The ULTIMATE FILIPINO FOOD TOUR THROUGH LA! | Fung Bros

where are you from Bunga Topanga Topanga is known for the food yes that's why I mean the you know places all the workers here they're so full historic Filipino town or hi-fi is one of the oldest ethnic enclaves in LA living in LA for several years we hadn't really been there before so we linked up with our Filipino friend Ryan Benson to check out everything from authentic bakeries to cafeterias to supermarkets to Instagram abou hipster spots and of course barbecue aren't you guys we are getting fresh pondus all in the morning here in historic Filipino town what do we got here Ryan alright guys so we have their best seller right here this is the Hopi oh boy so this has onion inside of it it's kind of like the Filipino version of an empanada yo if you guys are feeling this video so far hit that like button click subscribe and turn on your notifications for the algorithm hope you boy kind of has a sweeter hey I kind of like a a doughy texture varmint we're a sweet onion a sweet onion not only do you have like copia baboy which is like onion but you have hope you obey or hope yeah Mungo which is a mung bean hope you long ago Wow Wow really sweet smooth very first yeah time to solid so it has more of the crust of a French bread but it definitely has that sweetness like a Hawaiian roll right everybody would you guys like to jam it up yeah yeah I've never seen that bingo did you feel that stickiness in your mouth no strings that you saw that was just straight sweetness here I'm gonna make a little boat dude we just used the pandas all like a little spoon or a pelican go it's a really good oh that is super good super strong chicken flavor great tender chicken pieces five out of five I gotta give it a 5 all right guys we got to go on to the next spot our next stop on our historic Filipino town high five crawl it's just right next door we're right here at dollar heads it's so super authentic Filipino food skewers barbecue lunch table buffet dollar hits this Plaza was started by family from pop Angus that's a city 55 miles north of Manila that's famous for its cuisine they say Pampanga has better seafood while Manila has better beef steak aka beef steak but if you talk to someone from papayas they'll let you know how proud they are of everything they serve because it's a reflection of the rich food culture that's unique to their city you know you guys we have sort of moved from Filipino breakfast the Filipino lunch with the creation of historic Philippi downtown it really became an enclave for Filipinos in LA because you have communities outside of LA like West Covina you know Hills evil evil rock but there was nothing really inside la that had its own sanctuary for Filipino you know I think for me the first thing that I had to try you know was the shrimp Jack throw go for it go for it jackfruit sometimes is used as a substitute I have to go for these mini crabs first I know not everybody would choose this but I've just I was so intrigued by him because I didn't know I think I'm gonna go with the fungus the milk fish but the people who haven't had no fish how did you describe it for me I mean it's it's white fish it has a lot of bones the way that is cooked with the tomatoes the onions and all the herbs it helps really round out the place first this is a really salty kind of fish but this brought that it's been cooking Wow does it have so much flavor in it all right chicken adobo the good hallmarks of our chicken adobo it's have been cook quality soy sauce quality vinegar cooked over a long period of time so that chicken cooks down all right guys I'm gonna try this goat for me so far this in the adobo superhit that goes good anytime you have a Filipino like fried skin dish you got to dip it in the vinegar cry chicken skin it's funny my grandfather my Lolo I don't know where we'll be sitting in the car and he'll be like boom has a bag teacher I'll he'll finish it and he'll go who has another little teacher old magician but it's a perfect snack man if salty is crunchy and then you dip it in the vinegar and you got this like nice little tart okay okay of course this is kind of like a tradition on our channel every time we have a Filipino food episode and we are able to have balut we got to do it so you can just go like this crack it open so just slurp it get the juice it's so good I like I don't know what I'm looking at but it don't taste the taste all right we are going back to your regular standard programming right right right question what is it I thought these were big fish balls they got to look like dango Japanese this is gonna be like a fried sweet rice that's been drizzled I believe in in honey okay so I would say this is like the Filipino version of mochi Wow now stick man I think max I could eat one of those no Aaron it was almost like a lull mattress just a memory foam hell yeah sleep on that I was gonna say I've never I've never eaten a memory foam before yeah well you haven't you know around you're obviously not as experienced so all right guys so we're gonna check out two more spots we're gonna check out a Filipino grocery and then we're going to a more hipster more modern version of Filipino food a little bit down the street and then we're gonna come back the dollar hits and get some Filipino barbecue skewers whoa I'm excited for that onwards with the journey let's go all right guys so we're here at our next spot we're at a Filipino grocery at temple Plaza oh by the same people as dollar hits which is kind of funny