its so funny when aunties and uncles say they held you as a baby and they expect you to remember😂😂😂

Your younger male cousin is very sweet 😭 even though he hasn’t seen you in so long he seems very happy to be around you 💗

This is the greatest China vlog of all time

Ryan, as your older brother, I would like to give you some advice: Go to China often and see your family. One day, when they leave this world (I hope they have many long and healthy years), you will regret every moment you didn't see them when you grow up. I never saw my grandfathers, but I regret every moment I couldn't be with my grandmothers before they died. Don't make the mistakes I made. Even if your home is America, your roots are in China and never forget your culture.

This is the side of China people of the US need to see. 感謝您的精彩視頻

I'm Korean-American, and watching this made me realize how nice China actually is. My Filipino step-sister wants to go to college in China, so this is pretty cool seeing how China is.

Went back to Fuzhou earlier this month after 8 years. Best experience of my life. This video reminded me why I love China. I have been craving ban mian everyday since😭😭

I'm 72 male living in Malaysia. My father came from Fuzhou china too. I'm so happy to watch this Vlog of yours. Really glad to see the warmth of all your family members and relatives. They really treated you so well and close. It's touching to see the strong bond of Chinese families. I agree with your grandma that you're really a well behaved and good guy. I wish you all of you the best. ❤️

Happy to see more overseas Chinese reconnecting again :) I was born in Europe, but my parents brought me to their rural Chinese hometown so they could focus on earning money while I was taken care of by my grandparents up until i turned 4/5. Though I was not there for as long as you did, I still have many memories of that humble but free life I had. I am sad and regretful about not visiting my grandparents more often as they are getting real old now, and one has already passed away. This serves me to learn to take nothing for granted and really cherish the moments you have with your family. If you have the financial means to do so, please visit them often. To our grandparents, seeing their children and grandchildren is one of their greatest joy in life.

Randomly saw this in my algorithm it’s definitely one of the best China vlogs, because it’s simple and pure and you could feel the nostalgia and family love! I hope you can go back and visit other places too!

Such an incredible visit back! Awesome editing too! I’m currently in China for the first time, my husband’s home country, and I’m blown away by how wonderful the people, the food, the cities, the natural landscapes, really everything has been 🥹 Great to watch your first time back after so many years!! You have such a wonderful family and your cousins are so adorable!

I'm from Serbia, but watching your vlog makes me want to visit China, so I am placing it on my todo list to do one day when I have a stable life and a job.

5:16 as a Chinese Indonesian i just realized while living in a different countries my family and i still do Traditions like this. If i didnt watch this vlog then I'll never knew so thank you so much and i hope your great granpa rest in peace❤

I love that the genetics are strong in your family! Looking like your family is always a blessing!

AHHHHH I’m from 福州 too! Thanks for sharing your adventure in福州 since it’s not very well known by others😭 watching this video makes me feel so weird and happy at the same time 因为我感觉自己又回到了自己的家乡,

The food looks so gooddd 🤤. I’m going to China for the first time this summer and I litterally can’t wait!!

This is kinda personal , but this is one of the most relatable vlogs I have ever watched. My oldest cousin from Canada came to Bangladesh (our home country) after 12 years. Even though we were 18 years apart we were still really close with each other. We would spend hours chatting. It really felt like he was my biological brother . On the day, he left he bawled his eyes out and so did I . I saw that bond in you and your cousins which we often don't see in this world of internet. Loved your vlogs!! Definitely coming back for more.

Hello, I’m adopted Chinese in America raised by white parents and this video really helped me appreciate my home country a bit more. I’ve wanted to connect to my own roots more lately. Thanks for sharing!

I'm also from NYC and preparing for my own trip to China next month to visit my grandma. The KZfaq algorithm never fails - so glad it led me to your vid!! ☺

Wow, how is it even possible to watch a video of someone having experiences on the other side of the world and feel like I was there? As a Brazilian guy who lives in a big city, I identify so much with you when you visited your old hometown in China. My family was raised in the countryside, and the last time I was there, I got in touch with a part of my family that I had just forgotten about. Since the last time I saw them was like 15 years ago. Even though the whole experience was life-changing, as I feel more connected with my roots and felt so loved and seen by this part of me that I just forgot that I had.

Awww, your little cousin is so cute, he admires you so much 😭💕

I was literally bawling my eyes watching your final vlog in China with your grandparents and cousin … they are genuine ppl who enjoy the simple things in life.

