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0:00 today we are going to take our guests to Lijiang and Dali. yeah, if you have watched our previous videos, you will know now we are working as a tour guide. this is our car. this is for ten people, but if it's a big group, it will be a big bus this is a small van. not that small lah. this is our driver (Ali). ok, let's go. now just me and Viona, we are still in our village. we are going to pick them up in changshui airport in kunming.
0:50 okay, now we are in the hotel, and this is our hotel in kunming, the first night. this is the bathroom. and this is the tv. it's all control by AI, this is outside. at night, we eat here, we eat some noodles and barbecues, this is all barbecue. this lady is preparing the barbecue here for us.
1:41 and this is the noodle. and you can put all the ingredients here. this is called Xinjiang Fried Noodles. the normal noodle. the barbecue. if you come to Kunming, you have to try this this, this is very nice. very delicious. after dinner, we went to the fruit shop. some strawberries, they call it milk strawberry,
2:29 show me your strawberry, your milk strawberry. look like the fake one. they are also selling Musang King from Malaysia, let me ask how much for one kilo. 300rmb 1 kg. 300yuan for one kilo. better eat it in Malaysia, not in China. so this is the all about the first day, very simple, just eat and pick up them in the airport. see you tomorrow, see you in Dali. good morning from Dali,
3:15 we are going to eat the local food, very delicious, called Braised Chicken, the restaurant is right here. very very small. the chef is cooking for us. before we eat, they offer some free fruit and snack, this is the little yellow bean, this is the little yellow orange, let me taste it. you can eat it with the peel and it's good for your throat. the taste is sour and sweet.
4:02 it's like eating kind of Chinese medicine. Yongping Braised Chicken, a very famous dish in dali. and some vegetables. Stir-fried beef with green peppers. Shredded potatoes. after eat we are going to the mosque and pray, the mosque is right there, and this area actually is in Dali city, but it's a Hui Muslim area, so the Hui people live here. like this, look, this is their little house. and this is also their little house.
4:48 this is how the Muslim live here. this is the inside of the mosque. so this is the prayer hall. hmm it's a very small mosque, if you come Dali, you want to pray in the mosque near to Dali city, this is one of the mosque in south of Dali. Malaysian people, they will stand... They would stand on this wooden board and pray, but that was actually where we put our heads. actually, this is how we pray, we stand on the carpet, this is for head. so if you stand there,
5:35 my head will touch your feet. now we are going to Weishan county, a county in Dali. now we are in weishan ancient town, a hidden gem in yunnan with over six hundred years of history. and now we are in the center of this ancient town, it's called Gongcheng tower. the iconic site of Weishan ancient town. and it's also the yi and Hui ethnic autonomous area.
6:20 so it's a combination of different culture of yi and Hui people. so in this ancient town, you can check here, and then you will know who is dead in this town. The name of the person who died recently will be posted here. so now it's night, we leave Weishan county and come to a village, called east Lotus village, it's a Muslim village in Dali, we found a barbecue shop, and we will eat here this night. this lady is grill the local food called Erkuai for us.
7:11 this is the most famous food in dali. the lady put some sauce inside. okay, so this night we will live here, but it's not clear, so tomorrow, i will shoot it again, the local Muslims house, very traditional. let me show you the room, this is the room. this is my wife. this is the bed, bed, very very clean.
8:02 actually, this village called east lotus village, it has more than one thousand Hui Muslims live in this village. not too many young people live here, only the middle age and the old people. because they do the farmer things, and they raising the cattle, chickens, and maybe plant some trees, like fruit trees. the young people cannot find a nice job here, so they left this village. good morning from the yard, from the local house.
