SO MANY OTHER THINGS TO BE TALKED ABOUT!!! Sorry if we missed out on anything! I don't get to talk about this often, nor do I see many creators share about being Vietnamese... which is why I wanted to put this together. I hope y'all enjoy us sharing a bit of our Vietnamese American experience! ❤️
Oooo! Do one on your parents! You guys can definitely relate in that aspect. One time When I was a child I was so hungry so I ate and ate and then my dad came in and said to me “if you eat too much, you get stupid”
I can related to that viet school thing. You think being plopped into Viet school in 2nd grade is bad? I was plopped into Chinese school.. with no one in my household speaking Chinese. So not only did I not know the language, but I couldn't practice it even if I 'caught' it. :(
Hope you enjoy Jenn + frens sharing their experiences growing up Vietnamese American! Like if you wanna see the other team members share their cultural upbringings too! ❤️
We would forget foood on an episode of Lunch Break 😅😂💀 Thank you so much for this opportunity to talk about our Vietnamese American story! Even though we only scratched the surface of this topic, this experience definitely motivated my brother and I to try and brainstorm/create more content revolving around our Asian heritage moving forward ❤️☺️ Had so much fun!!
Hi Duyen! Thank you for your curiosity. It's definitely been on our to-do list for a long time. We will begin posting more content on our vlog channel RodjanaTV in the coming months and will definitely tackle that topic eventually. 😀😀
As a Vietnamese person from Europe (Germany) it's very interesting how different yet similar our experiences are. My parents came to Germany (GDR back then) after the Vietnam War. Ironically they left a just reunited country for a still divided one. They weren't refugees but workers that Germany needed during the Cold War. My parents had the chance to go back home after their work wasn't needed anymore but they decided to stay for my sake (I wasn't born yet). But while they chose Germany over Vietnam, they both absolutely love Vietnam and they made sure I would too. I never went to Vietnamese school but my parents only spoke Vietnamese to me (not like they had another choice with their rather poor German language skills). My dad actually even made me copy Vietnamese fairy tales so I would learn how to read/write. That didn't last very long but in hindsight it did help a lot. Now I'm actually fluent in Vietnamese. Even my relatives in Vietnam are surprised about how well I speak it. My mom only cooks Vietnamese food and my dad taught me a lot about Vietnamese culture. My parents also told me a lot about their lives and my family in Vietnam. In contrast to many other children of Vietnamese immigrants (like the children of my parents' friends or even my younger cousins) I've never really felt embarrassed or ashamed of being Vietnamese. In fact I've always loved it and I've always been proud of it. Heck, I spoke one more language than everyone else I knew! My parents made sure I'm fluent in Vietnamese and I really appreciate that now as an adult. Well but with all of that, I still found myself questioning my "Vietnameseness" a lot, especially during my teenage years. I wondered what it even means to be Vietnamese. Just having parents from Vietnam being able to speak the language? I learned so much about Vietnamese culture from my dad but I never really experienced it myself. While I loved Vietnam's culture it was hard for me to call it "my culture" because up to that point it wasn't. It was my parents'. It was during that time that I really re-discovered Vietnam for myself. I started listening to more Vietnamese music and watch actual Vietnamese movies. I've learned more about Vietnam's history but also about Vietnam's present state. It was an eye-opening experience tbh. I now have a completely different appreciation for my cultural heritage. I've always loved being Vietnamese but now I understand it much better. I also understand my parents' decision to stay here in Germany despite loving Vietnam so much better too. And now I can read and write Vietnamese much better as well hehe. I thinks it's really wonderful that we all have different experiences and backgrounds but in a way we all go through a similar process of learning more about our background and gaining a bigger appreciation for our parents'/ancestors. It was really nice to hear all of your perspectives so thanks for that. I really wanna see more Vietnamese-Americans (and who know also Vietnamese-Europeans and Vietnamese-Australians etc.) tell their stories.
@@michaelmartinez6966 It really depends where in Germany you'll move. Generally you'll find Vietnamese people everywhere in Germany but of course there are certain areas/ cities where the community is bigger. I'm from Berlin where the Vietnamese embassy is and here are many Viet people. We also have the "Dong Xuan Center" which is a big Vietnamese market centre and also many other local Asian stores I don't think you'll have to worry much about getting Vietnamese food here in Germany haha
Uhh Foodwithsoy was such a great guest! She actually ate the food and was so natural talking to everyone. I love her!! 😭❤️ Please do more episodes with her
Born, raised and currently living in Vietnam here, this is such a great episode getting to know more about other young Vietnamese growing up abroad, idk how to express the feelings but it’s both familiar and a bit foreign at the same time if that makes sense :D anyway, i really look forward for more eps like these xD
This was a really great episode! I’m a Filipino-American who is currently learning Vietnamese in the Southern dialect. It was fascinating to hear about the JRod Twins growing up as monks. When I was going through a particularly hard time in my college days, I found solace in mindfulness meditation, which I learned from reading the books of the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. I have always felt grateful to Vietnam for giving me the knowledge of mindfulness meditation to handle my stress effectively. As a KPop fan, I had been studying the Korean language for a couple of years. Interestingly enough, when I decided to get back into practicing Kpop dance in a class, my new dance instructor was Vietnamese. Through this instructor’s pleasant demeanor and calm style of teaching, I was reminded of when I was first introduced to the Vietnamese culture from Thich Nhat Hanh. I was intrigued by how my instructor seemed to embody the spirit of mindfulness as a layperson, not as a monk. I was inspired to immerse myself more into Vietnamese culture and start learning the language. It has been a great journey, and I have enjoyed every moment of my learning. Thank you for making this video to showcase the splendor of your culture!
