NEW ASIAN Food You CANNOT MISS In NEW YORK!

David you will not believe how much it tastes like hot pot this one bite Dumpling lab has a winner To this day every time I hear it speak Vietnamese It's pretty interesting when it comes to Asian restaurants You do not want to miss these from authentic Vietnamese boon Tao to po boy bun Me's to Phuket Thai food an innovative dumpling lab and even South Asian boba I mean, that's why they call this place, New York because everybody's doing something new So, please hit that like button and we might even release our very own fun grows dish at one of these spots. Stay tuned Let's go All right. So our first new Asian spot that you've got to check out if you're visiting New York City is five spice It is a Vietnamese fusion spot on one of the coolest streets in New York City, by the way I'm a Leon doors right there. The kiss store is not too far away This is Mulberry Street and we might even get our own unique menu items that are limited. So let's check it out All right Everybody the food has arrived here at five spice and what I love about the fusion here is that you can get French fries That kind of tastes like McDonald's fries First of all, you know McDonald's have the best fries and then you can get like scorched brussels sprouts You can get a chicken vermicelli and they actually have very very delicious for I mean Look at all the onions in the jalapenos in this man can get incredibly good bun means I've got a fried fish bun me I've got a regular one. What are you going for first for me? I'm going with this fried fish bun meat I love this dish. Oh my goodness with a little bit of the Aioli in there with some spicy sauce. This is incredible guys This is the best bun me I've ever had in my life And I actually think it's really really important to have good Asian representation on a street that has kith. I'm a Supreme, you know like all these things There needs to be Asian rep amongst that because there's so many Asian people that go to those stores Yo, I love their take on mixing old and new here. You have your traditional pho broth here You got this very dense kind of scallion Sweet soy sauce that I'm actually gonna pour into it to make it like a consummate man. Almost like goodness Yo, this is my favorite bun me in the whole world I said it once I'll say it again And we were talking to Alex the owner of five spice and I was like, honestly, I like this spot so much I always come here when I'm on the street Like I would love my own menu item because we like to you know, do our own little fusions here Honestly for me, I'm gonna take some of my favorite appetizer items like the fried brussel sprouts I'm gonna put them in the bun me. I think that would be like something that you know, I Mean honestly you can even dip this in the pho broth right here. I've always been a huge fan of dipping bun me's in the pho broth All right, so I poured their scallion oil consomme into my pho to kind of beef it up See how that little concentrate how it's different than the pho broth and then I'm gonna dip my classic bun me into it All right, so I really like the idea of like a French dip bun me So what I did is I asked them for the sauce of the shaking beef aka the bollock lock Which is very deep and thick and then this is the consomme from their beef brisket here I got the fatty consomme from the beef brisket. I'm about to put this on the fried fish bun me And actually the fried fish it all really goes together I really did not think beef and fish would be you know, two flavors that that complement each other, but that was super good Alright in my hand. I got the new pond on cocktail and the uve cocktail. What kind of ideas you guys got? I know for me. I'm looking to get my own bun me. I always wanted my own bun me I love the way you guys do the bread here the proteins everything. So definitely my own twist on the bun me Yeah, man I love the fries Here and I love the beef brisket and I love that like consomme sauce that comes along with it or that you can get with It so I want I want to do something with that. I mean, I think those ideas are really cool We can definitely do something with that. Let's let's work together. We'll get back to you soon All right Keep up to date with five spices social media and our social media to find out which dishes we got coming out at all their Locations and man, I'm excited. Yo shout out to Irish cream, but I'm telling you right now. This uve cocktail is Incredible you don't need Guinness anymore. You just got pond on an ube New Asian concepts in New York City guys We have a Vietnamese spot called mom and we're not serving pho or bun me's not even just one notch beyond that I'm talking about two notches beyond that guys Gerald speaks Vietnamese. He's a white American, but he's here with his wife That's running this spot guys, and it is super authentic. Everybody's speaking Vietnamese and he does too. Let's check it out With house me dough who house me joy jack home So, let me translate that's tofu tofu sticky rice sausage sticky rice sausage pork belly blood sausage Fried intestines right intestines. Let's get it as this dish embodies what I love about Vietnamese food a lot of freshness fried stuff Honestly, you know, I'm not the biggest fan of intestines but to show respect and to show that I don't give an F I'm not to go in on the intestines. I Shouldn't have started with the intestines. I got a little everything. I got the block of noodles right here. I love how it comes together All