Just a quick walk-through of Big C, a local supermarket in Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries. Shot on an iPhone XS with a Zhiyun Smooth Q2 gimbal.
A warm hello from sunny Autumn Australia to you. I thoroughly enjoyed your videos. Thank you. The fruits you thought as artichokes were custard apples (Mãng cầu). Wishing you and your wife and loved ones all the best during the virus season.
9:45- Fruit is called 'custard apple' or 'sugar apple' - really yummy sweet fruit; texture similar to soursop- soft & creamy. To eat: pinch a little 'hump' and pull, then savour the pulp inside, DO NOT ingest the green skin or the seeds. You may cut into half and scoop the inside pulp with a spoon.
Anyone knows how much money an average Vietnamese makes a day in VN? In the USA, an lb of beef costs averages of $6.00 an lb, less than 1/2 kg. In this big C, beef's more or less the same price.
Well I can't travel at the moment because of covid and I'm going crazy. I was supposed to travel to Vietnam in April but it got cancelled. Watching this has saved my sanity lol. I'm pretending it's me in Vietnam walking through this shopping centre. Thanks mate for saving my sanity 🤪
Hi Eli. That's not artichoke 😂. Thats a custard apple aka cherimoya. Its very creamy and sweet. Quite similar to soursop but this is sweeter. Quite popular in the Asian region. Anyway nice tour around Big C. Will visit Danang soon
Great video Eli. Interesting that the business’s close for an hour so the employees can take a nap. Also interesting that everybody is thin and in good health. They haven’t adapted the typical american diet of eating 150 pounds of sugar per year that leads to health issues and kills people. Is all of the meat there lean because it is grass fed and not stuffed with grains and chemicals ?
Yeah, a lot of small retail and office businesses close between 11:30 and 1 and people will eat lunch, and take a nap. I once went into a guitar shop around 2 pm and the sales guy was still sleeping on the floor. I think most if not all the local cattle is grass-fed, but I don’t know about chemicals. I don’t think they have to shoot them with the antibiotics like the grain-fed cattle in the US. Whether they use chemicals, such as to keep it from spoiling, I couldn’t say. The local beef is definitely chewier and less delicious than US beef.
They have Big C in Thailand as well. Wonder who owns that chain? The French also puts Carrefour in SEAsia countries as well. Its pretty cool you took us immediately to the women's undergarments. You are getting to know us viewers well Eli.
I've watched this entire vids while Big C is opposite to my condo in Bangkok. It's obvious that I really miss my VN gf since she went back home in VN during Tễt. I don't know when I can see her again. * sigh* I really miss her. Subbed from Thailand.
Ah, that’s heart-breaking, sorry to hear that. Hopefully we’ll get through this quickly and travel will resume. I know a lot of people want to come back ASAP.
the fruit you don't know is called either Cherymoya (pronounced Cherry-Moya) or aka (Soursop); In Vietnamese, it's pronounced Mung-cow; in Asia known as the fruit-of-the-gods. The taste is heavenly. you have to let it ripen. then peel the outside; the inside is white with black seeds, so you take a bite then work the seeds out one-by-one in your mouth, the same way you would eat watermelon with seeds and spit out the seeds, you spit out these seeds. They are generally very expensive in the U.S. in LA where I live. about $8 to $9 a lb.; so 33,9k per lbs is very very cheap, about .75 cents a pound.
@@VietnamEli no worries, BTW if you are into health things, you should know the leaves of the Cherimoya aka Soursop; has 10,000 the killing power of cancer than Chemotherapy. Yep, lots of people sun dry it, then use a coffee bean grinder machine for $12 to $15 and grind the leaves down for tea; and it tastes just like regular tea; google it research soursop aka cherimoya, they are relatives; one is from south-central America brought there by Asians; that you can get in the U.S. then there's the Asian variety Take Care
Great video. I saw Big C in Da Nang when I was looking around in June but didn't go in and was curious. The prices are substantially less than where I shop in BKK like at Villa or even the Big C here. The Bombay Saphire gin was 649 baht (21.50 USD) there and 1250 baht (41.41USD) here at Em Quartier. Cheap gin and tonic using some good stuff! Food prices were very good too. I renew my Thai retirement extension next month and if denied due to immigration issues (health insurance) my landlord will refund my $2000 USD deposit otherwise if I break the lease I'm out of luck. I hope they deny me because I am burned out here and may move in December anyway. Still trying to find a way to ship my expensive furniture and household goods. Thanks for your help.
Maybe talk with these folks about importing your stuff: vinatransdn.com.vn/index.php/en/home Just beware you’re likely going to have to pay to ship ahead of time, and then your stuff might get held for ransom at customs.
