It's very quiet right now.
Make a sound, guys.
Are we in the library?
I haven't been in one in, like, 38 years.
$20 to feed all of us.
First Chan Chun Fun in New York.
They do make the best chicken wings ever.
What makes this Cheap Eats Part 11
different than the previous 10?
Well, since starting this series,
some spots have closed down, unfortunately,
but new businesses have grown to take their place.
You see the return of traditional cart dim sum,
but the introduction of rare regional churn fun
and a sneaker shop that specializes in boba.
Listen, New York moves fast and so does Chinatown,
so stay updated.
Part 11, let's go.
Andrew, we have the rebirth
of a Chinatown legend, Shu Jiao dumpling.
Okay, so we have shown Shu Jiao
in previous Chinatown Cheap Eats episodes,
obviously, because it is so legendary,
but it moved locations and now it has a new spot.
All right, we got $20 to split between four guys,
so let's see what we can get.
It's very quiet out at home.
Guys, I think some people
are actually taking their SATs right now.
Are we in the library?
I haven't been in one in like 38 years.
What's going on, everybody?
Thank you so much for watching that video
about us going out to eat,
but let me tell you this.
We still do like to cook
and HelloFresh is making that super easy.
Let's see what's inside the box.
So let me cook this dish
while I explain to you why HelloFresh is so cool
and you can get 14 meals free
when you sign up with Fun Bros 14.
So here, I got three recipes.
All these sound good,
but I'm going with the burgers.
HelloFresh is making it super easy
for you to impress your friends,
boyfriend, girlfriend,
or just a delicious meal for yourself.
So let me cook some of these dishes
and I'll tell you how you can get 14 free meals
with HelloFresh right now.
I like how you don't have to make
your entire meal at one time,
so I'm just gonna make half of it for me and David
because, you know, we're not trying to overeat.
Listen, HelloFresh saves you time.
They also have everything portioned out for you
so you don't have to go to the grocery store,
which around 5 or 6 p.m. on a weekday is a hassle.
They got choices from family-friendly, pescatarian,
veggie options, calorie-smart menus.
I know the burgers aren't, but they smell delicious.
Melty Monterey Jack Burger
with onion jam and garlic mayo.
Between saving you time going to the grocery store,
saving you money at the grocery store,
saving you food waste,
and then saving you more with Fun Bros 14,
that's 14 meals free over five deliveries.
I mean, HelloFresh is worth checking out.
And this honestly is the best burger
I've ever cooked at home, period.
You guys, we got all this for $19.25.
We're about to feed four people.
You've got two different types of chicken dumplings right here,
shui jiao, which is the boiled style.
You have two pork, which are classic.
You know, egg noodles, I think, would actually cost more,
but the wheat noodles actually still have a lot of flavor.
Now, this is the same noodle dish,
except just with a different noodle.
Guys, chicken dumpling here at the new shui jiao.
That's silent. I approve of the chicken dumplings.
I think we're entering a new era.
People want healthier options.
I was just going to say that.
Fujianese banh mien.
It's not bad.
With the rice noodle, especially people with wheat allergies,
I could totally see why you would go with the rice noodle.
The rice noodle does a pretty good job,
but I still got to roll with the OG banh mien.
My go-to is on my 12 years old.
All right, so shout out to the new shui jiao location.
It's over here on Grand Street.
It's a bigger spot.
They have like the updated ordering style.
The food is still cheap, still a great deal.
$20 to feed all of us.
All right, guys, our next spot here in the Chinatown Cheap Eats
is a brand newly opened Lady Chow's Kitchen.
But they just have a new ownership and a new name.
I think the previous spot was here for about like 15 to 20 years.
So let's see what the new spot's bringing to the table.
Hey, guys, most of these things are under $9.
Let's go.
Gene, tell us about what's new at your restaurant.
You guys replaced a spot that was like here for like 20 years, right?
But then you're bringing your own new style.
All right, so our food arrived here at Lady Chow Kitchen.
I gotta tell you guys, the quality is crazy back there.
This cheng fun, these rice rolls are house-made.
And they have a slightly different mixture than the ones that you'll find in Chinatown.
It's a little bit less sugary and it's considered a little bit more healthy.
Side of fried squid is only $5, $4.95.
