anthony: oh, thank you sir. lin: cheers, my friend. anthony: cheers. so, we re eating some squid. lin: tons of squid. anthony: tons of squid. lin: we tried to get as many tons as possible. anthony: cue the majesty of the squid. at night this time of year the bright lights of ha long bay s fishing boats are unmistakable. lin: they can only caught the squid in the evening. the light attracts the squid, so they can catch them. anthony: right. they say that because of global warming all the fish are dying but that the squid and cuttlefish populations are increasing. so, soon the whole sea will be filled with plenty of squid. we ll be eating it every day. anthony: oh yeah. those are cute little squid. oh, those are going to be tender. whoo. mm.
now is in fact reaching them to move back to shore because that s better for the children s education. [ woman speaking vietnamese ] ha: they said that they re happy to move back because it s better for their children, but they ve been living here for many, many centuries and all they know is fishing. anthony: right. [ thunder crashes ] anthony: just another day in paradise. a tropical downpour in a
vendors set up stools and it s happy hour in hanoi. [ crowd chatters ] anthony: every doorway, every window, a little slice of life. a story all its own, lives lived, being lived, caught for a second, a moment, then gone. lin: in vietnam, sometimes, to be truly friend to be friendly hai: yeah. lin: we have to drink until we are drunk. anthony: oh, well, okay. we must, we must. lin: cheers for friendship. anthony: lin din.
president obama: it s really good. anthony: and we share, apparently, sentimentality about asian street food and southeast asia in general. president obama: one of my favorite meals of all time there s an area between jakarta and bandung, another city in indonesia, called puncak. and it s up through the mountains. so you d have these roadside restaurants overlooking the tea fields, there d be a river running through the restaurant itself, and there d be these fish, these carp, that would be running through. you d pick the fish, they grab it for you and fry it up, and the skin would be real crispy, and they just serve it with a bed of rice and it was the simplest meal possible and nothing tasted so good. anthony: now, as a chicagn, trickier question fraught with peril. is ketchup on a hotdog ever acceptable? president obama: no. [ laughter ] no, but i mean that. that s one of those things, like well, let me put it this way. it s not acceptable past the age of 8. anthony:
anthony: do you smell that? motor bike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the far-away smell of something? is that pork grilling over charcoal? vietnam. it could be no place else. [ bicycle bell dings ] [ horn honks ] anthony: listen to me. listen to me. there is no other way to see