😂 whenever I'm in a hurry for a quick meal I have a pack of noodles, you know, the crappy kind that costs 30-50 cents, however... I pre-crunch all noodle, still in packet, into rice size basically even b4 opening 😂😂 I'm always mentally suffering from the imagined upset screams in Italian and every asian language at my heretic behaviour. Anyway, then from freezer I grab a small portions of (cooked) meat I have frozen in small flat batches. So, dump the noodies, meat, included spice into piping hot water and just let it sit for 3-4 minutes. Depending on amount of meat you might want to stick it in the microwave a few secs to compensate for frozen meat stealing all heat.
As a northern European my mind was blown when I first tried Vietnamese food. I can eat it every single day and never get tired of the combination of veggies and spices. Loooooove it ❤
@@TheBarser Even Vietnamese people don't eat "Vietnamese food that foreigners have in mind" every day. For example, Pho, Banh Mi, Banh Xeo,... In our country, those dishes are mostly for breakfast, with some dishes that can be for dinner when the whole family wants to go out to eat. As for most of the meals we eat every day, obviously it has to be RICE. We eat rice like Germans eat Bread, lol.
@Airbone I am married to a vietnamese woman 🙂. I love her vietnamese food except a few dishes like fermented bamboo and other smelly or rubber textured food. My parents in law ear lots of seafood, and that can also be to much for me
@@Airbone I will never wrap my head about a warm AND salty breakfast. I mean eggs and bacon are kind of the exception, but that is just a side dish, for the rest of the cold breakfast.
If you want a crispy pancake, pour a little water after each pancake is done and wipe it off with a cloth. You can rub a half onion, you would get a crispy pancake. I am Indian, we have something called dosa, which is crispy, filled with spiced mashed potatoes. I never had a pancake before but yeah it looks similar. Hope this tip helps you! Love from India ❤
I'm glad you were honest about your energy level and took a rest after lunch 💕 Cooking is a lot of work! Especially the Pho! I love how you are both so supportive of each other 🥰
So, now you can have Pho and Vietnamese pancakes together, as well as German meatballs, mushroom sauce and apple strudle. If that isn't a full international meal, I don't know. I would love more videos of you cooking for each other. ❤❤
I saw on your 2023 recap video you said that your comment section is always positive with good vibes and I hope you know you and German BF created that environment it’s literally impossible to be or say anything negative after watching to people who obviously love and care about each other so much and are also just so authentic you create the vibe and positivity and it just spreads to us in the comment section and I hope you know that Cheers from the US ❤🎉
I get the feeling fish sauce is to the Vietnamese what Maggi is to the Germans. Just as I wrote this, German boyfriend pulled out the Maggi bottle XD I'm dead. I'm German, and I actually only eat savoury pancakes. I make them with grated carrot mixed into the batter, it makes them really fluffy, and then I eat them with a spicy zucchini and onion sauce and some cheese.
@@MJBpeace I don't really do it by receipe, I just sort of freestyle it, so I can't share any exact measurements. But generally I use either one egg per person or when it's for several people two eggs per three people. I grate about half a carrot per egg (depending on the size of the carrot, you kinda need to figure this out for yourself) and mix it with the egg. Then I mix in milk (only a little bit, the carrots already add moisture) and flour until I like the consistency. It should be a little thicker than normal pancake batter because of the carrots, but still liquidy enough that you can pour it. Then you just need to add some salt. For the sauce I just dice a small onion and about half a zucchini (of course use more if you're cooking for more people, this is for one person) and put the onion in a pan with some oil, let it get some colour, then add the zucchini, stir it every now and then for a while (sorry I can't be more specific, I don't time it), when it's almost done I like to add a bit of garlic. Then I add some cream into the pan, add salt, pepper, chili powder, other spices if I feel like it. When the cream is starting to reduce, take it off the stove. Then I make the pancake, just like a normal pancake. It might take a little longer, depending on how thick the batter is. I always flip it as soon as it's not liquid anymore, the other side won't take as long as the first. When it's done, put some cheese on it, put the sauce on top, fold it, enjoy! I don't always use zucchini, I often just use whatever vegetables I have left over, but I like zucchini the most, I think they work well with the carrots. You can also grate the zucchini and use it instead of the carrot. The zucchini pancake I like to eat with mushrooms, but you can pair it with whatever you like. Hope this was helpful, and please tell me how it turned out if you try it!
It really is, though. They're both used to add some umami and salt and general depth of flavor all at once. See also soy sauce for China and everyone with historical Chinese influence, including Korea and Japan (including variations like kecap manis in Indonesia and Malaysia), also dashi and miso for Japan and myeolchi mul and doenjang for Korea, garum for ancient Rome, passata for (modern) Italy (tomato has a lot of glutamate!), brown sauce in the UK, and ketchup in the US. (Yes, it really does serve a real culinary purpose, though US and even UK cuisine aren't as unified even as other countries with wide regional variations, so there's lots of alternatives, such as Worcestershire, barbecue sauce, and fermented hot sauce). And lots of other things for other areas, of course, but that'd be way too long for a TH-cam comment! (And, yes, "ketchup" is derived from "kecap" (which is pronounced "kechap"), but the history of kecap to tomato ketchup is centuries long and involves so many distinct steps, including the initial step of "making a sauce that adds that certain something to food that kecap does without any actual knowledge of how to make kecap" that led to disparate branches including mushroom ketchup and Worcestershire sauce that I feel comfortable calling them entirely separate things.)
the soy bean dessert is also something we have in the philippines! it’s called “taho” though and it has sago pearls instead of boba. I think this recipe is pretty common in east asia, or at least it’s shared between multiple cultures, because i saw someone else from taiwan say they had this there too what a small world
As a Taiwanese, I’m surprised that Uyen cooked soybean pudding sweet soup so well👍🏻, you made me miss it so much that I’m going to cook it later too! 🤤 We know that our Tapioca drinks and dishes not everyone’s cup of tea but I’m glad my German husband likes bubble milk tea and soybean pudding sweet soup with Tapioca very much! 🥹
Don't feel bad Uyen. I'm from South Asia and I too will confirm that in Asia we do not have the concept of flavoring our foods that much, which also includes dessert. Flavors like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry etc. is a Western concept. Our desserts are mostly just...sweet. Some middle eastern influenced desserts did introduce rose water yo some sweets but that's about it as far as I can recall.
