Gordon's Best Moments In Vietnam _ Part Three _ Gordon's Great Escape

I'm happy to create an article based on the provided transcription, but I need to clarify that the transcription seems to be a series of conversations and cooking lessons with Missy Duck and Mrs. Duck. To create a cohesive article, I'll do my best to organize the content into sections.

**A Cooking Lesson with Mrs. Duck**

I met Mrs. Duck in Hanoi, where she is famous for her signature dish, a sweet and sour sauce served with duck. Her restaurant was kind enough to take me under their wing, providing a unique opportunity to learn about nose-to-tail butchery from the master herself.

As I entered the kitchen, I saw that Mrs. Duck had already begun preparing the day's ingredients. She showed me how to carefully pluck and clean the ducks, taking care not to harm them in any way. "These little babies are only 10 days old," she explained, "and we need to find the plumpest bird for our dish." She then devised a unique test to determine which duck was the largest and healthiest.

**Butchering the Duck**

Once Mrs. Duck had identified the perfect duck, she began teaching me how to sharpen her knives. "A sharp knife is essential for any cook," she said. "It's like an extension of your hand." As we worked together, I couldn't help but notice that Mrs. Duck seemed quite particular about her equipment and techniques.

She explained that the key to successful nose-to-tail butchery was to use every part of the animal, minimizing waste and maximizing flavor. For example, she showed me how to extract the bile from the duck's liver, which is said to add a unique and intense flavor to the dish. "This is very bitter," she warned, "so we must be careful not to let it spoil the texture."

**Mrs. Duck's Recipe**

After completing the butchering process, Mrs. Duck handed me a recipe for her famous sweet and sour sauce. However, when I asked if I could try using this recipe in my own cooking, she became rather tight-lipped. "This is my secret," she said, "and nobody knows it except for my husband."

**The BBQ Duck**

Just as I was starting to feel a bit frustrated at being kept out of the loop on Mrs. Duck's recipe, she surprised me with a delicious-looking BBQ duck. She showed me how to mix together a marinade and then cook the duck on a charcoal grill, where it absorbed all the smoky flavors.

**Mrs. Duck's Inspiration**

Despite her reputation for being a bit of a hard nut to crack, Mrs. Duck turned out to be an incredible inspiration for my own cooking journey. Her unique approach to nose-to-tail butchery and her commitment to using every part of the animal have left me with a newfound appreciation for the art of traditional cuisine.

As I left Mrs. Duck's restaurant and headed back into the bustling streets of Hanoi, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the opportunity to learn from one of the world's greatest cooks. Her dedication to her craft is truly inspiring, and I have no doubt that she will continue to create culinary magic for years to come.

**Missy Duck's Special Sauce**

As a final note, I must mention Missy Duck, who was kind enough to share some insight into Mrs. Duck's cooking methods. According to Missy, Mrs. Duck's secret sauce is made from a combination of ingredients that are carefully selected and mixed together to create the perfect balance of sweet and sour flavors.

