Xin chao! What's up everybody? Alright, we are in Japantown. We are going to be talking about street food, ice, and other things along that line of things.
I've been getting this question a lot in IRL when I meet up with a subscriber. That's especially new here on the first or second day. Like how to know what street food to eat, what to avoid, what happens if you do get sick from eating street food. We're going to kind of go over all that.
You would think that you could just kind of eat anything here, but there's many ways to figure out if a banh mi place is not good. that you want to avoid it where to eat street food where not to it's pretty much common sense but a lot of people that maybe haven't traveled a lot and been to different parts of southeast asia and the world wouldn't know so i'm here to help you guys out as usual of course if you liked the video you can subscribe if you didn't like it you can unsubscribe if you did like it you can smash the like button or smash the dislike button and leave a comment if you want to all up to you guys i leave the power in your hands 100 So this might be the spring roll lady. There's usually a banh mi or a spring roll lady here. Let's see what she is. So this banh mi lady, she's here all the time.
She's got a queue at lunch. There's ways to know a banh mi is good. This one's just a simple egg and pork and maybe a little bit of the sausage patty.
She's usually here for six or seven hours out of the day. You pretty much can't go wrong when it's just egg, a little bit of pork. And then banh mi and then she'll put some soy sauce on it, maybe a little bit of chili sauce and that's really it That's the most basic banh mi that banh mis come in things you want to avoid banh mi wise when you're doing banh mis is The traditional banh mi of Saigon is like three different Pork's head cheese kind of type deal with like the brain and like other weird stuff in it Look at this guy going all too fast Good to slow down because of me.
Now you try to give me a look. It's like 65. So crosswalks aren't a thing here. That's another thing we can just talk about briefly before we get back. The car in their mind has the right-of-way even though even here the law is that a pedestrian does especially on a crosswalk have a right-of-way.
Just know that it's not like that. But yeah, there's really easy ways to figure out if a banh mi is okay to eat. One, you've walked by it a few days in a row and she's always in the same spot or he and he's always selling the same product and there's there's people queued up to to actually buy the stuff so you should be okay on that things to avoid what is this japanese very japanesey i can't tell what it is I don't know.
Some flower shop maybe? Not the best location for a flower shop. Who knows? Hello.
Uh but yeah the the quickest way you can tell about me like a traditional one. I think we're gonna come up on another guy that's here every night that does the cooked sausage patty. But the easiest one on on the traditional one that has the pate you know the three different kinds of like hams essentially pork and then puts the daikon radish and the carrot and some soy sauce and some chili sauce.
It's a little look at the pate is is it left out in the sun all day long are they not covering at all does it have a thick crust on it also does the mayonnaise oh i forgot they put mayonnaise on too does the mayonnaise have a thick thick yellow crust to it where you can tell like the sun has been hitting it 100 degrees for three to four hours out of the evening or day that's not going to be a good one if you you know you're at a good bonnie when the person is covering the pate they're covering the mayonnaise they're at least putting like a little sometimes they'll put like an aluminum just an aluminum bowl with a little nipple on the top to cover it there's other ways this guy's out here a lot too this is like a little soup guy his is trustworthy this bottom you guys out here every night now for the past I don't know a year he's a sausage guy yeah so this is his little cooker for the sausage they'll cook the sausage on here you do not want the already cooked sausage. Make him cook you a fresh one. And you can figure out how to say that just with like hands.
And then he'll either cook an egg and put an egg on as well, but I like the sausage one from this guy. This guy's just getting a traditional one, just egg. Anytime it's just egg and hot sauce and other things, you're always going to be safe. The things you have to watch is the pate. Like I said, if that pate, the sickest I've ever gotten is off a off of or off of weaving.
Not yet. Okay, I'll buy one. Sure.
Sure, for you. How are you? Hello.
Hello. Are you good? I'm fine.
She's fine. Come on, G. Cigarette lady's got me for a targeted clientele now.
