we are in ho chi minh city and today we're gonna see how much food
we can buy for only five usd for two people let's go
today we are at Ho thi ky market and it's usually a flower market but in the night
it transforms into a huge food market we have got five US dollars which is about 115000
vietnamese dong now we've only been to vietnam a few days now so we don't really know
anything about vietnamese street food so this is the perfect time to try some new things out
in our previous street food challenges we've been able to buy
loads of food in thailand but here we don't know anything about prices or anything so
it'll be really interesting to see actually how many food things we will actually get
we've had a little walk around now and there's so much food
pretty much everywhere but there also is a lot of is bikes and people it is so so
busy but it seems like the right place to be because there's locals everywhere
we really didn't expect this uh street food market to be as big it's literally around the
back alley of a flower market but it just keeps going and going and going with food on both sides
as well there's a little bit too much choice actually there's a lot of meats on sticks which
i will definitely be trying some dessert stuff as well but some really interesting looking drinks
that we're definitely going to try at the end oh yeah there's different different flavors
so i think they're sweet right what would you like maybe like mix like a mix yeah how much
20 20. okay just make mix yeah no no no no it's a sweet potato corn oh i understand
there's like powder on top okay okay what do you want cheese plum powder cheese cheese
thank you very much
what's kind of good about ordering food in vietnam and we've kind of been forgetting this
the first few days is that we can actually read it yes there's some accents that are slightly
different on top of the letters but unlike thai where they're just you know tones here we can
actually pronounce things kind of similar to what they sound like so when he was saying like do you
want a sauce i was like cheese Phan Ong or something it was called and he understood so that's good
so we've just popped into one of the back alleys this is pretty much like the rest of the market
as well there's bikes everywhere now i don't know if this is a vietnamese thing i don't even know
where this is from but it looks really fun and it smelled really good and they're like little fried
balls and then you had a powder that you could choose to put on top we decided for cheese and
it smells kind of like like wotsits in the uk or in sweden cheese doodles but
they're hot oh okay that's actually really tasty oh actually I actually really like that now
Chewy? a little bit chewy it's like crispy on the outside and then kind of chewy this was only
20000 dong which is just around one us dollar which means that we can
if everything costs around this sort of price we can get a lot more stuff so yeah success
oh yeah that's naughty
i don't know what im buying but i don't know whether it's like
a price for one or a price for four
it's very very hot today and when you stood next to the
the people cooking the meat it gets extremely hot now i got two
meats on a stick i was told one is pork one is beef let's see what it's like
yeah the sauce on that really really good and these were one of them was 10 000 and
one of them was 13 000 because there's cheese on it i think this one is beef
yeah that's really really good
i don't know i don't know which one of this
huh? one is a vietnamese spring roll yeah can i just have one please
yeah one how much nine thousand i think one yes thank you very much thank you
so i finally got my vietnamese summer roll it's like a soft rice paper with rice noodles
prawn i actually can see right now that this is actually also got meat in it
so i'll have to eat around that oops normally also these have coriander in
them so i'll eat from the side that seems to have no meat in the beginning anyway
i've got a i think normally you get some sort of peanuty sauce but it smells a bit peanutty
this was only 9 000 dong which is about just under 50 cents maybe like 40 cents
oh my god i was chewing i have to say this is probably not my favorite from what i can taste
there's no coriander in there but there's like mint leaves i think
hello there's mint leaves in there so it's really fresh it's definitely something lighter on the
stomach probably a little bit lighter than all of the meat on the stick that dylan just had
i do prefer deep deep fried spring rolls but for 9 000 dong i can't really complain
this is the busiest food market we've been to in so long it's just people everywhere
hello um is it possible to have it without meat ?yeah. can i just have one
okay there's a speaker right up there so i'm sorry if i'm yelling at you but i'm just trying to drown
out party music so everywhere on this market we've seen these tiny little like ceramic cups almost
of like egg mixture with a variety of like meat and seafood this one seems like it's got muscle
in it i think uh a prawn egg and then some various herbs and spices i think and then it comes with
this was 15 000 dong it's hot this is like really hard to touch oh and it's also got cheese in there
and sweet corn
that's really nice it's almost like a super tiny omelette but this clear winner is super tasty
that's really nice and you guys know us we love sweet corn that thing was filled with sweet corn
15 000 dong good so we've spent sixty seven thousand baht. Not baht, dong.
and we've had four things to share but you guys know as we love sweet things so i think
now it's time to get something sweet now we've seen something that looks
amazing over there but it looks quite big so hopefully we have enough budget left for it
It's got like a caramel cake oh my god i look so good hello uh this one how much how much
thirty thousand thirty thousand one
that's cheaper than i thought it's gonna be but it looks like it could be a drink
and a cake so two in one wow that looks so good
thank you thank you very much so what i think we've got on here is it's like crushed ice with
some sort of chocolatey syrup that they poured on top which i assume is like a milo mixture right
then there's definitely what i would call chocolate corn flakes or chocolate like cocoa
puffs puffs or something oreo cookie an actual caramel flan or whatever you would call that which
look it wobbles and then mio on top it's just like it's really really hot here you might be
able to tell from how much we're sweating so this is super cold and super sweet i'm so
excited to talk into this now we are no experts on vietnamese street food like we said earlier
but we don't know if any of the food we got today was vietnamese at all or western inspired but our
eyes were drawn to these foods especially this if you know of any epic street foods that we can try
just put it in the comments and we'll definitely try it out oh you wanna try it yeah okay i'm gonna
try like a little bit thirty thousand dong i'm trying to get a little bit of everything
what's the best part the top what i think is tapioca pearls because they're like
cool and chewy and sweet look at that
so the ice is melting and there's like this really cool kind of
cold hot chocolate cold chocolate chocolate drink i don't know what you would call it
very good this is right up my street super sweet even though i've got diabetes
it's fine take some more insulin
that's just chocolate heaven
drink it drink it oh
wow that is amazing i've said everything is amazing up now but street food is always awesome
okay so as we're trying to squeeze our way back to the market this way we've calculated and i
think this is correct that we've got 18 000 left now i think maybe that will be enough for a drink
probably be enough for a lot of the stuff here because everything seems to be very affordable
but we haven't had anything to drink quite yet even though the ice drink kind of counts let's
see if we can find a drink that covers the last 18 000. the street that this market on is so
narrow like there's so many traffic jams and like we're properly squished into this corner here
we're going to order a drink here which is 15 000. i don't think we're going to find anything for
18 000 because that's a random number but we can leave 3 000 behind i think thank you
that's so thick
and super sweet as well wow yes that is really really nice wow try it
wow you're right that's super thick looks like a strawberry
syrup i can almost see little bits of strawberry floating around in there as well
so i think this has been a super successful street food challenge we've got all the food we
had even three thousand dong change but we can't spend that nothing is 3000 dong but
we have to say vietnam is very very overwhelming there's so many people in a small amount of space
and here it's just so many people everywhere it's crazy i have to agree with dylan it's been very
very intense super fun and a great way to get kind of introduced into what foods they have here in
vietnam there's loads of food left for us to try now if you like this video then i think you'll
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