as a Vietnamese, I am so proud to watch the video. Everything you mentioned was accurated. That showed you had research about the cuisine and the culture. Phở sốt vang or bò né may not very common for people who have never been to Vietnam but I appreciate your efford of putting those things in the video.
Useful idiot. All of what he said in the video are lies and distortions. Banh mi originated from Proto-Austroasiatic O1b ancestors of Vietnamese, not the Yakubian cave dwellers
This really is one of the best UA-cam food channels. Each video is the perfect mix of history, interview, travelogue, and of course food. I love seeing a notification for a new Matthew Li video and try to watch it while eating something tasty to enhance the experience! P.S. The pho bo sot vang dish reminds me of a regional dish from northern Italy, where I live. In Emilia, tortellini are one of the best and most well-known fresh filled pastas. They are an egg pasta with a filling of pork loin, prosciutto crudo, mortadella, parmigiano reggiano, and nutmeg. Typically served in a mixed chicken and beef broth, one of the most old-fashioned and classic ways to dress the dish further is to pour a little of the local sparkling red wine, Lambrusco, into it upon serving at the table. It's great and reminds me a lot of the pho bo sot vang you ate! Buon appetito e buona continuazione!
Vietnamese food is quite eclectic and it's so fascinating to see how much it varies from region to region. Dishes like phở cuốn which I've enjoyed on countless occasions are rare to find in the South. Not to mention the differences in food related vocabulary as well (pork in the North is usually called "thịt lợn", and "thịt heo" in the south.) Hope you can do another video on Central Vietnamese food in the future ;) Về Việt Nam thôi bạn ơi!
The Vietnamese word Banh ('cake') is found cognate with incorporated element 'pu' in the polysynthetic incorporating Austroasiatic language Sora in India. The Sora are an ancient Asiatic tribe who migrated into India 2000 BCE. And the Sora people know how to grow wheat and bake bread.
Yep, I'm more inclined to believe that it come from Chinese influence, considering that southern region got a noodle very similar to pho, and Sichuan style banquet soup stock have existed forever. They don't need French influence for Pho.
I only heard people mentioning that Pho comes from Pot-au-feu after I settled in Canada reading and watching the news. In my own opinion, This saying is from some Vietnamese refugees live in US after the war running Pho restaurant and when Americans people ask about its crigin and these Vietnamese try to asscoiate Pho with French cuisine to make it sound more like haut cuisine. I believe Pho is a Vietnamese pronunciation of Cantionese word "Fanh" meaning vermicelli and Pho is extremely close to one Cantonese dish called "Hu Tieu" from cooking technique, using bones to achieve quality broth and ingredients. I don't know if Hu Tieu exists in Hong Kong or not but Hu Tieu is exclusively sold by Chinese in Vietnam. Like Tofu Banh mi it doesn't exist in Vietnam. Vietnamese include dried tofu in Banh Mi to please those American vegerarian customers. Thai chilli is very expensive in North America, so those Banh Mi stores owners began to substitute jalapenos to Thai chilli to save money and some American food cretics believe it's authentic to have jalapenos in Banh Mi.
@@thumtlnguyen3626I am really skeptical about the idea that Pho comes from China. This dish is heavenly based on COW, which in the past was considered one of the most valuable products, it was even referred to as the backbone of the industry, 'Con trâu là đầu cơ nghiệp' (an old saying which means 'The buffalo is the backbone of agriculture'). Also, there were even an old laws that prohibit the killing of young, healthy buffalo or cows (Luật Hình thư). So for Pho to become a common breakfast for the middle or even lower class, I believe it had to be influenced by the French.
@@thumtlnguyen3626 I am really skeptical about the idea that Pho comes from China. This dish is heavenly based on COW, which in the past was considered one of the most valuable products, it was even referred to as the backbone of the industry, 'Con trâu là đầu cơ nghiệp' (an old saying which means 'The buffalo is the backbone of agriculture'). Also, there were even an old laws that prohibit the killing of young, healthy buffalo or cows (Luật Hình thư). So for Pho to become a common breakfast for the middle or even lower class, I believe it had to be influenced by the French.
I hope you visit the Philippines soon. I've loved your content since you first started posting and I really appreciate you highlighting the effects of culture and history on food and vice versa in Asian cuisine!
This was the first video of yours I've watched, and without looking at the runtime I thought that this would be a feature length documentary. The production quality is insane!
They sell Pho everywhere in Palawan island. But it may not be authentic and they call it Chao Long, but it is Vietnamese Noodle Soup. Vietnamese is so great. But on my first few visits I only ate in KFC. The video is awesome. The French Bread in Vietnam love it so much with cream cheese and Vietnamese coffee.
