I think people confuse China's CCP with Vietnams Communist party. The two are not the same and the countries are governed completely different. China's government hates foreigners and wants them out of the country. This is not true for Vietnam, which is pro foreign investment, much less a "nanny state" of "big brother" watching!
My wife and I have lived in Vietnam of and on since 2016 including a year and a half during the covid19 pandemic. We now have been here for a year and nine months on an investment Visa and plan on staying in Hoi an for ever. We have made alot of Vietnamese friends that are like family and we have friends that live here that are from Canada and Australia as well. The food is fantastic and we are constantly finding new and some really good restaurants!
My first step in Vietnam land in 2009, can see another of changed like ,district 7 , many are home for Korea and Japan, many mnc step in year 2016, price increase over time.
Same as me this American. I too am American and my Wife is Vietnamese and a US Citizen too. I am retired from ExxonMobil and now live in Park Riverside in Thu Duc City. Love Vietnam. Love this interview as well.
Why do you think you are American and your wife is Vietnamese and only a US citizen? If you are a US citizen you are an American who should only be called as a US citizen. NOT ?
Vietnam believes that, with the spirit of putting aside the past, overcoming differences, promoting similarities, looking towards the future. The United States and Vietnam are building an exemplary relationship in international relations today. The people in both countries are wonderful, friendly, sociable and adaptable. As a Vietnamese, I hope many Americans come to travel, work, do business and live long term in Vietnam.
Would it be wonderful if we can take away 10% of the bribe money from the communist party cadres and put it in education, health, social services and retirement systems for the less fortunate people?
That's beautiful, positive and uplifting. Vietnamese want to move to the USA, let them move. American want to move to Vietnam, let them move. People living the lives they wanted makes the world a more positive place.
Death tolls by butchers of 20th century: Lenin 8 million Stalin 20 million Mao 80 million Hu Kwang aka Ho Quang aka Ho Chi Minh 2 million Pol-Pot 2 million What did these mass murdering lowlifes have in common?
Just to make sure you won't get sick or get into traffic accident with any 4-wheel vehicle, as many drivers there tend to run over injured victims multiple times to ensure mortality as the only outcome, ya know, because under the twisted Commie Vietnam's legal system, liability expenses for death is much lower than those for life-long injuries. Goodluck!
Vietnam has changed a lot since I first visited with my wife in 2005. With how lawless America is right now, it was nice to be able to walk around at midnight without someone pointing a gun at your face and robbing or even shooting you. A few things I don't like is the corruption, nothing is "legit" until you are forced to pay under the table here. Just recently retiring in Vietnam, I still prefer it over America with all the bad things going on in the US. I am currently staying in Q4, the old ghetto of Vietnam but it is a lot nicer now. I think once the infrastructure is upgraded, it will get even nicer.
@@Viet_Nam_Ball America corruption is way worse. It seeps into every facet of their society making living and everything worse. Medical care is so corrupted by pharmacies/private insurance/government that everything cost 100000 times the price it'd cost in Vietnam. For example calling ambulance is free in Vietnam, it cost about 3000$ in america. Or something as simple as tax that anyone can do in 5 minutes in Vietnam, tax companies + government corruption made it impossible for any normal human to do taxes, so they have to hire tax consultant companies to do it for them. You can't even paint your house how you want, the corrupted people decided your fucking wall paint for you (Check Homeowner Association segment by John Oliver). "Freedom" in america is a joke. These are just some examples, there are so many thing that government corruption fucked over people in America. The only difference is they call it "lobbying" instead of "corruption" to avoid responsibility and normalize corruption.
Vâng những năm gần đây chính phủ đã can thiệp nhiều về tham nhũng nhưng nó chỉ được giải quyết một phần nhỏ những vụ tham nhũng lớn. Còn rất nhiều việc phải làm ví dụ như khi bạn đến viện công lập khám bệnh, bạn phải tìm cách đưa tiền kín cho bác sỹ để được khám chữa nhanh, đưa tiền cho y tá để được thay băng cẩn thận và ít bị đau... hay bạn thầu 1 dự án vốn ngân sách thì bạn phải đưa tiền kín cho những quan chức địa phương... tôi không biết trên thế giới này có nhiều nơi như vậy không?
@@DAIDUONGAODIO Có vẻ bạn không đọc comment của mình nên dịch lại tiếng việt cho bạn. Ở mỹ họ tham nhũng vô đáy luôn, ác hơn việt nam mình nhiều. Ví dụ như gọi xe cứu hộ thì phải trả tầm 60-70 triệu đồng 1 chuyến, dù có bị bệnh hay không. Việt Nam mình chỉ là ăn vụng còn họ là ăn cướp. Hay nếu bạn gãy tay chẳng hạn, riêng tiền bó bột là 20 triệu, chưa tính tiền thuốc thang, chữa trị đắt gấp cả vài chục lần cái khoản 20 triệu ấy. So với Việt Nam, bó bột, xe cứu thương miễn phí, một hai trăm lót tay bác sĩ thì đáng là bao. Ở mỹ thay vì tham nhũng thì họ dùng từ "vận động hành lang". Bản chất là các chính trị gia nhận tiền của các tập đoàn lớn để họ thoải mái hành hạ/bóc lột người dân. Chữa trị bệnh tật đắt đỏ như vậy là do các nhà bảo hiểm tư nhân phối hợp với các công ty bán thuốc đưa tiền cho chính phủ để thoải mái lộng hành. Mà họ còn làm việc đấy trước thanh thiên bạch nhật, không hề giấu diếm. Đấy chỉ là một mặt thôi, còn rất nhiều các thể loại bóc lột, ức hiếp khác ở mỹ nhờ tham nhũng mà đẻ ra. Buồn cười nhất là ở Mỹ nhiều nơi họ quy định chỉ được sơn tường nhà một loại màu. Nếu không thì mấy ông "Hiệp hội nhà ở" ở Mỹ sẽ phạt tiền. Hiệp hội này bản chất là mấy ông bà già 50-60 tuổi nhưng chức quyền ngang cảnh sát vì họ... đưa tiền cho chính phủ, thích phạt ai thì phạt, trấn lột cưỡng bức một cách công khai mà pháp luật đứng về phía họ.
