Vietnam $100 Street Food Challenge!! Best Street Food in Saigon!!!

anyone who's had a rice in a clay pot they all know the best bits are the crispy bits on the bottom that's what they've done here but the whole thing is a crispy bit try it out welcome to ho chi minh city today it's all about the street food and our 100 street food challenge vietnam is a land known for its delicious affordable one-of-a-kind street food you can find this for under a dollar you can find this for under two dollars you can find this for under four dollars our previous videos were about how affordable street food can be here but today we're going super expensive at least as expensive as we can find i have done the 100 challenge in many countries japan korea india even in disneyland in the usa and every time i came up short i failed i got too full too quick or the food wasn't expensive enough [Applause] i think we missed it by a lot today everything is going to change because i am determined to eat 100 worth of street food any way i can i'm hitting the streets of saigon alone let's see if it can be done let's go welcome to the beginning of our hundred dollar street food challenge here in saigon in order to spend this much money we're gonna have to eat some super sized food and that's why we've come here to the place right behind me bon bao topaz bun bao toe fat bun bao taw fat this establishment has been around for 30 years making the best steamed buns in the city they sell up to 2 000 buns per day and that's not including the thousands more that are shipped off to convenience stores around ho chi minh city made with an endless variety of fillings including pork quail eggs or even salted eggs always wrapped in a cushiony soft bun here we have the king of all bon bao it has eight eggs inside seven quail eggs and one salted egg from a chicken from a duck do you guys salt chicken eggs no that would be silly why would we salt the chicken egg all right i'm gonna sing my teeth into it now yeah i was told this dish is all about the eggs but there's so much meat it's some kind of newfangled vietnamese hamburger almost the meat inside is so juicy and porky and then the eggs they're just like the cherry on top it's so satisfying oh and here if i bust this open you can see the salted egg so every bite a new surprise let's try it out it's super dry oh but it's so rich and flavorful this is a very filling meal this whole big thing is only two dollars it's a good deal but that's a problem because i'm trying to spend a hundred dollars i don't know how we're gonna do it maybe i could eat five of these i doubt it street food number two this time the street is inside this restaurant is this street food i don't know give us a break on the technicality it's very near the street you can hear the traffic right so right here we have a fresh water prawn on sticky rice with a salted egg sauce and this is a treat that you could eat with silverware or you could just dive in with your hands after lathering them up with antibacterial solution the dish starts with a coconut sticky rice mount that's coated with a generous dose of salted egg sauce and finally topped with a prawn it's the signature dish and pride of this restaurant only found here now i always like sticky rice it is like the most underrated rice and then on top of it this salted egg sauce let's try out this salted egg sauce nice bro there's something about the salted egg you got to be careful with it man like when i had the salted egg in my bang bao it was so concentrated that it just became like dry and chalky but when you mix it with the right ingredients and make a nice sauce out of it it can just be very like rich next these are freshwater prawns and this whole thing is just caked with that salted egg sauce a couple notable features here first of all it has arms what have you ever seen a shrimp with arms before second has very spiky arms and there's actually meat inside of each one of these that's not it that's not it either i'm gonna eat that arm later there's so much meat in there what we really want is in here it's gonna be a massive tail pull it out just like that boom that's a beauty look at that all right i'm gonna get some rice get some more sauce let's try it out oh that's super tasty i'd like to order like five more shrimps to put on there wow so good and then in here a place where a few americans have gone before you gotta like take the top off and then look at all that that's all food technically this is the head butter this is what everybody loves it's so good it's so rich and creamy that's damn good [Music] right now we are on one of the busiest streets in saigon and one of the busiest street vendors is right there can you guys see him in the camera frame you see how we did that cool this business is on every food delivery app about every couple minutes you'll see some delivery food guy pull up throw about 15 of these on his bike and take off and they've been here for 40 years two sisters created this recipe and they've been running this place which is insanely popular now like they have built an empire off of papaya salad you'll notice that no one's actually eating here so what happens is over here in the park people order the food there's somebody over there with a walkie-talkie here they make it and they deliver it to the park so what is the food that everyone's going crazy for well it's right here a papaya salad the first ingredient and the core of this dish is shredded young papaya then beef jerky made from cow lungs shrimp crackers peanuts and vietnamese coriander however this dish wouldn't be complete without their own homemade sauce made with secret ingredients that if revealed could get me killed you get a little bit of everything in here a little cracker a little bit of jerky a little bit of papaya wow that's a