right, everybody. I got the pork belly here. It kind of reminds me of a Korean bosom That is the best Fermented shrimp paste dip I've had It's super funky and super strong, but it has this little layer of oil that kind of balances it out man Yo, and they really created a vibe out here. All right here I have a very very very herbaceous blood sausage about to just dip it in a little bit Yeah Thing out I'm gonna try The tofu guys. I love it how a lot of the ingredients are shipped in from Vietnam. I'm sure with the current, you know Trade stuff going on. It's a little bit hard, but man shout out to them guys Shout out to Gerald what they're pulling off is really cool. And it's so cool. You got people that are happily sitting 30 feet away from the restaurant So the restaurant mom is across the street, but they got the extension table near Grand Street Park right here Wow, you guys prefer this or you guys want to be with the crowd? I Do not have just any regular cafe sudats actually the coconut coffee, which is a little bit different and then here I got the pennyworth drink, you know what it is when you come to a via restaurant, but let's try the coconut coffee Adds an extra layer on top of your regular via coffee, man. This is lit Pennyworth drink is nice and easy to drink another nice little sweet green taste to cover the greens here Mom, NYC man. You can't come here and not feel the vibe. Of course guys. We're here at one one This is the first Phuket based restaurant I've been to Phuket is a very Chinese influenced part of southern Thailand I'm a lot of the names of these dishes. I actually could recognize them in Cantonese So I don't know if they're getting it from the Cantonese production Pronunciation or the Hokkien pronunciation, but this was called tofu. This was called June. This was called I don't know guy pay, you know, so hey man always dope to see the fusion Yo guys, it's like a Thai version of agadashi tofu. But of course, it's Thailand. So it's got way more sauces These are the Thai fried chicken skins squeeze a little bit of lime on top This does actually remind me a lot of Japanese is a kind of food because they also serve these fried chicken skins at Izakaya That's a banger. I don't know if you guys like fried chicken skins, but these ones that one one are the best I've ever had. This is the yum. Hoy. This is a scallop salad guys. My goodness here I'm just gonna go for the scallop first Mmm Guys that is giving me vibes of like a scallop barb salad. All right here. We got the beef noodle soup This is not Thai boat noodles, and this is not exactly like pho, but it's definitely something in between It's probably very very Chinese influence. Let me try the broth real quick Mmm, very sweet lots of soy very herbaceous So it's definitely more like a sweeter more soy forward for essentially, but let me try this out guys I love trying other people's beef noodle soups. It's one of my favorite things For those of you who don't know Thailand has a very very deep food culture and the stuff that you would get at an average Thai restaurant is just the tip of Iceberg um this is like next-level stuff because these are actually dishes they eat in Thailand Maybe this one's a little bit more Chinese influence from the Hokkien side, but either way guys This is really unique and really delicious. I give this noodle soup honestly like a 4.5 out of 5 Alright guys, so this plate right here is something unique the components might look a little bit familiar because you have the fried chicken here You have the Thai sriracha You know the less hot more sweet version And then you kind of got your Patsy you type noodles right here And then you got what is probably the fusion and American side of it all which is the fried kale For those who don't know out there Patsy you Had kimao it obviously has very strong Chinese roots And this one is just showing it off right here when you're talking about Phuket And how it's really like the food is heavily influenced by the Chinese immigrants that went there guys I can see right here It's this lobster Tom yum only something you would find in the East Coast Where they have a lot of lobsters because they don't even have lobsters in Thailand, but they got Tom yum noodles, man I gotta try this out man. Let me just go in Mmm. Everything are so good look at these oyster mushrooms gigantic Yeah, it's the seven cloud. This is a dish I've never had before the noodles are actually made out of fish So it's like a fish ball, but in the form of noodles and then on top. We have a really nice branzino a little fried shallots and Scallions on top let me break this up man. I'm so excited man Senpai in a veggie broth This broth if I had to compare it to something else I'd have to say it's closer to a wonton broth, but a lot more ginger and a lot more fish Everybody when it comes to new Asian concepts in New York City I mean you're talking about Phuket a place that a lot of people know for partying But they didn't know that the food is so good You know or maybe you didn't know if you went there, but a lot of people haven't been there So I'm just so glad that Thai food is just going deeper and deeper in New York City You got keys on Thai you got central Thai you got Chiang Mai, and then now you have Phuket I'd love to see it man new Asian concepts only in New York City Alright going head-to-head with the kara-age burger from Tori BN We have a Singaporean chicken sandwich coming up. There's also a bar upstairs called Singlish, so this is one whole unit