I think the coolest thing about the internet for me has always been the fact that people from all around the world can open a tiny window to their own world and share it with others. Thank you for sharing this, I honestly love watching people carry out their own traditions. I find it fascinating.
I'm not much of a traditions guy but when it comes to cooking I think we will soon realize how important it is to preserve traditional recipes. The creativity is off the charts in those recipes cause people used to spend hours and hours perfecting a dish. So soak up all the secret cooking tips and tricks from your parents and grandparents, they are Gold wert!
Very good point as cooking is an important part of identity too. Tradition is being stuck with things we did for a long time without questioning if they make sense. E.g. the Krampus tradition is quite bad and is not really a „Brauch“ that goes back very far. Tradition isn’t worth keeping it because it was done for a long time.
Things like banh chung were invented for a reason. Same reason cheburek and Russian pierogi were intented, mostly practical and not for flavor per se. It's a portable food that a peasant can take with them to the field for a lunch snack and it doesn't spoil as fast because its easily spoiled content has been pasteurized by the cooking process.The leaves act as sort of saran wrap and keep out bacteria. This stuff can be good for days without refrigeration.
I’m a Viet adoptee from rural North Carolina, USA, so I didn’t grow up with traditions like these. So I’ve tried seeking them out myself. I make my own bánh chưng and this year I made bánh rán! Food is the most accessible way for me to reconnect with Vietnam. I love learning and I love your content! Thanks for sharing with us! ❤❤❤
I'm a Vietnamese who grew up in the US. Although there are many Vietnamese in my city, I learn so much more about Vietnamese culture from your channel (I love your Germany content too). Thank you for showing us your Tet traditions. Please keep up your honest, enlightening content.
same i’m in the U.S as well & i didn’t get to experience vietnamese traditions either so like others i sought my heritage out so i could spiritually connect w/ it.
What I really like about your videos is that they show the world how much you love your home country. Many Westerners assume that all Southeast Asians must be dirt poor and I'm sure that many people believe that you jumped at the opportunity to come to Germany. BUT your videos teach them otherwise. You can feel the love for Vietnam oozing out of the video and I love it.
i'm going to Vietnam with my Vietnamese friend in a few weeks, and I am addicted watching your videos. I've learned so much about Vietnam from your videos. Thank you Uyen!
I love the way you speak, and present your videos. It feels like I'm really with you and your family, and not like a scripted show. What a beautiful family, and beautiful traditions. May you all have a great new year with good health, and success.
Even though I'm not Vietnamese, I grew up in a rural area, and a lot of this stuff is making me feel very nostalgic. Particularly the random fruits and vegetables that are specific to your home area that you can't really buy in the place you've moved to, especially ones you grew yourself. I miss autumn olives/autumn berries (silvery leaves, small sweet and tart fruit that's dark red, with a single seed inside, about the size of a pea but often oblong, has small silvery spots on it, makes your mouth kind of dry after eating a bunch) (we made it into jam and 'fruit leather' by drying in huge tough but tasty strips), black caps (wild black raspberries) (jams and tarts and crumbles), huge rosey stalks of rhubarb that we had to avoid the stinging nettles that grew with them while picking (freezing in huge bags to make crumble, and making strawberry rhubarb jam), sour cherries (jam or clafotis, unsure how to spell it but it's a very custardy dish with cherries at the bottom), crabapple (very tart but sweet enough to eat straight off the tree, made pink applesauce), heirloom apples that grew in our orchard (applesauce, apple butter, apple pie, and my favorite- apple Cider pressed in an old wooden press!), concord grapes we made into jam and grape juice or just ate off the vine (SO SOUR!), and an honorable mention to the tiny sad little red raspberry and blackberry and pear plants that didn't really produce much but I still wanted to be excited about. And then there were the heirloom roses that smelled absolutely beautiful and came in yellow and pink and white, daffodils, purple irises, so many tulips, orange lilies, white and purple lilac, forsythia, white and purple violets that grew in the grass, lily of the valley that only grew in the shadows under some of the random bushes. And winters that lasted forever with huge icicles and massive snow drifts. Sometimes the snow would melt into a hard crusty layer of ice that if you were very careful, you could walk on without breaking, and if a dry powdery snow fell after that, the wind would blow it into glittering tornadoes of 'diamond dust'. The snowstorms were magnificent, especially at night with huge flakes coming down and with the light from your window only being able to see a few feet out into the gloom, waking up to frost coated windows painted swirling orange and pink and yellow from the sunrise. The summers were super hot but short, and we'd have bonfires and go stargazing with almost no light pollution (though it was always best in winter too if you could stand the cold). The autumn was a riot of color, all the trees scarlet and orange and gold, huge piles of leaves to play in, and the air smelled like an old book and cold and fresh. Spring was just kind of muddy and cold still, but I didn't mind it. Very different from your home, but thank you very much for the nostalgia trip. My whole family has moved away from there, and I don't know if I'll ever go back, but it's lovely to have those memories. And have a few things that are the same (for instance, keeping our own chickens, who are in fact VERY loud, and whose eggs taste SO much better than grocery store eggs), or find things to love about the new place I live (gorgeous spring with so many flowers, and absolutely delicious seasonal strawberries and peaches, also interesting local greens, though I do miss massive snowfalls). Thanks to anyone who read this, I hope you enjoyed my rambling. :)
thank you you so much sharing a vid with your lovely family! Never before had a chance to see anything about vietnamese culture. pls go on with this , love it!
