How food divides our relationship | Culture Cuddles #6

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TLDRDans cet épisode, les animateurs de "Culture C" explorent les différences culturelles en matière de nourriture entre l'Allemagne et le Vietnam. Ils partagent leurs expériences personnelles, leurs préférences alimentaires et les défis de vivre avec des goûts différents. Les discussions incluent des impressions sur la cuisine allemande, les plats préférés, et comment ils gèrent leurs différences alimentaires au quotidien. Ils répondent également à des questions des auditeurs sur leurs expériences culinaires et les défis rencontrés lors de leurs voyages.

Takeaways

  • 🍽️ La nourriture est un sujet central dans les relations interculturelles.
  • 🌍 Voyager permet de découvrir de nouvelles cuisines et saveurs.
  • 🥘 Les préférences alimentaires peuvent varier considérablement d'une culture à l'autre.
  • 🤔 La communication est essentielle pour gérer les différences alimentaires dans une relation.
  • 🍜 La cuisine vietnamienne est riche en saveurs et en diversité.
  • 🍞 Les sandwichs allemands sont souvent froids et simples, ce qui peut surprendre.
  • 🥗 Les allergies alimentaires doivent être prises en compte lors des repas partagés.
  • 🍲 Les plats traditionnels peuvent être très différents d'un pays à l'autre.
  • 💬 Partager des repas ensemble renforce les liens familiaux.
  • 🌶️ Les épices et les herbes jouent un rôle crucial dans la cuisine vietnamienne.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Dans cet épisode, les animateurs discutent de leurs expériences culinaires en tant que personnes issues de cultures différentes, l'une allemande et l'autre vietnamienne. Ils partagent leur amour pour la nourriture et leur passion pour découvrir de nouvelles cuisines lors de leurs voyages.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Les animateurs comparent leurs cuisines respectives, avec des opinions divergentes sur la qualité de la nourriture allemande par rapport à la nourriture vietnamienne. Ils évoquent leurs plats préférés et les défis d'adapter leurs goûts alimentaires l'un à l'autre.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Une question d'un auditeur sur la première impression de la nourriture allemande est abordée, révélant que l'animatrice vietnamienne a eu du mal à apprécier la cuisine allemande, la trouvant trop lourde et à base de viande.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Ils discutent des différences dans leurs habitudes alimentaires, notamment le fait que l'animatrice vietnamienne a dû s'adapter à la nourriture allemande, ce qui a eu des conséquences sur sa santé digestive.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Les animateurs partagent des anecdotes sur leurs expériences culinaires en voyage, notamment en ce qui concerne la nourriture de rue au Vietnam et les défis de manger à l'étranger avec un budget limité.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:35:04

    Enfin, ils abordent la question de la compatibilité alimentaire dans une relation, soulignant l'importance de trouver des compromis et de respecter les préférences alimentaires de chacun. Ils concluent en exprimant leur appréciation pour la diversité culinaire.

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Video Tanya Jawab

  • Quelle est la première impression de la nourriture allemande ?

    Au début, je n'aimais pas la nourriture allemande, je la trouvais trop lourde et à base de viande.

  • Comment deux personnes avec des choix alimentaires différents vivent-elles ensemble ?

    Nous mangeons souvent séparément, mais nous essayons de nous asseoir ensemble pour partager des repas.

  • Quels sont les plats préférés de chacun ?

    J'aime les nouilles à la vapeur et la soupe de pommes de terre, tandis que mon partenaire préfère les plats allemands comme le schnitzel.

  • Comment gérez-vous les allergies alimentaires ?

    Il est important de communiquer et de respecter les préférences alimentaires de chacun.

  • Quelle est votre expérience avec la cuisine vietnamienne ?

    J'ai été surpris par la diversité et la richesse des saveurs, mais j'ai du mal avec certains ingrédients comme la coriandre.