I followed Chad too and he has great content. Straight shooter, like any NE type of guy. Great to know he is from PA, but not sure what town. If he makes Philly cheesesteak in Saigon, it would be a great hit, but the challenges would be the sourcing of materials and ingridients. Best of luck to him. Great interview by the way Ken.
Yeah particularly the meat. He can bake the bread fresh from scratch in the restaurant since the ingredients are cheap(flour, sugar, salt, oil, yeast, water, etc), but it will definitely add a lot of more work daily as well as more needed equipment like an oven and a dough mixer. I’m not sure if he can find a bakery that can make it for them and deliver it to the restaurant. That would be much easier and better, saving a lot of time. But I can’t imagine being able to make a living, being forced to sell the food very cheap like everyone else. I don’t see that producing a lot of profits/income because of that. Unless he opens by the airport and target American travelers, where he can charge way more for his menu items. I used to owned a pizzeria and a restaurant back in the day in the US and it was a challenge dealing with the amount of work. Again, I can’t see how one can make a good living doing it over there in Vietnam or Thailand or the Philippines and places alike.
Best of luck with the new restaurant. If you are going to experiment with new/modified Vietnamese dishes you should try experimenting with frying Chả Lụa. I am married to a Vietnamese (53 years now) and when we first got married my wife would make Chả Lụa the traditional way by wrapping them in banana leaves and steaming them in a bamboo steamer. One day the bamboo steamer fell apart so she just fried paddies of it. We both liked the fried better than the traditional so that is the way she has been making them ever since.
Your wife must know there's a fried version of Cha Lua. It's called Cha Que and it's as popular as Cha Lua. Que means cinnamon so it's the only added ingredient to the fried version.
I do Nov to March every year sometimes I do 2 or 3 trips love the culture yes I’m married to a Vietnamese woman for a decade , I prefer to stay in Vietnam then the USA 🇺🇸 less stress Vietnamese people are so nice 👍
Goodday Ken, Another high quality, feel good, honest, smile on your face video, wouldn't expect anything less from you. Listening to Chef Chad inspires me that I can do it, come to Vietnam & live the Vietnamese lifestyle. Go with the flow. Such a great video, so informative & agree with Chad when dealing with Vietnamese. Cheers Louis Kats your number 1 Fan in Melbourne, Australia. 👍 🙂 🇻🇳 🇦🇺
This interview reveals a lot of cultural differences from East vs west. I’m việt kiều (Vietnamese American) and I’m right in the middle. I chuckle because understanding this dynamic 😊
Love this candid interview of more and more of my fav chef! Alinea is no joke! And he wants to open a restaurant in Vietnam, must visit! Love how honest he is
thank you for the advice ken, we are building a mutual business and building our networks from the u.s and vietnam.. hoping that in the next few years we can do all our business from vietnam soon once all our networks are established.
Great content again, we are in the planning stage of another couple of trips and then shifting out to Vietnam, what a wonderful part of the world, what a culture shock our first few days there was 😊
Love chef Chad !! Love your channel and your video contents ! Breakfast for a Buck $1 series was awesome! Cannot wait for your restaurant to be opened !
I agreed with chef Chad about Vietnamese do well when we are in groups and not alone. For example with football, the whole 11 Vietnamese football players, they can play well with eachother. But when a player went abroad and play for a foreign team, he is not himself anymore. It might be because of the language barrier
This awesome. I’m a Viet Kieu from United States and upon researching the move I found both of your channels, now I’m watching both on the same video. Great information
"everything that occurs, i'm hopeful...but i have zero expectations...i'm always accepting that i have no idea of what's going on....i just try to keep going forward...the thing that sticks will stick and the things that roll off...just keep going....you think something's gonna happen and then they're just gone...so every opportunity that comes, I'm hopeful but I don't expect anything...that's just the way it is"...........That pretty much sums up the work culture in Vietnam 😂😂😂
I am retired, I love Vietnam, but am afraid to move there full time because I don’t want to loose my military pension, VA disability, and my Social Security..
I'm subbed to Chad's channel & meet his viewer demographics. Born in Saigon, came to the US at age of 3 during the fall of Saigon. Haven't been back since. Somehow feel like I want to know where I came from but through the eyes of an American on TH-cam. One day I'll return at least for a short visit. Good vid and Cheers!