I'm glad you guys brought up dialects cause I actually know how to speak in all 3 dialects. My parents speak the southern dialect, my martial arts master speaks the central dialect, and my dad knows a little bit of the northern dialect so there've been times when I had to toggle between all 3 LOL
😂😂 wow that's a lot to learn my parents were both from south and northern so when I speak a word in north people from the south wouldn't understand it 😅
I relate to so much of this and really enjoyed hearing all of you! Im half Vietnamese, my mother is from southern Vietnam, but immigrated to the states where she met my dad. Im a first generation American on her side, and was born and raised in Dallas Texas, but now Im in central Florida. I’ve been lucky enough to go to Vietnam a couple of times, the last being almost 9 years ago when I was still in highschool. A completely eye opening experience, if you havent been you need to go at least once in your lifetime, I promise you will not regret it. The food, the people, the scenery and history, its all incredible. The culture shock is HUGE, and honestly humbled me. We are very privileged to be born here. You also see the underdeveloped and very poor side to the country and it is very heartbreaking. I remember our family brought a lot of stuff over from America to donate to schools/orphanages. I love all of Vietnam, from the rural countryside to the busy streets of Saigon, Im very proud of my vietnamese heritage, just as much as my father’s american side. I love being a mixed girl haha 😂 cảm ơn bạn về video!
Love this episode!! I remember a chapter in Ocean Vuong's beautiful novel "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" *super recommend btw* and how he talked about the experience of growing up at a nail salon with such tenderness, power and resilience it's engraved in my head forever. Thank you for being so open and honest about your experiences. 💗
Wow I just looked this up and read parts of it. His writing is on another plane, raw and beautiful. Thank you for sharing, I will be following his future work and binging his books.
So glad ya'll did this! When I was really young, we were in a small town in Tennessee so there were zero asian kids around. After moving to Texas, I remember getting dumped into Viet school in 5-6th grade with 2nd graders was really demoralizing, and I didn't stick with it either. It took till college before I could really appreciate my culture. To this day, I still think Viet food is the best of all foods!
As a Vietnamese person from Vietnam ( Ho Chi Minh city). I am happy to watch this video. Thanks, you guys still remember something about Vietnam as culture, food, and language. Thanks for sharing your different Vietnamese American experiences everyone. Hope you still love Vietnamese food, and our culture.
I am half Thai and Vietnamese, but Thai side of my family is quite dominant. But hearing from you I just realize that I didn't grow up too Thai, cause I know every food you guys talk about hehe.
This was super interesting to know a little more about the Vietnamese culture! Besides knowing about the nail tech stereotype and the foods and maybe a bit of history, I still lack a lot of knowledge. I'd love to see more like this! And yess, iced vietnamese coffee with the condensed milk is bombbb!
Omg... I’ve been waiting for this for so longgg, thank you for bringing this topic out. Just have a quick correct vocabulary: “ Phúc Thủ” actually is “ Phật Tử” at 4:40
Jenn, I had the exact same Viet school experience. I just spoke English all the time, I don't think I even followed instructions, and eventually my parents just stopped making me go all of a sudden. I also feel like the Vietnamese diaspora might be unique because so many of them were refugees. I wonder if the Syrian refugees from the past few years will have similar experiences. It definitely played a part of my experience as I think the reason I don't speak Vietnamese was because both my parents worked long hours, so I never really spoke to them AT ALL at home, never having family dinners and such. I think they were just happy I was out of trouble so they didn't mind I watched TV all the time.
I know someone like you, and her mom expressed that she was sad cuz her daughter doesn’t understand Vietnamese lol. She’s never told her daughter though, and she speaks English to her kids most of the time. Only the older kids understand it.
I don't usually comment but i looovveeedd this video was really fun to see the perspective of a vietnamese american in comparison to to mine as a vietnamese australian.
I'm glad and happy how proud they were of being vietnamese because sometimes I was also a bit ashamed or didn't understand the culture. I wish I could visit vietnam and travel there to explore more of the cultures that i never saw.
Yes the different dialects my family we speak the nam dialect but know other families that speak the different dialects and they are hard to understand if you don't listen very well as they speak. In my family we have Chinese background from our dad side of the family and now that I'm older I try to express both backgrounds and learn more about the Chinese culture I am proud to be who I am because i get to share my culture and experience with others plus Viet and Chinese food are so amazing.