I’m Chinese and our family celebrate lunar new year in our Chinese way. It’s my first time see banh chung and it looks delicious! It’s wonderful to learn about Vietnamese lunar new year food and culture and see your family make those food by yourselves (from planting to harvesting to cleaning and cooking) is so satisfying. Your mom actually reminds me of my grandma who also has a bunch of chickens and goose in the backyard and every new year she would make a full table of dishes. I haven’t come back to China for years and I miss my family a lot. Your video makes me feel a strong sense of nostalgia and brings me such peace and joy. Thank you for making those videos❤ would love to see more!
Chickens and geese....."in the backyard", are illegal in Canada, unless you're very wealthy.......(Even if there's lots of room 😩 , PLUS if people found out you might plan on eating them..... Somebody would come and rescue them..... 🤔. 👃✌️🇨🇦
I never knew banana leaves could be used in cooking like that, so cool. Also love that you're a polar bear trying to stock up before going back to Germany lol, RELATE I always gain a few pounds when I go back home because I'm a poor student who can't really justify using or buying as much butter as my French mum likes to cook with 😭
In my country,we even use banana leaves to grill fish.it taste even better rather than use aluminium foil and more nature way.but it's cheap or almost free here compare to get it in western country
Your mom look so active and hard worker! In my family, my mom was also feeding me like a little bird each time i visited her! I was always comming back home, with 3 bags full of foods, meals etc... Unfortunately, she died 2 decades ago...Miss her so much! But she let me with something precious...food can show your love for your precious one!
I was born in saigon, left when city fell, and havent been back. I ❤️ watching your videos, it reminds me of my mom, who i lost to cancer few years ago, I dont have anyone who speaks Vietnamese with since she died and hearing you and you mom melts my heart
These videos of your Vietnamese roots, culture, food, cooking, etc. are SOOOO informative and interesting. I always enjoy your videos/shorts about the differences between the Vietnamese and German cultures. So fun!!! Your mom is amazing! I watched the original video where your mom made the square cakes so it was fun to see you open them and show us how to eat them. Happy Lunar Year to you and your family...
I started to live in the Netherlands and I can relate with many cultural shocks you have in Germany, even tough I'm brazilian. To be honest, I find some of vietnamese lifestyle quite similar to brazilian ones :)
I am Vietnamese and it makes me super happy to see Vietnamese traditions and my favourite foods represented here on YT! Please keep up your amazing work, your videos makes a lot of people (including myself) very happy!
Thank you for making the videos that you do! They're always so cozy and watching them really helps me relax!! Regardless of whether its short or long-form content, its always a treat to see your videos recommended!
I could watch this for hours. You have such a nice, calming voice and it's so interesting to learn about your culture and food! Would really like to experience that myself one day
Thank you for sharing some of your Home Time with your family. It's been wonderful watching the videos and gaining a bit of insight to another culture. I really appreciate this!
Enjoying these videos so much and learning heaps more about my own culture. Hope you upload a few more of your time back home. Especially the food, and just local things that are different to the western world! ❤
Thank you so much for this video, Uyen! The food looks so delicious. Okay, I am a meat lover, I admit it. But also to have all the veggies with the dishes is so nice. I will try that pork dish myself. It looked so yummy. I am so glad when I can learn about Vietnamese culture/food/traditions from you. Thank you very much for taking the time to film everything for us.
I didn't plan to watch the whole two videos on this, because I didn't have the time, but I just couldn't stop! You have such a natural talent for story telling in a way that makes the audience feel at home. Like you with the food descriptions I have a hard time describing this feeling when watching your videos, but it's extremely cozy! You're awesome! Thank you for sharing your world with us! ❤
cutting the food with the wrapping strand was so efficient , this was so cool to see. i appreciate all your explanations, it's really cool to learn about your culture and your domestic plants !
Noooooooo please don't end, I need more of this kind of vlogs, its so refreshing to see different ways of preparing cuisines and the differences in furniture and lifestyle.
Idk what it is but you just have the nicest most calm vibe and I LOVE watching your videos! I love seeing how culture differs around the world and I love that you give us a view of it all! Thanks so much for creating!
You are literally so cute ☺️ from the way you were dancing while you ate to your expression when the salt vendor came by, it made my heart very happy! Thank you for sharing the joys of your home with us 🥰❤️
thank you for showing us, it is so nice to discover others people traditions in such a wholesome and simple way !! and your voice is so nice and calm, such a pleasure to hear!
I really enjoyed this video ! I was kinda sad when it ended actually .. Thanks for sharing . ❤ Every chance I see fit ( which is pretty much all the time ) I share your channel with friends who I think will find it informative. I actually found the perfect opportunity as I have a friend who recently moved to Germany 🇩🇪. My first comment to them was " I heard Germans love proper recycling ." I learned that from you .
Your videos have your own unique element.The content is so simple yet interesting and fun to watch. your personality gets reflected from this... you are such a pure and simple human...love your content. It's very calming.
I give this video a 20/10 You are a lovely guide to show us your home and your traditions. I feel very fortunate to be able to view your family home and your parents are lovely.
Thank you for sharing your family's traditions. Vlogs like this make our world smaller. I feel like I've had a Vietnamese experience through you. Also this video could have lasted 3 hours. I would have watched every minute.
