Vietnamese food my mom feeds me in a day
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- Every time I'm back in Vietnam, my mom prepares my favorite foods for me, and this time, I've decided to bring you along. And yes, she actually made me cook a lot of the food myself while she micromanaged 😂
00:00 Intro
00:30 First dish
03:40 Second dish
05:27 Third dish
08:12 Fourth dish
10:53 Fifth dish
12:58 Sixth dish
17:08 Outro
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Hi, I'm Uyen Ninh but please just call me Uyen!
Originally from Vietnam, I now explore life in Germany, sharing my unique perspective through my videos on my way to be your favorite Ausländer! 😁
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I love that you are always in PJs, sometimes with cardigan, just glasses, no make up. You are so relaxing for women around the world
That's the best lounge attire in the world.
I love how one moment you're a grown up woman, but the next second you can ask your mom 'please clean the cabbage for me' Moms are always moms 🌼
Cơm mẻ is a form of lactic fermented yeast rice which can contain microworm or Panagrellus redivivus (sour paste nematode, or beer mat nematode from its occurrence in constantly moist felt beer mats). It adds a unique sourness to the dish.
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.
Uyen eating yummy worms but being scared of worms on the cabbage was so cute 😂 So fun to see you and your mom cook together ❤
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 😂
Your mom is so knowledgeable. Respect to her.
The “Hi” of the worm killed me 😂 I love this video so much, as a Vietnamese born in Germany it’s so fascinating to see so many amazing dishes that my mother never could introduce me to 🥺❤️ some resources are just not available here 😭
I saw how useful chop sticks are in the kitchen; I use them a lot now.
Love your videos!
Fr 😂😂😂
Uyen this might sound weird but, your moms hands look exactly like my moms hands. We are Mexican and similar to Asian cultures, there’s a lot of colorism. She hates how she has sunspots on her hands. But I think it’s so beautiful and you can see she’s worked a lot. Made me feel warm inside 🥰 I thought about how she makes my favorite foods with love too.
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 😊
I love the insight of her parent's home and how things are done. Also the kind of food they eat. I love how accepting people are towards it. Over twenty years ago, I couldn't tell my friends about the village life of my grandmother. It was frowned upon to enjoy such a 'babaric' and 'uncivilised' lifestyle during the holidays.
Sounds like you needed different friends..yikes!
@@lijohnyoutube101 Believe or not, it were different times. There was no CZcams. 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.
uyen, to counter cabbage worms, your mom can (companion)plant celery or aliums (onion, garlic, shallot). herbs like cilantro/coriander, thyme, sage, rosemary, oregano and pepper/spearmint. or flowers like chamomile and marigold. as they all repel cabage worm butterfly, there are also plants that attract cabage worm predators like yarrow, white clover and buckwheat but that may be alot less practical.
..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!!!!!
I understand why you miss the homemade Vietnamese dishes in Germany so much. This food is fresh, full of fragrant ingredients, versatile and seems to have texture with those nice, crunchy elements.
I am not going to lie, my western mind is telling me that looks strange, but seeing you so happy eating it makes me want to give it a try
I love to see everyday home food from different countries. The only type of "Vietnamese" food I have had are a couple of different types of pho from US restaurants. I'm continually amazed by how resourceful and creative humans are around the world. I like to imagine the first people who looked at green bananas and thought up that delicious dish. Thanks for sharing, especially for sharing vegan variations.
I love this video!
I am a Home Care nurse who takes care of special needs kids in their homes. (I should add that I'm in the USA and white.)
One of my little kiddos was Vietnamese. One day, as I was halfway out the door after my night shift, kiddo's Grandma asked me if I wanted breakfast. I know well enough not to say no. She handed me chopsticks, a spoon, and a big bowl of chicken soup. 😊 From that day on, she fed me breakfast right along with the rest of the family. Usually it was some kind of soup, and it was delicious. Her chicken pho was really good, but my favorite was her congee (I don't know the Vietnamese name). It was thick and warm and peppery and had century egg and some kind of meat in it. I haven't had it in years, I don't know where to find it or how to make it, and I *miss* it!
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
Your Mom’s garden is impressive! She clearly works hard to have such a good garden
Thank you for sharing your culture with us!!! Also your parents can use neem oil in their garden to repel pests its a natural pesticide made from the neem tree.
