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Thank You ruff to a good start this one
off my chair collapsed but they gave me
a nice strong blue one
good morning adventures so that's how
our day started we ended up finding this
really cool stall just down this
alleyway we've been walking down this
alley every day and just seeing these
little stalls and we're figuring that's
the best way to get some local food
right so as I sat down my chair
collapsed underneath me he just says I
was about to do the intro yeah that
happened to me once in the Philippines
just make sure you check the chairs
because a lot of the chairs they're cut
and about to fall anyway make sure you
get a sturdy move around too much but
every time he's fallen tumble two times
they've all come running up to help and
then I lifted them like four ladies
lifted me up but anyways we ordered some
chicken and rice which looks amazing you
got chicken rice
I got fish and rice y'all thirty
thousand Vietnamese dong about a dollar
fifty USD
and this is this pretty banana you get
soup you get a drink you get a plate of
rice and veggies and whatever meat you
choose this is amazing so at this stall
you walk up in the whole case is filled
with all sorts of different mostly fish
dishes and you just pick whatever
proteins you want and then they give you
a big side of rice to go with it I chose
this deep fried fish I hope it's good
I'm not so great at eating fish though
so let's see how it goes
it's just a really nice deeply fried
white fish it gave me some chili peanut
fish sauce on the side oh yeah hmm that
is like what I got online noodles the
other day it's a sweet and sour chili
peanut fish sauce it's amazing
430-thousand can't beat it
we'll have to pinpoint this place on the
mat for them up exactly sure if it has a
proper name but we know where it is so
we'll just put a little pinpoint in the
description below this chicken looks
really good it's just a deliciously
grilled piece of chicken
it's got some kind of glazed type of
sauce on there it looks like
when I get meat from a case like that
I'm always afraid they're gonna be too
driving this is not too dry you can see
it's nice and juicy in there there's
kind of a sweet glazing on the chicken
and that's mostly what you taste but it
is really good
you guys we almost forgot about the
soups so they gave us not sure what it
is sweet potato just sensible oh yeah
could also be like peaches but I guess
why not
I think it is just food potato and some
chicken broth it's really like room
temperature not very salty it was really
mild pretty good well that was a nice
little fortunate stall that we stumbled
upon that was pretty good and a really
fun experience because it's always nice
when you're just surrounded by local
people and they're all interacting with
you and stuff they made sure we were
very taken care of but we need to get
some coffee there have been some amazing
coffee shops so far in Ho Chi Minh we've
just been trying new ones every day so I
think we're gonna head over get make our
way out of the alley if we can and then
find we found an awesome place called
workshop coffee it's off the street it's
just in this building where you have to
walk up these stairs up to the top it's
really easy to miss but glad we found it
because this place is really cool really
well decorated and the coffee's bomb yes
air conditioned from time to time we
just hop into a store at the very least
just to take a break from the heat so
I've looked at like three or four
different camera and electronics store
just because I'm like I'm just gonna go
in and cool down so next up there is a
tower famous tower nearby called the
Texaco Tower which we're going to tell
you more about when we get there but
they should have some epic views from
the top
sodoes so we'll see you there this party
and then it's an afternoon tea party
right so this is the observation deck it
gives you this insane 360 view all
around so you could see all aspects of
the city
so the be Texaco Tower was completed in
2010 its 263 meters tall 861 feet and
one of the most interesting things is
that it was the tallest building in
Vietnam in 2010 but then they built
another tower in 2011 so for about one
year it was the tallest building in
Vietnam and now it is not anymore
another cool thing about this building
is that there are 6,000 panes of glass
and as you notice from the outside it's
a very particularly shaped building so
each pane is uniquely structured to fit
on each of these floors apparently your
ticket gets you a complimentary cyclo as
well I think I feel too bad having
someone pedal me around
you peddle me around to get my iced
coffee a milkshake tickets get up here
are about two hundred thousand dong is
that right which is about $8 50 USD or
so so probably worth it for the views
because the views are pretty spectacular
the windows could be a little cleaner
binocular do you find her Thank You
finders they're all free which is really
cool most places still charge you once
you get up here for you just as I say
that there's a bunch of window cleaners
out here I think you could do that job
terrifying you're just going from floor
to floor there they go wow that was a
scary how wouldn't be doing that looks
like there's a market on that Street
down there I think that is where we're
gonna head next this is a really neat
spot you've got all these vendors down
here on this Market Street and all these
really old buildings up here they're
just really cool-looking lots of
greenery on them and colors and pastels
and pretty neat we found a stall where
she's pressing fresh sugarcane into a
drink over here which we've seen this a
lot on the street I think we're gonna
give it a try
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we have our sugarcane juice
I have a feeling this is gonna be really
sweet you guys but I wanted to give it a
try
sugarcane no sugar right yeah well
sugarcane is we're sure it comes from
it's just they didn't add any what do
you feel like they normally add sugar to
everything so you first leave it okay
whoa that is that is not what I expected
at all it tastes fruity it tastes like
orange they do make orange juice there I
wonder if it got mixed in the dress a
bit it tastes really like naturally
sugary yeah it tastes really fresh if
you had just mix sugar in the water and
then added a splash of orange juice
that's what this tastes like
oh it's not added sugar is something
right Wow this is tasty
oh it's very refreshing right now this
