Bike route: 淮海中路939号巴黎春天淮海路 -> 三庆里 -> 人民公园 -> 南京东路地铁站 -> (walk走路) 外滩 -> 金陵东路游船码头(ferry to other side 坐船到对面) -> 其昌栈渡口

@user-tj6ot7tw8g

3 жыл бұрын

I’m not a fan of spicy food, but god I am grateful for spicy girls 🙏

@user-tj6ot7tw8g

3 жыл бұрын

Those "beautiful" "Japanese/Korean looking like young Chinese boys" spend more time than natural girls to do makeup each day.

@travelingal08

3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy all your videos. My daughters are learning and can speak mandarin, can't wait till we can return! And the boba shops are so long here in Southern California here too. I have no idea why people wait so long for it!? Especially hwhen there is boba with loooonnnggg lines.

@yjjoseph

3 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend a whole-length ride along the east bank (东岸) of Huangpu River between the Yangpu Bridge and Xupu Bridge.

@rongluo3902

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the route info. Look forward to riding it.

This statue is kong Yiji, he is the protagonist of Lu Xun’s famous novel. He like to eat fennel broadbean. This is a famous chain restaurant named after Kong Yiji.

@leeben7605

3 жыл бұрын

原来是孔乙己

Manner coffee is a thing now as an "opposite" to big chain coffee brands. it's cheap (10 yuan for small latte if you bring your own cup) and way better than Starbucks. the fact it gives you an option for small size already makes them stand out.

Thank you Sis for this wonderful video. Keep it up always 🙏. Living in China means living in the futuristic country ❤️❤️❤️❤️...

Excellent City review! You're a born natural explorer! Kat, your videos are down to earth and not attracting attention like most foreigners like to purposely do. Cheers to you!

Oh wow loved it !! I live here but I working so much that I forget to explore our city 😅

@kats_journey_east

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you can find a chance to explore, shanghai is so fascinating 😁😁

Thank you for that lovely video tour of SH. While I worked in BJ when I lived in China, I came to SH frequently and stayed in the Peace Hotel on the Bund. I watched the Lujiazui District change ever time I came and just had a wonderful week-ends in SH. One thing never changes though: drivers in SH have far more manners than those in BJ!!

I’ve never ‘bean’ to Shanghai so it was very interesting to see the rarely shown ongoing modernisation process through your whirlwind bike tour. :D

@user-tj6ot7tw8g

3 жыл бұрын

Confucius is dead around 225 years ... BC.

Katherine's cycling skill is brilliant. Thank you for showing us around with your bike tour in Shanghai.

Old streets and old buildings are definitely the soul of Shanghai & is increasingly becoming the focus of the world.

Amazing. I must revisit Shanghai again. One of my favorite cities.

Wow it looks very clean and modern. I remember images of China having trash all over the streets. Thank you Katherine for showing us how it really looks like. And the people look pretty happy not sad and oppressed.

@vincentdesun

3 жыл бұрын

Western media has been selling the "oppressive China" for over 40 years now. Recently it's been hard to sell that idea given how modern China is and travelling videos getting all over the place.

@qzsli7375

3 жыл бұрын

if you want, it is not difficult to take pictures of anywhere in the world having trash all over the street LOL

@citty9191

3 жыл бұрын

@@vincentdesun WEstErn PROpaGanDaH!!!1!!!1!!1111 dangerous

@sjhassjh3941

2 жыл бұрын

china may have been less wealthy in past,but it never had trash all over the street,it's not india

@steventan2550

2 жыл бұрын

Whenever foreigners (journalists, and people on social media, on Quora etc) claimed that the people in China have no freedom, oppressed, cannot practice their own religion, etc) I always recommend them to watch "Katherine's Journey To the East" if they REALLY want to see the real China (Some of them pretend to be ignorant of the real China)

Like your bike tour, no matter in a rural area or a big city!!!

Thanks so much! One of my favorite cities- sooo much fun. Great video.

Thank you. It looks infinitely interesting and beautiful.

i totally love it!! your totally American running commentaries on these scenes and views!!

your short trip really brings back nostalgic memories. used to head towards the bund past peace hotel. enjoyed the old jazzy music there. was a novelty experience back then. many Thanks.

Katherine, thanks for the tour of the old part and the new part of Shanghai. It changed so much since we were there 15 years ago. We visited the Temple Street and enjoyed the 小龍包。We walked on the 南京路步行街 but didn’t spend any time on the Bund. The night scene of Shanghai with all the glittering lights were beautiful. I am Looking forward for your next video. 💪😊

Love the tour, and love your commentaries too!

it's always so relaxing & fun watching your channel. jia you!!

Absolutely loved that. Can't wait until I can see it myself someday (and all the other fascinating places in China of course). 🇨🇦

@AmelieZh

2 жыл бұрын

Nice seeing you here,Denise !

@denisemahe8539

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Amelie! 🙋‍♀️

Your video is always so active and inspiring! Like you so much.

Pretty amazing city. You get the old the new and the newest all in one. The flashing lights on the zebra crossing? I don't know? To guide pedestrians or vehicles? I'm guessing I might easily get lost there though.

