Went to Vietnam city that USA destroyed and tried their insane NOODLES (food in HUE!)

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

I still love this place very much As l can see the poor people 7 months ago l was there for seeing my beloved dad

[@tompham637]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. You seemed to know VIetnam History. You mentioned Emperor “ Gia Long” who united the country. However, the people didn’t give him the credit for this grand action because he had invited the French to the country. It was the beginning of French colonialism set foot in VN. We Vietnamese don’t look highly of him. Bun bo Hue used to be royal meal. You chose the right place to taste “ bun bo Hue “. Enjoy and stay safe ! Big hug.

[@thatevanguy1480]

@tompham637 thank you! I appreciate it. And ya, I didn't like that about him either when I was learning about him. The French had a huge impact on Vietnamese culture. I mean, you know way more than me lol

[@kmhedgef8642]

Quang Trung already united Vietnam. Gia Long stole the credit and made that propaganda that last until today. The problem wasn't that he brought the French into the country because if not the French, the British, the Dutch would have done it. The problem was Minh Mang who imposed the most exploitative feudalistic system on the country, while stupidly aped the Qing, instead of reforming Vietnam like Meiji Restoration. Oh well... a mistake paid over 2 centuries of misery by the people of Vietnam.

[@anguyen1551]

Most foreigners say nice things about Hue and the Nguyen Dynasty out of politeness and respect for Vietnam. They are being kind. Many years ago, I went to VN for business and met a Japanese businessman. After visiting Hue, he told me of his admiration for the Nguyen Dynasty. I told him that most Vietnamese when studying history of the 19th century, admired Japan for the Meiji Restoration, while blamed the Nguyen Dynasty who copied all the Qing's backwardness down to a T. (Even Dowager empress Tu Cung, used name "Tu", which is "Cu" in "Cuxi" - so, if China had "Tu Hy Thai Hau," Vietnam had to have "Tu Cung Thai Hau"). I told him about Phan Boi Chau and "Dong Du" (which happened too little too late to save Vietnam from the French). The Japanese businessman was astonished and said he appreciated that bit of Vietnam history, and he understood why Japanese appeared to be very well received by the Vietnamese people, in spite of Japan's occupation of Indochina in WW2 - unlike the hostility he encountered in China (for the Rape of Nanking and others).

[@thanhthuynguyen6104]

Evan, you are making a nice video about Vietnam, and thank you for your enthusiasm for Vietnam's food and culture. But anyone can make the mistake of engaging in controversial local history/politics, so there are a few comments regarding your narration on the Nguyễn Dynasty. Not your fault, you just read stuff for general tourism, and your praise of the Hue ancient capital was largely a praise for Vietnam's historical heritage. The commenters don't fault you either, they just want to share with you more information about Vietnam. This is the same as someone going to America, seeing the Hoover dam, saying how great President Herbert Hoover was, and someone else replies by explaining about the Great Depression. In any case, your video is amusing. Keep up the humor.

[@thatevanguy1480]

yea, i figured. I didn't like some of the stuff he was doing myself, like giving the French more power in Vietnam. But, i'm no expert on the history of Vietnam. I've only read a little bit. I appreciate you understanding lol :). The imperial castle is awesome though! Vietnamese food is AMAZING! I never get tired of the dishes.

[@anguyen1551]

A foreign tourist visiting the Hoover dam might naturally think that Hoover must have been a great president to have the dam named after him. Likewise, foreign visitors to Hue associate it with the Nguyen, because that's what Hue tourism says. Hue is still loyal to the Nguyen, while the rest of the country hates it.

[@bienphongtv5387]

Chúc bạn những ngày du lịch Việt Nam nhiều hạnh phúc ❤❤❤ từ Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪​@@thatevanguy1480

[@MinhPhamGators]

You're on point. Food is so subjective; what's excellent to one may be so-so to another. Thanks for sharing your honest opinion.

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

My tears are flowing like a river Why? Look at these women food vendors They carry around on their shoulders by bamboo sticks My mum used to do it for many and many years while l was younger 1975-1994

[@kmhedgef8642]

After almost 3/4 of a century, from 1954 - 2024, the poorest Vietnamese still live the same life. Taking a longer view, after over 2 centuries, from the establishment of the Nguyen Dynasty until today, the poorest Vietnamese have paid so much with blood and lives, and their lots have improved very little.

