I actually like the small size shrimps with the shell and head intact -- tasty and love the crunch. The large shrimp - no. Love the video - wish to visit Vietnam one day
I am always thrilled to watch a new video or even a favorite I have seen before from your Food Vlog Series(Channel). You and Mike Chen of "Strictly Dumpling" are my 2 favorites. While two completely different styles, I learn so much from you both!! 🌿
They are not being lazy for not taking the shell off the shrimp. I been eating fried sweet potato with shrimp all my life with banh cuon. The shell is left on in the states too. Most Vietnamese like the texture. 😂 Plus the fish sauce/dipping sauce on the table for banh cuon or any Vietnamese dish is the base. You are suppose to add more lime/lemon, sugar, vinegar, minced garlic and chillies to your liking. That is why it’s there. Southern Vietnamese like a sweeter sauce and Northern Vietnamese like it more sour and less sweet. Adding more chillies doesn’t make you progressive, 😅 it’s always been done. It’s just a preference. You wouldn’t give your 5 year old fish sauce with chillies if they can’t handle it. Kids love banh cuon because it’s soft with a mochi texture and easy to eat. Adults will want more flavor and spice. Y’all need Chris Lewis to show you Viet food. He is a cool white dude that has been living in Vietnam for so many years. He speaks the language and understands the food. Shoot even Sonny’s friend Calvin would be better. 😂
Egg Coffee looks crazy, but I believe it is delicious! I have eaten mochi, but I don’t know if the mochi soup tastes the same in Vietnam! Thank you for your continued efforts in sharing all the wonderful things and food in this world with us! Through this video, I know more about Vietnamese gourmet food, this is another wonderful video and great editing! You did a really great job! Looking forward to meeting you somewhere in this world in my lifetime! 👍🥰🙏🍻❤🎁🎈🎉 P. S. that mochi, we also call dumpling ball/ sweet dumpling/ sticky rice dumpling/ glutinous rice ball/ tangyuan in English.
We have a similar sweet potato fritter with shrimps here in the Phils as well. We call it 'okoy'. And yes, we also eat the shrimp shell. We leave the shell intact for texture, as well as to make sure that the shrimp meat doesnt get overcooked.
Agree the egg coffee in Vietnam is incredible. Also love the salt coffee - that stuff is life changing. I moved out of the big city a while ago and the air is a lot better :)
A lot of Vietnamese mistakenly call Mung Bean "Green bean", cuz Mung Bean in Vietnamese is call "Đậu xanh" which literally translated to Bean that is green. But no, the bean that is inside the "mochi balls" is Mung bean.
Wow, Vietnamese street food always surprises me, but these sweet potato fritters look next-level! I’ve never seen shrimp left on like that-definitely adds a unique crunch.
Hi Luke! What a fun video! Thanks! I love learning about East Asian food. The only problem is that i don't like spicy food... 😢 but i always get so so impressed by food from East Asia. I got to find an Asian restaurant here in my city! I would love to try Asian food. Thank you for the inspiration. And thank you for sharing fantastic food adventures with us! Best wishes from Sweden.
The Coke and beer cans are not made to withstand heat - on the contrary, cold. When they are heated up like that [time after time] the aluminum and other metals are leached out and boil into the chicken.
Those chicken feet in recycling can give me new ideas for my next Halloween decorations! People usually eat with theirs eyes first , and this tacky image turned me off ! Thanks Luke.Have a enjoyable trip.😀👏
Hi Luke. Do you guys have any plans to go to Luang Prabang? I searched your videos and don’t see anything 🙃 I’m headed there this summer and would love to see it through you. Your videos are so informative. Peace and love
Dear Luke & Mink I hope you both had a wonderful 2023 and have many more adventures to come now in 2024. I myself started the New Year very sick due to anxiety and stress for an upcoming surgery January 10th, doctors finally found the issue with my stomach and will do their best to surgically fix it. I you guys know any cooking channels specialised in restorative food recipes like chicken Congee please share - if any of my fellow viewers reads this, my gratitude would be immensely ❤
Congee is my favorite, its my childhood breakfast. But nowadays the congee texture has changed into something that is so easy to eat, even for babies which i don't quite like it. The congee back in the day had rice in it, like some of the rices became dense to the point it forms into small rice balls with a slight smokey flavor of burnt rice to it then eat along with that youtiao and pork floss...Man, it was so yummy. As for the shrimp's shell, Vietnamese had a culture of eating everything so, if ingrediants that are edible without causing any harms, most people won't gonna waste it. If it gives more chewing texture and calcium then i see no reason to not eat it. My grandma once told me that eating shrimp's shell is harmful for stomach, but i ate them lot before and nothing happened so i guess its probably just a myth.
hahahahahahahahah still laughing thats hilarious. I would prefer it be my beer like who drank the beer lol Im so glad your girlfriend is starting to participate more YOU GO GIRLY!!!! hugs to you both lol still laughing lol !!!
