Hong Kong YouTuber Goes All the Way to South Africa to Find Out Why the $#*&^? Chinese People Moved There

Popular Hong Kong travel YouTuber Torres Pit托哥 recently went to Johannesburg to find out why so many Chinese people have chosen to live in South Africa. 

What’s interesting is how readily and openly Chinese merchants in Joburg’s comparatively small Chinatown opened up to Torres and answered his questions about their personal journeys from China to Africa. 

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