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Off The Record: Tway's 2-Week Vietnam Food Tour!

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to another episode of careful boys we are lucky enough to have with us today twada bay [Applause] what's going on in vietnam right now um i don't know that's why you're here you're talking about you're leaving to the vietnam oh yeah you're going to the end of the year end of the year because i'm bringing 40 people to vietnam with me yeah like 40 followers how do you know 40 of your followers this is like a thing actually like a one week trip split in or two week trip split in half so 20 will come the first trip 20 will come the next trip wow um can we be like five right here

0:51 that just on one group they already paid okay what about we pay and we just follow them we buy them out yeah yeah can we buy them out i'm dead you guys can just like come and like hang out not the same i don't know we want to be invited wait you're trying to ruin 40 people's lives yes what is it is this like a culinary food tour type thing kind of it's like it's culinary because we're going to like the rice fields and then we're learning um how to cook from the farmers we're going to like this fishing town learning how to cook from the fishermen and then we're actually gonna go to like the war museum just to learn a little bit more about like the vietnam war just because i feel like nobody over here really knows what the vietnam war was about and how it was like so i mean i love coming back to vietnam and i love documenting it um this is just like another way to

1:43 um i guess spread my culture to other people yeah how do you think a big idea is just gonna say that like where you come up with these like dope things to do yeah how do you do that because for me i'm like dude did you see the mcdonald's chicken sandwich and he calls all his homies we're gonna go get the new mcdonald's chicken sandwich cause i really want to spread my culture bringing 40 people to vietnam we're thinking about 40 piece nuggets so when i when i brainstorm on a piece of paper it's like i go what's dope i draw a circle right and then the first thing that comes out i'm like make chicken how does yours get like damn 40 people like war tour and all this other war tour tour 40 person wards war in vietnam dude like my ideas i just write them down as like

2:34 it's already happening like i just believe that it happened already so it's like i'm going to be rich as ████ or ████ like that i'll write it down um i know that i've always wanted to bring my friends over to vietnam so i'm just like what if there's a thing where i can actually take people that watch my videos to vietnam because that's a really really cool experience yeah um so i just kind of told my manager briefly about it and then um we found a company to like basically put the whole thing together so it's like a tour company and they're like you're gonna give us free customers oh yes please yeah that's cool and everybody pays for their own way so everybody pays for like the ticket the ticket um involves like all the activities the food and

3:25 everything all the expenses yeah experience they just need to get their flights but you probably have like way more people than 40 how do you like select who wins yeah um how do you know those people aren't gonna be like crazy that's another thing how do you vet so like they do a background check on everybody just to make sure that like nobody's like crazy or like a history of like uh yeah anything and then they have they have their instagram so then i just like go through and i like kind of just stalk them and see if they're like weirdos or not you know you only pick the hottest 40 people exactly because you're like i don't want no uglies in the crew it's like love island and ████ it's like the bomb is people she picks up like 40 dudes she's like i swear it's not it's just a coincidence to be honest i tried to pick

4:16 like girls oh that's just so i could feel more comfortable for sure yeah smart yeah same i only pick boys because i want to feel comfortable too do you think people would pay for uh you know if we brought people to monterey park and just was like honestly they would they would they would like crazy who there's people that would be so down for jk tour type yes and we get the mayor to like walk them around you guys should absolutely do so the company that you got to put together if they want to like have a test run on some uh you know local spots yeah local spots you know some a little bit more inland bowling alleys this is a real legit tourist destination for mainland chinese there's that's why there's always tour bus stopping here

5:06 you're right it is yeah this office this office this is one of the stops this is mainland china junior right just this area in general yeah unfortunately yes now unfortunately yes it wasn't always that way god damn it no it's okay they brought their expensive big cars and they're like supreme drops they bring it all over here now you know and they got their sichuan food in the northern chinese food here so yeah it's good i'm just like those people that are like i miss how my neighborhood used to be because it used to be like mainly hong kong and vietnamese you're wearing overalls and holding a samurai sword how my neighborhood used to be you're so diverse all in one guy that's why i had to run away to hawaii dude wait so you're staying in vietnam for how long for like a month and a half and

