Avoid This Auntie in Hanoi, Vietnam ($20 Challenge Fail)
no give it's okay we don't want to oh we can call the police so there's a guy that's literally way steep in the West Lake right now C razor is coming out Hano is considerably more affordable than we ever imagined some more that's some more yeah okay yeah come on thank you so much thank you bye-bye and that is what makes Hanoi and Vietnam so special is the people I'm telling you guys they are some of the friendliest people M hello everybody we are going to try to spend 500,000 Vietnamese Dong today which is equivalent to about $20 or about €20 just to show you how affordable Hanoi really is so let's go and try and spend this bed boy so guys we're going to start our day off by having some breakfast and keep in mind that this $20 challenge or 20 Euro challenge uh is for two people so you can cut this in half for yourself if you are traveling solo in Hanoi but the whole point of this video is just to give you guys an idea like Naomi said as to how cheap it can be here and we're going to start our day off by getting possibly our favorite sandwich in all of Southeast Asia we're going to go and get a ban me and there's a place that we spotted not too far from here to get one so let's grab ourselves a delicious Vietnamese sandwich wowers look at this p p p I don't know the words other than b me we need a Google translate we have a lot to learn here the second one is coming also second one's coming yeah guys we ordered ourselves two band mes and uh very happy 25,000 is my one come on thank you we have my one for 25k and Naomi's was 20K okay so a grand total for these two is 45,000 Vietnamese Dong so a very very inexpensive and affordable breakfast and he just toasted them as well oh wow oh I have egg and all so I have Pate egg cucumbers uh some pork I think in there yeah cuz I couldn't really read the menu I wasn't sure what I was ordering but it looks really nice I'm very happy with it actually let's give it a try yeah let's give it a go oh yeah yeah it's beautiful for 20,000 Vietnamese dong under1 it's so good under1 yeah wow and like I said he has basically uh this like toaster machine so he presses them down and there's a whole menu a whole selection of things it goes from 10 up to 25,000 uh so I definitely got kind kind of the more expensive version because I think I well to be honest I have no idea what I actually ordered so it's going to be a surprise it's always a surprise oh I can see egg yeah there seems to be oh yeah look at that so it's basically like an egg omelette and then you have some red pork in there uh and also a couple of other different things that looks to be like maybe some uh other meat like deli meat and stuff like that and some cuc some sber and crispy onions and a nice sauce in there too this bread is nice and fresh and very very hot as well so let's give it a try here perfect really really nice balance of stuff on the inside and this is something that we cannot get over since we arrived in Vietnam is sandwiches like this that are absolutely loaded full of nice things for such a low cost and that's why we wanted to start this particular video off showing you just how cost effective it can be obviously when you move towards the old quarter stuff like this will get slightly but not very much just slightly more but but uh it is still worth it if you see a band me seller or a highly rated band me seller give it a try and it's very pocket friendly just to give you an idea for comparison this type of a sandwich uh which probably might even be a little bit smaller than what we actually got right now uh in Ireland for example would run maybe at six or seven Euro six or 7 basically for that type of a sandwich so we're super happy with just below 1 EUR and I can't stop eating the flavors the quality everything else in here spot on and perfect way to start this video a b me really hit the spot guys and just keep in mind as well they have water here and that is absolutely free of charge so you can grab your jug fill yourself up some water while you're enjoying your sandwich for free so as breakfast for less than €2 I believe it works out to be around €165 unbelievable next up you'll see what's next up now you look like you're wearing a dress let's see what I end up with here I'm very interested as well because he didn't ask what you want yeah I know we'll see I'm just going to get the treatment you're going to get the treatment y okay guys we're about halfway through now razor is coming out let's see what happens so far so good it does not look bad now I don't know what the look is going to look like at the end obviously we're just going to trust the process and Trust the locals as we always do but uh for now it's very exciting to actually see how hair is cut in Vietnam so guys the equipment here seems to be quite well kept and pretty clean as well and the job that he's doing is actually pretty fantastic even though there's a very strong language barrier the guy like literally doesn't have one word of English but it's a very enjoyable uh experience so far but somewhat on the level of what you would