I really love other cultures and traditions and this is sooo interesting!! I love how she isn’t afraid to show her cultures and traditions 😊😊she always makes me smile and laugh!! Thank you!!
Youre so kind and humble. I have Thai roots but lived in Sweden almost my whole life. Love this so much and we have so many similar traditions and culture.
This is beautiful. Quote smart. This is a really good video for showing what it feels like to be there with you. Wonderful to see the family and home. And the food!!! Thank you
Thank you for posting this! I really enjoyed the video. I'm vietnamese but grew up with little knowledge or understanding of my culture so it's very heartwarming to watch a video like this and learn more about my roots I hope you can upload more videos about vietnamese culture/ traditions/ etc!!
Omg your mom saying "look here, look here" was so adorable 🥰. I'm currently a student studying abroad from US to UK and have had similar instances where Vietnamese food is hard to find so it has encouraged me to cook more often. Instantly brought back the moments I've had with my grandma when she was teaching me how to cook. Now that she has passed, I am glad to have learned as much recipes as I could from her. Especially thit kho.
Really enjoying your sweet manner, yet very smart topics of cultural differences. I love that you show such deep respect for your culture, and it makes me want to visit Vietnam! Man all those wonderful vegetables and food combos. Best to you and your very considerate German beau;)
I’m surprised to find out how much your lifestyle is similar to my Russian family lifestyle when we get out to the village house. The vibe is just so cozy. Thank you
This feels like a treat! Thank you for sharing your culture and customs with viewers like myself - I learnt a lot about suburban life in Vietnam through this video and it's refreshing to see food and a lifestyle so different from mine
Ah! We have pomelo. You reminded me to try one. Thank you for sharing longer-format vids alongside your fantastic teeny ones🤗 You're a wonderful guide into Vietnam insights and food.
So interesting ! As a french with vietnamese origins, in my family we don't do all the things that i saw in your videos but I can relate the banh chung and the pomelo. We have even a technic to open it : Cut the up (hat) of the fruit, make some precut from de up to the bottom then remove the peel. Now You can test your strengh by pulling apart the quarters with your bare hands 😂
That is so cool to watch and learn about Vietnamese culture and food. I have a half Vietnamese grandson and I am grateful to learn of his heritage. Thanks!!! I love your videos!!!
i just returned from a 2 week vacation from vietnam, i am still amazed how friendly everyone was. Vietnam is a beautiful country with beautiful people, i will defenitly return, 2 weeks was way to short to for a vacation and concerning the food, vietnam has some of the best food in the world
I love that you included the foods offered to the ancestors. These traditions are new to me as an American, but I have loved the concept. I was always sad that my family, who comes from Mexico, never adopted the practice.
My husband is Vietnamese, and he shares the food and history but without much detail. Your channel is definitely helping me understand the traditions much better, so I can help him share with our two babies.
Thank you so much for making this video. I can feel the joy coming out of the screen. Seeing your excitement over little familiar things; it makes me feel happy too.
I love these two videos about your Lunar festivities because I always enjoy learning about other cultures and traditions. I hope you took good notes about all this traditional food. Especially how to prepare this cake. Your mom should have let you help so you can practice to become a master yourself. When my grandmother past so did a lot of dishes we used to eat. She was from the german part that is now Poland. She altered dishes to her taste. She had no cookbooks or written recipes. I often get such an overwhelming taste for some of her dishes. I enjoy watching your short clips. You are so very funny. In a good way. We all need to laugh more often. Love your vlogs! Have a great time at home and a safe return to Berlin (my hometown❤)
I really want to start a garden and to see the way you prepare and cook the food so simply to honor the flavor of the vegetable is very inspiring to me. Thank you for sharing your home, family, and culture with us.
Thank you for this wonderful video! I love everything you teach us about Vietnamese (and German) culture, and I enjoy your presentation style very much.
I absolutely Love how you said in Germany the food ‘is notifying to your taste”. That is such a kind way of saying that. Thank you…I’m not German, btw. You taught me a great way of saying that. Thank you.
I love your video very much, it shows that’s a lot of similarities with us Chinese during Lunar New Year. And I absolutely agree with the gain weight part, Asian show their love through food, which is one of the warmest way i think.
So cool!! I love seeing what people eat in other cultures, how they prepare everything, and what the customs behind it all. Such a rich culture you have in Vietnam. Thank you for sharing!
I really love learning about other cultures but I haven’t had much opportunity to learn Vietnamese traditions. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain your home and culture! ❤
I have Cameroonian roots, and it's so cool to see other countries having similar cooking/ preserving methods with the banana leaves and that root looking thing looked like an 'ignam' ... I wonder if it tastes similar (': but thank you so much for sharing!! 🥰
I love your videos and shorts! It's awesome to see the contrast between two countries such as Vietnam and Germany, and the foods always look amazing. Thank you for sharing your traditions with us! ❤
Hi Uyen, I love how unique and authentic you are. You're showing life and yourself natural. Your videos are my medicine for this sick and rotten world with fake attitudes and looks. Please don't stop uploading.
This is an outstanding video. Thank you for sharing what feels to me like such personal aspects of your life. Your lack of an ability to translate some of the ingredients adds even more to how foreign this food looks to me. Nothing I have seen on a food TV show carries the feelings that you are able to convey here. I have experienced Germany and find your reactions amusing. Vietnam is a place I’d like to see.