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Gulir Otomatis:
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    hello and welcome to a new episode of
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    our podcast culture C where we talk
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    about experiences of people leaving and
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    loving abroad honey what is the topic
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    for today you will love today's topic
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    because we're talking about
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    food the only thing that I love as much
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    as German boyfriend let's
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    go so just to give you some some
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    background information like we are both
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    coming from two different cultural
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    backgrounds I'm from Germany she's from
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    Vietnam and we have very different food
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    culture yeah definitely our food culture
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    is a bit better than his food culture
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    so that is an opinion and we also we
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    both travel a lot together as well and
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    we both eat a lot of uh I mean at least
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    for me I love eating food in different
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    places so um yeah every time when we're
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    traveling basically that's all we are
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    doing that is literally the only thing I
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    care about when traveling I just need to
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    eat um so yeah I do have a lot of
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    opinion when it comes to food anyway can
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    you name me like um top three countries
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    in your list that have the best food
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    before we get deep into this topic today
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    I would go for Italy Thailand Japan H I
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    would go for Thailand
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    Vietnam and uh Vietnam really that's a
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    very unpopular opin although I'm
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    vietnames I think Tha food is a little
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    bit better I don't know like I don't
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    freaking know how they do stuff there in
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    Thailand or maybe just because like I'm
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    used to my food and I was shocked to
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    know that there is another country that
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    make food as good as us and Mexican food
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    I love burrito is that from Mexico yeah
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    see Mexican food's good that's my top
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    three h okay just not sure if you ever
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    ate authentic Mexican food well as long
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    as it's as good as what I ate so far I
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    will be happy with it you guys send us a
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    lot of interesting comments again all on
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    food this time if you want to submit us
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    a story you can do that on culture
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    cut.com we also received some questions
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    this time our first question comes from
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    Nicholas and he asks what was 's first
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    impression of German
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    food I came here 5 years ago and uh when
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    I first came here I did not like German
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    food I think it's too heavy too meat
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    base and um like a vegetable after 5
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    years I still don't like German food in
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    general um in my diet now I have German
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    food once per month whenever German
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    boyfriend bring me to a beer garden and
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    we have
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    schnitzel I don't know like like our
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    Vietnamese food and German food is just
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    so different there is literally nothing
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    in between like no compromise at all so
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    not much coming ground yeah it's really
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    it's really hard to switch from one to
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    another and uh I couldn't find anything
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    that could have like a fusion between
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    these two foood so I'm just stick with
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    my venam
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    food yeah you really tried hard in the
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    beginning to um yeah adapt a little bit
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    and Tred to eat bread in the morning we
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    also found out like what kind of bread
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    she likes and sometimes she eats it she
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    really likes bretzel with butter
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    although like in the like when she eats
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    bretzel with butter it's more like
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    butter butter with bradel like she's
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    really cutting the butter into bars and
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    placing it on the bretzel but like yeah
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    I mean at one point she just realized
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    that like also her digestion was not
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    really working with that I had to go to
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    the hospital for that oh not the
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    hospital I had to go to the doctor for
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    that I get all kind of check up because
