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we are back with another vietnamese street food tour and today we are with the hoi an local to
make sure we taste the real vietnam so we are currently just by the ancient town here in hoi an
central vietnam the sun is just about to set and the street food market that we're going to tonight
is sort of a night market that i think opens about 6 p.m people are just starting to get on the boat
in the evening all the lanterns are turned on as well and it's really really beautiful
the reason we booked a local for this tour is because in our last street food video where
we're in ho chi minh city we didn't really know what we were buying what we were looking for
and of course there's a language barrier so what better way to find the best vietnamese street food
than with a local this time around we've got a bit of a criteria that we want to make sure
that we hit so we've told our local guide that we want to find two snacks as well as two meat dishes
and two vegetarian dishes and two drinks and two desserts it's gonna be a lot of food in this video
okay so we're just about to try a bit of a classic called
i'm gonna get this wrong now what was the name again
it's like a rice paper almost looks like a pizza like a rice paper pizza with a lot of
different things on top now we've asked for it without beef and without sausage
so i can have it but there is a quail egg
this pizza dish is 20000 vietnamese dong
hot
Chewy?
not chewy at all i just don't want to talk with my mouth full i can see why everyone's eating
it around here because just as simple but like really delicious delicious little snack
so this market here seems to be more of a street food stalls everywhere around the city rather than
just one concentrated place with street food stalls which is kind of nice because you get to
walk around the city as well so we're just walking up and down now trying to find the next meal
this is nem lui
okay first of all with this dish you plop this really floppy rice paper looking thing on another
rice paper and then you grab some of the salad or salad leaves vegetables vegetables
you can use your hand if you want to yeah
and then each of these sticks were 10 000 each this comes with some peanut sauce that peanut
sauce is good so now we're going to wrap it up just like a spring roll spring rolls but yeah
what do you mean what's wrong with that? you fold in the sides that's terrible
dip that in again
it's better than the spring roll you had last week oh yeah this is not chewy at all it's nice
What?
just to mix it in you know. yea this is good
sticky rice and shrimp inside oh that sounds really nice it's like hoian style okay
a different one different style it's made by locals
What the difference? Green beans for you
okay
sticky rice and shrimp okay and the inside there's two flavors one shrimp and green beans okay
and what's the sauce on top uh it's like it's just the chili sauce no it's it's either dry onions oh
yeah it's dry onions just the fish sauce perfect so i'm gonna have my first vegetarian thing
because this has got sticky rice and green beans inside
it smells really nice looks like it's got some sort of shallots as well i'm not sure
and dried onion all on top which is smelling quite good actually
almost like kind of springy
that's quite nice actually i really like what's on top
really delicious really i think you'll like this so the version i'm trying for my snack is a shrimp
inside now this is definitely something i would not have just picked up from the side you know
without someone telling us what it is i've already forgotten what it's called but that doesn't matter
very chewy but very nice i can taste the onions and the garlic on there
wow i'm surprised with that is that vinegar
just fish sauce very mild fish sauce but yeah thumbs up for this one
walking around here is actually super intense so even though they don't allow
motorbikes here on these streets at night there's a lot of bikes still and a lot of people we walked
around here the other night and it was super busy it's now a sunday night so it's weekend
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so our guide was just saying that the food in hoi an is a little bit sweeter than food
from the rest of vietnam so maybe that's why we love it so much we do love
sweet food and that might be the reason why most of the things that we're seeing are desserts
so i think pretty much 80 of what we've seen tonight is desserts but we're not having desserts
just yet gonna find couple think more things first yeah i think we need a drink maybe drink now yes
so we're currently stood in a queue to a place that has
a sort of kind of tea thing i think it's drank cold though
it's very popular so there's a lot of people here we've been walking past it so many times
and there's always somebody taking an instagram shot outside and there's loads and loads of people
