That’s awesome🤩 The US sadly subsidizes, so unhealthy food is less expensive. I’m sure there are other things the US gets wrong too that encourage bad habits & discourage good habits
@@grimadean3432 don't get fooled. Our food may be 'healthy', but it's qualities are dubious. If you live there, you have to learn how to pick food when you shop, otherwise dysentery won't be far.
I still laugh that Kfc is a seasonal thing in Japan. Although gotta hands of to that marketer in Japan who created this tradition that Xmas is Kfc in Japan
They also have a superior marketing team in their Asia division. For example they pretended fried chicken is an ancient Christmas tradition in Japan, and now the whole country has their fried chicken as a tradition. Great marketing in Vietnam too. Kudos to that whole marketing department.
Do y'all want to know how easy it is to get food in Vietnam? I take a 5-minute walk from my aunt's house there's four food vendors to go to. Hell, my other aunt's house the neighbor across from her makes com tam. I barely take steps out of my relatives houses I'm already near several food vendor places.
KFC is also very popular in Japan, specifically during Christmas because of the same reason, it's entire business model is selling food that can be shared with family or friends.
As a czech(we have tons of Vietnamese here) I can agree these guys are very good with work While it may be disproportionately hard to see them at a job compared to their numbers they actually own great amounts of little shops as they employ themselves and their family And most of these shops sell mainly food
Oh yes you are right As a Malaysian, Fried Chicken For Us Is Comfort Food. Normally KFC Here Always Bombs And Out Of All The Fast Food Chains KFC is the most common because even at the countryside there's probably a KFC That's why we have 750 outlets here
Get a local guide, and ask for locally frequented joints. Dont scare off from strange foods or 'culturally off putting ones' (like chicken blood, dog meat, hard boiled duck eggs, etc.) Dont be too mindful of curious stares. Foreigners are rare in certain places, and its not rudeness, but curiosity.
Fun fact: the world’s cheapest 3-Michelin star restaurant is on Vietnam, and it’s a street vendor/cart! Edit: Sorry guys but after some double checking, I realized I was wrong, PLEASE DO NOT spread this info, I am a bit of a hypocrite for saying this, but I am genuinely sorry
@@thecommentguy9380Many Vietnamese kids learn to cook by watching their parents cook from a young age. I can cook since I was 7 years old, so I guess you're right those chefs at fancy restaurants were wasting their time 😂
KFC in Vietnam has Soup and Salad for their basic chicken meal. It is very generous serving. Plus the branch at the old quarters in Hanoi has an excellent view.
@@SpecterNeverSpectator the KFC in philippines no salad, no soup and the rice is super tiny. But KFC is everywhere in Philippines. Just a little more expensive than in Hanoi and Saigon.
@@eduardochavacano yeah I understand that, kfc in my country don't even got chicken nuggets, all they got is the usual pieces (no normal wings, just wing drums) sandwiches, some have wraps, fries and I guess they have cheese empanadas, which is about the only thing different they sell here, kinda got screwed, still if we don't count papa John's it's the only fast food place I like.
Jollibee is also really influenced by American fast food chains lol, particularly KFC. It depends on the type of food and the way you sell it and market it. KFC works in Asia because it’s more family style, it can be shared easily, which is something they greatly value. Same as Jollibee. In fact there are Jollibee’s in the US now too, it’s pretty easy for it compete in the US market because it’s not exactly too different from some other American chains.
Been to Viet Nam 2 times. Came back to my country with a Happy tummy 2 times without my wallet being bankrupt😊 Thanks guys for the Pho, Bun Bo Hue, Bun Rieu Cua, Com Tam and any others while I was in Viet Nam. Cám Ơn!!!
As a Vietnamese in her early 20s, I spent my childhood in the city before moved to a small town. KFC was such an iconic place to hold birthday parties for children a lot back in the early 2000s to 2010s. You’ll get toys, balloons, even photos with the mascots. I remember KFC had a promotion that children from ages 6-15 can bring their certificates to get free meals after a school year before summer break starts. It was the first ever fast food place I’ve eaten.
This is the same with mcdonald's in Singapore. MCD has managed to adapt to sg culture, capitalising on being a quick and halal option that many can eat at without concerns of whether everyone is willing to. Mcspicy, winglets, birthday parties, and seasonal ice cream is a very sg MCD thing
KFC is so iconic and it really promotes that family cohesion culture thats highly regarded in South-Asia. That and fried chicken transcends cultures so naturally it works out well.
Vietnamese here Also a reason why street food outclass vending food is because they too expensive for some material Take for example, cheese. 6 slice Pizza cost like 200k to 300k vnd from dominos. Basicaly its 8 to 10 dollar. While an average street food is 1 to 3 dollar max
Imagine entire multi billion dollar fast food franchises not being able to set up in a country just cause your neighbor Kim makes food so damn good that it outclasses those multi billion dollar corporations
@@Feathertail2205Is it pronounced as Kim? Nguyen in Korean is pronounced Wan and is not at all a common last name. It may be that the only people with it are of Vietnamese descent, because it doesn't show up in the top 100 last names, and the lowest on that list are pretty rare already.
