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i can't believe
i feel so at home in bangkok thailand
tim hortons there it is
well you guys i'm here for another video
with alex
from fortify media make sure you check
out his channel
and i was completely shocked i think it
was the first day that we were zipping
around bangkok
that i thought i saw a tim hortons cup
but i thought it couldn't be
it couldn't be why would tim hortons be
in bangkok well you know the amazing
thing about this tim hortons is it's a
brand new location and this is a new
kind of mall and you can see there's
nobody here so there's going to be no
lineups for us yeah
and uh apparently this is one of their
flagship stores from thailand so
the chain is growing here a lot no i
that's not a sponsor
but if tim hortons wants to sponsor me
go right ahead yeah
two canadians that will gladly take a
sponsorship here in thailand
okay well the question really is going
to be
are the drinks and
the donuts the same as they are in
canada that's the question right let's
find out
yeah first and foremost i actually have
to say that at least
this shop here is way prettier
than any of the shops that we have in
canada like doesn't this look
modern and beautiful i feel like our
average tim hortons looks pretty dumpy
in canada
alex was just saying how there's a
gretzky tumbler
so very canadian right well then they
got their little hockey stick
oh my gosh wow okay i think
i might actually have to buy something
tim horton's bangkok
okay so i was right that it was a maple
bacon donut i swear i have not seen
these actually in canada
did they invent this because that's what
they think that canadians eat
i don't know but everything else looks
really really good i have never seen a
cookies and cream timbits
i have never seen a chocolate truffle
timbits
okay yeah coffee crumble cake timbits
these definitely
we do not have in canada they missed an
opportunity for a very good pun here
it should be donut sit here
but check this out guys they have an
actual menu
as well how classy
does this look this is like
trying to be starbucks-esque here tim
hortons is stepping it up
okay what they have cold brew
yeah did you see that at the start no
why don't we have this this is not fair
to all canadians this is a disgrace
alex's uh food just came and you got the
strawberry
shortcake creamy chill yeah that looks
super good
it took about four minutes only yeah and
here you even get like a little puck
buzzer
for when your food is ready which is
great so i decided
to get the iced americano
because i don't think we actually have
that in canada so i know what the
americano
tastes like but ice i don't know and
then i got my favorite
wrap which is the farmer's wrap
that we'll see if it tastes exactly the
same as the one in canada
all right so the moment of truth
let's begin with the coffee the iced
americano
yep it tastes exactly like the
americano pot taste so
very good very good coffee oh it looks a
little different i don't know if you
guys have had the
farmer's wrap before but basically it's
like an egg patty
uh sausage cheese a chipotle sort of
dressing and a hash brown so it's kind
of got like everything all in one
so let's see how it tastes
it's very good very good
and yeah the sausage somehow is exactly
the same
i don't know how chains do this you know
that like
they somehow i don't know put something
in
regular everyday ingredients that makes
it taste the same in all of their
locations
well that was a very successful run here
to tim hortons it was very good thank
you alex for bringing me here
but you guys have seen alex in my prior
videos
and i assume most of you probably
understood that he's also canadian but
alex can you actually tell us
where in canada you are from originally
saskatchewan okay
all right another sassy and so do you
you still have family there so you go
back like quite a bit or
uh i used to be go back uh in the last
few years
i was trying every year but now with the
current local situation
uh it's been a few years since i've been
back there but yeah right to
saskatchewan my mother is in alberta
uh and my sisters are located in
saskatchewan as well nice
nice when did you actually leave canada
because you've been abroad for quite a
while
yeah you know it's getting to the point
where i would have lived out of canada
more than i lived in canada now yeah
about a year in that
late 1996 is when i left canada yeah i
moved to europe
and so what would you say has been kind
of your favorite part of not being in
canada
and what do you miss the most i mean
you're always going to have your country
uh part of you yeah no matter where you
go your
love for certain types of things yeah of
course
yeah you'll have those and if you can
find those in other countries
those little what do they call it comfy
critter
companies yeah yeah like comforts of
home just things that you're used to
so if you could find those uh in any
country that you travel it
kind of makes you feel a little bit more
comfortable it's kind of like
i look at tim hortons as the canadian
embassy
of canada one thing i don't miss about
canada is the
is the climate yeah that's for sure
climate can be
very uh hard on you if you're uh you
know
you're getting a bit older and stuff
like that and that's where i
really felt uh what drew me to europe
being
near the mediterranean the the the
temperatures outside it just reminded me
of you know beautiful nights on the
beach in
vancouver or you know as we do at
canadians we go to these little
lakes like capella valley and yeah
buffalo pound and stuff like that yeah
camping camping i just camping
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so this is as canadian as it gets look
at the mini zamboni
under a starry starry sky
amazing all right i am skating in
shorts for the first time in my life
skating in thailand do you think we get
a suntan
it'd be great if this was outside
no i think you know it's it's like
riding a bike right it's like at first
if you haven't done something for a
while
and you're in a shop kind of weird sure
and i haven't gone like in guy's
skates before so i'm a little shaky but
it's all right oh you're doing really
well
i haven't fallen down
so i think we're finally getting used to
it about five minutes in
the canadian is coming back absolutely
canadian mode activated
well i can definitely say that i did not
expect to have tim hortons
go ice skating and what we're going to
do
after we're done here is even more
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canadian
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well i'll be damned
there is a poutine shop
in bangkok
i cannot believe this great job alex
i'm astonished yeah i found this place
oh my god
wow wow and they're one of the only
restaurants open
yeah wow
that is so great the moose
the symbol the true symbol of canada
oh yeah yeah why unless why
all right so we got a proper menu here
let's see what kind of poutines we got
pulled pork
pulled burger chicken shawarma
interesting
the classic vegetarian thai
schnitzel italian the mexican yeah
oh my goodness thank you very much
please thank you can you have fun
mom yes please thank you
this place is great a little bit of a
philippines here
yeah san mig light alina has just
ordered the traditional poutine right
yeah well i felt i had to get the
traditional one because
some people would say you can't like
bastardize
poutine and put crazy stuff on it so i
want to see just what their plane
classic is and the lady said that this
place has been here for 10 years
yeah and it's her friend's place but yes
it feels very canadian
everything yeah you got the french
canadian writing here
on the wall and we came in we don't have
music because uh
we asked them to stop because copyright
yeah yeah it was very cool french music
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oh my goodness we well alex wanted to
get a
hot dog and some fries but here is the
masterpiece
the poutine with real cheese curds and
gravy we got the classic
i am so excited to give this a try let's
dig in yeah
the moment of truth alex you got to try
the actual routine here i'm here
well it's very good very good
if you guys want a little taste of
canada you gotta come here
oh thanks
well friends i don't think we could get
more canadian than what we did today
and there's nobody here yeah like look
at the streets
nobody it was fun
and i'm just in shock that tim hortons
is here and is even better than in
canada and you were able to find a
poutine shot
and we went skating yeah just amazing
well thank you so much alex
for showing me around i'm gonna have
alex's channel linked in the description
i hope you guys enjoyed today's video
let me know your thoughts in the
comments
and as always keep being your own kind
of beautiful bye guys
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