One more time, very enlightning. I like your approach. Mixing historical facts with eating food wit your local friends not only explains about food, but ir shows how everywhere, people adapt to the terroir and to novelty.
Only 95 likes?! Easily one of the top food history shows. I like it as much, if not more than Tasting History! Only complaint....please....more shows! It's a good day when there is a new Matthew Li video!
there’s a unique genre of South East Asian Chinese cuisine in Saigon with adaptations to the Vietnamese palate. I live in Vancouver where there is a very large Chinese diaspora but there are no dishes like Mì Vịt Tiềm, duck leg braised noodle soup. It’s interesting!
What's confusing about phở is that "phở" is the name of the noodle, and I would intuitively assume that that came before the French, so yeah "Pot au Feu" MAY be related (maybe a Vietnamese bloke heard "feu" and just added the noodle in" but this noodle is not just consumed into the soup so... Still a mystery. And in the North if you go to Phở Thìn they also stir fry the beef which is bloody lovely!
The French colonial influence is really strong in Vietnamese cuisine, kind of like how when Taiwan was a part of Japan, Japanese cuisine strongly influenced Taiwanese cuisine.
Vietnam is a wonderful Country and the food is fantastic. I see a lot of French Influence in Vietnam especially in the Architecture and food. As foreign eyes I see a lot where as my wife who is Vietnamese does not see it. I must say the Vietnamese Emperor asked the French to come in and remove Chinese warlords and bandits who controlled much of the country. I look at Vietnamese food as somewhat fusion cooking. The blending of food from 2 or more cultures. I often tell my wife that certain foods that have a distinct French flavor and that the Vietnamese made it better. Hats off to Vietnam that has a Great culinary history and I live here now and hope that Vietnam and America will draw close together. I love Vietnamese history and the culture and have been treated well by many Vietnamese.
fun fact: "banh mi" comes from "pain de mie" (french for soft bread), and "phở" might (but that's debatable) come from "(pot au) feu" ("pot on fire", a vaguely similar french dish). or at least I've been told so when I visited a few years back.
Is it though? Bánh is a broad category that is typically a baked or steamed dough products. Mì means wheat. So a baked product out of wheat. Bánh is a word that was used a long time before the French came for different types of rice "cakes".
no, that is not true. "Bánh mì" is from chinese word "餅麵" (bǐngmiàn) and the word "bánh" meaning bread and "mì" meaning flour. The word "phở" was first mentioned in the Sino-Vietnamese dictionary "Nhật dụng thường đàm" (日用常談) in 1827 (the French began invading Vietnam in 1858) and there is no basis to confirm that, everything is just a hypothesis, not a fact.
Pain de mie is a particular type of bread - a white rectangular loaf, the same shape as the sliced bread you buy in a supermarket, so that doesn't at all resemble the bread which banh mi is made from, which is clearly derived from the baguette. Pot au feu is also nothing like Vietnamese pho. They both use beef as ingredients, and both dishes incorporate a broth, but otherwise completely different.
Completely wrong. Pho, as in the shortened way to say banh pho, just means rice noodles. It has Chinese origins from the word fen which also means rice noodles.
The word pho does not come from pot-au-feu, and it's sad to see how you've just parroted that same Eurocentric narrative that most non-Vietnamese speakers regurgitate.
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as a Vietnamese, I am so proud to watch the video. Everything you mentioned was accurated. That showed you had research about the cuisine and the culture. Phở sốt vang or bò né may not very common for people who have never been to Vietnam but I appreciate your efford of putting those things in the video.
Useful idiot. All of what he said in the video are lies and distortions. Banh mi originated from Proto-Austroasiatic O1b ancestors of Vietnamese, not the Yakubian cave dwellers
Vietnam is land of fighter
This really is one of the best UA-cam food channels. Each video is the perfect mix of history, interview, travelogue, and of course food. I love seeing a notification for a new Matthew Li video and try to watch it while eating something tasty to enhance the experience!
P.S. The pho bo sot vang dish reminds me of a regional dish from northern Italy, where I live. In Emilia, tortellini are one of the best and most well-known fresh filled pastas. They are an egg pasta with a filling of pork loin, prosciutto crudo, mortadella, parmigiano reggiano, and nutmeg. Typically served in a mixed chicken and beef broth, one of the most old-fashioned and classic ways to dress the dish further is to pour a little of the local sparkling red wine, Lambrusco, into it upon serving at the table. It's great and reminds me a lot of the pho bo sot vang you ate!
Buon appetito e buona continuazione!