For those making 'mẻ' and storing it at home, if you plan to make more of them, make sure that 1: there's still some amount of 'mẻ' left in the container, 2: when you open the container that you put it in, the bacteria inside have already transformed the amount of rice you added last time. It's best to feed it with leftover rice after finishing your meal as too hot rice can kill the bacteria instead.
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😅
Wow finally someone who appreciates their viewers and translates their language for us🎉
Thật hài hước và thú vị khi nghe Uyên Ninh nói cả tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt! Mình rất thích các videos chân thật , phong phú của em!
I'm an adoptee from north vietnam and I love learning about my culture through you! Thank you
Thanks for showing us homecooked Vietnamese dish!🥰
my parents are from vietnam (hue) and i was born and raised in america, and some of the vietnamese dishes you have on your channel when i show my parents they’ve never even heard of it. i think it’s very cool. thanks chi for sharing your content with us!
It's not just Vietnamese moms but all South East Asian mom's..their cooking skills are ✌️
It's not just South East Asian moms but all mom's..their cooking skills are ✌
It's just mums in general. And grandmas.
Looks absolutely scrumptious, Uyen. Mom's cooking is the best!
I always feel a flash of contentment when I find a new upload from you. I'm not sure if you *really* get how much we appreciate you and German Fiance. _(EtA: And your family as well! They've been such good sports!)_
Me too!
For the cabbage, in Europe you can reduce the pests by mixing cabbage plants with tomatoes. The smell of the tomatoes hides the smell of cabbage. A biology teacher, dad to my first gf in the 1980s taught me this! I guess you can use the same principle with some other vegetable between the cabbages in Vietnam.
Living in Germany, the food I miss most is the fresh seafood from the Pacific coast. The fresh oysters, really good local wild salmon, lobster, and especially the crab. I was pretty jealous when you ate crab!
Eats rice from worms but is afraid to touch leaves with worms on😅
The lifestyle you had in Vietnam is GOALS. Family centered, surrounded by nature, living off your own hard work and just knowing natural life skills. It makes me wonder if the "conveniences" of modern life in first world countries are better 🤔 I know Vietnam is still recovering from the past wars, hopefully with newer opportunities, they don't forget this simple and magnificent lifestyle 🥰
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 😊
It is really wonderful to watch you cooking and preparing meals with your mother. Thank you so much for this peek into your family's life.
My husband's stepmother is Vietnamese and you've just opened up a whole topic of things for me when I see her next. She's such a good cook!
Mums are amazing really. The knowledge your mum has when ik comes to recepes, methods and food/cooking is amazing. 😊
the third dish... we make something very similar in Romania... we call it 'toba' ... same filling but we use the pig stomac instead of banana leaf and maybe a bit different condiments... it looks almost the same... and probably taste similar... we also do that once a year, right before Christmas... Watching your videos, it is surprising to me how many things I find somewhat similar between vietnamese culture and traditional romaian culture ...
In english it’s called Brawn
La tobă m-am gândit si eu😂
Love seeing the Vietnamese food and traditions as well hear you speak your native language 😊
Being a vegetarian but still enjoying your video you eating your favorite food cooked by your mom because when I also do the same thing when I go back to my home
What a lot of people don't know is that a ton of Vietnamese food can be made vegetarian.
Uyen, thank you for this video - my favorite one so far! I can feel the sigh of delicious satisfaction you got from all the dishes. XO to your Mom and Dad, BF and you from SW Colorado
I used to have vegan green banana and tofu dish a lot when I lived Hanoj as well as vegan sausage. They were so delicious. I miss Vietnamese food a lot. I think my favourite food which I ate almost every day and still make myself is tomato tofu. So simple and yummy 🤤
As a Vietnamese, I can confirm the moms are amazing cooks.
Because they do it with love for the family
You're such a wholesome human thanks for sharing your experiences with us! When I lose all hope, my soul is happy to watch your videos. Thank you for always being your authentic self!
I'm born and raised in France but i'm cambodian and I never had food like that 😯 Even if my mom cooks similar dishes from Cambodia and Vietnamese dishes. Fish stew with green banana with fermented rice. Mind blowing
"One is enough, it's too spicy!" 😂 Been in Germany too long!