get anyways in most Barbers the only difference is you're sitting on the side of the street so it's a lot more of a of an open atmosphere it's a lot of a nicer atmosphere actually but yeah so far I would rate this whole experience a solid 9 out of 10 if I was to rate it out of 10 um it's actually very peaceful it's very nice and uh like I said we didn't I didn't show this guy any pictures or anything that I actually wanted he just grabbed the stuff and started cutting my hair so we'll see what the end result is but so far I'm actually very satisfied with it and I think it's going very well and I love the whole mirror set up here looks like he's working on the finishing touches now of the haircut he just asked Luke if Luke wants to be uh clean shaven but uh yeah I think Luke is more of a like two days stubble kind of guy obviously sometimes he also does clean shape but uh right now uh he didn't really wasn't really looking for a clean shaven look so he's just doing the finishing touches and the edging and everything like that and then we're very excited to actually find out how much it's going to be because we didn't talk about that in the beginning the lady that is sitting over there she actually uh showed us like 25 so I believe it should be around 25,000 but I'm not sure so we're going to find out what happens um but very interesting oh I think we're done oh yeah and he cleans people with this giant sponge with I think is very funny you just get hit in the face with a sponge easy as de how how does it look very good beautiful very very nice okay everybody so I'm feeling very fresh and I think I have hair all down my back and neck as always after a fresh haircut the total cost of that haircut came to 50,000 Vietnamese Dong which is equivalent to roughly around just under $2 us are uh €180 so it's a very very good deal now obviously I think he charged us slightly more than what a local person is going to pay I heard the average price for a street haircut for locals will be anywhere between 20 to maybe 35 40,000 if I'm if I'm right that's what Google says anyways but 50,000 dong for me as a European is incredibly cheap very very good value and it will be very good value for any of you guys that are coming here maybe as a tourist and you want to get your haircut check out one of those Street Barbers because you're directly supporting a Vietnamese local by going to someone like that guy he just has his equipment and his mirror against the wall and that's that's his whole setup and I'm very happy with the result guys now we've made our way towards a market area where we're going to try and buy some fruit and we'll also show you guys obviously the exact price that we get charged here but it looks like there is some beautiful looking fruit here we've got oranges green mangoes yellow mangoes and a whole bunch of other fruit as well on offer like dragon fruit as well that looks amazing it looks like a very nice dragon fruit got some oranges as well yeah sure let get two oranges two mangoes would you like a dragon fruit uh and yeah sure one dragon fruit grab one of those this feels good come on oh a nice Hefty bag of fruit guys this is kind of is it a one price for All To Everything Under One Price look at the selection here and this is this whole area here Believe It or Not other than this section is market so you've got vegetables and fruit and then you also down here you have like a fresh meat section which is like seafood and beef and pork amazing right guys uh I believe all of the fruits maybe are the same price I don't know it's usually not that that way but uh we have one dragon fruit two really Hefty copy you want coffee sure you want try one yeah yeah sure oh for free oh wow okay they they sell the pack yeah yeah it's good coffee or Vietnam Vietnam coffee yes oh come on come on Cheers Cheers thank you Cheers [Music] Cheers W strong nice sweet very sweet photo yeah salt salt instant salt oh it's salt coffee says salt instant coffee Salt coffee yes oh okay picture thank you thank you thank you so much you want to have some some what is the cost for this it's 55,000 55,000 for coffee what do you think yeah it's good okay byy uh one one yeah come on thank you right I'm going to try and D okay we're suckers when it comes to caffeine guys come on thank you so much thank you thank you some more some more yeah okay yeah why not oh come on thank you so much thank you bye bye by bye bye all right what I wanted to say got suckered into buying some coffee we wanted to buy coffee anyway so this just came in very very handy and we had bought this big bag of fruit she put it all on the scale it was just over 2 kog and we had spent 80,000 dong for that and which is very affordable like if you compare it to the supermarket prices for fruits it's very very affordable wow there's also a lot of greenery here going on behind me and now we had bought this coffee as well for 55,000 uh dong it's like an instant coffee and they have like several saet in there so I believe we're going to get several uh servings out of that and it was our first time trying a salt coffee Vietnamese salt