Vietnamese food is quite eclectic and it's so fascinating to see how much it varies from region to region. Dishes like phở cuốn which I've enjoyed on countless occasions are rare to find in the South. Not to mention the differences in food related vocabulary as well (pork in the North is usually called "thịt lợn", and "thịt heo" in the south.)
Hope you can do another video on Central Vietnamese food in the future ;) Về Việt Nam thôi bạn ơi!
The Pho bo sot vang restaurant is here. Google hasn't updated the street view yet: 210 Nguyễn Khắc Nhu, Phường Cô Giang, Quận 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
I’ve only watched 3 minutes and i instantly subscribed, Great Job Mathew, Amazing editing, thank you.
The Vietnamese word Banh ('cake') is found cognate with incorporated element 'pu' in the polysynthetic incorporating Austroasiatic language Sora in India. The Sora are an ancient Asiatic tribe who migrated into India 2000 BCE. And the Sora people know how to grow wheat and bake bread.
I'm pretty sceptical that pho comes from pot-au-feu. The very, very limited resemblance between these dishes is probably coincidental.
Yep, I'm more inclined to believe that it come from Chinese influence, considering that southern region got a noodle very similar to pho, and Sichuan style banquet soup stock have existed forever. They don't need French influence for Pho.
I only heard people mentioning that Pho comes from Pot-au-feu after I settled in Canada reading and watching the news. In my own opinion, This saying is from some Vietnamese refugees live in US after the war running Pho restaurant and when Americans people ask about its crigin and these Vietnamese try to asscoiate Pho with French cuisine to make it sound more like haut cuisine.
I believe Pho is a Vietnamese pronunciation of Cantionese word "Fanh" meaning vermicelli and Pho is extremely close to one Cantonese dish called "Hu Tieu" from cooking technique, using bones to achieve quality broth and ingredients. I don't know if Hu Tieu exists in Hong Kong or not but Hu Tieu is exclusively sold by Chinese in Vietnam.
Like Tofu Banh mi it doesn't exist in Vietnam. Vietnamese include dried tofu in Banh Mi to please those American vegerarian customers. Thai chilli is very expensive in North America, so those Banh Mi stores owners began to substitute jalapenos to Thai chilli to save money and some American food cretics believe it's authentic to have jalapenos in Banh Mi.
@@thumtlnguyen3626I am really skeptical about the idea that Pho comes from China. This dish is heavenly based on COW, which in the past was considered one of the most valuable products, it was even referred to as the backbone of the industry, 'Con trâu là đầu cơ nghiệp' (an old saying which means 'The buffalo is the backbone of agriculture').
Also, there were even an old laws that prohibit the killing of young, healthy buffalo or cows (Luật Hình thư). So for Pho to become a common breakfast for the middle or even lower class, I believe it had to be influenced by the French.
@@thumtlnguyen3626 I am really skeptical about the idea that Pho comes from China. This dish is heavenly based on COW, which in the past was considered one of the most valuable products, it was even referred to as the backbone of the industry, 'Con trâu là đầu cơ nghiệp' (an old saying which means 'The buffalo is the backbone of agriculture').
Also, there were even an old laws that prohibit the killing of young, healthy buffalo or cows (Luật Hình thư). So for Pho to become a common breakfast for the middle or even lower class, I believe it had to be influenced by the French.
I hope you visit the Philippines soon. I've loved your content since you first started posting and I really appreciate you highlighting the effects of culture and history on food and vice versa in Asian cuisine!
The egg coffee looks amazing
Can confirm it absolutely slaps.
awesome video, so cool to see how influential the french were in many aspects of vietnamese culture, especially the cuisine of the south
Awesome video mate. Now with Vietnam and Italy covered, can't wait to see you cover Mexican cuisine next 🇲🇽
This was the first video of yours I've watched, and without looking at the runtime I thought that this would be a feature length documentary. The production quality is insane!
They sell Pho everywhere in Palawan island. But it may not be authentic and they call it Chao Long, but it is Vietnamese Noodle Soup. Vietnamese is so great. But on my first few visits I only ate in KFC. The video is awesome. The French Bread in Vietnam love it so much with cream cheese and Vietnamese coffee.
there may be a misunderstanding here, since Cháo Lòng literally means intestine porridge.
oh Chao Long is pork intestines congee, very solid dish if that store know how to clean the smell from intestines
this was a well crafted and interesting video. i really enjnoyed gaining insight into the complex history of vietnamese cuisine. thanks!
I really love and appreciate your channel and these videos! Extremely informative and interesting!
To me "Sốt vang" is more or less just a soup/broth. It can be eaten with anything, Banh mi, Bun, Pho. Personal favorite is with Banh mi though.
