It’s just a stereotype, in Russia legal drinking age is 18, and parents normally don’t casually give alcohol to their kids like they serve wine to kids in France.
That part is bullshit, like all the other points he made. He's just a tourist passing through. I've lived in Vietnam 14 years with a wife and kids. Know 100's of Vnese families. Most Vnese don't start drinking till late teens, like most kids around the world.
To the people shocked by the drinking age thing, the most effective form of encouraging abstinence from substances is by teaching your children right from wrong, not by banning or age restricting the substance.
Exactly! When I came to America and my American friends would make such a big deal when they turned 21 and they would party all night long. I was like dang desperate much?!?
Correction: The reason you don't see a lot of traffic lights is that you're staying in the Old Quarter. This area is filled with short and narrow streets; installing traffic lights at these intersections would create traffic jams, so it doesn't make sense to do that. However, if you travel to other areas, you will find a lot of traffic lights.
Hi my friend, as in your video, communal water pipe is popular among northern community in the north of Vietnam. We call it "Ống điếu" which is an instrument for smoking a special kind of tobacco in Vietnam. Some foreigners thought that Vietnamese was using drug as they saw it for the first time but actually they are smoking tobacco. Thanks
I was in Vietnam almost 10 years ago and was shocked at not only the lack of traffic lights but also the lack of traffic accidents that I had assumed would’ve been the result of having no traffic lights 😅
When majority of people aren’t in cars they can’t text and drive and neglect the road like they do in America lol if you goto Caribbean it’s the same deal no light maybe a stop sign here or there 😅
@@AaIsForAaliyas as an American citizen I do know. Leave your porch and head to any major city and you’ll find an abundance of drivers breaking the law without any repercussion.
@@psylentsage you act as if America has the worst drivers... like, every major city is riddled with drivers itching to break the law. Sure people are on their phones, hell, maybe driving without a license I'd even go as far as saying driving with expired tags. So what, that doesn't mean we have the worst drivers. Not even close to the worst. I live in Egypt and it's outright bad compared to the US.
I lived and worked in Saigon AND Hanoi, love them both in dfferent, the whole country is awesome, cheap, great people, food, drinks, things to look at history, I love Vietnam
the area you stayed is for tourists, it’s old quarter which built 100 years ago. The minimum for drinks is controlled by parents mostly. In Vietnam sometime you see kid goes to buy alcohol for parents, doesn’t mean the kid bought for himself.
@@fluffytran952 the seller don't fucking care, if you want to buy it, they sell it. And kids here don't tend to try drinking beer before their age anyway. They don't see it as cool, rebellious act since it such a normal thing.
@@fluffytran952 as a Vietnamese i never heard of a law banning vendors from selling alcohol to minors. And even if it does exit, pretty sure nobody know.
I used to go to the gas station with a note and get my mom cigarettes at like eight years old and i was terrified. He would ask me a question and I’d be like I don’t know read the note that’s the cigarettes I’m supposed to get here is the money and I was supposed to get this much change back.
Okay. I dont know the ins and outs of the law. I am not Vietnamease but you are not allowed to sell alcohol to minors. Drinking with family is different I assume in the same way the legal drinking age in the UK is 5
@@judytooley5999 not everyone shares the same taste such as you, they don't even care what you think about them, their culture and food they eat, you do you.
@@RyanSantos-cn5ij I will ! Just like I don’t care about what you think either! Thinking about them eating dogs and cats disgust me! It is inhumane! So go ahead and go to their “invitation” for “ dinner” if that’s your thing! You do you!
@@judytooley5999 not everyone one here that live in Vietnam eat dogs and cats dude, majority of Vietnamese people stop eating dogs and cats. The Korean also eat dogs and cats too dude.
@@judytooley5999 If pigs are normal pet for people you would probably think it’s inhumane to eat them, grow up, that’s how nature work, stronger eat weaker, and you have zero right saying a culture’s food disgusting, you probably eat meat too so just accept it.
Here in Nigeria, official drinking age is 18 but I've seen 8 year olds drink beer. I used to take a shot of gin once a week when I was a kid too... It was mandatory and it was the best day of the week for me.
@@DutchmanAmsterdam I dunno... It wasn't forced tho, I used to look forward to it. Till this day, I can't figure out why, but it was just a thing in my house.
In most Asian countries, children drinking alcohol is not a big problem. Most children don't like the taste of alcohol. On the other hand, Smoking is a big problem. ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
Most children in the west don't like the taste of alcohol either, it takes some time, and multiple drinks, to get used to it. In the UK the usual stepping-stone to beer is sweet cider, then dry cider, before transitioning to beer, and for wine it a sweetish wine such as Reisling.