I really love this video and your great edits to respect your family's privacy. This whole series has been a great look into your culture and how you can include loved ones without sticking them right in front of the camera. Very much appreciated!
wow as an Indian, this makes me realise just how vegetarian we Indians are 😂 (I'm a non-vegetarian, yet our options of meat are skills quite limited) Vietnamese cuisine really has a huge diversity in the type of meat they cook. amazing exposure, thanks uyen!
I'm originally from Danang but grew up in the US within a large Vietnamese community. The Vietnamese food in the US is dominated by dishes from south and central Vietnam. I thought I knew Vietnamese food but some of the dishes you show are so new to me. Thank you for sharing and opening my mind!
Can I just say… Uyen, you have the most authentic host personality.
Its my first time watching homecooked vietnamese food.. Really enjoyed watching your mother's cooking..
Okay, I love that Uyen's mom still gives her food she doesn't really like even though she doesn't get to visit often. It's so funny
I thoroughly enjoyed your Vietnam visit vlogs U! My favorite is the one with you and your sister in Hanoi and this one, bonding with your Mom. It shows how much family means to you. These memories will sustain you when you return to Germany. Thanks for sharing this with us ❤
such personable video, thanks a bunch for showing us how your family makes meals back at home! everything looks simple but comforting and yummy especially with all of the vegetables.
My mom sucked at cooking. She cooked everything on high, so it was always dry & burnt. God bless her.
One of my Grandmother cooked like that. I think she was always in a hurry?
This video was such a delight! Thank you so much for sharing your culture, family, and your lovely authentic self. 😊
So lovely.
Danke for sharing.
I felt like I was there. 🥰
Shout out to the worm saying "hi." Good work, lil worm.
I love this format of video! So cool to get a peek inside your life in Vietnam. I feel very lucky that you’re able to share it and I’m able to watch!
Thank you for sharing! Theres nothing like a mom's homemade cooking❤
I absolutely love your videos uyen!! ❤❤❤
There is fish sauce in every dish. 😅
It is like the "Maggi" of Vietnam. 🤣
Your wholesome videos are just what I need in my life! Thanks to you and your mom for showing us some interesting new recipes! Much love
Such an excellent video, Uyen, to see you cooking with your Mom, picking vegetables in her garden, and seeing how to make so many different dishes. And you were so happy eating them!
steaming vegetables is the best way to cook them to keep the nutrients! when you steam vegetables it keeps the most nutrients, compared to all other ways to cook them! :)
So many of these things I have never heard of, because the Vietnamese restaurants in my town have to cater more to western pallets, but all of these look so good! I love all of the greens used in every dish. Makes everything look so fresh and bright.
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.
Thank you for sharing your culture with us! The video is fascinating and your pride in your family is beautiful.
Loved it! So interesting and your mother is really lovely, so caring and skillful person. Thank you!
So cool seeing you at home with your family
I love your videos back home 💜
For me, some of the most inteeesting part of this is what seeing like the village/ outdoors/ house/ kitchen in Vietnam looks like! It’s very different from America, especially the house/kitchen, and I feel like it actually gives me a sense of what the place looks like to picture in my head!
Wow! You Mama is an incredible chef! How lovely to be able to have all these recipes and celebrate your culture! Everything looks delicious!
You should do a video on the village/garden! That is such a different concept vs getting food from the market. Like is it free? Or is there a monthly contribution? Is that just your moms personal garden or it is a shared garden? If it is shared, how do you keep it from running out?
The pepper used for the head cheese is commonly known as ‘long pepper’ in English (piper longum).
I’m not sure what they call it in Germany, but I hope that helps. The pepper has a completely different taste and the dish doesn’t taste ‘right’ if ordinary black or white pepper is used.
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 adored this video! Thank you for sharing with us!
This video was really beautyful and authentic, thank you so much
This reminds me of when I used to visit my mom. She would cook all my favorites. Enjoy, there's nothing better in the world than moms cooking. 😋
The first dish looks so yummy!! It is so cool to watch your mom cooking!
I never knew you could eat banana peel when it was green.
it's so cute to see your face every time you ate something! It is so clear how much you enjoy this food and have missed your mom's cooking!!
