BEST Cheap Eats & HIDDEN GEMS in NEW YORK Pt. 8 VIII (Chinatown)

the most random purchase of maybe all the chinatown cheap eats okay come on come on all right guys come to supreme come see her from one zone [Music] welcome to part eight of our chinatown series we're hoping this is accomplishing our original goals of showing you some hidden gems inviting people back to chinatown and showing off the personalities and humanity behind all this ridiculously cheap and delicious food in this episode we got for you a supreme shalom bao battle secret cajun seafood boils fluffy cake dessert alley and the most hyped of hyped roast meats so hit that like button and let us know in the comments down below if we should continue this series chinatown part eight new york let's go but real quick i gotta give a big shout out to our sponsor of the video boxu it is the most traditional rare and i think the best japanese snack box subscription you can get let's look inside so coming straight to your doorstep from osaka japan it's a very nicely packaged box discover japan 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standard pork xiaolongbao everywhere we go this is the new york style it's gigantic i wouldn't say that this is the biggest i've seen though immediately andrew what are your thoughts on joe's ginger it looks a little smaller it is holding pretty well it looks pretty thin actually i'm pretty excited i've never had joe's ginger i would say this looks similar to the ones that you would get in shanghai we are judging the pork shalom bao joe's ginger overall pretty solid that's my initial feeling i've got to go in for my second one you know this is the first xiaolongbaos of the day but it's not the last i'm gonna go ahead and give this one a 3.8 out of five i was gonna say a solid 3.75 filling was definitely enjoyable there was nothing bad about that xiaolongbao but since we're going to be trying so many guys i have to leave some room for improvement okay joe's ginger xiaomi 375. damn what was the last time you had one of these i'll be shooting with you guys however you want man i'm just gonna eat it home aren't you guys i just ordered the pork challenge from joe shanghai this is probably the most famous spot in the city to get the gigantic new york style xlb xiaomi balls let's see how they compare aren't you guys we've got jo shanghai on the left side we've got shanghai asian cuisine on the right side what a name wow shanghai asian cuisine we're on the alleyway that connects elizabeth and bowery right now very famous low-key food alley because new west malaysia also a banger of bangers maybe a 4.5 out of 5 type spot on this street so you actually have outdoor dining built up inside of this alleyway shanghai 10 guys every spot has been about 10 wow the amount of soup inside of joe's soup dumplings are incredible i gotta say these are some of the biggest shaolin baos you can even have what i would say that i like really about joe's shanghai is that the skin is really thin but it's big but it doesn't break yeah it doesn't break but it's thin so that's important right here guys this is shanghai asian cuisine the amount of soup it looks like it looks different it looks it looks like a perfect bowl looks more like disney-like yeah guys it is interesting to see the difference in shaolin baoz joe's has some really good pork flavor i'm torn all three spots that we've been to joe's ginger joe shanghai and shanghai asian cuisine andrew we're all good at different things i i could see why josh shanghai won over him though man that pork broth flavor is is so strong shanghai it still might be number one anyways guys we're outside a supreme restaurant so this spot used to be called shanghai dumpling for many years and that's why it has over 2000 reviews on yelp but recently they changed their name maybe it was a change of ownership we got to check out shanghai hood ping right next door too you guys they're going head to head guys if there are two shanghai knee spots next to each other what makes you think we're not going to compare the two all right you guys the xlb wars continue we are at supreme restaurant on mott street like i said guys there are so many soup dumpling spots i hesitate to call them full shangani spots because they're not like fully authentic but they are serving the shanghainese shaolin baos wow i'm not gonna lie guys might be pushing my number one that's the most balanced one i had so far today in terms of balance between the flavor the amount of juice the skin maybe my only complaint is that the skin was a little thick but as far as supreme restaurant goes let me tell you guys that's a good shalom bao in terms of balance thick skin okay i'm just gonna eat it first it might be the best one man that supreme's xlb ranked like you know number one in every category but you got to look at an overall aggregate score i i'm not going to say anything until we try shanghai hurricane they've been in business for 10 years whoo okay these were