Actually in the original Vietnamese-styled soy milk pudding we have slices of ginger boiled/simmered together with the brown sugar syrup for 5 mins. As the result we have brown sugar syrup with ginger flavor (and just leave the ginger slices in the syrup, dont throw it away because you will eat them together). Usually this kind of tofu pudding would be served hot, and in the southern Vietnam there would be a little bit extra lightly-sweet coconut milk added in the dessert too and it will enhance the flavor further 😋 This hot pudding dessert really suits to eat in the early morning, especially in cold weather, then you have a spoon of hot silky-like tofu melted in your mouth, heartwarming of sweet syrup full of ginger flavor, chewing some these sweet ginger slices that warm your stomach from the inside ☺️ And if you like coconut milk, definitely put some (about 1 table spoon or it's up to you, just don't put it in too much or else it will destroy the ginger- and sweet flavor) in and you wont regret that, it's like the cherry on the top of the dessert! Of course small amount of tapiocas/bobas should already included in the dessert to make it more fun to chew! Btw really respect Uyen Ninh that she make the tofu pudding by herself, it really takes a significant amount of time and effort 👍 If i were her, i would buy the packaged silky tofu in Asia supermark to save time and effort (then just boil the tofu in a couple of minutes to soften its texture), of course the texture can't be as good as the handmade one, but well it's still enough for a lazy one like me :))) If anyone is interested in how to make this dessert quickly, check out for 'Helen's Recipes' channel. She's also a Vietnamese who used to live in Germany. When I was still a college student I used to watch her channel every now and then, because most of the ingredients she uses are available in Germany (or at least in Asia supermarket in Germany) and her recipe is easy to follow, which helped my student life a lot :)) I agree that there are a lot popular fragrance flavors in Western contributing in the development history of the bakery and confectionery industry. I agree that there are quite amount of popular fragrance flavors in Western contributing in the development history of the bakery and confectionery industry. However if you say that the flavors of sweet foods in Asia don't have that much, well, it's a bit not accurate, unfortunately. Aside some popular flavours like red-, black-, mung bean, taro, matcha, coocnut, pineapple, mango, sesame and flavors, have you tried black sesame ice cream/- mochi from Japan? Or yuzu flavor ice cream? Ume plum cake/- mochi? Vietnam or Chinese lotus moon cake? Pandan leave is commonly used desserts, especially in South East Asia like Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, because of their unique sweet fragrance. If you like dessert strong fragrance, you could try Vietnamese durian cake or ice cream :)) Not to mention about tea fragrance. Have you ever tried Taiwan or Chinese osmanthus oolong tea cake, or Hong Kong osmanthus jelly? Next are some example of desserts with flower aroma. Have you heard about Thai dessert Kanom Nam Dok Mai? Or Korean flower-scented cake Hwajeon? And there are a lot more exotic desserts with a diversity of flavours in Asian cuisines to explore and experience. If what you mean Asian desserts are just sweet, so bland then I bet you haven't eaten a lot desserts or sweet food in America, Australia and Europe, especially in Germany. A lot of desserts in Germany taste too sweet or too sour. In a bright side when it comes to fruit flavour ones like ice cream or fruit cake, they do taste fruity naturally. There are a lot of Westerners don't seem to consider dessert really dessert if it doesn't contain either chocolate or ice cream or both. The different mindset and habit about texture in desserts is also a thing here too. For example, a lot of Westerners prefer heavy, dense and sweeter cakes for full feeling in richness and depth (same with breads), as for Asians in general the light and fluffy sponge cakes is enough to enjoy its delicate texture without feeling easily full or overwhelmed/nauseous. Of course there are always exceptions and variety.
I'd call the concept of putting a "finished" flavour into a random dessert a US concept. Europeans would make fresh strawberry sauce, or use coco powder, pure vanilla extract, rum or whatever, and the whole dessert is build around it.
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hi Uyen, as a teenager who likes to explore different cultures, your channel is perfect for me! you teach me a lot about different Vietnamese food so thank you a lot, i hope one day i can try them for myself but for now all i can do is drool behind a screen for the time being haha. i also looooove the relationship you have with your german boyfriend, you guys are soo cute! 💓please keep posting more videos like this, i love the energy in them so much.
I'm looking forward to seeing what kinds of german-vietnamese fusion dishes you guys come up with in the next few years! authentic vietnamese food is amazing of course but I think the differences in textures between cuisines could make something really interesting, and german food is a great base to build complex flavors on top of.
I have to say, there are many Viet dishes that can be prepared quickly but Uyen chose Banh Xeo, Pho Ga and Tao Pho which requires quite a lot of work. Love her dedication to make German boyfriend enjoy Vietnamese food ❤ Good job Uyen 👏🏼
I was like Wow, those seem like a lot if your trying to get ready for work or the kids off to school, but seeing her too tried to cook dinner makes sense this is a more time consuming then say a bagel or a bowl of cereal.
Thank you for sharing with us,, feels like you are our Vietnamese friend showing us how to cook 🥹🫶🏼 my first boyfriend was Vietnamese and I used to have home cooked Vietnamese food from his mum,, I always wanted to learn more cooking from her, but never got the chance,, so this fills a little hole in my heart ~ I’m so excited with you to see German boyfriend enjoy the food too, Vietnamese food is one of my favorite cuisines 🩶
I made my first Pho tonight - following your instructions - and it turned out really yummy. Better than at 'our' vietnamese restaurant.... Thank you! You and german bf are a great couple!
