...but there's a catch.
Luke Nguyen is a very interesting (at least, in my opinion) Vietnamese-Australian Chef who has had a couple of travel/cooking shows about Asian food. Lately, I've been watching Luke Nguyen's Greater Mekong - a fascinating series where he travels to several cities in the various countries along the Mekong River (China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). Most of the time, he seeks out the popular street foods and shows how to make them.
There IS a catch, however. As I said, he's Vietnamese-AUSTRALIAN. Thus, the shows are on AUSTRALIAN television.
With my VPN (something a few of us have discussed here, before), I can just request to connect through Sydney or Melbourne and I have no trouble watching the full-episode videos on the show's home-network website, but I know that most (maybe all) of you don't have VPN service, so I started to look for FREE alternatives that you guys could possibly use (not just for this show's site, but for things like the BBC, as well).
I found a GREAT alternative, so Jean, Alina and anyone else interested in some of these shows, take note!
The free service is called "HOLA!" and it can work as a Firefox or Chrome extension, as a separate Windows or Mac program or as an Android app. Once installed, it makes use of separate, individual "scripts" to handle each site, so you also need to install those (or enable someof the already-included ones, if they are for the sites you want).
At first, I didn't have much luck with the Firefox extension, but I have quite a few other thing installed in Firefox that could have been getting in the way.
The Chrome extension, on the other hand, worked beautifully and I was able to watch both Luke Nguyen's Greater Mekong (Australia) and Celebrity MasterChef (England) with no problems.
If you would like to give it a try, here's how to do it:
Enjoy!
Luke Nguyen is a very interesting (at least, in my opinion) Vietnamese-Australian Chef who has had a couple of travel/cooking shows about Asian food. Lately, I've been watching Luke Nguyen's Greater Mekong - a fascinating series where he travels to several cities in the various countries along the Mekong River (China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). Most of the time, he seeks out the popular street foods and shows how to make them.
There IS a catch, however. As I said, he's Vietnamese-AUSTRALIAN. Thus, the shows are on AUSTRALIAN television.
With my VPN (something a few of us have discussed here, before), I can just request to connect through Sydney or Melbourne and I have no trouble watching the full-episode videos on the show's home-network website, but I know that most (maybe all) of you don't have VPN service, so I started to look for FREE alternatives that you guys could possibly use (not just for this show's site, but for things like the BBC, as well).
I found a GREAT alternative, so Jean, Alina and anyone else interested in some of these shows, take note!
The free service is called "HOLA!" and it can work as a Firefox or Chrome extension, as a separate Windows or Mac program or as an Android app. Once installed, it makes use of separate, individual "scripts" to handle each site, so you also need to install those (or enable someof the already-included ones, if they are for the sites you want).
At first, I didn't have much luck with the Firefox extension, but I have quite a few other thing installed in Firefox that could have been getting in the way.
The Chrome extension, on the other hand, worked beautifully and I was able to watch both Luke Nguyen's Greater Mekong (Australia) and Celebrity MasterChef (England) with no problems.
If you would like to give it a try, here's how to do it:
- Go to the Hola! site.
- Install the version of Hola that is appropriate for you.
- If you want to watch Luke Nguyen's show on SBS, install their SBS script.
- If you want to watch the BBC, install their BBC script from there.
- Once those scripts are installed and are in your list of Hola sites, make sure to click the upper-right corner of each of them to enable them.
- After that, any time you go to either of those sites, it will go through Hola and not be blocked by your not being in their countries.
- All of your other browsing will be normal and NOT go through Hola (i.e. it only does sites for which you have scripts and whose scripts you have enabled).
Enjoy!
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