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    my stomach keep hurting for like six
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    months after I moved to Germany cuz I
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    was trying to be adventurous and like
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    trying new food which did not work out
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    at all and and at the end it just turned
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    out that it was just like stress because
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    of exams at University and like uh
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    uncommon food together like they really
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    did a lot of checks also allergies and
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    stuff but like yeah that's also
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    something that some people should
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    realize when they're just saying like
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    open yourself up and stuff I mean of
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    course you can eat a little bit but like
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    you cannot just change your whole whole
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    diet that you had for your whole whole
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    life completely but I know that there
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    are also German dishes that you really
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    like like oh I like d noodle it's
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    basically like a steam bun and then you
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    dip them with vanilla sauce I could eat
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    it or potato soup yeah it was okay it's
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    not like a daily food but uh I like it
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    from time to time honey what is your
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    impression of Vietnamese food when you
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    first come to Vietnam I was very
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    interested in finding out like about
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    that food but I was traveling alone and
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    I was traveling on a budget so most of
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    the time I ended up with eating fried
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    rice or fried noodles the man was so
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    broke he has no money at all I was
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    there was it was crazy could allord like
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    those uh did did you eat like B me at
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    least those Vietnamese sandwiches yeah I
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    also ate bang me but I don't like the
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    liver paste that they put in there and
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    you know that I cannot eat coriander and
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    whenever I told like you need to imagine
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    that like that is Vietnamese fast food
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    there's old lady standing at the side of
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    the road with a car and she's selling
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    the bang meat it's a sandwich and it's
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    really a nice sandwich and then she puts
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    tons of stuff on it and one of the
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    things is coriander that she puts on it
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    and I cannot eat coriander it tastes
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    like soap it tastes bad for me
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    everything in Vietnam has coriander I
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    know I know that is part of the problem
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    I guess just like she hates parsley and
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    everything in Germany has parsley in it
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    and whenever I told that that old lady
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    that I don't want to have the coriander
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    in it it looked like something in her di
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    or I'm insulting all of her ancestors or
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    something yeah but I really like the
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    buang me and it's like very cheap you
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    pay like1 for for one giant giant
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    sandwich yeah not anymore honey it was
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    five years ago Vietnam is not that cheap
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    anymore inflation yeah but um but bang
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    me is the best thing in the world it's
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    like the best sandwich ever so freaking
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    flavorful and you cannot make that that
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    easy that's why you cannot really find
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    real authentic bang me oversea very very
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    rare restaurant could make it for
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    everybody is doing it everywhere left
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    and right but bang me is not that easy I
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    don't know why I mean there are also
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    people offering bang me but like it's
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    not very good so there's some exceptions
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    of course I feel like if you ever visit
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    Vietnam you better save like at least
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    some money so that you could afford like
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    food in Vietnam otherwise it's Such a
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    Pity because Vietnamese food is just so
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    cheap and so yummy if you go there and
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    you don't like when I was traveling with
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    German boyfriend I was also super broke
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    so basically I could eat much the thing
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    that I want to eat as well I was
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    basically eating he was eating um fried
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    rice and I was eating fried vegetable
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    all the time but uh now that we have
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    more money compared to the old times
