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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown | Vietnam | S04 E04 | All Documentary

Anthony Bourdain explores Central Vietnam's Huế, sampling clam porridge, bún bò Huế, grilled eel, and visiting Vinh Mốc's wartime tunnels in this Parts Unknown episode.

Key Takeaways

  • Central Vietnam's food, especially in Huế, reflects centuries of imperial, spiritual, and regional culinary tradition.
  • Street food and communal eating are central to Vietnamese culture and to Bourdain's sense of connection.
  • The Vietnam War's legacy, as seen in Vinh Mốc's tunnels, shapes how the country remembers its past and lives today.
  • Food serves as a lens for understanding history, family, and identity.

What the video covers

  • Bourdain opens in Central Vietnam, describing it as a place he has never been before yet still feels like home in Vietnam.
  • He eats cháo hến, a local clam and rice dish with mung beans, chilies, peanuts, and pork rind.
  • Huế, the former imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty, is introduced with its history under French influence until 1945.
  • At Đông Ba Market, Bourdain praises bún bò Huế, a beef noodle soup with blood cake, crab dumplings, and pig's foot, calling it one of the greatest soups in the world.
  • Bourdain reflects on the joy of scooter travel through Vietnam's crowded streets and the intimate moments glimpsed along the way.
  • He discusses the imperial palace cuisine of the 19th century and the Yin and Yang principles behind Vietnamese cooking.
  • A lobster dish with five spices illustrates the balance of hot and cold flavors.
  • The episode visits Vinh Mốc, a village whose residents survived American bombing during the Vietnam War by living in underground tunnels.
  • Bourdain grills eel at Tam Giang Lagoon, one of Southeast Asia's largest lagoons, and reflects on the warmth of local hospitality.
  • The episode closes with Bourdain's sense of happiness and gratitude for the food, people, and history of Vietnam.

Answers

Questions about this video

What dish does Bourdain eat first in Central Vietnam?

Bourdain begins with cháo hến, a local specialty of sweet clams and rice tossed with mung beans, green chilies, roasted peanuts, fried pork rind, and cilantro. He describes it as a delicious bowl eaten on a low plastic stool.

Why is Huế historically significant in this episode?

Huế was the seat of power for the Nguyễn Dynasty for 143 years and later under French influence until 1945. It is celebrated for its palaces, pagodas, and tombs, and as a center of the country's intellectual, artistic, and culinary life.

What does Bourdain say about the village of Vinh Mốc?

During the Vietnam War, American bombing forced the villagers of Vinh Mốc to live in underground tunnels for six years. The episode presents their survival as a powerful lesson about the war's human cost.

