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Can we ask her any questions?
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I don't think so.
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I don't think so either.
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Just like so dedicated to her work.
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We have traveled to northern Vietnam to Hanoi,
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courtesy of one trip tours.
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And let me tell you,
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my friend, these next four weeks are going to be crazy.
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Hanoi is the bustling capital of Vietnam with a culinary identity completely different from the south.
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And I have been sent here on a foodie mission.
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I'm talking mind blowing street food.
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I've never seen anything like this.
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She's moving so fast.
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I'm talking one of the most unusual food preparations I have ever seen.
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Wah, there is a whole chicken in there.
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I'm talking Hanoi-style nightlife.
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They got the water ready.
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I don't need the water.
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I'm talking finally settling the debate between Northern Pha and Southern Pha.
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You know, I thought I could come out of this easily saying,
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okay, north is better or south is better.
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So grab your chopsticks and get ready to blow dry your poodle to this food exploring expedition.
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I breathe it all up
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and I breathe in Today we're kicking it off by exploring the top 5 must-try street foods of this great city.
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Let's go!
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Location 1 and there's no better way to start your day than with a cup of coffee.
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Except for the coffee here has an egg in it.
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Somehow there's an egg and there's a coffee and they're together.
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It's the most efficient way to have breakfast.
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Let's go check it out.
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In 1946, Duk Nguyen's father opened a cafe after creating the first egg coffee in this area.
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Now, a ton of egg coffee joints can be found around Hanoi,
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but this cafe was the first.
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Using a blend of egg yolks,
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sugar, and a touch of cocoa powder,
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Duk himself whipped us up two fresh cups sunny side up.
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Is this something that we eat or something that we drink?
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Well...
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Alright, let's eat some of this coffee.
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It's really thick.
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That's awesome.
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Alright, let's try it.
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Cheers.
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It is like a custard,
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but it's just completely creamy.
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If you took a bubble bath and you ate the bubbles,
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it's like that kind of texture.
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You've done that before, right?
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And moving on.
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Okay, are we gonna try drinking some?
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Cheers.
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Mmm.
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So.
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It is powerful.
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Let me tell you last week we did the episode about the super strong Vietnamese coffee
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And this is no exception really thick bold
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bitter coffee and the egg is trying to bring the bitterness down
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But it is a fight to the death between the egg
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and the bitter coffee all of the TV networks visiting Cafe Yang have focused solely on the egg coffee
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But Duke tells me we're the first ones to feature his new eggy cocktail
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which contains all the things I love I love protein and a Saigon special.
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I'm talking about his delicious egg beer.
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Mmm.
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Wow.
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Yum.
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That tastes amazing.
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It's super creamy.
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Yeah.
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It actually has a honey flavor to it.
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Oh, I still taste it.
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Oh.
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What?
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Me too.
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Amazing honey flavor.
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I don't know what happens when you mix the sugary sweetness with the egg and with beer,
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suddenly for me, it kinda tastes like honey.
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Does it taste like honey to you?
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Yeah, turn out honey taste.
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A little bit of honey tasting.
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Oh no, to me at least.
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It's interesting.
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Very cool, let's go eat more things now.
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Go!
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Go!
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Today we are showing you the top five must-try street foods native to Hanoi
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and right behind me we have I mean it does not
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get any more street foodie than this unless you were actually
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eating it in the middle of the street They selling so it's now one of the most popular breakfast in Hanoi.
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All right, let's get some breakfast
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These sticky rice wielding vendors move so fast
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that we had to shoot with a special high-speed camera so you could see what was actually happening.
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Can we ask her any questions?
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I don't think so.
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I don't think so either.
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Just like so dedicated to her work right now.
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Guys, this is some intense focus, okay?
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This is like Taibo, but she's making food.
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I'm getting anxiety just watching her do this.
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Oh my god.
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Okay, so here's ours.
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High pressure situation.
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She is moving fast.
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Bam.
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Mung bean.
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Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
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What you know about mung bean being just chopped into little pieces?
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Chicken fat.
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Bam, bam.
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Fried onion.
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Fried onion.
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And then is that it?
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And that's it.
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That's it.
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Yeah.
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Okay,
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so I'm on it's only 10,000 about 50 cents for this
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beautiful glob of deliciousness We have a base of sticky rice on top of
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that the mung bean chicken fat and then this fried onion I love these fried onions
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Mm-hmm because they're so rich and they're they're almost sweet because they've been caramelized Yeah,
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she afraid that you cannot eat the fried onion.
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She wants to like put it aside I know no no no no you can eat everything.