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    whenever we travel especially to country
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    that I like to eat the food like Vietnam
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    we were eating from the morning until
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    the afternoon the evening every 1 hour
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    you see me sipping on something or
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    eating something and I couldn't even sta
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    it was so nice knowing that I could
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    afford the food and I could eat all of
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    these food the thing is like for me it
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    would be fine to just have one time per
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    day doing it like that like and then
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    have the rest of the day for traveling
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    this is why I didn't feel so bad when I
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    was traveling there on the budget and
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    just had my fried rice all the time
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    because it was cheap it was yummy it was
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    making me fool and then I had just time
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    for exploring and in Vietnam there's
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    tons of stuff to explore like okay just
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    like yeah you like exploring food I like
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    to explore other things yeah I just said
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    that we cannot do the same thing
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    together so sometime we have to split so
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    I can eat and he can walk around Under
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    the Sun and get sunstroke later but it's
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    I think it's very healthy to to yeah see
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    what each other wants and not forcing
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    the other one to to do what you want I
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    think this is where trouble starts
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    especially on holiday next question
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    comes from boo boo how do two people
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    with different food choices live
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    together well I truly believe that food
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    could make or break a marriage honestly
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    along with other stuff food is possibly
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    top three up there somewhere if you're
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    not compatible when it comes to food it
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    could lead to a lot of argument and
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    dissatisfaction in life me and German
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    ban is not compatible at all when it
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    comes to food but we have come to a
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    solution most of the time we don't eat
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    together we eat separate food if we can
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    make it we try to sit together and then
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    each of us eat our own food and sometime
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    if there's something like pizza or pasta
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    sometime I would eat it then we could
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    share together it's not ideal because I
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    feel that if you cook together and you
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    sit down and eat together at the same
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    time they are more of a family Vibe
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    going around my family did that but well
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    at least now both of us are happy with
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    what we eat and the thing is I don't
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    plan to cook for German boyfriend as a
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    wife anyway so in Vietnam my mom cooked
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    for the whole family and so everybody
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    just wait for her to finish food and
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    then just sit down and eat most of the
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    time over here I wouldn't plan to cook
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    for German boyfriend three meals per day
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    so he cook his own meal I cook my own
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    meal and uh we sometime sit out to eat
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    together as I said yeah the thing is I
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    mean I think you just need to arrange
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    yourself about that the thing is I also
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    have like weird eating times like I eat
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    in the morning before I go to work and
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    then I eat like sometime in the
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    afternoon but before the evening but
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    yeah just having two meals basically
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    every day and I eat whenever I feel
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    hungry and eats every 2 hours like
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    seriously the thing is if I'm hungry and
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    I have to wait for German boyfriend to
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    finish his meal I'm going to eat him
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    like after when he finish his meal he
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    lose a arm already and and I were just
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    sitting there numing his arm so uh he
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    just gave up on that and um it works out
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    somehow it's not the best situation but
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    we're compromising let's start with the
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    first story Vanessa send us this story
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    my boyfriend and I have different ideas
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    of what makes a good dinner he loves big
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    hot meals and I would prefer something
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    simple like a sandwich or cereals this
