Name: Vietnam $100 Street Food Challenge!! Best Street Food in Saigon!!!
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Anyone who's had a rice in a clay pot, they all know the best bits are the crispy bits on the bottom

That's what they've done here. But the whole thing is a crispy bit. Let's try it out

Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City. Today, it's all about the street food and our $100 street food challenge

Vietnam is a land known for its delicious, affordable, one-of-a-kind street food

You can find this for under $2. You can find this for under $4

Our previous videos were about how affordable street food can be here

But today we're going super expensive at least as expensive as we can find.

I have done the $100 challenge in many countries Japan, Korea, India

Even in Disneyland in the USA and every time I came up short

I failed I got too full too quick or the food wasn't expensive enough.

I think we missed it by a lot. Today everything is gonna change because I am determined to eat $100 worth of street food any way I can. I'm hitting the streets of Saigon alone. Let's see if it can be done. Let's go

Welcome to the beginning of our $100 street food challenge here in Saigon. In order to spend this much money

We're gonna have to eat some super-sized food

And that's why we've come here to the place right behind me. Banh Bao Toa Phat. Banh Bao Toa Phat. Banh Bao Toa Phat.

This establishment has been around for 30 years making the best steamed buns in the city

And that's not including the thousands more that are shipped off to convenience stores around Ho Chi Minh City made with an endless variety of fillings

Including pork, quail eggs, or even salted eggs always wrapped in a cushiony soft bun

It has eight eggs inside seven quail eggs and one salted egg from a chicken

From a duck. Do you guys salt chicken eggs? No, that would be silly. Why would we salt the chicken egg?

All right, I'm gonna sink my teeth into it now

Was told this dish is all about the eggs, but there's so much meat

It's some kind of new fangled Vietnamese hamburger

Almost the meat inside is so juicy and porky and then the eggs. They're just like the cherry on top. It's so satisfying

Oh and here if I bust this open you can see the salted egg. So every bite a new surprise. Let's try it out

Super dry. Oh, but it's so rich and flavorful. This is a very filling meal. Yeah, this whole big thing is only $2

It's a good deal, but that's a problem because I'm trying to spend $100. I don't know how we're gonna do it

Maybe I could eat five of these. I doubt it

Street food number two this time the street is inside this restaurant. Is this street food?

I don't give us a break on the technicality. It's very near the street. You can hear the traffic, right?

So right here we have a fresh water prawn on sticky rice with a salted egg sauce

And this is a treat that you could eat with silverware or you could just dive in with your hands after lathering them up with antibacterial solution the dish starts with a coconut sticky rice mouth

That's coated with a generous dose of salted egg sauce and finally topped with a prawn

It's the signature dish and pride of this restaurant only found here now. I always like sticky rice

It is like the most underrated rice and then on top of it this salted egg sauce. Let's try out this salted egg sauce

Nice bro, there's something about the salted egg

Like when I had the salted egg in my bun bow, it was so concentrated that it just became like dry and chalky

But when you mix it with the right ingredients and make a nice sauce out of it

These are fresh water prawns and this whole thing is just caked with that salted egg sauce a couple notable features here

What have you ever seen a shrimp with arms before second as very spiky arms and there's actually meat inside of each one of these

That's not it either. I'm gonna eat that arm later. There's so much meat in there

Well, we really want is in here. It's gonna be a massive tail pull it out just like that. Boom. That's a beauty

Look at that. All right, I'm gonna get some rice get some more sauce. Let's try it out. Oh

I'd like to order like five more shrimps to put on there

Well, so good and then in here a place where a few Americans have gone before you got it

Like take the top off and then look all that that's all food. Technically. This is the head butter. This is what everybody loves

It's so good. It's so rich and creamy. That's damn good

Now we are on one of the busiest streets in Saigon and one of the busiest street vendors is right there

Can you guys see him in the camera frame? You see how he did that?

This business is on every food delivery app about every couple minutes

You'll see some delivery food guy pull up throw about 15 of these on his bike and take off and they've been here for 40

Years two sisters created this recipe and they've been running this place

Which is insanely popular now like they have built an empire off of papaya salad

You'll notice that no one's actually eating here

So what happens is over here in the park people order the food?

There's somebody over there with a walkie-talkie here. They make it and they deliver it to the park

So what is the food that everyone's going crazy for well

It's right here a papaya salad the first ingredient and the core of this dish is shredded young papaya

Then beef jerky made from cow lungs shrimp crackers peanuts and Vietnamese coriander

However, this dish wouldn't be complete without their own homemade sauce made with secret ingredients that if revealed could get me killed

Get a little bit of everything in here a little cracker a little bit of jerky a little bit of papaya

Wow, that's a bite worth getting a close-up on. Oh, there we go. I want to try it out

Mmm, that's awesome such a mix of fresh flavors. It's sweet spicy and savory

There's almost nothing better than getting a papaya salad in Vietnam

Like the name of it seems like first of all salad that doesn't sound good papaya

What is that a plant but it's more than that. I mean when you look at the elements here

It is a celebration of textures. You've got crunchy crackers chewy beef jerky and crunchy nuts

I say crunchy twice, but it's different types of crunchy. Oh, it makes that all with the fresh papaya. So damn good. Love it

Our next location a street side restaurant called soup kua cheap week

They opened two years ago, and I heard they have something really fancy

The $100 street food challenge continues and I was getting a little bit worried

We're getting behind because I'm getting full and I don't think we've even spent $10 yet

But here they have a fabulous luxurious crab claw dish nearing $20 and I got two of them just to be safe to make sure I'm extra full and that we actually hit our goal of $100 allow me to unveil for you guys now

A crab soup, but wait, there's much more to it than what you see at first glance

They add in a giant crab claw century egg and coriander all swimming in a viscous cornstarch

Thickened gravy this soup always reminds me of the egg drop soup. I had growing up as a young Chinese boy

What I'm gonna get just a bunch of this viscous almost not like broth. I'm gonna try that out

That's delicious, wow, it's got a bit of spice to it

It's super savory very satisfying warm as it just kind of slowly glides down your throat home

Let's try this thousand-year-old egg and the egg that you'll find all over many parts of Southeast Asia and China

That's so delicious no super intense taste just like super eggy enough of that now it's time for the main event

All right, giant crab claw. Let's go for it

They took many pieces of crab meat from different crabs and fused it all together to make a new crab claw

I've never seen anything like that. Very unique a little strange and very delicious. All right now the show must go on

We're about halfway to our goal of $100. We got to keep going. Let's go

Our next food it seems simple but it packs a flavor punch

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