Eating SEATTLE'S CHINATOWN & MONSTER Japanese Katsu Burger Challenge

[Music] good morning this food day has been a long time in the making i'm finally going to explore the food scene of seattle's chinatown i haven't been i've been there before i've been to like a couple of places but i haven't been back like really been back walking around exploring the different restaurants and shops since before lockdown so i've been looking forward to this for a while and i was so excited that i i got up a little too early so we still have some time this should work [Music] before we head out there big thank you to magic spoon for sponsoring this video and supporting this channel i'm actually super excited to tell you guys about this because when they contacted me to um ask if i wanted to work together with them i was in the middle of looking for something just like this should you see me at a breakfast buffet cereal it's always something i will get it was really sad because every time i go to the grocery store i would just avoid the cereal aisle because i can't buy 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and the first place i'm gonna go to is this this is the first place i saw after i parked my car look at this korean hot dogs one of my favorite things to eat [Music] okay so what makes this volcanic is the hot link with the cheddar cheese melted inside okay let me do that and i'll definitely do whatever you said about number 11. i think the last time i had one of these was actually in japan korea is really go to extreme i mean they love cheese but to stuff cheese inside a corn dog and to fry it up with sweet potatoes and to drizzle sugar on top it's like quadruple excess love this it's good and it's so fun to eat super crispy outside crushed out and even though this thing has sweet potato and sugar it doesn't taste overly sweet it kind of goes perfectly for the savoriness of the cheese anytime i see a korean corn dog i gotta get one just packed full of cheese but seriously this is one of those what don't you love about a situation corn dog good sugar good cheese good this is so good i'm gonna give it a condiment how do you expect me to eat something so cheesy without being cheesy this is a chipotle dip [Music] oh yeah dip this in that now it's savory sweet starchy cheesy and creamy and spicy i get to my volcano dog this is a good choice extremely crunchy exterior just a burst of juice and spice when you bite into this dog [Music] when you take a deeper bite you see all that juice and spicy cheese mixed in with the meat try it with a little habanero sauce oh that's on porn i don't feel like we can go in there and get a bad dog i mean they all come with this amazingly crunchy exterior that everyone would just automatically fall in love with inside sausage is good cheese is good only thing that might not love this is probably your heart and even that's conflicted as good as that was i don't know if strategy wise is smart to eat a couple things are priced in your stomach for a week before all the other stuff fuji bakery it's a japanese fusion bakery and i just got a ube [Music] malasada oh this is good wow do not miss that place when you're here only thing i can make this better is one pot of tea but seriously donut is fantastic light and fluffy cream inside tastes like purple silk when that texture covers your tongue you don't ever want that feeling to go away really really fantastic oh no this place is not open i wanted to try this place mike's noodle house a lot of people have been messaging me about it gotta be another needle place somewhere place is closed as well because of covet so many small businesses are struggling right now which is one of the reasons i've been going out more trying to feature more small businesses on the videos and i'll talk more about that in a bit but let's go find some more food a flying pig it's always a good sign before we get some barbecue i see a lion across the street okay so this place is susu dessert bar i'm always super curious when i see a line up for food what are we waiting for here the durian pate show at tsusu's it's really good dorian patel yeah it's amazing it's like a cream cup you guys all waiting for that one thing yeah we ordered like a dozen of them are you the reason i won't be able to get one she opened it it was like the ark of the covenant everyone just like gasped at it i think he just died a little bit yeah hazelnut tarts are new if you're a fan of like chocolate hazelnut and then the kimchi scones are also delicious kimchi scones savory it's not as sweet it's definitely oh i i'm definitely do the sweet thing i'll take the queendom one this lopsided ping pong table is not going to be my dining table got some barbecue from cow cow which is widely regarded as the best barbecue in the seattle area beautiful piece of rose pig juicy fat right underneath lean meat on the bottom got some juicy looking char shoe as well also i can't go to a chinese barbecue place without getting some soy sauce chicken it's one of my favorite rolls chicken by eating this since i was a kid i'm gonna spit down on that that was a good crunch there are bad crunches in life like when i dropped my phone but that that was a definite good crunch soundtrack of my life let's listen to that again signature of a great crispy pork belly it crunches then the skin just melts all right that's doing right now this fatty piece i've been ironing for a while [Music] my lips look really glossed up right now it should i feel prettier after eating this piece of chocolate that's so fatty and delicious that was a piece of sweet fatty smoky delight i'm not really a big fan of really lean pieces like this that's good but give me a fatty juicy piece any day of the week that's where it's at i've actually got a good recipe for both of these dishes i'll link it down below but