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00:00
Speaker A
Welcome to my place of dreams, my spirit house, a city of ghosts.
01:17
Speaker A
[Applause] [Music] [Music] Rainer sh la la la [Music] la way and Central Vietnam is some place I've never been before but it's still Vietnam with all the things the smells The Sounds the details I love so much first night in country it's like sliding
02:01
Speaker A
I took a walk through a beautiful world. I felt the cool rain on my shoulder. I found something good in this beautiful world. I felt the...
02:26
Speaker A
I need for happiness low plastic stool check tiny little plastic table check ooh something delicious in a bowl check in this case a local specialty C hen clam Rice Sweet meaty little local clams out of their shells tossed with a
02:45
Speaker A
Rainer sh, la la la, la way.
03:08
Speaker A
with some hot clam broth and you're on your way I'm back back in Vietnam [ __ ] eting grin for the duration a giddy silly foolish man beyond [Music] caring can I hold local beer Huda my preferred brand when ever
03:33
Speaker A
And Central Vietnam is some place I've never been before, but it's still Vietnam, with all the things, the smells, the sounds, the details I love so much. First night in country, it's like sliding into a warm, deeply comforting, familiar bath. I've been all over Vietnam, a place I feel a special connection to. My first love, a place I remain bothered with, fascinated by. So back at Vietnam, one of my favorite places on Earth, and all of the things I need for happiness: low plastic stool, check. Tiny little plastic table, check. Ooh, something delicious in a bowl, check.
03:58
Speaker A
scooters going by so delicious feel like an animal where have you been all my life fellow Travelers this is what you want this is what you need this is the path to true happiness and wisdom [Music] [Music] [Music]
04:54
Speaker A
In this case, a local specialty: Cháo hến, clams, rice. Sweet, meaty little local clams out of their shells, tossed with a wild swirl of mung beans, white rice, spicy green chilies, crunchy roasted peanuts, fried pork rind, and cilantro. And a similar variation with rice noodles. Got fish sauce with chilies in it, and who, that'll just sing your eyebrows off. Throw some chilies in, hit with some hot clam broth, and you're on your way.
05:11
Speaker A
the entire country until the late 1800s when the French started taking power and land under their control the French allowed the Imperial Throne to rule nominally the center of the country until the end of World War II in
05:25
Speaker A
I'm back in Vietnam. [expletive] eating grin for the duration, a giddy, silly, foolish man beyond caring. Can I hold a local beer? Huda, my preferred brand. Wherever in the way, clams with pork cracklings. How could that not be good? This is the way so many of the great meals of my life have been enjoyed: sitting in the street, eating something out of a bowl, and I'm not exactly sure what it is, scooters going by, so delicious. Feel like an animal. Where have you been all my life, fellow travelers? This is what you want. This is what you need. This is the path to true happiness and wisdom.
06:12
Speaker A
somewhere this is dongba market and deep inside somewhere in there is what I want my way of thinking in the hierarchy of delicious slurpy stuff in a bowl Bun B is at the very top n qu duck is an author and
06:36
Speaker A
Located on the north and south banks of the Perfume River in central Vietnam, mountains behind, Huế's arrangement was determined by criteria both military and spiritual. For 143 years, Huế was the seat of power for the Nguyễn Dynasty, which ruled the entire country until the late 1800s, when the French started taking power and land under their control. The French allowed the Imperial Throne to rule nominally over the center of the country until the end of World War II in 1945. Huế has been celebrated for its dynastic architecture since the early 1800s: vast palaces, pagodas, and tombs, a center as well for the intellectual, artistic, culinary, and religious life of the country.
06:46
Speaker A
man here Kima creates an elaborate broth of mixed bones scented with lemongrass spice and fermented shrimp paste at the bottom rice noodles garnished they heaped with tender slow cooked beef shank crab meat dumplings pigs foot and we at blood cake garnished with lime
07:05
Speaker A
Oh yeah, that's tempting. It's around here somewhere. This is Đông Ba Market, and deep inside, somewhere in there, is what I want. My way of thinking, in the hierarchy of delicious, slurpy stuff in a bowl, bún bò Huế is at the very top. Nguyễn Quang Đức is an author and journalist who spent much of his childhood in Huế. "If I'm going to die, if I'm going to prison, they give me a last meal, this will be it. This will be it. Let's do it, man."