My parents are ethnically Chinese, but grew up in Vietnam before moving to the US. Growing up in Norcal, I've always wondered why we pronounced things differently because we say "banh mi" like "bang me" while other people said "bun me." I didn't know there were different accents until later in life and found out we have the Northern accent. Also, we say "di ve" with the V sound.
For my own experience, I don't even remember the time I wasn't aware there were different =Vietnamese accents. Maybe I realized it when I watched Hong Kong series dubbed in Vietnamese and it was evident when a character had a Northern accent. I started watching Hong Kong series when I was 8 years old.
As a Vietnamese American I only speak English to my grandparents when I was a little girl. During that time my grandparents sign up for me to go to Vietnamese school at my church next to my house. Later on I didn’t go to Vietnamese school anymore. But my Vietnamese speaking language is so much better now. I only speak English with my cousin, my mom, my aunt and my uncle. The rest of my cousin doesn’t speak Vietnamese with my grandparents and they don’t understand what they we’re talking about so I have to translate to them in English so they can understand what our grandparents saying in Vietnamese. When my grandparents doesn’t understand English so I have translate it in Vietnamese for my grandparents. I want to say thank you for my grandparents for teach me Vietnamese words even though my Vietnamese speaking language is not that perfect. But I will try my best to speak in Vietnamese with them even more better.
My grandparents sign up me for Vietnamese school at my church. During that time I didn’t now what’s going on in my Vietnamese class because I didn’t understand my Vietnamese teacher was saying in Vietnamese. I went to Bible school very Saturday to learn more about catholic stuff like prayer’s and the Bible scriptures.And then I went to Thiếu Nhi Thành Thế aka Vietnamese Youth Eucharist it was so much fun because we do fun activities and learning the morse code it was kinda hard for me.
"Diem My" is such a pretty name... there are roughly 60 dialects in Vietnam. the biggest difference is northern dialects are proper, as in they pronounce the word exactly how it is spelled while southern dialects have a twang to their pronuciations with less tongue movement which sounds more lyrically to the listeners. dont even ask about the hue dialect. i can barely understand it.
For me when I speak in Vietnamese. I have northern Vietnamese accent because my great grandparents and my grandparents were born in the Northern Vietnam.
Wow!!! Who the “Pho-k” would dislike this video?? I’m Japanese and Okinawan, but I still support Vietnamese culture!! I support ALL CULTURES!!! 🤦🏾♂️ at the 4 👎🏽’s!!!
Thanks for sharing all your experiences! I can definitely relate to the Kpop thing but because of that and over time, I've also learned to embrace my Viet roots more. Stay safe Wong Fu Fam 😊
I relate so hard about the cooking thing lol. Like I can't learn just from watching especially when everything is eyeballed SMH. Gonna end up teaching myself how to cook viet dishes in the future but it won't taste like mom's :(
It's "Phật Tử" which means Buddhist. "Gia Đình Phật Tử" literally translates to Buddhist Family. It's an org, which has a Sunday or Saturday practice component.
Nguyen is because it was the latest dynasty 🙂 Really loved this because I'm viet and I honestly watch a lot of lunch break for Jen. I love when she teaches about anything Vietnamese
Im half viet and half chinese, but my household mainly speaks cantonese and now I feel left out because I wish my parents spoke to me in both so I could learn both 😔
A lot of the younger generation kids don’t even understand Vietnamese anymore. I know some parents who’ve said they are sad over it. Also isn’t there dialects within the dialects? Cuz I hear people call Nam ppl bac and Hue people something else sometimes.
My parents are chinese but grew up in Vietnam before they immigrated. They never taught me Vietnamese because they wanted a language to converse in where the kids couldn’t understand 😂 So I ended up learning a lot of the dishes at home in Vietnamese... which created a language gap with my canto friends because I would unconsciously slip in Vietnamese terminology without knowing. Oops 🙊
I would love to have this again. I could practice my Vietnamese and learn while I'm just watching all these weirdos talk about Vietnamese culture. It would be even cool if you did an entire episode speaking Vietnamese (though, Michel would die)
Wow it's so weird to hear Vietnamese that isn't coming from my house. 9:00 when your name literally means tiny 😭 9:34 I just got called out. My first name is also common so I'm basic all the way around. 11:21 hahaha I get to practice my Vietnamese learning! 11:31 dam I had to slow that down 11:36 Even I can say more words than that. At least say con ăn banh mi (i know that's not proper Vietnamese as that literally says I eat sandwich but it's like closer then I'm eating banh mi) 12:02 WOO SOUTH 15:20 wow my two favorite dishes (and literally the only ones I eat). So I'm not the only one 16:32 again. I'm not the only one. My mom tries to teach me how to cook and then does it herself (same with my dad too) because I'm too slow
Here in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, most nail salons are also run by Vietnamese, but I think it's only a recent thing because growing up, I didn't know anyone that were in the nail business. Many were in the garment industry sewing cloths at home.
