something a little bit different today we're in Hanoi I'm taking a little bit
of a break from driving before I head south and I thought it was a perfect opportunity
to share with you some of the delicious foods the best eats in Hanoi because I've been here
for a week getting happily fat and I'm going to share with you some of the best food in
Hanoi with you today I'm also joined by Gary aka the roaming cook AKA brother from another
mother and we're going to be showing you the best eats in Hanoi enjoy this video foreign
let's be honest we've gone for this what's this meatball yeah meatball
and it comes with a pair of scissors it's okay is that what that's for
are the locals looking at me like I'm a weirdo behind me they've been looking at us like we're
weirdos since we got here so I don't know if that's the scissors or just because obviously
I'll just bite into it I'll just bite into it yeah I'm not getting my haircut am I
oh there's an egg yolk inside oh no way hmm wow it's almost like a Vietnamese Scotch egg with
on the outside that tastes amazing then they've got the delicious noodles some spring onions and
then if you want which I will do a little bit is just add a little bit spiciness in there
not too much it's complementary bread here as well by the way
if you come into Hanoi for fur come here there's a bunch of places you can
choose from but look for the well-built bloke on the electric skateboard thing
and there's a great atmosphere here and this is absolutely delicious man look at the state
of yours that's good that's gonna be I don't know how you're gonna eat that but good luck
area of the Hanoi old quarter is littered with fur outlets and each one has its own
charm and character we only chose this one because of the Don who owns it driving around
on his electric skateboard delivering delicious bowls of fur to your table
you'll be able to see over on Gary's Channel by the way all
of the other dishes that we tried during this few days eating and exploring Hanoi
another quick thing we're going to quickly show you while we're in the fur District we're going to
try a dish that is actually invented in on this Crossroads and it's called [ __ ] one and it's
beef meat the similar meats are the same meat from the fur noodle soup itself but this time in rice
paper rolls all right so this is It's fur a bowl of fur but in the form of a salad wrap here we go
I don't know it's not packed full of mental flavor but it'll do it's a nice alternative to
someone it doesn't want to have a bowl of fur I'm not sure I would describe it as a fur in a wrap
the dipping sauce is really nice it's on a really really really into these calamansi
limes very easy to eat nothing crazy in here I could imagine sitting here with a couple of uh
a couple of beers ordering a couple of platefuls of these it'll do the job
next up is a very special place here in downtown Hanoi but first let's
take a quick walk around through the madness that is downtown Hanoi
if we have any Anthony Bourdain fans in the house by the way you are going to enjoy this one right
then next up presidential Boon cha buncha is one of the most popular dishes in the north I've had
it a few times on our road trip but this is the special one this is where I come quite often
I've been here three times I love it so much I brought Gary here and it's good enough for Barack
Obama and Anthony Bourdain then it's good enough for me and it's definitely good enough for Gary
hello hello okay so the food has
arriveda you get a lot of meat here guys this is somewhere that you don't want
to come for a light bite you're gonna be stuffed after you've eaten all this look
how much meat you get it's ridiculous at the bottom you have these big giant pork patties
this is like a burger that you would make on a barbecue and it's cooked to Perfection and
then you also have these slightly thinner strips of charred pork almost like bacon
uh and it's in its smell and in its texture the broth is obviously absolutely delicious
nice and oily a little bit sweet so you can you can counter the sweetness with a bit of pepper
and a nice helpful drizzle of this freshly cut chili what kind of chilies are these again yeah
they'd be like birds eye chilies bird's eye fish fingers this is the thing about booncha is the one
the one served on the side and look how jiggly they are it looks like silicone doesn't it
like I said there's so much noodles here so much meat you're gonna be absolutely
stuffed if you come here and it's a hundred and twenty thousand Vietnamese Dong for the
Boon Char the fried seafood parcel they call this a spring roll but it's more like
a parcel it's absolutely massive there's so much going on in there there's the
there's a heat from the Fresh chili the charriness from the meat the sweetness from the broth
the crunchiness from the vegetables you get that sort of tortoise from those little
that sort of sourness from those little oh there are star apples I think they are
I don't know what they are made but it helps you it makes you it tricks your brain into
thinking you're eating something healthy yeah you've got all this fatty pork meat
like barbecue to Perfection so yeah I think it's fair to say that Gary and I are massive buncher
fans and Gary actually took me out to eat a few more bunches for a video over on his channel
