Single Woman Picks A Date Based On Their Vietnamese Cooking • Plate To Date 

The know-it-all attitude just threw me off. “He’s not Vietnamese” “Why is there corn” “doesn’t taste Vietnamese” honestly she could’ve phrased her words better. Admitting that you don’t know something just seem hard? M

Hey everyone, Vinh-Khoi here (Contestant #2). Just wanted to provide some more context with regards to the actual dish since I put a lot of thought into it. 1) Ram bắp is a dish that originated from my hometown Quảng Ngãi and is eaten as a savory dish or a light snack. It's a dish that's not sold in America and even Vietnamese people outside of my hometown don't know this dish, so don't judge Yen too harshly for being caught off-guard lol. I wanted to make a vegan variant of this dish and wanted to go for something that was light and refreshing. 2) The star ingredient of this dish is the corn (bắp) filling. I used American sweet corn (bắp Mỹ) because of its natural sweetness (no extra sugar is needed). Actually thought about using blue corn for a twist but decided against it for this version. 3) Along with corn, the filling consists of shallots, chives, salt, and pepper. I used bigger shallots for the crunch factor (but also I didn't have access to the small shallots from Lý Sơn). I used freshly grounded Himalayan salt and pepper to give the corn a more natural and pronounced flavor profile. People can add ground pork as well; I don't like adding meat in my filling and as said above, I was making a vegan variant. I also don't like bột nêm in mine. 4) You can mash the ingredients to make a smoother blend for the filling, but I like the uneveness of the flavor profile and textures of the corn kernels and diced shallots. 5) People usually roll the filling using the special rice paper (bánh tráng) from Quảng Ngãi that you can roll without having to dip in water. I obviously don't have access to this rice paper in America and I really don't like frying with the dry ones, so went with the wheat ones. 6) I made my rolls flat and short as opposed to long and thin, which is more typical, due to limitations of the wheat papers I had. Also I like my rolls small (to be eaten in two bites), so didn't oversize my rolls. 7) I fried using extra virgin olive oil as I thought it would impart more depth of flavor to the rolls without feeling so heavy. These rolls are generally fried at medium heat until brown. 8) You cannot eat ram bắp without a plate of fresh vegetables. I had butter lettuce, cilantro, mint, and cucumber as my vegetables of choice. I wanted to add diếp cá as well but I couldn't find it in the store. 9) We do use nước chấm made from fish sauce to dip our spring rolls, and Quảng Ngãi people like ours extra salty and spicy. However, I was making a vegan variant and wanted a dipping sauce that was equally salty and spicy but didn't contain any added sugar as that would take away from the sweetness of the corn. So I used extra salty soy sauce, Thai chilies, and a squeeze of lime juice for brightness. I also added fermented bean curd (chao) as I thought it would give more body and fragrance to the sauce while aiding in digestion. 10) This was a very fun video to shoot and everyone got along very well on set haha.

“We cooked the dishes, but she’s cooking you “ I felt that

I'm a legit Vietnamese for 21 years and the ram bắp (the one she called egg roll) is a dish that I have never heard about. It's a real local dish and I think there is nothing wrong with Yen when she could not recognize it, and tbh 'ram bắp' looks like a combination of Taiwan egg rolls and 'chả giò' to me so lol just chill. Furthermore, the first guy's dish, 'bánh khọt', also come from a province in Vietnam (Huế) but it is a little bit well-knowned than 'bánh khọt' because Huế used to be Vietnamese capital. Vietnamese food is so diverse even local people cannot know it all (fun fact: we have over 100 types of noodles, and not everyone know that).

When she said you don’t put corn in egg rolls… my girl.. you have not been through the whole country have you 😩

When I met my wife my family owned a sushi bar. She said some ppl marry for money I married for my husband and his family’s cooking.

She's a food blogger so probably knows a little more about Vietnamese food than this shows since this is a short video. But, really, the sneering of the eggroll from Central Vietnam, the rejection of soy sauce as a dipping sauce cause it wasn't Vietnamese enough, and selecting banh mi as your ultimate Vietnamese dish.... just absolutely tasteless.