Can you try out some of the Vietnamese restaurants in your local area and give us your feedback? I'm interested to see if the recipes are still original, i.e. if they've been adapted to suit the German palate.
Most have been adapted to a degree, in my experience, usually more salt is added... they also subsitute less important ingredients... like using kohlrabi or giant turnip instead of green papaya
Bahn Chung reminds me of Chinese Zhongzhi. I haven't tried it but I learned from it online. I bet they're both absolutely delicious! I hope I can try them one day!
Thank you for sharing part of your life with your family in Vietnam. These traditions and holidays are so wonderful to see. I love Vietnamese food. So everything you made looks appealing to me 😁
this cultural diversity is so fascinating to watch!! Born a Southern city kid (Ho Chi Minh) with Northern parents, I always see the difference between my family and my Southern friends' culture (i'm quite proud of it actually), but this is somewhat different. I can always boast to my relatives that my mom makes the best giò thủ. We have lá mơ and it's fried with egg as well but I have never seen that much lá mơ before. I didn't follow you from the start but CZcams algorithm somehow drive your video to me. This is such wholesome content!! 😍😍
As a Vietnamese, I love your channel! Btw I find it's funny that there's another way to prepare dried squid apart from just grilling it with 90% alcohol XD
This being the second longer video i really saw from your vietnamese home, i am every single time more amazed by the resourceful garden of your mum and how much she utilises of it. I know a few recipes from my mum as well, but mostly they are about fruit and just a few herbs outside of my mums 'Gemüsegarten' where she grows carrots, peas, beans, etc. Your Boyfriend / Fiance was a botanist, right? He must love the garden as well :D I wish you and your family all the best and thank you so much for the glimpse into your life!
I find it incredible how different the vietnamese daily life and food are. I'm french, and watching your vietnamese culture videos feels like a time machine. What your family experience every day looks like what my grandma lived in her youth.
Please upload more videos like these. I love your content and videos about Vietnam so much. My Patents Are Vietnamese and i am living in Germany as well. You are such a nice person with a good humor.❤
Cooking in banana leaves ?! wooohhhh... I'm from a French tropical island (Reunion) and the old tradition is to eat rice/beans/meat or fish on banana leaves. I didn't know it could be used to cook food without oil. Amazing. Makes me wanna try :-D
This is one life hack I want to follow too. I use stainless steel pan and hate that the eggs always stick to the pan. The banana leaves are a life saver.
Hello, here in México we have a very similar root like yours. It is not very tasty but it has a lot of nutrients. We ,as you know here in México eat everything with lemon and salt and hot chilli. The root is called "camote del cerro" which would be translated to "sweet potato from the hill" or something like that. 😬 I'm glad to see that you also show your traditions. Te cuidas chica. 😊
I think the coolest thing about the internet for me has always been the fact that people from all around the world can open a tiny window to their own world and share it with others. Thank you for sharing this, I honestly love watching people carry out their own traditions. I find it fascinating.
Totally agree!!
I love that too!!
So true, CZcams makes the world feels a bit smaller, and it's so fascinating 💚
Same! Its the global education We never got in school!
I subscribe to every word. ❤ That is the best thing about the internet. 😊
I'm not much of a traditions guy but when it comes to cooking I think we will soon realize how important it is to preserve traditional recipes. The creativity is off the charts in those recipes cause people used to spend hours and hours perfecting a dish. So soak up all the secret cooking tips and tricks from your parents and grandparents, they are Gold wert!
So you are not a man of culture ?....
They people didnt made themselves dependend on a few vegetables...especially if its a wild veggie..it was eaten alot. 🕊💛🕊
Very good point as cooking is an important part of identity too. Tradition is being stuck with things we did for a long time without questioning if they make sense. E.g. the Krampus tradition is quite bad and is not really a „Brauch“ that goes back very far.
Tradition isn’t worth keeping it because it was done for a long time.
And why we should stop that progress now?
Things like banh chung were invented for a reason. Same reason cheburek and Russian pierogi were intented, mostly practical and not for flavor per se. It's a portable food that a peasant can take with them to the field for a lunch snack and it doesn't spoil as fast because its easily spoiled content has been pasteurized by the cooking process.The leaves act as sort of saran wrap and keep out bacteria. This stuff can be good for days without refrigeration.
I’m a Viet adoptee from rural North Carolina, USA, so I didn’t grow up with traditions like these. So I’ve tried seeking them out myself. I make my own bánh chưng and this year I made bánh rán! Food is the most accessible way for me to reconnect with Vietnam. I love learning and I love your content! Thanks for sharing with us! ❤❤❤
Beautiful 😍
Thats so awesome! I hope you continue to learn your roots and reconnect with your culture 🥰
Food is the best way for all of us to reconnect with our roots. All the best to you on your journey of discovery.
I'm a Vietnamese who grew up in the US. Although there are many Vietnamese in my city, I learn so much more about Vietnamese culture from your channel (I love your Germany content too). Thank you for showing us your Tet traditions. Please keep up your honest, enlightening content.
Move back.
@@user-ez8le1rp3x lol don’t give bad advice
@@c3ru1ean41 Yup, it is bad advice.
same i’m in the U.S as well & i didn’t get to experience vietnamese traditions either so like others i sought my heritage out so i could spiritually connect w/ it.
