london diaries | reunited with my childhood best friend and we ATE

london diaries | reunited with my childhood best friend and we ATE

what the heck wow [Music] today is extremely warm around 20° C and we are going to height park there’s like no good walking parks in Los Angeles so every time I travel to Europe I in New York I really take the advantage of all the parks it’s also an icy Americano weather it’s kind of watery though i slept for 10 hours yesterday from midnight to 10:00 it was amazing going through the back door this is actually super useful i really like it it was only 13 bucks on Amazon and there’s actually so many surfaces that it sticks to and they’re everywhere this is the film camera that I use olympus and I’m going to change the film right now this is my dad [Music] this is the new one [Music] art exhibition nice [Music] just found a bookshop with Russian books if homeboy is going to read this
Homeboy is going to get it
he’s going to like get it i have a Kindle but I still prefer paper books that’s a really cool door stopper [Music] i always get the same flavors and this is chocolate and pistachio [Music] we probably took over 20,000 steps that day the weather was absolutely perfect and my sister and I were very excited because little did our parents know that my friend Alex was on his way flying to London around midnight we prepared his bed and my sister needed a good night’s sleep since she was running her first half marathon tomorrow and I had to wake up at 3:00 a.m open the door and sneak Alex into the apartment while everyone was sleeping [Music] it’s 3:00 a.m i successfully hid Alex in his room everyone woke up around 7 and I sneaked him into the bathroom [Music] i only slept for 4 hours I think eggy mayo ew yeah this is pretty much QP mayo and egg are you ready to run mhm
anna set up a camera to film a vlog about her half marathon and we pos in front of it with our parents and then I texted Alex to come out [Laughter] what’s the woman [Music] [Music] 3 hour of sleep bus club plane a marathon getting to the start is a marathon by itself we already took 6,000 steps and it’s only 9:00 a.m
remember the half marathon starts at 9:30
got my snacks
oh my god this is so amateur i’m so worried i’m so worried i have no business being here [Music] [Laughter] 3 2 1 Let’s go go [Music] i just want coffee i didn’t see Alex since we took an amazing trip to Vietnam in fall of 2023 so it was nice to sit down and enjoy coffee together while my sister was destroying her kneecaps in the Batter Sea Park [Music] [Laughter] let’s go home we’ve done 15.5 km so I’m pretty happy because it means I just need five six more almost there we came to the finish line and it’s time to do Dualingo which what language
chesh
chesh
yeah random as [ __ ] random as [ __ ]
why not
like this video if you’re Chesh it’s like a It’s like learning Russian but some uh
little bit different version of it
twisted version of Russian [Applause] costume i followed my sister’s location on the app and saw that she was only 5 minutes away and then they started disassembling the whole thing what the [ __ ] oh no they’re popping the balloons biggy [Music] well done [Music] let’s go to natural history museum [Music] hello pistachio pistachio and
canel can the only dessert that I don’t like
the dessert I like the most [Music] We’re in Holland and Barrett and we just witnessed how a guy just walked in took stuff and took off employee ran after him but she didn’t get it so we just uh tried these uh protein bars and they are insane look at Wait what is this one ah okay
the peanut butter tastes literally exactly like uh Snickers but it’s better cuz it’s not as sweet and it only has 2 g of sugar what the heck [Music] i have done this [ __ ] right the constructed version of this Wait mhm and the glass at the soup we removed this from the order but they accidentally brought them so we’re going to try out this is red bean shrimp m crispy
so far the best one mhm
it’s the one that we didn’t even want to order yes pork and prawn dumplings look [ __ ] taste [ __ ]
yeah we’re not happy [Music] [Music] i’m telling you yeah we got used to it yeah [Music] [Music] so Alex and I we are art art lovers we used to go to art school together i can confirm that the gap between a train and a platform yeah my mom is taking a picture of a 25 lb croissant who needs a museum when you can just go to the bakery this is the Victoria Albert Museum what the heck wow here’s 186 gigantic column me and the skincare routine i also saw another woman dressed exactly like my mom and they didn’t even see each other this is the first iPhone 2007 this museum is free and has incredible artworks from all fields the last room we visited was film and theater where I learned how the wig for the queen in the crown was made saw a real wedding dress from the first season of the show and also there was a bodysuit that Dual Lia wore on her 2022 tour [Music] guess the character