Cant really get mad at her for not knowing about the egg roll dish. My family is from central Vietnam and literally none of them has ever heard of corn in egg rolls when asked. Of course she’s not gonna know every local dish in Vietnam that would be unreasonable

I'm like watching this series backwards and i like the improvements made to these show! this earlier ep made me wanna watch more clips from the post reveal, which they did in the newer eps! They should release some bonus clips

Why was the video was cut short when she met up with the guys?

Who says we don't use soy sauce? LOL

This one was a lot shorter than the others. I like the getting to know them and the mini dates afterwards.

I like how she acts like she understands stuff right away, which then reveals to be the opposite

They should include more of the end in the future - was really curious to her conversations w the guys afterward & then the date!

Lol… everything she said she likes in a Vietnamese guy Vinh-Khôi has. He probably knows the traditional flavor best and most likely to be the straight A’s overachiever 😂

At least she didnt just go for the guy with the biggest egg roll

honestly the problem isn't that she didn't know the dish the problem is that when she tasted it she immediately said that its not Vietnamese and looked disgusted at first. regardless of whether or she knew, acting like this was disrespectful and downright a disgusting way to act.

all the guys got along better than any of them would get along with her 😂

My man Vinh Khoi dodged a bullet. Girl is all sorts of over-confident.

4:06 When dude raises his finger up bc she dissed his hometown & Vietnamese-ness 🤣🤣 rofl

It sounds like she doesn’t know what she’s talking about

“For dipping, please do not drink!” “what am i drinking 🤨???”

Did she know they were watching?

When she said it doesn't even taste vietnamese, I'm like bro fish sauce come on

Does she not realise there are regions to countries, where the food culture is completely unique to other regions.

Blue shirt looked really smart 😮‍💨😍🥴

The way she said *I HAVE A BANH MI TATTOO AND KNOW A LOT ABOUT VIET CUISINE* was so cringe and idk it sounds like the extreme opposite sounds like she’s some Vietboo 💀 but well she viet so

If you had to put so much hoisin and sriracha on a sandwich, in a soup, etc. you're a certified Nam region Vietnamese. We love taking a base dish and adding to it according to our preferences. I'm in my mid-20s now and I'm not as into it as when I was little. Have you ever had a clear bowl of pho when you're tired, or a bowl of scallion broth after eating grilled bbq and eggs on rice? I love that sensation. I definitely wouldn't vibe with Yen if we had to share a meal.

Ayyy this was fun do more of this!

Did anyone click this video because of how awesome her hair looks? Cause damn that color pops. ❤

We cook the dishes but she’s cooking you bro lmaooo

Y'all chose one of the most ABG stereotype person possible.

Yooo! XD the way they ended the video tho! LMAO

Make more like this. More diversity

No way that guy made his own fish sauce

The two guys who didn't get chosen dodged a bullet! This girl is rude, ignorant and has terrible table manners.

Lol the guys in the back of these episodes are the best... Lol.. we have bro codes...

U noe it’s My space 🌹navy is telling me it’s not my space?!!!!!!

Oh wow this prono has a very good lead up story! I actual watch the whole thing

So funny and the food very tasty I can say i love it. 🥰🥰🥰 My soul full of foods 🥰🥰🥰

Quang Tran would have killed it. But then again he's not single.

I love this concept, but video was way too short! all these guys seem amazing and bonus points cus they can cook, I'm single too so I'll take either loser. :)

Best would be other ethnicities cooking Asian food. Imagine she picks a tall blond blue eyes dude who cooked Phô. 😂

It hurt me to hear she doesn't like pho and I'm not even Vietnamese

Editing out their meeting at the end is annoying. Half of the reason for clicking on this video is removed.

the title is so weird 😭 could've titled it as *"Picking a date based on their Vietnamese cooking as a single woman"*

Why cut it off at the end. How disappointing!

Dude she was so mean to the egg roll dude and the other people were mean to him too wtf is wrong with them

I wish you had casted 3 guys who are fluent in Vietnamese.

she is a foodie

Who needs an update on their date?