Whether or not Missy Duck will ever reveal the full recipe remains a mystery, but I have no doubt that her signature dish will continue to be one of the most popular in Hanoi for years to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni've come to the end of my week in vietnam and it's been a culinary trip into the unknown and the unthinkable ah my mentor v said one week would not be enough to master this cuisine and i'm about to find out if she was right i'm in hanoi to cook a dinner for v and other top tutors i've met this week mr rice hi sir oh yeah good to see you how are you doing yeah well thank you this place looks amazing let me show you around here please it looks beautiful missy's duck's friend mr rice has given me the use of his fine dining restaurant a success is built on authentic vietnamese cooking and so it's a great honor the rush is beautiful yeah thank you who designed it i desire myself good job worryingly for me mr rice has invited along 30 discerning diners you got a huge huge challenge and you know tonight so many people here just waiting for your cooking and i say about six seven people very tough ready in three hours the restaurant will be full and i need to quickly get used to these unfamiliar surroundings well this is the kitchen yeah so everything here tonight's yours yeah gas burners and grill um completely different layout of a kitchen not like working with a gas ring burner um ten times more powerful a lot more instant so uh on the fly yet again tonight my menu will be drawn on everything i've learned i'm cooking pig seven ways so starting off with the pork and shrimp um fresh spring roll yeah yeah we served at room temperature be very careful uh pig's ear salad blanched in a nice sort of spicy broth uh barbecued pork skewer and it's drilled over charcoal then we're going to go to the sweet and sour pork ribs okay after that we've got the pigsta curry after that caramelized pork belly finished with fish sauce after that the pork noodle broth let's go bye-bye my nose to town menu is a tall order i start with barbecue pork skewers inspired by missy's duck the shoulder of pork sliced thinly marinated and then cooked on charcoal now that doesn't look anywhere near like missy's ducks it's times like this i wish you'd just give me the recipe properly i think it's secretly because she had a massive crush on me and she had visions of her and i set up a restaurant together next for my pig feast a curry that i hope will satisfy the vietnamese appetite for texture normally when we use trotters at home in the uk we bone them out and stuff them but these are cooked on the bone and very gelatinous nice fresh turmeric a little bit of garlic ginger fish sauce a little bit of fermented rice wine vinegar almost like a sort of light spicy curry the pressure is on and already i've made my first mistake so this is my broth remember my singing ordeal down the river i'm just struggling for that nice sort of lightly sort of pinkish color i'm beginning to wish i'd kept things simple i've got one dish seared out 400 things to do out downstairs hanoi's most accomplished foodies have arrived along with my mentors mrs duck and madame v all here to pass judgement on my efforts i think it's a big challenging for him because something completely new and very different to what you have at home bee's premonition is coming true i'm having a kitchen nightmare i know the broth's gone cloudy so i turned up the gas and by rapidly reducing down some strength it's gone cloudy here are the sweetness our ribs i want to put them in the oven but they don't have ovens here so everything's going to be cooked on top okay pour trotters broth ribs i think now he's in control he's in control now because it's no salty no yearling from the kitchen yes oh how bollocks oh that'd kill me if you saw it watch out please guys come on yo go out of the way please everybody everybody the spectators by now i should be serving up but i'm nowhere near ready skewers please okay yeah i need color on there i need color come on please yeah charcoal that's what gives a color let's go it's gone 7 30 and hanoi's finest have been waiting to eat for over half an hour i think in 20 minutes to be here all the foods will be here i should run up to the kitchen and kick him ass i'm starving i need to eat something and then unless you know i'm waiting for a long time skewers please turn them over turn over more color please come on hero yeah finally my dishes come together the broth is nice and clear now i've clarified it some minced pork and egg white to get it nice and clear my homage to missy's duck is almost ready to be served fingers crossed madame duck style sesame seed and at the last minute i've put together my pig's ear salad don't take anything until i say don't take anything till they're finished please okay let's go please gently gently gently gently no no no no look no stop yeah that one goes on there right you come here stand here one bowl hold the tray