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Let's get right into it guys, I'm very excited to share this video.
This is a 2 part travel vlog series, from Da Nang & Hoi An.
So the first video is going to be about the 2 full days that we spent in Da Nang,
and the 2nd video is going to be about the 2 full days spent in Hoi An.
Such an amazing trip, lots of food, lots of fun.
And let's just get right into it.
So Da Nang is the 5th largest city by population in Vietnam,
it's a port city and it's also the largest city in Central Vietnam.
Alright, checked into the hotel. Check out this view.
Right around the corner from our hotel was the famous Cho Han market.
So you know that we needed to go there immediately and find some food.
The market building contains several floors full of vendors selling everything from clothing, to jewelry, and home goods
to dried food, fresh produce, and meat.
We heard that there was 2 dishes that we had to try in the market, and it was My Quang Vit & Cau Lao.
This is the My Quang here, we've got some nice fat, flat noodles.
I'm going to try and get some of this all together.
Mmmm
Good flavorful oil.
And some pieces of blood.
It has some Chinese 5-spice, I can taste that. And some paprika.
This is good.
ooohhh
After we had breakfast in the market, we hopped on a motorcycle that we rented and we drove
for an hour way into the mountains west of Da Nang.
to a place called Hoa Phu Thanh.
Alright, we made it. And we've got our tickets for white water rafting, ziplining, and a fish massage.
I guess, just like Korea, the fish come and eat your feet, the dead skin and stuff like that.
We're coming down to the end, we're just cruising right now. So nice.
After a fun afternoon in the mountains, it was time to drive all the way back to Da Nang.
Once we got into the city, we went straight to a famous chicken & rice restaurant.
We got a nice little fried egg on top of this saffron rice.
With a spare rib here, this is a piece of pork.
With some kind of marinade.
Here's some more saffron rice, some nice fried chicken.
And here's a nice bowl of vinegar and chilies.
I'm going to try some of that fried chicken.
Ohhh, nice.
It was dipped in some hot sauce
Good seasonings on all this stuff.
Nice and spicy.
Pork chop.
I just like these chilies, I can just eat them by themselves.
Nice kick.
Ok, we're here on the 2nd floor of this place.
And essentially, this is like a coconut bar.
And you get get some really awesome coconut type of flan, or puddings, and yogurts.
And mixed drinks, smoothies, all kinds of stuff.
You can see everyone's just chilling out, enjoying the view of the Dragon Bridge and the river, with
all the boats, and stuff like that.
On the 1st floor,
you can see a lot of people chilling also.
So this one here is coconut and it's filled with jelly. Coconut-flavored jelly. Look at that!
Wow!
And there's flan underneath there.
That looks really yummy!
And for all your durian lovers, I'm a new durian lover myself, here is durian yogurt drink.
So this is straight up durian plus yogurt.
And it smells really good!
Oh... that's so good!
That durian plus yogurt is an awesome combination.
I'm going to try that coconut jelly with the flan.
mmmmm!
It's really nice.
Man, this place is so popular. People are just showing up every second, look, families are crossing the street
across all that, just to come here and eat.
So this is a coconut jelly without flan.
So silky!
Look at that!
Good morning everybody, it is day 2 in Da Nang.
Our 2nd and last full day in Da Nang.
We stopped by this local eatery, just randomly.
Just chose a spot. And we ordered some noodles
with some meats, and they're prepping it up right now.
And we're going to hit the road, go up in the mountains again, to a famous place
called Ba Na Hills, and it's going to be a really cool day.
Here it is, a nice bowl of Bún (rice vermicelli noodles)
This is kind of a smaller bowl, you can see the size compared with my hand.
We only have a few condiments here, they don't have chili sauce or anything.
But we got some green chilies and some small little citrus.
I'm going to try one of these meatballs.
It's like a breakfast sausage. It's really good.
Ba Na Hills is a themed resort built by the French in 1919, during the French occupation of Vietnam.
It's located in the Truong Son Mountains and they even boast the world's
longest non-stop, single wire cable car system. It travels more than 5 kilometers
before it gets you to the top of the mountain (1485m), where there's a French-themed village.
