48 Hours exploring Hoi An OLD TOWN 🇻🇳 (must try food + tips)

hey it's phoi and today I'm in hoan a Charming City located on Vietnam's Central Coast hoan is a captivating blend of Rich history gorgeous architecture and a tranquil atmosphere once a bustling trading Port the UNESCO listed ancient town is a Labyrinth of narrow streets lined with beautifully preserved Merchant houses ancient temples and Lantern lit Alleyways and in this episode we'll be exploring this charm Town together as we discover some of the very best things to see eat and do in hoan let's go [Music] after wandering around the hoan morning Market I really needed a coffee I haven't been sleeping great lately and I need a lot of caffeine to keep me going so I've come to a place called 25s or 25s I'm not sure it's such a cute Cafe now there's no shortage of amazing cafes here in hoyan and we're going to be hitting as many of them as I can possibly handle over the next few days but I just love the look of this one I'm just following my instincts here I didn't see it recommended anywhere and I couldn't decide what to have so I've got two different kinds of coffee this is Vietnamese ice coffee so it's got the really strong Vietnamese coffee in it and then just a little bit of condensed milk so it's sweet that is excellent that is so tasty yep that's great and then this one is something I really want to try this is a coconut coffee I've seen it everywhere it's come out and it looks like a coconut Frappuccino and then you pour the espresso on top so let's just get stuck into that at that's amazing I feel like this is a real local delicacy this one the Coconut's all toasted it's so hot here and this is all things icy and refreshing two CES at once is the powerless and what I love about hen is Cafe culture allows you to sit out on the street in fact this is a Vietnam wide thing you can sit out on the street have your coffee it's really relaxing you just do some people watching and it's such a nice way to start the day honestly I will give you a tip though the seating is very low so ladies on on days like today I'm wearing a maxi skirt so that I can sit in these really low seats and be comfortable so I recommend wearing something like long and flowy so you can sit down low and not be worried about flashing anybody or wear some shorts this is not the day for your mini skirt trust [Music] [Music] me sh [Music] it is time for lunch and when I was thinking about what to have I really wanted to have bon me I didn't just want to have any Bon me though I want to have the best Bon me in hyan and there was so many that were recommended I figured we should just get all of them and try them so I've run around hoan bought three different kinds of BN me we're going to try them all I'm going to find out which is the BN for me all right we're going to start with the one from the place I'm at right now which is here I think it's called M Le Hoy vegan baguette I'll have these names in the video description for you cuz I have no idea who's what so this is the cheapest of the three at 15,000 Vietnamese Dong and it's medium famous that is really really good it's so spicy but so sweet like not crazy Chey sweet but nice and spicy and sweet all at once all right next up is the most famous and the most expensive this is B me Fong I think it was about 35 40,000 Vietnamese Dong and it's famous because Anthony Bain approved it and put it on the map I've got avocado and too [Music] spicy there's a really nice peanut sauce inside this one and the bread is excellent I really like the peanut it's very saish and this last one is a complete ringer I just put vegetarian bun me into Google Maps and his joint came up it's a Lotus vegetarian bun me spicy you know what I'm surprised I'm about to say this but I think the number one is the first one bum Leo that number one sim a close second and not too far off in third is B me I think if you really hate crowds go to ju because there was nobody there if you like to eat on the street come here to leloy if you want to have the iconic experience you want something a little more Savory go to FL but all three are good honestly all three are good I think leloy is just my pick [Music] for accommodation I'm staying at hoan emotion Boutique Villa and hotel I love this hotel's location it's a short 800 M from the Oldtown which makes it really easy to explore by foot or bike yet it's far enough away to to be peaceful and quiet the staff here are really kind and helpful and the hotel's grounds are Lush and leafy there's a pool a COI Pond gym fast Wi-Fi and so many more little things which are just perfect for me my room is absolutely huge after being in Korea it's so lovely to come here and have so much space I love sitting out on this balcony relaxing and enjoying the big comfortable bed and spacious bathroom I feel like this is my apartment and I live here I love this hotel I would definitely stay here again it has been exactly what I needed right now I'll have a link in the video description for you to this hotel and a few others at some different price points too so you can find the perfect hotel in hoyan for your stay to get around hoan you've got quite a few options you can walk quite easily you can catch