This week's location pins: 1- The Vietnamese Sunday Market: maps.app.goo.gl/fM511XxxJ4Ld57dp7 roughly here, on the street leading towards the water. 2- Nam Neung Restaurant: maps.app.goo.gl/YSDzEUbHMb4Uuxu78 3- French-Lao-Vietnamese Place: maps.app.goo.gl/M6irF8Fspty4rvKY7 4- Nai Dam: maps.app.goo.gl/uyU5kLAJtVKZLj2v8
Serious mistake about Vietnamese pho. China doesn't have pho. Why might you be confused that pho was imported from southern China? We Vietnamese people are the people whose territory China invaded, which is present-day southern China. Pho is a combination dish between Vietnam and France, China has nothing to do with pho.
@@sutsvart From Vietnam, Pho is a new dish that combines Vietnamese and French styles and it originates from Nam Dinh province, Vietnam. Vietnamese people have used rice noodles for thousands of years. Currently, France is a rice exporting country in Europe, why is a European country a rice exporting country? The French in the past, like the ancient Chinese, ate wheat, but they did not eat rice. because it is influenced by Vietnam.
I am Vietnamese. Watching this video , I have learned more about the history of my country. You sure have a deep knowledge of food and history. Your report on Vietnamese on Bangkok is a new and rare perspective which I believe many vietnameses can learn from it. Thank you.
I went to University for 2 years in Khon Kaen, where there are a lot of vietnamese-thai People. I had always wondered why the food was so different than American Viet food! So Interesting to hear that it actually predated the modern Vietnamese cuisine, super cool insight!
I am always fond of "Khon Kaen" where the cute dentist at TDH Thonglor Dental Hospital is from, she then left to start a successful business in designing silk scarves, couldn't find her boutique though (I thought it's in Terminal-21) 🧜♀
It’s because American Vietnamese food is from Northern or Southern region. These are Central/Hue dishes. I’m from central Vietnam and the only place to find central dishes are in CA.
@@jpnguyen11Hue foods are so popular in Saigon you can find a lot of great Hue cuisine places here. From street stalls to serious restaurants & bistro.
The Vietnamese community paid for a full page ad in Australian newspapers when the former prime minster who let them into the country as refugees died. A lot of them came from Thailand as a transit point.
Not sure whether the food or the history part is better in this channel. But the combination of the two is fantastic. As a Bangkok native, I learned so much in this half hour episode. Thank you.
This explains so much why Vietnamese food in Thailand as I knew it as a kid growing up and Vietnamese food I've had in America was so different. It's from a completely different region/time frame. I mean they have spots in California that serves Hue or central cuisine but it was never the same same, the differences in Thai Nem Nuong makes so much more sense now compared to the ones I see here living in California. Also I feel so lied to, I had a relative who went to St Francis for school and I never knew they had a Sunday market. Looks like a must visit next trip back.
There are two ingredients for Nem Nuong which are star fruit and baby banana that are scare and expensive in US. The same thing that Vietnamese in US they use Jalapeño replacing chilli in Banh Mi since chilli is expensive. I am Vietnamese born and bred and when I first see Jalapeño in Banh Mi I am in shock. In Vietnam, when you order Fresh Spring Roll it is served with fish sauce. Serving Fresh Spring Roll with peanut sauce was first introduced in US by Vietnamese refugees while peanut sauce traditionally is served with Nem Nuong.
I am Lao American. I grew up eating Vietnamese food in Laos as a child and then I became familiar with Vietnamese food in the US, Houston to be more precise. I am now living in Lao again and I can tell you there is a famous Nem Nuong place in Vientiane that is so popular with both Lao, Lao Viet and Thai Viet. They used to ship them on the daily flight from Vientiane to their customers in Bangkok until COVID put a stop to it. It is more than the raw banana and star fruit. The taste and texture of the meat, the sauce, the fresh herbs and the thin rice paper all added to the unique flavor.
A true masterclass in two of my fav topics, history and food. Being French of Vietnamese descent and living in BKK for over 7 years, this fires emotion and fascination in my inner self. I am going to watch it a second time if not more !
kênh này bố láo nó nói phở do người miền nam trung quốc phát minh ra 4000 năm trc kìa. 4000 năm trc các tộc hoa hạ trung quốc ở đồng bằng trung tâm đã chiếm được các bộ tộc Bách Việt đâu mà đòi phát minh.
Phở sau năm 1954 mới bán ở Miền Nam Việt Nam, do người Bắc bán, cứ hỏi người lớn tuổi miền Nam thì họ nói trước đó thì chưa có ăn Phở trước 1954. Trong khi người Hoa trước 1954 sống rất đông ở Việt Nam. Điều này chứng tỏ gì? Điều này chứng tỏ phở không phải là món người Hoa từ Miền Nam Trung Quốc mang đến. Sao không có câu hỏi ngược lại là món ở Trung Quốc có phải do người tị nạn Việt Nam, hoặc người Việt Gốc Hoa trở về Trung Quốc mang theo không.
Pho was sold in the South of Vietnam after 1954, sold by Northerners (North Vietnam). If you ask the elders in the South, they will say that they had never eaten Pho before 1954. Meanwhile, before 1954, Chinese people lived in large numbers in Vietnam. What does this prove? This proves that pho is not a dish brought by the Chinese from Southern China. Why not ask the question whether the food in China was brought by Vietnamese refugees, or Chinese-Vietnamese people returning to China? An example of Banh Cuon, some young Vietnamese-Americans and some foreigners think of it as a Southern Chinese-influenced dish, but the Chinese dish that looks similar to Vietnamese Banh Cuon was first recorded in the 1930s in Guangdong, while Vietnamese Banh Cuon was recorded in a book from the 13th-14th centuries about the customs of the Tran Dynasty in the 1200s in Vietnam.
Right? My respect for these people just keeps growing. Of course there's dark history everywhere, but some really considerate decisions have also been made.
I'm a history teacher and the history you've researched here in combination with their dishes is impressive. I'm surprised your background is a chef! You must have an amazing research team behind you, or you're a great researcher yourself. Either way, all accurate and unbiased information. Thanks for an great video. I'm craving nem nuong now!
Ha thanks for the kind comment. I’m a journalist by trade prior to moving to Asia and getting into the restaurant world- so it’s not a straight line from one to the other. I love this kind of stuff. Appreciate you watching!
Thanks for your great work! I'd never read something like this before but from what I'd encountered few vietnamese who lived in Thailand, this has answered some of my wonders about how they first came to living there. I saw some influences in the food they claimed it's Thai but I know it's distinctly vietnamese food. Before seeing this video, I thought to myself that it'd be very interesting to know how the vietnamese populace there first became involved living there and there ought to be a vietnamese community there. This is a new informative history education on vietnam and its influencing neighboring country.
Being an avid Vietnamese-food lover, your documentary video clip is such an eye opener for me. Not only will I be able to explore to some of your venues featured in the clip but I am so grateful for historical facts about refuged Vietnameses in Thailand. Loveeeee this!