After the Fall of Saigon... Saigon still lives on. The communist party changed the name to Ho Chi Minh City to remove the previous regime's influence, but the native doesn't give a shit. It may be different on paper, but everyone there still proudly call their home Saigon to this day and for the future. If you ever decide to visit Saigon, I suggest contacting Saigon Hotpot or Saigon Corners, they are student volunteers who can speak English, know all the good places to eat and visit. Basically exclusive tour guide for cheap (they don't take commission fee, just ticket entrance to sites/food). It's perfect for foreigners, even more so if you want to chat to them about stuffs like "where I came from" and they will gladly answers/help. If your parents are still capable of travelling, I'd even suggest taking them as well and have them reconnect with their old relatives. Or just visiting their old places.
1st of all, I watch both of yours and Chad’s channels, love them both. 2nd, what a fascinating conversation. I left VN when a was 17, I’m now 59 living in CA, USA and about to retire. So I found what you Chad were talking about was incredibly interesting. My wife and I are seriously considering living in VN for at least 3 months out of the year. Doable?
Vietnam nowadays is growing rapidly, SAFETY & BEAUTIFUL!! I hope you can visit back to VIETNAM TO SEE HOW INCREDIBLE VIETNAM CHANGING SINCE 1990 & 2000s till now. It take just 30Y our country can be devolveping like this. Vietnam nowadays is more safety, more devolveping than PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA Vietnam is growing same like THAILAND. While Thailand is more open free trade & bussiness with the worlds long before. It’s proven how VIETNAM GROW FAST & SUCCESSFUL!!
You’re leaving Vietnam for too many years!! US is top devolveping country, it use to be DREAM LAND & OPPORTUNITIES COUNTRY!! US IS SAFETY & DREAM, but it was 20-30-40y ago, not now. YOU SHOULD TRAVEL BACK TO VIETNAM TO SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL LIFE & HOE SAFETY LIFE IN VIETNAM CHANGING. US & WESTERN NOWADAYS IS UNSAFE, FLOODING BY LAZY DRUGGIES HOMELESS & DRUGGIES ZOMBIES (Chicago, SAN Francisco, Baltimore, Portland, Oakland, Newyork city,etc..) VIOLENT THUGS & GUNPOINT ROBBERY, CRIMINALS!! And RACIST HATEFUL TOWARDS TO ASIAN. No matter how long ASIAN IMMIGRANTS IN US, Asian people is smart & hard working & less troublemaker if compare to any others immigrants group. BUT ASIAN STILL FACING THE MOST RACIST HATEFUL. Ridiculous!! If you’re retired in Vietnam, surrounded by same people like you, it’s give biggest different feelings.
honestly recommend retiring in Vietnam for good if you still have VNmese nationality (and there are work around if you don't) The medical care alone is worth it. Since it can easily bankrupt you in america if you dare to contract even 1 disease. You may feel fine now at 59, but you wont be forever.
I found this video very helpful and enjoyable anh Ken oi… can’t wait to meet you in person once the boys are out of school for summer breaks 2024. Take care and look forward to your next video. Dino Do and An Tran in Anaheim, CA
he said vietnamese work well together as a team surprised me. Im vietnamese and my personal experience and conventional wisdom indicate that vietnamese generally works well as an individual. when you put 10 vietnamese together you got 10 chiefs and no indian, and they ended up arguing more than work 😂. The younger generation are more open minded and acceptance to new ideas. Not so much with the old school folks, my parents, aunts, and uncles for example would probably ended up killing each other if they have to work together on a project. outside of that, they get along very well.
Great video. I love team-up YT videos when two people I follow do a video together. I'm in D1 a stone's throw from the canal. So many great places to eat.
thumbs up from the beginning .....love the videos. thanks a lot Ken for your hard work to give us the most valuable, spriritual experience through many interesting life stories. Already subscribed. Hope people do to support your channel. Great work! God bless
When l moved to London it took me 10 to adapt life here No one gave me a free lunch in 1995 until 2005 I bet you in Vietnam some one still give you a free lunch now 2023 Vietnam has enough food for nearly all people Life is getting better than it used to be in 2007 l was there but short food
Hi Dương, if you eat 3 times of cơm tấm dish a day for 30 days, you may have food OCD.😅 One advantage is your wife does not worry about feeding you for a month though.
For vietnamese, you have to show them instead of just telling them. "Oh, i am going to make craft beer." To them, they would wonder what is craft beer. Is that budwieser?
eating is good for the peoples. they have a many dings in conman. it is good for the foreigner to see hope in the vetnam and the vetnam people’s futures. it is very nice he forced himselves to try to become a vetnam person. he can not be but he try, is good, and he can cook pho for foreigner peoples in expensive places.
The heat can make people tired during the days people working all day long it is different in states US the weather is very cool all year round people can breathe easily
w.r.t Vang, I thought about my Chinese experience. They'll nod but they have their own thoughts, and they'll do what they want no matter how they sound. So they may be nodding, but they'll do whatever they have in mind. In other words, they do not answer your question. They'll nod but that will not mean they agree or do what you tell them.
Chad first went there in 2008 I went back there Vietnam by myself in 2007 for visiting my parents after 13 years in London I saw a lot hard work women earned 3 quid a day in Hue I earned in London 24 quid a day
its not about feelings.. its about business, ill never do business with anyone that needs my wife to talk to them,. ive been here 16 years never sat and wined and dined landlords
@@duongglobalbusinessconsulting His film production is really high quality, almost tv production value. No offense meant but some of the video quality in on this Duong channel is not that great. Either the audio levels or low or the editing or transition is a bit uninspired. For example, even in this video, the camera used to record the interview didn't use a telephoto lens to get a sharp zoom capture. The editor just cropped the shot and zoomed in on Chad's face so the video quality looks incredible blurry. I'm just saying that Chad's media production is quite exceptional, and wouldn't hurt to take some ideas from his video making.