See, I'd say the biggest thing... Oh, thumbnail. That thumbnail.
Wait, wait, wait. Thumbnail. I love it when a thumbnail just walks by randomly.
Can't beat it. Walking by thumbnails are the best kind of thumbnail you can have. These are all bar girls for sure. So, the sickest I ever got was eating off a boy vein at like 2am.
A lady's bond me. And it was one of the little sausage ones. But she had already cooked them. I could tell she had probably been there on hindsight.
I was on the toilet for like three days. So there's a way to stop being on the toilet too that we're gonna talk about, but I could tell in hindsight that I shouldn't have bought it, that I was drunk, I was hungry. You make poor decisions. So the best way to get the best banh mi's in Saigon is just look them up. I've got a pretty good guide on the best banh mi.
You can just type in fat and broke banh mi. I think the one in District 3 is the best bare bones one. And then if you want like a pretty fat, like large one. So this is a Korean restaurant.
This is a Korean stew, like traditional winter stew. Pretty good. If you want a lot of food that's Korean, it's pretty good. So I think that's it. Yeah, you want to look them up.
Like, if you can just follow my guide and go to, in my opinion, the two best bahn mis in District 1 and 3. You know, the one I do in District 1 that I've done two reviews on, people say is overrated, but I've had, I don't even know, a hundred different kinds of bahn mis. It's one of my favorite things here. I think I'm pretty good at knowing what Bonme is good or not.
And for traditional Bonme, the one in District 1 has it. I'll try to link the videos, but I'll probably forget because I don't re-watch back the videos. because there's no need because I edit as I film. And I don't believe in editing out ums, ahs and oohs because that's how you realistically talk.
If you ever see a YouTuber where it's just like jumping, jumping, jumping, but it seems real quick, it's only like a second later in that video, he's cutting out his ums and ahs when he's like-Hey man, I love your YouTube channel. Thanks bro, I appreciate it dude. Yeah, have a good night. How long you been in town?
This is probably my third or fourth day, but I've been here for probably about-Australia, mate. Yeah, that's exactly-Australia, mate. Yeah.
Nice. Yeah, my parents are here. Yeah, your parents are Vietnamese. Yeah, but I've been here about two months already.
Two months? Awesome. Yeah, I love your channel, man.
Awesome, dude. Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
I appreciate it. Have a good night, dude. Nice to meet you. All right, I'm not a subscriber.
That always helps the video. Shout out to you if you're watching the video, dude. This video will go up tonight in real time in two hours. My recording schedule is flipped now.
I'll be filming everything at night instead of during the day. We've got some stuff going on at home that I have to take care of. Mainly a dog with puppies.
So, I'm watching the pups. There's usually a fantastic Bon Me Lady here. Like right here. She's got a killer traditional banh mi. I think it's 20K.
You know, it's the different kinds of porks and the daikon radish and all that stuff. So really with street food, you wanna check it first. Like the key flower street.
street food place everywhere there is legit because it's such a popular place it's like probably the most popular street food place in Saigon arguably like where one street condensed in the street food that place has a very good food and you'll never get sick there I can guarantee it I've eaten everything there multiple times never gotten any problems and they're not gonna ever try to get you sick because they would have problems getting business if people went there and got sick they wouldn't come back so You have to kind of look at it that way. But most things you can look up and review. I do recommend you do not do random street food in random places.
Like there's a lady, I think she died. She was a total C-U-N-T. She was on the corner here and she would overcharge foreigners by like 10K for a banh mi. She kind of disappeared after the third wave of COVID. So rest in peace if she did pass, but her banh mi was scary.
sketch of shit i got sick off of her bomb me once too but you gotta you gotta vet it you gotta see if the people are taking care of their ingredients like i said covering shit up like this lady's that i just pointed out that's down here pretty much every day from 9 a.m to about 6 30 p.m she covers everything she's got like a whole little shelf system where like a whole silver thing like slides over on top of it or like a metal thing all of her shit's covered i've never seen a build up on the man mayonnaise or the pate. You know, once you acquire the taste, So that's the street food series of that. I know a lot of people that are like man I got sick eating street food. I'm like did you just eat random street food and he's like yeah man I was just walking by it and I got it so I mean there's your reason you've got to vet it.
