the smell coming off the pork is beautiful
today we're in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam and this video's gonna be all about
street food we've got some real street food gems lined up for you we can't wait to
share them with you Ho Chi Minh City throbs with a
relentless energy it's chaotic exciting and a paradise for people who love to
eat this is our first video from Saigon and we're eating some of the city's
tastiest food watch out for one of Saigon's best bowls of pho from a
nondescript stall that has been slinging bowls of Vietnam's national dish for
over 50 years delicious traditional Vietnamese
desserts plus a grilled pork noodle salad that is hands down one of the best
street foods we have ever eaten in this Saigon series we'll show you some of the
city's best food from iconic street food to traditional recipes you don't want to
miss this series get ready for some mouth-watering food I'm Thomas and I'm
Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate we hope you're hungry let's eat
we are on an eating mission today we are going into the heart of the food culture
here in Ho Chi Minh City and we're gonna share with you a bunch
of really delicious local food we're just at our first stop and we are here
for Vietnam's most famous dish and that is pho which is beef noodle soup let's
go and grab a bowl
now you can get pho all over Saigon but we've come to this
particular stall because it is a local's favorite they've just opened and it's
already packed so let's go and get some
xin chao
we ordered two bowls of pho and we ordered it with rare beef this place is really
awesome let me show you the cart so the cart is at the front of the restaurant and
they've got this big pot of broth going here so with pho it's all about the
broth and it smells absolutely heavenly you've got so you've got the noodles all in there and
then you can order different cuts of beef
so they've got meat balls they've got flank steak we ordered rare beef oh the smells are awesome
I'm so excited to get into this pho it's so neat up at that stall watching all of
the action so we ordered the rare beef pho and you can see it really is just
barely cooked all she did was she grabbed the raw beef and she just dunked
it super super quick into that hot broth now with pho it is all about the broth
so it's a beef broth a broth which is cooked with lots of beef bones and
also meat together with a ton of aromatics
so let me just give this thing a taste so just the broth I'm not going to add
anything to it okay look at that look how clean looking it is
holy moly it is so intense with flavor it's absolutely beautiful super clean
tasting but packed with beef flavor now let me just show you what else is in this bowl
so we've got the noodles so these beautiful looking rice noodles we've got
the rare beef and then we've got a ton of greens so we've got I can see some
spring onions there's some Thai basil I think I saw some sawtooth herb and then you can
customize your pho and make it taste how you like it so there's lime there's
fresh chillies there's also this little pottle of chili sauce some chili oil and also
some hoisin sauce so what I might do is just get a little bit of this mixture dump
it in there then get a few chilies as well I like a bit of spice and then
chuck a bit of lime on there and make it a little bit zingy
all right noodles beef now that beef is gonna keep cooking in the broth so we
want to get into a real quick so it doesn't get tough and overcooked alright
steaming hot
hmm I am so happy right now I love the spice that the fresh chilies
add the beef was super tender it is so soft in the mouth has a great flavor
this pho is absolutely spectacular and I'm loving this little restaurant
there's so much going on people are pouring in it's really really busy
people are yelling orders the staff are friendly and holy moly this full of pho
this broth, we have been to Vietnam three times this is seriously the best pho I
have ever eaten
we're right into the heart of Vietnamese Street food for this
next food look at this street it's crazy so many scooters and our next food is
right here under this umbrella it's bun thit nuong my Vietnamese
terrible my English a little bit better in English that's a grilled pork salad
and you can see this lady grilling up the pork right here on this super busy
road
một thôi cảm ơn
how good is this for a Vietnamese street scene so she's grilling up a
little bits of pork right here on the charcoals sitting just in a little pen
right here on this street this oh man it smells so good oh it's the
smell coming off the pork is beautiful so the pork will have a little bit of
glaze on it I can see what looks like a bit of garlic on that pork and I love
this street scene look at all these scooters just rocking by this really
neat little stall under the umbrellas this is street food just the heart of
street food this is so good
she's chucking together the bowl for us now so as always in Vietnam so many
greens in there and you can see the thin rice noodles she's put on we've got some
spring roll which she's just cut up a little piece of pork and now she's
chucking that grilled pork on top I love in Vietnam the the combinations of
fresh ingredients and then you've got that meat on top oh and look at this she's gonna
be putting on that sauce oh a bit of chili look at that what a just a pretty
picture of a bowl Wow everything about this bowl and where
we're sitting just screams Vietnam street food for me the bowl of just
beautiful fresh ingredients and look at this environment I mean it doesn't get
much better than this the tiny little stool right on the footpath scooters
roaring past it does not get much better and look at this rice noodle salad so
thin rice noodles we've got lots of fresh ingredients so there's lettuce and
all sorts but I'll mix that through in a minute we've got some spring rolls
with ours so it's that beautiful deep fried spring roll with some pork inside those
beautiful bits of grilled pork which are coming off that grill all right there
beside us so we're getting faces filled with that beautiful smoke from that and
then we've got a little meatball as well so a little pork meatball but
you've gotta mix this all up so she's put some sauce all over there you can
just see it down the bottom and that's gonna be like a fish sauce and there'll
be a bit of sweetness in that so you've gotta coat everything in that
sauce oh and there's peanuts look at these peanuts she sprinkled them over
the top right at the end so you want to really mix it in get everything combined
up those peanuts you can see there's some chili she put on there as well ohhh
all right ohhhh greens pork noodles
oh man
Wow
that pork is unreal incredibly soft and juicy that
chilli as well is the perfect spice I loved in Vietnam how the flavors are
