Philly Cheesesteak Tour - 5 FAMOUS STEAKS TO EAT!! | American Fast Food in Philadelphia!

what's up mark how are you doing welcome to philly's great day today hope you're having an amazing day today we are in philadelphia and we're going to go on an ultimate philly cheesesteak tour now philly cheesesteak is probably i mean not only is it the most iconic food of philadelphia and it's a culture in philadelphia but it's one of the top fast food dishes in the united states hands down hands down jay are you ready to go on an ultimate cheesesteak tour yeah i'm gonna take you around we're gonna go to some popular places i'm gonna take you on some some not so popular places right here just a five dollar holler we're going to enjoy the philly cheesesteak culture here man the first time in philadelphia you got to try a whiz whip it's going to be a meaty experience the beef juices are going to flow we cannot wait to take you on this ultimate cheesesteak tour of philadelphia let's get a mark it's gonna be a lot of fun mainly we're just gonna have a lot of fun and eat a lot of cheesesteak that's gino's over there over here across the corner across the road that's pat's king of stakes who invented the philly cheese steak and so we thought it was only right to begin at the very origin where cheese steak all began the line is not too bad today it's not too bad um you know yeah i'm gonna take him around passing gino's so he can you know be a tourist you know be a tourist here but you know i don't want y'all to be like yo jeff why do you take him there you know we're doing history giving y'all some history giving y'all some facts here so i always pay homage to the og's passengers they're the ogs of the city all right so pay some respect to your og's here so you come over here they have a whole instructional uh sign here that that shows you how to order philly style right you got wit without that's with onions or without onions you got you got to state your cheese you can say witch you could say pro-v uh american cheese is mainly just known like you know widow without pretty much so and i've never gotten a pizza steak here honestly i just do whiz wit or you actually have a like quite a few options [Music] yeah let's try that okay okay whatever you want cheese fries so it's pretty cool you you make your order at the counter you can then come over here they have a big glass window where you can see all the steak going they just keep a constant flow it's like everlasting steak going on that griddle it just like looks like it goes down the griddle as it cooks more and more until you have a pile of steak at the end they have the bread ready already cracked open he's putting cheese on in the back steak goes in boom they've got a system going right out the window you pay right out the window your steak is ready that is fast fast man get you in and out like late nights you come here late night like two three in the morning after the club people want to eat and if you don't feed the people they get rowdy so they got the ordering system they know what they're doing [Music] there you go this awesome they actually have a self condiment station oh nice oh yeah oh that whiz as soon as i finish [Music] [Applause] that cheese whiz drip you said the best the best cheese fries in the world the best cheese fries in the world you used to work here at pat's king of steaks i did so cool to meet you appreciate it thank you it's an honor to meet you thank you man i love how you self-serve the condiments you can put as many of those fried chilies as you like in there the onions are in there man and that cheese whiz is oozing oh man i mean normally you put the peppers off to the side so everybody you can just take a bite with it yeah that's a good idea otherwise it might just the entire thing might collapse on first bite it's gonna be a messy experience right here yeah you could just chill oh this is our first cheesesteak and again the original the inventor of the cheesesteak it's sloppy it's gooey the bun feels soft that whoa where it's a little bit windy out here today so napkins are flying chili's are flying cheese whiz is oozing all over the place we better take our first bite cheers man oh yeah oh chase that with them oh man bite of the steak with the with the bread with the cheese was followed by that pickled chili oh that just makes it pop makes it burst my favorite part right here take a big bite then get to the cherry peppers the bread is actually really good it's soft it's lightly steamed the inside is really fluffy with a little bit of a chewiness the steak is in pretty big pieces it's not ultra tender beef but you taste the meatiness of the beef the onions are fried in there the cheese whiz is just everywhere within there it's actually pretty pretty awesomely tasty okay and on that bite let's talk a little bit about the history of the philadelphia cheesesteak which was invented at patch it was back in 1930 around the early 1930s when pat and harry oliveira they actually had a hot dog cart one day i think they had some steak lying around and they decided to put that into a roll put that into a hoagie roll and eat it as a sandwich as the