Why are New Yorkers OBSESSED With These Sandwiches?

if you ask any New Yorker what their go-to food  is it's probably something made quick and fresh   at their local Deli or Bodega today we'll be  sharing three of New York's best bacon egg   and cheese sandwiches chopped cheese and more  you don't want to miss it I got Greg Native New   Yorker with me and tell everybody how important  the bodega the corner story is the New York   culture corner store is a staple in the New York  City Community wherever you live you have a go-to   corner store you can go to any time of day usually  late night too behind me Red Hook food core this   is the most famous deli on the internet right now  General Ock the owner has three and a half million   followers on Tick Tock a global sensation for his  crazy sandwiches well you just gotta see they've   got the old school window here I don't know  if they use it you rotate like this that's the   late night when the Spas close you want you want  something they got to get it from the back for you   put the money in spin it that's old school endless  supply of Arizona here I don't know if I've ever   seen this much Arizona in one Bodega before at one  point in my life I think Arizona was like half of   my blood content I'm Raheem Muhammad AKA General  the Aki way all different type of sandwiches   crab of Honey Buns pasta Jamaican Patty pancakes  french toast waffles we do it all seeing people   from all around the world that's a blessing all  right we're going for one of the signatures here   bacon egg and cheese with honey bun you got to  grab whatever Honey Buns you want first yes sir   to help you today your walk I want to get a bacon  egg and cheese on a honey bun if you want ice be going pour some cheese into the egg after  we put the cheese now we scramble it after we   scrambled the egg and cheese now we're gonna hit  it with the black pepper and salt now we poured   it in the grill then we put the mozzarella sticks  on the fryer once the bacon and egg is ready now   we're gonna put them together now we put on top  of the honey bun get ready to go to sleep okay   now we wrap them up and the results OMG can't  forget your bath never never never never never   now we serve it to the customer here you go my  brother you're welcome and you know we have to   serve the other customer as well now we serve it  to the customer you enjoy it thank you you will I   think you could feed three people with the amount  of bacon and eggs but you saw how much bacon you   put on the grill it's like two portions into  one the bacon egg and cheese sandwich General   Ox done a crazy spin on it but this is the  most classic New York breakfast sandwich you   could do oh yeah bacon egg and cheese usually  on a roll but the honey bun is also a bodega   staple so you kind of combine that together  the mozzarella sticks is a whole nother thing   I've never heard of that before that's the hockey  way all right man let's let's dig in let's do it um you know it does it for me it's the honey bun  it's so soft when you take that first bite you   just get through every single layer get all those  sweet and savory flavors at once I love that sweet   and savory combination this one with the icing  on it too adds even more sweetness man this is   the New York Bodega like elevating the game to  levels we've never seen before this is crazy   yeah like I never even put a dream but having  something like this growing up like bodegas   usually it was just back in the day like bacon  egg and cheese just simple stuff now some Next   Level this might be the best breakfast sandwich  I've ever had in my entire life I don't know like   it's just memorable typically a bacon egg and  cheese just a bacon egg and cheese it's good   and you're done I'm gonna remember this one for a  while I'm almost done with this look at this guy   he's speechless now we have a special surprise  for Ben the cameraman and a result this is OMG   way immediately I see that I have fruit loop  pancake as a bun here we go I'm so excited hmm the Chopstick bacon tomato lettuce cheese  and pancake you know what it tastes like   it tastes like breakfast and lunch on a roll  there's really no glamorous way of eating this   and that's okay because it's so good that  it doesn't matter if it looks like you're   making out with it it just shows how much  you love it we got sunny and Annie's Korean   owned Deli a staple in Alphabet City known  for some outrageous sandwiches all right and I thought General lock had a lot of  choices look at this menu yeah yeah one   Jackie Chan and can we do one of the Fall ones  on a roll Red Hook food Corps was a total Bodega   this is a deli yeah I mean look we've got  some very fancy looking cheeses and cold   cuts and Greek yogurt and kombucha but still  good we don't care we're here for the food this is fancy 10.99 I see Sriracha avocado roast  