FUNG BROS. When will you guys go to Vietnam and do an episode there? Would be cool of you did an episode with Kyle Le there. You guys been to signpore many times but not Vietnam?
I really enjoyed watching this video and how you guys dedicated time to talking about Vietnamese culture more than the food cuz the Vietnamese diaspora culture is really at a high right now. I feel you guys definitely covered all the major points of Vietnamese culture. Here are some of my comments 1. North v South Vietnam - I kind of wished Mike and Kim explained more of the 1954 northerners. Meaning like Mike, my grandparents are from the north but after it became communist in 1954 they moved go the south where my parents were born. So we have a blend of northern and southern customs and accents in our family. And when people ask us where we are from we say northern but depending on who, like if it’s an older person, I usually have to say that we are 1954 northerners so they know we are not communist lol. But for the younger generation they don’t care cuz we don’t feel a strong divide between the north and south like our parents’ generation. 2. I don’t meet a lot of Viets who say they have some French blood lol and I haven’t met many mixed French and Vietnamese people. But there’s no denying that our culture is strongly influenced by the French colonization cuz a lot of vocabulary in Vietnamese are French words. 3. I’m so impressed with the Generation Z Vietnamese kids presence on social media especially TikTok! They’re bringing like a revitalization of the Vietnamese diaspora culture
Love this! I’m Viet-American and I grew up in America. I always love learning about my own roots as my parents don’t really talk about the motherland :/ Thank you for talking about this topic!
MinhtyOG Thanks man I moved here for work and when I quit that job shortly after moving here I decided to stay. I miss so many things about Cali but I made more friends here in a few months than I did in several years in CA. It’s flat ugly and humid but they people are so god damn nice I said f it. The surplus of jobs and cheap houses doesn’t hurt.
I live in Holland.. & I love this! Im Dutch - Vietnamese .. & grew up with Vietnamese culture like I was born in Vietnam.. I found this was so interesting! ❤
@@diegoaespitiaNo offense mate, but calling someone a “con lai” and “ur not a Viet” while having the name Diego is a little ironic. I love the name Diego though. A few of my favorite footballers have the name Diego, one of them being Maradona.
I want to see an intense Vietnamese epic based on the story of the Trung sisters from Vietnamese history. Those two rode elephants into battle. That's some Lord of the Rings shit dude! EPIC!!
As a Vietnamese I have to say that I quite enjoy this video. The food is authentic and closely resembles the ones in Vietnam, the memes are funny and relatable ;) and I love the fact that you guys are discussing this topic in such a natural and genuine manner. Keep up the good work:)
The way you all talk about Vietnamese refugees was rather surface level. To get into more details: There were 3 major waves of refugees after the fall of Saigon. The first wave consisted primarily of affluent Vietnamese people; high ranking military officers, government officials/bureaucrats, affluent business owners, landowners, and the professional class. This first wave came immediately after Saigon fell. The second wave is where the "boat people" stereotype comes from. This wave consisted of working class peoples, rural villagers, and many Hoa people (ethnic Chinese). Due to the destruction of war and economic sanctions, large swathes of working class people left Vietnam by boat. Hoa people were being persecuted because Vietnam and China were in a military conflict in 1979 and both countries remained in a sort of high-alert defensive state until the early 1990s. But I digress. The third wave mostly came in the 1980-1990s. This wave wasn't filled with refugees, but consisted of a variety of peoples; some were political prisoners, some were mixed-Asians left after the war. As a side note, this wave also coincides with the renewal of USA/Vietnamese diplomatic relations and a lifting of the embargo in 1994 under Bill Clinton. This is why the third wave tends to not be considered refugees while the second one is where the boat refugee stereotype comes from. We can get more into the socioeconomic matter as well; for better or worse, most first wave refugees (and their descendants) still maintain an affluent background, and the more "ratchet" Vietnamese-Americans you meet are usually descended from the latter two. If you ever wonder which wave a Vietnamese-American came from, a good clue is to listen to their Vietnamese accent. People like Cao Ky Duyen or Nguyen Ngoc Ngan (of Paris by Night fame) are obvious first wavers from their accent alone.
The contrast between them and the Fil-Ams for these episodes.. I can see they're so proud of their roots.. As every Asians should.. Sending love to our Vietnamese brothers and sisters ❤
@Ryan Lajara not all. I think the younger FilAms and their parents are much wiser now coz they're teaching them to learn the 2 cultures and embracing it.
This is awesome content guys, been watching you guys for years, and I sincerely think this is your best work so far. Please keep it going! Mentally stimulating.