oh it's pretty
i can get this one yeah sorry
okay
it's a cold sort of iced tea beverage i've been told it has like lemongrass lemon some cinnamon
it's basically cooked together in some sort of syrupy thing and then mix that with water
there's loads of other delicious spices i think in there i'm not 100 sure on that one
oh it's lemongrass i thought it was a straw
it's actually really tasty that is so delicious and look how pretty it is i
can see why a lot of people are coming here to take photos and videos just outside the whole
day one drink was only 15 000 delicious super worth it very aesthetic as well
really nice i don't know what's else to say
okay so we have a dessert which is vegetarian which has pretty much everything on there
um i'm not 100 sure what everything is to be completely honest with you but it is basically
a layer of tofu underneath and then loads of different toppings i said a little bit
of everything and that literally means a little bit of everything there's jellies there's loads
of different types of beans and different sweet treats on there i'm super intrigued to try this
i thought that was going to be
super chewy and like sticky but it's really nice. It disappeared in my mouth
this was 20000 dong
with all of this on top i mean i could eat this until the end of time
luckily i'm going to be sharing it this evening so that means we still have
one meat dish to get one more drink to get and two desserts as well
its underneath there? yeah so this is a dish called hen xiao now this dish i would probably
have never picked out myself but it's a
clam dish from hoian and this is a rice cracker that i meant to use to eat this okay
i'm properly pushing the boat out today oh oh just anything
i'm tasting a lot of the mint so let me get some without the mint so where's the clam in
here this is the clam the small small small hoian clam so it's from the river river clam
so these tiny tiny things here is the clam so i thought clams were maybe this normal right
mmm it's like nothing i've ever tasted before i can't even explain it but
yeah it's nice i probably would yeah again would never have picked this but
try everything once could you try it twice i probably wouldn't order this again no that
it's not because i don't like it just because there's other things that are nicer but nice to
try things out we just said you want some spicy and said yeah let's have some spicy
very good wow
now that has just transformed this dish for me
now i probably would buy this again but this whole dish was 40 000 vietnamese dong
so this is a sweet potato cake now i guess that you can kind of think of that as a dessert or
a snack but sweet potato is pretty sweet so we're gonna count as a dessert in this case
um it's grilled and looks delicious and it smells really nice so i can't wait to tuck
into that and it was ten thousand dong for one cake it's super hot
So cute look at the legs
is coconut also inside okay so it's definitely dessert now it went from me being maybe a dessert
to a definite dessert because there's also coconut inside
it reminds me of a um of a welsh cake if anyone knows where welsh cake is
oh yeah that's good a little bit dry but very sweet and tasty
i thought it was going to be more like an icicle but it's definitely ice cream
and not an ice lolly it's quite creamy i'm so sorry so we just got ice creams on a little stick
which is basically little cones of ice cream there was a few different flavors to choose from i went
for coconut Dylan went for strawberry which is zao zao so so it's difficult with the language here
but they're really delicious five five thousand dong for one i mean that's that's a great price
So the final stop of the day we have tra tac which is kumquat juice
juice not alcoholic no no no alcohol very healthy looks like a cocktail very healthy apparently
tastes like tangerine
very similar to an orange like tangerine or kind of family a little bit more bitter try it
oh yeah it does have like a a bit of a bitter taste in there but it's quite sweet it almost
tastes a little bit like a citrusy obviously that's what a kumquat is i think i don't think
i've ever had a kumquat before i'm not 100 sure they're very common in sort of the europe area but
this is really tasty it's like a sort of herbally almost tasting iced tea
normally at this point we would tally up everything that we spent but it
wasn't this type of video today we want to see how much we can actually
eat now we found so many amazing foods and that's one of the benefits of having a local to actually
help us out we've actually got the names and what's inside all the dishes which was really
really helpful so thank you so much to julie if you've enjoyed this video then you might enjoy
the video that's on the screen right now where we spent one of our first nights in ho chi minh city
going to the street food market and seeing what we could get for only five us dollars