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    is partly because he tends to eat one
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    meal meal a day and I eat several meals
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    throughout the day who eats one meal per
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    day so he he woke up in the morning and
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    then he didn't eat anything until the
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    afternoon one meal really sounds extreme
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    I mean I I told you before that I'm just
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    eating two meals per day but like
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    one but sometimes I actually can relate
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    because
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    sometimes got me into eating warm stuff
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    sometimes in the morning so when we have
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    leftovers then I heat it up in the
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    microwave sometimes in the morning and
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    then I actually realize that it makes me
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    fool like a lot for like most of the day
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    and sometimes I even feel like okay I
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    wouldn't need to eat anything else that
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    day anymore so maybe for some people
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    that might work that is a crazy thought
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    I would never thought of I have never
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    ever wake up eat something and feel full
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    and I thought okay I don't need to eat
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    anything until the evening even if I'm
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    full I would be like okay have to do
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    something so that I'm hungry for my next
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    meal wi is in 2 hours what are you doing
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    then for getting hungry well I don't
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    know but my point is that I have this
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    myet that there has to be at least three
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    meal per day and I have to like commit
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    to that goal I have never not eat three
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    meals per day I eat more than that every
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    day okay sorry please keep going with
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    the story well sometimes it I also feel
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    like it it comes from what U eats like
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    when she's just having like a a green
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    vegetable and then she boils it and then
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    she eats it with fish sauce and some
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    rice I mean that is not making a food
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    for a long time guys I never thought of
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    it before I came here because when I was
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    in Vietnam I never thought of nutrient
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    and stuff like that I just thought okay
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    this is yummy and then we eat it and
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    that's everything I thought about but
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    after I moved to Germany and uh I don't
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    have anyone who cook for me anymore I
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    when I was in Vietnam mostly I eat out
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    because it's pretty cheap and I have to
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    learn how to cook I love eating Bo
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    vegetable and I eat them all the time
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    but I realized that after 1 hour I'm
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    hungry again I didn't get it because I I
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    sometime I would it like a giant bowl of
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    vegetable and I finally learned that 80%
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    of them are just water oh like oh my God
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    water and fiber basically basically like
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    99% of them sometime are just water I
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    was just drinking water with some like
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    nutrient all the time and I didn't know
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    that until I'm getting until some years
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    later and turned out beans are not water
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    and I hate
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    beans uh trying to eat more beans now to
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    add more stuff in Vanessa kept saying to
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    compromise I just eat a little of
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    whatever he wants usually a pasta or
  • 00:13:38
    rice dish our plates look hilarious next
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    to each other one piled high and one
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    with a tiny amount do you compromise or
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    eat separately a I think we just
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    answered that question before already
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    but I find it's very sweet that she
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    actually sit down and eat a little bit
  • 00:13:54
    with him actually it's pretty much what
  • 00:13:56
    you're doing too right well I just sit
  • 00:13:58
    down because I see food and I want to
  • 00:14:00
    like try it out yeah but like it's it's
  • 00:14:03
    most of the time like for example we're
  • 00:14:05
    having friends over and then we're
  • 00:14:06
    ordering pizza together or something and
  • 00:14:09
    then uan is like oh yeah yeah I also
  • 00:14:11
    order a pizza and then we ordered a
  • 00:14:14
    pizza and then she disappears to the
  • 00:14:16
    kitchen and starts
  • 00:14:17
    cooking and Everyone is always
  • 00:14:20
    completely confused about that but like
  • 00:14:23
    yeah then she's having like three bites
  • 00:14:25
    of pizza and eats her boiled vegetable
  • 00:14:28
    along with it
  • 00:14:29
    and and she has that character phrase
  • 00:14:31
    like I just eat a little bit Yeah I eat
  • 00:14:34
    a little bit I just want to be included
  • 00:14:37
    to that's the whole thing funny enough
  • 00:14:39
    we already answer most of that beginning
  • 00:14:42
    at the beginning before we even know the
  • 00:14:44
    story but we really see ourselves in
  • 00:14:46
    that right I don't eat one meal per day