13:56 VERY TRUE. It happened ~26 years ago w/ a Vietnamese guy whom my friends & I met at a casual social party at a mutual acquaintance's house in Los Angeles. Literally w/in the first ~30 seconds of self-introductions, the "Vietnamese" guy said EMPHATICALLY & REPEATEDLY to my friends & me he's "1/4 French (on his paternal grandfather's side)" -- whereas he (the "Vietnamese" guy) looked NOT even >2% non-Asian, if any "French" or Caucasian ancestry ... He quickly became a subject of utter distaste & shameful ethnic(-&-cultural)-inferiority-complex to my friends & me. ~3 hours later, as my friends & I were leaving the party, the host, who's Indonesian Chinese, & who was the mutual acquaintance who threw the party at his house, said to us understandingly, while shaking his head in a disgust and of disapproval, that "(the self-proclaimed-1/4-French 'Vietnamese' guy) ALWAYS does that ..."
Do a show/episode on Vietnamese food in San Jose. South Bay Area has the 2nd largest population outside SoCal. There's been plenty filmed from SoCal/Houston/Seattle etc. This is NY one is pretty dope!
Love this concept and video. Wholesome convos that’s bring a lot of connection and light to our identities as “our generation” while going back to our roots. I wish these convos existed when I was a teenager!
Love it!!!! Keep up this series. As a viet i love ittt. Personally i think the perfect Vietnamese model is Michelle pham and lana candor atm. But obv they aint no ABG haha
Love the content of this video. I’m Hmong but I can relate a lot to what you guys talked about about. My generation and the older generation embrace and love our culture. Like they said, the first wave/refugee to America. You definitely have to be crazy/gangster to survived when the hate and racist was strong and big back then. The younger Hmong generation who were born here are more Americanize and are embarrassed to be Hmong, speak Hmong, wear Hmong clothes etc...but the youngest new generation embrace and try to learn a lot about our culture etc...our young generation are the future of us. But yeah, I never knew south and northern viet hate each other here in America until my viet buddies told me stories how the viet community used to fight a lot back then in America. Lol!
Yeah, you mentioned Tila Tequila (Nguyen)... That was right in the money. A lot of ABG's came from the Hot Import Night / Asian tuner scene. Most of the import car models were Viet.
Thank you for that statement. It seems like the Fung Brothers like picking the most basic respresentatives possible for their cultural fill ins. Why we gotta do this stuff to ourselves? Like you guys are picking caricatures of our people. It's a shame
Majority of us already know that. And why do you feel the need to make such a statement? I don't see anything negative with this video. They are just sharing what they know and experience.
Thank goodness they didn't get Richie Le for this video. But next time I recommend Kyle Le to be on here. The only RUclipsr that is spot on in Vietnamese culture, history and Vietnamese-Americans.
"Yale and jail." Hahahaha Almost every Vietnamese person that I went to school with had the surname Nguyen too. I swear more than half of Vietnamese people have that name.
Very cool concept! I’m Hispanic and it’s so interesting how similar Asian culture is to the Latino culture. You guys should expand this idea to other cultures
I am Chinese Vietnamese, both my parents were born in Viet Nam (and their parents before them). They were considered outsiders and were never given Vietnamese citizenship... no birth certificates etc), they were born in 1957 and left during the war and finally settled in the UK in 1979.
That's not true, it's because your parents chose not to, to avoid from being drafted. The 1st president of South Vietnam put out the law that all Chinese had to apply Vietnamese citizenship to own business. My husband is Chinese Vietnamese, his Dad had Vietnamese citizenship but his uncles did not. They did want to be forced to join military.
Kim Jong Skillz up and coming is just some gentrification hipster shit that will overcharge on Vietnamese food. Banh mi is usually 3-5, I bet they charge 10+
As much as I enjoy the content and feel honor to be represented, I feel like this video is harder to relate to. It’s very 90s and I was born in the 2000s. I get how Ham Choi culture is big in Vietnamese Culture but I think there could be more to it.
I also am from the Boston area. I've never met a Northern Viet in my life. My family is from Dong Thap, but everyone else has been from places like Hue, Da Nang and Sai Gon. It threw me off when she said "growing up in Boston." I went to the Tet events as a kid. I've been to Dorchester. Pure VNCH vibes. She may have grown up like that in her family, but even here the general community is super southern.
There was a lot of people from the North who moved down South after 1954 to escape the Viet Minh. These were ex French colonial government officials or French collaborators who feared persecutions and who were mostly Christians. They later occupied many important positions within the VNCH government. I think you're partly right, the community is more southern than North but the there is a mixed of culture. For example Pho was a northern dish that was brought to the South. In the video, banh cuon and bun dau mam tom are both very northern dishes.