It's kinda funny how universal it is within Asians as a whole with parents who are so vague with their recipe instructions. They are the equivalent of mother birds kicking their babies out of the nest in order to be like "Now, COOK!!" hahaha
Westminster and garden grove are two cities that is next to each other they are in the same county, Orange County. Both cities have the most Vietnamese residents. These two cities is where you will find a wide varieties of restaurant and all sources of Viet businesses .Santa Ana, Fullerton, Huntington Beach, and Anaheim are the borders cities connects to either Westminster and garden grove with other various groups like Mexican, white etc... the Vietnamese community been slowly spreads into these neighbors cities bought up property because it close distance to Westminster and garden grove. Many decided to lives in these areas paying high rent or mortgage because many Viet parents like the service, accesses, and amenities the Viet community provides like church, temple, grocery store, zero language barrier, restaurants, and now the Viet senior centers.
I grew up in a city where the Asian population is majority Vietnamese, and my parents are white so even though I’m Chinese everything in this video is more familiar to me than Chinese culture lunch breaks. Great video!
SO MANY OTHER THINGS TO BE TALKED ABOUT!!! Sorry if we missed out on anything! I don't get to talk about this often, nor do I see many creators share about being Vietnamese... which is why I wanted to put this together. I hope y'all enjoy us sharing a bit of our Vietnamese American experience! ❤️
hopefully you can make another episode but maybe incorporate some Viet fans or Patrons in the future!!
Oooo! Do one on your parents! You guys can definitely relate in that aspect. One time When I was a child I was so hungry so I ate and ate and then my dad came in and said to me “if you eat too much, you get stupid”
thank you so much for this episode!
I can related to that viet school thing. You think being plopped into Viet school in 2nd grade is bad? I was plopped into Chinese school.. with no one in my household speaking Chinese. So not only did I not know the language, but I couldn't practice it even if I 'caught' it. :(
@Chí Phèo nguyễn Vietnamese Americans are Vietnamese people that are also proud Americans.
viet pride!!!
thanks for joining us Soy! 😍
Hi Kim Oanh!! You have such a cute name Soy!
Bóng Bay thank u r name is nice also
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Hope you enjoy Jenn + frens sharing their experiences growing up Vietnamese American! Like if you wanna see the other team members share their cultural upbringings too! ❤️
We would forget foood on an episode of Lunch Break 😅😂💀 Thank you so much for this opportunity to talk about our Vietnamese American story! Even though we only scratched the surface of this topic, this experience definitely motivated my brother and I to try and brainstorm/create more content revolving around our Asian heritage moving forward ❤️☺️ Had so much fun!!
Thank you for your candid responses. Such a great episode 👏🏼❤️
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by the ways its Phật tử not phúc thử
I need a story time with Justin & Jason being monks. I'm so curious🤔
Hi Duyen how you doing ?
Hi Duyen! Thank you for your curiosity. It's definitely been on our to-do list for a long time. We will begin posting more content on our vlog channel RodjanaTV in the coming months and will definitely tackle that topic eventually. 😀😀
Me too, super curious about that :O
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Awesome! Will be looking forward to it! :)
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As a Vietnamese person from Europe (Germany) it's very interesting how different yet similar our experiences are. My parents came to Germany (GDR back then) after the Vietnam War. Ironically they left a just reunited country for a still divided one. They weren't refugees but workers that Germany needed during the Cold War. My parents had the chance to go back home after their work wasn't needed anymore but they decided to stay for my sake (I wasn't born yet). But while they chose Germany over Vietnam, they both absolutely love Vietnam and they made sure I would too. I never went to Vietnamese school but my parents only spoke Vietnamese to me (not like they had another choice with their rather poor German language skills). My dad actually even made me copy Vietnamese fairy tales so I would learn how to read/write. That didn't last very long but in hindsight it did help a lot. Now I'm actually fluent in Vietnamese. Even my relatives in Vietnam are surprised about how well I speak it. My mom only cooks Vietnamese food and my dad taught me a lot about Vietnamese culture. My parents also told me a lot about their lives and my family in Vietnam.
In contrast to many other children of Vietnamese immigrants (like the children of my parents' friends or even my younger cousins) I've never really felt embarrassed or ashamed of being Vietnamese. In fact I've always loved it and I've always been proud of it. Heck, I spoke one more language than everyone else I knew! My parents made sure I'm fluent in Vietnamese and I really appreciate that now as an adult.