Considering that Anthony Bourdain took former US President Obama to have bun cha in Hanoi, I don't get why Luke didn't try it there. It's almost as though he's actively trying to make Vietnam look bad.
You should watch the videos Kim Jay, within the first 30 seconds I mentioned we specifically are not going to eat bun cha. You don't even watch, just comment not only this time
@@LukeMartin I watched the episode. I am replying to give context to the commentor's original comment. I watched your episode; it doesn't mean that I agree with your choices of not featuring bun cha and other staples of Hanoi life. Stop gaslighting and saying I don't watch your videos and realize that I am a full-blooded Viet woman who doesn't like the way you portray my country and how you profit off of your prejudiced "Chopstick Travel."
@@LukeMartin Oh and this sounds like your Thai girlfriend. Are you awake to see this? ETA: I get it now. Your Thai girlfriend takes over commenting for you. And she's really annoyed that a Viet woman doesn't like her.
Fantastic representation of Hanoi and its local street food. I walked past the shop selling the chicken in beer can many times, but didn't have the courage to try it. Egg coffee is addictive. Cheers Luke
Lam doesn’t know food that well. The fritter is always made with shrimp shell on. I guess you can request shell off. And it is popular in the south as well. We don’t eat it as is, we wrap it in the herbs and lettuce that they give you. Cutting up the greens and dipping is just weird. I never ate that chicken in a beer can before but I bet they gave you a salt and chili mixture, a long with some lime. Good to see you trying something new in Vietnam. I’ll be back there soon but staying down south where I think the food is much better. Mien Tay, Saigon, and Da Nang has the best food.
You cook with the shell on shrimp for: a) texture, as you say b) it doubles the flavour c) and Buddhists might consider it more respectful to the animal
When shrimps were well seasoned and deeply fried in hot oil, it is unnecessary to think of taking the shell off, Japanese does it too, that local friend of yours Luke is pretentious and clueless 🙄
Good episode, but you didn’t have to put him and their culture on blast like that👀😂😂😂😂😂 Just say no, or humbly decline… but that was a bit too much! If you’re going to venture, and try different cultures… then respect them #100
@@LukeMartin You really have no self-awareness at all. Do you even edit your own videos or watch them after the fact? Your arrogance is way beyond most YT vloggers.
@@LukeMartin You need to stop deleting replies to your comments. This is the second time I am replying. Look at the number of followers you have; you have a responsibility to be accountable when you diss a country's food when it's your fault that you can't do proper research. Most professional vloggers refuse to air a video that shows a country in a bad light because they do the mea culpa of realizing that they didn't do their research. The Vietnamese charge very little of your Canadian dollars for traveling and eating there; the LEAST you could do is be humble enough to NOT base your review on a city based on your bad research.
No idea what you’re talking about I didn’t delete any comments. I also recommend you to watch the video instead of just reading the title and commenting “don’t judge a book by its cover”
@@LukeMartin I watched this whole video, Luke. And yes, you deleted my previous reply to your comment. Don't gaslight me. Are you going to, in good faith, reply to how unprofessional you have been in Vietnam? Helen, from Helen's Recipes lived/lives in Da Nang and you trashed her city. I watched this one all the way through (because Hanoi is where my mother was born) to give you another chance but it's clear you have a problem with Vietnam because you barely scratched the surface. When you don't like what you eat, it's your problem, not the country's problem. That's my point.
Hi Luke! What a fun video! Thanks! I love learning about East Asian food. The only problem is that i don't like spicy food... but i always get so so impressed by food from East Asia. I got to find an Asian restaurant here in my city! I would love to try Asian food. Thank you for the inspiration. And thank you for sharing fantastic food adventures with us! Best wishes from Sweden.
