Biggest Culture Shock EVER @ Long Bien Overnight Market in Hanoi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2019
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The long bien over night market in Hanoi is the craziest market in Hanoi. From the moment we got there, the night market was packed with people, scooters, and vendors. The Long Bien market transforms the streets into frankly a lot of stress. Haha. Hanoi, Vietnam has been culture shocking, and this market gave us the biggest culture shock in Vietnam. This wholesale market in Hanoi is specifically for vendors of nearby to get their items in bulk. We got pushed around, saw dogs about to be eaten, and even taunted. The is the craziest Hanoi market.
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Hi guys. Thanks for making the video. Always good to see a different perspective on things. As a travel writer myself, it's the ultimate challenge to parachute into a location and try to get the local perspective instead of simply sharing personal observations (which may be biased, ignorant, or just simply wrong). I think local insight is what's missing from this video. So just my two cents as a Vietnamese-American who's lived in Saigon for the past 10 years...
In the teaser, you say this location makes for a "crazy Hanoi night market" and encourage tourists to visit without providing the most pertinent facts:
1) It's a wholesale market. It's not set up for tourists or individuals wanting to grocery shop.
2) People from all over are coming to buy in bulk to re-sell at other markets. They're all on a deadline and want to get in and out as quickly as possible.
3) Much like Tokyo's Tsukiji Market, tourists are not welcome at all, especially in the middle of the market. Tourists bring zero benefit to the people selling / buying here, but rather negatively impact activity.
Things that might have affected how you were treated:
1) Filming in the middle of the street where people had to go around you. This market in particular is literally a workplace. You'd probably be peeved if a film crew walked into your place of work uninvited and disrupted activity (even to a small extent). So first impressions were going to be negative.
2) Look at what you're wearing. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but... is anyone else in the market dressed like you? If someone traipsed into my workplace dressed like they were going to the beach, how would that affect my view of that person?
3) Engaging sellers who ONLY sell in bulk and asking to buy ONE item. Knowing what kind of market this was would've saved you from that negative experience (and explained why they initially didn't want to sell to you and why someone else piped in with a high price). To generalize about the Vietnamese shopping experience after that one interaction was short-sighted.
4) This experience probably isn't representative of Hanoians or Vietnamese. I'm pretty sure Vietnamese vloggers would've gotten the same reception, although they would've been cursed out to their face in Vietnamese whereas the Vietnamese know you wouldn't understand which is why they resorted to non-verbal reactions - eye rolls, honking, jostling (which by the way, in such a tight environment, everyone gets jostled, much less people blocking the way).
What would've made this video better.
1) Researching the location before you went. It's not a typical "night market" as you'd find in downtown Chiang Mai or even Saigon's Ben Thanh.
2) Standing off to the side while filming.
3) Showing the video to a local who speaks English and including their responses as to why they thought you were treated the way you were. This would've provided a balanced and informed video.
Again, just my two cents. Stay safe!
Being polite and kind costs nothing and shouldn't depend on how someone dresses. This isn't an experience isolated to this market simply because its a wholesale market. I've travelled all round the world and am used to travelling in new cultures... spent 10 months in Vietnam recently and would honestly be happy to never go back precisely due to experiencing this kind of behaviour regularly. Regardless of how I was dressed or if we spoke Vietnamese, the lack of warmth, yelling, ignoring us, and just general rudeness (unless I was with a Vietnamese friend, and even then sometimes) was pervasive and exhausting. Towards the end of the 10 months I had little desire to learn any more Vietnamese or ever return. Looking at the statistics on return rate, I'm not alone. I'm a darker skinned Asian person who grew up in the west and Asia, and often had Viet people look down at me or refuse to interact with me immediately upon seeing me, and it felt very racist to be honest... they were even ruder to me than my white American boyfriend, who they constantly tried to rip off even though he has lived in Vietnam for years and speaks quite good Vietnamese, he would always try to be really friendly and kind, and would also quite politely pay extortionate fees (even when he was struggling financially) as an olive branch gesture. We got ripped off several times, and not just with vendors we were meeting for the first time. Sometimes we would repeatedly give business to someone and they would end up ripping us off down the line, with absolutely no business sense or value to a returning customer. Catfished so many times looking for accommodation. It became exhausting doing simple things. People were absolutely shameless about ripping us off or lying. Don't even get me started on the animal abuse, literally some of the worst I've seen anywhere, keeping dogs in tiny covered cages, was not unusual to see dogs being abused openly, I even saw a kitten tied up on a tiny rope going crazy and terrified of people, birds in cages all over plucking their own feathers out due to the anxiety, ducks hung upside down for hours attached to scooters while still alive, squawking in pain... my boyfriend came home in tears one day after he went to see a property and saw someone violently abusing a dog that was tied up and terrified. Someone I know tried to talk to their neighbours about a dog in the neighbourhood that was howling all day and being abused, and what was the Vietnamese neighbour's response? That they should poison the dog. Literally no compassion or sense. Animal abuse happens all over the world but it was almost impossible to escape constantly witnessing it on a regular basis in Vietnam and it shocked and disgusted me how people were totally blasé about it. I did meet some really nice sweet Vietnamese people, and they and the beautiful nature were the saving grace of the trip, but unfortunately the nice people were a minority, not the majority.