only 6.95 though that's super easy that is dumb cheap shanghai aka shanghai peace not bad 6.95 i don't know for me i'm going with supreme really good for 6.95 wow i gotta say for for sub seven dollars that was a good deal but if i was going to just compare on just taste supreme restaurant is pretty good man yo you say the skin is a little thick yeah the skin is a little thick that's what i said in my review however i will say that the meat is not grainy and i the the grainy meat is a huge knock are you guys from shanghai uh i'm in the city very close to shanghai all right guys come to supreme come see her from one zone hey all right guys i'm on tell street and i'm here at vegetarian dim sum house as you guys know there are a lot of chinese vegetarian spots in chinatown that you can choose from but this spot specializes in dim sum so i've actually never had vegetarian dim sum all right guys here we are starting off with vegetarian dim sum house this is the 12 this is the pell street trifecta right here there are the fried taro balls so this originally doesn't even have meat but this is one of the best dishes mmm yeah i could see why that's one of the best dishes honestly i was very impressed if you told me that that was real chashu with just a little bit less flavor i would believe you david here is one of my favorite dim sum dishes the xinjiang yoon this is the bean curd and pork roll obviously the vegetarian version vegetarian version david for me personally this reminds me of that dish that mom and dad would make the vegentarian they they make their tashi look like meat this one's not bad it's easy to eat i wouldn't say it quite tastes like meat all right you guys as far as buddhist cuisine goes uh in terms of vegetarian dim sum i'm gonna go ahead and give this place oh surprising four out of five because aesthetically i'm not gonna lie some of the other vegetarian spots they seem a little bit more high-end this spot was just bringing the flavor 4.25 that spot was good you know for the younger generation andrew it's definitely desserts boba shops sneaker drops supreme drops it creates this type of hype but for the older generation here in chinatown it's gotta be chashu yo i have not seen a roast meat spot be so hyped to have such a long line to have such a long weight but it's heihei roasted meat i think that this kind of signals that you know even like the chassis spots are becoming more modern and stuff so i'm really excited to see how it tastes i don't know maybe it's going to taste really traditional maybe it's going to taste updated all right so we made it to columbus park we got our heihei roast meats and man between just the packaging and everything the cleanliness david this is looking different than any other spot in chinatown so basically the owner is a young chinese malaysian and their goal is to kind of have something for 2021 that really shows the new modern age that they want to see chinatown enter and everything here was pretty much under ten dollars even this was ten dollars that was 10.75 yeah it was 10.75 with the additional three dollar chicken leg over here andrew you've got more of your stewed chicken leg your roast duck and uh shoe yo people love boxes of meat and rice so much in chinatown i almost want to say could you say it's number one bro i mean this is what chinatown is known for it is the roast meats all right so i always say there's not that much duck pieces but the duck pieces that are there look great let's do it is heihei bringing the best roast meats in chinatown in 2021 all right right now are they bringing chinatown into 20 yo straight up let me tell you that that was fire moving on oh my gosh look at this guys as you can see the seal yolk is falling apart a little crispy skin on top let's get it i got a lot of seasoning on the inside of the pig where they they rub it a lot not bad at all but a little salty stewed chicken it's good i'm not saying it's the best but straight up after having those three it's up there all right andrew andrew as somebody who probably likes ginger scally and chicken even more than me i got to get your opinion because you're more of a focus you put more focus on this dish than i do the flavor is as deep and strong as any other chicken i've had in chinatown i could see some people thinking it's a little bit too salty if you want to talk about flavoring they got it here at heihei chashu here i'm not gonna lie doesn't look that amazing but i gotta try it middle tier on the top middle bbq pork scrambled egg okay are you impressed at how much they were able to make this taste like authentic fast food back in china it's it's really crazy how much it tastes like i've just been transported to guangzhou david this looks like we got this out of the steamer at 7 11 man oh wow easy to pull back so this is not mucho e cow yo this is just cause there's no moo choi this is just cow like some style cantonese cow yogurt grace this is good this they call this braised guangzhou style