One of the first so called Ambassadors I can think of is Durian rider! He is the first few white guys at that time that introduced Thailand to the world in positive ways instead of focusing on prostitutes and poverty or drugs. I think the world see Thailand changed a lot after he and his vegan friends made youtube channel about Thailand.
Your script is so well written and the naration is so easy to listen to. I find the history so interesting, i had no idea that the journey through history using food could be so facinating. Well done and such a unique take on the human journey in the far east.
Thank you so much for such a thorough and amazing video. As a Vietnamese and a Catholic, this is the first time I ever heard of this incredible page of the Vietnamese history. Everyday, I give thanks to our martyr ancestors who had courageously sufferred so much ie: were cruelty tortured, death and migrated from homeland to protect our faith in Jesus Christ. I am sure not many Vietnamese are aware of this piece of the history or of this group of Vietnamese people living in Thailand who are still holding to the Vietnamese traditions of a few hundred years back. It is a gem. Thank you for your good work, your research . I love to visit this place one day. Now you are on my list of subscribers
Holy shit, yall need to stop yaping about your ancestors getting "tortured" You know what American did? fucking orange chemical, That shit ERASED the entire Bloodline if you accidentally stiff 1 gram of it, STFU, Your "democracy" system rigged the first election, 97% to France side, Crazy, Yall out here killing buddists, destroying Temple, just because they ain't Christians And out of yall excused was yall love Jesus Christ, There Was and still now more Church in the North than South. The Funny thing is my whole Family is in the south, But just because they was farmers and not Catholics, and don't live in Saigon (in Binh Duong, like 35km away from Saigon )they got treated inhumanely buy their "Democratic" Government. Most Vietnamese from mainland and "Viet Kieu" know about this part of history, that's why most chose to talk abt it.
The 'where' of food is as important as the why and the how of it. Your inclusion of the local history of whatever you are looking at is a vital and often ignored part of food documentation. Kudos, friend. My longish history of food tasting has been quite expanded by your interesting informative series here on YT. Kepp on keepin' on, bruh.
FYI, Thai food is very popular in Vietnam nowadays, on top of that, almost every seafood or bbq places have Thai seafood sauce. I went to a bbq with my Vietnamese girlfriend and her friend. I brought all of the dipping sauce to the table but we all ended up only went for the seafood sauce😂
I know, right? I went to Ho Chi Minh city in 2022. Surprised to see a ‘boat noodle’ restaurant in one of the malls. Mostly, I would see an Esan food restaurant or the one that serves many Thai dishes as they can, but not a stand alone boat noodle. I and my friend wanted to try to see if it is different from what we eat in Thailand, but the restaurant was too busy to squeeze us in by the time we need to go.
Vietnamese food is pretty popular in Thailand as well. Vietnamese restuarant also pretty easy to find, even outside bangkok. There are more than 20 vietnamese restuarants around me. Ps. doesn't count market or street food stall.
Thời đại mở , người Thái Lan và người Việt Nam đều mang văn hóa ẩm thực ra nước ngoài kinh doanh quảng bá . Những khách du lịch khắp thế giới góp phần quảng bá vì tình yêu từ vị giác và văn hóa của họ .
Loved this video mate. My family here in Australia love Vietnamese food. In Sydney there a lots of eateries from our Vietnamese Australian compatriots. This video was another gem thanks.
Such a great history lesson packaged as a food tour of Thailand. As a Catholic Vietnamese refugee, who's parents left Vietnam in the 80's with me as a 3 year old, it feels both sad and comforting to learn that we are part of a long history (and maybe Tradition?) of Catholic Vietnamese migrants / refugees fleeing Vietnam.
Great video and I am a descendant of King Mình Mang’s family , my great great grandfather was one his son of King Mình Mang . I will visit this place next visit to Bangkok .
I found this so interesting as it’s the first time I can relate personally with one of your videos! My family is from central Vietnam (Da Lat and Da Nang) and we left Vietnam in 1975. All the food you tag as Thai-Viet are 100% normal central Vietnamese dishes - except that Lao-Viet breakfast which I don’t recognize at all. Sure you have banh mi, but the only banh mi my dad ever made was either a baguette with steak and eggs, drizzled with Maggi, or a baguette used to sop up a watery curry soup. Central Vietnam is definitely the only region where you’ll find all kinds of steamed tapas-like, dim sum-like dishes. Central cuisine is actually pretty rare to find in the US - 99% of US Viet restaurants are Southern Vietnamese/Vietnamese-Chinese style pho and/or banh mi joints. It’s so interesting that Thailand’s Vietnamese food is specifically Central, which is easily the rarest Viet regional cuisine you’d find here in the US. Oh one interesting thing: if that church is serving banh xeo, that would kill the possibility of it as a dish having French connections. Because of the strong connection of the French to the region, which was home to the government, all the cuisine is tainted with the idea that all of the region’s dishes have some kind of French origin, which is clearly ridiculous. The signature part of banh xeo is that it is a turmeric colored crepe. And from what my mother has told me, only the southern Vietnamese add coconut milk to the batter. I imagine they use coconut milk in the Thai-Viet version. And you’re definitely right regarding Vietnamese food as being defined by all the herbs/vegetables. The only dishes I can think of off the top of my head that don’t fit this are relatively new/foreign influenced dishes: pho from China and French banh mi.
Yesterday, I was a refugee; today, I am a Coloradan by way of Saigon. Thank you for making such a meaningful movie. It's a well thought out- document program. Your expanded explanation is excellent. Best wishes to you and your team in the new undertakings !
Superb video as always. !!! My VN gf came from Ha Tinh. Here home is located near Houng Tich Pagoda. They loved grill fish like we have in Thailand. Her home town dishes are quite differ compare to most of well-known VN cuisine in Thailand. Their Banh Beo looks different compare to the first place near Church in Sam Saen soi 13. By the way, I really love Banh Seo (the first VN food from my chilhood in Petchaburi province) as much as I love my VN gal. 😁😁😁 Banh Seo in the last restuarant looks legit. It seems worth a shot even though it's quite far from my place.
I come from a family with Vietnamese-Laotian-Thai heritage, but have learned so much about the histories of these regions that I hadn’t known before. Thank you! 🙏🏼 😊
As a Vietnamese I have always wanted to set up a "banh mi- baguette" shop in Krungthep maha nakhon serving mainly Farangs but my Thai girlfriend (we are now in the US) advises not to because Thai wouldn't eat baguettes for breakfast, might as well opening a Tamale or Pupusa place for the Gringos LOL 🌮🍵
Banh Mi is great! As a family of Thai-Chinese. BanhMi is something we order several time when I was in Vietnam. Location, Price and Quality is the key, if you want a win in Bangkok
I'm a gringo who loves tamales and pupupas. Vietnamese food is damn good too. Bun Bo Hue, Cao Lau, Pho, Bun Cha, and that lemongrass chicken is to die for! I'm sure people in Thailand would to be stoked on a banh mi shop!
