hi everyone it's martina your friendly
neighborhood caucasian lady
today i want to talk about vietnamese
food and how to eat
faux or how you should say it
if you're having a hard time remembering
that i don't blame you it's spelt
p h o and we're actually using an
english pronunciation of a word that's
in vietnamese that
i'm not going to pronounce properly
either because i've never spoken
vietnamese but there's an easy way for
you to remember it just
imagine this scenario
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having fun for dinner tonight oh nice
yup vietnamese food
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since colder morning is still raging
toronto i can't go to my favorite
restaurant to show you their amazing
bowl of noodles but what i can do is
have it delivered
and i'm going to be ordering from my og
shop i've been going there since i was
like in high school it's called
fuckhome99
i am not it's right there you guys okay
that's
that's what it looks like so faux com 99
if you want to it's located in
mississauga
represent it's part of a city that's
around the gta
since toronto is still being affected by
colder mort it's been
quite some time i'm going to order
delivery pho which actually is kind of
cool because they come
all disassembled and i can show you how
to assemble it what you're eating and
then once things open up you'll be able
to go to a vietnamese restaurant
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hey this is martina gotta tell you
something
uh-huh you mean a latte to me
is this happening yep yeah this is
happening it's gonna be a coffee puns
huh
well pardon my french roast i just need
to espresso myself
okay okay i see where this is heading i
see where this is happening
for you yeah people okay
live in la vida mocha okay well you just
go off and be
creative and enjoy filming your video
video what video oh
my food's here food has arrived and it's
come
packaged in different containers so that
you can assemble it first you've got the
broth and inside of it you can see
floating are those little kind of balls
those are beef balls i ordered them as
part of my meal but you don't have to
beef balls are basically like a
vietnamese meatball it's ground beef and
they might add a little bit of pork in
there
you can tell the difference between a
beef ball and a fish ball because fish
balls tend to be more like a white color
but beef balls have a little bit of that
light brown color to them
you're also going to get this little
confusing bag of things which i'll
explain
and then separately packed are the
noodles the beef and the toppings now
this is important because my beef in the
back here is actually raw and the
noodles underneath are already cooked so
we got to put it all together without it
overcooking if it came inside of the
soup it would have been extremely soggy
and bloated
let us assemble for sure
also i ordered spring rolls which are um
unrelated to the video right now but
vietnamese spring rolls are amazing
welcome 99
a vietnamese spring roll should be
really really crispy on the outside
you can tell it's been fried properly
because of all this
spiky stuff here if you throw something
into hot oil at the correct temperature
it kind of spikes upwards and you'll see
that on really good japanese tempura as
well
and also the inside has like a ground
meat on the inside that's almost like a
pate
it's got julian carrots sometimes it has
noodles inside of it
yum
you know
okay i separated everything for you so
we can take a look at the components so
first off we have the toppings
so we've got this sweet thai basil which
you're not going to be cooking you're
going to add it at the end and it's
going to be bombastically important for
the flavor and thai basil is
more like the sweet side i don't really
know how to explain it until you
actually just try it but i literally
just love smelling this
oh so good we've got bean sprouts over
here
i also love just eating these by the
handful
oh yeah and we've got some pieces of
lime these are all going to be for
toppings that you add on according to
preference
i suggest using all of this but we'll
get around to that over here we've got
two kinds of onions white and purple and
cilantro
we have rice noodles which have been
pre-cooked and they are ready to go they
just need to be warmed
we have raw beef which i requested it to
be raw
and we have a cooked brisket over here
and also this is sriracha hot sauce
mixed with a bit of hoisin sauce
and of course the most critical we have
the broth with the beef balls floating
around in it
so step one we're gonna warm the broth
up again we're gonna do this so that the
beef will actually
cook the way that we want it to if you
go to a vietnamese restaurant sometimes
you'll get
raw beef served and then you have broth
think of it like shabu-shabu so people
enjoy eating it more
rare or medium rare they actually have
an option when you order it order it raw
which is what i did
so i can cook it to my preference which
will probably somehow end up overcooking
while you're waiting for your broth to
heat up grab yourself a nice deep bowl a
spoon
chopsticks everything's going to cook
very quickly so this isn't going to be a
long process
you can see the noodles are kind of
stuck in a chunk right now but don't
worry they're going to separate
just gently kind of poke it around
separate it a little bit and you're
going to see that it comes apart
beautifully
next up the raw beef you can see how
quickly it starts cooking the color is
turning pink
super fast i'm gonna add in the briskets
i'm gonna kill the heat because i don't
need this to be any hotter than it is
right now
look at how quickly the raw beef has
already cooked
