hello welcome back to Hanoi in Northern Vietnam in today's video we're going to be
leaving Hanoi and heading towards our starting point for this big adventure which is the
northernmost point of Vietnam on the Chinese border but before we leave Hanoi i do want
to quickly share with you some of the local sites here the colorful temples my brutal review of egg
coffee we'll also be meeting fellow youtubers who've just finished doing a motorcycle trip here
and i'll be asking them some brutal questions what was the most overrated place overrated
so yeah come and explore some more of hanoi with me today we should have another fun day let's go
the old quarter is definitely the best most atmospheric part of hanoi
my little hostel is just down that little alleyway this is an amazing little bar where
you can drink beer overlooking the one of the gates here the old quarter was historically
the hub of different types of commerce each street would be a specialized commerce street so one
street would be spices one street would be metal other street might be meat and veg today it's more
of a hustle and bustle backpacker area local area my goal is to take you through the old quarter
we'll go see what we can find we'll try and get a bowl of fur maybe some egg coffee i've heard
that's really popular we're gonna try and tick off some of the bucket list things to do today
before we go meet up with that american couple i think they're american i've never met them
they seem really cool and i've got something for them from bangkok that they really need so i'm
thinking that if i give them the thing they asked for me to buy for them that they'll exchange some
wise knowledge on how to get through this country in one piece because they've just finished it
if you're wondering by the way why are you walking on the road paddy it looks dangerous walk on the
pavement you can't every single stretch of the pavement is blocked with people selling things
people eating people talking people having coffee
people drinking beer the pavements are not for walking the pavements are
prime real estate for selling stuff so you have to walk on the roads in the old quarter
i'm not going to be comparing vietnam to thailand because you know you shouldn't
compare countries you should treat each country as its own entity the only reason why
i kind of sometimes do it in my head subconsciously it's because i've spent
so much time in thailand but the only thing that i'll say on this whole series of videos
in comparison to thailand is is the face mask situation i'd say 10 or 15
of the people in vietnam are wearing a face mask and 90 percent or or a little bit less just don't
wear a mask and that's fine because the rules here are wear it if you want don't wear it if you don't
want it's nice because i think you should have the choice if you want to wear it but in thailand
and this is the only comparison i'm going to make if you don't wear a face mask
you get a lot of dirty looks whereas here people smile at you and like this lady here she's got one
on that's fine she wants to have it but most other people they don't want to and they don't have to
and that's fine that's the only comparison i'm gonna do on this whole series i promise
so
one more song one more song behind me here is din cafe and it's on my phone so one of you
guys must have left this as a recommendation so thank you i just checked apparently it's
the best place to get egg coffee now i am kind of hungry and i'm desperate for fur
but egg coffee will keep us going and i never tried it before so this should be interesting
plus people just played badminton in the street here which is really cool
okay here it is looks a bit weird
obviously i'm used to latte art in the west here we've got egg art and it's hot
and it's it's not really a drink is it it's more like a like a pudding
like an egg like a coconut pudding do you drink it
oh it's it's not hot why is it hot i'm so confused oh my god that's so sweet
okay it's i'm so confused okay you gotta really mix it up so that it gets hot
there is coffee in there somewhere in the back of the shop kind of it's not the front facing
coffee flavor that you would get if you were drinking a coffee or a latte or cappuccino
it's thick it's the texture of a coconut pudding or a chocolate mousse
if you're in the mood for a coffee don't get this if you're in the mood for a
sweet dessert don't get this get this if you want to try something new and strange in a beautiful
environment it was beautiful and it was sweet but it's not for me
yeah okay so egg coffee was a bit of a miss for me but we tried it and across the street
from the cafe is jade mountain temple 30 000 to get in so 1.5 us dollars and
get this local people and foreigners pay the same same price it was erected in the 19th century in
commemoration for one of the greatest military commanders of the tran dynasty and it also pays
homage to the chinese god of prosperity so you do see vietnamese and probably before covered
and with all the crazy lockdowns happening in china lots of chinese people putting notes and
fake money and blessings into a fire and paying homage to the statues inside
there's also fossilized turtles in these boxes that apparently used to live in this lake
and they're absolutely huge and very strange looking kind of unbelievable really if the
hustle and bustle of the old quarters a little bit too much for you just come here it's proper chill
okay so we've walked we've sweated we've explored we've had a great time the only
problem is we haven't found any foot so i've text my friends i'm meeting them in
an hour i have a half an hour walk back and then we're gonna go eat some fur together
wow
okay i'm showered i've changed my shirt and i'm feeling fresh
and i'm off to meet the one pack wanderers a youtube channel that i have just driven
from saigon to hanoi i'm going to give them this this is the thing that they asked me to buy dji
microphone system from bangkok and i can see why they ask because there's not even a 7-11 in
vietnam it's all independent shops no big malls and coming from bangkok there's a mall on every
single street and it was like really easy to go get this and apparently they really need it so
they'll give me the cash and in exchange i'll grill them about vietnam