Hello Xin Chao. So you definitely 100% have to vet this stuff. There'll be people that are like, I guarantee you there'll be a few dudes in the comments that are like, I ate whatever I wanted. I'm just gonna go, man.
This guy ain't going. I'm going. I ate whatever I wanted every day for a month straight and never had a problem.
Well, that dude probably has an iron... stomach because nine times out of ten that's not gonna happen most stories I hear from like people that have been here only a week they've gotten sick once or twice off food poisoning and there's a super easy way to kill food poisoning in a its tracks the second it happens. I'll tell you, you'll be surprised.
You just go to the pharmacy. They have a thing in Asia, in Southeast Asia. They might even have it in America, but they don't really prescribe that shit for us in America. You just go in.
In short, you can just say, I have diarrhea. Or you can type in charcoal pill, charcoal pill on Google, and it'll show a picture of the charcoal pill and the name of it, and just show it to the pharmacist, and she'll sell you the charcoal pill. But if you say you actually have diarrhea, which isn't like a tab. taboo word here like it is in the West. They're not like, oh, oh, oh, it is diarrhea.
She'll give you the full like thing. She'll give you a full kit. She'll give you a liquid pack that you squirt in some water.
It's like this, I don't even know what it is, but it coats your stomach and coats your intestines, I do believe. She'll give you a probiotic pill and then she'll give you a stop diarrhea pill and then she'll give you a charcoal pill. So it's like a pack of four things.
It'll come in like a little Ziploc bag. and she'll write down how many times to take it a day. If you have that stuff on you, and the second you get the SHITs, the second you get those, if you take one of those emergency packs within the half hour, you will literally kill it in its tracks.
You won't see maybe one more bowel movement on the toilet that's bad, and then it'll start to clean up right away. But you've got to have it on you on hand, and you've got to take it within a half hour of your first incident. If you wait...
too long like the next day it could be a two three day event you know that that uh bond me i had off of boy vane i was out for like a week no a week it just crushed me it defeated me the other times i've gotten sick on food is seafood that you haven't seen alive so if you haven't seen the seafood alive in a tank or come out of the ocean here don't eat it you can i mean you can do whatever you want you guys are all adults you can make your own decisions and you're big boys big girls but i will not eat seafood here unless i've seen it live period whether it's in a tank which i still don't even prefer a tank i prefer to get it pulled out of the ocean and you'll be fine Like in Phu Quoc and all that, like the locals place I do there, somebody said they got sick there. I'm like, did you watch him pull it out of the tank? He's like, no.
I'm like, well, what do you expect, dude? Like, and the other reason why you gotta watch him pull it out of his tank is because they weigh it. And he goes by weight.
They'll cheat. your ass like you have to understand that like it's not even like a disrespectful thing in their head it's just the way that they've done business here for generations you know if you can get away with something you get away with something i don't even think in their mind they're like i'm trying to rip people off i think they do it to any kind of ethnicity so like if a vietnamese mobbed up and said i want this this and this and didn't stand at the scale and watch it get weighed they could potentially rip you off and that's and the way a vietnamese looks at that is that's your fault for not going and looking at them weighed on the scale so that's their mindset behind all that like that's what you have to understand what people don't get it's the same when like a vietnamese cuts you in the line you get all butt hurt That's because you weren't moving fast enough in the line. If you would have just moved your ass, you wouldn't have got cut.
So they take opportunities where opportunities are had. And most of them can be taken care of on your own if you're thinking fast and on your feet. Again, that's an acquired skill after you live here.
I haven't been cut in line in forever. Occasionally a goy, an old lady will try to cut and I'll be like, nope, I just won't let her. I'll just cut right front and back in front of her.