Very happy I found this on my FYP !! I love to see people connect with community, explore their culture and more :) I would love to go to China one day there is SO MUCH to explore and experience

watching this vlog made me so happy. reminded me of my visit back to china last month after 6 years 😭 everything u described were so real, the moped, the bike, the villages, the fresh food, and ofc, family

I really felt the warmth through this video. The love of your family has for you is truly beautiful

This vlog is genuinely one of the best I have ever seen. So glad you seemed to have such an enjoyable time!!

first time watching a vlog but i loved it! it’s so wholesome that you had the chance to bond with your family and relive your childhood memories 🥺

IGNORE THE TYPOS GUYS I NEED MORE BOOK😭

Wow! Happy 70th birthday to your grandpa! :) It's such a heartwarming vlog in China! :) Thanks for bringing us along!

This made me cry, beautiful. Blessings to you and your family.

one of my favorite videos in a long time it just seemed so peaceful and nostalgic even tho it’s not even my life i’m so glad you got to go back and experience all the great things China has to offer!

What a nice holiday you had, getting reacquainted with your cousins, grandparents, and hometown culture, the food, the country side, and city life. Hope you are treasuring the sweet experiences! I sure dig your little male cousin, he is so sweet who really shows his love for you. I am happy that at 18 you have such awareness and smarts! Do keep your connection with your relatives and China! 👍☮️❤️🇨🇳

What a great vlog, truly a trip down memory lane. Made me remember my visit back to China in 2017 and how different and loving the culture back there is. You and your cousin bonding reminded me of my experince and it was something that i'll not forget. ❤

Ending part of the video literally made me teared up. I loved the bonding of you and your Lil cousin brother ❤️

Honestly, watching this just gives me so much nostalgia. I was born in Chongqing, China and lived there until I was 5, and my parents and I frequently visited our relatives all over China during the Christmas holidays. I haven't been back since COVID-19, it's been 4 years. This has to be one of the best China vlogs I've seen, Fuzhou is such a beautiful place!

Love seeing you reconnect with your roots, you look happy here❤

This was so sweet! My two daughters are Chinese and we plan to go back next summer. We haven’t been back since 2010:(

crazy how nostalgia and family love connects across countries, continents, and cultures. i am mexican and ive lived in california since i was 7 as well. this feels so similar to what i experience every time i go back to mexico and visit family. it's insane how your blood recognizes your homeland, it's almost like you can breathe easier and feel so much lighter in your skin. love being shown around and getting to eat my favorite foods in the world. this is so special and beautiful. i cry every time i have to go home as well

Loved this vloggg!! As a Chinese that grew up in China but moved to another country after, i miss my hometown a lot by watching this!! This vlog was wholesome!! 🙌🤩

Awww, seeing you with your grandparents is so wholesome. :')

I enjoyed watching so much. Real, honest, heart warming. You have a wonderful family. Go back often!! Especially for your younger cousin. He really will miss you.

This is so relatable with relatives living overseas, got me feeling warm and reminiscing after watching the vlog! 😊

new fave vlogger!!!! SO WHOLESOME

Wow. Very bittersweet video. Nostalgic trip to China which resonates across all cultures. Loved that 90% of the video was you with a mouthful of delicious food ! Made me want to visit China just to eat all the wonderful dishes.

this video is so comforting as someone who has went back to china and watched their parents see everyone, then to see their faces light up GETS ME EVERYTIMEEE 😭😭

Watching your vlog made me feel so happy for some reason 😂 loved the relationship between you and your younger cousins 🤗

I watched it on KZfaq's recommendation. What a heartfelt vlog! I love the simplicity, warmth and personal nature of the video. You have very good kind relatives. P.S. I agree with the comments, this is truly the best video about China I have ever seen.

so proud of you that you took everything from your 'original roots' with so much pride, love, and joy...hope you continue spending time with your family back in China

This hit close to home for me. I haven’t had the chance to go back to my roots and explore my culture in 10 years as well. I really do miss the atmosphere of my childhood. This video felt nostalgic and healing.

Let's go to China together!

absolutely loved this vlog! you have done a great job documenting it all! it's so nice to see people being this loved and comforted by their family and relatives. i wasn't born in china but my parents and siblings are from there and i still feel some kind of a nostalgia wathcing this vlog. i hope i can visit china once again with my mom when she's still with me

I was happy to see how happy you and your family were. What a beautiful trip! Life is short, don't miss the chance to be happy and stay where you feel welcomed.

Wow the village is so beautiful!!! my grandparents town has become pretty urbanized but its so great to see people still living in buildings that arent 50+ floor skyscrapers

This has reminded me of my experience in China when I was little (maybe around 7-8 yrs old) and I've never related to a vlog before. It makes me miss when I went in the Summer before. I remember some good times like how I was shocked about the toilet seat being all the way to the floor, doing face masks, riding on my cousins roller blades, and coming back to America full of mosquito bites even though I had slept with mosquito curtain thingys around the bed. Truly nostalgic! I hope to visit again soon to see my mom's older brother's baby son.