[@RiverVN19]

​@@kmhedgef8642tôi sẽ không giả thích gì cho bạn. Hãy đến Việt Nam và mở mắt. Các nhà hàng lớn hay nhỏ trên toàn thế giới đều có nhân viên của mình, họ làm việc và nhận lương ( đó là một công việc gợp pháp, không có gì phải xấu hổ khi họ kiếm tiền bằng chính công sức của mình)

[@ariasriagustin5590]

Hi Evan! I really like your video, the way you respect the culture, traditional food, and you also kind. Come back to Indonesia, i will take you to wonderfull culinary from Indonesia. I have many recommendation about traditional food and you will get experience and know how to eat that proportionally the way eating that food. (Bcs i watched your video, and i found you are wrong to eat our traditional food lol)

[@thatevanguy1480]

Thank you so much! I will be back to Indonesia but i have to go to Thailand after Vietnam. I want to make the channel about those 3 countries and maybe add Malaysia as well. :)

[@kmhedgef8642]

3:18: with the courage to drink that, you are an Evel Knievel of street food. 4:27 You are sadly fooled by Nguyen Royalists' propaganda. Nguyen Gia Long didn't unite Vietnam. It was a far more famous Vietnam King: Quang Trung who defeated the Qing (China) invaders and united Vietnam. The Nguyen dynasty is one of the two worst dynasties in Vietnam history, as it was extremely backward, conservative, with policies destructive to the Vietnam society, and was responsible for Vietnam to be colonized by the French in the 19th century. A reason for the Vietnam communists to have received popular supports was the Nguyen's policy that enabled aristocrat landowners to impose indentured servitude on the poor peasants for perpetuity, generations after generations from fathers to sons. Ho Chi Minh demolished that system, thus enjoyed tremendous support from the impoverished, exploited, indentured peasant class. During the Nguyen Dynasty, Vietnam was a poor country, yet, instead of heeding many Vietnamese scholar reformists who wanted Vietnam to reform like Japan's Meiji Restoration, Nguyen emperors engaged in wasteful plundering of national resources to build extravagant archaic relics like the Hue Citadel and their imperial mausoleums. There were famous folks' poems (very well known in Hue), about how a Nguyen's mausoleum was build with "skeletons of soldiers" and the moats were "filled with blood of commoners." So, nothing glory about the Hue Forbidden City. It is a mark of shame of the Nguyen Dynasty.

[@anguyen1551]

correct. Mr. Evan: Karl Marx wrote his Das Kapital aimed for the proletariat class exploited in industrialized societies. But China and Vietnam had no industries back in the early 20th century, they had no proletariat workers, so, who supported the communists? The answer is the indentured peasants who did not own any land and must work (to death) for the landlords. There is a recent box-office-hit Vietnamese movie "The Last Wife," depicting that kind of caste society in ancient Vietnam. Nguyen Dynasty was responsible for the entrenchment of that kind of exploitative system.

[@thanhthuynguyen6104]

"Vạn Niên là Vạn Niên nào? Thành xây xương lính, hào đào máu dân" This two folk-verses refer to the extravaganza of the construction of Tự Đức's mausoleum (the 3rd emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty), who ruled from 1829 - 1883, essentially overseeing the complete collapse of Vietnam to the French colonialists. Although Vietnam country and people were in abject misery, Tự Đức still ordered the construction of his mausoleum, known as "Khiêm Lăng," at the construction site "Vạn Niên." This construction demanded extreme cost of labor, and inflicted tremendous suffering on 50,000 workers and soldiers, leading to the verse "Thành xây xương lính, hào đào máu dân": which means "walls built with soldiers' bones, and moats filled with people's blood." There were a few Vietnamese rebellions that attempted to overthrow Tự Đức because of this, unfortunately, they failed. Tự Đức stayed on, ensuring the complete loss of Vietnam to French rule, cementing the Vietnamese people's fate for 2 centuries - to this day.

[@kmhedgef8642]

@@thanhthuynguyen6104 thanks for your correction. I don't read Vietnamese well.

[@thatevanguy1480]

Thank you for the information! My mistake. I am not that familiar with Vietnamese history. I mostly read about the war with US and the wa r cr imes my country committed there. apologies! Thanks again.

