Another great video Andrew. I think it's important to pass down traditions, crafts, recipes to the next generations. Whether they're continued to be practiced or not, at least they're not lost.
Yet again, approaching everyone and every experience with respect. You are really creating a collection of work that truly stands out, mate. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for showing Hmong people. The culture is very important to me. I am also worried the old ways will be lost. (They speak Vietnamese but I can hear the Hmong accent.)
I LOVED seeing how they made their own beautiful fabric. I hope the craft culture is continued, one day things may not be available for them to buy in the stores. Their embroidery is stunning. Personally, I would 100% prefer 100% handmade from plant to finished product, just amazing and beautiful.
Lol your crazy man.. riding those bikes! But absolutely beautiful area you have taken your viewers to! I like to think my lasts comments you replied to got in your head cuz I'm loving the longer video this time! Thanks... can't wait for your channel to blow up, you deserve it.. keep up the great adventures!
Watching you eat fried grasshoppers looked really good as compared what we have all seen you eaten in the past Mr. Fraser 😋. Love your country side episodes, so unique.👍. Thanks to your show, I hope more foreign tourists will come to visit.
I was thinking those grasshoppers could eat all the rice! This is a problem in some places, maybe by eating a bunch of them you can avoid having a plague of locusts, and you don't have to spray. Good job for little kids, I guess.
Great video Andrew, a tradition and how our community lives and thrives. I must say that these families are Hmong but I don't understand a word they said because I am a Hmong myself...thank you for sharing with the world.
When "Pao" (Pov) and other individual members spoke to Andrew --- with the interpreter behind the camera --- they spoke in Vietnamese. These are Hmong Dub, it seems (or other Hmong groups that have not been having too much contact with Hmong from Laos or even from the Dien Bien Phu region, close to Laos enough to have a lot of interaction with Hmong Lao to have accents very easily understood by Hmong from Laos and Hmong from the West).... but if you listen to the BACKGROUND conversations (the audio wasn't great, because Andrew & crew only wanted his voice and Pao's voice, for video production purposes)... you would understand some of what they're saying. The further away from Laos (or Dien Bien Phu, to the east of Laos or Yunnan, to the northwest of Laos), the more difficult it is for Western Hmong and Hmong in Laos to understand, due to hundreds of years of non-exchange, non-interaction. The Vietnamese and Chinese have policies to isolate communities they think could be troublesome, politically, for them... so splintering Hmong groups over time develop dialects that are difficult for even themselves to comprehend, even if they are now moved back together for "economically development" purposes. There was this Hmong guy in a town in southern China, in which two large groups of Hmong were settled together on a hilly landscape & the guy (on a travelogue RUclips video), a Hmong himself, said one half of the Hmong community couldn't understand what the other half was saying, due to the very distinct Hmong dialects the two groups were now speaking, even as both were obviously Hmong, in tradition, in instruments like qeej, ncas, raj nplaim, etc. as well as in clothe making, in common/age-old Hmong linguistic phraseology or mannerisms, etc.
7:12 Andrew, I’ve had crickets before, do grasshoppers taste like them? They are tasty if you know how to cook them like in garlic, chilli and lemon grass. Delicious.
Before 1975 I have eaten some grasshopper and the big crickets but noe of these. However I think it wil taste the same as the big crickets. Thank you for eating with my Hmong peoples.
We have also a a thousands years old Rice terraces like Vietnam here in the Philippines. And its belive, that same people travel from anciet Vietnam tru china up to Taiwan for thousands years ago
Another great episode Andrew. The fading of traditional cultures to what we now call "modern" is natural, but also sad. Western culture is no culture at all, it's just an echo chamber of the 7 deadly sins. I completely understand what you mean when you say that the Mu Cang Chai area is more of what you were looking for in Vietnam. When I first left my home country decades ago, I expected South America and Southeast Asia to still have a sense of antiquity and traditional culture. There are pockets that exist, but then eventually they put in a McDonalds. 😥
Andrew maybe pay a visit to some of the Hmong in Australia compare to the one in Vietnam when you go back home, do we have any Hmong Australia farmers?
