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that pork going over charcoal? [horns honked] >> vietnam. it could be no place. [♪ music ♪] >> listen to me listen to me there is no other way to see th city hanoi than from a motorbik or a scooter. you otherwise would be to miss it all . is one of the great pleasures o my life to join the river of

people rushing through the street s in . vietnam grabbed you and doesn't let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i've been coming here since 2,000 people the first time i'v been to that part of the world, and that is held official place in my heart and imagination since. i keep coming back. i have two.

i have a to. vietnam has changed since last time i was here. it's changing every minute ago but some things, for now anyway remain the same. important things. like this stuff. >> that's going to be good. >> piecemeal in hanoi and is something they do here better than anywhere else. am officially in hanoi now. magic. a spicy wonderful broth with tornadoes, oar noodles and fres nails. loving delicious. look at those beauties. come to me, plump little love

1017. hanoi, capital city of vietnam. seven and a half million people live here. in the winter it is chilly and damp, in the front -- in the summer hot, humid subtropical people the boulevard and many o the buildings are french. but a insole is always -- alway. america's coming here is tourists for the first time, especially those of the warncke are shocked by how friendly the places. people are genuinely happy to see you. this is hanoi's old quarter. but it's looking less and less old these days. this area has changed, though. in the irish/czechoslovakian themed next door. >> vietnam is a young country almost half of vietnamese under

the age of 30. if you're if you even remember what they call the american war. those years well defined temperatures not everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and even though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back home for most vietnamese these days the war has become a abstraction, not even a memory. vietnam is still a poor nation, but the standard of living has improved a lot with relaxing of harlan county's economic policies. more and more foreign tourists every year. western chains inevitably are everywhere, and president obama is visiting for the first time, taking another step on the long path toward normalizing relations between the two countries. >> that is good, because who h hot. i hit that chilly hard .

>> is such a pleasure. >> we have a beer ready to go. he has to be we are doing the bottle or are we going to pour into glass? cody george it wasn't her? report in a glass. >> okay. vietnam, particularly in the north, it would be improper for woman to drink straight from th bottle p okay, i'm glad i know this now. cheers. tom is an eisenhower, and a albright scholar and she has that year, restricting bonds between vietnam and the us typically we drove to the outskirts of hanoi. cranes, tall buildings, people moving from the country to the city.

mark jacobs, product, this is a young country and rp oh, very much a young nation. they like to eat kentucky fried chicken. they like to spend a lot of tim on the internet. the history of our country is a history of war. we had 1,000 years under the chinese. and then we had 80 years under the french. and then the japanese came in t be and when the americans left finally in 1975 we get involved with voting so we have only had peace since 1989 could be just matter of a few decades the entire population will be those without any more screens. and that's a great thing. >> and what are we eating today? mark where we are going to have a normal. >> and that means? rice role very thin. like a crab? yes, and it's a ground miss pork and put tea and mushroom.

independent and there you have it. >> oh, that's very good, everything we do internationall someone turned back to the vietnam experience, you know, let's not do that again. >> let's not repeat vietnam. >> but i find it interesting that the people who had perhaps the most painful experience wer among the first to reach out i think the mccain story is particularly interesting becaus he was a guy who had an attrition experience here in prison and yet he has been amon the most vocal supporters of normalizing relations. >> we took several trips to vietnam, and so he could see vietnam in a different light. it is no longer a worker it's a country, with people. >> have you been out with returning veterans? oh, yes, all the time.

do they often want to go to the area that they served to change oh, yes. do they often meet with the people they fought? yes. >> even beef the two parts come to the areas they unloaded thei bombs? yes yes even b-52 pilots into areas they loaded their bombs. >> yes. what do you see when they come? extremely emotional. extremely emotional. people burst into tears. the memory i could tell you 45 years ago was an enemy. i did anything and everything t protect my life and to protect the people in my platoon. but today when i see you again, not as an enemy, as a person, everything just disappears. all the bad feelings disappear, and now you actually find out oh, are you married? how many children do you have? what are you up to?

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here it was tight she had gone. and that still here. but there is also this. he's good to see you. good to see you too. she is also my instructor. >> no zumba for me. breakfast, though, sounds good. how often a week do you think the average person cooks, and how often they eat her? more to get home the mirror for this xml that everybody can be together. as for other mascot normally we eat out. >> i meet my old friend ha on

the edge of the old quarter, a place known as causing noodles. >> this is my favorite favorite restaurant. >> is it? yes. >> the name comes from this lad known for their free and frankl she communicates with customers. i hear she yells at people. >> yes. [speaking vietnamese] if you go to the counter and ordered something and you decide and think like oh, can i have these? oh, no, no, no, abie i have these instead. she goes i don't have a lot of time for you so get out of here. >> really? yeah. [speaking vietnamese ] what's the specialty of the house here? pig knuckles. >> we know that's going to be good. he put up with the abuse for this glorious sitting bull of

rice noodles with chilis, a ric party pork he brought with mcknuckle and snout. it's the only item on the menu, and it's good. >> you [indiscernible]? >> years. this is the same as to b2b fair with these you have to be careful because if you don't do it right you get itchy mouth. he wouldn't die from it but it makes your mouth really itchy. >> interesting. meanwhile, that's delicious. when people talk about memo the always think about funerals are hans niemann 23 this spring rolls or tran33. >> i'm easy. me springwells and pork and i'm happy every time this spring rolls and pork and i'm happy every time .

give me and i'm happy every time it's a maze of narrow streets and alleyways behind th old french cathedral. vendors search tools and it happy hour in hanoi.

