$4 Breakfast Sandwich Vs. $30 Breakfast Sandwich

hey it's andrew steven and adam this episode is filmed at the beginning of the year before we begin social distancing due to covet 19. and while we're currently practicing social distancing we want to share these great restaurants with you even though dining out is not the same right now we're in houston texas we're doing breakfast sandwiches so classic breakfast sandwich what does that look like it looks like breakfast in a sandwich right eating for breakfast i'm thinking like muffin egg some cheese have to have cheese maybe a ham or bacon yes but what if breakfast didn't have the halves of the sandwich closed what if it was on a donut what if there were no eggs on it whatsoever is that a breakfast sandwich we're gonna be finding out today unworth it [Music] today i'm worth it we're going to be trying three different breakfast sandwiches at three drastically different price points to find out which one is the most worth it at its price oh i just want to say off the top thank you to toyota for making the season possible okay andrew like i hinted at earlier the breakfast sandwiches this trip are going to challenge your convention of what a breakfast sandwich is i always like the episodes where andrew goes rogue andrew goes rogue andrew goes food theory mode where are we going first we're going to see andrew and his mother nah at cali sandwich to try their bon me because bon me from what i understand is eaten at all times of day in vietnam as well as breakfast [Music] can you tell us a little bit about uh cali sandwiches we stole in 1993 at that time we only sell sandwich only it's about 700 birth a day your previous restaurant sold 700 sandwiches a day yeah wow so you used to only make sandwiches what do you guys sell now we have pho we have egg rolls spring rolls we even branch out to stir-fried food because calorie sandwiches in houston is one of many vietnamese restaurants what is it that makes your food you know a little different a little special we make first every day we make everything here we get here three o'clock you know in every store you know cook every day fresh the second day they're not fresh no more they say that's gonna be too much work i say i don't want people you know eat one time and they say bye bye the meat someplace they buy already cut but we don't wanna like that yeah you guys are very well known around town like everybody i've asked who says where should you go for bun meat everybody says kelly's sandwich really thank you thank you i didn't know that yeah so once they grill the meat they cut off all the chars she doesn't want to put too much char because it's not really good for you but then why do you charge to get the flavor smoke it if you put on the oven it's not that good our video is about breakfast sandwiches i actually learned recently that in vietnam people eat bon me first thing in the morning like this morning i'm walking i was so hungry and i wrapped the half sand with the steamed pork oh my might be so good yeah so that was your breakfast today yeah yeah i think that's the spirit of breakfast sandwich though it's a it's a sandwich you can eat kind of on the go you guys offer a lot of different versions of the bun me which ones should we try today uh combo and the real pork how much is the bomb me mommy is uh 3.69 what oh yeah [Laughter] thank you thank you thank you so much cheers cheers stephen we got their thai iced tea that they make in-house good morning andrew good morning good morning good morning sandwich good morning sandwich we got a grilled pork and we have a combo so why don't we have half of each start with the grilled pork let's do it it is a lot lighter than i thought it was going to be yeah cheers it's the perfect sandwich regardless of the time of day that was really fresh you know the first thing i want in the morning is to feel refreshed to get up you wash your face brush your teeth yeah it's like looking in the mirror and slapping your face yes that's what having a jalapeno okay okay i gotta wipe that down now we're moving on to the combo it's like wait what's in here again pate pork roll steamed barbecue pork steamed barbecue pork and ham that's a labor of love right there cheers the jalapeno yeah this one's a little spicy huh you know what's interesting about jalapeno in an otherwise not spicy thing a jalapeno makes you salivate more after your bite therefore making you want even more sandwich it's elevating i want some pate rich patek cool it off you eat that but hey there's a bite of jalapeno still in there circle of sandwich life couldn't have said it better myself breakfast sandwich fat time according to historian heather arndt anderson the breakfast sandwich has its origins in early 19th century london when factory workers decided a quick and convenient breakfast on their way to work soft roll used for the sandwiches was called a bath it's both a sad and a happy thing why sad sad because it was like oh no we don't have time to eat breakfast anymore so let's just package it in a way so we can get to work faster but a delicious thing was born yes okay so our next breakfast sandwich we're going to see mark and drew at squabble where we're going to be having their donut breakfast sandwich of all the sandwiches we're going to be having in this episode this one definitely contains the most breakfasty items you know all right let's go to squabble i i do respect the name great name squabble could you just give us a description of what kind of restaurant squabble is a rustic european restaurant with american influences which gives like liberty to kind of play with cuisines like french cuisine italian cuisine so you guys are co-coaching chefs partners do you have different focuses here i mean i'm very much focused on the bread so i you know responsible for the donuts mark is more responsible for like the savory part of the menu the mustaches was that before you guys met like once you decided to start a restaurant together you were like this is the look the last time we did a photo shoot we said next time let's deal with mustaches so bread and pastry is really intertwined throughout this whole menu