5:57 how long is the tour uh the tour is only like um two weeks long so it's one week one group one week another group and the same just do your own thing is it the same city no so it's saigon da nang um and that's it i've been to all time dude you gangster for real why because you're supposed to say ho chi minh city oh not while we're over here oh yeah that's true over here it's the where the yellow flag with the north china be we can say saigon trying to be that's like south central like we grew up here right so we could say south central but if you're new you got to say south l.a now oh yeah that is so true south central since i was a baby that is so true oh you can't say south central because i guess it's like bad

6:47 connotation because like you know when they describe like the street takeovers they don't it sounds worse when it's south central street takeovers they just want south la street takeover well i don't even register south l.a he's been researching the takeovers this guy you can't say south central no you're not supposed to it's like being not pc it's like saying saigon you know oh no i could still say it bart still says it he's still close i remember i remember as a kid going to vietnam just being in the middle of like a grocery area in saigon and then um being like oh is this saigon mama don't say that um i've never got corrected oh that's interesting they don't say ho chi minh city here and they don't use the red flag they don't do it yeah of course they don't but on instagram it's the red flag with the yellow stripe with the star for when you're picking flags for yeah for the vietnamese you know

7:37 what's crazy in taiwan right like the locals they have an n word for mainlanders what is it uh weiss and then it's like what they they'll hear your accent and they're like oh and they're looking up and down i'm dead and then they're like yeah yeah yeah but then it's like a white guy like oh look at all these chicks they're so friendly look at all these chicks so are like are like rappers out there using that in lyrics they should oh that'd be so funny i don't even know they should they should all this infighting because the stranger's looking at it like you guys are the same people right i know isn't that funny like from the outside everyone's internal conflicts look like that right yeah that's why we need alien invaders to come in because we could all unify yeah finally be like oh wait a minute we all the same two eye ████ or maybe they've been

8:27 trying to invade and they're like oh man these guys are already ████ themselves at a certain point probably they're just waiting till we all kill our kill each other off they're like okay who are lizards though don't we have like lizards on our planet like growth lizards did you see who are lizards yeah who were they oh you mean the the the reptilians yeah the reptilians the reptilian aliens you ever heard of them they're the illuminati though the reptilian the reptilians are the illuminati and the aliens at the same time i don't know dude it's impossible it's hard to keep up with q and on like stuff like it's changing all the time i feel like they're just the teenage mutant ninja turtles that people just like really blew out of proportion i don't think so i think their whole it's something dude the reptilian people they're shape-shifters dude only going to watch alex jones why would they pick being reptiles all the time yeah what is the theory on the reptiles you got a deep dive dude and it's like it's like an ancient race that controls like

9:18 everything that happens and they think they're reptiles because like it goes back to you know like the ancient paintings and the the carvings there's always like some ████ like lizard head dude like in the ████ egyptian tombs and ████ you know yeah it's all because some guy couldn't draw a face correctly probably i could draw a lizard sick though lizard's like a dude go ahead human face i don't know i feel like i was walking around and i kept seeing your name on like outsides of like certain restaurants of like you can get like a toy to bay like special thing where where are your like toyota bay things located hokey something yeah yeah so it's um it's a collab with sweet fin oh i know sweet fan yeah they have like 15 locations in southern california so la orange county san diego south central um yeah you can get it there too

10:10 wherever that is we don't know south away yeah it's south l.a it's on like the little like there's like a sign on the sidewalk yeah and it was like yo that's tight that's toy to bay man thank you you've been rushing i see all over the place doing food things here over here over here hey why not that's awesome so what do you get at sweet fin that's like a toy to bay like so i made a bowl with them where i gave them my fish sauce recipe which i've never seen in like a poke bowl so you know how like we have vermicelli bowls so it's just that but like with poke oh ████ yeah so vermicelli um pickle daikon and carrots your protein of choice and then i got the fish sauce so when a when a when a restaurant wants a partner with you and they're like we're going to do a toy to bay like special thing how do you pick which thing out of all the stuff that you could make that you think