was only 10,000 which is less than 50
cents us steam yeah I'll take it
so there's still a dish we've been
tricked dying to try it's called calm
tan and we see that this stall right
over here has it so we're gonna go give
it a taste
they're putting out some chairs for us
we weren't sure if it was just take away
but they have some tables
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we have placed our order and this is a
six spot you guys are sitting right next
to kitchen everything's hoping we can
watch her cook everything really good
they informed us it's gonna take about
10 minutes for our dish to get cooked
which is probably a good sign means it's
gonna be really fresh but should be here
I got no bun watching her roll up the
pork chops and everything and get it all
together gonna be so good they really
look like they know what they're doing
that's good oh my god you guys I'm so
excited to take a look at this this is
beautiful so this beautiful dish is
known as Compton translates to broken
rice back in the day when they were
processing the rice if any of it was
broken they would throw it out people
would take it I guess maybe those poor
people that would eat the broken rice
for them to be less nutritious sometimes
the little inside can be left in there
but they said also it's may need more
flavor you can get liquid none your
flavor I don't know if that's true but
I'm excited to try it let's see if it
actually has a different taste perfectly
fine right there are no so many
different types of toppings that you can
get on this boat typically I think you
get a big old hunk of grilled pork or
pork chop which is what we have here
today so this is a little jiggly guy on
here in a meatloaf chopped wrong I think
it's what it is I guess sometimes it
doesn't but typically it would it's like
a little quiche yeah it looks like he's
yeah and it might have some mushrooms in
there so I'm not sure what these two
guys on top are but they look like
deep-fried Woodleigh things it looks
like noodles I think it's some sort of
fish all right the moment of truth let's
try some broken right okay so we're just
gonna get a little bit of rice and some
of the pork in there see what's about
mm-hmm
pull the pork chop is really delicious
really well-seasoned a little bit of
sweetness to it the rice I don't know
that I would notice anything different
about it you do see that they look more
ground-up and just generally smaller
little pieces of rice and a little more
grainy maybe no yeah I probably wouldn't
really known the difference but I don't
consider myself a rice connoisseur so
but it is really tasty next up we're
gonna give the egg thing a try
big big meatloaf yeah all right and
basically occasionally yeah really dense
Airy
a nice flavor yeah not bad at all we're
not sure what these little noodle
looking guys are you guys know you
should let us know because we tried to
ask him here and they couldn't really
translate it so I had a moment where I
almost I almost fell in this chair as
well so the guy came by and doubled me
up so that's the key but one on top of
the other they gave us this little soup
which is actually delicious it's just
like maybe a chicken stock or something
but it's just cabbage I think in there
and it just tastes really crispy and
super fresh one of the best little soups
that we've had so far we've had we've
been served so many interesting clear
soups this cabbage the one this morning
has sweet potato the other day we got
one that was had broccoli in it yeah
I don't know they've been so interesting
this one by far has been the best though
so we've heard that some places will
overcharge people who are obviously
tourists like us we haven't really
noticed that too much we feel like we've
been getting a pretty fair price this
this place did end up charging us a
little bit more than I thought they
would it was 45 thousand dong which
meals like that have usually been
costing us thirty thousand max I would
say so maybe they have charged us a
little bit but you kind of have to just
pay what they say and it's really still
a very small amount by our standard
so just only fun what I see and you get
the whole plate of food plus the soup on
the side yeah definitely worth so we
said in our last video how saigon was
previously under French colonial rule so
when you walk around in certain areas of
the town you see all these French
European colonial style buildings it
feels like you walked into Europe so
yeah it's just like all of a sudden oh
it's like a European city it's a really
drastic change you guys the city even
has its own note read um check it out
but of course it is under construction
right now and nobody is allowed inside
so this is as close as we can get
apparently this sucker is from the 1880s
or 1880 to be exact so I guess it makes
sense that she needs a little work done
yeah on the wall over here you can see
they have picture a picture of it in
1995 and then in 2005 pretty cool we
have just popped into the central post
office here in Ho Chi Minh it is
spectacular on the inside though even
more importantly I have to send you all
postcards for those of you who don't
know if you are a patron of ours that a
certain tier I will hand write you a
postcard you don't send it to you and
these are picked out from all the places
that we go to so a lot of these are from
Hanoi right oh yeah really
which if you guys are wondering it that
is 100% what the traffic's like here but
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lot of fun but yeah links in the
description for that
so that is going to do it for our time
here in Vietnam of course we didn't get
a chance to see everything we never do
know we will be back a little less than
a week here but I think we fit a lot in
we saw quite a bit next time I think we
will try to get outside of the city and
go see the the nature surrounding Ho Chi
Minh but maybe we'll try to come back in
a cooler month because Dougherty lordy
have given warm it's been brutal
you guys it's made it really hard to go
out and film stuff and do stuff but
we've been working around it but I hope
you guys enjoyed coming around Ho Chi
Minh with us hope you got a chance to
explore the city at some point and if
you've been to this city or if you're a
local here let us know your favorite
spots and sites and food stalls and
stuff like that in the comments below
yeah I think that's it we're gonna see
you guys in Singapore Airport and then
in Australia all right good night
adventures be on the road