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So funny I'd probably have the same reaction as you guys did. Thanks for this fun video :D
Of course friend 😁 what a crazy night
Wow!! What an experience...That looked like a nightmare! Especially if you don't fit in. You guys are brave!! Haha 😅
Love you guys!! ❤
Haha it was so chaotic 😂😭
Thank you mam...I think silly is the right adjective lol
We love you too!! 💙
As a Vietnamese, I don't think that market is the place for you to go sightseeing guys. People there are very busy and in hurry with their work, so don't expect them to behave nicely. The lady at 11:30 yelled at you because you were standing in and blocking the spot she was selling goods. Her logic was if you kept standing there, the customers would not be able to see her goods and thus would turn to another seller since it was the whole-sale market and there were a lot of places selling similar stuffs.
Not at all...we should have skipped this market. Thank you so much for the translation. We learned our lesson for sure and will not be interrupting people's business like that again. We lived literally a block away and would hear this market every single night and were just curious 😂
@@ChaseforAdventure it's okay. Let discover if you want. this market for delivery goods to all other market in Hanoi.an interesting experience. Where is indian man live or study in hanoi?
I agree with u Quoc, that there is no market for a foreigner to do time pass and comment on locals! 😡 It's really irritating, presently in nam and u shd have sence to know where to go.
I guess that's a whole sale market, where trucks carry goods into big city & small vendors come to buy & resell in day time. In Ho Chi Minh city, a 6-passenger SUVs or larger are not permitted to enter the city between 20:00 & 06:00 or so. Hanoi may have a similar regulation.
That is so interesting! Thank you for sharing friend :)
Saw all the comments and notice that no one explain to you why they ask for high price for the fruits you want. The truth is this type of market doesnt sell products in a small amount. It distributes goods to vendors, small local markets, grocery's shops etc. Thats the reason why it open so early in the morning at 1 am so the customers have time to buy and then start reselling goods in the morning (usually at 6 am). Thats why when you asked to buy mango the lady ignored you, and when your bf wanted to buy they asked for high price, that didnt mean they want to rip you of, it was simply mean that "go away, we dont sell to you". So pls dont judge too quickly you guys. Thank you
I have not visited this part of Hanoi! Looks exhilarating! :D
this is crazily chaotic haha
Right?! It was nuts! Thank you for joking us in the premiere! ❤️
I’m from Asia, I don’t think I’ve have the guts to go to o this place .. I’ll give you guys 👍👍👍..You guys are sooo brave😂😂😂
Haha fair enough! Thank you so much Richard ☺️
Every morning, everyone in Vietnam is busy and focused on their work. They want the goods to gather the most on the shelves. Suppliers are afraid of being late and fined. While tourists like you only bother people?
Thanks for the information friend 😁
All they did was stood there for a moment to film. The mean lady said that you move out of the way so she can do the sale. I think this market is for vendors, not for individual shopers.
I just spent 3 weeks traveling through Vietnam and it was the biggest culture shock I have ever experienced. During my time there I met many nice and helpful people, especially in Ho Chi Minh. However, I also met quite a lot of rude people and experienced a lot of blatant overcharging and scam attempts. I've traveled a lot and I was prepared for it all, so overall I had a good experience and liked the country, but man the culture shock was intense at times. I think the biggest things that turned me off was the endless beeping for no reason at all and the crazy amount of garbage everywhere. I am currently in Thailand and OMG what a nice and smiley bunch of people, traffic actually stops for pedestrians here and people do not beep unless it's necessary lol. Love your channel guys, keep up the good content and stay safe out there.
Plamen, thank you for sharing your experience friend! That sounds like exactly our experience (minus going to the south).