11:00 represents like she goes straight to fish sauce absolutely yeah i think i just um i just see what they have going on on their menu and then take inspiration from that and see what i can um bring in from my culture usually fish sauce um and then incorporate that into their menu so whenever you go to certain restaurants like just random restaurants does your mind already go to this like business mentality we were like i wonder what a toyota bay thing would be here um sometimes but most of the times it's like if i can take inspiration and um i i will recreate like a recipe from like that meal if like i really wanted to like i went to an indian place um called bombay beach and they have this like indian fish and chips which was really interesting because it's like their take

11:51 on fish and chips it's not like the regular fish and chips that you're thinking of yeah it's battered fish and fries but instead of just like dipping it in like a tartar sauce or whatever they coat it in this like thick indian sauce so kind of like a fish and chips um orange chicken kind of vibe so then i was like oh i think i can do this but make it like a gakha which is like a vietnamese dish that's um like a catfish braised so i can take that sauce i love it is that the one in the clay pot and it's like sweet yes it has pineapples and ████ sometimes i know you're talking yeah so like i was like what if i do that but instead of like the coating that they put i can use the gakhau coating to make my fish and chips if uh afters was like we want to make an

12:42 ice cream flavor for you would it be fish sauce um maybe i actually made it like a fish sauce caramel brittle that was really delicious how would you do this collab let's say hometown buffets like yeah i was thinking the same thing we need you we need you to own an aisle in our restaurant oh my god in this aisle hometown buffalo what would you do what would be the toyota bay x hometown buffet it would be like a aisle of like create your own um broken dish or a broken rice plate oh it was done it's prepped in her mind yo like we can't even surprise her yeah yeah that sounds good already didn't hotel buffet go out of business just buy it out and call it hometown toyota bay hometown

13:32 she has a better name already i'm talking about play that sounds vietnamese already all right what about uh what about a starbucks drink a starbucks drink um i feel like a vietnamese coffee is really like is so predictable so ████ that a fish sauce coffee but but but but but but but there's there's there's but there's but there's junebe there's junebe there's there's there's this thing that we actually are a partner of hey cut the deal yeah what what would you do for them any brainstorm ideas that you have fish sauce mcchicken oh yeah vermicelli in a cup i am a really big fan of like the coffee and tea collab oh like dirty dirty child like we

14:22 have a ton of dirty drinks a dirty matcha but with vietnamese coffee and maybe we can do like a fish sauce caramel um what about a frappuccino so you drink fur through a straw right that sounds really good because like there's starnese there's cinnamon in there like you can really get like the fragrances going noodles and then the rare steaks maybe not that all right all right for this one i feel like this is a boba stroller this one's probably a little realistic so you probably already have it in your head yeah what is the toy to babe mcdonald's collab oh it would have to be like a a specific sauce because i already know that like my meal would just be mcchicken um uh chicken nuggets and fries and a sprite like that oh you like all chicken stuff yeah

15:12 are you are you do you already have a toy sauce um what do you mean like is there like a a consumer packaged good so i'm actually going to vietnam to work on it bro i solved the riddle that's why she's there for so long so after yeah so after the trip the two-week trip i'm gonna be working on my cookbook like taking photos over there and then also going to work on the side that would be so funny if those 40 people are just her focus group she's just force feeding it no more seeing him thoughts that's hilarious i want to see some signs uh no when are we gonna go see the ocean i'm gonna get a side of rice at least just pierce this sauce yeah yo that's tight dude your own sauce let's go can you give us any hints on

16:03 what kind of sauce it's gonna be fish sauce all right sorry he won't yelling that well that's like the biggest that's the biggest hit oh yeah but what's gonna be the best for you know the what the dancer like what's the what's the difference like what the special oh yeah speaker language it's because i speak about northern vietnamese it's because it's me who's making it so that's what version is miami i go around and i just like dip my hands in there for extra toy germs [Laughter] you gotta pay extra for that you know what something very simple but i always salivate when you make it are your breakfast eggs oh my god oh my god hands down ever since my vietnamese friends taught me that style and then like you know if i like sleep over whatever their mom would just like bust out a ████ you just toast out a baguette

