That's the best lounge attire in the world.

Yes, I giggled at that too!!

Yeah one worm is ok but not the other?😅

eating them cooked is different than touching them alive isnt it 😂

Thanks for the explanation! 🥰

@@uyenninh Hello from HCM. Love your videos. My mom has a vegetable garden as well. She said the same thing. I feel it in my soul.

@@uyenninh I can't imagine the tofu version is "vegan" with the nematodes in the rice?

@@Pixie4Gizmo Yes you can make it vegan by substituting a plant based fermeted substance (like plant based ferment of something in the same style....like sour rice). Sure, it won't be the same, but at least it'll have the same feel to it. And it's veganised to everyone's satisfaction.

​@@Pixie4GizmoMaybe vegan variations spoon out all the nematodes that can be seen? Some vegans are ok with honey and maybe spooning out the nematodes makes this like honey - made by animals but no animals were killed. Or maybe there is a vegan way they ferment the rice.

My best friend is Mexican and I used to always make sure that I 'happened' to be at their house a lot of days, just when it was dinner time. If not, after school was the best. We'd get to her house just as they were finishing up the fresh tortillas! Right of the comal we got them with butter (a treat for me because my family used margarine). If we were lucky, Mom and Abuela would slice some avocado onto our tortillas! Pure heaven. Mexican food is my favorite coming from California and I could eat it every day. Most of my vacations are to Mexico too and it's nice trying dishes from the different States there.

So you could be hand twins? 😅

For real my grand Mother has also These hands 😊

my circassian grandma also have it :)

I saw how useful chop sticks are in the kitchen; I use them a lot now. Love your videos!

Fr 😂😂😂

Sounds like you needed different friends..yikes!

@@lijohnyoutube101 Believe or not, it were different times. There was no KZfaq. The internet just started to be a thing. No one heard of being woke. Most not well traveled Westerners weren't ready for a hole in the floor kind of toilet, having dices of blood in the soup of a chicken you played with just an hour ago or the 'shower', which was a pot you use to pour water on yourself. Some of the stuff my grandmother did was even by her village's standard old fashioned

@@plutoniumlollie9574 I was a grown adult with kids before cell phones were ubiquitous. I still think it was your friend group.

It's called chao (pronounced sort of like ciao but with more of j sound). You should be able to find lots of recipes out there for chao/congee. There are many versions of it like chicken, pork, blood sausage (really delicious and the only blood product I'd eat...but it also oft times comes with organ meat, which I'm meh about), fish, etc. You can make it easily yourself. Do about 1 part rice to 10 parts water if you want it a bit loose (I start with 1 part rice to 8 parts water and just add more water if it's too thick). So cook a whole chicken or chicken parts to make a broth. Remove the chicken after 1-1 1/2 hours. If you want to use bone broth, then maybe add the bones and skin back in and cook in crockpot overnight. You can shred your chicken to add back into the chao or add it atop it when serving. The broth can be flavored with garlic, ginger, onion. Add your rice and just let it cook until the consistency you like (about an hour, longer if want the rice to disintegrate more). Don't forget to add salt. When done, top with whatever you want. My favorite toppings are sliced green onions, cilantro, crumbled hard boil egg (you can do the 6 minute egg or like you said the century egg), fried shallots, homemade chili oil, black pepper, etc. An easier version would be to use ground pork and cook it in a pot with garlic and ginger. Then add the rice and water to the ratio you want. You can add salt (or chicken bouillon) and a bit of fish sauce to flavor it more.

Wowwww....lucky😊

Please do not use the words “special needs”, it is very offensive to disabled people Please just say disabled, it is not a bad word and it is rude to treat it as such

..a lot of those plants won’t grow in Vietnamese climate.

@@susanbryant6516 yes, and thats why i gave a lot of options... Even though im pretty sure aliums grow there and i could have just mentioned them, its better to grow something that you need/use

What interesting, useful and fascinating knowledge! Where can I learn more about what things to plant together in such ways? Thank you so much!

