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.
@@PixieYelsraek 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.
@@PixieYelsraekMaybe 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.
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.
@@lijohnyoutube101 Believe or not, it were different times. There was no RUclips. 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
@@lijohnyoutube101 yeah it was definitely the friend group... 20 years ago was like, 2004. I was a teenager in the 90s and knew poor people and immigrants and also had immigrant grandparents lol
20 years ago? that makes no sense, tons of immigrant families living in the west do travel to the country their parents come from and share their experiences from their mothers and grannies home villages. its def your friends being weird. i live in germany and tons of germans did travel places like turkey and the near east sharing their experiences from 30 years ago. i would believe you if you said north americans. i had wacky online experiences some 10 years ago.
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.
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 😭
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!
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.
My mom too..ethnically white but she could get away with another race until her facial bones lol she worked on the farm and loves gardening so sees a lot of aun..then my dad and i have vampire pale skin which makes me laugh😊
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.
@@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
@@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
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.
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!
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!)_
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😅
Uyen you instantly brighten up peoples day! You have an amazing Mom who raised a smart, funny and beautiful daughter! I pray that You and German boyfriend are blessed always ❤
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.
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
@@Kira-kun_89 just to be clear, 'special needs' has only fallen out of favor in the last 3-4 years, so it's possible that when OP learned, 'special needs' was what was being pushed as the 'correct' term.. these things ebb and flow.
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!
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!
Much of it seems super fresh, they're harvesting the plants the same day as cooking it! I can only do that with the few herbs I can fit on my apartment balcony 😅 It's nice to have fresh herbs, but I would love to have such fresh main ingredients
Everything is so natural ☺️ I miss my country Pakistan 🇵🇰 by seeing your video. The food is different but how you sitting and cutt the meat, washing dishes, work with parents and culture everything reminds me of me my country 😢😢 and my family 😢
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 ...
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!
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.
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
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.
@@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.
i love all the spaces around your home for preparing things. My own home has been through decades of people cooking less and less, so now the spaces like the kitchen are delicate and high maintenance unlike the tiles and easy clean spaces in your family home.
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
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!
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!
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 🤤
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. ❤
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?
Head cheese was also a common dish in the Appalachian region. Not made the same way with banana leaves, but still called head cheese. They used every part of the pig head but the eyes. No waste!
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 ❤
The third dish is almost exactly like a romanian appetizer called toba (literally means drum), and the process of making it is almost the same. We use bits of meat alongside the ears and other fatty and gelatinous parts. We also put the gelatine and meat in the stomach and then sew it. After some time, it is good to eat, and we slice it and eat the inside part, not the stomach layer. It's very delicious. I loved this video ❤️❤️
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@_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.
when i visited vietnam in january, i only managed to eat the popular dishes so i never really got to explore enough but watching your food related videos always confirms that vietnamese food caters so much to what i like, even the everyday meals 🥰 (vegetables and seafood)
The stuff she's eating are home cooked meals, which are way different than the stuff you'd see in restaurants and street food. Some of it it seems regional to where she lives, too.
@@doodahgurlie yeah i figured they had to be regional in some way too if theyre not popular dishes they serve at restaurants. i do love seeing the consistency though in the cuisine that it seems like they'd cater to me haha
@@abbykurosawa7997 There are AMAZING home cooked dishes that I would have featured over what Uyen did. But she's also from a remote village so the food preferences there would be different than bigger cities with more resources and such. Notice she mentioned how she loves boiled/steamed veggies. Those are typically considered the blandest ways to eat veggies. And she dips it in pure fish sauce. Most Viets I know would dip boiled cabbage or green beans in a mix of fish sauce with mashed boiled eggs (I use soy sauce and eggs in mine)
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! :)
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!
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) :)
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 🥰
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.
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).
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 :)
Other foods can never beat Moms cooking. Glad you got to spend the Luna New Year with your family, and enjoyed all that delicious food. Say, ‘Hi’ to German boyfriend. Blessings
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
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 🤗💕❤️
Aw! Seeing your face after you took that first bite of green banana at 3 minutes in made my eyes water a little bit. You look so happy!! This whole video is super heartwarming, but that part really takes the cake.
Thank you, Uyen! You are very fortunate to have a garden in your home- nothing beats home grown vegetables. I hope you will post more videos of your mom's cooking. I have a question- the bananas you harvested- was that from your own garden or fom a shared garden of your neighbors- like you can go onto other garden to get some vegetables- like bananas and papayas?
