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BEST Pho! TRADITIONAL Noodle Tour of Saigon Vietnam

Jun 08, 2021
that the world is a good place full of good people and I just got off the plane here in Saigon, went to the Airbnb, took a shower and came to this place, and this will be where my Vietnamese culinary adventure will begin with a piping hot plate. of pho I don't know how many years I've been dreaming about this moment but it's one of my favorite things of all time and I crave it every day I feel like if you cut me open I'll bleed hot oil and I'll believe it and I always wonder what it's like to come to Vietnam to drink a delicious bowl of this

noodle

soup right at the source.
best pho traditional noodle tour of saigon vietnam
It will be so much better than anything you've tried before. Well, I don't have to. I no longer wonder why I am really here as I mentioned before. This is the first thing I eat in Vietnam. I don't even care that it's like 90 degrees outside. Let's go get a dish from the first place I'm at. complete win and all my local friends say you have to come here for the

best

fun in town and here it is I got the fuzz special I didn't know what else to buy I mean the special look it had a bunch of different meats there so this is what I chose just looking at it right now it looks like a bowl of fire coming into the US but there are a lot of different differences first of all this place only has one size.
best pho traditional noodle tour of saigon vietnam

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It's not that big because I'm used to liking a mega bowafa, oh no, and what's here is raw sliced ​​beef, cut much thicker than places I've been to in the US. and in the places I've been. In the United States, they usually fill the bowl with stones, so you usually get a lot more broth than

noodle

s and meats, but this here seems to be a good ratio like 50 50. And this smells like Vietnamese cilantro. very cinnamon, okay, before I do anything, I just want to try this broth. Oh my gosh I was a little jetlagged because it's like 1am right now in New York and you know the folgers commercials are the

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part of waking up is people here no no the best part of waking up is fun in your dish, so incredibly meaty, I mean, just pure, clean flavor, not oily, I feel like it just quenches that meaty thirst inside every carnista like me, I mean. chicken soup for the sauce this thing will make her so happy every day a week this is what I will be perfectly 100 happy just eating this dish just like this I don't need any spice here nothing this is This is perfection right now, but I want to dress him up to see what he is like.
best pho traditional noodle tour of saigon vietnam
I mean, things are here, let's put them in and when I used to do this, a lot of people told me I shouldn't do it because it's what I normally do. is that I dip my pho with sriracha and I decided to ask my friends here if I should do that if it's a local thing and they give me the green light so I'm going to add some of this here and this is not your typical sriracha that you find in the states united the color is very different also it's much more orange it's spicier it's much spicier it's a little sweet too wow squeeze some lemon like it's an open flame this is what you're going to do get some poisonous sauce and this It's really new, this is garlic vinegar and look at this, this is sautéed chili, I never added this before trying it, I usually go crazy with my seasonings, but I feel even bad right now adding more things to this bowl of soup than It's already perfect so I don't want to add too much, just a little bit and I hope I didn't do any harm because I will never be able to forgive myself after adding all the things you get. that beautiful fragrance of the basil and crunchy cilantro from the sprouts, the enticing heat of the sriracha running through your face, and the beautiful citrus and vinegar highlight how incredibly meaty the soup is.
best pho traditional noodle tour of saigon vietnam
A few minutes is all it takes for this broth to completely transform these noodles this is for perfection this is perfection look at this huge piece of beef tendon bordering on crunchy oh hello hello the best thing ever wow that's it ridiculously meaty but not only is the taste meaty it's also so creamy not too greasy not too oily just unadulterated natural great meaty flavor okay forget the spoon this is not enough broth for me a little meat, a bunch of noodles, dip it in the broth a little, that bite just made my trip, let's do it again, you guys have been eating. your whole life but you've never tried it here in Vietnam you need it you need it on your bucket list you need it on your food bucket list your travel bucket list any bucket list you have add this leave this chase it with a coconut In Today's noodle

tour

is not over, I'm just getting started.
I'll be showing you a lot more delicious noodle dishes here in Saigon, so I guess I should prepare myself in case I fall asleep, you know, it looks like I ordered a second ball of this bra, okay, I'm going to finish this, then we go down to Location number two, my little pup, pup, that's so sad, oh why are you tied up here? Maybe I'll bring you like a pig bone or something, uh, uh, the most adorable one. little thing next to me bon kong, this place is very famous for their crab noodles, so the noodles are supposed to be very thick, about the size of my pinky, and absolutely delicious.
I can't wait to eat a plate of this and guys, this is my friend Clay. uh, he's showing me all the great local foods. He had never heard of this before. Crab noodle soup is that, as a