[@kmhedgef8642]

@@thatevanguy1480 not blaming you at all. Just share info. In any case, although I am American-born Vietnamese, I know that most Vietnamese no longer resent the US, as you can feel how people treat you there, in spite of the fact that you are an American. The reason, and the tragedy was a misunderstanding: The Vietnamese, exploited and mistreated by the French, thought all Western powers were the same evil, and only learned later that the US was not an exploitative colonist like France or England. Ho Chi Minh knew this, which was why he implored FDR to recognize Vietnam's independence in 1945. Sadly, the US made the mistake of viewing Vietnam as a Red China puppet and engaged the War to stop the "Red domino wave". So, in a strange twist of history, today the US is building its world's largest embassy in Hanoi, ironically, to deter Xi's dangerous imperialistic expansionism, and most Vietnamese now view the US as an ally. Enjoy your culinary adventure in Vietnam! and cheer! 🍷🍷

[@trantienkhang3245]

Chào mừng bạn đã đến quê của tôi cố đô Huế

[@phiba4467]

Bạn có kinh nghiệm khi chọn những quán đông người dân địa phương ăn, chắc chắn là ngon

[@thatevanguy1480]

Yea, that's what i usually do lol. Drive around and look for crowded places haha. In this case, it was raining and I didn't rent a bike in Hue. :)

[@vmvengsub3812]

2:38 sidewalk coffee always hit differently.

[@thatevanguy1480]

SO true!

[@diemle3996]

When you go to Hue, you should try Salt coffee - Cà Phê Muối at Nguyen Luong Bang which is Hue special coffee

[@thatevanguy1480]

yea, i tried it in Da Nang. i still think the coffee the aunties sell is WAY better. Salt coffee is amazing though. This lady though, omg! Her coffee was MINDBLOWING! i'd be there daily if i lived in Hue.

[@HungDuongtan-lv6ti]

seems delicious

[@muhammadnoorbinrohani39]

Look yummy

[@thatevanguy1480]

@muhammadnoorbinrohani39 Vietnamese food Is so amazing! You just got to get the right things from each City. Each city has a special dish and other cities can't make it better. For example, Hanoi's bun cha and bun rieu are so different everywhere else in vietnam. Idk where you're from but Consider a visit. You won't be disappointed

[@lekdwi2931]

Keren bang pemandang nya,

[@PhongHoang-lh6wn]

Do people still perceive us this way? When i first saw video i thought it was from ten years ago

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

A bowl of food is 2 quid there Like that he can eat street vendors food only half price and the quality will be excellent

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

This banh canh food A type of savoury food rice flour mixed with cassava flour and cooked with shrimp They are nice But l am still crying for women whoever carries on their shoulders with bamboo sticks Why l cry? Too heavy but they are doing these work every day carrying around to sell for living Why world bank or local authorities give them some wheels for pushing I am crying still

[@hoanghaipham4776]

I am Vietnamese 🇻🇳 What are you nationality? Are you love Vietnam ? I hope you have an idea how much you enjoy traveling in Vietnam the most in the world

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

Eat food in markets are cheaper than eat in the restaurants only half price

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

Try to eat in markets Why? They are the best

[@thatevanguy1480]

I eat at the market in Da Nang. I was in Hue for only two days. so, i ate what some locals recommended. :)

[@notredame6847]

Stay in 62 can not stand 24 hours loudspeaker

[@thatevanguy1480]

What's that? I'm not sure what you mean.

[@APPutra-rj1zr]

That is Indonesia's phone code, I believe

[@thatevanguy1480]

​@@APPutra-rj1zr oh i see. lol. I am coming back to Indonesia. I just want to grow this channel to be about Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. In the future, maybe China, Russia and some Balkan countries too. Indonesia is SO huge. I missed a ton.

[@Mouse2409]

I am Vietnamese and also perfer Bun Bo Hue from Da Nang than that from Hue. It's just different taste.

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

in London l cycled in Hue they carry too heavy they do their work harder than me The food vendors

[@kmhedgef8642]

The silver lining is for some their cardiovascular health are better than many in rich countries.

[@user-mv2hn6jf7i]

Some women are toughen there as l see them selling cook food for a living

[@nguyenson7073]

what do you mean 'city that USA destroyed'? such a lame title.

[@thatevanguy1480]

@nguyenson7073 during the Tet offensive, this city was heavily bom bed. 💣. No offense to any Vietnamese. It was all the US government. I know Vietnamese people and Americans would be friends, you know? Most people want peace, not violence. I was just talkin about what happened here

[@QuanNguyen-qq4os]

​@@thatevanguy1480American soldiers did not destroy Hue city because they were living in Hue ...their home😂Who attacked Hue in mid night of Tet when American soldiers slept in Hue ?😢

[@RiverVN19]

​@@thatevanguy1480bạn lại bị người Mỹ gốc Việt tấn công. Bạn có thể tìm thấy họ ở cali khi trở lại Mỹ😂😂😂

[@username14d]

@@QuanNguyen-qq4os Tết mậu thân quân GP kiểm soát thành phố được 1 tháng, Mĩ vs VNCH tái chiếm thành phố bằng bom và pháo binh khiến 80% thành phố bị phá hủy