@ywentao2784

3 жыл бұрын

flashing light has detection system, it will automatically remind you if you cross the line when light is in red.

Thank you very much for your wonderful video. I really enjoyed it. My grandma was from Shanghai. I have been there many times. Still get lots to explore. All the best!

Supporter from HONG KONG🙋‍♀️

Love your videos, plz keep posting them!

What a nice bike ride adventure! Thank you so much for showing it! I have been eagerly waiting to visit Shanghai and China from San Diego, CA for almost two years now. Hopefully I can make such trip this coming Fall and eat those famous hairy crabs!

Can't wait to live there one day...great video as always ❤️

Bike tour is very unique and totally enjoyable!

Shanghai is jam packed with places to visit.. I go there every year.

Nice biking with you around Shanghai many park, taking ferry to another place luxurous part of the City full watched my dear

Great video! Truly enjoyed.

Certainly, a lot of hustle and bustle. I remember going into the Peace Hotel and sitting in the lounge listening to the house Jazz band. This was in the mid-1980s when people from other countries was very restricted. I came on a summer language program. There was a Friendship Store (official store selling goods only to foreigners) behind the hotel. I got a few silk carpets there. Cheers

@kats_journey_east

2 жыл бұрын

Wish I could have seen it a few decades ago , the transformation China has undergone in recent years is crazy

1:35 that is 文庙，which worships 孔子， and a holly place for students and their parents to pray for good luck. It is just a few blocks from Chenghuangmiao城隍庙，and one block from my daughter’s primary school! I spent 5 years sending her and/or picking her up there. So many memories!

okay Miss Katherine, i must say: U, my dear, r d absolute most funniest (in a wet, sarcastic way) n perspicuous China vlogger out there. Perspectives taken, eg.s on a bike, from d lil critters', etc. r sooo much more interesting than d "hey everyone, look how cool i am since i'm in China (never mind i'm wasting my time and valuable career years which i will later probably regret)" of all d other china vloggers!

...my wife and i truly enjoy your vids...especially the countryside cycling tours...

Great video!! This was so fun to watch!! Beautiful bike tour of Shanghai!!

I love the idea of Shanghai more than how it looks like. Because I have been to 40 cities. I never really found the parks though. Shanghai for me was mainly the Bund and Nanjing Lu and Pudong, and the Bars. I love it to see it again on a video like this.

My next travel destination after cv !! Nice food and ton of stuffs to check out!!

we love the longer videos !

I enjoyed your bike tour! Nice!

New and old architectural in one fantastic city. Hope to go back again.

Thanks for the video, almost ten years ago, I was surprised by the number of Starbucks in Shanghai, you could easily find one in most of the big office buildings. Manner is a Shanghai local brand, I heard that they priced at 1/2 of Starbucks' and take away only.

Thank you for another great video!! Shanghai is international city. But still, video is very adventurous. 😉

Nice views, thanks for showing Shanghai around.

shanghai, so much to explore and so little time. that is all i can say !!!! love from canada.

Another great video ❤

Your brand of humor is my jam!

Thanks for the fun virtual tour of Shanghai. You would make an excellent tour guide for China.

Some facts and comments: 1. 0:50 The statue is for a virtual character, Yiji Kong, in a short novel by the famous writer Xun Lu back in 1910s. Xun Lu made this character as a funny and pedantic scholar in the late feudal period of old China, to criticize the outdated intellectuals and thoughts at that time. One of the most famous parts in the novel occurs when Yiji Kong eats broadbeans in a restaurant, which is included in the subject Chinese Language and Literature in middle schools, making this character associated with beans very famous to Chinese people. 2. 3:11 Strange but interesting, Shanghai now is the city having the most coffee shops in the world. It has nearly 7000 of them, in comparison to ~3000 in London and ~1500 in NYC. Every 10,000 people share 2.85 coffee shops there. 3. 4:33 The stainless steel spheres seem to be floating balls used in water tanks of large scale. 4. 5:28 The building was built in the 1920s and was called the tallest in the Far East. It has been serving as different hotel bodies which accommodated famous foreigners from George Marshall to Elizabeth II to Barack Obama. That location was the starting point of the Shanghai International Settlement or Concession since the 1840s, which now still preserves many other historical western buildings. It is somewhat humiliation legacy from the old China and across the river, it is the modern city skyline and downtown area. 5. Not far away from the bund, there is a historical area called Shanghai Ghetto. Hidden in the skyscrapers, it is not famous, but was one of the few places accepting Jewish refugees in the 1930s. More than 20,000 of them fled to Shanghai with help and loose visa policy by the Chinese officials. They were saved there and lived peacefully with the locals. There is a Jewish refugee museum you can visit.

@hodgenhe

3 жыл бұрын

Manners coffee just offer free coffees for everyone who brought his own cups, to celebrate their new opened shops recently. That's maybe the reason of queuing for coffee.

It is kinda funny when Katherine said Pudong is the RICH side bearing in mind that Pudong used to be the poor side before 1990s.

@ywentao2784

3 жыл бұрын

it is one of Richest area in Shanghai, it is not 1990s now.