oh my god look at this jiggling oh like some collagen and i also was recommended this tofu oh this looks garlic tofu how much color this has um i think heihei is a spot you have to check out because it is doing things differently it's delivering a different style of food fast food style it's sealed it probably carries well the roast meats are good particularly the chicken and the duck but man uh it was all pretty fairly priced yo for me overall i'm gonna go ahead and give hey hey roasted meats a 4.5 out of five i was gonna say 4.5 out of five guys this is a must try chinatown cheap eat it's new it's clean they're doing things differently way to start off 2021 with the banger bro are they bringing chinatown into 2021 i don't want to just give them all the credit obviously it's the people is the thinking it's everything but man i think this spot has set a new standard all right right next to vegetarian dim sum house you got me some cafe this is a classic spot also on pell street ronnie chang just filmed a movie here as well but this is a classic spot it's really gonna give you those old school cafe vibes david we have me some cafe 52 years in chinatown 52 years five two detective jackie you was filmed here shout out to ronnie chang okay andrew you ordered a uh ham and egg sandwich now that's different because the egg is a kind of over easy egg or over medium egg it looks more western yeah as opposed to a uh kind of like a scrambled egg and then we have this really tasty looking shrimp and egg and i like it because if you look at that shrimp look at how that's cooked right there that's extra flavor baby boom this was the one that caught my eye do it do it just do it every ingredient is way more american the ham is more american and the egg is more american tastes way more homemade than a lot of spots i'm really excited about this because it has my my two favorite types of onion purple onion and green onion [Music] um man i would say everything tastes really really homemade yeah dude this means some cafe might as well call that homemade cafe hey mix combination guys david you're zones a guy this is freshly steamed mixed combination boom you know that i know about zoom zoos because i have a favorite part of the junzu jones is here at mesa everything tastes like a grandma a church made in yo man i don't know if there's anything more traditional than me some even the name is like i feel like every there's always a spot called a me something it might not be my like favorite a favorite in terms of flavor-wise i think it's good but in terms of tasting homemade with very little oil very little you know msg sodium me some has got to take the cake man if you want to kind of take a break from the chinatown food style which is a little bit saltier need some cafe and not only that you probably can't even make this for as cheap as they cook it for my next spot is food house shout out to them for snagging this name i mean it's pretty generic but just food house shout out to them they have 699 double chicken drumsticks with rice they also have a 69 pork chop with rice to me i've never had i don't really know what a double chicken drumstick is so i'm going to try it i'll let you guys know if it's any good this is food house on eldridge here i just got a pound of cajun shrimp here at food house it was unexpected i saw this sign they have it's just like boiling crab or the boil or whatever else you want to call it they got it here randomly all right guys moving down eldridge street uh i'm here at 3a cafe in delhi uh i have no idea what they serve but i'm gonna go check it out let's see what's up okay thank you hey what's your name kenny kenny kenny from hong kong man where where in hong kong you from kowloon side which uh which mtr stop i just know stuff by mtr's yeah which stop which which my stuff is uh i think it's a pizza pizza arbor oh prince edward oh okay i heard okay kenny this is some uh so you will like it all right kenny dolce okay sunny violet the two bridges area you know four side division street right next to the train shout out to 3a cafe and my man kenny from hong kong all right i had no idea that this was a hidden gem guys this is a uh a part of a balanced hong kong breakfast shout out to kenny i'm not gonna lie that essentially did taste kind of like a hong kong version of a sausage egg and cheese from mcdonald's so i liked it yes that's that's what i'm trying to say all right so i got the sandwich and this chocolate teal for only eleven dollars guys mmm i can smell more that funk that fish sauce that you know that malaysian style this is not like your regular cantonese gonchon haul this is chocolate tea ow hawker stall style man clean chasing like i got it from a hawker stall in the mall have a seafood boil the most random purchase of maybe all the chinatown cheap eats most random this is 15 a pound and for me usually i like to go eat the whole thing but for this sake you know i might uh have to peel it for you guys food house i'm