tight yep and two let's go at last dinner is served this has been one of the toughest nights of my cooking career i think what i want to say is this is very brave that was a nightmare struggled um across the whole three hours i'd like to think i'd done it justice but i left myself a little bit short but my ordeal isn't over yet i need to face my mentors to find out if i've impressed them how are you doing recognize you with no hats on how are the pig sweaters um i'm i'm i'm not fan of that damn what a shame i think it's a little too much caramel sauce ready too sweet for you yeah wow i like you uh i like the pizza or the pizza yeah it's beautiful it's so crunchy i love that passion chewy crunchy crispy soft and silky got it the the pork chocha the pig trotter is perfect pigs is the most difficult meat to cook so it's really really impressive what you have done with that the text is too strong and the color is too dark i think it's very difficult to do very authentic i think this one i can eat it for no problem madame look at you finally i want to know what the dying of nose-to-tail cooking things of my efforts oh my goodness me what happened huh that's amazing before you before you have basically been very pleased yes the best the real soda on skewers on the charcoal well if it wasn't for you this shoulder wouldn't have tasted as good as it did trust me i'm so glad that you like that one i'm gonna say good to see you mr ice as always so vietnamese people is very hard to please so but tonight gordon i think he does well he pass it for me one of the most thrilling seven days i've ever spent in my cooking career honestly if you want to eat well get rid of your fridge it forces you to buy ingredients twice a day and cook in a completely different way challenging week yet for me one of the most inspirational big time crispy crunchy chewy soft and silky right airport i've escaped to vietnam and promised one of the best cooks in the country that i'll get to grips with this unique cuisine in just a week i'm hot footing out of ho chi minh city and flying 1500 kilometers north to the capital hanoi it's a huge learning curve for me it'd be very ignorant from a chess point of view not to embrace their understanding of their waste nothing and the everything hanoi is a communist stronghold traditionally this part of the country has a no waste culture they are experts in nose-to-tail eating and one the taurus female chef has made a reputation cooking just one ingredient now this lady's a bit of a hard ass bit of a legend i'm in hanoi for two days and i'm here for inspiration i'm gonna get in there see what she's up to and hopefully yeah like a magpie steal some ideas what she's doing jesus where's the boss hello how are you good to see you what's up jayden uh jordan um your name man luckily for me a local restaurant owner has come to my rescue madame quack h o i oh man of course you said quack duck quack quack quack and you are my my name's rice call me quan mr rice and mrs duck yes so where's mr p king yeah i don't want to piss her off yeah i want to keep on a good side all right yeah i heard she has a ferocious temper that's it all right three cleavers by the side of her very sad very sad yeah yeah how many ducks a day does she sell how many husbands have she killed uh one missy ducker spent 30 years perfecting her menu but before i get to taste it she wants me to meet her key ingredient out back what are these little babies here how old are they they must be days old uh about 10 days ten days old how old are these four months or five minutes four months old so which ones we're gonna use first this is the oldest one and this one in order to find the plumpest bird mrs duck has devised a unique test why are we done can you can you hear the sound yeah yeah drama the duck to the ground yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but i'm quite never touched just listen just put this down all right so she's waiting she's listening for a weighted yeah heavy sounds that sounds good i'm beginning to think missy's duck is quackers but her dish is famous throughout hanoi so she must be doing something right so this is how she prepares a duck every day yes and it's important to bleed the ducks otherwise it's going to spoil the texture of the meat i get that but why is she cutting it there because here just stay away from the stomach you may get the bad food from stomach into the plant yes yeah she believes in slaughtering them just before she started cooking them so he's done that fresh does it all the way fresh like that just close it and then cook yes yes houses and everything the duck is the the the goddess of her house the duck is the goddess of the house he says very quick anything to keep her happy now the dirty work is over missy's duck wants to give me a lesson in nose-to-tail butchery straight down in the middle yeah pass the cleaver to her see one that takes you hot she wants she wants to now teach me how to sharpen a knife yeah