Haha isn’t that the truth! Thailand....oh how I love it there 😁
Thank you so much! 🤙🏽
Chase for Adventure You guys should definitely go explore the south if you have the time. Some of my favorite places were Da Lat (beautiful city in the mountains with cool temperatures and mostly local tourists), Da Nang, Hue to name a few. You would probably like the food in Saigon much more than Hanoi and a trip to the Mekong river south of Saigon is also pretty cool... Yeah, Thailand is def paradise. There is so much to love about this country, I don’t want to leave!
Dang we literally just left! 😔 I’ll keep your recommendation in mind because when we go back we’ll have to tear the south apart! 🤙🏽
@@ChaseforAdventure central of vietnam
Da nang( city of bridge: dragon bridge, tran thi ly brigde, song han brigde,...): Ba na hills, go to Hoi An ( ancient town, town of lantern ,near Da nang) Hue citadel of Vietnam, Nha Trang city( should go to vinpearl land), Mui ne destination.Go to Da lat city it's very nice.( city of flower). South of vietnam :Ho Chi Minh city, Mekong delta, Phu Quoc island( very famous) .So many other beautiful places you need discovery.
Welcome to Vietnam🇻🇳😁😁😘😘😘.
Don't forget try local food every destination. Vietnamese food is so delicious and healthy. ( banh cuon, bun cha, banh mi, banh xeo, com tam, cơm cháy,pho, banh beo, sea food is very fresh,...many...
well even a regular vietnamese would never come here, its mostly for wholesale vendors and they would assume you are stupid if you try to buy just a few. Also after the market the whole area stink of rotten fruit in the morning too, so yeah unless you have actual business, dont come there
Thank you so much for all the information ! We learned that the hard way lol we just lived literally upstairs and always hurt commotion all through the night 😂 Our curiosity got the best of us 😑😂
That would have been to stressful for me. Wow!!! Is there that many people out during the day or is it more??? He smacked an old lady back. LOLLLLL!!!
OMG!!
I’m pretty sure it’s even stressful for the Vietnamese lol
It is defiantly that busy during the day in the old quarter! It’s just a larger space so your but bumping into everyone. However, on weekend nights it gets that crowded in the old Quarter!
I know...smh lol
That was B-A-N-A-N-A-S!!!!
Ok...and I thought Manila was chaotic. 😅
Amazing Vietnam!🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳😂😂😂
Haha I loved Vietnam 😁😊
@ 7:47 mushy black mystery soup 😂 lmfao.....think have an idea wat that is!
@ 8:11 #theGauntlet #theGridiron
Ahahah it was DISGUSTING! 🤮
I am sure from my experience that the soup comes with a strong wafting aroma?!?
First, i gotta say, nice editing, i love the music too.
I read your blog, and i came to watch the video, after watching it, i’d like to clarify a few things as a Hanoian:
Long Biên Market is a wholesale market, buyers from this market are all sellers who come to buy things with big amount. Especially at 3am, that time is when new/fresh products and wholesale buyers come .The short hair lady that yelled at you because you guys were standing before her shop, no one can sees her and her small shop, if you dont buy anything from her then dont get in her way, of course she can say in a more tender way, but yelling at you guys might be the faster way haha, thats rude but i believe that no one wants to be blocked when theyre trying to sale. Perhaps pay more attention next time, especially when this market is rarely for visitors.
Oh, btw, you said in the blog that maybe because Vietnam is a communist country and we hate Americans so you were mistreated, well actually, we dont give a fck, like, how are we supposed to know where youre from just by looking at you? We did have a fight with America, but thats our problem American government, not people. So dont think thats because of your nationality, maybe its because of something else =)))
Currently in Hanoi and having a very different experience. Maybe because I am not shoving a camera in people’s faces while they are trying to work.
lol defiantly didn’t shove a camera in anyone’s face but glad your having a better experience visiting than we did living there for 3 months seeing the same people and speaking some Vietnamese 😂✌🏽
that was scary..lol
Haha right?! And we lived there 😱
Wow..u guys are really brave.
You sound like janice from friends.
Ha fair comparison 😄
Chos chow everywhere,it's nothing infornt of Indian market😉😉
But as always I like this content.
Hope you guys will make plan for India soon.
Are Indian markets crazier than this?! 😱
We are friend! Very soon 😁
@@ChaseforAdventure Yeah crazier than this one😉😀😀 but travel by Mumbai local train is best ever thing happened in my life. 😜
Oh wow that’s awesome to know! Thanks Suyog 😁
suyog bonde do u watch t series
@@jackboulton303 yeah big fan off T series, one of biggest platform for Bollywood listner.