traditional

Vietnamese dish, it is a

traditional

Vietnamese. It's not from anywhere. What's so special about this? The noodles are very thick, they know themselves and the soup the soup is also very thick so we have crab and shrimp and this is all like blood I know, I know my blood what's really interesting is that as soon as we sit down They put this in front of us yes this is a Chinese yotel dish yes basically fried dough I guess this will go inside the soup yes the crab meat is really unique so this is crab meat cake crab and it's like pieces of crab meat filling, we have pork. excited, I have never heard of this dish in my life, I don't know if it exists outside of Vietnam now, is there something we were adding here?
Oh wow, we have this fish sauce and this is mostly vinegar. Is it the vinegar, is it like fresh, yeah, fresh chili, chili, you guys add a lot of citrus to your noodles, which I love, a little bit of citrus, a little bit of sunshine in the noodles, you like chili, yeah, I like it. I like it, I love it, I like it a lot, like that, no, no, no. that's fine, that would be for me then and to go with it, what is this cooked with sugar? This is artichoke, artichoke drink, I mean, I've seen artichokes, you know, roasted and made with cheese sauce.
I had never seen an artichoke drink before. Really surprising, you can taste the artichoke, but it's not overwhelming, no, if you don't tell me there's another joke here, if I don't like it, I consciously look for that flavor, yeah, I mean, I couldn't really identify what it tastes like. It's like it tastes a little bitter, very sweet, not too sweet, but you would never think that this is artichoke, although it is good and what is this? This is cornmeal, ah, very good, this is nice, it literally tastes like corn. It can be milked, it will taste like this and you add the yotel in there, yes, you just soak it, I like it, I like to squeeze it a little to expel the air bubbles so that the broth can get in, regards.
Dude, okay, cheers, that's awesome, sorry, my voice changed. So, is it like anything you've tried before? It's unlike anything I've ever tried before. I feel like an archaeologist and you just feel like on Earth like a hidden pyramid. Wow, thank you, this is crazy, first of all, this noodle is like nothing I've ever had before. Such a soft and chewy texture, it's a little rubbery, yes I mean a little rubbery, yes you can probably jump rope with this thing and no. Only it's fantastic in this broth. Wow, the taste of crab is just crazy. The flavor fades so concentrated, it's so thick.
I feel like the flavor is sitting like a ton of bricks in the soup. Man in that chili with the chili. Yes. I beat you, I can't wait to try a piece of yotel soaked in the broth, but how did it go? Excuse me, wow, give him a round of applause. People just look at me like why is this random guy clapping in the middle of his food. That's what happens when I find food. I absolutely love YouTube. There is so much air in there that it absorbs the broth so well. It's so good. That broth is so amazing.
I thought eating food was the highlight of my trip and it still is. but wow, finding this out, not many people know about it, I have no idea it just existed. I tried this crab cake, although it tastes like an extremely tasty fish cake, like extremely tasty guys, it's not just crab, it's crab fish, fish and meat too, oh that's where. There's a lot going on here and that's where I guess the pork comes from, which is from the cashew nut. You guys never had blood before, yeah, that's what blood looks like, you know, outside of empire movies, it just tastes like a piece of uh, firmer. tofu I feel like the best way to eat this is to just put as much as you can on your spoon and eat it that way, you're sweating too, yeah I put too much chili on your plate for you, good thing. broth here you can't waste it take some of the yolk ah one thing I wish I had done was uh I should have tried this without the spiciness to get the original flavor but it's not too late my friend I wonder if there is a second. ball, well, just me, a second ball, a second bow, two, no, I'm fine, I don't think I can handle another ball, so before I add the spice, ooh, how was it, it's very seafoody, that's good, it has a lot of flavor in the soup.
I'm glad you enjoyed it more to enjoy, my friend, thank you very much for showing it to me. I would never have found this place without you, so thank you very much. I'm going to knock this dish down and there will be more noodles to come. Guys this real

