The BEST STREET FOOD in SAIGON, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh)

We are going on a food tour in Saigon via motorbike. And we'll be trying some exotic interesting local street food like... Well you're gonna have to watch the video to find out but it's certainly interesting. All right let's get into it. We are Kylie, Kasper and Ella, an Aussie Danish family who loves traveling the world and exploring new countries. If you would like to follow us on our journey make sure to subscribe to our channel and follow us on Instagram so you don't miss out on any of our adventures. We're just about to get ready for our motorbike food tour here in Saigon but at the moment it's pouring down so we might have to wait a few moments before we get on those motorbikes and head off to our first stop. I think we're gonna get a wet butt. You look so cute. Ready to go. You didn't get too wet. But yeah good fun. I definitely didn't get wet. I'll use the spoon. Otherwise we'll be here all night. So what is that? Banana blossom. Okay. Banana blossom. The water morning glory. The last one the bean sprout. You put everything in here. Okay. A little bit like this. Good. Mix it up. Yeah mix it up. Yeah. You need to taste the broth first. How was it? Yeah it's really nice. It's very flavorful. It's good. Definitely no more chili because it might start getting a bit spicy but very good flavor. Okay so I cannot use chopsticks at all so they made me this little invention like almost like a scissor but so much easier. Something nice about this tour is that we're all eating together. Our scooter drivers slash guides are eating with us. I feel like we're hanging out with our friends tonight. I'm putting lots of lime in mine. It just adds like a delicious freshness. It's so good. The meat is really tender and I haven't had the the round noodles before. I've only had the flat Vietnamese noodles. So this is different. Trying different noodles tonight. 50 to 100 different Vietnamese noodles. Wow. A lot of the restaurants here they actually specialize in one different type of broth and that's why they do so well. If you go to a restaurant that have a lot of different types of meals they might not do as well as opposed to those restaurants that specialize just in one thing. So we just arrived at a cafe and they actually have a citrine in here so I guess a bit of French influence. My mom actually used to have a citrine pretty much similar to this one here but in yellow but that's probably 30 years ago now. This cafe has a secret bunker. Follow me. Let's go. Oh my gosh there's a trap door. Our motorbike guide just left us. All right you want to go Ella? Okay. How do you feel about this Ella? I'm not sure to be honest. Never done anything like this before. A cafe with a secret bunker. Can I fit my butt down here? Okay here we go. Okay. I can't fit down here. I can't believe people used to like sleep down here at night. That's crazy. So we're currently going up this other really tight staircase to another area so oh my god it's so dark. I can see there's a ladder up the top. Oh my god. We're in a bathroom. That's an interesting exit. Whoa that we actually were so deep. That was all sorts of really cool and really strange. I did not expect to be going in a bunker today. So cool. It's got all these vintage antiques. We are trying roasted chicken right now and it's coated in chili so it looks a little scary but I'm excited to try it. Apparently it only took seven minutes to cook over the grill over some charcoal so let's see what it tastes like. Oh my god. This could be the best chicken I've ever had. So the chili is not very spicy at all. It has like a sweet taste to it. So chili and little sugar or little honey. Yeah. It's so good. It's delicious. We're trying banana and sticky rice. So this almost tastes like mango and sticky rice that we eat in Thailand but this is with banana. So you almost have the banana flavor instead of the mango flavor but it's really delicious. I love the coconut sauce. Yeah. It is so delicious. I could drink it. Delicious. So this shop where we just had the banana and sticky rice apparently is one of the most famous places in the city to get this particular dish and they sell more than 500 bananas a day. Because it's raining right now it's not as busy but normal times there can be a really long lineup down the street just to eat their banana with sticky rice. Off we go again to the next meal. We've just arrived at our next stop. We're actually in Chinatown at the moment. We are now going to try some Vietnamese pancakes. Some different types of pancakes. There's some really large ones so there's some smaller ones made of egg with rice flour and turmeric powder and then there's another one as well over here that was with rice flour and I think tapioca flour with egg and then they put the shrimp in there and some sort of mushrooms and pork. It's really interesting to see how they make all of this. She put this batter onto a hot pan and yeah now putting an egg onto it breading this out. So far it's looking a little bit like a or a pancake. Now she's put the lid on so I guess it's kind of like steaming it. So there's a Vietnamese pancake over there which looks absolutely delicious. It's being fried in like a wok. I can see some shrimp in some batter as well that all looks delicious. You can feel the heat from the cooking. Did you meet a friend? Hi, can I taste it too? You can taste the rice, you can taste the eggs, you can taste the beef and then the yummy fish sauce on top. Oh my gosh. It's nice isn't it? It almost tastes a little bit like a dumpling. So we're going to try the Vietnamese pancake now and it comes with lots of greens. This tastes like licorice. I feel like if I was closing my eyes and I put this in my mouth it tastes exactly like a licorice. Yeah, it pretty much brings me back to Denmark where you eat a lot of licorice. Yeah, so the smell and the taste is quite fishy. So we call this here fish mint. Fish mint? It actually tastes like fish. He does say it's a bit fishy. Oh my gosh. That's the strangest thing I've ever tasted. So you take the the mint leaf and then kind of rub it against some fish? Is that how you do it? It tastes like the ocean. It actually tastes like the ocean. Yeah, that's so strange. That's so good. You can taste the seafood, you can taste the fresh leaves, everything. You