So there's apparently an indoor park, kind of like a play zone.
Yeah!
Oh that looks great, nice!
Alright, so I'm going to try these like rice dough balls. It's very similar to the Korean chapssal.
Deep fried, it's going to be really hot though.
Oh yeah, it's hot.
Mmmm!
Oh my god! I'm burning the side of my mouth.
Very nice, the sesame seeds on the outside, nice crunch, nice sesame flavor.
It's soooo hot. Steaming!
I feel like I'm in France, even though I've never been to France.
I have no idea what it feels like to be in France.
The highlight for me was visiting the Linh Chua Linh Tu temple at the top of the mountain.
Alright, taking a break. It started raining a little.
But that temple was really beautiful, and we're really hungry.
They have this tented area where they have all kinds of food, we're going to do a hot pot because
it's really cold up here now, with the rain and on top of the mountain with the clouds and wind.
We just dumped in all the seafood. Everything. There's fish, there's shrimp, squid, what else?
Oh yeah, and the crab.
Got a nice glass of beer here.
Oh yeah, that's real good.
Look at that bad boy.
Perfectly cooked.
Pulled the crab out to let it cool down, check this out.
Oh my god, that roe just fell right out on to the rest of the body.
A decent piece of roe right here.
It's alright.
The crab has some roe on top.
That's good.
I'm just going to suck some of the meat right out of the body.
Lot of meat in this.
We're in a different cable car going to a mid-level of the mountain.
And this is the view, right now.
We are in the clouds.
Oh! That came out of nowhere.
You can see just the cable disappearing into the nothingness.
Where's the next car?
Woah, there it is.
As the afternoon progressed, the weather worsened.
We were just about an hour away from sunset, so we decided that we needed to hit the road
and head back to Da Nang before we got trapped in a rain storm up in the mountains in the pitch black.
We've got these little snails here.
I'm going to suck the juice first.
Mmmm yummy.
And they gave us a toothpick.
So we can scoop these little buggers out.
Ta da!
Dip it in the sauce.
Here we go.
Mmmm
Mmmm! So tender!
What's really nice about everything that we're dipping the seafood in, is this dipping sauce.
It's very simple, it's basically a lot of salt.
Some black pepper.
And then fresh squeezed lime juice.
And a bunch of red chilies.
And you mix it all together, and then it's an amazing dipping sauce for seafood.
I can never pass up an opportunity to have some raw oysters.
Some fresh squeezed lime on there.
Here we go.
One of my favorite things.
Ok so I did a thing here.
We got a bunch of snails, and a bunch of clams.
We're going to add some fried rice with that.
Mix it all up.
I'm going to go ahead and get some of that spicy chili salt with the lime.
Just a little bit.
Mix it all up in there.
Got some lime juice here.
That is actually really good!
So many textures going on.
We came, we saw, we conquered.
Although we didn't conquer the fried rice.
But that's OK, fried rice is essentially just filler, even though it was really tasty.
Ok guys, we came back to this place.
2nd day in a row, it's just so good you can't pass it up.
So this time we ordered some straight up coconut jelly, in this disc shapes.
And then here's some coconut jelly, in the disc shape, but it's covered with a pureed durian.
And that looks really nice.
And then last time I got the durian yogurt mix.
This time I got the durian smoothie.
So we're getting the durian action going on here.
This is my first time having durian smoothie.
Very thick.
Oohhhh that's so good!
I can't help it, that's awesome! I like that a lot better than the yogurt one.
Going to try the coconut jelly with the durian on top.
Mmm!
That's really good!
I think just anything with durian is just amazing.
So our 2 full days in Da Nang was just so busy, so much fun, lots of food.
We were just so busy we didn't even have a chance to go to the famous beaches at Da Nang.
And that's what they're really well-known for.
Like if you type in "Da Nang" in Google, and you look at the Google image results, it's just all images of the beach.
And so it's funny that we didn't even see the ocean one time until we were actually
in the car (Uber taxi) on the way to Hoi An.
I had a lot of fun in Da Nang, lots of food, lots of fun.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed coming along on this video.
Stay tuned for the Hoi An video right after this, because there's a lot more beautiful scenery.
And a lot of food!
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