it's a special day today we are eating
this pork and it's something your family
hasn't had for almost a year yes yes
very special day and let's also cheers
to that
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best ever food review show is back with
another food series this time covering
northern Vietnam courtesy of one trip
tours and these next four weeks are
gonna be magical
Viet Nam's northern mountains are
populated by many ethnic minorities and
during this journey we'll get a closer
look at how many of them live and how
they eat in this series I get adopted by
a red Yao family when we get done with
Hoover happy yeah ok we'll make some
human soup well I feel like I'm gonna
giant a hot pod right now we'll get lost
in one of the most colorful markets in
the world banana Li the original
throwaway plate and we'll try some rare
mountain delicacies oh my god I've never
been so happy to have a bee suit on he
just told me to hold this don't smush
any bees and don't drop it or else
they'll all freak out so check back each
week because we're doing all this and
more
today we're in Tov in village home of
the red Yao people and before we eat I'm
getting an exclusive house to work with
my tour guide may we are at the house of
our local guide today so you grew up
here yes your whole life
yes how old are you no I'm not you yeah
though what we're gonna do next is we're
gonna check out your house yes which is
very exciting for me see how other
people live let's go check it out okay
my first thought when I walked into here
was that your house seems huge but you
said this is not a big house yeah that's
not so breaker not so big okay
it's a lot bigger than my apartment over
here this is like a year's worth of rice
yes why do you have so much rice in here
we're just printing one time for one
year when the India Tube Co so other
places in Vietnam they can plant rice
two or three times a year and just grow
continuously but here in the mountains
yes you just have one chance that's for
the kitchen oh is this your grandma yes
see my grandmother okay we are at the is
this you'd call this a kitchen yes one
family we have a kitchen Wow three
kitchens I want three kitchens the smell
just goes up and oh yeah that way yes no
I'll be here to get there everything
you're using it to cook but it's also
drawing the other food I like it look at
these like wooden stairs here yeah I can
do you want me to hold it for you thank
you
oh god is this kind of careful uh yeah
no this seems like a good idea
oh it's good okay it's dirty it's nice
and sturdy camera guy here next the
first kitchen we saw the fire from there
actually
your grandma's building the fire right
so the smoke is coming up and so now I
know what that rice feels like okay so
the rice usually you put here to drive
yeah
there's no rice here now is there yeah
oh this is all right rice yeah you never
come up here to drink yeah okay got
smoked they don't care if you drink rice
wine yeah oh you got cool parents my
parents are lame
oh yeah and your father helped build
this yeah there boy the men in here
about it you know they know how to move
in the house
all right here you got these giant wood
you said this is for a leaf bath with
you the local Medicine Show at Cobo
broth well we wouldn't feel we feel red
tired we have a Baba
dance we feel real bad and then there's
one more kitchen over here yes let's
look at that one so right here is your
third kitchen this is the drying
technique right here the corn now this
we just give them anymore I'm gonna pick
and a chicken right here we have the
fire pit this one is for the winter yes
for the winter you actually get winter
and snow here can you like make a
snowman no we're gonna make this work
okay can you make it do like a snowball
fight yes okay yeah look we got snowball
fights thank you for showing me your
house can you tell me what's for lunch
yes now we go to the forage to fry the
stomach pick to make the foot lunch
yeah we're going to the forest to find a
pig all right
pig time let's go
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won't you tell me how you feel right now
what we're doing is called our trekking
it's a fancy word for walking up a hill
we're having pig today how often do you
have pig we in here which is it miss for
the special day maybe we have for time
for one years Wow
this could have almost been a vegan
video that's so special we get to have a
pig together today we're having a lot of
fun trekking and your mom is up here oh
she okay alright she's getting some
fruit yes there's food all along the way
oh well look at that yes I've never seen
a fruit like this so this is like a
berry is there a seed inside yeah you
just might just buy okay you ready one
two three
oh oh I did the whole thing was that a I
do too much sour
I took a skinny grape have you had
grapes have you ever had McDonald's yeah
oh my god I wish I would have brought
you a Big Mac everybody watching this
video I hate to be now so you've never
had a taco what about a taco no I don't
have that can I eat the seed no no oh
she's like man this guy's such a noob
look I don't know what I'm doing that's
why you're here
let's keep going that was good I really
really I just wanted to take a break
from all this walking I mean yeah let's
keep going I'm not tired at all
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good tell your mom I can talk to my
cognac availa
yeah no he said going
I like your bail my guest here we're
