WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:21.606 --> 00:00:24.606 [insects chirping] 4 00:00:27.634 --> 00:00:30.384 [ducks flapping] 5 00:00:37.329 --> 00:00:39.165 [wind whistling] 6 00:00:42.694 --> 00:00:44.834 [slow music begins] 7 00:00:55.097 --> 00:00:57.430 [helicopter whirring] 8 00:00:58.641 --> 00:00:59.963 [bomb explodes] 9 00:01:00.380 --> 00:01:01.603 - [Shareef] These fields 10 00:01:02.398 --> 00:01:06.007 have witnessed the horrors of humanity. 11 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.273 Ravaged by millennia of conflicts, 12 00:01:09.798 --> 00:01:10.822 [bomb explodes] 13 00:01:10.926 --> 00:01:17.058 Vietnam seemed perpetually consumed by war and instability. 14 00:01:18.570 --> 00:01:21.369 But remarkably, in the span of one generation 15 00:01:21.454 --> 00:01:23.303 since its reunification, 16 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.469 Vietnam has managed to overcome its existential struggles 17 00:01:27.605 --> 00:01:30.248 to rejoin the world stage. 18 00:01:32.104 --> 00:01:34.675 Known for magnificent landscapes, 19 00:01:35.444 --> 00:01:38.295 including the mystic waters of Ha Long Bay, 20 00:01:40.090 --> 00:01:42.208 limestone mountains of Ninh Binh, 21 00:01:43.733 --> 00:01:45.777 and rugged terrains of Ha Giang, 22 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:50.582 Vietnam now boasts dynamic cities 23 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.831 that rival metropolises around the world. 24 00:01:58.750 --> 00:02:02.737 Driving this resurgence, we find the Vietnamese people, 25 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.011 seventy percent of whom are under 35 years old. 26 00:02:09.495 --> 00:02:12.874 Thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of a new generation, 27 00:02:14.345 --> 00:02:18.045 Vietnam now ranks amongst the fastest growing economies 28 00:02:18.130 --> 00:02:19.293 in the world. 29 00:02:27.270 --> 00:02:28.707 My name is Shareef. 30 00:02:28.918 --> 00:02:31.678 I'm an avid traveler on a quest to showcase 31 00:02:31.860 --> 00:02:34.563 positive developments in emerging countries. 32 00:02:35.305 --> 00:02:39.419 I'm fascinated by Vietnam's evolution over the past decade, 33 00:02:40.005 --> 00:02:42.883 and I'm eager to find out what's behind the energy 34 00:02:43.007 --> 00:02:45.070 and excitement of the Vietnamese people. 35 00:02:46.281 --> 00:02:47.956 I set out to explore the country, 36 00:02:48.872 --> 00:02:52.277 meeting people from exotic neighborhoods in sprawling cities 37 00:02:52.690 --> 00:02:55.598 to the most remote rice paddies and tea fields. 38 00:02:59.100 --> 00:03:01.079 Join me on this journey 39 00:03:02.043 --> 00:03:05.214 as we fast forward to modern day Vietnam 40 00:03:05.487 --> 00:03:08.091 to learn more and get inspired 41 00:03:08.190 --> 00:03:12.017 by remarkable people from all walks of life. 42 00:03:26.405 --> 00:03:28.247 [horn honks] 43 00:03:29.615 --> 00:03:32.475 - [Thu] So I'm Vietnamese American. I was born in Vietnam, 44 00:03:32.585 --> 00:03:34.096 and when I was ten years old, 45 00:03:34.336 --> 00:03:35.998 my whole family moved to the US. 46 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.165 And so growing up in the US, 47 00:03:38.250 --> 00:03:41.050 I actually didn't know much about Vietnam at all. 48 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:44.665 And it wasn't until after I ran into the story of Ho Chi Minh. 49 00:03:46.363 --> 00:03:48.139 - [Shareef] It's the break of dawn, 50 00:03:48.878 --> 00:03:51.634 but I'm already dodging heavy scooter traffic 51 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.878 as I meet Thu Nguyen, a thriving entrepreneur 52 00:03:54.963 --> 00:03:57.592 who takes me on a jog around Ho Chi Minh City. 53 00:03:58.269 --> 00:04:00.660 It's the most populous city in Vietnam 54 00:04:00.745 --> 00:04:02.889 with over nine million people, 55 00:04:03.330 --> 00:04:05.810 that's the size of London or New York City. 56 00:04:06.701 --> 00:04:08.311 Previously known as Saigon, 57 00:04:08.618 --> 00:04:12.848 in 1975 it was renamed in honor of Ho Chi Minh, 58 00:04:13.171 --> 00:04:17.901 leader of Vietnam's revolutionary movement for independence. 59 00:04:18.830 --> 00:04:20.900 - [Thu] When he was 22, he left Vietnam. 60 00:04:21.171 --> 00:04:24.353 And, you know, he worked as a cook on a boat 61 00:04:24.438 --> 00:04:26.598 to go to Europe because he wanted to know 62 00:04:26.683 --> 00:04:31.060 what the hell these Westerners were talking about 63 00:04:31.145 --> 00:04:32.997 in terms of freedom and independence. 64 00:04:33.614 --> 00:04:36.466 And then eventually after 30 years he came back to Vietnam 65 00:04:36.805 --> 00:04:39.174 and fought for Vietnamese independence. 66 00:04:40.366 --> 00:04:42.581 So, when I read about that story, 67 00:04:42.666 --> 00:04:45.961 then I became more inspired to learn more about Vietnam 68 00:04:46.046 --> 00:04:47.502 and to ask the question: 69 00:04:48.700 --> 00:04:51.086 "How can I contribute to Vietnam?" 70 00:04:51.730 --> 00:04:56.117 That was when I started learning about Vietnam, 71 00:04:56.440 --> 00:04:59.095 about Vietnamese people, how beautiful the country is, 72 00:04:59.180 --> 00:05:01.607 and how amazing and honest and kind 73 00:05:01.768 --> 00:05:04.523 and hospitable the people are outside of the big city. 74 00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:06.955 In Vietnam, I think the statistic 75 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.435 is that about 50% of Vietnamese households 76 00:05:10.520 --> 00:05:11.945 have small businesses. 77 00:05:12.030 --> 00:05:13.747 And that is how they survive, 78 00:05:13.859 --> 00:05:15.534 that's how they make their money. 79 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:17.393 If you look back in history, 80 00:05:17.478 --> 00:05:19.872 Vietnamese have always been struggling 81 00:05:20.252 --> 00:05:22.315 and fighting for our independence, right? 82 00:05:22.539 --> 00:05:25.768 So that's naturally in the desire of Vietnamese people, 83 00:05:25.874 --> 00:05:28.544 I feel always. It's that we want to be independent. 84 00:05:28.629 --> 00:05:31.445 So that, being an entrepreneur you get to control, 85 00:05:31.768 --> 00:05:33.523 you get to be in the driver's seat, 86 00:05:33.706 --> 00:05:36.360 you get to do things on your own terms. 87 00:05:37.407 --> 00:05:40.639 I think that those who want to start a business, 88 00:05:40.724 --> 00:05:44.243 first of all, they want to do the things they like 89 00:05:45.184 --> 00:05:47.056 to satisfy their passion. 90 00:05:47.825 --> 00:05:53.651 They want to create their own career on their own feet. 91 00:05:55.081 --> 00:05:56.969 - Looking for some Vietnamese Zen, 92 00:05:57.135 --> 00:05:59.087 I visit a specialty tea house in Hanoi, 93 00:05:59.739 --> 00:06:02.516 founded by Tea Master Champion Hung Nguyen 94 00:06:02.907 --> 00:06:04.543 and his wife Hai Yen. 95 00:06:06.485 --> 00:06:10.274 - [Hung] Our tea path was very interesting 96 00:06:10.795 --> 00:06:12.618 There have been many failures 97 00:06:12.872 --> 00:06:14.995 but we got a thing. 98 00:06:15.476 --> 00:06:19.735 In the meantime we had a stronger urge, 99 00:06:19.820 --> 00:06:24.534 a desire to achieve what my mind envisioned. 100 00:06:25.544 --> 00:06:27.048 - We thought it's just in time 101 00:06:27.133 --> 00:06:30.813 because we also do believe in the magical things in life, 102 00:06:30.898 --> 00:06:32.567 it sounds a little bit invisible. 103 00:06:33.087 --> 00:06:37.239 Like for example, the laws of attraction, 104 00:06:37.324 --> 00:06:40.476 like listening to the signs from the universe. 105 00:06:40.891 --> 00:06:42.252 [cymbals clang] 106 00:06:43.052 --> 00:06:44.477 - [Hung] Hello everybody, 107 00:06:44.688 --> 00:06:49.473 I will conduct a sharing session about the beauty of Vietnamese tea for you. 108 00:06:50.358 --> 00:06:53.140 And before starting the tea ceremony today, 109 00:06:53.269 --> 00:06:57.878 I will do a small treatment to balance your body and mind. 110 00:07:02.551 --> 00:07:05.634 [plays singing bowl] 111 00:07:31.732 --> 00:07:33.447 [insects chirping] 112 00:07:34.587 --> 00:07:35.865 [water splashing] 113 00:07:41.588 --> 00:07:44.545 - [Lien] In the morning, around 4:30, 114 00:07:45.111 --> 00:07:47.850 I wake up, drink a cup of boiled water, 115 00:07:47.968 --> 00:07:50.110 and exercise. [dogs barking] 116 00:07:50.194 --> 00:07:52.173 After that I lit up the fire. 117 00:07:52.382 --> 00:07:57.570 Cook for the pigs, the dogs, the chickens, and for me. 118 00:07:57.655 --> 00:07:58.660 [chicken clucking] 119 00:07:58.745 --> 00:08:01.848 That's the morning. Then I start gardening. 120 00:08:02.100 --> 00:08:08.379 Gardening, taking care of trees, working on the field. 121 00:08:09.715 --> 00:08:15.257 These tea plants... have been here for hundreds of years. 122 00:08:16.097 --> 00:08:19.972 But since I'm here, I always drink from this fresh tea. 123 00:08:20.558 --> 00:08:23.541 - Do you remember since when, what year was it? 124 00:08:25.395 --> 00:08:30.895 - I think... since I was a child, I have seen this tea plant. 125 00:08:31.316 --> 00:08:32.857 But this garden... 126 00:08:33.325 --> 00:08:36.878 we are from the Youth Union, we came here since 1972. 127 00:08:37.776 --> 00:08:42.086 I came here to dig this ditch, and like the elders, we cultivate. 128 00:08:42.503 --> 00:08:44.078 They grow plants. 129 00:08:44.287 --> 00:08:49.587 Then later I bought this land and I took care of them. 130 00:08:49.672 --> 00:08:51.211 - When did you take over? 131 00:08:51.672 --> 00:08:56.110 - When the agriculture reform took place, each household managed some land. 132 00:08:56.340 --> 00:08:58.993 I bought it from the family who managed the land here. 133 00:08:59.122 --> 00:09:02.364 In 1996 I came here. It was wide open. 134 00:09:02.602 --> 00:09:07.957 They abandoned it, it was widely vacant. 