  • 00:14:48
    who is that person that's more like me
  • 00:14:51
    and like you don't German Bend don't eat
  • 00:14:53
    after 6 so I I eat until in a perfect
  • 00:14:57
    world I would talking about time eating
  • 00:15:00
    in Germany people would eat breakfast at
  • 00:15:02
    what 6:00 in the morning 7 in the
  • 00:15:05
    morning like on a on a work day or a
  • 00:15:08
    weekend in a work day for example work
  • 00:15:11
    day I guess like depending on when
  • 00:15:13
    they're getting up I feel like German
  • 00:15:16
    got up crazily early crazy like German
  • 00:15:20
    boyfriend got up 1 hour before he has to
  • 00:15:22
    leave the house so that he have enough
  • 00:15:23
    time to have breakfast sit down drink
  • 00:15:26
    coffee watch a movie or something like
  • 00:15:28
    that
  • 00:15:29
    if I had to leave the house I would get
  • 00:15:31
    up 15 minutes maximum I get up I brush
  • 00:15:34
    my teeth and I grab my stuff and I go I
  • 00:15:36
    have to sleep as much as possible I also
  • 00:15:39
    brushed my teeth by the way you didn't
  • 00:15:41
    mention that yeah um and then lunch what
  • 00:15:44
    time do you guys have
  • 00:15:46
    lunch like around 12 or 1 okay 12:30
  • 00:15:52
    yeah
  • 00:15:53
    dinner uh in the evening at 6:00 like
  • 00:15:56
    when I was growing up it was classic
  • 00:15:58
    classical 6 oh the thing is German
  • 00:16:01
    boyfriend don't have dinner so his uh
  • 00:16:03
    eating time is a bit messed up I think
  • 00:16:05
    he eat the first meal at 6 and then the
  • 00:16:07
    second meal at 4 or something um for my
  • 00:16:11
    eating time it's like I woke up at 9 and
  • 00:16:15
    then I eat my first brunch at 10 I have
  • 00:16:18
    to so it's like a big meal and then I
  • 00:16:21
    would be hungry until 6 and then I would
  • 00:16:24
    eat again and then I eat something at 9
  • 00:16:26
    to 10: in the evening which is really
  • 00:16:28
    bad I really try to stop that habit but
  • 00:16:32
    the problem when I was in Vietnam I work
  • 00:16:34
    shift so I always go home at 10 and then
  • 00:16:37
    I still have to cook and eat so I always
  • 00:16:39
    eat at 11: and I couldn't St with that
  • 00:16:42
    habit I heard that in Spain people eat
  • 00:16:44
    dinner at 11 or something I that's what
  • 00:16:47
    I heard I'm not Spanish so I don't
  • 00:16:50
    really know but I mean maybe someone can
  • 00:16:53
    I'm pretty sure we have Spanish people
  • 00:16:54
    out there who could write that in the
  • 00:16:57
    comments I I think eating a little bit
  • 00:16:59
    later because they want to avoid the
  • 00:17:01
    heat I mean the heat I was in Spain it
  • 00:17:04
    was not that hot like in Vietnam and
  • 00:17:06
    Vietnam Vietnam people do eat like
  • 00:17:12
    normally the next story is from meow
  • 00:17:15
    meow I'm a
  • 00:17:19
    cow okay I don't know in which country
  • 00:17:23
    meow meow is the sound of a cow but okay
  • 00:17:27
    differences in food were the biggest
  • 00:17:29
    culture shocks for the both of us one of
  • 00:17:32
    them being that Dutch people generally
  • 00:17:35
    eat light cold lunches like sandwiches
  • 00:17:39
    and salads me as a
  • 00:17:41
    Filipino have warm meals breakfast lunch
  • 00:17:45
    and
  • 00:17:46
    dinner one day early on our first months
  • 00:17:51
    of living together my boyfriend took a
  • 00:17:53
    packet of seasoned fried pork strips
  • 00:17:56
    from the fridge stuffed his bread with
  • 00:17:58
    it and proceeded to eat it cold no sauce
  • 00:18:02
    no toasting no warming
  • 00:18:06
    up this is really funny because if you
  • 00:18:09
    live in countries like Vietnam and you
  • 00:18:11
    have never go to a Western Country you
  • 00:18:13
    could never fathom what just
  • 00:18:16
    happened um like in my country we never
  • 00:18:19
    eat Co milal ever okay we um eat salad
  • 00:18:24
    but then it goes with other hot warm
  • 00:18:27
    dishes as well in my in our uh diet as
  • 00:18:31
    well so um for me it was a really big
  • 00:18:34
    shock to when I go to Germany and people
  • 00:18:36
    just have cold sandwiches but after a
  • 00:18:39
    while I come to an understanding that
  • 00:18:42
    it's quick and also it's very efficient
  • 00:18:44
    if you bring them to school or go to
  • 00:18:46
    work because when I was working in
  • 00:18:48
    Vietnam I have to bring my own lunch
  • 00:18:50
    which mean I have to wake up pretty
  • 00:18:52
    early and then I have to start cooking
  • 00:18:54
    my lunch hot like swm like super hot
  • 00:18:58
    soup hot chicken hot meat and hot egg
  • 00:19:01
    and everything and then I have to sit
  • 00:19:03
    there and wait until all of the dishes
  • 00:19:05
    are cold because if it's hot and then
  • 00:19:07
    you like immediately box them they turn
  • 00:19:09
    super bad super quickly and then I bring
  • 00:19:12
    them to work and then I have to have a
  • 00:19:14
    microware so I can uh hit them up again
  • 00:19:18
    and that is the only thing I could I
  • 00:19:20
    don't have any other choice like what
  • 00:19:21
    else do I have I only know how to make
  • 00:19:24
    warm food I have never eat cold food
  • 00:19:26
    before but for German you guys guys just
  • 00:19:29
    need to slap a piece of bread cheese
  • 00:19:31
    sandwiches a bit of like tomato together
  • 00:19:35
    and then you bring them to work and it
  • 00:19:37
    could last for a day or two and it's not
  • 00:19:39
    going to turn bad super quick and safe
  • 00:19:41
    time too I mean like as you describe it
  • 00:19:43
    like you can make a sandwich like pretty
  • 00:19:46
    interesting with a lot of different
  • 00:19:47
    toppings you can put something sour
  • 00:19:49
    something fresh something crunchy no but
  • 00:19:53
    it's still a sandwich honey it's still a
  • 00:19:55
    sandwich still a sandwich yeah don't get
  • 00:19:58
    me wrong there's also a lot of bad
  • 00:20:00
    sandwiches out there that like of course
  • 00:20:02
    when you eat them they don't taste very
  • 00:20:04
    good at all but like when you prepare
  • 00:20:06
    one like when I was a kid actually and
  • 00:20:08
    we went to a day trip I always liked in
  • 00:20:11
    the morning to prepare like my my
  • 00:20:13
    sandwich for that and then I was like oh
  • 00:20:15
    yeah and I put like salad there I put
  • 00:20:17
    that there and then I pack it and then I
  • 00:20:20
    cut some some veggies too that I can eat
  • 00:20:22
    along with it and maybe bring some small
  • 00:20:25
    baby cheeses and know the thing is honey
  • 00:20:28
    for you guys sandwich is like a whole
  • 00:20:30
    range of food with different thing
  • 00:20:32
    inside for us sandwich is just
  • 00:20:34
    sandwiches and we have different kind of
  • 00:20:36
    food that is completely different with
  • 00:20:38
    sandwiches to choose for a day but for
  • 00:20:41
    you guys it's like oh what sandwich what
  • 00:20:42
    kind of sandwiches should I bring to
  • 00:20:44
    work today and things like that right in
  • 00:20:47
    Vietnam we have the Vietnamese version
  • 00:20:49
    of sandwiches the bangi but it's not
  • 00:20:50
    like I eat bangi every day I have like
  • 00:20:53
    so many other option I don't need to
  • 00:20:54
    have bread every day okay next story
  • 00:20:58
    comes from aana I live in France and my
  • 00:21:01
    French girlfriend is shocked when I from
  • 00:21:05
    Madagascar food culture there is very
  • 00:21:07
    close to Asia even if it's Africa eat
  • 00:21:11
    pig's feet and all other weird parts of
  • 00:21:14
    an
  • 00:21:14
    animal what did you have to get used to
  • 00:21:18
    you want to start first or can I confess
  • 00:21:20
    something yeah you can confess whatever
  • 00:21:22
    you want this is the open open free and
  • 00:21:26
    safe space is that a safe space it's
  • 00:21:29
