VIETNAMESE STREET FOOD in Huế, Vietnam 🇻🇳 Is This Really Vietnam's #1 Food City?!

[Music] welcome to shopstick travel I'm Luke Martin and today I'm in the city of H here in central Vietnam so we started our tour in Vietnam in the city of ho on then we went to Danang and now we've traveled about 2 hours north of Danang to H and this city is known for its food you come here to eat and that's why we are here so today we're going to be taking you to all the famous things you must try here in the city of H it's going to be a great episode so make sure you stay tuned Until the End let's go eat some Vietnamese [Music] food so any trip to H is not complete without a taste of their namesake dish it's called bunbo H it's a uh beef noodle from H so it's like for you Americans watching having a Philly cheese steak in Philly this is the place to eat Bumble even though it's famous all across the whole country and we're at this place called Bumble oong and they've got a big bubbling cauldron of Meatballs out front and she starts with a fullow of the uh rice noodles and then I ordered everything so she grabs a big chunk of meat and then the real key here she takes some raw meat and very quickly blanches it raw beef lets it kind of quickly cook but not whatsoever cooked just very medium rare if you will couple of those meatballs there's also some blood in here and this is the final result it is a beautiful beautiful bowl of beef noodles bun you've got to at least start your trip and your trip or just completely fill your trip full up on Bo when you're visiting ha so let's try yum super super beefy a little bit salty like quite salty actually let's try some of the newest wow it's good but it tastes very salty actually surprised I of salty there's quite a bit of MSG in there as well let me try to go in for some of the some of that beef that she quickly blanched yeah the beef is super tender I'll just grab some of the herbs here throw that on top and then there's also some lemon on the table which you can definitely use because surprised at how salty it is still really really good beefy just a little bit too salty I [Music] think definitely needs the lemon there's just huge chunks of meat like this one in here I feel like this is probably not the best bunbo way in way a little bit too saly for my liking but still not bad and meat lovers noodles I feel like since we are here in Vietnam we try a lot of noodle dishes like this one the ban so if you are noodle lovers I think Vietnam is the perfect place for you like I said probably just not the best we didn't pick the best one in the city for sure but uh there's so many bu here in h we'll keep going we'll find some good food here H is famous for its food so there's got to be something so we've actually come over to a little island that's called uh hen dun and it's famous for its com hen which is this dish right here it's a dish of baby river clams you can see the tiny little clams there it's served on a bed of rice and you also have some peanuts in there some uh pork rind and looks like some beans sprads there's some cilantro she told me I got to mix this up really well and this is a dish that is famous uh across central Vietnam across Vietnam actually but this is actually the original location of the comen the baby river clams rice of the rivers just surrounding us now cuz we're on the island and the clams actually come from uh that River let's give it a try it's a sleepy day here in h we're the only customers right now of this restaurant but we really wanted to come try this this place is really famous it's called Uh Kong let's try [Music] it so a little bit on the sweet side a little bit Seafood flavor or kind of clam flavor it's actually served cold I not expecting that it's it's really cold actually I don't know if it's supposed to be served coal but it's all right what my favorite sorry guys we had to cut that part short I not totally sure that was okay to eat it was served freezing cold like really cold the clams were cold the rice was cold everything the flavor was fine uh maybe we just came at a time where it wasn't busy enough for them to be serving warm fresh or maybe it's supposed to be served cold I'm not sure but wasn't really my uh preference so we're just going to keep going on our food tour here and way also not easy to get to this restaurant we had to take a motorbike down this little alley and then take a taxi onto the island I don't know I wouldn't recommend it to be honest maybe we just came at the wrong time the wrong day not to mention it's completely flooded look at this it's getting old I understand that some of the salads and stuff here in Vietnam are served chilled but that was served like freezing cold I feel like those clams have been sitting out way too long and I've had some bad experiences with clams in the past so we decided to cut that a little short we're going to go have some coffee next to wash down the comen so this is a really cool old school Cafe it's inside of a traditional Vietnamese home like made out of wood completely made out of wood and and here in h they're known for something