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since we've arrived in vietnam we've been trying to find what is known as the cheapest beer
in the world this is our first evening in hanoi and the last city before we leave
vietnam we've made it our mission to find the elusive biahoi but first let's get some food
it is a very gray day here in hanoi it's only about 5 p.m and it feels very much later we
haven't seen the sun all day and it's been raining as well but the streets of hanoi are way more
intense than anywhere we've been to before because they're so narrow and the sidewalks are mostly
covered in bikes so you have to walk in the middle of the road but we've been trying to find this
biahoi since our first day in ho chi minh city a lot of you said you know it's predominantly up
north so today is our first evening out in hanoi so hopefully we'll find some people have said it's
all over the old quarter and that's where we're staying so got my fingers crossed like dylan said
most of the sidewalks are being used as parking for all the bikes so you're kind of swerving
around as a human within all the traffic so what's also nice is that all the restaurants on the side
of the road have their seating on the sidewalk as well so there's loads of those tiny little chairs
that i love oh my god this sounds like those little chairs that i absolutely love on the
side of the road and we think that's going to be one of the kind of locations we'll find the biahoi
and definitely hopefully we'll find dinner as well in our first impressions video of ho
chi minh city or saigon i did try a beer not biahoi but i tried a beer i don't very much
like beer but i will try the beer today as well when we do find bia hoi i am curious to try it
i don't think i like it but at the cost that it served that i've got to at least try it. and what
better way to line our stomachs than with some awesome traditional vietnamese food
it doesn't get any less intense crossing the road
there's a car coming here oh yeah
it's the cars you gotta watch out for the bikes are nimble the cars are slightly less nimble
oh they look good and there's a whole pile of noodles on the side that's such a fun coriander
these are ah actually that's really hot i was just putting
my finger on it to show you guys how hot it is those are actually really hot
okay so i guess this is like the same dish but in different variants right because they're both like
a pile of greenery some vermicelli noodles and then like a hot dish don't ask me i don't know
the reason we went into this place we walked past this one check the menu outside and they
had two of the dishes that you guys have been recommending for us to try in hanoi so i thought
we're not going to stroll around town all night
because its not the main thing we're doing today
i'm trying to learn how to pronounce it properly but basically it's like
deliciously deep fried spring rolls also with vermicelli noodles inside i think
served with a side of vermicelli noodles and then sort of greenery and then a dipping sauce
actually smells really really fresh i'm not quite sure what's in there though but
they're way too hot for me to try right now so i'm gonna let dylan dig into his i'm gonna let
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which actually has been recommended this has been the top recommended dish by everyone
but i really didn't expect it to come out like this with a dipping sauce on the side as well
i thought it was going to be one bowl with everything in but this is new to me so
i don't even know how you're meant to do this let's just grab some
noodle
it's so simple but like this is cooked perfectly so salty just how i like it
and then the the dip is just nice and refreshing
thanks for the recommendation so i'm not gonna pronounce it again but i'm gonna try it now i'm
gonna dip it in the sauce i'm really testing my chopstick skills here
i can see why these are recommended so much they're actually not
not that similar to a regular spring roll i would say and we've eaten a lot of those in thailand
this is really nice
thank you thank you very much since we went to hoi an and we had that kumquat drink in the evening
every time i see it on the menu i'm like kumquat delicious
it's just so yummy and so sweet and fresh oh and when it's so hot outside it's the perfect
the perfect drink one thing that we're both really gonna miss about vietnam is that delicious variety
of food now we're leaving vietnam very soon so in a few videos time we're gonna be in a different
country now we haven't quite decided where we're going yet because it is a little bit last minute
just because there's so many different changes in countries that are opening up but there's some
very interesting ones uh hopefully you can help us decide you could go to philippines sri lanka india
malaysia that is quite a lot of choice at the moment so we're not 100 sure where we're gonna
go so if you have any suggestions pop them in the, not description box, in the comments section below
and maybe you'll help us make a decision about where to go we will go to all those countries at
one point in the future but obviously we have to go to one first and we don't know which one
but now it's time to find this biahoi now we found a
place online so hopefully it'll be there but we're going to be meeting some of our
friends that are also travel youtubers that have just come to vietnam so let's go okay
okay yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh my goodness with crossing the road i feel like
it's way safer do it for just one person but if i'm walking down the street holding adriana's hand
and i just keep reassuring her that it's okay it's okay it's okay keep going keep going keep going we
should be all right we've become a bigger target though so there's more of us to hit we're trying
to find somewhere that's selling this biahoi we're seeing one place back there that was 10k
which is pretty cheap don't get me wrong but i've seen online some places doing it for five or eight
and if you don't find them we'll go back there but let's spend a little more oh there's one 8k there
8k okay we found another one for 8k there that is cheap that is cheap
yeah that is very cheap okay so okay and randomly there's a tiktok shop here
i don't know if that's legit or not that looks fun okay eyes open for 5k
yeah yeah i'm not wearing my glasses so i'm going to struggle to see anything but yeah
adriana struggles to find me sometimes without glasses not that much hopefully finding a 5k
you can go anywhere
oh that's such a cute helmet did you see her helmet
so the lady ran over before we had time to do anything else and
ask we want four beers and they're actually just arriving right now
each one of these beers is 8k so 8 000 dong which is insanely cheap i don't actually know the actual
changes so you'll have to put it at the bottom of the screen but i'm currently
sat here obviously with dylan and flora note now you might know them
you might know them from their own youtube channel flora and note
the husband and wife team we flew all the way from thailand to follow you guys
it's been really really nice if you've been following us for a while you might have seen them
before in our videos and it's just really lovely to keep seeing them in other countries they've
just arrived in vietnam so they're going to be doing a lot of content here too so when we leave
make sure to watch their videos so watch ours now too and there's also now
this place also sells loads of different snacks as well and we've gone for some peanuts but also some
sunflower seeds and the funny thing is these two things or this cost more than one beer
which is kind of insane now this beer is called biahoi and it's incredibly cheap here's only 8k
and it was kind of invented during the war now correct me if i'm wrong in any of these facts now
but they were making alcohol out of rice back in the day but then they started running out of rice
so people were running out of food so when the government said do not make any alcohol with rice
and then this beer was invented so let's see how nice this is you want to try it with me yes
oh it's pretty sweet it's very easy to drink
it's fresh it doesn't taste super strong
8k i can have more than one yeah i mean i'm buying so it's okay yeah she is there let's
do it properly there you go. and that chant that we did apparently you guys told us
is how they cheers in vietnam so they sing that song and then say something at the end we're not
entirely sure what they say. the last word is supposed to mean drink. okay so last word is meant to be
drink. but i don't know what that word is that what was it though oh i don't know this was me
How do you say cheers in vietnamese?
oh i feel like i've forgotten already okay we can do this okay ready
i don't hate it i i'm not a beer drinker but this is actually not so bad it's like really light it
is really light i feel like i almost have to say we're not sponsored by bia hoi because the guys
loved it so much and i actually don't hate this and i really really don't like beer but this is
very drinkable the after taste is almost like just a little malty but it's yeah it's a good
alternative for us actually yeah so i'm finally happy i got to try the bia hoi for 8k not 5k or 3k
couldn't find any of that maybe you have to go to the outskirts somehow to find out but we are
in the city center so 8k is not bad cheers but if you enjoyed this video i think you'll really
like the video on the screen here which was our first day ever in vietnam in ho chi minh city