Egg coffee definitely sounds interesting!
One more time, very enlightning. I like your approach. Mixing historical facts with eating food wit your local friends not only explains about food, but ir shows how everywhere, people adapt to the terroir and to novelty.
So excited to see this video
Only 95 likes?! Easily one of the top food history shows. I like it as much, if not more than Tasting History! Only complaint....please....more shows! It's a good day when there is a new Matthew Li video!
there’s a unique genre of South East Asian Chinese cuisine in Saigon with adaptations to the Vietnamese palate. I live in Vancouver where there is a very large Chinese diaspora but there are no dishes like Mì Vịt Tiềm, duck leg braised noodle soup. It’s interesting!
Thank gawd someone giving the shout out to phở bò sốt vang and pointed out the difference between north & southern phở
Another great video Mathew! Really interested how the food shows the relation between vietnam and their former colonizers, amazing work!
Interesting facts: 1. Ho Chi Minh, means bringer of the light in Vietnamese and was not the man’s original name.
2. He spoke French fluently too.
What's confusing about phở is that "phở" is the name of the noodle, and I would intuitively assume that that came before the French, so yeah "Pot au Feu" MAY be related (maybe a Vietnamese bloke heard "feu" and just added the noodle in" but this noodle is not just consumed into the soup so...
Still a mystery.
And in the North if you go to Phở Thìn they also stir fry the beef which is bloody lovely!
The French colonial influence is really strong in Vietnamese cuisine, kind of like how when Taiwan was a part of Japan, Japanese cuisine strongly influenced Taiwanese cuisine.
wow such amazing quality ! not much sub ??? how!!
Vietnam is a wonderful Country and the food is fantastic. I see a lot of French Influence in Vietnam especially in the Architecture and food. As foreign eyes I see a lot where as my wife who is Vietnamese does not see it. I must say the Vietnamese Emperor asked the French to come in and remove Chinese warlords and bandits who controlled much of the country. I look at Vietnamese food as somewhat fusion cooking. The blending of food from 2 or more cultures. I often tell my wife that certain foods that have a distinct French flavor and that the Vietnamese made it better. Hats off to Vietnam that has a Great culinary history and I live here now and hope that Vietnam and America will draw close together. I love Vietnamese history and the culture and have been treated well by many Vietnamese.
American brought hamburgers, however it was rejected by the locals as they preferred to stay healthy and fit.
fun fact: "banh mi" comes from "pain de mie" (french for soft bread), and "phở" might (but that's debatable) come from "(pot au) feu" ("pot on fire", a vaguely similar french dish). or at least I've been told so when I visited a few years back.
Is it though? Bánh is a broad category that is typically a baked or steamed dough products. Mì means wheat. So a baked product out of wheat. Bánh is a word that was used a long time before the French came for different types of rice "cakes".
Except bánh came from Chinese 餅 and mì came from Chinese 麵.
no, that is not true. "Bánh mì" is from chinese word "餅麵" (bǐngmiàn) and the word "bánh" meaning bread and "mì" meaning flour. The word "phở" was first mentioned in the Sino-Vietnamese dictionary "Nhật dụng thường đàm" (日用常談) in 1827 (the French began invading Vietnam in 1858) and there is no basis to confirm that, everything is just a hypothesis, not a fact.
yeah, nah. The term Mi is certainly of Minnan origin.
Pain de mie is a particular type of bread - a white rectangular loaf, the same shape as the sliced bread you buy in a supermarket, so that doesn't at all resemble the bread which banh mi is made from, which is clearly derived from the baguette.
Pot au feu is also nothing like Vietnamese pho. They both use beef as ingredients, and both dishes incorporate a broth, but otherwise completely different.
Interesting point of view from Asian Westerner young guy.
Cambodia? the southern region was originally the kingdom of Champa
is Matthew from Hong Kong?
johny harris coded w vid
You need to bring back your old haircut
awesome video, now do Pakistan
Phở prononciation is very close to the word "Feu" in french (fire) like in "pot-au-feu" but i don't know if its related (would make sense tho)
The etymology of that word is extremely debated
Completely wrong. Pho, as in the shortened way to say banh pho, just means rice noodles. It has Chinese origins from the word fen which also means rice noodles.
The word pho does not come from pot-au-feu, and it's sad to see how you've just parroted that same Eurocentric narrative that most non-Vietnamese speakers regurgitate.
investing at 17 likes expecting 1000x the profit
Uh, no
Yakubians made this video. Never expect anything good from their tricknology
should have stayed in Vietnam
Full of lies