just eating the whole shrimp man i'm not gonna lie guys this is how i eat my cajun boils so comparing it to places like the boil or boiling crab it's definitely a little bit less buttery and a little bit less oily a little bit more towards the traditional cajun style which is more like heavily old bay seasoning but man just to get it on eldridge street that is a deal fifteen dollars one pound of shrimp all right here we got a 6.99 double chicken drumstick over rice if you're on eldridge and you want a bunch of chicken and rice go to food house all right our next spot here on the chinatown cheap eats crawl is on essex street it's called taco recipes um and you guys it's a tex-mex spot ran by a chinese family is it authentic traditional mexican food i mean it is tex-mex and tex-mex is kind of like chinese american food a version of mexican food that is legit you know even though it's from essentially texas but guys essex street i mean we're talking about mexican food cooked by chinese people let's go i have a question what uh are you guys uh the minister of fuji arama oh okay how do you uh why what make you guys cook mexican food all right everybody so i got to talk to uh the lady working there real quick and i wanted to know the story on why they're serving tex-mex and it was actually because they learned tex-mex here in america and they were kind of talking about how like fujinese food doesn't sell as well to like you know the westerners but mexican food does and here i got the three tacos each taco is about three dollars but it depends on what i got inside obviously the chicken and shrimp one are a little bit more expensive than the chili one shrimp taco 360. that was actually pretty tasty the the shrimp had a really nice char to it chicken crispy taco food here is very healthy tasting actually it's very clean all right next for five dollars i have a chicken quesadilla all right nice little uh single serving here quesadilla tastes healthy probably doesn't have the most flavor it maybe doesn't taste like it was like cooked on the street but nonetheless very solid all right next this is my last item here at taco recipes guys this is the this is the one y'all been waiting for this is the chicken and steak combo plate nine dollars 8.99 this is good i recommend this is a must hop guys 8.99 you get freshly grilled chicken you got freshly grilled steak it's in its own lane and it's good we're here at reception bar on orchard street but there's a round k cafe pop-up that's serving all the brunch food during the day here we have each item that's about ten dollars so it fits in it's barely in there it's barely in there guys but you gotta look at what you're getting for the ten dollars dude it's like i said with cream guys it's a value all right you guys this is kimchi butter eggs croissant blt take a look at the kimchi butter blt guys i mean you have a thick cut bacon you got fresh eggs you have a lot of avocado i mean by all means these are not the cheapest ingredients so yes over here we have a ube boat toast for ten dollars okay aesthetically beautiful wow i'm just going to cut this in half for you guys to see andrew this is a kimchi wrapped piece of bacon so the bacon is cooked with kimchi cheese thrown with avocado on a sam on a roll ten dollars i mean dude i think it's really cool to see um more korean stuff in chinatown yeah especially i mean this is definitely on the exterior of chinatown but man i mean like we said chinatown is always very welcoming of all different businesses brunch sandwiches oh my gosh look how crispy this is kimchi butter kimchi mayo wrapped up with a thick cut almost like more canadian bacon more than american bacon i could easily see that being 15 or 16 somewhere else all right guys the kimchi cooked bacon is fire the bacon hot dog sandwich or whatever you want to call this get this one here this is different last but not least andrew we've got the ube boat cake wow it's decadent wow the round k was a hipster korean cafe in the lower east side that closed down due to the pandemic but they kind of moved here and took over the lunch service at reception bar nighttime they're doing soju cocktails like this one right here daytime you've got some borderline but very good chinatown cheap eats all right guys on to the next spot all right guys this is chinatown cheap eats part eight you know we gotta take it to places that you've never seen before we are on rutgers and henry in the lower east side more of the two bridges area and guys i know this is outside of chinatown but this is absolutely a hidden gem and a cheap eat i'm talking about forever taste it's actually one of the places i personally like to go to i'm gonna show you what's up all right guys i just got my food from forever taste all this for 24 so the interesting thing about forever taste is that it's a fujinis family but the husband uh learned how to cook shanxi food when he got to chinatown so that's why there's some very shiny dishes here that are even