Layover Saigon + 4 Nights Hanoi Vietnam

Hey, what's up? It's like pitch black. We've arrived in... You need to put a ******* light on mate. Oh, really? So here we are. Ho Chi Minh. Correct pronunciation. Terrible pronunciation. This is our home hotel. We're loving it. What do you love about it? The bed is like a rock. No, it's good. It's clean. The sheets are clean. It's ******* fantastic. It's colder here in the fridge. Yeah. Happy days. Can't really complain. Ho Chi Minh. Outside our hotel. There's the motorbikes. Look at them. They're everywhere. They swarm. Chicken. Meat. Beef. How is it baby? Pretty bloody good. What are you having? I'm having beef pho. Having pho? For breakfast? Pronunciation. That is my pronunciation at that moment. Here. Crazy. Quite yummy though. Lots of ice. What was it called? It's called Cafe Sua. Yep. Kimchi. Second or third of December. Neil is writing his note in the note cafe in Hanoi. He wrote a very silly one first. This is the silly one. How much ink has been wasted on notes in this cafe? Like how many animals have perished? Squid? Oh my god, help me. What do you think baby? Yeah? They are so oily and delicious and yum. Hardly any. Hardly anything. Here's another safety first video on the edge of the scaffold. We're doing the Uber tourist thing. Eating with Where Obama Ate. I think this might be in his place setting. That's funny. Just sitting down with the mates. Mr. Bourdain. Mr. Obama. Opening a beer Hanoi. Oh yummy beer. Here it is. If I can open it. About to eat some Hun Char. Hun Char? Hun Char. Do you have to tell us your name again? Do you like football? Do I like football? Oh yeah, I like football. Do you know who I support? John. Australia. Yes. I think. Definitely safety first here. Safety first. So right now we are waiting for the Scotland cruise. Just around the laptop. So we're heading off to the National Fine Arts Museum. Down this road. Haven't been down this road before. Or at least this section of it anyway. So happy days. Leigh just checking out some bread. Or was it beard? Cheese pastry right there. That little one. But they call them a cookie. Cookie, right. And it's from the beard shop. Is that what it said? Yeah. The beard shop. Kind of a little lane way. It's paved. I mean bikes ride down here still. But it's pretty cool. Don't really know what it is. 25. A black sheep. Wonder what happens in there. So we just kind of randomly wandered off down the street. And we found that train street place by accident. And we just heard the train sound. So it's coming in a second. Now I've got to get in the shot. Here it comes. I mean this is absolute pandas. Transport for New South Wales. You've got some work to do. Also you need to replace your headlights. That is crazy. Look how close it is to the thing down there. Now the train's just gone. Here's all the cars that have banked up. It's just incredible. Safety first. So this line that you're looking at at the moment is like the back end of the entrance to the Ho Jim. Probably two k's long. Right? If you think about where we are now getting back to the... And it sort of winds around. We're going to give the old Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum a bit of a wide berth I think. We'll do the walking tour around the perimeter. Yeah. So we seem to have found ourselves in the middle of like school tours to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. And there are kids everywhere. In uniform on a Sunday. It's crazy. Hello. This is crazy kind of back street that we found ourselves in after Ho Chi Minh with a nice little pond. Yeah. It's these like crazy laneways with all this like incredible telecommunications work above us here. Absolutely bonkers. So we're in a place called Kho To. Kho To. Can't remember the second part of it. But anyway. Let's just call it Kho To. So it's a training center in Hanoi which gives people at risk and disadvantaged youth the opportunity to break the poverty cycle. So we're here at Kho To. I'm trying to look at myself but these glasses are not cutting it. Which is really sad. Anyway. Cool place. Lee's just having an amazing tea. There it is. It's got ginger and honey and lemon right. Enjoying it? And this apparently is Sauvignon Blanc. I'm not so sure. So we're here at the Temple of Literature. All these guys are graduating. Awesome stuff. Hello. Congratulations. Well done. You passed. Yeah. We've just come into the final square of the Temple of Literature which celebrates education. And then all around us here, there's more kids here. They're all graduating. And there's the obligatory guy with the massive cameras. What did you call this again? It was the Temple or the College for Small Boys or something? Or College for Boys? College. Right. Lee's just got some tea. I think it is. Is it tea? Well. Lemon and lemonade watery stuffy. That'll be cool. Check it out. Oh my God. What? It's like fresh lemonade. Is it? Yeah. Can I have a shot? $20,000 which is like. That's ridiculous. Pizza. A very traditional Vietnamese style. Pizza. Pho Co. Which will be delicious. And mine is just as weird. It's this way. There it is. There we go. The Salmon Miso Cream. So traditional. And it comes recommended. Very quiet. 