we just left Victoria Albert Museum and realized that we only saw the half of it there’s also a left side that we missed and look at this beautiful spot outside [Music] sorry if you’re watching this hungry my quest finding places where I can attach my camera to continues and this is a little bit dangerous because the pole is kind of thin i think it looks good just check out how many people It’s rush hour [Music] hi nice to meet you hello nice to meet you this place was highly recommended to us and it’s right next to Trafalgar Square 50 Colo is a super famous pizzeria founded by a celebrated pizza chef in Naples and the pizzeria has expanded with this popular location in London and since we didn’t book a table we couldn’t sit down and had to get pizza to go
okay open ooh really good take two take two why is it so big what is the slice my god
stick the camera and where how she will take the best shot it’s just that with this with this magnet thing it’s like it opened up the possibilities that
I never had before i agree this got cold which is not good but
I have to tell you this is one of the best pizzas that I’ve tried i think we’ll go for another one
i agree i I we can buy another one
sure
i mean we can eat it right there there’s nothing I like less than cold pizza by cold I mean like really cold when it’s 3 hours later
i usually like when it’s
You like cold pizza i
I feel like it changes everything it’s like completely different dish
yeah it’s not It’s not the same meal for different kind of
Yeah but yeah I think the like five seven minutes that we walked it made all the difference
yeah yeah yeah of course yeah cuz it has to be piping hot wave yay pizza mode okay get it get it
oh it’s We haven’t seen any trash cans so I suggest just ordering a second pizza and putting it in in that box
just throw it outside
like recycling people take two take two thank you so much thank you
oh let’s do this
pizza is secured pizza is secured comes put the timer put the timer we have to eat it piping hot piping hot piping hot run run run it cannot get cold [Music] open it open it open it woohoo yeah ooh nice
so white
oh it’s so soft how am I going to eat it
yeah it’s very soft [Music] best pizza ever [Music] mhm [Music] i love this so much high Park during spring biking here is the best [Music] literally just saw Jared Leto in the most uh ridiculous outfit he was wearing a winter fur hat so don’t think that I’m strange by repeating words twice so don’t uh look at me strange if I repeat words twice okay we deserve a sweet treat it’s so nice to be friends with someone who shares the same sweet tooth and is always down to hit a peticissery letto is a super popular kind of bougie chain of cafes and bakeries founded by a Russian interpreter so a lot of desserts are very familiar and nostalgic to me they’re definitely on a pricier side but look how beautiful photogenic and indulgent everything looks it is impossible to pass a window like that and very difficult to make a choice got to be good m oh my god I love it best Russian dessert ever alex wanted a third dessert and he went to take a look what should we get for for those of you who don’t know there are desserts that are traditional desserts that everyone eats in Eastern Europe and two of them are honey cake and Napoleon and Napoleon is this it’s like mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milk mil milky f I don’t know how to pronounce it but it’s like a French pastry like flaky pastry with a cream we also switched uh our tables from there to here so that we’re further from the cakes but I actually regret it because there’s a neon sign and the lighting is absolutely terrible like we look purple it’s okay i think it has rhubarb on top rubarb
rhubarb is the uh British fruit/veable it’s It’s definitely rhubarb yeah I know it
i know a rhubarb when I see it [Music] for a place with desserts we’re waiting for forever why is it taking so long to bring us a bill at the park someone threw up right before us [Music]

BESTIES AND PASTRIES. London diaries, EP 2: reunion with my chill best friend, family dinners, half-marathon, dim sum, best pizza in the UK, biking in Hyde Park, South Kensington, V&A museum, overpriced desserts.

Context: I lived in London for 5 years, moved to LA in 2018, and now visit the UK a few times a year, because my sis lives there. We’re Vietnamese, but from Belarus;) My best friend Alex is also from Belarus, and we’ve been friends since 2000. He lives in Israel and came over for a week, as we haven’t seen each other since 2023! My parents didn’t know, so that was a second prank we did on them, lol.

Watch episode 1: https://youtu.be/lZU9jjLbUQk?si=bk3AN9LVCM5G1veM

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00:00 Intro
00:33 Holland Park
02:50 Alex arrival
04:50 London half-marathon
07:43 Soho
08:50 dim sum
11:05 South Kensington
13:30 50 Kalo pizzeria
16:06 Hyde Park

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