Thanks for teaching this Vietnamese-American something new! Love our history and lore. Variations on the dishes shown are pretty common in Vietnam and across the diaspora nowadays. Some of those dishes did originate from Hue (bánh bèo) and Đà Nẳng (nem nướng and bánh canh). Bánh cuốn is from the north and was influenced by Guandong and Guanxi cuisine.
Guandong and Guanxi people eat Bánh Cuốn? Maybe...you got incorrect information from unofficial sources. Banh cuon was discovered in records a long time ago, at least since the Tran Dynasty a thousand years ago. (Chinese television station) CCTV once made a documentary about the Kinh (Jing) people, and they said that Banh Cuon is a tradition of this ethnic group. North Vietnam and South China themselves have similar cultures because their histories are intertwined. So you cannot say that North Vietnam is influenced by Guangdong and Guangxi, but North Vietnam itself is the original culture, the original food. If Banh Cuon was influenced by Guangxi and Guangdong, then Saigon, where many Chinese-Vietnamese people used to live, was not sold before 1954 but only after 1954. This proves that Chinese people do not eat Banh Cuon and consider Banh Cuon as a traditional dish. Just so you know, many Chinese Vietnamese people who used to live in Vietnam returned to China in 1979. They brought Vietnamese cuisine to China for business. Visit Guangdong and Guangxi to know more.😊
Today's China is different from ancient China. The name China did not really exist in the past, but in fact it is a combination of many cultures and peoples in the process of expanding and conquering the territory. It can not be said that countries like Vietnam, Japan, and Korea are influenced by China, but it must be said that they share culture.
@@AlphabetwithoutABCbro it’s okay, most Vietnamese have Han blood coursing through our veins. Just do a DNA test if you haven’t, mine said Chinese OR Vietnamese…test can’t decipher due to our range. Yes, their bánh cuốn is jeung phun, always available at dim sum. Over the centuries, we mastered the art of thinner noodles and crepes which I prefer 😋.
@@EpitinLOL. Not most Vietnamese have Han blood coursing through our veins. However, the Han people have been assimilated by the Mongols and Manchus. Presently, the Han population is not purely homogeneous anymore; it has intermingled with various northern ethnic groups, evident in the noticeable physical differences between individuals from the southern and northern regions of China. To be more precise, a considerable portion of the Chinese populace in the southern regions likely has Vietnamese ancestry flowing through their veins.
Thank you for making this video. My mother and her family lived in this refugee camp, after escaping the Viet Nam war. So it’s interesting to learn about. 🙏
Awesome video allowing me to learn a lot especially about that long time Vietnamese community in Bangkok. I am from NYC but living in Saigon the past 30 years. Have been to Thailand many times firstly in 1988 always enjoying the visits. I love living in this part of the world!
Thank you so much for your effort in making such an in-depth and wonderful vdo! I have always been in awe of your amazing story of food and its history. Keep going! ❤
I actually have an OTR to-eat restaurant list. I just went to have the Ughyrur restauraunt to try their lamb skewers. Sadly they were out. I ordered the beef instead. The noodles were also amazing. I'm adding the Nam Nueang restaurant to my list. Thanks, OTR for these lesser known but rich spots.
At 3 minutes in when you talk about the church in 1775 that was originally built by Portugal, it reminded me that I have an old Portuguese coin in my collection from the year 1775
It's wild to think of what was going on when this coin was first minted, and how many different world events it has gone through, passing between who knows how many hands. Were they poor? A beggar? Someone in political office? I love thinking on those kind of things sometimes, it's a great form of meditation
Years ago while dining at the Sukhumvit J W Marriott New York steakhouse, the Thai waitress told me that people in Isaan love Nem Nuong that last week I just bought some Nem Nuong in Little Saigon, OC, California for my Thai girlfriend which she really enjoys! I have been eating some Chiangmai Northern Thai food in LA but today I just made some Japanese/Korean foods though .
Glad to see you and Gary teaming up. I particularly liked that last place in the house, and all the dishes on the table. Thanks again, Adam, for another great vlog that gets down to the real experience and the history......and the flavors.
Another great video again from OTR! My partner and I had our first international trip to Hanoi (food is so goood) then followed by Bangkok, but we’ll be coming back to 🇹🇭 this July! Thank you for highlighting the Vietnamese community there as well as their amazing cuisine!! Will add this to the itinerary! ❤
Great again OTR ! I`m excited about your cinamatographic work, music and the historical research ! I enjoy that as someone hungry for knowledge - i love SEA and the food ! Thank you for the top notch work OTR 👏👍💝
As usual, a deeply researched and lovingly presented dive into an obscure subject. Your videos are wonderful. My given name is Gialong Nguyen so the video really resonates!
Many years ago while staying at the Suk11 hostel I saw a small old wooden board signs "Minh Mạng" name of a Vietnamese King (reigning 1820-1841) one of the king Gia Long's sons, some Vietnamese royal family members must have lived in that Soi 11 Sukhumvit area hundred years ago. Your pronunciation of Viet last name "Nguyen" is pretty accurate!🏰💒
They did , there was a time that king have to move to to thailand for hiding from the current king of that time “ Nguyễn Huệ “ , then after Nguyễn Huệ died , he and his people moved back to Vietnam to taking back the dynasty.
@@hunterl4328 i just want to let you know that “ thailand and vietnam did have a war ( old dynasty of each country)“ . So they did have history together . If u don’t believe me , u can google and looking for it .
Another great video, Adam. I love all of the history that explains what you're (I almost said "we're") about to eat. I also value the lack of histrionic oversell of the food and its preparation that you find with other food vloggers. You surely deserve more than the 124K subs you have. I'll do my bit and share your videos on Facebook and try to get you a few more.
Wow, I went to school next to the Baan Yuan area for 11 years. Unfortunately, I was unaware of its history. We just walked through the area. Thank you for filling my childhood meaningfully.
My parents were originally from the North of Vietnam, they moved to Thailand in about 1940. So I was born and grew up there and hence I can tell you there's a large Vietnamese community in the northeastern region of Thailand where you can find a lot of Vietnamese restaurants.
It's very interesting to see what Vietnamese foods are available in Bangkok and learn more about Thai Vietnamese communities. How lucky you are to have access to all of these beautiful dishes. I love a great roll-your-own meal with rice paper, lettuce, herbs, and dipping sauces. It's one of my favorite genres of Viet cuisine.
17:32 Nem Nướng is a relatively well known food. You can buy it frozen at Asian grocery stores in the states. When eaten as a roll it’s called Nem Nướng Cuốn. It’s a pretty common menu item at Vietnamese restaurants in California. There’s a place that specializes in the rolls at the John Wayne Airport
since I discovered this channel, it makes it hard for me to stand BESTFOODEVER channel. Love this style of docuseries, much more quality and slower pace
Vietnamese-American here, the vietnamese in thailand are all from the huế thừa thiên region of central VN, the foods you are eating are still eaten in the old capital
And it taste not that good till the people from Saigon upgrade it to make it tasty. Especially the Bun Bo Hue, the southern version is the best compared to the one in Hue referred from local.