this is duck yeah straight off okay off yep it's amazing i've never actually slaughtered one in the kitchen taking this feathers off and butchered it from there is there anything of the duck that she never uses you see that yeah other glands that's the bile the bile very bitter yeah if that bursts over the duck it ruins the texture no it's smelly i'm enjoying myself i'm about to learn mrs duck's sweet and sour sauce but all of a sudden she's become tight-lipped so nobody knows this recipe values nobody knows okay her life so not easy to give her life i'm not asking to marry her i'm asking for the recipe it's you and i look at me this is duck missy's stuff um why are you being such a hard house yeah when i've just plucked your ducks she'll tell you even her husband doesn't know about that serious oh my god you huh you're one-off she's unique she's like a fine bottle of wire and they only produce one bottle of weed she's amazing huge source of inspiration more importantly she knows her stuff i mean big time so she hasn't focused on 25 30 dishes she's just focused on a unique way with duck she shows no mercy straight in there nothing squeamish about missy's duck is there a little bit scared to be honest while her signature dish cooks i'm gonna sample the rest of mrs duck's menu so many different ways different sort of stars of cooking the duck it's amazing do you want to try the hat if you want to ah easier nice and tender that's good that's very good that's the that's nice it's got a leathery liver texture to it now for the main event the bbq duck is ready it says mix with the marinade and then on top of the charcoal grill that's great and then the fan obviously to intensify the heat yeah okay nice that is delicious and she's managed to use everything even there as a piece of the leg it's it's amazing youi've come to the end of my week in vietnam and it's been a culinary trip into the unknown and the unthinkable ah my mentor v said one week would not be enough to master this cuisine and i'm about to find out if she was right i'm in hanoi to cook a dinner for v and other top tutors i've met this week mr rice hi sir oh yeah good to see you how are you doing yeah well thank you this place looks amazing let me show you around here please it looks beautiful missy's duck's friend mr rice has given me the use of his fine dining restaurant a success is built on authentic vietnamese cooking and so it's a great honor the rush is beautiful yeah thank you who designed it i desire myself good job worryingly for me mr rice has invited along 30 discerning diners you got a huge huge challenge and you know tonight so many people here just waiting for your cooking and i say about six seven people very tough ready in three hours the restaurant will be full and i need to quickly get used to these unfamiliar surroundings well this is the kitchen yeah so everything here tonight's yours yeah gas burners and grill um completely different layout of a kitchen not like working with a gas ring burner um ten times more powerful a lot more instant so uh on the fly yet again tonight my menu will be drawn on everything i've learned i'm cooking pig seven ways so starting off with the pork and shrimp um fresh spring roll yeah yeah we served at room temperature be very careful uh pig's ear salad blanched in a nice sort of spicy broth uh barbecued pork skewer and it's drilled over charcoal then we're going to go to the sweet and sour pork ribs okay after that we've got the pigsta curry after that caramelized pork belly finished with fish sauce after that the pork noodle broth let's go bye-bye my nose to town menu is a tall order i start with barbecue pork skewers inspired by missy's duck the shoulder of pork sliced thinly marinated and then cooked on charcoal now that doesn't look anywhere near like missy's ducks it's times like this i wish you'd just give me the recipe properly i think it's secretly because she had a massive crush on me and she had visions of her and i set up a restaurant together next for my pig feast a curry that i hope will satisfy the vietnamese appetite for texture normally when we use trotters at home in the uk we bone them out and stuff them but these are cooked on the bone and very gelatinous nice fresh turmeric a little bit of garlic ginger fish sauce a little bit of fermented rice wine vinegar almost like a sort of light spicy curry the pressure is on and already i've made my first mistake so this is my broth remember my singing ordeal down the river i'm just struggling for that nice sort of lightly sort of pinkish color i'm beginning to wish i'd kept things simple i've got one dish seared out 400 things to do out downstairs hanoi's most accomplished foodies have arrived along with my mentors mrs duck and madame v all here to pass judgement on my efforts i think it's a big challenging for him because something completely new and very different to what you have at home bee's premonition is coming true i'm having a kitchen nightmare i know