Shadowing Practice: LEARN ENGLISH the Easy Way (Comprehensible input) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Welcome back everyone to another slow English comprehensible input vlog for beginners and intermediates.
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Let me close this door.
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This is a hard wood door.
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You can hear it's very thick, very thick and strong
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and sturdy this is a sturdy door now I'm going to lock the door
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and I'm going to lock it as well with the dead bolt lock this is just a safety lock
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so that if someone tries to open it this latch will stop the door from opening
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and this right here is a dead bolt lock.
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This is my key card.
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My key card.
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This is used to open the door.
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Now I'm sure you're probably wondering and thinking to yourself what is in my hand and I'm about to show you.
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So let's walk over or go over to the dining table and let me show you what we have here.
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You can see my mom's over there.
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It's probably blown out but you can come over to the dining table.
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So here you can see with your eyes, we have an assortment of different products and foods.
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Here we have food that we delivered.
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So we went on an app and we ordered this food
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and then someone came on a scooter and delivered it to us.
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This is like delivery.
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If you were to go to the restaurant and pick it up and not eat it at the restaurant, that is called takeout.
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And if you were to eat in the restaurant, that would be dine in.
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So delivery, takeout, and dine in.
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Here you can see we have different fruits.
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What did you do to this watermelon, mom?
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How would you describe this process that you did here?
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I sliced the watermelon.
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Yes, so she sliced or cut the watermelon into these triangle shapes.
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Yes, that one I sliced and this one I removed the skin of these pieces of watermelon.
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Yeah, and here you can see this is mango.
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This was filled to the brim here, but I like mango so I was eating it.
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And you can see it is really soft.
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That's just because the mango is very ripe.
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So it's really sweet right now.
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But how would you describe this piece of watermelon?
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How would you describe this piece of watermelon?
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This piece of watermelon looks very juicy.
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This piece of watermelon is red and green, red and green.
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And there are also black seeds in the watermelon.
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And finally, this watermelon is sweet.
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It is sweet.
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And after I eat it, I believe I will feel very refreshed.
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Now tell me this action.
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What action is this from these three options? So that was eating.
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I was eating the watermelon.
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It wasn't cooking and it wasn't drinking.
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It was eating.
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Now you said you wanted to get a glass of water, mom?
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Yes, I'm short one glass of water.
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I filled up two.
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I'm going to fill up another glass from this water dispenser.
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Okay, so you can see she's pressing in this button and then water is coming out.
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So she just filled up this glass of water.
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It is almost full, but it's not full to the brim.
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But it is almost full.
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Anyway, let's bring that to the table and let's open up the three dishes we got to see which one's the best.
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Okay so what are the three dishes we have here?
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I believe one is pho, the other is bun cha and then banh mi.
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Did you get any dessert or no?
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The fruits, the dessert.
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Yeah so Leon ordered these.
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Now I believe this is the pho.
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Oh yeah.
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So this pho, how would you describe this container?
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What kind of container is this?
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This is a paper or cardboard container with a plastic lid.
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Now what am I doing?
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I'm taking off the plastic lid
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and now I'm going to place the plastic lid to the side and I'm going to move my water.
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Now I'm going to open this plastic bag and take out these thin pieces of bread.
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And finally I'm going to open up the last plastic bag.
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This plastic bag has the noodles and I'm going to dump the noodles into the soup.
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So here we have our soup, our pho, and these are chopsticks.
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Whoa these are actually thick chopsticks.
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Yeah.
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That's kind of nice.
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It has been sitting for a while so the noodles have stuck together
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but I think if we let them soak for a bit they'll loosen up enough
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so that we can eat the noodles easily.
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Do you usually add chili in your fall?
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I do.
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I do like it more spicy.
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For me I usually like my soups and dishes spicy
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but I think for fall specifically I prefer it without Same thing with fried rice.
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I prefer those two dishes without any additional spice.
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What about you?
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Do you prefer to always add spice to your food?
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Or only sometimes, or never?
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Can you eat spicy food?
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I love eating spicy food, and I think I handle it well.
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Some people may disagree, but in my opinion, I could eat anything spicy.