right yeah definitely we have a specific bread section but it finds its way into like pretty much half the menu and so with this breakfast sandwich that we're having today can you talk about how that ties in together in a roundabout way the sandwich is like a croak mandam but a little bit more playful and why use a donut so we serve donuts for dessert as well for dinner a big part of this restaurant is making sure that we utilize everything as much as possible i don't like wasting anything and we were like well what would be kind of interesting to do and use the donut more than one way generally the the ones that we use for brunch come from the service before we more or less need like a still donut to be able to build a sandwich on if we try to do like a fresh donut it would be too hard to eat the sandwich is layered with ham and cheese so we use country ham with gruyere you have a mornay sauce which has a little bit of mustard grilled cheese raclette cheese and there's a little bit of parmesan milk in there from cheese rinds that we use it was like okay crunk with them put like egg on top i was like that's gonna look really messy so we decided to like separate the two we comfy egg yolks basically poaching egg yolks in olive oil use the egg whites in the sandwich and then putting the egg yolk on top because everyone wants to see that so he just kind of made it to where it's the star and then take the top part of the donut and dip it in the maple reduction um and then it gets finished with a little flake salt i gotta say man that's a lot of work and technique that goes into making this breakfast and that's kind of the idea behind the restaurant to keep everyone challenged in the restaurant and engaged is there a strategy for what to do with the yolk you kind of have to commit when you're going to eat the sandwich right if i were eating it for myself i would just kind of like pop it and just pick it up would you eat it that way i agree with that that's exactly how i eat it i will admit uh it is the most appetizing looking bloody mary i've ever seen it makes me think i'm just having a smoothie okay i'm doing this for my gut health yes cheers thank you i mean cheers what that's tasty i think i like that more because it felt like i was eating it i want a fork and a knife so check this out fork and knife built into the table nice i would like a separate compartment for people to put their phones in stop texting people definitely going to forget that i'll start [Music] yeah it's like mashed inside look at the other visual on this plate it's wild for those of you at home who cannot smell this the smell is very confusing it's like is it dessert or is it ham yeah i'm so messy that if i go fork a knife it'll be as clean as if you go with your hands oh wow it is sticky [Music] oh my god oh my god the maple syrup flavor is just there enough you know it has a donut and maple syrup and it's not that sweet it's because the balance is right there you know like it has a cheese sauce but it's a sauce that's very peppery and mustardy so it works with all this other sweet and rich stuff this is a killer sandwich this is actually very well thought out and i did not make the realization that it's like a croak madam i feel like i'm dreaming right now i feel like i'm sleeping and my wild mind came out with this never heard that term before but it totally makes sense i know about the wild vine [Laughter] this feels really good to eat after the sandwich oh my gosh you got to try one of these potatoes they're unreal i definitely almost forgot my phone you did forget your phone okay yeah we were about to walk out the door and somebody pointed out that my phone was in fact still in the drawer at the table this is actually going to conclude our time in houston and our last breakfast sandwich is going to be in dallas road trip before we uh head off to our next place time for a little breakfast sandwich fact breakfast sandwich fact it's actually not gonna be a breakfast sandwich fact come on okay bear with me our last breakfast sandwich is served on an english muffin so this is actually gonna be an english muffin fact so english muffin fact english muffins in england are known simply as muffins no way yes way so what is a muffin to them i'm glad you asked what we know as muffins in america sometimes in england they're called american muffins no way or sometimes just muffin wait what yeah it's confusing do they call it the english channel the english channel over there or is it just the channel and is that channel just bbc well we're here in dallas texas because we're going to talk to dean fearing and we're going to fearing's restaurant to eat what andrew we're having the crab eggs benedict off their brunch men i would argue that an eggs benedict is an open-faced breakfast sandwich and in fact if you go to wikipedia that's what it says i didn't make that edit look it's a theory we're gonna test it out that's the new point of this show is a food what we say it is let's go [Music] i'm dean fairing i am the chef owner of fairings restaurant located at the ritz carlton here in dallas texas so farians restaurant is unusual in the sense that we have five different dining rooms and i wanted this factor to have people be able to sit in a different atmosphere each time they come fearings is a southwest restaurant but with many worldly features southwest cuisine is ingredients indigenous to our area identifying texas as its own food source the main component is all the influence of food that came from south of the border we changed the menu almost every three or four weeks now we don't change the whole menu as we have some signature items are buffalo that's been soaked in vermont maple syrup for 48 hours buffalo soaked in maple syrup yes wow unbelievable our crab cake benedict is definitely influenced by the southwest crab meat coming from the gulf the hollandaise being poblano of tastes from mexico that i absolutely love using homemade english muffin i have this theory about the eggs benedict i'm interested in getting your opinion on it so the eggs benedict i think really is kind of an open-faced breakfast sandwich of course you agree i would agree