Vietnam's Amputee Tribe - Why Nung People Smoke Human Body Parts

Explore the mysterious and haunting traditions of Vietnam's Nhum tribe in this eye-opening journey. We go deep into the remote northern mountains where cultural beliefs and survival practices intertwine in unexpected ways. Discover why this isolated community preserves amputated limbs through smoking, a practice that ensures they remain whole in the afterlife. Meet Mr. Đương, who has preserved his leg after an infection, and Anh Van, who struggles with the emotional burden of keeping his arm after a traumatic accident. Witness the profound significance of smoking meat in their daily lives and rituals. Join me as I uncover the layers of this controversial tradition, revealing its deep spiritual roots and its impact on the Nhum people's identity and well-being.
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[@wumao_gang1020]

I read the title wrong thinking that everyone in this village deliberately amputated their legs just to smoke it like tobacco 😂😂

[@lisalennon498]

Same 😂

[@OkramOkram-yk8wd]

U got me ..hahah

[@DJCole34]

I did too. I was considering cutting my hand off, if I could get high from it. lol

[@Nyxeline]

yep same. it's why I clicked it. I was like nooo wayyyyy this can't be real!

[@Dramsmoto]

They did it on purpose for more clicks

[@emptyemptiness8372]

Did anyone else think they were about to watch a video about a hill tribe that chops up body parts and smokes them... in a bong...or have i just exposed myself as an old stoner?

[@TheBoilingTea]

Look up the drug Kush. They are adding human bone to it

[@88tirtles]

I domt smoke anything and i thought they were going to dry and smoke their ampitated parts to help it grow back😅

[@MrCarloss]

I thought the same too 😅

[@Lingling-bc1mx]

Yup

[@beaverkat4267]

✋

[@ALEXANDER59394]

I was thinking "smoke" as in smoking like tobacco and I was pretty confused for a moment hahaha

[@aubreymakau78]

😂😂😂😂 likewise

[@adybarker4733]

Same here

[@markweedon1972]

Probably best not to say that in public 😆

[@nishanz]

Same here 😂

[@donnafraenkel7852]

Lol me too

[@Lazarus-nm4dd]

Talking about the smell of a dissecated limb whilst eating jerky in the same video and comparing their smoking of jerkies with the smoking of limbs.

[@Fenix.1111]

People who thought they where going to smoke the limbs like tobacco. 👇

[@NandarAung-wl8ln]

Fr

[@ezzz1238]

😭😭😭😭you caught me!

[@SilverforceX]

Please keep original voices and run subtitles. Do not do dubs it really removes the audience from immersing fully. And thank you for such a great content, its amazing to see such variety in cultures from such a small region!

[@johnvaldez5236]

I agree with original voices being more immersive. But Im actually happy for the dubs. I listen to most youtube videos on my headphones with my screen off, and I can't listen to the subtitles.

[@maxmaxx888]

You should make your own videos then.

[@kevinjaitejmontbose5377]

Keep your views for yourself.

[@pootz8082]

I agree it takes away from the rawness

[@LOVEBABY138]

But how about blind people?

[@dannig1879]

The blinks when describing the smell of the foot meat💀😂🤦🏾‍♀️ Andrew we love you and it’s amazing watching your channel grow.

[@Andrew_Fraser]

😬

[@samuelrebecca9915]

​@@Andrew_Fraserkeep keeping on....sending hugs and prayers to you for safety,well done ❤👌🙏😀

[@ryanmcgrath339]

That is seriously deep. I wouldn't like the idea of a body part smoking above my cooking food the body oils would be dropping into the food. A very interesting episode bro thanks. You got to get Sonny on one of your episodes

[@tuannunghagiang]

Thankyou Andrew fraser wellcome Hoang Su Phi, goto youtuber Tuan Nung Ha Giang Dịch văn bản bằng camera Thank you Andrew faser for coming to my hometown and accompanying the Tuan Nung Ha Giang youtube channel, specializing in sharing orphaned children to connect with love and big arms.

[@saintevo6953]

Absolutely amazing content. I've been saying it for a while now but you're channel is going to get huge. Congratulations on your success so far and all that is to come!

[@michaelcarpenter778]

Fantastic video Andrew! Dont change a thing brother. 100% support

[@abbieborel9733]

You deserve so many more subscribers! Keep up the awesome content!