beef what else there's a basil cilantro there's   a b in front of me a bee yeah cilantro  there's bean sprouts so a lot of the   ingredients of a pho but in Sandwich form I  love that creativity and I love fun I love   the flavors in it so I'm very excited so good  a beel sting you for it yeah I don't want that um wow um that is phenomenal I get that hit of  Basil right away I love the creativity of this   I love how in a bowl of pho you have the  beef they have the roast beef in here it's   incredible it doesn't feel so heavy you don't  find avocado in fall but I like it in here to   add some creaminess to the roll I will get  this many times I think this is a real gem   I mean everything he just said but I needed  not one not two I needed three bites at once   to get all those flavors together I don't know if  you're gonna find this in too many other spots in   the city a lot of times you get Deli roast beef  it just doesn't do anything for me it's kind of   bland but this this is different this is better  wow we were saying before we even came here I   said yeah I'll probably take two or three bites  we're so full from General Ox spot but no I I   think I'm gonna finish this somehow absolutely I'm  literally eating every little piece of cilantro   and beans brought left over that's how good it is  I only regret eating it too fast wow yeah dude you   better slow down you're in a stomach egg keep  scarfed it down like three minutes it has beef   bulgogi in it and I thought that's probably the  most Korean thing they have let's give it a try oh we are I think that goes to Jackie Chan  because it's got a kick to it this is also   the fastest sandwich they made so I guess  you can say that they were in a rush hour what do you think of that joke  I go to a seven out of ten   one of the things I love best about working  with Greg is he's a born and raised New Yorker   knows the city food scene and respects it  as much as anyone his food tour of Queens   I recommend it to all my viewers they've had  fantastic time check out the link Down Below   in the description take a tour with this man you  will not regret it we got Harlem taster formerly   known as Blue Sky deli formerly known as haji's  which just happened to invent the chopped cheese   sandwich back in the 90s and Greg how big is  a chopped cheese sandwich to local New Yorkers   um see I didn't really grow up in Queens I heard  it's more of an uptown thing but I say in the last   five ten years when I really started hearing  about it now it's everywhere now it's probably   New York's most popular sandwich I would say  along with the bacon egg and cheese foreign memories remember these are 50 cents I got  this bag of chips honey bun dollar we got   three chopped cheese on hero yeah but everything  right lettuce tomatoes because everything yeah   we want the famous original all right yeah all  the people come here to check the chopped cheese   every day we sold a lot of  chopped cheese now thank you thank you man much appreciated   it's not every day that we get to eat a sandwich  that's this popular in the city where it was   invented today's been a special day it's been  quite a food Adventure let's try a classic hmm there's something about the way it all goes  together is what I really like about it and uh   crispy bread I think the pressing of the bread  makes it extra special try to agree and it's all   about the ham pressed bread I mean hamburger  Meats hamburger meat chopped up a little bit   more finely though and just perfect it up here  I think it's probably I think it's another level   to eat this late night have some drinks oh this  is like the perfect hangover food people compare   this to Cheesecake before and while yeah there's  some similarities there I think these are two   completely distinctive things lovely's own animal  now they were out of rolls originally we wanted a   roll gave us a hero I'm not complaining though no  way I would take this over a hamburger bun any day   really this just goes to show you the variety of  Sandwich Styles you can get in New York and it's   been around for over 20 years we're going to  call this the classic and then the other ones   we had today were I don't know I'd say almost  inventions or spin-offs of classic sandwiches   so you could argue this was the most normal  sandwich we've had today yeah I would think   so yeah it's like the city is always evolving  always new food coming in and just twists on it   that's the beauty in New York City a phenomenal  food here food culture here is almost unmatched   anywhere in the world if you really want to  eat like a local check this video out where   we eat at some of the best Halal carts in New York  City don't watch us on an empty stomach trust me

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Length: 9min 39sec (579 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 06 2022