yeah it's probably the first of its kind and if you wanted to have a breakfast sandwich and a little bit more of a refined setting you need it with a fork and a knife you do right who's going to be making the crab benedict for us today mike madis is our restaurant chef i love the curve and the little corkiness that mike brings to the menu for me generally speaking great crab cake it's got to be like maybe 95 percent crap so we put like a pinch of bread crumbs or croutons you know a benedict the most important part is when you hit it with that hollandaise it looks fresh it's appetizing you know you just can't beat that flavor stephen we've made it to the final breakfast sandwich does my theory hold water sure i mean you already had dean agree with you so it's your feelings that matter to me stephen okay gonna say that here you know what why don't you reserve your judgment once we're done eating okay all right to start we've got dean's margarita well it's good tequila sorry this is delicious it's uh it's strong and it lets you know it's wrong so we're here here and uh we have this quite beautiful and i mean benedict's are usually pretty beautiful but this is this is a different level of beauty that i'm seeing right now i don't think i've ever had an english muffin that wasn't the store-bought variety that is perfect yolk for me it's just jammy okay cheers steven i'm gonna come over to you yeah that's great hollandaise that's crazy yeah i just feel like i bit into a crab this hollandaise is like if a hot sauce was dairy what if honda is like what is the derivation of that i can tell you oh you know you've ever traveled to europe uh yeah did you ever spend any days in holland yes we did that's hollandaise sorry what was your question you know you've made this theory very prominently a part of this episode of benedict is an open-faced breakfast sandwich you're eating with a fork and knife that's right that is the one thing that i think kind of deters me from your theory okay you might recall our double cheeseburger episode at petite tour the chef said sorry i'm france we eat a cheeseburger with a fork and knife it's a little fufu but that's how we do it right i really gotta say though the the star of this dish it's the crab super good andrew steven how's everything tasty very delicious tell me about this margarita well everything is pretty traditional except we use a mexican liqueur called damiana that has a little bit of a licorice flavor yeah and i heard that you went and selected the barrels of tequila yes out of 28 barrels i picked two for the hint of vanilla it's delicious margarita one of the best i've ever had thank you for coming by and joining us and and seeing what our breakfast sandwich is all about thank you look what you've done [Music] steven you look repulsive i am i don't care if it's a sandwich or not anymore i just want this to stop well steven breakfast is officially over before we get to our worth it winners what was your favorite thing from this episode that was not a breakfast sandwich egg roll cali sandwich what makes it so crispy oh the white paper some people use in a frozen one but i don't like you which i put frozen i like that one i also have never eaten an egg roll that was wrapped in a leaf of lettuce yeah that changes the game andrew what was your favorite thing not a sandwich in this episode i think i will have to choose the bison at fearing's restaurant we talked about it but we did not eat it on camera it's delicious they serve it with a taquito which breakfast sandwich was the most worth it to you at this given price point all of the sandwiches we ate today were worth it i also want to clarify that there were also definitely sandwiches and definitely consumable for breakfast when you have to say definitely twice in a sentence that makes a reason to pause but yes i would agree you know that donut sandwich at squabble seemed like the kind of food that you would you know scroll past on instagram and be like there's no way that's actually a good sandwich but the way they have all those components dialed in there at squabble is delicious but for me my worth at winner has to be that bond me at cali sandwich it's a beautiful idea to just eat the thing you want the most first thing in the morning okay steven which breakfast sandwich was most worth it to you at its given price if we were doing crab cakes my answer would be fearing restaurant if we were doing donut my answer would be squabble but we are doing breakfast sandwiches my dude and that's why my answer goes to cali sandwich it's the name the value on that which we don't talk about enough on this show is absurd ready one final question adam who is your most worth it breakfast soon adam we had a triple worth it winner it's been a while it's so nice to do a whole video in texas oh favorite thing that we uh uh sorry had off camera that had nothing to do with anything we had dinner with my parents it was fun yeah lovely people shout out to my mom hi mom hi dad last time i said hi mom and my dad got mad so i say hi mom and dad hi mom and dad love you guys bye

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Id: ACKYhlBi98Q

Length: 18min 34sec (1114 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 30 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ironsoul99]

Why breakfast sandwiches? I would think maybe Brisket or Tacos.

[u/ispeshaled]

Cali sandwich is the jam. Loved eating there when I lived closer and the owner Nga is always pleasant to chat with.

[u/Adam_Abid]

They also have two episodes "Pho" and "Pie" where they come to Houston

[u/Chimp711]

Cali Sandwich's bahn mi is great, but their bo luc lac and egg rolls are the absolute best.

[u/orionstar159]

Was so looking forward to where that last sandwich would be from... and then... they leave Houston for Dallas

[u/1boss_ass_bitch]

That second sandwich looks legit. Stopped watching as soon as they said Dallas

[u/rhodisconnect]

Squable is legit

[u/Dramatika]

I like bahn mi in general and Cali Sandwich in particular, but I don't care if they spend several minutes addressing their point, I don't conisder and will never consider bahn mi a breakfast sandwich.