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Today, I have a special guest - Corrin.
She is a Vietnamese food enthusiast.
Ans she's gonna take us to a favorite dessert spot in...
Tây Hồ!
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Alright, let's hit the road!
Oh that's the lake. Here it is.
So the first dessert that we're gonna try right now
Is one of my favorite in my childhood.
It's called Bò bía.
And inside it has like a sugar cane bar,
With shredded coconut and with sesame.
And I'm not sure what the outer part.
- It's like rice flour pancake. - Yeah, yeah, that's right.
You know better than me.
Because it's her neighborhood here.
- Have you had it before? - Yeah. I do it, love it so much.
It's always come out in this neighborhood after school time in the evening.
So it's like a good snack for school kids.
- But I think everyone enjoys it. - Yeah!
Talking about school, when I was younger,
My mom always yells at me.
Because I always take the milk from school and exchange it to Bò bía.
And then my mom was like why would you exchange the healthy stuff to the sugar stuff.
But it's so good.
Now we're gonna try to see how it taste, alright.
I can still taste the crunchiness
Like the sugar cane bar in here.
And the coconut definitely brings out the flavor.
The sesame seed, it's called Vừng đen in Vietnamese.
It's the black sesame.
- And then you can smell it to ... the fragrant - So good!
I love the sesame seed, it's so popular here in Vietnam.
Because in the US, it's like very...
It's like adult flavor.
Now our kids like sesame flavor.
So I think it's really interesting that kids have their sweet here.
Yeah, it's really interesting when we have sweet stuff in Vietnam.
They usually put sesame in there as well like in Bánh rán.
- Yeah! - And we're gonna try later.
So yeah, it's really good!
Okay, so dessert that we're gonna have it's called Bánh rán.
So we have one has sesame,
One that has honey and one that is coated in sugar
So this one is actually a salty one.
- It has mushroom, wood ear mushroom, ground pork. - Okay.
And they have rice noodle in there too. That's why it's salty.
- Would you like try it now? - Yeah, I do. I want to try this one.
I really like it. It taste like all the flavors that you find inside spring roll.
Except in a little donut.
So the first thing I hit just was that a little bit sugar.
That I think... so I was like "Oh, it's kinda sweet".
And then all the flavors from inside came out.
- So it's like a good combination. - Exactly! - It's a good snack.
And now we're gonna move on to the sweet one.
- Okay. - Okay, to balance out everything.
- Yeah! - Which one do you like to try next?
- Let's do the sesame one next! - Okay.
Do the sesame one.
I like this one because it is still sweet.
Like it is the dessert and the sesame outside
keep it more well grounded.
Like I know those two are gonna be sweet, super sweet.
But this one is like... I can eat couple one.
This one I feel like not too sweet.
I feel like I can eat 5 of them.
Yeah, but then I can smell... the sesame seed.
Like you said it's so fragrant.
And inside the mung bean just a little bit sweet, not too sweet.
And it's crunchy outside at the same time too.
I love the honey one so much.
Because it still sweet, taste like a dessert.
But the way that they coat the Bánh rán in honey.
It still keep the flavor of honey.
- Right, right! - Like it taste very much, very natural.
Sweetness.
- Yeah. - Yeah, very refreshing on those.
It's not like the burn smell.
- But it's like... - Like ..??
- Yeah, yeah.. .That's right. - .. yeah..??
Definitely the honey one is sweeter than the sesame one.
Yes, yes!
And the last one is just the sugar coated one right.
I like the honey one better.
Yeah, for this one is like ordinary one.
-Yeah. - You know, like it's the mix of the ordinary.
Bánh rán which is like coated with sugar.
And I think it's pretty good, yeah.
This is pretty good, and then also because the sugar doesn't have tongue flavor other than the sweets.
You can really taste the mung bean taste.
- Yeah. - So that's really nice.
When I first came here from the US,
And I learned about these, the Vietnamese donuts, basically.
I love love donuts back in the US.
- But they're so much different from these. - Right!
But I love the rice flour texture to these kind of donuts.
Because it taste that like chewy flavor texture.
Yeah, and then like this more about feeling
That in American smell donuts too.
- Because American style, we have the frosting on top, right? - Right!
And then the donut either if we have the feeling inside.
- Vanilla or chocolate. - Yeah, very... something.
Yeah, but then in here it's like ground and then they fry it.
And it just like so tasty and flavorful.
Okay, so now let's rate! Which one do you like the most?
- I think I like the honey one the most. Yeah - Me too.
The second place?
I really surprise, I like the salted one, the savory one.
