Bourdain Loves Vietnamese Street Food | Full Episode | S04 E01 | Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

largely destroyed in the saving the civilian population caught in the crossfire were equally devastated the North Vietnamese to their enduring shame had while controlling the city rounded up anyone seen as a potential enemy and either disappeared them away into unknown prisons or killed them outright most notoriously when they massacred almost 3,000 people rolling them many of them still alive in a mass graves in an around qu Duke knows full well the horrors and heartbreak of that time in his Memoir where the ashes are the Odyssey of an

countryside and all of a sudden you come here and there's the flag of the National Liberation Front and to see that was was complete shock so we stayed for a week in the basement and the American soldiers came by that time they had marched my father away the North Vietnamese soldiers we didn't know where he was taken to and we had no idea whether he was alive or not my mother went out to the mass Graves when they were discovered and she saw the bodies in there and she's like I I can't go there and look for him a lot of people died here you can't

Hometown I'm I'm glad people are alive people are living things are happening things are changing we need to let the country open up and let the people have a moment of enjoyment have a a better life I mean obviously I'm an outsider but it just seems to me as a casual Observer you could pretty much survive anything that's what my brother reminds me when I used to get all upset about things happening in Vietnam he look it's by 4,000 years it it it will do okay when you ask me to be hopeful I'm hopeful because it's a young country

have to remember the war in 1968 I was visiting my grandfather's house and I got goosebumps cuz I knew during the war in 1968 lots of people were killed and they were buried on all the sidewalks there and I walk around there and I feel it it's dark it's it's some and the history is there they like every meter of P there a dead person my mom she never want me to go home up like 10 she get angry if I go home at 11: or something that scared me so normally when I go home at 9 um I tried to go home very early riding a boat along the river you

elusive enemy in villages like this one vinmar which was less than 20 mil from forward US Marine fire bases just south of the DMZ this is where tan was born as the target of frequent bombings the village of vinmar moved underground up to 100 ft down into darkness the villagers carved over 5,000 ft of tunnels out of the earth creating a complex that would house all 90 families of vinmar 13 entrances and exits leading from the Inland to the beach showing me through the Labyrinth is K and careful born in wayy during war

emerged from these tunnels to kill or Americans to shoot them to plant booby traps and that's what they did 6 years in darkness and at the end of the war the people of vinmar emerged from that darkness and what did they do what was that like after living in darkness for so long what was it like to come out and be able to spend the rest of his life in the Sun for thank you w ready come come on thank you looks kind of like a macaron good good yeah really yes last question hypothetical if the French or the Japanese or the