Wow buzzfeed has really spiraled down

great show, hope to see more episodes coming. also good cut at the end this time, that part past the food judging was usually just cringe.

Too be honest… pho is basically how good u put your ingredients in yourself. Lol! So if ur pho is not good it’s based off of how u added stuff to ur own pho. Lol

Too bad I'm not Young & Hot anymores...Otherwise I would definitely make a change! Because I love Cooking as a Pure Hot Asian:) uhuhu It's natural gifted when I was born Ladies:)

She wants traditional cuisine that's not mainstream but when a guy gives her just that (literally a dish from his home town) he can't possibly be Vietnamese as 'we' don't put corn in 'our' egg rolls. Well he did so I'm pretty sure that you do.

I just don't like when people think their region speaks for the entire country. Let alone don't be rude. I know they think it's being sassy but it's rude.

"You don't look like a straight A student" Man this girl be roasting 💀💀

I really wanted her to choose Vinh-Khoi😭😭💔 he’s so sweet & seems like a genuine dude who stays true to himself

In my opinion, Vinh-Khoi dish looks more Vietnamese than Terry and Johnny dishes. Because from what I can see, Vinh-Khoi just wanted to re-create the dish from his hometown, while the other two was being a little creative with their cooking. Not that is bad though. Oh and similar to Vinh-Khoi dish, unless you already know, the bánh khọt (Terry dish) is mostly eaten in the South. While in Nha Trang city (Central) where I am from, we eat bánh căn. The dish is similar to bánh khọt, but the main difference is that the Southern version is fried on a shaped cooking pan, while our is grilled in a mini clay pot, which is grilled on a clay grill. And from the North, at least within the proximity of Ha Noi or in a small town of Thai Nguyen where my mother side of the family are from, they don’t have a version of this mini like pancakes.

She seems very full of herself. Smh.

I feel so bad for Vinh-Khôi because Johnny and Terry are making fun and not really talking to him

I wish they showed a bit more of them talking afterwards

It seems like she's trying a bit too hard to be Vietnamese. They should have made bún đậu mắm tôm instead, that would have been the real wildcard:)))

She too confident in her own knowledge.

She’s an insta “food blogger” with a bunch of bought views and followers. How could you post about all your food and travels from Vietnam and roast the corn eggrolls?😭 my poor boy put so much heart into it

Dude who cooked authentic Vietnamese spring rolls and she chooses the Bahn Mi which wasn't even a things until after the late 1970's after French occupation. She certainly knows a lot about "authentic" Vietnamese cooking.

It's so weird for me seeing all the mainland Viet people in here not knowing Ram Bắp in Quang Ngai. While a lot of people from Quang Ngai that i know are very knowledgeable about others local cuisine.

But she didn't even dip the banh mi in the sauce he made?? Lol

This is the first time I seen so many of my own people on a mainstream RU-vid channel and I'm full of pride 🥰🥰🥰

the guys were really nice and carefree I felt like the girl kind of threw me off. i know the point of the video is to critique the dishes but she would say one thing and then say another so certain things weren't adding up. it almost felt like she was trying to prove how much she knew about Vietnamese food. overall, good video.

She is not dating material. Just everything about her energy is a no. Out of all the qualified Vietnamese women you could find to be the judge of this episode, it was her? Disappointing.

Who doesn't like PHO!? But hey, I know an Italian who doesn't like tomatoes ;-p!

I'm reading the comments and I would say her demeanor is very characteristic of being Vietnamese. We can be perceived as "rude" or "judgy" to outsiders, but to me that's typical Vietnamese way and to Viets that's just being straightforward, no beating around the bush normalized in the culture. As for the Banh Mi, Viet people don't typically put hoisin or Sriracha in their Banh Mi but since the guy is going for a pho and banh mi blend the sauces she put in is standard what you put in Pho not Banh Mi. It looked like a lot of meat stuffing that she may have had a hard time sifting through the other flavors he put in. Although, in my opinion she went way too heavy on that hoisin sauce. It's like putting too much A1 sauce on a steak. 🤢 If you put that amount in you definitely won't taste any other flavors. I don't blame the Banh Mi guy for being offended. It almost look like he made Banh Mi Thit Nuong but it's pho version so the meat has got to be tender. I like Banh Mi too, but it's gotta be Banh Mi Dac Biet. Banh Mi Thit Nuong is too tough meat for me to chew.