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isn't over yet Hi guys so after leaving the second needle place all the other needle places I wanted to go to were closed so this is a new noodle day and I'm just thinking , although I haven't been in this country for so long. I think I'm already starting to fall in love with this place and I know it because I'm already starting to get a picture in my head like what would I eat if I really lived here?
So far, I'm thinking about waking up, going to get a bomb, taking mom to my favorite food place, eating the bomb with them, then going to get some crab noodles and finishing it all off with a nice iced coffee. I think it sounds like a great day and uh. oh, speaking of noodles, I'm on my third noodle place, this is going to be good, this place is very well known for their noon bunk, which is noodles with spring rolls and beef, oh, thank you, thank you, yeah , thank you, and here it is, this is a very popular Vietnamese dish and it's one of the dishes that I love to order at Vietnamese restaurants in the US, but it looks so much better, I mean, it's really next level, there's two types of meat here, there is the pink pork and then there is the beef on the side. from that, some scallions, peanuts, pickled carrots and radishes and the spring rolls, check this out and usually people eat this with fish sauce, they'll pour it all over the top and give it a nice mix.
This is one of my all-time favorite Vietnamese noodle dishes. I'll tell you what, but don't judge me, okay, every time I go to a Vietnamese restaurant in the US, I always want to order this dish, but at the same time I have to order it because I love it, so what would I do? It's just that I'll order both and I usually get spring rolls as an appetizer when I eat fa, so when I order this dish I also tell myself that I was going to order spring rolls anyway, but you know, this time the spring rolls spring they are just sitting. a bowl of noodles Mike Chen Logic very excited Yes, here is everything I expected coming to Vietnam.
I had pretty high expectations especially when it comes to bombing when it comes to fug when it comes to this dish because there are things that I've had There are a lot of them in the United States and I just assumed they would be much better in Vietnam and they all work much better . I feel like this needs a little chili. That's enough, let's get this started. Yes, that's enough. It's enough. It's real good support. oh, this is love of food, right here what I'm talking about, love of food, love at first bite, sweet, juicy and that smoky flavor, I think it parallels the roast pork roll.
I love noodles and spring rolls. This is the perfect carbohydrate. I love it. fact that the spring rolls absorb a lot of the sauce and meat, chewy, juicy and green, a touch of meat, you only have one bowl, one more, oh wow, something else that was just discovered with this dish , wow, that's good, that's a dish, look at this, these are Some crispy pork skin. I didn't notice this because they are in the background, but this thing, holy shit, this makes all the difference in this noodle dish. Firstly, it provides a delicious crunch of meat and then right after, that beautiful pork skin! the flavor while you chew fills your mouth completely, he is a crazy genius for food, it is always sadgetting to the bottom of a delicious bowl of noodles, oh thank you, mmm, perfect timing, you know me, we're friends, yes, that's a foodie friendship that will pass the test. of time, oh, leaving here, I just realized something, that delicious roast pork that was in my noodles, it's actually made across the street, right here, look at this, I smelled this walking down the street , I actually wanted to come eat here after I finished the noodles because it reminds me of Chinese lamb skewers and meat skewers the smell is crazy this guy is crazy let me let me give you a hand here I can have one straight from the source this is it incredibly good and eating the noodles was good but just off the fire when it's really hot oh a completely different destroyer has mine come on oh it's green thank you oh thank you thank you this is the owner by the way you are the creator of delicious noodles, so I want to say thank you and that, oh my goodness, that is incredibly good. that's so good and your sparkles thanks for the fresh meatloaf I'm going to be hot yes I'm going to walk and eat this will be my travel snack to my next location okay thanks crispy I'll have it when I go from a food place to another and have some food to give me there the next dish that I am about to eat hills of the former imperial capital of Wait and the dish is called fumbo now this dish is somewhat similar to pho but with some different differences and I can have fun if I can cross the street alive too after a few days here in Saigon I think I figured out how to cross the street uh you shouldn't be afraid of getting run over a little bit and use your hands use your hands as well as your feet this is probably the plate of noodle soup I've been looking forward to the most, in fact the first time I had it was inside a Vietnamese house and I thought it was fun so I made it.