They're doing some fusion Singaporean foods. Let's check it out And how would you describe the food here at char so like the food here? It's all focused on like Southeast Asian dishes, but everybody we got the food right here. This is the api api burger It has a kind of a papaya salad and then sambal on it for the heat And then obviously you have the wonton me And this is also a really really popular dish also with a little side of sambal and of course you got your kaya tart I'm excited about that because kaya toast is really big out there, so guys this is some new Singaporean Indonesian Southeast Asian later Wow Examining this burger this does look like chicken thigh. It's got sambal sauce dripping It is crispy fried kind of has a thick crust to it Lots of papaya salad on top to kind of cool it down and bring it all together This is the api api meaning in Bahasa Indonesian fire fire burger guys Dude you guys this is unlike anything I've had before there's salted egg yolk as well I'm telling you guys in terms of it being interesting. This is the most interesting chicken sandwich. I've ever had You guys I've never had french fries like this before there is a slight Singaporean chili sauce dusted on there as well as the salted egg yolk mayo aioli That salted egg yolk aioli is one of the best ones that I've ever had sometimes they get it make it to egg yolk II sometimes It's not enough. This is right in a sweet spot aren't you guys you are looking at a brand new item This is a kaya tart They took kaya toast pandan and the Portuguese egg tart on top from Macau mix it all together You cannot find this over in Asia. You cannot find this in New York or the west coast until now I'm telling you guys crazy rich Asians. Just set off a chain reaction because now we're eating kaya Portuguese egg tarts And they're delicious. There's a five out of five Man I cannot tell you how much it feels like Singapore here Especially more of like the old colonial towns out there or even in Malaysia as well guys It's got that great vintage vibe here. I have the wonton me. I got some shrimp chips I have this very very gingery soup. I'm actually gonna pour a little bit on I know that people eat it separately sometimes But I'm just I just need a little bit moisture in there Mmm, it's so one ton me of course is one ton low mean right in Cantonese and I'll tell you this Cantonese die sport food Sometimes I really like it because it's like Cantonese food, but kicked up some notches. It's just got some extra flavor It is hard to find this dish in New York City only a few spots serve it But I gotta say this is probably the best version of one ton me you guys gotta check it out Mmm, this is globalization right here, and there is no more global of a city than New York City right now look at it I'm meeting a sambal fried chicken sandwiches with some wonton me and a place that feels like Singapore guys this Quality of these products feel like like they're being supported straight over, and that's what I just love to see guys I'm so excited for the future of Asian food in New York City. Let's keep it moving All right everybody we're here at cafe, Joe. It's a new kind of Korean inspired cafe over in the East Village We got Chi here. Who's a you know a partner here. Can you tell us about the drinks? Strata latte classic now. It's a classic drink All right guys, and then they also have like Korean bowls in the back We're gonna try some but let me just try to drink you hold that Louise Chi Thank you. You may know Chi from our pal Park video in Jersey the star of it I Like that that's real strawberry, and it's not too sweet, so I like you guys to take on the strata latte. Here's the masala chai Kind of spicy, but I like the balance of this one a lot Okay, so they do have hot food that you can order from the back This is the kimchi fried rice with a fried egg on top it looks Like an Instagram photo right here look at how picturesque a made it and then here I have this Jolly Pong latte It's actually off the menu, but it has the Korean Jolly Pong like a rice snack on top. That's gonna be smoking in there it's gonna taste probably like a cereal and milk Nice light and toasty. Okay, let's try kimchi fried rice and For a new Asian foods that you have never seen before here. We have the hojicha maple butter Souffle pancakes now, maybe they're not gonna be a great brunch food watch this boom Whoa Super fluffy I like the butter on top I feel the hojicha coming through guys if you're a fan of hojicha at all You definitely got to try it in pancake form because I've never had this before in my life Guys nice little daylight cute cafe up front and then in the back they got the speakeasy That's where you're gonna get your hot food your brunch food and your drinks not gonna show you everything You just got to come to cafe. Joanne. Check it out Avenue a alright you guys We are at duckling lab NYC right now. You've never seen anything like this You think we're at a modern hotel right now of course we got something hyper traditional right here This is a mackerel jiaozi. They eat this a lot in Dalian Shandong You know coastal northern cities this of course is a popcorn chicken you got to have that in 2022 These actually are mala Hotpot dumplings, these are Guo Tie but with mala hotpot beef filling This is a shrimp toast modernized for the 2022 market these are Sichuan chicken wings chi chi and of course this is their version of kou shui ji This is a mouth-watering chicken Fish jiaozi or shui jiao underrated