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  • I've escaped to Vietnam and promised one of the best cooks in the country that I'll get to grips with this unique cuisine.

  • In just a week, I'm hot footing out of Hoochie Minh City on flying 1500 kilometers north to the capital, Hanoi.

  • It's a huge learning curve for me.

  • Be very ignorant from a chest point of view, not to embrace their understanding off their waste, nothing and everything.

  • Hanoi is a communist stronghold.

  • Traditionally, this part of the country has no waist culture, our experts and nose to tail eating on one.

  • The tourist female chef has made a reputation cooking just one ingredient.

  • Now this lady's a bit of a hard ass, but of a legend.

  • I'm in Hanoi for two days and I'm here for inspiration, getting their seizures up to and hopefully yeah, like a magpie.

  • Steal some ideas, What she's doing.

  • Jesus.

  • Where's the booth?

  • Here to sow some type.

  • Luckily for me, a local restaurant owner has come to my rescue.

  • Wow, Madam!

  • Quiet!

  • Wow!

  • K h o I met who said crack like you.

  • My name's Rice called me quite.

  • Yes, the rice and Mrs Duck.

  • So where is Mr peeking.

  • I don't wanna piss her off.

  • Yeah, I'm gonna keep on the good side.

  • All right?

  • Yeah, I heard she has a ferocious temper.

  • All right.

  • Three Cleaver's bythe very sharp.

  • Very sad.

  • Yeah.

  • How many ducks a day does yourself?

  • No, I don't want that.

  • Ladies is the name you about $100 a day?

  • That's why her name is doubly people.

  • How many husbands she killed?

  • Uh, one Mrs.

  • Ducker spent 30 years perfecting her menu.

  • But before I get to taste it, she wants me to meet her key ingredient out back.

  • What?

  • These little babies here There must be days old.

  • Uh, Daniel Agger, 10 days, 10 days old.

  • Ahold of these four months or so Which one's gonna use first?

  • This is the oldest one.

  • What you on this one?

  • And this one in order to find the pump is bird.

  • Mrs.

  • Duck has devised a unique test.

  • What?

  • What?

  • We did you Can you hear this out?

  • Yeah.

  • Duck to the ground.

  • Here, madam.

  • I never touch.

  • Just listen.

  • Just wait.

  • She's listening for awaited.

  • Yeah, Heavy sound.

  • No matter.

  • I can't believe I'm doing this.

  • Okay, mates, there's a lot of media.

  • That sounds good.

  • I'm beginning to think Mrs Ducky's quackers, but a dish is famous throughout Hanoi.

  • So she must be doing something.

  • Right.

  • So this is actually prepares a duck every day?

  • Yes.

  • It's important to bleed the ducks.

  • Otherwise it's gonna spoil the texture that may I get that?

  • But why should cutting you there?

  • It's here to stay away from the storm may get the bad food from storming into the plant.

  • Yep.

  • Yeah, she believes in slaughtering them just before she started cooking.

  • So it's done.

  • That fresh is always fresh like that.

  • Always lots and then cook it.

  • So start off with Yes.

  • Yeah.

  • Take my hands off you.

  • It's a labor of love.

  • Just never get bored.

  • Clucking ducks.

  • That's give her everything over houses and everything.

  • One time about duck is the goddess of her house.

  • Duck is the goddess of the houses.

  • Very quick.

  • I need to keep her happy now.

  • The dirty work is over.

  • Mrs.

  • Duck wants to give me a lesson in notes to tell butchery past the lever to her.

  • Do you want to teach you how she would She would not have the shop.

  • Oh, yeah, Mrs.

  • Yeah, Straight off.

  • Yeah, it's amazing.

  • I've never actually slaughtered one in the kitchen taking its feathers off.

  • I've butchered it from there.

  • It's really think the duck that she never uses.

  • You see that yet?

  • Other plans as a vile bile.

  • Very bitter.

  • Yeah.

  • That purse of ducats rooms, the Texas smelling.

  • I'm enjoying myself.

  • I'm about to learn, Mrs Duck.

  • Sweet and sour source.

  • But all of a sudden, she become tight lipped.

  • Never knows his life is not easy to get her life.

  • I'm not asking to marry.

  • I want recipe.

  • She would look at me, Mrs stuff.

  • Chilies, lemongrass, Always the source.

  • Okay.

  • Yeah.

  • Don't being no sugar.

  • Why are you being such a hard ass?

  • Just plucked your dogs.

  • Even her husband doesn't know about that service.

  • Oh, my God.

  • You huh?

  • You're one off unique.

  • She's like a fine bottle of wine.

  • Only produced one bottle because she's amazing.

  • A huge source of inspiration.

  • More important, she knows her stuff.

  • I mean, big time.

  • So she hasn't focused on 25 30 dishes.

  • She's just focused on a unique way with duck.

  • She shows no mercy straight in there.

  • Nothing squeamish about Mrs duck is the We'll be fucking scared while her signature dish cooks.

  • I'm gonna sample the rest of Mrs Dr Menu so many different ways.

  • Different sort of styles of cooking.

  • Duck, that's amazing.

  • You wanna try the hat easier, not contender.

  • That's good.

  • That's very good.

  • Stomach.

  • Yeah, that's hard.

  • A Lavery liver texture.

  • Now for the main event.

  • Barbecued Duck is ready, says mixed with the marinade on, then on top of the charcoal girl.

  • That's where I found, obviously, to intensify.

  • Nice.

  • That is delicious.

  • She managed to use everything.

  • Even there was a piece of the leg.

  • It's that's amazing.

I've escaped to Vietnam and promised one of the best cooks in the country that I'll get to grips with this unique cuisine.

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