135 00:09:08.953 --> 00:09:11.754 - [Shareef] In 1975, the newly united 136 00:09:11.839 --> 00:09:13.765 communist government of Vietnam 137 00:09:13.850 --> 00:09:17.457 implemented a system of collectivized farm cooperatives. 138 00:09:18.062 --> 00:09:20.445 Over time, the country gradually moved 139 00:09:20.530 --> 00:09:22.812 to a system of individually owned farms, 140 00:09:23.250 --> 00:09:25.999 and Lien Nguyen used the agriculture reform 141 00:09:26.084 --> 00:09:28.730 to not only build a thriving tea farm, 142 00:09:29.199 --> 00:09:32.230 but also a lifestyle I personally wish for. 143 00:09:33.726 --> 00:09:36.953 - [Lien] I didn't decide to move here. 144 00:09:37.038 --> 00:09:39.960 I came here to build a farm, a business. 145 00:09:40.531 --> 00:09:45.257 I wanted to make money to provide for my family back home. 146 00:09:46.097 --> 00:09:49.288 I came here to plant trees but then I enjoyed living here more. 147 00:09:49.648 --> 00:09:53.124 Because I'm surrounded by nature. 148 00:09:53.663 --> 00:09:56.214 When we love trees, they love us back. 149 00:09:56.496 --> 00:09:58.550 When we love something, it loves us back. 150 00:09:59.558 --> 00:10:03.808 Living like this, it's peaceful. 151 00:10:04.163 --> 00:10:07.035 In here, it's quiet. 152 00:10:07.304 --> 00:10:10.234 I protect the environment. 153 00:10:10.710 --> 00:10:16.148 When I'm tired, I just look out the flower garden with the birds and butterflies. 154 00:10:16.470 --> 00:10:19.953 It makes my body feel comfortable. 155 00:10:20.468 --> 00:10:23.589 When my mind is clear, I work more efficiently. 156 00:10:25.002 --> 00:10:27.668 - This already splits, one bud into two leaves. 157 00:10:28.730 --> 00:10:31.783 This branch will continue to grow. It will grow two branches. 158 00:10:34.677 --> 00:10:37.927 [playing singing bowl] 159 00:10:46.263 --> 00:10:48.257 [machine whirring] 160 00:10:50.054 --> 00:10:52.339 - Every day I drink four or five cups per day. 161 00:10:52.940 --> 00:10:55.761 I feel like really hard for me, you know, to stop it 162 00:10:55.846 --> 00:10:58.825 because I think I got a bit addicted with coffee. 163 00:10:58.910 --> 00:11:01.980 So I fell in love with coffee when I was like four years old 164 00:11:02.405 --> 00:11:05.402 but my great-grandparents were the first generation 165 00:11:05.487 --> 00:11:07.277 that led us to love coffee. 166 00:11:07.375 --> 00:11:08.426 - Why coffee? 167 00:11:09.132 --> 00:11:12.957 - Since like 1980, the coffee become more popular, 168 00:11:13.113 --> 00:11:16.519 so, you know, a lot of farmers started to cultivate coffee, 169 00:11:16.750 --> 00:11:20.121 especially in our area we have like 99% growing coffee. 170 00:11:20.777 --> 00:11:24.047 In general, like coffee globally in Vietnam is the second largest. 171 00:11:24.777 --> 00:11:26.148 - [Shareef] That's right. 172 00:11:26.233 --> 00:11:28.184 Over the last 30 years, 173 00:11:28.617 --> 00:11:32.293 Vietnam went from producing very little coffee at all 174 00:11:32.910 --> 00:11:36.418 to becoming the second largest coffee producer in the world. 175 00:11:38.566 --> 00:11:41.344 Rolan Colieng and her brother Du Lick Moul 176 00:11:41.492 --> 00:11:44.687 are part of a growing movement of farmers in Vietnam 177 00:11:45.055 --> 00:11:47.746 who specialize in premium varieties of coffee. 178 00:11:48.473 --> 00:11:51.013 - We only grow Arabica coffee so for this coffee is 179 00:11:51.101 --> 00:11:53.726 preferred high elevation, also cool climate, 180 00:11:53.855 --> 00:11:56.371 compared to Robusta coffee growing in low elevation 181 00:11:56.496 --> 00:11:58.723 and warmer climate as well. 182 00:11:58.815 --> 00:12:02.322 Most coffee grown in Vietnam is Robusta coffee, which is more than 95%, 183 00:12:02.465 --> 00:12:06.019 but Arabica coffee is only 3 to 5% so it's premium quality. 184 00:12:06.115 --> 00:12:07.507 -Arabica coffee? -Yep. 185 00:12:07.641 --> 00:12:09.957 The flower lasts three to five days 186 00:12:10.047 --> 00:12:12.912 and then it becomes a tiny berry like this as you can see. 187 00:12:13.014 --> 00:12:16.381 It takes the berry eight months for it to grow from green to red, or 188 00:12:16.466 --> 00:12:19.369 from green to yellow depending on different varieties too. 189 00:12:19.619 --> 00:12:20.925 So this is cascarati, 190 00:12:21.010 --> 00:12:25.186 the first layer of the cherry outer skin, we use this part to make a tea, cascarati. 191 00:12:26.616 --> 00:12:28.746 - [Shareef] Oh, okay. One bean. 192 00:12:28.900 --> 00:12:31.119 - [DuLick] We have to prepare 200 grams of the green bean 193 00:12:31.204 --> 00:12:34.463 and when the bean is already dry so actually very hard like a rock 194 00:12:34.548 --> 00:12:37.420 so you don't have to worry you're going to break the bean. 195 00:12:37.604 --> 00:12:39.555 Going to sort all defective bean, 196 00:12:39.640 --> 00:12:41.924 the broken bean, also the bean is very small. 197 00:12:42.034 --> 00:12:44.592 - Like a broken bean, these are gone, the small bean 198 00:12:44.677 --> 00:12:46.725 so you are hand picking all of these off. 199 00:12:46.813 --> 00:12:49.630 - So those beans, low quality, will go to instant coffee. 200 00:12:49.897 --> 00:12:52.451 - Next time you drink instant coffee, you know that, 201 00:12:52.807 --> 00:12:55.752 that's instant coffee right here. 202 00:12:55.911 --> 00:12:59.772 - [DuLick] So the more you roast coffee, some flavored coffee will get burned, 203 00:12:59.857 --> 00:13:01.830 so darker roast is more bitter. 204 00:13:02.608 --> 00:13:05.588 And this is medium roast, balanced acidity and bitterness, 205 00:13:05.672 --> 00:13:07.595 so people prefer medium roast more. 206 00:13:07.899 --> 00:13:09.540 It's good for like Espresso, 207 00:13:09.630 --> 00:13:10.959 American or French Press. 208 00:13:11.044 --> 00:13:13.748 And this one is light roast, this keeps the most flavor 209 00:13:13.833 --> 00:13:16.545 of your coffee and easy to tell how good is your coffee 210 00:13:16.633 --> 00:13:19.204 if you roast it light than a medium or darker roast. 211 00:13:19.631 --> 00:13:22.409 - [Rolan] So actually, six years ago this area 212 00:13:22.494 --> 00:13:24.710 was completely with the coffee plantations 213 00:13:24.795 --> 00:13:26.952 so we were so excited to continue work, 214 00:13:27.037 --> 00:13:29.659 so we worked so hard, like all day and night 215 00:13:29.744 --> 00:13:32.843 we're working really hard to help this area grow up, 216 00:13:32.932 --> 00:13:35.507 especially keeping all of this coffee alive. 217 00:13:35.714 --> 00:13:37.143 With our cooperative, 218 00:13:37.702 --> 00:13:40.694 I am actually the one who controls the quality 219 00:13:40.843 --> 00:13:43.972 and helps the farmers how to do the process. 220 00:13:44.265 --> 00:13:46.956 But me, I followed my dad since I was four. 221 00:13:47.237 --> 00:13:51.374 So, to be here, to work with this cooperative 222 00:13:51.467 --> 00:13:53.870 and this organic coffee is my dream, 223 00:13:54.015 --> 00:13:57.706 and I think that God really complete me with this dream. 224 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.769 [playing singing bowl] 225 00:14:09.895 --> 00:14:11.961 [crickets chirping] 226 00:14:13.250 --> 00:14:14.512 - This is the actual rice 227 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.194 that they put in the mud before and grow, and then when they come back, 228 00:14:18.780 --> 00:14:23.000 each one of these is what has to go in the rice fields 229 00:14:23.820 --> 00:14:25.113 to plant the rice. 230 00:14:26.430 --> 00:14:29.527 - How many bags of rice can you get every season? 231 00:14:31.500 --> 00:14:32.977 - One season? 232 00:14:33.062 --> 00:14:37.160 This place can give ten bags. 233 00:14:37.785 --> 00:14:41.246 One bag is about 30 kilos. 234 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.562 - So about 300 kilos of rice in just this field. 235 00:14:44.647 --> 00:14:45.656 - Just this field. 236 00:14:45.793 --> 00:14:51.446 - [Farmer] For me, this is tradition, from when I was 12 years old. 237 00:14:52.607 --> 00:14:57.232 My daughter just got married, we held the wedding last month. 238 00:14:57.915 --> 00:14:59.422 - She's pregnant for how long? 239 00:14:59.507 --> 00:15:00.517 - Seven months. 240 00:15:01.924 --> 00:15:04.204 - [Shareef] So when I look, I just see women. 241 00:15:04.725 --> 00:15:05.794 Where are the men? 242 00:15:06.934 --> 00:15:09.008 - Normally, only women work. 243 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:15.771 If men understand, they work far away. If not, they just stay at home and drink. 244 00:15:16.817 --> 00:15:18.802 - You still use a hand sickle? 245 00:15:18.887 --> 00:15:21.997 - [Farmer] Still use a sickle, farmers here still use a sickle. 246 00:15:22.082 --> 00:15:24.993 Do they sell rice to other people or just for this village? 247 00:15:25.078 --> 00:15:27.286 - [Interpreter] It's just for their families. 248 00:15:27.371 --> 00:15:29.583 -This is just for their families? -Yes. 249 00:15:29.668 --> 00:15:30.864 - Oh, okay. Wow. 250 00:15:31.522 --> 00:15:33.032 Psychologists believe 251 00:15:33.239 --> 00:15:36.681 that the backbreaking labor required to cultivate rice 252 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:40.282 has produced a distinctive work ethic in countries 253 00:15:40.564 --> 00:15:42.208 that traditionally produce it. 254 00:15:43.579 --> 00:15:47.306 In Vietnam this rice culture also extends to the sea, 255 00:15:47.900 --> 00:15:50.114 where fishermen struggle for a living 256 00:15:50.204 --> 00:15:52.067 in independently operated boats. 257 00:15:53.622 --> 00:15:57.653 Sometimes, I depart at 4 or 5 pm this evening 258 00:15:59.290 --> 00:16:02.099 I can return by 4 or 5 am tomorrow. I anchor at the dock. 259 00:16:02.531 --> 00:16:05.547 So about almost 12, 13 hours, or 12, 14 hours. 