I think you can only see smoking pipes regularly in Northern Vietnam cause as an Southern Vietnamese, I have never seen them anywhere although I do travel around many Southern and Central provinces
@@t-rexs232 it's called Thuốc Lào aka Nicotiana rustica (scientific name). That weed contains the highest nicotin amount. 💀 If you are not used to it, you will be passed out 🤭
The minimum drinking age here is 18 but secondary students here drink it like its water, they even use it for mouth wash 😅, And those pipes really is everywhere almost every household has that pipe😂
Lights and signs are purely for decorative purposes 😅 same in Thailand, yellow means hurry up, that's the only one that has a real meaning for people 😅
Q: What does a solid double line in the road mean? England: Do not overtake Scotland: Do not overtake Northern Ireland: Do not overtake Wales: A challenge
1. That water pipe only popular in the Northern of Vietnam. 2. We have a lot of traffic lights. 3. Fact 4. Only adults over 18 can drink legally in our country.
@@no-repliesIt should all be legal and let the problem sort itself out. You want to be a dope fiend? Fucking go for it. It's not my place to tell another adult what they can or can not do in their free time, nor is it the place of anybody to tell me what I can or can not put into my body. Liberals are just authoritarians these days and it's disgusting.
The folks who live around that area and use the pipe all have the same microbiom. The tourist was never exposed to that paticular bacteria his entire life and got an infection. The folks who live there have come in contact with that baticular bacteria their entire lives, before ever even using those pipes, and their immune systems just know how to fight off the bacteria before it leads to an infection. People who use hand sanitizers and lean towards the germ avoidance behavior are weaker and prone to getting sick more often.
@@jeffmonroe6317 exactly. I was born and raised in Bosnia, in south of Europe in the Balkans. When i was little, me and my buddies would to a sports courtyard, and played football and basketball. It was a concrete courtyard like those in the US behind buildings, when we got thirsty, we would send someone of us to go to the bathroom across the yard, and because we didnt have bottles, he would find one on the yard somewhere in the corner, flatenned plastic bottle who somebody discarded, and he would wash it and fill it up and bring it, all of us would drink from that bottle one after one, carefully monitoring how much buddy is drinking cuz we have our turns so we snatch it from him if he goes too much. Lol and we did it regularly like this. My country has alot of free drinking water public taps, in the residential areas, on the corners, in fields, basically wherever there is a spring people would utilize it for public consumption. We drank from all of those, playing outside all day, eating fruit from neighbors yards or abandoned places etc. I have never had a skin infection, a rash, an itch, no herpes whatsoever. And also my stomach is like from steel, never i had acid, or sick, even i ate food which was "bad" "rotten" by accident but nothing happened ever thanks to God Almighty. Cheers.
Your comment about 'nam sounds like what Mayorkas says when asked if our border is in crisis. "We're working hard every day to make it better", while the carnage continues.
While the US and Vietnam have a very positive relationship now, as an American who wants to visit Vietnam I'd still probably end up apologizing to every new person who I tell I'm American 😅. Even though neither me nor my parents were born during the Vietnam war. I'm just glad neither of us seem to hold grudges against one another. I just feel like we should have apologized better though...
In Vietnam they leave it to the parents to decide when they could drink alcohol. There is no age limit. Same thing goes for Cigarettes. Gambling is illegal though but can be played during TET aka Lunar New Year.
Love Asian customs. I spent a little over a year in Thailand (1972/73), and the average person was friendly, hard working, happy, and always caring for each other. 🙏
@@sargera1 no, more like rice moonshine *I mean they call it “rice WINE”, but it’s like ~50% abv, so it’s more a “spirit” than “wine”. Sake is completely different, even though both are produced using rice.. More accurately, you could compare it to “grain alcohol”
Malaysia... Red lights are optional, especially if you're on a motorbike. If the red light is at a pedestrian stop, it's to be ignored. Bonus points if you can wing some pedestrians.
@@sargera1 Yes, but the kids won't aspire to be drunk and drunk a second after their 18th birthday. Alcohol isn't anything special or dangerous if you learn to control it, and what can a kid do when he's first drunk? and an adult do ?
Sad story time: so when my grandma went to Vietnam to say for a couple months or maybe longer(years) so since there isn’t like the traffic things in Vietnam. My grandma was crossing the street and some guy was speeding and when my grandma was cross the guy who was speeding hit my grandma and my grandma sadly passed away but the guy didn’t.
As of November 2023, the legal drinking age in Vietnam is 18 years old. This applies to all aspects of drinking, including on-premise sales, off-premise sales, supply by a third party, and consumption.
Vietnam is a wonderful country to visit, so much rich ancient history as well as modern history. It's like walking around in a time capsule. As long as you are respectful, you will be treated extremely well.
Hanoi is a ancient city so traffic lights is kinda hard to deployed Because you'd need to destroy the pavement to install cables electricity wires for the traffic lights works especially in some ancient streets
My uncle was in Nam. He said they would sell him moped rides and tokens for the national zoo when he was in the city. When he was in the jungle he said they would eat soup and sing melodies while working the land. My uncle said that in Vietnam, airline pilots must pass a test before they’re given the keys to the jet airliner. One gentleman actually would go around and chop wood, for a nominal fee.