This was such a wholesome vlog 🥹 it’s so good see you back with your family and seeing you smile 😊 glad that you had an awesome time there. Thank you for sharing your journey with us, it was really amazing 🤩. May god always keep you blessed, healthy and happy. Take care! All the best for everything in the future!

Your video appeared here for me! And I loved your experience in your homeland. It's funny how our voice changes depending on the language. A big hug from Brazil 😅😂 Keep posting videos please.

3:52 That laugh just made my entire day 🥺😝. Great to have you back on YT Ryan!

its so nice seeing u visit ur childhood village again! its such cute vlog too omg

Loved every part of the vlog! It's so interesting to see little bits of life in your hometown. I especially enjoyed the parent conference meeting and seeing the cargo ship your family used to live on (certainly not expected). I really hope you get to see them more often!

This is such a chill vlog omg, I remember going to China at 16 and it was one of the sickest experiences ever - I had 0 expectations and it just blew me away love this for you! I'm so jel of that boat experience lol, that looked so fun omg

WOW! It’s a totally different perspective of China! So warm and welcoming! The mainstream media doesn’t cover this perspective. I would love to hear your back story about why you immigrated to the USA at age 7, and, how you came to have an apartment in NYC at age 18. Perhaps you could do an entire vlog post on what I suspect is an extremely interesting story, Kudos to you for honoring your land of birth and ancestors!!

born from chinese mother, raised in france here ! went back to china for the family, can feel what you feel

hope you visit your family more often! they seem to be sweet people and i'm sure they miss you a lot - the final bit saying goodbyes had me crying

That was a really awesome vacation! Your videos of China and your relatives and their friends plus the places you visited were great. You're in NYC too!

stoppp I’m also from 福建 and this video got me crying😭😭 it so amazing seeing someone from the same place as me thrive

Cool to see you experienced so many kinds of activity in China! It makes me wanna go back this year too... Also I thought that being raised in a village and moving to NYC was crazy, until I saw your grandpa's birthday celebration lmao

What a sweet and fun video. Family, food, simple life. Glad you popped up in my feed! ✨️💖✨️

You picking your cousin up from school and making him a burger will for sure be core memories for him when he grows up. I for some reason got tears in my eyes thinking about it. Such wholesome moments that feel ordinary but they become some of the best memories when we’re older 🥹

This got randomly recommended to me and it reminds me of my cousins. They were born in Hong Kong and moved to Utah over 12 years ago. They are coming to HK to visit us next month and although we have visited them in the US they have not been back since they left. I bet it will feel just as nostalgic as you were in the video, other than one of the cousins who left HK as a toddler. Their mom (my dad's older sister) and my dad were actually from Fujian too, like you, and they moved to HK as kids, and your village reminds me of his village

Choosing to live in New York instead of china right now at this perfect moment where the young people in china as so much more advanced and literally becoming over night millionaires seems crazy to me. Especially when you speak English so well. I’d move to shenzen and be an important part of a company.

Come to China more often! It’s so nice to see you go “back to your roots”. Love from Shanghai! ❤

First time I see one of your videos, but I loved it. So emotional in a good way. Please go back to your Chinese family soon, they will miss you as much as you miss them. And let us viewers follow you on the next trip there. Love from Sweden ❤

this randomly popped up for me and reminded me of the time I lived in China. Whenever I craved the taste of home, I would order McDonalds and though I am not a fan of KFC, I thought the one in China tasted better than the one here in America. I even like the slight differences in menu. This was such a fun vlog! 😄

As a fellow Chinese person it’s amazing to see how much different life is in china, I was born in America and only went back twice and the last time I went was 2018. I really want to go back sometime soon. Keep vlogging bro!

I've been waiting for this vlog and i love how wholesome this is. Sending lots of love from Shanghai.

KZfaq recommended this and I certainly did not expect to see my hometown Xiamen here haha. I also spent some time in Fuzhou when I was younger, so this is very nostalgic for me and makes me really miss home. Glad you enjoyed the experience and got the chance to reconnect with your roots! Kind of a missed opportunity that you did not try 沙茶面 (sha cha mian) when you visited those old streets of Zhongshan Rd but ban mian surely is good!

This video was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

What a cool vlog! From the places you visited to the time you spent with your family! Hope you can come back to China soon! I'm sure you'd make awesome content traveling around the country

That was an awesome video, brought back alot of nostalgic memories for me while watching you going thru your journey back home. I don't care what they say but real men do cry, I balled my eyes out at 11 and 21yrs. Ahhh China, I miss you...