because I was we were eating in Dali as you said well we want to go to the market yeah the lady who owns all the hits came and walked us Kim yo these ladies are kind of like they killing it in high five right there oh their boss's boss ladies temple seafood market let's go all right so we got over here is the vinegar section all types of suka all different types of soup this is the suka the white vinegar that I'm used to at home I actually never seen so many varieties of this is the bottle long this is a like a shrimp paste you put like a little bit in like stews or something to kind of give it a little extra oomph you don't really see this in many other stores I think it's pretty unique to here is they have a little jewelry store in the middle of the market only have clothing for sale as well one of the biggest things that I've noticed about my Lola growing up she's very big into jewelry she would always buy like different little pieces whether like stones or like things like that this kind of comes like right into the culture this store is a Filipino store around in Filipino community do you think Filipino town has the best Filipino food in the I am number why is the food in Pampanga better than in vanilla because when I'm small the people that is cooking and cooking there are famous we're known for using cheap cuts of meat and making them taste really good porks now for our cutout beauty try it pork ear pork heart chicken liver fish bowl a lot of the stuff that we see here we're gonna try later on that dollar hits when they barbeque it up on the grill alright you guys we are gonna take a break from the Pampanga Plaza we're just gonna go down the street in a high-five stork Filipino town check out how the second-generation Filipino Americans are flipping their cuisine to make it a little bit more hipster elevated fusion while still paying tribute to their roots spoon and pork now we're meeting two chefs that immigrated from the Philippines they're bringing a modern aesthetically focused California twist to the food they grew up with alright guys so we're here at our next spot where a spoon import it was kind of funny little play on words but there's a lot of Filipino say they're peas but their apps like peas exactly alright spoon and fork spoon and pour serve a lot of pork here here they kind of do a more modernized take on Filipino food they still pay homage to its roots but they do it a little bit more upscale fashion let's check it out so modern Filipino comfort food is what me and J grew up with we grew up in the Philippines and these are like the flavors that we grew up with this is our comfort food that's the reason why we did a modern take on Filipino food just so we can introduce this flavors to everyone and help a lot that we actually don't have training so it's impressive Sweden so we're in scarily care we didn't have any rule so before the restaurant we were a food truck for a year and a half we're doing our part trying to get our food out there that is the plan to get Filipino food out there to get it reca Glen you want people like probably it's gonna happen probably in the next five to ten years where people will be like yo let's go have Filipino food you know right now it's not yet at that point but we want it to be like how Thai food and Chinese food and Japanese food Sammy goalie just full-bodied cut you give me the same one twice no no tricks no tricks man what just guess which one it is man I'm gonna say this one stand me down than the first ones red horse came in with the clutch aren't you guys we have gotten incredible spread here at school import the chefs came out they told us their story out of any of the Filipino restaurants that we've been to like on our on our food journey I think this is the most fusion Filipino item I've ever seen pork belly adobo nigiri you have a little bit of sriracha on top you have the Japanese for a Kaka with the pork adobo I think it's a perfect combination I think my next thing up is they eggplant insalata you guys I guess normally this comes up more on top dog yeah real quick guys I love how in this restaurant they don't give you a knife it's a spoon import in Filipino culture your knife is your spoon hmm and you plant it in salon that eggplant has a really smoky flavor that comes out from being born and I don't know if it's barbecued but it's super super smoky and it comes out like really really prevalent shrooms stop it go oh wow no there's so much flavor that comes out you can tell there's a little bit of vinegar inside the chives really kind of bring like a bright kind of Irby taste to it as well guys let's go with the premiere dish the patata this is like their crispy pata take where it's pretty much covered in chili garlic sauce now New York Times has rated this one of the top 15 dishes in all of LA but Sunday's patita oh my goodness this is my eyes are closed right now and I'm transported to the streets of Queens Woodside I'm standing walking with my by Lolo we're walking to see how long Kings crispy Ponte like this might be the best cricket Papa I've ever they pretty much took the best elements from Thai chili wings and then they put it on a delicious crispy pata and it just is like a whole new thing that song I don't know you know when I go in for I gotta know low bar five out of five that was one of the dishes that was clear 500 - yo I'm super excited I don't very rice this looks like that kind of like you know upscale like vegan dish that you know there you would buy out west side for like 20 bucks yeah