Touring Hanoi for less than $1!!! | How to Ride the Bus
okay so we're being adventurous we don't know what this is and we're going to give it a try this this this little place off the side of the of the alley that our hotel is in and we're I think we're literally in somebody's home and the uh the auntie that's here cooking she recommend the the picture number one and picture number three on the left side uh we both opted to try number one and the Google Translate is not helpful at all yeah and I don't even know she knew I was asking for a recommendation she just pointed and um but I imagine every meal we've had in this country has been amazing so yeah this probably will be no different in fact here it comes come on come on so looks like there's a pate it smells delicious let me see if there's what else is going on in here so it looks like yeah some Center of pork and Pate you're holding them too high sorry um oh some wheat noodles yeah some sort of brown noodle I don't know if it's wheat or if it has something else there's lots of greens in here I love that um let's see if I can kind of figure it out so it looks like spring onions yeah okay I'm going to and we got some uh garlic to put in some uh believe this is a shrimp paste and uh [ __ ] cloth I'm going to just try the broth it's nice and fatty see that oh yeah oh you're going to love that that's very dropped a chopstick um it has a very Umami flavor so kind of like a mushroomy flavor but I don't see mushrooms in there unless it's an ingredient in one of these but that's very good oh it smells mushroom me yeah very good it's like a a rich flavor oh yeah let me try there's no chilies a bit of the Noles maybe you don't use chilies with this maybe not and we're just sitting next to a random giant bunch of eggs yeah Prett good I haven't tried the noodles or anything yet I just realized that this is crab cake right here and the other meat is pate for sure this one right there just look at the fat in that broth that's so good so at first I thought the greens in here are uh spring onions but I think it's something else it has a different flavor and I can't describe it and there's also a mo bean sprouts so the Auntie here uh said it's okay for me to take a quick video of her while she's cutting up these vegetables it's something similar to like a Bak Choy but I I'm not really sure what it is but wow she's being funny because um when I was trying to ask her without Google translate she thought that I wanted a picture of her with thumbs up just want to show you like some of the stuff that uh she has around here giant bowl of eggs couple bowls of eggs like some chopped peanuts got chopped peanuts a rice cooker and up here we're trying to figure out what these [Music] are and then some more of those noodles some beans um possibly chestnuts some tea water uh garlic this kind of looks like chilies in here and then uh obviously she's got some sort of brine going on like salted chilies maybe I don't know shallots and then today is actually the third but and does anybody know in the comments what this 20 is for on the calendar like is it uh possible Chinese New Year date or some sort of other calendar that we don't know about so many questions and then looks like there's a either an award or something honoring someone up here well but yeah just an interesting little shop very old right by the church Street or by the the church in [Music] town oh and I don't know if we've showed you the seats we sit on but uh these seem to support me and there's there's ones that are even shorter than that here's the entrance of the place all right what are we eating next so that's what the outside of our house and restaurant looks [Music] like our laundry from here come [Music] on so we got our laundry back uh it was it was wet and it was paid by the kilogram um $5,000 d a kilogram Which is less than a dollar this ended up being 5 kilg so it was uh 75,000 which sounds like a lot but it was only $3 and they're all nice and neatly folded it looks like they may have been ironed as well I'm not entirely sure but all packaged up they did a um an inventory of the uh the clothes before they washed them and uh comes in nice little package fold it up [Music] nicely smells fresh and clean I'm thoroughly impressed how much was that again $3 wow and I had tried to wash our clothes by hand um and they weren't drying fast enough so I was like shoot they're going to get like musty smelling so they were pretty spping wet so they were heavy and you're paying by the kilogram so if we turn these in dry this would probably be about $2 which is insane to do our laundry and I mean folded washed dried and uh smelling nice and then on our way up yesterday the housekeeping lady uh came to us and gave us these we're not even sure what they are but I thought they were fried bananas or cooked bananas at first but they're more starchy and they taste and smell more like potato so I don't know is it could be tarot root oh maybe I don't know what ter root smells or tastes like they're really good um a really good St snack uh yesterday when she gave them to us they were warm and she's like oh I cooked these this morning that's why they're cold right now and she gave us two bananas super sweet so two days in a row the cleaning lady is giving us food yeah I'm really enjoying Vietnam how about you yeah the Vietnamese people are such hard workers and very nice people yes uh there is one thing though I don't have you talked to them about uh how impressed people are of you oh everybody thinks I'm pregnant everybody's like oh baby baby and I said soon soon uh also uh uh the guys like to come up and squeeze me um we got a coconut the other day from a a a store not too too far from here and uh I was molested by uh a Vietnamese man twice in the same sitting he came up and he started squeezing my arm and then he grabbed my boobs and started squeezing my boobs and I was like so yeah uh that was a little uncomfortable but maybe that's what they do here to America yeah and they're very impressed by your beard too oh yeah last night when we got dinner the remember the Auntie at the restaurant yeah um I don't know if it's more impressed or or disgusted because we've heard that beards are tend to look at as very dirty um when when people have beards we've heard that like one other place I'm not sure if it's true but uh yeah they are definitely impressed with my stature as are all of us you're as as you should be you're a fine specimen of a man banana oh these smells so good clean laundry Li was saying saying it's it it might be in other hotels embroidered on the towels but it's actually broken English I think it means our hotel thanks you ours in Hank you now correct us if we're wrong but that just seems like what it is yeah I see it now yeah that's very cool yeah all right we're uh about to go catch a bus uh the city bus yeah to the mall the Mega Mall yeah and I know people are