@@QuangNguyen-yh4nn you know that taste is preference right? southern Viet food would be too sweet to northerners but not intense enough for many thai/laos/cambodian
Okay, I'm only 2.20 minutes in and already excited. Samsaen/Samsen Road is my mother's home terf. And her family is Thai and Vietnamese mixed (plus that ONE Portuguese ancestor that added enough to my DNA cocktail to make me look like a 100% 'farang' rather than mixed/ 'look krueng' 😅). Anyroad, please continue...
My current Thai girl friend told me last week that she graduated from Suan Dusit University and when I looked up this restaurant I saw Suan Dusit University มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต near by.
If you are a girl you must be cute! I haven't been back to BKK since 2/2020 at the beginning of Covid to visit my X- Luk Krueng ลูกครึ่ง girl friend (90% Farang face look but only ~ 1.5-1.6 meter tall) that we met at Saigon airport on the way to BKK, I need to renew my passport soon
Have you considered writing a book? Because I would love to see all of your favorite places in no particular ranking, with pictures and a quick write-up. Write-up. At this point, you must have been everywhere. I'd pay good money for that
A rare cuisine show that so refreshingly served in luscious bite sized history lessons of Vietnam as the food dishes covered in this travelogue of Bangkok, Thailand. Thoroughly enjoy the travelogue, the mouth-watering dishes and the lesson of history at one sitting. So, well done.
There is a new wave of Vietnamese in Thailand with cheap airfares and travel restrictions eased , they come this time to Pattaya and Bangkok, for shopping and tourism,(check the reviews of Pattaya hotels)at one Big C there is a station to box up products with signs written in Vietnamese. At a nearby busy food court, there are signs on the walls in Vietnamese.
You did intensively research in this topic! I dont know none of local vietnamese restaurants even i’m a bangkokian 😂. Thanks for a lot of details and origin of Thai-Vietnamese food.
thanks. I'm Vietnamese and I love your history lessons to explain the many waves of past immigration and the currently segregated (for lack of better term) Vietnamese communities in Thailand. that's something I never knew myself because it's not found in the typical history text books in Vietnam.
Adam, can you please provide the location and names of the restaurants in this segment? Particularly interested in the lad Phrao Bahn mi spot as well as the Ramkhamhaeng soi 11 spot as well. Thank you for your videos, they are all fantastic!
This was an excellent video, Adam. Not only did I learn more history about the Vietnamese diaspora, but I also learned about the waves of various Viet settlers into Bangkok and the cuisine typical of the regions and timeframes from which they came. Have a couple of trips to Bangkok planned this year and am excited to try at least the Sunday market and Nai Dam. Thanks so much and keep up the great work!
Wow! I had no idea that Thailand and Vietnam were so culturally linked. I always thought the food were some what similar, and the tone of the languages sounded familiar. Thank you Adam for contributing to SEA cultural and historical connections.
Yaaay! Great to know about all this. There are some Vietanmese places up here in Chiang Mai but, nothing like this, most are chains. Great to see The Roaming Cook again with you. And Daria! Wow! So, back to thatr same old church and it's neighborhood for this story too! Really fascinating.
This an absolutely insane and beautiful video and story you guys shared.. thank you so much, I’ve learn so much more and it puts a smile on my face to see how passionate you guys are too on the subject 🙂 Cheers!
These 2 guys take their craft / hobby of Southeast Asian food to the most EXTREME levels of knowledge and skill. There are very few people like them where it is a passion that they work on everyday. Max McFarlane is the only other one I can think of.
Idk if it's because I'm spoiled with hella Viet people living in California, but I see these foods in restaurants in the Bay and LA frequently. Thank you for sharing this with us!
This week's location pins:
1- The Vietnamese Sunday Market: maps.app.goo.gl/fM511XxxJ4Ld57dp7 roughly here, on the street leading towards the water.
2- Nam Neung Restaurant: maps.app.goo.gl/YSDzEUbHMb4Uuxu78
3- French-Lao-Vietnamese Place: maps.app.goo.gl/M6irF8Fspty4rvKY7
4- Nai Dam: maps.app.goo.gl/uyU5kLAJtVKZLj2v8
Serious mistake about Vietnamese pho. China doesn't have pho. Why might you be confused that pho was imported from southern China? We Vietnamese people are the people whose territory China invaded, which is present-day southern China. Pho is a combination dish between Vietnam and France, China has nothing to do with pho.
Do you have number of the Nem Nuang restaurant? Want to ask if they open during Songkran like Sunday ?
Is noodles in Pho originated from France or Vietnam ?
@@sutsvart From Vietnam, Pho is a new dish that combines Vietnamese and French styles and it originates from Nam Dinh province, Vietnam. Vietnamese people have used rice noodles for thousands of years. Currently, France is a rice exporting country in Europe, why is a European country a rice exporting country? The French in the past, like the ancient Chinese, ate wheat, but they did not eat rice. because it is influenced by Vietnam.
@@wangwu9299 should be on their google maps link- otherwise no idea
I am Vietnamese. Watching this video , I have learned more about the history of my country. You sure have a deep knowledge of food and history. Your report on Vietnamese on Bangkok is a new and rare perspective which I believe many vietnameses can learn from it. Thank you.
I went to University for 2 years in Khon Kaen, where there are a lot of vietnamese-thai People. I had always wondered why the food was so different than American Viet food! So Interesting to hear that it actually predated the modern Vietnamese cuisine, super cool insight!
I am always fond of "Khon Kaen" where the cute dentist at TDH Thonglor Dental Hospital is from, she then left to start a successful business in designing silk scarves, couldn't find her boutique though (I thought it's in Terminal-21) 🧜♀
It’s because American Vietnamese food is from Northern or Southern region. These are Central/Hue dishes. I’m from central Vietnam and the only place to find central dishes are in CA.
@@jpnguyen11Hue foods are so popular in Saigon you can find a lot of great Hue cuisine places here. From street stalls to serious restaurants & bistro.
The herbs in tropical weather is more pungency than mild weather. Even the hot chilly peppers 🌶️ tasted different.
The Vietnamese history lesson at the beginning of this video was incredible. You guys do such good work!
Yes the history was interesting but the food not so much.
The Vietnamese community paid for a full page ad in Australian newspapers when the former prime minster who let them into the country as refugees died. A lot of them came from Thailand as a transit point.
Fraser?
Yes.
Not sure whether the food or the history part is better in this channel. But the combination of the two is fantastic. As a Bangkok native, I learned so much in this half hour episode. Thank you.
This explains so much why Vietnamese food in Thailand as I knew it as a kid growing up and Vietnamese food I've had in America was so different. It's from a completely different region/time frame. I mean they have spots in California that serves Hue or central cuisine but it was never the same same, the differences in Thai Nem Nuong makes so much more sense now compared to the ones I see here living in California.