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There's a piece of lime as well.
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I'm standing right outside of the east entrance here.
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Are you standing right next to the big glass doors at that entrance?
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No, actually, I'm standing right in front of the H&M logo.
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Do you see my white Toyota with the hazard lights on right across the street?
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I'm looking across the street, but I don't see a white Toyota with hazard lights on.
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It is very busy today, and there are a lot of vehicles on the road.
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Okay, so what other dishes do we have to prepare here?
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We have the bun cha.
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Ah, so here you can see this is a styrofoam bowl.
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The other bowl was a cardboard bowl.
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This is a styrofoam bowl.
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One thing I would like to say is you can never put this in a microwave because it will catch on fire.
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And this is a very flimsy plastic lid.
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You can see it's very flimsy.
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You see, very very flimsy.
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Okay, this is the fish sauce.
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I'm going to pour it in.
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Should we take out the sprinkle?
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Yeah, you can put it to the side here.
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And now pour that fish sauce in the bunshak.
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Because this is how the dish comes.
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This is one of my favorite dishes.
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I really love this dish.
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It's quite delicious.
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Yes.
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So yeah, now we have the buncha, the pho, and this is also part of the buncha.
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I think you could put it on this plate.
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Absolutely.
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This is just a small white plate.
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Small white plate.
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Now I'm going to place it down on the table.
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I'm going to tip out the noodles.
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You can pass that bag.
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I'm putting all the garbage here, so.
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That's one thing when you do get takeout, It does create a lot of garbage.
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And the bun cha also comes with these greens.
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I'll put it in this bowl here.
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It kind of fell on the table, but...
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The table was clean.
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Yeah.
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And then last, but certainly not least, we have the banh mi.
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And we picked all Vietnamese dishes.
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So this is a Hanoi style banh mi.
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Let me open it up and show you guys what's inside.
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Wow, this actually looks good.
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It looks like there's some egg, some sausage, and some greens.
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So these are all our dishes.
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What do you want to start with, Mom?
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Oh, I think you should start with the pho.
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Let me try a piece of meat first.
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Mmm!
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Now let's try the pho.
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Let's try the pho and see how good the pho is.
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Let's try some meat.
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Oh, this looks like a brisket.
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Beef brisket.
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Mmm!
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Now let me try some of the broth.
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Good.
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The meat is very tender.
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The beef is tender.
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It's not very chewy.
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You don't have to chew a lot.
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It's very tender, soft, and the broth is very clear and delicious.
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There's a lot of flavor.
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You can also take these, which are very hard pieces of bread, and dip it in there and then eat it as well.
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And then lastly we have the banh mi.
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The banh mi.
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So here we have the banh mi.
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My mom cut it into three pieces.
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So this is Hanoi style.
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From looking into the inside of it, I can see sausage, egg, some other type of meat,
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lettuce, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, maybe onions.
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I can't really tell.
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I wonder if they put some of that liver spread on it too.
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Maybe.
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But the thing I love the most about banh mi is the bread.
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The bread I think is delicious.
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Here you can try one as well.
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Let's try it together.
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Cheers.
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Cheers.
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Let's do it.
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Mmm.
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It has the liver sausage too.
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Okay, so right now we are watching some TV after eating and here you can see we have the other snacks.
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So can you tell me mom, what snacks do we have here?
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We have some local snacks that we don't get in Canada.
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This is baked prawn with melted cheese.
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That's one that's going to be interesting.
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And then nori seaweed lays chips.
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And then here, coconut flavor peanut.
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Apparently, they get covered with this outer coconut flavor layer of something.
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That looks interesting.
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All three of these snacks look very good.
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These two are chips, and this is peanuts.
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Can you give me three differences between these two bags of Lay's chips?
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Write your answers in the comments.
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So first of all the bags are different colors.
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They are also different flavors and finally they are different sizes.
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You can see the bag of chips on the right is bigger, bigger than the bag on the left.
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Let me know if you guys had similar answers to me or different answers.
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You can see we also have some remotes here.
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Some are for the TV, some are for the AC, and others are for this light.
