Angkor Wat, Dabbawalas and Lion Dancing All Over the Place

Are you ready for an amazing adventure?

Then join Ed Petrie...

-Hey, I just fed a panda!

-..and his CBBC mates...

on a bonkers and brilliant journey around...

-Asia! Asia! Asia!

-It's going to be epic!

-That's amazing!

We'll take part in some of Asia's most spectacular and crazy events,

like lion dancing in China.

In lion costumes. POW!

I'm scared.

-Argh!

-Um-ma-nam-ma-num!

So, are you ready to go...?

# All over the place

# All over the place

# North, south, east, west On a bizarre quest

# Me and my mates All over the place!

# It's true what you've heard Everything is absurd

# Whatever we do is strange but true!

# All over the place

# All over the place

# There's stuff to do in Asia that is totally ace

-# And it turns up...

-All over the place! #

HOWLING

Ah!

BEEPING

BEEPING

HE SQUEALS

You don't happen to know where the temple of Angkor Wat is, do you?

That's what I was trying to tell you, it's over there.

Wait! Inel, man! It's me, Vic!

Ugh, maybe I shouldn't have worn me traditional Cambodian monkey mask.

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo! Aah-aah!

Enough monkeying around, Vic,

because these are the magnificent temples of Angkor in Cambodia.

The Temple of Angkor Wat is the biggest religious

monument in the world,

built originally as a Hindu temple before converting to Buddhism.

The many temples of Angkor cover over 1,000 square kilometres,

that's almost as big as the modern City of London.

Vic and Inel,

you have 28 seconds to find out as much as you can

about the Temple of Angkor.

Vic, you have Thai, who knows all about Angkor Wat.

Inel, you have Im Sokrithy, who knows all about the temples.

Bei, pir, mouy, tow!

-Is this a temple or a city?

-It's a temple.

-How many temples are there?

-About 600.

-Who built it?

-What's the biggest temple?

-Angkor Wat is the biggest one.

-When was it built?

-It was built around 1113-1150 AD.

What are these temples made out of, the materials?

-Sandstone.

-How long did it take?

Estimated around 34 years.

34 years?!

-KLAXON

-Oh, that's the gong.

And the one who found out the most facts is...

-Victoria!

-Yeah!

No time to celebrate,

grab some more facts before the demon monkeys get you.

-Aargh! Demon monkeys!

-Run!

-Oh!

-So, this is Angkor Wat.

-Angkor what?

-No, it's Angkor W...

-Inel, we don't have time for this.

-Oh, yeah, right. Facts, OK.

We have to collect the coins in order for the facts to appear.

Oh! Rargh!

The Angkor Wat temple features on the flag of Cambodia.

Impressive.

-I don't know if we've stumbled into a jungle or a temple.

-Hm.

Ooh, coin!

Ta Prohm Temple was used as a location for the film Tomb Raider,

with Angelina Jolie.

I bet Angelina Jolie didn't have to put up with those pesky

demon monkeys.

I tell you what, Vicky, I'm tired of all this dashing around.

Yeah, do you know what?

Those pesky demon monkeys don't even seem that bothered.

It is mysterious, though.

I mean, look at these.

All these animals on there, check out this guy.

This is a genuine, real-life mystery.

It looks just like a stegosaurus -

a dinosaur long dead by the time the carving was made.

-But they didn't know about stegosaurus in the 12th century.

-Hm.

So how on earth did it get here?

I reckon the stonemason was an amateur.

Now, let's rejoin the Great 12-Century Stonemasons' Carve Off

with our master mason, Inel.

Our stonemasons must design a real-life animal carving,

dedicated to the man who built Angkor himself, King Jayavarman VII.

Apparently, he's dedicating this new building to his mother,

which is so sweet!

I just get my mother a pair of slippers on her birthday.

Let's join amateur carver Victoria to see what she's come up with.

Well, everyone was doing, like, boring things like, you know, birds,

-water buffalo...

-So cliche.

-..monkeys, yeah.

So I was like, "I'm going to do something completely different."

Ready? Ta-da!