As Vietnamese , Let me correct some misunderstandings here and there... The worms might take part in the fermenting process but... NO, Uyen Ninh (or us -the VNese) would not eat the worm in 'mẻ'. In supermarket in Vietnam, they sell bottled 'mẻ' recently and I am sure there is no worm in it ^^! and Gosh!! UN is definitely Northern VNese girl, I am too that why I can relate. I love every dishes in the video :) !
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.
Ikr? She always looks so comfy!
You should come visit Southeast Asia sometimes. Make up isn't as common here as compared to other countries. (Mostly due to the hot weather)
I used to be in phs 24/7 when I was so sick to the point of death.😢
She is kinda neglecting herself.....
@@101life9I disagree. Takes confidence to do what she’s doing.
Your mom is so knowledgeable. Respect to her.
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?
@@PixieYelsraek 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.
@@PixieYelsraekMaybe 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 😂
ahahah "peel it for me mom it's disgusting" I chuckled heartily. there is something pure about this.
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!
I'm an adoptee from north vietnam and I love learning about my culture through you! Thank you
Your Mom’s garden is impressive! She clearly works hard to have such a good garden
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 RUclips. 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.
@@lijohnyoutube101 yeah it was definitely the friend group... 20 years ago was like, 2004. I was a teenager in the 90s and knew poor people and immigrants and also had immigrant grandparents lol
20 years ago? that makes no sense, tons of immigrant families living in the west do travel to the country their parents come from and share their experiences from their mothers and grannies home villages. its def your friends being weird.
i live in germany and tons of germans did travel places like turkey and the near east sharing their experiences from 30 years ago.
i would believe you if you said north americans. i had wacky online experiences some 10 years ago.
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.
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 😂😂😂
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!
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!
6:25 I understand that ‘wow you’re strong’ feeling! My own grandmother could knead bread as if it’s nothing, and then I tire out after two minutes 😭😭
Can I just say… Uyen, you have the most authentic host personality.
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 😊
my circassian grandma also have it :)
My mom too..ethnically white but she could get away with another race until her facial bones lol she worked on the farm and loves gardening so sees a lot of aun..then my dad and i have vampire pale skin which makes me laugh😊
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!!!!!
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.
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!
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.
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 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😅
Uyen you instantly brighten up peoples day! You have an amazing Mom who raised a smart, funny and beautiful daughter! I pray that You and German boyfriend are blessed always ❤
Thanks for showing us homecooked Vietnamese dish!🥰
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 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
@@Kira-kun_89 just to be clear, 'special needs' has only fallen out of favor in the last 3-4 years, so it's possible that when OP learned, 'special needs' was what was being pushed as the 'correct' term.. these things ebb and flow.
@@Kira-kun_89Says who? You? They’re plenty of people who still use that word.
Looks absolutely scrumptious, Uyen. Mom's cooking is the best!
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!
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!
Mums are amazing really. The knowledge your mum has when ik comes to recepes, methods and food/cooking is amazing. 😊
I love how there seems to be a lot of green leaves in so many vietnamese dishes, makes it look very fresh.
Much of it seems super fresh, they're harvesting the plants the same day as cooking it! I can only do that with the few herbs I can fit on my apartment balcony 😅
It's nice to have fresh herbs, but I would love to have such fresh main ingredients
Everything is so natural ☺️
I miss my country Pakistan 🇵🇰 by seeing your video. The food is different but how you sitting and cutt the meat, washing dishes, work with parents and culture everything reminds me of me my country 😢😢 and my family 😢
Our similarities are greater in number than our differences all over the world.
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😂
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.
Watching these videos makes me miss my momma , she passed away , please give your mom an extra hug for me !
Love and hugs to you 💚
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!
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.
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
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!
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
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
Love seeing the Vietnamese food and traditions as well hear you speak your native language 😊
Its my first time watching homecooked vietnamese food.. Really enjoyed watching your mother's cooking..
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.
i love all the spaces around your home for preparing things. My own home has been through decades of people cooking less and less, so now the spaces like the kitchen are delicate and high maintenance unlike the tiles and easy clean spaces in your family home.
Wow! You Mama is an incredible chef! How lovely to be able to have all these recipes and celebrate your culture! Everything looks delicious!
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.
Thank you for sharing your culture with us! The video is fascinating and your pride in your family is beautiful.
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!
1:30 the worm saying "hi" is too cute 😭
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?
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!
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 🤤
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. ❤
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?
