This gal is so relaxed and cool! Great storyteller, love her use of visual cues, provides options and alternatives, has great knife skills, and has a great voice. You can tell she loves food and is an excellent chef/cook.
YESS This is such a great recipe of bánh xeo!! My moms version includes squid as a protein and jicama with the bean sprouts for more crunch!! So glad this dish is being shared!!
Or you can have pickles of carrots and daikon added when you roll it with veggies, or some add the pickles to the dipping sauce. Those also give the crunch.
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
I remember the first time I had this in a restaurant and I tried to recreate it with eggs because I assumed it was a crispy egg omelette. I couldn't figure out why the eggs were not as crispy as the ones in the restaurant. 🤣
True, and it's nice that we're getting more Vietnamese recipes that aren't just pho or banh mi. I wanna see some other dishes like Mì Quảng, bún bò Huế, bánh cuốn, canh chua, chả cá Lã Vọng. There's so much good stuff that people around the world haven't been exposed to yet
@@xboxstudent I don’t think that foreigners like overpowered tastes like sourness on their dish, they usually prefer balanced dish like pho or spring rolls
@@N2O_The1000thElement Most of the dishes on this channel are common to the countries they're from. Like there are recipes for sandwiches and how to grill meat. But every country is different and you get different styles, canh Chua is a sour soup which isn't very common outside of SEA and Eastern Europe. People should try it
Koreans make something like this, but they grind the mung beans and make batter, adding a little ground rice to the batter. Then they add beansprouts, ground or chopped pork, chopped kimchi onions and chilies. I love this version for it's crispness, and that it uses far less oil. I'm going to try it sometime! Great video!
I love that you made this recipe properly. A lot of places in the US butcher this dish and put eggs in their batter. One of my favorite Viet dish. I once walked an hour to track down this lady who made banh xeo on the side of the road in Phu Quoc.
She has an adorable personality. I personally would have cooked the crepe a bit longer so it'll have more of a crunch, though. I like seeing her use mung beans as you don't see it used that much in banh xeo, but growing up, that's what we used along with flavored ground pork that was pre-cooked. I personally don't like a lot of mung beans or any at all, but I hear it's usually used in place of meat or seafood, which is more expensive.
Am I the only one who watches these videos for a few seconds just so that it goes in my watch history? I do it so I have something to watch when I eat my next meal lol
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
Ohh wow great that munchies brought up this vietnamese food my parents love cooking and teaching me how to make this as a kid its a very underrated vietnamese dish
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
One of my favorite dishes. Great recipe! It is so customizable. Short on time? Buy the premixed bags of banh xeo powder. Don't have pork belly -- try ground pork. If you like spicy and a fusion taste, add chopped rocoto peppers (canned is ok) to flavor the meat. I prefer without the mung bean. It makes the crepe heavier and thicker than I would like. The joy is in wrapping a piece of banh xeo within a section of lettuce and then dipping it. I find red leaf lettuce to be a great companion. It is thinner than the green leaf variety, though you have to be careful not to tear it while wrapping. Happy eating!
I'm here because I ordered it last night as I usually see Vietnamese indulge it but I don't know how to eat it properly. Lol, I guess what's matters is the ingredients will all meet in the stomach anyway. 😂 Thank you Vietnamese people for you yummy foods! From a Filipino who loves to eat them!
As long as you enjoyed it, your method of consumption doesn't matter. My mother is Vietnamese and would just give me a fork to eat "Vietnamese pancakes" on a plate. I could go through 2-3 of them at a time when I was in high school. I didn't know wrapping them was a thing until I got older.
Awesome thank you so much these are my daughters favorite her best friends mom makes them for her every-time she goes over and she’s been sick so I tried to make it just now couldn’t figure out why pancake was breaking and we now realized we weren’t cooking it long enough. So excited to try again 😊
Makes me want to go back to vietnam now! you could get these everywhere and they were so good! Favourites were in NhaTrang across the rode from the temple. squid head so good!!
Banh xeo is amazing!! I think I like it more than pho... my local restaurant charges $10+ which really adds up if you have it once a week ... I might have to try this at home.
I didn't know to do it until I was much older and was eating it at a friend's house where they do it. And then I was like "Aha! Why didn't I think of this?" So much easier to eat since wrapping it in lettuce, it often breaks or falls apart as I shove it in my mouth. LOL!
