today is our first day here in vietnam we're in ho chi minh city and we're going to be eating
some amazing foods drinking some interesting drinks and seeing what this city has to offer
as soon as we got our visa approved for vietnam we started writing down so many things that we
wanted to try so we're going to be doing a bit of a first impressions bingo of ho chi minh city
we're going to put everything we're going to try and find on the screen
up here somewhere the first thing that we're going to try and buy today or find
which is kind of similar to what we do all the time is find coffee but here in
vietnam they do it slightly differently so let's go try and find one of them right now
so we've just come to a place now called little hanoi now the reason that is called little hanoi
is because egg coffee actually started in hanoi in the middle of last century there
was a guy that discovered it basically he thought ingredients are a little bit too expensive to make
fancy french coffees taste delicious here so he whisked some egg yolk popped it in a coffee
and before you knew it it was fluffy egg coffee so it's basically a regular coffee but it has
an egg yolk whisked inside now we got a cold one and a hot one so we can try them both oh
wow. hold the spoon
and look how thick that is it's way thicker than most coffees that i'm used to. smells nice
wow that is so thick that actually tastes a little bit like marshmallow like whipped marshmallow
really sweet really tasty you've got to try this i think i might take a spoon to this. Look at that.
that's not what i was expecting that's super sweet it's literally like a dessert whoa now that is
something i could eat every day here's the cold coffee which looks like it comes in two layers
there's a straw to get to the bottom i assume oh that's proper coffee at the bottom
oh that's just amazing
that is amazing absolutely amazing. Oh yea, that's proper coffee. I could have this every day.
that was like nothing i've ever tasted before it was so so
nice like we like our coffee sweet, but that was very sweet now it's time for some food
we're gonna go and find some banh mi they look really really nice
so it's quite well known that the roads in vietnam are quite
dangerous to cross and there's a right and a wrong way to do it the bikes and cars they
will they will not stop for you you've got to just carry on walking uh but do not change your
speed obviously keep an eye out if you're a bit scared you've got to put your hand out
to let them know that you're going to carry on going so let's see if i can cross this road now
Don't run! there was no cars coming so it's okay
okay so we've just picked up some banh mi for me we went to a place that's a little bit more expensive
but the ingredients there are made fresh there but it didn't have any vegetarian versions
so i'm gonna look for a vegetarian version for adriana now then also try and find somewhere
to sit down and eat this just before i dig in i just want to say a big thank you to today's
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okay so here we are with a fully loaded banh mi and it's got four different types of pork in there all
freshly made with pate, butter i think like fried onions on top there but we said no coriander
it's all in there uh which i'm definitely not going to be putting on there
but let's see what's like. bread feels awesome
that is so flavorful oh my god the bread is awesome like proper crispy wow this one was 59000VND
so if my math to correct that's just under two pounds that's great and that's not just one
that's the other half so it's full on sandwich for two quid can't beat it
so now we just need to find one for me because as some of you may know i don't eat meat and that is
fully loaded with meat but apparently they do like a fried egg version that's vegetarian
so i'm very much looking forward to finding one of those because as he's bunching away i'm
getting hungry and that egg coffee is the only thing that's holding me up right now
we've just found a little market right in the middle of uh the town of the city right
next to our hotel actually that goes all the way down there but right at the end here we found
a lady that does egg banh mi for only 15000VND. which is like four times cheaper what
i paid earlier but it's vegetarian so. i'm getting some red bull as well
actually it's not so bad. so we used to drink the
the small bottles in thailand that look like medicine let's try them got some uh oh this is uh carbonated. is it? Yeah
oh it tastes different. that's not carbonated no it's not carbonated it's lime oh it's nice
though i think i needed some energy after a hot day walking around. the time long awaited has
finally come for me to try my banh mi. this local lady here actually does an egg version for 15000VND
it looks very small but that's just because we cut it in half it's got some sriracha
it's got some egg in there we've got some cucumber mayonnaise some pickled radishes carrot i think
as well an egg i don't know if i said that already but anyway it's got an egg in there
everything you'd want in a sandwich in a sandwich the bread
is super crispy on the outside super soft on the inside i mean they must go through so many loaves
of bread here or so many bread rolls here that they probably are just made fresh every single
day so there's no stale bread here it is fresh i really love the sort of feel of this city though
and the bloody car horns every every two minutes but everything feels like it has a lot of history
like the buildings are like really cool looking and everywhere you turn, it's different it's not
just high-rise buildings everywhere yeah i bet you some really interesting stories have gone down in
this city it is super cool yeah and we haven't even touched the sides. we've only scratched the surface,cmon.
