Chongqing - CHINA'S MEGA CITY - YOU haven't heard of! 🇨🇳

Welcome to Chongqing, China's cyberpunk mega city, with Times Square style lights, Panda's and futuristic archteicture this city will blow you away, and it's also home to 32 million people!

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0:00 - intro
0:12 - Crazy Chongqing at NIGHT
2:14 - our 1st EVER Hotpot
5:33 - Times Square lights
7:46 - Our AMAZING Hotel
8:26 - Chongqing is an ILLUSION
10:46 - Futuristic transport
12:51 - First time seeing Panda’s
15:50 - Don’t miss this Viewpoint in Chongqing
18:44 - Chongqing is beautiful

[Antinonsens]

Chongqing is not only a beautiful city.
During World War II, Chongqing was the wartime capital of China, which was attacked by the Japanese Air Force many times. The people fought bravely to resist Japanese aggression.

[台灣香腸配大蒜]

first foreign youtubers/tiktokers who found this mountain-side tea shop over looking Chongqing downtown...👍👍👍👍👍

[BIYINGSHI]

My first comment in Youtube. Just got so touched by this video. I can image how hot the weather there now, and how difficult to walk around and find a specific place in Chongqing, even as a local or chinese from other cities. But you made it! Never complain but accept the city as it is, and respect the culture. Great video! The amazing sunset scene on that day is just for you.

[alexanderschwarm]

This channel has one of the most unique content on YouTube

[spikkiy]

The Dragon Boat Festival or otherwise known as the Duanwu Festival is a day when chinese people will eat sticky rice dumplings (Zongzi) in memory of a minister in the Zhou dynasty (Qu Yuan) who drowned himself in the river, and the local people who admired and loved him dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so fishes would eat them instead of his body.

It's a pretty big festival even in modern times chinese people all over the world will get together on this day specifically to eat zongzi and sometimes they'll even celebrate with dragon boat races.

[larryli]

This bar seems to be a wonderful view-taking point

[Q_QQ_Q]

Stunning. It was old neighborhoods on the way to scenic spot .

[da]

@17:00, We were looking for that cafe. We were at Chongqing in June 2024. Our first time in China. Chongqing is an amazing city indeed. We already have plans to go back in 4 years. We will skip the "hotpot" next time. lol, street food is amazing though, and tastes better, imo.. Especially the street food that comes out at night between 10pm-3am. We stayed at Ufia Jiefangbei Designer Hotel. Which has an excellent skyline view of the city. Even better, late at night there was street food that was set up in front of our hotel. So much to do and see at night in China. The best part is, that you don't have to worry about crime. It just feels very safe overall.

[manalin]

wow what a magical city, and that view of the sunset cafe is to die for Oh MY....Chongqing now is on my bucket list now!!!! Thanks guys!!! Great video 😍😍😍

[Livingforfun-S]

As a Chinese，I didn’t know the amazing bar until I saw your video, haha, thank you for sharing😊

[CommandoMaster]

Hot pot is pretty easy. U dip the meat into the hot soup and its done in 30s or less.

[GeoT]

For your first hot pot experience, it would've been better to go to Haidilao (hot pot chain from China), you order from an ipad with pictures and there's cooking time instructions, and you can change the language to English. Once, you get comfortable with hot pot then go to these kind of places.

[echtdcp]

There are a lot of lights from solar power generation, including street lights, traffic control lights, you will find that many cities in China have already replaced solar lights

[xingyu]

Beginner's guide to cook hotpot, (kind of rule of thumb tips we teach our local children) if the meat looks 'curled up' when it's raw, it is cooked when it turns flat in the broth. If the meat looks flat when it's raw, it is cooked when it starts to curl in the broth. As for veggies, feel free to cook them for any time between 10 secs to 10 mins up to how soft or crunchy you like your veggies.

[kuncao]

Witness the very first hotpot meal for someone, this vlog is priceless!

[cbdhpkz]

Thank you for your videos, showing more and more cities in China, China is so beautiful, safe and friendly.

[wx]

Amazing views. Forget about the Time Square. Even after renovation it is still small. It was not a square at all before that.

[fuujfxc]

哈哈，Follow you from the episode of climbing Huashan. You guys are a very brave and interesting couple. In China, the enthusiasm of the service sector is very common, but sometimes it can be a little stressful. Don't worry, you can use more translation software to communicate and dialogue (for example: can you help us to order some appropriate signature dishes / everyone will order what / please don't order too much, we both can't eat). In addition to XIEXIE, you can also learn the Chinese version of "Hello, can you help me". Every time you meet young people, let them point out or order for you, they are usually happy...

[TuesdayMia]

Omg!!! I found videos about chongqing on yt. I was also in the MAGICAL city 2w ago traveling which got me really shocked... I was living in the hotel nearby the jialing river and i got the sight about the whole city with lights and huge buildings at nights... It was truly amazing! 😊 There's railway transis system which is really well-developed😮 However... It is really hot in summer so that i have to stay in a cafe almost the whole day time😢 and I'm not a spicy food eater so the hotpot is not attracting for me. But in conclusion, i love the city very very much. Like the video and thanks for sharing❤

[shalomnadel]

Im gonna be there tomorrow! You got me excited, thanks bud!