What I really like about your videos is that they show the world how much you love your home country. Many Westerners assume that all Southeast Asians must be dirt poor and I'm sure that many people believe that you jumped at the opportunity to come to Germany. BUT your videos teach them otherwise. You can feel the love for Vietnam oozing out of the video and I love it.
How it teaches us otherwise? They just eat any leaf they find around, boiled and almost unflavored like the homo sapiens
Your comment literally made me cry. I miss my home in VN too, and I feel sorry for people who don’t/can’t appreciate their origin!
i'm going to Vietnam with my Vietnamese friend in a few weeks, and I am addicted watching your videos. I've learned so much about Vietnam from your videos. Thank you Uyen!
Happy to hear that! 🥰 i wish you a lot of fun there! 😊
Dont forget to trust in the force while crossing the street
Uyen, 10:33 “I’m glad I’m not a food vlogger” , keep exactly the way you are doing it - authentic and real , we don’t need another food vlogger 😁
yeah💯
I love the way you speak, and present your videos. It feels like I'm really with you and your family, and not like a scripted show. What a beautiful family, and beautiful traditions. May you all have a great new year with good health, and success.
Totally agreed!!
Even though I'm not Vietnamese, I grew up in a rural area, and a lot of this stuff is making me feel very nostalgic. Particularly the random fruits and vegetables that are specific to your home area that you can't really buy in the place you've moved to, especially ones you grew yourself.
I miss autumn olives/autumn berries (silvery leaves, small sweet and tart fruit that's dark red, with a single seed inside, about the size of a pea but often oblong, has small silvery spots on it, makes your mouth kind of dry after eating a bunch) (we made it into jam and 'fruit leather' by drying in huge tough but tasty strips), black caps (wild black raspberries) (jams and tarts and crumbles), huge rosey stalks of rhubarb that we had to avoid the stinging nettles that grew with them while picking (freezing in huge bags to make crumble, and making strawberry rhubarb jam), sour cherries (jam or clafotis, unsure how to spell it but it's a very custardy dish with cherries at the bottom), crabapple (very tart but sweet enough to eat straight off the tree, made pink applesauce), heirloom apples that grew in our orchard (applesauce, apple butter, apple pie, and my favorite- apple Cider pressed in an old wooden press!), concord grapes we made into jam and grape juice or just ate off the vine (SO SOUR!), and an honorable mention to the tiny sad little red raspberry and blackberry and pear plants that didn't really produce much but I still wanted to be excited about.
And then there were the heirloom roses that smelled absolutely beautiful and came in yellow and pink and white, daffodils, purple irises, so many tulips, orange lilies, white and purple lilac, forsythia, white and purple violets that grew in the grass, lily of the valley that only grew in the shadows under some of the random bushes.
And winters that lasted forever with huge icicles and massive snow drifts. Sometimes the snow would melt into a hard crusty layer of ice that if you were very careful, you could walk on without breaking, and if a dry powdery snow fell after that, the wind would blow it into glittering tornadoes of 'diamond dust'. The snowstorms were magnificent, especially at night with huge flakes coming down and with the light from your window only being able to see a few feet out into the gloom, waking up to frost coated windows painted swirling orange and pink and yellow from the sunrise. The summers were super hot but short, and we'd have bonfires and go stargazing with almost no light pollution (though it was always best in winter too if you could stand the cold). The autumn was a riot of color, all the trees scarlet and orange and gold, huge piles of leaves to play in, and the air smelled like an old book and cold and fresh. Spring was just kind of muddy and cold still, but I didn't mind it.
Very different from your home, but thank you very much for the nostalgia trip. My whole family has moved away from there, and I don't know if I'll ever go back, but it's lovely to have those memories. And have a few things that are the same (for instance, keeping our own chickens, who are in fact VERY loud, and whose eggs taste SO much better than grocery store eggs), or find things to love about the new place I live (gorgeous spring with so many flowers, and absolutely delicious seasonal strawberries and peaches, also interesting local greens, though I do miss massive snowfalls).
Thanks to anyone who read this, I hope you enjoyed my rambling. :)
This was very beautiful to read; thank you for sharing! :))
Thanks so much for reading my ramble! :))
it felt like childhood ❤️ thanks for sharing this personal account of yours, ...i kind of travelled through all your details in my mind☺️
I lived in Boston for 8 years. Your description of the snow made me very homesick for it. Thank you for the reminder of the beautiful snow.
How do you eat autumn olives so they are less astringent? Am I harvesting mine too early? We have so many in my area, but no culture of eating them
thank you you so much sharing a vid with your lovely family! Never before had a chance to see anything about vietnamese culture. pls go on with this , love it!
Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
I’m Chinese and our family celebrate lunar new year in our Chinese way. It’s my first time see banh chung and it looks delicious! It’s wonderful to learn about Vietnamese lunar new year food and culture and see your family make those food by yourselves (from planting to harvesting to cleaning and cooking) is so satisfying. Your mom actually reminds me of my grandma who also has a bunch of chickens and goose in the backyard and every new year she would make a full table of dishes. I haven’t come back to China for years and I miss my family a lot. Your video makes me feel a strong sense of nostalgia and brings me such peace and joy. Thank you for making those videos❤ would love to see more!