grab just make sure you have the app downloaded installed set up while you still still have connection to your phone number cuz you have to verify your phone number um you can organize a private driver you can hire a scooter if you were proficient you can also use bicycles it's a really fun way to get around um now a lot of hotels will hire them to you you can hire them on the street I've seen a whole bunch of them my hotel gives them to you for free we love that let's go for a bike ride [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right riding this bike around is so much fun although I will say the traffic can be a little intimidating if you areen used to Vietnam the general rule of and my experience is go with confidence I just keep a steady Pace I don't make any erratic movements now this this goes for riding the B again crossing the street I go at a steady Pace I go with confidence I don't make any erratic movements and everyone else just flows around you but honestly this is so much fun it's such a great way to explore the town one of the things you absolutely must do when you come to hoen is have some some clothes made now I've actually been here for a couple of days and on my very first day I came here I'm going to tell you all about this shop and we're going to have our first spitting our first try on of our clothes and I'm going to give you some essential tips for having clothes made okay in preparation for this spinning I have changed outfit I'm going to give it the hot tip to make your life easier and your beautiful seamstress life easier I'm wearing I want to show you all of it little like bik pants you wear all and then a little bodysuit so I can slip things on and off and I can make sure that everything fixs right and flowers said when I came here in my first day I wore this and she was like that's a great outfit to wear cuz I can measure you properly yeah come and say hello flower flow is amazing oh she's so cute so cute all right let's let's see what magic this sweetheart is whipped up for me um fashion show okay if youve ever seen me wear this dress I love it so much I wanted it remade so Glow's had that remade for me in a black [Applause] linen s and the great thing about this process is when you come in for your first spinning if there's anything you don't like anything you want to change or tweak the girls are happy to help you do that oh my God pink is nice it's 600 p.m. or 630 6m okay thank you oh nice nice I love it s the theory here was we would make a little hot pink skirt so this is a nice capture wardrobe as well so I can wear this with everything and anything and it's not too fitted on the hips it's great and then we want to do like take the top of this dress and make it into a top so I can wear it again with everything if you've seen this dress that I wear everywhere this is my favorite dress as you guys know so I always remade it for me in white so again it's a nice staple so pretty now I've got two of them yeah I love that on the Queens highly recommend all right that was my first fitting for all my stuff everything was perfect I just wanted one tweak on the white dress just to P it in a little tighter around my waist flower was so cool with that I think from me like one of the biggest worries is I don't want to offend the other person I don't want to be too demanding I don't want to ask her too much I don't want to show up and what they've made is so wrong that I have to just accept it or I have to argue with somebody that wasn't what happened there I it was all perfect it was exactly what I wanted it to be which is just such a relief for me and makes the experience so much fun if you're looking for a tailer I recommend flower and I recommend her shop I'll have all her info below for you including her WhatsApp make sure you come and see her the very first day you arrive I came that first afternoon I'm here for 5 days all up so we have plenty of time to get it done you don't want to be rushing an overnight job guys you want to give yourself plenty of time to get it just right make sure you show up with either the clothes that you want her to duplicate or photographs or screenshots or videos the clothes that you want her to make from scratch be really clear on the Fabrics you want the fits you want things you do and don't want think about what color is the zip lining do I want the dress to be lined or not do I want it to sit a little higher you know just communicate with her and her English is incredible so she's a really great person to do it with and right at the end she went through everything with me so we were really clear on everything that we wanted and everything that we didn't um I'm going to come back tomorrow and pick up my linen pants but right now I want to go for a little bit of a bike ride around the town it's just so much fun I'm having a really lovely afternoon on the bike let's go [Music] for all the times of being to in I don't think I've ever been on to a rooftop which seems like an obvious thing to do I think I think of it as being a very low lineing place to be like there aren't really any highrises or anything like that it never really occurred to me to get up on top of a rooftop but I was on Tik Tok I saw