My situation is very similar to yours, I'm also Viet and could definitely feel the hurt even though logically it can be explained but it still hurts a lot for our partners to not like it, deep down for me I just miss Vietnamese food a lot and it hurts to hear bad things about it in general. And if you happen to feel like you were too emotional about it, it's okay. You aren't alone in feeling that and it's your feelings.
As a Taiwanese who is trying to make my Turkish boyfriend love Asian taste I can totally understand how much effort and love you put into these food and they look super delicious ❤❤especially the soy milk pudding, makes me miss Taiwan so much 🫶🏻in Taiwan we call it tao fa, similar to Vietnamese actually
Hi Uyen! I'm from Malaysia and I am friends with a neighbour of mine who has a Vietnamese wife and owns a banh mi shop down the road. That made my interest of Vietnamese food sparkle and I still love Vietnamese cuisine till this day! ❤ not to mention, I love your cooking skills and your food looks appetizing! Keep up the great content! :D
@@freddymapping omg you even know about Kinh people stuff, now that impressed. It's sad that I only know about your culture from cartoon like upin ipin and boboiboy.
I really enjoy this type of video you make. It's very interesting to see the differences between both of your cultures and also to compare it to mine in the U.S.. Thanks for sharing!
The way she assembles the pho is also unique to Hanoi/north Viet, where everything comes in the bowl already. In Saigon, the herbs and everything come on the side and you add it yourself
I recognize a true food lover in you. I wish you would do a few more food oriented videos where you describe the taste and texture in more detail with close-ups and maybe share a few recipes. I love Vietnamese food and would like to learn more about it from you.
I could cut the noodle and upset the italian and vietnamese at the same time... lmao thats exactly something my german boyfriend could have said aswell! He also refuses soup.
You can try the romanian cuisine one day Uyen, you would love it! We have a very similar chicken soup recipe, but without the cardamon anise and clove. I will try to add this . Also we have lots of noodle and potato soups with pork meat, chicken meat, a boiled beans and smoked meat . And my favorite lovage soup. That is full of a veggie that makes the soup purple and borsch which makes it sour. I miss romanian soups the most when I travel
I had so much fun watching this! 😂 Uyen, you're a wonderful person inside and out, funny and witty! Thanks for taking us along on your "german journey"
Wow I didn't know what Uyen was talking about when she introduced the tofu pudding but it turns out to be what we call "Tofu Fa" (translated as tofu flower) in Cantonese! It's the same dessert we commonly have in Hong Kong and it's the best when it's cold (er, never too cold in tropical climate haha)! We add "yellow sugar" which I think is a type of rock sugar on top to make it sweet and it's the best! Also Uyen making soybean milk from scratch is real dedication! XD that takes so much effort but I bet the soy flavour is amazing!
there are soy milk makers (for example from koro). really easy: just add soy beans and water and after a while it is ready cooked. the mashine is also easy to clean. Was a great Christmas present last year
The Vietnamese pancakes are my absolute favourite dish since trying them in a cooking class in Vietnam a few months ago, but in Germany not many restaurants offer them on the menu, now you’ve motivated me to try making authentic ones at home, thanks🥰
Yeah I never saw it in a vietnamese restaurant here in Denmark, but my wife makes it for me every now and again as its seriously one of my favorite vietnamese meals. Atleast the way she makes it is awesome
Want to thank you for the soup recepie! Cooked it for my husband and me for a dinner yesterday. It's so delicious and authentic but also simple to cook, which is super cool😅
This reminds me of the way my bf and I are about our favorite dishes. We both grew up in America, but his parents are from Poland so he was raised on traditional Polish dishes his grandmother and mom would cook. There are some Polish dishes I love and would happily eat again, but there are others that require you to have grown up eating those flavors and textures to enjoy. 😂❤
I am happily married and love my husband and my son, but if I could have vietnamese food like this everyday i'd consider leaving him and marry you instead.
This is so cool! (The chicken pieces you put in the pho broth are “chicken leg quarters”. They’re the “drumstick” and the “thigh”, still attached to each other. If it was just “thighs”, it wouldn’t have the bony straight piece! Sometimes called the “chicken leg”, too. 6:34 )
The moment when your boyfriend is excited to eat bread again (instead of amazing, freshly cooked hot meals?!) is 100% relatable, my bf is exactly the same when he gets to eat bread for dinner after we had warm meals for a few days in a row 😂😂
Ohmyy really you both aree sooo cute and funny, especially when uyen said that she cant make dinner and he can have bread and the scene after that is just wholesome!! 😂😂 im laughing in tears right noww.
I am interested in watching clips of people meal prep (cook, bake, grill, steam, everything). While this is not a vlog where fancy kitchen tools & techniques are used, the fact that Uyen made all the meals with ❤ is what counts & I enjoyed all 19+ mins of it 😊
Nobody knows how peaceful i feel when i watch her Videos. She is so authentic and sweet. Such a Sweetheart ♥ We need more Vietnamnese Food Videos!!!!!!
I love german bfs eeveelution t-shirt so much! 🤩🤩 Also, I imagine I would have said the exact same things when it comes to the food 😃 And I'm still impressed everytime I see how much effort Vietnamese put in their daily meals. I wish I had the time, energy and patience to do that!
Thank you for this cooking video, since we moved to a town with no Vietnamese restaurants I have been totally deprived of Pho and all the other delicious things. It's so helpful to see you make this food in a way I can easily follow.
that quick pho recipe looks really good, will try that out as well! love vietnamese food, please share more recipes! i find it hard to adjust the recipes with the ingredients available in Europe
yall should get some of those big spoons, that they have at the Asian restaurants, where you can fit all the noodle in. I bought one and it is the supreme spoon type for all the soups frfr
This and your market video made me love your channel even more. You're funny and I learn a lot from your experiences. Thank you for continuing to make content😊
Your face changed to depressed German cheek surplus. I just arrived here from your older videos where you smiled so much. Please take trips back home or wherever gives your heart the sunshine you need to smile like you again ❤
I really REALLY hope you go on a food tour when you are next in Vietnam. Do one in each city, but Hanoi seems to have the best guides from all the videos I've watched. Maybe you should partner up with "Will in Vietnam" as he recently took the French ambassador out for street food in Hanoi. Or reach out to Van from "What the Pho" since she's also from Hanoi. If you are going back soon, maybe collab with "Mike and Ashley" or "Sammy and Tommy" (I hear they are planning on going back early next year).