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And on the left here, we have a bowl of watermelon that my mom sliced up for us.
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And we also have a bowl of mango.
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Now, what do you call this type of table that is usually near your sofa?
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What is this type of table called?
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What is the name of it?
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This is a coffee table.
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A coffee table.
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So now let's try these snacks.
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What do you want to try first?
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Let's try the two potato chips. Which one?
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I think this bigger green bag.
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Was it nori?
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Nori seaweed.
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The chips themselves kind of look like dill pickle chips.
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And I like dill pickle chips, but I know it's not going to taste like dill pickle.
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I forgot.
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Asian chips are different.
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In North America, we open the chips like this, but in Asia, you have to peel the bag like this.
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I'm learning something new today.
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It's really hard to open the chip.
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I think it's because our portion sizes are really big in America and North America.
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So we open it to the top and close it and keep it.
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What about small chips though?
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Because I didn't see here in the shop like super, super size bags.
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So here you can see this is what the inside of the chip bag looks like.
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The inside is this silver like chrome color and it reflects the chips.
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And you can see this bag is about half full.
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So it's half filled with chips and the other half is air.
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This is essentially what most chips look like when you open the bag.
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Now let's try these.
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Would you like to try them first?
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Let's try them together.
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Okay.
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Three, two, one.
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Very seaweed-y.
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Very.
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It's kind of sweet.
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Yeah.
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It's slightly sweet and has like a fishy seaweed taste to it.
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Not my favorite, not my favorite.
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My two favorite brands, I have two.
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Can you guess one of them?
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Brands?
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I'm not sure, but I know what kind of...
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What kind?
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Flavor you like.
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You like ketchup?
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Yeah.
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And the other one?
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I like a lot of different flavors, so I wouldn't really say I have like a favorite flavor, but I do love ketchup chips.
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Let me know, have you ever tried ketchup chips?
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And if you haven't, would you try them?
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And if you have tried them, did you like them or not?
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But I'll tell you now my two favorite brands are Miss Vicky's.
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I'm sure you could have guessed that one.
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They're so crispy and crunchy.
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They're so crunchy.
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They're really good.
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My other favorite brand is Arriba.
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Those chips, I've never seen chips so coated with flavor.
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It's just pure flavor.
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They're so so so good.
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I think those are my favorite and then Miss Vicky's are my second favorite.
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I have to add they are a taste bud killer.
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They do kill your taste buds.
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Oh no, they rejuvenate my taste buds and my soul.
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Okay, so there you go.
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That was a little bit sweet and seaweedy-like.
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Yeah, we'll give that to Leon later.
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He'll finish them all, so don't worry.
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We're not gonna waste it.
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Now let's open this other bag.
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This is a very Asian kind of chip because it is, yes.
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Baked prawn?
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Baked prawn.
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I don't know.
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The cheese on it is a little bit different.
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This one's better.
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This one is a lot sweeter though.
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It's way sweeter.
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Tastes like prawns.
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It's completely different than North American dull pickle and barbecue and that kind of flavors.
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And all season, we have all season.
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Oh sorry, all dressed.
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That's Canadian thing right?
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Yeah it's only in Canada.
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We have all dressed chips and they're really good.
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Yeah in Canada we have like unique chip flavors.
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For example ketchup chips and all dressed chips.
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Those two flavors of chips are very, very good.
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I'm sure we can get used to it.
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These ones were good.
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These ones?
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Those ones were not good.
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It's too bad that was a big bag.
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They didn't have a big bag of those ones.
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But it's very unique, though.
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It's good to try it.
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It's a very unique Vietnamese chip flavor.
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Now let me open up this other thing.
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And let me know, if you're Vietnamese or have been to Vietnam, what is your flavor of chips?
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And I will go and try them.
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Maybe I'll do a full chip review.
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Maybe pour them in my hand.
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Let's have a look at them.
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Okay.
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Kind of feel light.
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Yeah.
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So they're like a circular shape and they're very hard.
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So I assume they're going to be quite crunchy.
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Let's try them.
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I smell a little bit coconutty.