hard to find in other parts of chinatown so this is the yo puam i eaten this dish in beijing i've loved it this is only seven dollars simple dish lots of veggies no meat vegetarian personally this is my favorite dish to get here at forever taste this is the fancy chao dan which is the tomato egg yo dan you smell that i requested to get a little bit spicy look come on you got bok choy you got tomatoes you got eggs i mean i know this is a very homestyle dish for a lot of people but this is this is this is the one here this is a must get here at forever taste and just like a lot of spots out here this is on rutgers street and it serves all types of people so you know they gotta have their chinese american classics but i wanted to try this one because they said this is really good this is one of their specialties this is beef with orange peel and you guys i'm not gonna lie look legit they're not lying about that orange peel look my stamp of approval this tastes like restaurant quality like all right guys of course it would not be a chinatown cheap if i didn't try the dumplings here very cheap great deal let me just squeeze some of this this is not a spot that a lot of people are going to talk about i think you're really going to appreciate it if you live in this area is it a place that i would recommend you you know going off the beaten path just to try i mean i think it's really solid so if you live around the area you can get pretty much all the different types of noodles that you want here all right you guys noodle village i'm excited famous for their joke probably honestly some of the best joke in chinatown how much was the joke so the jokes were about ten dollars each all right you guys right next to noodle village is wakwop this is one of the best chinese malaysian spots around however the reason that we were kind of holding off and putting it in cheap eats is they are more like towards the 20 range but for lunch menu lunch special you know they do have some cheaper sub 10 items so we're gonna check those out all right you guys two of the better and newer restaurants in chinatown nyc are noodle village and walk walk you have hainan chicken ten dollars crispy garlic chicken over rice ten dollars roti cheese talor which is uh six dollars hokkien hakka talk talk me so that's for the wak wak malaysian side okay and noodle village is known for a lot of things they're known for being really solid at everything but their best things are their jokes this is a eupean joke but with real fish pieces these are not frozen this is a shaatin chicken kanji satin kaichok all right you guys like we said noodle village walk walk same space i love the collaboration they're getting along with each other not seeing each other as rivals but rather collaborators all right you guys we have the hainan chicken right here 9.95 over rice boom boom the flavor is there in the sauces next up we've got the crispy garlic chicken i was surprised to see this for 9.95 over rice normally i would say heinen here at wokwok get the garlic crispy chicken this is cheese roti quesadilla with a chicken curry dip so this was only like seven dollars this was a good ass deal andrew i think we're on to something here that's a winner this is a winner last but not least here at wakwa we got the talk talk me i don't think a lot of people know about these like hakka noodles andrew the uh one ton mean comes pre-soy sauce everything's already set but you know what they give you this dish of garnishes on the side might just boom andrew i love this at bulky i love it here this might be the most underrated dish in the chinese diaspora aren't you guys you got to try out these jokes i know a lot of people like to get the preserved egg and the pork but this is a european joke this is a real fresh fish slice i got some fish skins right here i might just eat that with that what honestly the way noodle village does their kanjis or their jokes they are very comparable to something you can get in hong kong listen guys one pro tip is to check out the cheaper dishes that more expensive restaurants have because sometimes that same quality and attention to care transfers over to even their stuff that's ten dollars and under all right guys i'm here at funmi ko and they are serving authentic vietnamese food okay come on come on okay trying to fall wow straight up that is actually really beefy pho it's got heavy cinnamon the tendon is soft and guys i gotta say that this is definitely one of the more tastier fuzz in chinatown all right you guys we are looking at two dessert spots owned by the same company taiyaki dough club we've filmed here before andrew but since then taiyaki has obviously added the japanese souffle pancakes these are actually you know you got to be pretty patient to cook these yo i love how taiyaki and them are always innovating and bringing the new things that are trendy even if they are high uh high labor and it's a lot of trouble to cook i mean they're putting in that work