I am also Chinese but I have never been to China before or met any of my relatives from there. I really want to go and connect with my culture and family more.

Im Thai people ( by born ) but im 100% chinese too (by blood ) my grandparents all of them come from Fuzhou , Wuhan ,Hainan I have a big family there that I havent met in my entire life. I want to go to Fuzhou oneday Maybe we might be a far cousin (kidding) Your face are nearly the same as mine. I am 31 now My goal is going to Fuzhou Hainan and Wuhan 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳😄

Keep in touch with your little cousin if you can. You can tell he loves you as his big brother and will miss you greatly. . I know living in NYC can consume your life if you let it but keeping in touch with family is important too. The hard part is the time zone difference. Continued success with you vlog.

This is such a good video. Thank you for sharing your life. I’m so glad you got to experience this as a young man. That you got to spend time with your grandparents cousins and again feel a place that is part of you. Life in the US will take over again, but I hope you make visiting your family an annual priority. Nothing is more important than family. Think of it this way, if your grandparents are 70 and you go back once a year then you will see them probably 15 to 20 times. That’s not a lot of time . Not to be morbid, but that is the reality and hopefully it inspires you to make them a priority. I learned this way too late in life and just wanted to share. Also, they will never ask you for anything, so just do what you know is right, so you create good memories for your life and have no regrets.

Love your vlog and it’s always wonderful to return to your roots. I was surprised that your parents let you go on your own. Good luck on your future endeavors.

gramps a menace dancing with someone else 😂😂

your laugh is so...idk how to describe it. it's like contagious 😍

Awesome vlog , thank you for sharing your trip back to your roots , your family seem like such nice people

Dad throwing money at dancing girls - best part of the video LOL 17:18🤣

Ryan, what you went through is the exact same thing I went through but at 21. I had gone back for 3 weeks after 10 years, and it left me craving so much more about my roots that I went back again at 24 through a study abroad program that was a year long. As an ABC, and born in America, I had only gone back to China when I was around 10 years old. Reconnecting with my grandparents, forming a relationship with my godmother that I'd only met once when I was 9, meeting my godbrother (her son) for the first time and becoming good friends with him, hanging out with his friends, coming along to reunion dinners for my mom and her middle school best friends that hadn't seen each other in over 30 years, learning to use wechat, etc. Even never "seeing so many chinese people in one place" was something I remember feeling so strongly when I first arrived. My only regret is not starting my YT channel before I went back to China because I didn't know how to capture everything I wanted to capture during my precious time there. The more "levels to adulting" I unlock, the more I'm dying to go back and experience China in a more rich, meaningful way. Thank you for sharing this vlog, so cool to see my own experience and feelings captured so well!!

This is all worth it when you go back to see family you still remember and vice versa….you get to eat everything that you loved to eat, get invited to other parties and they really loved you visited.🥰🥰🥰🥰

Hi there. This is the first time I came across your vlog. What a pleasant thing to find out a video maker leaving many joyful memories as if I was really travelled back in time to the era of my young age version literally. Every moment you captured does bring me to the childhood look-back I luckily used to have. Absolutely peaceful to watch from the begining till the end. But there is one little thing that has been raised up my awareness indeed. I really wonder whether the 50-year-old turtle has being raised in such a tiny bucket for such that long period of time?😢

Little cousin is adorable😂

i literally cry every time I leave China, I miss my relatives :(

Watching your video reminded me of my family. They also love me unconditionally. It's really a blessing.

What an incredible experience! I'm actually envious! Joking aside, you have a beautiful and blessed family.🙏🏽

9:15 Bro that is the most Hamburger looking Hamburger I've ever seen... That sht is what McDonald puts on their posters.

我知道你在国外太久了，但香港就是中国。从你出生前香港就已经回到中国了。既然你和中国还有联系，希望你能更多的接触了解中国的经济、文化、政治、历史。

I was able to refill exactly how you felt. I had a very similar experience. This warmth and love will accompany and strengthen you throughout your life, sometimes even making you feel a very strong longing. In my "modern" world I was relatively lonely. In my other "simpler" world I felt safe. Maybe I'll return at some point, I don't know yet. Thanks for the video. It was like I had traveled back in a world too. It was very nice to experience your home country so close. All good luck to you and best regards from Germany.

This was THE BEST VLOG I've ever seen. I'm sooo glad I watched this vlog. I really want to see more vlogs like this. Please make a vlog when you go to China again.🫂

and my Chinese genes have ✨ Reawakened ✨, thanks for the sweetest vlog