HAHAHHAHA I'm actually laughing so hard, the suspension bridge that you crossed is name Xà Ơi 1, it was built by a contruction company called Trường Xuân construction, and it's actually my family's company HHAHAHAHA that bridge was built in 2015, I remember comming with my dad to the site as well HAHAHAHA that is amazing thanks alot for the review lmfaooo
Hi guys, when watching the part of the meal, as a Vietnam I wanna explain something to make it clear to guys who did, or are doing, or will do traveling by motorbike in Vietnam. 1- The meat in that bowl is duck (it's a big duck leg), not chicken, not dog meat. That is a bowl of noodle soup, cooked with duck meat, bamboo shoot, and some other things. 2- Many foreigners have a heavy impression that Vietnamese cuisine is featured strange meat, strange food, and even terrible food, such as dog meat. That's WRONG. Vietnamese cuisine is featured by its diversity, a wide range of food based on the long shape of the country, from north to south with different climate and geography patterns also the diversity of ethnic components of each community, which brings diversity in the food ingredients, and focused on diversity, creative usage of mixtures of local spicy, herbals, in combination with kinds of plants cleverly. Why don't you know that we have many dishes made of flowers? (currently, it's counted 272 dishes, made of 43 kinds of flowers, and will be increased more when exploring minor communities in remote regions). It also tastes quite different when people cook from south to north, e.g.: south people prefer the sweet, and sour, coastal central region like salty, sour, hot spicy, and north people tend to fatty, and savory. The central region tends to use heavier, less dilute fish sauce, and the northern region like to use more MSG. (This has a reason of history, when the northern region suffered a long-time shortage in supply, especially protein supply, hence using glutamate is the easy, fast way to get the taste of umami instead of animal protein. And they continue their habit till today, with heavily adding MSG when cooking, especially in food shops) 3 - When you choose your route, you have to understand that: all the good chefs/cooks want to do business in crow communities like cities, and towns, hence you will easily get good food in urban areas than in rural areas. The similar issue with other facilities (conventional shops, commercial businesses, ATMs, coffee shops,...). The exception is the 4G telecom system (meaning the internet connection). If you choose to travel through the remote region, you have to accept that the food there will not be as good as in the city/town, except when you are invited to join a feast such as a host invite you to their home, or a wedding ceremony, or a worship ceremony of the minor ethnic community,.... because when you are a guest, the host will do all the best with all the best ingredient foods for a special event to satisfy your stomach as our hospitality tradition. 4-For the issue of strange meat, strange food like dog meat, snake meat, frog meat, mouse meat,...as someone said Vietnamese can eat everything non-toxic, from top to tail. It has a reason for history. Maybe you don't know more than 2 million Vietnamese died of starvation in the period of invasion by Japanese fascists (total pop. of Vietnam 1945: approx. 20 mil). And maybe you don't mind that Vietnam suffered more than half of a century to be deep in wars in the 20th century. Hence, Vietnamese can eat many things. Something that is originally toxic but becomes non-toxic after some treatments can also be our food. There're some tips about those foods. As further as the road from the south to the north, you will easier see dog meat (it's more popular in the northern region than in the central and southern regions. Maybe the reason is the northern region suffered the worse starving situation in past time). Frog meat: people think of it as chicken meat. Mouse meat: the rice-paddy mouse, or coconut mouse, or even Vietnamese ginseng mouse. They are not the dirty mice in the city. So, mouse meat is clean and has good taste, for protein supply, and for protection of the crop. With special mouse meat like ginseng mouse meat, you have to be a respectful guest of the host in case to be invited to eat it. Everything is changing, including trends in food, also the continuous creation of new dishes from Vietnamese vendors and chefs, in addition to the dish modification of Vietnamese mothers in their kitchens. 5-Some people like to eat vegetarian foods. Normally, you can easy to have vegetarian food shops near the pagodas - they are open every day to serve the Budhisist people who come to visit the pagoda every day. Additionally, many Vietnamese people, especially in central regions and southern regions, eat vegetarian food on the first, middle, and end days of the lunar month. You will easier to get vegetarian food shops on the normal streets at that time.
Cám ơn bạn vì đã nói thay những gì tôi muốn nói. Đôi bạn trẻ này về cơ bạn là ổn nhưng có lẽ đi du lịch tiết kiệm, và bị ảnh hưởng và ám ảnh bởi nhiều người khác nói Việt nam ăn thịt chó nên mới nghĩ ra vậy và chê đắt vì chặt chém! Phần lớn khán giả đến từ Thailand hay có câu hỏi vui và chế giễu … có ăn thịt chó ở Vn ko hay đại loại “”: người Việt ăn thịt cho’”! Bản thân mình đã không ăn thịt chó đã 10 năm, và giờ cảm thấy mình ko thấy thèm nữa, mình là người miền Bắc🤓
I am so impressed with the beauty of Viet Nam and with the open-faced friendliness of it's citizens. It seems impossible to believe that this country was so wracked by war. I'm glad to see what a remarkable recovery the Vietnamese have made. Are these folks even more beautiful than their land?
Another fab video and peek into your travels. Thanks guys! We did have a laugh at "The bridge over the river Cry" scene.. that's what travel is all about life experiences:) It's great to see a down to earth view of travel, we are really enjoying sharing it with you. Today we are preparing to travel to the airport, and fly out to Hanoi in the morning.. here's hoping all our bags slip through the carry on lol Keep them coming, be safe and have fun!
