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0:00 Did you know that comprehensible input
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0:07 is part of my 3,000 most common English
0:09 word series designed to help you
0:11 understand up to 95% of spoken English.
0:14 Today we're exploring St. Joseph's
0:16 Cathedral, the Old Quarter in Hanoi, and
0:18 the most famous Train Street. Refueled
0:20 ourselves with water, food, more and
0:22 spongy.
0:23 >> Cultural experience.
0:24 >> Should we
0:24 >> Awesome.
0:25 >> Enjoy.
0:25 >> Tragedies. [music]
0:26 >> Squishy. It's like somehow and relaxing
0:28 quarter. Brew here after this
0:30 >> Don't.
0:30 >> So start the word count and let's go.
0:33 What do you think of it?
0:33 >> Well, I think it's really nice.
0:35 Especially if you live in the city and
0:36 they stop the traffic from going around
0:39 the lake during the weekend. It gives a
0:41 lot of additional space for the locals
0:43 to enjoy.
0:44 >> Yeah, and all like the trees, the
0:46 greenery, the lake. And also there's
0:48 like a small island in the middle of the
0:50 lake. Makes it like super nice. This is
0:52 like one of my favorite parts of this
0:53 city. Just like this whole vibe around
0:55 here. It's so relaxing. And you have
0:56 benches you can sit on. You can also sit
0:58 along there. It's just a nice part of
1:00 the city.
1:00 >> Very pretty. It's a nice view on that.
1:02 >> island there with like a pagoda or
1:04 something.
1:04 >> Pagoda, yeah.
1:06 >> I wonder what this building is. Oh, this
1:08 is the puppet theater. We went to it
1:09 yesterday.
1:10 >> We went to the other one yesterday.
1:11 >> Yeah, I'll insert some videos here of
1:13 the water puppet theater show that we
1:15 saw the other day, but we didn't go to
1:17 this one. We went to a different one.
1:18 But here you can see
1:20 >> It was a nice cultural experience.
1:22 >> The lotus water puppet.
1:24 It's nice. I didn't know there was that
1:25 many people behind controlling the
1:27 puppets until the very end where they
1:28 all came out, right? And they all waved.
1:30 There was a lot of them.
1:31 >> it's
1:32 >> There were a lot of people. I was
1:33 low-key expecting like two people, maybe
1:34 three.
1:35 >> It was actually awesome.
1:36 >> Oh, man. The security guard I guess just
1:39 off the rat. Yeah, so Leon just said
1:41 that the rat ran up to the security
1:43 guard's foot, so he kicked it, it
1:45 stopped moving, and then he stomped on
1:46 it. So he stomped on it. Yeah, let's go
1:49 get water. Let's cross the street. Go.
1:51 Cross.
1:52 >> Oh.
1:53 >> Got to record them so if they hit us,
1:54 it's on camera.
1:55 >> [laughter]
1:57 >> Now we're in a grocery store, I guess.
1:59 Somehow ended up here. I guess you could
2:01 see the prices of fruits and stuff. Low
2:03 key, these kind of look like peaches,
2:04 but these are apples. These are oranges.
2:07 Are those avocados? Dude, their avocados
2:08 are very long. I've never seen that. Oh,
2:10 and then there are mangoes right there.
2:12 This is dragon fruit and these are
2:14 apples. These are grapes, green grapes,
2:18 purple grapes, red grapes. This is
2:20 durian, right? If you cut it open, I
2:22 think it will smell a lot. Oh, right
2:23 there, that's a papaya. That area of
2:25 watermelon. This is a full watermelon.
2:28 It has not been cut yet. This watermelon
2:30 has been cut in half. And this right
2:32 here, this watermelon has been cut into
2:34 a quarter. A quarter. So, these
2:36 watermelons are a lot longer
2:39 compared to those ones. Those are very
2:41 round. These are long. See, these ones
2:44 are much more round and they keep the
2:46 stem on there. These look very nice,
2:47 actually. So, yeah, a Vietnamese grocery
2:49 store. Pretty sure this is electrolyte
2:51 water.
2:52 >> Yeah, it's really good. You need it in
2:54 this heat.
2:54 >> It tastes like soda. Yeah, it tastes
2:56 like soda. It's carbonated. It's pretty
2:57 good. But right now we're just drinking
2:59 water and we're about to go eat lunch.
3:01 We're about to go eat lunch, but we were
3:03 very dehydrated cuz we didn't bring
3:04 water and we've been walking already for
3:06 like 3 hours, right?
3:07 >> Yes. It's not worth carrying it with
3:09 you. It's just better to buy it in
3:10 Vietnam.
3:11 >> than Canada. Even though Canada has like
3:12 the second most fresh water in the
3:14 world. Brazil's number one.
3:16 >> One more?
3:17 >> Okay. Well, let's go eat. We just
3:19 refueled ourselves with water and now
3:20 we're going to go refuel ourselves with
3:22 food. So, let's go eat.
3:24 We just ordered our food that we ordered
3:26 here. I got pho, Leon got pho, my mom
3:28 got stew.
3:29 >> Beef stew.
3:30 >> Beef stew.
3:30 >> Delicious.
3:31 >> And this right here is a wet wipe and
3:33 I'm just wiping my hands to clean my
3:35 hands. This is a spoon and now I'm going
3:38 to try the broth.
3:40 The broth.
3:43 Oh, man. You want to try?
3:44 >> Yeah.
3:45 >> So good.
3:47 >> And you make pho, too.
3:49 >> How does this taste compared
3:49 [clears throat] to yours? My mom makes
3:51 pho, but I haven't tried it in a very
3:52 long time.
3:52 >> Obviously, I make a really good pho with
3:54 Canadian ingredients. So, this pho is
3:56 going to be way better
3:58 than mine.
3:58 >> Yours is really good, too, but this is
4:00 probably more like authentic, I think.
4:01 >> It's very authentic.
4:02 >> Cuz like the ingredients are different.
4:04 >> broth is clearer because they do a
4:06 really good job.
4:08 >> Thank gosh we're in a like a cool AC
4:10 room. There's There's an AC right there,
4:12 so
4:13 the room is not too hot. It's nice and
4:15 cool because this would make me sweat
4:17 cuz it's really hot out right now. They
4:19 also gave us some bread here on the
4:20 side, and then my mom got a beef stew
4:23 with a baguette.
4:24 >> A nice beef stew.
4:25 >> But yeah, this is what we are having for
4:26 lunch. I think it's really good. This
4:28 restaurant is actually pretty good. And
4:30 the price of this pho was 100,000
4:32 Vietnamese dong, which is like $4 US.
4:36 So, I'm going to enjoy this now, eat it,
4:37 and
4:38 after this we'll go visit the cathedral,
4:41 and then train street. So, I'll see you
4:43 guys later.
4:45 How was lunch?
4:45 >> Delicious. I'm kind of lazy now.
4:48 >> Yeah, it was really good, and I'm glad
4:49 that the restaurant was like nice and
4:51 cool. But now we're at St. Joseph's
4:53 Cathedral. Let's go a little closer and
4:54 see see what it looks like. The St.
4:57 Joseph's Cathedral.
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