260 00:16:05.929 --> 00:16:08.786 And then he comes back and sells everything to the market. 261 00:16:08.871 --> 00:16:11.032 So you built this boat yourself? 262 00:16:11.575 --> 00:16:16.337 - [Fisherman] I bought it from someone else in Hoian... brought it here. 263 00:16:17.289 --> 00:16:20.664 When I first bought it, I fished with clap net. 264 00:16:20.817 --> 00:16:21.950 [engine whirring] 265 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.867 Then I found it was not profitable, not suitable for my wife. 266 00:16:27.387 --> 00:16:28.707 So I changed to this job. 267 00:16:29.505 --> 00:16:32.089 I saw this job, catching small shrimp is right. 268 00:16:32.434 --> 00:16:35.572 I started to stick to it. Follow this path. 269 00:16:36.615 --> 00:16:38.633 Are you planning on having another boat? 270 00:16:38.797 --> 00:16:42.094 Or this is your boat and you're going to retire now? 271 00:16:42.750 --> 00:16:45.025 Yes, after this... because I am quite old now. 272 00:16:45.113 --> 00:16:48.835 More than 50 years old. I cannot do it anymore. 273 00:16:50.352 --> 00:16:53.250 I've been putting out to sea since I was 13 years old. 274 00:16:53.672 --> 00:16:57.383 At that time, it was not an option due to my family's financial difficulty. 275 00:16:57.891 --> 00:16:59.557 I left school to help my family. 276 00:17:01.060 --> 00:17:03.535 - [Van] I think the main reason for people 277 00:17:03.620 --> 00:17:05.043 at the moment to work hard 278 00:17:05.128 --> 00:17:06.907 because they need to survive. 279 00:17:07.219 --> 00:17:11.418 I understand that Vietnamese people, especially women, 280 00:17:11.503 --> 00:17:13.067 they are very hard working, 281 00:17:13.317 --> 00:17:16.835 they do many different jobs to survive, to take care of their children, 282 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:21.071 take care of their families, and even their parents too. 283 00:17:21.817 --> 00:17:24.255 - [Shareef] Van Dang is a technology entrepreneur 284 00:17:24.340 --> 00:17:26.180 based in the capital city of Hanoi. 285 00:17:26.739 --> 00:17:30.160 In 2017, she was recognized by Forbes 286 00:17:30.368 --> 00:17:33.145 as one of 15 Global Leaders To Watch. 287 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:40.575 - So, I was born in a small town in the north of Vietnam. 288 00:17:41.610 --> 00:17:43.469 They are very poor over there. 289 00:17:44.114 --> 00:17:47.817 When I was seven years old, I normally sell peanuts in the market. 290 00:17:48.516 --> 00:17:50.747 The reason that I do that because 291 00:17:51.012 --> 00:17:52.618 I think we need to survive. 292 00:17:53.035 --> 00:17:56.004 It might be strange for other people in the modern countries 293 00:17:56.089 --> 00:17:58.809 that a seven year old girl has to do that kind of work, 294 00:17:59.258 --> 00:18:02.235 but for us many children in Vietnam, 295 00:18:02.328 --> 00:18:04.993 especially in the countryside, it's very normal work. 296 00:18:05.571 --> 00:18:08.426 So, some people told me that I got entrepreneurship myself 297 00:18:08.511 --> 00:18:09.973 since I was small. 298 00:18:10.910 --> 00:18:12.615 - [Shareef] When Van was fourteen, 299 00:18:12.700 --> 00:18:16.164 her father bought a computer to rent out to the local villagers, 300 00:18:16.555 --> 00:18:20.145 which gave Van a chance to fall in love with computers 301 00:18:20.230 --> 00:18:21.403 at a young age. 302 00:18:21.868 --> 00:18:25.275 - So come back to when I was younger, 303 00:18:25.360 --> 00:18:26.823 I wanted to be a scientist, 304 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:29.864 so I studied computer science 305 00:18:30.004 --> 00:18:32.910 and I believed that computer science would bring me 306 00:18:32.995 --> 00:18:36.188 a lot of opportunities to learn the new things. 307 00:18:36.403 --> 00:18:38.094 When I graduated high school, 308 00:18:38.219 --> 00:18:42.242 I was about to apply to four universities and my dad told me that, 309 00:18:42.410 --> 00:18:45.129 you need to apply at least one teaching school 310 00:18:45.399 --> 00:18:47.805 so I can become a teacher like my mom. 311 00:18:47.922 --> 00:18:49.145 [laughs] 312 00:18:49.672 --> 00:18:52.005 He really wanted me to become a teacher 313 00:18:52.090 --> 00:18:54.407 so I can have time for my kids. 314 00:18:54.930 --> 00:18:58.082 He said that I'm a girl, I don't need to study hard. 315 00:18:58.167 --> 00:18:59.399 [laughs] 316 00:18:59.871 --> 00:19:02.778 - Just become a teacher and a housewife, you're good to go. 317 00:19:02.863 --> 00:19:06.825 - But in four uni that I applied, there's none about teaching school. 318 00:19:06.910 --> 00:19:07.934 - Wow. 319 00:19:08.019 --> 00:19:09.813 - Because I didn't like it at all, 320 00:19:09.898 --> 00:19:13.035 I don't want to be like my mom, she worked so hard 321 00:19:13.120 --> 00:19:16.004 and she still hasn't got many things that she wants. 322 00:19:16.750 --> 00:19:19.470 - [Huong] One day I talked to my mother and asked her, 323 00:19:19.555 --> 00:19:23.129 how could you raise us up by yourself being a farmer? 324 00:19:23.469 --> 00:19:25.410 So I think we're empowered 325 00:19:25.495 --> 00:19:28.563 and we have the role model of our older generation. 326 00:19:28.953 --> 00:19:30.532 I think as a woman, 327 00:19:30.617 --> 00:19:33.668 I always wanted to have my own family, that's the first thing. 328 00:19:33.753 --> 00:19:36.305 The second thing is I want to create a bigger impact 329 00:19:36.390 --> 00:19:37.391 in the community. 330 00:19:37.476 --> 00:19:39.754 We try to also create an ecosystem 331 00:19:39.844 --> 00:19:41.353 to support young entrepreneurs 332 00:19:41.438 --> 00:19:43.516 but also women in particular. 333 00:19:43.703 --> 00:19:44.707 [soft music begins] 334 00:19:44.792 --> 00:19:46.900 - [Shareef] As reported by the World Bank, 335 00:19:46.985 --> 00:19:50.996 Vietnam has 73% female workforce participation, 336 00:19:51.325 --> 00:19:52.905 a rate that surpasses 337 00:19:52.990 --> 00:19:55.188 many of the world's leading economies. 338 00:19:57.101 --> 00:20:00.226 Huong Dang is a passionate social entrepreneur 339 00:20:00.311 --> 00:20:03.773 working on the front lines of this social impact movement. 340 00:20:04.527 --> 00:20:07.749 - So, Koto is a social enterprise in Vietnam. 341 00:20:07.834 --> 00:20:09.322 We run a training program 342 00:20:09.407 --> 00:20:12.363 for two years in hospitality operations. 343 00:20:12.746 --> 00:20:15.628 We have two restaurants, one in Hanoi and one in Saigon. 344 00:20:15.843 --> 00:20:17.305 Over the last two years, 345 00:20:17.390 --> 00:20:20.125 we trained about nearly 1000 street kids 346 00:20:20.210 --> 00:20:21.485 and disadvantaged youth 347 00:20:21.570 --> 00:20:25.949 who are now the CEO of a travel agent, restaurant owners, 348 00:20:26.034 --> 00:20:27.804 entrepreneurs, trainers. 349 00:20:28.105 --> 00:20:31.660 100% of our trainees get jobs in five star hotels 350 00:20:31.745 --> 00:20:34.445 and in restaurants after two years in the program. 351 00:20:34.582 --> 00:20:37.574 Apart from that, I also started a social project 352 00:20:37.659 --> 00:20:38.847 called Hope Box, 353 00:20:38.932 --> 00:20:40.839 so it creates jobs for women 354 00:20:40.924 --> 00:20:42.960 who have escaped from domestic violence. 355 00:20:43.281 --> 00:20:46.972 I want to help other women who have less opportunity, 356 00:20:47.105 --> 00:20:49.167 not just focusing on creating jobs 357 00:20:49.252 --> 00:20:51.011 but also raising awareness as well. 358 00:20:51.675 --> 00:20:55.269 We were born in a country that everyone knows about, 359 00:20:55.433 --> 00:20:57.940 the number one thing they know is about the war, 360 00:20:58.472 --> 00:21:01.133 and the second thing they know is about pho the food. 361 00:21:01.520 --> 00:21:06.660 But us women we are empowered by the old generation, 362 00:21:06.918 --> 00:21:09.176 our grandmother, our mother. 363 00:21:10.310 --> 00:21:11.863 - When I finished high school, 364 00:21:12.094 --> 00:21:15.274 I got a chance to go to Australia to study, 365 00:21:15.852 --> 00:21:17.160 and when I come to Sydney, 366 00:21:17.348 --> 00:21:19.258 I talked about I'm from Vietnam 367 00:21:19.551 --> 00:21:21.295 and still many people didn't know 368 00:21:21.380 --> 00:21:22.969 where Vietnam is on the map. 369 00:21:23.054 --> 00:21:24.076 [laughs] 370 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:26.840 And I studied the first semester 371 00:21:26.925 --> 00:21:28.887 in Hanoi National University before, 372 00:21:29.317 --> 00:21:32.074 which for me is very big university already, 373 00:21:32.199 --> 00:21:34.594 and the number one uni in Vietnam 374 00:21:34.754 --> 00:21:37.910 but when I told my friends in Sydney about my uni 375 00:21:37.995 --> 00:21:39.699 but no one know about my uni. 376 00:21:39.813 --> 00:21:40.947 [epic music begins] 377 00:21:41.032 --> 00:21:43.745 Why Vietnamese people when I think 378 00:21:43.830 --> 00:21:47.031 they are very hard working, they are very smart, 379 00:21:47.417 --> 00:21:51.278 but they haven't been recognized in other countries. 380 00:21:53.758 --> 00:21:57.926 And that question go with me for a long time 381 00:21:58.011 --> 00:22:00.278 when I stayed there, and even when I come back 382 00:22:00.363 --> 00:22:05.195 I still want to prove that we can do the best, 383 00:22:05.379 --> 00:22:07.637 we can do a lot much better than they think. 384 00:22:09.215 --> 00:22:10.676 - [Shareef] True to her word, 385 00:22:10.770 --> 00:22:12.703 Van returned home to Vietnam 386 00:22:12.922 --> 00:22:15.801 where she founded an international technology company 387 00:22:16.004 --> 00:22:18.160 that employs Vietnamese engineers 388 00:22:18.387 --> 00:22:20.095 to build enterprise software 389 00:22:20.180 --> 00:22:21.918 for businesses around the world. 