story goes a cab driver was driving by he saw the steak sandwich he said give me one of those he loved it and by the way at that point the steak sandwich didn't include cheese so it was not a cheesesteak it was just a steak sandwich cab driver said give me one of those and he liked it and he said you have to add this to your this menu you have to you have to start selling it that was the beginning of pat's king of steaks eventually cheese came later and so eventually all other cheese steaks originate at pat's king of steaks and so that's something to acknowledge the history while there might be many local opinions there might be there's cheese stick wars but without a doubt to acknowledge that they have put cheese steak on the map they have made cheesesteak famous popularized it around the world i mean you can find cheesesteaks probably in every major city around the world without a doubt visiting pat's king of steaks is a must when you do an ultimate cheesesteak tour of philadelphia now i am with a local here jail jail what do locals think about pat's king of stakes i'm gonna tell you mark so all right i'm gonna keep it all the way real quick now by the locals we consider this a tourist trap a lot of locals will tell you that and quite honestly i don't see it like that i heard from yeah as well yeah yeah when you told me you wanted to come here i'm like you know you might get a little kickback from it because you know we consider it a tourist trap we don't normally get our cheese sticks from here but at the same breath like like i've been telling you like they they are i see them as something totally different i see them as iconic to the city they employ a lot of these citizens here they uh are a staple here you know when you come over here a lot of out-of-towners want to come over here to get cheesesteaks and take pictures so there's definitely a purpose of pets and genos within this philly south philly community with that being said uh i enjoy them i appreciate them it's not my first uh choice as far as cheesesteak goes but we're gonna get to that later i'm gonna definitely show you some other places in the cut some popular ones that you must try but this one i appreciate it's cool it's cool for what it is late night two three in the morning you want a cheesesteak they're open why not and i can say right now that without a doubt i mean all history all biases aside i'm enjoying this cheesesteak you know i mean that's what matters right are you enjoying it i'm enjoying it it's your first one so you know i'm enjoying it you don't have to have a clean you have a clean palette of philly cheese steaks but if you've been here for a long time you can kind of over time tell the difference and pretty much build up a preference some people don't like their steak like this they might like it chopped up more fine or they might like that bread a certain way or okay they might like mayonnaise on there or whatever it is you know it's all preference so we but we're going to get to all the different other cheesesteaks while you're here and on that note we should try those fries because the fries do look incredibly good cheese fries right cheese fries yeah this definitely definitely gets paired up with some cheese fries cheese fries hmm oh yeah i feel so guilty that was such a bad bite that was so good though those fries are good they're salty and even when they're soggy with the cheese whiz they're crispy it does stick to your ribs for sure that'll definitely stick to your ribs wow i have to have one more bite of that it's like a blob of french fries and it's so good okay get the cheese steak don't miss the fries jale do you usually eat it with ketchup i normally do okay but i wanted to see i did see a lot of people eating ketchup on it right yeah so we'll try that for the next for the remainder of the cheese stick ketchup those fried chilies are awesome [Music] so again pat's king of stakes again is here and then what is possibly one of the greatest rivalries in american fast food and one of the greatest walks across the street that you could possibly have we're going across the street to eat our next cheese steak let's do it let's go yo what's up what's up man thank you i appreciate it how many millions of times has this walk been done from pats to gino's in the history of the cheese steak and what's so cool is that we're like we're not on a busy street like it's a neighborhood it's a community and somehow the roads here were perfectly designed so that there's a corner for pat's king of stakes and then kitty corner on the other side on the other corner is gino's steaks and possibly one of the the world's great logos billboards neon lights with a cheese stick in the sky one thing that's really dope about genos is they got the bright lights so a lot of music videos get shot a lot of people come here at nighttime it's photo opportunities so this is one of the place i must say gino's do got that on lock so hello can i have a mushroom cheese steak please with provolone yeah yes please [Music] thank you very much extra sandwiches thank you appreciate it nice thank you guys thank you for the pens gino's and we're going to come