How u come across???
Come to India.... You must not have faced this rudeness in India for sure... Come to India.. You havent covered the north east or south.. ☺️☺️
Thank you so much for the invitation friend ☺️
oh forgive them, so busy and have no mood for greeting foreigner
Agreed, we realized after we had already been there...we had no business being there 😂😭
Market place/ super market is always a busy place where trading goods take place. People are always in their hurry to get their work done. It's NOT a place for SIGHTSEEING. So don't expect local people to take their time and sweet talk to you. Most importantly, don't stand in their way recording, selfing videos blocking the view of their customers. The lady was right, she was trying to make ends meet. Can't Fix STUPID! Want a peaceful quiet ROMANTIC place, go to HAWAII island or find some jungles to hike and enjoy your time. Don't be walking around the super market places blocking/obstructing the area and then be BIG MOUTH complaining about the locals.
O god the poor poor dogs. Noooooooo 😭😭😭😠😠😠😱😱😱😱
I know!! It was heart breaking 😭
@@ChaseforAdventure theres nothing wrong
In eating dog , its in their culture but dog eating is reducing
Indian dont eat beef same we feel awkard when foreigner eat it
Westerners find it awkard ,they dont even allow whale hunting for japan
Whale is part of that japanese culture in one village , whale feeds entire village for two months
Dog poisoning and eating is terrible and sad 😢😢😢 wft is wrong with these ppl! 😢😢
You are now known as "Team Misadventure" Gettoutathaway....move
Lmao that’s amazing 😂
Friendly advice: You guys have potential but I'd suggest working on your speaking. Hearing "like" in every sentence gets really annoying after a while. If you make your videos more about the PLACE and less about yourself just recounting what you're seeing, I think you'll go a long way. Good luck!!
Thank you so much for the information Angela! We will keep that in mind 😁
Wow the Vietnamese people seem so aggressive . I am cancelling my holiday for next year to Vietnam . I need friendly people on holiday and being slapped and shouted at is not my thing.
Probably a good choice. I recommend Thailand! Cambodia is also pretty cool if you've already been to Thailand and want something different. I found the people in both countries really nice, vs Vietnam where I really struggled with the rudeness.
Dang! What a shame these people are! I bet they're even illegal vendors bcoz they just set up randomly on the street thus causing human traffic..
A lot of the people here were shameless and hit us but I don’t think any of them are human traffickers though. There definitely has to be that side to Vietnam (not that I have experienced it lol) I think these were just kind of cranky people. Granted if I had to do hard labor at 3:30 in the morning every day I would be crank too! Actually I used to have to do that so I know the feeling lol
@@ChaseforAdventure ha ha. Pardon me. Human traffic meaning they set up their stalls randomly causing "human traffic" meaning small / narrow alleys get crowded because of their illegally set up merchandise. It's a problem here in the Philippines too but not as blatant as that. There's a massive campaign by the gov't to fix the markets and draw a line where sellers should and can not set up their merchandise to make everything orderly.
Wahahaha I totally misunderstood 😂
You know, to be honest I never thought of it being an issue the government could regulate with vendors. That’s interesting the Philippines is working on that. Thank you so much for sharing friend! 😁
@@ChaseforAdventure u two get ur asses back here. We're just getting warmed up then suddenly you leave. Y?????? Did the sudden barrage of comments scared u? Lol! Seriously, hope u come back.
Something about this whole video and the way you approached others really made me uncomfortable. I don't think you would grab a woman's shoulders and tell her she is beautiful if she was trying to pass by you in a busy area like times square, nor do I think you would slap a man's arm like you've known him for years when you're passing by. Just because you learn how to say hello and how are you in someone's local language does not mean you are being respectful.. These people were at the market at 3 am for work - not to be gawked at and filmed.
Thank you for the feedback. With the woman Annette told she was beautiful, she was ridiculously nasty and Annette had been interacting with her already. With the man she slapped, he slapped her and smiled....which is all in the video. I can completely understand your stance on the language, I just happen to disagree. We learned a lot more than those two phrases and were actually taking Vietnamese lessons. Learning someone’s local language IS a sign of respect and it’s something we do in every country we visit. And it has always been enthusiastically welcomed. Vietnam was just the one place that didn’t care. In Vietnam I have never been treated so poorly and frankly hit so many times....with such consistency. That was especially true at this market. We got hit, push, shoved, made fun of and hit some more. Yet despite all of this, not once did we lash out or be disrespectful back. I understand they are there for work but that doesn’t justify treating other humans with such a literally violent amount of disrespect. Thank you again for your comment. I really appreciated reading a different point of view and being able to have a conversation about it.