As a vietnamese guy living in Canada, I've never tried those insects, but the way you described with prawns and shell on, even before you described how it taste, I thought they would taste similar to the prawns too. I love prawns with shells on and pan fried with those seasonings. I like the flavour you get from the head of the prawns even though the shells can kind of sting inside my mouth sometimes. Also idk, maybe I'm just dumb, I thought Hmong people are totally different people and at the start of the video, I heard you asked the girl "what's that" in vietnamese and I was like ⁉idk much about hmong people but I really like their outfits, really cool. I speak north vietnamese accent and I notice they also do, but their accent is just a little bit like watered down, but almost exactly the same as the north vietnamese accent. Compared to the south, they can understand me but I can't understand them then they accuse me of doing it on purpose.
They learn Vietnamese in school like all Vietnamese minorities. Plus I have no idea how to ask in Hmong although that is how they communicate with each other.
In the west, people eat shrimps, snails, clams, crabs, etc., in the orient, people have enjoyed grasshoppers, locusts, beetles, scorpions, spiders, and a host of other small critters for a long, long time.
It's tough for me to get motivated to film/visit a place like Ha Long. It has become very touristy and is heavily covered nowadays. Some of the more well known spots still interest me, Mekong floating markets for example.
@@Andrew_Fraser Good Day Andy. I didn't know that it has become a tourist destination. I only saw it briefly once on the Anthony Bourdain show years ago. Maybe an honorable mention. I'll trust your judgement. Definitely don't want to see another tourist destination video. Seeya soon.✝️
the Hmong no longer have a land that can truly be called their home, the clothing is basically what represents their origins and should not be forgot. once that is gone, there is basically nothing physical left that represents the Hmong. every thing from the language, literature, ect are all recent integrations from other cultures and people. so you younger folks better keep making or getting Hmong cloths for yourself and kids, even in America there are handmade clothing anywhere there is a Hmong community, support the ones who make them and not only order the manufactured ones online. also learn what your specific tribe wears and represent it proudly.
Korean elders used to spitting out this expression frequently: TTong- QQueen- Nor(m- Yee)- Muhn- Juh- Sung- Nen- Da. Here the noun,sung= Angers but also it means castle, stars,clans names,genders.....1). Guilty party shows short tempered airs hastily...hhhhhh
Insects aren’t bad to eat in small quantities, but the chitin is not something humans are evolutionary able to digest/process in large quantities and often leads to long term complications. I would suspect certain cultures are more adapted to process said food, but it’s a big no for white folks. Grubs and other non exoskeletal insects are somewhat fine but anything that has a large amount of chitin is the equivalent of eating micro plastics.
Exploiting my people without giving back. All gains from videos and yet make no impact on my people. I'm glad you're getting paid for the hospitality they showed you, yet degrading them at the same time.
The entire video is literally me encouraging people to visit Mu Cang Chai. As is the Bamboo worm video. Tourism in Mu Cang Chai, which is a lifeline for the Hmong outside of farming. I highlight local guides and artisans, helping preserve their culture and skills. I directly supporting the economy there. Real money: staying in Hmong homes, hiring local guides, drivers, translators. It's pretty straightforward - my work is fueling the growth of this community and preserving the culture. So again I'll ask. Specifically. Where is the exploitation?
Fantastic work Andrew, love the work you put into this Hmong culture episode. Sonny picked the right person to be friend with.
Thank you for sharing!! Love seeing how my Hmong people are still thriving half way across the world. ❤️
Another great video Andrew. I think it's important to pass down traditions, crafts, recipes to the next generations. Whether they're continued to be practiced or not, at least they're not lost.
Thanks for showing this. Reminds me not to forget about my people and where I come from.
Beautiful country. Hard working people.
Love your videos! I always watch it the moment it pops up on my feed! Thank you for letting us live vicariously through your eyes and camera lens!