over here to the sas station the condiments after they have the cherry peppers too let's load it up load it up i think from here on okay the one thing that we're going to get through this full cheesesteak ultimate tour i think jayla and i are gonna have to pace ourselves from for so from here on out we're gonna be sharing a cheese steak oh man if you were to do a full yourself at all of the places we're going to you might not move for a week oh and this one we got we've got with mushroom and provolone which was jael's suggestion oh yeah oh that's a lot of cheese i like their branding here though man they have neon lights and bright signs down to a science i think one of the big distinguishing factors that i read before i mean before i've even tried gino's is that they say that pats often has more of a frizzled small cuts of beef shredded beef whereas pats is known for its big pieces of steak it's still still very thin sliced but you can definitely see that they're big big pieces without being chopped up so fine like you'll see at a lot of cheesesteak places oh yeah now that is a lot of melted cheese loaded with onions loaded with mushrooms that smells incredible oh yeah with the mushrooms with the really finely shaved thin steak and you know you barely notice that it's big slices because the steak is really tender i love that melted provolone chase that with the cherry chili oh that just shot out shot juice like a pure cheese taken away you know what i mean like slabs of steak on here really thin straight to the point look i mean i'm mad at it you know i'm not mad at it at all so let's finish up this cheese steak and then we're moving on to the next spot yes sir hope you're ready for it ready [Music] and you know i give it up i give it up for them i respect pat's and gino's for the ogs and i see a lot of people talking trash y'all better put some respect on passing gino's name up in here you know um a lot of y'all talk smack about them and end up being waiting in line after the clubs to eat some passing genos so i think that's real funny a lot of y'all talk smack about it but then you end up in line here juan did she say but it's all good you know what i mean i forgive you you know what i'm saying all i can say is also that i will that was a an achievement that's something i have been wanting to do for my entire life that trek from bats to gino's we have done it we can now move on to the next [Music] cheesesteak all right jl next up on this ultimate cheesesteak tour of philadelphia we are far from the tourist trail of philadelphia where are we at next we are currently south philadelphia again this is like fifth and wolf at a corner store also known we call it the poppy store uh mainly just because you know it's really ran by like dominicans and puerto ricans or hispanic folks but in this case here uh this is ran by like a cambodian owned um a corner store but we still call it a poppy store you can find these on pretty much every other block here in philadelphia they sell everything from phone chargers t-shirts do-rags drinks and a cheesesteak amazing not just any cheese some may argue this is uh some of the best cheesesteaks they have too and on top of that it's fast it's convenient and it's cheap it's only five dollars hey all right man it's like any convenience store bags of chips you can get your cup of noodles you can get your stovetop stuffing you can get all the beverage selections from monster energies to mountain dew something i think that's extremely cool is that you'll find so many different corner stores owned by so many different ethnicities and nationalities and when they all come together in philadelphia it's like they embrace the culture of philadelphia to sell cheesesteak that's something like awesomely unifying yeah you can find a mexican cheesesteak here you can i'm pretty sure they can both find something over here indian cheese steak indian pizza everything man so the culture takes whatever philadelphia is about and they make it their own that's embrace it think about it you know it's so cool so cool so you walk to the back and that's where you order the food here so one of the the great things about going to a corner store or poppy store is you pretty much already know them and you can customize your sandwich however you want to so it's not like when you go to like one of those brand name spots and you got to ask them can you put not too much onions or whatever it is over here you can tell them whatever you want you can add bacon you can add turkey bacon lots of onions lots of mayo however you want they'll make it just right just for you [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right and we're just gonna post up right here on the freezer oh yeah corner store cheese steak right here is the five dollar holler and is that pretty standard at corner stores five dollars five dollars like five dollars is the standard some places might do it cheaper for like 350 or four dollars but depending on bacon on here if you want to probably make it six bucks but either way if you have about five dollars in your pocket you're looking for a meal poppy store gets you right you know it's