Well but with all of that, I still found myself questioning my "Vietnameseness" a lot, especially during my teenage years. I wondered what it even means to be Vietnamese. Just having parents from Vietnam being able to speak the language? I learned so much about Vietnamese culture from my dad but I never really experienced it myself. While I loved Vietnam's culture it was hard for me to call it "my culture" because up to that point it wasn't. It was my parents'. It was during that time that I really re-discovered Vietnam for myself. I started listening to more Vietnamese music and watch actual Vietnamese movies. I've learned more about Vietnam's history but also about Vietnam's present state. It was an eye-opening experience tbh. I now have a completely different appreciation for my cultural heritage. I've always loved being Vietnamese but now I understand it much better. I also understand my parents' decision to stay here in Germany despite loving Vietnam so much better too. And now I can read and write Vietnamese much better as well hehe.
I thinks it's really wonderful that we all have different experiences and backgrounds but in a way we all go through a similar process of learning more about our background and gaining a bigger appreciation for our parents'/ancestors.
It was really nice to hear all of your perspectives so thanks for that. I really wanna see more Vietnamese-Americans (and who know also Vietnamese-Europeans and Vietnamese-Australians etc.) tell their stories.
Ahh bei mir ist es sehr ähnlich 👍🏼 hello fellow viet-deutscher 🤣
I’m moving to Germany soon. Is there a large Vietnamese community there? I need to find out where I can get ingredients to make Vietnamese cuisine!
Wow thank you for sharing ❤️
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@@michaelmartinez6966 It really depends where in Germany you'll move. Generally you'll find Vietnamese people everywhere in Germany but of course there are certain areas/ cities where the community is bigger. I'm from Berlin where the Vietnamese embassy is and here are many Viet people. We also have the "Dong Xuan Center" which is a big Vietnamese market centre and also many other local Asian stores I don't think you'll have to worry much about getting Vietnamese food here in Germany haha
Uhh Foodwithsoy was such a great guest! She actually ate the food and was so natural talking to everyone. I love her!! 😭❤️ Please do more episodes with her
Hey ❤, how's it going ?!..
I really like how Jenn wrapped up talking about how she appreciates her parents sacrifice and is proud to be Vietnamese. So cool!
aw glad you enjoyed 💛
Born, raised and currently living in Vietnam here, this is such a great episode getting to know more about other young Vietnamese growing up abroad, idk how to express the feelings but it’s both familiar and a bit foreign at the same time if that makes sense :D anyway, i really look forward for more eps like these xD
Yep. The feeling is the same when a Viet kieu dates a Vietnamese. Familiar but a little foreign!
This was a really great episode! I’m a Filipino-American who is currently learning Vietnamese in the Southern dialect. It was fascinating to hear about the JRod Twins growing up as monks. When I was going through a particularly hard time in my college days, I found solace in mindfulness meditation, which I learned from reading the books of the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. I have always felt grateful to Vietnam for giving me the knowledge of mindfulness meditation to handle my stress effectively.
As a KPop fan, I had been studying the Korean language for a couple of years. Interestingly enough, when I decided to get back into practicing Kpop dance in a class, my new dance instructor was Vietnamese. Through this instructor’s pleasant demeanor and calm style of teaching, I was reminded of when I was first introduced to the Vietnamese culture from Thich Nhat Hanh. I was intrigued by how my instructor seemed to embody the spirit of mindfulness as a layperson, not as a monk. I was inspired to immerse myself more into Vietnamese culture and start learning the language. It has been a great journey, and I have enjoyed every moment of my learning. Thank you for making this video to showcase the splendor of your culture!
If you don’t mind sharing, what language program are you using? I am using Mango and RUclips right now.
I'm glad you guys brought up dialects cause I actually know how to speak in all 3 dialects. My parents speak the southern dialect, my martial arts master speaks the central dialect, and my dad knows a little bit of the northern dialect so there've been times when I had to toggle between all 3 LOL
Hey ❤, how you doing!!! Love from 🇺🇸...
😂😂 wow that's a lot to learn my parents were both from south and northern so when I speak a word in north people from the south wouldn't understand it 😅
This was a great episode. I'm currently learning vietnamese, I love how it sounds. The food is fantastic too!
glad you enjoyed! ❤️
ahhh learning vietnamese is sooo hard!! props to you! 😱🙌
@@_jennle it is challenging but thank you!!
oh my gosh guys LOLLL feels like a family Viet reunion
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As a Southeast Asian, I loved that Jen talked about our different histories with our parents’/grandparents’ experiences!
Dung Lee hello!
ahh, I've been waiting for this!! I'm so happy😊
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Props for an eye-opening heritage episode
Lol Taiwan/ Cantonese life next?? Phil/ Wes 👀👀
I relate to so much of this and really enjoyed hearing all of you! Im half Vietnamese, my mother is from southern Vietnam, but immigrated to the states where she met my dad. Im a first generation American on her side, and was born and raised in Dallas Texas, but now Im in central Florida. I’ve been lucky enough to go to Vietnam a couple of times, the last being almost 9 years ago when I was still in highschool. A completely eye opening experience, if you havent been you need to go at least once in your lifetime, I promise you will not regret it. The food, the people, the scenery and history, its all incredible. The culture shock is HUGE, and honestly humbled me. We are very privileged to be born here. You also see the underdeveloped and very poor side to the country and it is very heartbreaking. I remember our family brought a lot of stuff over from America to donate to schools/orphanages. I love all of Vietnam, from the rural countryside to the busy streets of Saigon, Im very proud of my vietnamese heritage, just as much as my father’s american side. I love being a mixed girl haha 😂 cảm ơn bạn về video!