@@richbrook101 She said she grew up thinking Ho Chi Minh was revolutionialist so her Dad is definitely not a 1954 Northerner. After Saigon fell, the UN accepted all Vietnamese refugees, Southerners left for political reason but Northerners (majority were from Hai Phong) left for economic reason. But the Hai Phong population is small, they dont build Viet towns like Southerners. The 1954 Northerner folks migrated South for religious reason and did join the Republic of Vietnam fighting the Socialist North.
I would say that if you ever get the chance to visit Central and Eastern Europe, you are more likely to encounter Vietnamese people with Northern roots than those with Southern roots. Western Europe is different though since, just like USA, Canada, and Australia, most Vietnamese have Southern roots (especially in France, which still has the biggest VN community in Europe. The UK, from my personal experience, is the outlier in Western Europe though since most Vietnamese there lately have been of Northern VN origin).
Took my 23andme test, I am 20 percent Vietnamese! Also that food looks amazing, we don't have anything like that here it's mostly just Pho joints here. Occasionally I'll have the Bahn Xeo. Most of these dishes I have never heard of or seen and damn it's making me hungry.
dislike the fact a lot of vietnamese people can say they look down on cambodian(khmer) people but all of south vietnam especially in the country side like bac lieu and soc trang, ben tre, vinh long just to name a few(all of the southern cities) are full of khmer communities, no country is superior then the other. anywho, i do love vietnamese food also khmer, lao, and thai.. chinese food.
BChow yes, tons of Cambodian people live in the south. I went to visit both my parents family in S. Vietnam and a lot of my younger cousins live and work all over, a few of them even married to Chinese men speaking Khmer, Vietnamese and Chinese. One moved to New Zealand, another to Australia. If you traveled to Bac Lieu Vietnam from HCM city during the car ride and ferry boat to and from, you’ll notice many Khmer temples in the cities going further south.
@@paulathach1725 that sounds nice . I was in Saigon for 4 days as a kid , looking forward to visiting Middle and South vn! I don't like it when Kinh folks look down on other ethnic groups, but with internet access nowadays, I believe things will get better.
Love the idea of this series. I do have some notes though. Wish it was a bit more structured as it just felt a little scattered which is okay as it feels natural, i suppose. Also, particularly with this being a Vietnamese episode and the kickoff of the series, i really wish you would have filmed in Little Saigon in Westminster. I feel like there are a lot of different opinions on Vietnamese culture and history and the community is so large there, it would have been great to see. The food here did not seem representative of the Vietnamese food I grew up with, which honestly was a tad disappointing for me. Perhaps you guys were going for a different vibe with this series in terms of food and guests? More fusion, 90s vibe? As an ethnically Vietnamese-American person who grew up with largely Vietnamese cultural ideals, food, etc, I didnt particularly feel represented by the topics or food brought up in this video. Anyways, still like the idea of this series and look forward to watching the next episodes.
Speak your truth. Stand up and be represented! Somehow they found a "Viet" restaurant where they had to keep the camera close in because you'd see the hipsters otherwise! You guys are better than this, Fung Bros.
@@bchow6504 I've eaten many of these foods too. And you are right in that its not all fusion. However, the xoi man with pate is not something i've ever seen as traditional Viet food. Also a few of these dishes were heavily Chinese influenced as with the banh bot chien and banh cuon (which they did mention). To me, there are so many other Vietnamese dishes that represent our cuisine and these are honestly not what I grew up eating at all. Perhaps its regional? Either way, I was let down a bit by the selection.
@@CassieQuach. i was a bit surprised when they put mam Tom on the menu. I thought :"this is as Viet as it gets" lol. Now I am curious about the food you mentioned.
Vietnamese American here....commenting from Saigon. How and where do I even start? Vietnamese people are a completely lost race. The white worship, status whores, collective thinking, no individual thought, etc, etc...is alive and kicking here in the homeland and when I am in the US, I see the majority of my Vietnamese people being the same exact way. It's all great and dandy to speak about the food and culture, like there are no issues but let's have some real honest talk. There are endless issues with the Vietnamese people and culture. And mentioning that train wreck white worshipper 'Tila “Tequila” Nguyen' and not even addressing that HUGE identity issue that so so many Vietnamese westerners go through was weak and a huge missed opportunity. Again...I respect what you guys do but you constantly stay in the safe zone.