gonna be good when you have to pull a completely transparent piece of paper out of it oh yeah the drippings it's dripping baby oh look at that inside section the cheese is on there still melting that is great poppy store cheesesteak is nice and messy that's how you want it to be oh that's the only way it's the only way cheers brother [Music] don't sleep on this 5 sandwich right here dude that balance the just a a sloppy harmony of mayonnaise melted cheese shredded steak those pickles is what's really making it for me in this corner store specifically we're at l m variety porter star locals called cj's known as cj's amazing thank you guys this is cheesesteak it's incredible best bang for your buck thank you very much nice to meet you all right that was an amazing experience being able to support the family that runs the corner store that's a great thing about eating a cheese steak at the corner store as well [Music] what would you say about this place uh jail i'd say you can't go wrong if you come to philadelphia and you and you stop by this spot right here you're doing something right and is it especially common for visitors from around the u.s for locals what would you say this is both this is actually touted as one of the best in the city it's not considered a tourist trap and people swear up and down by it alessandro's rules your first time in philadelphia you got to try a whiz wit so it's wiz cheese with onions all right i know you like onions right that's some cheese steak sling pretty much that's pretty much you guys yes type of phone number [Music] i hate that process it's all difficult you gotta give your phone number now then you gotta wait to get in line to pick up i don't know i missed the old days man so the old days you could just walk in you'll walk right in walk through it you get your cheese steak and continue through you got like a nice bar right there too okay dollars one second order now ready kelvin d please get in line for the left window [Music] so it ended up being more about a 45 minute wait hopefully it will be worth it we stood in line what's always great about standing in line is that number one it increases your anticipation and your desire to try whatever it is that you're about to eat and then number two is that you always meet cool people in the line and talk to them about food usually so yeah i mean i don't look i'ma say it alessandro's i love y'all but y'all ordering system is kind of it's it's out of whack man you know for me like for what i witnessed before i know we're going through different times right now but that ordering system was kind of rough i ain't gonna lie it was rough i'm gonna say it for you mark it was rough we waited a long time thanks jail you're all right you are i can i can verify that jail they do actually have a couple tables but people are reserving them so just a few table options but they have a nice whole grassy park area across the street which is very nice [Music] let's tear into this that proof of steaming steak chopped steak and onions wow it's bulging it is bulging [Music] the cross-section reveal the steak is very quite shriveled and quite fine the the tear is quite fine but big chunky onions cheese whiz smells pretty awesome [Laughter] i mean i got my appetite for so long [Laughter] really soft yeah you can feel how probably the steam of the onions and the beef is embedded within the roll just going to open it up so we can see what's inside there's cheese whiz there's mayo in there there's there's um oh the the pickled chili the chili's in there right and that is like one of the the finer steak shreds that i've seen really squishy cheers cheers oh yeah that is a lot of steak in there whoa you've got the crunch of the onions i don't think i tasted those chilis yet and that cheese whiz just makes it like so heavy and rich it's good i like the onions you know it's a solid cheese steak you know for me i feel like they chopped the meat too fine but then again that's all preference at the end of the day so i think you really taste the flavor of the beef you really taste the i actually don't taste the chilies at all it's a really light chili nothing crazy but you know it's still a solid cheese steak del sandros can't go wrong you know preference at the end of the day [Music] it is pretty pretty awesomely good though [Music] jl you ready for the next cheesesteak let's do it i'm ready for this man i'm excited and where are we going next next is we're going to hit up south street to try out jim's state and so south street is looks like a really social street a lot of people strolling walking up and down the street there's a lot of shopping there's a lot of restaurants it's a nice social atmosphere and jim's is one of the one of the legendary steak cheese steaks in in philadelphia right yeah i'd say uh you can't go wrong with gyms either it's um it can it can attract it does attract the crowd but i'd say for starters if anyone wants a philly cheesesteak go to gyms you won't be disappointed situation inside the line just kind of wraps around it really has a diner kind of feel to it an old diner diner style they have some of the old photos the vintage