look at that so fluffy japanese souffle pancakes from taiyaki you know interestingly enough it actually does kind of have somewhat of the texture of a sponge cake the dalgone coffee this is like the trendy new asian way uh to drink coffee guys algona coffee is really good if you've never had it it's a different texture it's like whipped coffee one of these is ube flavored and one of these is churro flavored light chewy almost like a chewy ube beignet of course you guys you have the classic mochi donuts you know this kind of blew up recently i want to say two years ago only the good spots are still around wow that one's good oh are these better than the last time i had them yeah super good for sharing too fire very light everything doe club chinatown nyc alright david here we have three of the sponge cakes from cam hang bakery that is the classic spot across the street but they have some new flavors that you didn't cover all right guys so uh man shout out to cam hang the og and you know they always they always make them shaped like boats they were saying it's just their distinct shape so this is a strawberry one never had it before it's good this is done yeah i think this one's pandone that's not green cheese that's fandom i'm gonna give it to strawberry you were right strawberry all right everybody time for a quick boba break uh we're on this kind of like part of canal street right now that's like kind of sort of cut off and split off by the bridge but we're on canal and eldridge this is and this is actually a chain from guangzhou and has hundreds of locations worldwide but just 20 in america and four to five in new york alone mo gt not more good all right we got the moji tea um everything here was about 17 so you know it's not the cheapest drinks but they boast the high quality with the black grape cheese foam let me just pop the top if you just eat that straight up not gonna lie it might be a little too creamy and salty blended black grape the juice is at the bottom nice little salty creamy topping creme brulee ugee matcha you guys know uji matcha top quality matcha here that's decadent bro this is super smooth and it's got all this creme brulee cream right here man i don't even know how many calories this is but i don't even care yifong fruit tea as of right now the ones that i've had that's probably the best fruit tea okay but let me try the emoji emoji tea it's pretty good i give it a four out of five guys if you want to get really good cheese foam and fruit tea somewhere you can get this does it beat yi fong i maybe not maybe not it doesn't edge it out but uh shout out to emoji tea guys chinatown cheap eats part eight i've been looking for this dish since since part six it's the elusive chicken mushroom dish from 57 bayard we gotta see if they have it let me ask one more time i don't know if i'm too late oh he's here [Music] all right guys you know what um i didn't get the dish that i wanted so i didn't even take a bite yet i'm gonna give this away to somebody who probably needs it so we do give a lot of our food away by the way we either eat it we keep it or we give it away to somebody okay we are outside of audrey bakery here on bowery and of all the bakeries that we've been to in chinatown that are chinese-owned um this one definitely stands out being a little bit more aesthetically focused the owner is fujinis the main chef of all the bakery items is taiwanese and then you got a chinese cambodian guy working at the counter guys i'm not gonna lie i ended up spending 25 dollars here look at this roll there's uh corn there's yoksung which is the pork sung sprinkle with a little uh seaweed on top whoa very interesting david i think you're gonna like this next item is the tuna sandwich for 475. not super cheap but it looks high quality has a little tangy kick very solid and healthy tasting i'll rock with it mixed nut bread perfect for the holidays oh it's a little chewy crispy crunchy giving me some holiday fruit fake vibes but on bread not bad last but not least we got the ham croissant tomatoes lettuce very high quality looking fruit audrey bakery not bad i do think it's representative of where a lot of the bakeries in chinatown are moving especially ones that can appeal to a different audience as you can see there was all types of people in there all right everybody we are at tula jours again on division street i know this is like our third time here but i just have to tell you they're always doing different things man and it is a little bit more expensive than other bakeries but they're always innovating listen they have this cream puff pastry right here i'm going to show you i mean this is just so fluffy all right guys here i have macaroons they're 225 each not super cheap but obviously with the quality and flavor guys come on this is a birthday cake one this is a cookies and cream one it's a tough call but i'm gonna roll with the birthday cake one just because i love birthday cake this is west new malaysia aren't you guys