@@VietnamEli Thanks for the link. I might try these guys as they probably have contacts within the local customs office. I hate to leave my furniture and household goods behind.
sad to see the big c , as we all know , once their let in it,s the end for the little c,s , goodbye to the asian charm , traditions , culture & barter & hello empty shops !
Thanks. There’s a lot to cover in that store, so it would take me way too long if I went slowly. Just wanted to give some people an idea of what’s available, and some prices.
You can get by with just a bicycle and use Grab or Vinasun taxis for longer distances or the weather is bad. Some places you go don't have a security guard out front, but during the daytime, short stops are fine. I've never had a bike stolen (knock on wood).
Jacobs Creek is an Aussie Wine Company. 750ml bottles range typically from $6 to $30AUD Some of the mid priced stuff is reasonable. Certainly not a premium wine. Grocery prices looked to be 30% to 50% cheaper than Coles dot com dot au or Woolworths dot com dot au here. Specials would be similar price.
Thanks for the tour Eli. Lots of face-masks on display on the roads and even in the Big C. Do you notice an acrid smell at all as you pedal or walk around? Not sure those masks offer a great protection anyway....My bet is that you've never worn one.
I used to wear one in Saigon traffic, but not in Da Nang. The air is a lot cleaner here and doesn’t have a smokey smell, except on Buddhist holidays when they burn paper offerings. They really should need to stop that (I bet they will some day). There’s good trash collection in the city, so people don’t burn their trash or leaves. And yeah, I think the masks don’t really help, except maybe to keep the sun off your skin, which I think is the main reason people wear them.
@@regviewer There are some, but not in everyone’s homes. There are recyclers that collect cans, bottles, cardboard, etc. from your trash and resell it. They will pay YOU for it, but it’s a small amount (e.g., 2,000 dong per 24 cans), so I don’t bother. If you don’t separate it, they will go through your trash to get it, but I put my recyclables in a separate bag to make it easy for them. You just put your bag(s) in front of your house and either a recycler or a city worker comes to pick it up in the morning, 7 days a week. The recyclable stuff goes almost instantly - that’s money to some people.
@@VietnamEli Thanks Eli, I'm learning a lot watching and reading, cheers. Our recycling is collected every 2 weeks, the same as the general waste (alternating).
@@VietnamEli That was a common sight in some of Troy's videos, people going through trash to get the recyclables to sell.. I think he even thanked one lady doing it once and said she was doing a great service or job and gave her some money.
Try to use a better stabilizer man! You move the camera too fast and the images shake! It becomes tiring for the eyes! Cheap Charlie knows perfectly how to do it. Good luck with your future video!
Yeah, pesticides and preservatives are always a concern, and there’s another chemical (that’s illegal) used to ripen fruit. Agent orange is a herbicide/defoliant so that wouldn’t be on the fruit though.
@@VietnamEli The agent orange was my idea of a joke. I like the supermarket though. I could shop there and It was nice to see some cheese. I would have liked to know how much a pack of 333 beer was. Eli that was a good and informative video.
@@Davman316 333 is available everywhere for 11,000 per can, so a six pack will be around 65,000. All of the Vietnamese beers are 10-14,000 or so per can.
I don’t know to tell you the truth. I haven’t heard of any stories of contaminated/fake baby formula in Vietnam (like in China) but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
@@VietnamEli Fair enough, just one more question if you don't mind? How does sanitation services work over there? i don't see wheelie bins on the street or outside houses, how does it work because the street seem pretty clean to me despite not seeing bins. I'm a fan of your channel, very peaceful to watch.
Ah. Everybody puts their trash out daily and a sanitation worker comes and collects it. There aren’t any trash bins, but some people have styrofoam boxes (we dont, we just put out a bag). They collect every day, even on Sundays and holidays. The fee for this is 30,000 dong ($1.30) per month.
In VN, they named things that don't meant it to be. Big C =Big Supermarket (C =Cho (in vietnamese)) Big= Lon (big) . If you combine in Vietnamese named would be Cho Lon (Big C). Many foreigner assume negative outcomes. You eat to lived or lived to eat.?
J.P. Bourget . In VN, they named things that don't meant it to be. Big C =Big Supermarket (C =Cho (in vietnamese)) Big= Lon (big) . If you combine in Vietnamese named would be Cho Lon (Big C). Many foreigner assume negative outcomes. You eat to lived or lived to eat.?
I like it, it’s like going shopping. You can have the traditional wet market and the western style market. Best of both worlds.