I'll come to your new restaurant if you open Chef and don't forget to bribe the Vietnamese officers 😂😂😂 Last thing, VN is not cheap cost of leaving skyrocket recently and I hope you survive!!!
Hey Duong, I am interested in investing in vietnam startups or stocks, but I don't have any experience about that. It would be nice and helpful if you make some videos to introduce those type of investment
Thanks for your comment. We made tons of videos about investing in Vietnam. Please watch the following playlist: th-cam.com/play/PL5AO8T9wDGttqtbX8wG7l2XclGa7hafbC.html
Learning how stock and company owned by Commie Vietnam's richest man like VFS behaves in US stock market should give one a clue on the real qualities of the stocks and companies from Commie Vietnam. Watching real estate market in Commie China to predict the outcome of real state market in Commie Vietnam, which has been a vassal state of Commie China, again, since 1941 when Commie Chinese puppet Ho Chi Minh took the flag of Fujian Province (red flag with central yellow star) and replaced the national flag of Vietnam (yellow with 3 horizontal red stripes) for 2000 years with it. Since 2018, more high-end properties in Saigon have been bought by Chinese than local Vietnamese, according to CBRE Group.
If you make the $2600 a month salary which is the minimum wage in California ($15/hour) then you can buy 88 liters of gas a day ($5.16/gallon or $1.36/liter) unlike in Saigon with the monthly average salary of 7M VND you can only buy 12 liters of gas a day. No wonder expats really want to try doing business in VN.
Yes , gas price is expensive in Finland but Europeans in general don’t drive as much as Americans because the European public transport is better than the USA and country sizes are smaller that US states. Americans depend on their cars more than Europeans who use rather buses and trains.
What is the best’s website to look for houses or apartments to buy. Me and wife are planning to move in the next 6 or 7 years thank you . Here in the USA Elkhart, Indiana . My wife family live in Phan dang Lu
Bravo ! a great response - Obviously from a well versed attorney. You posed a question and defended your action all in one statement. I want to say this: I am sure many enjoy your video, and I do too to a certain extend. However, I was watching the first five minutes or so of your video, and was hoping to hear more about the other gentleman's story, but it appeared that he didn't quite have the opportunity. But that's ok since you "interjected to improve" the interview. Have a great day in VN. No more comment from me.
Please watch the entire video to hear more about his story, as it is a back-and-forth informal interview. But we are genuinely interested in improving the quality of our videos.
The Com Tam address is 54 Le Quoc Hung, Ward 12, District 4, HCM. Come and try it
I think people confuse China's CCP with Vietnams Communist party. The two are not the same and the countries are governed completely different. China's government hates foreigners and wants them out of the country. This is not true for Vietnam, which is pro foreign investment, much less a "nanny state" of "big brother" watching!
It looks like it’s closed now 😢
My wife and I have lived in Vietnam of and on since 2016 including a year and a half during the covid19 pandemic. We now have been here for a year and nine months on an investment Visa and plan on staying in Hoi an for ever. We have made alot of Vietnamese friends that are like family and we have friends that live here that are from Canada and Australia as well. The food is fantastic and we are constantly finding new and some really good restaurants!
my dream to live in hoi an !
Hoi An is extremely beautiful and cute but I don't know how you can live there forever
all you need is VND100 billion
I am American- been in Saigon 22 years now. Things are not really cheap here anymore.
My first step in Vietnam land in 2009, can see another of changed like ,district 7 , many are home for Korea and Japan, many mnc step in year 2016, price increase over time.
Bro wait til you see the prices in America now..
Same as me this American. I too am American and my Wife is Vietnamese and a US Citizen too. I am retired from ExxonMobil and now live in Park Riverside in Thu Duc City. Love Vietnam. Love this interview as well.
Why do you think you are American and your wife is Vietnamese and only a US citizen? If you are a US citizen you are an American who should only be called as a US citizen.
NOT ?
Vietnam believes that, with the spirit of putting aside the past, overcoming differences, promoting similarities, looking towards the future. The United States and Vietnam are building an exemplary relationship in international relations today. The people in both countries are wonderful, friendly, sociable and adaptable. As a Vietnamese, I hope many Americans come to travel, work, do business and live long term in Vietnam.
👍🇺🇸🇻🇳🤝
Would it be wonderful if we can take away 10% of the bribe money from the communist
party cadres
and put it in education, health, social services and retirement systems for
the less fortunate people?
I want to move to Vietnam
That's beautiful, positive and uplifting. Vietnamese want to move to the USA, let them move. American want to move to Vietnam, let them move. People living the lives they wanted makes the world a more positive place.
Death tolls by butchers of 20th century:
Lenin 8 million
Stalin 20 million
Mao 80 million
Hu Kwang aka Ho Quang aka Ho Chi Minh 2 million
Pol-Pot 2 million
What did these mass murdering lowlifes have in common?
I can't wait to retire and move to Vietnam. Loved this video!! Great job and super informative. Love the Com Tam portion of the video.
Just to make sure you won't get sick or get into traffic accident with any 4-wheel vehicle, as many drivers there tend to run over injured victims multiple times to ensure mortality as the only outcome, ya know, because under the twisted Commie Vietnam's legal system, liability expenses for death is much lower than those for life-long injuries. Goodluck!