They should upload their 23andMe results to Wegene. Wegene is a Chinese based DNA company (the 23andME of Asia), and it is specifically for people who have Asian ancestry. They might find out that they have other Asian ethnicites other than what 23andME reports. I found out that my mom and me are predominately (Malay-Indonesian/Filipino i.e. Gaoshan-Austronesian descent), and that she and me also have Vietnamese and Cambodian ancestry, as well as South Asian ancestry. Majority of those Asian ethnicities reported on mom's and mine Wegene profile (with the exception of the South Asian DNA and Filipino/Austronesian DNA) was not detected by 23andMe. Remember, 23andME and Ancestry.com only reads your DNA at 600,000 positions (0.02% of your DNA) which is not a lot since your DNA is composed of 6,000,000,000 positions in ur genome.
So dope to see the Fung Bro's content evolve. So much depth to these types of videos while maintaining their entertaining and comedic brand. It reminds me of Chappelle's latest drop, 8:46, in a way. These videos deserve way more exposure. You can tell how much thought went into this series. Big ups!
SHARE THIS WITH A FRIEND! And let me know which culture we should cover next week below....
Could you check out Asian culture in Arizona? Big fan and I've always wanted someone to discuss this topic since culture can be rather hidden here.
Filipino culture 🙂
FUNG BROS. When will you guys go to Vietnam and do an episode there? Would be cool of you did an episode with Kyle Le there. You guys been to signpore many times but not Vietnam?
Love Vietnamese food
I don't agree with the ABG gun/police thing
this is a dope show concept, it felt like no one was faking for the camera and made for great content
cant wait for more eps.
Personally, I think Culture Table should be uncensored.
Jason Ho nah, my mommy dont like that
Vietnamese food is so bomb. End of story.
we are known for our food and the war.
I really enjoyed watching this video and how you guys dedicated time to talking about Vietnamese culture more than the food cuz the Vietnamese diaspora culture is really at a high right now. I feel you guys definitely covered all the major points of Vietnamese culture. Here are some of my comments
1. North v South Vietnam - I kind of wished Mike and Kim explained more of the 1954 northerners. Meaning like Mike, my grandparents are from the north but after it became communist in 1954 they moved go the south where my parents were born. So we have a blend of northern and southern customs and accents in our family. And when people ask us where we are from we say northern but depending on who, like if it’s an older person, I usually have to say that we are 1954 northerners so they know we are not communist lol. But for the younger generation they don’t care cuz we don’t feel a strong divide between the north and south like our parents’ generation.
2. I don’t meet a lot of Viets who say they have some French blood lol and I haven’t met many mixed French and Vietnamese people. But there’s no denying that our culture is strongly influenced by the French colonization cuz a lot of vocabulary in Vietnamese are French words.
3. I’m so impressed with the Generation Z Vietnamese kids presence on social media especially TikTok! They’re bringing like a revitalization of the Vietnamese diaspora culture
The 1954 North Vietnamese is very important distinction for a lot of people. I'm glad you brought it up here in the comments!
Can i ask a few questions? Whats the percentage of nguyen are of Vietnamese population.and are all nguyen related?😁
@@Qwertyl6996 Not every Nguyen is related. This is just an overused ignorant comment.
@@aznmochibunny duh.genious.will i be asking the question if im not ignorant about it?
nguoi bac nam bo :))
Thuy Trang, the original yellow Power Ranger, was definitely a TV role model of mine growing up. Dearly loved and missed.
Love this! I’m Viet-American and I grew up in America. I always love learning about my own roots as my parents don’t really talk about the motherland :/ Thank you for talking about this topic!
I wish they had a Viet person from different regions (Norcal, Socal, East Coast, and Southern) to give a different perspective.
I moved from socal to Houston. The viet community is so similar but so different. I agree with you.
Chase T
Welcome to Htown. I love going to SoCal whenever I get the chance
MinhtyOG Thanks man I moved here for work and when I quit that job shortly after moving here I decided to stay. I miss so many things about Cali but I made more friends here in a few months than I did in several years in CA. It’s flat ugly and humid but they people are so god damn nice I said f it. The surplus of jobs and cheap houses doesn’t hurt.
The Midwest bro
I live in Holland.. & I love this! Im Dutch - Vietnamese .. & grew up with Vietnamese culture like I was born in Vietnam.. I found this was so interesting! ❤
Loempia😅
@@TopG072 Best pick up line, ever.
oh a con lai. ur not viet
@@diegoaespitia im 100% Viet... My dad came from North Vietnam & My Mom South Vietnam.. But I live in Holland so I am a Dutch Vietnamese
@@diegoaespitiaNo offense mate, but calling someone a “con lai” and “ur not a Viet” while having the name Diego is a little ironic. I love the name Diego though. A few of my favorite footballers have the name Diego, one of them being Maradona.
On Vietnamese being loud, my In-laws are Vietnamese and when my wife and her mom speak I always think they are fighting because they are so loud.