390 00:22:23.008 --> 00:22:26.297 - For me, I don't think tech is hard as many other industries 391 00:22:26.477 --> 00:22:28.692 but people think that tech is hard. 392 00:22:29.012 --> 00:22:31.416 So I really want to send a message 393 00:22:31.501 --> 00:22:35.211 that tech is not hard at all once you have fallen in love with it. 394 00:22:35.578 --> 00:22:39.231 Did you know that more than 100,000 people graduate in IT every year? 395 00:22:39.500 --> 00:22:41.835 And I believe this number will grow more 396 00:22:41.923 --> 00:22:44.738 because we put the IT subject in school 397 00:22:44.823 --> 00:22:46.190 from primary now. 398 00:22:46.457 --> 00:22:50.141 - What are the real competitive advantage in Vietnam? 399 00:22:50.398 --> 00:22:52.675 And I said, well we can grow anything. 400 00:22:52.760 --> 00:22:55.586 You just put stuff down and it'll grow in Vietnam, right? 401 00:22:55.793 --> 00:22:57.910 Also, the tech industry, 402 00:22:57.999 --> 00:23:00.344 there's no barrier to entry, really. 403 00:23:00.485 --> 00:23:04.461 Vietnamese people are already very tech savvy. 404 00:23:04.633 --> 00:23:06.250 And then the third piece is that 405 00:23:06.867 --> 00:23:09.643 everywhere in Vietnam is beautiful, naturally. 406 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:12.906 So when I look at the real competitive advantage, 407 00:23:13.055 --> 00:23:16.291 I look at tourism, technology and agriculture. 408 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:19.913 So, at 22 years old, I said 409 00:23:19.998 --> 00:23:22.308 I want to help build businesses in Vietnam 410 00:23:22.718 --> 00:23:24.370 because I wanted to contribute 411 00:23:24.455 --> 00:23:26.929 to economic independence and freedom. 412 00:23:27.238 --> 00:23:29.645 Everywhere in Vietnam people can visit 413 00:23:29.730 --> 00:23:31.472 and have an amazing time, right? 414 00:23:31.630 --> 00:23:33.945 Whether it's at the beaches, or the mountains, 415 00:23:34.030 --> 00:23:35.223 or the rice patties. 416 00:23:36.050 --> 00:23:37.316 So I was telling people, 417 00:23:37.449 --> 00:23:39.350 get on a motorbike and go see Vietnam. 418 00:23:39.435 --> 00:23:41.845 And I find myself talking to everybody like this, 419 00:23:42.261 --> 00:23:45.050 so then I recognized, I'm like, that is it, 420 00:23:45.355 --> 00:23:47.706 that's where I should be investing my time into, 421 00:23:47.791 --> 00:23:49.410 the tourism industry in Vietnam. 422 00:23:50.820 --> 00:23:53.304 - [Shareef] Tourism is a big industry in Vietnam 423 00:23:53.390 --> 00:23:56.882 with over 18 million visitors in 2019, 424 00:23:57.386 --> 00:24:00.781 already four times as many as a decade ago. 425 00:24:02.249 --> 00:24:05.124 As founder and CEO of a top ranked travel company, 426 00:24:05.406 --> 00:24:06.965 Thu is building a platform 427 00:24:07.050 --> 00:24:09.425 that allows local micro entrepreneurs 428 00:24:09.510 --> 00:24:12.074 to benefit from the influx of visitors. 429 00:24:12.988 --> 00:24:15.824 We tried out his platform with Loan Vuong, 430 00:24:16.312 --> 00:24:18.047 a law student that moonlights 431 00:24:18.132 --> 00:24:19.703 as a freelance tour guide 432 00:24:19.824 --> 00:24:22.254 and offers visits to Ho Chi Minh City's 433 00:24:22.339 --> 00:24:25.961 historic Chinatown district for one dollar. 434 00:24:26.422 --> 00:24:30.725 - [Loan] One dollar is kind of enough in Vietnam 435 00:24:30.810 --> 00:24:32.309 for just a meal, snack. 436 00:24:32.805 --> 00:24:35.975 But it depends on my purpose. 437 00:24:36.064 --> 00:24:38.274 My purpose is... 438 00:24:38.403 --> 00:24:41.727 I want to improve my English 439 00:24:41.981 --> 00:24:43.450 and exchange knowledge, 440 00:24:43.535 --> 00:24:46.074 exchange culture with the foreign guests. 441 00:24:46.617 --> 00:24:48.560 I run a tour for one dollar 442 00:24:48.645 --> 00:24:51.735 because at that time when I was a student 443 00:24:51.820 --> 00:24:55.145 I wanted to practice listening and speaking skills. 444 00:24:55.617 --> 00:25:00.625 I want to meet more foreigners and exchange everything, 445 00:25:00.710 --> 00:25:03.365 the knowledge, the culture, education, 446 00:25:03.450 --> 00:25:06.653 they want to know more about Vietnamese so I can share with them, 447 00:25:06.738 --> 00:25:10.684 and I want to know more about every country in this world. 448 00:25:11.637 --> 00:25:13.500 - So by building this tool, 449 00:25:13.883 --> 00:25:17.225 we're basically empowering people to operate at the smallest scale, 450 00:25:17.310 --> 00:25:19.766 to work for themselves, to run their own business. 451 00:25:19.895 --> 00:25:22.175 When you empower local businesses 452 00:25:22.260 --> 00:25:24.828 to participate in the tourism industry, 453 00:25:24.938 --> 00:25:26.890 that money stays in the local community 454 00:25:26.975 --> 00:25:29.235 and gets reinvested in the local community 455 00:25:29.320 --> 00:25:34.125 as opposed to getting extracted outside of the community 456 00:25:34.210 --> 00:25:35.922 by an international company, 457 00:25:36.043 --> 00:25:38.052 and they pay people at the minimum wage, 458 00:25:38.137 --> 00:25:41.375 as little as possible to be able to run the business, 459 00:25:41.899 --> 00:25:45.262 but most of the economic is sucked outside of the country. 460 00:25:46.399 --> 00:25:48.623 Vietnamese startups need more philosophy. 461 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:53.281 Thinking a little bit more about the impact that they have in society, 462 00:25:53.621 --> 00:25:55.778 the kind of work that they enjoy doing, 463 00:25:56.438 --> 00:26:00.074 and how can they contribute to others 464 00:26:00.555 --> 00:26:01.645 and at the same time 465 00:26:01.730 --> 00:26:04.382 be able to build something sustainable for themselves. 466 00:26:04.801 --> 00:26:08.305 - If you've got passion, you can do everything. 467 00:26:08.390 --> 00:26:10.813 If you love, you can do everything. 468 00:26:10.980 --> 00:26:13.297 So nothing difficult in this life. 469 00:26:14.121 --> 00:26:17.007 If you never give up, working hard, 470 00:26:17.202 --> 00:26:18.206 love what you do, 471 00:26:18.310 --> 00:26:21.815 you can make everything impossible become possible. 472 00:26:22.245 --> 00:26:23.796 And then you can be successful. 473 00:26:24.890 --> 00:26:26.741 - [Shareef] Outside Ho Chi Minh City, 474 00:26:26.826 --> 00:26:30.755 I meet Master Chef Tan, a farmer working land 475 00:26:30.840 --> 00:26:33.815 that used to be an American strategic bombing target. 476 00:26:34.851 --> 00:26:38.796 - [Chef] Do you know what is this? This location we got, you know, 477 00:26:39.042 --> 00:26:45.940 a very big and complicated like spider web of tunnels, 250 kilometers. 478 00:26:46.025 --> 00:26:50.128 That's why Americans put too much bombing here because they wanted to control here. 479 00:26:50.213 --> 00:26:53.640 Because I put all the bombs up here, on the surface nothing happened. 480 00:26:54.526 --> 00:26:56.886 But why do you see people still got food to eat? 481 00:26:57.280 --> 00:26:59.647 Where the food come from? Welcome to this plant. 482 00:26:59.855 --> 00:27:01.366 Oh my God, helicopter come up, 483 00:27:02.058 --> 00:27:04.948 the tapioca tree gets broken, 484 00:27:05.491 --> 00:27:09.733 every base is broken like this, a new plant come out. 485 00:27:10.038 --> 00:27:11.269 One plant like this, 486 00:27:11.788 --> 00:27:14.960 oh my God, four kilo of tapioca, 487 00:27:15.507 --> 00:27:18.753 look after for people a day like potatoes. 488 00:27:20.464 --> 00:27:22.880 We sing a new song, more bombs come up please, 489 00:27:22.965 --> 00:27:25.525 more tapioca it is, more people survive. 490 00:27:25.610 --> 00:27:27.578 So we never worry for bombing 491 00:27:27.663 --> 00:27:30.785 because we stayed underground for four to eight 492 00:27:30.870 --> 00:27:33.535 to twelve meters deep, a bomb, B-52 whatever, 493 00:27:33.620 --> 00:27:34.628 doesn't affect it. 494 00:27:35.093 --> 00:27:38.565 This location, 160 million tons of bombs 495 00:27:38.650 --> 00:27:40.165 from Americans fell in here. 496 00:27:40.250 --> 00:27:42.390 I go to local people to see, oh my God, 497 00:27:42.475 --> 00:27:45.385 it's all empty space. How I do the farm? 498 00:27:45.470 --> 00:27:47.355 But I see one thing very potential. 499 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:50.753 Look out there, cow, cow, cow, cow, and cow. 500 00:27:50.838 --> 00:27:53.242 What are cows eating? Only one thing survived. 501 00:27:53.511 --> 00:27:54.853 It is the grass. 502 00:27:56.050 --> 00:27:58.347 That's why, we cannot eat them, cows eat them. 503 00:27:58.562 --> 00:28:01.527 After cows eat, what happens to come out? The poo comes out. 504 00:28:01.671 --> 00:28:02.703 [laughs] 505 00:28:02.808 --> 00:28:05.015 Then, with a location like that, 506 00:28:05.100 --> 00:28:08.378 with this way I go to local people to buy cow poo, 507 00:28:08.729 --> 00:28:11.612 I put to the soil to innovation for soil, 508 00:28:11.769 --> 00:28:14.031 then I can plant whatever I can. 509 00:28:14.390 --> 00:28:17.670 - So basically, you got the manure, cow manure, 510 00:28:17.755 --> 00:28:20.275 you buy it somewhere to bring it here 511 00:28:20.360 --> 00:28:23.117 to enrich the soil to make sure that it can grow plants. 512 00:28:23.202 --> 00:28:24.214 - Exactly. 513 00:28:24.390 --> 00:28:26.597 And then whenever we start milking the cow, 514 00:28:26.682 --> 00:28:31.720 we open romantic music on. No hip hop music, ah? 515 00:28:32.356 --> 00:28:35.079 Because for us we have no machine like Americans. 516 00:28:35.583 --> 00:28:38.071 For us we got our hands to milk it up, 517 00:28:38.156 --> 00:28:41.044 so when we get romantic music, our milk get more and more. 518 00:28:41.153 --> 00:28:43.123 One cow gets us 20 liters. 