omg so true! my bf, Max is German and I always feel like culture in a mixed relationship can be so different but we always make it work. it's so interesting :')
I feel like it needs a hype man, though. "Are you ready...to JESUS?????????" Maybe add some strobe lights and EDM music for extra effect, as well as elves dancing with glow sticks.
Hi! I am canadian, and I think we have a significant Vietnamese community where I live, but I can tell you many people, not just people of Vietnamese descent, love the vietnamese food! I like the videos about Vietnam, Uyen trying to recreate her Vietnamese food at home, and also the videos about Germany.
"God was created today and tomorrow" 😂 I love that it's silly but conveys **exactly** what you mean instantly. In the UK the songs sung in church are called hymns (pronounced hims) and the Christmas ones specifically are called Christmas carols. Churches here often have "carol services" in the run up to Christmas where everyone sings lots of carols together. I'm not Christian, though I used to be as a child, and carols hold a lot of nostalgia for me, some of them are so beautiful and peaceful and joyful.
In Australia, because it’s usually quite hot, many families now just have a cold Christmas dinner. Salads cold meat and seafood, or a typical Australian barbecue or/and a trip to the beach if you live close by. It’s traditionally a family day as well with lots of gifts especially for the kids. Boxing Day, the next day, is often a recovery day or catching up with family and friends we didn’t see the day before. The rest of the week we eat leftovers lol. New Year’s Eve many people stay up drinking eating and dancing until the new year ticks over.
My German mother and Anglo-Australian father give my family lots of great food and traditions. And we lived in US Northeast which adds another layer. We do the British thing of big lunch on Christmas Day, turkey or goose, purple cabbage, baked winter squash. Lots of Christmas baking, German cookies and stollen, Anglo Aussie fruitcakes and Christmas puddings…
An expat living in Vietnam once said that his Vietnamese friends kept worrying he was homesick during the Lunar New Year. But he was only homesick during Christmas.
i'm canadian and for my family christmas is very busy. it's a week of decorating at the start of december, days of baking things and wrapping them or putting them in tins to hand out, a full day of cooking savory foods and things... the day of christmas eve is all about visiting everyone you possibly can (friends and family), singing carols, and doing last minute present wrapping to trick the kids into thinking santa arrived. then christmas day is more chill, eating the things that were cooked, lighting bonfires in the snow or the kids will go sledding. i love it but i find it exhausting - i understand why GBF's parents may not want to do all that if they are older!
In my German family the christmas dinner is a bit more fancy. We either have German style raclette, oil fondue or wedding soup followed by soup meat (chicken and beef) and potatoes with onion sauce and as dessert Herrencreme.
The fondue with oil is called fondue Bourguignon. We do it in my family too. My dad lived in Germany for 15 years (before we were born) and brought the tradition back with him.
My whole family and all friends always eat a major feast on the 24th. However, we all are not as religious. Nonetheless, we also have feasts on the 25 and 26, depending on who has time, were you visit this year etc. Her German boyfriend is lowkey boring, he and his family even eat bread as every dinner.
@8:13, Uyen, as far as I know, Vietnamese Catholics sing a special way called doc kinh which uses the tone markers in the language but interprets them as musical notes or tune patterns (which i think is a little different from the spoken word tone). I have been to vietnamese mass here in japan and it was super interesting since because of this doc kinh thing, all the vietnamese parishioners instinctively know the tune of the song without having to memorize the musical notes or reading the normal musical notation on the staff since it is in-built to the language. It sounds super cool 😎 and this is a special feature for vietnamese catholics in particular. Imagine singing a song correctly even if it is the first time you see it, how awesome is that? Is like an instant choir, just add water
Love to watch you both answer questions and interact with each other. I learn so much about the different cultures. You guys definitely make a huge effort to make the two cultures work. Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year Happy TET.