yeah the one pack wanderers guys these guys are awesome if you haven't checked out their channel
definitely do it it's always nice to meet other fellow content creators and just talk and share
and just have that rare opportunity to crack heads over the industry and the kind of work that we do
it's very rare that you meet other youtubers and so if you have a youtube channel you'll know
that yes it looks like everyone's collaborating all the time but in reality meeting content
creators is really rare and yeah we sat on these incredibly uncomfortable small tiny plastic chairs
which are very common here in vietnam when we got the faux we got the beef noodle soup in the end
absolutely delicious especially when you sprinkle in the chili the chili sauce and a squeeze of lime
absolutely amazing we'll be eating lots of fur on this trip for sure and then we went to beer
corner and had a couple of beers and just talked more about vietnam but i wanted to save the best
questions the ones that i think are going to be the most useful for me and for you the viewer in a
quick fire round so we sat down found a place that wasn't blasting copyrighted music and i drilled
them okay here they are hey guys it's the one peg wandering so you've just finished you started in
saigon yeah we did and you've just finished in tonight the opposite that you're doing yeah so
we've had a few beers we've had a good old chat but i've got five quick fire ground questions i
don't want to like ask you too much detailed stuff because i want to keep my trip spontaneous and fun
but i also want to get some useful information from you all right so the first question
an answer separately okay you can't have the same answer you can't be a boring couple and agree on
everything uh best place that you went to on this trip was your first day for me it's a lot for me
okay good uh what was the most overrated place overrated ooh i think for me it wasn't a train it
felt like miami but in vietnam okay and that was yeah yeah i lost in a train yeah no it's okay if
she if she agrees with you okay okay that's fine uh so natrang is overrated okay good to know um
where did you leave and think damn like we should have stayed there longer still oh man okay she's
quick on that one to laugh really a location but i would like to spend more time on the ho chi minh
good tonight i like regret not not saying like the whole thing yeah okay so the ho chi minh
trail and the lap is where i should hunker down a little bit longer than normal i think so yeah
best food in vietnam oh my gosh uh we go first uh what's the one we ate during the day
what is it it's a pork like sweet grilled pork and rice noodles and fish sauce it's really good okay
i'll write that down northern so you get it in the north yeah yeah okay right last question okay
vietnam or thailand oh they're so different though okay so if you want like the wild west we're in
southeast asia crazy happyness then vietnam yeah i completely agree thailand is is such a nice
launching point in the southeast asia yeah it has just like the perfect amount of like comforts and
everyone is very nice and it's just very easy you know but uh but also different enough coming from
the west all right cheers guys congratulations on making this yeah i feel like you're passing
the baton on to me yeah and uh i'll keep the biking on the road series alive on my new
bike you going to name it dreamy again
oh yeah have you named it i don't have a name for my bike yeah it doesn't i don't you haven't
read it right yeah i've only driven it from the bike shop to the hostel okay so once i hit the
open road maybe the name will come to me also i'm asking my patreons and channel members but
like the names they've suggested are even worse than my one i was like we'll call it super
dreamy but better than that yeah the rest of you writers start thinking up a name for this funky
dog i don't know something along the lines of say poochy only more proactive yeah
so poochy okay with everybody yeah i really know it's good
oh
i'm as rough as old boots today
today might be a struggle why did i choose the day before our big first drive to go out with
youtubers who were really cool and who i got along along with really well and stayed out till one
o'clock in the morning drinking tequila with and then today i wake up looking and feeling like this
um i need fuel and we're just gonna head out of the city we're just gonna leave hanai we're gonna
head north and see how far we get today we'll see maybe 200 kilometers that would be nice gotta
get fuel literally on empty right now and i'm indicating left for some reason i woke up this
morning and the the lady in my hostel the manager she said um oh you've parked your bike outside for
a long time i said yeah it's been there two days she was like what apparently it's really common
for motorbikes to get stolen or towed away by the police because you have to pay for parking you
have to have a permit to park on that street and there's car parks that you have to go to
i think i just went through a red light and i said what i didn't know this she said you're so lucky
and then she said you better go now because they normally come in the mornings and they'll take
your bike away oh so i started getting like anxiety and then i couldn't find my passport
and for some reason it was in my camera bag i don't remember putting it in there
so for like two massive anxiety flares this morning i've lost my passport
and my bike is going to get impounded or something so instead of being dubious and upbeat
kind of just focusing on getting out of hanoi getting some fuel would be nice
and then we'll take a second to breathe find some food what time is it five past ten
and it's hot
yeah paddy's a bit hungover and a little bit anxious and we're on the road and we're saying
goodbye to hanoi and this is where everything that could have gone wrong went wrong including
landslides and multiple punctures in very rural middle of nowhere places lots of adventure lots
of mishaps to come and i'll tell you the full story and show you everything that happened to me
in the next video i'm so excited to share the rest of this series with you it's
gonna be just wild and i'm so happy that you guys are enjoying the series
and i promise in the next video i'm not gonna be hungover
see you in the next one you