Chickens and geese....."in the backyard", are illegal in Canada, unless you're very wealthy.......(Even if there's lots of room 😩 , PLUS if people found out you might plan on eating them..... Somebody would come and rescue them..... 🤔. 👃✌️🇨🇦
I like how your videos and not heavily edited and glamorized. I live seeing the house and the surroundings, it's so natural and very real
I never knew banana leaves could be used in cooking like that, so cool. Also love that you're a polar bear trying to stock up before going back to Germany lol, RELATE I always gain a few pounds when I go back home because I'm a poor student who can't really justify using or buying as much butter as my French mum likes to cook with 😭
In my country,we even use banana leaves to grill fish.it taste even better rather than use aluminium foil and more nature way.but it's cheap or almost free here compare to get it in western country
Your mom look so active and hard worker! In my family, my mom was also feeding me like a little bird each time i visited her! I was always comming back home, with 3 bags full of foods, meals etc... Unfortunately, she died 2 decades ago...Miss her so much! But she let me with something precious...food can show your love for your precious one!
I was born in saigon, left when city fell, and havent been back. I ❤️ watching your videos, it reminds me of my mom, who i lost to cancer few years ago, I dont have anyone who speaks Vietnamese with since she died and hearing you and you mom melts my heart
Fascinating! I'm struck by the variety of vegetables, roots and fruit you eat in Vietnam and just how incredibly fresh it all is.
These videos of your Vietnamese roots, culture, food, cooking, etc. are SOOOO informative and interesting. I always enjoy your videos/shorts about the differences between the Vietnamese and German cultures. So fun!!! Your mom is amazing! I watched the original video where your mom made the square cakes so it was fun to see you open them and show us how to eat them. Happy Lunar Year to you and your family...
I started to live in the Netherlands and I can relate with many cultural shocks you have in Germany, even tough I'm brazilian. To be honest, I find some of vietnamese lifestyle quite similar to brazilian ones :)
Right? I am mexican and I see so many similarities with the routine in small towns/villages in Mexico.
@@liiishh5393 same! this reminded me very much of how my family how from a small village lives in Mexico
I am Vietnamese and it makes me super happy to see Vietnamese traditions and my favourite foods represented here on YT! Please keep up your amazing work, your videos makes a lot of people (including myself) very happy!
I really admire your Mom. She seems strong, grows her own food, is a good cook and gets the job's done. Respect 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this! I love seeing food from other places, and it was nice to see you enjoying your visit home so much.
That was not enough, I need more 😭 Thank you for sharing with us. It's really amazing to learn, see and experience new culture. 💗🙏
your videos bring me so much comfort from my stressful and anxious life. Thank you Uyen.
Thank you for making the videos that you do! They're always so cozy and watching them really helps me relax!! Regardless of whether its short or long-form content, its always a treat to see your videos recommended!
I could watch this for hours. You have such a nice, calming voice and it's so interesting to learn about your culture and food! Would really like to experience that myself one day
The balance of hard work and simplicity is amazing. Love learning about your family ❤
Thank you for sharing some of your Home Time with your family. It's been wonderful watching the videos and gaining a bit of insight to another culture.
I really appreciate this!
Enjoying these videos so much and learning heaps more about my own culture. Hope you upload a few more of your time back home. Especially the food, and just local things that are different to the western world! ❤
Thank you so much for this video, Uyen! The food looks so delicious. Okay, I am a meat lover, I admit it. But also to have all the veggies with the dishes is so nice. I will try that pork dish myself. It looked so yummy. I am so glad when I can learn about Vietnamese culture/food/traditions from you. Thank you very much for taking the time to film everything for us.
I didn't plan to watch the whole two videos on this, because I didn't have the time, but I just couldn't stop! You have such a natural talent for story telling in a way that makes the audience feel at home. Like you with the food descriptions I have a hard time describing this feeling when watching your videos, but it's extremely cozy! You're awesome! Thank you for sharing your world with us! ❤
cutting the food with the wrapping strand was so efficient , this was so cool to see. i appreciate all your explanations, it's really cool to learn about your culture and your domestic plants !
Noooooooo please don't end, I need more of this kind of vlogs, its so refreshing to see different ways of preparing cuisines and the differences in furniture and lifestyle.
Idk what it is but you just have the nicest most calm vibe and I LOVE watching your videos! I love seeing how culture differs around the world and I love that you give us a view of it all! Thanks so much for creating!
You are literally so cute ☺️ from the way you were dancing while you ate to your expression when the salt vendor came by, it made my heart very happy! Thank you for sharing the joys of your home with us 🥰❤️
thank you for showing us, it is so nice to discover others people traditions in such a wholesome and simple way !! and your voice is so nice and calm, such a pleasure to hear!
Thank you for sharing this! Seeing people at home for the holidays really fills me with so much joy 💖
I really enjoyed this video ! I was kinda sad when it ended actually .. Thanks for sharing . ❤ Every chance I see fit ( which is pretty much all the time ) I share your channel with friends who I think will find it informative. I actually found the perfect opportunity as I have a friend who recently moved to Germany 🇩🇪. My first comment to them was " I heard Germans love proper recycling ." I learned that from you .
Your videos have your own unique element.The content is so simple yet interesting and fun to watch. your personality gets reflected from this... you are such a pure and simple human...love your content. It's very calming.
I give this video a 20/10
You are a lovely guide to show us your home and your traditions. I feel very fortunate to be able to view your family home and your parents are lovely.
Thank you for sharing your family's traditions. Vlogs like this make our world smaller. I feel like I've had a Vietnamese experience through you. Also this video could have lasted 3 hours. I would have watched every minute.