It is just the fried Chinese donut, the yaotiao wrapped in cheng fun.
Super soft and silky, guys.
Okay, and they brought out a dish that is not a cheap eat,
but it's cheap relative to what it costs at other restaurants.
So here I have these special like Greek prawns.
Guys, this whole dish here would usually cost at a European restaurant anywhere from like $80 to $100.
This is only $45 right here.
The cheng chun fun here with the scallion oil.
Wow.
Their version of the beef chow fun, which is essentially like beef cheng chun fun.
This is only $8.95 and you get egg and you get beef and vegetables inside, guys.
This is crazy.
You know, that's better than a lot of beef chow funs.
This is a must cop if you come to Lady Chow Kitchen.
Guys, not only is this some of the cheapest,
but it's also maybe the silkiest fried cheng fun in all of Chinatown.
You guys got to come here.
When speaking about Chinatown,
we've got to give a shout out to the best dental office in Chinatown
and the one we personally go to, Bowery Dental on 145 Canal Street.
They have state-of-the-art equipment, nice and friendly staff,
perfect Yelp page, modern practices,
and they're ran by people who grew up in the community.
They can speak multiple dialects of Chinese and overall just provide a great experience.
So listen, nice food and boba isn't the only thing creating smiles in Chinatown.
Check them out at BoweryDental.com.
Now back to the food.
All right.
So our next spot on Chinatown Cheap Eats is not necessarily a food spot,
but they have some food and it's not only a Chinese spot,
but it's owned by Chinese Americans.
And on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, this spot is packed.
They have ping pong, billiards.
It's affordable.
It's great for groups.
And I got to give it a shout out.
It is Sour Mouse here on Delancey right next to McDonald's on Essex.
All right.
One of the coolest things about Sour Mouse is that they have ping pong.
They have pool tables.
They have live music.
They have really cool local artwork on the wall,
but they also have Asian American drinks here.
So Lunar is a hard seltzer that's Asian American owned.
They have this yuzu drink here that's white peach,
and they have a lot of local beers too.
A lot of them coming from Brooklyn, Montauk.
They have all these different drinks here.
All right.
We're eating Roberta's pizza inside of Sour Mouse with owner Aaron.
Aaron.
This is the take and bake version.
But what is your guys' connection to Chinatown?
Because you guys have deep roots there.
Yeah.
So we were born and raised just down the block from here.
So when we decided we wanted to be right back in the heart of Chinatown.
You can eat famous New York pizza with soju cocktails while playing ping pong.
Beer pong.
Ping pong.
The video game pong.
Their family's from Hong Kong.
Come to Sour Mouse.
All right, you guys.
We are back with Chinatown Cheap Eats part 11.
We are in front of Ling Kee beef jerky right now.
Marco, you have never had Cantonese style beef jerky?
Never had.
The only beef jerky I've ever had was a Slim Jim.
Cantonese style jerky is very popular in Southern China.
Especially Macau, Macau, the touristy area.
They sell this crazy over there.
It's not that cheap.
It's not cheap.
This is a very labor intensive and tasty style of beef jerky.
You'll find it in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau.
Southern Chinese do it well.
It's very popular in Chinatown, New York.
All right, so this looks very juicy.
Like I said, it's very labor intensive.
They all look very good.
But I can't really tell what meat it is by just looking at it.
So we're going to get one piece of each.
All right, guys.
We got like a trading card amount of beef jerkies.
He wrote them in English on which flavor there is.
There's six different types of meats here.
Ling Kee Cantonese jerky.
That reminds me from that like satay beef on a stick in the Malaysian spot you go to.
So it reminds me of that.
That's a pretty good observation.
The shrimp one is by far the most interesting.
Shrimp on a patty.
Yo, that's a thin shrimp patty.
I might say that's my favorite one so far.
So for nine pieces of beef jerky, one of each variety, it costed us 20 bucks.
So you don't even have to get nine.
You get five.
For something that looks, they all look the same flavor.
They're really, really good.
All right, you guys.
Ling Kee on Canal.
Spend 20 bucks.
Try all the different flavors.
Trade them like Pokemon cards with your friends.
Next up on Chinatown Cheap Eats.
We are here with the director of the new Asian gangster thriller Snakehead.
Evan Jackson Leong.
My man.
You filmed a lot of your movie on East Broadway.