Thanks for the datailed info about the items in the grocery! I will go in Danang next month a big help for me!
loved the supermarket. loved the people, very ease and healthy lifestyle
Your videos are different. They provide a good impression how regular life is looking in Vietnam. I am loving these.
Thanks! 😃
Nice Eli, thank you. They seem to have a nice selection and the prices looked good as well.
Living the Vietnam Dream vicariously through your videos Eli... Keep up the good work
i like the videos. Puts the viewers in your shoes so that we can really see how things are. Keep up the good work
In Latin America, the afternoon down period is called siesta. Makes sense that countries in the equatorial regions practice this given the heat
Wow great to see what Vietnam is really like . Thank you 👍
Thank you very much for an informative video, enjoyed...
A warm hello from sunny Autumn Australia to you. I thoroughly enjoyed your videos. Thank you. The fruits you thought as artichokes were custard apples (Mãng cầu). Wishing you and your wife and loved ones all the best during the virus season.
Thanks, Minh! Hopefully the virus situation comes to an end soon and things get back to normal.
9:45- Fruit is called 'custard apple' or 'sugar apple' - really yummy sweet fruit; texture similar to soursop- soft & creamy. To eat: pinch a little 'hump' and pull, then savour the pulp inside, DO NOT ingest the green skin or the seeds. You may cut into half and scoop the inside pulp with a spoon.
Enjoyable video Eli. Thankyou
Thanks for posting. Very informative and may check the big C out in June 2020.
kaka you guy like a teacher teaching English for those who are learning English LOL))
Thanx for the video, very interesting about the products availability and prices !
Glad you liked it!
Anyone knows how much money an average Vietnamese makes a day in VN? In the USA, an lb of beef costs averages of $6.00 an lb, less than 1/2 kg. In this big C, beef's more or less the same price.
The VinaMilk Aloe yogurt is so very good!!
thank you
You're welcome
Well I can't travel at the moment because of covid and I'm going crazy. I was supposed to travel to Vietnam in April but it got cancelled. Watching this has saved my sanity lol. I'm pretending it's me in Vietnam walking through this shopping centre. Thanks mate for saving my sanity 🤪
Thanks, that’s my goal, to let people who can’t be here experience Vietnam a little bit.
The beginning in the alley is like the background for all Chung lis fights
Hi Eli. That's not artichoke 😂. Thats a custard apple aka cherimoya. Its very creamy and sweet. Quite similar to soursop but this is sweeter. Quite popular in the Asian region. Anyway nice tour around Big C. Will visit Danang soon
You are living my dream ,man!
Superb Eli ...thank u
Great video Eli. Interesting that the business’s close for an hour so the employees can take a nap. Also interesting that everybody is thin and in good health. They haven’t adapted the typical american diet of eating 150 pounds of sugar per year that leads to health issues and kills people. Is all of the meat there lean because it is grass fed and not stuffed with grains and chemicals ?
Yeah, a lot of small retail and office businesses close between 11:30 and 1 and people will eat lunch, and take a nap. I once went into a guitar shop around 2 pm and the sales guy was still sleeping on the floor.
I think most if not all the local cattle is grass-fed, but I don’t know about chemicals. I don’t think they have to shoot them with the antibiotics like the grain-fed cattle in the US. Whether they use chemicals, such as to keep it from spoiling, I couldn’t say. The local beef is definitely chewier and less delicious than US beef.
They have Big C in Thailand as well. Wonder who owns that chain? The French also puts Carrefour in SEAsia countries as well.
Its pretty cool you took us immediately to the women's undergarments. You are getting to know us viewers well Eli.
Yep, I’ve seen them in Thailand, but can’t remember if they’re anywhere else. Cambo, maybe.
@@VietnamEli Big C in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
nationwide they should subtract 3 decibels from all prices. lol
Wow, even in a grocery store in Vietnam one still has to be subjected to Autotuned urban hip-pop, eh?
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in which area is this big C?
Please do a video about, how long could one stay in Vietnam. Just to clarify. Thank you.
I've watched this entire vids while Big C is opposite to my condo in Bangkok. It's obvious that I really miss my VN gf since she went back home in VN during Tễt. I don't know when I can see her again. * sigh* I really miss her. Subbed from Thailand.
Ah, that’s heart-breaking, sorry to hear that. Hopefully we’ll get through this quickly and travel will resume. I know a lot of people want to come back ASAP.
very abundant offerings, im here in mexico right now and i gotta say the food here is questionable, all tacos and cheese, lol.
New You Tubber Danny Dee is in town from the UK 🇬🇧
Cool, I’ll check him out
Thanks Eli! This was super informative.