It's very interesting to see how other people celebrate christmas. I live in Australia, my father's family is greek and so we celebrated every holiday with greek traditions. My mother's side is German, but they never followed any traditions. Growing up, greek Christmas traditions involved adults fasting for 40 days before Christmas, for which they did not eat meat poultry, pork, game, fish, dairy, eggs, butter, or olive oil. They (mostly my yiayia (grandma) went to church often in the lead up to christmas. We would make traditional greek almond butter christmas cookies called kourabiedes. Then Christmas day everyone would go to my yiayia's house (grandma) and we would have a big feast and the adults would break their fast. We would have lots of different dishes and lamb on the spit, sometimes we had goat too. After having children, I still practice some traditions, but my partner is Cambodian, so we now mix traditions and make up our own too. :)
lol thank you for sharing this, I would think most of us in USA would have no idea on all that you covered. Very interesting, and g. bf views, is cool to hear as well. You both are really fun and interesting to watch, Again thank you for your quirkyness lol its loveable
Yes, Chinese tradition also ask the dead politely to take away the food. Last time we did throw wooden crescents and it has to face one up and one down for the dead to agree for the food to be taken away or that they are "full" from the meal but nowadays we just say "thank you for visiting we hope you have a good meal, we will be taking it away now" and bow with the food before taking it away
My Oma and Opa always celebrated on the 24th, like you said. We'd exchange gifts, the entire family. And then on Christmas morning, that was just for me and Mom and Dad. That is when WE exchanged our gifts to each other. And we would always make Rolladen, about 50 of them. Our recipe called for onions sautee'd with onions, with bacon slices, boiled egg slices, a dill pickle spear, all rolled up onto long and hammered out pieces of thin beef, that have been smothered in mustard. We'd hold them together with 'needles' and serve them with gravy over Uyen's favorite--noodles, hahaha. Our German side of the family had a HUGE celebration each 24th, and then after Mom and Dad and I would go home, they would continue on, to downtown to go to midnight mass. I miss those days. This is my first year without my Mom or any family left. This is the worst holiday season of my 56 year long life. And my beagle is dying too, so it's so depressing here. But happy holidays to you guys, and happy lunar new year, Uyen, in late January. :-) -Molly from Florida, USA
I know what Tet is! I follow the Korean lunisolar calendar and similar traditions to yours, Uyen! My Korean family spend meals with the ancestors by everybody, living and dead, partying at once. : )
Im not christian or religious at all, but we do celebrate christmas as a family holiday, and hearing Uyen’s experience of christmas from a vietnamese perspective was so funny! All so true!
Fun fact - in Scotland the first person through your door after New Year is also a thing called first footing - it's a less about who it is but more that they have to bring a gift - my family moved down to England but from what I remember when we used to do it they had to bring a piece of coal and you had to give them whisky!
My mother's family is from Germany, she and her siblings born in the U.S. They are Catholic and grew up with opening gifts and going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, and having the big meal on Christmas Day. That is also how I grew up celebrating. As an adult I celebrate Winter Solstice. My mom also grew up with her Masses being in Latin which she has not been able to find near us. I'm excited because for this Lunar New Year it is the Year of the Snake which is my sign :)
Just started watching this video and I love it, I always find the differences in your cultures really interesting. I love your Christmas jumpers. I knew nothing of Vietnam before watching your videos Uyen and now i want to visit Vietnam in the future. I've never been to Germany but I had 2 fantastic German friends in my university class 10 years ago and they used to cook me German foods sometimes in our halls of residence, I really like German people 🎅👍
In Orlando, Florida in the U.S., the local Vietnamese Catholic church hosts a big Tết festival at the fairgrounds every year. Basically thousands of Vietnamese in the area show up to it. I've gone the past few years with my Vietnamese husband, and our favorite part of the festival is the food! My husband is now Catholic like me, although his family is not. But I do really like being able to enjoy aspects of our different holiday celebrations this time of year.
So going to Vietnam and seeing Christmas decorations in July is the equivalent of the neighbor with Christmas decorations on his house in April and a dead and wilted Christmas tree in his living room with a mountain of ocher colored pine needles around it. As far as that church singing goes, that sounds EXACTLY like the atonal, flat hymns that I heard throughout my childhood spent in Catholic Mass. I only actually learned that Christians, or at least Catholic ones anyway, knew how to sing well when I went to Mass in Europe.
I feel like the "cooking together with the whole family" part is usually baking sweets in Western traditions ! Like decorating cookies, making a swiss roll, little marzipan flowers...
You guys are so hilarious together! I didn't know about Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration, the spirituality and inclusion of our beloved loved ones who have passed, is very meaningful and profound. I love that.❤
I’m lucky enough to have grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area which is home to a vibrant Vietnamese community. Not only are Vietnamese folks generally cool and down to earth, their food is EXCELLENT! I’ve never had a bad meal at a Vietnamese restaurant. Two words: fresh and flavorful. My point is German boyfriend’s friends and family likely aren’t just being polite when they compliment your cooking. Vietnamese food is among the great cuisines of the world. 💯 🍲 Pho alone is enough to qualify, it’s quasi-medicinal.
I'd guess the American tradition of eating and celebrating so big on the 25th is because we don't have any other days off as holidays. A lot of people have to go back to work on the 26th. Also a lot of people work the 24th as well so you pack everything into the 25th to "make the most of it".