Sometimes you have to change and adapt recipes to your family’s liking. Like for Banh Xeo he mentioned he didn’t like pork belly. In my family we use ground pork or ground chicken. Every family has their likes and dislikes and eventually it becomes a family recipe. In my family we add boiled mung beans in the Banh Xeo too and I’m not certain that is how they make it normally. I like it because it adds extra nutrition, flavor and texture to the dish.
So the "the first pancake never turns out well" rule also applies to Vietnamese pancakes! 😂
Haha I was thinking that, the first 3 crepes for me (I suck at making American pancakes, they are dumb anyway, worst of all pancakes globally).
it applies to indian pancake too
It depends on the pan here in Poland 😅
I call it,”The Baker’s pancake.”
I came here to say the same thing!
"I could cut the noodle and upset the Italians AND the Vietnamese at the same time" ahahaha German BF is so funny
😂 whenever I'm in a hurry for a quick meal I have a pack of noodles, you know, the crappy kind that costs 30-50 cents, however... I pre-crunch all noodle, still in packet, into rice size basically even b4 opening 😂😂 I'm always mentally suffering from the imagined upset screams in Italian and every asian language at my heretic behaviour. Anyway, then from freezer I grab a small portions of (cooked) meat I have frozen in small flat batches. So, dump the noodies, meat, included spice into piping hot water and just let it sit for 3-4 minutes. Depending on amount of meat you might want to stick it in the microwave a few secs to compensate for frozen meat stealing all heat.
almost got revisited from my dinner@@Paxmax
The boyfriend that day woke up and actually chose violence huh?
@@Paxmax dude, I am going to make this. Thankyou!!
it is just to make you SIMPs to comment and help her to make more money
“I’m German I’m always honest.” Any compliment from a German is hard earned right there.
not really true from my experience
@@nicossbotsit means you been doing it wrong lol (jk)
@@xen285 so like any other person regardless of nationality
I'm Hungarian, I' always honest. :) Except since I've lived in the UK.
@@annamari7863 One of the toughest places to be honest w/o serious repercussions, indeed ...
As a northern European my mind was blown when I first tried Vietnamese food. I can eat it every single day and never get tired of the combination of veggies and spices. Loooooove it ❤
Really good herbs, I agree. But I wouldn't want to eat vietnamese food everyday as a scandinavian
@@TheBarser
Even Vietnamese people don't eat "Vietnamese food that foreigners have in mind" every day. For example, Pho, Banh Mi, Banh Xeo,...
In our country, those dishes are mostly for breakfast, with some dishes that can be for dinner when the whole family wants to go out to eat.
As for most of the meals we eat every day, obviously it has to be RICE. We eat rice like Germans eat Bread, lol.
@Airbone I am married to a vietnamese woman 🙂.
I love her vietnamese food except a few dishes like fermented bamboo and other smelly or rubber textured food. My parents in law ear lots of seafood, and that can also be to much for me
I have smell tolerance to shrimp paste and fish sauce, I like the taste but it’s the smell lol
@@Airbone I will never wrap my head about a warm AND salty breakfast. I mean eggs and bacon are kind of the exception, but that is just a side dish, for the rest of the cold breakfast.
Uyen : "my bf is sleeping"
Also uyen : *screaming* "it's crunchyyyyy"
Lol so cute
Exactly 😂 I was thinking: well he's definitely not sleeping anymore
@@goopy1000 😆
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You can actually hear him yell "Uyen???" (or maybe I imagine it) at like 3:20, he sounds so worried!
Well, how else was she going to make sure he got up while it was still hot?
If you want a crispy pancake, pour a little water after each pancake is done and wipe it off with a cloth. You can rub a half onion, you would get a crispy pancake. I am Indian, we have something called dosa, which is crispy, filled with spiced mashed potatoes. I never had a pancake before but yeah it looks similar. Hope this tip helps you! Love from India ❤
👍👍from fellow Indian
Love this tip, thank you!
Indian food is incredible ❤
Thank you for sharing!
Indian food is so good- definitely going to try and make it!
@@arozeisarozie Me ee toooo
"I am German. I am always honest." Love this lol.
I'm glad you were honest about your energy level and took a rest after lunch 💕 Cooking is a lot of work! Especially the Pho! I love how you are both so supportive of each other 🥰
Wow, I was JUST watching the ''German boyfriend cooks food for me'' video and now this video comes out! Thank you Uyen!
wait, that exists?!
YESSS! then to see this video come out, I was so excited!!!@@Sambojambo_
I really appreciate the honesty in this video, and respecting your body telling you to rest. Thank you for sharing and being so authentic.
So, now you can have Pho and Vietnamese pancakes together, as well as German meatballs, mushroom sauce and apple strudle. If that isn't a full international meal, I don't know.
I would love more videos of you cooking for each other. ❤❤
A real feast ❤
fussion kitchen indeed so there are the best of both kitchens' :)
Good suggestion.
I saw on your 2023 recap video you said that your comment section is always positive with good vibes and I hope you know you and German BF created that environment it’s literally impossible to be or say anything negative after watching to people who obviously love and care about each other so much and are also just so authentic you create the vibe and positivity and it just spreads to us in the comment section and I hope you know that
Cheers from the US ❤🎉
I get the feeling fish sauce is to the Vietnamese what Maggi is to the Germans.
Just as I wrote this, German boyfriend pulled out the Maggi bottle XD I'm dead.