519 00:28:43.876 --> 00:28:47.087 Normally our local people only get 15 liters but we got 20 liters 520 00:28:47.172 --> 00:28:49.833 because we are treating the cows like people, 521 00:28:49.918 --> 00:28:52.259 making them happy, they give us more benefits. 522 00:28:52.344 --> 00:28:54.098 Remember this one, very important. 523 00:28:54.684 --> 00:28:57.209 - [Shareef] Chef Tan has been focused on expanding 524 00:28:57.294 --> 00:28:59.473 the farm to table concept in Vietnam. 525 00:28:59.942 --> 00:29:01.731 But he wasn't always a farmer. 526 00:29:02.723 --> 00:29:04.884 - 'Cause you know, if you look at my career, 527 00:29:05.012 --> 00:29:07.063 you would think I'm the most crazy man. 528 00:29:07.148 --> 00:29:09.157 Because I am a doctor first. 529 00:29:09.524 --> 00:29:12.989 I'm qualified doctor on Vietnam on 1995. 530 00:29:13.637 --> 00:29:17.454 Be a bachelor accounting in 2000. 531 00:29:17.903 --> 00:29:19.368 Then a butcher. 532 00:29:19.833 --> 00:29:23.095 Then a Western chef in Italian, French, American, 533 00:29:23.309 --> 00:29:24.778 and whatever cuisine Western. 534 00:29:25.118 --> 00:29:27.265 Then the Asian cooking channel, 535 00:29:27.350 --> 00:29:30.786 do a lot of Asian cooking channel. Now I'm a farmer. 536 00:29:30.934 --> 00:29:32.177 No money, no honey. 537 00:29:32.305 --> 00:29:33.309 [Shareef laughs] 538 00:29:33.394 --> 00:29:35.553 People say farmer is stupid. 539 00:29:35.934 --> 00:29:37.501 And I want to confirm with you, 540 00:29:37.586 --> 00:29:39.509 no job is smarter than farmer. 541 00:29:40.150 --> 00:29:43.052 Farmer is the job of everything. 542 00:29:43.180 --> 00:29:45.001 They must be into science, 543 00:29:45.177 --> 00:29:46.587 because they must understand 544 00:29:46.688 --> 00:29:50.270 what the hell is going on before they're planting. 545 00:29:50.692 --> 00:29:52.697 They must be very good marketer 546 00:29:52.782 --> 00:29:57.387 because they need to understand what demands the customer 547 00:29:57.864 --> 00:29:59.278 before they're planting. 548 00:29:59.403 --> 00:30:01.571 They must be a good doctor 549 00:30:01.887 --> 00:30:04.462 because they need to kill too many different insects 550 00:30:04.677 --> 00:30:07.864 and kill different viruses from the animals when they get sick. 551 00:30:08.430 --> 00:30:11.465 They need to get very good communication skills 552 00:30:11.708 --> 00:30:14.716 and leader skills to deal with the people that have no brain. 553 00:30:14.801 --> 00:30:15.833 [laughs] 554 00:30:16.126 --> 00:30:18.677 Too much thing happens, never an easy job. 555 00:30:19.704 --> 00:30:21.208 Welcome to my mushroom house. 556 00:30:21.293 --> 00:30:23.544 It's the magic house, also the key thing 557 00:30:23.629 --> 00:30:25.747 for my farm to be successful here as well. 558 00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:28.919 So we have DNA of oyster mushroom. 559 00:30:29.458 --> 00:30:32.884 You put tapioca stick, coconut juice, 560 00:30:33.177 --> 00:30:35.520 gelatin, and vegetable powder, 561 00:30:35.723 --> 00:30:37.294 into the bottle like this size. 562 00:30:37.919 --> 00:30:41.434 Then we steam the bottle in 120 degree in two hours, 563 00:30:41.821 --> 00:30:44.661 to kill bacteria, to make some moist come up, 564 00:30:44.856 --> 00:30:47.317 and activate some good bacteria. 565 00:30:47.548 --> 00:30:51.365 After that, two weeks later, the white bottle like this 566 00:30:51.450 --> 00:30:54.563 they will start to get a mushroom come out. 567 00:30:56.344 --> 00:30:59.282 Then it will be big enough today, tomorrow comes again. 568 00:30:59.723 --> 00:31:02.785 One bottle like this you know how many kilos we're collecting? 569 00:31:02.870 --> 00:31:04.356 -How many? -Twenty. 570 00:31:04.712 --> 00:31:07.325 How much cost the kilo in America? What do you think? 571 00:31:07.481 --> 00:31:09.591 -A kilo of this? -Oyster mushroom. 572 00:31:09.676 --> 00:31:12.286 - Oyster mushroom, pretty expensive, say, 20 dollars. 573 00:31:12.371 --> 00:31:14.993 - Exactly. It's never cheaper than 20 dollar a kilo. 574 00:31:15.078 --> 00:31:16.779 How much does it cost in Vietnam? 575 00:31:16.864 --> 00:31:17.993 Two dollars. 576 00:31:18.078 --> 00:31:19.970 How much a farmer like me we sell it? 577 00:31:20.290 --> 00:31:21.466 - Ah, one dollar? 578 00:31:21.558 --> 00:31:25.179 - No, I only got 10 cents to maximum 20 cents. 579 00:31:25.595 --> 00:31:28.462 - So you only charge ten cents a kilo? 580 00:31:28.719 --> 00:31:30.368 -You know why? -Why? 581 00:31:30.453 --> 00:31:33.059 - Because look at you the seller you are so handsome, 582 00:31:33.144 --> 00:31:34.708 look at me farmer I'm too ugly. 583 00:31:34.793 --> 00:31:38.157 The ugly farmer like me cannot sell it for the handsome farmer, 584 00:31:38.242 --> 00:31:42.045 we need to sell for the middleman, middleman, middleman, seller and customer. 585 00:31:42.130 --> 00:31:44.642 When customer girl sees the beautiful handsome boy, 586 00:31:44.730 --> 00:31:48.094 they pay whatever, farmer working so hard we got nothing. 587 00:31:48.458 --> 00:31:51.315 Therefore I get back in Vietnam in 2011 588 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:55.380 and open the first concept in the country, farm to table. 589 00:31:56.012 --> 00:31:58.700 My farm right now here is small, 590 00:31:59.032 --> 00:32:02.055 I provide 100 kilos mushroom a day, 591 00:32:02.294 --> 00:32:04.575 selling 10 cents to 20 cents, 592 00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:06.798 I got 10 dollars to 20 dollars a day, 593 00:32:06.883 --> 00:32:09.713 I won't have money to pay for my family living. 594 00:32:10.552 --> 00:32:13.395 But I'm selling for the customer one dollar, 595 00:32:13.528 --> 00:32:15.833 I got 100 dollars, I can pay for them. 596 00:32:16.509 --> 00:32:20.684 So farm to table is the best idea for a small farm, 597 00:32:20.950 --> 00:32:23.494 who gets passionate like me can survive for. 598 00:32:23.579 --> 00:32:26.744 [playing singing bowl] 599 00:32:42.742 --> 00:32:47.433 - [Hung] When I meditate, I see very clearly that life is too short. 600 00:32:47.816 --> 00:32:52.153 So why are we continuing to do a regular job 601 00:32:52.238 --> 00:32:54.585 and not having any happiness like that? 602 00:32:55.128 --> 00:33:00.652 At that time, I got married to my wife and shared a lot with her. 603 00:33:01.015 --> 00:33:04.007 She told me to quit my job and choose to do what I love. 604 00:33:05.022 --> 00:33:07.394 In Vietnam, when you have a permanent job 605 00:33:07.953 --> 00:33:09.461 but you quit that 606 00:33:09.546 --> 00:33:12.316 to work in agriculture, to grow lotus, 607 00:33:12.401 --> 00:33:15.871 you are considered to be exceptionally insane. 608 00:33:16.265 --> 00:33:20.816 I went back to tell my family, a lot of people protested 609 00:33:21.445 --> 00:33:22.968 because they worried about me. 610 00:33:23.292 --> 00:33:27.855 At that time it was quite hard because we were expecting our first son. 611 00:33:28.355 --> 00:33:33.402 We both quit our jobs at the same time and chose to follow tea. 612 00:33:34.179 --> 00:33:37.746 Incidentally, there was a contest called Tea Master Cup. 613 00:33:38.238 --> 00:33:41.093 In 2016, it was held in Vietnam. 614 00:33:41.628 --> 00:33:46.249 We attended and were also very lucky to be the champion. 615 00:33:46.953 --> 00:33:50.859 That was the turning point to let us open a tea shop, 616 00:33:51.628 --> 00:33:58.374 and we have built it together everyday, to create a unique kind of tea. 617 00:33:59.417 --> 00:34:01.824 The lotus is in the tea, the tea is in the lotus. 618 00:34:02.042 --> 00:34:05.124 And when you drink tea, you can feel the fragrance 619 00:34:05.209 --> 00:34:07.269 slowly spreads throughout your body. 620 00:34:07.847 --> 00:34:13.073 And at the moment that the tea, the lotus and your body emanate together 621 00:34:13.158 --> 00:34:15.595 you will also become a lotus yourself. 622 00:34:15.834 --> 00:34:16.928 [cymbals clang] 623 00:34:17.271 --> 00:34:19.463 - [Shareef] So that was kind of my question, 624 00:34:19.548 --> 00:34:22.291 is just the core of Vietnamese culture and the people, 625 00:34:22.670 --> 00:34:24.201 I see it in the villages, 626 00:34:24.286 --> 00:34:26.443 I see it in the cities, I see it everywhere, 627 00:34:26.537 --> 00:34:29.015 you know, where they just start the business. 628 00:34:29.100 --> 00:34:32.995 And it's like that is not normal in every other country, 629 00:34:33.080 --> 00:34:37.035 you have to go to college, you have to do this, you have to follow this process, 630 00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:39.218 you have to follow these rules, right? 631 00:34:39.523 --> 00:34:42.175 Here it's like, no, I'm just going to start something. 632 00:34:42.260 --> 00:34:45.230 What do you think in your opinion is that? 633 00:34:45.738 --> 00:34:48.062 Why does that happen with Vietnamese people? 634 00:34:48.347 --> 00:34:52.409 - We just got the independence about 44 years ago, 635 00:34:52.494 --> 00:34:57.520 so inside our blood, always desire for the independence, 636 00:34:58.019 --> 00:35:03.080 the freedom, and we're very brave people. 637 00:35:03.406 --> 00:35:05.863 So, like for example for us. 638 00:35:06.070 --> 00:35:07.070 [laughs] 639 00:35:07.257 --> 00:35:09.296 We just think: quit the job. 640 00:35:09.381 --> 00:35:12.402 Start something that we're really passionate about, 641 00:35:12.487 --> 00:35:13.515 and we just do it. 642 00:35:13.847 --> 00:35:14.946 [calm music] 643 00:35:15.031 --> 00:35:16.867 - [Hung] Now I invite you to enjoy 644 00:35:16.952 --> 00:35:19.457 one of the most famous type of tea in Vietnam. 645 00:35:19.542 --> 00:35:21.015 The lotus tea. 646 00:35:21.999 --> 00:35:26.222 In the past, this tea was only used by the high classes of Vietnamese society. 647 00:35:26.370 --> 00:35:28.663 But nowadays, thanks to economic development, 648 00:35:29.511 --> 00:35:31.929 this tea is becoming more popular. 