new west malaysia is inside this tiny alleyway here in chinatown they are basically serving cantonese malaysian food so if you guys don't know malaysia has a gigantic chinese population this is a prawn noodle using um egg noodles but these are not egg you know toa mean this is a high non curry haul fun haul fun are these rice noodles right here andrew they have the pattaya fried chicken this is sort of based off a thai chinese style they do have a little bit of thai chinese influence here it tastes like thai fried chicken presented in a different format and maybe a 25 different spice recipe okay so overall the flavor of this curry is really on point i can see for some people it being a little light last but not least we've got the prawn noodle here the pening prawn noodle all right so everything here at new west malaysia was impressive i'm going to have to go with the kainan curry noodle man because i think that that eatability while maintaining the flavor was a rare balance all right you guys we are on canal street kind of crazy right now i'm seeing all types of stimulus happen around me we are at on pond man bakery okay as you can see they've got the whole menu here a dollar dollar twenty five obviously used to be eighty cents looking at a fresh ball on yao andrew this was special request by you she heated it up slice of butter i wanted to try this red bean bun because it looks crazy it's like the shape of a bagel it's all right i mean it's more for looks but you get the polo yao butter and bolo pow let's go all right you guys i would say that nanya has a lot of dishes that are outside of the 10 range but if you want to come for lunch or dinner and get the rice dishes you can get a high non chicken with rice for ten dollars you can get a curry chicken with bone for ten dollars and a curry beef with rice for 11 overall guys i'm gonna give this ten dollar chicken rice for nanya a four point five out of five a less common dish but one that people order a lot for ten dollars is the curry chicken i might just have to go ahead and upgrade this to a 4.75 out of 5. that's how close it is okay we got to turn the tables because i'm a huge fan of this beef curry it does remind me of beef rendang even though i can't say it's the same recipe but it does kind of have that deep malaysian indonesian kind of curry spice all right so a reason why we never filmed that nanya is because it is not a hidden gem but it is definitely on the tier of a cheap eat and it's so versatile you can take a date here you can be here by yourself you can go here with your bros it really fits all different occasions and i mean that's it i mean that's how good of a spot this is m and w bakery east broadway all right you guys there are so many bakeries they're so low-key but i'm super excited this one actually has some unique items you guys they've got the lemon pie definitely worth 175. all right everybody i am outside of xinghuang bbq over here on east broadway it's a very low-key spot and they actually have a lot of stuff on the menu i could have gotten a number of items over rice for eight dollars i got two types of chicken and of course duck this is a pretty decent spot right here all right you guys we have chilhon bakery on mat one thing that's very interesting about here is they actually have chocolate cookies you guys what makes chilhong special is they actually have traditional things like moon cakes but they also have italian things because mott street is a hybrid between a chinese street and italian street you would not expect to find chocolate madeline's at a chinese bakery but not bad if you want a chocolate finger cooked by a chinese person i mean here's where you got to go moving on to more italian things that the chinese bakery has this is a neapolitan it tastes half italian half chinese so that's a chinese neopolitan last but not least they have two mochi balls for one dollar these are 50 cents a pop come get this peanut filled snowball mochi and get the neapolitan cheap aren't you guys last but not least wrapping up cheap chinatown eats part eight andrew we are at a brand new spot called prince tea house it went from queens flushing into the city very rare to make that burrow to the city transition usually it's you know urban city brand going into the borough um what do you think this represents i mean i think this represents kind of how the asian enclaves are growing and this spot is not just in chinatown they actually have a location in east village for there to be a very heavily asian dessert spot that is in kind of non-asian zones uh and introducing these type this type of japanese french inspired dessert cafes to the rest of the population i mean i think it's important and it just goes to show you that something can be successful from the enclave and come back into the city you guys uh we've done eight of these episodes we've eaten at over 125 spots um one thing i want to say is keep going and supporting these cheap chinatown businesses but do