bite worth getting a close-up on oh there we go all right i'm gonna try it out that's awesome such a mix of fresh flavors it's sweet spicy and savory there's almost nothing better than getting a papaya salad in vietnam like the name of it seems like first of all salad that doesn't sound good papaya what is that a plant but it's more than that i mean when you look at the elements here it is a celebration of textures you've got crunchy crackers chewy beef jerky and crunchy nuts i say crunchy twice but it's different types of crunchy oh mix that all with the fresh papaya so damn good love it our next location a street side restaurant called soupku they opened two years ago and i heard they have something really fancy the 100 street food challenge continues and i was getting a little bit worried we're getting behind because i'm getting full and i don't think we've even spent ten dollars yet but here they have a fabulous luxurious crab claw dish nearing twenty dollars and i got two of them just to be safe to make sure i'm extra full and that we actually hit our goal of 100 allow me to unveil for you guys now a crab soup but wait there's much more to it than what you see at first glance they add in a giant crab claw centuries and coriander all swimming in a viscous cornstarch thickened gravy this soup always reminds me of the egg drop soup i had growing up as a young chinese boy what i'm gonna get just a bunch of this viscous almost not like broth i'm gonna try that out oh that's delicious wow it's got a bit of spice to it it's super savory very satisfying warm as it just kind of slowly glides down your throat hole let's try this thousand-year-old egg an egg that you'll find all over many parts of southeast asia and china that's so delicious no super intense taste just like super eggy enough of that now it's time for the main event all right giant crab claw let's go for it oh they took many pieces of crab meat from different crabs and fused it all together to make a new crab claw i've never seen anything like that very unique a little strange and very delicious all right now the show must go on we're about halfway to our goal of 100 we got to keep going let's go [Music] our next food it seems simple but it packs a flavor punch overcooked rice and honestly anyone who's had a rice in a clay pot they all know the best bits are the kind of crispy bits on the bottom that's what they've done here but the whole thing is a crispy bit komcha call wit it consists of two parts the crispy shell made by spreading rice over a fiery hot pan and the dip made of a concentrated fish sauce dried pork fat dried shrimpies scallions and stir-fried minced pork [Music] the move here mix it up and that's gonna be almost like the jam to my bread so i'm gonna bust off a piece of this put on a little bit of jam and honey oh this is gonna be good let's try it out oh that's a winner super good i probably put too much on there it's very salty but the best part is the texture it's so thin and the one side is just golden brown crispy i can munch on that all day that's it it's not a super dynamic food if you love crunch you'll love this 10 by 10. welcome to our next food it's totally the same day it's not the next day i'm so full right so here this is a great story she has a snail cart but no one's really eating here people actually drive up they get their snails and they get them to go actually someone just ordered snails through a delivery app unless the delivery guy's just hungry that could be too also with this place it's a heartwarming story a long time ago she used to be a mobile vendor but she's been able to kind of settle down here in one place in this small market because a youtuber came here did a little feature on her sales and now she's very busy lots of traffic people ordering online and us here right now she has a few different types of snails available and i went with the biggest one she had because they look delicious and plump plump snails she steams them at home with only a touch of lemongrass then she brings them here selling them with a homemade chili sauce all right let's try it out [Music] this is so delicious this is kind of what makes it right here i think everyone's coming here for her famous sauce it's just a little spicy so you feel a little heat kind of warms you up and then very sweet and a bit sour it's delicious if you've never had a snail before you have to give it a try i always say the snail oh thank you this is a different brand of snail she's given me there's that much sauce i can't really tell a difference they're all just kind of delightfully chewy but at different sizes so it's like do you want something small and chewy or big and chewy i like big and chewy but if you're afraid of trying kind of adventurous wild food the snail is a great place to start it's pretty doable and in vietnam it's gonna taste great [Music] look delicious all right did we do it we did a good job cinch out here we are welcome to my sausage party behind me such a wonderful array of sausages and the queen of sausages she's back there whipping up some more sausage concoctions for all the people coming through oh you should say sausage and concoction too close to each other miss knew it has been whipping up these sausages for over 30 years recently a local food blogger discovered her reviewed her food and blew up her spot now she can't stop people from snatching her plump sausages her staple dish nem chua jae made of fermented pork ears and skin garlic chilies steamed pork sausage raw pork sausage vietnamese coriander kumquat and a pinch of salt it gets all mixed up and served with bundy bread or shrimp chips i'm going to try just some of this chaluwa chalu is very yummy it's very dense it's like the perfect sandwich deli meat just a savory meat i'm running out of words guys can we