right we've now popped into a traditional pho
shop which is the one of the traditional dishes here in vietnam uh which is like a noodle dish
with some raw meats that gets cooked in the broth as it's poured in i think so i'm gonna go for
just the basic one which is pho tai 74000VND that's not bad is it. thank you
so dylan's pho just arrived and it actually smells really nice for obvious reasons i didn't order one
because most of them had meat-oriented dishes um i think the broth itself actually is cooked
in a little bit of meat so i'll just try a little spoon just to try the broth itself but it smells
really good and i think he's about to dig in now i know we've been eating a lot of stuff today but
what better way to enjoy a new country than trying their food now this is a beef pho now
i've been told to put the beef to the bottom of the stew so that the beef can cook a bit more
i was actually expecting that to be like quite plain
just because i just had noodles no meat or anything but that's really flavorful
now i'm putting some of this in which is garlic chili oil i think oh
yes i don't know the whole cuisine of vietnamese food but i like spicy food
so hopefully there'll be some spicy dishes around oh yeah that adds a different twist to this dish
look how big it is for 74000VND. massive okay i've just got to the end of the um
noodles i've eaten all the noodles and stuff now this is extremely spicy now that that whatever
i put in there has made me start sweating profusely but i also bit into one of these um
fresh chilies i nearly choked it was so so spicy but now this broth is extremely spicy i'm not even
sure if you're meant to drink this at the end if you are let us know in the comments because
i don't know if i'm going to be able to finish this it's too spicy very tasty though ah so nice
it's like every time you get to the other side of the road you're like okay that was a good one
when we arrived last night as you guys might have seen in our last video it was
pouring with rain now unfortunately when it pours with rain places look a little bit less inviting
but today it's been blaring sunshine it's been so hot you can probably see me sweating a lot it's
like 35 degrees super hot bustling there's a lot of people a lot of noise but so far
everyone's been really really kind i really like it i really like it. oh we're crossing the road
the traffic here is way too intense to not concentrate
ah picked a good time. every time we say that it goes super
quiet and calm we just time it well yeah we're very good at this now
what we've realized is that this city does not have any trains tuk-tuks, trams anything like
that it's either bike a taxi or a normal taxi but not yet. what? there's one being built oh yeah
being built it's going to be ready in about one or two years yeah there's construction
all around the city but yeah it's not ready right now but we got the grab yesterday from the airport
but since then i can't use grab because it's telling me to download an app that needs a
vietnamese phone number in a vietnamese bank so i guess we're gonna have to walk everywhere
so originally we were trying to find bia hoi which is the really really cheap beers that you can get
for like three thousand five thousand vietnamese dong couldn't really find anywhere that sort of
sold it so if you do know where we can find some of that really cheap beer please let us know but
we do know you can find it everywhere in hanoi which we will be going to in a few weeks but
what i do have is a ice cold bia saigon and we are in saigon so let's give this a go
and i know i've i've already drank about probably hundreds of these last
time i was in vietnam but i don't remember how it tastes so cheers
that tastes good super cold as well and it's so hot today
like my t-shirt has changed color it's a dark dark green now
now this wasn't actually the beer that we were looking for so
i think we'll get like half a point for this one but i'm gonna try it i really don't like beer
nope i still don't like beer that is terrible
so i'm gonna stick to this tropical concoction instead
much better now i think we've actually completed all of the things we've wanted to do on our list
if i'm not mistaken except for this almost kind of beer so all in all pretty good first impressions
bingo. another thing that's so sweet about vietnam or at least ho chi minh city is that everywhere
you go on the sides of the road there's like little cafes little restaurants and stuff but
the chairs are so tiny they are so tiny they look like baby chairs they're perfect for me my legs
can reach the ground they're super comfortable maybe not if you're like two meters tall but i
love them if you've enjoyed this video then i think you'll really like the video that's on
the screen right now where we flew from bangkok to vietnam and we also show you our super local hotel