard work and I knew that I wanted to
create something so that I didn't have
to teach English again so I started
doing freelance work continuing to blog
and do all sorts of online projects it's
also in Thailand where I met my
girlfriend who is Thai and she's
actually now my wife and she's the one
who takes all of my videos so I'm
extremely thankful for her she does an
awesome awesome job and then that
basically brings us to where we are
right now I'm based in Thailand but
still travel around quite frequently
I mostly travel to pursue my stomach
trying to eat all sorts of awesome food
food has been a passion of mine all my
life pretty much I think since the day I
was born so I just love to eat okay
finally I just want to say a big thank
you to you for watching my videos I
couldn't make them if you didn't watch
them so thank you very much and lastly
if you have any other questions for me
just go ahead and leave a comment below
and I'll definitely get back to you also
it would be awesome if you would leave a
comment telling me your name where
you're from
what you like to eat where you want to
travel to I want to hear from you also
and get to know you better so hope you
enjoyed this video thanks again for
watching my videos and lots lots and
lots and lots more food coming soon