German Boyfriends' beard is getting longer, but he makes a cute reindeer. In Frankfurt, everyone goes downtown to listen to the Pealing of the Bells at 17:00. There are also organizations doing a nice meal for the less fortunate. Many churches have kids nativity plays on the 24th, which are cute to watch. New Year in Viet Nam sounds so much better than New Year here in Germany. You don't have to watch "Dinner for One" Thanks for sharing all your traditions Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I’m all in with keeping decorations up all year, especially the lights. I love the idea of a countdown. At the end of the Christmas Eve service we light candles. We often sing the Happy Birthday song. Methodists get a piece of bread and a little sip of delicious grape juice. We eat tamales on Christmas Eve in San Antonio Texas USA. This food is complicated to make, but that is done several days ahead of time as a family and friends activity. This way no one has to work - more time for worship and fun. Our feast is on Christmas Day. If you are unable to cook for your ancestors is it permissible to have their feast catered? I don’t want to be disrespectful, but I wonder how people who are disabled get to honor their ancestors. I’m too old to do so much cooking anymore
There is a big Chinese community in my city so a lot of local businesses recognise lunar new year and have special promotions. The museum even has a lunar new year event each year.
Well, on january 6th it's holy 3 kings. There are celebrations for that, at least in catholic regions. And after that, it's Fasnet which builds up and culminates in february, so its not like after new year's celebration crash to a halt.
I think it might help to know that the western Christmas is a mixture of at least two traditions: One of them is original European from pre-Christian times, and the other is the Christian festival. After the christianization of Europe over 1200 - 1500 years ago (for many regions outside Greece or Italy), this festival was still around and was celebrated as the main festival of the year at the winter solstice in most places. In order to fit the celebration to the new faith, it was turned into a celebration of Jesus' birth - although Jesus was probably born in the summer, not in December. If some of the celebration does not seem to fit with other pieces, it is often because of these dual origins. In spite of its sometimes disjointed character, the Christmas festival is still my personal favourite holiday of the year.
Im from Switzerland, we normaly start with Apero and than a lamb's lettuce salat. main course is swiss Racclette, cheese Fondu or we have Fondu Chinoise/fondu bourguignon (Meat Fondu) Its al about spending alot of time while eating… Gifts And a small dessert
Aw as a Brit I've only just found out that a lot of Europe celebrate Christmas on Xmas eve! I'm thankful it's not the case here as my son's birthday is Xmas eve.😮 Do German children put stocking out on Xmas eve for 'santa' to fill while they sleep? It's common in the UK, but a massive pain in the butt for us parents 😂
Putting out a stocking on Xmas eve (24th in Germany) is not a German tradition A typical thing for families is to go for a long walk and when they come back the presents are laying under the chrismas tree and oops! we missed Santa! We do celebrate Nikolaus on 6th December though and on the 5th in the evening, you'd have to clean your shoes, put them (well, one actually) in front of the door and over night Nikolaus will fill it with mandarines, nuts, chocolate and a little "Weckmann" (baked sweet bread in the shape of a man with a pipe and raisin eyes). I love my kid's reaction in the morning.
I hate noodle salad too. In Switzerland and France (no noodle salad in France, we are civilised), the Christmas dinners are also quite simple. In the UK, it is kind of inbetween very fancy and simple. People roast turkeys like it's a religion (when the real tradition is goose), and it does not even taste very nice. The stuffing is the best part. Anyway, a very good Xmas to you, and a great 2025!
Christmas Eve and Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) in England is all about family for food we have a full Christmas lunch where we have turkey and 2 other kinds of meat (my family) its a massive meal. new year is for adults to drink getting drunk.😮😮
I think its really interesting Uyen's take on Christianity, the body of christ is free food😂 its also interesting GB is going to church. Future suggestion is spirituality and religion as a couple.😊
@@Nadia-vk4vi is mostly based on pork meat. In Romania, we have this tradition of slaughtering pigs before Christmas. So basically pork meat sausages pork meat roast...and the quintessential sarmale (pickled cabbage roll with minced pork meat, rice/corn/ mushrooms etc) and so on, with different sidings...but this depends on the regions... and a lot of home-baked pies and cakes like cozonac ...Again it depends on the area...and everything is accompanied by hard plum/apricot/quince snaps called palinca/rachiu/tuica (again depends on the region you are from) and wine...i don't know al the dishes..because I'm from the city...maybe Romanians will like to help. ps. and the traditional salata de beof with chicken meat :))
As a german, I have to say that german boyfriend is coming from a quite stiff and boring family lol. Only 10% of the people I know are like that. A feast is normal on the 24 and 25, sometimes on the 26
17:20 on the bright side, now you're kinda equal. by a direct flight uyen can get to her family in vietnam in about 13 hours. and now german boyfriend has about the same problem:)
What Swiss raclette being desecrated? (I am Swiss, also French, and the French too do raclettes). Do I need to take back all my good wishes? I will be the bigger person and no do it.