Right, right.

Surely these are just doodles and you don't actually plan on carving

these in the actual temple itself?

I've already done it. What do you think?

It's either a pangolin, which is, like, a small, scaly,

anteater-type thing, or, right,

it's a rhinoceros with, like, rocks and leaves sticking out behind it.

No! It's a stegosaurus!

And not even a good stegosaurus at that!

My two-year-old could do better than that! Look!

See?

The problem is, years from now, people are going to say,

"Oh, how did that stonemason from the 12th century design that

"stegosaurus when, here in the 12th century,

"we know nothing about dinosaurs?"

Yeah, but it's not a dinosaur.

Yes, but it looks like a dinosaur!

Just think of the conspiracy theories, the endless websites.

Humans walking amongst dinosaurs in Angkor City,

when everybody knows that dinosaurs were extinct 65 million years ago!

-Do you think I should change it?

-Oh, just leave it!

It's small anyway, no-one will notice.

Right, what other designs have you got?

Right, this is amazing, you're going to love it.

I've got...

a robot,

a flying saucer

or, this one's my favourites, OK? It's...

the abominable snowman wearing rocket-powered roller skates!

Argh!

Just like a British seaside holiday, this.

We've even got fish and chips.

Yeah. What kind of sauce do you want with it?

Would you like a bit of a bit of ketchup? A bit of Tommy K?

Oh, no, not in the mood today.

No? Oh. Do you want to get down with brown?

-No.

-How about some fish sauce?

It's the must-try sauce around here.

Oh... It's run out.

Don't panic, I know where to get some more.

-Where?

-Well, there.

Over there. There.

-Everywhere!

-Huh?

Yeah, this whole village is known for making fish sauce.

Have a little smell.

Oh, yeah, there is a bit of a whiff.

You're right, guys -

there really is a fishy business

going on right here at Giao Chau village in the Nam Dinh province.

Because, for over 30 years,

they've been making fish sauce in their own back yards.

It's got a particularly stinky odour,

but someone who has learned to love that fishy smell is expert Mr Hai.

How long have you been making fish sauce?

-TRANSLATION:

-Over 30 years.

How many people here make fish sauce?

40 families in the village make it.

Can we have a whiff of the good stuff?

-OK.

-Here we go.

-Here we go.

-Oh, that's...

-Whoa!

-That's a formidable scent.

-Oh!

That's going to put me off fish and chips forever if I'm not careful.

-I'm getting out of here.

-Ed, don't leave me with all this rotten fish!

Asia's tastiest food, France's toughest critic -

he is better than you, it's Rene Mangetout.

-FRENCH ACCENT:

-We learn the secrets of the fish sauce

with the help of my fishy expert Carp Ninja.

-I think you mean Art Ninja.

-Carp Ninja!

Translate Mr Fishyman's recipe through the medium of carp.

-I think you mean art.

-Shh!

Ah, so, the fishermen get in boats, they capture the anchovies,

which they sell in a market to make the fish sauce.

Oui, c'est bon. Step two.

The fish are put in barrels and covered in salt and left to rot for

a year. This is called fermentation. Ah, oui, oui.

The fish turn into a smoothie-like consistency and the hard bits,

like the bones, fall to the bottom.

The sauce is strained through cloth,

it is collected in ceramic bowls and then left in the sun for...

er, three days.

And finally...

it is bottled and sold in shops.

Wow! My art skills must be really good!

No, I cheated

and I read how it is made beforehand.

Now, this is not an art class, this is a food class - feed me!

Ricky and Mr Hai are preparing a simple Vietnamese dish

called nem ham

infused with fish sauce.

I'm going to add a little bit of fish sauce.

Oops!

The pork, rice, garlic and fish sauce mix is squeezed into a ball,

then Mr Hai expertly wraps it in fig leaves.

-Very impressive.

-Oh, right, it's like a little, leafy burrito.

Now it's ready for tasting.

Carp Ninja, let's hope this stinks...

in a good way.

-COD do better.

-HE CHUCKLES

Mr Fishyman...

..I do not like it...