Water pipes that are not everywhere in Vietnam exist mostly in the northern parts of Viet Nam. This type of water bamboo pipe has been very popular in the North; it is cheap way to smoke Tabaco. Believe it or not, there was time that coffee was considered a luxury thing in the north, so they drank tea instead.
@@letuanlong2263 Hi Long, you probably are young. After the fall of Saigon, the Northern soldiers had been taught that the people in the South were poor and suppressed by the puppet government as they called it; so their mission was to liberate the South from it; however, they were totally surprised in contrast to what their beliefs. The northern soldiers had never seen what a cup of coffee looked like, they saw the people drank coffee in the morning and wanted to try "cái nồi ngồi trên cái cốc " (a pot sitting on a cup) as they called it which was the cup with the coffee filter.
@@saigonyeumen5207 sorry but you may come from south. We northern drink tea just we love tea. Just simple as that. Tea already became part of northern culture. Ppl have even rules how to make a tasty cup of tea. Tea has also become a part of the culinary culture of the northern people. In the North, there are also the largest tea hills in the country. I am a northerner and I always see in every northern family drinking more tea than coffee. In every northern family, there is also a set of tea cups and a tool to keep the teapot warm. Most of the time when guests come, we invite them to drink tea.
@@letuanlong2263 Coffee and tea have been cultivated plentiful in the south. We do enjoy tea also, as matter of fact I am a tea drinker. In 2005 I went to the North for charity work and stayed at one of the hotels near Sword Lake (Hồ Gươm), I woke up early in the next morning for a walk around the lake; when I walked out of the hotel and saw a middle aged couple with a charcoal stove and a big pot which I thought a pot of "Phở" , but there weren't any chairs or tables. With my curiosity, I walked closer and saw people carrying thermos and asked what they were buying and the response "boiling water for tea", I was a little bit surprised and continued to cross the street to the lake and there was an old lady with a large kettle of tea with 4 or 5 tiny cups on a tray and a middle aged man on a bicycle stopped by and purchased a cup of tea for 1000 đồng, after finishing his tea, he put the empty cup on the tray and on his way. The point I made early was coffee was once considered a luxury item in the north. Find someone who is in 70's or older and asked about life of the north before 1975, hopefully they tell you the truth. Some things that you may not know, right at Ha Noi, many family didn't have toilets that you know now, they went into a pot/bucket and there were people went around the neighborhoods to collect the waste, they called "phân tươi"- (fresh dump/shit) each day to fertilize the crops. I have a friend she lived in Bắc Giang and told me it was in the mid 80's there was soldier came back from the South with an old motorcycle, the whole village came out to see what it looked like. You will be amazed how much younger generations don't know and misinformed .
@@saigonyeumen5207 sorry but i completely disagree with you. Tea has played a big role in northern culture and the cradles of Vietnam's tea industry are located in the north. Tea plants prefer cool climates. Second, I see that you still bring political ideology into this story. sorry but a man like you is not qualified to talk about the issue of "truth" and life of northerners at that time. I am a northerner myself but my parents and grandparents generation went through northern life at that time. they are only living witnesses of life in the north at that time. Don't pretend to be condescending
In vietnam when you feel like you can drink, you drink. I went to grocery store to buy my parents beer when I was 8. Then I drink with them. Just a casual family dinner.
We know that, and he never said that. He stated simplify what surprised him, that's not ignorant for anyone who visits a new country, American or not. If a German went to the US they would state what surprised them too and as an American I wouldn't fine anything wrong with that.
@@porkchopspapi5757interestingly the exact center of the earth i believe is directly under the great pyramid in egypt, but cmon we all know where everyone in the world thinks it is since they all bitch about america but they all wanna be here dont they?
VND14,000 for a beer is about 85¢ here in Australia... where a can of beer is $4 minimum at the liquor store. But then again, I've found craft beers going for $1.70 stock clearance at some liquor stores, and they're still not expired.
Went to buy 3 beers in south east Sri Lanka at quite a major supermarket for Sri Lanka. Walked past a 13 year old girl in a white coat selling tamazepan over the counter but the alcohol was in one locked, windowless fridge, that only the manager had the keys for. Legit. Wild
I think it’s like the Russian *stereotype*
Eventually the parent just hands their kid a bottle and goes “here, drink”
It’s just a stereotype, in Russia legal drinking age is 18, and parents normally don’t casually give alcohol to their kids like they serve wine to kids in France.
@@Faceless166 yeah I understand it’s a stereotype
Stereotyping can be fun, as long as it's with a smile all is great, I'm from Denmark, what does people in your countries say about us?
As a Vietnamese, I approve this comment as I saw so many kids get persuaded to have alcohol by their own parents
That part is bullshit, like all the other points he made. He's just a tourist passing through. I've lived in Vietnam 14 years with a wife and kids. Know 100's of Vnese families. Most Vnese don't start drinking till late teens, like most kids around the world.