Amazing video, Very informative and many unique Vietnamese dishes I’ve never seen before. Great job! 😊
I actually like the small size shrimps with the shell and head intact -- tasty and love the crunch. The large shrimp - no. Love the video - wish to visit Vietnam one day
I am always thrilled to watch a new video or even a favorite I have seen before from your Food Vlog Series(Channel). You and Mike Chen of "Strictly Dumpling" are my 2 favorites. While two completely different styles, I learn so much from you both!! 🌿
Thanks my friend for sharing the new episode Hanoi/ Vietnam street food, Egg.coffee, amazing!! 🤟🤟
They are not being lazy for not taking the shell off the shrimp. I been eating fried sweet potato with shrimp all my life with banh cuon. The shell is left on in the states too. Most Vietnamese like the texture. 😂 Plus the fish sauce/dipping sauce on the table for banh cuon or any Vietnamese dish is the base. You are suppose to add more lime/lemon, sugar, vinegar, minced garlic and chillies to your liking. That is why it’s there. Southern Vietnamese like a sweeter sauce and Northern Vietnamese like it more sour and less sweet. Adding more chillies doesn’t make you progressive, 😅 it’s always been done. It’s just a preference. You wouldn’t give your 5 year old fish sauce with chillies if they can’t handle it. Kids love banh cuon because it’s soft with a mochi texture and easy to eat. Adults will want more flavor and spice. Y’all need Chris Lewis to show you Viet food. He is a cool white dude that has been living in Vietnam for so many years. He speaks the language and understands the food. Shoot even Sonny’s friend Calvin would be better. 😂
Agreed! That kid has no idea 😅
It's so annoying when vloggers don't do proper research. It just makes Westerners think Vietnam is backwards and the food is bad.
Agreed
Peeled shrimp will no longer be crispy and not delicious . U don't anything about that dish
Egg Coffee looks crazy, but I believe it is delicious! I have eaten mochi, but I don’t know if the mochi soup tastes the same in Vietnam!
Thank you for your continued efforts in sharing all the wonderful things and food in this world with us!
Through this video, I know more about Vietnamese gourmet food, this is another wonderful video and great editing!
You did a really great job! Looking forward to meeting you somewhere in this world in my lifetime! 👍🥰🙏🍻❤🎁🎈🎉
P. S. that mochi, we also call dumpling ball/ sweet dumpling/ sticky rice dumpling/ glutinous rice ball/ tangyuan in English.
The egg coffee is my favourite! I still prefer Taiwanese mochi more though
@@LukeMartin Thanks a lot for letting me know, you are very nice! Take care! Happy travels! 👍🥰🙏
Very informative and exciting, as always! Extremely courageous of Luke Martin trying all this food. :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Why is it "extremely courageous" for a Westerner to try Asian food?
@@KimJayViet due to the hygiene of the place and the type of food…
@@rys1968 wow, that's racist.
@@KimJayViet didn’t get it… whose race did I speak about?
Egg coffee😍 love it too!
We have a similar sweet potato fritter with shrimps here in the Phils as well. We call it 'okoy'. And yes, we also eat the shrimp shell. We leave the shell intact for texture, as well as to make sure that the shrimp meat doesnt get overcooked.
I always check your videos for food recommendations before going to new cities and I have never been disappointed 🙂
Agree the egg coffee in Vietnam is incredible. Also love the salt coffee - that stuff is life changing. I moved out of the big city a while ago and the air is a lot better :)
So good!
Your Channel is one of my favorites, Luke! I like your style. ⛩ Your visits to Japan, are my favorites.
Glad you like them!
Very Nice Superb Video great work keep it up
A lot of Vietnamese mistakenly call Mung Bean "Green bean", cuz Mung Bean in Vietnamese is call "Đậu xanh" which literally translated to Bean that is green. But no, the bean that is inside the "mochi balls" is Mung bean.
Thank you❤ there is food that i didn’t see before😮 I'll keep that in mind💕🤭
Happy to hear that :)
Wow, Vietnamese street food always surprises me, but these sweet potato fritters look next-level! I’ve never seen shrimp left on like that-definitely adds a unique crunch.
Thank for good VDO ❤
Hi Luke!
What a fun video! Thanks!
I love learning about East Asian food. The only problem is that i don't like spicy food... 😢 but i always get so so impressed by food from East Asia. I got to find an Asian restaurant here in my city! I would love to try Asian food.
Thank you for the inspiration. And thank you for sharing fantastic food adventures with us!
Best wishes from Sweden.
Thanks for useful and valuable video as always
My pleasure 😊
I'm sure keeping the shell on the shrimp keeps it from over cooking!
The Coke and beer cans are not made to withstand heat - on the contrary, cold.
When they are heated up like that [time after time] the aluminum and other metals are leached out and boil into the chicken.