not expect them to stay cheap because at the end of the day a lot of people are actually undervaluing their service and their own work so if you're a consumer and maybe you haven't been on the other side where you're producing a product or you know running a small business you have to understand that it's great that these places are cheap especially serving the consumers in the local area profit margins are razor thin and in some cases not even there at all and it is unlikely that one of these cheap businesses closed down and then another cheap business that's the same price will open in its place so appreciate the cheap businesses while they are here but do not expect the new modern iterations where people are fairly paying themselves and being fairly compensated for the hard work and how hard they bust their ass to be nearly as cheap guys spend your money just like you spend your money at western establishments let's check out prince teahou you guys we are ordering one fruit toast for 10.75 that's about the 10 price range and we're getting one brown sugar boba mili crepe for 10 as well but you guys last but not least on this chinatown cheap eats crawl number eight we're here at prince tea house straight from flushing andrew this is ten dollars this is eleven dollars you know a little bit pricey i know that this spot is only can get pricey but these totally fit within our range ten dollars and i want to note that obviously it's dessert so you can share it it's meant to be shared so you're not paying 11 per person i would say share this with at least three people boba mill creep this is a french concept where you take a thin slice cream thin slice cream you know all the way up maybe uh 27 to 35 layers each really popularized by lady m this is a taiwanese tea brick tea toast and i think the really interesting thing about prince teaus is it's based off of japanese french cafes based their whole aesthetic off france circa what like 1830 as far as this boba mill crepe goes i give it a four out of five very solid creme brulee top they torched it a little bit i will eat boba pearls on this cake i suggest using a knife it actually tastes better when you cut the slices with a knife versus just attacking there is a lot of cream in that though but let me just saw it in half yo i didn't actually think that that's why prince tea house has so much appeal they're basing their whole aesthetic off like 1850s france which i believe is the first time that japanese sent an envoy to france to learn from them all right guys brick toast it's just a nice piece of brick it's uh carved up a little bit buttered toasted that's a nice brick oh that's a tasty brick man let me get some of this brick you know i've eaten a lot of food david it's all just uh it's all just a blur to me at this point all right everybody so we're gonna wrap it up right here at prince tea house that was chinatown cheap beats part eight thank you so much for watching if you made it this far and you have not hit that like button please do so right now if you haven't clicked subscribe please do so right now and please let us know in the comments down below even if there's more spots that we need to check out or even more neighborhoods around the new york area because we are going out to jersey and queens a little bit more yeah the reason that we don't every day is because uh well we live right by here so it makes it a lot easier we got other stuff to do during the day but it doesn't mean that if we don't come up with you know a plan we can go execute it i mean listen a lot of people still ask us hey guys uh how many more of these are you gonna do i'm like hey how many more good cheap eats are there in chinatown i mean i think there's still some we may have to elevate it beyond the ten dollar range you know to start covering the other spots because i feel like the spots that you know serve 20 things they need love too that's true you know what's funny when we first started the series it was under six dollars then it was under eight and then we had to bump it up to under ten just because i mean to be honest with running out of the really cheap spots but yeah guys thank you so much for watching we enjoy doing this series please check out all the other episodes if you have not and please support your local businesses thank you for watching and until next time we out peace all right everybody thanks for watching that video and i'm gonna leave it on this note as hate continues to peer its ugly head out more you know resulting in verbal and physical attacks it's more important than ever to support the community and protect oneself and protect one's family so below you'll find some links to legitimate organizations and also some resources to report potential hate crimes and of those sorts so stay safe stay aware talk to your family keep them safe and again 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Length: 41min 22sec (2482 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 19 2021