07:24
Speaker A
sauce I want to see how much you put in there you got to make it look really red in there that's would be blood red and the broth is wonderful people are put on Earth for various purposes I always put on Earth
07:38
Speaker A
Here, Kim creates an elaborate broth of mixed bones, scented with lemongrass, spice, and fermented shrimp paste. At the bottom, rice noodles, garnished, then heaped with tender, slow-cooked beef shank, crab meat dumplings, pig's foot, and volcano blood cake, garnished with lime wedge, cilantro, green onions, chili sauce, shredded banana blossoms, and mung bean sprouts. It's a wonder of flavor and texture, the greatest soup in the world. Look at that, man. That is just unbelievable. Blood cake, blood cake with a sauce. I want to see how much you put in there. You've got to make it look really red in there, that would be blood red. And the broth is wonderful. People are put on Earth for various purposes. I always put on Earth to do this: eat noodles right here.
07:52
Speaker A
definitely bring a date for this because if she doesn't like this there's no hope of a relationship that's exactly you know like if she's said oh I don't know there's like blood G stuff in there that that would be a relationship Ender to me
08:02
Speaker A
When I was a kid, we used to tell each other, do not take a date to go out to eat this stuff, because you start sweating, your hair thickens up, and really, I would definitely bring a date for this, because if she doesn't like this, there's no hope of a relationship. That's exactly, you know, like if she's said, oh, I don't know, there's like blood-y stuff in there, that would be a relationship ender to me. I mean, I'm not kidding. Here you are, having it in a market like this, but if she makes this in a place like New York or Paris, it would be real old cuisine. It just, I mean, this is a sophisticated and complex bowl of food, as any French restaurant. It really is the top of the mountain.
08:14
Speaker A
a sophisticated and complex a a bowl of food as any French restaurant it really is the just the the the top of the [Music] mountain how long has she been here she started out when she was 12 [Music]
08:32
Speaker A
How long has she been here? She started out when she was 12.
08:46
Speaker A
good it's an hour wow really I would have guessed like 14 hours happy nice burning feeling around my lips flop sweat check happy so we we can pretty much cancel the rest of the show um I've achieved the my happy Zone it's
09:05
Speaker A
You live in a great country, man. Any country that could produce this is a superpower, as far as I'm concerned. Man, getting down to the pepper residue at the bottom. How long does that broth have to simmer to get good?
09:43
Speaker A
brother good to see you his responsibilities to his employers have never been an impediment to our friendship we meet at zuen an where you pick your own Seafood out of the tank and you cook it yourself you really do look exactly the
09:58
Speaker A
It's an hour.
10:10
Speaker A
here are from the Lagoon over here tamang tamang Lagoon is one of the biggest one in Southeast Asia I'm going for some eel seasoned with lemongrass green chili and pepper drizzle with house Special Sauce Grill over charcoal and dig in
10:29
Speaker A
Wow, really? I would have guessed like 14 hours.
10:45
Speaker A
God my God he's going to college soon wow oh this at U the island of Mr s tono Island in halong Bay uh Hanoi Hanoi by a westle oh my God look at that we look cool we totally look cool
11:03
Speaker A
Happy, nice burning feeling around my lips, flop sweat, check. Happy. So we can pretty much cancel the rest of the show. I've achieved my happy zone. It's really all downhill from here.
11:19
Speaker A
new time M wow that's great dude that's pretty spicy perfect with beer stimulate more [Music] drinks Lobster from the South China Sea give it a nice haircut tableside and it's perfect sweet sweet just like I remember back in your TR oh yeah well a Camal guy
11:54
Speaker A
My oldest friend in Vietnam, Lynn, originally assigned to translate, to guide, to escort, and to report on me, back in 2000 when I first came to this country. Ly, how are you, brother? My brother, good to see you. His responsibilities to his employers have never been an impediment to our friendship. We meet at Quán Ốc, where you pick your own seafood out of the tank and you cook it yourself. You really do look exactly the same. You look good.
12:09
Speaker A
it's been a long time since my old friend and I met a hell of a lot of road with this [Music] guy one of the great joys of life is riding a scooter through Vietnam [Music] to be part of this mysterious thrilling
12:35
Speaker A