the broth's gone cloudy so i turned up the gas and by rapidly reducing down some strength it's gone cloudy here are the sweetness our ribs i want to put them in the oven but they don't have ovens here so everything's going to be cooked on top okay pour trotters broth ribs i think now he's in control he's in control now because it's no salty no yearling from the kitchen yes oh how bollocks oh that'd kill me if you saw it watch out please guys come on yo go out of the way please everybody everybody the spectators by now i should be serving up but i'm nowhere near ready skewers please okay yeah i need color on there i need color come on please yeah charcoal that's what gives a color let's go it's gone 7 30 and hanoi's finest have been waiting to eat for over half an hour i think in 20 minutes to be here all the foods will be here i should run up to the kitchen and kick him ass i'm starving i need to eat something and then unless you know i'm waiting for a long time skewers please turn them over turn over more color please come on hero yeah finally my dishes come together the broth is nice and clear now i've clarified it some minced pork and egg white to get it nice and clear my homage to missy's duck is almost ready to be served fingers crossed madame duck style sesame seed and at the last minute i've put together my pig's ear salad don't take anything until i say don't take anything till they're finished please okay let's go please gently gently gently gently no no no no look no stop yeah that one goes on there right you come here stand here one bowl hold the tray tight yep and two let's go at last dinner is served this has been one of the toughest nights of my cooking career i think what i want to say is this is very brave that was a nightmare struggled um across the whole three hours i'd like to think i'd done it justice but i left myself a little bit short but my ordeal isn't over yet i need to face my mentors to find out if i've impressed them how are you doing recognize you with no hats on how are the pig sweaters um i'm i'm i'm not fan of that damn what a shame i think it's a little too much caramel sauce ready too sweet for you yeah wow i like you uh i like the pizza or the pizza yeah it's beautiful it's so crunchy i love that passion chewy crunchy crispy soft and silky got it the the pork chocha the pig trotter is perfect pigs is the most difficult meat to cook so it's really really impressive what you have done with that the text is too strong and the color is too dark i think it's very difficult to do very authentic i think this one i can eat it for no problem madame look at you finally i want to know what the dying of nose-to-tail cooking things of my efforts oh my goodness me what happened huh that's amazing before you before you have basically been very pleased yes the best the real soda on skewers on the charcoal well if it wasn't for you this shoulder wouldn't have tasted as good as it did trust me i'm so glad that you like that one i'm gonna say good to see you mr ice as always so vietnamese people is very hard to please so but tonight gordon i think he does well he pass it for me one of the most thrilling seven days i've ever spent in my cooking career honestly if you want to eat well get rid of your fridge it forces you to buy ingredients twice a day and cook in a completely different way challenging week yet for me one of the most inspirational big time crispy crunchy chewy soft and silky right airport i've escaped to vietnam and promised one of the best cooks in the country that i'll get to grips with this unique cuisine in just a week i'm hot footing out of ho chi minh city and flying 1500 kilometers north to the capital hanoi it's a huge learning curve for me it'd be very ignorant from a chess point of view not to embrace their understanding of their waste nothing and the everything hanoi is a communist stronghold traditionally this part of the country has a no waste culture they are experts in nose-to-tail eating and one the taurus female chef has made a reputation cooking just one ingredient now this lady's a bit of a hard ass bit of a legend i'm in hanoi for two days and i'm here for inspiration i'm gonna get in there see what she's up to and hopefully yeah like a magpie steal some ideas what she's doing jesus where's the boss hello how are you good to see you what's up jayden uh jordan um your name man luckily for me a local restaurant owner has come to my rescue madame quack h o i oh man of course you said quack duck quack quack quack and you are my my name's rice call me quan mr rice and mrs duck yes so where's mr p king yeah i don't want to piss her off yeah i want to keep on a good side all right yeah i heard she has a ferocious temper that's it all right three cleavers by the side of her very sad very sad yeah yeah how many ducks a day does she sell how many husbands have she killed uh one missy ducker spent 30 years perfecting her menu but before i get to taste it she wants me to meet her key