Like, hey, you guys made fun, you say no, we did bumble, wait, what's the difference? So the difference starts with the soup being made of fud. Soup is usually created with beef bones as, for example, a conscious recipe. I used oxtails, but here they use both. beef and pork also the noodles are completely different fla obviously uses telephone noodles and here we call this in Chinese mission, we are just pure rice noodles and they are much bigger than some fun noodles, then there are differences in the meats used here. slices of meat, but also look at this, a huge piece of pork, okay, let's talk, let's eat first, I'll just add some herbs and they have banana flowers, which might be a little silly in Chinese, as we call it.
I don't particularly love these things. let's add some campanilla and then squeeze in some lime, oh what a flavor, you can taste that nice balance between beef and pork and the soup is super clear and so smooth it's like massaging my tongue and throat as it low. -hmm oh, it's bouncing a knife, they told me I have to add some chilies and what they have here looks like hot oil, but there's also a little bit of sauteing in here, let's make it red oh oh yeah, wow, it didn't look like anything was that. Spicy but it brings you here that's my kind of spicy.
I think I will always be someone who feels that spices enhance any type of soup and I definitely think that is the case here, the meat looks amazing because it is a good mix of meat and tendon, this is something that is normally found in soup Chinese beet noodle, oh yeah that's probably the most tender piece of meat I've ever had in any noodle soup here in Vietnam. I've never had a super tender piece of meat in my noodle soups. like in Taiwan, I squeeze the meat with my chopstick and it falls apart here, the meat is chewier but the meat flavor is ridiculous, so there is always the case that the more you chew the meat, the more the flavor is released.
I'm too excited about this. I'm like the lion king in live action, excited for this, come here baby, I was expecting a fight from the shrimp, expecting it to be a little chewy, I just took a bite of this piece of meat, check it out, that was what I liked most. A soft bite, always the skimmed, delicate, gelatinous one and the meat itself, look, this fell off the bones easily and being Chinese you have to suck out that bone marrow, if you don't you could lose your Asian card, that That's the good thing, there's not much.
That is why it is so precious. Now it's time to not be so nice about it because I love eating raw and wild noodle soup. I mean, the spoon is good, it's nice, but when something is good, you have to know it up close. It is the best way to eat noodle soups no matter what country you are in. I love pork and beef together. I especially love pigskin. If that's because you get that nice texture from the meat and tendon, then you get the much more gelatinous fatty piece. of pork and all that works great with the noodles and soup also with the morning glory here man this adds such a delicious crunch.
The last part is my favorite. I have those sunken things that mean treasure and I'm about to get to them right now. Um, I'm just trying to savor everything I remember from this moment, if you were ever eating with Chinese people and they just drank a bowl of noodle soup, like I slam the bowl shut and say the word that means they're in a good place. and right now I'm in an extremely good place, I'm sweating, I'm crying a little bit, but yeah, I feel really strong, I wish I could hit the rewind button on this, I really do and I hope I can do it sooner.
I left Vietnam, but I have one more noodle dish to visit today, so with a heavy heart and a very strong stomach, let's continue with my last noodle dish and probably one of the most unique foods I will try here in Vietnam. Is called. rooster bait and I don't really know much about it, I've never heard of it before, I've definitely never eaten it before, it's supposed to be some kind of sticky noodles with coconut milk or coconut cream, I don't know, let's try it. and to eat this dish I am in the center of sedek inside it is a city in the mekong delta in this dish this is a south