a girl made a video about 92 station so I figured I'd come here and check it out and it's awesome I would definitely recommend doing this you you want to time your run for now that kind of Dusky kind of time it's nice and cool up here you definitely don't want to be up here in the Blazing heat of the day but to come up here at this time it's absolutely beautiful um and they have a great menu of drinks I'm I'm sure they do food as well I just got a lime juice cuz it's been really hot today but you know if you came up here with your room romtic love interest or a group of fans you would be so happy it's just gorgeous the views are amazing you can really see the buildings up here to they're incredible it is like a story story book Town it has to be one of if not the prettiest little town in Southeast Asia it's incredible that's hitting the [Music] spot la la la [Music] la la la [Music] la so sure as do it is time for dinner and after looking for great places to eat online I found a spot called chickpea and it was down a little Alleyway I'm willing to risk my life to go down the alleyway if there's good food at the other end it was worth it this place is great and it's run by some beautiful sisters and this is one of them hi my name is LAM oh you're so sweet she's so nice so I've ordered what's this one called oh Vietnamese pancake and a veggie version so I can eat it and you're going to give me a tutorial on how to eat it yeah okay all right hit me okay the first one and so I pay a take okay this one one Vietnamese pancake and on top is cumber yeah and a little bit lettu okay and you can eat coriander yeah mhm and a little bit carot lettuce so you're rolling rolling up tight mhm M thank you so much hope you enjoy your meal well don't leave don't leave why you going stay for the tast to she's just left she has total Faith oh my God that's really good it's so fresh and crunchy and flavorsome whatever's in that dipping sauce is perfect the bun CH has come out and it looks so so good so apparently you just dump this sauce over the top of everything mix her in party time it's all just so crunchy and delicious these spring W this you get a spring wall it's like a big deep fried monster and it's so oily you take one Bo bite and you feel ill it doesn't even taste like it it just tastes like oil these are in rable I don't like to repeat restaurants in an episode cuz I want you guys to have as many food recommendations or places to avoid as humanly possible you know I try to eat as much food as I can but this place goes hard this place slaps I let me think on it but we may have to eat here tomorrow because I really want to try the pal bonss and there's some other stuff on the menu I wanted to try too it just like it it just alls good there are these famous noodles that you only get Who Am because they have to use some special kind of water from some special ancient well or something to make noodles I want to try that that was just so nice that moments like that are a big part of why I travel and what I love about travel I walked into that restaurant just on a whim part of me thought I would just even skip dinner tonight and then I go there and Karen and Sarah who were at the table next to me they're from Canada they were so lovely they just talked to me all night and Lana and her sisters were talking to me all night and it was such a lovely moment of connection it was so genuine and so wonderful and I feel like we're friends now we exchanged WhatsApp numbers those moments of genuine connection mean so much to me and I'm always just so grateful when I'm traveling by myself and I get to meet really amazing people and have such a lovely moment with them it just yeah it's just so nice it's really nice um it's been such a great first day here in hoyan it's really lovely I I just needed to kind of after being in big cities back to back it's really nice to come somewhere like this and slow down the pace and have a bit more connection it's exactly what I needed to be honest with you um I parked my bike somewhere I don't really remember where I try and retrace my steps and see if I can find where I left it it's under a tree somewhere all right I'll figure that out I'm going to ride my bike arm which I'm really excited about I love a good bike ride um and then we're going to be up tomorrow we got a whole another day of activities see you in the morning good morning you guys when I was researching places that I wanted to eat in h nourish Eatery hip coming up loads of girls recommended it people are recommending it I have to come and try it with plant-based condensed milk normally I just have the regular condensed milk but let's try the plant-based that's really really good that's really good I'm going to I'm going to need another one of those and I ordered breakfast St guys so happy with that decision um I ordered them very very spicy I said please bring them out very very spicy I keep ordering my food spicy here it keeps not coming out spicy I think they see all of this and they're like she doesn't know what she's saying we're going to layer up the chili sauces and we're just going to have them both and we're just going to send this thing Straight to Hell how spicy can it be I'll find out the