[@MieSieng]

Great story! Loved it, but I wish it was longer!

[@leehaseley2164]

What a truly wonderful insight into a very unique culture. You approached it in your usual sensitive and curious way.

[@Andrew_Fraser]

Thanks Lee. I really appreciate your long-time support and for taking the time to comment so frequently

[@leehaseley2164]

@Andrew_Fraser it brings me happiness to be able to show support and encouragement.

[@raghuramkaligotla8382]

Having subtitles was better than the voice over. It's un-natural. Please have subtitles only.

[@Andrew_Fraser]

Thanks for the feedback. Testing to see what people think. I’m 50/50

[@brad4850]

@@Andrew_Fraser yes please, voice over is really bad! do love ur vids a lot

[@raghuramkaligotla8382]

My pleasure 🙏

[@crazyaboutfishing]

Only one word 'AMAZING 😍😍'

[@kradanime]

@@Andrew_Fraser I think it's more respectful to hear the native language. not fond of this voice over.

[@Road_taste]

Unique culture on earth, this is amazing documentary!

[@udutina6256]

My take too

[@mattnobrega6621]

Interesting, scary and yet deeply rooted. Thank you for sharing

[@yeoharold4404]

Wow! I never thought about what happens to amputated limbs before! Eye opening.

[@kristingallo2158]

In the west they're usually just incinerated

[@ozzmosisable]

Absolutely great video(even share it with friends on FB) and nothig`s shockin with people`s believes!!! Keep on this way and greetings from Bulgaria!!!

[@scottieholland8028]

Good day from Texas Brother, That was an interesting video, because I enjoy learning about other cultures and their ways of living and especially food. Keep up the good work and I will be looking forward to your next video.

[@drissaudia1323]

Andrew, really like your way of filming. Beautiful quality and I love the sepia color, different from other KZbinr’s, even Sonny! And he has a team that edits for him. Love the story, never heard of this practice in Vietnam. But, I do understand the after life traditions. I hope that guy heals and accepts his life. 🙏🙏🙏

[@NaniWilliam4]

Senang sekali bisa lihat kebudayaan asli yg masih terjaga luar biasa kesederhanaan mereka

[@KA-pq3yz]

Are you sure you were having dried buffalo meat?😂

[@P_R_I_D_E_002]

Dang .😮i wouldn't even dare touch it. Your doing a great job.

[@aron6108]

Fkn awesome vid bro🤘

[@lyyliesther984]

I enjoyed this documentary. Thankyou

[@lsdevenie1426]

Another great episode 🤗🖤👍

[@Rj_Psalms]

I'm not sure what to do first , continue my meal or continue watching this video! both are good but hard to do at the same time

[@bjmr1234]

Thank God, I had my food and saw the video 😂😂😂

[@Mighty.Matcha.]

Really appreciate how respectful you are towards their culture, it’s really sad to see them describe their accidents, hopefully there can be more improvements on how the machine works or there can be more accessibility to teaching these ppl how to properly handle the machine. Great video and info :)

[@gkhanjriii91-04]

Awesome documentary 👍

Woww Thank you for sharing a very strange custom. I was born in Vietnam but in a few months I want to go there to explore this family.

[@user-mm7zi4ue7d]

It’s not surprising at all, they’re just mummies. Many corpses in cold areas can be preserved for hundreds of years, and people are happy to do so. The corpses stay with them just like living people.

[@LyLucLinhTV]

Vậy anh liên hệ youtuber Tuấn Nùng Hà Giang

[@apemancommeth8087]

Yum, I love beef jerky! Sir…. That’s not beef 😬🫨

[@ricoviii1]

Andrew made the best things in his videos he made the speak Vietnamese dubbed it in English sometimes I watch these videos in the background and I can't read subtitles so thank you for that even Sonny doesn't do that

[@joanneganon7157]

Hey Andrew, that was brave of you to take a wiff😳! Shocking at best, but you did a great job explaining their rituals 👍! JO JO IN VT 💞🇺🇲

[@user-mm7zi4ue7d]

This is shocking. If you want to see a mummy, why don’t you take off?

[@MieSieng]

I love your content ❤❤

[@JillABaker970]

This was a very cool story. I loved hearing all of it. I just wish it was longer!!