Yeah, oh yeah. You want to say no choice of time on your face? Dude, my hair is white. I have the pictures. I look completely different. In 2000, people told me that all the seafood here are from the lagoon over here. Tam Giang Lagoon is one of the biggest in Southeast Asia. I'm going for some eel, seasoned with lemongrass, green chili, and pepper, drizzled with house special sauce, grilled over charcoal. And dig in.
13:03
Speaker A
overhear aund intimate moments in miniature you smell wonderful unnamed things cooking issuing from storefronts and food stalls the sounds of beeping laughing announcements from speakers the putt putt and Roar of a million tiny engines qu's place in history Long regarded as
13:41
Speaker A
Let's have the picture with you. Oh, you have some old photos. Oh my, look at me. Come on, I look like my own son here. Look at this. I look like I'm 30 years younger, and that's my son, Minh. Minh is now 17. God, my God. He's going to college soon.
14:04
Speaker A
cessation of hostilities more than 100 cities all over South Vietnam were attacked by the North Vietnamese and VC qu quickly fell you have seen these images it was footage like this that turned finally a great part of the American public
14:24
Speaker A
Wow. Oh, this, at Ữu, the island of Mrs. Tono Island in Hạ Long Bay. Hanoi, Hanoi, by a Westlake. Oh my God, look at that. We look cool. We totally look cool here. But does everybody fall in love with the country like I did? I came here and it stole my heart. I think there's a very good meeting point between Vietnamese and Americans, yeah, but in the past it was over, and now it's a new time.
14:53
Speaker A
saving the civilian population caught in the crossfire were equally devastated the North Vietnamese to their enduring shame had while controlling the city rounded up anyone seen as a potential enemy and either disappeared them away into unknown prisons or killed them
15:10
Speaker A
Wow, that's great, dude. That's pretty spicy, perfect with beer. Stimulate more drinks. Lobster from the South China Sea, give it a nice haircut tableside, and it's perfect, sweet, sweet, just like I remember. Back in your time, oh yeah. Well, a Vietnamese guy sometimes, as work, I try to be serious, and I just think about work, but I don't know why. When I meet you, I just think about drinking and getting something good to eat. One more cheers. Good to see you again, my friend. It's been a long time since my old friend and I met. A hell of a lot of road with this guy.
15:29
Speaker A
American Family he captures the terror of a 9-year-old boy the son of a high-ranking South Vietnamese civil servant caught up in the nightmare of War where were you in 1968 I was at the place where it's now a
15:45
Speaker A
One of the great joys of life is riding a scooter through Vietnam, to be part of this mysterious, thrilling, beautiful choreography: thousands upon thousands of people, families, friends, lovers, each an individual story glimpsed for a second or two in passing, sliding alongside, pouring like a torrent through the city, a flowing, gorgeous thing. As you ride, you not only see but overhear intimate moments in miniature. You smell wonderful, unnamed things cooking, issuing from storefronts and food stalls. The sounds of beeping, laughing, announcements from speakers, the putt-putt and roar of a million tiny engines.
15:56
Speaker A
thought of the war was something happening out in the battlefields and the mountains out in the countryside and all of a sudden you come here and there's the flag of the National Liberation Front and to see that was was complete shock so we stayed
16:13
Speaker A
Huế's place in history, long regarded as the heart of the Imperial Dynasty, changed forever during the Vietnam War. In 1968, Huế became the site of some of the most bitter fighting of the war. During the Lunar New Year, the Tết holidays, when usually there was a cessation of hostilities, more than 100 cities all over South Vietnam were attacked by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. Huế quickly fell. You have...
16:27
Speaker A
went out to the mass Graves when they were discovered and she saw the bodies in there and she's like I I can't go there and look for [Music] him a lot of people died here you can't help thinking about these people who
16:43
Speaker A
died when they're young who died for no reason who just got caught in the firefights we have the Day of the Dead here the day of the wandering souls and we honor those who are not buried within their home Village are not taken care of
16:57
Speaker A
their Spirits not taken care of there are families here who don't have a death date which is huge a death anniversary in Vietnamese is when you do the ceremonies you pay attention to the dead you can't do that if you don't know
17:11
Speaker A
