Forbidden Mountain Soup!! This Meat is BANNED in the USA!!! | TRIBAL VIETNAM EP7

bro i don't think this is going as planned our highland food mission continues in vietnam's remote northwest there's a hole on this guy last time andrew and i discovered one of asia's most isolated markets can i ask you what time did you wake up this morning i think something 3 a.m [Music] today we're back at it hello hey whoa oh my god don't kill anybody documenting the unusual lives of vietnam's noon people boom oh yes no no no no no seeing how they live and how they eat man we've been everywhere and i've never even heard of the me either it's this is also a first for me as far as i know they have their own unique culture different language different houses and different food including their breakfast do they eat insects like the thai it's not even an insect thank god man think mr ed a horse horse meat i don't know exactly how it works but i especially want to know how this tradition came to be and why horse meat is so common here but not in other areas of vietnam oh yeah no insects damn well good morning ma'am thank you so much for this incredible breakfast before we begin my first question is why horse miss yui is one among one million known people that live in vietnam most are located in these northwestern highlands today for breakfast she's making up an ancient traditional recipe soup made with horse meat an unusual choice of protein you won't find in most of this country for the dish are making right now they're going to use all different types of horse opals all the different internal organs right here one of the main ingredients horse heart heart's really one of my favorite meats ever so whether it's chicken heart or beef heart i really love it horse heart on the other hand i've never had but here it's just another day at the village the equine organ meats joined together in a giant iron pot according to her this food has been around for generations how old were you the first time that you tried horses already eat when she has children if you ask me like how old was i when i first ate chicken i'd be like i don't know pretty young like from zero next she adds water then boils it down cardamom star anise ginger and cinnamon are added in to pack an even more powerful pony punch she dumps in horse blood finally sliced lemon leaves lemongrass and shallots do they still use horses here for other tasks or is it just a food animal now no they don't use so much just what to eat let's try it out you put a lot of different horse parts in here i can see there's liver there's intestine there's uh what's this is that just meat oh just meat just normal [Music] please you know she made this so fast in a couple hours she broke it all down and stood it and it's surprisingly soft it's really good actually so how often does she actually get to eat horse because a little bit expensive that other meat one month they eat two or three times that's like how often i eat pizza you wanna try some home i'd love to man delicious that is really good dude wonderful texture yeah it's got a little bit of a crunch but it's not chewy at all that is fantastic can you tell her this horse heart has my heart and you two are not speaking in num not language or vietnamese language so she knows a little bit of all those languages yeah could you count to ten in the noon language [Music] in vietnam largely emigrated from china a few hundred years ago different from vietnam's thai people who settled nearby rivers the gnome people tend to populate the more hilly regions [Music] carving stepped out paddy fields into the mountainsides so they can still grow rice in the northwest most of the houses are made out of wood but here the houses are made out of clay they take advantage of their surroundings using clay and dirt from the field to build their own distinct two-story houses this thing is powerful the only issue is that with clay over time it can deteriorate and break down and cracks start to form so as soon as cracks form they fill it in with cement eventually they either need to cement the whole house or build a new one the noon people are known as hardworking farmers it's not unusual for them to spend all day in the fields these days this routine is starting to change every day she go to the farm in the morning she got to keep the animal to eat wednesday friday she make a fur to sell andrew yes i'm very excited about what we're about to see me too far is one of these iconic dishes in vietnam people around the world have tried this dish but few people actually see what banfa even is and how it's made it just comes in noodle form they think that's what it is right they think it just started as noodles yeah but it starts as these big sheets of rice batter and this is the original way it was made before factories before mass production you ready i'm ready let's do this they don't seem as pumped as us a typical vietnamese phone noodle is usually made out of soaked rice that's left in water overnight before grinding here she uses white rice and red rice as a base how many kilograms of bun fud does she have to make one day she just fell like 20 kilos 44 pounds just the