Anyone who hasn’t tried, please try it. It’s not gonna taste like anything you’ve had. I’m viet and eat predominantly American and Mexican food and this dish is so goddamn good and unlike cuisine in mex or American food.
It's exactly the way my mom makes Banh Xeo but she prefers oil made from pork grease rather using cooking oil. I once ask her why and she says it tastes better than oil.
My family makes it with mince pork and whole shrimp. We also have the pickled radish and carrots to boost the acidity, it helps balance with out the oiliness. I also ask for bean sprouts on the side and not in it because I hate cooked bean sprouts.
I lived over there for almost 4 years but thanks to COVID I’m back in Murica but man I ate those alllllll the time!!! The shrimp is much smaller in Vietnam though and the shells left on but due to the size it doesn’t bother you. Dip in whatever amazing sauce they gave you and enjoy.
I LOVE BANH XEO! When I was living in Seattle, my lab manager introduced me to this as this is her hometown food. And I fell in love with Banh Xeo ever since. Every time I see Banh Xeo, I remember all the good memories at the lab with my lab manager :)
i came over to my friends house when i was 10 and her mom made me this and it was so good but i never figured out what it was called until 5 years later i asked her what it was called lol
Normally for the carbonation we add coconut soda rather than beer. But other than that this is exactly how banh xeo is cooked and eaten, particularly how she wraps it. It's crispy, but light for the most part and wrapping them in vegetables makes it feel fresher.
This gal is so relaxed and cool! Great storyteller, love her use of visual cues, provides options and alternatives, has great knife skills, and has a great voice. You can tell she loves food and is an excellent chef/cook.
her voice just feels like i just walked into my friends housewarming party or that back cozy spot at my favorite restaurant.
YESS This is such a great recipe of
bánh xeo!! My moms version includes squid as a protein and jicama with the bean sprouts for more crunch!! So glad this dish is being shared!!
Same!
Or you can have pickles of carrots and daikon added when you roll it with veggies, or some add the pickles to the dipping sauce. Those also give the crunch.
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
She's awesome shop she cooks good I like her and she's a great narrator tells about more of the food to
I remember the first time I had this in a restaurant and I tried to recreate it with eggs because I assumed it was a crispy egg omelette. I couldn't figure out why the eggs were not as crispy as the ones in the restaurant. 🤣
😂 did you succeed in the end?
As a Vietnamese, my duty is to click on anything that mentions my culture
True, and it's nice that we're getting more Vietnamese recipes that aren't just pho or banh mi. I wanna see some other dishes like Mì Quảng, bún bò Huế, bánh cuốn, canh chua, chả cá Lã Vọng. There's so much good stuff that people around the world haven't been exposed to yet
@@TheCheat_1337 why canh chua? It’s not even special, it’s just very common
@@N2O_The1000thElement Common to us, exotic things for foreigner
@@xboxstudent I don’t think that foreigners like overpowered tastes like sourness on their dish, they usually prefer balanced dish like pho or spring rolls
@@N2O_The1000thElement Most of the dishes on this channel are common to the countries they're from. Like there are recipes for sandwiches and how to grill meat. But every country is different and you get different styles, canh Chua is a sour soup which isn't very common outside of SEA and Eastern Europe. People should try it
Everything is Xèo... Xèo is everything.
An amazing dish from the southern parts of Vietnam. Great for an evening snack.
Koreans make something like this, but they grind the mung beans and make batter, adding a little ground rice to the batter.
Then they add beansprouts, ground or chopped pork, chopped kimchi onions and chilies.
I love this version for it's crispness, and that it uses far less oil.
I'm going to try it sometime!
Great video!
The cook needs her own cooking show!!! Well spoken, sweet, and good energy!
🤤
Love Saigon Social and Helen.
Love Vietnamese food
I love that you made this recipe properly. A lot of places in the US butcher this dish and put eggs in their batter. One of my favorite Viet dish. I once walked an hour to track down this lady who made banh xeo on the side of the road in Phu Quoc.
One of my favorite childhood dishes. Helen has a very likeable personality.
She has an adorable personality. I personally would have cooked the crepe a bit longer so it'll have more of a crunch, though. I like seeing her use mung beans as you don't see it used that much in banh xeo, but growing up, that's what we used along with flavored ground pork that was pre-cooked. I personally don't like a lot of mung beans or any at all, but I hear it's usually used in place of meat or seafood, which is more expensive.
Made these last night for friends and it was a HUGE hit. Mung beans are officially my new favorite topping and the nuoc cham was so so good.