6.30. It's very quiet on the streets. Oh, this is really quiet. Ridiculously quiet. What were you saying then? Motorbikes? They're okay. A little bit of calisthenics in the morning. Very good. Tai Chi. A little bit of cha-cha-cha up the other end. A little wolfie. Come over to say hello. Yeah, he likes it. I've already patted him. Have you? Yeah. Eating in a tourist trap. I'm sorry. Drinking coffee in a tourist trap. Yeah, and I'll do that now. Because right opposite us is... Jesus. I have to stir up the condensed milk from the bottom. Or it just looks black. It's no good though. Yeah, that's where we're going. Get some Banh Mi Mama. She just whisked up some eggs and something. I don't know. I'm not sure. No. The old secret in the sandwich toaster. Who'da thunk it? What do you think baby? Really good. So this is the... We've stumbled upon the market street. Oh yeah. A little bit of fish. Rice. It's really easy to forget to look up. Like in these sorts of places. You spend your life looking down at all the food that's in this street. Crazy architecture. It's ---- hanging off everything. Wow. This is metal street. But everything you want metal, cooking wise. Mailboxes. Big steel vats. Toolboxes. Watering cans. What else? They've got chimneys. And kind of all made like this. There's a takeaway shop over there. But if you want, you don't have to take away. You can just eat in here. Which is pretty cool. Pan Mee. Pronounced correctly. Lots of meat. Lots and lots of meat. Lots of five spice. I got a good kick of chilli in mine as well. Yeah. Nice. Different to the other one. I like this one better I think. I think I like the other one better. Awkward bugger. I like the coriander. Yeah. I got coriander in this one. Yeah. So, this is Christmas Street. Check it out. Little streets I should say. I mean, look at that up there. It's just Christmas ---- everywhere. Everywhere. Look at this stuff. Donuts. I don't know what they've got in them. Here's the lady making them. What's inside it baby? Oh yeah. What's this one? I don't know. I presume that's the Hanoi flag that you see up there. Love a lantern. This is like when you'd walk for motorbikes. Lots of official ---- going on here. Also, Opera House. It's a bit different to the normal shape with the sails. Can't go in there. We've got a model over here doing the North Face Gucci. On the top. Probably can't read it. But it is something else. What is it? Breakfast 3? Breakfast 5. No this is brunch. Using fancy words like brunch. One home. Ate at this place. Bloody delicious. Third breakfast for the day. I feel a bit full. What about you? So what have we eaten today baby? So far. We've just only had 5 meals. 5 things. Not meals. We went to Banh Mi Mua. Yeah. Delicious. Then we went to See if we could do a Donuts in between. No. Then we went to Banh Mi 25. Then we went to Donut King. No. One Donut place. Then another Donut place. Then to And then Pho Thin. Thin. We only had like We didn't have 2 bowls. We had like 1 bowl. We had 1 Banh Mi. And we had the Breaded Donut things. That go with it. Delicious. The best thing It's only quarter to 11 In the morning. But we need to sleep now. They're testing out a little bit of French influence In Hanoi. Boulangerie Samarie Torture By boba balls. I can't even get that through this time. Oh so close. Come on baby. You can do it. Get that ball. Ready for the explosion. Come on baby. Do it. My mouth hurts. Deciding what to eat. I'm going to get these ones. Which ones? This one. Yeah? Best stuff has arrived. I mean This all looks ******* awesome. A little bit busy in Vietnam. In Hanoi. Right now. The lake at night. That's gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. No wind. Or teeny teeny tiny little bit. Just beautiful. Lovely night. Beautiful night. Walking around the lake. And that is That's kind of heading back towards Our hotel. We just Look at that. It's all very low lying But such Beautiful Scenery. We haven't seen it Well we've seen it before But it hasn't been lit up This massive blue clock. It's a little bit of a Lantern Christmas tree. Next to Kind of higher end Restaurant. Did he just say that did he? I was going to say higher end restaurant But they just shouted tequila. Having some Phở To start with. Some lime Vinegar Chili Chili times two And we're going to get Chin Garlic So we're recording. Testing one two So what was your highlight of Hanoi? My highlight was Of food All of the yummy food Walking around the lake Early in the morning Middle of the day On the weekend At night Talking to students That was pretty funny Just walking Walking everywhere Yeah we walked everywhere What about you? I think The food tour on the first night I really loved Zui was great He was pretty cool Took us around Showed us lots of different things Still really enjoyed That first dish we had Nem Nuong Yeah Obviously great pronunciation Once again I also like walking around as well The Bun Cha restaurant Was delicious Not what I expected Like food Flavor wise Phở was good The Banh Mi we had yesterday We tried two different sorts Banh Mi And Banh Mi 25 And obviously Good pronunciation once again Hotel was good Hotel was very good Where we are Good location On the outskirts Of the old quarter Not too noisy You can walk everywhere We walked between 10 and 15 km every day Yeah we have And we slept well We slept well And also the randomness Of the train That was quite fun Oh yeah Just rocking up at the right time To see the train Go through the middle of the town And kind of Miss Shops by this much So it was good It's been a great And now we are off to Ha Long Bay Yes Which will also be Mintox Hanoi Thumbs up Thumbs up Hanoi