sick of Americans tipping but but um we're going to leave a tip for our lady that's been cleaning our place I mean she's been giving us gifts yeah and she wouldn't accept money so hopefully she'll take that hopefully so this is my our house cleaner uh camon camor oh for [Music] the streets of Hanoi are just loaded with people and motorbikes and it just smells like amazing food here um how many people talk about that but just as you walk down the road you just start smelling everything and it just smells amazing makes you kind of hungry just walking down the street even after you ate so that was a double-decker Hanoi City bus tour um that is at least $20 us what we're going to take is a city bus and uh that should be less than a dollar so far we've only walked around Hanoi um mainly in the mainly in the old quarter of Hanoi but uh today we're venturing out want to see new sites we've only been here a few days too I was walking down the street this lady just looked me up and down and said o troyo and uh I Google translated it it means oh my God I'm so glad that you are in good spirits about this because if this was directed towards me I would be crying uh I know I'm a big guy especially here UT we learn more words yeah all right so we made it to the bus station I'm not sure how this works so we're going to figure it out [Music] [Music] [Music] mom almost [Music] okay so we made it on the M Let's see we paid for our tickets it was 8,000 each uh so 16,000 which works out to be 65 cents 65 cents and it's an hour and it's I think it's an hour bus ride um let's see yeah 35 stops 1 hour minutes all right so you get to tour the city for 65 cents wow all right buckle up and enjoy the ride there's a way to tell when to get off uh they they have the stops listed there on the the TV [Music] screen so far the bus is not crowded but it is Sunday middle of the [Music] day and uh the bus also includes free Wi-Fi so that that's the announcement for another stop and I don't see like a on a city bus where we're from there's a stringing Pole to say I want to get off there are these little buttons right here that might be it that might be how you bus is going fast when it goes yeah that might be how you tell them to get off and there's music so all the information we got for this is on Google um Google has little pictures of the bus stops and if you tap on them you can see where to go and you can just tap on the different routes and it'll tell you where it goes and then you just look on a [Music] m fore spee [Music] are you yes [Music] so the process is when you get on the bus you just keep walking pass the driver and there's a ticket taker that uh comes up to you and basically tell asks you where you're going and you tell them and they print out a little receipt and you pay him like while you're on the bus and then when you get to your stop you just basically you want to exit through the back door in case people are getting on through the front door but uh I read that you need to go quickly off the bus because the bus does not stop for very long and it's very true the bus does not stop for very long okay this is how long the bus has stopped for so you really need to hurry if you're getting on the bus and off the bus but buses run every 20 minutes uh at least at the stop we were at so we should be good and I figure if we missed the last bus for some reason or get lost you can always use the grab app to get back to your hotel or wherever you're staying and uh that way you can you know not have to worry too much cuz grab's going to be cheap it's not going to be 65 cents cheap like the bus but it'll be cheap so far this is like the cheapest and best entertainment in Vietnam at 65 cents and you were all those people watching and seeing the architecture and then this is amazing I highly recommend this if any of you ever come here to just take the city bus and it's 65 cents for both of us what a cheap tour yeah [Music] I [Music] say it also look like uh they accept credit cards here on the bus so if you don't have exact change they might accept credit cards oh wow they're a little big for Bonsai they okay there is a button on the poll the person next to me just requested the next stop so um definitely the buttons are the things that request the [Music] stop [Music] fore I got [Music] some di tail so looks like uh under a dollar a liter big old Jack [Music] fruits [Music] does but it also looks new yeah I wonder if they try that in homes whoa what is that that looks like a university Vin University that is fancy so we just got off the bus and uh this is still Hanoi but this is weird yeah there's still a few horns and stuff but it is so much quieter yeah and we're not seeing any tourist whatsoever that we know of and uh it just feels like we are like remote in a big city City yeah so everything here seems new um we're going to check out the Mega Mall which is that but for since we saw those buildings I showed you earlier everything has been just new here in this part of town and a lot of it seems empty as well yeah so it's just very weird and Eerie feeling here to to uh to be in Hanoi and have it be empty yeah like we can cross the street no problem yeah and it was 60 cents for us to take a bus here from downtown Hanoi like all this looks new like even the landscaping and those buildings down there those are new jeez this is a very strange area I feel like we're in a movie like it's just so strange to be in a foreign land well it it almost feels like we're not supposed to be here doesn't it yeah it does have that feeling like this is the last video you see from us going to the Mega Mall which I don't know why yeah well it's not like a feeling of not feeling safe I don't yeah I don't feel unsafe I just feel like I'm I I don't to start supposed to be here yeah it's not even like I don't belong here it's it's hard to describe it's more like this is the part of Hanoi that they don't want you to see yeah that they're not funneling the tourist tourists into yeah like like and there when we were in the uh when we were in the old quarter of Hanoi there were tons of shops selling tours and they were you know onwards up from $50 to thousands of dollars USD and um to take you to these places that every other tourist is going yeah and we just hopped on the bus like the locals do and Charlie picked the longest route I did I I just looked at where whatever would get us out of the Heart of the City the most yeah and here we are and here we are in this strange yeah really beautiful yeah yeah very beautiful area of Hanoi it's crazy let's check out this giant mall that was just built yeah but we're going to do that in the next episode oh so okay thanks for watching well that was fun that was so much fun I I can't wait to do the ride back uh thanks for watching don't forget to like And subscribe and we'll see you next time bye now bye now for
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