der bf ist echt einer der nettesten Typen die ich je erlebt habe. er hat soooooo endlos viel Geduld mit Uyen und zeigt ihr und ihrer Kultur sehr viel mehr Respekt als sie ihm und der deutschen Kultur. Uyen ist echt anspruchsvoll und naja....manchmal bisschen herablassend und versteht nicht wirklich was er ständig erklärt. Wie eben warum es an Heiligabend eher sparsames Essen gibt. Ansonsten finde ich es echt seltsam Weihnachten zu feiern aber dabei auf christliches herabzusehen und nichtmal kapieren dass weihnachten nunmal ein christliches Fest ist. das ist echt eine asiatische Attitüde die ich komisch finde. Wenn man Christen so doof findet, dann sollte man es auch lassen Weihnachten zu feiern und es artfremd zu einem blinkyblinky-Kitsch zu verunstalten der nur noch aus Shopping und Vollfressen besteht. Sie sollte echt dankbar sein, dass er über ihre häufigen Attitüden so grosszügig hinwegsieht. Ich glaub sie weiss garnicht welchen Schatz sie da gefunden hat. Ich mag Uyen....aber sie sollte sich den Ruhm nicht zu Kopf steigen lassen und sie sollte nicht alles was die Tradition bei ihrem bf ist, als "deutsche Tradition" sehen. Obwohl bei uns in der Familie ebenfalls Kartoffelsalat und Würstchen das traditionelle Essen sind. Aber eben schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat und echte Saitenwürstle, die aus Kalbsfleisch sind und vom Metzger und nicht Brühwurst aus ner Dose. das ist halt doch nochma,l ein exorbitanter Unterschied. Und damn...macht mal einer Uyen einen gescheiten Nudelsalat. ich schwör sie würde meinen lieben :D
Happy holidays to you too! I hope you both have a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s was very interesting hearing about your different ways of celebrating!😊❤🎉
As a westerner, thank you for explaining lunar new year because I had no idea lol
German Boyfriend's Aunti! WE KNOW YOU ARE YOUNG AND FULL OF LIFE!
We love the voice of German Boyfriend's Aunti! Please, do a full song. ❤🎉
omg so true! my bf, Max is German and I always feel like culture in a mixed relationship can be so different but we always make it work. it's so interesting :')
My boyfriend is also German and his name is max too. I am Indian.
Okay, but putting your family up in your home and checking yourself into a hotel is rather brilliant. 😅
Didn't they do that on The Golden Girls once?
I’m down for the Christmas midnight countdown lol
I feel like it needs a hype man, though.
"Are you ready...to JESUS?????????"
Maybe add some strobe lights and EDM music for extra effect, as well as elves dancing with glow sticks.
Hi! I am canadian, and I think we have a significant Vietnamese community where I live, but I can tell you many people, not just people of Vietnamese descent, love the vietnamese food! I like the videos about Vietnam, Uyen trying to recreate her Vietnamese food at home, and also the videos about Germany.
You two are the CUTEST!!!
i really like the tradition of who enters your home first in the new year!
Absolutely dead at Uyen’s experience of Christmas mass 😂😂😂
"God was created today and tomorrow" 😂 I love that it's silly but conveys **exactly** what you mean instantly.
In the UK the songs sung in church are called hymns (pronounced hims) and the Christmas ones specifically are called Christmas carols. Churches here often have "carol services" in the run up to Christmas where everyone sings lots of carols together. I'm not Christian, though I used to be as a child, and carols hold a lot of nostalgia for me, some of them are so beautiful and peaceful and joyful.
In Australia, because it’s usually quite hot, many families now just have a cold Christmas dinner. Salads cold meat and seafood, or a typical Australian barbecue or/and a trip to the beach if you live close by. It’s traditionally a family day as well with lots of gifts especially for the kids. Boxing Day, the next day, is often a recovery day or catching up with family and friends we didn’t see the day before. The rest of the week we eat leftovers lol. New Year’s Eve many people stay up drinking eating and dancing until the new year ticks over.
that sounds so fun! i would love to spend christmas in australia someday
@ I hope you get here sometime 🤗
My German mother and Anglo-Australian father give my family lots of great food and traditions. And we lived in US Northeast which adds another layer. We do the British thing of big lunch on Christmas Day, turkey or goose, purple cabbage, baked winter squash. Lots of Christmas baking, German cookies and stollen, Anglo Aussie fruitcakes and Christmas puddings…
An expat living in Vietnam once said that his Vietnamese friends kept worrying he was homesick during the Lunar New Year. But he was only homesick during Christmas.
the kindness in the concern though, is so wonderful.