Dear Americans,
Every country in the world doesn't have to abide by your norms.
They’re superior so we hope you wisen up 🤠🇺🇸
@@JavaoftheLava 😂
He never said they had to lol
@@JavaoftheLava 😂 and we're becoming a third world country so you should go to Canada before a revolution happens again
@@JavaoftheLava yeah?😂
To the people shocked by the drinking age thing, the most effective form of encouraging abstinence from substances is by teaching your children right from wrong, not by banning or age restricting the substance.
you are right, the more it get banned, more it will be desired
Nobody Dell Alkohol for a kid but when a Teenager want that and die then so it be …
Correct! if you grow up around it not being a big deal then you won't unnecessary pursue it when you are older.
Exactly! When I came to America and my American friends would make such a big deal when they turned 21 and they would party all night long. I was like dang desperate much?!?
Right? If we legalized it tomorrow I'm not worried about my 14 year old running out and buying some.
Correction: The reason you don't see a lot of traffic lights is that you're staying in the Old Quarter. This area is filled with short and narrow streets; installing traffic lights at these intersections would create traffic jams, so it doesn't make sense to do that. However, if you travel to other areas, you will find a lot of traffic lights.
Thank you for the correction.
Americans like to lie and exaggerate to make them feel better about themselves. They even do it with each other.
Thanks l would have gone on wondering
green = go
yellow = go faster
red = still go
Hi my friend, as in your video, communal water pipe is popular among northern community in the north of Vietnam. We call it "Ống điếu" which is an instrument for smoking a special kind of tobacco in Vietnam. Some foreigners thought that Vietnamese was using drug as they saw it for the first time but actually they are smoking tobacco. Thanks
Foreigners probably thought it was a bong for smoking weed 😅
@@DomTaylor.I def did watching it at first an especially when he said super strong tobacco lolll
devil's lettuce
@@DomTaylor. 😆
@@vincentherman468 no, it is not. You can try as long as you travel to Vietnam, my friend.
I was in Vietnam almost 10 years ago and was shocked at not only the lack of traffic lights but also the lack of traffic accidents that I had assumed would’ve been the result of having no traffic lights 😅
When majority of people aren’t in cars they can’t text and drive and neglect the road like they do in America lol if you goto Caribbean it’s the same deal no light maybe a stop sign here or there 😅
Cause they don’t have all these karens starting crap
@@psylentsage you can't text n drive in America. It's illegal, something you probably didn't know.
@@AaIsForAaliyas as an American citizen I do know. Leave your porch and head to any major city and you’ll find an abundance of drivers breaking the law without any repercussion.
@@psylentsage you act as if America has the worst drivers... like, every major city is riddled with drivers itching to break the law. Sure people are on their phones, hell, maybe driving without a license I'd even go as far as saying driving with expired tags. So what, that doesn't mean we have the worst drivers. Not even close to the worst. I live in Egypt and it's outright bad compared to the US.
I lived and worked in Saigon AND Hanoi, love them both in dfferent, the whole country is awesome, cheap, great people, food, drinks, things to look at history, I love Vietnam
them "water pipes" look like RPG-7 tubes. 😂😂😂
the area you stayed is for tourists, it’s old quarter which built 100 years ago. The minimum for drinks is controlled by parents mostly. In Vietnam sometime you see kid goes to buy alcohol for parents, doesn’t mean the kid bought for himself.
🤣🤣🤣who knows whether “…the kid bought for himself” or not?!?! and who allowed vendors selling alcohol to minors? 🤷♀️
@@fluffytran952 the seller don't fucking care, if you want to buy it, they sell it. And kids here don't tend to try drinking beer before their age anyway. They don't see it as cool, rebellious act since it such a normal thing.
@@fluffytran952 as a Vietnamese i never heard of a law banning vendors from selling alcohol to minors. And even if it does exit, pretty sure nobody know.
The Old Quarter has been existed since XII, XIII century.
I used to go to the gas station with a note and get my mom cigarettes at like eight years old and i was terrified. He would ask me a question and I’d be like I don’t know read the note that’s the cigarettes I’m supposed to get here is the money and I was supposed to get this much change back.
Vietnams official drinking age is 18
Who cares!!!
If your friend and family drink and you want to drink. Just drink!
If you dont want to drink, just dont!
Hey
Thats false
Not true, if kids can ride a motorbike at 10 without adult, what make you think the drinking age is 18?
Okay. I dont know the ins and outs of the law. I am not Vietnamease but you are not allowed to sell alcohol to minors. Drinking with family is different I assume in the same way the legal drinking age in the UK is 5
If you think it's a shock now you should have seen it in color at the age of 19 in 1969
Amen Brother
Proper post.
TET-68! I was asked once if I ever been to Ho Chi MIn City? I said know but I always wanted to go to Saigon.
Amen bro 67-68 had multi colors especially Red. Semper Fi.