Also I feel so lied to, I had a relative who went to St Francis for school and I never knew they had a Sunday market. Looks like a must visit next trip back.
There are two ingredients for Nem Nuong which are star fruit and baby banana that are scare and expensive in US. The same thing that Vietnamese in US they use Jalapeño replacing chilli in Banh Mi since chilli is expensive. I am Vietnamese born and bred and when I first see Jalapeño in Banh Mi I am in shock. In Vietnam, when you order Fresh Spring Roll it is served with fish sauce. Serving Fresh Spring Roll with peanut sauce was first introduced in US by Vietnamese refugees while peanut sauce traditionally is served with Nem Nuong.
@@thumtlnguyen3626 100%. My mom always asks for fish sauce here when we eat spring rolls.
I am Lao American. I grew up eating Vietnamese food in Laos as a child and then I became familiar with Vietnamese food in the US, Houston to be more precise. I am now living in Lao again and I can tell you there is a famous Nem Nuong place in Vientiane that is so popular with both Lao, Lao Viet and Thai Viet. They used to ship them on the daily flight from Vientiane to their customers in Bangkok until COVID put a stop to it. It is more than the raw banana and star fruit. The taste and texture of the meat, the sauce, the fresh herbs and the thin rice paper all added to the unique flavor.
Thank you.I am a Thai person living in Bangkok. You're really good at finding this place. I really like Vietnamese food. Must try and eat some.
A true masterclass in two of my fav topics, history and food. Being French of Vietnamese descent and living in BKK for over 7 years, this fires emotion and fascination in my inner self. I am going to watch it a second time if not more !
As a vietnamese, I'm amazed by the content quality. Keep it up !
Họ nói phở đến từ miền nam tq kìa. Bậy bạ
kênh này bố láo nó nói phở do người miền nam trung quốc phát minh ra 4000 năm trc kìa. 4000 năm trc các tộc hoa hạ trung quốc ở đồng bằng trung tâm đã chiếm được các bộ tộc Bách Việt đâu mà đòi phát minh.
Hahaha... Có người nói phở giống như là hủ tiếu của người Trung Quốc... Mình nghĩ phở là từ Nam Định, Việt Nam.
Phở sau năm 1954 mới bán ở Miền Nam Việt Nam, do người Bắc bán, cứ hỏi người lớn tuổi miền Nam thì họ nói trước đó thì chưa có ăn Phở trước 1954. Trong khi người Hoa trước 1954 sống rất đông ở Việt Nam. Điều này chứng tỏ gì? Điều này chứng tỏ phở không phải là món người Hoa từ Miền Nam Trung Quốc mang đến. Sao không có câu hỏi ngược lại là món ở Trung Quốc có phải do người tị nạn Việt Nam, hoặc người Việt Gốc Hoa trở về Trung Quốc mang theo không.
Pho was sold in the South of Vietnam after 1954, sold by Northerners (North Vietnam). If you ask the elders in the South, they will say that they had never eaten Pho before 1954. Meanwhile, before 1954, Chinese people lived in large numbers in Vietnam. What does this prove? This proves that pho is not a dish brought by the Chinese from Southern China. Why not ask the question whether the food in China was brought by Vietnamese refugees, or Chinese-Vietnamese people returning to China? An example of Banh Cuon, some young Vietnamese-Americans and some foreigners think of it as a Southern Chinese-influenced dish, but the Chinese dish that looks similar to Vietnamese Banh Cuon was first recorded in the 1930s in Guangdong, while Vietnamese Banh Cuon was recorded in a book from the 13th-14th centuries about the customs of the Tran Dynasty in the 1200s in Vietnam.
Thank you. The video is so good. I love to watch videos like this that features Thailand’s tolerance of people from all over the world.
Right? My respect for these people just keeps growing. Of course there's dark history everywhere, but some really considerate decisions have also been made.
more like acceptance, not tolerance
Cướp biển thái lan đã giết hại, hãm hiếp rất nhiều người vượt biên Việt Nam
I'm a history teacher and the history you've researched here in combination with their dishes is impressive. I'm surprised your background is a chef! You must have an amazing research team behind you, or you're a great researcher yourself. Either way, all accurate and unbiased information. Thanks for an great video. I'm craving nem nuong now!
Ha thanks for the kind comment. I’m a journalist by trade prior to moving to Asia and getting into the restaurant world- so it’s not a straight line from one to the other. I love this kind of stuff. Appreciate you watching!
Thanks for your great work!
I'd never read something like this before but from what I'd encountered few vietnamese who lived in Thailand, this has answered some of my wonders about how they first came to living there. I saw some influences in the food they claimed it's Thai but I know it's distinctly vietnamese food. Before seeing this video, I thought to myself that it'd be very interesting to know how the vietnamese populace there first became involved living there and there ought to be a vietnamese community there.
This is a new informative history education on vietnam and its influencing neighboring country.
Being an avid Vietnamese-food lover, your documentary video clip is such an eye opener for me. Not only will I be able to explore to some of your venues featured in the clip but I am so grateful for historical facts about refuged Vietnameses in Thailand. Loveeeee this!
Mark Wiens and now this channel… Thailand has amazing ambassadors!
Don't forget Gary!
It’s really our great honor! Thanks to them 🙏
One of the first so called Ambassadors I can think of is Durian rider! He is the first few white guys at that time that introduced Thailand to the world in positive ways instead of focusing on prostitutes and poverty or drugs. I think the world see Thailand changed a lot after he and his vegan friends made youtube channel about Thailand.
Foodie here. And all of OTR's videos is making it really hard not to plan a trip to Bangkok purely for the food LOL
Your script is so well written and the naration is so easy to listen to. I find the history so interesting, i had no idea that the journey through history using food could be so facinating. Well done and such a unique take on the human journey in the far east.
Thank you so much for such a thorough and amazing video. As a Vietnamese and a Catholic, this is the first time I ever heard of this incredible page of the Vietnamese history. Everyday, I give thanks to our martyr ancestors who had courageously sufferred so much ie: were cruelty tortured, death and migrated from homeland to protect our faith in Jesus Christ. I am sure not many Vietnamese are aware of this piece of the history or of this group of Vietnamese people living in Thailand who are still holding to the Vietnamese traditions of a few hundred years back. It is a gem. Thank you for your good work, your research . I love to visit this place one day. Now you are on my list of subscribers
Holy shit, yall need to stop yaping about your ancestors getting "tortured" You know what American did? fucking orange chemical, That shit ERASED the entire Bloodline if you accidentally stiff 1 gram of it, STFU, Your "democracy" system rigged the first election, 97% to France side, Crazy,
Yall out here killing buddists, destroying Temple, just because they ain't Christians
And out of yall excused was yall love Jesus Christ, There Was and still now more Church in the North than South.
The Funny thing is my whole Family is in the south, But just because they was farmers and not Catholics, and don't live in Saigon (in Binh Duong, like 35km away from Saigon )they got treated inhumanely buy their "Democratic" Government.
