The REAL Da Nang Vietnam 🇻🇳 The Side Foreigners NEVER See! 🚫👀

They honk to give you a heads up that they're behind you. Everybody goes to the usual tourist spots in Da Nang, but I wanted to see the local experience. So I went where tourists don't go. I would like to see the local, local stuff. Oh wow! Okay, so this is a hair salon. I got to try foods with names that I can't pronounce. This is the raw fish salad. I also got to see Da Nang from a local's perspective. I learned some essential survival skills. you can't say you have been to Vietnam until you tried these things very interesting experience so I'm going to be brave and give it a try good morning from Da Nang finally the Sun came out and we can go out to explore today we are on a very very special tour which is a food tour with a local guide here and we're starting here at this beautiful pagoda and we just learned that 80% of Vietnamese have no religion which is such a surprise to me they do have ancestor symbols to pray to so we have some statues here the Lady Buddha yeah so cool. What is the name of them? Ông Tơ Bà Nguyệt. Ông Tơ Bà Nguyệt, Nhu Nhuệt. So Ông Tơ is grandpa and Bà Nguyệt is grandma. So Ông Tơ Bà Nguyệt, they like a cupid couple. Therefore, a lot of young couple and family couple, they often come here to pray for happy life. And sometimes have some mother without baby, they come here to pray for baby. And they do have some offerings here for a fruitful life as we heard. Super, super cool. Chợ is a market and right here is the name of this market. Daily meal for Vietnamese people is steamed rice. Steamed rice, okay. we will cook the rice and we will come here to buy fresh food to cook the topping to eat together with rice uh we made it to a local market where people come and get the groceries to cook the meals this is what it looks like okay do you know what is this incense incense yeah that's this one i don't know what that is this is a paper money paper money yeah and sometimes you will see a lot of dollars of vietnamese money and u.s dollar yes oh wow yeah it's a paper money and after incense stick finished they will burn all of this for the dead people okay wow look at these like the whole packages that you can buy here are these what is this oh this is where you put the money yeah yeah this is the vibe that i'm going for because i told her earlier yeah i mean the tourist market is fine but i would like to see the local local stuff so this is why i love to have this wow okay so this is a hair salon so they're not often meet foreigner people so when they see any foreigner butcher station here okay just a quick coffee break and i just wanted to talk one-on-one with you guys because travel is not always rainbow and sunshine in nelly's life unfortunately it's paid from all of the bad things that are happening along the way so the least i can do is prepare you for a few things that you have to consider when you're traveling abroad and if you travel as much as i do you know that the trip itself is not stressful but everything that happens along the way i had cancelled flights i had missed luggage i got sick abroad and that is such a nightmare scenario probably the worst of all and the big problem is you're in a new country and you have no idea who to call and that's exactly where the Holafly plan comes in handy for frequent travelers i have to say this is a lifesaver i've been using Holafly for a while now and i absolutely love it it keeps things simple you get unlimited data in over 160 destinations hotspot for your other devices and a phone number with sms which means those annoying two-factor authentication codes can still reach you while you're abroad and the plan is also reliable when your trip doesn't go to plan if your trip is cancelled or delayed they handle the whole claim process for you and you get 150 euro within 24 hours for lost luggage and that is for me the perfect excuse to go to zara and just buy some new clothes so actually not a really bad scenario for me but my favorite part is that it's actually always there when you need support you can chat with a real doctor 24/7 in english or spanish and even book video sessions with a psychologist nutritionist or personal trainer while you're traveling which i personally haven't seen anywhere in any e-sim plan included so that's a big deal so it's not just about staying connected anymore it's about having the extra peace of mind to keep exploring and of course for my viewers you get 10 percent off Holafly plans for your first 12 months or five percent off your standard Holafly esims all you need to do is click the link in bio and use my code TravelBestie and you're all set no worries at all anymore so hopefully that saves you some headaches but for now i would say let's go back to the vlog so the market experience was very very humbling i've seen many local places throughout my travels in Asia so wow such friendly people bright smiles so lovely and right now we are going to have our first bite here we will try some traditional cake in the center of Vietnam you can see Bao Loan it is the name of the owner okay bánh bèo, bánh nậm, bánh lọc so most of the bánh is the traditional cake ah so we have a bánh mì right yeah just remember bánh it means cake Yeah, sweet