ingredient out back what are these little babies here how old are they they must be days old uh about 10 days ten days old how old are these four months or five minutes four months old so which ones we're gonna use first this is the oldest one and this one in order to find the plumpest bird mrs duck has devised a unique test why are we done can you can you hear the sound yeah yeah drama the duck to the ground yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but i'm quite never touched just listen just put this down all right so she's waiting she's listening for a weighted yeah heavy sounds that sounds good i'm beginning to think missy's duck is quackers but her dish is famous throughout hanoi so she must be doing something right so this is how she prepares a duck every day yes and it's important to bleed the ducks otherwise it's going to spoil the texture of the meat i get that but why is she cutting it there because here just stay away from the stomach you may get the bad food from stomach into the plant yes yeah she believes in slaughtering them just before she started cooking them so he's done that fresh does it all the way fresh like that just close it and then cook yes yes houses and everything the duck is the the the goddess of her house the duck is the goddess of the house he says very quick anything to keep her happy now the dirty work is over missy's duck wants to give me a lesson in nose-to-tail butchery straight down in the middle yeah pass the cleaver to her see one that takes you hot she wants she wants to now teach me how to sharpen a knife yeah this is duck yeah straight off okay off yep it's amazing i've never actually slaughtered one in the kitchen taking this feathers off and butchered it from there is there anything of the duck that she never uses you see that yeah other glands that's the bile the bile very bitter yeah if that bursts over the duck it ruins the texture no it's smelly i'm enjoying myself i'm about to learn mrs duck's sweet and sour sauce but all of a sudden she's become tight-lipped so nobody knows this recipe values nobody knows okay her life so not easy to give her life i'm not asking to marry her i'm asking for the recipe it's you and i look at me this is duck missy's stuff um why are you being such a hard house yeah when i've just plucked your ducks she'll tell you even her husband doesn't know about that serious oh my god you huh you're one-off she's unique she's like a fine bottle of wire and they only produce one bottle of weed she's amazing huge source of inspiration more importantly she knows her stuff i mean big time so she hasn't focused on 25 30 dishes she's just focused on a unique way with duck she shows no mercy straight in there nothing squeamish about missy's duck is there a little bit scared to be honest while her signature dish cooks i'm gonna sample the rest of mrs duck's menu so many different ways different sort of stars of cooking the duck it's amazing do you want to try the hat if you want to ah easier nice and tender that's good that's very good that's the that's nice it's got a leathery liver texture to it now for the main event the bbq duck is ready it says mix with the marinade and then on top of the charcoal grill that's great and then the fan obviously to intensify the heat yeah okay nice that is delicious and she's managed to use everything even there as a piece of the leg it's it's amazing youi've come to the end of my week in vietnam and it's been a culinary trip into the unknown and the unthinkable ah my mentor v said one week would not be enough to master this cuisine and i'm about to find out if she was right i'm in hanoi to cook a dinner for v and other top tutors i've met this week mr rice hi sir oh yeah good to see you how are you doing yeah well thank you this place looks amazing let me show you around here please it looks beautiful missy's duck's friend mr rice has given me the use of his fine dining restaurant a success is built on authentic vietnamese cooking and so it's a great honor the rush is beautiful yeah thank you who designed it i desire myself good job worryingly for me mr rice has invited along 30 discerning diners you got a huge huge challenge and you know tonight so many people here just waiting for your cooking and i say about six seven people very tough ready in three hours the restaurant will be full and i need to quickly get used to these unfamiliar surroundings well this is the kitchen yeah so everything here tonight's yours yeah gas burners and grill um completely different layout of a kitchen not like working with a gas ring burner um ten times more powerful a lot more instant so uh on the fly yet again tonight my menu will be drawn on everything i've learned i'm cooking pig seven ways so starting off with the pork and shrimp um fresh spring roll yeah yeah we served at room temperature be very careful uh pig's ear salad blanched in a nice sort of spicy broth uh barbecued pork skewer and it's drilled over charcoal then we're