Most Vietnamese from mainland and "Viet Kieu" know about this part of history, that's why most chose to talk abt it.
man i absolutely love the history lesson. You should consider making a channel just about history
It is! It is Asian food history including the actual dishes!
There is one .
you are watching it!
This guy could be a travel narrator for major broadcasting stations without a doubt. Always love and look forward to every video.
I'm a simple man, i see a new OTR content i click it and then i grab a beer (Leo) and some snacks to sit back and enjoy.
The 'where' of food is as important as the why and the how of it. Your inclusion of the local history of whatever you are looking at is a vital and often ignored part of food documentation. Kudos, friend. My longish history of food tasting has been quite expanded by your interesting informative series here on YT. Kepp on keepin' on, bruh.
FYI, Thai food is very popular in Vietnam nowadays, on top of that, almost every seafood or bbq places have Thai seafood sauce. I went to a bbq with my Vietnamese girlfriend and her friend. I brought all of the dipping sauce to the table but we all ended up only went for the seafood sauce😂
I know, right? I went to Ho Chi Minh city in 2022. Surprised to see a ‘boat noodle’ restaurant in one of the malls. Mostly, I would see an Esan food restaurant or the one that serves many Thai dishes as they can, but not a stand alone boat noodle. I and my friend wanted to try to see if it is different from what we eat in Thailand, but the restaurant was too busy to squeeze us in by the time we need to go.
What colors of seafood sauce do you like ?
Vietnamese food is pretty popular in Thailand as well. Vietnamese restuarant also pretty easy to find, even outside bangkok. There are more than 20 vietnamese restuarants around me.
Ps. doesn't count market or street food stall.
Thời đại mở , người Thái Lan và người Việt Nam đều mang văn hóa ẩm thực ra nước ngoài kinh doanh quảng bá . Những khách du lịch khắp thế giới góp phần quảng bá vì tình yêu từ vị giác và văn hóa của họ .
Most of Vietnamese restaurants in Thailand serve Esan Thai northern dishes too
Loved this video mate. My family here in Australia love Vietnamese food. In Sydney there a lots of eateries from our Vietnamese Australian compatriots. This video was another gem thanks.
shot in the dark but this isn't the Trevor who introduced himself in a shopping mall in Bangkok a few months ago?
Such a great history lesson packaged as a food tour of Thailand. As a Catholic Vietnamese refugee, who's parents left Vietnam in the 80's with me as a 3 year old, it feels both sad and comforting to learn that we are part of a long history (and maybe Tradition?) of Catholic Vietnamese migrants / refugees fleeing Vietnam.
Great video and I am a descendant of King Mình Mang’s family , my great great grandfather was one his son of King Mình Mang . I will visit this place next visit to Bangkok .
Wow, thú vị
I found this so interesting as it’s the first time I can relate personally with one of your videos! My family is from central Vietnam (Da Lat and Da Nang) and we left Vietnam in 1975. All the food you tag as Thai-Viet are 100% normal central Vietnamese dishes - except that Lao-Viet breakfast which I don’t recognize at all. Sure you have banh mi, but the only banh mi my dad ever made was either a baguette with steak and eggs, drizzled with Maggi, or a baguette used to sop up a watery curry soup.
Central Vietnam is definitely the only region where you’ll find all kinds of steamed tapas-like, dim sum-like dishes. Central cuisine is actually pretty rare to find in the US - 99% of US Viet restaurants are Southern Vietnamese/Vietnamese-Chinese style pho and/or banh mi joints. It’s so interesting that Thailand’s Vietnamese food is specifically Central, which is easily the rarest Viet regional cuisine you’d find here in the US. Oh one interesting thing: if that church is serving banh xeo, that would kill the possibility of it as a dish having French connections. Because of the strong connection of the French to the region, which was home to the government, all the cuisine is tainted with the idea that all of the region’s dishes have some kind of French origin, which is clearly ridiculous. The signature part of banh xeo is that it is a turmeric colored crepe. And from what my mother has told me, only the southern Vietnamese add coconut milk to the batter. I imagine they use coconut milk in the Thai-Viet version.
And you’re definitely right regarding Vietnamese food as being defined by all the herbs/vegetables. The only dishes I can think of off the top of my head that don’t fit this are relatively new/foreign influenced dishes: pho from China and French banh mi.
I really like the history behind...very unique and educational! Subscribed! I look forward to many interesting videos like this one.
Yesterday, I was a refugee; today, I am a Coloradan by way of Saigon. Thank you for making such a meaningful movie. It's a well thought out- document program. Your expanded explanation is excellent. Best wishes to you and your team in the new undertakings !
Superb video as always. !!! My VN gf came from Ha Tinh. Here home is located near Houng Tich Pagoda. They loved grill fish like we have in Thailand. Her home town dishes are quite differ compare to most of well-known VN cuisine in Thailand. Their Banh Beo looks different compare to the first place near Church in Sam Saen soi 13. By the way, I really love Banh Seo (the first VN food from my chilhood in Petchaburi province) as much as I love my VN gal. 😁😁😁
Banh Seo in the last restuarant looks legit. It seems worth a shot even though it's quite far from my place.
I come from a family with Vietnamese-Laotian-Thai heritage, but have learned so much about the histories of these regions that I hadn’t known before. Thank you! 🙏🏼 😊
As a Vietnamese I have always wanted to set up a "banh mi- baguette" shop in Krungthep maha nakhon serving mainly Farangs but my Thai girlfriend (we are now in the US) advises not to because Thai wouldn't eat baguettes for breakfast, might as well opening a Tamale or Pupusa place for the Gringos LOL 🌮🍵
how badly downtown Bangkok needs a good Banh Mi breakfast shop...it's a big void here that I hope someone takes a risk on one day
So sad that we miss your banh mi 😢 we really need good banh mi here!
Banh Mi is great! As a family of Thai-Chinese. BanhMi is something we order several time when I was in Vietnam.
Location, Price and Quality is the key, if you want a win in Bangkok
Please do! you will have me as a regular customer as I really Banh Mi but it's so hard to find one in Bangkok.
I'm a gringo who loves tamales and pupupas. Vietnamese food is damn good too. Bun Bo Hue, Cao Lau, Pho, Bun Cha, and that lemongrass chicken is to die for! I'm sure people in Thailand would to be stoked on a banh mi shop!
A really great piece of work! Well layed out and well edited. The research outstanding, as usual. Thanx, OTR!
Thanks for teaching this Vietnamese-American something new! Love our history and lore. Variations on the dishes shown are pretty common in Vietnam and across the diaspora nowadays. Some of those dishes did originate from Hue (bánh bèo) and Đà Nẳng (nem nướng and bánh canh). Bánh cuốn is from the north and was influenced by Guandong and Guanxi cuisine.