can taste the Vietnamese pancake and then you've got the chewy rice paper on the outside. So good. Sounds like a flavor bomb. Yeah, it's like I don't even know how to describe it. So what I noticed in Vietnam is that they like to mix all the different kinds of meat together. This is something that we don't do in Australia. So this is really interesting for us to try it like this. That fish mint, it goes really well with the prawn. I guess if you're a vegetarian you take out the prawn and put a bit extra fish mint in there to compensate. Here we go again. We are having so much fun tonight. We did not expect that we'd be eating so much. I think we're trying like 15 dishes but the tour has been absolutely amazing. The best thing about this tour is that they've been eating with us and just treating us like friends and it's been absolutely amazing to see Saigon through the eyes of a local and try all their amazing dishes. A highlight of the trip as well is getting around on this motorcycle which has been so much fun and the best drivers. Very safe. We definitely recommend. Alleyway. Yeah. And just straight through the people. That was so cool. We are currently at the flower market and this place is just bursting with life. It is so busy here. It's actually open 24 hours a day so it's a wholesale market and people come here to buy their flowers for weddings and for funerals and for parties. It's really beautiful and the flowers smell gorgeous. So I just found out that you can actually get silk from the inside of the lotus stem. Apparently the traditional Vietnamese dresses are actually made of that and are very very expensive. So yeah, how interesting. We have just spotted some chicken feet. They look like a baby's hand. Wow. It has, oh it has like fingernails and all the fingers and like the texture of a hand. It looks like little like E.T. hands. Would not want to try that. Oh I think they just asked if we want to try it. What is it called? It's called a star apple. Very nice. Very sweet, very juicy, yummy. We have just arrived at the Cambodian market after going through the flower market. Already I am greeted with so many different smells. Like fish, I'm getting like a barbecue smell, like chard smell, spices, all sorts of different smells. This is certainly one busy market. So we were told that they have Japanese food, Korean food, Cambodian food, also Vietnamese food. Yeah, so many different types of food and the food looks so good. So apparently there are a lot of Cambodians living here in Vietnam. The influence from Cambodia obviously comes from sharing a common border with Vietnam for most of the southern parts of Vietnam. Also a lot of Cambodians actually migrated to Vietnam during the civil war in Cambodia. Interesting street food they sell here so we're going to explore some of it. We've just arrived at our next stop and we're going to be trying some Vietnamese barbecued food. So beef with lemongrass and beef with beetle leaf wrapped around it. Really excited to try this. There we go. It's a bit of a hot job here. Okay, let's try it. Okay, let's try it. Okay, so beef inside the beetle leaf here. Let's try it. Really tasty. Very juicy. Full of flavor. I'm trying some beef mince that's wrapped around lemongrass. So it's grilled on the barbecue and it has a bit of cheese on top. So let's try it. Not too spicy. That's really flavorful. Yummy. I guess that's the fun thing about doing these food tours with locals because we would never find this place. Like we would never normally come here. I don't know how to describe it. Probably looks a little bit dodgy. A lot of the paint is peeling off. Looks like a mirror that's been there on the wall for the last 20 years and up on the wall they have some photos of girls. They almost look like they used to be a hairdressing salon. But nevertheless the food is delicious. And if the locals are eating here then it must be good. So we're eating snail and pork together. Okay. We eat the fish sauce with it? Yeah. Okay. Okay, here we go. Cheers. One, two, three. Tastes good. I can taste lots of ginger actually. My heart beating so fast. I don't taste snail. I taste ginger, chili and like a pork consistency. So that's good. I have no idea what I was expecting to be honest. But yeah that's actually a good surprise. I actually really like that. They're taking out the bone? Yeah. We just have the skin stripped a bit like that. Oh. So it's basically just the skin? Yeah. Isn't that a bit chewy? A little bit crunchy. A whole one? That's a big commitment. Do you see the resemblance? Chicken feet. Not really sure what I think about it. It's jelly and it looks like little fingernails. Yeah? That wasn't the answer I was hoping for. Okay. One, two, three. Chicken feet. I can taste ginger. Yeah. A bit of chili. Yeah. And a not so pleasant texture. Okay. Give me five. All right. One, two, three. It's big. Is it moving? It's a bit like a deer factor. Is it walking around in your mouth? She cannot finish. Just put it in my mouth. All I could feel was a gelatinous jelly kind of texture. As I was chewing I could feel the knuckles in the feet. They were like all bony. Especially when I saw these guys hoeing into them. So I'm like it's mind over matter. Mind over matter. I can do this. I can do this. We certainly did do that. And I did that. And I did it. Oh. Smells very eggy. But it looks a bit like an egg that's been lying way too many months in the sun. Okay. Give me five. One, two, three. Tastes like a yolk. But it's not too bad. Just the thought of the embryo in there is not appealing. It just tastes like an egg. Okay. So Vietnamese pizza. So it's made from rice flour. It has corn, spring onions, and some sausage on it. And some cheese as well. So let's try it. Very tasty. I like the crunchy base. Okay. My turn to try it. That's so good. It kind of tastes like a pizza. So the base is actually rice paper. And it's really crispy and thin. That's just how I like my pizzas. It's been really informative as well. Just learning a little bit about the history of the food and how it's made. You really taste the culture through the food. So good. What an amazing food tour. We had an awesome night tonight. We certainly tried some delicious and very interesting food tonight. We really hope that you've enjoyed watching this video. And we'll see you next time on Living the Joe Life.