going to go to the sweet and sour pork ribs okay after that we've got the pigsta curry after that caramelized pork belly finished with fish sauce after that the pork noodle broth let's go bye-bye my nose to town menu is a tall order i start with barbecue pork skewers inspired by missy's duck the shoulder of pork sliced thinly marinated and then cooked on charcoal now that doesn't look anywhere near like missy's ducks it's times like this i wish you'd just give me the recipe properly i think it's secretly because she had a massive crush on me and she had visions of her and i set up a restaurant together next for my pig feast a curry that i hope will satisfy the vietnamese appetite for texture normally when we use trotters at home in the uk we bone them out and stuff them but these are cooked on the bone and very gelatinous nice fresh turmeric a little bit of garlic ginger fish sauce a little bit of fermented rice wine vinegar almost like a sort of light spicy curry the pressure is on and already i've made my first mistake so this is my broth remember my singing ordeal down the river i'm just struggling for that nice sort of lightly sort of pinkish color i'm beginning to wish i'd kept things simple i've got one dish seared out 400 things to do out downstairs hanoi's most accomplished foodies have arrived along with my mentors mrs duck and madame v all here to pass judgement on my efforts i think it's a big challenging for him because something completely new and very different to what you have at home bee's premonition is coming true i'm having a kitchen nightmare i know the broth's gone cloudy so i turned up the gas and by rapidly reducing down some strength it's gone cloudy here are the sweetness our ribs i want to put them in the oven but they don't have ovens here so everything's going to be cooked on top okay pour trotters broth ribs i think now he's in control he's in control now because it's no salty no yearling from the kitchen yes oh how bollocks oh that'd kill me if you saw it watch out please guys come on yo go out of the way please everybody everybody the spectators by now i should be serving up but i'm nowhere near ready skewers please okay yeah i need color on there i need color come on please yeah charcoal that's what gives a color let's go it's gone 7 30 and hanoi's finest have been waiting to eat for over half an hour i think in 20 minutes to be here all the foods will be here i should run up to the kitchen and kick him ass i'm starving i need to eat something and then unless you know i'm waiting for a long time skewers please turn them over turn over more color please come on hero yeah finally my dishes come together the broth is nice and clear now i've clarified it some minced pork and egg white to get it nice and clear my homage to missy's duck is almost ready to be served fingers crossed madame duck style sesame seed and at the last minute i've put together my pig's ear salad don't take anything until i say don't take anything till they're finished please okay let's go please gently gently gently gently no no no no look no stop yeah that one goes on there right you come here stand here one bowl hold the tray tight yep and two let's go at last dinner is served this has been one of the toughest nights of my cooking career i think what i want to say is this is very brave that was a nightmare struggled um across the whole three hours i'd like to think i'd done it justice but i left myself a little bit short but my ordeal isn't over yet i need to face my mentors to find out if i've impressed them how are you doing recognize you with no hats on how are the pig sweaters um i'm i'm i'm not fan of that damn what a shame i think it's a little too much caramel sauce ready too sweet for you yeah wow i like you uh i like the pizza or the pizza yeah it's beautiful it's so crunchy i love that passion chewy crunchy crispy soft and silky got it the the pork chocha the pig trotter is perfect pigs is the most difficult meat to cook so it's really really impressive what you have done with that the text is too strong and the color is too dark i think it's very difficult to do very authentic i think this one i can eat it for no problem madame look at you finally i want to know what the dying of nose-to-tail cooking things of my efforts oh my goodness me what happened huh that's amazing before you before you have basically been very pleased yes the best the real soda on skewers on the charcoal well if it wasn't for you this shoulder wouldn't have tasted as good as it did trust me i'm so glad that you like that one i'm gonna say good to see you mr ice as always so vietnamese people is very hard to please so but tonight gordon i think he does well he pass it for me one of the most thrilling seven days i've ever spent in my cooking career honestly if you want to eat well get rid of your fridge it forces you to buy ingredients twice a day and cook in a completely different way challenging week yet for me one of the most inspirational