Yes, we have.
And we are at the newest spot on East Broadway.
Seng Seafood.
Very deep cut.
Insiders only.
It's a dim sum spot.
Still got the card style.
Let's go up and check it out.
Yo, Evan, when does Snakehead drop real quick?
October 29.
Yo, does this look like one of the places that you film Snakehead in?
Yes, it does.
Yo, man, it's like hard to find cart dim sum these days.
This is a dish I've never had before.
Yeah.
They said there's a...
What is in there?
Oh, it's a pumpkin.
I just took a bite.
I just took a bite, so I got to take it.
Bite it, you buy it.
Oh, there's durian pillows, bro.
Durian.
Yo, Evan, y'all got to have a durian dumpling.
Durian dumpling.
Cheers, brother.
Here we go.
October 29.
The Asian gangster flick Snakehead is dropping.
Tell us about the premise of the movie.
Because some people, they know what you're talking about.
Some people even in here might know what you're talking about.
But a lot of people watching do not know what you're talking about.
They're just thinking, what?
The head of a snake?
Are we eating it?
Are we boiling it?
Are we steaming it?
Well, a snakehead is a human smuggler, right?
And that's a term, like a coyote for human smugglers.
And Chinese people, it's called snakehead.
So my movie is about the underworld of human smugglers
and the underworld crime drama of Chinatown.
So basically, it's a story about women's journey
in New York Chinatown with the women boss.
Because we know strong-ass Asian women in our lives.
I mean, if you like Godfather, you like Scarface,
you like underworld gangster movies,
that's what this is about.
And that's what you'll like.
It will be in theaters October 29th.
And then we're going to be iTunes, VOD, all that.
Yo, I got a one second cameo.
I'm not going to tell you when though.
I'm going to go boom, boom, boom.
Guys, we're still waiting for our siu mai.
But other than that, Sheng Si food is newly open.
It is a cheap eat.
All the dishes here are between like $4 and $5.
Obviously, it's hard to find a heart dim sum spot in Chinatown now.
Yo, as bros at dim sum, we got to go in on some chicken feet, Evan.
Check out their feng tau.
This is always a good marker of how good someone's dim sum is.
Guys, check out the fish roll on the top of this siu mai.
Let's get it.
That is the most fresh siu mai I've ever had.
It is super hot.
I can barely bite into it.
Lots of shrimp.
All right, wrapping it up here at Sheng Si food.
I got to say, cart dim sum spots are very rare to find.
And this is like a throwback to like 20 years ago.
So you guys got to check this out.
It is a hidden gem.
East Broadway, second floor.
On to our next spot.
This is Evan Jackson Leong.
Check out his movie, Snakehead.
All right, so we're walking down Christie Street.
We're right above Kung Fu Tea here.
And we're outside of what used to be C&L Dumpling.
Now it's called Chi Dumpling.
Not that many people have that many opinions about the spot.
But they have a humongous menu.
And I just always wanted to try it.
All right, guys.
So they have some really cheap eats here.
They have scallion pancakes, Chong You Bing for $1.50.
All right, you guys.
This is C&L Dumpling Shop.
It switches names all the time.
Who knows what's going on.
This is a Fujianese Chong You Bing.
Guys, look at it.
You can see that the onions, they're green, but they're fried.
Yeah, I was like, why does scallion pancake look like that?
That was $1.50, by the way.
Very, very cheap.
Here I have 10 fried dumplings, all for $4, $3.75.
Here you got chicken wings, $5 right here.
Those are hot and fresh, though.
Go for the chicken wings, guys.
Let's do it.
C&L Dumpling.
This is one of the cheapest of the cheap.
Tape.
Top five in Chinatown chicken wings for sure.
The skin is probably number one, bro.
The skin on this.
Here, take the drumstick.
I have to admit, I didn't think much of this FJ Chong You Bing.
But the more I've been eating it, I actually enjoy it.
And it's got a ton of onions in it.
Guys, Chi Dumpling, aka C&L Dumpling on Christie Street, better than what you think.
Definitely get the chicken wings.
All right, we are here with the founder of Soul E.T., Amy.
Amy, what made you want to open up a spot like this?
Well, my brother and I both opened up this shop out of love for sneakers and boba.
We grew up on boba, fell in love with sneakers.