[dog barking and children's voices playing stop and rp ever doorway, every window, a little slice of life s. a story all its own. lives lived, being lived, caugh for a second, a moment, then gone. i can remember sometimes to be friendly with a drink [indiscernible] >> well okay we must, we must. >> cheers for friendship. >> linnton, my oldest friend in vietnam from the beginning. my friend we've been to saigon, never. >> who might resume under from saigon's ministry of foreign affairs. became in spite of his official

responsibilities best friends. marco 2-3 yelled! welcome back. >> welcome back. cheers. >> his way to a uniquely proud and uniquely be tradition via holy refers look at joints for locals decide to go to dispense freshly brewed draft keg beer. >> my friend this is like 3 to . >> so we need to drink a lot. >> yeah it was something luxurious two or three years ag and now it is for everyone here. it is not expensive. 10,000 [indiscernible] >> so that's 45 cents. >> 45 cents a beer? yeah. >> i can afford that. i'll have another. the country has changed s much. when i first came bicycles and motorbikes and now a lot of car

lifetime money, people are making money. business is good. i mean, much, much, much more tourism every year pds. people also enjoy life mor e.

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[ ♪ soothing and calming music ] search the globe and you will find no other place that looks remotely like this. problem means whether dragon descends into the sea. and legend says that this is where a great dragon charge predicting from foreign inv invaders. war is a constant theme in vietnamese mythology and his history. the chinese, the french, the japanese, the americans, the cambodians, again the chinese. [ship horn sounds] pelham bay t

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this nice. all the modern conveniences but the terms of the past. it fits perfectly with my over romantic delusions. and in general it does not suck to start woman continued singin ♪ ] >> hello, gentlemen. >> how you doing? we are having some gin and tonic. in and tonic, traditional vietnamese drink picky, well, not really. this is my first time trying this po can really? weidemann to you or five times five years old as time hours in this bay. >> right. p lynn and i came here for another show what feels like a lifetime ago. back then i get a chance to mee his son minh. >> here's a picture of us. >> oh my god. look at my hair. >> it's changed a little bit. over 8 million people are comin

to the bay now. yeah every year, tourists. >> all of this is protected all right, he can't do anything on these rocks? no. >> no. how many of these rocks out there? 1069 this is a good number, you know. >> that's a lucky number. >> six is for fortune and 90 forever so fortune forever. >> a drinker two on the top d deck, check. now for the rest of the day try and do as little as possible. a nap. sunset. maybe some more drinks. and what about dinner? >> for you. thank you, sir, p jim? cheers peter so we are eating some squid. >> tons of squid tons of squid. >> p we tried to get as many times as possible. >> q the majesty of the squid.

at night this time of year the bright lights of hall on base fishing boats are unmistakable. >> we can only call scooter leader because the light attrac the squid so they can catch t them. >> they say because of global warming all the fish are dying but that this critical fish populations are increasing. so soon the whole city will be filled with plenty of squid. we will be eating it everyday. oh, yeah, those are cute little squid. those are going to be tender. woo. oh, yeah, tentacles are the b best. >> careful, is very hot. >> they were on all the night. the light turned on alternate? and then sleep all day. >> yeah p is got to be hard to sleeping for the day? cheers for the day. >> cheers for the day.

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>> a morning swim. a bowl of spicy noodles, interview. perfect. how many in the family? six. a young couple and their two kids. and then the grand moms live with them. should go to stay with relative to go to school because they have no schooling here.

>> right. >> floating fishing villages like this used to be found in nearly every hundred cover corner of the babe. but as but vietnam becoming mor popular tourist destination authentic chamber adjusting to disappear. the government have been relocating fishing payments in land hoping to equalize their ecological impact. >> the people living on floatin villages, they are just nice an generally willing to open their harm to us. they are basically farmworkers. >> 11 pearls for sale in how long bay and in vietnam. they come from a place like t this. things over a year to grow aispuro and it is no guarantee ghost or will even yield one.