when they really died you just assume those people are just never liberated spiritually that they're stuck in that [Music] space it was like that for my father because he was in prison we had no news for him you couldn't set up an
17:30
Speaker A
altar you just hoped that he was alive 10 12 15 your friends are going out doing things you would just have this wait on you that your father is somewhere imprisoned or in the jungles and that stuff stayed with me for 40
17:44
Speaker A
years in my mind I don't know how many Vietnamese have that kind of experience at the same time I come back to where my hometown my family's Hometown I'm I'm glad people are alive people are living things are happening
18:00
Speaker A
things are changing we need to let the country open up and let the people have a moment of enjoyment have a a better life I mean obviously I'm an outsider but it just seems to me as a casual
18:21
Speaker A
Observer you could pretty much survive anything that's what my brother reminds me when I used to get all upset about things happening in Vietnam you look it's by 4,000 years it it it will do okay when you ask me to be hopeful I'm
18:34
Speaker A
hopeful because it's a young country it's a young population that's energetic and that drives me that that gives me hope that makes me young that that makes me want to believe in this country and this town such a wonderful place to be
18:52
Speaker A
[Music] [Applause] [Music] boyron is a painter and something of a throwback an anomaly a creature from another earlier time in the life of the onetime Imperial City she lives in an area called tienan Hill in a magnificently restored
19:28
Speaker A
compound these traditional wooden houses were once part of the Regal Style with slope GRS to handle the Rainy whe weather but most importantly they feature a garden at the center which follows the Eastern philosophy that all things originate from a single source
19:45
Speaker A
and expand in all [Music] directions since the loss of her beloved Son she's lived here surrounded by her garden and her art occasionally she invites guests and Friends there's duck writer and food blogger Lan art collector Jean fra Uber
20:08
Speaker A
and Philipe damama so this is your home also a gallery yes I design and my people she also Cooks magnificently from a repertoire of Imperial weara dishes numbering over a 100 back in dynastic times the Emperors demanded Variety in
20:30
Speaker A
wives of whom they would sometimes have over a hundred and in food the menus of the 19th century Imperial palaces boasted new dishes every night small flavorful and beautifully presented and that culinary tradition which gave way its reputation as a food Capital
20:47
Speaker A
continues today how much of that persists those Imperial roots that need for variety yes the tradition has stayed and it will stay forever here to cook all these different things all the time we start with bird's nest soup a
21:08
Speaker A
delicacy to which I am usually immune this one is unusually flavorful these are swallows nests from high up on cliffs near Nang they're soaked in water cooked in chicken stock and served with crab meat Lotus seeds a symbol of Purity nobility and
21:26
Speaker A
patience from a nearby lake Ste crab row is mixed with red onion pepper and seasoning and added to the soup and [Music] simmered the symbolic and health aspects of many of these dishes not to be overlooked this is fantastic
22:00
Speaker A
lovely how does way differ from the rest of Vietnam a wonderful architecture and very quiet people if you stay sometime in h after some days you feel quiet you take your time for go way is a traditional dish that Seldon
22:45
Speaker A
made these days because of its complexity and the time needed to do it right a fish stock is made from kabang a fish from the perfume River pineapples onion chilies shallots and coriander the salad of quickly cooked prawns rice
23:02
Speaker A
noodles ginger red chili garlic and galangal layer of rice noodle banana flour then the prawns garnishes the strained fish stock is brought to the table with the salad in separate bowls and combined just before [Music] eating this spicy for you no it's
23:29
Speaker A
good is very spicy oh no I like it what I found when I first came to uh this part of the world Vietnam in particular uh my pallet changed uh I needed an elevated level of chilies and heat much of Vietnamese cooking abides
23:49
Speaker A
by principles of Yin and Yang heat and cold this one a lobster dish with Five Spices balances the coldness of the lobster with the heat of the spices Red Onion Ginger lemongrass and chilies are added to the boiling water to cook the
24:06
Speaker A
lobster once the Lobster's cooked it's presented in a bowl of lime leaves and the stock is poured over it wo that's beautiful we're getting into this with our hands I'm guessing I like this beautiful the winter here is