big time crispy crunchy chewy soft and silky right airport i've escaped to vietnam and promised one of the best cooks in the country that i'll get to grips with this unique cuisine in just a week i'm hot footing out of ho chi minh city and flying 1500 kilometers north to the capital hanoi it's a huge learning curve for me it'd be very ignorant from a chess point of view not to embrace their understanding of their waste nothing and the everything hanoi is a communist stronghold traditionally this part of the country has a no waste culture they are experts in nose-to-tail eating and one the taurus female chef has made a reputation cooking just one ingredient now this lady's a bit of a hard ass bit of a legend i'm in hanoi for two days and i'm here for inspiration i'm gonna get in there see what she's up to and hopefully yeah like a magpie steal some ideas what she's doing jesus where's the boss hello how are you good to see you what's up jayden uh jordan um your name man luckily for me a local restaurant owner has come to my rescue madame quack h o i oh man of course you said quack duck quack quack quack and you are my my name's rice call me quan mr rice and mrs duck yes so where's mr p king yeah i don't want to piss her off yeah i want to keep on a good side all right yeah i heard she has a ferocious temper that's it all right three cleavers by the side of her very sad very sad yeah yeah how many ducks a day does she sell how many husbands have she killed uh one missy ducker spent 30 years perfecting her menu but before i get to taste it she wants me to meet her key ingredient out back what are these little babies here how old are they they must be days old uh about 10 days ten days old how old are these four months or five minutes four months old so which ones we're gonna use first this is the oldest one and this one in order to find the plumpest bird mrs duck has devised a unique test why are we done can you can you hear the sound yeah yeah drama the duck to the ground yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but i'm quite never touched just listen just put this down all right so she's waiting she's listening for a weighted yeah heavy sounds that sounds good i'm beginning to think missy's duck is quackers but her dish is famous throughout hanoi so she must be doing something right so this is how she prepares a duck every day yes and it's important to bleed the ducks otherwise it's going to spoil the texture of the meat i get that but why is she cutting it there because here just stay away from the stomach you may get the bad food from stomach into the plant yes yeah she believes in slaughtering them just before she started cooking them so he's done that fresh does it all the way fresh like that just close it and then cook yes yes houses and everything the duck is the the the goddess of her house the duck is the goddess of the house he says very quick anything to keep her happy now the dirty work is over missy's duck wants to give me a lesson in nose-to-tail butchery straight down in the middle yeah pass the cleaver to her see one that takes you hot she wants she wants to now teach me how to sharpen a knife yeah this is duck yeah straight off okay off yep it's amazing i've never actually slaughtered one in the kitchen taking this feathers off and butchered it from there is there anything of the duck that she never uses you see that yeah other glands that's the bile the bile very bitter yeah if that bursts over the duck it ruins the texture no it's smelly i'm enjoying myself i'm about to learn mrs duck's sweet and sour sauce but all of a sudden she's become tight-lipped so nobody knows this recipe values nobody knows okay her life so not easy to give her life i'm not asking to marry her i'm asking for the recipe it's you and i look at me this is duck missy's stuff um why are you being such a hard house yeah when i've just plucked your ducks she'll tell you even her husband doesn't know about that serious oh my god you huh you're one-off she's unique she's like a fine bottle of wire and they only produce one bottle of weed she's amazing huge source of inspiration more importantly she knows her stuff i mean big time so she hasn't focused on 25 30 dishes she's just focused on a unique way with duck she shows no mercy straight in there nothing squeamish about missy's duck is there a little bit scared to be honest while her signature dish cooks i'm gonna sample the rest of mrs duck's menu so many different ways different sort of stars of cooking the duck it's amazing do you want to try the hat if you want to ah easier nice and tender that's good that's very good that's the that's nice it's got a leathery liver texture to it now for the main event the bbq duck is ready it says mix with the marinade and then on top of the charcoal grill that's great and then the fan obviously to intensify the heat yeah okay nice that is delicious and she's managed to use everything even there as a piece of the leg it's it's amazing you\n"