Love this episode!! I remember a chapter in Ocean Vuong's beautiful novel "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" *super recommend btw* and how he talked about the experience of growing up at a nail salon with such tenderness, power and resilience it's engraved in my head forever. Thank you for being so open and honest about your experiences. 💗
Wow I just looked this up and read parts of it. His writing is on another plane, raw and beautiful. Thank you for sharing, I will be following his future work and binging his books.
Yes you are right em
OOO I love foodwithmichel!!! Thanks for introducing me to JRodTwins and foodwithsoy!!!
we love em all!
So glad ya'll did this! When I was really young, we were in a small town in Tennessee so there were zero asian kids around. After moving to Texas, I remember getting dumped into Viet school in 5-6th grade with 2nd graders was really demoralizing, and I didn't stick with it either. It took till college before I could really appreciate my culture. To this day, I still think Viet food is the best of all foods!
LOVED this episode!!! As a first generation Vietnamese Canadian, I related to everything you guys discussed 1000% 😭😭❤️❤️
As a Vietnamese person from Vietnam ( Ho Chi Minh city). I am happy to watch this video. Thanks, you guys still remember something about Vietnam as culture, food, and language. Thanks for sharing your different Vietnamese American experiences everyone. Hope you still love Vietnamese food, and our culture.
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I am half Thai and Vietnamese, but Thai side of my family is quite dominant. But hearing from you I just realize that I didn't grow up too Thai, cause I know every food you guys talk about hehe.
This was super interesting to know a little more about the Vietnamese culture! Besides knowing about the nail tech stereotype and the foods and maybe a bit of history, I still lack a lot of knowledge. I'd love to see more like this! And yess, iced vietnamese coffee with the condensed milk is bombbb!
I really love this episode!! Can you guys talk more about your specific culture
Loved this Lunch Break!
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I grew up Nam, but have family that speak bac. I remember, one time my aunt asked me to get a “bac” (bowl) and I was like you want me to get grandma?
Is bac central? Or another dialect within the north?
Actually the word is “bát” and it’s bắc (northern), and the word you were thinking of was “bác”, which is uncle/ aunty. Vietnamese is really hard lol
Omg... I’ve been waiting for this for so longgg, thank you for bringing this topic out. Just have a quick correct vocabulary: “ Phúc Thủ” actually is “ Phật Tử” at 4:40
@Dung Lee :)
Keeping up my streak on all the lunch breaks! Greetings from Austin
Jenn, I had the exact same Viet school experience. I just spoke English all the time, I don't think I even followed instructions, and eventually my parents just stopped making me go all of a sudden.
I also feel like the Vietnamese diaspora might be unique because so many of them were refugees. I wonder if the Syrian refugees from the past few years will have similar experiences. It definitely played a part of my experience as I think the reason I don't speak Vietnamese was because both my parents worked long hours, so I never really spoke to them AT ALL at home, never having family dinners and such. I think they were just happy I was out of trouble so they didn't mind I watched TV all the time.
I know someone like you, and her mom expressed that she was sad cuz her daughter doesn’t understand Vietnamese lol. She’s never told her daughter though, and she speaks English to her kids most of the time. Only the older kids understand it.
My Vietnamese needs a LOT of work 😭 Thank you guys for having me!!! So much fun! ♥️
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This was such a cultural experience 😊😊😊😊
I don't usually comment but i looovveeedd this video was really fun to see the perspective of a vietnamese american in comparison to to mine as a vietnamese australian.
I'm glad and happy how proud they were of being vietnamese because sometimes I was also a bit ashamed or didn't understand the culture. I wish I could visit vietnam and travel there to explore more of the cultures that i never saw.
@@brigadiergeneral9920 Hello I'm doing good and you
@@brigadiergeneral9920 yes that is right I'm viet
@@brigadiergeneral9920 no I wasn't i was born and raised in Germany
@@brigadiergeneral9920 uhm I'm sorry I don't know you and i don't want to give my personal information to anyone on here
@@marianguyen6667 that’s ok Maria, I respect your choice.
Good call on the canh chua! You should consider a follow up episode with those growing up Vietnamese in countries outside of the US.
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@Ryan Evren Am good you
Greetings from 🇱🇷
Yes the different dialects my family we speak the nam dialect but know other families that speak the different dialects and they are hard to understand if you don't listen very well as they speak. In my family we have Chinese background from our dad side of the family and now that I'm older I try to express both backgrounds and learn more about the Chinese culture I am proud to be who I am because i get to share my culture and experience with others plus Viet and Chinese food are so amazing.