24:27
Speaker A
unbelievable it's very cold and wet that's why we have um chili to keep us warm boyron spoils all of us with a succession of dishes but the past as it often does in a place like this [Music] intrudes it's dealt with a lot of
24:52
Speaker A
suffering and the people in way are very withdrawn in some ways smiling but of course they remember everything they have to remember the war in 1968 I was visiting my grandfather's house and I got goosebumps CU I knew
25:11
Speaker A
during the war in 1968 lots of people were killed and they were buried on all the sidewalks there and I walk around there and I feel it it's dark it's it's some and the history is there they like every meter of P there a dead
25:31
Speaker A
person my mom she never want me to go home up like 10 she get angry if I go home at 11: or something that scared me so normally when I go home at 9 um I tried to go home very
25:46
Speaker A
early riding a boat along the river you sort of feel there are things living in the water and the trees and the Darkness out there [Music] no your enemy they say know who it is you're facing out there who are they why do they
26:22
Speaker A
fight what are they willing to endure in the furtherance of their cause these one would think are simple questions useful in any conflict meet the enemy okay he was only an infant during our 9-year long War but quok Tan's
26:44
Speaker A
experience should be instructive in 1965 the United States initiated a sustained bombing campaign called Rolling Thunder hoping to destroy an elusive enemy in villages like this one vinmar which was less than 20 mil from forward US Marine fire bases just south
27:20
Speaker A
of the DMZ this is where ton was born as the target of frequent bombings the village of vinmar moved underground up to 100 ft down into darkness the villagers carved over 5,000 ft of tunnels out of the earth creating
27:44
Speaker A
a complex that would house all 90 families of vinmar 13 entrances and exits leading from the Inland to the beach showing me through the Labyrinth is K and careful born in wayy during wartime she since moved to the DMZ to
28:02
Speaker A
work as a guide how did they dispose of all of this Earth at Rock without revealing the the tunnels the craters you know craters were everywhere on the like that landscape on the moon and you know the dirt that the creatur on so fresh look
28:19
Speaker A
news so they need to hide that just leave them there this was the Maternity Ward where ton was born and where did people sleep they have sleeping places just hold like like this but smaller two square meters only just enough to put a
28:32
Speaker A
bamboo [Music] B how long did it take to build 20 months digging 20 months of digging by handle with sa and holes it all up you know the Farmer they du with with their tool right under the bombing all the
28:54
Speaker A
bombing is going on they're down here digging this out wow how many children here where how did they so much of the time you're in total darkness yeah you don't even see you can't see your mother some people they
29:41
Speaker A
say that even when the parents um you know feed the T the children they need to T their face and fire their mouth and feed them wow children played here but people also emerged from these tunnels to kill or
29:59
Speaker A
[ __ ] Americans to shoot them to plant booby traps and that's what they did 6 years in darkness and at the end of the war the people of vinmar emerged from that darkness and what did they do
30:21
Speaker A
[Music] [Music] what was that like after living in darkness for so long what was it like to come out and be able to spend the rest of his life in the Sun for thank you w ready come on come on
31:28
Speaker A
thank you looks kind of like a macaron good good yeah really yes last question hypothetical if the French or the Japanese or the Americans suddenly decided they want to for some reason come back would he fight that's different they're all welcome if that
32:08
Speaker A
[Laughter] [Music] tourist there are particular sounds that come with waking up in rice country [Music] at tamang Lagoon however early morning is the end of the [Music] workday has fishermen who've been out on the water tie up close to Shore and sell
32:42
Speaker A
their catch in the early mist [Music] a meeting up with lawn for what she's promised will be a very tasty afternoon snack Quan ban oay is set back from a quiet Lane in the outskirts of town it's a Neighborhood Place specializing in
33:27
Speaker A
this Bon B little pancake like things made of rice flour steamed in moles and topped with crispy fried shallots and cassava paste and crumbled fried shrimp so show me how you eat this what do we um I had this when I was a little
33:46
Speaker A
