Welcome to the street food dollar menu today me and my dude Lal are gonna
Take you all around Saigon eating 10 different street foods for under a buck. Let's do it
You won't believe how far you can stretch a dollar right here in Viet Nam's
Largest city Saigon has so many options when it comes to mouth-watering tasty treats, but today. We'll focus on street foods
That is food served on sidewalks and street signs cooked on the spot
It's quick and affordable from savory sweet and sometimes even a little unusual well
You know I am a big fan of a lot of spit food
Except for this one because I don't feel like eating you know like a little baby things
It's time to see Saigon 10th street foods for under $1
Food 1 spring rolls coming in at 25 cents each the spring roll starts with freshly
moistened rice paper then topped with pork shrimp rice noodles lettuce herbs and spring onion
Then roll tightly and served with peanut sauce one of the really cool things about Vietnam is all this like street food
It's right out here people like pull up on their bike they stop
They get some food spring rolls is probably one of the most internationally recognized street foods from Vietnam people know Fahd
They know funny, and they know the spring renewal. Do you think the spring roll is deserving of that top spot?
I would say yes, so it's gonna be in a top like topped hands most delicious Vietnamese food all right. Yeah well
Let's enjoy it together right now. We've got our sauce here
Okay, oh god. We had to switch it weird
what happened so say that this array is in nice nicest shape right it looked nicer better than that's why I
Like this alright she knows production value little dip dip Jim and Cheers
Chewie vermicelli noodles crispy greens in there and tons of herbs making it really fresh the sauce
It's salty it's thick it's peanutty. It's awesome. No Street food one. We've got nine more to go
Let's keep going food to che costing sixty cents per cup
This is a frozen Vietnamese dessert that can include dozens of different ingredients our order today will include black bean
white beam mung bean puree palm sugar water chestnut with green jelly covering coconut cream jellies
Coconut milk and ice here when you mix the ice
With the coconut milk it does something special to the ingredients
And it makes it like chewy right so it gives each one like a cool texture
You want to mix it like a brine, okay Aunty and rannian together
Too sweet, it's just a nice mellow sweetness. It's like a puppy by the fireplace. It's that kind of inviting sweetness
It's not like a rock concert of sugar. I think the most special thing of this one
It is one inside a principle. Here is the water chestnuts water yeah, and it is coded by the
tapioca flour
Mmm. Gooey on the outside and then becomes almost
Snappy crunchy Orien sighs exactly. I like this you can drink it you can eat it you can crunch on it
You got the chewy part. It's really cool
We're just getting warmed up and after eating that dessert Lau and I head to Saigon
famous Turtle Lake where every afternoon dozens of sidewalk vendors bring their mobile cooker ease office workers and
Students alike come here to relax hang with friends and grab some quick affordable food
Which brings us to food three bond Cheng chomp coming in at about one dollar this mixture starts with rice paper
strips and beef jerky then Vietnamese coriander shredded papaya quail eggs
sweet jerky made from cow lung a squeeze of
Citrus sweet sour sauce and chili oil this gets a good shake in and it's ready to eat
And honestly when you look at it. It kind of looks like a recycling bin for paper, but
But it tastes a lot better. I've been wireless. Do you know what I sleep lately abundance, yeah?
We don't know what else we can do a popular spring roll something like that so we created a new way to eat it
So we asked a lot of it reading inside and make it awesome my peers. Let's go for it, right
Mmm
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So really what you have here is just a bag full of flavors and textures. It's like all kinds of different chewiness
It's sweet its salty is spicy Andrew Zimmern tried this he called it Vietnam in a bag, and I agree with that
For for shakin spicy mango one cup for about one dollar
This starts out innocent enough with mango and a bit of sugar
but then but you know fish sauce shrimp salt and
freshly minced chilies this street side delight was invented very recently creating what you could call a
mango revolution
The spicy yeah, it's my spicy a spicy fruits. I've never had like fruit that was intentionally made spicy oh
You're just going for it here. We go oh
Wow that is a I didn't expect this from fruit
It's fruit
But this fruit is trying to be tough a punch of spiciness
Saltiness yes makes for the natural sweetness like that is much more intense than I expected
I would lie to scream soft the shrimp stock. They added together to make it like
Savory and nice ot if you're sick of boring old fruit. This is a way to go. This is fruit with a punch
for five Bob sow
Costing just under one dollar this simple of a tasty dish starts with corn sauteed and margarine then add small dried shrimp ease
Sugar and spring onion fry till crispy and add a little bit of chilli sauce on the side
You know I started knowing about this one-liners a long time ago. It tastes awesome
Try it, okay, so we've got some shrimp peas in there. I spring onion. Yeah, I'm gonna dip
Okay
Savoring a little bit of sweetness this chilli sauce it's almost like the ketchup of chili sauces
Yeah, right, it's like sweet and tangy. I mean every single dish they Napoli chili sauce the margarine taste with sugar
I don't know. It just does something for me
It feels like junk food like good junk food and luckily this meal can last a long time
Because they give you a tiny like ice cream testing spoon, it's gonna take you at least a hundred bytes. Yeah
Food six quail eggs with tamarind sauce coming in at about one dollar
This is one of the most unusual
Or should I say unique street foods?