coffee very nice actually did think it would be nice because I thought salt and coffee but I'm not sure how that is going to go together but it's actually nice C the amount of things that is happening on the daily basis on Vietnamese streets is just mindblowing uh we're just trying to walk down the street and we've never been we've never been in this area before so we don't really know uh what is here but uh there's so many things happening at the same time there was like a thing open in the in the ground where of the scooters are trying to drive around and these gentlemen over here they're sort of pulling cables I don't know if they're like pulling fiberglass or like internet cables or something like that um but yeah very interesting to see and this area here really seems to be very much dedicated towards uh selling Goods so there's a lot of like fruit Sellers and um some like smaller convenience shops places where you can buy rice and beans and so on and you always have this little side Alleyways where you can uh walk down and basically get lost in a completely different Universe it kind of seems to be like a you know like the studio giber type of a situation where you're like not sure in which Universe you're going to go basically Hanoi is basically characterized by a lot of these little Alleyways and no matter how many little Alleyways you go down you'll always meet someone on a scooter this is the real Hanoi right here let have a look really stunning some of these buildings as well I can't get over the architecture in Hanoi it's some of the most interesting that I've seen in a long time you have basically a lot of these like they're not exactly highrise they're only really like four or five stories a lot of the buildings but the fact that they're not super high gives uh the city of Hanoi a very sort of unique characteristic and it looks very very almost European like I said to Naomi when we were walking around the other the just the other day some of the areas look very similar architecturally to a lot of Central and Western Europe and I'm assuming it has to do with some of the influences from places like France um obviously a longtime Colony that was here and also as well you see the influences in many places from the Chinese as well with the uh temples and a lot of the buildings as well what I really love about the streets here is that each and every single house I don't know if you saw it just down there is completely different so the the floor sizes for example are different the windows are different the makeups are different and so on like just so you see here that this is like two floors on this house but it's like three floors on the other house might be four Flo floors on the next house and so on it really seems like uniformity is not necessarily desired in terms of architecture or in terms of how these houses were built and I just find it so so interesting because um where I'm from in Germany for example a lot of times they try and make at least the the street look like somewhat similar T so that the houses are like the same height or whatever or sometimes the same color the same makeup the same build and it's just like the complete opposite here quick update by the way we have two 270,000 Vietnamese Dong left which is pretty much exactly halfway through the challenge so we have around €1 left or roughly around $1050 to 11 us left so now it's getting interesting we have to start getting a little bit more creative anyways we're wandering through this beautiful local neighborhood neighborhood here and we're going to see what we can find to spend the rest of this money P P it's okay to film yeah thank you so they have a whole wide selection of stuff here guys and I think this is what we're going to get next we're going to get ourselves a nice little snack we haven't tried anything like Vietnamese style snacks Street snacks so they actually have pizza which is 25k which is incredible it's roughly around the size of my hand and it seems to be absolutely loaded full of different things like ham and sausage and stuff like that I'm not really going to go for that cuz I'm still actually very full from the band me that we had earlier I have the these smaller ones which are called tat Dua I hope I'm saying that right probably not but they look very good they look like they have like kind of these like almond shavings and maybe like a sesame seed or something like that looks really good you want I think I'm going to try one of those do and Naomi I think wants one of these which I believe is a Japanese H chocolate Bond no I don't know it's actually Japanese I think it's just a chocolate bun could just be a chocolate bun think it's just a chocolate bun but they have a huge selection of stuff and uh we just were walking by and we figured we have to give something a try they even have hamburgers here for 20,000 Vietnamese Dong so it just gives you an idea as to the type of snacks that you can get for very little money Yan yanola and one tatua t uh this is going to be what 22k this will be 22k yeah perfect I have perfect change come on thank you super happy friendly