Yet again, approaching everyone and every experience with respect. You are really creating a collection of work that truly stands out, mate. Keep up the great work.
wow, beautiful landscape shots and the picture quality! 🤩
Keep em coming buddy!!
Beautiful scenery..Hmong people are beautiful
Thanks for sharing Andrew, such a beautiful location and people.
Thank you for showing Hmong people. The culture is very important to me. I am also worried the old ways will be lost. (They speak Vietnamese but I can hear the Hmong accent.)
"This is one of the most picturesque spots in Vietnam......" I'll take your word and the fabulous views for it! Another great vid, Andrew.
Nice video about the Mong in Mucangchai. I'm fascinated about how they make their own clothing. Wow! Thanks for sharing.
You really go back to the history and where we came from. A great video to remind us not to forget our past.
amazing video andrew, keep it up. start to finish i was interestd. amazing cinematology. Great work!
Keep up this quality and youll have 1m subs within a year or two. JUST FANTASTIC!!
I LOVED seeing how they made their own beautiful fabric. I hope the craft culture is continued, one day things may not be available for them to buy in the stores. Their embroidery is stunning. Personally, I would 100% prefer 100% handmade from plant to finished product, just amazing and beautiful.
This video visually beautiful. Right up there wt Your and Sonny's bike ride beginning of the pandemic. Luv it .
Lol your crazy man.. riding those bikes! But absolutely beautiful area you have taken your viewers to! I like to think my lasts comments you replied to got in your head cuz I'm loving the longer video this time! Thanks... can't wait for your channel to blow up, you deserve it.. keep up the great adventures!
Watching you eat fried grasshoppers looked really good as compared what we have all seen you eaten in the past Mr. Fraser 😋. Love your country side episodes, so unique.👍. Thanks to your show, I hope more foreign tourists will come to visit.
Amazing documentary, you put a ton of production value into this video. I definitely need to visit Mu Cang Chai on my next trip to Vietnam!
❤amazing video thanks for showing our culture hmoob
Thanks dude for making a brilliant video and showing us places and things we don't get to see normally. Vietnam is truly a beautiful country 👍🇦🇺
Great! as a painter, the blue color is just gorgeous , thanks for sharing
Great video love it!
I dont know but i love his videos. Mahalo for sharing
annotherr great vid! thanks andrew you're really cranking them out
My Grandpa told me "If you don't eat insects one day insects will eat you!" Why not eat when you're still have the chance! Go for it!!!!!
I was thinking those grasshoppers could eat all the rice! This is a problem in some places, maybe by eating a bunch of them you can avoid having a plague of locusts, and you don't have to spray. Good job for little kids, I guess.
Wkwkw..
NEVER.
Such a great ep. It'd be good if there was Viet sub coz I know Viet people'd like to watch your videos.
Excellent video. Just left Vietnam yesterday. Sadly i went after harvest already…
I love this channel sooo entertaining keep up the great work my friend 👍...love from Scotland ta all 🏴👍😉✌️🏴
It was an E P I C episode, sir !
It's brilliant. Eat what was going to eat your food. 🤙🏼💚🏵️💯
This is very interesting and I really enjoyed watching it.
Catching grasshoppers is super fun!
Beautiful episode Andrew and man imagine if you would've had Sonny on this episode with you.
Great episode, visually stunning
Great video Andrew, a tradition and how our community lives and thrives. I must say that these families are Hmong but I don't understand a word they said because I am a Hmong myself...thank you for sharing with the world.
When "Pao" (Pov) and other individual members spoke to Andrew --- with the interpreter behind the camera --- they spoke in Vietnamese.
These are Hmong Dub, it seems (or other Hmong groups that have not been having too much contact with Hmong from Laos or even from the Dien Bien Phu region, close to Laos enough to have a lot of interaction with Hmong Lao to have accents very easily understood by Hmong from Laos and Hmong from the West).... but if you listen to the BACKGROUND conversations (the audio wasn't great, because Andrew & crew only wanted his voice and Pao's voice, for video production purposes)... you would understand some of what they're saying.