I'm German, and I actually only eat savoury pancakes. I make them with grated carrot mixed into the batter, it makes them really fluffy, and then I eat them with a spicy zucchini and onion sauce and some cheese.
Can you share your receipe? Sounds amazing!!!😊
@@MJBpeace I second that!
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@@MJBpeace I don't really do it by receipe, I just sort of freestyle it, so I can't share any exact measurements. But generally I use either one egg per person or when it's for several people two eggs per three people. I grate about half a carrot per egg (depending on the size of the carrot, you kinda need to figure this out for yourself) and mix it with the egg. Then I mix in milk (only a little bit, the carrots already add moisture) and flour until I like the consistency. It should be a little thicker than normal pancake batter because of the carrots, but still liquidy enough that you can pour it. Then you just need to add some salt.
For the sauce I just dice a small onion and about half a zucchini (of course use more if you're cooking for more people, this is for one person) and put the onion in a pan with some oil, let it get some colour, then add the zucchini, stir it every now and then for a while (sorry I can't be more specific, I don't time it), when it's almost done I like to add a bit of garlic. Then I add some cream into the pan, add salt, pepper, chili powder, other spices if I feel like it. When the cream is starting to reduce, take it off the stove. Then I make the pancake, just like a normal pancake. It might take a little longer, depending on how thick the batter is. I always flip it as soon as it's not liquid anymore, the other side won't take as long as the first. When it's done, put some cheese on it, put the sauce on top, fold it, enjoy! I don't always use zucchini, I often just use whatever vegetables I have left over, but I like zucchini the most, I think they work well with the carrots. You can also grate the zucchini and use it instead of the carrot. The zucchini pancake I like to eat with mushrooms, but you can pair it with whatever you like.
Hope this was helpful, and please tell me how it turned out if you try it!
It really is, though. They're both used to add some umami and salt and general depth of flavor all at once. See also soy sauce for China and everyone with historical Chinese influence, including Korea and Japan (including variations like kecap manis in Indonesia and Malaysia), also dashi and miso for Japan and myeolchi mul and doenjang for Korea, garum for ancient Rome, passata for (modern) Italy (tomato has a lot of glutamate!), brown sauce in the UK, and ketchup in the US. (Yes, it really does serve a real culinary purpose, though US and even UK cuisine aren't as unified even as other countries with wide regional variations, so there's lots of alternatives, such as Worcestershire, barbecue sauce, and fermented hot sauce). And lots of other things for other areas, of course, but that'd be way too long for a TH-cam comment!
(And, yes, "ketchup" is derived from "kecap" (which is pronounced "kechap"), but the history of kecap to tomato ketchup is centuries long and involves so many distinct steps, including the initial step of "making a sauce that adds that certain something to food that kecap does without any actual knowledge of how to make kecap" that led to disparate branches including mushroom ketchup and Worcestershire sauce that I feel comfortable calling them entirely separate things.)
the soy bean dessert is also something we have in the philippines! it’s called “taho” though and it has sago pearls instead of boba. I think this recipe is pretty common in east asia, or at least it’s shared between multiple cultures, because i saw someone else from taiwan say they had this there too
what a small world
She made a kind of watery/soupy version of taho ✨.
in malaysia it's called "taufufah" :D and yes it really is shared betweene different cultures
In mainland China, it’s called 豆腐脑 (dou fu nao). As street food, it’s served in plastic cups and it comes in a savoury version too.
The whole time, I was waiting for german bf to say: "Kann man essen"
I heard that is the biggest compliment :D
The world is isn't just a fucking trope
They spoke English. I'm sure he would've said it had they spoken German.
Passt😂
Well, he said "It's not bad." That's basically "Kann man essen."
Either that or "Es schmeckt." 😂
“I could cut the noodle and upset the Italians and the Vietnamese at the same time.” Lol
Yelling, "It's crunchy! IT'S CRUNCHY!" like Victor Frankenstein shouting, "It's alive! ALIVE!" XD
I love it that you show when you are exhausted and change plans.
As a Taiwanese, I’m surprised that Uyen cooked soybean pudding sweet soup so well👍🏻, you made me miss it so much that I’m going to cook it later too! 🤤 We know that our Tapioca drinks and dishes not everyone’s cup of tea but I’m glad my German husband likes bubble milk tea and soybean pudding sweet soup with Tapioca very much! 🥹
Yeah, I kinda hungry for it now too. I don’t have any boba in the house though…
Don't feel bad Uyen. I'm from South Asia and I too will confirm that in Asia we do not have the concept of flavoring our foods that much, which also includes dessert. Flavors like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry etc. is a Western concept. Our desserts are mostly just...sweet. Some middle eastern influenced desserts did introduce rose water yo some sweets but that's about it as far as I can recall.
Red bean paste is a bop, though. Ube is too
Actually in the original Vietnamese-styled soy milk pudding we have slices of ginger boiled/simmered together with the brown sugar syrup for 5 mins. As the result we have brown sugar syrup with ginger flavor (and just leave the ginger slices in the syrup, dont throw it away because you will eat them together). Usually this kind of tofu pudding would be served hot, and in the southern Vietnam there would be a little bit extra lightly-sweet coconut milk added in the dessert too and it will enhance the flavor further 😋 This hot pudding dessert really suits to eat in the early morning, especially in cold weather, then you have a spoon of hot silky-like tofu melted in your mouth, heartwarming of sweet syrup full of ginger flavor, chewing some these sweet ginger slices that warm your stomach from the inside ☺️ And if you like coconut milk, definitely put some (about 1 table spoon or it's up to you, just don't put it in too much or else it will destroy the ginger- and sweet flavor) in and you wont regret that, it's like the cherry on the top of the dessert! Of course small amount of tapiocas/bobas should already included in the dessert to make it more fun to chew!