this place awesome [Music] wow oh that that's soy sauce chicken it's all champagne flavor usually with soy sauce chicken the flavor doesn't infiltrate the white meat nearly as much that's why they gave you the dipping sauce but this thing tender and umami throughout i'm gonna put this away for a second and try out my dorian's heart unless you really sniff this like right in the middle you wouldn't be able to tell this is during it it doesn't smell like it if this wasn't a public park i would eat that off the ground no this is really good it doesn't have any of the funk if you don't like durian because you can't handle that onions slash wet socks odor that it sometimes gives off this guy none of that none of the funk it almost tastes like dorian ice cream in the middle this is amazing who could you sell one of these [Music] i really like the auntie working here it's really proud of her dumplings i asked her which one was the best she said all of them but she had that you know my dumplings are all that and dim sum attitude which gives me confidence that i'm gonna get some good dumplings here ah nothing like eating on the hood of my car again i should just start calling it a show car hood dining or dining on the hood oh i am really excited for dumplings and bubble tea well bubbleless tea honey jasmine oh this is yummy chive dumplings soup dumplings fried dumplings and no chopsticks all right social experiment here i'm gonna leave dumplings on my car i'm gonna run down the street and grab some chopsticks and hope it's still here when i get back i'm gonna leave hot oil here too just make it more enticing if you huh they're all here i'm just saying if i walk by a car there's dumplings and bubble tea and halloween on it don't think i can control myself so you're a lot better people than i am seattle see dumpling it was like a dumpling that really didn't age very well that's good i knew that auntie had swagger she was like trust me all of our dumplings are good i'm like you know what i do trust you she really has that good dumpling sort of confidence you know what i mean and you get one two three four five six seven eight nine ten so you get ten dumplings and these are not small sized dumplings either and they may look like they've been you know out in the sun a little too long and the dumpling equivalent age of 90. but the wrapper is then the filling very substantial and meaty and tasty my mask just rolled over my hot oil and got hot oil all over my car again that's okay all right because who doesn't want a hot wheel [Music] that was a good dumpling and i'll tell you what i prefer these over the ding taipung ones any day of the week there's a massive piece of filling inside although it's not a lot of juice like spilling out everywhere as you will find from a typical soup dumpling it is still a very juicy dumpling and also love her hot oil so these are fried buns oh man they're huge okay this is not bad bits of pork and onion inside nice crispy outside exterior pillowy and soft right beneath the surface that's good i like the soup dumpling better but this is solid that's good slightly doughy on the fold but the filling is delicious ah yoga big time chai flavor love the meat i love the juiciness of it overall flavor amazing very very solid dumpling until that peens they know their dumplings wow this day just keeps getting better and better we kind of did like a reversal today we first ate all the sweet stuff all the fry stuff all the heavy stuff and then we did the meats and the dumplings there's one more place i really want to try we're gonna head over to little [Music] saigon tamarind tree and it's hard to find it's like gonna come up this parking lot you wouldn't see until you just get right up in here i got the seafood soup that is just mind-blowingly delicious wow i mean it may not look like it but this thing contains some explosive flavors we taste the seafood and the beef and the great flavor of the celery in asia we have our own type of celery and it tastes different than the celery you'll find in western supermarkets the flavor is much much stronger if you go to asian supermarket and buy the celery stir-fry that you're going to fall in love when that flavor has just blushed the soup the soup is just a combination of soothing and just in your face delicious flavor bomb noodles cooked perfectly just the right degree of chew look at this it's like a shrimp fossil if this is what people would find when they dig up sea creatures i'd be an archaeologist the outside crackling crispy even though it's been sitting in a super last five minutes shrimp is deliciously sweet this also brings a whole other degree of texture to the dish but for me what i love most is just this broth and noodles i don't really even need anything else not even sriracha perfect the way it is i'm so glad i ran into this 100 come and give this a try this is the food finale i've been looking for for a great food day to just wrap up perfectly you knew something out at the end you're just like that was it that was the forced gump ending of food days happy sunday yesterday was really fun getting to eat in chinatown and i got a message from a restaurant they're doing like a japanese wagyu pop-up and they brought over a couple of japanese cows they asked me to check it out so let's go see [Music] what's up now what's your name i'm evan i've been talking with you yeah you've been talking with me so you guys brought over a couple of cows from japan so they're raised in magnolia or and in bottle mouth i think belly farms but they're 100 full blood yb oh they're 100 full blood japanese cows but they're raised in the u.s crazy u.s that's right gotcha so you guys all the meat cut up this is the wagyu sanctuary right here oh that's beautiful this is the top sirloin this is the cap yeah oh that looks good oh that looks great