noodles yeah that's a ton of food next a portion of this very same batter is cooked then mixed back with more uncooked batter the batter is ready time to steam it essentially what we have here is like a giant wood-fired steamer i see we've got a barbecue right between my legs and this giant bowl just steaming up water through this very finely stretched cheesecloth and as you can see the rice batter is going to be thinly spread across the top here and it's going to harden up as the steam comes through [Music] so hot as hell and i don't know why i always get the jobs when i'm standing right next to the bbq in under two minutes the liquefied rice has turned solid again she rolls it using a giant pvc tube then lets it cool before the next step and there you see it one whole sheet of flour and this is where fog comes from it's just a big sheet of noodles oh no my sheet this big sheet right here is gonna make about two to three bowls of noodles please show us the way join the crowd what's really unique you know if you go to a fa restaurant in california or saigon the flood is going to be purely white but here they've mixed together two different types of rice one of them that gives it this kind of slightly pinkish hue something you're only going to really find up here in the mountains of northern vietnam so carby it tastes a bit like what you would think it would taste like among 46 nearby families 10 of them are in the same noodle steaming business as miss yui where is she selling the banpa and do you make more money selling pho at the market or just doing your farming duties so this should have more money came here or more substantial why doesn't she do it every day the market is not up every day when you see pink far in the northwest there's a good chance it was made by a newman family [Music] andrew sonny hello hey whoa oh my god don't kill anybody i'm trying my best tonight we're in the middle of can cal market it's just right on this tree yeah you could buy a head of cabbage right from your vehicle this is nuts do you think it's drive-through do you think we could order something we should try it this is the biggest cattle market in this region a multitude of ethnic men and women from around this area gather here to trade not just cattle but also common goods like clothing plants and of course food can we get a cabbage please am i popcorn okay okay there's four thousand it's pretty cheap here you can keep the change you just bought a cabbage yeah from the car i like it so the markets in this area kind of rotate there's like a sunday market a saturday market so it's not like this every day it's about once a week but some of these vendors are just market hoppers they'll go from city to city or street to street hitting up different markets on different days of the week in order to reserve this dining area year round miss yui pays a yearly sum of twenty dollars while she sets up her restaurant andrew and i have something we have to check out this market is actually famous for its buffalo pit a buffalo pip they are the highest ticket farm animal you can buy it makes sense big animal so we're gonna go to the buffalo market as soon as we can find a parking spot oh great each saturday nearby villagers bring their buffalo here to sell depending on its health and age the acquired buffalo can either be used as food or as a living tractor to help plow the fields we're in a buffalo mosh pit and you ma'am you're a buffalo seller this lady has sold one buffalo already is this hers right here so this is a albino is that still okay to say but instead of selling her own cattle she bought it from another farmer and will resell it here using her negotiation skills can we do a practice negotiation hello i like your buffalo i would like to buy it how much are you offering it for um it's 32 million credit cards no no what about bitcoin bitcoin each of these buffalo will be sold for about fifteen hundred dollars in the village we have no atm so they only have cash so people are rocking up to the market with thousands of dollars in cash yes [Music] in the meantime i'm told there is sometimes bull fighting even here in the market is that true well now yes they have do they bet money money and how do you know which buffalo won what buffalo runaway is the losers oh has this buffalo ever fought by now [Music] these polls require no provocation fighting is in their dna and it's even part of herd life in the wild but even in the wild there are two buffalo there's one up here there's one down there one or both animals can wind up badly injured or dead oh [ __ ] buddy oh no [ __ ] [Music] i don't think this is going as planned dude this is right in someone's yard yeah this isn't where we're supposed to go down no i think they were trying to conduct a buffalo fight but the buffalo just did it on their own before any budding of heads folks place small bets on who they believe the victor will be it's over here they're bringing it down right now this is going down dude oh no what dude look at the size of these things then oh man he's powering it around they didn't have to do anything these puffalo wanted to fight this doesn't seem like a great thing to