Don't, simple !
Vietnam has changed a lot since I first visited with my wife in 2005. With how lawless America is right now, it was nice to be able to walk around at midnight without someone pointing a gun at your face and robbing or even shooting you. A few things I don't like is the corruption, nothing is "legit" until you are forced to pay under the table here. Just recently retiring in Vietnam, I still prefer it over America with all the bad things going on in the US. I am currently staying in Q4, the old ghetto of Vietnam but it is a lot nicer now. I think once the infrastructure is upgraded, it will get even nicer.
Yeah our culture of lễ and nghĩa only worsen the corruption.
@@Viet_Nam_Ball America corruption is way worse. It seeps into every facet of their society making living and everything worse.
Medical care is so corrupted by pharmacies/private insurance/government that everything cost 100000 times the price it'd cost in Vietnam. For example calling ambulance is free in Vietnam, it cost about 3000$ in america.
Or something as simple as tax that anyone can do in 5 minutes in Vietnam, tax companies + government corruption made it impossible for any normal human to do taxes, so they have to hire tax consultant companies to do it for them.
You can't even paint your house how you want, the corrupted people decided your fucking wall paint for you (Check Homeowner Association segment by John Oliver). "Freedom" in america is a joke.
These are just some examples, there are so many thing that government corruption fucked over people in America. The only difference is they call it "lobbying" instead of "corruption" to avoid responsibility and normalize corruption.
Vâng những năm gần đây chính phủ đã can thiệp nhiều về tham nhũng nhưng nó chỉ được giải quyết một phần nhỏ những vụ tham nhũng lớn. Còn rất nhiều việc phải làm ví dụ như khi bạn đến viện công lập khám bệnh, bạn phải tìm cách đưa tiền kín cho bác sỹ để được khám chữa nhanh, đưa tiền cho y tá để được thay băng cẩn thận và ít bị đau... hay bạn thầu 1 dự án vốn ngân sách thì bạn phải đưa tiền kín cho những quan chức địa phương... tôi không biết trên thế giới này có nhiều nơi như vậy không?
@@DAIDUONGAODIO Có vẻ bạn không đọc comment của mình nên dịch lại tiếng việt cho bạn.
Ở mỹ họ tham nhũng vô đáy luôn, ác hơn việt nam mình nhiều. Ví dụ như gọi xe cứu hộ thì phải trả tầm 60-70 triệu đồng 1 chuyến, dù có bị bệnh hay không. Việt Nam mình chỉ là ăn vụng còn họ là ăn cướp. Hay nếu bạn gãy tay chẳng hạn, riêng tiền bó bột là 20 triệu, chưa tính tiền thuốc thang, chữa trị đắt gấp cả vài chục lần cái khoản 20 triệu ấy. So với Việt Nam, bó bột, xe cứu thương miễn phí, một hai trăm lót tay bác sĩ thì đáng là bao.
Ở mỹ thay vì tham nhũng thì họ dùng từ "vận động hành lang". Bản chất là các chính trị gia nhận tiền của các tập đoàn lớn để họ thoải mái hành hạ/bóc lột người dân. Chữa trị bệnh tật đắt đỏ như vậy là do các nhà bảo hiểm tư nhân phối hợp với các công ty bán thuốc đưa tiền cho chính phủ để thoải mái lộng hành. Mà họ còn làm việc đấy trước thanh thiên bạch nhật, không hề giấu diếm.
Đấy chỉ là một mặt thôi, còn rất nhiều các thể loại bóc lột, ức hiếp khác ở mỹ nhờ tham nhũng mà đẻ ra.
Buồn cười nhất là ở Mỹ nhiều nơi họ quy định chỉ được sơn tường nhà một loại màu. Nếu không thì mấy ông "Hiệp hội nhà ở" ở Mỹ sẽ phạt tiền. Hiệp hội này bản chất là mấy ông bà già 50-60 tuổi nhưng chức quyền ngang cảnh sát vì họ... đưa tiền cho chính phủ, thích phạt ai thì phạt, trấn lột cưỡng bức một cách công khai mà pháp luật đứng về phía họ.
I followed Chad too and he has great content. Straight shooter, like any NE type of guy. Great to know he is from PA, but not sure what town. If he makes Philly cheesesteak in Saigon, it would be a great hit, but the challenges would be the sourcing of materials and ingridients. Best of luck to him. Great interview by the way Ken.
Yeah particularly the meat. He can bake the bread fresh from scratch in the restaurant since the ingredients are cheap(flour, sugar, salt, oil, yeast, water, etc), but it will definitely add a lot of more work daily as well as more needed equipment like an oven and a dough mixer. I’m not sure if he can find a bakery that can make it for them and deliver it to the restaurant. That would be much easier and better, saving a lot of time.
But I can’t imagine being able to make a living, being forced to sell the food very cheap like everyone else. I don’t see that producing a lot of profits/income because of that. Unless he opens by the airport and target American travelers, where he can charge way more for his menu items. I used to owned a pizzeria and a restaurant back in the day in the US and it was a challenge dealing with the amount of work. Again, I can’t see how one can make a good living doing it over there in Vietnam or Thailand or the Philippines and places alike.
