something about eating the really cheap meal on the side of the road with heaps of
people around drinking a beer and sitting on a plastic chair you just can't beat it
we're lloyd and mandy we've been traveling full-time for the past seven months searching
for the perfect place to live as digital nomads we've been in vietnam for over two
weeks now and have just arrived in hanoi after a 17 hour sleeper bus that caught us off guard
after a quick nap we're ready to explore the city's old quarter we're just on our way out to
train street yeah we just got to hanoi and i'm starving it's probably pretty cliche to
go check out this train street but i want to see for myself and apparently there's a lot
of good cafes there i'm going to sit there and have a beer and something to eat and then just
walk around hanoi and see what happens i think yeah there's a few things we want to check out
but we don't want to do the usual touristy things that are on all the lists so we're
going to see what we stumble onto tonight it's going to be mostly food and beer yeah
it's us come on so the area we're staying is um called hanoi old porter this is pretty much
just where you want to stay in hanoi from what i've seen lots of hotels lots of markets lots
of food options the only issue right now is it is a little bit hard to walk around the footpath
situation isn't quite ideal that might change at night and i know there's walking streets around
here so um we're going to check him out but i need to get the phone out figure out where we're going
so i think this is the most touristy thing we wanted to do while we were here because it
actually is pretty cool yeah so this train line just basically runs through all these cafes and
bars and restaurants and [ __ ] we started vr we're trying our first Hanoi yeah i think the
train's coming soon which we timed it pretty well um we're really hungry so we're just gonna get a
something to eat here just a snack probably and then go find somewhere to maybe sit down for a
bit longer get a good dinner it's probably just going to be a food tour like usual
food and beer yeah but the city itself is so beautiful so far like the buildings are amazing
it actually reminds me of all the movies i used to watch as a kid the anime movies all the buildings
look like that to me i really really like it yeah it might just be that we're in old old town
Hanoi but so far it feels much more traditional than Saigon although i really did like saigon
foreign
and that's it yeah so we just spent like three hours at the uh train street
which is a really cool spot just sitting have a beer the train came past three times which is
insane i don't understand how it works but um and we met a bunch of other Australians it was so fun
had some beers with them it was really good to actually hang out with some other people
didn't get a proper meal though so i'm getting to sit down and have a really good
feed and uh i'll probably have another video, yeah so we're headed to bia poi junction looks pretty
bloody cool hopefully we can get a feed there and obviously another beer it's definitely a
beer spot but i think there'll be some street food there as well so let's check it out
this place is wild we're in like this center sort of like central spot where
or beer junction it's like four roads they meet in this intersection
it's a mix of expats i think local tourists a lot of asian tourists but a lot of beer
but everywhere serves food as well pretty reasonable price pretty cheap
uh this is definitely the spot to go all right so they serve food here but it's not made here
there's no kitchen ah this guy just came and brought it up from i don't even know where
i think it's just street food and they bring it up here how is it
something about eating the really cheap meal on the side of the road heaps of people around
drinking a beer sitting on a plastic chair you just can't beat it i feel like shut in southeast
asia i'm just too big to fit anywhere so tonight's been absolutely awesome we've met so many
we've met so many different people that are going to show us around different countries we've met a
couple that live in Singapore that are originally from Australia so when we go to Singapore we've
got actual local tour guides that are going to show us around the best green spots and we just
met some really cool guys that are going to show us around south Korea when we head there as well
so you guys can actually get the full local experience when we head there i'm so excited
but a little bit sweet i don't know where
really good all right so last night was really fun yeah beer street is awesome this street is crazy
i can't believe how busy it was uh so many people jam-packed into such a small place they bring the
tables and chairs further and further out onto the street and then they know exactly what time
police are coming and they pull everyone inside we stayed there all night we had so much fun and we
met a lot of people i think one of the hardest things about Vietnam is not getting carried
away with the beers they're so cheap and it's such a beer culture here everybody drinks beer