Btw really respect Uyen Ninh that she make the tofu pudding by herself, it really takes a significant amount of time and effort 👍 If i were her, i would buy the packaged silky tofu in Asia supermark to save time and effort (then just boil the tofu in a couple of minutes to soften its texture), of course the texture can't be as good as the handmade one, but well it's still enough for a lazy one like me :))) If anyone is interested in how to make this dessert quickly, check out for 'Helen's Recipes' channel. She's also a Vietnamese who used to live in Germany. When I was still a college student I used to watch her channel every now and then, because most of the ingredients she uses are available in Germany (or at least in Asia supermarket in Germany) and her recipe is easy to follow, which helped my student life a lot :))
I agree that there are a lot popular fragrance flavors in Western contributing in the development history of the bakery and confectionery industry.
I agree that there are quite amount of popular fragrance flavors in Western contributing in the development history of the bakery and confectionery industry.
However if you say that the flavors of sweet foods in Asia don't have that much, well, it's a bit not accurate, unfortunately. Aside some popular flavours like red-, black-, mung bean, taro, matcha, coocnut, pineapple, mango, sesame and flavors, have you tried black sesame ice cream/- mochi from Japan? Or yuzu flavor ice cream? Ume plum cake/- mochi? Vietnam or Chinese lotus moon cake? Pandan leave is commonly used desserts, especially in South East Asia like Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, because of their unique sweet fragrance. If you like dessert strong fragrance, you could try Vietnamese durian cake or ice cream :)) Not to mention about tea fragrance. Have you ever tried Taiwan or Chinese osmanthus oolong tea cake, or Hong Kong osmanthus jelly? Next are some example of desserts with flower aroma. Have you heard about Thai dessert Kanom Nam Dok Mai? Or Korean flower-scented cake Hwajeon? And there are a lot more exotic desserts with a diversity of flavours in Asian cuisines to explore and experience. If what you mean Asian desserts are just sweet, so bland then I bet you haven't eaten a lot desserts or sweet food in America, Australia and Europe, especially in Germany. A lot of desserts in Germany taste too sweet or too sour. In a bright side when it comes to fruit flavour ones like ice cream or fruit cake, they do taste fruity naturally. There are a lot of Westerners don't seem to consider dessert really dessert if it doesn't contain either chocolate or ice cream or both. The different mindset and habit about texture in desserts is also a thing here too. For example, a lot of Westerners prefer heavy, dense and sweeter cakes for full feeling in richness and depth (same with breads), as for Asians in general the light and fluffy sponge cakes is enough to enjoy its delicate texture without feeling easily full or overwhelmed/nauseous. Of course there are always exceptions and variety.
I'd call the concept of putting a "finished" flavour into a random dessert a US concept. Europeans would make fresh strawberry sauce, or use coco powder, pure vanilla extract, rum or whatever, and the whole dessert is build around it.
I havent tried it but i feel like it couldve been like not balanced but yk with like a fruit? Idk if fruits belong in it tho..
In Indonesia at least we put a lot of different spices in our deserts (both native and western)
I love how sincere and authentic your videos feel.
Do you know that if you Google your first name or german boyfriend that your social medias pop up???? You should be super proud! You've worked hard and you most definitely deserve this success!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!! And also congratulations on your marriage engagement!!! You both are high quality people and you both deserve a wonderful life, wonderful marriage, and wonderful future!!!!!!
8:00 "There's no specific recipe here." Spoken like a true home cook.
Your video's feel like a gentle warm hug I swear. :) It is so nice how genuine your videos feel.
hi Uyen, as a teenager who likes to explore different cultures, your channel is perfect for me! you teach me a lot about different Vietnamese food so thank you a lot, i hope one day i can try them for myself but for now all i can do is drool behind a screen for the time being haha. i also looooove the relationship you have with your german boyfriend, you guys are soo cute! 💓please keep posting more videos like this, i love the energy in them so much.
As a 32 year old I completely agree with you :D
me too
I'm looking forward to seeing what kinds of german-vietnamese fusion dishes you guys come up with in the next few years! authentic vietnamese food is amazing of course but I think the differences in textures between cuisines could make something really interesting, and german food is a great base to build complex flavors on top of.
"now we can start seasoning the broth: cinnamon, cardamom, star anise"
Me: she's making Glühwein!!
German BF: "Red wine?"
Me: Yess!! Exactly!!!
Is this the same as the English 'mulled wine'?
I have to say, there are many Viet dishes that can be prepared quickly but Uyen chose Banh Xeo, Pho Ga and Tao Pho which requires quite a lot of work. Love her dedication to make German boyfriend enjoy Vietnamese food ❤ Good job Uyen 👏🏼
I was like Wow, those seem like a lot if your trying to get ready for work or the kids off to school, but seeing her too tried to cook dinner makes sense this is a more time consuming then say a bagel or a bowl of cereal.
Yeah she could just make goi cuon and call it a day but nope. She chose the ones with a lot of mise en place
But it's worth it!
Uyen struggling to say "salmonella" is my favorite thing
That was too cute!
😂😂😂😂😂
I love these two sharing dishes from their cultures. I adore how honest they are about it, too.
those pancakes looked awesome
and Uyen, he LOVED the soup, that's a major major win
Thank you for sharing with us,, feels like you are our Vietnamese friend showing us how to cook 🥹🫶🏼 my first boyfriend was Vietnamese and I used to have home cooked Vietnamese food from his mum,, I always wanted to learn more cooking from her, but never got the chance,, so this fills a little hole in my heart ~
I’m so excited with you to see German boyfriend enjoy the food too, Vietnamese food is one of my favorite cuisines 🩶
German pancake can also be made savory with mushroom or broccoli cream, with onions and bacon or with soup (Flädlesuppe).
My favorite dish actually is from the German region of Palatinate: Pancakes with cauliflower in bechamél sauce. Flädlesuppe is also from there.
@@vomm ja, Pfannkuchen mit Blumenkohl und becamél ist meine Lieblingsvariante.