I love it! It must be the anchovies, cheeky little man!

For sure, I would like to try it with haddock.

Talking of haddock, I've HADDOCK enough!

Clean this mess up!

Ed, welcome to the famous Haw Par Villa.

This amazing, Technicolor theme park reopened in 1992.

Ah, the 1990s. Of all the decades I've lived through, I'd have to say,

it's my seventh most favourite.

Well, I think this calls for a '90s dance classic.

-THE MACARENA TUNE PLAYS

-Oh, we've got the music,

-we've got the costumes - do you remember the dance moves?

-Do I?!

-Well, do you?

-Yeah.

# Here in the Republic of Singapore

# A theme park the like you've not seen before

-# So what is it?

-Well, let's visit

# Admission is free Check out the exhibits

# Packed with statues and dioramas

# Depicting Chinese folks' stories and dramas

# It's all killer and no filler

-# The name of the place is...

-BOTH: # ..Haw Par Villa

# A Chinese mythological theme park like no other

# Originally built by Aw Boon Haw and his brother

# Telling traditional stories you can discover

# At Haw Par Villa Hey!

# This is the legend of the white snake

# Tells the difference bravery and love make

# Now, that sounds fun

# Well this woman rescued her husband from

-# A flooded dungeon

-This is the monkey god Sun Wukong

# Unfortunately things for him went wrong

# He was naughty, Buddha caught him Punished him

# Trapping him underneath a mountain...

BOTH: # ..A Chinese, mythological theme park like no other

# Originally built by Aw Boon Haw and his brother

# Telling traditional stories you can discover

# At Haw Par Villa Hey!

# Over 1,000 colourful statues to see

# Even, bizarrely, the Statue of Liberty

# Keep moving, those sumo guys have got their eye on me

# At Haw Par Villa Hey!

# Romance Of The Three Kingdoms

# As Chinese novels go One of the big ones

-# Part history

-Part mystery

# Story of the fall of the Han Dynasty

# These characters are the Chinese Zodiac

# Including a snake, horse, goat Pig and rat

# 12 creatures Top features

# And this massive tiger is one cool cat...

BOTH: ..A Chinese, mythological theme park like no other

# Originally built by Aw Boon Haw and his brother

# Telling traditional stories you can discover

# At Haw Par Villa Hey!

# It's also known to locals as Tiger Balm gardens

# And as the entry is free Well, it really is a bargain

# I've just seen a deer making a call

-# I beg your pardon?

-# At Haw Par Villa, hey!

# I'm just going to pop into the ten courts of hell

# Unfortunately, you can't come in as well

# This warning means it's far too scary for you...

# ..I'll tell you what That sign is true!

# A Chinese, mythological theme park like no other

# Originally built by Aw Boon Haw and his brother

# Telling traditional stories you can discover

# At Haw Par Villa Hey!

# This tortoise drinking tea is more than slightly perturbing

# This crab with a human head I'm finding disturbing

# Despite being scared stiff I'll certainly be returning

# At Haw Par Villa Hey!

# At Haw Par Villa Hey! #

So, you're telling me there's an army of 5,000 people...

-Called dabbawalas.

-..who travel around Mumbai?

Yeah, a city of around 21 million people.

And they collect packed lunches?

Special packed lunches, home-made, and in tins called dabbas.

And then they deliver them around Mumbai

with astonishing speed and accuracy?

With over 200,000 delivered every single day.

Wow, that's amazing!

-And we're here to find out what's going on?

-Yeah.

And then pinch their ideas to help fuel our very own fast-food

delivery service. Mwah-ha-ha!

Come on, let's practice the slogan.

-BOTH:

-AOTP Fast Food - we deliver all over the place!

Since 1890, the dabbawalas have been delivering hot,

freshly made lunches to customers all over Mumbai.

They use trains, carts, bicycles, their own feet and even their heads

to make this door-to-door service work.

That big, silvery tin,

which keeps office workers' and even school children's lunches warm.

And the most amazing thing is,

they only make one mistake in every 6 million lunches delivered.

That's a 99.99998% success rate.