cake or savory cake is a bánh bèo. So this one is a bánh bèo. So it was made of rice flour. We just pour the rice flour on the cup and steam about 5 or 10 minutes. Until it's done, we just put some topping on the top. This is a fried onion, shrimp powder, pork skin. Okay, wow. So the first one with banana leaf is a bánh nậm. So now you just open it, and you should use a spoon to add some salt, and you cut it and try it. Here you go, first bite. Interesting. It's very glutinous, with a lot of spices. A different one, it's made of tapioca flour. This is a first. Oh, okay. You like it? I prefer the other one. That was a very, very local experience, so I'm very curious to see what else we're going to try, because i have never tried those dishes before although you know i traveled quite a lot in southeast asia so yeah sometimes you really have to step out of your comfort zone and just have somebody to tell you what to try and keep an open mind two options for the local noodles okay the noodle mixed with fermented fish sauce so it has a very strong smell and the second one Yeah, it's like a dry noodle with a little bit of salt, mixed with shrimp, pork, and... And we're going to try some local noodles here, and we were just told we should try some corn milk. So this is my first time trying corn milk. What is it with? What kind of... Corn. Ah, it's just corn. Corn milk. Yeah. Wow. It's like sweet corn. Yeah. Yes, but not... It's the reason we mix with ice to make it not too sweet. Not too sweet? Okay, okay. We often drink with ice. The noodle is thick and flat like this. We call it is a Mee. And if the noodle has a round shape, it is a Bun. So this is Bun Mang and Mee Quang. What color of the... You mean the yellow color? It's for the make of turmeric. Turmeric, yeah. It's just that you have to try because it's very special. So Mee is a noodle and Quang from Quang Nam province. Okay, we just have more stuff coming out. this is the raw fish salad so show me how to eat it okay so we have some rice paper yeah this one very thin so you don't need to dip with the water yeah some vegetables yeah you can put any vegetable you like yeah this is a green mango mango some cucumber yeah and you add some raw fish salad so now you roll it like little bingo okay and now you dip with the salt okay it is the same salt inside this one okay i like the vegetables yeah very crunchy spicy this one very spicy yeah very spicy what kind of fish is it and we made it to the next stop which is the coffee shop and i already have vietnamese coffee here so this is a very local local coffee shop um i definitely can use some coffee because that was so spicy i just need something cold so it's going to be an iced uh vietnamese coffee for now it's midday no watch but it's time for coffee okay we're learning how to say cheers in Vietnam. So, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Smoothie just with coffee. Salted coffee approved? Very good, yeah. Yeah, so you see the cream on top and I think you have to mix it, no? Okay, okay. I'll try your ways. Yeah. And the cream is not too heavy. This one is slightly salty. Oh, very good coffee. Yeah. To the next food spot, we have two more stops. And something very interesting that our guide said is that here in Da Nang, or specifically in Vietnam, the sidewalk is actually a parking space for scooters. And I've seen it so many times. That's why we're walking here next to to the road but uh yeah they honk to give you a heads up that uh here you can see the scooters on the sidewalk so we're just going around it but yeah this is what it looks like so it's a lot of parking here oh yo yo take one piece of pancake and after that you open it yeah so the topping have a shrimp and bib and bean sprout some cucumber and some vegetables you like okay so this is the local pancake called Banh Xeo and the name comes from the sizzling noise that it makes when it's being cooked right because it's fried yeah yeah so we had this earlier like two days ago three days ago yeah it was very oily so we don't eat that much uh fried food but i'm going to give it a try have a bite we have some peanut sauce here what's this it was a bit of rice flour but we add some turmeric to make it have a yellow color. A little bit of egg and the topping inside have bean sprouts, beef and shrimp. I prefer the other dishes so far. ice tofu durian. Okay. So we have an ice tofu with the pandan leaf flavor. Okay. And with some durian on the top and we make everything with coconut milk. Okay. Because first time you tried durian right? Yeah I tried durian and uh i think the very first time in thailand yeah um very interesting experience so i'm going to like be brave and give it a try yeah okay because it's a local local thing here yeah we'll try yep it does look interesting i can eat this but it's not my favorite it's not your favorite yeah okay if it's not your favorite why are you bringing us here Okay, I'll try a small one. I just put a little bit here on the thing. Yeah, I remember the strong flavor. It's like, it's very creamy. And it has kind of like, I would say almost like a fermented taste to it. Yeah, very strong. Yeah, very strong. I can feel it. I smell durian. Do you want to try it? I did, I did. Yeah, yeah. Wow.