American tourist was shocked to see a worm on a hot pan, after eating it, he made a surprising comment.

Grilled shrimp rolls on banana leaves are delicious, you can dip them in fish sauce for extra flavor.

Many foreign tourists coming to Hanoi are not only impressed by the dishes imbued with traditional Vietnamese culture, but are also attracted by dishes that are considered "strange, strange, and not everyone dares to try".

With more than 11 million subscribers, Sonny Side's YouTube channel (real name William Sonbuchner, 39 years old, American) is one of the few culinary channels with a very large viewership on this platform.

Sonny Side spent a lot of time in Vietnam with his team and has more than 100 videos reviewing Vietnamese cuisine.

He has tried almost all the most familiar and famous dishes, such as vermicelli with fried tofu, vermicelli with grilled pork, pho, duck eggs, snails, coffee...

Rươi is one of the special dishes that has only become popular in recent years, although it has been raised and sold for quite a long time in low-lying provinces and cities such as the Northern Delta and North Central Coast.

Even for Vietnamese people, not everyone dares to try this dish or has the opportunity to taste it. However, the male YouTuber has had the opportunity to taste the dish twice with slightly different preparation methods.

Following a Vietnamese girl to a rural area specializing in raising earthworms, he witnessed with his own eyes the earthworm fields divided into square plots.

According to local people, Sonny Side only harvests the worms from September to November of the lunar calendar. At other times of the year, people usually only eat frozen worms.

Crab can be processed into many dishes such as crab cakes, braised crab cakes, stir-fried crab cakes, crab soup, salt-roasted crab cakes, crab sauce, etc. However, crab cakes are still the most popular and easiest to eat. They are also crab cakes, but each locality will have a different way of cooking them.

The worms are scooped up from the lagoon with a net, then washed, drained, and mixed with ground pork, eggs, and some herbs and spices.

According to the way people here do it, they put the pan on the stove, then line the pan with a layer of banana leaves and betel leaves. Wait for the leaves to heat up, then pour the mixed worm mixture into the hot pan. This way the worm cake is almost grilled over fire, no cooking oil is needed.

After about 20 minutes, the cook flips the shrimp paste and grills for another 10 minutes so that both sides are cooked evenly.

Looking at the charred piece of fried worm cake, the YouTuber commented: "I feel like an archaeologist because the worm looks like a fossil in the cake."

After tasting it, he grimaced slightly and commented that he could clearly feel the worms in his mouth but the overall taste was quite good. “It was like eating bread with a lot of instant noodles inside, a little crispy on the outside, soft on the inside,” he said.

In another experience, the YouTuber tried fried crab cakes at a small restaurant on Hang Bo Street (Hanoi). The restaurant is simple, located on the sidewalk, on one side is a styrofoam box containing live crabs, still wriggling, on the other side is a hot stove to prepare the dish on the spot.

Using the same method, the vendor mixed eggs, ground pork, and some vegetables and spices into a plastic basin. Then, she ladled the patties into a hot pan with plenty of cooking oil. After a few seconds, she took a handful of fresh blood worms and placed them on the patties.

The male YouTuber was amazed at the sight of the worms still wriggling on the hot pan, then gradually cooking.

After the meatloaf is cooked, it is placed on a piece of paper to absorb the excess oil. The aroma of the herbs, meat, and eggs mixed together makes anyone want to try it.

Fried shrimp rolls are served in oil and not lined with banana leaves, so they are softer than grilled rolls. “Honestly, the rolls are very fresh, salty and fragrant,” commented Sonny Side.

In particular, this time the ingredients blended together, making him not feel the worms in his mouth like last time.

Some people commented that although they are Vietnamese, they have never tried the dish. Others said that they really like the male YouTuber because they always see him respecting local cuisine and culture, even though it is somewhat “shocking” to himself and many others.

Sonny Side once commented that Vietnamese people have very high culinary standards, even with street food. Vietnam is also a place where he can enjoy great dishes that are hard to find elsewhere.

Besides the bloodworm dish, he has tried fish sauce, shrimp paste, balut, hot pot dishes...