Guandong and Guanxi people eat Bánh Cuốn? Maybe...you got incorrect information from unofficial sources. Banh cuon was discovered in records a long time ago, at least since the Tran Dynasty a thousand years ago. (Chinese television station) CCTV once made a documentary about the Kinh (Jing) people, and they said that Banh Cuon is a tradition of this ethnic group. North Vietnam and South China themselves have similar cultures because their histories are intertwined. So you cannot say that North Vietnam is influenced by Guangdong and Guangxi, but North Vietnam itself is the original culture, the original food. If Banh Cuon was influenced by Guangxi and Guangdong, then Saigon, where many Chinese-Vietnamese people used to live, was not sold before 1954 but only after 1954. This proves that Chinese people do not eat Banh Cuon and consider Banh Cuon as a traditional dish. Just so you know, many Chinese Vietnamese people who used to live in Vietnam returned to China in 1979. They brought Vietnamese cuisine to China for business. Visit Guangdong and Guangxi to know more.😊
Today's China is different from ancient China. The name China did not really exist in the past, but in fact it is a combination of many cultures and peoples in the process of expanding and conquering the territory. It can not be said that countries like Vietnam, Japan, and Korea are influenced by China, but it must be said that they share culture.
@@AlphabetwithoutABCbro it’s okay, most Vietnamese have Han blood coursing through our veins. Just do a DNA test if you haven’t, mine said Chinese OR Vietnamese…test can’t decipher due to our range. Yes, their bánh cuốn is jeung phun, always available at dim sum. Over the centuries, we mastered the art of thinner noodles and crepes which I prefer 😋.
@@EpitinLOL. Not most Vietnamese have Han blood coursing through our veins. However, the Han people have been assimilated by the Mongols and Manchus. Presently, the Han population is not purely homogeneous anymore; it has intermingled with various northern ethnic groups, evident in the noticeable physical differences between individuals from the southern and northern regions of China. To be more precise, a considerable portion of the Chinese populace in the southern regions likely has Vietnamese ancestry flowing through their veins.
@@Epitinafter 1979, most Vietnamese people definitely do not have Han blood. 😂 You are probably talking about Chinese Vietnamese diaspora in the US
Not even the most knowledgeable, talkative tour guide in Thailand I had mentioned these dispora communities and cuisine omg
Thank you for making this video. My mother and her family lived in this refugee camp, after escaping the Viet Nam war. So it’s interesting to learn about. 🙏
Awesome video allowing me to learn a lot especially about that long time Vietnamese community in Bangkok. I am from NYC but living in Saigon the past 30 years. Have been to Thailand many times firstly in 1988 always enjoying the visits. I love living in this part of the world!
Another brilliant and entertaining video. Bangkok is truly the greatest city on earth. For me at least!
OMG, thanks so much for these. There is another huge Vietnamese community that blended in Thai like this at Chantaburi too. So much in common.
Thank you so much for your effort in making such an in-depth and wonderful vdo! I have always been in awe of your amazing story of food and its history. Keep going! ❤
I actually have an OTR to-eat restaurant list. I just went to have the Ughyrur restauraunt to try their lamb skewers. Sadly they were out. I ordered the beef instead. The noodles were also amazing. I'm adding the Nam Nueang restaurant to my list. Thanks, OTR for these lesser known but rich spots.
This channel deserves million subscribers
At 3 minutes in when you talk about the church in 1775 that was originally built by Portugal, it reminded me that I have an old Portuguese coin in my collection from the year 1775
It's wild to think of what was going on when this coin was first minted, and how many different world events it has gone through, passing between who knows how many hands. Were they poor? A beggar? Someone in political office? I love thinking on those kind of things sometimes, it's a great form of meditation
Years ago while dining at the Sukhumvit J W Marriott New York steakhouse, the Thai waitress told me that people in Isaan love Nem Nuong that last week I just bought some Nem Nuong in Little Saigon, OC, California for my Thai girlfriend which she really enjoys! I have been eating some Chiangmai Northern Thai food in LA but today I just made some Japanese/Korean foods though .
Mmmmmm Going to Bangkok in two weeks!
I can’t wait to try this, Ban Cuon is my favorite
YT has been pressuring me to watch OTR on my feed! 😊
I liked what I saw on my first visit! Good luck! 🎉
Hah! Thanks for clicking over and glad you enjoyed the video.
Wow this is very good insight. I live in Thailand the whole life I didn't even know Vietnamese food we ate is different from what it is right now.
Rich of heritage and history. Thank you OTR !
Glad to see you and Gary teaming up. I particularly liked that last place in the house, and all the dishes on the table. Thanks again, Adam, for another great vlog that gets down to the real experience and the history......and the flavors.
Hat off to you and your team of reserching. Exellent job.
Terrific video. Very well done. Thanks.
Another great video again from OTR! My partner and I had our first international trip to Hanoi (food is so goood) then followed by Bangkok, but we’ll be coming back to 🇹🇭 this July! Thank you for highlighting the Vietnamese community there as well as their amazing cuisine!! Will add this to the itinerary! ❤
Great again OTR ! I`m excited about your cinamatographic work, music and the historical research ! I enjoy that as someone hungry for knowledge - i love SEA and the food ! Thank you for the top notch work OTR 👏👍💝
As usual, a deeply researched and lovingly presented dive into an obscure subject. Your videos are wonderful. My given name is Gialong Nguyen so the video really resonates!
Many years ago while staying at the Suk11 hostel I saw a small old wooden board signs "Minh Mạng" name of a Vietnamese King (reigning 1820-1841) one of the king Gia Long's sons, some Vietnamese royal family members must have lived in that Soi 11 Sukhumvit area hundred years ago.
Your pronunciation of Viet last name "Nguyen" is pretty accurate!🏰💒
They did , there was a time that king have to move to to thailand for hiding from the current king of that time “ Nguyễn Huệ “ , then after Nguyễn Huệ died , he and his people moved back to Vietnam to taking back the dynasty.
@@hunterl4328 i just want to let you know that “ thailand and vietnam did have a war ( old dynasty of each country)“ . So they did have history together . If u don’t believe me , u can google and looking for it .
@@hunterl4328You're all wrong. In the past, the pre-colonial era, the colonial era, the Cold War era. There are countless direct and indirect events.
Another great video, Adam. I love all of the history that explains what you're (I almost said "we're") about to eat. I also value the lack of histrionic oversell of the food and its preparation that you find with other food vloggers. You surely deserve more than the 124K subs you have. I'll do my bit and share your videos on Facebook and try to get you a few more.
Thank you for the kind words. Means a lot.
Wow, I went to school next to the Baan Yuan area for 11 years. Unfortunately, I was unaware of its history. We just walked through the area. Thank you for filling my childhood meaningfully.
My parents were originally from the North of Vietnam, they moved to Thailand in about 1940. So I was born and grew up there and hence I can tell you there's a large Vietnamese community in the northeastern region of Thailand where you can find a lot of Vietnamese restaurants.