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this is going to be good for sure
last step we've added the beansprouts
we've added the cilantro the onions the
beef is cooked it's actually probably
overcooked at this point
we are going to add the sweet thai basil
now you do not want to add this when
it's cooking or it will actually turn
black it bruises pretty easily
take a couple sprigs off i like to give
them a couple of spankings
it helps release the oil i also like to
keep this and plant it in water and then
let it
propagate is not the word i have like so
so many things propagating on my
windowsill
but i do think that not having this
particular basil
in your pho does taste it just tastes
very different so i like to take a few
pieces like this
you can just toss them in i'm going to
spank the basil
yeah i'm going to toss it in
give everything a really good mix up
like go from underneath to above so you
kind of mix
all the stuff together oh yeah
oh smells so so
so good oh my gosh some of you might be
tempted to take this
hoisin sauce and hot sauce combo and
just jumping on in there but
that would be a bit of a faux pas the
first thing you want to do is actually
just try
the broth appreciate it
pho is made usually with beef bones or
tendons and joints
and the broth is so delicious and
flavorful the spices that they put in
depending on what part of vietnam they
are from like north and south have
different flavors it's gonna be kind of
like a cinnamon flavor in there
you might have some star nice in there
it's like a sweet and savory at the same
time it is so freaking delicious
and i know that this place is legit when
it comes to their beef broth because
when i keep it overnight like if i don't
finish on my fa and i separate it the
broth actually turns to
jelly which is a great sign because it
means it's been cooked properly
the collagen and the tendons and
everything have broken down and that's
actually
really good for you if it tastes like
extremely salty and afterwards you find
yourself extremely thirsty
that might be more of like a powdered
flavored type of broth
you really want something that is
actually made from beef bones so what do
you do with the hoisin and hot sauce if
you're not gonna dump it on in
well you can put it on the side and you
can use it to dip your beef in if you'd
like so
this is the rare beef just gonna give it
a little bit of a dip in there
the hoisin sauce is a little bit sweet
the hot sauce is a little bit spicy
gives it a nice little kick
what about everything else in here well
the brisket is
fall apart magical because it actually
has a couple of pieces of fat kind of
holding it together
so it's super soft and tender
filming these videos can be tortured
sometimes just i i need to eat something
oh man so nice the rice noodles
are fantastically soft they're not
overcooked and soggy because they didn't
deliver them inside the broth which
would be horrible
you've got that herbal taste from the
broth a little bit of sweetness from the
lime
the basil is actually seeping into the
broth
seeping or steeping which one is it
the green green sprouts the bean sprouts
are adding a nice little crunch and
actually
i'm gonna add some more bean sprouts
because i think this has been cooked a
little bit
just toss in a little bit more for
crunch and texture on top of it
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meatball when i was in my childish high
school years i thought this might have
literally been a beef ball as in a beef
testicle which we all know people do
actually eat
no problem in that this is not it is a
meatball
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sometimes they do put a little piece of
tendon inside of there
to give it a bit of a moistness and a
little bit of a texture on the inside
don't be startled with cultures using an
entire part of an animal like if you're
going to use an animal i would
appreciate people using all the parts
and not just the parts that they think
are pretty or nice
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when i went to vietnam simon and i went
to danang and the faf that we had for
breakfast it was unbelievable
it had like such a strong cinnamony
taste to it
oh i had it every day i had it as much
as i possibly can
and like the street food you know or
going to like a restaurant to eat it
it's just it's not a big deal you know
like here it might feel a little bit
confusing or i don't know what to do but
it's really just like a very basic
comfort food like a breakfast food even
in vietnam so
don't be worried or shy to go to these
restaurants once they finally open
now in the scenario that you cannot
finish your pho
you want to separate the noodles from
the broth so they don't get all bloated
and soggy so this is usually how i store
it
just pass it through a strainer
and back from once
it came
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blam then i just store the toppings
separately so that later on i can add
some more french crunchy toppings on top
of it and i'm already got my basil which
i'm
casually propagating probably my dinner
tonight to be honest
and there you have it how to eat
delivery pha
vietnamese magic soup i really recommend
you try it if you haven't before
if you've had ramen and you like it if
you've had korean jjigae and you like it
you need to try
all the different soups of the different
nations if you're vietnamese and you're
watching this video please
let me know if i've done something
horribly wrong or if you have any advice
to give people who haven't tried fell
before
and i'm pretty sure it's more like fu
not
straight across but again i do not speak
vietnamese but i hope that was close
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