​@@FollowmedowntheNumberWhole This strategy is called "companion planting." You can look up which plants go together in this way. Aside from which plants might help repel bugs, some companion plants are good pairs because they use different nutrients in the soil or things like that

@@quantaca5773you’re right, aliums do grow here. Cilantro also grows here, and my mom uses them as herbs and to keep cabbage worms out!!!!!

It's not just South East Asian moms but all mom's..their cooking skills are ✌

It's just mums in general. And grandmas.

this is interesting and makes sense. growing up we make our own yeast to make bread and its the same idea. You are really raising them like "livestock" to eat, just tiny tiny ones haha. If you don't care for them properly and fatten them up, they will die off and you have to start over😅

I totally agree with this!

Gently and respectfully, we shouldn't use language like "first world" and "third world" anymore. But all love to Uyen, I know that's what you meant!

There are pros and cons to both. People romanticize it, and it is beautiful, but it's also a lot of hard work and not very relaxing most of the time. I appreciate that Uyen discusses the good sides of her life in Vietnam and her life in Germany. If only we could all have the best of both worlds.

​@@KrisJustusit's fact though 😊

Me too!

In english it’s called Brawn

La tobă m-am gândit si eu😂

What a lot of people don't know is that a ton of Vietnamese food can be made vegetarian.

Because they do it with love for the family

One of my Grandmother cooked like that. I think she was always in a hurry?

Wow! How’s it going out there? Sending good vibes your way

@@FollowmedowntheNumberWhole its very quiet

The vast majority of Asian supermarkets sell it. It’s also quite easy to find in Arab specialty stores as well. It’s the more commonly used pepper across much of Asia and into many Arab countries too.

They're called peppercorns. Vietnam is the top global exporter of peppercorns.

@@doodahgurlie It is not actually the same as the pepper used in European dishes which is called ‘piper nigrum’. The two species actually look quite different as well.

@@doodahgurlie Peppercorns are the fruit of the ‘piper nigrum’ plant.

@@_Kyprioth_ I'm Vietnamese. Peppercorns are used in the head cheeses and fermented pork sausage. I've never even seen the long peppers used in Viet cooking. But peppercorns are for sure used whole in the two dishes mentioned. If you go back and look at the video, you can see the individual peppers are round in shape, not long.

I recall my parents killing the maggots (that's what they are called) with alcohol before storing/using.

It's not something you'd find in restaurants even in Vietnam. These are home-style meals that you'd eat daily (she's from the north, so that's why she likes boiled and steamed stuff).

@@doodahgurlie oh that's good to know!! And honestly: The boiled cabbage looks so good, and I never thought I'd say that about boiled cabbage. Just gotta do it right I guess!

@@tu_tia_violeta Boiled cabbage and green beans are often eaten in a fish sauce that has boiled eggs mashed into it (I always thought my mom used soy sauce growing up, but my SIL who is from Hai Phong said it's fish sauce). Where Uyen is from, they just eat it with pure fish sauce, I guess.

@@doodahgurlie Oh interesting!! Do you think it's better with the egg?

@@tu_tia_violeta Definitely. I'd never dip anything in pure undiluted fish sauce like that. When you mash the boiled egg and mix it with fish sauce or soy sauce, it gives it more depth of flavor and a creaminess that enhances plain boiled veggies. But it's a comfort food Viets grew up eating. Not sure if someone who's never tried it will like it. Try it with soy sauce and a mashed egg and see what you think. Eat it with steamed rice, though.

We call it " zult" in the Netherlands

Sülze in Germany :)

We eat it mostly for Christmas in Norway, it's the same name "sylte"

There is another Vietnamese dish called "Thịt đông" (Frozen jelly meat) is similar to Sylte. The third dish is similar to pork sausage.

@@tergennalalelu2791 I think in my country German people bring it because we have something similar but the name is very different in English. It is like head cheese

There is a similar English dish called Brawn

Really loved the video :D So much seafoood!