Best of luck with the new restaurant. If you are going to experiment with new/modified Vietnamese dishes you should try experimenting with frying Chả Lụa. I am married to a Vietnamese (53 years now) and when we first got married my wife would make Chả Lụa the traditional way by wrapping them in banana leaves and steaming them in a bamboo steamer. One day the bamboo steamer fell apart so she just fried paddies of it. We both liked the fried better than the traditional so that is the way she has been making them ever since.
Too much grease in the frying dude, might want to go back to steaming it.
Your wife must know there's a fried version of Cha Lua. It's called Cha Que and it's as popular as Cha Lua. Que means cinnamon so it's the only added ingredient to the fried version.
I do Nov to March every year sometimes I do 2 or 3 trips love the culture yes I’m married to a Vietnamese woman for a decade , I prefer to stay in Vietnam then the USA 🇺🇸 less stress Vietnamese people are so nice 👍
I have a Vietnamese wife too for 5 years!! I'm in Vietnam now with her family for 2 months!! I love it here !
Great interview... I am in Vietnam often.. But still managed to learn many new things about VN from this channel... Thanks.
Goodday Ken,
Another high quality, feel good, honest, smile on your face video, wouldn't expect anything less from you.
Listening to Chef Chad inspires me that I can do it, come to Vietnam & live the Vietnamese lifestyle.
Go with the flow.
Such a great video, so informative & agree with Chad when dealing with Vietnamese.
Cheers
Louis Kats your number 1 Fan in Melbourne, Australia.
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I'm glad you like it
This interview reveals a lot of cultural differences from East vs west. I’m việt kiều (Vietnamese American) and I’m right in the middle. I chuckle because understanding this dynamic 😊
Love this candid interview of more and more of my fav chef! Alinea is no joke! And he wants to open a restaurant in Vietnam, must visit! Love how honest he is
Listening to Mr Ken , 48 minutes is also not enough for me... ❤
Very interesting to hear his POV on Vietnam and challenges , I follow him but he doesn't usually talk about it
thank you for the advice ken, we are building a mutual business and building our networks from the u.s and vietnam.. hoping that in the next few years we can do all our business from vietnam soon once all our networks are established.
Great content again, we are in the planning stage of another couple of trips and then shifting out to Vietnam, what a wonderful part of the world, what a culture shock our first few days there was 😊
Spectacular video! Well done Ken and Chad. Continue success to both.
Love chef Chad !! Love your channel and your video contents ! Breakfast for a Buck $1 series was awesome! Cannot wait for your restaurant to be opened !
when I miss Vietnam I watch Chad Kubanoff videos
I agreed with chef Chad about Vietnamese do well when we are in groups and not alone. For example with football, the whole 11 Vietnamese football players, they can play well with eachother. But when a player went abroad and play for a foreign team, he is not himself anymore. It might be because of the language barrier
And chef Chad is at Elon Musk or Bill Gated level?
Very interesting video. As a Vietnamese ex-pat myself I've to agree with your advice and recommendations to Chad.
Very interesting Chef Chad interview.
Thanks Attorney Ken for sharing story 🥰🥰🥰
Please continue for your journey.
This awesome. I’m a Viet Kieu from United States and upon researching the move I found both of your channels, now I’m watching both on the same video. Great information
Viet Kieu can only watch. White guys get the women.
who care u re việt kiều 😂😂😂
Awesome content! I love following Chad cuz he’s a super dad and individual. Would like to meet him one day ❤
"everything that occurs, i'm hopeful...but i have zero expectations...i'm always accepting that i have no idea of what's going on....i just try to keep going forward...the thing that sticks will stick and the things that roll off...just keep going....you think something's gonna happen and then they're just gone...so every opportunity that comes, I'm hopeful but I don't expect anything...that's just the way it is"...........That pretty much sums up the work culture in Vietnam 😂😂😂
I am retired, I love Vietnam, but am afraid to move there full time because I don’t want to loose my military pension, VA disability, and my Social Security..
Benefits are not tied to place of residence.
I'm subbed to Chad's channel & meet his viewer demographics. Born in Saigon, came to the US at age of 3 during the fall of Saigon. Haven't been back since. Somehow feel like I want to know where I came from but through the eyes of an American on TH-cam. One day I'll return at least for a short visit. Good vid and Cheers!
After the Fall of Saigon... Saigon still lives on. The communist party changed the name to Ho Chi Minh City to remove the previous regime's influence, but the native doesn't give a shit. It may be different on paper, but everyone there still proudly call their home Saigon to this day and for the future.
If you ever decide to visit Saigon, I suggest contacting Saigon Hotpot or Saigon Corners, they are student volunteers who can speak English, know all the good places to eat and visit. Basically exclusive tour guide for cheap (they don't take commission fee, just ticket entrance to sites/food). It's perfect for foreigners, even more so if you want to chat to them about stuffs like "where I came from" and they will gladly answers/help.
If your parents are still capable of travelling, I'd even suggest taking them as well and have them reconnect with their old relatives. Or just visiting their old places.
The thing with feeling is if you do it right things will run smoothly but if you offended someone inadvertently you are screwed
interesting interview! I think I seen his youtube channel before seeing this video. He was checking out apartments with his wife and kids.
1st of all, I watch both of yours and Chad’s channels, love them both. 2nd, what a fascinating conversation. I left VN when a was 17, I’m now 59 living in CA, USA and about to retire. So I found what you Chad were talking about was incredibly interesting. My wife and I are seriously considering living in VN for at least 3 months out of the year. Doable?