toer is homemade and it's super th um I got the the the vegan version so it's a tofu scramble in there but they have an egg version as well you love eggs that's really good it's so tasty it's really good there's so much filling the Little Tortilla can barely do its job it's really thin and just kind of disappears which which I really like I love a meaty tortilla for like a lunchtime or a dinner thing but for breakfast it's all about the feelings in this one and I really really like that it is extremely hot today like really really really hot it's 10:30 if I go out in that heat and I'm out walking around I'm going to get heat strike I'm going to have a real problem on their hand so let's just game it today I think in general that's one thing you really need to be wary of here you know you needs to be doing your activities early in the morning and in the afternoon evening you cannot be out in the middle of the day like this now interestingly there are a lot of day tours that you can do from hoyan there you can go out to Sapa have you ever seen those photos of that big hand and it's like a bridge and people walk through it I've seen those all over the Internet and I was like oh maybe one day I'd like to get there I was talking to lovely Karen and her daughter at dinner last night and they were saying they went there I didn't know this that's a theme park it's a $100 entry to get into the theme park just to see well see lots of things but see that thing in there that really turned me off I would have liked to have done that but I was also thinking about doing the you probably have seen the lantern boats here I'll put some footage in I'll film them and show you but you can get into like a little Lantern boat and do like a lantern release ceremony um and I went to look at that when I was walking around way in town the other night and it looks so mass produced and in authentic I think some of those moments can be done really well and you can still have something that everything's doing and have it have that little bit of magic to it but when I went down to the river to look at it all these people just flocked and were just on me like get in my boat come to me do this do that do this do that and then there was shoving tourists and life jackets and putting them on boats and everyone's getting their photos really quick and I was like what is the point of letting go of the lantern what's that doing like what is the actual are we just here for a photo cuz I just as you know I don't love that that's not my vibe I don't do things just to do things just to get the photo just to whatever sadly I think and it's funny because I work in social media but sadly I think sometimes social media curates these itineries for us and sometimes travel becomes more about getting those moments just to say you've been there you've done the thing you take the box you got the photo you've got the Tik to you got the real whatever it is like and that's it and for me travel isn't just or my life isn't just a Content creation shoot travel for me gives me that connection and that knowledge and that skill and that that depth to my life that's what I love so much about it it enriches my life in so many ways [Music] another of the must through things here in Ho you're right you keep going worry yeah that's okay um another of the most through things here in hoyan is obviously getting things made you can get leather goods made um so I've gotten a few things made some of I can't show you cuz it's surprises for my family this one I can show you this is my dad's bag I told him I was getting stuff made and he's like get me something so we' had this custom made it's like a big leather duffel for him put his shoes in here it sits over his suitcase handle um it's monogrammed it's got a few other bits and pieces that he really wanted in it now the big question here is how do I get this back to him I can't travel with this to him well the girls here organize postage okay let me introduce you to the dream the dream team of leather gals here they are okay so we'll start with the name of the shop song leather is that focusing I hope it's focusing if not I will have all the information I'll have all the information in the video description for you but these are the girls you need to know so da is our postal Bank hi post so she's helping me get everything like boxed up and we've got that all ready to go I paid her directly I'll have D's WhatsApp number so you can slide in a DM and get her you're so cute get her to help you with Postage and then my girls over here no they were really amazing I was just walking past this shop wasn't I I just came in um sent my dad a few photos of things had an idea of something I wanted to get for my mom showed the girls you were so patient thank you really patient with me we went through everything in detail like colors of Zips different types of leather she was going to custom this custom like every nothing was too much trouble and really well priced and they how long did it take to make all this stuff this one about one two two yeah today to makeing so good and I know it's overwhelming when you come to ham because there are so many shops and you don't know who to trust and the shipping only