Reviewing THE ONLY American Restaurant in Siberia

Hello guys. Welcome back to the channel. We're still in Yakutsk. I'm trying to do that. And today I have kind of an interesting place I want to go to. I was looking on the map and I found this place, an American restaurant called Houston. And I thought, you know, it'd be interesting for an American to go check out an American style restaurant. I think the main part of the restaurant is upstairs. I can hear them talking. I don't know if it's like a comedy club or if they're playing music. But downstairs, this is the bar. And I just took one quick peek inside. Hello. And actually, you know, maybe this is where the American part is. But as I'm looking around, we do have, very importantly, Budweiser. Very important American beer. And over here on the tile, I'll zoom in so you can see the NYPD and everything. Yay, it's Amerikani! So interesting to find an American restaurant. And very importantly, the Amerikanski flag. I feel like I'm going to like this place. There is, apparently, upstairs, it's like a private party or something, I guess. So I'm not sure if we're allowed. Privyet! And the bartender does speak English. I mean, Russian-English, but English, of course. So I think the side name of this place is actually Houston. Can I get a glass of beer, please? One beer, please. Beer? What beer? Budweiser. Whiskey Bunny Barrel? Do you understand English? Yes. Wow, very good. Not all the things you said. It's good. Anyway, so like I was saying, it is an American restaurant, but it's interesting what other countries think of when they think of America. Because this is like a Texas country bar. You got the country music playing. They have salad? Thai salad. Why? I don't know. But like I was saying, you hear the country music and all of the signs up here. You got Route 66, Houston. Another sign over there for Texas. Greetings from Texas. So it's obviously a very country is what they think of with what other people think of with America. So I was ordering the beer and I was looking at the menu. It's only the alcohol that's actually in English. The entire menu is all in Russian. But they don't have Budweiser on tap, but they do have it in the bottles. And so I was saying, can I get Bud? Bud? What's Bud? Budweiser? They don't know. And so I'm looking on the menu. Here, it's bad. Bad. Bad and bad light. Very good. Okay, so we'll get some of that. And then the menu. We have to translate the menu from Russian into whatever the American is supposed to be. Poutine with demi-glace sauce. They're selling poutine here. There's poutine? What is it? Okay, you know, now I actually realized what Shubham was talking about. I took a picture of it. And basically this one is poutine is what it translates to. What they're actually talking about is like a Canadian kind of food. Poutine. It's actually a French word. Poutine is french fries with gravy and cheese curds on top. Which actually sounds really good. We eat a lot of it near my hometown. I live very close to the Canadian border. And it's actually like a Canadian food. Not really American. Delicious. So other than that, I'm not really seeing too much. Let's see, we got fish and chips, which is British. I don't really want... Poutine, of course, you can get. Country potatoes. Idaho potatoes. I'm sure they're not from Idaho. If you come to the United States, Idaho potatoes are the best potatoes to eat. You find them, actually McDonald's uses a lot of them. Actually Bill Gates owns a ton of potato farming land as well in like Washington. The guy that owns Microsoft. He grows these potatoes. And Five Guys, my favorite restaurant in America, they always use Idaho potatoes as well. But it doesn't really seem like there's very much American food. So we'll test something and see if it tastes American. So she just came back and is asking, is there any American food here? Anything you'd recommend? And she said, well burgers. Americans eat burgers, right? And fries? That's why they're fat. I'm going to keep that in the video. I'm going to keep it in the video. It's true. Americans are fat. See, that's why in Dubai they made a spinach dip because they can't walk. You know, another part of the reason why I came here is actually because I wanted to torture Shubham. Because so many times when we go to different countries, almost every three days we eat Indian food. Shubham forces me to eat Indian food. I always had to eat Indian. And so this is the first time I've actually seen like an American, not just like McDonald's or something like this, but this is like a strictly, this is an American restaurant. So it's kind of like there's no American food. That's true. There's Borscht. When did Borscht become American? I wish it was American. I love Borscht. But it's kind of like torture. I need to give Shubham no options, but eat just American food. Can I get the brisket sandwich? It's got barbecue. And then also can we get poutine? Yeah. 100. Actually, let's go big. 200. Americans like everything big. And can I also get poutine with bacon? Okay, so the food came now. What is this? I just about finished all my beer. What is this? So I will say that I ordered a brisket sandwich. I think it's probably on the video record. Can I get the brisket sandwich? But they ended up bringing me a full slab of brisket like this. Which I'm actually not that opposed to. It's probably not that bad of an idea to just get a slab of brisket instead because then I'm just straight focusing on the brisket. I'm not getting any bread or anything in the way. But we do have some Russian pickles, which is going to be very good. Some coleslaw. Usually you put it all into one big sandwich. So I'll try just the brisket itself, see if the brisket is It actually looks really good. Like on the outside, you see how it's got that black layer on the