Great episode 🎉
Thanks :)
I really would love to try the Vietnamese egg coffee, it looks so delicious! The chicken legs in the can will definitely be off my list though haha
Vietnamese egg coffee is amazing!
Those chicken feet in recycling can give me new ideas for my next Halloween decorations!
People usually eat with theirs eyes first , and this tacky image turned me off !
Thanks Luke.Have a enjoyable trip.😀👏
😂😂
YESSS for Egg Coffee!!!
Hi Luke. Do you guys have any plans to go to Luang Prabang? I searched your videos and don’t see anything 🙃 I’m headed there this summer and would love to see it through you. Your videos are so informative. Peace and love
Man, so many unique foods :)
Yes Vietnam is full of interesting foods!
Dear Luke & Mink I hope you both had a wonderful 2023 and have many more adventures to come now in 2024. I myself started the New Year very sick due to anxiety and stress for an upcoming surgery January 10th, doctors finally found the issue with my stomach and will do their best to surgically fix it. I you guys know any cooking channels specialised in restorative food recipes like chicken Congee please share - if any of my fellow viewers reads this, my gratitude would be immensely ❤
Hope you the best with your surgery!
Luke getting this party started! 🎉 🍽️
Woo woo! 🎉
Vietnam food beautifull🎉🎉
Congee is my favorite, its my childhood breakfast. But nowadays the congee texture has changed into something that is so easy to eat, even for babies which i don't quite like it. The congee back in the day had rice in it, like some of the rices became dense to the point it forms into small rice balls with a slight smokey flavor of burnt rice to it then eat along with that youtiao and pork floss...Man, it was so yummy.
As for the shrimp's shell, Vietnamese had a culture of eating everything so, if ingrediants that are edible without causing any harms, most people won't gonna waste it. If it gives more chewing texture and calcium then i see no reason to not eat it. My grandma once told me that eating shrimp's shell is harmful for stomach, but i ate them lot before and nothing happened so i guess its probably just a myth.
With technology and science, we can take better care of our bodies than even a couple decades ago.
@@wed3k Your point is?
Sorry for asking, but i feel like it's completely unrelevant to my comment.
woaw never seen this before
Nice!
Many ppl like shrimp shells if they are fried crispy enough!! I can't get used to eating the shells.
hahahahahahahahah still laughing thats hilarious. I would prefer it be my beer like who drank the beer lol Im so glad your girlfriend is starting to participate more YOU GO GIRLY!!!! hugs to you both lol still laughing lol !!!
Wow - setting a new bar in 2024
Bia BamBa ngon lam nha ! Uong da lam do nhung coi chung say!!!
Watching luke❤❤
Thank you 🙏
Hi Luke I love you! Can I go on a food travel journey with you?
I love egg coffee ☕ ☕.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too!!!!
You should try Bun Cha when in Hanoi, it so good
Considering that Anthony Bourdain took former US President Obama to have bun cha in Hanoi, I don't get why Luke didn't try it there. It's almost as though he's actively trying to make Vietnam look bad.
You should watch the videos Kim Jay, within the first 30 seconds I mentioned we specifically are not going to eat bun cha. You don't even watch, just comment not only this time
@@LukeMartin I watched the episode. I am replying to give context to the commentor's original comment. I watched your episode; it doesn't mean that I agree with your choices of not featuring bun cha and other staples of Hanoi life. Stop gaslighting and saying I don't watch your videos and realize that I am a full-blooded Viet woman who doesn't like the way you portray my country and how you profit off of your prejudiced "Chopstick Travel."
@@LukeMartin Oh and this sounds like your Thai girlfriend. Are you awake to see this? ETA: I get it now. Your Thai girlfriend takes over commenting for you. And she's really annoyed that a Viet woman doesn't like her.
First thirty seconds I said were skipping bun cha and the more popular foods to show some lesser known foods.
Amizing luke 😊
21:12
Most of that food looks very good. The last one really looks too much for me however. I would like to try it, and see how I reat to it.
The shell-on prawns are good for you, think calcium.
Where in NB are you from Luke?
Hampton
Fantastic representation of Hanoi and its local street food. I walked past the shop selling the chicken in beer can many times, but didn't have the courage to try it. Egg coffee is addictive. Cheers Luke
So good!
Vietnamese are very inventive
Lam doesn’t know food that well. The fritter is always made with shrimp shell on. I guess you can request shell off. And it is popular in the south as well. We don’t eat it as is, we wrap it in the herbs and lettuce that they give you. Cutting up the greens and dipping is just weird. I never ate that chicken in a beer can before but I bet they gave you a salt and chili mixture, a long with some lime. Good to see you trying something new in Vietnam. I’ll be back there soon but staying down south where I think the food is much better. Mien Tay, Saigon, and Da Nang has the best food.