Bien Hoa 68-69@@GeorgeSemel
Something that shocked me in vietnam is people just randomly asleep everywhere
Vietnam does have a legal drinking age which is 18, but they don't enforce the law that seriously.
Vietnam is beautiful and have very cheap and delicious meals
Yes … if you don’t mind eating rotten raw fish and dead animals like dogs and cats, etc! Nasty!
@@judytooley5999 not everyone shares the same taste such as you, they don't even care what you think about them, their culture and food they eat, you do you.
@@RyanSantos-cn5ij
I will ! Just like I don’t care about what you think either! Thinking about them eating dogs and cats disgust me!
It is inhumane! So go ahead and go to their “invitation” for “ dinner” if that’s your thing! You do you!
@@judytooley5999 not everyone one here that live in Vietnam eat dogs and cats dude, majority of Vietnamese people stop eating dogs and cats.
The Korean also eat dogs and cats too dude.
@@judytooley5999 If pigs are normal pet for people you would probably think it’s inhumane to eat them, grow up, that’s how nature work, stronger eat weaker, and you have zero right saying a culture’s food disgusting, you probably eat meat too so just accept it.
As a Vietnamese, i can confirm that we do have a drinking age which is 18 and that you are just exploring a part of vietnam that has smoking gears
Hi
Driving in the Philippines is crazy, and if you ever shop at a "wet" market- stay away from the dry fish vendors lol 😅
Explain
Here in Nigeria, official drinking age is 18 but I've seen 8 year olds drink beer.
I used to take a shot of gin once a week when I was a kid too... It was mandatory and it was the best day of the week for me.
I read that the gin is often sold in small packets... like ketchup packets. Especially in poorer suburbs.
@Voltaron: You can thank the Imperialists for that childhood memory.
Why did they force kids the weekly shot of gin?
@@DutchmanAmsterdam I dunno... It wasn't forced tho, I used to look forward to it. Till this day, I can't figure out why, but it was just a thing in my house.
@@LouBasques1423 what imperialists?
It's the same in India for traffic signals and sidewalks.
And animals ramp walk in middle of Road
Liar
True
@@01124 atleast gunmen don't ramp here 😂😂
Who ask?
Vietnamese and Filipinos relate well with each other...
At least the latter has more organized traffic and isn’t a free-for-all like the former.
Traffic seems very similar
In most Asian countries, children drinking alcohol is not a big problem. Most children don't like the taste of alcohol.
On the other hand, Smoking is a big problem.
❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
Most children in the west don't like the taste of alcohol either, it takes some time, and multiple drinks, to get used to it. In the UK the usual stepping-stone to beer is sweet cider, then dry cider, before transitioning to beer, and for wine it a sweetish wine such as Reisling.
I think you can only see smoking pipes regularly in Northern Vietnam cause as an Southern Vietnamese, I have never seen them anywhere although I do travel around many Southern and Central provinces
What they smoke that they getting high? I watch many videos they smoke something but I don't know what is that.
@@t-rexs232 it's called Thuốc Lào aka Nicotiana rustica (scientific name). That weed contains the highest nicotin amount. 💀 If you are not used to it, you will be passed out 🤭
@@TamHuynh-dp8nw It’s not weed, just tobacco/nicotine
@@t-rexs232 Nah
@@rooknado k
The minimum drinking age here is 18 but secondary students here drink it like its water, they even use it for mouth wash 😅, And those pipes really is everywhere almost every household has that pipe😂
As a Vietnamese, I agree🙃💀
Sounds like Russian to me 💀
That kind of traffic is the meaning of perfection, such perfection is still too much for us to achieve.
Now I wanna go an live there. They speak my language.
You don't speak theirs though. Big problem.
Lights and signs are purely for decorative purposes 😅 same in Thailand, yellow means hurry up, that's the only one that has a real meaning for people 😅
Q: What does a solid double line in the road mean?
England: Do not overtake
Scotland: Do not overtake
Northern Ireland: Do not overtake
Wales: A challenge
Same here in Miami. It's a free for all.
1. That water pipe only popular in the Northern of Vietnam.
2. We have a lot of traffic lights.
3. Fact
4. Only adults over 18 can drink legally in our country.
Mean while, a senior and retired man is required show an ID to the clerk in order to purchase a can of beer and a box of cigarettes in the USA
That shit should be illegal anyway. Poison.
@@no-replies Brookie.
@@brandonsteele9716 what does believing that cigarettes and alcohol are bad for you have to do with being broke 😂?
@@no-repliesIt should all be legal and let the problem sort itself out.
You want to be a dope fiend? Fucking go for it.
It's not my place to tell another adult what they can or can not do in their free time, nor is it the place of anybody to tell me what I can or can not put into my body.
Liberals are just authoritarians these days and it's disgusting.