I want to see an intense Vietnamese epic based on the story of the Trung sisters from Vietnamese history. Those two rode elephants into battle. That's some Lord of the Rings shit dude! EPIC!!
yeah, that would be cool!!
It was very refreshing to see and hear a very wholesome, honest conversation that you guys had.
As a Vietnamese I have to say that I quite enjoy this video. The food is authentic and closely resembles the ones in Vietnam, the memes are funny and relatable ;) and I love the fact that you guys are discussing this topic in such a natural and genuine manner. Keep up the good work:)
CULTURE TABLE! LOVE IT!
love how big the group was and everyone gave each other the space to share on things they all cared about
Fung Bros, you guy's need to hit the topic of Chinese - Filipinos too. Proud of my Chinese/Filipino brothas & sistas back in the Philippines
pinoy need to learn about condom.
Always so refreshing to hear more about vietnamese culture and their food!
The way you all talk about Vietnamese refugees was rather surface level. To get into more details: There were 3 major waves of refugees after the fall of Saigon. The first wave consisted primarily of affluent Vietnamese people; high ranking military officers, government officials/bureaucrats, affluent business owners, landowners, and the professional class. This first wave came immediately after Saigon fell. The second wave is where the "boat people" stereotype comes from. This wave consisted of working class peoples, rural villagers, and many Hoa people (ethnic Chinese). Due to the destruction of war and economic sanctions, large swathes of working class people left Vietnam by boat. Hoa people were being persecuted because Vietnam and China were in a military conflict in 1979 and both countries remained in a sort of high-alert defensive state until the early 1990s. But I digress. The third wave mostly came in the 1980-1990s. This wave wasn't filled with refugees, but consisted of a variety of peoples; some were political prisoners, some were mixed-Asians left after the war. As a side note, this wave also coincides with the renewal of USA/Vietnamese diplomatic relations and a lifting of the embargo in 1994 under Bill Clinton. This is why the third wave tends to not be considered refugees while the second one is where the boat refugee stereotype comes from.
We can get more into the socioeconomic matter as well; for better or worse, most first wave refugees (and their descendants) still maintain an affluent background, and the more "ratchet" Vietnamese-Americans you meet are usually descended from the latter two. If you ever wonder which wave a Vietnamese-American came from, a good clue is to listen to their Vietnamese accent. People like Cao Ky Duyen or Nguyen Ngoc Ngan (of Paris by Night fame) are obvious first wavers from their accent alone.
That explains why there are a lot Yale but also jail.
The contrast between them and the Fil-Ams for these episodes.. I can see they're so proud of their roots.. As every Asians should.. Sending love to our Vietnamese brothers and sisters ❤
@Ryan Lajara not all. I think the younger FilAms and their parents are much wiser now coz they're teaching them to learn the 2 cultures and embracing it.
Kudos fung bro! This culture table is an eye opener to other etnicity for more understanding specialy to new generation.more power guys!
dude in the beanie repping OAKLAND let’s GO
This is awesome content guys, been watching you guys for years, and I sincerely think this is your best work so far. Please keep it going! Mentally stimulating.
13:56 VERY TRUE. It happened ~26 years ago w/ a Vietnamese guy whom my friends & I met at a casual social party at a mutual acquaintance's house in Los Angeles. Literally w/in the first ~30 seconds of self-introductions, the "Vietnamese" guy said EMPHATICALLY & REPEATEDLY to my friends & me he's "1/4 French (on his paternal grandfather's side)" -- whereas he (the "Vietnamese" guy) looked NOT even >2% non-Asian, if any "French" or Caucasian ancestry ... He quickly became a subject of utter distaste & shameful ethnic(-&-cultural)-inferiority-complex to my friends & me. ~3 hours later, as my friends & I were leaving the party, the host, who's Indonesian Chinese, & who was the mutual acquaintance who threw the party at his house, said to us understandingly, while shaking his head in a disgust and of disapproval, that "(the self-proclaimed-1/4-French 'Vietnamese' guy) ALWAYS does that ..."
unless he is actually from France or grew up there, chuck him out a window
This series is so great! I can't wait to see more videos like this.
Absolutely luv this show's concept, keep up da great work still
i really enjoyed this coming from a viet-american! looking forward to this series
It's crazy because I literally discovered Nguyen Coffee earlier today and here I am just happening on this video with the founder of that company!
great video-reminds me of my chats with my Vietnamese American friends. Stay fearless 💪🏽
Omgosh Sahra! How awesome! Been following the fung bros for a while now but super glad to see my fellow ucla alum on here woohoo! 😁
I could listen to Quan describe food all day long. 👌🏽
Love this! This lit up my Viet pride as a half Viet/half Italian dude
Loved this video! Great concept and execution. As an avid Vice fan boy I chuckled when you had a dig at Vice.
odd enough , vietnam is the most EA countries out of all SEA. We were basically directly influnced by Chinese
Funnily enough, even more EA than Singapore where 77% of the people are actually Chinese. Cause they are way westernized now.