photos all of the people who have been in here signatures snake your way around the line and eventually get to the front where you can see them chopping up the stake and you make your order [Music] huh they have just a massive pile of beef going all the time it looks like kind of the medium shred in texture uh but that beef is just continuously just sizzling and boiling in its own juices the cheez whiz move though here is they've got it down he put some at the bottom some at the top we got it with the wiz we got it with some peppers on the side we're going to go outside step outside they have some tables where we're going to eat all right here we go jim steak south street here we go it's a name brand cheap this is what i call a name brand cheese steak you see that got the whole logo and everything so let's open it up oh yeah when you have jael has already taught me that when it's when the when the wrapper is transparent from the meat juice that's a pretty good sign wow [Music] jim stay yeah the bread feels soft immediately on the fingertips man he was just flying on that cheese whiz there's so much cheese in there that it's just stuck together i think he actually put one layer of cheez whiz on the bottom and one on the top so you can feel it's like glued together with cheese whiz that's always a good sign some places really they just do uh one layer on the top of cheese whiz but in this case they hit you with the cheese whiz at the bottom then on the top cheers oh yeah it's pretty awesomely good the cheese whiz is just [Music] it's just like melted and oozy and sticky within the entire cheesesteak the steak is actually super tender man yeah really tender i think because the steak is so tender you don't even really notice the how shredded it is because it's so tender the bun is very soft has a bit of a chewiness to it but really soft really soft buns really soft [Music] i think we should load it up with the chili soda let's put this down are these pickled chilies there's cherry peppers there's italian ones right yeah some kind of like a fresh oh man you can smell those yup those are like chinese chili oil chilies oh there's some oil down there too oh yeah i'm gonna send this through the roof i've had these fried chilies before so that oil is gonna just burst into the steak yeah man and that softness of the bread and butter those fried crispy chilis [Music] it also goes down really well yeah i smashed that dog like that turned out to be better than what i expect well you know it turned out to be better than what i remember it to be that to me that's how you do a legendary cheesesteak spot right here james that was really good got to get the roasted peppers though to make it game changing to me you know why it's so popular why it's one of the the main players one of the main legends of cheesesteak in philadelphia i think we have made it to the end we've reached the finish point of the ultimate cheesesteak tour of philadelphia yes and i just want to thank you for visiting philadelphia your first time here i'm glad i was able to show you around show you a good time man i'm really a happy man i get to meet one of my heroes here when it comes to video content creation this man right here is one of my inspirations man i can't believe i'm hanging out with him just to eat a chili pepper with this man i really made my day so thank you i'm glad you're able to come visit man dude and huge thank you jail for taking us around for showing us philadelphia it wouldn't have been possible without jail he knows philadelphia he knows the food while you're at it go to jail's channel jl jupiter on youtube i'll have it in the description box below go subscribe to jail go watch his videos support jl he's an amazing guy he has a passion for food and a passion for supporting communities throughout philadelphia throughout the united states and travels as well so thank you thank you jail so much fun to hang out you go make me shut it i'm about to set it's here one time all right and thank you guys for all watching this video well we're about to get run over by an ice cream truck yeah what's up man and welcome to philadelphia please remember to give this video a thumbs up leave a comment below we'd love to hear from you and also remember to subscribe for lots more videos make sure to watch more videos on philadelphia and thank you philadelphia for treating us so well see you on the next video

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Length: 32min 45sec (1965 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 07 2021

Reddit Comments

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Who?

[u/snooloosey]

this guy's thing are hyperbolic "oh WOW'S" after every bite and the cringiest fake laughs ever. That being said, he's never led me astray when I've traveled through asia.

[u/Business-is-Boomin]

That 5 dollar cheesesteak with the pickles looks good. Might have to take a ride to 5th and Wolf

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Notify me when Uncle Roger reviews a cheesesteak

[u/NjMel7]

Why is he at Pats? Ugh try a real cheesesteak dude!

[u/beeps-n-boops]

What a poor list of places to choose from.