You’re welcome!
the fruit you don't know is called either Cherymoya (pronounced Cherry-Moya) or aka (Soursop); In Vietnamese, it's pronounced Mung-cow; in Asia known as the fruit-of-the-gods. The taste is heavenly. you have to let it ripen. then peel the outside; the inside is white with black seeds, so you take a bite then work the seeds out one-by-one in your mouth, the same way you would eat watermelon with seeds and spit out the seeds, you spit out these seeds.
They are generally very expensive in the U.S. in LA where I live. about $8 to $9 a lb.; so 33,9k per lbs is very very cheap, about .75 cents a pound.
Thanks!
@@VietnamEli no worries, BTW if you are into health things, you should know the leaves of the Cherimoya aka Soursop; has 10,000 the killing power of cancer than Chemotherapy. Yep, lots of people sun dry it, then use a coffee bean grinder machine for $12 to $15 and grind the leaves down for tea; and it tastes just like regular tea; google it research soursop aka cherimoya, they are relatives; one is from south-central America brought there by Asians; that you can get in the U.S. then there's the Asian variety
Take Care
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2nd floor, please take to the old fashioned pressure cookers!!!
คุณจะได้สินค้าที่คุ้มค่าคุ้มราคา มีคุณภาพที่ BigC แน่นอนครับ
Great video. I saw Big C in Da Nang when I was looking around in June but didn't go in and was curious. The prices are substantially less than where I shop in BKK like at Villa or even the Big C here. The Bombay Saphire gin was 649 baht (21.50 USD) there and 1250 baht (41.41USD) here at Em Quartier. Cheap gin and tonic using some good stuff! Food prices were very good too. I renew my Thai retirement extension next month and if denied due to immigration issues (health insurance) my landlord will refund my $2000 USD deposit otherwise if I break the lease I'm out of luck. I hope they deny me because I am burned out here and may move in December anyway. Still trying to find a way to ship my expensive furniture and household goods. Thanks for your help.
Maybe talk with these folks about importing your stuff:
vinatransdn.com.vn/index.php/en/home
Just beware you’re likely going to have to pay to ship ahead of time, and then your stuff might get held for ransom at customs.
@@VietnamEli Thanks for the link. I might try these guys as they probably have contacts within the local customs office. I hate to leave my furniture and household goods behind.
sad to see the big c , as we all know , once their let in it,s the end for the little c,s , goodbye to the asian charm , traditions , culture & barter & hello empty shops !
True. And now the Chinese are in their and the Vietneamese are falling into the money-trap - just like Sihanoukeville, Cambodia and Thailand.
billytheweasel funny jokes😂😂 you don’t know anything about VietNam bro
Eli... I like the video but you was going little too fast... Good job tho!
Thanks. There’s a lot to cover in that store, so it would take me way too long if I went slowly. Just wanted to give some people an idea of what’s available, and some prices.
Why are there hundreds in the prices? Do they have hundred notes? I don't recall seeing them.
There are 500s and 200s, but they’re rare. The hundreds in the prices add up when you go to checkout.
nice vlog
For the bicycles, no one locks them up? Wouldn't people steal bikes??
No, they would need a ticket to get out of the garage. The ticket is matched to a piece of paper they staple to the handlebars.
@@VietnamEli thank you! I will be in Da Nang in January. Was considering a moped or bicycle.
You can get by with just a bicycle and use Grab or Vinasun taxis for longer distances or the weather is bad. Some places you go don't have a security guard out front, but during the daytime, short stops are fine. I've never had a bike stolen (knock on wood).
I thought the styrofoam plates were very expensive there Eli.
Jacobs Creek is an Aussie Wine Company. 750ml bottles range typically from $6 to $30AUD Some of the mid priced stuff is reasonable. Certainly not a premium wine. Grocery prices looked to be 30% to 50% cheaper than Coles dot com dot au or Woolworths dot com dot au here. Specials would be similar price.
i will be in saigon and danang,,,,,what would a small hp laptop cost there
I did a video about computer stores with some links to their websites. Search for it above.
I really like the look of Vietnam, hope to visit one day
The fruit you almost call artichoke is "soursop" = "mẳng cầu"
9:46 Sweetsop
Green fruit is sugar apple thx for video
Thanks for the info; never eaten one (I think).
your video frame rate is too low, should take 60fps. will be better
Hey that fruit is called soursop or a anonna 🍐
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What about solar panels
At Big C? Haven’t seen them there. People do have solar panels here, but they probably come from a specialist supplier/installer.
Security she could be black belt in karate
Thanks for the tour Eli. Lots of face-masks on display on the roads and even in the Big C. Do you notice an acrid smell at all as you pedal or walk around? Not sure those masks offer a great protection anyway....My bet is that you've never worn one.