called salt coffee it's a relatively new invention and as the name suggests it's it's coffee with salt so this is how it was brought out to us and to be honest I don't really know what I'm supposed to do here um I've got this which looks like the salt you can see the salt in the bottom there with the uh frothy milk on top and she told me to mix it up that's all she said was mix it up and I'm just going to T dump the ice inside here and then I'm guessing this has got to be the coffee in here right oh that's tea that's not coffee what oh yeah that's tea not coffee so I guess this is the salt coffee just like this and that's why she gave us little teacups I guess so tea with her coffee if you want it I just wanted coffee but okay I'm so confused let's try this salt coffee here in H oh yeah yeah it's salty but it's really creamy and sweet at the same time actually it's really good it's like a balance of sweet and savory definitely helps wash away some of the flavor of the food we have this morning you guys know me I'm not a picky eater whatsoever I rarely taste something on our travels that I don't enjoy but I do want to be honest with you those first two foods that we tried this morning here in way were severely underwhelming I don't know if we just picked the wrong spots we do we did the same research we do everywhere we go but uh I don't know just wasn't to my liking so far but we're going to continue our food tour here in h I'm sure we'll find [Music] something Ming thinks she's going to have a heart attack because there's so much MSG in that bundle way it is my heart is pounding so beating being so like strong and fast like personally I don't really believe that MSG has any kind of effect on people but mink seems to think it does it it's stat to making me feel like dizzy and like well you heard it from a Thai woman herself not the Canadian guy the coffee is good it's really salty like just like the name but I want to say one thing I feel like they say that your instinct are right but I feel like you can't do that in Vietnam especially like rames food and like rames coffee because we follow our instincts but like rames food is like complicated to eat because like I said you can't just not eat it by itself you mean because we thought the teapot had Cofe yes that was kind of a stupid thing to think about we thought that teapot has coffee because look at the color yeah of this salty coffee is that the color of the coffee yeah it's really white so we thought there was coffee in a teapot but now it makes sense I just don't know why we got tea and coffee yeah just don't trust your instincts in Vietnam Everything Is Not What It [Music] Seems actually I'm starting to really like the salt coffee it's a perfect combination not like super salty but mixture with a sweet salty and frothy it's actually really nice we're going to keep going and find some good food here in a way I'm sure we [Music] [Applause] [Music] can [Music] so we decided that you can't go wrong with B me here in central Vietnam so to save the day we've come to this place called Von oo and they have so many different ingredients that you can get inside your bon me it's kind of like a Subway sandwiches street food style you can pick and choose what you want but we just got a typical filling the uh barbecue filling ti so here it is you can see look how tiny that is it's probably the tiniest little Bon me that I've ever seen but I think this is only 15,000 is that right M 15,000 yeah 15,000 so super cheap even though it's super tiny and just sitting on tiny little school here there's no tables just stools in this little area here let's try [Music] it it's a really simple Bon me it's just the barbecue bork with a really sweet sauce all over it and then some cilantro the bread is nice and fresh but I took one bite of that and I'm like 30% done the BN me already like you could eat probably three of these no problem okay finally something delicious here in way the sauce that they've got the barbecue pork in it's like really sweet caramelized and she added a little bit of extra sauce there too and I love the Vietnamese culture of sitting on these tiny stools look how tiny the stools right here it's literally less than a foot tall no tables B [Music] me easily can have seconds here at this Bon Me shop they're so tiny and one thing that I love they do here in Vietnam is they toast the voni before they serve it to it so it comes warm toasted on charcoal gives it a little Smokey and [Music] crispiness what the hell is in that what's that oh I have no idea what that is it's like Mochi look at that look at that it it's a it's a dumpling there's a dumpling inside of this one apparently we ordered a dumpling in this version that's like the but lock I think like those tapioca dings look at I was not expecting that I thought I just ordered two barbecue not one barbecue and one dumpling version and this one's got Spice in it too it's got some heat that's kind of weird but good okay serious redemption in awesome bunm tiny little guys but really good I think we've got more n s for tonight that wasn't [Music] fing [Music] now this place is super local it's just set up under a couple tarps and they're selling something called bonan which is a thick noodle soup there's a couple women working around a couple boiling cauldrons of the broth and it is a beautiful looking bowl for a quite casual restaurant but look at that just absolutely gorgeous bowl of noodles so this is bonan like I said a thick noodle soup and it's famous for uh having this this crab cake in it well this spot in particular serves it with this crab cake on the inside you can see the the noodles there there's some pork rindes and there's some veggies in there as well and you can see too little quail's egg in there so this is perfect for the cold weather by the way who would have known Central Vietnam gets quite cold in the winter I didn't I guess I just should have researched better but yeah it's quite cold you can see I've got my sweater on yeah this is perfect oh yes that is definitely not too salty perfectly balanced it's really a thick Hardy Rich kind of Stew omok oh yum and let me grab some of these noodles you can see they're really shortcut noodles that [Music] noodles it's got a seafood flavor fresh seafood try piece of this crab cake yum that is a beauty Bowl there's a bunch of stuff on a table here there's these little quail's eggs right here I'm not even sure if those are I think they're boiled I'm going to skip them though there's some things wrapped up in leaves here I'm also going going to skip that I'm just going to go straight for the chili this looks spicy oh that might have been a little bit too much but it's okay give that a [Music] mix wow such an unassuming spot just down this kind of dark somewhat sketchy a little bit creepy Alleyway but serving super Stellar noodles m [Music] that Chili's going to kick yum think's going straight for the chili CH you even taste it yet I taste it it's a really tastes like a seafood ra but like you say it's not salty which I like it it's super steamy and this is weird but I like the egg in a soap it's not weird egg is really good really but I like to like put eggs in everything you do like to put eggs in a lot of stuff one qug is not enough so I get my second qug so I'm going to say it took me around maybe 1 minutes to peel the CH off it's going to disappear in 1 second all right H I gave you another chance that was really really good we're going to go for some dessert [Music] next [Music] we this dessert place has all these different colorful pots laying out with tons of different uh ingredients that you can get mixed together either either hot or ice so they've got like uh Taro I saw different red beans mung beans tofu and they're really famous though for one in particular which is this right here I won't tell you what the filling is I want you to try to guess before I tell you but you've probably seen this if you watch our videos it's uh called woy in Thailand or tongen in thawan usually filled with Sesame or peanuts but this one is not filled with either of those this is actually filled with roast pork so this is like a roast pork dumpling served in ice it's going to be the first time I've ever tried it try to bite it in half so you can see mhm oh my gosh that is weirdly good look at that I was sort of expecting the pork to be like pulled pork like shredded pork on the inside but it's actually like chunks of pork it reminds me of like Hong Kong chasa bow like a red pork uh B it it it's really weird though cuz it's served in a sweet syrup that's iced and it's like really lean pork it's uh yeah I don't know what to think about that it's kind of good but I wouldn't say it's dessert it's more like a weird d bling okay one more one bite very strange but surprisingly [Music] good I feel like you order two separate things a dumpling with a Pok fillings and then just like a water in the a glass of water in ice and then do excellent you that is the origin story of bqu as they accidentally dump some poor dumplings into ice water you have to finish it because you already order to or so yeah that's the story that I think comment down below what you think about Mink's uh food reviews please I have mercy have mercy on her still learning it's really good actually I don't I wouldn't say it's really good it's really weird but it's quite good no not brush that looks good though too that was quite unique the only thing I can say that it tastes like is chash Sha baow but I've never had chash shaba floating in some uh syrupy cold water but it was it was really good I mean sweet and savory it seems to be the main flavors here in h I'd 50/50 good day of eating we might have picked the wrong places I'm sure there's a lot more food that's more delicious than the ones we had today here in way so definitely check it out if you're a foodie it's a city you got to visit and uh stay tuned cuz we got more videos coming from Vietnam subscribe if you haven't already and we'll see you guys in the next episode of Chopstick travel bye

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Length: 21min 18sec (1278 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 03 2024