Land of the free
Don't share that water pipe smoking thing with stranger. My buddy visited Vietnam, and tried that thing out then got mouth infection. 😂
The folks who live around that area and use the pipe all have the same microbiom. The tourist was never exposed to that paticular bacteria his entire life and got an infection. The folks who live there have come in contact with that baticular bacteria their entire lives, before ever even using those pipes, and their immune systems just know how to fight off the bacteria before it leads to an infection.
People who use hand sanitizers and lean towards the germ avoidance behavior are weaker and prone to getting sick more often.
@@jeffmonroe6317 exactly. I was born and raised in Bosnia, in south of Europe in the Balkans. When i was little, me and my buddies would to a sports courtyard, and played football and basketball. It was a concrete courtyard like those in the US behind buildings, when we got thirsty, we would send someone of us to go to the bathroom across the yard, and because we didnt have bottles, he would find one on the yard somewhere in the corner, flatenned plastic bottle who somebody discarded, and he would wash it and fill it up and bring it, all of us would drink from that bottle one after one, carefully monitoring how much buddy is drinking cuz we have our turns so we snatch it from him if he goes too much. Lol and we did it regularly like this. My country has alot of free drinking water public taps, in the residential areas, on the corners, in fields, basically wherever there is a spring people would utilize it for public consumption. We drank from all of those, playing outside all day, eating fruit from neighbors yards or abandoned places etc. I have never had a skin infection, a rash, an itch, no herpes whatsoever. And also my stomach is like from steel, never i had acid, or sick, even i ate food which was "bad" "rotten" by accident but nothing happened ever thanks to God Almighty. Cheers.
@@jeffmonroe6317That is not true you will just get sick stronger
@@jeffmonroe6317Wash your hands
@@Granad784 Go get more vaccines.
Vietnam is trying its best to improve everyday
So, we should be like them. Looks like a utopia, right? Might want to dig a little deeper.
vietnam is already good. nice country tbh
No need we asians are one
Your comment about 'nam sounds like what Mayorkas says when asked if our border is in crisis. "We're working hard every day to make it better", while the carnage continues.
@@mocha19 And, you're counting Russians too, right?
One of my favorite countries!
"Things that shocked me in Nom" the talking trees
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While the US and Vietnam have a very positive relationship now, as an American who wants to visit Vietnam I'd still probably end up apologizing to every new person who I tell I'm American 😅.
Even though neither me nor my parents were born during the Vietnam war.
I'm just glad neither of us seem to hold grudges against one another. I just feel like we
should have apologized better though...
It's never too late
No need to feel bad or apologise at all mate.
this is not entire Viet Nam , this is northside traditional
In Vietnam they leave it to the parents to decide when they could drink alcohol. There is no age limit. Same thing goes for Cigarettes. Gambling is illegal though but can be played during TET aka Lunar New Year.
The legal drinking age in Vietnam is 18.
Fun fact: Bongs are based on the Vietnamese water pipe.
Love Asian customs. I spent a little over a year in Thailand (1972/73), and the average person was friendly, hard working, happy, and always caring for each other. 🙏
"Why did you lose in Vietnam, Baguette? "
"They have too many Bazooka"
"You mean water pipe? "
We didn't lose we pulled out.
@@genewilkerson8528 yea yea,
"JFK wasn't assassinated, he was just got shot in the head "🎉
@@genewilkerson8528 bro pulled the "nuh uh"
For the last fact I want to go to Vietnam plus my family is planning on it
I wanna go to Vietnam to capture old bombs to sell to Somalia in exchange for anti diarrhea meds.
Going to Bars at 12 was the highlight of my childhood. Nothing like American Bars, made great friends there.
Drink and smoke are cheap
But cars and milk are expensive.
I used to buy alcohol at 12-14 lol just say it was for my dad and theyd give it
As a Vietnamese person this is actually really normal and kids older then 5 can drink when a parent is near or around
What ta hel
well it is true thro xD
It is not true. He is joking :v
@@kohakuteam8881 it is xD
i got beer at 7 and even some champage at 9
@@duyquang3589 LoL
That intersection was crazy.
Dude VIETNAM SOUNDS AWESOME IM ON MY WAY !!!
I remember you could give a 2-3 yo a dollar and they bring you a 2L of luday (distilled rice wine).
like a cheap sake ?
@@sargera1 no, more like rice moonshine
*I mean they call it “rice WINE”, but it’s like ~50% abv, so it’s more a “spirit” than “wine”. Sake is completely different, even though both are produced using rice.. More accurately, you could compare it to “grain alcohol”
Been there. Super love it!
Looks like real freedom!!!
Indeed.
Respect the culture
"no traffic lights, it's sort of a free-for-all" meanwhile India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines:
In Japan, there are crosswalks and traffic lights at almost every street corner.
Malaysia... Red lights are optional, especially if you're on a motorbike.
If the red light is at a pedestrian stop, it's to be ignored. Bonus points if you can wing some pedestrians.
Yes, “Tobacco” 😂
I think it is though?
