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I Bought a NIO EC6!
I Bought a NIOÂ EC6!
The other day I decided to just say “the heck with it” and I put in a deposit for a NIO EC6. I haven’t owned a car since 2012 and I haven’t bought a car since way back in 2009 when I picked up a sweet grey Honda Civic from a local dealer in California. I gotta say, the experience buying the NIO was a whole hell of a lot different than buying the Civic back then. Driving down to the dealer,…
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Electric Cars in China and What's Up with Crossing China?
I'm going to #nioday
When you are open to anything and curious about a wide range of topics, good things can happen. Even though I started this page and my youtube channel because I wanted to travel across China, life has changed in the ensuing years. From new jobs, to opening my own cafe, to now, somehow, making way too many videos about electric cars in China. A topic I went from knowing zero about and simply being…
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The Future of Electric Cars? NIO ES8 Test Drive
The Future of Electric Cars? NIO ES8 Test Drive
Earlier this week I test drove the NIO ES8 in Shenzhen, China. Why? Well a few reasons really. First, because I could, and I had nothing else better to do. But second, and more importantly, because I’ve been watching this stock climb in value over the past year or so, and in particular in recent weeks. It has got a lot of attention from sites like Reddit, where users are hoping to get in on the…
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How To Make 4K Walking Videos
How To Make 4K Walking Videos
4K walks around the world have gotten more and more popular on video sharing platforms like YouTube. I don’t know how the YouTube algorithm works, but during the past half year especially, I have had an increasing number of 4K walks pushed to my recommended section on YouTube. I don’t have the data but I would also guess that Covid-19 lockdowns have increased interest and viewership on these…
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China's KTV Exposed!
China’s KTV Exposed!
Forgive the silly title, it’s just a knockoff of this one here: https://youtu.be/HyWzDIGUIGY
As mentioned in the video linked and embedded below, when I first decided to start making some China vlogs, I got recommended a bunch of other China YouTubers and watched a few. I understand the nature of the internet, and how clickbait works, but watching Reportify’s KTV Exposed video threw me for a…
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Do Black Lives Matter? - An Investigation
Do Black Lives Matter? – An Investigation
Yes.
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Resources and ways to help: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd https://www.papermag.com/justice-for-… https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://eji.org/racial-justice/ https://www.elle.com/culture/career-p… https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B… https://kaepernick7.com/
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Is the Sony ZV-1 Vlogger Camera the New Hotness?
Is the Sony ZV-1 Vlogger Camera the New Hotness? #sonyzv1 #unboxing
I received the brand new Sony ZV1 on Jun 5th, a full week before it’s official release (thanks JD.com). So since I’m one of the first actual real retail customers (not an influencer or tech blog), I decided I’d do an unboxing of the retail unit, Chinese edition, as well as make share my first impressions. Tech specs can be found elsewhere, for example a tech blog, but if you want real world first…
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Imposter Syndrome, YouTube, and China
Imposter Syndrome, YouTube, and China
One thing I’ve always struggled with is imposter syndrome. With nearly everything I do, especially professionally, I feel like I’m not good enough and that maybe someone is waiting in the wings to expose me for the fraud that I am. I know a lot of people struggle with this kind of thought process, and it can have a profound negative effect on a person’s life and career.
Since I’ve started…
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How Much Did My Cafe Cost to Open?
How Much Did My Cafe Cost to Open? #smallbusiness #china #yunnancoffee
I already put up a video on the subject, as that’s easier for people to digest these days, but I’ll put an outline here in written form for those few people who still prefer to read.
Curious how much it costs to open a cafe? Well that depends on many factors, such as location, size, amount of renovation required, etc., but I can tell you how much it costs me to open. Right around 30,000 USD.…
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I Opened A Cafe In China 1 Month Before a Global Pandemic
I Opened A Cafe In China 1 Month Before a Global Pandemic - Now What? #covid19 #coronavirus #china
Most of my readership already know about my little restaurant here in Xishuangbanna, but I’ve been getting some new readers recently thanks to writing a bit about China and the Coronavirus pandemic. For those of you who are new here, first of all, welcome! I’m glad you are here! I hope you are taking care of yourself and your loved ones in this difficult time. I hope you’ll stick around, either…
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Yunnan Coffee
Yunnan Coffee - Now Shipping Worldwide
Buy a bag of local Yunnan Coffee. Delicious medium roast Arabica, whole beans or name your grind, shipping anywhere in the world. Each bag is 450g, 17$ on PayPal + Shipping, or 98 RMB on WeChat or Alipay shipping included anywhere within mainland China.
Email me to order: [email protected] or scan my Wechat to add me and order from withing China.
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How Friendly Are Chinese People?
How Friendly Are Chinese People? #empathy #covid19 #coronavirus
Four years ago, pretty much when I first started uploading videos to YouTube and when I started this website (crossingchina.com), my friend Xiangcai and I went on a grand adventure across China over the course of 2 months. This is why my site is called Crossing China. At the time I had big plans for the series of videos I was going to make. I quit my job to travel, and to get a better…
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A Ride on One of China's Last Narrow Gauge Railways
A Ride on One of China's Last Narrow Gauge Railways - And don't forget to subscribe on Youtube! Thanks!
Late last year, before the world changed, I rented a car and made the 6 hour drive northeast from Xishuangbanna to the ancient town of Yunnan town of Jianshui. Jianshuiis a relatively unknown city in China and most travelers to Yunnan Province skip it in favor of the more famous and tourist friendly old towns like Dali and Lijiang. Should you, potential China traveler, also skip Jianshui on your…
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What's Life Like in China's Mandatory Quarantine?
What’s Life Like in China’s Mandatory Quarantine?
I made a little video in my abundance of free time today, discussing the quarantine hotel here in Kunming and what it’s like to stay here for 14 days. The video is embedded at the end of this post, and I’ll give a brief summary here as well.
The hotel itself is decent enough. It’s a fairly standard middle of the road business hotel in China. On typical non-Covid19 days this hotel would…
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Traveling Back to China in the Age of the Coronavirus
As shit started to hit the fan in the rest of the world, I figured I should get my self back to China before it would be impossible to return. I wasn’t really sure if it was the best idea, but in early March I started to get reports back from friends in China that told me life was beginning to get back to normal, slowly but surely. I looked at tickets around the 10th of March and they were…
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How the Corona Virus has Affected Me
How the Corona Virus has Affected Me
A month or so ago I made a post about a bunch of the problems I encountered while trying to open a small restaurant in China. Little did I know that those problems were nothing compared to what was just around the corner. I had been open for about a month when I came home for Chinese New Year, with the plan to take about 2 weeks off to visit family in the USA before getting back to Xishuangbanna…
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Why Opening a Cafe in China is Hard
Why Opening a Cafe in China is Hard
I have never opened any kind of restaurant in any other country so maybe the experiences I will subsequently describe are universal, but I know for sure they definitely apply to my situation here in Xishuangbanna, China. It sucks these days that we gotta add disclaimers so as not to be misinterpreted and potentially offend, but that’s how the world is now, so please keep in mind this isn’t an…
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