outside? That's perfect. And then this is the poutine. So poutine is with cheese, cheese curds and gravy. Which is actually looks It looks good. It's not accurate but it's good. It tastes okay. In Canada it would be gravy on top and then chunks of cheese that are like this big. But I do like that they put on the tomato stuff on the side. And you just got fried fish? Yeah. This is like the fish and chips Yeah. I got some barbecue sauce. It looks very very red. But let me try it out. Hold this. One bite. Everybody knows the rules. Okay, thank you for getting nice and close Shubham. This is not me recording. This is my floating camera, Shubham. Actually, usually you take it right from the center. Looks good. Looks good. Got a slab on the outside. Some barbecue. Fancy videography by Shubham. Brisket. Kind of tough. Tastes kind of like fish in a weird way. But taste is relatively okay. I'd give it a 6.2 maybe. Maybe a little bit higher. 6.6. It's like finger skating. You gotta put a point on the end. Thank you. Actually pretty okay. I mean, this is the closest I've gotten. I'd probably give it higher actually. Maybe like 7.4. Especially for how far away we are from America. Not far away. Not counting through Alaska and everything. Considering how Yakutians how far apart Yakutians are from American culture. This is actually pretty good. One last thing I forgot to add is that I think the most inaccurate part of this meal. A lot of it is actually pretty okay. The most inaccurate part is probably the coleslaw. The coleslaw is this. Usually in America it's going to be a lot more wet. It's going to have a lot more mayo. I think it's mayo in it. It's going to be much more wet and sloppy. You can take a huge chunk of it and it'll all stay together. This is more Asian style. Asian style being that it's more separate. You're stealing my pickles? Wow. The pickles are actually pretty good. The pickles are American style. They taste like American pickles. Sweet. They're not just sour and everything. They're sugary and sweet. America. The coleslaw is too dry. It's like eating bean sprouts. I feel like I'm in Japan eating bean sprouts. The meat is actually probably one of the better things here. The meat is really well cooked because it takes multiple, multiple hours just to cook the meat. I would actually probably upgrade it. I'd probably give it I mean I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to be most realistic to Americans. Most realistic for American is that if I was being a diehard like I said probably 7.2, 7.3 something like this but in terms of what I know the rest of the world is actually like comparing this to American food and Russian versus the American food that I might find in Cambodia or the American food I might find in South Africa this is actually probably one of the highest so I'd probably give this probably like a 9 compared to the rest of the world for how the rest of the world perceives American food. Okay so we just finished up. We just got the bill and all said and done it's for the brisket that I had it was basically $10 $11 actually no it wasn't even it was almost exactly $10 almost exactly $10 for a brisket like that was I'd say in America that'd probably be a good $18 $18 maybe $20 for a brisket like that so that's a good price but the beers were each $5 each which is kind of high high for Russia but normal for actually even America it'd be like $2 for a beer $3 for a beer other than that almost all the food is normal priced would I recommend it? It was close enough to make me appeased as an American but I'm sure just like Shubham that there's a lot of places that he goes for Indian food that it's close enough that it just makes you happy Shubham how was your experience at my American restaurant? It's okay I eat really good Indian food This man, I'm always amazed every time he goes to a restaurant that he orders something and then he creates something new off the menu something that's not actually on the menu so he goes up there and he asks them can you make this? and can you make this? and so he just tries to create his own Indian food out of picking and choosing so today he got some rice he got some fried fish and then also it was like curry sauce or something he made them make milk tea as well because he's a cheater I've obviously had two beers Just from two beers you're drunk? Wow, why? I'm not drunk but I'm not clear minded You're feeling it? You want a shot of vodka now? I had a liter of beer today You want two more shots of vodka then? Excuse me Hello Where's the bartender? The bartender is sleeping Can I have four shots of vodka? When this man asked about shots I thought he was joking at first He was drunk already He's already drunk I didn't drink anything I'm just focusing on the music at this point From Carmen This guy just finished two more shots I'm just like okay I can just have coke I don't want to drink anything today So he just drank two and he already ordered two more So he can't drink four He's drunk, he doesn't understand anything I'm not sure what he's talking about I'm sorry I was telling Shubham that we have a phrase in America Why are we playing classical music upstairs? I'm really confused I have classical music in one ear And country music in the other ear We have a saying in America Liquor then beer, you're in the clear Beer then liquor You've never been sicker So I'm already telling you This is a bad idea To have two beers and now two shots of vodka If I did it reversed But not this way Look at Shubham What is that? This is tea I'm not an alcoholist like you Alcoholist? That's right, I'm an alcoholist And with that Goodbye Okay we're heading out now Thank you very much Have a nice day I love this sign by the way In meat we trust Very good American restaurant in Russia, Siberia It's okay It's good enough Okay we're gonna head out