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I don't know if you can hear that.
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Super crunchy.
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They're not sweet that I like.
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A little bit, but they're yummy.
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I like the crunch on them.
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So we've just tried the three package snacks.
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Out of all three of those, this bag of chips was my favorite.
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Yeah, the baked prawn.
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Yeah, those were the best.
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What about you?
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What was your favorite?
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From the chips, I like the baked prawn the most.
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And I don't mind these peanuts.
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I like the crispy, crackling kind of sound that they make when you chew.
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But chips make the same sound, do they not?
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Not as extreme.
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Listen.
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No, they are very, very crunchy.
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Mm-hmm.
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And here, of course, you know, we have the watermelon and mango.
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And from those two, which do you prefer?
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Oh, man.
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I love watermelon and I love mango, but I think I prefer mango.
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I'm not going to lie.
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Something about it.
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Can you guys give me three different ways to describe these two fruits?
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Both of these fruits are very sweet.
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Both of these fruits are also very juicy.
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Also, both of these fruits can be quite messy, but I believe mangoes are messier if you try to eat them without peeling them.
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And both of these fruits are very healthy for you, but might make you go to the washroom fast.
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The mango, especially the mango.
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No, the watermelon.
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Depends on the person, I guess.
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The watermelon.
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But those are all the snacks we have tried.
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Now we are going to go out to a cafe
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and get some Vietnamese coffee and other drinks to try them and to also describe them to you as well.
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So let's go now.
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Okay, so now we're on our dessert of the day.
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We had a pretty big lunch and then some snacks while we were watching YouTube.
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But now we came to this, like, I guess cafe or dessert shop.
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So we ordered food here.
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You can see right here.
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This right here is a QR code.
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You scan it with your camera.
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And this is what the menu looks like.
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So we ordered three items, one for each of us and we'll try these.
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We all order different items and this is gonna be my first time ever having it on my own.
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But my mom had it before and I tried hers and it was really good.
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Because your mom knows how to order yeah i guess so
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but right now we are all sitting down on these very small chairs these chairs are very small
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and also low to the ground this is also a very small metal table
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and you can see there are holes throughout the whole table
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on the whole surface of the table this is very vietnamese
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because i i don't know if if you guys have ever seen such low chairs and tables in other countries.
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Maybe a little bit, but not like this much.
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Yes, everywhere.
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Here it's everywhere, everywhere.
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But yeah, so on the table there is also this basket with napkins.
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This is just a very small woven basket.
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It's just plastic.
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Over here you have a sign that says no pet.
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Should be no pets, but yeah, no pet.
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And this right here is a red sign with a cross through it.
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That's like a universal symbol for whatever the item is not allowed.
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So yeah, we just ordered our food through the QR code, brought us to the website, and now we're just waiting.
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So I think over there in the kitchen, they are preparing our dessert.
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You can show them around this store, pretty empty.
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There's just one other customer in here.
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Overall empty.
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I'm excited to eat this dessert because when I tried my mom's, it was really good. So yeah.
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So this right here is crushed ice.
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This is crushed ice.
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So now my mom's gonna put the ice on the dessert.
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She just put a spoon for me, a spoon for herself, another spoon for herself, another spoon for Leon.
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We have three bowls.
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We each have our own.
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It looks pretty good.
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I don't know if you're supposed to stir this or just like eat it like that, but I believe this is like some sort of caramel flan.
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Is it good?
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The jelly, the little jelly balls, they're very good.
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So the flan is going to be good too.
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The flan is quite good.
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Let me try these balls.
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Like tapioca.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yummy.
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Overall, it's pretty good.
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I think the one you had before was better because it had the fruit.
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I had mixed fruit, yes.
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This one is jackfruit.
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Now we're walking down this pretty nice alley.
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You can see there are a lot of restaurants on the side here, but there aren't many people eating since it's almost 4 p.m.
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So now we're thinking of going and buying one of these bags here.
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These three shops in front of us are selling the same bag, and I need one for my flight
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because my mom brought me a lot of stuff from Canada and I don't have room in my suitcase.
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These right here are cross body bags.