- Really? - It's really good.
- And the third place? - Sesame!
Yeah, me too!
This is actually a new area for us.
- Corrin? - I love this area, right on the lake, so cute!
I haven't been here before so let see what they have here okay.
Let's go!
So in our restaurant you can free to taste the flavors before you can make your order.
I would like to try red velvet cake,
and the orange mango, please.
So all ice-cream is home made and develop in their own recipes.
Nice, yeah. And then they have about like 20 - 30 flavors here.
Yeah, yep, we have a full array of milk ice-cream.
And then also vegan ice-cream, it's so exciting.
- Yeah, I'm excited to try the vegan common one. - Yeah
Alright, let's try it!
It's so good. I love it!
Is there cream cheese in the velvet cake one?
It is. You taste right.
Okay, I wanna try the orange mango one.
- So good! - So fresh!
- Thank you. - So fresh and so creamy!
You taste the cream cheese?
Yum! Like a frosting, oh, it's so good... so good.
- I think that one is my favorite. - That is your favorite? - I love it!
Yeah, I can taste the cream cheese in there, and that one is not too sweet.
- No, yeah - Yeah, so it's so good.
- Oh, they're beautiful. - Thank you
So we're at Two cream - Hi cream.
And I can see that's their ice-cream flavors.
We have red velvet, mango orange and vegan chocolate.
But these, amazing dessert, their specialties.
So they're home made macaron cookies.
You can see the nice cookies sandwich.
- And it's melting. - It's melting fast.
And we also have hot toasted croissant.
Croissant sandwich with ice-cream inside.
And red velvet crumble on top and marshmallow.
- Yum~ OMG, I can't wait to try it.
You know what like...
This is my first time trying like a croissant with ice cream in there.
So good!
OMG, I can keep eating and eating it.
The combination is just so good, we have like...
Butter, flaky but then the ice cream as well like mellow but also sweet.
Ahh, so delicious!
The croissant is so thin and so crunchy.
And inside it so air.. you know and then with ice cream.
It make the perfect combination.
And I feel like the chocolate is not as sweet at all.
And I can feel the chocolate in the US is a little bitter.
But I feel like the different in Vietnam, it's not as bitter like the one in the US, right?
Yeah, and this one is vegan one.
So it has a tiny hint coconut under it, because they use coconut cream inside it to make it creamy.
Which is really nice 'coz in it really creamy, really milky but not too sweet.
I like the cream cheese one way that red velvet.
The thing with food reviewer, we always talking about is that
We try to take photo, and we try to set up everything, make sure the sound is on, everything like that.
So the ice cream is melting.
And then like when we see the ice cream is melting we was like "Let's do it right away!"
And then we get the bite, it's rewarding.
You know like with all the hard work, I feel like the ice cream is so good.
And it's like very nice to worth for us after all.
And we hope that YouTube or Instagram has a taste button.
- So you can like really taste the deliciousness from these ice cream. - You're right.
So much about being a food reviewer. It's like...
Setting up, preparation, research and very little about eating food.
So like our passion have to drive us
To be like I know that this is something I really wanna share with people.
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Now we're gonna try the macaron one, right?
Okay, can you introduce a little bit about it?
So it's like macaron cookies on top.
which is gonna be nice because it is not gonna be super heavy like the croissant.
And super air thin like...
And then we have red velvet ice cream inside.
And home made red velvet crumble around the outside.
So beautiful to look at. Even though it's melting.
- I can't wait to try it. - It looks like a hamburger. - Yeah, it does
- So yeah, let's taken! - Okay!
That's fire.
- Yum~ - It's so good. - OMG!
So good!
Yeah, guys, it's not too sweet at all.
And then I feel like it makes really well with the ice cream,
And red velvet and everything.
I can taste the cream cheese in there.
I love cream cheese.
So I feel like this one is really good.
My favorite would the chocolate one.
- But now my favorite is this one. - Yeah, love it so much.
The cookie is like a little chewy.
So it has a nice like chewy texture in it when you bite on this ice cream.
And then it's nice too because the cookie is quite firm.
So it doesn't soggy with the ice cream on top.
- It still has the different texture. - Awesome, yeah!
Alright, that's our food tour today.
Corrin, how do you feel what we ate today?
Ah, I such a sweet tooth but now I eat all of those in one day.
I feel like I'm crashing.
- But they're so delicious. - I know, right.
Yeah, I love dessert and guys if you come to Hanoi
Definitely check those bought out.
And now I kind of have the sugar crash right now.
- I need take a nap. - I need take a nap too.
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