Jongrak and his two brothers (owners of the YouTube channel HanQuocBros) have eaten many Vietnamese dishes, including Hue dishes, but mainly the Ho Chi Minh City version.
Not long ago, the Korean guys traveled to Hue for the first time. On the first day, they had interesting impressions of this city. From the moment they got off the plane and took a taxi to the city center, Jongrak talked and learned many things from the Hue driver.
The Korean guy has been living and working in Ho Chi Minh City for several years now, is quite fluent in Vietnamese, and humorously "teased" the driver with his newly learned Hue accent and local words like "mo, chi, rua". He complimented "Hue is so cute".
Not only explaining the local terms, the driver also suggested that these Korean tourists should go to sidewalk stalls and small restaurants to enjoy Hue beef noodle soup because the food is delicious, cheap and more authentically Hue. Each bowl of beef noodle soup in small restaurants costs only 20,000 - 40,000 VND.
The three guys immediately chose O Mai noodle shop right in the inner city of Hue. Each person ordered a bowl for 40,000 VND, squeezed fresh lemon, seasoned with chili sauce and raw vegetables, and enjoyed it enthusiastically. From the first sip of the broth, they exclaimed "It's so delicious", and commented that the crab cake was "really high-class".
Jongrak, who eats a lot in Ho Chi Minh City, immediately commented, "The taste is different, the noodles in Hue are smaller and the restaurant makes them themselves, so they smell good." While slurping, he nodded and praised, "really delicious." All three Korean guys enjoyed it so much that they held the bowl of beef noodle soup with both hands and drank the broth very refreshingly.
After slurping down the bowl of Hue beef noodle soup, they realized another difference: in Hue, people do not drink iced tea while eating, but hot tea. Because the weather in Hue turns cold at the end of the year, while the weather in Ho Chi Minh City is always hot, the three Korean guys ordered iced tea out of habit.
"Bun bo Hue must be eaten in Hue to be delicious, because there is the atmosphere, scenery, people, and Hue accent," Jongrak praised.
