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The Bridge to China

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Wuhan

The best cappuccino I have ever had in China was at a place called Big Stitch passing by. There is no comparison to any place in Beijing. A lot of the neighborhood signs are in Chinese, not Chinese and English. People go there with big cameras and they're all dressed up as model-y types.

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I mean, it could be about the flower. And instead of the person. Yeah, there's a flower called Mulan flower. And that could be what the mountain is named off. Sure. I knew that. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you did know everything that's in Wuhan because you're such a representative of what Wuhan is for us and for the all of our listeners across the globe. Okay, that's a big lie now. Jason knows. Jason knows everything for sure. So near
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to Yong Han walking street, further north about, I want to say a kilometer, maybe slightly less. There is another street. It's called Li Huang P and I probably, I do not know the tones for that. So I've definitely ruined that one. But it is an old quarter. So okay, firstly, Tiong, Tiong Han walking street is part of the old colonial quarter of Wuhan. So that means the Europeans that came in English and others, they set up like a trading house and like several embassies and like, you know, different hotel blocks for themselves and stuff traded a whole quarter. But north at the north end of this, further north from Jiong Han walking street is this place called Li Huang P and it is a former French kind of area. Although there are flags flying there that are Italian, what it is essentially become is Europe. So yeah, in America, a lot of people, I saw this in TV shows, including Better Call Saul. People often make jokes. Do you think people in China are having American food when we say we're going to go have Chinese? Actually, you know, there is a Chinatown in the west. Yeah. This is kind of like a Europe town. So when you go there, there are all these brick buildings that are from like 200 years ago that are literally in colonial style because they are colonial buildings and then pillars and like, there are cafes there where they have many tables outside and like that really nice cappuccinos. The best cappuccino I have ever had in China was at a place called Big Stitch passing by ca- no, no, no, no, it's not. There is no comparison to any place in Beijing. There's one thing I've been to like all the major cafes and like, no, there's not a comparison. If you go to this place, first I was actually making a video. Let me tell the story. It's called Passing By Cafe. It's in this place. And my wife and I were filming. She films me. She's kind of produces my vlogs and stuff. So I sit down and passing by a cafe and I order a cappuccino and I'm sitting outside trying to look all French. Yeah. And there's an Italian flag there. And I pick up the cappuccino that they bring me and I say, wow, I heard this cappuccino is really good. And I taste it. It literally is like nothing I've had in Asia. I was like, oh my gosh. And I was like in the video, this is really, really good. You know, I say that about a lot of it really, really, really is. It was remarkable. My wife's going to hear this podcast later. Yeah. I literally started sneaking there when my wife didn't know. I would say summer. I'm going to go to, you know, this part of the city to take photos and I pat my camera can't. But you're actually going to get the cappuccino. I'll be like, can't lie, lie. So I would go, I would go around and take photos for an hour. And then I would sit down to this cafe and enjoy this cappuccino like once every couple weeks in a way, almost forces you to work more because you have to make sure that it doesn't come off as a total lie. You have to come up with some work on your little trip to that coffee shop. It's actually productive. In addition to that, you walk around. There's a few blocks of this where there are all these like Italian flags and like, it's a lot of the neighborhood is actually in French. Signs are in Chinese and French, not in Chinese and English. People there. So Chinese folks go there with big cameras and like very tall, model-y types and they're like all dressed up. People are using this area as a backdrop to take photos and look and be cool for the their social media, their vlogs and their, I guess, Instagrams and stuff. It's like an Insta, Insta, hot spot. I've never seen as many cameras in Wuhan. As I did in this one neighborhood where it's just like people, every block you go that you see three people carrying a really nice big camera there. Like, I have to look it up. So yeah, this is the place and it's not far from Jiang Han walking street. So if you wanted to turn one day, you could do the whole like area. Actually, you could walk from one to the other, not, it's not too far. And they're little art galleries where they say like original oil paintings and whole community. It's huge. It's just a massive area and it's beautiful. And I thought it's really interesting because yeah, there are Europe towns in China or like you know, Western town or whatever. I guess Sanitoon to some extent used to be kind of like a West. It's not really anymore. It's more like just a giant amazing mall with lots of bars in it, but it used to be kind of like a Western area-ish kind
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of sort of place.

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