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These are all cross body bags.
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You can see these ones are a little bit bigger and these ones are smaller and these are more like fanny packs.
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You also have luggage straps here, luggage straps or luggage belts and you can also call these messenger bags.
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These are messenger bags.
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They have this lip here that closes the bag and And you can usually put documents or your computer inside these bags.
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So I just bought this big canvas bag.
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It seems to be like some sort of military bag, like that type of material and color.
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But it's heavy duty because it feels strong.
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Yeah, it is really heavy duty.
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And the inside has this like rubber, so I'm pretty sure it's also waterproof.
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But I just bought it
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because my mom brought a lot of stuff for me from Canada and I don't have enough room in my suitcase, so I need another bag, another check bag, but I don't really want to spend like so much money on a suitcase,
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so this is good enough.
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This cost six and a half dollars and a suitcase they wanted four hundred dollars.
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This is a pretty good deal.
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These right here are the handles.
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These are the handles.
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The color is like military green.
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This part right here is the zipper.
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And right now you guys can tell me what I'm doing.
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I'm zipping up the bag, unzipping the bag.
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So to zip, that is the verb.
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And honestly, it holds air because it's like sealed.
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It's like water tight seal.
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I got my new bag and...
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It didn't break the bank, so we're happy.
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Bargain.
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I like a bargain.
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Okay guys, so we just went into Circle K, which is a convenience store, and we got a drink.
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Because I'm really thirsty.
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And we haven't even been out for that long, but I'm already sweating.
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But you can see there, that's my bag right there.
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I think this is my favorite drink.
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I really hope it's carbonated electrolytes, and it's not just like really unhealthy.
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That's what my mom said it was.
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I took her word for it.
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Poor mom.
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Blame it on her.
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Who's talking?
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You hear that?
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Your camera woman today.
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Where's the cameraman?
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He left us.
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Now we're going to walk to Silk Street.
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I want to buy another silk bandana.
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So we're going to head over to Silk Street and see what we can find.
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Hopefully something good.
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Okay, so right now we are in a silk shop and all these clothes are made out of silk.
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I bought a silk hair tie for my hair, but they also sell silk dresses and silk bandanas.
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Okay, so we have our last meal of the day another dessert i've never had durian before
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but we're trying durian right now yes
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because i've never tried it either i'll hold it you try
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as well okay i don't even know how you would eat
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this i don't know either i'm just going to dig in durian
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and ice cream solid what
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if i don't like it it's a lot you ordered a
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lot there is a seed inside it's creamy it's very flavorful i like it
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but there's very few things i don't like
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so the way people make it sound like it's the worst is It doesn't stink that bad.
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It doesn't make sense and it doesn't smell like it.
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I think it's yummy.
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Maybe with the ice cream it's even better.
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Yeah, so I would say the hate is not really necessary.
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I've seen people gag when eating it.
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I don't know what's up with that.
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They're acting though.
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But gagging when you eat it?
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No, absolutely not.
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It's disrespectful, first of all.
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Sorry.
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And even the smell, people are like, it smells so strong.
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It doesn't.
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I can actually bite.
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Do the big one.
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Okay, well.
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The spoon is not very strong.
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I mean, it's not my favorite, but it's not that bad.
522
No, it's nice and creamy.
523
So now Leon is eating it.
524
It's not that bad.
525
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526
You get instant access to almost 100 video lessons with two new lessons every week. And sturdy.
527
This is a sturdy door.
528
We have an assortment of different products.
529
How would you describe this piece of watermelon?
530
It looks very juicy.
531
But what are the three dishes we have here?
532
This is a styrofoam bowl.
533
It's very flimsy.
534
Very, very flimsy.
535
Wow, this actually looks good.
536
Now let me try some of the broth.
537
This is a coffee table.
538
Coffee table.
539
It's slightly sweet and has like a fishy seaweed taste to it.
540
If you try to eat them without peeling them.
541
Here is crushed ice.
542
This is crushed ice.
543
You could also call these messenger bags.
544
These are messenger bags.
545
It's creamy.
546
It's very flavorful.
547
I like it.
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