Lelele is there a reason why singaporeans are westernised?
Do a show/episode on Vietnamese food in San Jose. South Bay Area has the 2nd largest population outside SoCal. There's been plenty filmed from SoCal/Houston/Seattle etc. This is NY one is pretty dope!
Keeping the culture alive through food. Pretty cool.
Love this concept and video. Wholesome convos that’s bring a lot of connection and light to our identities as “our generation” while going back to our roots. I wish these convos existed when I was a teenager!
Love it!!!! Keep up this series. As a viet i love ittt. Personally i think the perfect Vietnamese model is Michelle pham and lana candor atm. But obv they aint no ABG haha
Love the content of this video. I’m Hmong but I can relate a lot to what you guys talked about about. My generation and the older generation embrace and love our culture. Like they said, the first wave/refugee to America. You definitely have to be crazy/gangster to survived when the hate and racist was strong and big back then. The younger Hmong generation who were born here are more Americanize and are embarrassed to be Hmong, speak Hmong, wear Hmong clothes etc...but the youngest new generation embrace and try to learn a lot about our culture etc...our young generation are the future of us. But yeah, I never knew south and northern viet hate each other here in America until my viet buddies told me stories how the viet community used to fight a lot back then in America. Lol!
Yeah, you mentioned Tila Tequila (Nguyen)... That was right in the money. A lot of ABG's came from the Hot Import Night / Asian tuner scene. Most of the import car models were Viet.
And had a drug dealer boyfriend lol
Chinese Culture
Please know what these 3 Vietnamese said don’t represent what all other Vietnamese think/say
Thank you for that statement. It seems like the Fung Brothers like picking the most basic respresentatives possible for their cultural fill ins. Why we gotta do this stuff to ourselves? Like you guys are picking caricatures of our people. It's a shame
@@dohpe- Dạ!
Majority of us already know that. And why do you feel the need to make such a statement? I don't see anything negative with this video. They are just sharing what they know and experience.
Thank goodness they didn't get Richie Le for this video. But next time I recommend Kyle Le to be on here. The only RUclipsr that is spot on in Vietnamese culture, history and Vietnamese-Americans.
NaNg Ng : So true!
Yes Kyle Le! I watch his videos.
Lol no.
would you consider doing a culture table with asians adopted by non asian parents? I'd love to be a part of that if so. Cool new segment guys!
"Yale and jail." Hahahaha
Almost every Vietnamese person that I went to school with had the surname Nguyen too. I swear more than half of Vietnamese people have that name.
the Nguyen kings made everyone above a certain social level change their name to Nguyen, so a lot of people now are stuck being name relatives
Very cool concept! I’m Hispanic and it’s so interesting how similar Asian culture is to the Latino culture. You guys should expand this idea to other cultures
Just to keep it short, this video is fire. Love the concept and the guests.
damn this talk is real AF . props to the people at the table for keeping it real
Love it ! The day of the white talking head is gone !
Asians talking to Asians ❤️❤️❤️
Wow thoroughly enjoyed the topics and the food look so yum. Keep em' coming!
shout out to the viets living in toronto :)
I am Chinese Vietnamese, both my parents were born in Viet Nam (and their parents before them). They were considered outsiders and were never given Vietnamese citizenship... no birth certificates etc), they were born in 1957 and left during the war and finally settled in the UK in 1979.
That's not true, it's because your parents chose not to, to avoid from being drafted. The 1st president of South Vietnam put out the law that all Chinese had to apply Vietnamese citizenship to own business. My husband is Chinese Vietnamese, his Dad had Vietnamese citizenship but his uncles did not. They did want to be forced to join military.
@@sgcl10658 that’s untrue because both my parents were in the army
Watch this series in reverse! And im delighted!
@fungbros Thanks for putting this out,, mad respect!
Great ! Really enjoy this !
Sooo hungry now! Looks so good!
This video was amazing and the food look delicious. Please do more. #PassMeMy🍷
This episode should have been done in SJ, Houston, of OC. NY doesn’t have much of a viet community there.
It's up & coming & that's where they live lol
I would say LA over OC, just for name cache but it would be kinda hilarious in Bolsa.