i'm in for the wagyu but the biscuits look pretty good too i actually got to come and get at this place they they barbecued and smoked the big dino ribs i like nice yeah let me know about the big ribs no seriously i don't come back to this place let's go eat can't wait for these biscuits and gravy this biscuit and gravy looks great this biscuit first of all it's humongous this is one of those dishes i missed the most um after i left the midwest this is excellent this reminds me back when i was in college we would go about 2 a.m to this diner called pancake city and we would order a large order of biscuit and gravy and back there was only like three dollars and there's nothing like a good biscuit and gravy at two o'clock in the morning to just make you feel satisfied and feel yourself just tie a tiny bit inside because as good as this taste there might not be much food in the world worse for you than this but oh my god this is good no joke amazing i can't wait to go back to that place i should i really want to eat there if their biscuit and gravy is this good can't wait to see what comes out of that smoker kind of feeling like a burger let's go find a burger [Music] i've always wanted to try katsu burger this is the challenge katsu burger [Applause] well they warned me oh my god that is a hundred percent a monster burger good god this burger looks like it ate another burger oh my goodness three pieces of katsu in there i think one beef and two pork cheese cabbage good god my jaw will definitely need to be on hinge to eat this and this is a challenge burger they said i mean for a challenge burger it's not that big i say about a couple pounds best way eat it with some kimchi this is good male wasabi cheese pork cotsu is nice and crispy on the outside not the most juicy thing now flavor is really good oh it's bacon here too oh my god there's no not nice way to eat this i'm gonna try a piece of the beef katsu um i like that wood in the pork oh very nice a little worcestershire sauce flavor in here as well oh this is delicious delicious burger now if you think i can't eat this whole thing you really don't know me that well do you might have to fork and knife this baby holding it which is way too hard i'm glad i got this because i want to try both of the pork katsu and the beef katsu i'm sure it's chicken pork and beef cartoon i 100 like the beef the best hmm next time i go back i'm getting a spicy version all the flavors i love from japan you got the cabbage i usually get at katsu shops the crunch is nice male worcestershire a little wasabi i really like the spice almost done whilst watching prince of tennis by the way i i heard that kimchi may help protect against kovid so i figure i really didn't need another excuse to eat kimchi but sure why not i'll probably finish this in like two days look at that a small one is like a one [Music] biter [Music] perfect even the lean cuts are juicy and tender oh my god i'm so so happy with this thank you so much again lady jay for these steaks these couple two days really amazing food days everything i found in chinatown so delicious the katsu burger love that place and of course it all wraps up these things of beauty one thing i will say that is really troubling is the fact that about 40 of the place that wants to go to chinatown were closed because of covet or looters or a combination of both and again i mentioned this in a previous video coming from uh from a family who who lived off a small business we had a buffet restaurant uh ever since we came to the states and it's put a roof over our heads and put me through school and i've worked there since i was 13 years old helping out the family i mean a small business it's really the lifeline for so many families and it is really devastating when they have to close so that's why i really want to go out there and feature more small businesses especially while i'm here before i start traveling again bring some more attention to them i've also told everyone that i started doing cameo and a hundred percent of the proceeds and this is not just like this month next month it's forever all the proceeds will go towards charities that help these small businesses and also um whatever i generated on cameo so far and for the next couple months i'm gonna match it myself and donate that to uh to those charities as well and um i've asked this on instagram i i asked whoever knew of a small business that is in trouble and really would need some support so a lot of you guys been sending in um gofundme pages for these businesses so i'm gonna put them in the description box below so if you can if you want to if you can don't do it if you can't if you want to help out the links are in my description box below and i was thinking about this every video a few hundred thousand people would watch and if everyone who can gives i don't know like 50 cents i don't know what the minimum for gofundme is maybe 50 cents maybe a dollar that's a lot of money that can be raised for people and i'll throw this out again if anybody knows of any businesses that are really struggling because of covid or looting or both email me at strictlydunkinggmail.com and i'll be happy to add their link as well as always guys thank you all so much for watching see you later

Channel: Mikey Chen

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Keywords: seattle chinatown, chinatown seattle, seattle id, international district, little saigon, little tokyo, chinese food, vietnamese food, chinese dumplings, chinese noodles, noodles, seafood noodle, seafood noodle soup, noodle soup, soup, noodle, durian, dessert, katsu burger, monster burger, giant burger, burger, japanese burger, hamburger, eating, eat, traveling, travel, tourism, tour, hotel, flight

Id: cUt2VKM7H7Q

Length: 24min 56sec (1496 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2020