Oh come on
Today, I'm in new ins hometown of voom town in search of a tasty treat
but first she has a little surprise for me well, that is uh
There's a big Jesus
The biggest one the [biggest] one in a Vietnam in Vietnam. Yeah come on down to Hometowne. We've got a great food and giant cheese's
your giant Jesus
Will you please bless our meal? We're about to eat it is a hot pot and it has a stingray in it
I hope that it will taste good and the hot pot will be the most hot pot that has ever been
Potted thanks giant. Cheese's. Bye
These are called mantis shrimp they punch for the creatures with their face. They can attack you yeah, they hit hard right? Yeah
Can it hurt a person taking heart yeah finger? [okay]? Let's go for something else. Oh [yeah], be right what?
This thing is huge
Saw more like a popcorn shrimp kind of guy when it comes to seafood, and they're gonna put this in a hot tub
[oh] yeah, why don't you fly it? They just cut it into pieces yeah, oh come on. Oh?
It makes it just a salami sound it's so slimy repels
Excited apple writing yeah, I could haunt you so Steve Irwin rest in peace
He was taken down by Stingray and in his honor today. I will eat one of these mother you understand
I
Would guess since this is a hotpot they're just gonna kind of chunk it up and throw it into a pond
Oh, I hope we get some facemate in our hot pot this place is famous for their stingray [hotpot] yeah
That's I wow and you can tell what the way she handles the stingray
It's not her first time for me at least when I see a giant stingray just sitting there in the sun
at the fish market
I'm not like I should eat that I think that should be in a museum about [the] fish
But I think if you chop it into tiny pieces you could chop almost any animal into tiny pieces
Put it in a hot pot and I'll eat it. That's good idea
Let's leave her to be kind of alone with the fish
I don't want to I feel like we're ruining her special moment
So she can keep doing that and let's go to the restaurant part. Yeah, sure
When you reveal this when you took the lid off?
I didn't think it was going to look good and it looks not only does it look lovely
It smells great. [it] smells really good. So we got our beer and ah
I use the straw, do you use the straw? (yes cheers) because I want to feel like a kid
But I want to feel like a drunk kid mainly
so we have rice noodles here bean sprout banana flower yeah, mint
Morning Glory and rice cracker. Yeah
and then we also have fish sauce with chilies in it here along with a delicious cold beer and
Our huge [hotpot] where do we begin?
If you want to eat the rest of all you can dip it inside the broth. I choose a little
Young
Banana Flower Young Banana flower
Morning Glory
little
Is this a messy meal? Yeah, messy Ok cool. I love vegetable
So I eat a lot, okay, cool you eat a lot of the vegetables. Oh yeah, I mean, why waiting for it ready
Okay ready you can lift the fish and the broth first. This is a nice big fat piece of
Stingray, I'm not that worried about the vegetables. I'll get to it later, but I've had vegetables before
They're not that great. no I'm just kidding. I'm good, but I'm all about this stingray right now and kind of figuring it out
I'm trying to really pull off a nice big hunk of
meat
Well see this is what I love about trying new things
Because just looking at this creature look it looks intimidating especially from a westerner's point of view, but the way they prepared it
It's not fishy at all. It doesn't have a strong any kind of strong
Seafood Fishy odor
It just it tastes very clean
It's soft again like a nice delicate [Whitefish] with the super aromatic savory broth. It's outstanding
I really thought this was going to be the first episode where I have to go okay. I'm just going to pretend like this
I'm going to get through it and [it], but instead. It's really good
It's another like interactive meal
So you have a bunch of people around the hot pot, you're all drinking you're adding in different ingredients
You're pulling out different ingredients. Will you keep this pot full for like two hours or one hour It takes me like one
or two hours to finish that. Thank you so much for introducing this to me
I say let's throw in a bunch more veggies well listen a little few more veggies
Let's get going on this and for you guys if you are interested in this kind of Vietnam foodie experience
Please hit up one trip. They are the ones who made this video possible
They're putting on an amazing food tour in saigon and in Hoi Yen links for that are in the info box down below
I'll see you next week
A-PEACE