I should say at this point that this video was filmed over a few days there's no way we could eat
all this food guys in one day it's a ridiculous amount of food we've eaten but even after we ate
that bowl of buncha you'd think Gary was full but no honey I'm gonna give you that yes mate what
that was probably the best place you've ever taken me for free it was good what I'm thinking yeah I'm
thinking I didn't get enough grilled pork right of course you didn't I know this lovely little
on me with grilled pork the same pretty much grilled pork we just got in there little
skills of grilled pork grilled over a little cold fire and stuffed into a crispy baguette
right then fresher
two sticks of pork
and then you use the bread and pull it off the stick look at that let
me have a little look at that look at that one eh no no greens no coriander
just meat and bread so yeah as I bit into that delicious baguette full of
spicy sauce and grilled pork a lot of memories were rushing through my mind
I have one of those food memory things pop to my head
yeah yeah you see Gary's really good at explaining what the dish is what ingredients are put in it
and the history behind it but for me food always invokes a memory and since his mic was playing up
I'll share with you my memory it can sound a bit of an insult in a way but I promise you it's not
to me this tasted the way that the bread was quite chewy the way that the meat was
cooked and the spicy sauce the way it was made it just reminded me I don't know if
you guys ever have drunken donut kebabs where you guys come from but back home
in England when you've had a few beers and you're having a donut kebab on the way home
this spicy sauce this chewy doughy bread and the delicious pork meat just took me
back home and even though that sounds like a bit of an insult I promise you it's not
I was like I feel bad for saying it tastes chewy and it reminds me of having a drunken
Kebab at three o'clock in the morning but to me that's that's the biggest compliment you can give
how can you come to Vietnam and not get banned me and here in the old quarter in Hanoi there's
my favorite man-made 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 it's obviously a French baguette
reminiscence from the French colonization that we talked about when we were in Sapphire
and inside you've got Vietnamese ingredients
so I've gone for that child which is an egg pan so it's like the closest sort of Asian street
food dish that you can get to an English fry up so if you're feeling a little bit worse for wear
in 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 against and then we've got a runny egg
sunny side up egg we've got some pork pate and a lot of it uh some barbecue like charcoal red pork
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 the sticks of cornstarchy gravy now this has always been my go-to for I guess in Saigon
mainly because they don't put mayonnaise in the baguette so I don't know how to say my name
the problem is in Central Downtown Hanoi there's no 7-Elevens okay so you can't just nip in and
get yourself a nice chocolate fix so if you've got a sweet tooth like me this is where you
need to come it's called little bowl and it does traditional Vietnamese style desserts
I've never tried one actually I've walked past it every day and thought that looks
interesting so let's go together let's try Vietnamese dessert in a little bowl
of ice cream
oh okay it's not pretty as a picture but it's beautiful so here you've got
what's like the caramel slice and then these are tapioca balls maybe we're not
quite sure we're not dessert experts Gary doesn't like sweet food that's why we're
going to share this I know what that is that's ice cream a chocolate sauce
you know what this is perfect on a sweaty sweaty afternoon in the old town
you're gonna absolutely love this oh my those green balls
are sour like apple and then it's not overly sweet it's really really good
that is absolutely off the chain you're right the little green balls you think they're going to be
sweet they're actually really really sour they're like a little sour fruit aren't they I would say
this is a great shark party in this place I would say like if I had to eat like a dessert that'd be
my favorite dessert right here next to band me 25 right next to the lake in the middle of the
old town right next to a little Vietnamese fella having a cigarette and as usual we've sat on the
little plastic chairs loving life you can see how alive a Hanoi old town is and we ate a lot
more actually over at Gary's Channel because Gary flew over here to make a lot of content in Hanoi
and I've been helping him and eating a little bit of it with him as well so if you want to explain
more Hanoi and its food and just awesome food videos in general then head over to Gary the
Roman Cook I think this is our eighth or ninth video we've made together number 10 is going to
be really special second country yes where are we going to eat next I hope you found that video
quite useful I've loved eating all the food here it's been really nice to have a friend come over
and hang out with a wonderful thanks for watching in the next video we get back on super dreamy and
we start heading south to the Ho Chi Minh trail Central Vietnam and more Adventures to come peace