Uyen: "Why are these open?" BF: "Qualitycheck" 🤣

Every country has the Danish butter cookies in a tin can. It’s always used as a sewing kit, once the cookies are gone. I swear that Denmark’s biggest export is those butter cookies. 😂

Oh my gosh, I'm Polish and the stuff you bf said about his parents' christmas and how getting an orange was special for them, it was the same for my parents.

For the non germans: Our "gingerbread" is actually nut based. The most premium ones are called "Ellisen Lebkuchen" and from Nürnberg if you want to google them

Germans during the year: Spring: Bread Summer: Bread Fall: Bread Winter: *Gingerbread*

1:44 "Quality check" - not only does German BF go out and buy the sweets but he also tastes them to check they're OK for you to eat. That's dedication for you...

I'm dutch with a german grandmother and I absolutely love blätterkrokant. It is not made in the Netherlands, so every christmas I look forward to this treat 😊! Also the Aachener printen are supposed to be quite chewy, so I fear you might have gotten some stale ones.

There must be a second “bakery edition “ especially Christmastreats are a specialty in soo many bakeries in Germany and they taste vastly different to the store-bought stuff❤ And Blätterkrokant is heaven!! It is a caramel+nougat mixture and I could eat tons of it

I have a few things to comment: 1. I love Blätterkrokant

German BF: talking about his dad getting one orange for Christmas because fresh fruit in winter countries was special Uyen: 🥺☹️

I appreciate that GBF made the effort to explain why these traditional sweets became popular, in spite of the limited variety. We have the same thing with traditional holiday food in Norway. It is often rich in fat, and/or sugar as this made it special, and during the winter it wasn't a bad idea to pack on a few extra pounds for insulation. 😄 Salty food is also very common as that was one of the most reliable ways to conserve food when cold storage was limited. So even though it can't compete with the variation available to a food culture that has almost unlimited access to herbs, spices, fruits, and vegetables for most of the year, it was/is special to us. And although we currently have other options available to us practically all the time, we still go back to our roots in times like these.

I love Blätterkrokant! It doesn’t just taste like sugar, it tastes like caramel and nuts!

"they cosplay it as a tiny potato" 😭

The tin cookies, i know, as danish cookies. Its a blue tin, but they have special xmas ones. And when you finish the cookies, you put your sewing stuff inside it😊

As a german, Dominos are my absolute favorite christmas snack. I love marzipan and the layers are so cute. But you have to eat them with dark chocolate to even out the sweetness. They're the best

Someone from Aachen here: We also don't really eat the hard Printen (some people like them, majority I know doesn't :D) There is a trick though, which Uyen already suggested with Christstollen: Just leave it in the open for a few days and they get much softer and better :) Weichprinten are also a thing, they come softer already. And the ones covered with chocolade are also a delight ^-^

Germany really does have a VAST variety of spirit. My step mom is German and when I was dragged to her family gettogethers, it was actually really fun food wise, and candy wise (which I do not like, usually). Germany knows how to Christmas spirit.

Vanillekipferl (homemade) might be another addition- it’s christmasy but not the usual suspects of spices :-)

I don't know if it was mentioned before,so here it goes: if you smear butter on the Stollen,it tastes much better and as you are not a fan of marzipan,you should try a Butter Stollen next time😊. For the Aachener Printen,please enjoy them with tea or coffee,you will love them,after dipping them in. Thank you for the funny video and merry Christmas to you and yours🎄🥰🙋🏻‍♀️

So a few years ago I discovered Lebkuchen (live in the UK, Lidl have them at Christmas) and I'm so glad I don't live in Germany because I would make it my mission to try every single type of Lebkuchen available!

Now do one with bakery Christmas items! I bet they must be much better than store bought!