8:49 the boss is set the fire, because the winter here is a little bit cold, it's maybe five or ten degrees. okay, we walk on the street in this village. this is the prayer hall, East Lotus Mosque. and this is for azan. actually this is the food street, halal food street in this village. but today is not holiday, so not
9:37 too many tourists come to this village. so this is the only restaurant is opening. we will eat the noodle inside. the restaurant in this village. after visit the masjid, we try some local noodle. it's really famous in this village. and some fried potatoes. they also selling some snacks in this restaurant. this is the bread, very old school, when i was a kid, i eat this. some sweet sugar. they open a small supermarket
10:23 in this restaurant, so after eat you can buy some snacks here. they are all halal and some of them made by the locals, Viona will buy Snowflakes. we get in the car again and we're going to Dali ancient town, but before that, we're going to a Muslim village called Nan Wu li Qiao village, we will pray Jumah there. it's a Muslim village near to Dali ancient town. now we are in the village Nan wu li qiao village, you can already hear the Azan, and look
11:08 this is the Bai ethnic architecture, but actually it is Hui Muslim live inside. the prayer hall. so usually the students study Quran inside this building, After pray you can get some free fruits. apples. (All our work in this life is for the sake of having a beautiful home in the afterlife.) after pray, we go to the halal food street and take a picture here. everyone come to this street and take a picture,
11:55 it's very dangerous, because it's not actually a place for take a photo, it's a road, so if you want a beautiful picture, you should stand in the middle of the road, so a little bit dangerous. oh, they are very satisfied. oh let me check. wow, ake my video and upload at your YouTube. yeah, come on. very beautiful. yeah, say hello. the background is a car. okay, come here. now we are going to erhai, a lake in dali, erhai directly translate in English is Er sea,
12:44 but actually it's not sea, because we are in yunnan, it's a mountain area, we are mountain people. our ancestor, they never see the sea, so they thought the lake was the sea. so they call it the sea, actually, it's a lake. the sea is right there. we arrived, this is called Sansheng island. look at the cameron. you can rent the bicycle, and the electric bicycle here,
13:32 so you just need scan the QR code and you can use it. you can also scan the qr code to rent a bicycle with a flower. but it's for the girls and women, not for me, i'm a very cool man, so i don't rent the bicycle with flowers. tonight we will live in the foot of the mountain. this car belongs to the hotel, they come here and carry our luggages to the hotel. ok, see you later. this is the hotel for this night.
14:21 welcome to the hotel. okay, room tour. this is the toilet. a big tv. chairs. this is the bed. oh, we got the aircon. this is outside. the Bai ethnic house. that's all, see you later. we found one more thing, very cool.
15:10 put here. look at that. we back to the street, the Halal street in Dali. before we go to dali ancient town, we eat in this restaurant, we eat hot pot, so the restaurant run by the local muslim. let's check how is it. finished, hot pot with barbecue. yeah, but nothing here, because i forgot shoot it. i have a shoot the short video, you can check it.
16:02 Dali ancient town. very crowd, even it's not holiday, but still full of people. if you like crowd, if you like people, you can come here. if you don't like, you can go to weishan county. the county yesterday we went. it's not holiday and not weekend. now 10:30pm, we are really tired, because we walk on the street for two or three hours already.
16:51 yeah, i'm so tired, so now, good night, see you tomorrow. good morning, today is 3rd day, actually we are in a restaurant and we are going to eat the cross bridge rice Noodle. it's the most famous food in Yunnan province. and after it, we are going to another city, Lijiang, and see the snow mountain. what's this? persimmon. it's called persimmon in Chinese, how you call it? how you call it in Malaysia. what the fruit? so they changed their traditional house to be a restaurant,
17:40 you can see this is their roof, very traditional, actually here is a Muslim village. so the houses you can see, they are all belongs to local Muslim. but it's different, because it's a combination with the Bai ethnic culture, Bai ethnic is the majority ethnic in dali. let's check their house. look at that. and they plant some flowers, it's called 'duorou' in Chinese,
18:27 directly translate in English is 'more meat'. maybe because it looks like meat. so this is the second floor, it's a yard. their old house, now it's a restaurant. this lady said this is the most popular food in this restaurant. it's called pineapple rice.
19:13 this is how we eat cross bridge rice noodles in yunnan, we put various raw side dishes into the boiling hot soup, such as cabbage, mushroom, chicken, beef, shrimp and pickles. and the soup will cook them. then we put in the rice noodles. this is how we get the most authentic bowl of cross bridge rice noodle.
20:00 This will definitely suit Malaysian tastes. come on, say something, you are on YouTube, you can watch your video later. subscribe. okay thank you. what do you want to say? this is your memory of this place. they're taking picture here. let's go to next destination. we are going to santorini in dali. fake santorini.
20:51 Tom and Jimmy. we arrived at fake santorini. wow, so many tourists taking picture here. we can see the lake from here, and you can see me from camera. actually it's just a hotel, yeah, it's just a hotel. This place is a waste of time. not recommend this place。
21:38 we are heading towards Lijiang straight. Thanks for watching and see you next video in Lijiang. Thanks to our patrons on patreon：