I want to say popcorn chicken as a dish is overrated, but I love it every time Beef Guo Tie, Guo Tie is the more potsticker pan fried type That's a must get Sichuan to the max. This is dumpling labs famous shrimp toast guys I never even had this shrimp toast dish until I got here has a little cream on top. It's like a little shrimp sandwich That is so good It's kind of like if you deep-fried a hakao from dim sum and you put a little sweet cream on top, it's delicious Mala chicken wings plenty of mala on top we break this up You know how I do with chicken wings I get down Got that Sichuan kick If I remember some slang in Sichuan Hua that the higher brothers taught me, fast and slow Guys what I love about the dish kou shui ji is that everybody is doing it Everybody is doing their own version every region of China. It's such a popular dish This one has a lot of cucumbers chopped up. It's almost like a spicy chicken salad. Let's check it out Mala, but quite refreshing Interesting. All right. I got to try one of these mala beef dumplings. I Never had such a spicy dumpling before You are witnessing a crab Rangoon dumpling they're mixing one thing that's very Americanized one thing that's very traditional. Oh my goodness There's cheese. There's real crab in there, especially if you know the way that they are making these dumplings This is a very yantai Shandong style small little ingot style. My goodness. This is the best crab Rangoon I ever had in my life Inventive cool little cocktails here at dumpling lab, but over here back to the dumplings guys because we are at dumpling lab We have the black and gold Umi uni dumplings and then here we have the truffle dumplings and here we have the spicy beef But we have this swan room which is like a garlic oil mixture that we're gonna dip it in start with the uni You've never seen a uni dumpling before The taste of uni is coming out, that's crazy. Uni sui jiao hao chi, but is it worth it? With the gold it might be the quality here at dumpling lab is really good Obviously a lot of people try to do truffle dumplings, but let's see how they do it Wow, you know a lot of elevated fusion spots when they say they have truffle or uni in the dish You know, you can't really taste it But here it really comes through and they make sure it's pronounced This right here is the spicy beef ma la dumpling and I'm gonna dip it into this garlic oil. Yeah Feel like I'm in a hot pot the ma la spice inside of the beef wrapped up It gives me that hot pot sauce and then I dipped it in here and that was the dipping sauce guy That was I think that was the best thing. I gotta go in again. Hold up David you will not believe how much it tastes like hot pot this one bite Dumpling lab has a winner As you guys may know boba came from Taiwan But that does not mean that other Asians or really anybody else for that matter cannot participate in the boba games We are at a Bengali owned Daisy boba shop as you can see they got pistachio. They got malai They got mango, but mango and a mango lassi way and faluda. Let's check it out It's called pila de boba and so we infuse South Asian ice cream into boba and it's like a milkshake kind of Okay, so we put the ice cream in I'm at Pila de boba. This is the first Daisy boba that I've ever had I heard there are a couple other locations in the New York area, but this is the only one in Manhattan This is a malai Kofi boba Kofi is almost like a creamier spiced version of ice cream malai is the flavor Hold on. Hold on. It is one thing to be exposed to a brand new flavor that you've never had before This is my first time having the malai flavor. This is my first time having coffee, especially in a boba format That's a new fusion. It's delicious kind of tastes like Nuts and pistachios and spice. It's delicious in my hand. I got a mango Kofi It might taste kind of like a mango lassi. Let's see though Whoa, Kofi is definitely a extra creamy ice cream. That's really good I can see this getting more popular because the mango lassi is something that's universal everybody who's tried it really likes it now It's here in kind of a ice cream smoothie drink form with boba at the bottom So it's mixing just a bunch of stuff that people love. I love that. They're tying in their own culture in with this I think boba is almost like a blank slate. Now. It's a format It's a thing that you can add on to so I think that's really cool man. Shout out to New York City It has basil seeds and noodles no one in New York does that It's like a it's not more of like it's like a sweet noodle You said noodles they got South Asian noodles and ice cream and smoothies mixed with boba This is a rose flavor one, by the way Really good guys Are those like crispy noodles? Soft like noodles you can taste it just add some cool texture to it man. This is so invented. I'm so glad I had this Man I love what they're doing here because they kept a lot of the traditional flavor and a lot of the traditional elements But they were able to make it sweet and creamy for everybody. I think anybody's gonna like these Next up on our brand new Asian concepts video Andrew people are always designing products for the moneyed international student exactly We are blocks away from NYU and here we have a Shandong owner that is serving Northern street snacks noodles and bings for the students out here and listen guys jambing's is is getting crazy now You can add anything into it. So they got more traditional stuff here. This is the true northern, you know, chief I'm trying