Hey what's up guys, it's Cory here.
I'm with my friend, Jeff. What's up!
We're down here at Hoan Kiem Lake at this Japan-Vietnam Festival.
And it's kind of like a flower festival for the sakura, the cherry blossoms,
and it's kind of like an event to celebrate the friendship between Japan and Vietnam.
And their partnership and friendship, it's been going on for I think 45 years.
And so that's why they're having this pretty cool festival and you get to experience some
Japanese culture, Vietnamese culture,
food, Yeah, food.
And there's also supposed to be over 10,000 sakura branches on display.
And I think over 30 actual sakura trees, that were brought in and gifted to Vietnam by Japan.
Wow. Yeah, really cool.
I've heard that there's also going to be a lot of native flowers from Vietnam, a lot of orchids and other things.
So it's a pretty cool flower event, and friendship event, between the two countries.
Alright, so let's go check it out guys!
We're entering to where all the food is! Alright, festival food, let's go!
So in this area, they have Japanese food and Vietnamese food.
And for some strange reason, there's a lot of places selling Korean street food, like tteokbokki,
and even soondae, pajeon and stuff. I don't know why, but it's there.
We just came here to eat the Japanese food.
We live here in Vietnam, so we can get most of this stuff here, any day, like all the time.
And I'm sure it's really good, but for you guys, we're just going to eat the Japanese food.
Okay, Jeff is going to try the chocolate Shu cream.
It's filled with chocolate custard.
Oh really?
Can you see the chocolate all over my mouth?
It's good. The choco cream in the middle is nice and cold.
Okay, so it's essentially like a batter and they put pieces of octopus in it.
And at the end, they cover it with some of the fish flakes.
Yeah, so we're going to try that.
Cheers.
Very hot!
Nice piece of octopus in it.
Yeah.
Tastes alright.
Takoyaki!
Okay, the next item we got...
Is it swimming across your face?
So what's this, fish pancake?
Yeah, it's called Taiyaki, and it's essentially
like batter with this molded fish shape.
I don't know, it looks like there's no red bean. (I ordered red bean)
Well, there's only one way to find out. There's only one way to find out.
Let's do it.
You know what, there's a thing with... How did you eat yours first?
I bit his face off.
Was it the face? Or the head? How did you do it?
Oh, okay. Yeah...
So there's a thing with your personality, with the way you eat taiyaki.
If you eat tail first, or head first, you kind of bit from the top of the body.
I don't know what that means, but there is some thing, maybe I should Google that.
So mine's got custard.
Oh, custard?
Yeah, goopy custard.
Yeah, that custard is really hot.
But not bad.
Good dough, I guess. It's fluffy.
Yeah, very fluffy.
Ok, let's keep going!
Alright, the next thing we're going to eat is soumen.
And this is a cold noodle dish.
And it's got soumen noodles, soumen sauce,
carrots, green scallions, there's even some ice cubes to keep it cold.
When I grew up eating this, we always had a piece of wasabi in there too. Mix it up.
Cheers!
Oh yeah.
Refreshing. Yeah, very nice and cold.
So some of the foods that we ate are a little bit salty, like they kind of make you thirsty.
So we're going to go find a cold drink.
I have no idea what drink this one is, it looks really colorful.
It's a good purple / red.
And it's probably like 500 mL.
It's quite a big gulp.
Let's taste it.
It's like a berry soda with a little bit of lime. Berry soda?
Yeah. Like raspberry? or something?
Yeah. And a piece of lime.
Just to give it some freshness.
And I have hong cha, and this is black tea, almost like oolong tea.
Cheers!
Ahhhhh!
Alright, what did you think of the food, dude?
Uhmmm it was OK. I think the best one was the last one.
The soumen noodles.
Yeah, me too, that was my favorite as well.
Not a lot of variety, though, as I was expecting.
All in all, it was OK.
The flowers were awesome, all the different cherry blossoms,
and the Vietnamese flowers.
Yeah. It was very colorful.
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