Like the old lady. Ladies like to do the old aunties, like to go to like, Winmart and pick out a few things, right? And then set it on the counter in front of everybody on like a huge line. Like, set it on the counter.
Like, no joke. They'll just set the shit on the counter. and just try to cut and you'll be like what the hell and then she'll start shopping some more she'll have the person start ringing it up and then like walk around whatever is in that five foot vicinity and start shopping more and you're like looking at her like what in the fuck so the the way around that you just shut your down in front of hers and go no no no and sometimes now more and more lately i've been noticing that uh That the workers are paying more attention to that and like not letting them do that. So then the last part I want to talk about in this video, I didn't think this would be a 20 minute video, but hot dog.
The last thing I want to talk about in this video is ice. You can completely, I've never gotten sick off ice here. I get ice in everything. If you don't have ice in your...
beer here, you're a weirdo. It's pretty much the way it goes. The reason why you put ice in a beer here, it's really simple and straightforward. It's not going to blow your mind. It's because it's 95 degrees out with like super high humidity.
The second you crack open a beer and you're out outside. That thing is going to be lukewarm in two minutes if you don't drink it. So yeah, they take a cup and they put a big block of ice in it and you drink it out of there. You have no worries with that, my friends.
I can give you the fat and broke seal of approval on ice. I've never gotten sick off of it and I have a pretty shit, shit stomach. So if I can make it fine off ice, you can too. And don't be afraid to put ice in your beer. It's already watered down shit beer here.
If somebody's trying to tell me they like Tiger right now, get... Get the fook out of here. It's like a watered down Heineken.
It's like a Coors Light. So what's the harm in putting some ice in a Coors Light? It's gonna water it down some more.
Tapping the rock is just like tapping a bottle of water. So it's the same with Tiger. Tiger's like tapping a bottle of water.
You know, that's why these guys can drink 20, 30 Tigers, no problem. When me and my wife's dad drank, we drank like a case each almost. We go nuts. But we're eating the whole time and it's over like a four hour period, but we both drank a lot. I don't do that anymore.
If I go over there now, I'd take a couple bottles of soju and I have one or two beers and I just go shot and shot. It's gonna be difficult now that I'll go over there because I don't get drunk anymore. So like, it's been alright.
I've actually done it the last few times. I just stopped after like three or four beers. Where I start to really drink super slow.
Even though Bob likes to like, slam beers. years, especially if any of his brothers are over, they'll all be like, let's slam them, slam them, slam them. So I hope this helps. Like, as far as the street food goes here, where they fry the little fish balls and shit, you're fine on that.
You're not going to get sick off that. Those are frozen, coming from a grocery store, frozen section. They're not homemade. They're putting it in oil and frying it up.
The Dilat pizza is the same. She's using canned corn usually. She's using the little pork sausage rolls that you buy at a store.
If you're buying fomai, you buy at a store, which is cheese, rice paper, and then cooking it. None of that stuff is going to make you sick. The stuff you've got to watch out for is pretty much everything I just talked about, like meats. Meats that are prepared by them individually and how long.
they've been sitting on so yeah that that is the video for for these topics i wanted to cover i hope you guys found them helpful if you want to support the channel in any kind of extra way we do have a patreon there's a new patreon podcast on there there's a bunch of exclusive content on patreon there's direct access to me and then there's going to be youtube videos on how to be a youtuber on patreon so if you just want to do a one-time tip that's also in the description for the paypal so everything's in the description all right guys thanks for watching stay frosty drop a comment if you have anything to add right before i go this is a delicious snack food that she's making here there's a couple different ones this was the dilap pizza i was talking about she's making a spring roll but you can also get these chopped up with quail eggs and all these other sauces very very good i recommend you try it once this is also not going to make you sick and then on top of it this is where you can always get pork rinds so if you're keto or something you want a snack she's got legit pork rinds which are kind of hard to find so stay frosty thanks for watching see you on the next one peace out