I've come across in Vietnam starting with minced chilies garlic and oil then a heaping scoop of developed quail eggs
quails that have developed in the egg
Then were hard-boiled before reaching maturity then splash a bit of tamarind sauce and Morning Glory plate it and top it with Vietnamese
coriander and fried onions one of the most interesting street foods
I have seen in
Sanga maybe in my life much like a balut which a lot of people have heard of which is like the develop duck egg
Okay, especially popular in the Philippines, but they eat it here, too. Yes. Well. They do the same thing for whale rare
Do you like this one?
honestly not
I am a big fan of a lot of street food except for this one cuz I don't feel like eating you know like a
little baby things have you ever eaten a baby carrots
So you don't like eating the little baby thing I understand will you try one with me just one?
Yes
Yes, by the way this guy's a hero. He obviously doesn't want to do it, but he's gonna have one. Oh here
We go we have our big juicy fight, so we've got the coiled fetus. Let's go for it buddy. Hey cheers
Boos that tastes great
How are you feeling right now long mm-hmm, it's so weird I
Don't open your mouth in them you're doing a great job, man
We don't have water or anything here for you either for you're doing great. There's some crispy in this in there
I don't know if it's like beak or a head or feet like there's some natural Chris penis inside crunchiness
But the flavor is outstanding a sweet and a little tart
This is why I always say never doubt Vietnam
Even if something looks a little intimidating for me at least the flavors have always been outstanding cheers to that
Food seven Chinese meatballs costing about $1 simple and to the point
These little pork balls wrapped in an intestine lining are thrown on the grill then paired with Vietnamese
Coriander chili sauce mayonnaise and papaya it's like different from you know all the types of mall and meet Mona this fall
I've been all across Asia, and I put many types of balls in my mouth
Chicken balls fish balls and here we have pork balls. Yes, okay, Cheers. Yeah
I earned it
Oh
Good mm-hmm, delicious. It's sweet and salty its fatty exploding with like juicy fattiness
I love it and when you mix it with the papaya and the herbs. I mean is game over. It's game over for your mouth
After this turtle lake feast Lau is bringing me to Saigon Chinatown to sample some Chinese delights in the afternoon
Right outside of Saigon University dozens of food vendors can be found and we're here for food eight Huk Dow
Coming in at about $1 these sellers will prepare their perfectly wrapped in some at home
toss them in a steamer and bring them here to sell our Hakka will get topped with soy sauce chili sauce
Vietnamese coriander and fried on you since we're in Chinatown we got something China inspired
Pack out a Bao Bao hmm
pronunciations on fleek about a gallon and a half of soy sauce and then their chili sauce oh
She's got a front-row seat here is everything cool. Yeah
Yeah, we better have not yet almost think it's so easy to hit. Thank you oh, no I know
He's awesome yeah
Hospitality do they put it in your mouth for you usually
No become like you have bought an intern so I think I see if not AUD
They know how to eat it is like very self-explanatory
What do I do?
Not know
I'm starting to get it guys. It's delicious. It's salty is chewy and even better than that when you come here. They will feed you
And the little uncomfortable at first and then it's very endearing after that
Cheers good night boat gene
Costing about 85 cents another Chinese inspired classic still in Chinatown just down the street
We've come across this beautiful
crispy creation starting with sliced and fried rice cake mixed with the fried egg topped with sautéed
Spring onion and shredded papaya multi right that sounds great. That's really good notation. Did you study a lot of?
Treats are crazy. There's traffic and here we are with our very
typical people of the Chinese people it's gonna get used miss thing if we do not miss a normal Chinese because it's a part of
Our culture I met in Park with a little bit of everything okay. I got some egg
I got some rice cake right go for it
Anyone from the US really appreciates breakfast food hash browns and eggs. That's what this reminds me
Yeah The rice cake is so starchy that when she cries it in the oil
It still has a nice starchy flavor and crunchiness to it the preparation the food is so different, but the flavor is so familiar
food ten savory sticky rice for about
75 cents finally to end the night with the bang were headed to Bui vien the backpacking
Party Street of Saigon for eight whopper of a meal this treat starts with a mound of sticky rice soy sauce
sauteed spring onion liver pate fried onion quail egg pork floss
Chinese sausage pickled carrot and radish and
Chili sauce he's come to point in this treat of wild craziness
Construction or maybe that some new kind of terrible music I don't know about it this thing is
Loaded with topping his meal is just like pure calories. I love Chinese sausage and let's go for it
Oh
Sticky rice that just has a great chewiness to it. I love sticky rice. It's salty. There's some sweetness in there
This is my favorite breakfast so we can eat it for
Breakfast and even for dinner and lunch well mom I am freaking stuffed
Thank you for taking this foodie rollercoaster ride with me today
10 foods down 10 foods for under $1 right here in Saigon and for you guys if you're looking for a way to see the
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I will see you next week a piece. I'm so full oh god. I can't do it anymore. Oh stop recording its