I really love other cultures and traditions and this is sooo interesting!! I love how she isn’t afraid to show her cultures and traditions 😊😊she always makes me smile and laugh!! Thank you!!
Youre so kind and humble. I have Thai roots but lived in Sweden almost my whole life. Love this so much and we have so many similar traditions and culture.
This is beautiful. Quote smart. This is a really good video for showing what it feels like to be there with you. Wonderful to see the family and home. And the food!!! Thank you
Thank you for posting this! I really enjoyed the video. I'm vietnamese but grew up with little knowledge or understanding of my culture so it's very heartwarming to watch a video like this and learn more about my roots
I hope you can upload more videos about vietnamese culture/ traditions/ etc!!
Omg your mom saying "look here, look here" was so adorable 🥰. I'm currently a student studying abroad from US to UK and have had similar instances where Vietnamese food is hard to find so it has encouraged me to cook more often. Instantly brought back the moments I've had with my grandma when she was teaching me how to cook. Now that she has passed, I am glad to have learned as much recipes as I could from her. Especially thit kho.
Really enjoying your sweet manner, yet very smart topics of cultural differences. I love that you show such deep respect for your culture, and it makes me want to visit Vietnam! Man all those wonderful vegetables and food combos. Best to you and your very considerate German beau;)
I’m surprised to find out how much your lifestyle is similar to my Russian family lifestyle when we get out to the village house. The vibe is just so cozy. Thank you
Which part of Russia do you live in?
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This feels like a treat! Thank you for sharing your culture and customs with viewers like myself - I learnt a lot about suburban life in Vietnam through this video and it's refreshing to see food and a lifestyle so different from mine
Ah! We have pomelo. You reminded me to try one. Thank you for sharing longer-format vids alongside your fantastic teeny ones🤗 You're a wonderful guide into Vietnam insights and food.
So interesting ! As a french with vietnamese origins, in my family we don't do all the things that i saw in your videos but I can relate the banh chung and the pomelo. We have even a technic to open it : Cut the up (hat) of the fruit, make some precut from de up to the bottom then remove the peel. Now You can test your strengh by pulling apart the quarters with your bare hands 😂
You also make sure the peel stays in one piece (minus the top bit that was cut off first) and look for a baby to wear it on their head.
That is so cool to watch and learn about Vietnamese culture and food. I have a half Vietnamese grandson and I am grateful to learn of his heritage. Thanks!!! I love your videos!!!
I love love love these videos! Thank you so much for sharing more of Vietnamese culture with us ❤
i just returned from a 2 week vacation from vietnam, i am still amazed how friendly everyone was. Vietnam is a beautiful country with beautiful people, i will defenitly return, 2 weeks was way to short to for a vacation and concerning the food, vietnam has some of the best food in the world
I love that you included the foods offered to the ancestors. These traditions are new to me as an American, but I have loved the concept. I was always sad that my family, who comes from Mexico, never adopted the practice.
Thank you so much for showing us more of your life at home, and delicious food. It’s so nice to get to know life in Vietnam. 🙌🏽🧡
I love your usual content, but this is so cool to learn more about your vietnamese culture! I love all the veggies you guys eat.
My husband is Vietnamese, and he shares the food and history but without much detail. Your channel is definitely helping me understand the traditions much better, so I can help him share with our two babies.
Thank you so much for making this video. I can feel the joy coming out of the screen. Seeing your excitement over little familiar things; it makes me feel happy too.
So satisfying to watch! Thank you for sharing this insider video to Vietnamese culture
One of your strengths is how well you organize all your videos! You lead your viewers through in such a logical, interesting way--thank you!
She's a smart girl!
I love these two videos about your Lunar festivities because I always enjoy learning about other cultures and traditions. I hope you took good notes about all this traditional food. Especially how to prepare this cake. Your mom should have let you help so you can practice to become a master yourself. When my grandmother past so did a lot of dishes we used to eat. She was from the german part that is now Poland. She altered dishes to her taste. She had no cookbooks or written recipes. I often get such an overwhelming taste for some of her dishes.
I enjoy watching your short clips. You are so very funny. In a good way. We all need to laugh more often. Love your vlogs! Have a great time at home and a safe return to Berlin (my hometown❤)
I really want to start a garden and to see the way you prepare and cook the food so simply to honor the flavor of the vegetable is very inspiring to me. Thank you for sharing your home, family, and culture with us.
Thank you for this wonderful video! I love everything you teach us about Vietnamese (and German) culture, and I enjoy your presentation style very much.
I am honored you invited us into your family's home for the New Year, thank you! Love your home! 🙏
I love learning about traditions from around the world!
Thank you so much for showing us your culture. It makes me proud of mine too. Blessings
I love you showing all the home cooking and vegetables and herbs that are homegrown!
I absolutely Love how you said in Germany the food ‘is notifying to your taste”. That is such a kind way of saying that. Thank you…I’m not German, btw. You taught me a great way of saying that. Thank you.
I love your video very much, it shows that’s a lot of similarities with us Chinese during Lunar New Year.
And I absolutely agree with the gain weight part, Asian show their love through food, which is one of the warmest way i think.
I love this glimpse into life in Vietnam. Thank you for sharing your family's traditions with us.