You were so brave to ride on that road guys . Just be very careful , don't play with danger in VN . Yeah it's an albino water buffalo . They are very common in that region of VN and especially in Lai Châu and Dien Bien provinces ( North West of VN )
Just found your vlogs 😲, you certainly have got nerves of steel, riding on those rds, my heart was in my mouth. Great to see your journey, and adventures x
The food you guys ate at the end of the video is chicken noodle soup with half a chicken for two people (2 best part more expensive). I think is not expensive because chicken in the countryside is wild chicken and Vietnamese people prefer to eat wild chicken over farmed chicken so it can be 3 times expensive more than farmed chicken, wild chicken meat is tougher because they running a lot and not eating industry food. And boiled eggs you should peel the shell and dip with salt .It is quite simple and bland but you can avoid stomach pain when eating strange dishes, tourists in vietnam often eat this dish. Many countryside in Vietnam the price can be more expensive than the city because they eat clean and self-sufficient food and many people have same demand that's why its expensive . For example, a breed of chicken called "Đông Tảo chicken" can be up to 5000USD a chicken in Vietnam. To be honest i don't think the price in viet nam is cheap. Because different of food quality. A lot of dangers on your journey. Even i'm a Vietnamese but I never dare to go like you guys. Safe travel and best wishes to both of you ( sr for my english )
Thank you for all the super helpful information. When we travel everything is a learning experience to us and always try to be as open as possible and enjoy the journey.
Most of the buildings with yellow paint on the outside in the jungle or such places (or in whole VN) like this at 19:10 were the offices of the ''border polices'' or '' law enforcements''. In the middle building ( on top) u can also see the ''red star''. That's also one of the signs of a gorvement building of property. Funny to see that I rode the exact some route 6 months ago. I cant wait to see what is coming the next episodes:D Great job! be safe!
great job guys! glad to see you enjoy VN on the little scale. It's beautiful on the smallest level, towns, valleys, creeks and valleys not to mention the little gardens at the houses and interesting alleys! I begin to fear (foe all of us) that the Ha Giang loop will be a mad bees nest of drunken noisy college kids.
Air conditioners used in the northern and central regions of Vietnam have heating and cooling functions. You can ask the hotel or motel receptionist how to use it.
Waiting for next video 😊, watching you guys has got us thinking about extending our ride, to starting in the South riding north inland to Sapa then back to hcm via the coast highway 😂
Jesus that bit on the bridge was hilarious. If you had your eyes closed you would think it was a private moment...."Mitch...don't stop..!!!" Sorry...just couldn't help myself.
its nice to see rural Vietnam and sad to see you got ripped off with that meal,to follow you is for me to see what can be expected as Vietnam is on my bucketlist,thanks !
2:12 you guys just literally passed my hometown which was the bridge with full of flags. Im living in HCM city now but whenever I see that scenery its giving a lot of emotions. What you guys doing was really great, fantastic journey hopefully ill have a chance to do the same things in the future
I learned how to eat rice and dal with my fingers in India by spying on the people next to me! One trick is to push the food in with your thumb. It is rather awkward being a foreigner sometimes but it's good to be outside of your comfort zone imho. Vietnam is beautiful. Happy Travels
Oh poor Martha on the bridge. You were such a good sport tho. If that were my wife, I'd be sleeping on the couch, haha... Cool albino buffalo, btw. And sorry about your dinner. Food in small remote places isn't always good, and some noodle soups aren't for western palates. I'd stick to fried/stir-fried dishes.
I'm sorry, but I did laugh a lot at Mitch's glee and shenanigans on that bridge, but I bet I'd feel the same way if I felt that bridge moving with every step. But it was still a cool adventure and thing to do. The views were AMAZING on this route. Wow, that find down from the dam was just breathtaking and it seemed to just go on as you went. Sorry about the bad dinner. I'm pretty sure it was duck and as someone mentioned bamboo...hopefully not fermented shrimp paste as well as that is an acquired taste (even for a lot of Viets).
Another fantastic video guys! Capturing some great shots and real life travel moments! Sponsored by FishermensFriend™for when you accidentally order dog 😂
27:00 2 you choose to go this route is an area of ethnic minorities, so their food + taste is a bit different from ours, but the plate of boiled eggs + the thing wrapped in the other leaf might be Cha, a dish made from pureed meat, if it's well cooked, it's delicious, 2 egg dishes & Cha is a side dish, how much you eat, you will pay more, if you don't eat it, you won't charge you
When one doesn't care if the other person is comfortable doing things on a trip... The trip won't be fun... Keep that in mind... Be respectful of other's feeling...
It’s fine, we’ve been together for 8 years.. Mitch knew we were safe and knew I would’ve been fine, it was an experience at the end of the day that we look back on and laugh at😊
I've been in the "how do I eat this" situation plenty of times, even in Vietnamese restaurants in the US. But I just ask, and they're always happy to explain. Sounds like the dish had a lot of some fermented fish or shrimp product in it? That's sometimes hard for westerners to get used to.
Oh poor Martha Mitch shouldn't do things like that when he knows your scared, you should have made him come and get the drone, hey guys you should have looked up language translating apps on google, I'm sure there would be some on there
Martha is that your engineering assessment of their building skills and to quote"have you seen what they make this shit out of". What do they make it out of?
@TheJammyGits Thanks so much for the reply. I really loved your trip and I'm currently planning my own right now for Vietnam in January 24'. I have done Thailand by motorbike last year and it was phenomenal. I did the golden triangle as well as some other loops ( mae Hong son ect ) I am very excited to do Vietnam and I plan to vlog my trip. I'm excited to visit some of the places you guys have visited and let them know JAMMYGITS sent me!!
@@jakecampbell8419 no problem at all😁 thank you so much! Wow that will be amazing🤩 you’ll have the best time I’m sure of it! If there’s any questions you want to ask about your trip dm us on Instagram and we’d be more than happy to help! We’ve also got a free google map route that’s linked in our final vbm video if that’s any help to your planning😁 Martha 🫶🏼