Smiley and amazing local as well that's another reason that sort of tempted us over there but she was just super smiley and waving over to us so and that is what makes Hanoi and Vietnam so special is the people I'm telling you guys they are some of the friendliest people similar to when we were in the Philippines the Philippines has some amazing people Vietnam is no different they are incredible hello Vietnamese apples looks good Vietnam Apple nice from Vietnam W you want some apples I don't know what they taste like we can try yeah I'm going to try one they keep seeing these being sold everywhere can try yeah let's give this a try guys none good is it none it's actually good it is tasty very sweet very good it's a yeah it's like a plum kind of she wants you to put it in the bag oh okay in bag let's see we have to we have to see which ones are good oh don't throw them all in this one bad this one looks good oh very tasty okay four more okay all good I big money how much how much no you need to give us change no not 200,000 no no no no no no no no no no no no no no can give change no it's okay it's okay it's okay give us the 200,000 give the 200,000 please please give the 200 no we don't want it you can keep your app it's okay no have to be have to show honesty no give me it's okay we don't want to we can call the police sorry can you come over here please can you come over here don't try and do this toist she tried to take to 200 200 200,000 for apples [Music] okay thank you oh good wow well we were just talking about the friendly happy smiley locals that's the the flip side of it wow that's crazy guys Jesus I'm so glad that I kept the camera rolling but wow unfortunately that also happens so it kind of reminds you to go to businesses uh such as the lady that had the nice Bakery for example she had the prices listed and everything like that yeah it's unfortunate very unfortunate that people uh like that will try and take money like that it's 200,000 Vietnamese Dong for like four or five apples yeah just to give you an understanding why we reacted that way first of all that would have been nearly the rest of the money that we would have had to spend for this entire video and I just had gotten two kilog of fruit which uh with a dragon fruit and like mangoes and uh whatever else that we had bought I don't actually remember so much um and that was 80,000 dong and now she wanted for under 1 kilogram of this this like local Vietnamese Apple type of fruit she wanted to keep 200,000 and uh I mean she can try and do that obviously some tourists are going to say it's okay or whatever and G to keep going but for us it's like a lot of money that would have been the equivalent of over seven EUR can you show so €7 42 she wanted to have for what like 10 of the Vietnamese little apples that's like that's more expensive than in Europe like four times more expensive than it would be in our home country where it is very expensive so it doesn't make sense and stop trying to treat tourists like that that if you are someone that's doing that if you are someone that's purposefully trying to do stuff like that very very very uh bad and it's the first it's genuinely the first bad experience that we've had since coming to Vietnam and it happened to be on camera so it's pretty unfortunate but anyways look at this look at this shiny thing over here I have a big box here uh for my tat Dua which I have no idea what to expect but maybe Naomi can give it a try first P it looks amazing sorry I'm a little upset it's all good it's all good I don't know is there something on the edges that you need to take off no I think you can eat it like this you give it a try oh W oh maybe coconut shaving or something it's coconut oh coconut and almond that is really good and this is only 10,000 Vietnamese D under 50 cents under 50 Cent I could have gotten 20 of these 20 of them for 200,000 so that'll give you an idea guys of just how much she was trying to charge us you saw the bag of apples I think we had maybe had around five to 10 of those tiny little apples in the bag so yeah this is very delicious but uh I saw a lot of these fruit vendors just like her uh actually in the old town and I do believe that something that um a few of them try on a regular basis where they just try and overcharge tourists um which is like I don't know I want to kind of say it's fair but also it's not so it's I don't know it's just an unfortunate situation I guess but I have a chocolate bun look at this shiny object I'm going to give it a try M Big Bite oh it's really soft and there's like this really dark chocolate on the inside looks super super good M very happy with that super good yeah going to try sorry I squeezed it really hard to make the chocolate come out it looks like amazing oh wow that's really good it's goody n n lady was standing and smiling at us this is actually incredible very very good worth the money as well I think are cool I just tried the Luke one as well very nice very like like a coconut like a what is it called in German it's called Cocos Macon coconut macron or something like that it's very nice very