Dabbawala Dashrak will start your education.

How many tins do you actually collect every day?

-TRANSLATION:

-Well, that's a good question.

We collect about 40 tins a day. Yeah, pretty good.

And how do the dabbawalas know where to take the tins?

Each dabba has a code on it,

which means we know exactly where to deliver them.

Ah, so it's like postcodes and addresses?

Can we deliver a dabba?

Uh-uh, sorry, you can't come on the train, my dear.

Only us dabbawalas can do that.

You need to get there another way - fly, bike, skateboard.

So, not really, then.

-No.

-Tell you what, I've got a special word for times like this.

-OK, and what word's that?

-Taxi!

A taxi auto-rickshaw will help you with your one dabba.

But you're not going to get to your destination as fast as

the dabbawalas on the trains.

The thing is though, I've been wondering,

why don't people just take their lunches with them in the mornings to

-school or work?

-Well, maybe there's a giant lunch-eating monster

on the loose and the only way to distract it is to put your food in

little tins and send it off in different vehicles around the city?

I don't think that's the case at all.

Well, maybe lunch is all in your imagination?

Oh, Chris. I hope for Lauren's sake this traffic keeps moving.

People don't take their lunches with them because Mumbai trains are so

packed during rush-hour,

there just would be no room for everyone to carry a dabba.

Plus, with the average jam-packed journey being 40km,

almost a marathon,

and the tins weighing 1.5kg,

you can see why people like to use the dabbawalas.

They carry those things around on their head!

That would be like having two large Labradors

-just perched on your noggin.

-Do you know what? I don't think we should

-do that with our delivery service.

-Agreed.

It used to be that the lunches were mainly home-made.

But now businesses provide lots of the hot food dabba deliveries.

It seems that Mumbaikars just can't do without dabbas.

-We're so late!

-I know.

We've missed all the packed lunches getting all packed up,

-ready to go.

-Wait, wait, Lauren! There's a dabbawala.

OK, this is our last chance to get some information

about AOTP Fast Food...

-BOTH:

-..we deliver all over the place.

It's going to be massive. Excuse me, we need to deliver this food.

-Can we come with you?

-TRANSLATION:

-Sure, yes, you can,

-if you can keep up.

-Oh, erm...

If you're not fast, you're last.

So keep up! This bike ride takes each dabba to its final destination.

A hungry customer somewhere in Mumbai.

I hope you've not forgotten your dabba for delivery.

Oh, mate, you are quick.

I've been meaning to ask,

what happens to the empty tins at the end of the day?

-Where do they go?

-Well, what we do, and you've got to listen here,

is we collect the empty tins and return them to where they came from

at the end of every day of the week.

-Ah.

-OK. I have to admit, I'm not sure how AOTP Fast Food -

we deliver all over the place - is going to keep up with this.

Oh, come on, Chris, this has been our dream for ten whole minutes!

We can do this!

Yes, we made it before the 1pm delivery deadline and we've reached

our dabba destination. This is it. If we complete this delivery,

we'll be able to compete with the best of them.

So here we go. This is AOTP Fast Food's first-ever dabba delivery!

Yes!

Oh...

-Wrong building.

-Yeah. That's...

They do say one in every 6 million deliveries goes wrong,

so I guess that was the one.

Yeah. Let's never speak of AOTP Fast Food...

-BOTH:

-We deliver all over the place.

-..again.

Yee-haw!

Yee-haw!

Welcome To The All Over The Place main event!

Whoa!

BOTH: Oh...

lion dancing.

Yep, ditch the phoney ponies, fellas, you're in the Far East now

and not the Wild West.

No need for cowboy boots in this main event,

it's one of China's most recognisable traditions -

lion dancing.

It began as a form of martial art,

but now it's more of an acrobatic art,

with the performers mixing elaborate gymnastics

with some more subtle storytelling.

In recent years, lion dancing's popularity has spread

and teams from around the world compete to see who really is

king of the jungle.

I don't actually know how this is possible.

POW!

Mr Deng, that was one of the most incredible displays of agility

and coordination I've ever seen, I'm completely in awe of you guys.