Vietnam nowadays is growing rapidly, SAFETY & BEAUTIFUL!!
I hope you can visit back to VIETNAM TO SEE HOW INCREDIBLE VIETNAM CHANGING SINCE 1990 & 2000s till now.
It take just 30Y our country can be devolveping like this.
Vietnam nowadays is more safety, more devolveping than PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA
Vietnam is growing same like THAILAND. While Thailand is more open free trade & bussiness with the worlds long before.
It’s proven how VIETNAM GROW FAST & SUCCESSFUL!!
You’re leaving Vietnam for too many years!!
US is top devolveping country, it use to be DREAM LAND & OPPORTUNITIES COUNTRY!!
US IS SAFETY & DREAM, but it was 20-30-40y ago, not now.
YOU SHOULD TRAVEL BACK TO VIETNAM TO SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL LIFE & HOE SAFETY LIFE IN VIETNAM CHANGING.
US & WESTERN NOWADAYS IS UNSAFE, FLOODING BY LAZY DRUGGIES HOMELESS & DRUGGIES ZOMBIES (Chicago, SAN Francisco, Baltimore, Portland, Oakland, Newyork city,etc..) VIOLENT THUGS & GUNPOINT ROBBERY, CRIMINALS!!
And RACIST HATEFUL TOWARDS TO ASIAN. No matter how long ASIAN IMMIGRANTS IN US, Asian people is smart & hard working & less troublemaker if compare to any others immigrants group.
BUT ASIAN STILL FACING THE MOST RACIST HATEFUL. Ridiculous!!
If you’re retired in Vietnam, surrounded by same people like you, it’s give biggest different feelings.
Luxury for $2k month easy for $1.5k good for $1k ok $800. Hope this help!
honestly recommend retiring in Vietnam for good if you still have VNmese nationality (and there are work around if you don't)
The medical care alone is worth it. Since it can easily bankrupt you in america if you dare to contract even 1 disease. You may feel fine now at 59, but you wont be forever.
Good interview enjoyed it, some interesting information
Chef Chad Kubanoff understands the nuances of Vietnamese culture and state of mind.
I found this video very helpful and enjoyable anh Ken oi… can’t wait to meet you in person once the boys are out of school for summer breaks 2024.
Take care and look forward to your next video.
Dino Do and An Tran in Anaheim, CA
Great video! Thank U both, Chad and Ken! I shall be eating the Com Tam next year on my 2nd visit for sure. Greetings from Alaska!
Great interview and hope there are more in the future. Where is the Cơm Tấm place in District 4? Thanks!
Ken sir thank you so much for the detailed information ❤🇻🇳
You have upped your game with the thumbnails 😁
We Americans are not that nice.
Great interview! 👍
Thanks for listening
That cơm tấm looks good. Please share the address location of it so I can try it next time I’m in Vietnam thank you.
he said vietnamese work well together as a team surprised me. Im vietnamese and my personal experience and conventional wisdom indicate that vietnamese generally works well as an individual. when you put 10 vietnamese together you got 10 chiefs and no indian, and they ended up arguing more than work 😂. The younger generation are more open minded and acceptance to new ideas. Not so much with the old school folks, my parents, aunts, and uncles for example would probably ended up killing each other if they have to work together on a project. outside of that, they get along very well.
Absolutely Awesome Interview Ken with Chad
We appreciate that. Happy holidays!
Great video. I love team-up YT videos when two people I follow do a video together. I'm in D1 a stone's throw from the canal. So many great places to eat.
I love all ur videos so much! Keep it up!! U da besttt! ❤
Thank you so much!!
thumbs up from the beginning .....love the videos. thanks a lot Ken for your hard work to give us the most valuable, spriritual experience through many interesting life stories. Already subscribed. Hope people do to support your channel. Great work! God bless
I appreciate that!
Good luck to him !
Už abych tam byl… ze dekuju! Super doporučení 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
When l moved to London
it took me 10 to adapt life here
No one gave me a free lunch in 1995 until 2005
I bet you in Vietnam some one still give you a free lunch now
2023 Vietnam has enough food for nearly all people
Life is getting better than it used to be
in 2007 l was there but short food
Interesting video, thank you from Orange County, California
Can y’all do more interview phuc mop , max and other TH-camr etc. this is very interesting
I love living here in VN, but hard to make money here.
Very well conducted interview👌
Hi Dương, if you eat 3 times of cơm tấm dish a day for 30 days, you may have food OCD.😅
One advantage is your wife does not worry about feeding you for a month though.
For vietnamese, you have to show them instead of just telling them. "Oh, i am going to make craft beer." To them, they would wonder what is craft beer. Is that budwieser?
eating is good for the peoples. they have a many dings in conman. it is good for the foreigner to see hope in the vetnam and the vetnam people’s futures. it is very nice he forced himselves to try to become a vetnam person. he can not be but he try, is good, and he can cook pho for foreigner peoples in expensive places.
Good luck, you are still young.
Vietnam is uncertainty but go with flow
A very interesting video thank you mr duung🌸
great video...thanks for this one
Plan on retiring here in 10 years.
Whats with the peekaboo from behind the tree 😂
Hey, Chad! How about a durian creme brulee?
The heat can make people tired during the days people working all day long
it is different in states US the weather is very cool all year round people can breathe easily
Thanks for sharing!
w.r.t Vang, I thought about my Chinese experience. They'll nod but they have their own thoughts, and they'll do what they want no matter how they sound. So they may be nodding, but they'll do whatever they have in mind. In other words, they do not answer your question. They'll nod but that will not mean they agree or do what you tell them.