I’d chose almost anything that’s not fast food over McDonalds unless for some reason I just craved McDonalds that day. Not only is it better for you, it also just flat out tastes better.
Expect prices to be high though. The reason why it's so cheap is because we're a developing country with a farming being a massive part of the country.
@@DougSharpewhen making vietnam videos be careful of misinformation since there is alot of bias and povs and the vietnam has no human rights there is no freedom of speech freedom of association freedom of press or right to live in a healthy enviorment or anything like that is strictley prohibited anything that goes against the communist party is censored by the communist party and the communists rig the elections 99 to 1 so they always win once a human rights activist visited vietnam and he was arrested if you speak out against the government you will be executed vietnam is on the bottom of the human rights list right next to china and cuba in the battle of an loc in 1972 civilians tried escaping and the north vietnamese gunned them down and a north vietnamese officer kidnapped a south vietnamese officer and his family and the northern officer killed the grandmother kids and wife and lets not forget the hue 1968 massacre were vietcong troops killed thousands of civilians upon retaking the city american and south vietnamese forces found bodies with smashed open heads and multiple body bags and the communist did many more atrocities like the hue massacre and the my lai massacre committed by americans was nothing compared to viet cong massacres and after the war the communist government took everything from south vietnamese soldiers and civilians the communist tore apart familys sending southern soldiers and civilians to concentration camps which they called "re education camps" where people where tortured beat and executed and if ur gonna make a video on the way try to find unbiased sources like the youtube channel Memory of South vietnam
This is largely how things used to work in all countries, and how it *should* work. Street food should be ubiquitous, cheap, and something you can share with friends.
@Ryan-cb1ei Nice, the US has like what, one popular fast food brand in Vietnam? What kind of win is that? The Vietnamese have hundreds of their restaurants in the US, while some of the biggest US companies couldn't stay for long in Vietnam.
@@annabellethedoll3764im a Vietnamese and no its depend and what kind of Vietnamese are u even? Chemical,they are fucking street food not fucking fast food,they cook fresh not making 10000 to serve over month-
How do they have cheap quality food in a communist hellhole and in max freedom America we get ultra processed poison that's mass manufactured and shipped across the country and world to save costs, it tastes like crap and makes you feel shitty, and it costs two hours of minimum wage? Makes sense that they used their power to bake anti-communism into our national identity.
I honestly don't understand how Vietnamese food isn't more popular, it's freaking good. I hope I can at least visit there one day to try it truly authentic Edit: I have tried things like fish sauce, shrimp paste, and plenty of other weird foreign foods and condiments, I'm not afraid to try new things and I know I won't like everything, but I won't know what I don't like if I don't try it first! (Haven't had a chance at durian fruit yet)
i guess you just tried bun cha, pho and spring rolls right? if we dive into the vietnamese food like durian and shrimp paste, some of them might not be as great as you think overall it's somewhat picky but once you get in, you can't stop
@@churrocharcharm im speaking as a vietnamese so idk what the world think about our culture ( For me I dont like moon cakes and stuff like peas but some others hate durian and shrimp paste, ...)
Those fast food chains more like a refresh if u find Vietnamese food boring. But only need 1 bite of the fast food to bring back the memories of sidewalk vendor😂
If I could eat bi cuon and goi cuon all day long I would. And have at least once. They never had them on the buffet after that. Idk what the secret is but no-one I have seen has tried Vietnamese food and not been amazed.
I've born and raised in Vietnam, the convenience of street food, and of course the social culture we all chill and eat our morning bowl of pho or late night hotpot with the guys. So far, I've not tried mcdonalds in Vietnam, but I tried BK but not so bad, although my brother and I ordered a lot KFC since they are really good. (also I tried popeyes but they are similar)
As a viet guy born and raised in Canada. My mom owns a triplex and a small business but the inflation sky rocket so we are doing just fine. Imagine the average family working for a company. It feels so damn lonely here. Had many girls(mostly white girls) asking me to date them in highschool. Now that I'm in college studying app/web development, there's literally no girl in my classes💀. I also prefer asian girls and there's not a lot of them in my city. Plus the inflation makes me wanna move to vietnam as a digital nomad. And on top of that, my family is rich in vietnam so I could live with my grand parents rent free while taking care of them. Edit: only issue is that I have to upgrade my vietnamese to hold a conversation and get paperwork done. Plus I have north vietnamese accent which seems to be not that common... but my mom said it's the true vietnamese accent, I hope I'll still be able to socialise there.
I'll always remember a dish i ate many times in Vietnam... It has fermented shrimp paste in the middle as a sauce. You squeeze a little orange into the sauce then you dip vermicelli, tofu and other things in the sauce. It was a strange and delightful flavour experience
I believe you are talking to "bún đậu mắm tôm" the name is literally translated as "vermicelli, tofu, shrimp paste". Yes it is a very weird combination but works perfectly well together
@@just-give-me-a-handle most of the ingredients you could get for cheap prices and still a good quality if you can negotiate and find a good supplier for the food you sell like Fried Chicken or others street food. You can buy low prices and made a high prices to it but that will make them will go to others place that has the better quality but more low prices for the food. Instead of focus too much of gaining profits for yourself, why not just keep the prices stay low/ close to prices to buy ingredients and get a long term quantity of customers that keep your business on and on, not only that but they will introduce your food to others.