649 00:35:33.081 --> 00:35:35.566 As you all know, when it comes to Vietnamese tea, 650 00:35:35.652 --> 00:35:37.558 people immediately think of the lotus. 651 00:35:37.796 --> 00:35:40.446 The lotus is a symbol, the national flower of Vietnam 652 00:35:40.531 --> 00:35:43.288 and also the symbol of Buddhism. 653 00:35:43.667 --> 00:35:47.124 At the beginning when we first started, I told my wife: 654 00:35:47.542 --> 00:35:51.956 "Let's try to make lotus tea exactly the way we understand it." 655 00:35:52.713 --> 00:35:59.202 We both usually had to wake up very early, queueing at a lake, 656 00:35:59.995 --> 00:36:03.387 in order to get the lotuses that have morning dew. 657 00:36:03.942 --> 00:36:08.153 In one kilo of lotus tea we usually use up to 1400 lotuses. 658 00:36:08.856 --> 00:36:13.738 And the production process is very sophisticated and careful, 659 00:36:13.914 --> 00:36:17.582 which requires the producers to have a peaceful mind. 660 00:36:18.652 --> 00:36:21.047 We always lift the tea cup with both hands, 661 00:36:21.715 --> 00:36:27.235 it shows our appreciation to nature who has given to human 662 00:36:27.625 --> 00:36:29.153 such a precious tea product. 663 00:36:29.664 --> 00:36:35.985 And also to express gratitude to the farmers, who worked hard, 664 00:36:36.977 --> 00:36:40.828 and made a lot of effort to create such a high quality tea. 665 00:36:41.957 --> 00:36:43.856 - [Lien] I love drinking this tea. 666 00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:49.910 I don't use pesticide or herbicide, I just dig them up in a primitive way. 667 00:36:50.485 --> 00:36:53.926 I turn over the soil 668 00:36:54.766 --> 00:36:58.996 and the chickens also dig up dirt to find worms. 669 00:36:59.319 --> 00:37:01.813 That's all, there's no fertilizer. 670 00:37:02.414 --> 00:37:04.625 But I feel like drinking this tea, 671 00:37:04.710 --> 00:37:09.336 I'm not sure but since I've arrived here 672 00:37:10.640 --> 00:37:11.824 I rarely got sick. 673 00:37:12.289 --> 00:37:14.067 I still have the same weight. 674 00:37:14.680 --> 00:37:18.668 My stamina since I was young 675 00:37:20.453 --> 00:37:21.828 I still keep it even now. 676 00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:25.783 - Food is the key thing to make you survive. 677 00:37:26.770 --> 00:37:28.954 Good food makes you survive longer, 678 00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:31.774 enjoy your life better, and do whatever you like. 679 00:37:31.859 --> 00:37:34.516 When you've got health you can do everything you like. 680 00:37:34.601 --> 00:37:38.113 When you have no health and you've got money, you cannot do everything. 681 00:37:38.198 --> 00:37:39.356 That's the big problem. 682 00:37:39.790 --> 00:37:42.305 - [Shareef] Chef Tan also runs a culinary school 683 00:37:42.390 --> 00:37:44.395 on his farm where he trains chefs 684 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:47.093 from around the world in Vietnamese cuisine. 685 00:37:48.314 --> 00:37:50.130 - Cooking with me is about life. 686 00:37:50.587 --> 00:37:52.411 Food, life is connected. 687 00:37:53.372 --> 00:37:58.032 People say man handsome, power, strong, 688 00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:01.700 to protect the girl, but is never romantic so much. 689 00:38:02.107 --> 00:38:05.233 So we say man is very salty. 690 00:38:06.403 --> 00:38:09.021 Salty for American man is different 691 00:38:09.106 --> 00:38:11.626 than Asian man, different than Vietnamese man. 692 00:38:11.989 --> 00:38:14.860 American man or Western man we call salty 693 00:38:15.082 --> 00:38:17.337 but their salt is from sea salt. 694 00:38:17.935 --> 00:38:20.294 Salty of Asian is soy sauce. 695 00:38:20.607 --> 00:38:22.521 Salty of Vietnam is fish sauce. 696 00:38:22.606 --> 00:38:23.616 - [Shareef] Aah. 697 00:38:23.899 --> 00:38:25.815 - A man, can you stay single? 698 00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:27.064 No, you get married. 699 00:38:27.646 --> 00:38:29.903 We cannot stay single. We need a lady. 700 00:38:30.485 --> 00:38:33.950 Who lady? Beautiful, sexy, and sweet. 701 00:38:34.642 --> 00:38:38.365 Woman in Western can be honey, can be pineapple juice, can be orange juice, 702 00:38:38.450 --> 00:38:39.915 but in Vietnam is sugar, 703 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:41.255 in Asian is sugar. 704 00:38:41.340 --> 00:38:42.649 So whatever you're cooking 705 00:38:42.734 --> 00:38:44.978 Western food, Asian food, Vietnamese food, 706 00:38:45.063 --> 00:38:48.536 we need a man, we need a woman, we need a salt, we need a sweet. 707 00:38:49.044 --> 00:38:51.630 Because different woman, different country, different flavor, right? 708 00:38:51.715 --> 00:38:53.600 Different man, different country, different flavor. 709 00:38:53.685 --> 00:38:55.669 They all salty, they all sweet, but different flavor. 710 00:38:55.935 --> 00:38:58.845 So the first thing, we want to mention about dipping sauce. 711 00:38:59.013 --> 00:39:00.923 We need man, we need woman. 712 00:39:01.458 --> 00:39:04.321 Dipping sauce is something salt, it's appetizer. 713 00:39:04.427 --> 00:39:05.427 [Male Mmm] 714 00:39:05.512 --> 00:39:08.274 Like when you know a woman, just know you start to love, 715 00:39:08.359 --> 00:39:09.384 [Female Mmm] 716 00:39:09.469 --> 00:39:11.415 you need to be understandable, right? 717 00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:13.170 We get engage, discover them, 718 00:39:13.255 --> 00:39:15.915 by going on dates, whatever, to learn more. 719 00:39:16.107 --> 00:39:18.284 We need acidity, right? 720 00:39:18.670 --> 00:39:20.319 We need sour. 721 00:39:20.404 --> 00:39:22.011 - [Shareef] So you need acidity? 722 00:39:22.096 --> 00:39:23.280 - Yeah, sour. 723 00:39:23.417 --> 00:39:24.819 And then what happens after? 724 00:39:25.237 --> 00:39:26.978 This is just a time you know 725 00:39:27.063 --> 00:39:28.898 that you're not really in love yet. 726 00:39:28.983 --> 00:39:32.100 You just want to discover, discover that lady or that man only. 727 00:39:32.276 --> 00:39:34.825 We need some lighter, like enjoy, we need lighter, 728 00:39:34.910 --> 00:39:38.493 we need no flavor, no color, we call water. 729 00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:41.913 Then? 730 00:39:41.998 --> 00:39:43.979 Then, love is challenge. 731 00:39:44.064 --> 00:39:46.835 Challenge means spice. We got spice. 732 00:39:47.636 --> 00:39:49.925 Easy? Not every couple is fighting, 733 00:39:50.010 --> 00:39:51.845 some couples love, is just love, 734 00:39:51.930 --> 00:39:54.612 no fighting, no argument, but some couples love spicy. 735 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.124 So whenever you make a dipping sauce in Vietnamese, Western, Asian, 736 00:39:58.209 --> 00:40:01.090 we need one salt, one man is one woman, 737 00:40:01.175 --> 00:40:04.518 one salt is one sweet, is one sour, is one no. 738 00:40:04.761 --> 00:40:06.159 Everything equalized. 739 00:40:06.589 --> 00:40:08.870 Just spice is optional, it's up to you. 740 00:40:08.955 --> 00:40:12.108 - [Shareef] It's up to you how much spice you want in your life. 741 00:40:12.193 --> 00:40:14.374 Alright, now we're making the first dish. 742 00:40:14.507 --> 00:40:16.382 Asian people everything is balanced. 743 00:40:16.768 --> 00:40:18.875 Western people enjoy a single flavor, 744 00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:20.577 too salty, too sweet, too sour. 745 00:40:22.120 --> 00:40:24.694 Vietnamese cuisine is different cuisine in the world 746 00:40:24.779 --> 00:40:27.823 because we got a fusion of every cuisine in the world. 747 00:40:28.471 --> 00:40:31.241 Thus the people in Asia always say one sentence: 748 00:40:31.987 --> 00:40:36.401 "Asian food look like cow shit but flavor amazing, 749 00:40:36.870 --> 00:40:40.316 Western food look amazing but flavor sometimes like cow shit." 750 00:40:40.401 --> 00:40:41.406 [laughs] 751 00:40:41.491 --> 00:40:43.400 So I want you to get a different idea. 752 00:40:43.485 --> 00:40:46.714 Asian people can look very pretty and flavor can be amazing, 753 00:40:46.878 --> 00:40:48.866 and Western food also can do that too, 754 00:40:49.143 --> 00:40:52.264 it's a fusion and welcome to Vietnamese cuisine. 755 00:40:53.436 --> 00:40:54.790 - [Lam] Everything is here. 756 00:40:54.875 --> 00:40:59.503 Vietnam, generally, can be described in one word: cocktail. 757 00:40:59.588 --> 00:41:01.096 - What do you mean "cocktail"? 758 00:41:01.181 --> 00:41:04.386 - Cocktail. A little bit of different flavors, everything is here. 759 00:41:05.128 --> 00:41:07.575 - [Shareef] To explore Vietnamese food further, 760 00:41:07.660 --> 00:41:09.096 we meet up with Lam Thai, 761 00:41:09.396 --> 00:41:11.765 a local tour guide in Ho Chi Minh City 762 00:41:11.850 --> 00:41:14.360 with his own story of entrepreneurship. 763 00:41:14.522 --> 00:41:18.596 - [Lam] In the early 2000s, at the time that motorbikes were imported to Vietnam, 764 00:41:18.681 --> 00:41:22.465 we started to have the first few foreigners. 765 00:41:22.550 --> 00:41:24.344 At that time, I thought that English 766 00:41:24.429 --> 00:41:28.886 could be a perfect tool to communicate and work with people 767 00:41:29.487 --> 00:41:30.741 from all over the world. 768 00:41:31.377 --> 00:41:35.839 Actually, I worked for a small tour agency organizing adventurous tours. 769 00:41:35.924 --> 00:41:39.292 - And then at one point you said, I'm just going to work for myself. 