good super happy with this definitely check out those little snack vendors if you do see them around they often sell things like the ban ran as well the sort of fried balls filled with mung bean and they also have a lot of other stuff just like the stuff that we tried so fantastic and we have a good bit of money left as well now guys yes all right guys so we made our way now into a grab if you can see that here so we're basically going to go all the way from where we're staying over to the other other side of the West Lake and believe it or not this journey which I'm not too sure exactly how many kilometers it is I think it's roughly around 5 or 6 km it's only costing us 62,000 Vietnamese dong so just keep that in mind if you do want to travel around the city of Hanoi it's very inexpensive if you download the grab app this is not sponsored at all it's just genuinely a very cheap affordable inexpensive way of getting around Hanoi and you get to enjoy the amazing views of Hanoi City out of your window here's the West Leake looks very foggy today well well well people welcome to what seems to be a little bit more of an affluent part of the West Lake we've already seen significantly more Europeans and uh white people in general that seem to be living here maybe xats or something like that this is actually like I said the opposite side of where we are currently staying in our Airbnb but have a look here you have sort of these big old beautiful gated buildings and uh I wish I could have a look inside but it looks absolutely gorgeous from where I am and you have these gorgeous green beautiful trees lining the streets as well also really really big uh very modern looking type of condos which I believe is probably the reason that the exps are here yes that's very true and from the vibe that I'm getting you can look here you can actually see inside big beautiful gorgeous looking uh possibly apartments or condos as well and from what I'm uh seeing around here there's plenty of western style restaurants we saw a couple vegan places already which you don't see in a lot of the rest of Hanoi although I think in the old quarter you will see some vegan places and then obviously tons of cafes and other styles of r restaurants as well so it seems to be very fitting for an xat community that might want to work out of cafes and stuff like that have a look very very nice and it seems to be quite a quite a slow pace here too and when you wander into the Alleyways here it is a different vibe than the Alleyways where we started this video where there would be women on the sides of the street cutting up some fruit or stuff like that instead of women sitting and cutting up fruit you have very very clean very well-kept uh beautiful little streets now if we're being honest for Naomi and myself we prefer we prefer uh where the street vendors are we prefer where all of the locals are working and making their money and that's why that's why we didn't uh come to stay on this side but it is very interesting for us to come over here and at least experience uh that different side of life and I tell you what it is definitely a different side of life have a look at these buildings every building that I'm looking at is incredibly unique very very cool so there's a guy that's literally waste steep in the West Lake right now and I believe what he's doing is retrieving things so I think I think he actually went in to retrieve his uh the end of his fishing rod so like the the bait hook that he has um tackle sorry I was trying to think of the word so he went in to actually retrieve it so wow that must be incredibly cold water look at this for a view as well guys by the way this is the other side so we are actually believe it or not we're living somewhere over on this side here um so you can see actually I was talking about earlier uh this over here is a West Lake Mall so we are probably somewhere pretty much directly in front of where we are right now and you can see uh what I was talking about earlier is the the buildings are not very high except for like a couple ones that are rising above us so very very beautiful and this view is one of the most special views that I've seen now of the West Lake it's just totally open and you see the skyline in the in the distance this is beautiful well this $20 or 20 or 20 whatever you want to call it challenge is 00,000 it's proving to be uh actually quite difficult Hanoi is considerably more affordable than we ever imagined and uh I hope we're showing you that but now we're going to go in here this place looks absolutely gorgeous it's situated directly on the beautiful West Lake and I think we're going to have a nice tea or a coffee and just sit and relax at the West Lake so come in with us and let's see what they have to offer it's called males coffee by the way which is an interesting name did don't know look at this setup here well look at how beautiful this view is and this whole entire setup I'm on a chair that is way too small for me uh sitting down on this chair I didn't think that it would happen but I can tell you what I'm never getting up again so the next