>> decimals, vegetable for vietnamese and summertime. >> yep. >> what kind of fish are these be looking for sure these? >> halong fish peter halong first. >> delicious. good fish. this is a pretty prime piece of real estate. they lived here how long? for many generations. she is over 70 years old and sh said that her grandparents are to before this week on a big tourist attraction. >> their situation protected by the state? they are loaded to the director because they lived here so too can actually government now is encouraging them to move back t shore because especially for th children's education. [speaking vietnamese ].

she said they are happy will be because especially for their children people that they have been living here for many centuries and all they know is fishing. >> right. [thunder ] >> just another day in paradise. of topical downpour in a workin class neighborhood on the outskirts of hanoi. the lady selling vegetables and gum and cigarettes taking a nap under piece of corrugated tin

has no idea what's about to happen. [speaking vietnamese] >> 1-2-get down! [♪ music ♪ ] >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> how are you liking vietnam? love it. markets like these i grew up with when i was a kid in jak jakarta. these are basically the only markets available. you would buy pretty much

everything installed like this. >> yeah i wouldn't mind going i there and haggling and see what i could find peace in this country, when i first arrived here, it smelled like a place that i would like. certain countries just telephonically snuggling i know they are going to be good. can you kind of smell that? >> you know, there are certain spices you can smell certain countries that you just don't smell back home. meanwhile, there are some smell that are as appealing as well. but that is part of the mix of vietnamese. >> how you doing, guys? >> how are you? to start.[ ♪ told you so ♪ ]

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here, it grabs you, captivates you, and chances are it hold yo forever. i'm not the first to feel this way. there is no better place to entertain the leader of the fre world, in my opinion, than one of these classic family-run little shops you find all over hanoi. there and a beer costs about $6. i'm guessing the president doesn't get a lot of state dinners like this. how often do you get to sneak out for a beer? very rarely. first of all, i don't get to sneak out period. but they -- once in a while i'l take michelle out on a date night. the problem is, part of enjoyin a restaurant is sitting with other patrons and enjoying the atmosphere, and too often end u

getting shunted into one of those private rooms in the back please meanwhile, i'm glad i ca help. pour you a cold beer peas absolutely. >> absolutely. >> all right, you're going to have to -- >> i will walk you through. >> you are going to have to wal me through this. >> we are eating buncha and is not typically uniquely a hanoi dish and the risk to be these beautiful little pork patties, little pork belly. >> transit is served and abroad a minute, sugar and the ubiquitous vietnamese fermented fish sauce or buncha. >> taste, if you have important functionality might not want to get this. i'm going to do this thing. we are going to do what's appropriate. vinegar, all right peas and the

you just hook up noodles and just drop them in your bowl. >> is not too elegant but i am there. >> and depends there and get ready for the awesomeness peas i'm ready. now, is appropriate to just pop one of these whole suckers in your mouth or you think you should be a little more -- please meanwhile, sipping is totally acceptable. it takes some skill, by the way could handle these sticky cold noodles, but whatever your opinion of the m man, the president has those skills. >> yeah him. this is killer. so good to hear. >> is really good, and we share apparently sentimentality about agency food and southeast asia in general. >> one of my favorite meals of all time. there is an area between jakart and john doane, another city in the nation called punchak and i through the mountains. you have these restaurants overlooking the t fields.

there be a river running to the restaurant itself there be thes fiscal these colquit would run to and you would pick the fish. derek gebhard poyer fried upper sandusky will be a real quick and they just served it with a bed of rice. and it was the simplest manner possible, and nothing tasted so good. >> and the chicago lawn, trickier question fraught with problem. is catch up on a hot dog ever acceptable. >> reporter: no. i mean, that if it's one of those things like -- well, let me put it this way: it's not acceptable past age of eight peas my daughter is eight and she put catch up on exhibit a and i didn't know what good parenting called for at this point. peas an intervention. i assume so. i was going to say you know w what, that's not acceptable, i' sorry. >> we are at a point where we seem to be turning inwards.

i mean, we are actually talking about building a wall around ou country. and yet you have been reaching out to people don't necessarily believe without a iran, cuba i just wish that more americans had passports to be the extent to which you can see how other people lives seems useful at first, and incur the pleasurabl and interesting at best. it confirms the basic truths it confirms the basic truths when you see former american vietnam vets coming back and you see a john kerry or john mccain, two very different people politically and temperamentally who were able to bond and the experience of meeting with their and you don't make peace with your friends make peace with your enemies. >> is the father of a young g

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going to have to be a stop. it won't be necessary it will be important, no one will remember or should people always remember. >> i think it's good to remember so we don't make the same mistake. some people choose to be angry and hold a grudge but some people choose to let go and find the peace inside themselves. that's up to the person and i think it's good. it's what we know about history. and to make sure it's never happening again. i met a lot of war veterans. and surprisingly a lot of them

don't have any anger against their own enemies. that is amazing that is amazing i learned so much from the m. >> for vehement needs we had so many legends. but the majority of legends fighting against foreign invaders to protect our country.

over the last 20 years of my life i've seen a lot of changes. and we know there's still a lot of shock. but everything needs time. we need to be patient, we can't rush because you really don't want another war. >> general william westmoreland who commanded u.s. forces in the mid 60s famously said the oriental does not put the same high price on life as does a westerner, life is plentiful, life is cheap. >> it was an extraordinarily grotesque and wrongheaded observation from a guy who if nothing else was expected to understand his enemy on the

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