Homegirl was straight forward lol

Real snotty & ignorant personality. She only retracted her energy after the camera man gave her background info 😂 I hope she takes this as a lesson that there’s always room to learn & don’t try to be a rude know-it-all

Now I know why she's single, damn

The audacity she has asking if he's even Vietnamese it looks like dude just came fresh from the boat

This girl is so ignorant. Bragging about coming from Vietnam and being a "food blogger", she was so judgmental about one of the most authentic Viet dish you can ever get. Then she goes on and add HOISIN SAUCE onto her banh mi, which we never ever do in Vietnam. I hope this girl doesn't get cast again. She's just mean and ignorant.

Interesting concept for dating based on the candidates’ food. I hope there’s more 😁

I have watched a few of these videos and really enjoyed them. I just wish that they would show a follow up after the date.

Vinh it’s okay a. Em đẹp trai. 🤗

How do we get casted for this show!?! We are single foodies

This girl Yen said shes from VN, claimed she knows a lot about Vietnamese food and she dont know what Ram Bap is or where its originated from in VN and she also called it Egg Rolls. She should google up Ram Bap and she will knows why its called Ram Bap and yes its a real dish that really exist lol. Ram Bap is not Cha Gio, Cha Gio is Egg Rolls dont mix them up. Just like Spring Rolls is not Summer Rolls. Just because a local region used soy sauce for Ram Bap doesnt mean thats its incorrect. Many regions make the same dish but used different ingredients and the same goes for dipping sauce. Also, Ram Bap is probably the least main stream dish of the 3, Banh Khot is actually more popular than she thinks it is. You can find many restaurants, even in the US, that offer Banh Khot but really rare to find Ram Bap on the menu.

soy sauce is pretty common choice for an alternative to fish sauce for dipping-- if you're eating chay or vegan

This chick is sooo rude!! Who would want to date someone so mean and rude. Vinh seems like a sweet heart and too good for her.

Not me getting ocd everytime she touched the oily fried food and then touching her hair wkfjgjskfkg

This girl doesn’t seem like a catch at all lmfaoooo.

The egg roll dish looked like the more interesting dish to me since it was from Vinh Khoi's region. Plus Vinh Khoi is a handsome guy.

Girl is super average. No need to try to impress her. She tries to impress herself. All good my dudes.

She was this close to banging her credit card in the table when the last dish came out 😂😂

Her: I do not like pho- Johnny: pikachu face

what a lackluster ending to the video

that Johnny guy kinda funny

Congrats to Johnny I know him from way back in high school 😆

Ok can we please have a video where we flip the script and have HER cook for the guy and compete with other women? I think doing that would humble her in the process... she was not very kind or good at analyzing any of their personalities.. she was just straight rude and shallow 😒

WE COOKED THE DISHES, BUT SHE'S COOKING YOU!

There are so many "ram" that you should try if you have the chance: "ram bắp" - the one was made in the video, "ram tôm đất" - kinda like ram bắp, but with shrimp paste or tiny shrimp in it, ''ram cua" - crab,... and so many more. These kinds of food revolve around the middle part of VN: Quy Nhơn, Quảng Ngãi, Quảng Trị, Huế,... We usually eat these either separately with salad like in the video, or combine it with "nem" and eat it with rice paper to create a crunchy texture for every bite. Additionally, there is a "special sauce" made with shrimp paste and many more ingredients which amazingly increase the flavor for the ram (not "mắm tôm", it's called "tương tôm" I think, lol) You can easily find it in any restaurants that sell this kind of food.

My dude said he made the fish sauce from scratch 😹😹

Seeing viet ppl on mainstream RU-vid really boasting my Asian ego. Ayo get them viet producers and videographers out there known.