[@aferrous9290]

Love your topics.. ❤

[@ueb4631]

I thought they all had a culture about cutting of body parts and eating the smoked body part. Which sounded widely unpractical and like the worst case of cultural body modification I'd ever heard of. This was quite a bit short of that...

[@Vlad-fm3gk]

Suddenly hungry for some beef jerky

[@florenceknight420]

I remember u Andrew Fraser.. i watch one of yr vlogs when u went here in Philippines to try to eat 'PAG PAG' .. Love your vlogs though✌️☺️

[@DaveNukem]

really strange that you have less than 200k subscribers

[@chrismckay8584]

My grandmother wanted to keep her foot to be buried with it but they just incinerated it they don’t let people keep their parts in the west.

[@user-cn2ny1zz4h]

Cada día aprende uno más de ser humano

[@LyLucLinhTV]

Thank's Andrew

[@user-qf7sg3or8u]

It's great thanks

[@mikayla_collie]

This gives 'smoking your ops' a whole new meaning! 😂

[@warwickmilne3149]

that meat is like proper biltong, not that road kill you americans called jerky

[@Alex_Unorthodox]

Like Mr. Duong I'd take my leg if it had to be amputated and the doctor told me it'd be destroyed otherwise.

[@matheob3487]

Memories a raw, yet the arm is not.

[@tdanh2787]

"Thats the Ivory"

[@drissaudia1323]

12:09 oh scary seeing this. I need to go to sleep soon. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@pasjeihobby]

It''s repulsing and interessting at the same time.

[@cdo8994]

Preparing a coffin isn't a bad idea because it costs a lot more for years later to come 😊

[@thatbostix2]

Yeah

[@thatbostix2]

The title feels misleading.

[@moo_moon128]

we smoke a lot of meat in my tribe, so when I read the title, I knew that it was smoke as in preserving and drying meat via smoke produced over open fire. Never realised that it reads like you're smoking the leg . lel.

[@peetymcfly8871]

omg. i almost barf when I read the title people smoke human body parts and then the guy marinating red meat.

[@NazaneenNakinuka]

Oh my god this is shocking 😱😯 I would have nightmares

[@bacleedon5670]

What? I’m a Vietnamese and this is the first time I hear this cuisine

[@mawama6719]

if it works for them, then so be it! who am I to say that it is wrong!

[@ThorinLongbeard]

"Vietnam's Amputee Tribe - Why Nung People Smoke Human Body Parts" I really thought they are gonna smoke limbs like weed . ... xD

[@edward2448]

Hey Andy, Saving the body parts reminded me of a documentary I saw years ago. It was about the forbidden city in China. Every servant of the emperor was castrated but they got to keep their "Twig and Berries" in a box and they were buried with them to be whole in the after life. I hope I don't need my appendix to get into Heaven 🤣✝️

[@Andrew_Fraser]

Wow, that’s crazy! Actually, most of these northern minorities were originally from China many many centuries ago but were pushed out. I wonder if there is a connection there. It could be a far more common belief than I realized.

[@edward2448]

@@Andrew_Fraser When I saw the guys dried up leg 🦵 I thought you were about to try some Vietnamese "Prosciutto"🤣

[@user-mm7zi4ue7d]

@@Andrew_Fraser The yellow people were originally in a very small area in East Asia and were constantly driven out. Taiwan was also driven out, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Myanmar were all driven out. The time was different, but the method was the same. It seems that you have realized this. One thing, preserving human bodies is a hobby of yellow people. The corpses of Mao Zedong, Hu Zhiming, Chiang Kai-shek and others were also preserved like the people in your film.The difference is that you can't interview and observe with the body

[@user-mm7zi4ue7d]

@@Andrew_Fraser The Chinese have always believed that human flesh is the best food and medicine. They still like to eat certain parts of the human body. In ancient times, they often ate human flesh. The yellow race people like to eat human flesh. This is a racial characteristic. The American people continued to eat it until the European colonial war.

[@user-ik4in3pq2f]

Aint no way bro smelled the leg

[@PonkyKong]

So land mines would be a real sticky wicket

[@vibesl4568]

Why do I think he was eating human flesh 😂😂

[@jesseking9254]

I thought they were turning the limbs into a bong

[@carloscisneros8887]

At least, they don't eat the missing limb to make it grow again... 😂😂😂

[@andrewkue7895]

Next time someone offers you some smoked beef jerky, ask for a bowl of rice with water. Best way to eat smoked meats.