Head cheese was also a common dish in the Appalachian region. Not made the same way with banana leaves, but still called head cheese. They used every part of the pig head but the eyes. No waste!
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 ❤
Everything looked so good. Germany definitely doesn't have this. I loved seeing you with your mother it honestly felt like one my favorite videos.
The third dish is almost
exactly like a romanian appetizer called toba (literally means drum), and the process of making it is almost the same. We use bits of meat alongside the ears and other fatty and gelatinous parts. We also put the gelatine and meat in the stomach and then sew it. After some time, it is good to eat, and we slice it and eat the inside part, not the stomach layer. It's very delicious. I loved this video ❤️❤️
There is a similar English dish called Brawn
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!!
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.
Vietnamese ist so eine cool klingende Sprache! Lovely video, greetings to your mom and thank you for sharing more about your Cuisine and culture 🥰
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.
Your mom is such a hard working woman ❤
So cool seeing you at home with your family
Thank you to you and your generous mom for letting us in to watch in her kitchen!
"One is enough, it's too spicy!" 😂 Been in Germany too long!
Everything about this vide, the vibe, the food, the family dinners reminds me so much of my family especially my late dad. Thanks.
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.
You are so blessed! Wonderful video showing all that you cooked with your mom.
when i visited vietnam in january, i only managed to eat the popular dishes so i never really got to explore enough but watching your food related videos always confirms that vietnamese food caters so much to what i like, even the everyday meals 🥰 (vegetables and seafood)
The stuff she's eating are home cooked meals, which are way different than the stuff you'd see in restaurants and street food. Some of it it seems regional to where she lives, too.
@@doodahgurlie yeah i figured they had to be regional in some way too if theyre not popular dishes they serve at restaurants. i do love seeing the consistency though in the cuisine that it seems like they'd cater to me haha
@@abbykurosawa7997 There are AMAZING home cooked dishes that I would have featured over what Uyen did. But she's also from a remote village so the food preferences there would be different than bigger cities with more resources and such. Notice she mentioned how she loves boiled/steamed veggies. Those are typically considered the blandest ways to eat veggies. And she dips it in pure fish sauce. Most Viets I know would dip boiled cabbage or green beans in a mix of fish sauce with mashed boiled eggs (I use soy sauce and eggs in mine)
Your mom is an amazing lady! What a treasure trove of traditional cooking! Write it down and preserve! Make a small book of her knowledge! ❤
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! :)
This video was really beautyful and authentic, thank you so much
As a Vietnamese, I can confirm the moms are amazing cooks.
Because they do it with love for the family
I cry every time I go home and eat with my mom..the food is great.mbut being around your mom and the food..perfect ❤😊
Thank you for sharing! Theres nothing like a mom's homemade 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!
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.
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) :)
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 😊
I adored this video! Thank you for sharing with us!
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).
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 :)
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.
Other foods can never beat Moms cooking. Glad you got to spend the Luna New Year with your family, and enjoyed all that delicious food. Say, ‘Hi’ to German boyfriend. Blessings
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
She’s such a lovely person, so enjoyable to listen to ❤
really enjoying these vlogs from your recent trip home to vietnam! really appreciate getting to know more about you and your culture! ❤
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 🤗💕❤️
Loved it! So interesting and your mother is really lovely, so caring and skillful person. Thank you!
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. 😋
Aw! Seeing your face after you took that first bite of green banana at 3 minutes in made my eyes water a little bit. You look so happy!! This whole video is super heartwarming, but that part really takes the cake.
Eats rice from worms but is afraid to touch leaves with worms on😅
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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Thank you, Uyen! You are very fortunate to have a garden in your home- nothing beats home grown vegetables. I hope you will post more videos of your mom's cooking. I have a question- the bananas you harvested- was that from your own garden or fom a shared garden of your neighbors- like you can go onto other garden to get some vegetables- like bananas and papayas?
As Vietnamese , Let me correct some misunderstandings here and there... The worms might take part in the fermenting process but... NO, Uyen Ninh (or us -the VNese) would not eat the worm in 'mẻ'. In supermarket in Vietnam, they sell bottled 'mẻ' recently and I am sure there is no worm in it ^^! and Gosh!! UN is definitely Northern VNese girl, I am too that why I can relate. I love every dishes in the video :) !
I recall my parents killing the maggots (that's what they are called) with alcohol before storing/using.
This was so interesting! I love the vids where you’re at home with your family in Vietnam