    very safe it's just you and the internet
  • 00:21:32
    okay when it comes to eating weird
  • 00:21:34
    looking food I am even more hardcore
  • 00:21:36
    than an average vietamese person I
  • 00:21:39
    really I don't know why but they just
  • 00:21:41
    taste better than those normal white
  • 00:21:44
    meat that you can find everywhere I love
  • 00:21:47
    chicken neck for example chicken wing
  • 00:21:50
    chicken feet pig feet animal intestine
  • 00:21:54
    if you cook them right they taste super
  • 00:21:56
    good as well um I cannot find any of
  • 00:21:59
    that in Germany and sometime when I'm
  • 00:22:02
    lucky enough I could find some German
  • 00:22:04
    boyfriend is traumatized he's super
  • 00:22:07
    scared of that he's not uh like when
  • 00:22:11
    whenever I eat a chicken feet he
  • 00:22:13
    wouldn't dare to look at me in the
  • 00:22:15
    eyes yeah it's just like very weird and
  • 00:22:18
    the sound that it makes is also very
  • 00:22:22
    weird it's like eting Bon ghoul ghoul on
  • 00:22:25
    the
  • 00:22:27
    graveyard I don't know like but I'm fine
  • 00:22:29
    with her eating it of course I mean it's
  • 00:22:32
    her her decision to do it I just yeah
  • 00:22:35
    also like the intestines I don't know
  • 00:22:37
    for me it's just a hat thing like when
  • 00:22:39
    when I know that there's in intestines I
  • 00:22:42
    think that is the name pronunciation
  • 00:22:44
    yeah I then I cannot eat it anymore I
  • 00:22:48
    think it mostly comes down to the
  • 00:22:50
    history and the economical background of
  • 00:22:52
    each country like us Vietnamese was
  • 00:22:55
    really poor in the part especially
  • 00:22:56
    during the war so if you a pick you
  • 00:22:59
    would definitely not just eat the meat
  • 00:23:01
    you would try to eat everything and
  • 00:23:03
    actually I like that I mean you you
  • 00:23:05
    don't want to waste stuff yeah if it's
  • 00:23:07
    edible and if it's not toxic then you
  • 00:23:09
    would try to eat it and you guys were
  • 00:23:12
    kind of well off since years and years
  • 00:23:15
    ago so for you guys you just need to eat
  • 00:23:17
    the meat part and you could I don't know
  • 00:23:19
    what you do with the intestine but
  • 00:23:21
    possibly throw it away or something or
  • 00:23:23
    put it into dog food or something yeah
  • 00:23:26
    um but that is also the reason why uh in
  • 00:23:29
    Vietnam there are so many interesting
  • 00:23:31
    and weird looking food like we also eat
  • 00:23:33
    a lot of snail as well but the snail
  • 00:23:35
    that you could find the ocean and stuff
  • 00:23:37
    like that we eat a jellyfish oh know do
  • 00:23:40
    you guys eat jellyfish yeah when we get
  • 00:23:44
    some maybe um and what else do we eat
  • 00:23:48
    but but I actually find that that
  • 00:23:49
    thought very very interesting like I
  • 00:23:51
    never thought about that but like
  • 00:23:53
    Vietnamese people really found a lot of
  • 00:23:55
    ways how to make stuff tasty that they
  • 00:23:58
    they had and no one was eating like for
  • 00:24:02
    example I don't know if you saw 's video
  • 00:24:04
    where she was preparing the pumpkin
  • 00:24:07
    pumpkin plant and then you need to skin
  • 00:24:09
    the plant so so that you're able to eat
  • 00:24:12
    it and when when I was doing research
  • 00:24:15
    like what what wild plants here you can
  • 00:24:17
    eat I also found out that over here like
  • 00:24:20
    300 years ago there was a lot of wild
  • 00:24:23
    stuff that people ate and also needed to
  • 00:24:25
    do things and they always say like yeah
  • 00:24:28
    you can use it like spinach you can use
  • 00:24:29
    it like spinach because before people
  • 00:24:32
    didn't have spinach they were using like
  • 00:24:34
    those wild plants and were doing it but
  • 00:24:36
    then when the spinach plant came became
  • 00:24:40
    popular and everyone was just growing
  • 00:24:41
    that everyone just started to eat the
  • 00:24:44
    spinach itself I mean I'm very open to
  • 00:24:47
    trying new food but there is one thing
  • 00:24:49
    that I will never try it's um insects in
  • 00:24:53
    Vietnam it's not that popular but
  • 00:24:54
    whenever you go to Thailand and you go
  • 00:24:57
    to a n you would see people selling a
  • 00:24:59
    bunch of roasted insect that look
  • 00:25:02
    exactly like insect basically they just
  • 00:25:04
    keep the whole shape and they just roast
  • 00:25:05
    it
  • 00:25:07
    um and and they look and they look
  • 00:25:09
    really scary the reason why I don't want
  • 00:25:11
    to eat them is not because they are
  • 00:25:13
    scary is mostly because they properly
  • 00:25:15
    come from the farm and they properly
  • 00:25:17
    come from the nature so people don't
  • 00:25:19
    just like keep them in and raise them
  • 00:25:21
    like a pig so basically I think they get
  • 00:25:23
    a lot of um pety in them as well when
  • 00:25:26
    people put pety in the farm or they
  • 00:25:28
    would get toxic somewhere as well and
  • 00:25:31
    then you eat them because you think
  • 00:25:33
    they're from the wild for example in our
  • 00:25:35
    Rice Field there is this uh insect that
  • 00:25:37
    is pretty long and green and people
  • 00:25:39
    would catch them and eat them when they
  • 00:25:41
    was cutting the rice down but the thing
  • 00:25:44
    is we put so much pide in our rice at
  • 00:25:46
    the beginning so that to protect them as
  • 00:25:49
    well so is it the properly these insect
  • 00:25:52
    get them to so is it really safe to eat
  • 00:25:54
    I'm a bit worried for that so I would
  • 00:25:56
    never try that now okay I can relate to
  • 00:25:58
    that but I mean the the interesting
  • 00:26:01
    thing is like what you were mentioning
  • 00:26:03
    and like you're going to Thailand and
  • 00:26:05
    then you see all of those like scorpion
  • 00:26:07
    on a stick and stuff Scorpion and then
  • 00:26:09
    you think like ah this is just for the
  • 00:26:11
    tourists I I always thought that but
  • 00:26:14
    then in at one night market I talked to
  • 00:26:17
    a local and I asked like yeah this is
  • 00:26:19
    just for the tourist right and he said
  • 00:26:20
    no like we're actually eating them and
  • 00:26:22
    like in the neighbor neighbor City that
  • 00:26:24
    would be like one of the biggest
  • 00:26:26
    grasshopper Farms like in the world
  • 00:26:28
    really
  • 00:26:28
    they Farm grass okay okay that that
  • 00:26:31
    makes sense that probably safer that
  • 00:26:33
    just catch them yeah yeah definitely I
  • 00:26:35
    mean there's also like I don't know
  • 00:26:37
    scientific reports that we could use a
  • 00:26:40
    lot of those those insect proteins and
  • 00:26:43
    it would be way better than yeah keeping
  • 00:26:45
    cattle pick okay or something okay yeah
  • 00:26:50
    let's see let's see where it goes is
  • 00:26:52
    there any scary food that you dare to
  • 00:26:54
    try in the world honey German boyfriend
  • 00:26:57
    is scary scary food that I tried like is
  • 00:27:01
    that what is the scariest food that you
  • 00:27:03
    ever try
  • 00:27:06
    durian you see how how Dar how daring
  • 00:27:11
    this Manny he ate durian and he act as
  • 00:27:13
    if he just the thing is like if I was
  • 00:27:16
    telling that to my friends like that I
  • 00:27:19
    ate that that fruit then some of them
  • 00:27:22
    would actually think that I'm daring
  • 00:27:24
    okay Jan is so yummy it's very yummy so
  • 00:27:28
    freaking ah it just have the best
  • 00:27:30
    texture it has the best taste it go well
  • 00:27:33
    with everything it just it smells so
  • 00:27:35
    strong that it's a bit embarrassing to
  • 00:27:37
    carry in public I have to say even in
  • 00:27:40
    Vietnam I sometime like if I buy a Duan
  • 00:27:42
    I don't dare to go to a taxi because
  • 00:27:44
    it's super smelly but it's so tasty I