Or both. Apple bacon pancakes are some of my favorites.
@@amberanime yes, especially with Apfelmus, cause you can dip and drip the pancake in it.
@@vommyou sure? Flädle sounds swabian.
I made my first Pho tonight - following your instructions - and it turned out really yummy. Better than at 'our' vietnamese restaurant.... Thank you! You and german bf are a great couple!
I am going to try following her too. When I make it using a recipie from a book it never turns out good
"I am german, i am always honest" the swag😂
Please do more of these! I enjoyed both videos of you cooking for each other. PRETTY PLEASE!
I love how supportive German boyfriend is, always hyping you up. Traumpaar, ihr beide!
AHHHH! I have the same panda chopstick holder with the whole set. How cute, I loved the video.
My situation is very similar to yours, I'm also Viet and could definitely feel the hurt even though logically it can be explained but it still hurts a lot for our partners to not like it, deep down for me I just miss Vietnamese food a lot and it hurts to hear bad things about it in general. And if you happen to feel like you were too emotional about it, it's okay. You aren't alone in feeling that and it's your feelings.
I also get upset when my home country's food gets criticized! 😅
As a Taiwanese who is trying to make my Turkish boyfriend love Asian taste I can totally understand how much effort and love you put into these food and they look super delicious ❤❤especially the soy milk pudding, makes me miss Taiwan so much 🫶🏻in Taiwan we call it tao fa, similar to Vietnamese actually
Hi Uyen! I'm from Malaysia and I am friends with a neighbour of mine who has a Vietnamese wife and owns a banh mi shop down the road. That made my interest of Vietnamese food sparkle and I still love Vietnamese cuisine till this day! ❤ not to mention, I love your cooking skills and your food looks appetizing! Keep up the great content! :D
I love when other cultures appreciate our food, thank you sm!
I Love Vietnamese Food but omg Malaysia is Food paradise 😍 I miss it so much
@@mariebonny548 Thank you 😊 I'm really proud of my country's food too
@@HeartCollide Not only my love for Vietnamese food increased, my love for the Kinh people, language, and the culture as well! :)
@@freddymapping omg you even know about Kinh people stuff, now that impressed. It's sad that I only know about your culture from cartoon like upin ipin and boboiboy.
You are so honest. You could just have made diner a couple of days later and edited it together as one day for us. Thank you for your great effort
I respect and appreciate that you both honestly reply to the food, and what you like (not not) about it. Makes me want to try some! ❤
Ich liebe deine Videos! Sie sind so authentisch und du bist einfach du selbst! Weiter so! Ihr seid super, das was die welt braucht!
I really enjoy this type of video you make. It's very interesting to see the differences between both of your cultures and also to compare it to mine in the U.S.. Thanks for sharing!
10/10 for the pho!!!!!!!! GO GERMAN BOYFRIEND! That is my absolute favorite Vietnamese dish, and I'm so glad for your sake that he loved it!
The way she assembles the pho is also unique to Hanoi/north Viet, where everything comes in the bowl already. In Saigon, the herbs and everything come on the side and you add it yourself
This was truly a labor of love ❤ You two are the best
I recognize a true food lover in you. I wish you would do a few more food oriented videos where you describe the taste and texture in more detail with close-ups and maybe share a few recipes. I love Vietnamese food and would like to learn more about it from you.
Of course the soy beans are in an ikea canister 😅 This was really sweet of you to do for German boyfriend ❤❤❤you two are such a lovely couple
I loved this video. You two are so easy going with honesty & humor, watching you is a joy.
Uyen you are so sweet and spunky and wholesome, by far my favorite person on TH-cam
0:40 “it makes his stomach *~wibbly~*” 😭using that from now on
I could cut the noodle and upset the italian and vietnamese at the same time... lmao thats exactly something my german boyfriend could have said aswell! He also refuses soup.
Oh yes , the Italians will lose their minds
I love, love, love the dynamic between uyen and german fiancé. It‘s so wholesome to watch them. Also, the food looks very yummy 🖤
You can try the romanian cuisine one day Uyen, you would love it! We have a very similar chicken soup recipe, but without the cardamon anise and clove. I will try to add this . Also we have lots of noodle and potato soups with pork meat, chicken meat, a boiled beans and smoked meat . And my favorite lovage soup. That is full of a veggie that makes the soup purple and borsch which makes it sour. I miss romanian soups the most when I travel
Hungarian here, we also have a similar chicken soup with other vegetables, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and anis I use in mulled wine.
buna seara!
Pofta buna!
Jó étvagyat! 🥰
"IT'S CRUUUUNCHEEEE!!"
GB no longer asleep. 😂
A fun video idea could be german/ Vietnamese fusion recipes! :)
I had so much fun watching this! 😂 Uyen, you're a wonderful person inside and out, funny and witty! Thanks for taking us along on your "german journey"
Wow I didn't know what Uyen was talking about when she introduced the tofu pudding but it turns out to be what we call "Tofu Fa" (translated as tofu flower) in Cantonese! It's the same dessert we commonly have in Hong Kong and it's the best when it's cold (er, never too cold in tropical climate haha)! We add "yellow sugar" which I think is a type of rock sugar on top to make it sweet and it's the best! Also Uyen making soybean milk from scratch is real dedication! XD that takes so much effort but I bet the soy flavour is amazing!
there are soy milk makers (for example from koro). really easy: just add soy beans and water and after a while it is ready cooked. the mashine is also easy to clean. Was a great Christmas present last year
I always watch your long videos when I am hangover. There's just a warm comfort to it.
