I Explored China's Slums 🇨🇳...NOT what I Expected! (no high rise here)

Описание: Shenzhen doesn’t feel real.

One minute you’re in a glittering shopping maze getting lost and distracted by the cute women—and the next minute you’re inside an “urban village”? What! Am i in fantasy land? Am i harry potter? here, the buildings lean in like they’re gossiping about you. No sunlight. a perfect place for vampires but there are none here, unfortuantly. You will find tangled wires though. Alleys so tight you start making lifestyle promises to yourself like: if I get out of this corridor alive, I’m eating salads for a week, calling my mom more often and stff like that.

This video is me walking through Buji and trying to understand how a place can go from farmland and fish nets to “hyper-city” in basically one lifetime. in ONE lifetime! This is something the locals don't think about often. They just accept it as normal. It's not normal! nothing like this happened in the USA! The modern skyline is out there… but this is the engine room. The unfiltered part of Shenzhen that actually absorbed the people who came to build the new China—migrant workers, families, shop owners, perverts...everybody! Something you will never see in the financial district of Shenzen itself.

You can feel the logic of it: demand explodes, people need a roof, so villages grow—floor by floor—until you get these dense, stacked neighborhoods. They're on top of shops, restaurants, salons, barbers, markets, and whatever else people need to survive. It’s not “pretty” in the Instagram sense. It’s human. They didn't have a rulebook and didn't need one. Just made sure the walls were thick enough to not hear your neighbors doing stuff. ;). maybe. i don't know. I know people like Bill Gates would not only LOVE to hear that kind of stuff but also record it for later when he is in the bathroom doing all kinds of stuff to himself. That piece of...

Anyways, the weird part? It works! Not perfectly of course. But it works in the way real life works—messy, improvised, and somehow still organized. it's like a living machine from an anime, like Howl's Moving Castle, an anime i seen during my childhood. It's kind of magical.

Food-wise, I came in expecting “local experience” = suffering. You know, the classic travel-writer delusion: “If it hurts, it’s authentic.”
Instead, I accidentally ordered pork ears that showed up looking like Thai papaya salad’s chaotic cousin—sweet, salty, spicy, crunchy, and addictive. The texture is fun: cartilage that snaps, sauce that clings, onions and carrots cutting through it like a little flavor orchestra. and the dumblings were like a model's butt. I will stop there.

Coffee? Total emotional rollercoaster. I wanted Manner. I kept finding Luckin.

🎥 In this episode: you get to see the place where sweaty hardworking Chinese came home to clean the sweat off their body, relax, fuel up and rest only to go back to Shenzhen the next day. All these people working together to build and make China what it was meant to be. Fulfill their united vision. Chinese are good at math and when they want to think of china, they want to see one equation and that is...China = Greatness! In my opinion, they have reached greatness. Obviously, it is not the way they see things. They are still working on making China amazing, day by day!