Kim Jong Skillz up and coming is just some gentrification hipster shit that will overcharge on Vietnamese food. Banh mi is usually 3-5, I bet they charge 10+
Or back Seattle where they are from
really love this series. keep at it
OMG! That Vietnamese Christmas Party meme is spot on to my friend's family when they throw parties lol @21:25
As much as I enjoy the content and feel honor to be represented, I feel like this video is harder to relate to. It’s very 90s and I was born in the 2000s. I get how Ham Choi culture is big in Vietnamese Culture but I think there could be more to it.
Some of us out here are 90s kids 🤓!
80s here!
It's just how it is em.
Omg I remember when all the asian boys were in love with Tila Nguyen. 😂
Dang this is awesome! Looking forward to more episode! Hope you guys do one for Lao people
TAN TAN is the fucking spot in htx lol
I also am from the Boston area. I've never met a Northern Viet in my life. My family is from Dong Thap, but everyone else has been from places like Hue, Da Nang and Sai Gon. It threw me off when she said "growing up in Boston." I went to the Tet events as a kid. I've been to Dorchester. Pure VNCH vibes. She may have grown up like that in her family, but even here the general community is super southern.
There was a lot of people from the North who moved down South after 1954 to escape the Viet Minh. These were ex French colonial government officials or French collaborators who feared persecutions and who were mostly Christians. They later occupied many important positions within the VNCH government. I think you're partly right, the community is more southern than North but the there is a mixed of culture. For example Pho was a northern dish that was brought to the South. In the video, banh cuon and bun dau mam tom are both very northern dishes.
@@richbrook101 She said she grew up thinking Ho Chi Minh was revolutionialist so her Dad is definitely not a 1954 Northerner. After Saigon fell, the UN accepted all Vietnamese refugees, Southerners left for political reason but Northerners (majority were from Hai Phong) left for economic reason. But the Hai Phong population is small, they dont build Viet towns like Southerners.
The 1954 Northerner folks migrated South for religious reason and did join the Republic of Vietnam fighting the Socialist North.
I would say that if you ever get the chance to visit Central and Eastern Europe, you are more likely to encounter Vietnamese people with Northern roots than those with Southern roots. Western Europe is different though since, just like USA, Canada, and Australia, most Vietnamese have Southern roots (especially in France, which still has the biggest VN community in Europe. The UK, from my personal experience, is the outlier in Western Europe though since most Vietnamese there lately have been of Northern VN origin).
Real Gold Does Not Fear the Fire ! (Vietnamese proverb) 💙 from France
i loved this cultural insight guys! already digging this series sm 😍😍
Canadian, Chinese-Vietnamese checking in. Dope narrative. 100x likes.
Thank you Elizabeth Tran for schooling the children on the OG ABG ways!
Really love this concept, though it was hard to hear everyone.
To see this video and also get Nguyen Coffee Supply ads, making me feel pretty proud
Took my 23andme test, I am 20 percent Vietnamese! Also that food looks amazing, we don't have anything like that here it's mostly just Pho joints here. Occasionally I'll have the Bahn Xeo. Most of these dishes I have never heard of or seen and damn it's making me hungry.
so important, so timely, so thrilling, Thank you very much.
Well done video! Much love!
Not asian at all...but this is dope!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fung Bros fan from Houston, Texas is here repping for Vietnamese Houstonians.
LOL at the chick in the white at the very getting turned on by the dudes 401k and investments.
Vietnamese food is my favorite. Healthy and refreshing.
That talk-eat-thing is a great segment, imo!
the foods you will find anywhere here in Texas
Even though I’m half Asian and kinda relate to some of the topics you said.. this was great content keep up the hard work..
Hit up Tan Tan every occasion. Someone coming to town, your friend got engaged, a wild night out,...
Girlfriend needs to learn to use chopsticks. She's holding it like a haole.
George Rought Haole, lol, chopsticks were never a Hawaiian thing.
@@kauthara9307 Haole doesn’t mean Hawaiian….
I’m looking forward to future generations of what us Vietnamese Americans are going to accomplish!!
"Yale and Jail."
Vietnamese are the Irish of Asia.
I am Irish guess ye won't be doing that culture 😔
I will keep supporting and sharing yere videos though 👍💕
Keep up the awesome work love from 🇮🇪☘️😘
dislike the fact a lot of vietnamese people can say they look down on cambodian(khmer) people but all of south vietnam especially in the country side like bac lieu and soc trang, ben tre, vinh long just to name a few(all of the southern cities) are full of khmer communities, no country is superior then the other. anywho, i do love vietnamese food also khmer, lao, and thai.. chinese food.