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Are you ready?
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Let's yeah scoop out a scoop.
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That's some of the stickiest sticky rice on the sticky rice scale.
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You ready?
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Yeah.
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Cheers.
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Whoa!
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So much happening.
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Obviously it's a savory breakfast.
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This mung bean later is always kind of creamy.
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Yeah, they have to like beat it
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or stir it after being cooked until it's soft and smooth and then hold it tightly.
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It's like a giant ball of silly putty.
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The onion is really crunchy.
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I love it.
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This was awesome.
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We are just getting the day started.
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Let's go eat some more awesome food.
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And the search goes on for the most tasty treats in all of Hanoi.
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Right now, we're stepping up to the Banh Khun restaurant,
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steamed rice pancake rolls.
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They put delicious stuff inside.
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They roll it up, they cut it up,
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and we eat it up.
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Let's go do that.
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And here we are still.
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Okay, hi.
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Okay, hi.
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Right here they have all the filling, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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What's in there?
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Minced pork and then wood ear mushroom and seasoning.
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And seasoning!
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Okay, good.
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It's like we're telling each other secrets,
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but really we're trying not to spit into the food.
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Okay, let's move along.
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Right here is the Ban Khun creation station.
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Today our Ban Khun will be made with a super thin layer of steamed rice batter,
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then filled with minced pork and wood ear mushroom,
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topped with some fried onions,
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and maybe even a sausage.
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Oh, we're about to have a mini sausage party here.
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There we go.
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Thank you for everything.
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And let's go eat.
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Right here we have our beautiful rolled up bangkun.
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We have our fish sauce.
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We have put in chili powder.
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We've put in pepper and we have put in freshly sliced chilies.
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Right here we have a cute tiny basket full of herbs.
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We have put our sausage into the fish sauce so it can soak up all those delicious flavors.
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And now we are ready to start.
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All right, let's try it out.
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Mm, that is always a winner.
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I love the texture of this rice pancake.
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It's got a nice layered and mushiness to it.
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The filling is really savory.
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That nice blend of seasoning and minced pork and the mushroom in there,
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that final kick, the saltiness of your fish sauce.
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Is this something that you would eat in college?
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Yeah.
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Did you really?
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Yeah, I did.
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Because it's 20,000, it's about a dollar,
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and with that one plate and a little bit of sausage,
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that would get you full?
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That would satisfy?
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Not yet for me as a girl, yes.
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Yeah.
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But I'm not sure, like, guys.
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What about me as a girl?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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All right, let's shut up and just eat, okay?
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Yeah.
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And our foodie mission continues,
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location number four of food native to Hanoi and this food is called
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manh zong First of all I see a lot of cucumber really excited about that Oh
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Xin chào Oh This is the banana leaf bit, are these banana leaves?
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Yes Revealing this beautiful rice cake
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So she's topping it with some different varieties of sausage Some uh A lot of sausage Pickle Yeah!
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Wow!
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Thank you The first thing that I noticed is there's no tables in this place.
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They're like, why would we have tables?
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We need more chairs.
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People sit in chairs.
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You can't sit on a table.
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It's full of different stuff.
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And it's topped with this.
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You're saying that this is actually pickle.
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Yeah.
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I'm going to try it.
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Oh, it's pickly.
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It's right on that verge.
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It just fell off the edge of being a cucumber.
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And now it's like on its way to being a pickle.
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It's right in that middle ground.
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We have our rice cake.
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And I'm guessing inside of that rice, there's some meat
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and some wood ear mushroom is it a similar filling to
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the bangun yeah similar b is actually from the north of
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vietnam there's a lot of differences in the regions of vietnam between the north
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and south there's big differences in the way they put sauce
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on food for example actually i was going to say there's
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big differences in dialect like the way people speak in their accent
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and big differences in food as well
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and right here i've got a piece of this kind of
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glutinous rice minced pork in there I'm sure a ton of seasoning.
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Should we try it out?
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Yeah.
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Cheers.
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That's yummy.
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Oh, it's really savory.
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It tastes like mother's cooking.
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Did your mom ever make this?
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My mom always buy it for me.
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That's second best.
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It reminds me of my mother's grocery list when she bought yummy food.
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The flavor of the cucumber has been tempered a little bit by the pickling process.
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We're making a food video over here!
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It's been tempered a bit by the pickling process,
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and so it just reduces the intensity of the cucumber enough to make it really yummy and give you a satisfying crunch,
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along with that mushy rice.
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It looks like a big ball of mush, but it tastes tremendous.
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It's excellent.
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We have one more food on our list.