Oh, Luke hated Da Nang.
The food in the South is just gross, terrible !
Tummy 😋😋😋
Vietnamese don’t peeled the shrimps shells. Vietnamese shrimps shells r very soft . compare to American shrimps . Plus, it’s a good source of calcium.
This looks so weird at first 😁
Aww go on and eat the shrimp and have a beer!😏
You cook with the shell on shrimp for:
a) texture, as you say
b) it doubles the flavour
c) and Buddhists might consider it more respectful to the animal
For many years Vietnam was 100 percent dairy free so the eat small bones and shrimp shells to get some calcium
Kiến thức vớ vẩn đó bạn lấy ở đâu?
Interesting
@@LukeMartin No, it's not interesting. It's called using and ingesting the entire animal.
What a country, messy but have traditional good food
Luke, can you make food or the life your cuontry for us to know please 😹. I am from Việt Nam. I just follow you
Filling is mung bean, not green bean.
👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
how this have 19k views and less than 1k likes
Because he pays for views. One of the first commenters under this has "buy...you tube views" in their name and he thanked them.
What happened to Sabrina?
👍
The air is bad if you live there for years and years not hoilday😂
Luke, u live in vietnam also? Sonny Andrew, forgot the other dudes name they all also live in saigon, Luke eating good bro.. gain lil weight 😂
No its high ball time lol
🥴🥴🥴 that thumbnail 😩
Chicken feet. Nope 😂
Hey just a heads up “I have the flu.” WOW dude not cool lol
Please stop put music every time u take a bite❤. Buy some mic for better sound ✌️✌️
lolololol STOP IT HEHEHE
$30,000.00 congee is a rip off on foreign prices. I know these local have to make money but that a turn off for me from visit Vietnam 🇻🇳 as scam
I have no idea how you eat so many different kinds of foods prepared in some sketchy ways, (not all but some…🤢).
you know you can still get food poisoning in non sketchy ways/places too. just saying
@@lt5466 Most definitely.
When shrimps were well seasoned and deeply fried in hot oil, it is unnecessary to think of taking the shell off, Japanese does it too, that local friend of yours Luke is pretentious and clueless 🙄
Yikes. The frying oil is pitch black, it must have been reused many times-definitely not healthy.
They boil and eat the chick before it hatches. I think I'm going to throw up 🤮
Good episode, but you didn’t have to put him and their culture on blast like that👀😂😂😂😂😂 Just say no, or humbly decline… but that was a bit too much! If you’re going to venture, and try different cultures… then respect them #100
How did I put their “culture on blast”?
@@LukeMartin You really have no self-awareness at all. Do you even edit your own videos or watch them after the fact? Your arrogance is way beyond most YT vloggers.
@@LukeMartin You need to stop deleting replies to your comments. This is the second time I am replying. Look at the number of followers you have; you have a responsibility to be accountable when you diss a country's food when it's your fault that you can't do proper research. Most professional vloggers refuse to air a video that shows a country in a bad light because they do the mea culpa of realizing that they didn't do their research. The Vietnamese charge very little of your Canadian dollars for traveling and eating there; the LEAST you could do is be humble enough to NOT base your review on a city based on your bad research.
No idea what you’re talking about I didn’t delete any comments. I also recommend you to watch the video instead of just reading the title and commenting “don’t judge a book by its cover”
@@LukeMartin I watched this whole video, Luke. And yes, you deleted my previous reply to your comment. Don't gaslight me. Are you going to, in good faith, reply to how unprofessional you have been in Vietnam? Helen, from Helen's Recipes lived/lives in Da Nang and you trashed her city. I watched this one all the way through (because Hanoi is where my mother was born) to give you another chance but it's clear you have a problem with Vietnam because you barely scratched the surface. When you don't like what you eat, it's your problem, not the country's problem. That's my point.
Maybe do more research before just making shit up
Thank you.
Hanoi very cheap
Yes
pathetic
enjoying the plastic in those cans?
Hi Luke!
What a fun video! Thanks!
I love learning about East Asian food. The only problem is that i don't like spicy food... but i always get so so impressed by food from East Asia. I got to find an Asian restaurant here in my city! I would love to try Asian food.
Thank you for the inspiration. And thank you for sharing fantastic food adventures with us!
Best wishes from Sweden.