16:54 and i'm like how'd you get this ████ so crispy and i just watch her make it and it's just hella like just oil and then high heat flash it real quick and i'm like dude that's how i eat eggs now and then like um i just put some fish sauce on the top that's it yeah you put fish sauce yeah i don't drink soy sauce i do soy sauce i do fish sauce and black pepper yeah sometimes i do japanese style and i mixed two cultures i put like soup base have you heard of meme um or or or just soy sauce sometimes if i feel like it yeah yeah but i think crispy sunny side up is the way to go it's the best egg it's the best literally with a french baguette or or just a french loaf a little bunny why is that so good it's so simple but it's so good because i know what it tastes like too so when you make it i'm like oh that's gonna crunch at the bottom and oh yeah cause that's the

17:45 taste of the true economy class watching her like cooking content like if someone was looking at you third person you look like you're watching porn right you're just like oh yeah oh oh my god like food wars and then you're honorably going i love this boy yeah it's real food porn yeah or just regular porn too you know to some people so let's say let's say you go to vietnam end of this year you spend time uh obviously there's cookbook stuff there's the tour for the 40 people and then you're also working on your sauce uh when do you feel like you're hopefully calendar wise gonna have like a sauce ready for the public yeah yeah next year oh next year next year q1 q2 kill three probably q3 because my book comes out q3

18:35 so it will be around the same time simultaneously yeah oh you're probably gonna use your sauce in your cookbook too yeah dude your book is going to slide also you got to do the sauce at the same time because once it comes out it's like oh by the way if you buy this sauce that's in the cookbook baby and there's a book signing we're also forced feeding your sauce exactly spoonful every autograph do you ever think i'd do a perfume version of your sauce you know that's funny this is going to smell real good she's like that's funny i already thought of that yeah she's like that's also what i'm going to vietnam that's one of the process dude you should the ink from the pen that you signed the books should be the sauce so people go here's a weird question even though i know completely you could have your own tv show whatever you want are there any existing cooking shows on like networks right now that if they asked you to be a part of it you would say yes i i'm

19:26 actually working on a show right now i knew it knew it with um buzzfeed tasty oh ████ that's dope that's all i can say damn dude that is so that much feels so good to have so many things that you can't tell people yeah like that's like you just feel so tinted something else that you can't talk about i got a hell of a ████ going on too yeah we gotta toss twitter like crazy anyways fish sauce give us a hint give us in i'm working with instagram i'll get my account back what happened yo congrats bro that's what happened let's take dudes in the works have you been talking to somebody on the inside he's been de-platforming so damn it's funny because it's believable apart yeah that's so funny as for you to show up to someone else's podcast and be like what do you got

20:16 going on well just trying to get my instagram back so hoping for the best speaking if anybody if anybody from instagram out there ████ verify me you dicks oh you're not very instagram is so weird like so so weird so it took me like two years to get the check mark how did i get it before you because you're more established no you know there's only one jojitsukawa in the world i think i don't deserve a blue checkmark you see my post i post like once every two months the world needs to know that that's joe so they can watch out you know why do you think anthony hasn't been verified i have no idea he's like on tv and ████ yeah dude they're so weird they're so so weird you hang out with you know josh i need to make a fish sauce that's where i need it does it really affect your stuff though if you have if you have a

21:07 blue chip oh yeah if you're working emotionally yes if you're working with brands yes yeah and also my name's common like anthony and lee so like there's a bunch of like other random anthony yeah there's no other every race yeah every race has an anthony league when you submit do you have any like articles i'm sending different articles i've submitted three times now so it's like now now i just need a plug new articles just came out so i'm okay cool let me try and send it well i'll give you my contact at facebook then that's how i got mine that's nice this whole time this whole time he's like his name's mark the whole time yeah mark zeke his name's mark z yeah yeah yeah called the zucks dude i got a funny story about that [Music]

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