Thanks for all sharing ka 😊😊
Am I the only one who watches these videos for a few seconds just so that it goes in my watch history? I do it so I have something to watch when I eat my next meal lol
yes...... you are the only 1. you know there is a watch later feature
you can create your own playlist... no need to find them in your watch history.
Yeah you super late to the Watch Later function, i see. Creating a daylong playlist in 2 minutes is smarter dude.
Nah I actually want to go to my watch history anyway so I can track my thoughts leading up to me fully watching specific videos. Weird but meh
Don't worry man, I feel you :)
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
Ohh wow great that munchies brought up this vietnamese food my parents love cooking and teaching me how to make this as a kid its a very underrated vietnamese dish
One of My favorite dishes too; so yummy with fresh herbs! 🇰🇭❤️
wow, super interesting recipe, I will try this one 😋
But didn’t make the recipe in your channel yet why? [Gosh Dang!!!!]
You never do. I promise
Hello, I am a survivor of the Vietnam war, and when it was time to eat Banh Xeo, we would all stop shooting, and sit and eat, with the enemy as well. It was very stressful time, but everyone was very happy when we ate Banh Xeo, because we know it is very delicious and gluten free.
9:18 - pure unfiltered love!
“Everything is xèo...” looking forward to try this, pho can wait for the next visit 🤤
She’s so cute!!!
One of my favorite dishes. Great recipe! It is so customizable. Short on time? Buy the premixed bags of banh xeo powder. Don't have pork belly -- try ground pork. If you like spicy and a fusion taste, add chopped rocoto peppers (canned is ok) to flavor the meat. I prefer without the mung bean. It makes the crepe heavier and thicker than I would like. The joy is in wrapping a piece of banh xeo within a section of lettuce and then dipping it. I find red leaf lettuce to be a great companion. It is thinner than the green leaf variety, though you have to be careful not to tear it while wrapping. Happy eating!
I'm here because I ordered it last night as I usually see Vietnamese indulge it but I don't know how to eat it properly. Lol, I guess what's matters is the ingredients will all meet in the stomach anyway. 😂
Thank you Vietnamese people for you yummy foods! From a Filipino who loves to eat them!
As long as you enjoyed it, your method of consumption doesn't matter. My mother is Vietnamese and would just give me a fork to eat "Vietnamese pancakes" on a plate. I could go through 2-3 of them at a time when I was in high school. I didn't know wrapping them was a thing until I got older.
I like that she doesn’t add all purpose flour like all these other recipes. It makes it too thick and takes away from the ‘Xèo’
Awesome thank you so much these are my daughters favorite her best friends mom makes them for her every-time she goes over and she’s been sick so I tried to make it just now couldn’t figure out why pancake was breaking and we now realized we weren’t cooking it long enough. So excited to try again 😊
Cam on!!
That just looks so good!
Makes me want to go back to vietnam now! you could get these everywhere and they were so good! Favourites were in NhaTrang across the rode from the temple. squid head so good!!
I discover this dish a couple years ago and i love the freshness...looks easy when you do it. I am pretty sure isn’t that easy but will give a try.
I've had this before. Its so good!
Banh xeo is amazing!! I think I like it more than pho... my local restaurant charges $10+ which really adds up if you have it once a week ... I might have to try this at home.
Her ever-smiling face makes this so heartwarming
Am I the only one who likes to eat Bánh Xèo rolled up into a spring roll?
Me too
I didn't know to do it until I was much older and was eating it at a friend's house where they do it. And then I was like "Aha! Why didn't I think of this?" So much easier to eat since wrapping it in lettuce, it often breaks or falls apart as I shove it in my mouth. LOL!
Amazing how many Vietnamese words are so close to Thai. Great recipe thankyou!
@@isthatso2888 yeah even in Laos squids pronounced bahmurg.
Helen was great! Love to learn about Vietnamese food beyond pho!
Anyone who hasn’t tried, please try it.
It’s not gonna taste like anything you’ve had.
I’m viet and eat predominantly American and Mexican food and this dish is so goddamn good and unlike cuisine in mex or American food.
I like the way she talks. She's cute. ❤
thank you for explaining WHY you are doing things, it really really helps. Also love the back-stories :)
My entire life... I thought this was egg and never ordered it
Congratulations youve wasted your life. When you get old and are on your deathbed and they as if you have any regrets say yes.