Dung Lee 👋🏽
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I'm viet and i LOVE this!!! Thank you for this Jenn. :)
My parents are ethnically Chinese, but grew up in Vietnam before moving to the US. Growing up in Norcal, I've always wondered why we pronounced things differently because we say "banh mi" like "bang me" while other people said "bun me." I didn't know there were different accents until later in life and found out we have the Northern accent. Also, we say "di ve" with the V sound.
Same. I grew up with a northern accent and was so confused by southern accents because I couldn't understand that they were saying and felt so dumb
For my own experience, I don't even remember the time I wasn't aware there were different =Vietnamese accents. Maybe I realized it when I watched Hong Kong series dubbed in Vietnamese and it was evident when a character had a Northern accent. I started watching Hong Kong series when I was 8 years old.
Talk about the perfect episode to be a plus one 😍😍😍
Dung Lee I’m doing great! What about you?
@Dung Lee Yes we could chat more, but the problem is I don't use Hangouts. I have Facebook Messenger, Snapchat or Intagram
The username Dung Lee, is fake, scamming people for $$
I love Vietnamese people they are friendly people
As a Vietnamese American I only speak English to my grandparents when I was a little girl. During that time my grandparents sign up for me to go to Vietnamese school at my church next to my house. Later on I didn’t go to Vietnamese school anymore. But my Vietnamese speaking language is so much better now. I only speak English with my cousin, my mom, my aunt and my uncle. The rest of my cousin doesn’t speak Vietnamese with my grandparents and they don’t understand what they we’re talking about so I have to translate to them in English so they can understand what our grandparents saying in Vietnamese. When my grandparents doesn’t understand English so I have translate it in Vietnamese for my grandparents. I want to say thank you for my grandparents for teach me Vietnamese words even though my Vietnamese speaking language is not that perfect. But I will try my best to speak in Vietnamese with them even more better.
OH WORD? if yall wanna do a growing up filipino episode i would GLADLY and WHOLE HEARTEDLY join
Dung Lee good!?? haha
Gotta point out something about the translation of sunday school...the jrod twins were part of Gia Đình Phật Tử. Also canh chua & banh xeo!!
My grandparents sign up me for Vietnamese school at my church. During that time I didn’t now what’s going on in my Vietnamese class because I didn’t understand my Vietnamese teacher was saying in Vietnamese. I went to Bible school very Saturday to learn more about catholic stuff like prayer’s and the Bible scriptures.And then I went to Thiếu Nhi Thành Thế aka Vietnamese Youth Eucharist it was so much fun because we do fun activities and learning the morse code it was kinda hard for me.
I really enjoyed this video! When "thit kho chung" was brought up, I was like "Yes!" Literally laughed aloud. You should consider doing a part 2!
I loved this authentic conversation ❤❤❤
Hello ❤ , how are you doing today!!! Greetings from 🇺🇸
Love the Vietnamese American talk guys! Hope for more episodes!
Hello Jennifer how you doing
Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job
I would absolutely love it if you guys could do a similar lunch break with different cultures!! (maybe a canto one....?)
A second one guys ! It was too short
Where are all my fellow South East Asians are?!! ✨✨
lesgoooooo! 🌟
@Chí Phèo nguyễn be nice bro. You are everwhere talking shit and shaming our Vietnamese community.
"Diem My" is such a pretty name... there are roughly 60 dialects in Vietnam. the biggest difference is northern dialects are proper, as in they pronounce the word exactly how it is spelled while southern dialects have a twang to their pronuciations with less tongue movement which sounds more lyrically to the listeners. dont even ask about the hue dialect. i can barely understand it.
another great addition with canh chua is ca kho to.
So relatable memorizing the buddhist mantras/sudras and not understanding a single word LOL
Love this video.
YAAASSS VIET PRIDE!!! been waiting for this video
Hiii
For me when I speak in Vietnamese. I have northern Vietnamese accent because my great grandparents and my grandparents were born in the Northern Vietnam.
canh chua and thit kho with com is AMAZING
Helloooo dear, how have you been
Wow!!! Who the “Pho-k” would dislike this video?? I’m Japanese and Okinawan, but I still support Vietnamese culture!! I support ALL CULTURES!!! 🤦🏾♂️ at the 4 👎🏽’s!!!
i was gonna say michel looked like a trung when that question about viet names came up and then soy yelled out TRUNG LOOOOL
Hii Tien how you doing ?
As a Viet 42 year old female.. I thank you
Hello wonderful ❤, how you doing today, hope you really good.. Greetings from 🇺🇸☺
Jenn's so radiant
Oanh is such a pretty name. But Golden Orea sounds great hahaa
Hiiiiiiiii
Great video
Thanks for sharing all your experiences! I can definitely relate to the Kpop thing but because of that and over time, I've also learned to embrace my Viet roots more. Stay safe Wong Fu Fam 😊
Hey ❤, how's it going ?!..
I grew up in the Marine corps from Vietnamese parents who came to America as refugees as children after the Vietname war.