We call it điếu cầy
@@unfrendlyanimation very interesting; where I am from we just call it; “that good shit”
@@ZESAUCEBOSS Hahahaha....
Can relate
@Troy Nope. Cannabis is consumed a lot here in Vietnam. Quality is not excellent however.
Some cultures just have way more parental influence, and most kids will naturally wanna emulate good parents
It is shocking that in Vietnam they don’t seem to hate Americans.
Because they aren’t brainwashed to hate progressive western counties like Russians are
True
Oh they do but they're polite cultural people
@@DragoKovac-dr2cfdont speak for a whole country
They hate China because of the Paracel islands dispute.
My first beer was at 8 years old, if you can do it at 7-8 years old.
You go and drink away.
I literally had my first beer at 1 year I don't think I should you should drink at an early age
@@tcg6273 at that age you prob think
day did i drink my own pee?
@@sargera1 Yes, but the kids won't aspire to be drunk and drunk a second after their 18th birthday. Alcohol isn't anything special or dangerous if you learn to control it, and what can a kid do when he's first drunk? and an adult do ?
Sad story time: so when my grandma went to Vietnam to say for a couple months or maybe longer(years) so since there isn’t like the traffic things in Vietnam. My grandma was crossing the street and some guy was speeding and when my grandma was cross the guy who was speeding hit my grandma and my grandma sadly passed away but the guy didn’t.
LMAO THATS THE FUNNIEST STORY I HAVE EVER HEARD
@@Loser_LBozo OMG THANK U????
@@awanda_dn9192 YAS GIRL
@@Loser_LBozo PLEASE IM DYING😭😭😭
@@awanda_dn9192 *cough *cough* literally
As of November 2023, the legal drinking age in Vietnam is 18 years old. This applies to all aspects of drinking, including on-premise sales, off-premise sales, supply by a third party, and consumption.
Vietnam is a wonderful country to visit, so much rich ancient history as well as modern history. It's like walking around in a time capsule. As long as you are respectful, you will be treated extremely well.
If you're tall enough to reach the counter and have money to pay, you can buy alcohol in Vietnam
Sounds like the Reynosa, Mexico of my youth.
The MOST freedom country in the world !!! You could smoke even in a hospital ...
Yet this country is communist and still is but with capitalism
Hanoi is a ancient city so traffic lights is kinda hard to deployed
Because you'd need to destroy the pavement to install cables electricity wires for the traffic lights works especially in some ancient streets
Yea, in Vietnam just go in the store and grab the beer to pay
Even the kid can buy, if they got ask, they will answer "I buy for my dad"
Well, when you have a banquet, and your relatives tell you that you can drink, you can drink.
That country is awesome for warm water and high winds
If you don’t see it in your country that doesn’t mean one is better than the other, adopt and embrace their way of living,, that’s theirs
I never heard him say one was better than another, only that he was shocked. Stop projecting your own issues onto him
If ur in the road in vietnam ur main goal is to NOT die
Lol.
I'm from VietNam.Tôi yêu Việt Nam
It's one of my favorite countries. ❤❤
My uncle was in Nam. He said they would sell him moped rides and tokens for the national zoo when he was in the city. When he was in the jungle he said they would eat soup and sing melodies while working the land. My uncle said that in Vietnam, airline pilots must pass a test before they’re given the keys to the jet airliner. One gentleman actually would go around and chop wood, for a nominal fee.
That pipe is actually for smoking weed than tobacco. 😂
You are underestimating the power of 90% tobacco's nicotine in one gulp. Normal cigarettes only get you minimal nicotine gradually.
As a vietnamese this is all true
The water pipe hits different. I hit one with some locals one time and I tried to stand up after and immediately fell back into my seat 😂
Water pipes that are not everywhere in Vietnam exist mostly in the northern parts of Viet Nam. This type of water bamboo pipe has been very popular in the North; it is cheap way to smoke Tabaco. Believe it or not, there was time that coffee was considered a luxury thing in the north, so they drank tea instead.
Where did u get information that northern people have to drink tea instead because coffee was expensive. It sounds weird lol
@@letuanlong2263 Hi Long, you probably are young. After the fall of Saigon, the Northern soldiers had been taught that the people in the South were poor and suppressed by the puppet government as they called it; so their mission was to liberate the South from it; however, they were totally surprised in contrast to what their beliefs. The northern soldiers had never seen what a cup of coffee looked like, they saw the people drank coffee in the morning and wanted to try "cái nồi ngồi trên cái cốc " (a pot sitting on a cup) as they called it which was the cup with the coffee filter.
@@saigonyeumen5207 sorry but you may come from south. We northern drink tea just we love tea. Just simple as that. Tea already became part of northern culture. Ppl have even rules how to make a tasty cup of tea. Tea has also become a part of the culinary culture of the northern people. In the North, there are also the largest tea hills in the country. I am a northerner and I always see in every northern family drinking more tea than coffee. In every northern family, there is also a set of tea cups and a tool to keep the teapot warm. Most of the time when guests come, we invite them to drink tea.