Here Vietnam use hands a lot
But in USA people mostly use machines so make food faster make life easier
Chad married to his wife she was poor a Vietnamese refugee fleeing Vietnam for good in1980 but he didn’t mind
You have good interviewing skills.
Ken, your mic seem to be misplaced, the guests' is OK.
Chad first went there in 2008
I went back there Vietnam by myself in 2007 for visiting my parents after 13 years in London
I saw a lot hard work women earned 3 quid a day in Hue
I earned in London 24 quid a day
Chad met his Vietnamese wife she maybe a refugee Vietnamese boat fled Vietnam in 1979
where? in USA
Banh cam is fried, so it would be hard to have custard in there but it is a good idea! I would like that!
Your pastry ideas…. Yummy. Yes fruit fillings
Good interview
illuminating.
its not about feelings.. its about business, ill never do business with anyone that needs my wife to talk to them,. ive been here 16 years never sat and wined and dined landlords
God bless you !
you guys should hire Chad's film crew and editors
Why?
@@duongglobalbusinessconsulting His film production is really high quality, almost tv production value. No offense meant but some of the video quality in on this Duong channel is not that great. Either the audio levels or low or the editing or transition is a bit uninspired. For example, even in this video, the camera used to record the interview didn't use a telephoto lens to get a sharp zoom capture. The editor just cropped the shot and zoomed in on Chad's face so the video quality looks incredible blurry. I'm just saying that Chad's media production is quite exceptional, and wouldn't hurt to take some ideas from his video making.
Damn 26:26 got me front and centre
I'll come to your new restaurant if you open Chef and don't forget to bribe the Vietnamese officers 😂😂😂 Last thing, VN is not cheap cost of leaving skyrocket recently and I hope you survive!!!
His wife is Vietnamese, so it is easy for him to stay there.
Hey Duong, I am interested in investing in vietnam startups or stocks, but I don't have any experience about that. It would be nice and helpful if you make some videos to introduce those type of investment
Thanks for your comment. We made tons of videos about investing in Vietnam. Please watch the following playlist: th-cam.com/play/PL5AO8T9wDGttqtbX8wG7l2XclGa7hafbC.html
Learning how stock and company owned by Commie Vietnam's richest man like VFS behaves in US stock market should give one a clue on the real qualities of the stocks and companies from Commie Vietnam. Watching real estate market in Commie China to predict the outcome of real state market in Commie Vietnam, which has been a vassal state of Commie China, again, since 1941 when Commie Chinese puppet Ho Chi Minh took the flag of Fujian Province (red flag with central yellow star) and replaced the national flag of Vietnam (yellow with 3 horizontal red stripes) for 2000 years with it. Since 2018, more high-end properties in Saigon have been bought by Chinese than local Vietnamese, according to CBRE Group.
How about woodwork tools ?...can you get a dewalt small panel saw ?
only Americans are allowed to retire in Vietnam?
Wow kanin nalang ❤
nice video !!. where is this com tam place , thks :)
What is the name of the cơm tấm restaurant they were at?
If you make the $2600 a month salary which is the minimum wage in California ($15/hour) then you can buy 88 liters of gas a day ($5.16/gallon or $1.36/liter) unlike in Saigon with the monthly average salary of 7M VND you can only buy 12 liters of gas a day. No wonder expats really want to try doing business in VN.
Gas is so cheap in America. In my country it is about 2.50USD a liter.
Yes , gas price is expensive in Finland but Europeans in general don’t drive as much as Americans because the European public transport is better than the USA and country sizes are smaller that US states. Americans depend on their cars more than Europeans who use rather buses and trains.
@@thaido3220 If you had high-speed trains, you would not drive or fly as much. Shorter distances (under 500 miles we always take a train).
@ 42:39 Chad - Is that your standard? Lets me double down on that...
What’s the name/address of the com tam joint? I wanna try it out.
What is the best’s website to look for houses or apartments to buy. Me and wife are planning to move in the next 6 or 7 years thank you . Here in the USA Elkhart, Indiana . My wife family live in Phan dang Lu
When you interview someone, please let him express his thoughts completely instead of cutting it short by injecting yours into the conversation.
Can you share moments Attorney Ken interjected the guest to improve our interviews?
Bravo ! a great response - Obviously from a well versed attorney. You posed a question and defended your action all in one statement.
I want to say this: I am sure many enjoy your video, and I do too to a certain extend.
However, I was watching the first five minutes or so of your video, and was hoping to hear more about the other gentleman's story, but it appeared that he didn't quite have the opportunity.
But that's ok since you "interjected to improve" the interview.
Have a great day in VN.
No more comment from me.
Please watch the entire video to hear more about his story, as it is a back-and-forth informal interview. But we are genuinely interested in improving the quality of our videos.
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Can I buy health insurance as a former live there.?
What VISA did you apply for to live in Vietnam?
Just get a 90 day tourist visa and go from there like everyone else
Marriage visa + TRC
Hi Ken,
I really enjoy your videos. Hope you can improve the sound of your mic. Chad had better sound quality than yours. I can barely hear you.
Chad's video production is super top notch, tv quality. Duong's media crew should learn from him
Need a new mic Ken!!😊
mic issue here.
I saw u at qui lounge