this guy's for me is hanoi breakfast on a plate after five long years i'm finally back in hanoi
after a successful trip eating my way around saigon i knew i had to travel north so i have
come to vietnam's capital city armed again with a thirst for knowledge and empty belly
and youtube's newest vietnam superstar so join us as we eat our way around hanoi
alright so for me guys it doesn't get much more hanoi
oh my god one of my favorite things in the world silky soft rice flour and tapioca
wrapped pork mince this is one of my favorite vietnamese dishes it's very very simple
but so so delicious in vietnam it comes topped with crispy fried shallots which i
absolutely love and on the side we've got some charla which is vietnamese
sausage if i'm saying that correctly and i'm definitely not um absolutely love this
it's covered in like a
skin of cinnamon
giving it the most amazing sweetness and that's just in a pretty simple sweetened
fish sauce not jam and to that i'm going to add some of these the juice from these calamansi
you don't know what kind of man seeds it's like a cross between it's like as if an orange
and a lime had a baby so i've got another one here and this is with the the runny egg inside
oh look at that perfect it's like a poached egg inside the silky soft wrapper again topped with
the crispy shallots also some pork floss
and you've got that wood ear mushroom and pork filling oh yes right so
everyone else seems to be getting their their sweet fish sauce and pouring it on
and then i'm going to go
a couple of chilies
some of these herbs
all right so this one i got confused with yesterday i thought this was the same thing i ate
in saigon but it's not this is called vietnamese balm in vietnamese i'm told or they're laughing
at me because i'm pronouncing it wrong kim or something along those lines it's delicious it's
kind of lemony peppery very very good right so i'm told we just break this up with our chopsticks
and then sort of try and get a bite of everything i want to try and show you the inside
you just got so much going on silky smooth batter that's just been
steamed over a pot so she's got a pot of boiling water there there's a cloth over the top of it she
pours on this rice flour and tapioca flour butter over the top smooths it around a few seconds later
stuff's that with a pork and wood ear mushroom fish sauce and heavy on the pepper little mix
coarse pork mince loads and loads of texture and the wooden mushrooms are dehydrated mushrooms that
have been rehydrated so they're giving you the most amazing deep flavor topped with those crispy
crunchy shallots and that soft as a cloud silky wrapper you got all those
herbs freshening everything up on top heat from the chili you've got the sweet fish sauce sour
tartness from the calamansi and i absolutely love this vietnamese balm peppery slightly citrusy
that's so so good it's been raining last night it's not cold at all because this
time of year it doesn't get cold in hanoi but it's not boiling hot and it's a bit wet
i just fancied something really really comforting and this my friends
it doesn't get much more comforting than this i'm going to try the egg one because again even
more texture guys who doesn't like a poached egg for breakfast and this is basically what this is
poached egg wrapped in a silky rice paper wrapper all that lovely pork all that lovely mushroom
get the egg one
get the egg one get both oh this is like heaven
again i talk a lot in my videos if you're not familiar with my
videos i talk a lot about textures the meat textures are so important
textures and balance are like balance of sweetness i can't just have something like with loads of
sugar thrown all over the top of it has to be balanced it has to be a nice but it's sweet salty
sour we've got that texturally you know i need a few different things so we've got crunch from the
shallots we've got that horse minced meat as i said before
we've got those bouncy little mushrooms the soft silky cloud like wrapper
and then we just got those fresh herbs bringing everything together this guys for me is hanoi
breakfast on a plate this is what i'm all about guys this is this is vietnam for me sitting
out on the street on these little tiny plastic stalls while auntie just smashes out dish after
dish after dish of the same thing that she's been making every day for the last 20 odd years this
is my kind of place no nonsense no frills just all about the food everyone's sitting around it
in different stuff everyone seems to be eating far there's a lot of fire shops down the street um but
one for me is number one when it comes to hanoi breakfast and this place is great i mean it's
like half restaurant half news agent you can buy like sweets magazines biscuits whatever you need
auntie's got it all right what's a first stop on our little detour breakfast tour of tonight
we're not finished here i've got a few more goodies to show you let's go
right next up how can you come to vietnam and not get banned me and here in the old quarter in hanoi
there's my favorite band-aid place in the whole of the north of vietnam i'm ashamed to say i've
probably had about 20 of these because i just love them so much sometimes i get two because they're
not too big you know so let me just obviously show you what this is this one is pork with smoked
pork sausage pork meat vegetables coriander carrots cilantro if you're american and here it is
25 also this is the reason why i come here they have a handmade homemade
chili sauce and you drizzle that inside and it just elevates it
to a proper good kick you don't need too much with this one this one's quite spicy obviously
so yeah as you can see
absolutely delicious they do have vegetarian
they have chicken they have a omelette with cheese banana and yeah it's just off the chain
so i've gone for the panmi chao which is an eggplant it's like the closest sort of
asian street food that you can get to an english fry up so if you're feeling a little
bit worse for wearing the morning you've had a couple of sherbets last night on beer street
um this is the one to go for so it comes with three soft as a pillow cloud-like
i guess and then we've got a runny egg sunny-side up egg we've got some pork pate and a lot of it
some barbecue like charshu red pork
and some vietnamese sausage so
that's a delicious cinnamon sausage so i love so much here but basically you get your bad bread
have a little bit of meat you can have a dip in the sauce
a little bit of fried egg
a little bit of that chilli sauce if we can ever get it oh
that's so good that's so so good it's so light unbelievably crispy they're freshly baked over the
road sauce is delicious coming in like this sticks of corn starchy gravy now this has always been my
go-to mainly because they don't put mayonnaise in a baguette so i don't know how to say my mom
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