few videos are probably going to be me sitting here in this chair we just made our order and we basically got two different types of teas and we also went for some sunflower seeds because we see a lot of locals sitting along the west lake uh here in Hanoi munching on sunflower seeds and just relaxing and a lot of times they're actually painting these uh sort of like ceramic little uh things they paint them and they sit there for literally hours just drinking tea or coffee and painting away and I think it's a fantastic and really sort of like a meditative way to enjoy your time here come on come on you really wondering if there this like uh just like bare sunflower seeds or if they are like salty or something a ttin teeny tiny bit salty I feel like they're a little bit roasted but not super uh salty I actually also saw some people that had like a chili oil or something with it where people would dip the sunflower seeds in but these ones are like kept in the original way which is super great really good and believe it or not I think even after this uh spending that we're going to do here I think we still have like maybe 30 or 40,000 and Dong left but we're going to show you um just exactly we're going to try out the tea because we haven't really had any tea here in Hanoi yet we'll try it out and let you guys know if it's worth coming to check out this particular Cafe but I can tell you straight away based off of the view it is very very beautiful and these are actually quite nice they do have just like a little bit of a hint of salness to them well wow what an incredible day that we've had it's proved to be like I said incredibly difficult anoi is very inexpensive for you even if you do some typical touristy stuff now uh please bear in mind we are trying to spend a 500,000 dong by doing everyday type of things now of course if you are going to go to the old town and you're going to do like a shopping spree you're going to spend 500,000 very very fast but we feel like that's not your like everyday thing to do so we just sort of wanted to show you with everyday thinks how far we are going to get and um even when we're leaving this Cafe I think we would still have enough money to get another two bunes in uh order to have dinner or something like that so it's actually really difficult to spend we spent the whole day doing nothing but trying to spend 500,000 so guys this is my mango tea which I've never tried before I am a big big fan of mango flavors though and this looks quite exceptional I didn't I did not realize that it was going to be an iced uh mango tea so but I'm nonetheless I'm very excited to try this it is also relatively warm today for Hanoi so let's give it a try oh wow there's actually sort of pieces of mango in there so that's incredible it's a very very organic mango taste um it's nothing like this like fake sugar powdery mango drinks that you just add water to and then it becomes a mango drink this seems to be actually Blended up mango and then they've added a little bit of tea in there as well with some ice very very delicious very very good and what did you get I got a ginger and a honey tea actually and it does look like uh just like straight up Ginger and probably some honey mixed into it and mine is actually hot and I'm very happy that it's hot because I'm always cold no matter how hot it is outside at like 34° I'm starting to feel okay about the temperature I don't know how hot this is I'm very scared to burn my M very gingery very spicy but nice um super good it's a the perfect thing to drink for your a really cold day or maybe even if you have a sore throat or something like this or if you're just a little bit weird like me and you just like the taste of ginger this is perfect oh amazing yeah I don't think there's I don't think there's any better way really to finish off this video with a nice big bowl of sunflower seeds we have a very interesting chocolate brown dog to accompany us as well who doesn't he doesn't want anything to do with us we tried to call him over and he literally has just been ignoring us but usually we're dog we usually we get along very well with dogs but this one seems to be uh in its own world but beautiful view and we hope that we hope that we have convinced you guys to come and check out Hanoi and Vietnam $20 challenge incredibly inexpensive for everything that we've done today if you think about all of what we've done it is really incredible like after this we still have enough to get a grab all the way back to where we were staying or more food if we want that as well I just did some quick calculation and I do believe we still have three Euro left so 81,000 dong we still have left um which you could easily get two first for like two big beef soups um with noodles and uh yeah that's probably what we're going to do after this video absolutely guys but for now my name is Luke my name is Naomi we are the two mad explorers hi and this is your reminder to keep exploring and we'll see you guys in the next Vietnamese Adventure come on for watching come on bye-bye byebye
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