nearly three years to the day since my last visit i am finally back on the streets of saigon
i've been to this busy bustling food packed city more than any other in asia there's
something about the culture the people and the food that just has me coming back time
after time just like where i live in bangkok the food is so ingrained in the culture here it is
everywhere so i've come back armed with an empty stomach a thirst for knowledge and
the best vietnam food youtuber money can buy so join us as we eat our way through saigon
oh my god oh my god all right welcome back guys it's day two in ho chi minh city yesterday we did
noodles today we're doing bread so we're talking bun me vietnam's famous baguette we're going two
ends of the scale today we've got one absolute banger down a back alley really really unique
i'm sure you haven't seen a bun me like this the other one is a classic bun meat with the
mixed cold meats we're going to eat that one now a little local drink store i'm going to show you a
local cold sweet drink it's going to be great i can't wait i haven't had one of these baguettes
for nearly three years to the day let's go all right so what we got so this is the us so there's
pretty much coconut water uh with the actual meat of the coconut as well throw a little sugar in
there they mix it with like almost like a tack which is a calamansi yeah you take on the skin a
little bit of juice and make it almost into like a marmalade but there's also like a hint of salt in
here yeah salty sweet refreshing just dude here's the spot especially on the hottest days in saigon
so i said to max i was like before but before i came i just don't like sweet things like don't say
for any sweet drinks don't save me for any uh anything that's savory that's meant to be sweet
and i'm not into the whole sweet drink thing either how many of these have i had now it's
like the third or four yeah every day we've had one every day i know he was like oh do you want
to go somewhere different today i was like nope i want to show everyone this anyway you didn't come
here to watch me talk about calamansi drinks you came here to watch me talk about bun me
so let's go so as always i'll stick a link to where we got this one me from i didn't film much
of it because it was quite dark in there it's just like it's quite a nondescript bakery right
it's just just a classic bakery that you're going to find on pretty much every street in saigon this
just happens to be a very very good one so it's in district three they happen to stop on me but
they're actually famous for selling like pulse cups here so the reason the cold cuts are so good
in there is because they're famous for selling holes they sell it like wholesale the whole stove
yeah right so other people will go there maybe buy it and then make baguettes with that themselves
or eat them at home and all right brilliant we've got vietnamese sausage
this is beef um kind of like a pepperoni i guess um and then we've got some coriander
some spring onions and then we've got the pickled carrot and daikon
here i've been saying in my other videos that since i've got a pickled carrot and the
daikon haven't been that strong in flavor like they haven't been too
over sour or too overly sweet or terribly salty this is very very sour which i actually quite like
you gotta get a bite of the whole thing all together
for me it's one of the best sandwiches in the world the dough here
got a bun now flour on the bottom it's a little bit denser a little bit of a thicker crust
this tastes more like a french stick than a like light airy
saigon baguette that we've been eating this week um now this is the sort of bun me that everyone
knows about the second stop today is when you're not going to want to miss we're going down a
little back alley it's a place if you watch max's videos you've already have seen it but i saw it in
a video i said listen max you got to take me here so we're going to go down hunt down this lady she
walks around on this little car grilling which are wild better leaves wrapped around beef and
grilled over hot coals and she stuffs that into the baguette so don't go anywhere you're not going
to want to miss this and you're not going to want to miss a classic bun me if you come to saigon
i'm losing my mind i can't get over this you know how much i've been missing
bun means i have to combine with the la la it's a thing of pure beauty all right max is
going to go ahead get us ordered up i'm going to sit here and smash one with my new friends
all right so she's got a few different things right
so it's beef seasoned with lemongrass pepper and fish sauce i think this is unbelievable
and she's also got little grilled meatballs as well
right so she's going in with the lollop and then oh we've got a couple of little meatballs as well
without the battle leaf
she's going in with some thai basil i believe is it vietnamese coriander some of the sauce
lovely in that chili oil
this guy's is my kryptonite
so this is the shumai
she's really friendly she'll joke with you this is my table guys so what did she say to you she's
like ah you made a video here but no foreigners to come here and eat what's up with that how's it man
you don't want the foreigners so that's it guys once you've seen this video i want you to come
down here and get this for yourself but she does move around so like if you watch maxi's video
she's not here she's somewhere else so like max knows saigon and he had to research and we've been
driving around looking for him we just caught her on this little corner of this ridiculously busy
backstreet intersection it's like a feast for the sentences i guess
but yeah this is like mind me does to me destiny find it there here you go
oh my god oh my god all right guys let me show oh my god so
like any standard by me we've got that crispy and flaky bread and this is just something
that no one else does like vietnam it's just so light and airy especially the ones in saigon so
light so airy so crispy reminds me actually i was saying this to max yesterday reminds me of a white
english crusty roll which i grew up eating so i think this is like a little bit nostalgia for me
but the filling is like nothing else so we've got the lola grilled to absolute perfection
over smoky hot coals some cucumber the pickled daikon and carrot giving you a little bit of
crunch and texture i love the little satay sauce she's got on here thick
bit of soy sauce and loads and loads of chili but without further ado guys let's break that
guys we've got so much going on here these rolls of baguette are so crispy
so light so crunchy just a tiny little wild metal wrapped beef perfectly seasoned it's a little bit
sweet tiny bit of bitterness coming from the leaf it's a very hard flavor to describe if you haven't
had them before but it's slightly smoky once it's cooked over cold then you've got that sweet
salty soy sauce for the lemongrass coming through chili it's oily and then you've got the freshness
from that carrots and the daikon as i said yesterday in yesterday's video
they're not overdone here they're not overly sweet they're not overly sour
just absolutely perfect i would comment for us to say that is the best sandwich i've had
in three years look at the color of the beef i wasn't sure how they did that but max's dog is
the anato seeds the nato seed oil achiote is the actual technically that's what it is the but the
seeds that come out of it they pry it off and it gives you this yellow orange red food coloring and
it's what they kind of mumbo away with and we'll see that a little bit later on my favorite thing
probably about this baguette is actually the little beef meatballs just simply seasoned very
very salty bit of pepper and some onion going through there tastes like a little mini burger
incredible so much going on in one baguette get yourself down here okay so only in vietnam this is
absolutely mental she is sitting on a little corner grilling up her meats serving up
but get off the baguette after baguette on one of the busiest little back streets you
could ever go in your whole life is just there are hundreds of bikes going past every minute
um this for me this is saigon this is vietnam uh a feast for the senses not for the faint-hearted
starting to wish i didn't drink like seven six percent ipas yesterday i'm trying to feel it
guys but anyway i hope you enjoyed today's video on bread if you want to see that bun way that i
talked about that max is going to go and do make sure you go over to max's channel he's been such
a great help the last couple of days showing me around definitely the best foreign youtuber in
vietnam for food hands down so i've been a very lucky man go over check him out i'll leave links
to all his stuff in the description box below let me know where you want me to go next if there's
anywhere in saigon you want me to come back and do i will be back probably next month or the month
after but for now get down see this lovely auntie get yourself an amazing bun me la lop
thanks very much for everyone that's been thanks very much for everyone that has been
financially supporting the channel i couldn't do this without you but for everyone else that
doesn't want to do that i can't afford to do that no problem but just please please please
continue to like and share the videos thank you so so much and i'll see you mwah in the next one
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