So cool!! I love seeing what people eat in other cultures, how they prepare everything, and what the customs behind it all. Such a rich culture you have in Vietnam. Thank you for sharing!
thank you so much for sharing Uyen ! love to see the way your Vietnamese family eats and lives ❤ wishing you all the best !
Thank you! ☺️ You too!
As a person who was born in a small village similar to yours, this video reminds me how humble we used to be and how cities changed us
I really enjoy these videos, thanks for taking the time to share your culture with us!
I really love learning about other cultures but I haven’t had much opportunity to learn Vietnamese traditions. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain your home and culture! ❤
I have Cameroonian roots, and it's so cool to see other countries having similar cooking/ preserving methods with the banana leaves and that root looking thing looked like an 'ignam' ... I wonder if it tastes similar (': but thank you so much for sharing!! 🥰
I'm Vietnamese-American and didn't know many of the customs you described. Everything was so interesting. Love learning from you!
Thank you for sharing Uyen! I love to see your traditions🙂
I love your videos and shorts! It's awesome to see the contrast between two countries such as Vietnam and Germany, and the foods always look amazing. Thank you for sharing your traditions with us! ❤
thank you for showing us! what a privilege to sit here in my house and still be able to see other people's traditions and food
Hi Uyen, I love how unique and authentic you are. You're showing life and yourself natural. Your videos are my medicine for this sick and rotten world with fake attitudes and looks. Please don't stop uploading.
This is some of the coolest content I've seen you make. Thank you so much for sharing your family's culture with us! :)
This is an outstanding video. Thank you for sharing what feels to me like such personal aspects of your life. Your lack of an ability to translate some of the ingredients adds even more to how foreign this food looks to me. Nothing I have seen on a food TV show carries the feelings that you are able to convey here. I have experienced Germany and find your reactions amusing. Vietnam is a place I’d like to see.
Can you try out some of the Vietnamese restaurants in your local area and give us your feedback? I'm interested to see if the recipes are still original, i.e. if they've been adapted to suit the German palate.
this sounds fun 👀👀
such a great idea !
Local area in Vietnam, or Vietnamese restaurant/cuisine in German
Most have been adapted to a degree, in my experience, usually more salt is added... they also subsitute less important ingredients... like using kohlrabi or giant turnip instead of green papaya
There's probably a considerable difference between ordering in German vs. a Vietnamese person ordering in Vietnamese.
Bahn Chung reminds me of Chinese Zhongzhi. I haven't tried it but I learned from it online. I bet they're both absolutely delicious! I hope I can try them one day!
Just loved the vibe of the entire video! Thank you for sharing this with us
Thank you for sharing part of your life with your family in Vietnam. These traditions and holidays are so wonderful to see. I love Vietnamese food. So everything you made looks appealing to me 😁
this cultural diversity is so fascinating to watch!! Born a Southern city kid (Ho Chi Minh) with Northern parents, I always see the difference between my family and my Southern friends' culture (i'm quite proud of it actually), but this is somewhat different.
I can always boast to my relatives that my mom makes the best giò thủ. We have lá mơ and it's fried with egg as well but I have never seen that much lá mơ before.
I didn't follow you from the start but CZcams algorithm somehow drive your video to me. This is such wholesome content!! 😍😍
@-Mrs_Uyen_Ninh what's that chị ới? 😆😆
As a Vietnamese, I love your channel! Btw I find it's funny that there's another way to prepare dried squid apart from just grilling it with 90% alcohol XD
This being the second longer video i really saw from your vietnamese home, i am every single time more amazed by the resourceful garden of your mum and how much she utilises of it. I know a few recipes from my mum as well, but mostly they are about fruit and just a few herbs outside of my mums 'Gemüsegarten' where she grows carrots, peas, beans, etc.
Your Boyfriend / Fiance was a botanist, right? He must love the garden as well :D
I wish you and your family all the best and thank you so much for the glimpse into your life!
i love your videos Uyen! Your humor is so cute and I love the relationship you have with you husband.
I wish we had all the ingredients available in my area, I want to try these recipes and ingredients! Especially the omelette!
Thanks for sharing this window into your world!! Looks like you had a nice visit with your fam!! 💝
Your content is fascinating!! Thank you for sharing your food and culture with us.
After watching nothing but your shorts, I think the fact that your fiance can speak basic Vietnamese is astounding
I find it incredible how different the vietnamese daily life and food are. I'm french, and watching your vietnamese culture videos feels like a time machine. What your family experience every day looks like what my grandma lived in her youth.
Please upload more videos like these. I love your content and videos about Vietnam so much. My Patents Are Vietnamese and i am living in Germany as well. You are such a nice person with a good humor.❤
I feel so calm watching this. Thank you for making my day.
Cooking in banana leaves ?! wooohhhh... I'm from a French tropical island (Reunion) and the old tradition is to eat rice/beans/meat or fish on banana leaves. I didn't know it could be used to cook food without oil. Amazing. Makes me wanna try :-D
This is one life hack I want to follow too. I use stainless steel pan and hate that the eggs always stick to the pan. The banana leaves are a life saver.
@Maina B That sounds amazing !
Hello, here in México we have a very similar root like yours. It is not very tasty but it has a lot of nutrients. We ,as you know here in México eat everything with lemon and salt and hot chilli. The root is called "camote del cerro" which would be translated to "sweet potato from the hill" or something like that. 😬
I'm glad to see that you also show your traditions.
Te cuidas chica. 😊