five to seven day maximum five days maximum five days for the shipping seven yeah includ the test you know test she's like text me if you don't get it or you're not happy with it like these girls you can trust them they'll take really good care of you so yeah come and see them thank you I hope see you yeah see you bye a you guys are so sweet thank you when I tell you I am m melting guys I am melting let me put you on the table hold on all right there you go you're all set up um I was riding my bike around town I was like what am I doing I got to get out of this heat so I've come to Kong now this isn't some tiny little discrete spot that I've Unearthed because I'm such a great traveler Kong is a chain and I don't care I love that about it now I've ordered three no fewer than three three different beverages the staff were like you sure you need that many drinks yes yes I do um so I just got into their menu looked at what they said was they recommended their Specialties I ordered all three we're going to try all three we're going to see what a hit what a miss all hit a no quitter I'm hoping let's start with this one this is wait let me get the receipt coconut coconut green ice no coconut green rice it's an important distinction it's giving coconut Frappuccino yeah I like that one a lot if you like pandan flavored things almost like you know what it tastes like it almost tastes like if the rice from a pandan infused mango sticky rice was a drink and you're not going to hear any complaints from me that's delicious I just want to get this out of the way right up front I know the soup that soup B soup I know people say fur I I can't I say fo I grew up I've gone all these years on this planet saying fo when I say F I feel weird so I'm just going to say fo I know that's wrong just accept it this is an iced faux coffee with cream what does that mean I don't know I'm scared of it though I'm a little bit scared of this one won't lie no that one's a no for me oh no I don't like them this one's Vietnamese white coffee with condensed milk and coconut milk or coconut cream in there I'm not sure which we'll find out mhm yeah that's my favorite one [Music] n [Music] [Music] it is time for dinner and as promised I've come back to CH PE eering now I didn't actually choose anything that I'm eating tonight Lan chose it for me I was like you choose the stuff you want me to try she has put together a tasty little treat for us we've got some bow buns which she says are highly recommended and something called cowowo let's start with bow buns and then I'll tell you about cow or gaow I don't really know how to say it but I'll tell tell you about that in a second that Bell bun is so cute it looks like one of those giant marshmallows do you know what I mean really tasty the actual bun is so soft the feelings all peanutty tofu a fresh little piece of cucumber in there for a palette cleanser you have a juice I had the mango Lassie the other night so this one's called poen style I think it's like a bunch of fruit like passion fruit pineapple maybe a little bit of yogurt in there dairyfree yogurt it's so refreshing I think I prefer the mango Lassie but that is really good and then lastly we have something called G Lao now this is a local specialty apparently that has to do with the noodles you can only get authentic galow here in ham because they have to use water from a specific spot and that water I believe is infused with some kind of Ash sh I don't know what that means for the flavor profile of this thing but I'm down to try it those noodles are so good I couldn't honestly tell you if I can taste Ash in them they just taste good they're Al Dente I don't know if you're allowed to say Al Dente about Asian food but they're al dente [Music] if you could see the state of this hotel room I'm not going to turn the camera around and show you cuz you would die there is stuff everywhere there stuff everywhere and I need to pack um it's 8:00 p.m. and I'm getting picked up to go to the airport at 6:00 a.m. I'm leaving tomorrow I have to do a full repack I don't know how all of this is going to fit in my suitcase but we're going to make it work I've had the loveliest time in hyen I've had a really nice time um it turned out a lot different than I thought it would I had done all this research and checked out all these activities and there was a long list of things that I was potentially considering doing that I just didn't do I kind of got here and realized that I wanted to stay in hoyen and spend a lot of time in the old quarter and I just wanted to eat and rest and relax and that's really what I needed from this time here and I'm so glad I did that it's made me very happy soaking in the peace the calm the beautiful energy of hoam it's been fantastic and with that that brings this week's episode to a close I really hope you've enjoyed it now if you don't already be sure to subscribe right now so you never miss a single episode and say hello in the comments below I hope you have a great weekend and I will be back with a brand new Vietnam episode next week love you [Music]

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Length: 33min 40sec (2020 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 28 2024