I LOVE krokant covered in chocolate! The texture during chewing is amazing! I never seem to find them, only during easter 😑

“I love RUM, that’s why I love Tiramisù so much”… right there, it’s right there that my heart skipped a couple of beats. I survived thankfully 😅

My not really Christmas sweets was this hard strawberry candy with a liquid center. It was wrapped like a strawberry. I'd only see them at my great grandma's on Christmas when we visited her for Christmas. I'd stay up all night picking and eating them out of the mixed candy. I've found them around a lot more now a days. I have a little bag of them sitting on my TV stand as a memory of her. She passed during early covid. 7:54

German BF, you should do another taste test video with the various delicious German bakery treats. I feel that would go over much better. :) I'm an American who lived in Germany for 2 years and Italy for 3 and the food in both places was amazing....except for most of these Christmas treats. :) My issue with both country's sweet snacks in the grocery store was how dry so many were. Going to a bakery was easy and the treats there were so much better!

You are supposed to open the package some time before you actually eat the Aachener Kräuterprinten so they can soften by taking up moisture from the air. It might need a day or two for that. If you are too impatient for that, get the ones coated in chocolate, Schokoladenprinten.

You two are magic together! Love your videos!

I am a long time watcher but first time commenter … just wanted to express how much I love you Uyen! You are such a gentle sweet soul and you always make me happy. Watching your videos feels like I am getting a warm hug ❤ thank you for being you!

1. good blätterkrokant is smooth and a bit crispy, because it is mixed caramellised sugar with nougat. But the cheeper ones are hard and way too sugary. 2. some of the dry stuff is ment to dip in hot choclate or coffe or tee. They were so dry so they last longer without getting moldy. 3. clearly the baumkuchen is missing, or at least the baumkuchenbites and aniscookies and glühweinbonbons

The macadamia covered in chocolate from Lindt is probably one of my favorite sweets in general. They are expensive though, so every year the day after christmas I run to the store and buy all that are left with 50% off 😂❤

I loved this video. I laughed from start to finish, and both Uyen and German Boyfriend brought so much fun to it. Terrific job, both of you.

Over the past year or so i have seen the two of you starting to adjust and adapt to each other. Very good 👍.

Es wäre lustig, wenn german boyfriend mal eine Auswahl vietnamesischer Süßigkeiten probieren würde

Uyen, you literally put all of my absolute favorites on the naughty list 😢😂

Uyen, you should try the Christstollen with a healthy amount of butter on it, or with butter and jam. That's a game changer and usually the way we eat it 😊and most of our Christmas sweets is eaten together with a hot drink like hot chocolate, coffee or a hot egg nog, the Punsch and not the pure liquor 😊

I love these types of videos! Ya'll are a precious couple.

Store bought gingerbread in Poland also tends to be this hard. Unless it’s coated with chocolate or hard icing, you can soften them by putting them in a jar with pieces of fresh apples (1-2 days and they will be nice and soft).

I love uyen's reactions to foods, this will be a fun one ! You guys should do more long form content !

I really enjoyed this and hearing a little about the history and the childhood memories from your fiancé was so nice. That was heartwarming and informative. I love seeing more of both your personalities. We need a Vietnamese New Years version for German BF to try! P.S. If you’re going to send marzipan Stollen to your distant family, I’ll happily be your ^distant family^!! You have no idea how excited I was last year, when they finally opened an Audi’s in my tiny little town.

Luv how well u 2 get along! Similar humors. And kind people u are…genuine. Happy New Year!🎄✌️

Oh my gosh those second treats. The chocolate rings with sprinkles on them. That is like a treat we used to have as children. They were cheap chocolate but somehow that made them better. And German people can get whole packages of full sized ones? Amazing!

I wanted to complain about Vanillekipferl, Marzipanbrot etc. missing but then I heard her saying she hates almonds. Not good to dislike almonds when it comes to christmas sweets. At least she had the Marzipankartoffeln. The cookies with the marmelade eye in the middle are also quite important since every grandma likes to bake them. I recently learned they have a name. Engelsaugen.

12:29 Interesting that you brought them up after the story about Christmas and fruits and everything. I was waiting for them! And I just learned this Christmas: Those were the first poor-people pralinés! They were shaped originally like dominos and they didn't had the Marzipan. It was a german chocolatier who thought of them, cos he felt sorry for the poor folk who couldn't afford the good chocolates.