@@letuanlong2263 Coffee and tea have been cultivated plentiful in the south. We do enjoy tea also, as matter of fact I am a tea drinker. In 2005 I went to the North for charity work and stayed at one of the hotels near Sword Lake (Hồ Gươm), I woke up early in the next morning for a walk around the lake; when I walked out of the hotel and saw a middle aged couple with a charcoal stove and a big pot which I thought a pot of "Phở" , but there weren't any chairs or tables. With my curiosity, I walked closer and saw people carrying thermos and asked what they were buying and the response "boiling water for tea", I was a little bit surprised and continued to cross the street to the lake and there was an old lady with a large kettle of tea with 4 or 5 tiny cups on a tray and a middle aged man on a bicycle stopped by and purchased a cup of tea for 1000 đồng, after finishing his tea, he put the empty cup on the tray and on his way. The point I made early was coffee was once considered a luxury item in the north. Find someone who is in 70's or older and asked about life of the north before 1975, hopefully they tell you the truth. Some things that you may not know, right at Ha Noi, many family didn't have toilets that you know now, they went into a pot/bucket and there were people went around the neighborhoods to collect the waste, they called "phân tươi"- (fresh dump/shit) each day to fertilize the crops. I have a friend she lived in Bắc Giang and told me it was in the mid 80's there was soldier came back from the South with an old motorcycle, the whole village came out to see what it looked like. You will be amazed how much younger generations don't know and misinformed .
@@saigonyeumen5207 sorry but i completely disagree with you. Tea has played a big role in northern culture and the cradles of Vietnam's tea industry are located in the north. Tea plants prefer cool climates. Second, I see that you still bring political ideology into this story. sorry but a man like you is not qualified to talk about the issue of "truth" and life of northerners at that time. I am a northerner myself but my parents and grandparents generation went through northern life at that time. they are only living witnesses of life in the north at that time. Don't pretend to be condescending
Tom, you gotta make a vid taking a giant haul off the communal tobacco bong. LFG! 💪
One of my secret desires has always been to visit Vietnam or live there
That drinking age should be universal
Love Vietnam!
So there is heaven on earth.
It’s Vietnam 🇻🇳 ❤🇨🇦
That's a good one. "Nah man it ain't weed, it's super strong tobacco."
The traffic intersection looks scary!
All your observations are bullshiet. You went to one square block of a random city and generalized the whole country.
It’s been about a decade since I visited, but I loved Vietnam.
My Dad went to Saigon on business trips 50 years ago .
He said the coffee and meals were excellent and the locals very polite .
RIP Daddy
🍃🕊🍃
In vietnam when you feel like you can drink, you drink. I went to grocery store to buy my parents beer when I was 8. Then I drink with them. Just a casual family dinner.
Dear americans,
America is not the center of the world.
We know that, and he never said that. He stated simplify what surprised him, that's not ignorant for anyone who visits a new country, American or not.
If a German went to the US they would state what surprised them too and as an American I wouldn't fine anything wrong with that.
No kidding! Too bad more 'muricans don't realise that sadly. It's mind-boggling
neither is the shithole you live in either, were just not arrogant douchebags about pointing out the obvious
oh, where then?
@@porkchopspapi5757interestingly the exact center of the earth i believe is directly under the great pyramid in egypt, but cmon we all know where everyone in the world thinks it is since they all bitch about america but they all wanna be here dont they?
I was told when I was in Vietnam if you park your scooter on the street it’s a $25 fine . So everyone parks on the sidewalk
Vietnam is on my bucket list
Vietnam is amazing. I went there and also had so many videos 😊 You just have to be careful crossing streets. Motorbikes are also careful
Now you know the real definition for being in paradise ❤
That traffic intersection is chaos 😳
I was in Vietnam and have a friend there, my shock is that I'm not shocked at all. Nice people where ever you go
They also have a great guitar factory IYV Guitars
VND14,000 for a beer is about 85¢ here in Australia... where a can of beer is $4 minimum at the liquor store.
But then again, I've found craft beers going for $1.70 stock clearance at some liquor stores, and they're still not expired.
I need to go to Vietnam.
Went to Vietnam 8 times in 10 years. Fucking love the place
That's the craziest intersection I have ever seen! I mean, in the 2 seconds of the clip, I seen 10 near mis crashes!!😅
they all sound great!
Went to buy 3 beers in south east Sri Lanka at quite a major supermarket for Sri Lanka. Walked past a 13 year old girl in a white coat selling tamazepan over the counter but the alcohol was in one locked, windowless fridge, that only the manager had the keys for. Legit. Wild
There is a whole world out there, and it has its own rules.
I lived in Saigon from 61-63. So interesting!
The 1st fact makes me feel right at home
Not a phone in sight just people living in the moment
I've been there. I have no idea how the lack of traffic lights work