The Lechón King of the South Bronx | Street Food Icons

okay bye Michael what he does is he brings everyone together I mean that's what she wanted to community that's why for me he means someone they care to give out and show the community the culture never forget where you come from I believe that somebody as iconic as angel should get recognized with a statue in the neighborhood after his departure from this world so bronze yes let's do it [Music] the owners are a piranha Lake John era I've been doing this for the last 20 years my menu is for a weekend for you know roast pork rice banana chicken empanadas beef shrimp mofongo from Cameroon a my family dish is the roast pork rice in banana I am Lee Chung is the traditional legend you know so we do a lie Porto Rico style with seasoned air we hang them and then we put it in the oven I work for Falcone mechanical and Yonkers New York doing center air conditioning that's my regular job my trailer only open Saturdays and Sundays I was seven days a week so my dream is I wanna get my own little restaurant I want to be full-time full-time restaurant for my people and my customer to you remember a lot of people call me Pierre on yeah because I grew up in Aguadilla that's an ocean so I'll be always in the water I was like a fish this is my traditional my cherry from four Oh Rico they my mommy and my puppy show me how to do it we grew up with this we chop in the tree when my cherry we cleaned the dart by my change we cut the me by my cherry that's part of my life ah thank you very much that was his birthday and I give him a little bit of octopus and you see he came back the photo I want to say nothing my food topper yourself - I mean gente y por el apoyo ceremonial come three o'clock in the morning star my oven it started cooking my food this is the pig you know you see this is a whole half a pig Dada Booga oregano pimienta soul in adobo yes let's do it now we put this over here Natalie you open the oven this is my mother in my father oven for a long time so this is the way we do it put it right here that's one this is all ribs we're over here ready to go so now we're gonna wait eight hours 12:30 twelve o'clock is done I'm from Puerto Rico agua de a-- my father used to be a fisherman because our age is big our election era and Puerto Rico yes my grandmother and my grandpa show me how to cook they told me when you grow up you're gonna know how you take care of yourself fifteen 20 years I'd stay over there yeah I came in this way like 84 85 my father say you got it you gotta go to work no time for school and doctor we got him go to work and so called a family I'll go to the supermarket big bagging groceries hug my father started with a little truck over here and selling food selling pastelitos selling baccala Ito's you know we came from Puerto Rico because we was little poor you know and not too much work overhead so we got an opportunity to come to New York City and do better we came to know to the Bronx and we didn't hang out with it [Music] you see when they pour go like this inside easy that mean is done and that's the way we do in the style promise let's do it so now we're gonna put some rice into the banana on top of it and so mojito and dr. plate we go this is the swims homophone go you gotta fry it up the plantain very good you go like this so much is inside do it like this that's a mofongo we got out of there chilled might not be right now I need something for the Rican food with the post into the oven come on your class electron there's a helluva it's all good and this is a right here you know my mother competing but I think you might have a human I got the upper hand I don't tell her I said that all right the full and pota vehicle to take food the heat makes here delicious very authentic I come a long way every Saturday on Sunday to have it this is close to the island as our leaders and the best part the skin they call it what eat oh that's what you want to hear when you bite into the strong crunchy but unconscious not real electron he's an icon in the community the kids come out of school or they are just playing around and they hungry and he feeds them for no money I gave food to the cake for the homeless people and the old ladies and the old guys because the way that our traditional if you say no it's not good luck for you the comment comment comment getting sit down they see sit down take a take a minute take a minute yes ladies and gentlemen but most high this guy is a good guy he's a gentleman in other words the Prophet I've seen him literally feed people I love you and I respect I love you too for muchos anos llamo hockey don delaio a la comunidad boricua yes todo que Cherubini where every need that a lot of pie see a key Taco Bell and the fruit o Fortuna for ekwa salad or winter winter winter [Music] I used to work in ground zero where their twin towers before they those people knock it down we get up eight o'clock in the morning when we're coming in on our way the first airplane hit 13 towers when I see that I think it about the ending a week later they call us to work over there - with the put a clean up a lot of my friend they died already like a bastard you members I would love our best in there haha little bee in my lungs well I don't got much I don't got much I'm okay Jenga we worked there two years and they day no more jobs so they give all corporate arson dollars invested to my to my trailer the people I take care of my kicks way my way my work I went to the Navy and the other one window we know that go to work and the other one everything yeah and I got little ones now you know six years old five years old one years old and another one coming I want one of my baby that's angel my little one to take over my business sixty years old now growing so I take him with me one of the blue moons you know take him with me to how I chop my phone how was he say my phone how we go to the market and get the pigs so he can remember meet up determine whatever tell me we didn't forget another okay Anna people they want me out customer Sarah to me so sometimes I stay silence it's only because I need a break when I stay a lot of people calling me your NGO peer Anya where you are well yeah well you know coming up yeah and I say okay I decide couple days at least to relax you know and then next Saturday next weekend I gotta come out this is my gasolina let me tell you my energy man any year is my dream so my dream is i'ma go to my do man little restaurant that made me keep going I see a common because a lot of people want me I'm gonna be in the same room - over here imma do it over here well I went from you know where my powering from where we grew up I want to do it in the same neighborhood to support my people are not leaving the Bronx I love the prom I love my South Bronx I'm gonna die over here in the south [Music]

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Id: uTdsGH97Toc

Length: 9min 32sec (572 seconds)

Published: Thu May 09 2019