770 00:41:39.764 --> 00:41:44.635 - Yes, when clients and tourists 771 00:41:44.720 --> 00:41:46.665 want to have different things 772 00:41:46.750 --> 00:41:51.750 away from the written tracks of the tour agencies, 773 00:41:52.307 --> 00:41:55.339 so I'm ready to tailor for them whatever they want, 774 00:41:55.608 --> 00:41:59.249 to meet their desire, their expectation of what they want to see. 775 00:41:59.910 --> 00:42:02.370 We eat a lot of rice, we cannot live without rice. 776 00:42:02.455 --> 00:42:04.578 So the stuff that is rice and water, 777 00:42:04.663 --> 00:42:05.893 we call banh canh. 778 00:42:05.978 --> 00:42:10.055 That's a quail egg and that's a chicken egg. 779 00:42:10.140 --> 00:42:13.870 Quail egg, one, two, three, four, and another four chicken eggs. 780 00:42:14.647 --> 00:42:18.456 - Is she going to eat with us? Because there's no way I can eat all of this. 781 00:42:18.541 --> 00:42:19.542 [laughs] 782 00:42:19.780 --> 00:42:22.651 - At the top, that is deep fried pig fat 783 00:42:22.796 --> 00:42:25.218 and scallions also for flavor. 784 00:42:26.085 --> 00:42:28.616 Cuisine and local cultures 785 00:42:29.007 --> 00:42:31.089 can be very well influenced by 786 00:42:31.257 --> 00:42:33.710 the way they eat, the way they talk to each other, 787 00:42:34.007 --> 00:42:36.073 the way they behave to each other. 788 00:42:36.410 --> 00:42:39.542 So, I treat you today how Vietnamese people eat, 789 00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:43.268 what we eat every day, or at least how is our cuisine. 790 00:42:44.538 --> 00:42:46.995 - [Shareef] Over 50% of Vietnamese households 791 00:42:47.080 --> 00:42:48.725 have small businesses, 792 00:42:48.866 --> 00:42:52.823 many of which are food carts that form Vietnam's vibrant, 793 00:42:53.268 --> 00:42:56.473 and sometimes crazy, street food scene. 794 00:42:57.900 --> 00:43:01.589 So, Lam, this looks like a very interesting dish, 795 00:43:01.906 --> 00:43:03.703 it's kind of scary almost to me, 796 00:43:04.600 --> 00:43:06.179 especially from what's inside. 797 00:43:06.734 --> 00:43:10.245 - [Lam] These are all the organs of the cow. 798 00:43:10.330 --> 00:43:12.992 - [Shareef] The intestines and the stomach of the cow. 799 00:43:13.077 --> 00:43:15.793 Would you call this the stomach soup of the cow, right? 800 00:43:16.195 --> 00:43:20.985 - We call it pha lau, according to the Chinese Cantonese. 801 00:43:21.070 --> 00:43:24.484 - So why don't you try the stomach first before I get a heart attack? 802 00:43:24.569 --> 00:43:25.621 [laughs] 803 00:43:25.706 --> 00:43:27.261 -Okay. -Let's give it a shot. 804 00:43:28.011 --> 00:43:31.589 Wow, wow, that's a lot of flavor. 805 00:43:31.996 --> 00:43:35.242 Okay. So the one I'm afraid of the most, 806 00:43:35.511 --> 00:43:37.763 I think, is this intestine thing. 807 00:43:38.585 --> 00:43:40.586 - [Lam] Don't be lazy, be crazy. 808 00:43:40.707 --> 00:43:41.797 [laughs] 809 00:43:41.882 --> 00:43:43.547 - Oh man. Okay, it's not that bad. 810 00:43:45.347 --> 00:43:48.277 - So experience the differences to enrich your life. 811 00:43:48.562 --> 00:43:50.730 You're enriched now, man, after taking that. 812 00:43:50.815 --> 00:43:52.215 - I've been enriched. 813 00:43:52.300 --> 00:43:55.070 I have the intestine of the cow in my stomach. 814 00:43:55.155 --> 00:43:56.219 [laughs] 815 00:43:56.676 --> 00:43:58.284 - [Lam] So this is the testicle. 816 00:43:58.369 --> 00:44:00.023 - [Shareef] This is the testicle. 817 00:44:00.108 --> 00:44:02.609 - [Lam] And this is the tool, the gun, the shotgun. 818 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:04.839 - Ah dude, I feel like when I watch it, 819 00:44:04.924 --> 00:44:08.257 it feels like aah, I'm going like this, 820 00:44:08.350 --> 00:44:10.206 like oh God, no, no, no. 821 00:44:10.291 --> 00:44:11.558 [laughs] 822 00:44:11.765 --> 00:44:12.837 You don't feel it? 823 00:44:12.922 --> 00:44:14.293 It's like ugh, dude. 824 00:44:14.378 --> 00:44:16.589 -[Lam] Ah, no. I'm looking, I'm just looking. 825 00:44:16.674 --> 00:44:19.086 - [Shareef] I guess you have balls of steel then. 826 00:44:19.171 --> 00:44:23.039 Baby spinach with goat penis and lotus roots. 827 00:44:23.124 --> 00:44:24.371 Who invented that? 828 00:44:24.617 --> 00:44:27.226 - [Lam] One of the reasons we have 96 million people. 829 00:44:27.311 --> 00:44:28.964 Makes you strong on bed. [laughs] 830 00:44:29.049 --> 00:44:30.367 - Yes, of goat penis soup. 831 00:44:31.703 --> 00:44:35.531 Man, I'm just going to swallow that penis because it's a little chewy. 832 00:44:38.695 --> 00:44:41.172 Ah, man you gotta help me, one chicken feet. 833 00:44:41.711 --> 00:44:42.925 - [Lam] One chicken ass. 834 00:44:43.234 --> 00:44:44.738 - [Shareef] It's really fatty. 835 00:44:44.953 --> 00:44:46.240 - Every ass has fat. 836 00:44:46.551 --> 00:44:47.551 [laughs] 837 00:44:48.916 --> 00:44:49.987 Right? 838 00:44:50.928 --> 00:44:52.341 - [Shareef] As it turns out, 839 00:44:52.426 --> 00:44:54.277 the nightlife in Ho Chi Minh City 840 00:44:54.362 --> 00:44:56.675 is as vibrant as its street food scene. 841 00:44:57.632 --> 00:45:00.347 I walk into an intimate live music venue 842 00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:03.359 where I am intrigued by a unique performance. 843 00:45:03.749 --> 00:45:08.925 [violin playing with live rock band] 844 00:45:32.355 --> 00:45:34.415 This genre-bending music venue 845 00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:36.713 is the brainchild of Le Quang Minh. 846 00:45:37.730 --> 00:45:39.645 - My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. 847 00:45:39.730 --> 00:45:41.622 - Of course. Not a doctor? 848 00:45:41.707 --> 00:45:42.972 [laughs] 849 00:45:43.085 --> 00:45:44.393 - Okay, lawyer, I'm okay. 850 00:45:44.478 --> 00:45:48.135 But I love music, so I passed an examination 851 00:45:48.220 --> 00:45:50.284 with high score in conservatory 852 00:45:50.421 --> 00:45:53.531 and I get a scholarship about drumming because I'm a drummer. 853 00:45:54.171 --> 00:45:56.808 I learned in three universities at the same time: 854 00:45:57.542 --> 00:46:01.187 lawyer for my parents, music and graphic design for myself. 855 00:46:01.323 --> 00:46:02.554 [laughs] 856 00:46:03.007 --> 00:46:06.730 - I got to make my mom and dad happy, and then I have to make myself happy. 857 00:46:06.815 --> 00:46:08.073 - Yeah. [laughs] 858 00:46:08.721 --> 00:46:12.409 I made a band in high school called Little Wings. 859 00:46:12.494 --> 00:46:14.866 We followed Red Hot Chili Peppers and Green Day, 860 00:46:14.975 --> 00:46:20.838 and in 1997, I composed an English song by acoustic sound. 861 00:46:21.343 --> 00:46:23.102 We're champions in this prize, 862 00:46:23.187 --> 00:46:25.025 it's very big, like a bands idol, 863 00:46:25.110 --> 00:46:26.949 Vietnam's idol, something like that. 864 00:46:27.034 --> 00:46:29.886 -Ah, it's like American Idol. -Yeah, like American Idol. 865 00:46:30.300 --> 00:46:33.081 After this prize we started to play in the bar. 866 00:46:33.327 --> 00:46:36.288 Recording music and advertising is in the day time, 867 00:46:36.698 --> 00:46:39.558 and playing music in the bar is my night time. 868 00:46:39.972 --> 00:46:41.629 - Wow, two jobs every day. 869 00:46:41.714 --> 00:46:43.175 - Two jobs every day. 870 00:46:43.260 --> 00:46:47.666 And at 2006, I think, okay, I played music 871 00:46:47.751 --> 00:46:49.452 over ten years at the bars, 872 00:46:49.859 --> 00:46:52.460 why I don't open my own bar to play the music I want? 873 00:46:52.900 --> 00:46:56.390 So I opened a bar first, I want to do different. 874 00:46:57.249 --> 00:46:59.765 You see, I'm explaining to you, music is music. 875 00:47:00.210 --> 00:47:02.238 Maybe you play Britney Spears 876 00:47:02.378 --> 00:47:04.230 and people that like Britney go aaah, 877 00:47:04.464 --> 00:47:07.667 and you play Led Zeppelin and people over here love Led Zeppelin. 878 00:47:08.624 --> 00:47:11.800 And the people that like Britney Spears they doubt, 879 00:47:11.889 --> 00:47:14.494 oh what kind is this song, maybe this is a good song. 880 00:47:14.691 --> 00:47:16.913 And, from my opinion, 881 00:47:17.952 --> 00:47:20.878 I'm bringing the rock music not to the rock people, 882 00:47:22.495 --> 00:47:25.865 I'm bringing the rock music to another people 883 00:47:25.950 --> 00:47:29.011 that don't like rock music but feel they love from rock music. 884 00:47:29.874 --> 00:47:31.886 But if you play a lot of kinds of music, 885 00:47:31.999 --> 00:47:33.972 in the whole room the people can enjoy, 886 00:47:34.136 --> 00:47:37.593 and people can recognize, oh maybe rock music is nice. 887 00:47:38.223 --> 00:47:43.223 [violin playing with live rock band] 888 00:47:47.237 --> 00:47:51.338 - [Anh] I am currently working at the Ho Chi Minh City orchestra 889 00:47:51.909 --> 00:47:57.217 and every night on weekends, I perform at the Acoustic Bar. 890 00:47:57.502 --> 00:48:00.686 And this place is like my second home. 891 00:48:01.779 --> 00:48:05.196 [band continues playing] 892 00:48:15.726 --> 00:48:21.085 - I think that everyone only sees the violin as a classical instrument. 893 00:48:21.573 --> 00:48:25.956 But I want to pursue a modern style. 894 00:48:26.354 --> 00:48:30.519 And I want to combine the violin with the band 895 00:48:31.050 --> 00:48:34.425 to perform a wilder style. 896 00:48:36.976 --> 00:48:42.558 In the future, we can unite them to create a new style called rock symphony. 897 00:48:43.003 --> 00:48:47.393 We can perform with both the rock band and the orchestra. 898 00:48:51.093 --> 00:48:54.863 This place makes me feel excited whenever I have a performance 899 00:48:54.948 --> 00:48:58.397 and inspires me the most. 900 00:48:59.921 --> 00:49:01.686 - [Minh] You know, everything I do, 901 00:49:01.771 --> 00:49:05.453 I want to bring like the good music, like the real music. 902 00:49:06.410 --> 00:49:09.116 - So what you're doing is, you're basically introducing 903 00:49:09.201 --> 00:49:11.075 different genres of music 904 00:49:11.160 --> 00:49:13.765 to each other so they can appreciate it. 905 00:49:13.850 --> 00:49:16.175 - Yeah. Firstly, I need to make all the people 906 00:49:16.260 --> 00:49:17.769 love this place first, 907 00:49:18.292 --> 00:49:23.620 and secondly I put some old school and real music inside. 