"I think the cookie heard me complaining about it" That's so adorable

Uyen, never ever let an Italian know you make tiramisu with rum. They will have a conniption fit.

I really appreciate the history and context German boyfriend provides!

Great graphics and editing! Fun video! 💗

This was a wonderful video! I love you dynamic! Loved the ranking system and background information German boyfriend added to this. And as a German myself I enjoyed you tasting and hearing your opinion, Uyen!

You should try Rumkugeln from the bakery! The are originally made from leftover dough+cocoa, rolled in chocolate. They are usually also a little bit larger from the bakery and soft. Love them! I also missed Baumkuchen - please make a second video! Thanks for the cozy video 🎄

I looooove Blätterkrokant! 😂 It’s my favorite christmas candy by far. Well… I would not ne surprised, if they only produced this stuff for me, judging by the amount I consume. 🤣

I enjoy this so much! Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻

as a german living in canada, i miss these sweets so so much!! so watching you eat them is a joy for meee

A lot on the Lebkuchen (ginger bread) that is Not covered with chocolate is very dry, that's true, but it tastes 1000 times better when softened in your hot drink of choice, I like hot cocoa :)

Omg you guys are so precious im smiling the whole video

Would love to see you sharing some of the Vietnamese holiday foods we should try!

We in our family love Blätterkrokant! That's why they make them. 😉

Oh wow, the story about tangerines and oranges! I didn't know it was the same in Germany, we also view these as very special.

Your videos make me so happy❤️ when I need a serotonin boost I watch you!

Loved the video of you doing ng a Happy Christmas dance at a Christmas Market! I love German Christmas markets!!

This video was absolutely adorable! You guys are SO CUTE! ❤

Oh this was fun! From BF's " Quality check?" To "the real winner is the naughty list!"- we smiled the whole time! Thank you both so much!

Love your Christmas nails!!!💅🏻

im so glad i found your yt.. i love all your tiktoks

Thank you for being honest. Your genuine reactions keep me coming back.

Love his ranking system! So adorable and yet so true! 😊

This was interesting and fun to watch you experiencing our German Christmas sweets 😂❤. Loved it! How you just slayed most of the pur sugar ones😅. Now I would really like to see a special on Vietnamese treats. Please 🙏

I like the grading scale: simple and understandable.

Watching you struggle with opening the packages 😂 so relatable !!

Bei die Printen gehört eine Tasse Kaffee oder Feuerzangenbowle, in die man die Dinger tunken kann. Schöner hätte ich es gefunden, wenn BF-Oma Plätzchen gebacken hätte. Dieses Supermarktzeug ist doch wirklich Industriefraß.

As soon as I heard you were warming up the drink I knew I was going to enjoy this! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Merry holidays!

Whaaaat! I love the Schokoladenkränze! Those are the absolute best! We will get our revenge!

I'm excited to watch this video because I love sweets and Uyen and it will be fun to see her try German sweets 😂❤ ill go watch now 😊

Spekulatius are my favorite! I always grab some from aldis as soon as they are available. I love dipping them in my coffee

I love blätterkrokant. Its always sold out here so I think more people like it. 😊 Merry Christmas 🎄😊

He’s so thoughtful and sweet.

Honestly, the "Blätterteigkrokant" are my aaabsooolute favorite! But I eat them for easter 😁

I love the apricot jam filled ‘ginger’ cakes! They are flavorful and not too sweet. Thank you for tasting so many almond things for us even though you hate them, lol!