very natural you don't need a huge amount of chilli or anything to lift them
everything just works in unison so oh my god that is good let's get some spring
roll
this is unbelievably good unbelievably good we traveled across the
city for this this is a very common dish here you'll find it all over the show
but we traveled across the city for this particular lady's stand it is
absolutely nuts how good this is and I love it because people are just cruising
in you can see the scooters right here beside us it's basically like a
drive-through so you cruise in park your scooter jump off order your bowl smash your bowl
of noodles and then back on the road unbelievable this is so good
the flavours this is truly unbelievably good sometimes we order one bowl of food
because we're not about food waste we want to make sure we eat everything we
have I'm ordering a second bowl of this because there is no way I'm sharing this
with Sheena can we come have mot one more for yea haha cảm ơn cảm ơn
oh wow this is good
Thomas and I love to explore cities by foot so we've just walked 45 minutes from our
last spot to our next street food and Ho Chi Minh City is crazy to walk around
it's loud it's frenetic it's smelly it's busy it's hot it's sweaty it's
amazing now yesterday we were researching what to put in these videos
so we were eating our way all around the city and we ate at this really great
dessert shop here so some traditional Vietnamese desserts and they were so
delicious we can't wait to share them with you
xin chao this little street stall is
right by a really really busy road so it's really chaotic and loud and she
serves a number of different traditional Vietnamese desserts so one is
chè bưởi which is a traditional Vietnamese mung bean pomelo and coconut
dessert so look she's making up the chè bưởi right now so you've got this coconut
sauce coconut milk sauce and then she's popping in some mung bean and then
also banh flan which is a legacy from the French being here it's actually a creme
caramel
this little stall which is in this laneway is so cool so I've got dessert with
a view I'm sitting facing the road there's so much traffic going past I've
got a tombstone shop next to me you just can't help but feel a real part
of this city because it's sweaty it's loud it's smelly it's awesome so this is
what I've got I've got banh flan which is creme
caramel so you've got the custard there and then it's topped with crushed ice and
then also a little bit of a coffee syrup and then this here is chè bưởi which is a
coconut milk sauce with mung bean and also pomelo skin so I'm gonna get into
this creme caramel first because it's rapidly melting that ice so
let's just get into it look at this wow it is so silky all right
it's beautiful I love how creme caramels ave stuck around since the
French were here so it's got its own unique Vietnamese take though so you've got
that creme caramel and it's been covered with this crushed ice and then the coffee
syrup and the coffee syrup is a little bit bitter quite sweet just works
perfectly with that custard it's beautiful all right let's get into this
chè bưởi so chè bưởi is a traditional Vietnamese dessert and it's fast becoming one
of my favorite Vietnamese desserts it's made up of this coconut cream sauce and
then also ponelo skin as well as mung bean so let me just find some of this
pomelo and mung bean to show you so see those bits of pomelo skin so it's
pomelo skin and pomelo pith and what they do is they boil the skin until
it loses all its bitterness and then they cook it with sugar and it almost becomes
like a jelly texture so I'm just gonna mix it up it's got some crushed ice in
there as well okay
I've got it all over my face it's really good so the coconut cream sauce isn't overly
sweet it's just got a beautiful creamy texture and then the pomelo skin
is a little bit sweet it's got a real texture to it it's sort of a
little bit crunchy and jelly like
the mung bean is really earthy it's a little bit gluggy as well because it's got
tapioca starch in it it's a great texture and super refreshing
it is fantastic walking the hectic streets of Saigon
there's so much to look at you've got to be dodging rubbish and puddles of water
all the time but that often means you need something to cool down so there's a
lot of great drinks to be had here but I think arguably the most famous
drink you'll find here is a Vietnamese style coffee they do it really neat way
and we've found a place doing it a super traditional style to show you
this is a staple of life here in Saigon sitting on the street having a coffee
and so you see coffee shops everywhere little shops little stalls but we find
these ones these little stalls that are right on the road super traditional
the classic the tiny little stools to sit on on the footpath all the traffic
roaring past and they make the coffee out of these little filters so they just
pour through filters so that it drips through makes a very thick black coffee which is
then turned into a milk coffee with condensed milk so you've got an
incredibly sweetened coffee so a lovely big dollop of that black coffee big drop
of condensed milk and then ice and it was really neat how she was cracking the
ice here actually she had some big chunks that she was bringing out and just
had a sort of a rectangle of hard metal just whacking that ice and breaking it
up so you end up with with ice that's broken into some lovely chunks so you can
see it's holds together quite well because it's broken up manually so you've
got this beautiful texture of ice
oh very strong in coffee and very sweet so pretty common way to have coffee here
in Asia actually with with condensed milk but I find in Vietnam it's there's
something about it it really is special here the coffee is amazing it's beautifully
strong so it's not too sweet that's what I find I think that's what I find
special the condensed milk coffee in Asia
sometimes can be too far on the sweet scale this is very sweet don't get me
wrong however it's also bitter so it's got a perfect balance between that
bitterness of the coffee and the sweetness and look at the environment
you get to sit in and you just sit here it's incredibly hot all the sounds of
all the scooters going past you we're in the middle of a whole lot of car repair
shops so there's a guy spray-painting a roof here there's guys just up there fixing
car lights there is so much going on I absolutely love the street food here in
Saigon it's unreal cảm ơn
ahhh cảm ơn this is another lovely touch here in Vietnam so you
often get will always get a little bit of tea to go with your with your
coffee and the tea is gonna be much more bitter
oh yeah much more bitter that's
actually a very bitter one compared to normal so you've got the sweetness of the
coffee and then you balance it out with a light fresh bitterness of the tea I
love this place really good drink