when I first came to Vietnam I ordered
this dish I ate the meat and I drank all
of this you dragged it up the ladies
like it they like a guy with a camera
attached to his head it shows confidence
so you're a guide for one trip right
yeah so you do tons of Tours what's your
favorite or my favorite tour so far
would be the food or do you get to eat
when you do the food tour yes we do oh
that is the favorite Park are there any
open positions I might be interested in
this job today are the best ever for
review so we're eating some very western
friendly food if it's too much for you
to eat some shrimp paste if you can
handle on seeing the face of an animal
while you're eating the animal this is
gonna be the episode for you yes a lot
of people told me not to even try this
food lunch at because it's not from
Saigon it's from Hanoi Hanoi in the
north we are in the south what so what
business do we have being here right now
the people who run this restaurant name
they can provide all oh yeah in this
because all I do is the most authentic
cool like cool food on this show and I
don't want any posers or any fakers so
these people are real they're from
annoying yes and they're here to show us
some moon chat yes let's go check out
the kitchen
folks this is where the magic happens
right now they're constructing the crab
cake so Vietnamese name is name grass
which is literally mean the spring roll
whip crack okay they have scream that
crack they have Paul and asked and mixed
vegetables so right here we have some
freshly fried crab cake yes and then
we're gonna put it in some of this sauce
which is a sauce fish sauce vinegar
sugar there's like real big hunks of
crab in here
crab cakes in the US or they bring it
out yeah here's the mistake in the u.s.
they'll bring they'll give you a plate
about a meter long immediately than a
crab cake about this big
ah and they're like yeah that'll be
seventeen dollars here adequately sized
plates lots of crab and probably 105
percent of the price that's a little dip
a little dip in our special sauce here
so you like it I love it this wall let
me invite you to have a pour up here for
yourself with me let me teach you that
you how to say cheers in my country Momo
high yo-yo that's how we do it in the
air we have a crab cake from before we
have our rice noodle we have a bunch of
herbs and leaves and greens mixed greens
and then this is the star right here
we've got pieces of pork and they're
soaking in this sauce which is fish
sauce and some vinegar and what else a
mapper and some pepper yeah some pepper
some sugar and some of that you know if
Sid Joaquin radio could I tell you what
I did when I first came to Vietnam I
ordered this dish I see this is why you
need to watch this show or you need to
go on these food tours because when I
first came to Vietnam I ordered this
dish I ate the meat and I drank all of
this you dragged it I drank the whole
thing and then I ate another one and
drink another one and I said this soup
is pretty good but not that filling yeah
and I was so thirsty the rest of the day
it's not soup okay sauce yeah Atta sauce
and we let the meat hang out in the
sauce and we've also have some pickled
vegetables in the sauce as well right
yeah rice takes a price do it all they
take some herbs I'm down with that and
then we'll grab some pork a little bit
of pickled vegetable yeah and I'm gonna
put it on sauce in themselves some
spoonfuls of sauce yes ma'am
and one more family but don't drink it
yeah I'm drinking
yes sir I'm okay
I'm so good this is something my mom or
my dad would love because my mom's not
out here trying to have some shrimp
paste or some rat in the Mekong Delta my
mom would be like okay vegetables meat
noodles I can handle that I have that
boon Java for the other places I've had
it at didn't have this like big
beautiful basket of greens and they just
had little baskets that were sad I had
to be like can I have one more leaf
please or is there a drought what's the
issue but here that they like this is
actually beautiful to look at so can you
put it in a leaf yeah you can if you
want
I don't eat it that way Oh does anybody
get it that way I'm not sure we normally
just put them in a bowl guys I shouldn't
be doing this I'm gonna show you my
style and this is based on my Korean
experience so II think I've had so much
Korean barbecue in my life I put a
little bit of noodle and lettuce leaf I
put some herbs I'm gonna get fired from
my own show I put some meat a little bit
of pickled veg I kind of make it a
little bit of a roll
see that's the nice roll yeah and I dip
the whole thing kind of come on how dare
you don't be jealous
I dip the whole thing in there or that I
take it down and school its look good
yeah good
it's nothing tricky here folks you get a
little meat and love in a noodle some
greens you mix it all up don't drink the
sauce like it's a juice okay and that's
it you'll be good thank you for
introducing me to this place and for you
guys if you are interested in this kind
of insider Vietnam foodie experience
please hit up one trip their company
putting on awesome tours in Saigon and
in Hoi An I've done the tour myself
it was delicious links are in the info
box down below I'll see you next week
the peace
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