The Vietnamese pancakes are my absolute favourite dish since trying them in a cooking class in Vietnam a few months ago, but in Germany not many restaurants offer them on the menu, now you’ve motivated me to try making authentic ones at home, thanks🥰
Yeah I never saw it in a vietnamese restaurant here in Denmark, but my wife makes it for me every now and again as its seriously one of my favorite vietnamese meals. Atleast the way she makes it is awesome
Want to thank you for the soup recepie! Cooked it for my husband and me for a dinner yesterday. It's so delicious and authentic but also simple to cook, which is super cool😅
The way your eyes narrowed when he reacted to the pho 😂😂
I love y'all's playful banter! I'm so happy to watch what you can share. Ty!!!😊
I’m finding this video really sweet so far, also you’re a really good and thoughtful cook 🫶
This reminds me of the way my bf and I are about our favorite dishes. We both grew up in America, but his parents are from Poland so he was raised on traditional Polish dishes his grandmother and mom would cook. There are some Polish dishes I love and would happily eat again, but there are others that require you to have grown up eating those flavors and textures to enjoy. 😂❤
I am happily married and love my husband and my son, but if I could have vietnamese food like this everyday i'd consider leaving him and marry you instead.
Lolll
this is hilarious
German BF wants to know your location. He will look for you and he will find you.
I was thinking that too. Dating someone who cooks Vietnamese food is a PRIVILEGE.
Nah
This is so cool!
(The chicken pieces you put in the pho broth are “chicken leg quarters”. They’re the “drumstick” and the “thigh”, still attached to each other. If it was just “thighs”, it wouldn’t have the bony straight piece! Sometimes called the “chicken leg”, too. 6:34 )
You two are lovely. Well done for the effort on both parts!
„It ended in a very high note but hey that’s life“ -Uyen
Hahaha 😂 love it
The moment when your boyfriend is excited to eat bread again (instead of amazing, freshly cooked hot meals?!) is 100% relatable, my bf is exactly the same when he gets to eat bread for dinner after we had warm meals for a few days in a row 😂😂
Bread is life for us in Europe ❤😂
i don’t get it, as a german i love warm food 😂would love to eat warm food all the time but im too lazy to cook
I do love the way that he says sweetie. It is very endearing.
Uyen please never stop making videos ❤ luv your content
Ohmyy really you both aree sooo cute and funny, especially when uyen said that she cant make dinner and he can have bread and the scene after that is just wholesome!! 😂😂 im laughing in tears right noww.
I am interested in watching clips of people meal prep (cook, bake, grill, steam, everything). While this is not a vlog where fancy kitchen tools & techniques are used, the fact that Uyen made all the meals with ❤ is what counts & I enjoyed all 19+ mins of it 😊
German fiancé is the best🤣 You guys are both brilliant, take care of each other well.
"I'm German I'm always honest" 🤣 the direct communication culture
Nobody knows how peaceful i feel when i watch her Videos. She is so authentic and sweet. Such a Sweetheart ♥
We need more Vietnamnese Food Videos!!!!!!
I love german bfs eeveelution t-shirt so much! 🤩🤩
Also, I imagine I would have said the exact same things when it comes to the food 😃
And I'm still impressed everytime I see how much effort Vietnamese put in their daily meals. I wish I had the time, energy and patience to do that!
your channel has been my new go-to for comfort watching, you guys are so cute!
Thank you for this cooking video, since we moved to a town with no Vietnamese restaurants I have been totally deprived of Pho and all the other delicious things. It's so helpful to see you make this food in a way I can easily follow.
that quick pho recipe looks really good, will try that out as well! love vietnamese food, please share more recipes! i find it hard to adjust the recipes with the ingredients available in Europe
aww ur so kind for doing that for him❤❤
fr, where can I get her cooking skill 😭😊
I'm very glad that i am not the only one that calls breakfast, 'breakfirst'. ❤❤❤ I really love your voice. It's so cute!
yall should get some of those big spoons, that they have at the Asian restaurants, where you can fit all the noodle in. I bought one and it is the supreme spoon type for all the soups frfr
I don't use any spoons I just hold the bowl at my mouth and drink it directly like from a big cup
He so lied about the pho, but it's wonderful bc these things don't matter, and he knew how much it would make her happy to hear how yummy it is. Aww.
GIRL. I'm not Vietnamese but I KNOW all the food you're making (since I LOVE Vietnamese food), your German bf is SO LUCKY you're making those.
I like your enthousiasme Uyen, it's nice that your are sharing each other kitchen, you are both such a sweet and nice couple.
German bf: i could cut the noodles and upset Italians and Vietnamese at the same time 😂
This and your market video made me love your channel even more. You're funny and I learn a lot from your experiences.
Thank you for continuing to make content😊
Aww you guys are so adorable! ❤️ Uyen, I tend to go all out while cooking and end up on the couch like you did too 😂
They truly love each other ❤ I love watching them😊
I absolutely love both of you guys, your chemistry, the dynamic… you guys are the best
You’re a good sport Uyen! The three dishes you cooked are some of my favorite Vietnamese dishes! 👏
German always honest! Love it! 😅you guys are so funny together ❤
Your face changed to depressed German cheek surplus. I just arrived here from your older videos where you smiled so much. Please take trips back home or wherever gives your heart the sunshine you need to smile like you again ❤
I really REALLY hope you go on a food tour when you are next in Vietnam. Do one in each city, but Hanoi seems to have the best guides from all the videos I've watched. Maybe you should partner up with "Will in Vietnam" as he recently took the French ambassador out for street food in Hanoi. Or reach out to Van from "What the Pho" since she's also from Hanoi. If you are going back soon, maybe collab with "Mike and Ashley" or "Sammy and Tommy" (I hear they are planning on going back early next year).
I'm watching your videos and now I want to try every vietnamese food! 😍
Sometimes you have to change and adapt recipes to your family’s liking. Like for Banh Xeo he mentioned he didn’t like pork belly. In my family we use ground pork or ground chicken. Every family has their likes and dislikes and eventually it becomes a family recipe. In my family we add boiled mung beans in the Banh Xeo too and I’m not certain that is how they make it normally. I like it because it adds extra nutrition, flavor and texture to the dish.
You both are darling, and keeping it real while you try to cheer each other up about food. Kudos on your bravery to try new foods❤