What a great video to see. Thank you! there are tons of videos with vietnamese restaurant style food, but i prefered this one because it actually shows how you cook at home. Thank you!
Omg viet home cooking looks SO GOOD im jealous. Im from the southern US but have always loved southeast asian food. Id even try the worm rice stuff.
Was searching for a food video while eating and just found it now xD Perfect timing!
Really loved the video :D So much seafoood!
Thank you for this! 🥰
Love the family dynamic and bravo to mom for taking such good care of everyone! Big time respect for that generation.
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I adore your videos, you are so wholesome, your partner is a very lucky guy :) Please continue being wholesome and much love from my tiny corner of the world (Slovenia) :)
Super interesting, please make more of these. Love from the Nordic Faroe Islands.
Wow! How’s it going out there? Sending good vibes your way
@@FollowmedowntheNumberWhole its very quiet
This was really interesting!! No wonder you feel lonely for the food of Vietnam: this looked completely outlandish to me. I am so used to living inside my foodworld, I keep forgetting how diverse our palates and eating customs and cultures are. My late father would have loved all this. He was a firm believer in trying out new dishes and tastes. Thank you for an exhilarating and gemütliches video! Love to your Mum and Dad and the chicken and the crabs and the shrimp and the squid and what was the meat of the second dish?
I am not from Vietnam, but I am also an expat living in another country. Although I cannot relate to the food you cooked as home food for myself, I can relate so much to your desire to catch up on homey things. It makes me also wanting to go home and ask my mom to cook for me :)
You are so blessed! Wonderful video showing all that you cooked with your mom.
Thanks for the worm warning! 😊
that third dish really reminds me of the danish "sylte" that my grandfather makes. especially when you mentioned the pepper flavor. though ours is soft in texture :)
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
Thank you to you and your generous mom for letting us in to watch in her kitchen!
Vietnamese ist so eine cool klingende Sprache! Lovely video, greetings to your mom and thank you for sharing more about your Cuisine and culture 🥰
The scooter in the house! Makes me miss Taiwan. Your mom is amazing.
In Germany the equivalent to the banana leaf sausage/gelatine is Schweinskopf-Sülze and there is meat/ham/fish/ vegetables "in Aspik" .
There's even a song by the comedy duo "Die Doofen" featuring a house made of Schweinskopfsülze. 😂
The gelatanized pork we also have in Belgium called "Kop" ( Head )
It's called head cheese in English. I think it's something learned from the French. But there is also other stuff in aspic that is also learned from the French.
Your mom is such a hard working woman ❤
This video is so comforting
Wow thanks for these. I love Vietnamese food but it's been difficult finding English explanations. Please do more Vietnamese cooking videos.
I've been enjoying your content for awhile but finally motivated to comment because I love learning about South East Asian cooking techniques.
I will give com me a try. It looks like lactic acid fermentation. I imagine the taste would be a bit like how northern Thai fermented sausages taste as they add sticky rice to the fermentation. We have a lot of interesting Thai food here in Singapore but the Vietnamese options are a bit more limited. Or maybe it just seems so because I don't speak Vietnamese yet (on the bucket list).
Uyen: *"SO GOOD!"*
*"I'm scared!"*
I'm Samoan, we've never eaten the skin of the green banana. We use it in our compost on our fields. I am so interested in trying this! Your mother is so kind to share her time & knowledge. Thank you for sharing Uyen.
Thank you for thoughtful and heartwarming video. Such good food and recipes as well as family being a part of the process. Will definitely have to try some of these out! Thank you again and take care. ❤
really enjoying these vlogs from your recent trip home to vietnam! really appreciate getting to know more about you and your culture! ❤
Fascinating! My family makes American headcheese. We boill it until the meat is softer, and we add vinegar and American pickling spicem (coriander seed, black pepper, allspice, cinnamon, and bay leaf). I think I'd like the Vietnamese headcheese too.
What a lovely video! Looks yummy and its so nice to hear you speaking Vietnamese!
thank you for sharing your culture with us😊
So I’m the odd ball from the states. The worm saying hello was so funny. You have such a great mom. I don’t know if I could eat the worm but the ribs looks so good. You are truly blessed. Have an amazing day I love learning about your culture 🤗💕❤️