@@ChaseforAdventure i really appreciate you taking the time to reply. The video was edited and I should have taken into consideration that those moments were out of context. I shouldn't have assumed you only know a few words - you're absolutely right, making any kind of effort (big or small) to learn someone elses language is a sign of respect and open mindedness. I didn't realize how bad it was while watching this and only when I read your blog did I understand. You guys carried yourself really well, I'm sorry for what I said.
You are so sweet. I really appreciate you taking the time to learn more about our point of view, and appreciate you having shared your views in the first place. ☺️❤️
Người đẹp có tập tạ ko mà nhìn người đẹp vai xô ,cơ tay đồ rất bự vậy ?
I'm so sorry friend, I don't know what that means. 😭
That is so inconsiderate of you. That did not look like a bunch of people trying to be immersant in a new culture. You were loud and behaving like you came to see an exhibition, inconsiderate of the fact that it's a serious place of making livelihood for them, not a sightseeing location. If it was not for you, just get the hell out and stay safe. If you want to experience it, observe without making a fuss and without getting in their way and loudly vlogging on those busy streets. You guys are not travellers. You are just youtubers. 🙏
Thanks for the feedback Sushree 😁
Sushree Tripathy what a rude Feedback Wait r u Indian ?? No wonder .. found your comment nega especially the last sentence..
@@vryllecausing655 Hehe. Very true. Hormonal imbalance I guess.
Have you ever been to Vietnam? I was there for 10 months recently, I'm a darker skinned south Asian person like yourself and there with my white American partner who speaks Vietnamese. We aren't youtubers, we are travellers with experience travelling to many countries all over the world and living in those countries, immersing ourself in the culture and learning the language. And the kind of rude behaviour that's in the video was EVERYWHERE. Even in places for tourists! After 10 months there I would honestly be happy to never go back precisely due to experiencing this kind of behaviour regularly. Regardless of how I was dressed or if we spoke Vietnamese, the lack of warmth, yelling, ignoring us, and just general rudeness (unless I was with a Vietnamese friend, and even then sometimes) was pervasive and exhausting. Intended to stay for two years for work but... Towards the end of the 10 months I had little desire to learn any more Vietnamese or ever return to the country. Looking at the statistics on return rate, I'm not alone. I often had Viet people look down at me or refuse to interact with me immediately upon seeing me, and it felt very racist to be honest... they were even ruder to me than my white American boyfriend, who they constantly tried to rip off even though he has lived in Vietnam for years and speaks quite good Vietnamese, he would always try to be really friendly and kind, and would also quite politely pay extortionate fees (even when he was struggling financially) as an olive branch gesture. We got ripped off several times, and not just with vendors we were meeting for the first time. Sometimes we would repeatedly give business to someone and they would end up ripping us off down the line, with absolutely no business sense or value to a returning customer. Catfished so many times looking for accommodation. It became exhausting doing simple things. People were absolutely shameless about ripping us off or lying. Don't even get me started on the animal abuse, literally some of the worst I've seen anywhere, keeping dogs in tiny covered cages, was not unusual to see dogs being abused openly, I even saw a kitten tied up on a tiny rope going crazy and terrified of people, birds in cages all over plucking their own feathers out due to the anxiety, ducks hung upside down for hours attached to scooters while still alive, squawking in pain... my boyfriend came home in tears one day after he went to see a property and saw someone violently abusing a dog that was tied up and terrified. Someone I know tried to talk to their neighbours about a dog in the neighbourhood that was howling all day and being abused, and what was the Vietnamese neighbour's response? That they should poison the dog. Literally no compassion or sense. Animal abuse happens all over the world but it was almost impossible to escape constantly witnessing it on a regular basis in Vietnam and it shocked and disgusted me how people were totally blasé about it. I did meet some really nice sweet Vietnamese people, and they and the beautiful nature were the saving grace of the trip, but unfortunately the nice people were a minority, not the majority.
I think your outfit in asia for a woman in a communist country would not be seen as respectable
Thanks for your thoughts. We’ve been living in Asia for over 5 years and have had no problems. We even live in a Muslim thai village 😁👍🏽