I used to wear one in Saigon traffic, but not in Da Nang. The air is a lot cleaner here and doesn’t have a smokey smell, except on Buddhist holidays when they burn paper offerings. They really should need to stop that (I bet they will some day). There’s good trash collection in the city, so people don’t burn their trash or leaves. And yeah, I think the masks don’t really help, except maybe to keep the sun off your skin, which I think is the main reason people wear them.
@@VietnamEli Thanks for that, I lost my bet... Talking of trash, do they have a separate recycling bin like in the UK?
@@regviewer There are some, but not in everyone’s homes. There are recyclers that collect cans, bottles, cardboard, etc. from your trash and resell it. They will pay YOU for it, but it’s a small amount (e.g., 2,000 dong per 24 cans), so I don’t bother. If you don’t separate it, they will go through your trash to get it, but I put my recyclables in a separate bag to make it easy for them. You just put your bag(s) in front of your house and either a recycler or a city worker comes to pick it up in the morning, 7 days a week. The recyclable stuff goes almost instantly - that’s money to some people.
@@VietnamEli Thanks Eli, I'm learning a lot watching and reading, cheers. Our recycling is collected every 2 weeks, the same as the general waste (alternating).
@@VietnamEli That was a common sight in some of Troy's videos, people going through trash to get the recyclables to sell.. I think he even thanked one lady doing it once and said she was doing a great service or job and gave her some money.
I'll take a quart of that Dalat Milk:)
Try to use a better stabilizer man! You move the camera too fast and the images shake! It becomes tiring for the eyes! Cheap Charlie knows perfectly how to do it. Good luck with your future video!
I’ve made 30 videos since that one. Did you look at any of them? My latest one maybe? 🤣
I like fresh food but I worry about pesticides. I don't want any agent orange on my oranges.
Yeah, pesticides and preservatives are always a concern, and there’s another chemical (that’s illegal) used to ripen fruit. Agent orange is a herbicide/defoliant so that wouldn’t be on the fruit though.
@@VietnamEli The agent orange was my idea of a joke. I like the supermarket though. I could shop there and It was nice to see some cheese. I would have liked to know how much a pack of 333 beer was. Eli that was a good and informative video.
@@VietnamEli do you use a detergent on your fruits and veggies before eating it?
@@Jeff-cz3pj I do on apples, zucchini, cucumbers, etc), but most stuff fruit I eat without the skin (banana, dragon fruit, melons, etc.).
@@Davman316 333 is available everywhere for 11,000 per can, so a six pack will be around 65,000. All of the Vietnamese beers are 10-14,000 or so per can.
17:10
You say you don't trust the baby formula, does Vietnam produce their own or they import it from China?
I don’t know to tell you the truth. I haven’t heard of any stories of contaminated/fake baby formula in Vietnam (like in China) but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
@@VietnamEli Fair enough, just one more question if you don't mind? How does sanitation services work over there? i don't see wheelie bins on the street or outside houses, how does it work because the street seem pretty clean to me despite not seeing bins. I'm a fan of your channel, very peaceful to watch.
Ah. Everybody puts their trash out daily and a sanitation worker comes and collects it. There aren’t any trash bins, but some people have styrofoam boxes (we dont, we just put out a bag). They collect every day, even on Sundays and holidays. The fee for this is 30,000 dong ($1.30) per month.
Peanut butter?
They have it; big name brands like Skippy or Jif. Sorry, I don’t know the prices.
my wife likes the chicken feet...lol
Mine too! 😉
My kids are American born but they love chicken feet, always order it whenever we go eat dim sum.
There are so many motorbikes. I guess the smell of gasoline must be awful.
Their gas tanks are sealed; there's no smell of gas.
I want to see the hot guys. Show me that please.
Will try to scope out some hot dudes for you. 👍🏻
Ground beef (hamburger)?
You can choose the meat and they will grind it for you. You just ask for “thit bam” which means ground meat.
Great, thanks for the tour. Much appreciated.
Absolutely the right name for it... Big C...Cancer store. Not one healthy item in that store.
In VN, they named things that don't meant it to be. Big C =Big Supermarket (C =Cho (in vietnamese)) Big= Lon (big) . If you combine in Vietnamese named would be Cho Lon (Big C). Many foreigner assume negative outcomes. You eat to lived or lived to eat.?
J.P. Bourget . In VN, they named things that don't meant it to be. Big C =Big Supermarket (C =Cho (in vietnamese)) Big= Lon (big) . If you combine in Vietnamese named would be Cho Lon (Big C). Many foreigner assume negative outcomes. You eat to lived or lived to eat.?