We were just wondering, when you're judging the lion dancing,

what kind of things are you looking for?

-TRANSLATION:

-Well, the first thing we need to look at

is how good the lion's footwork is. Look at that.

Next, we need to look at how well the lion performs with the music.

Look at that.

We also need to look at the emotions that the lion performs.

For example, happiness and fear.

Our two All Over The Place kitty cats won't be trying their claws

on these big posts,

but they will be going lion head-to-head to see who's top cat.

We've come up with a rip-roaring routine for them to take pride in.

Pride, lions?

Oh, never mind.

It's about the lion and the lettuce.

OK. Do the hop and the skip, jump, all the way round.

The lettuce represents good fortune, you know.

The lion spots it and goes through various emotions before grabbing the

lettuce, shredding it and tossing it out to share the good fortune.

All while showing off fancy footwork and musical moves.

It's a little bit to learn.

And who's going to be up front operating the heads?

Why, our lionhearts, Ed and Bobby!

Look at that!

Cue the training section.

Lettuce! Oh!

Now, I'm going to have a little bit of a skip around the lettuce.

-Yes, yes.

-Got that?

He likes that! Then I've got to eat it.

With the hand?

Eat the lettuce!

-Yes, yes.

-Then vomit lettuce everywhere!

Bleurgh!

Well, I'd be LION if I said you look ready,

but there's no time to PAWS, because I hear the roar of the crowd!

What, too many lion puns?

-Really?

-First ever All Over The Place main event, Bobby,

-how are you feeling?

-This is quite the crowd.

-It is, isn't it?

-I wasn't expecting quite as many people.

-No. But I'm excited.

I mean, you know, Yellow Team, we're ready, we're prepared,

-I don't know about you.

-We're RED-dy.

-Oh.

-The Red Team.

-Well, we...

-Yellowy, urgh!

-Yeah.

Mighty lions, ready yourselves.

It's time for the MANE event.

Oh, close your mouth, Ed.

Wish me luck!

And Lion Ed's off to a confident start.

That's one happy lion.

Now, don't forget, Mr Deng is looking out for footwork,

dancing moves and emotions.

And that's some pretty fancy moves from Ed.

I'm scared. Look how scared I am.

Ooh, and what has he spotted?

Lion Ed's certainly getting plenty of emotion into this.

We fell over.

Remember to listen to the music, Ed.

Ooh, nervous.

Nice footwork!

You'll certainly score some points for that.

Lettuce time!

Mr Deng doesn't look impressed.

He's going for it.

He's got the lettuce!

Chomp... Ooh, he's dropped the lettuce!

Yummy, yummy lettuce!

Ed will definitely lose some points for that.

But he's back up and has thrown the lettuce out.

Kind of.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Oh, dear.

-Let's see what Bobby's got for us.

And Bobby Lion looks slow off the mark.

Listen to the music, Bobby.

Oh, good rhythm!

And here comes the footwork.

Whoa! Did you see that?

And is that a hint of curiosity, perhaps?

Hm, Mr Deng isn't giving anything away.

Ooh, nice!

That is one of funky lion!

Lift those legs, lion!

And it's time for the lettuce.

Straight in, no hesitation.

Nice munching.

And a good, solid salad chuck.

Well done, Bobby.

Yep, well done, Bobby.

OK, Bobby, that's enough, Bobby.

What's he doing? He was supposed to have finished ages ago!

What are you doing?

APPLAUSE

It was easy to see what emotions Ed's lion was feeling.

He showed us some solid footwork,

but he was a bit clumsy with the lettuce.

How badly is that going to cost him?

While Bobby's lion was strong on rhythm, good with the lettuce,

but maybe lacking a bit in showing emotion.

Over to you, Mr Deng.

-TRANSLATION:

-You performed the routine's footwork better,

but Ed was much better at performing the emotions and was a stronger,

more confident lion. So the winner is Ed.

Congratulations.

Oh, yeah! I knew lettuce was lucky!

-I'm not going to take that LION down.

-Ooh!

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