  • 00:27:47
    miss it every day we're about to go go
  • 00:27:50
    traveling again and I really really hope
  • 00:27:53
    that we will still be able to find some
  • 00:27:55
    durian yeah let's keep finger cross no
  • 00:27:58
    but I mean there are people surprisingly
  • 00:28:01
    I just met a Asian like some weeks ago
  • 00:28:04
    and she is like totally scared of jurian
  • 00:28:08
    and the smell and finds it disgusting
  • 00:28:10
    but I mean that are different tastes
  • 00:28:13
    yeah I know I just you bad for them
  • 00:28:14
    because Juan is the best thing on earth
  • 00:28:16
    and they missed the chance to try it MVB
  • 00:28:20
    D
  • 00:28:22
    c919
  • 00:28:24
    said I grew up on food from the
  • 00:28:26
    Netherlands and other recipes that fed
  • 00:28:29
    our family with leftovers for my day for
  • 00:28:32
    my dad's lunch on the next day with my
  • 00:28:35
    om and opa living next door d was spoken
  • 00:28:38
    a lot and I grew up and Sunday dinner
  • 00:28:41
    was at their house every week then I
  • 00:28:43
    moved and met my husband he was raised
  • 00:28:47
    near the Mexican border on spicy Mexican
  • 00:28:50
    food meals that fed us with leftovers he
  • 00:28:53
    could eat all by himself he jokes with
  • 00:28:57
    me about how European food is and what a
  • 00:29:00
    lightweight I am yeah well I think I
  • 00:29:04
    talk about the spiciness of Asian food
  • 00:29:06
    versus European food 100 times in my
  • 00:29:09
    channel it is shocking mean I think do
  • 00:29:12
    you guys can you guys grow Chile in
  • 00:29:15
    European
  • 00:29:16
    country possibly not in a greenhouse I
  • 00:29:19
    guess I guess historically people over
  • 00:29:21
    here cannot really grow chili in the wi
  • 00:29:24
    so that's why their food is not that
  • 00:29:26
    spicy in general but this is just like a
  • 00:29:29
    very wi guess I'm just giving you guys
  • 00:29:31
    the benefit of the doubt do you know
  • 00:29:34
    that there's no other animal in the
  • 00:29:36
    world that eats spicy things but the
  • 00:29:39
    human I don't know every time we have
  • 00:29:42
    this conversation German boyan always
  • 00:29:44
    end up criticizing us for eating
  • 00:29:47
    spiciness and say that we are just
  • 00:29:49
    torturing ourself because it doesn't
  • 00:29:51
    have any flavor but torturing which I
  • 00:29:53
    completely disagree okay world did I say
  • 00:29:57
    that yet okay I was just stating a fact
  • 00:30:00
    okay okay keep talking then you keep
  • 00:30:02
    talking yeah but I was going somewhere
  • 00:30:05
    there
  • 00:30:07
    see see honey the thing is I'm going to
  • 00:30:11
    tell you the reason why people use
  • 00:30:13
    chili actually I don't know okay okay I
  • 00:30:16
    I know actually sorry okay okay really
  • 00:30:19
    yeah yeah like usually you you you use
  • 00:30:21
    it in in countries where you have more
  • 00:30:24
    more problems like with with hygiene and
  • 00:30:27
    stuff it helps you to yeah like not get
  • 00:30:31
    get sick seriously yeah like that that
  • 00:30:33
    is actually that is actually a scentific
  • 00:30:36
    fact okay I was about to I was about to
  • 00:30:39
    explain that for our case we use chili
  • 00:30:41
    to kind of like destroy or what is it
  • 00:30:45
    balance out the unpleasant Taste of our
  • 00:30:48
    food from time to time when you cook
  • 00:30:50
    food with chili especially when the food
  • 00:30:52
    have pretty strong smell like fish or
  • 00:30:54
    seafood for example the chili taste and
  • 00:30:57
    flavor could actually balance the smell
  • 00:30:59
    out and then you would have a very uh
  • 00:31:02
    beautiful tasty flavor without smelling
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    too much like fish or other stuff so
  • 00:31:07
    that is why I think people like to use
  • 00:31:09
    chili I heard that you European don't
  • 00:31:11
    even know what is a pepper is in the
  • 00:31:14
    past right is it actually come from Asia
  • 00:31:17
    do you know I don't know we have B
  • 00:31:19
    Pepper for a long time pepper pepper so
  • 00:31:23
    pepper yeah yeah yeah pepper pepper was
  • 00:31:24
    very expensive in the old days and like
  • 00:31:27
    but feel like you guys don't literally
  • 00:31:29
    don't even have it you only you have to
  • 00:31:30
    import it from countries exactly exactly
  • 00:31:33
    and this is why it was so so important
  • 00:31:35
    like the the the sellers the bargainers
  • 00:31:39
    Traders I don't know the the merchants I
  • 00:31:42
    think Merchant is the right word like
  • 00:31:44
    you in Germany you even called them like
  • 00:31:47
    yeah like pepper bags so that yeah
  • 00:31:51
    because of the pepper they they got rich
  • 00:31:54
    and yeah this is basically where where
  • 00:31:56
    Hamburg for example got
  • 00:31:58
    the money from wow they just sell pepper
  • 00:32:00
    and they get well they imported the
  • 00:32:02
    pepper and then they sold it no and they
  • 00:32:05
    also like there were several plants that
  • 00:32:08
    you could use instead of pepper when you
  • 00:32:10
    couldn't afford pepper you know the
  • 00:32:12
    thing is before I live Vietnam I didn't
  • 00:32:15
    appreciate our flavor enough like our
  • 00:32:17
    spices and the way we use herbs and
  • 00:32:21
    spices to cook food I thought it's like
  • 00:32:23
    okay and it's the standard but when I go
  • 00:32:26
    to Germany and when I see you guys using
  • 00:32:29
    spices and Herb to cook it I was like
  • 00:32:31
    damn Vietnamese are actually master of
  • 00:32:34
    art when it comes to cooking and mixing
  • 00:32:37
    flavor we have so many strong flavorful
  • 00:32:41
    herbs and uh roots that you guys don't
  • 00:32:44
    have over here like the galand I hope I
  • 00:32:46
    don't know if you guys know what is a
  • 00:32:47
    Galan it's like a look like a Kuma it's
  • 00:32:51
    a kukuma in in English I think it's
  • 00:32:54
    Kuma I think isn't it no something
  • 00:32:58
    yellow yellow yellow cucumber turmeric
  • 00:33:02
    turmeric yeah it's like a turmeric but
  • 00:33:05
    uh it look like a turmeric but it's have
  • 00:33:07
    completely different taste we have
  • 00:33:10
    um so it's not but yeah what what oh I
  • 00:33:14
    forgot the watery what about the long
  • 00:33:17
    thingy like this that I use all the time
  • 00:33:20
    lemongrass yeah we have lemongrass we
  • 00:33:23
    have um coryander is awesome 100
  • 00:33:27
    different kind of herbs that I cannot
  • 00:33:28
    name in uh Vietnam in English as well
  • 00:33:32
    and then we use them so masterfully for
  • 00:33:34
    each dishes and they all taste super
  • 00:33:36
    strong as well but it fits so well with
  • 00:33:38
    the taste over here when it comes to
  • 00:33:40
    Herb I could name basil then uh sometime
  • 00:33:45
    Rosemary and then a little bit of
  • 00:33:48
    Italian herbs paprika paprika is a
  • 00:33:51
    flavor yeah
  • 00:33:52
    paprika and um P pillion it's everywhere
  • 00:33:58
    partially it is not as diverse as what I
  • 00:34:01
    see in Vietnam and I just really really
  • 00:34:04
    miss our spices you cannot even find
  • 00:34:07
    them that easy over here because you
  • 00:34:09
    basically have to import all of them
  • 00:34:11
    since you cannot grow them over here in
  • 00:34:13
    this weather as well yeah I definitely
  • 00:34:15
    have a point with that I mean that is a
  • 00:34:17
    lot of ingredients a lot of interesting
  • 00:34:19
    ingredients that you also have problems
  • 00:34:21
    finding them here outside of the Asian
  • 00:34:25
    supermarket and yeah you can create a
  • 00:34:27
    lot lot of nice flavors with done
  • 00:34:30
    yeah I think that's it for today I guess
  • 00:34:33
    so too I hope you guys enjoy the talk
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