That’s all explained in detail in the video
It's very interesting to see what Vietnamese foods are available in Bangkok and learn more about Thai Vietnamese communities. How lucky you are to have access to all of these beautiful dishes. I love a great roll-your-own meal with rice paper, lettuce, herbs, and dipping sauces. It's one of my favorite genres of Viet cuisine.
As a Vietnamese, I thank you for bringing this to me. Very informative
17:32 Nem Nướng is a relatively well known food. You can buy it frozen at Asian grocery stores in the states. When eaten as a roll it’s called Nem Nướng Cuốn. It’s a pretty common menu item at Vietnamese restaurants in California. There’s a place that specializes in the rolls at the John Wayne Airport
One of the best video on viet food history EVER!
Good research , Thank you ! Love from Vietnam
since I discovered this channel, it makes it hard for me to stand BESTFOODEVER channel.
Love this style of docuseries, much more quality and slower pace
Vietnamese-American here, the vietnamese in thailand are all from the huế thừa thiên region of central VN, the foods you are eating are still eaten in the old capital
And it taste not that good till the people from Saigon upgrade it to make it tasty. Especially the Bun Bo Hue, the southern version is the best compared to the one in Hue referred from local.
@@QuangNguyen-yh4nnthe food in the south is too sweet for me. The original taste of the central is the best.
@@QuangNguyen-yh4nn you know that taste is preference right? southern Viet food would be too sweet to northerners but not intense enough for many thai/laos/cambodian
For those who haven't watched Le Dalat episode, this is a good time to see another aspect this.
Okay, I'm only 2.20 minutes in and already excited. Samsaen/Samsen Road is my mother's home terf. And her family is Thai and Vietnamese mixed (plus that ONE Portuguese ancestor that added enough to my DNA cocktail to make me look like a 100% 'farang' rather than mixed/ 'look krueng' 😅). Anyroad, please continue...
My current Thai girl friend told me last week that she graduated from Suan Dusit University and when I looked up this restaurant I saw Suan Dusit University
มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต near by.
If you are a girl you must be cute! I haven't been back to BKK since 2/2020 at the beginning of Covid to visit my X- Luk Krueng ลูกครึ่ง girl friend (90% Farang face look but only ~ 1.5-1.6 meter tall) that we met at Saigon airport on the way to BKK, I need to renew my passport soon
This channel embarrassed lot of Thailand UA-camrs. Qualities vs. quantities is clearly nights & days, BRAVO.
It amazes me how you can find all kinds of foods in Bankok. Thank you for q interesting video from wich I learned a lot.
Such a high quality video. I get hungry from it
Wonderful videos. As a Vietnamese who used to live in Bangkok, I found out that I barely understood this place. I come and enjoy it soon!
Have you considered writing a book? Because I would love to see all of your favorite places in no particular ranking, with pictures and a quick write-up. Write-up. At this point, you must have been everywhere. I'd pay good money for that
A book full of incorrect history?
I love your channel! I get to learn history I would otherwise never explore and tied to food which I am extremely interested in. Thank you!
A rare cuisine show that so refreshingly served in luscious bite sized history lessons of Vietnam as the food dishes covered in this travelogue of Bangkok, Thailand. Thoroughly enjoy the travelogue, the mouth-watering dishes and the lesson of history at one sitting. So, well done.
There is a new wave of Vietnamese in Thailand with cheap airfares and travel restrictions eased , they come this time to Pattaya and Bangkok, for shopping and tourism,(check the reviews of Pattaya hotels)at one Big C there is a station to box up products with signs written in Vietnamese. At a nearby busy food court, there are signs on the walls in Vietnamese.
You betcha! Many young Vietnamese boys and girls renting Thai costumes and have pictures taken at Wat Arun or trendy places -- Coffee shops
Gary Butler exclaiming "Suay Maak!" is delightful.
Your videos are always a highlight - excellent as ever 🙂
You did intensively research in this topic! I dont know none of local vietnamese restaurants even i’m a bangkokian 😂. Thanks for a lot of details and origin of Thai-Vietnamese food.
thanks. I'm Vietnamese and I love your history lessons to explain the many waves of past immigration and the currently segregated (for lack of better term) Vietnamese communities in Thailand. that's something I never knew myself because it's not found in the typical history text books in Vietnam.
Adam, can you please provide the location and names of the restaurants in this segment? Particularly interested in the lad Phrao Bahn mi spot as well as the Ramkhamhaeng soi 11 spot as well.
Thank you for your videos, they are all fantastic!
Check the comment pinned at the top!
This was an excellent video, Adam. Not only did I learn more history about the Vietnamese diaspora, but I also learned about the waves of various Viet settlers into Bangkok and the cuisine typical of the regions and timeframes from which they came. Have a couple of trips to Bangkok planned this year and am excited to try at least the Sunday market and Nai Dam. Thanks so much and keep up the great work!
Pretty frigging amazing guys......good to see Daria, been a while. Amazing episode, really beautiful delivery.
This is so interesting I had to watch it twice.
Wow! I had no idea that Thailand and Vietnam were so culturally linked. I always thought the food were some what similar, and the tone of the languages sounded familiar.
Thank you Adam for contributing to SEA cultural and historical connections.
Very insightful, thank you for making this video.
Your channel is growing at such an amazing rate. And I can see why. Just top notch sh*t.
I learned some history of VN today. Thanks.
Beautiful made video, I love the history tells by the journey of food.
Excellent video. Thank you
Yaaay! Great to know about all this. There are some Vietanmese places up here in Chiang Mai but, nothing like this, most are chains. Great to see The Roaming Cook again with you. And Daria! Wow! So, back to thatr same old church and it's neighborhood for this story too! Really fascinating.
I often cycle along the river for fun. Thanks for your visiting this local Vietnamese Thai community.
This an absolutely insane and beautiful video and story you guys shared.. thank you so much, I’ve learn so much more and it puts a smile on my face to see how passionate you guys are too on the subject 🙂 Cheers!
Oh my goodness. I never heard the whole Yuan Vietnamese explanation before and it makes sense! Mind blown.
That was literally the thing that I learned making this video that was the biggest "holy s***" moment. Crazy, right?
I didn't know I needed to see a Vietnamese Nonna or Abuela, but I have, and it's just as endearing.
I just recognized Abuelita en Espanol, in Vietnamese as Bà and in Thai they address as Khun Yāy ยาย
These 2 guys take their craft / hobby of Southeast Asian food to the most EXTREME levels of knowledge and skill. There are very few people like them where it is a passion that they work on everyday. Max McFarlane is the only other one I can think of.
I love Vietnam and Thailand from the Philippines😘
Amazing storytelling. All my life here and never even knew!!! Well done.
Thank you for researching the culinary culture and history of the Vietnamese people. I have learned many things from your videos❤
very good coverage! The best of the best!
Idk if it's because I'm spoiled with hella Viet people living in California, but I see these foods in restaurants in the Bay and LA frequently. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Really appreciate for putting so much effort, so much useful and interesting information into this video. Thank you guys
Fascinating history and the food looks delicious too. Thanks for sharing!