908 00:49:24.128 --> 00:49:25.901 Because business is business. 909 00:49:26.261 --> 00:49:31.038 We have to find a way for music to bring good emotions 910 00:49:31.172 --> 00:49:36.659 and make the people feel no stress, happy, smiling by music. 911 00:49:38.830 --> 00:49:41.355 - I rather figure out how to build a business 912 00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:42.620 that stands on its own, 913 00:49:43.030 --> 00:49:45.097 that empowers people in a sustainable way 914 00:49:45.382 --> 00:49:47.479 and helping people to work for themselves 915 00:49:47.905 --> 00:49:50.555 and then as a result making the world a better place, 916 00:49:50.640 --> 00:49:53.206 contributing to their local community and society. 917 00:49:54.126 --> 00:49:56.266 - [Huong] It's a life transforming journey. 918 00:49:56.355 --> 00:49:59.508 It's not just giving someone a fish to eat today 919 00:49:59.593 --> 00:50:01.351 but also teaching them how to fish. 920 00:50:02.155 --> 00:50:04.210 Koto is always based on the philosophy 921 00:50:04.295 --> 00:50:05.464 of know one, teach one. 922 00:50:05.585 --> 00:50:07.620 If you know one thing, you can teach one thing. 923 00:50:07.705 --> 00:50:09.440 If you know one person, you can teach one person. 924 00:50:09.525 --> 00:50:11.445 You don't have to wait until you have everything. 925 00:50:11.530 --> 00:50:14.635 So I became a Koto trainee in 2006 926 00:50:14.720 --> 00:50:16.296 and graduated from the program. 927 00:50:16.866 --> 00:50:18.679 As part of my sense of giving back, 928 00:50:18.890 --> 00:50:21.000 I always wanted to contribute my knowledge 929 00:50:21.085 --> 00:50:23.757 and skills into the organization that changed my life. 930 00:50:24.366 --> 00:50:26.675 I was born in a very small village of Vietnam 931 00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:29.503 in the northwest and my mom was a single mom. 932 00:50:30.030 --> 00:50:31.894 One day when I finished year seven, 933 00:50:31.979 --> 00:50:35.597 I realized that my mom was facing a kidney infection 934 00:50:35.683 --> 00:50:38.944 and she was very, very sick so I decided to leave school 935 00:50:39.081 --> 00:50:42.925 and then I went to Hanoi to work and earn money. 936 00:50:43.499 --> 00:50:44.706 - At age twelve? 937 00:50:45.007 --> 00:50:46.595 - At age twelve, yes. 938 00:50:46.680 --> 00:50:50.054 I literally left home at age twelve for the first time 939 00:50:50.139 --> 00:50:51.545 living far away from my mom, 940 00:50:51.630 --> 00:50:53.700 and Hanoi is the capital city of Vietnam. 941 00:50:53.785 --> 00:50:54.925 It was so busy. 942 00:50:55.010 --> 00:50:57.180 It was totally different to my countryside. 943 00:50:57.593 --> 00:51:01.030 I looked after a four month old baby boy, doing babysitting 944 00:51:01.272 --> 00:51:04.073 and it was like a baby looking after another baby. 945 00:51:04.616 --> 00:51:07.714 So I earned about ten dollars back then per month, 946 00:51:07.847 --> 00:51:10.515 working hard from 6 a.m to 12 a.m the next day. 947 00:51:10.600 --> 00:51:13.054 With that entire money, I sent back to my mom 948 00:51:13.382 --> 00:51:15.035 to help my brother and my sister 949 00:51:15.120 --> 00:51:18.921 remain at school and help her a little bit with her health problem. 950 00:51:19.656 --> 00:51:24.135 At that time, girls from 16 to 18 in the countryside, 951 00:51:24.220 --> 00:51:26.769 they ask to get married so I saw all the women 952 00:51:26.862 --> 00:51:29.984 getting married, having kids, working hard on the farm, 953 00:51:30.072 --> 00:51:32.678 being domestic violence and all those sorts of stuff. 954 00:51:32.763 --> 00:51:34.953 And somehow, I decided that wasn't my life 955 00:51:35.290 --> 00:51:38.199 so I chose to stay in Hanoi by myself 956 00:51:38.284 --> 00:51:41.710 and there was no family, no relatives, no friends in Hanoi. 957 00:51:42.562 --> 00:51:43.810 So I became a street kid 958 00:51:44.718 --> 00:51:48.305 and I ended up living most of my time on the streets 959 00:51:48.390 --> 00:51:52.812 and living under the staircase of a landlord 960 00:51:53.859 --> 00:51:57.375 and I was treated very badly by the local people. 961 00:51:57.460 --> 00:52:00.464 They took all my money and didn't give me anything in return. 962 00:52:00.636 --> 00:52:02.915 When I looked for a job and without education, 963 00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:04.545 I couldn't do anything. 964 00:52:04.630 --> 00:52:06.435 So, I decided to go back to school 965 00:52:06.520 --> 00:52:09.085 for more education training at nighttime. 966 00:52:09.706 --> 00:52:12.265 I cooked sticky rice every 2 a.m morning, 967 00:52:12.350 --> 00:52:13.562 sold it on the street, 968 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.560 working as a cleaner during the day 969 00:52:15.645 --> 00:52:17.885 and sold cake in the afternoon 970 00:52:17.970 --> 00:52:20.097 and at night I went to study 971 00:52:20.417 --> 00:52:22.890 and came back to sell cake in the street again. 972 00:52:22.975 --> 00:52:25.545 So basically, every day I managed to have 973 00:52:25.630 --> 00:52:27.935 only two hours of sleeping. 974 00:52:28.020 --> 00:52:30.550 Don't know how I did it back then 975 00:52:31.109 --> 00:52:35.000 but life back then was very dark. 976 00:52:35.273 --> 00:52:38.445 It was like gray, no hope, no future. 977 00:52:38.530 --> 00:52:41.527 I didn't know what direction I headed up to. 978 00:52:43.023 --> 00:52:44.916 But just one thing I knew, 979 00:52:45.001 --> 00:52:49.714 that education would somehow one day change my case. 980 00:52:50.140 --> 00:52:52.613 So I came and visited Koto, I checked it out first 981 00:52:52.698 --> 00:52:54.355 and that's what changed my life. 982 00:52:54.726 --> 00:52:56.105 After finishing Koto, 983 00:52:56.190 --> 00:52:59.609 I was offered a job at the Intercontinental Hotel Group 984 00:52:59.867 --> 00:53:02.574 so I worked as a waitress there for nearly three years 985 00:53:02.878 --> 00:53:06.285 and then I came back to Koto as marketing officer. 986 00:53:06.580 --> 00:53:09.510 Then two and a half years later I was offered a scholarship 987 00:53:09.595 --> 00:53:11.074 to go to Australia to study. 988 00:53:11.429 --> 00:53:13.183 You know, working from the streets, 989 00:53:13.268 --> 00:53:15.900 I never knew that one day I could go overseas, 990 00:53:15.985 --> 00:53:19.296 it opened up a whole lot of opportunities for me. 991 00:53:19.523 --> 00:53:23.038 - Why do you think Vietnamese people in general are so entrepreneurial? 992 00:53:23.123 --> 00:53:27.570 - I think because Vietnam now is not too regulated 993 00:53:29.078 --> 00:53:33.074 and the opportunities are out there in every corner 994 00:53:33.402 --> 00:53:35.402 so everyone here is an entrepreneur. 995 00:53:36.468 --> 00:53:39.140 I was an entrepreneur selling sticky rice before. 996 00:53:39.225 --> 00:53:40.249 [laughs] 997 00:53:41.191 --> 00:53:45.515 - [Shareef] They say Vietnam is the land of a million smiles. 998 00:53:46.495 --> 00:53:48.402 - People are really happy and curious. 999 00:53:48.487 --> 00:53:51.390 They're very inviting, and I think that is natural 1000 00:53:51.761 --> 00:53:54.031 of Vietnamese people across the country. 1001 00:53:54.308 --> 00:53:57.558 - I think that Vietnamese people are very brave 1002 00:53:57.874 --> 00:54:00.950 and they always desire for their freedom 1003 00:54:01.878 --> 00:54:05.831 because we've been in the past, for countless wars. 1004 00:54:06.312 --> 00:54:10.085 - Fortunately, as people say about the law of attraction, 1005 00:54:10.570 --> 00:54:16.335 when giving goodwill, there will be corresponding frequencies. 1006 00:54:16.796 --> 00:54:20.000 When I meditate, I can see myself clearer, 1007 00:54:20.292 --> 00:54:23.625 which means doing something that is truly meaningful in our lives. 1008 00:54:24.210 --> 00:54:26.554 - In this life, nothing impossible. 1009 00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:29.390 Everything impossible can become possible. 1010 00:54:29.730 --> 00:54:31.723 - We have a very good community here 1011 00:54:31.808 --> 00:54:33.110 where we help each other 1012 00:54:34.167 --> 00:54:37.183 because I can be good at some points 1013 00:54:37.402 --> 00:54:40.675 but I must need help at some other points too. 1014 00:54:40.882 --> 00:54:43.650 - There are so much opportunities for everyone 1015 00:54:43.735 --> 00:54:45.683 but women, you know, they take it. 1016 00:54:45.968 --> 00:54:49.671 Like myself, we seize the opportunity and we take it and we have the tools. 1017 00:54:50.011 --> 00:54:52.413 - Even like, you know, I tell the band singer, 1018 00:54:52.498 --> 00:54:54.725 Vietnamese people, if you learn a cover song, 1019 00:54:54.810 --> 00:54:57.960 you need to know about the meaning of the song 1020 00:54:58.175 --> 00:55:01.339 because if you know the meaning of the song, you sing very good. 1021 00:55:01.445 --> 00:55:03.628 You put the meaning of the song in your life 1022 00:55:03.777 --> 00:55:06.011 and you sing like by your heart. 1023 00:55:07.105 --> 00:55:09.019 - [Shareef] From the energetic farmers 1024 00:55:10.350 --> 00:55:12.350 to the ambitious entrepreneurs 1025 00:55:13.390 --> 00:55:17.783 to the dreamers still building on a majestic culture. 1026 00:55:19.468 --> 00:55:23.402 Their remarkable human stories have inspired me 1027 00:55:23.886 --> 00:55:28.480 to follow my own dreams wherever they may lead. 1028 00:55:30.234 --> 00:55:32.995 - And the young people, it's just amazing. 1029 00:55:33.080 --> 00:55:37.025 They just want to move on and be able to build the country 1030 00:55:37.110 --> 00:55:38.960 that Vietnam should have always been. 1031 00:55:39.269 --> 00:55:41.675 - I am a Vietnamese woman. 1032 00:55:42.562 --> 00:55:45.792 I always have the love of my homeland, my country. 1033 00:55:47.692 --> 00:55:50.859 [gentle music begins]