Fill up With Five Stories About Soup

[Music] Vietnamese food is bountiful in Portland from feh to bond me it's hard to miss but among your classic Vietnamese restaurants there is one tiny place that makes soups from different regions of Vietnam that you can't find anywhere else outside the country how that place came to be involves the CIA and is one hell of a journey you know it allows story my name is William vu I'm from South Vietnam I am the owner with my ride the Rho VL restaurant in Portland [Music] I started working with the tac-19 city tour I know many thing you know I know the interpreter translator and then I become better intelligent a joke by the time the u.s. pulled out of the Vietnam War in 1973 William was put in jail by the communist regime he would spend the next ten years of his life in prison the communist government confiscated my house the car and money in the mail every day we do very very heavy labor war and many people know get killed after being released it took William six years to reunite with his family who settled in Portland away from his homeland and missing the comforts of home cooking he had an idea in a normal restaurant they make the big pan of broad and they use that brought to do many different missions but here we make variable shot for each stop only six days a week William and his wife Christina come in and make two distinct soups from scratch each soup representing a different part of Vietnam that's it a two item menu that changes daily and by early afternoon they sell out died and my wife come here 5:45 every morning starting cooking and preparing for the food court is up for the prom my wife didn't get out the cooking for 5:00 a.m. wake up six days a week complex broths from scratch people half the rage wouldn't be able to last long so how are they still going because of I woke up came I want to retire [Music] No Oh night Oh lalalalalala the Matane on our own vamos a tratar something about New Zealand eighty thousand faces across the busy mackerel Spanish okay before we go any further this is absolutely it's the small brown and black bird whose nest are a highly sought-after delicacy here in the Philippines that people eat them in a soup called well bird's nest soup typically these nests are found a high high up on cliffs super hard to get you and we've been taco Muslims in thousand or five but the very deep think it out Sunday so when these burglars n Eddie didn't kick them out instead he gave him half his home down similar salami tomato be thought 1993 don't see us a first floor now behind the Sun for Priscilla [Music] sent occasional epoxy I will be rabid known and ten minutes twenty minutes to be laggy parents ago so they boil it add some veggies a bit of meat and voila bird's nest soup it'll also be noon Katrina picked off a shark in an epic tour la la fashion [Music] problem Alamitos armenia million a pop insane or nella young a merino pnina father mental or big snack for my path of salem only buying the kaya understandably so 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Japan after World War two food shortages plagued Japanese cities so the u.s. supplied wheat flour and encouraged the Japanese to make bread one man named Momofuku Ando didn't understand why his people would make bread instead of noodles something that was already part of their culture on dude decided to take matters into his own hands and create a new ramen made to last he spent a year trying to figure out how to preserve the noodles he needed a non perishable tasty and easy recipe but it was a challenge to maintain the robust flavors and unique texture that most people were accustomed to it wasn't until his wife was making dinner one night and he threw some noodles in a bowl of hot tempura oil that he realized flash frying the noodles was the answer he had been looking for this method not only dehydrated them it left small perforations that allow the noodles to recut quickly and there you have it instant ramen noodles became an instant success undos products gained notoriety when he introduced the packaged ramen in the 1950s and later cup noodles in 1978 his company began selling upwards of 40 billion units every year and Momofuku Ando became a culinary icon in Japan so the next time you heat up a cup of instant noodles remember you're slurping down a little piece of history [Music] unless you're from New Orleans you will not know nothing about hangover hotline I feel like my head is going to explode can I please have some of your soup yes I got that hangover care I'm on my way [Music] my name is chef Linda green I am called the Yakima lady yeah commuters when a New Orleans best-kept secret it's a noodle soup yeah Camille was classified as a poor man dish it is Chinese and African American fusion it's good for the soul it's good for a hangover okay oh my god when it hits the time it goes to the brain and then it come back to the tongue and tell me more my mother was a cafeteria technician I was a cafeteria technician to my mom and my grandmother used to cook I could me and she always did tell me that I may be able to one day to use it and she was right when Katrina hit everyone lost their jobs I needed a job after all it's my job with the school I was catering and I was selling how can we add a lot of festivals in the city I won gumbo festival I want sushi festival I've been winning a lot I've just been very persistent and consistent with this young man and it became popular and the phone was ringing of the everybody used to see whether I can be later that's how I got that name you know people from all the little bit work called me there's a hotline girl that deliver or some or come and pick it up I went out on a fake and I never looked back I love my city all I'm not gonna tell you a word about I love my city my name god no because hanger is very common in New Orleans oh yeah Camille is the best remedy for new all inside Eddy everyone called it pulls over I just love what I do I love cooking I love for someone to enjoy my food and I love for them to come to me and tell me everything was beautiful [Music]

Channel: Great Big Story

Views: 538,185

Rating: 4.9221988 out of 5

Keywords: great big story, gbs, lag, documentary, docs, great big reels, new releases, food, flavors, soup, human condtion, eating, hangover soup, cure, bird nest, bird, birds soup

Id: u7_mmBQzeeE

Length: 13min 15sec (795 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 09 2019