Everyone here is so merciless
My dad taught me how to make Banh xeo ❤️🙏🏻
The Vietnamese in America don’t wrap it up in rice papwe. Over in Saigon most places wrap everything in Rice paper makes it easier
I had these made in irons over charcoal in Phan Rang in 2003. I like the crêpes small.
YUMMILICIOUS!
Loved this!! Would like to see more videos of this lady
sending love and support from Philippines 🍷🍾✨✨✨
Love the book “acid trip” behind her. 😃
Aside from using the metal tongs on a non-stick pan, it looks pretty good
My favorite is banh xeo with minced duck meat and jicama ☺️ dong thap style
One of my life goals is to eat more banhxeo
I love how one of the books in the background is just called “Ferment”.
More Viet food content, please. It's just fantastic, maybe an episode on bun cha Hanoi?
Congratulations you have over 5 millions views ❤❤❤
It's exactly the way my mom makes Banh Xeo but she prefers oil made from pork grease rather using cooking oil. I once ask her why and she says it tastes better than oil.
Looks very tasty. I wish you were local, because I would drive over to order one of these. Thanks for the upload.
My family makes it with mince pork and whole shrimp. We also have the pickled radish and carrots to boost the acidity, it helps balance with out the oiliness. I also ask for bean sprouts on the side and not in it because I hate cooked bean sprouts.
Just made these and it was so good!! Ty
Yummy delicious food 😋. I love it
I lived over there for almost 4 years but thanks to COVID I’m back in Murica but man I ate those alllllll the time!!! The shrimp is much smaller in Vietnam though and the shells left on but due to the size it doesn’t bother you. Dip in whatever amazing sauce they gave you and enjoy.
Looked for a recipe with batter.. Very good
She is so cool and well mannered giving her recipes step by step so well👌💕🙏
My favorite Bahn Xio😋
my parents recently taught me how to make this! besides the beer the recipe is very similar! great job helen :)
I LOVE BANH XEO! When I was living in Seattle, my lab manager introduced me to this as this is her hometown food. And I fell in love with Banh Xeo ever since. Every time I see Banh Xeo, I remember all the good memories at the lab with my lab manager :)
One of my favorites!
so much grace
You go Helen, proud of you!
Yummy 😋 I'm come to the lower east side to try that. With some Pho.
This girl, CAN COOK!
grew up eating this thanks.
Chi Helen's smile.. lord.. :)
It's really depends on the region
People use more mun bean more down south VN
And some places use rice paper to roll it
and this whole time I thought the crepe part was made from battered eggs.
I ran through it twice trying to see where she added the eggs. LOL
i came over to my friends house when i was 10 and her mom made me this and it was so good but i never figured out what it was called until 5 years later i asked her what it was called lol
很好的频道 拍片辛苦了谢谢你💖🌸🌺
One my favourite things to order and now i can try yo make it at home freak yeah
I love Vietnamese food
nice recipe and very educational. i hope it isn‘t the last time seeing helen on munchies!
I've only ever had it with pork mince with/without prawns (Australia).
Lol that book in the background titled "acid trip"
Can you make the batter from cooked rice instead of using rice flour? Seems like it would work as well.
C'est succulent! Miam miam! Yummy! :p
nguyen this is my fav viet crape tasty crunch yummy
She’s so cute! I like her
Looks yummy
delicious😋
Lovely 👌
Normally for the carbonation we add coconut soda rather than beer. But other than that this is exactly how banh xeo is cooked and eaten, particularly how she wraps it. It's crispy, but light for the most part and wrapping them in vegetables makes it feel fresher.
I need this
Great dish. Excellent presentation. Thank you. Why hasn’t the Food Network snapped you up yet ?
From Viet Nam with love. Nhìn ngon lắm.
Quá hấp dan❤❤❤❤❤
This is as Vietnamese as it can get. Very nice recipe
Always looking for ways to use pork belly. I smoke it and sell it. Sometimes there's some leftover not very often.
It’s settled then, I know what I’m attempting to make for the next week.
Don't skim on the veggies, go crazy. It's important. Also grab some mustard greens if you can.
If I have enough capital to open an Vietnamese food pavilion, I’ll fulfilling it
Wow 😋 YUMMY
Been eating this growing up and I’ve always thought it’s viet pancake
Reminds me of okoy which have mung bean sprouts instead.
Not the same! Lol. I feel okoy is more of a fritter, this is more like an omelet.