@@just-give-me-a-handlesomehow every American company has chosen to price gouge and it's seen as moral good under capitalism to charge as much as you can get away with. So don't act like it's the same. Likely their culture is less likely to be walked all over like Americans
Yeah I got on google maps and looked up McDonald's locations near me. There are 27 within 30ish miles and the population within that area is probably roughly 400k people
Dude you really gotta come over, the street food is usually less than 2 bucks per meal, when a McDonald's is like $4, and it feels industrial and soulless. I'd take a good bowl of noodle soup any day
@@toaninh9120 id love to! I see videos of street food markets and the food always looks so fresh, tasty, and cheap!! I’d rarely, if ever eat fast food chains if I had those options
It *_used_* to be cheap, in America at least. Now they adjusted for inflation. That would've sounded fair if it weren't for the fact that wages have increased way slower than the inflation rate. But for Asia? Here in the Philippines, a basic burger with just sauce and a patty costs about 50-60 pesos, which is around a dollar. That sounds cheap until you realize that a single hotdog and a serving of rice costs around 25 pesos, from where I live at least. Keep in mind, the stuff healthier than processed foods are cheaper than that.
it's more accessible than other fast food brand with more stores, even in small cities. KFC and big brands they don't try that hard to compete in small cities, so when people look for fried chicken, Jolibee is the only option.
I’m travelling through Vietnam on a motorcycle now and have been eating where no westerner or tourist eats. Can confirm the food is glorious and cheap. Have to get used of everyone taking photo’s of you tho 😅
Honestly, I want to go to Vietnam now, because that sounds interesting and I generally like foods that originated from that area so I probably wouldn't struggle to find something I like.
That’s literally why big corporations in other countries lobby so hard to make it extremely difficult, time consuming, and costly to be a street food vendor.
Vietnamese food is so fresh & aromantic. Ginger, lemongrass, galangal, garlic, kaffir lime leaves, chilli, basil, mint, shallots & my absolute favourite coriander plus so much more. With fresh salad vegetables. Yummy.
McDonald's used to be the place you went when you had five bucks and needed a quick meal, now their prices are high enough that you can go to an all you can eat buffet and get far more food, for only 10$ more than a burger at McDonald's.
I disagree yet agree, Fast food chains are great for convenience and you 100% get what you pay for, but they are really unhealthy but if you find that balance you’re pretty much fine. Besides, who doesn’t like a popeyes chicken sandwich or some McDonalds fries?
In Saigon (D. Tran Dinh Xu) you can get the best roast pork banh mi for about a $1 and it takes all of 45 seconds. Then head down the street a few hundred meters and get a huge cup of sugar cane juice for about $0.40. Fast food is 3 or 4 times the price and not even close to as fast.
I remember a commercial for McDonald's where a group of friends go and share their food. Anyway it always annoyed me how one of them asked for a bite of someone's quarter pounder
Except fast food companies succeeded there. Kfc? nah we have Ga chien mam, Mcdonalds? nuh uh we are not fatasses. subway? Street Banh Mi knocked em out
@@annabellethedoll3764Bạn chắc bạn người Việt không vậy? Sao mấy cái comment liền của bạn đều thấy chê bai nước mình thế? Với lại, mẹ bạn cho bạn ăn gì mà toàn chất hóa học độc hại vậy? Chắc là trường hợp của bạn đặc biệt thôi, chứ phần đông người Việt Nam vẫn ăn uống ngon lành và khỏe mạnh á.
As a Vietnamese, I can say yeah those are very accurate facts about food vendors and KFC inside Vietnam. Cheap but good food 2-3 dollars Also fun fact : Even the bus I was on as the usual, stop by for bus ticket seller get off, get the food and hop back on.
Yeah, they usually ordered it through phone saying "my bus will pass by in 10 minutes" or something like that. They can stop and get from the bus window, too.
My uncle came from Vietnam with his parents and five siblings when he was early teens. Every meal is like a family gathering with the most amazing food you'll ever have.
Quite similar here in Indonesia, my mom always cooks for our whole family, even at some times when she doesn't make food for us, she'll just buy local foods
I visited Vietnam a couple of months ago, and it really surprised me how little everything costs. A full meal could cost you less than a dollar if you know where to look
Bro the best food you will eat in Vietnam is always from the cheapest places. I had a LIFE CHANGING Bahn Mi that was cooked on a hotplate sat on a plastic table in Hanoi
trust me, in vietnam you can find the most random ass stands selling some random ass food that has been running for years and the food would be able to compete with your grandmother's cooking
I used to live in Thailand, the street food is amazing for how cheap it is. It’s similar there too but there is a lot of foreigners (myself included) so McDonalds just this fine there, but the locals never touch it.