gonna catch a pig or is the pig cut
already we have to catch the piggy we
have to catch it ourselves
I'm really good at catching chickens
Gabby stuff it's on when I never tried
to catch a pig there's a pig right over
here it looks like a wild boar up here
oh I hear pig noises
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two kilometers trekking through the
truce on the terrain and now here we are
I hear some pigs let's go let's go say
hi
is your is your mom saying hi what is
this son my mum on the picture and they
still come even though we're gonna eat
them yeah I don't know what I'm doing do
pigs bite hey why can't I pet you
feeling rejected I guess there are young
pigs I think we're having a young pig
today I don't know how much of this we
can show you know the rules for YouTube
are it doesn't matter if it's a real
culture and what they actually do it
just matters if someone you know in New
York has their feelings hurt by it
this is a very new experience for me we
climb two kilometers were at the top of
a mountain what what are we doing now we
go to the cut the peak
do they have like a handle mm-hmm we're
gonna catch the pig put it in a basket
and walk it back
two kilometres to your house yeah and
then from there no wouldn't know it's
what happens but it turns into food
let's go catch a pig I've done this
before
maybe a bit something half okay if I
catch of this paint right here what will
you give me I get to eat it for free yes
okay yes but I think you cannot pass for
this big for this run very fast
Oh what the heck a like-new it was on
camera okay it's all right there we see
the pig the pig suspects nothing
it does not know that there is a crazy
hunter oh I took one step this way and
it ran away I wasn't even close to it I
think it oh do you see it
you see okay Oh No why is it so shy oh
there's one right there
I'm gonna go forward
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oh I was so close did you see me yeah
like I grabbed it by the foot and then
it like kicked me and it called me a bad
name oh my gosh I was so close it looks
like they somebody caught some already
this might be better it's time to get
some vegetables to round out our meal
and the garden is oh are the vegetables
here yes oh this is the vegetable
section right here the produce section
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right now we're picking vegetables for
our meal okay I should say they're
picking vegetables I'm more just kind of
hanging out but look you need me to
catch a pig I can do that you need me to
catch a vegetable I've never done that
before but they're good at it
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you did a wonderful job with your mother
picking all these vegetables and now
we're we're gonna prepare them and we're
gonna eat that yes no you didn't know no
okay coke
be patient I have a question about your
outfit is this like a traditional
elephant yes is there something that you
actually wear like normally for the
special day when I go to the Red Wing
nuria I wear for this costume
oh I go to the outside my village I also
wear the costume you're 19 you said that
your your old yes in my village everyone
think I'm a very old lady because many
people in my village they get nervous
where they're only nineteen nineteen
fourteen or fifteen year though they all
ready to get married and not yet you
know they already are already to have
one or two kids oh my gosh what was I
doing
I couldn't even drive a car in my
culture if I want to get nervous
my parents are coz Phi has will help me
but I don't like that I don't want to
get married not oddly maybe in the
future I can find another guy or if you
find somebody if you will your parents
be okay with that yes maybe that's the
only way okay so when their parents set
you up with another guy what do they
look for what kind of qualities he know
how to look no right Theo and Cole feel
he know how to fly the wood to building
the house that's my parent thing oh you
have a good boy
that he does it feels so different but
then so many familiar things too I mean
there's people still using cell phones
you're on Facebook but then at the same
time everyone here is still living very
traditionally yes there's still people
having arranged marriages and the
qualities are looking for in a partner
are like can you build a house and grow
some rice but if you're looking for a
guy do you care about if he can build a
house what do you what do you care about
That's not me
oh I think if I can fight the guys and I
love him I can get mirus with him maybe
I want to channel it a bit for my
culture yes so maybe just find a nice
guy yes
when you really like yeah maybe he he
don't know how to fight the wood to be
the house but that's okay he says as
long as you like each other
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your mom here is hard at work the peg we
got today it's not here standard like an
industry farm-raised what's special
about that meatball would five not stick
on the forest and then we have to keep
them so those are wild pigs but you just
feed them yes and then get them
comfortable with you yes and then once
in a while you eat one and they kind of
forgive you yes yeah as long as you keep
eating them right here we have our
boiling pork leaving stuff for the pup
but not the pie fried and then this is
being barbecue it's is that the skin yet
for the skin yeah oh yeah it looks good