some of this shout out to this guy, you know, he looks traditional and then boom He got the Bulls dynasty low-key everybody knows someone who looks like this Just something really natural about sitting on this bench. I don't know what it is though. I just Can't put my finger on it Wow, that's a sticky mix. That's different than other jambing mixes. I've seen Oh Andrew we're looking at a Qingdao jambing Designed for international students and you were saying it was different. Yo, the batter was stickier It looked a little bit different than other jambings. I'd seen it almost looks would you say to you? Looks more like a dosa man. It looks more like a burrito. Yeah dosa. Exactly. We got to eat it soon, though Because listen, there's juicy spicy crawfish inside. I think the fact that we got Shaolin Sha, which is the crawfish is crazy Obviously super popular in China right now. Who knows this could be the best jambing in New York crawfish jambing The jambing as expected is chewier. It's a little bit more malleable. It's not as crispy But it almost feels a little bit more like naan. I Never thought that I would have crawfish in a jambing. But now that it's here, it's okay. I'm not the biggest crawfish fan personally This is one of the most unique jambings I've ever had and I'm not surprised Because every year someone's gonna do something a little bit different with these traditional Chinese street snacks. Well, literally it's like a burrito You can put anything in it All right here. We have some authentic Beijing zhajiang man David. We had zhajiang man in the hutongs of Beijing How does this look compared to it real quick? Give me your birdie One of the closest versions I've seen especially like in the NYU area. And of course, you've got the Ludo Joe right here This is a green bean choke essentially a kanji air These are dishes that like a hundred-year-old person wouldn't want to eat Yeah, man So I don't know if this spot is for the students or the professors or the parents that are come visiting their students here But uh, yeah, I would say this jajang man looks fairly authentic I would say I would give it maybe a seven and a half out of ten on the authentic scale Honestly, I feel like I'm back at a church meeting from back in our childhood And what's your verdict? I know you a zhajiang man snob It's not quite like the hutongs, but it's getting the job done Now we have one of your favorite dishes of all time where you're a tomato egg noodle snob You got to tell me how it is. This is a fine chai chow time Yeah, and obviously guys if you guys have been watching the channel this tomato is a fine chair This is a stir-fried egg egg chow time. So yeah, let's get into it, man This is like probably the most underrated Combo in China to be honest in terms of like, you know, like people don't really put this on a pedestal from other cultures You know, they like more eat wontons and things like that It's a winner Tomato egg dinner For me Andrew there was a really good ratio of tomatoes and eggs to noodles Sometimes you just get like so little tomato and so little egg. It can still work out that way. I'm not a big fan I know some provinces and some restaurants do it that way this one give you a ton Fred how's that taste? Like a breakfast noodles with eggs Pretty good All right a few years ago We did a series called make it happen featuring young Asian American entrepreneurs in New York City Now to be honest a lot of those projects did not work out But one of them that did is by Tae a Korean from Hawaii who's doing Kona coffee. We're at a second shop out in Chelsea right now. The first one was an LES. Check it out guys, man. I'd love to see old friends make it macadamia nut coconut Hawaiian latte All right, you guys we're at Yama Daya in Greenwich Village right now And they have some really hard to find Japanese items It is Chinese owned but the workers are from Japan and I think one of the funniest things was the shoplifting wall Guys don't shoplift here because they will put your picture You guys have all been to an Asian market and they do carry some Extent of Japanese products, but here at Yama Daya, of course, they got the super deep cut stuff They've got the muscat green tea. They've got not just castella cake, which everybody has they have the white peach castella cake so many different mochi's and daifuku's and But you guys we got the vanilla milk cream waffles from Hokkaido from Yamata This is a brand new Japanese spot And I would say that previously a lot of the Japanese spots in the city were kind of like from the old days You know 80s 90s during the Japanese economic boom, but they're coming back again And I know it was authentic as the lady could not speak English only Japanese. Arigato Very simple, but you can taste the Hokkaido cream. It's different like I said one of the things Yamada prides themselves on is Having Japanese things that the H Mart's and the 99 ranches and the other markets don't have only Japanese Hi David by the way, I think you've been saying the name wrong. It's Yamada or Yamada. Anyways guys Hokkaido milk cream waffles mmm Feel like Yamada has transported me to like Yokohama like a little outside of Tokyo because to be honest One of the lady at the cashier. She really did not speak any English at all We were asking a question, but I thought that was a very authentic experience at the same time So guys whether it's Chinese owned or whatever. This spot is super authentic and they got people straight from Japan. Oh I kind of waffle