do with your tractor like you just spent a large amount of money on this giant creature and now you're gonna let it go at it there's some blood oh man it's bleeding it's true no no no no no what just happened they still need to use these animals but turns out this is more like buffalo fighting light i think that's the case i mean that just had to pull him apart damage may be inevitable but as soon as these beastly bovines start actually hurting each other the owners call the fight one drew a little bit of blood on the other one so they're saying this one's a winner after all a buffalo that can't work isn't of much value although they seem pretty fine we're considering but i mean that one's got a hole punched in the side of it oh come on it's definitely a guy sport i don't see any women 100 ah guys around the world never disappoint kind of morons right earl [ __ ] yeah all this unnecessary violence has gotten me famished time to see what miss ue is up to good morning first for me this is a dry pot my first question i mean off the bat why pig face typically vietnamese fla is proteined up with beef or chicken but here she's combining her pink mountain noodles with pig face this is like a special dish the people like to eat this early this morning she purchased pork at the market and prepared it in her hillside diner kitchen what is her favorite part of the pig face the part of the cheek really tender and surprised pink is like the perfect food you don't really have to add a lot to it yeah that's tasty when it's ready she combines the noodles with peanuts mint basil msg and some seasoning powder finally top that with a combination of unusual meat cuts from an unusual meat part i know that the color comes from the mixing types of rice but why do they make it the pink color smell and they're a little bit of the taste you can tell the white noodle are tastes a little bit different i think it does taste different it has more of like a whole meal type flavor as opposed to like you know white bread versus full grain bread mmm i can see that picks up some flavor for the peanuts from the herbs and you're supposed to be mixing a little bit of the meat in there too put that all together you've got a little bit of fat a little bit of carb a little bit of protein and that's all your macros i mean [Music] i'm fascinated by this because it's kind of this whole region is eating this type of food or this type of noodle that's cool so that's like their twist their innovation is it their innovation or did people here invent [ __ ] oh wow vietnamese people make first are you sure if you want to you just publish a video and you can say that you guys invented it no one to try oh crazy i thought that was a black olive eyeball do you have any eyeball in yours she already eats she ate it already cheers cheers let's go huh a little bit of cornea in there i like it a lot generic porky flavor just a different texture it's all about the texture yeah when she was young her parents tell her that this business is good to go on the farm don't earn so much money so she like to sell her you went from farming to running this far-selling business what would be the next level after that she don't think she's gonna go any further she know how to cook so she said this is the best for her are you happy with the work that you do now willam is it satisfying when you see someone try your food for the first time and they're smiling and they really love it does that give you some satisfaction she's very happy when other people are like that's awesome people from my country might look at miss yui's life and feel bad for her but she might feel the same when she looks at you life here isn't perfect but miss yui lives among nature she eats healthy food she has a family she has a community and she has an occupation that gives her purpose in a land where 401ks and vacation homes don't exist miss yui is more rich and more happy than most we've seen a day in the life of a market vendor but next time it's up to andrew and i to take the skills we've learned on this trip and do a little country cooking for ourselves i've never seen a pig this tiny you could microwave this pig it's so small being an influencer doesn't require millions of fans all you need is this t-shirt entertain and inspire at your own pace don't be an influencer be a micro influencer get your shirt now [Music] so here she has a two handled knife and she just makes tiny tiny little cuts you know repeat that a thousand times and you've got 44 pounds of noodles to bring to the market another video done i hope you guys are enjoying we've got one episode remaining just one just one the fun is almost over you can subscribe to andrew's youtube channel right here check out his videos and see what he's up to please do guys that is it for this one thank you so much for watching i will see you next time you gotta you gotta say it you always have it yeah obese oh andrew you nailed that one yeah i've been doing it wrong this whole time yeah you had a lot of heart i felt it okay

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Length: 17min 5sec (1025 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 09 2021