@@Phoenix-the-Poet It really is ❤
😂 Uyen your great "ALOT OF BLING BLING" when other people just say "Alot of lights" you make conversation more interesting and fun ❤😊
i'm canadian and for my family christmas is very busy. it's a week of decorating at the start of december, days of baking things and wrapping them or putting them in tins to hand out, a full day of cooking savory foods and things... the day of christmas eve is all about visiting everyone you possibly can (friends and family), singing carols, and doing last minute present wrapping to trick the kids into thinking santa arrived. then christmas day is more chill, eating the things that were cooked, lighting bonfires in the snow or the kids will go sledding. i love it but i find it exhausting - i understand why GBF's parents may not want to do all that if they are older!
In my German family the christmas dinner is a bit more fancy.
We either have German style raclette, oil fondue or wedding soup followed by soup meat (chicken and beef) and potatoes with onion sauce and as dessert Herrencreme.
The fondue with oil is called fondue Bourguignon. We do it in my family too. My dad lived in Germany for 15 years (before we were born) and brought the tradition back with him.
My whole family and all friends always eat a major feast on the 24th. However, we all are not as religious. Nonetheless, we also have feasts on the 25 and 26, depending on who has time, were you visit this year etc. Her German boyfriend is lowkey boring, he and his family even eat bread as every dinner.
this is so funny and interesting! this is my fav episode of this podcast!!
🎄 Fröhliche Weihnachten! 🎄
@8:13, Uyen, as far as I know, Vietnamese Catholics sing a special way called doc kinh which uses the tone markers in the language but interprets them as musical notes or tune patterns (which i think is a little different from the spoken word tone). I have been to vietnamese mass here in japan and it was super interesting since because of this doc kinh thing, all the vietnamese parishioners instinctively know the tune of the song without having to memorize the musical notes or reading the normal musical notation on the staff since it is in-built to the language. It sounds super cool 😎 and this is a special feature for vietnamese catholics in particular. Imagine singing a song correctly even if it is the first time you see it, how awesome is that? Is like an instant choir, just add water
Thanks for explaining
This is really interesting, thank you for sharing!
Your christmas outfits give me life 🩷✨️
Love to watch you both answer questions and interact with each other. I learn so much about the different cultures. You guys definitely make a huge effort to make the two cultures work. Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year Happy TET.
It's very interesting to see how other people celebrate christmas. I live in Australia, my father's family is greek and so we celebrated every holiday with greek traditions. My mother's side is German, but they never followed any traditions. Growing up, greek Christmas traditions involved adults fasting for 40 days before Christmas, for which they did not eat meat poultry, pork, game, fish, dairy, eggs, butter, or olive oil. They (mostly my yiayia (grandma) went to church often in the lead up to christmas. We would make traditional greek almond butter christmas cookies called kourabiedes. Then Christmas day everyone would go to my yiayia's house (grandma) and we would have a big feast and the adults would break their fast. We would have lots of different dishes and lamb on the spit, sometimes we had goat too.
After having children, I still practice some traditions, but my partner is Cambodian, so we now mix traditions and make up our own too. :)
Your rendition of the church sermon was on point 😂.
lol thank you for sharing this, I would think most of us in USA would have no idea on all that you covered. Very interesting, and g. bf views, is cool to hear as well. You both are really fun and interesting to watch, Again thank you for your quirkyness lol its loveable
Yes, Chinese tradition also ask the dead politely to take away the food. Last time we did throw wooden crescents and it has to face one up and one down for the dead to agree for the food to be taken away or that they are "full" from the meal but nowadays we just say "thank you for visiting we hope you have a good meal, we will be taking it away now" and bow with the food before taking it away
In Italy Christmas family's lunch and dinner are full of foods, traditionally homemade. Require a lot of work
in Germany too. Uyen has no idea.