look up synonyms for savory um salty spicy pecans acceptable and those are all words that i think suit this food quite well it's very piquant and acceptable here this is kind of like a cured pork i believe it cooks through the acid that's in there maybe from the salt maybe from some lime science oh i love that and it has this delightful kind of tang to it no part of this pig was wasted look at that that's a bunch of skin the skin is very bouncy i like that and then get a little cracker put some meat on there some herbs and we can take that down too it's so good but so intense and there's such a heavy amount of salt in there it's almost like starting to cook your own tongue eventually if you eat enough of this your tongue's gonna look like this oh it's a lot of sausage i might have to take some of this home [Music] guys we came to the giant meatball place do you have a giant meatball place in your town i doubt it on a more serious note have you ever seen a meatball this big it's incredible inspired by indonesia's giant meatballs and the movie inception this creation is a dream come true for ball lovers like me inside the giant meatball you'll find a grocery list of items corn carrots seafood and smaller balls within the big ball all that is topped with purple cabbage fried onions dried cabbage and spring onions finally our meaty majesty is bathed in a meatball broth i think you're supposed to share this with friends or family loved ones someone you met off craigslist that would be acceptable too i did put up a tinder ad that said looking for someone to eat balls with but nobody got back to me um what is this one probably a fish cake i bet it's seafood tofu i bet mmm very nice here i'm told this one is a cheese ball try that out oh it tastes cheesy i think the outer layer is a fish ball and then some kind of processed cheese on the inside it's so like processed but i still love it and then of course there's like the main meat wrapping here kind of split apart making a giant meat flour one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen and honestly for valentine's day this is what people want right here a meat flour roses right i want a meat flour that's a good meatball it's like real dense it's got some nice chew to it soft like just very comforting dude what this meatball is giving birth to other smaller meatballs this is also a meatball from inside the meatball you never know what to expect in here i feel like i'm gonna pull up an entire big mac burger or a fish and then there's like little vegetables in here let me try this vegetables ah remarkable all this was in the bowl i kind of wish life was more like that like i wish every food came in a ball of meat oh you want a piece of cake it's inside the ball of meat ranch sauce ball of meat you want a ball of meat we put it in a bigger bowl of meat man what a day we've had eight different foods at eight different price points oh wait that's a different kind of video today was wild we had eight different foods i'm super full right now but our main goal wasn't just to eat a lot of food but to see if i could really spend a hundred dollars and right now we have our final food calculator on screen and the final number appears right now ah man we didn't get it again i have an idea we can still do this it's not too late give me a second i'll wait to see your golden smile every time i set out to complete a hundred dollar street food challenge i've failed in korea india japan even in disneyland where i missed it by less than a dollar 99.70 but today i'm determined to be victorious and do a good deed at the same time by using the remaining money and buying as many sausages as it'll get me in ho chi minh city a city of 8 million there is no shortage of diverse affordable delicious street food and even when you're trying your hardest to spend your cash you'll almost certainly have some left over for sausages [Music] hey guys how's it going with that quarantine more like boring team am i right if you're anything like me you're probably stuffing yourself twice a day listen we're gonna get through this i'm not talking about the apocalypse i don't know anything about that i'm talking about this constant stomach stretching that we keep doing but if we move forward if we persevere at the end of the day we can call ourselves food coma survivors buy the shirt and we're donating 25 of the profits from this campaign to feed america's coven 19 response front they are assisting food banks and helping people across america who are in need so it's a cool shirt it's a great cause thank you guys for the support from researching and shooting to editing and mastering our 10 person best ever food review show team works hard to roll out the highest quality travel food entertainment twice a week if you like what we do here please consider supporting our patreon patreon allows fans of the show to contribute a monthly sum and receive a load of extras like early video releases private q a's and beyond to learn more about our patreon check out the link in the description box down below and if you can't give or don't even feel like it that's okay too we're just happy you're here guys that is it for this one thank you so much for watching i will see you next time peace [Music] you

Channel: Best Ever Food Review Show

Views: 4,636,467

Rating: 4.9276657 out of 5

Keywords: best ever food review show, befrs team, sonny side, 100$ challenge street food, street food, sai gon, vietnam, vietnamese food, saigon food tour, street food in sai gon, quail egg dumpling, dumpling, Prawn sticky rice, Beef jerky salad, Giant crab claw soup, Overcooked rice, fermented fish sauce, Boiled apple snails, Fermented pork cake salad, Giant beef balls

Id: 767xPIjTm2A

Length: 18min 59sec (1139 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 07 2020