are you excited are you hungry dinner is
almost ready but we can't have dinner
without a place setting and there's some
growing on this tree over here are we
getting some banana leaves
so yeah cut for this tree okay this is a
mean machine right here look at that so
I just hit it hard yeah okay
oh no it's dirty I wasted a whole plate
oh come here come here come here oh nice
and clean before we don't have the bowl
with you this little Bowl to eat to eat
something I'll just eat right off of
that look at this this is our place man
for dinner that's awesome you know you
better you better take this from me cuz
I'm gonna hurt somebody alright thank
you
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we're here the food is done it looks
amazing and you are raring to go with
its rice wine so you do not have to wait
any longer my friend let's do it
rice wine time oh yeah buddy first I
want to say thank you so much for
bringing us together to make this
incredible meal and I can't wait to try
it
how do you say thank you in your
language Dottie touching okay that Jane
nutty so how do you say cheers just
so-so Cheers
I mean I can't believe how much came
from that kind of a smaller-sized pig
there's so much food here can we talk
about what some of this is hot yes a
boiled pork pork meat shall vamoose
intestine what is the black part though
Oh with my stool oh this is [ __ ] yet
is barbecue that looks really nice you
ever try mixing that with Diet Mountain
Dew actually in my culture when we were
doing rice why was it a book one person
who can drink about three or four bowl
before they die nice when we get down we
can go to sleep
oh oh my god there's more food how all
of this is from that one ah the fried
one so we've also added the fried pork
right here so this is the pork intestine
yes okay and who clean this my father
okay I trust you I trust you with my
intestine so I saw him in there all
right let's try it oh yeah
it's really excellent mmm that's really
tremendous it was very salty it's a
little bit chewy
it is not gamey no strong like animal
smell it doesn't smell like the locker
room of a bunch of pigs after they
played basketball you know it just it
smells good as we eat I wanted to ask
you a couple other questions one of the
kind of defining features of the red Yao
people is what we see with the shaving
of the eyebrows in that era where does
that come from
ah that's in my culture hmm if we get
nervous we have to check for the hair in
your umbrella
it will save the hair hair that's make
me lucky you'll be lucky yes you know a
lot of people comment on my videos they
say they can't see my eyebrows do you
think that's kind of lucky I didn't yeah
I think so okay I'm gonna think about it
check this out your dad's just doing it
took down know your dad knows how to
party look at this guy he's like rice
wine pork towplow he is in heaven right
now oh that was a monster head bro do
you ever do the triple r for the main
enemy oh yeah oh that seems kind of
sexist I feel like women should smoke
too he loaded up another one a double
hitter wait is he going for the triple
hit is he going for the turkey Oh Oh God
I don't want to be impolite I'm just
gonna do it a little bit I mean are you
sure you don't want to try I think it
would be a step forward for equality if
the women also tried oh I'm dizzy
you have to eat for the Sun forty with
this one yeah I like green food more why
yeah yo you guys know how to party do
you want to do the boat you're doing
wrestling no I really don't I don't I
need to draw a line somewhere maybe if
you use do this that's your vein yeah
you know you have a lot of stuff related
to luck I feel like you're just making
stuff up at this point you keep killing
it over there we're gonna come back to
the food mm-hmm we're gonna come back to
the food there you go k we've got this
beautiful oh you just hand in the to me
I love this guy delicious fried guys
look at me I'm a machine I'm buzzing
hard off of took Lao and I still keep
the food show a rollin let's go was
dried up
mmm care for the book
mmm I just eat the bun that is
tremendous oh my gosh
who made this rice wine my father
seriously it is so impressive
you're like a Renaissance man no you're
not like a Renaissance man family
together you guys can grow your own food
build your own house get your own water
make rice wine get texts or phone calls
yeah
all of that together it's amazing this
one is the barbecued what are they cute
yes all right let's try to where's
lemongrass I'm so blown away I look at
this table hey hey we're making a food
show yeah even the cat is jealous that's
how good this meal is that cat is down
here like yo yeah yeah can you give me a
foot or something at least I'm starting
to understand no matter where I am in
this country never doubt Vietnam and
never doubt the quality of food and
cuisine and kind of passion that goes
into making everything you know I love
food in Saigon and that's where I've had
most of my Vietnamese food but even
being way out here this isolated area
way up in the mountains of Vietnam the
food is absolutely tremendous I can't
believe it thank you so much for this
experience we're gonna eat the rest of
this off camera thank you come on G
thank you and thank you so much and for
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I will see you next week
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peace
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