My Oma and Opa always celebrated on the 24th, like you said. We'd exchange gifts, the entire family. And then on Christmas morning, that was just for me and Mom and Dad. That is when WE exchanged our gifts to each other. And we would always make Rolladen, about 50 of them. Our recipe called for onions sautee'd with onions, with bacon slices, boiled egg slices, a dill pickle spear, all rolled up onto long and hammered out pieces of thin beef, that have been smothered in mustard. We'd hold them together with 'needles' and serve them with gravy over Uyen's favorite--noodles, hahaha. Our German side of the family had a HUGE celebration each 24th, and then after Mom and Dad and I would go home, they would continue on, to downtown to go to midnight mass. I miss those days. This is my first year without my Mom or any family left. This is the worst holiday season of my 56 year long life. And my beagle is dying too, so it's so depressing here. But happy holidays to you guys, and happy lunar new year, Uyen, in late January. :-) -Molly from Florida, USA
I know what Tet is! I follow the Korean lunisolar calendar and similar traditions to yours, Uyen! My Korean family spend meals with the ancestors by everybody, living and dead, partying at once. : )
I'm seconds deep, and I LOVE the reindeer face!😂❤
Im not christian or religious at all, but we do celebrate christmas as a family holiday, and hearing Uyen’s experience of christmas from a vietnamese perspective was so funny! All so true!
Fun fact - in Scotland the first person through your door after New Year is also a thing called first footing - it's a less about who it is but more that they have to bring a gift - my family moved down to England but from what I remember when we used to do it they had to bring a piece of coal and you had to give them whisky!
Y’all are so adorable together!
My mother's family is from Germany, she and her siblings born in the U.S. They are Catholic and grew up with opening gifts and going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, and having the big meal on Christmas Day. That is also how I grew up celebrating. As an adult I celebrate Winter Solstice. My mom also grew up with her Masses being in Latin which she has not been able to find near us. I'm excited because for this Lunar New Year it is the Year of the Snake which is my sign :)
Just started watching this video and I love it, I always find the differences in your cultures really interesting. I love your Christmas jumpers. I knew nothing of Vietnam before watching your videos Uyen and now i want to visit Vietnam in the future. I've never been to Germany but I had 2 fantastic German friends in my university class 10 years ago and they used to cook me German foods sometimes in our halls of residence, I really like German people 🎅👍
This is so cool, you both are on the screen together! Keep hubby's face hidden! We love it that way.!!!
This is so interesting! You two are so cute together, you light up my feed when you upload. ❤
I wish there was a Christmas countdown. When it hits the birthday song should play lmaooo
In Orlando, Florida in the U.S., the local Vietnamese Catholic church hosts a big Tết festival at the fairgrounds every year. Basically thousands of Vietnamese in the area show up to it. I've gone the past few years with my Vietnamese husband, and our favorite part of the festival is the food!
My husband is now Catholic like me, although his family is not. But I do really like being able to enjoy aspects of our different holiday celebrations this time of year.
OMGGG I LOVE UR HEADBAND ITS SO CUTEE
Happy holidays, beautiful people!
This was very interesting. I loved hearing about both of your traditions with your families and friends.
Wishing you both a Merry Christmas. Thanks for sharing your traditions.
So going to Vietnam and seeing Christmas decorations in July is the equivalent of the neighbor with Christmas decorations on his house in April and a dead and wilted Christmas tree in his living room with a mountain of ocher colored pine needles around it.
As far as that church singing goes, that sounds EXACTLY like the atonal, flat hymns that I heard throughout my childhood spent in Catholic Mass.
I only actually learned that Christians, or at least Catholic ones anyway, knew how to sing well when I went to Mass in Europe.
I feel like the "cooking together with the whole family" part is usually baking sweets in Western traditions ! Like decorating cookies, making a swiss roll, little marzipan flowers...
This culture cuddles is very interesting
how are you guys both so cute? ❤️
Great video!
In my family its whovever gets the short straw gets lumbered with the cooking. The ancestors would just have to go hungry. 😂
i hope no one was harmed in this collision lol
cool title
this episode got me laughing excitedly from the very beginning!
cool podcast
You guys are so hilarious together! I didn't know about Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration, the spirituality and inclusion of our beloved loved ones who have passed, is very meaningful and profound. I love that.❤
Happy holidays! Curious if Germany has boxing day :P I didn't have it in the USA but now do in Canada.
We have :)
First time I listened to your guys’ podcast, it was very entertaining and funny! Happy holidays :)
freee food, ahh my god, you're so accurate!. Love you. jajaja
Interesting Germany also uses "Plain song " like the church of England .
Don’t you watch the New Year‘s Concert in Vienna? That’s our to go thing tondo every 1st of January.
Merry Christmas 🎄here from Denmark 🇩🇰 thanks for sharing 🫶🏻
I’m lucky enough to have grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area which is home to a vibrant Vietnamese community. Not only are Vietnamese folks generally cool and down to earth, their food is EXCELLENT! I’ve never had a bad meal at a Vietnamese restaurant. Two words: fresh and flavorful.