girl so you make try to beat it up like this right I got it just cut around the edge here I feel so clumsy it's it been a while fold it over oh it just stra this is so nostalgic to me when I
34:11
Speaker A
was younger every um noon my mom asked me to take a noon nap say if you take a noon nap then I will buy you some bun and I will sit there in front of our house waiting for waiting yeah waiting
34:22
Speaker A
for her with a dish an empty dish waiting for her she will come and then my mom will buy it for me you do a hair style at the end of the meal we say who eat the most like oh so you have a stack
34:31
Speaker A
that's way style good I'm glad I'm fitting in oh what are they eating in the Banana Leaf are we have on one of those too yep we have everything oh good okay I don't want to leave anything out
34:41
Speaker A
here oh yeah there's bonot lock made of casava or tapioca with pork and more shrimp from the Lagoon wrapped like a tamale in Banana Leaf then steamed so even open the thing is also an art in Vietnam you learn how to rough
35:00
Speaker A
the thing and you know how learn how to unra the thing so unra the thing is also an thing oh really I'm K I'm watching you let's get this right you do it right you're perfect I think you're an expert
35:10
Speaker A
maybe the live before you you was born in ha in a past life yeah so this is shrimp mhm pick it up and dip right M very nice mhm nice they're pretty too look at them but is very honest you can see through what
35:33
Speaker A
inside you call this type of eating an Choy an Choy is like for fun of playing recreational eating so it's not a main meal it's a snacking yeah Bon ra meat is a delicious marriage of fried and glutenous sticky rice
35:49
Speaker A
dumplings it starts with frying the paste and cooking oil then unpeeled shrimp are stuffed into dough place the chewy part with a crunchy part and sprinkle with chopped fried [Music] shrimp oh wow oh that's that looks awesome what's what is
36:09
Speaker A
underneath r Rice base rice oh okay but on the top is Ste at the back is um friy thing M well that's great it's nice and crispy and greasy I love it m anybody would love this it's just amazing mm
36:24
Speaker A
It's a combination between the soft andof soft and the Cris crunchy [Music] delicious last ride a few miles out of town whip across the rice patties just getting from here to there this part of the world it's pure
36:53
Speaker A
pleasure [Music] I'm meeting my friends for a country lunch what's a specialty at this uh restaurant you were saying the chicken in uh baked in clay yes another friend from the past haam Lynn of course Lon and a new friend from
37:32
Speaker A
way tan a last meal some goodbyes I have a question what what make you stay so long in here because normally traveler they come to here they stay only one or two now and that's it really what's your
37:43
Speaker A
impressions about it it's really it's very laidback mhm the food's great it's pretty there's a lot to see it's a perfect place to go if you want to take your time it's beautiful to me food's coming please out here there are
38:01
Speaker A
a lot of dishes like this fill a chicken with lemongrass wrap it in banana leaves and cover with the muddy clay from the nearby rice patties cook in the coals or a pile of burning straw if you like unwrap
38:14
Speaker A
carefully table side section with shears smells so good make me hungry serve with a little lime and salt maybe some chili sauce squash bitter melon and Morning Glory greens for veggies that's good some unexpected last words on behalf of people in here thank you for
38:41
Speaker A
your coming thank you for having me we wish you would have a blessing trip safe and S and success thank you I learned many things from American I still remember some poems search as uh stopping by goues on a Snowy Evening
38:59
Speaker A
I can send it please yeah sometime drink a lot of beer I forg who schools are these are I think I know his house is in the village though you cannot see me stoping here to watch his schs f up with snow my little horse
39:17
Speaker A
must think it CER to stop without a farmhouse near between the woods and frozen lake the darkest evening of the year he gave his harness Bell a second to ask if there some m six the only other sound of easy wind and dowy Flake
39:32
Speaker A
and something like Bravo so we wish you have a good trip have good fly will you come back after you return to New York I'll come back to Vietnam always cheers everybody and thank you all of you for all your
39:53
Speaker A
help cheers on the time [Music] this is who came out of the ground out of the Jungle the darkness when it was all over and this is what they did [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music]
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