should set a straight line, okay so i found this place on google that is a dog cafe
never been more excited for something in my life we've done a cat cafe before but
this is a dog cafe and it's just around the corner so we're gonna walk there now
okay it's on google there'd be a lot more dogs here
there's two but we're gonna try egg coffee for the first time because you guys have suggested
it so many times even though we don't drink coffee we're just gonna taste it just so we know
what all the excitement is about you might get me hooked back on coffee it's been a year since i'm
drunk it hopefully not i'll give it a go though so it just feels like we're at someone's house
i like it all right what's this egg coffee all about so it's coffee with egg yolk
and condensed milk sounds pretty creamy sounds pretty good it honestly doesn't even taste that
much like coffee because it's so sweet but it's really good maybe too creamy though it's
that's so good it's really good
i get it now it's so thick and sweet though i don't know if you could drink
the dog smell on my hands is making it a bit funny but yeah that's delicious i get it yay
okay new life goal open a dog cafe noticed a lot of places have a lot of um
birds bird cages i'm not sure what that's about here let us know in
the comments if you have any idea mandy thinks it's something to do with feng shui
it that's a total guess
so yeah thought there'd be more than three dogs but three dogs is better than zero dogs am i right
i think i'm right so if you're like me and you just
crave a dog cuddle especially while you're having a really nice iced
tea or want to try a really good egg coffee come to cafe 20 here in old quarter
the hotel that we've stayed at has been really good because everything that we've wanted to
go to so far has been walking distance which is super handy place that we're staying at is called
la palm and it was like 25 australian dollars a night with breakfast included which is insane i
always research like what's the best area to stay in and this was hands down recommended
the best area which is the old quarter and i can see why everything's within walking distance here
um so far today we haven't had to jump on a motorbike or a grab at all so
it is hot and the other thing that i will say is that the roads are sort of a little bit sketchy
walking on them because they use the footpath as scooter parking so a lot of times you're walking
on the road and it's pretty busy but other than that it's been really easy getting around
do
okay
so i don't know what it is we've been doing this for seven months all through bali
to thailand for a month vietnam for two weeks the last two nights here in hanoi
every time we go somewhere and sit down we end up chatting to people who are from another country
they tell us all about their country and give us tips and advice on where to go how to travel where
they've been i don't know what it is about hanoi there's something about this place everyone seems
to just mingle together and want to talk and hang out and be friends so if you're a solo traveler
just come here and come to be here start here definitely start your trip at beer street in hanoi
are we heavy okay yeah
are you okay yeah okay this is why you get around so this man that we don't know the name of
is currently driving us to a jazz bar jazz cafe yep yeah we're excited lloyd found it
on google we're hoping it's going to live up to the hype on that sunday night so there should
be some people there it's busy everywhere so we're hoping that it's gonna be busy
okay this feels a little bit too fancy for us but we've come to this jazz cafe slash bar and
music doesn't start for about an hour yeah it's definitely fancy for us but all we ever do is
street food and straight bars and honestly my arts are getting sore
from those little plastic chairs right it's got some nice aircon it's pretty good
so now we're going to go to this hideaway bar which is a little bit of a secret bar i guess
um you need a password to get in so you have to dm them and they give you the password so i've just
dm'd them we're gonna walk there now and hopefully we can get in we're just walking down an alleyway
it's pretty obscure don't know if this is the right way turn right here honey uh but we'll see
but i wasn't what i was in for i'm over here we lost our minds
for i am
i
okay there's something keeps cool about there being like an exclusive
bar or restaurant or something that you need a password to get into which this place was
yeah it was actually really really cool in there yeah it was really cool um not what i expected
in hanoi at all nothing in hanoi has been what i expected this is something i would expect in like
melbourne new york western city like that it wasn't too busy it was pretty quiet still
but the vibe of the joint was really cool so we'll put a link down below in the description
to where this place is um and then you're gonna have to figure it out how to get in cool music
good cocktails good vibe hopefully we showed you a different side of hanoi today yes we hope you
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