My point is German boyfriend’s friends and family likely aren’t just being polite when they compliment your cooking. Vietnamese food is among the great cuisines of the world. 💯 🍲 Pho alone is enough to qualify, it’s quasi-medicinal.
I'd guess the American tradition of eating and celebrating so big on the 25th is because we don't have any other days off as holidays. A lot of people have to go back to work on the 26th. Also a lot of people work the 24th as well so you pack everything into the 25th to "make the most of it".
Oooooo! Nice video!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE CULTURE CUDDLES. I LOOK FOR IT EVERY WEEK. I "L♡VE" YOU GUYS.❤❤❤
German Boyfriends' beard is getting longer, but he makes a cute reindeer.
In Frankfurt, everyone goes downtown to listen to the Pealing of the Bells at 17:00. There are also organizations doing a nice meal for the less fortunate. Many churches have kids nativity plays on the 24th, which are cute to watch.
New Year in Viet Nam sounds so much better than New Year here in Germany. You don't have to watch "Dinner for One"
Thanks for sharing all your traditions
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I’m all in with keeping decorations up all year, especially the lights. I love the idea of a countdown. At the end of the Christmas Eve service we light candles. We often sing the Happy Birthday song. Methodists get a piece of bread and a little sip of delicious grape juice. We eat tamales on Christmas Eve in San Antonio Texas USA. This food is complicated to make, but that is done several days ahead of time as a family and friends activity. This way no one has to work - more time for worship and fun. Our feast is on Christmas Day. If you are unable to cook for your ancestors is it permissible to have their feast catered? I don’t want to be disrespectful, but I wonder how people who are disabled get to honor their ancestors. I’m too old to do so much cooking anymore
There is a big Chinese community in my city so a lot of local businesses recognise lunar new year and have special promotions. The museum even has a lunar new year event each year.
God was created today and tomorrow 😂😂😂😂
I love how German husband to be doesn't believe in any superstition but so enthusiastic to get 6 yo first guest in the house to please his wife to be
You are so funny
Love Santa riding the dinosaur.
Well, on january 6th it's holy 3 kings. There are celebrations for that, at least in catholic regions. And after that, it's Fasnet which builds up and culminates in february, so its not like after new year's celebration crash to a halt.
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another ep on this topic please!
OK I got it vietnamese are extroverts and germans are introverts as compare to veitnamese🤣🤣🤣
I think it might help to know that the western Christmas is a mixture of at least two traditions: One of them is original European from pre-Christian times, and the other is the Christian festival. After the christianization of Europe over 1200 - 1500 years ago (for many regions outside Greece or Italy), this festival was still around and was celebrated as the main festival of the year at the winter solstice in most places. In order to fit the celebration to the new faith, it was turned into a celebration of Jesus' birth - although Jesus was probably born in the summer, not in December. If some of the celebration does not seem to fit with other pieces, it is often because of these dual origins. In spite of its sometimes disjointed character, the Christmas festival is still my personal favourite holiday of the year.
Im from Switzerland, we normaly start with Apero and than a lamb's lettuce salat. main course is swiss Racclette, cheese Fondu or we have Fondu Chinoise/fondu bourguignon (Meat Fondu)
Its al about spending alot of time while eating…
Gifts
And a small dessert
Aw as a Brit I've only just found out that a lot of Europe celebrate Christmas on Xmas eve! I'm thankful it's not the case here as my son's birthday is Xmas eve.😮
Do German children put stocking out on Xmas eve for 'santa' to fill while they sleep? It's common in the UK, but a massive pain in the butt for us parents 😂
Well, so do the British royal family - because they're German!
In Switzerland, „Christkind“ brings the presents through the Window on the 24th and places them under the Christmas tree.
@@malilala8047 aw wow. I love learning how different countries do Christmas x
Putting out a stocking on Xmas eve (24th in Germany) is not a German tradition A typical thing for families is to go for a long walk and when they come back the presents are laying under the chrismas tree and oops! we missed Santa!
We do celebrate Nikolaus on 6th December though and on the 5th in the evening, you'd have to clean your shoes, put them (well, one actually) in front of the door and over night Nikolaus will fill it with mandarines, nuts, chocolate and a little "Weckmann" (baked sweet bread in the shape of a man with a pipe and raisin eyes). I love my kid's reaction in the morning.
@@mariaazul9152 That's awesome x
I hate noodle salad too. In Switzerland and France (no noodle salad in France, we are civilised), the Christmas dinners are also quite simple. In the UK, it is kind of inbetween very fancy and simple. People roast turkeys like it's a religion (when the real tradition is goose), and it does not even taste very nice. The stuffing is the best part.