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Let's go to that food,
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and cut, and go, and music montage, and...
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We have reached our final location, location 5.
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Look, we are getting full,
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but we are on a foodie mission,
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so we are not going to stop until we have showed you all the awesome food
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that you should try in this city.
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Right now, behind us, we have a classic of Vietnam,
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but originating in Hanoi.
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It's Wun Riu.
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So it's believed that it can help to cool your body down in the hot summer day.
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Okay, I can really use something like that because I'm always sweating through everything.
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Yeah, perfect.
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They take fresh water crabs,
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they kind of pulverize it,
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into tiny little pieces, and then they boil it in the water making a fresh water crab stock.
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Aside from crab, what else do they put in the broth?
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Yeah, so they have fried tofu and then tomato,
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and then you will see the thing that's floating on the top.
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Yeah.
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It's the meat.
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This foamy material on the top.
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You know when you go to the ocean and it's kind of foamy sometimes?
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It's like that, right?
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It may be from the same creatures.
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Do you...
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Bunryo?
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Pom?
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Okay!
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I've reached the depths of my Vietnamese language.
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We know that she says it's delicious and also she likes it.
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So very in-depth interview by your boy,
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Sunnyside, on the Best Ever Food Review Show.
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Today our Bunryo will start off with some rice noodles and bean sprouts,
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spring onions, salt and seasoning,
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tomato, crab meat, and plenty of savory broth.
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Right now we are going to their secret back VIP room.
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Well basically any room I'm in becomes a VIP room,
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that's how it works.
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The most humble food show on the internet by the way.
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Oh we are going deep back here,
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what is this place to be?
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The wedding receipt.
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There's like a little room way back in here.
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This is awesome.
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We have our two beautiful bowls of bun riu right here and a basket of mixed herbs.
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For me, I haven't really seen any other Vietnamese foods that have tomato inside.
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Now you see.
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Okay, the most unique part of the dish is this foamy crab.
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It's like a delicious ocean foam.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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We've got our herbs in there.
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Pick up the noodle and then put it in your spoon.
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Oh gosh.
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I do not have the patience for this.
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Oh, I thought you went to the food college for five years.
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You should be expert in this.
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I excelled in food eating efficiency.
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I'm just gonna get a little bit of everything.
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Cheers.
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I want to eat.
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Mmm.
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Wow.
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Mmm.
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I'm smiling.
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I really like that broth.
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My natural swing is from the crab.
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I'm telling you, you could be a food reviewer.
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So a lot of the fat in here is coming from actually from crab eggs.
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Yeah.
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Alright, you want to share a bite with me?
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No, I got the hobo.
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Yeah.
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Let's have a bite at the same time is what I'm saying.
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Let's have a bite at the same time is what I'm saying.
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I'm glad after so many episodes that our communication is just down like that.
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It's like we don't even need to talk.
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Because when we do talk, you still don't understand.
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I'm gonna get a nice big tomato in here.
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So fresh herbs make a big difference.
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That kind of tomato-y essence with that little bit of crab flavor in there.
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It's very nice.
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It's refreshing.
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And actually, you know what?
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I do feel like I've cooled down a little bit.
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And it might be because of the air conditioning and the fans in here,
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but I think it's probably because of the soup.
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The hot soup.
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V, thank you so much for showing me your home turf here up in the north.
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Okay, you look busy, no problem.
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But for you guys, if you're interested in experiencing the awesomeness that Vietnam has to offer,
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I suggest you hit up one trip.
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They are a company putting on tours in Da Nang,
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Hoi An, and Saigon.
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I'm talking food tours.
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They have a beautiful village tour,
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an adventurous Gucci tunnel tour, all these and more.
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To find out more information,
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please click the link in the description box down below.
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We will see you next week.
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Peace!
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Practicing your English speaking skills while exploring culinary delights can be both enjoyable and educational. The video titled "FIVE Must-Eat Hanoi STREET FOODS!" immerses viewers in Vietnamese culture, particularly its vibrant street food scene. Through this engaging content, learners not only practice listening but can also enhance their speaking abilities by shadowing the narrator. Shadow speaking allows you to mimic pronunciation, intonation, and rhythm while discussing relatable topics like food, which can significantly boost confidence in everyday conversations.
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- Present continuous tense: The use of phrases like "I have been sent here" and "We are talking" illustrates how the present continuous tense is used for ongoing actions, making it relevant for describing experiences.
- Indirect questions: The narrator asks, "Can we ask her any questions?" which can help learners understand how to formulate indirect questions, a vital part of polite conversation.
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