@Dung Lee hello
Yess, support viet creatives!!
Yasss I’m here for Viet Day!
Helooo
Kim Oanh - (FOODWITHSOY)
Ayyyy! It's time 💕
Garden Grove yup dont forget westminster too LOL
i wish to join you guys someday, im very fluent in viet....
I have the same last name Nguyễn too. It’s actually really hard to for American people how to pronounce right.
I relate so hard about the cooking thing lol. Like I can't learn just from watching especially when everything is eyeballed SMH. Gonna end up teaching myself how to cook viet dishes in the future but it won't taste like mom's :(
It's "Phật Tử" which means Buddhist. "Gia Đình Phật Tử" literally translates to Buddhist Family. It's an org, which has a Sunday or Saturday practice component.
@Dung Lee Hi
agreed! It's time for Vietnamese to break into American media!
So Jen's Vietnamese name is "Yến My" and Soy's Vietnamese name is "Nguyễn Kim Oanh". What nice names
Nguyen is because it was the latest dynasty 🙂
Really loved this because I'm viet and I honestly watch a lot of lunch break for Jen. I love when she teaches about anything Vietnamese
Im half viet and half chinese, but my household mainly speaks cantonese and now I feel left out because I wish my parents spoke to me in both so I could learn both 😔
A lot of the younger generation kids don’t even understand Vietnamese anymore. I know some parents who’ve said they are sad over it. Also isn’t there dialects within the dialects? Cuz I hear people call Nam ppl bac and Hue people something else sometimes.
When I grew up, the Vietnamese kids labelled themselves buckies (north) and nammers (south)
88beccachu nammers for south? That’s weird lol
My parents are chinese but grew up in Vietnam before they immigrated. They never taught me Vietnamese because they wanted a language to converse in where the kids couldn’t understand 😂 So I ended up learning a lot of the dishes at home in Vietnamese... which created a language gap with my canto friends because I would unconsciously slip in Vietnamese terminology without knowing. Oops 🙊
omg a language only they can speak in 😂😂😂
I would love to have this again. I could practice my Vietnamese and learn while I'm just watching all these weirdos talk about Vietnamese culture. It would be even cool if you did an entire episode speaking Vietnamese (though, Michel would die)
Ahaha so relatable as a Southeast Asian!
southeast asian pride ❤️
I'm Vietnamese American I relate to them SO much it's not even funny 🙃
bay area represent!
Wow it's so weird to hear Vietnamese that isn't coming from my house.
9:00 when your name literally means tiny 😭
9:34 I just got called out. My first name is also common so I'm basic all the way around.
11:21 hahaha I get to practice my Vietnamese learning!
11:31 dam I had to slow that down
11:36 Even I can say more words than that. At least say con ăn banh mi (i know that's not proper Vietnamese as that literally says I eat sandwich but it's like closer then I'm eating banh mi)
12:02 WOO SOUTH
15:20 wow my two favorite dishes (and literally the only ones I eat). So I'm not the only one
16:32 again. I'm not the only one. My mom tries to teach me how to cook and then does it herself (same with my dad too) because I'm too slow
Here in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, most nail salons are also run by Vietnamese, but I think it's only a recent thing because growing up, I didn't know anyone that were in the nail business. Many were in the garment industry sewing cloths at home.
Hey San Jose. We got hell’s viet population here. We got a little Saigon
YUHHH
Shocked that the jrodtwins are actually viet. Lol 😅😅
It's kinda funny how universal it is within Asians as a whole with parents who are so vague with their recipe instructions. They are the equivalent of mother birds kicking their babies out of the nest in order to be like "Now, COOK!!" hahaha
I thought Westminster was the biggest Vietnamese group in So-Cal
Westminster and garden grove are two cities that is next to each other they are in the same county, Orange County. Both cities have the most Vietnamese residents. These two cities is where you will find a wide varieties of restaurant and all sources of Viet businesses .Santa Ana, Fullerton, Huntington Beach, and Anaheim are the borders cities connects to either Westminster and garden grove with other various groups like Mexican, white etc... the Vietnamese community been slowly spreads into these neighbors cities bought up property because it close distance to Westminster and garden grove. Many decided to lives in these areas paying high rent or mortgage because many Viet parents like the service, accesses, and amenities the Viet community provides like church, temple, grocery store, zero language barrier, restaurants, and now the Viet senior centers.
Wow Jen I love your viet name
Soy: You look like a trunk to me.
Michel: Thanks.
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I grew up in a city where the Asian population is majority Vietnamese, and my parents are white so even though I’m Chinese everything in this video is more familiar to me than Chinese culture lunch breaks. Great video!
aw I'm glad you can relate!
If you guys dont think their is a big viet community then wait till you see the malaysian community... there's barely any of us :(
I don't get it. How come some of them don't have Viet names? Surely I'm missing something here.
GDPT!! ❤️
4:39 Phật Tử
What! I thought Jen was Chinese!