vietnam

ese dish it is a dish with noodles made with tapioca flour and rice the noodles look like they are steamed they are covered of coconut milk it has a layer of pork skin on top some peanuts I think this is pork sausage and I'm not really sure like a pork meatball or something these noodles are uh they're almost sticky and at the bottom there are cucumbers a little bit of basil, mint, Vietnamese cilantro this is almost like a kind of noodle salad to me.
I like the dish. The noodles are warm. It is very chewy. It has that tapioca texture. If I could describe this in one word, I would say that these noodles are really fresh noodles. They are good and coconut with the delicious herbs that bring out that refreshing flavor. What I love is that you get a different texture in this dish, the vegetables are crunchy, the herbs are actually very pronounced and you get that nice gelatinous flavor from the pork skin hmm, really wonderful. light noodle dish, I feel like they could use a little citrus, a little chili, look at the finishing touches here, that was the fishing link between a great dish and a spectacular dish because there's a lot of coconut milk here, this dish It's a little creamy so when you add the citrus and especially if you add that hot oil it makes this dish sink.
Mine is a pork meatball that was completely overlooked. Let me sit back on my plate and think long and hard about the hidden gem. This is by the way because I did not make this dish. I don't really see that much meat, so I bought a huge bowl that looks like fork balm, wow, cocoa dish or a soup that is fantastically tender right there, oh actually, I forgot something. I was just reminded that I was supposed to add a little of this. fish sauce which I completely forgot and also added some because it already tastes very tasty but maybe this will liven it up even more oh how stupid I should have added this at the beginning a little fish sauce really makes these noodles very good . these noodles if you love something refreshing if you love coconut you will love this and these dumplings those dumplings are so good that I ended up buying a second bowl of noodles just because I saw dumplings in the photo but I feel like there is something else I really need and crave Complete this noodle haul to complete my I don't know Vietnamese noodle desires.
I think I know where to go. This is what I've been craving since I first ate it. I can't think of a better way to close this video than to grab another bowl of medium popping uh once again, it's like a 360 noodle video. You know, it's Freeman devices for all you theater people, okay, actually, I am going to sit down. and I have a bowl look at this that's adorable oh I love coconuts in this country I'm in this place called fulvo bunk and my friend Clay said this is his all time favorite boa in Saigon so expectations are high and I He said It was even better than the first place I went to, which already blew my mind, so after this, my mind probably literally had nothing left to explode and here it is, this is my big bowl, I'm very excited.
Well, I had to get some Instagram. photos let's look at the meat again the cut is almost the same as the first place I went to and I'm just going to put this in the broth and let it start to cook let's see what else is here there's some onions cilantro scallions and look at this fatty piece of meat that is like a ball of meat with ninety percent fat, of course, tendon. Oh, that's a delicious piece of tandem mature mortar, some chilies, skirt steak, and of course, beautiful noodles. Moment of truth, as they would say in New York, forget about This is incredibly good, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but seriously, guys, I thought I wanted to say that a few days ago and we connected, you know, we had a good time, we spent time quality together, we talk about our hopes, dreams and favorite hobbies.
This bowl here basically completely erased all my memories of the previous bowl, first of all the meaty flavor of the soup is much greater than what I had before and for some reason this alone is already a bit spicy. a little spicy and I think it's because of the chili in here, this broth is a little oilier than the first one I tried, but the flavor is much better. This is by far the most fantastic buffa I have ever tasted. life there is no competition I don't even have to think about it this is this this is everything here if you come to Saigon come get this plate of I don't know what else I can tell you to tell you how much I love you Yes, these are Brenda and Jennifer , they obviously came to Vietnam with me and helped organize a lot of the trips.
I just want you to try the soup. Remember how good the fake one was the first time we ate it? It was delicious, right? that was probably our best dish ever oh my goodness okay try it try it it's so meaty isn't this so much better than that first place? Wow, okay, sorry guys, I need some quality time alone with this now and one more we can get. Don't forget about our cameramen, it's like I'm a proud father showing off my little baby here, Vietnam. I will be back. We will all return just for this. If only I come to Vietnam.
If this is the only thing. eat the whole trip, I would be absolutely fine with this, okay, I have to start eating maybe a little better, I don't know if I can achieve that, but let's add some sprouts, more chilies, basil, a little citrus, I'm actually Oh. I didn't see this look at this there is an ox finger here this bowl of soup is full of surprises little spice you know why these noodles are so delicious now because I have been talking for the last 5 to 10 minutes and They have been absorbing this delicious broth and now , even if you separate the noodles from the broth and don't add anything else, this is a delicious meal, it's so good that I have to try some of their ribeye having fun here in Vietnam, especially after eating this. ball, it's good things and bad things, right, the good thing is that you can have this magic ball, the bad thing is that I will never be able to eat again after returning to the US, like it's over, I'm nice. to eat it and mentally compare what I ate before in New York and it's a joke, it's like bringing a cup of noodles to everyone in Japan and asking for a taste test.
I'm so excited about this oxtail, oh that skin is so childishly amazing. Can I even think, after a dozen bites, how good this is, to have a dish that I love so much in its country of origin and an important item of this caliber on my food list before I die. Now I can go home happy and all this is better for three US dollars. Very funny guys, I don't know if you can see the glaze in my eyes or not, but that concludes my Vietnamese noodle tour here in Saigon and I have to tell you, this is one of the funniest videos I've ever made. because it included foods that I really wanted to try and everything lived up to or completely exceeded all of my expectations and if you love fun as much as I do and are traveling to Vietnam, please come here and get this dish from Also, if you love Pho and I'm not wearing it right now but we made a friend's forever t-shirt which is really cute so if you want that go to our t-shirt store that link isavailable for you in my description box below. with all the other places I went on this wheel tour and guys it's been so much fun fun sorry sorry I had to spend all my time so much fun eating noodles with you guys and until we eat again we're we see later.

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