but this is the Filipino version Oh I mean there's a reason that spoon important it has a four out of five on Yelp with like 500 reviews or a vegan Filipino dish when would you have thought you would eat a good vegan Filipino dish I didn't even think I've ever eaten a vegan Filipino dish at all it can be done David you know it pours just really think would you just eat it off the plate down your stroll the lugod the congee at mom's bake shop was really good so this is like pretty big shoes to fill yeah we have our boy Danny or you bring it up with the house sauces right now this is our cinema it's a spicy chili vinegar dip and then our color monster rapture Filipino citrus Arashi blend that we both make awesome man modernized Filipino rice porridge you know everything here is an elicited um so I feel like this is more towards the uh Chinese style conscious yeah they're looking a bit more cleaner porridge but I like how simple it is and then the saltiness of that chicken skin spoon and pork is one easily one of my favorite Filipino restaurants right now that I've ever had I got to give the whole restaurant a five out of five Wow then I rarely ever do that this is my favorite spot that we've been to on any of our food journeys for Filipino food hands down come here for amazing Filipino modern food you can't beat it we got one more stop on this food tour we're gonna head back the dollar hits to get some barbecue skewers this is where we go back to dollar hits back to the historic Filipino town we're gonna see 200 pound cameraman John try this crispy bit deep down Savage no joke spoon important was amazing they deserve a lot of credit for taking risks and trying to push culture forward in uncharted waters alright you guys we have arrived back at all our hits as you can see if they have the grill set up now so I've never barbecued my own Filipino skewers ever in my life and this is an amazing way to end off the video and we got we got the we got the Filipino music bangin [Music] we have chicken feet we have chicken butt we have pork ear we have pork intestine I'm really excited to go and put this on the grill hi guys I got us a full gambit right here we got 16 different skewers we're gonna cook it ourselves and then sit down and eat some Filipino food alright I'm learning from my man right here but just from watching so now we're gonna put some stuff on the grill here so we got the pig ear here this is the helmet we got some chicken feet we're gonna get a nice sear on everything here make sure it gets like that charcoal taste and then we're gonna flip it over and then I'm a serve it to you guys so alright hell yeah let's get this barbecue off what makes it really cool about dollar hits this really kind of brings it back to its like traditional roots like as street vendors in Manila or another part of the Philippines where everybody's kind of going from vendor to vendor getting different types of foods so this is really cool to kind of bring it back home why are you Fanning it does that make it hotter yes so you buyer needs oxygen in order to burn so you're really trying to stoke the the coals and kind of bring it more heat it's even sort of like a gregarious activity - you got charity yeah I mean that's what Filipino culture is all about sharing food it's all community okay we each in our hand have this skewer of choice dollar heads it's a dollar an historic Filipino mmm pork skewers good at the end of the day we had only spent a few hours in high five but it felt like I had learned so much about authentic Filipino culture it was almost like we got zapped and transported to the Philippines for a moment one thing I did take away for sure is the old-school and new-school styles are both in good hands what stands out to you about the hifiberry that we just went on we got to experience Filipino food and so many different types of ways we're gonna try pastries we gotta try bread we gotta try traditional food and then we got a more elevated take on the food and then we finish it all off with barbecue which is something that both you guys have never had before so I think you've really got the full spectrum of Filipino food and culture tonight to me everybody's been super welcoming I learned a lot I mean I have we have a conversation with the guy previously who was grilling because he looked like really Chinese I was like are you Chinese he goes well I consider myself Filipino but I'll just tell you this there's people and my family they'll have the whole range of looks no matter how you look if your Filipino your Filipino and you're like family together yeah and you can all get together and enjoy the same food come to this our Filipino town experience a culture that is revolved around food we sit down and we eat food together we share food and as a culture I think there's nothing like it in this world aren't you guys in the comment section below make sure first of all you give us a big thumbs up and then number one let us know what is a Filipino food that we need to try that we didn't show today and number two what is another ethnic neighborhood around America that we got to check out alright everybody thank you so much for watching that video check out Ryan's information down below we are in historic Filipino town in LA and it was all love so until next time we out talking about how everybody was going for the sardines piss-ups almost a minute Oh 30 minutes yeah beautiful beautiful yeah you do yes okay

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Published: Thu Apr 02 2020