The further away from Laos (or Dien Bien Phu, to the east of Laos or Yunnan, to the northwest of Laos), the more difficult it is for Western Hmong and Hmong in Laos to understand, due to hundreds of years of non-exchange, non-interaction. The Vietnamese and Chinese have policies to isolate communities they think could be troublesome, politically, for them... so splintering Hmong groups over time develop dialects that are difficult for even themselves to comprehend, even if they are now moved back together for "economically development" purposes.
There was this Hmong guy in a town in southern China, in which two large groups of Hmong were settled together on a hilly landscape & the guy (on a travelogue RUclips video), a Hmong himself, said one half of the Hmong community couldn't understand what the other half was saying, due to the very distinct Hmong dialects the two groups were now speaking, even as both were obviously Hmong, in tradition, in instruments like qeej, ncas, raj nplaim, etc. as well as in clothe making, in common/age-old Hmong linguistic phraseology or mannerisms, etc.
He did not speak Hmong. He spokes Vietnamese..
Thank you
7:12 Andrew, I’ve had crickets before, do grasshoppers taste like them? They are tasty if you know how to cook them like in garlic, chilli and lemon grass. Delicious.
Great video and love seeing the nature and culture
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Before 1975 I have eaten some grasshopper and the big crickets but noe of these. However I think it wil taste the same as the big crickets. Thank you for eating with my Hmong peoples.
Love it
Wow, so beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Just subscribed..
Hey, Andrew, I love your show keep up the good work mate...
We have also a a thousands years old Rice terraces like Vietnam here in the Philippines. And its belive, that same people travel from anciet Vietnam tru china up to Taiwan for thousands years ago
Loving the videos bro.. 15-20mins perfect nyob zoo > hello, the hmong laos and hmong vietnamese are totally different lol
Great video so real
Amazing ❤
Zoo heev li
Wow good job and good video. ❤
Great video. You got sub here!
Looks like these Hmong people are more happy with their simple lives than most people in the west😊.
Beautiful 👏👏👏
That’s cannabis hemp ! ❤🎉
Another great episode Andrew. The fading of traditional cultures to what we now call "modern" is natural, but also sad. Western culture is no culture at all, it's just an echo chamber of the 7 deadly sins. I completely understand what you mean when you say that the Mu Cang Chai area is more of what you were looking for in Vietnam. When I first left my home country decades ago, I expected South America and Southeast Asia to still have a sense of antiquity and traditional culture. There are pockets that exist, but then eventually they put in a McDonalds. 😥
Keep going man good land
You should give them a couple of butterfly nets and the kids could get some more grasshoppers for everyone.
FYI: RUclipsr don't actually care for the people, they just want the content and move on
Good act but we should also appreciate that he did help the kids by catching grasshoppers with them
u big up boy i good ✌😁
Verry good
Great video, but those "muddy trails" are literally concrete paths.
Andrew maybe pay a visit to some of the Hmong in Australia compare to the one in Vietnam when you go back home, do we have any Hmong Australia farmers?
As a vietnamese guy living in Canada, I've never tried those insects, but the way you described with prawns and shell on, even before you described how it taste, I thought they would taste similar to the prawns too. I love prawns with shells on and pan fried with those seasonings. I like the flavour you get from the head of the prawns even though the shells can kind of sting inside my mouth sometimes.
Also idk, maybe I'm just dumb, I thought Hmong people are totally different people and at the start of the video, I heard you asked the girl "what's that" in vietnamese and I was like ⁉idk much about hmong people but I really like their outfits, really cool.
I speak north vietnamese accent and I notice they also do, but their accent is just a little bit like watered down, but almost exactly the same as the north vietnamese accent. Compared to the south, they can understand me but I can't understand them then they accuse me of doing it on purpose.