@weldon29

2 жыл бұрын

@@ywentao2784... that's his point

I haven't been to the Bund since 2007, it sure has developed since then 😃 Thanks for sharing, it's nice to see the place again. 謝謝

Glad to see your Vlog with your personal scripts! Hope you will develop an eco-balanced approach to keeping both the old and modern sceneries of Shanghai. If a city can keep cultures of the East and the West as well as maintains the ecology for the next X years, then It becomes a big favor to our future generations to come!

Thanks K, I visited Shanghai in 2000. It’s certainly changed a great deal since then. I enjoyed the old street views from your bike. Thanks for showing the real 🇨🇳 😘

Love your commentary. Gambatte! :-)

Beautiful Shanghai informative presentation- Love from Nepal

I'd been in Shanghai for more than 10 years. Thanks for the video that reminds me of lots of experiences in Shanghai. Xiao Wangzong should tell you something about Kong Yiji, haha.

Love Shanghai~!

Another lovely bike ride

welcome to shanghai

Great touring experience.

That is really a beautiful city.

Love your voice and clear explained,加油。

OMG you are so cute! Love your vedio and thanks for sharing

谢谢您，阳离子。收藏了，新学年放给学生们看。

@mmorpg9564

2 жыл бұрын

一定要告訴學生，那個雕像是孔乙己，不是做茴香豆的。

One of my favourite cities.

Great video and nice city 👍

Thank You for your sharing! 🙏👍😊

Awesome video!!

Just awesome!

"little doohickey" lol. I still can't believed they actually built that doohickey

Thank you for visiting Shanghai where I lived in more than thirty years. COVID-19 stopped me visiting my parents for two years.

So glad to see you have a good trip in Shanghai. I love you watch you video and looking forward to going back one day! I'm curious that how did you make you subtitle so clear? Thanks for sharing! 希望你在中国的生活开心快乐！

@kats_journey_east

3 жыл бұрын

谢谢😁😁what do you mean by clear ?

@JayAri

3 жыл бұрын

@@kats_journey_east 你的字幕怎么做的那么清楚？

Hi 👋 Everyone Greetings from the ❤️ PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Hi, I'm new to your channel. I like your spoken accent, very clear and easy to know

Thank you so much Kathie, I enjoy to see Shanghái with you. The best for you bye bye. 🙏🌷🧡

太好了，看你双语节目，非常喜欢。我作为一个中国人，去上海都没有那么细致的探索，那么多个地方都是匆匆而过，走马观花，想不到你走的那么细，比我们这些住在中国的人还要细致，我觉得你后面应该有个团队来协助你，不管怎么样，希望你在中国生活的幸福快乐!

@kats_journey_east

3 жыл бұрын

有团队可以省点事但是也需要分很多广告利润给他们😛😂

哇，几周不见，阳离子在油管也要成大咖了😃

HOW ignorant I was about China before subscribing to Katherine's Journey to the East. I would love to be there.

I love your videos.

Super interesting!

Shanghai, the city of imagination !!!

There are many luxurious pockets in shanghai. Check out the scenes in huai hai road. Xu jiahui and others. And clubs at julu road

Once I lived in a small mountain town like 5000 residents. That place is so clean quite and beautiful. But it can make people feel lonely sometimes.

Next time spend at least a week there! There is so much to do there!

Very nice video. Rode around 35 km today along the Pudong bike lanes and back through Hongkou and Huangpu, with 2 ferry rides and yes biking is the best way to discover Shanghai. Whilst, Pudong may be more modern, I wouldn't say it is richer. It's just there are less old neighborhoods in Pudong, and Puxi has much more personality! A big difference as well is that on the Puxi side you have a whole bunch of districts so that development is nt as uniform. Fir example the bike lane is continuous in Pudong but not throughout all the riverside districts on the other side. Also all ferries except the one from the Bund can carry bikes. And that ferry ride at CNY2.8 is probably the cheapest entertainment in Shanghai

@kats_journey_east

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info 😄😄

The ball is generally on top without the door

Hello eveyone, today we are gonna learn a new letter "luxurious", which I always make a mistake on pronunciation.

Nice 👍 beautiful city

I instantly expected lots of comments on 孔乙己 after the explanation for the man and bean statue but surprisingly I haven't seen any. In short it is a character created by the great writer 鲁迅 in a novel, and has become a synonym of someone weak living ridiculously in their own world, and as 鲁迅 always does, it is also indirectly referring to how weak but closed China was. The bean comes from the piece of the novel as well where he buys some beans in a restaurant. It's a standard piece in Chinese curriculum so everyone after grade 9 knows it. And the lady's explanation sounds especially funny - imagine this silly guy starting a successful bean business and earned himself a statue.

Amazing!

Great video.

很厉害从南京骑自行车车到上海👍🏻

非常好看一直在追剧式的看

5:53 the way you read it LMAO, hilarious!

We love you Katherine from Australia

Note to self;- I NEED to go there, right after this pandemic of course....

That's great

Kat I kept noticing how you slowly picking up Chinese accent as you speak English😂😂

3:16 my alma mater, best 7 years of my life