@Paula Thach Viets look down on Khmers because Khmers are lazy af
成達陳 there’s lazy af people from all over the world, I guess small minds aren’t open minded
Does it occurs in the South? I was born and grew up in the North and I have never seen it :/
BChow yes, tons of Cambodian people live in the south. I went to visit both my parents family in S. Vietnam and a lot of my younger cousins live and work all over, a few of them even married to Chinese men speaking Khmer, Vietnamese and Chinese. One moved to New Zealand, another to Australia. If you traveled to Bac Lieu Vietnam from HCM city during the car ride and ferry boat to and from, you’ll notice many Khmer temples in the cities going further south.
@@paulathach1725 that sounds nice . I was in Saigon for 4 days as a kid , looking forward to visiting Middle and South vn! I don't like it when Kinh folks look down on other ethnic groups, but with internet access nowadays, I believe things will get better.
Htown holding it down! Thanks fung bros!
Love the idea of this series. I do have some notes though. Wish it was a bit more structured as it just felt a little scattered which is okay as it feels natural, i suppose. Also, particularly with this being a Vietnamese episode and the kickoff of the series, i really wish you would have filmed in Little Saigon in Westminster. I feel like there are a lot of different opinions on Vietnamese culture and history and the community is so large there, it would have been great to see. The food here did not seem representative of the Vietnamese food I grew up with, which honestly was a tad disappointing for me. Perhaps you guys were going for a different vibe with this series in terms of food and guests? More fusion, 90s vibe? As an ethnically Vietnamese-American person who grew up with largely Vietnamese cultural ideals, food, etc, I didnt particularly feel represented by the topics or food brought up in this video. Anyways, still like the idea of this series and look forward to watching the next episodes.
Speak your truth. Stand up and be represented! Somehow they found a "Viet" restaurant where they had to keep the camera close in because you'd see the hipsters otherwise! You guys are better than this, Fung Bros.
how is this fusion ? I was born and grew up in Vietnam and these food are very Viet imo
@@bchow6504 I've eaten many of these foods too. And you are right in that its not all fusion. However, the xoi man with pate is not something i've ever seen as traditional Viet food. Also a few of these dishes were heavily Chinese influenced as with the banh bot chien and banh cuon (which they did mention). To me, there are so many other Vietnamese dishes that represent our cuisine and these are honestly not what I grew up eating at all. Perhaps its regional? Either way, I was let down a bit by the selection.
@@CassieQuach. i was a bit surprised when they put mam Tom on the menu. I thought :"this is as Viet as it gets" lol. Now I am curious about the food you mentioned.
Great format.
Appreciate this video...low key wish I was able to jump in the convo lol
I love you Nat Nise!
Do you have a Boyfriend? If not I would like to be your Man!
Bomb content. Keep it up
Vietnamese American here....commenting from Saigon. How and where do I even start? Vietnamese people are a completely lost race. The white worship, status whores, collective thinking, no individual thought, etc, etc...is alive and kicking here in the homeland and when I am in the US, I see the majority of my Vietnamese people being the same exact way. It's all great and dandy to speak about the food and culture, like there are no issues but let's have some real honest talk. There are endless issues with the Vietnamese people and culture. And mentioning that train wreck white worshipper 'Tila “Tequila” Nguyen' and not even addressing that HUGE identity issue that so so many Vietnamese westerners go through was weak and a huge missed opportunity. Again...I respect what you guys do but you constantly stay in the safe zone.
these guests were very smart + insightful! and not performative, at all. just honest/authentic takes.
Very interesting and open discussions of Vietnamese culture and perspectives.
Love it!!!!
I can definitely relate with growing up in a greenhouse.
They should upload their 23andMe results to Wegene. Wegene is a Chinese based DNA company (the 23andME of Asia), and it is specifically for people who have Asian ancestry. They might find out that they have other Asian ethnicites other than what 23andME reports. I found out that my mom and me are predominately (Malay-Indonesian/Filipino i.e. Gaoshan-Austronesian descent), and that she and me also have Vietnamese and Cambodian ancestry, as well as South Asian ancestry. Majority of those Asian ethnicities reported on mom's and mine Wegene profile (with the exception of the South Asian DNA and Filipino/Austronesian DNA) was not detected by 23andMe. Remember, 23andME and Ancestry.com only reads your DNA at 600,000 positions (0.02% of your DNA) which is not a lot since your DNA is composed of 6,000,000,000 positions in ur genome.
You do more movies like Gran Torino and southeast Asians will get the shout out they need.
I don't know why but I feel like blinking a lot.
Viets are stereoyped as gangsters here in Canada
So dope to see the Fung Bro's content evolve. So much depth to these types of videos while maintaining their entertaining and comedic brand. It reminds me of Chappelle's latest drop, 8:46, in a way. These videos deserve way more exposure. You can tell how much thought went into this series. Big ups!