Anyway, a very good Xmas to you, and a great 2025!
Christmas Eve and Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) in England is all about family for food we have a full Christmas lunch where we have turkey and 2 other kinds of meat (my family) its a massive meal. new year is for adults to drink getting drunk.😮😮
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I think its really interesting Uyen's take on Christianity, the body of christ is free food😂 its also interesting GB is going to church. Future suggestion is spirituality and religion as a couple.😊
I want to make Vietnamese German crossed foods😊
You should visit Romania to see some food cooked for Christmas 😂😂😂😂
сould you pls tell name of X mas dishes in Romania and what from made
@@Nadia-vk4vi is mostly based on pork meat. In Romania, we have this tradition of slaughtering pigs before Christmas. So basically pork meat sausages pork meat roast...and the quintessential sarmale (pickled cabbage roll with minced pork meat, rice/corn/ mushrooms etc) and so on, with different sidings...but this depends on the regions... and a lot of home-baked pies and cakes like cozonac ...Again it depends on the area...and everything is accompanied by hard plum/apricot/quince snaps called palinca/rachiu/tuica (again depends on the region you are from) and wine...i don't know al the dishes..because I'm from the city...maybe Romanians will like to help.
ps. and the traditional salata de beof with chicken meat :))
As a german, I have to say that german boyfriend is coming from a quite stiff and boring family lol. Only 10% of the people I know are like that. A feast is normal on the 24 and 25, sometimes on the 26
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on the bright side, now you're kinda equal. by a direct flight uyen can get to her family in vietnam in about 13 hours. and now german boyfriend has about the same problem:)
Frohe Weihnachten!
God was created today and tomorrooooow 😂😂😂😂
Uyen, would you explain New Year traditions of the Vietnamese?
you guys are really lucky that you found eachother Allah bless you with all boons of life.☺☺
Tonal language and singing clash. That is interesting.
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What Swiss raclette being desecrated? (I am Swiss, also French, and the French too do raclettes). Do I need to take back all my good wishes? I will be the bigger person and no do it.
A discussion of Christmas in Germany and no mention of Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel? Uyen, it's fine, just admit that German Boyfriend is Belgian.
You will cook with your children
Many Americans cook days and days before Christmas and bake with family
It’s All about The Birth of Jesus
Omg I’m early!!!!
der bf ist echt einer der nettesten Typen die ich je erlebt habe. er hat soooooo endlos viel Geduld mit Uyen und zeigt ihr und ihrer Kultur sehr viel mehr Respekt als sie ihm und der deutschen Kultur. Uyen ist echt anspruchsvoll und naja....manchmal bisschen herablassend und versteht nicht wirklich was er ständig erklärt. Wie eben warum es an Heiligabend eher sparsames Essen gibt. Ansonsten finde ich es echt seltsam Weihnachten zu feiern aber dabei auf christliches herabzusehen und nichtmal kapieren dass weihnachten nunmal ein christliches Fest ist. das ist echt eine asiatische Attitüde die ich komisch finde. Wenn man Christen so doof findet, dann sollte man es auch lassen Weihnachten zu feiern und es artfremd zu einem blinkyblinky-Kitsch zu verunstalten der nur noch aus Shopping und Vollfressen besteht. Sie sollte echt dankbar sein, dass er über ihre häufigen Attitüden so grosszügig hinwegsieht. Ich glaub sie weiss garnicht welchen Schatz sie da gefunden hat. Ich mag Uyen....aber sie sollte sich den Ruhm nicht zu Kopf steigen lassen und sie sollte nicht alles was die Tradition bei ihrem bf ist, als "deutsche Tradition" sehen. Obwohl bei uns in der Familie ebenfalls Kartoffelsalat und Würstchen das traditionelle Essen sind. Aber eben schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat und echte Saitenwürstle, die aus Kalbsfleisch sind und vom Metzger und nicht Brühwurst aus ner Dose. das ist halt doch nochma,l ein exorbitanter Unterschied. Und damn...macht mal einer Uyen einen gescheiten Nudelsalat. ich schwör sie würde meinen lieben :D
Happy holidays to you too! I hope you both have a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s was very interesting hearing about your different ways of celebrating!😊❤🎉
Helloo and I'm early
Do you eat the ancestors food 1.5 hrs after ... do you eat it cold or heat it up?
I wish you'd make a video of what you have ain common.
ok but god WAS created today and tomorrow, so true bestie
Uyen, tell about vietnamese language. What mean in a tonal, why you mentioned it?
God was definitely created today and tomorrow
If we are not Asian, chances are lunar New Year is only a word but we don't really know the origin or meaning it has.