[@bloomingmayoo]

😅

[@Volundur9567]

They probably think the body needs to be all present for proper reincarnation.

[@LDS228]

G’day mate

[@sczullkjengker8380]

Hey it's Andrew

[@vonn2221]

The body just vessel, the vessel can be have disabilities but the soul not go with the same disabilities as the vessel

[@ballistic350]

Smoke meats with smoke limbs 😂 damn. . Im curious to know what we hmongs called this tribes

[@AKVcodm]

Smoked meat over fireplace is totally normal in asian community.

[@stevegreen8393]

There's definitely a letting go of your right arm problem going on there dude.

[@Alwaysoutdoorsbushcraft]

Now send sonny over to take a bite .

[@bacleedon5670]

Basically Smokey Toe

[@johndextersantos9541]

Lost a leg and suddenly he became lazy 😂😂. Look at the other amputees that still continued living out their working lives

[@oldschool8432]

From the headline I thought they were smocking leg. Human leg! But this is almost as strange Edit: I meant like in a pipe. Can you imagine doing a bong hit of leg lol

[@hldo00]

This title was very misleading. Seriously, it sounded like one of those videos about cannibal tribes or so but it’s nothing like that

[@human8454]

That's why believes are dangerous to the humanity

[@celestejodi]

Im not going lie those people really poor how in the hell they eating human foot.

[@thatbostix2]

Did you watch the full video??? Người Việt không bao giờ ăn thịt người!

[@xdtrobowen3881]

interesting beef jerky.

[@spitfirered]

People Around The World Have Their Cultures, Not Many Left Though, It Doesn't Seem Fair And They Should Continue To Live As Their Ancestors Did, But The Younger Generation Is Changing And Probably Won't Be Of Any Help To Them, I Have To Admit Before Showing The Video I Presumed They Were Smoking Them Literally, Thank You For Sharing!

[@user-mm7zi4ue7d]

The tradition of yellow people is to eat human flesh. Do you want to respect it?

[@thatbostix2]

​@@user-mm7zi4ue7dI am "yellow people" and I don't eat human flesh, ok? You really thought everyone is the same...

[@winscaser4008]

ETAG😊

[@BigErnMcCracken777]

Why on earth are you touching those amputated limbs with your bare hands?!

[@Jumbo344]

How do you keep it pristine until die? … are you taking the piss mate .

[@carlito8l614]

I would keep my arm or leg 🦵in a Michael Jordan shoe box 📦 with a custom interior design🏯 that would replicate Heavens angel 👼🏿

[@RePotHead]

Don't like the dubbing, i like the subtitles more

[@thatbostix2]

I agree!

[@Lee-we8zr]

😂😂😂😢😢😢 Don't let philly get a whif of this?

[@Uncle-Kokai-Taka]

That's very dirty practice we should educate them

[@gigirys9948]

I believe 🙏🐉🙏

[@88tirtles]

Im thinking whatbwoukd happen if an animal grabed the dead meat amd ran off with it

[@thatbostix2]

Nùng people won't be that stupid to let an animal take their legs.

[@kiwismurf4536]

were have i seen you before? its bugging me...on tv maybe?

[@saintevo6953]

He's done a few collabs with Sonny from the Best Food Review Show chan if you watch that

[@kiwismurf4536]

@@saintevo6953 yes i do watch that, thatl be were ive seen him!, thank you!

[@samuelrebecca9915]

​@@saintevo6953correct ❤😂👌

[@weekendnomad5038]

Wouldn’t it smell like decomposing flesh ?

[@samgraham6355]

Not if you keep smoking it over and over and over.

[@Toxicgranny1]

Very weird and disgusting... Geeezzzz... 😮 They could separate the body part from kitchen. Didn't need to smoke it above a cooking pot. Geeezzzz... Wtf 😮

[@paben_comedies]

I can even eat it

[@JD-kf2ki]

It's "Nung" ethnicity, not "Nhum."

[@Andrew_Fraser]

One is the spelling the other is the pronunciation

[@__Rizzler__]

erm what the sigma?

[@dbm6231]

World is full of shit.😢

[@celestejodi]

true

[@armedanddangerous2242]

WTF???