They learn Vietnamese in school like all Vietnamese minorities. Plus I have no idea how to ask in Hmong although that is how they communicate with each other.
@@Andrew_Fraser makes sense. I didn't know Hmong were in vietnam. I'd like to visit vietnam someday but gotta finish study.
Lol I'd never have enough hunger or courage to eat grasshoppers 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 great video though 😎
briiant when i book my trip to vietnam im gonna think hard about whet gifts i bring especially to the women more patterns etc...
Why do you think they live so long? Causes of what they eat ❤❤
In the west, people eat shrimps, snails, clams, crabs, etc., in the orient, people have enjoyed grasshoppers, locusts, beetles, scorpions, spiders, and a host of other small critters for a long, long time.
Hey Andy, One good thing about eating insects is you'll never have to share a bowl of blood. Hope you can show the beauty of How Long Bay (spell ✔️).
It's tough for me to get motivated to film/visit a place like Ha Long. It has become very touristy and is heavily covered nowadays. Some of the more well known spots still interest me, Mekong floating markets for example.
@@Andrew_Fraser Good Day Andy. I didn't know that it has become a tourist destination. I only saw it briefly once on the Anthony Bourdain show years ago. Maybe an honorable mention. I'll trust your judgement. Definitely don't want to see another tourist destination video. Seeya soon.✝️
Chào mừng tới Việt Nam 😅
Just had this grasshopper. We remove the innards. Just can't stop eating until it is finish!!
What month is this video filmed?
September
Good to see that Vietnam n hmong people living together now instead killing each other in the past.
the Hmong no longer have a land that can truly be called their home, the clothing is basically what represents their origins and should not be forgot. once that is gone, there is basically nothing physical left that represents the Hmong. every thing from the language, literature, ect are all recent integrations from other cultures and people.
so you younger folks better keep making or getting Hmong cloths for yourself and kids, even in America there are handmade clothing anywhere there is a Hmong community, support the ones who make them and not only order the manufactured ones online. also learn what your specific tribe wears and represent it proudly.
Agreed
They call mysterious but it’s our daily food
I mean eating insects that have been sprayed with pesticides for decades kinda seems a bit short sighted. Maybe that’s just me.
Korean elders used to spitting out this expression frequently: TTong- QQueen- Nor(m- Yee)- Muhn- Juh- Sung- Nen- Da. Here the noun,sung= Angers but also it means castle, stars,clans names,genders.....1). Guilty party shows short tempered airs hastily...hhhhhh
huh?
Omg, I can't bring myself to eat these grasshoppers unless it's life and death.
Cricket are source of protein..
Pisaw full of protine
Best eating insects: Cicadas
Insects aren’t bad to eat in small quantities, but the chitin is not something humans are evolutionary able to digest/process in large quantities and often leads to long term complications. I would suspect certain cultures are more adapted to process said food, but it’s a big no for white folks. Grubs and other non exoskeletal insects are somewhat fine but anything that has a large amount of chitin is the equivalent of eating micro plastics.
I am so sorry he doesn’t speak English
I am Hmong, these people are not speaking Hmong. Maybe speaking vietnamese for better interpretation? 💯 not Hmong language. No representation.
Exploiting my people without giving back. All gains from videos and yet make no impact on my people. I'm glad you're getting paid for the hospitality they showed you, yet degrading them at the same time.
Which part of this is exploitation?
@@Andrew_Fraser what part shows you have made a difference for their community other than enjoying their hospitality and gaining from this video?
The entire video is literally me encouraging people to visit Mu Cang Chai. As is the Bamboo worm video. Tourism in Mu Cang Chai, which is a lifeline for the Hmong outside of farming. I highlight local guides and artisans, helping preserve their culture and skills. I directly supporting the economy there. Real money: staying in Hmong homes, hiring local guides, drivers, translators. It's pretty straightforward - my work is fueling the growth of this community and preserving the culture.
So again I'll ask. Specifically. Where is the exploitation?
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