They opened a Lidl near my house earlier this year, so I recognize a lot of these exact packages sold at Lidl here in the US. My kids and I LOVE the little Christmas shapes Lebkuchen that have the sugar icing or chocolate coating that come in a bag. They are SO GOOD. Americans don't use anise or cardamom in their sweets. My boyfriend hated them, but my kids and I loved them. I'm from Pennsylvania though, and my grandfathers both had German ancestry and the one with the newest always asked us to make anise cookies for Christmas. The only recipe I could find in the 80's when I was a kid was soft anise drops, which he said wasn't what his mom made, but that was ok because they were very good. Now with the internet, I'm sure he was wanting Springerle, but unfortunately it's too late to make them for him. I also learned from my German friend that in Germany they also made tons and tons of Christmas cookies weeks to a month ahead and stored them in tins with apple slices down in the cellar like my family did. I've learned that's considered really weird to most Americans, but fairly normal in Germany where so many of the traditional cookies are too hard to eat until they've aged--and the apple slices help soften them. So funny. But it's too warm here in North Carolina where we've lived the last 15 years to do that anyway. Plus we don't even have a cellar where it would be cooler.

Uyen, your pronunciation of Spekulatius was really good and it kept getting better🏅😊

Those nuts covered in chocolate, in the copper-colored packaging, are one of my favorites! So gut!

Uyen doesn't want the kids to be hungry just because they were naughty. She's such a gentle soul 😉

I love this ranking system. Very original and classy and most importantly...very Christmassy!

This was great fun to watch 🇦🇺🦘

Aww her face when he told her that German dad was excited by an orange for his stocking.

The most akward memory I have from a Christstollen is when my grandma backed one 15-ish years ago and she used a big cutting board made from wood and she literally told me the cutting board was a wooden toiletseat before so I was like "eww" and refused to eat it, not knowing the seat was actually never used in it's original purpose before

Loving the culinary content!

Goodness, I just love these two and the videos ❤😊

In Quebec, during the holidays, we have these meat pies we call tourtières. Beef, pork and veal with onion, celery and spices. Most use cinnamon, my family uses mace and nutmeg. It’s amazing and not Christmas unless it’s on the table!

My dad brought us a Desdner Christollen from Germany in the 90’s. It was the most decadent thing I ever tasted! So far, I have not come across a christollen that yummy as of yet. I wish they sold those online!

Love Uyen's Christmas Nails and Reaction to the last sweets ahaha

Loving the new confidence ❤

ur festive nails are so so pretty !! 💕

If you don't like the dry "Oblaten-Lebkuchen", go to the christmas markets around Nuremberg (Nürnberg, Fürth, Erlangen, Bamberg...) and try Elisenlebkuchen. Elisenlebkuchen are a specialty of Nuremberg (I recommended the other christmas markets because they might be less busy, Nuremberg's is huge and full of tourists) and are a protected term for the highest quality of Lebkuchen. Highly recommend. And... store bought Stollen? That's something you really need to go to a small non-chain bakery for.

loved the video!💐

That was fun video, and such a fun ranking system 😆🎄

So, Uyen doesn't like almonds, but bakes top-notch cinnamon stars with almond flour. XD So I guess almond is okay as long as the resulting product tastes delicious? XD Maybe she would like "Mandelprinten". 😆They are really tasty and not dry at all and the almond slivers give a nice crunchy texture next to the soft spiced cake, and they don't taste that almond-y, since it's covered in chocolate. It's one of my favorite Christmas sweets. And since she liked the filled hearts - there are "Manner Knöpfe" with dark chocolate and various kinds of jam (for example apple, plum) inside. These are really good as well. I think she might like those.

German boyfriend took the chance to claim the 'shopping tax' trying the product pre video 😂

Loved to see all of these different German treats and you describing and tasting them! Maybe next you can make & taste the Christmas treats from Vietnam? I’m very curious about them. (If it’s not too much work) Happy holidays !✨

In Aachen we have a lot of different kinds of printen! just like the other lebkuchen you can get it with chocolates or nuts or frosting. i prefer them with chocolate too hehe

I feel bad you don't like marzipan and there is so much Christmas stuff that has it in it this time of year. Lebkuchen biscuits are my favourite German Christmas treat. This year, I will attempt to make them as we can't find any dairy free ones. We have dairy allergies, but we still need our Christmas treat!