Why not put it together?
Does anybody think the concept is kind of weird where you're serving boba right next to sneakers?
Is that just new to people?
Yeah, we get a lot of people.
They stand outside.
They're like, what is going on in here?
It makes them stop.
And then they come in.
They experience all the drinks and the sneakers.
But you know what I love too?
You're not just doing, obviously, general releases.
You have a lot of rare stuff.
You got a lot of heat as far as sneakers go.
But you guys got some unique boba items too.
It's not just like basic boba.
Tell us about this.
So we call this our Soul Collector Package.
So you buy the bottle, the drink, and the sticker pack to customize it for $10.
And then you come back for $3 refills.
Yo, sneakers and boba bringing the community together.
Yo, Marco, you just had this idea, and now she brought it to life.
Yeah, she brought it to life right here.
I got to say, this is like a magical place.
It really is.
So we're here at 487 on Christie Street, right across from Grand Street Park,
our favorite park in New York.
Right out here, my man's got the grill outside.
They have the pork out here because they want people to sample it.
Because they're trying to draw customers back in.
They know that they've been closed down for a while.
So they're just like, hey, remember, we got the fire grilled pork.
The samples work, guys.
We're going to 487.
All right, I am here joined with Liam.
And we're at 487.
This spot was closed for about the last year and a half.
And let me tell you something about this spot, man.
Their grill work might be some of the best grilled meats in Chinatown.
Grilled chicken wings.
Some of that scallion oil on.
So tender, man.
Wow.
What's up on our appetizers here?
I have the shrimp paste wrapped around sugar cane.
Again, grilled over an open flame.
Their fried egg roll.
They wrap it in lettuce, which is a little different.
They dip it in fish sauce.
Yeah, I'm just going to roll it off.
Ooh, look at that.
First lettuce egg roll.
Texture, texture, texture.
It's just a combination that you won't even think of.
But if you just dip it in, it's perfect.
It's like a salad with an egg roll.
All right, we're finishing up here at 487.
We got round two.
Okay, these are all both $10, all right.
So we have the filet mignon beef cubes.
It's very saucy with rice.
And then you've got something that we actually haven't shown on the channel,
but I actually really like.
It's the Vietnamese chicken curry.
Vietnamese chicken curry.
Vietnamese curry is something that a lot of people don't think about.
I think it's because it's really watery.
But honestly, if you ever get the chance to, I recommend you try it.
Last but not least, we got the meats.
For me, those beef cubes were as tender as I've ever had them.
But it was a little bit more soury because I think the sauce is a little bit tangier.
And I like the little onion and the little carrot inside.
It comes together beautifully, I think.
Basically, to wrap up 487.
Listen, it's been closed for a year and a half.
It is absolutely a cheap eat.
It also has some higher-end items.
But let me tell you this.
You can get a bowl of pho here for $9, $10.
Get the grilled meats.
Get the chicken thigh, man.
Just try it.
All right, so our next spot on Chinatown Cheap Eats is on the outskirts of Chinatown.
We're more in the LES.
We're here on Clayton Street and Grand Street outside of Mei Mei Fast Food.
Now, this spot right here, it's not really, you know, internally Chinatown food.
It's not really authentic Chinese food.
This is very much New York Chinese takeout.
Owned by Fujianese people.
But they have one dish here that I really, really like because I do live in the neighborhood.
So let's go get it.
Hey, a lot of people...
Brandon Essex is Golden Forest.
So she said...
Oh yeah, Golden Forest.
You said you like Golden Forest, which is right next to the Papa John's, right?
And the Dunkin' Donuts.
And then she's a big fan of Dai Wong, a.k.a. Big Wong on Mott's Street.
So I like it how me just standing out here, I have garnered a bunch of attention
and a lot of different opinions about Chinese food.
I love it.
Okay.
Golden Forest is good people and really good quality.
Have you been here?
All right.
I love all the different opinions.
I gotta go get my food though.
Mei Mei Fast Food is great.
So I actually only have $10 on me and it's cash only.
So I usually do get the Mushu pork, which I do recommend here with the wraps.
However, I'm about to move over and get the chicken wings with PFR, which is pork fried rice.
And this is a thing that everybody talks about here.
So of course, the chicken wings, pork fried rice, PFR.
Let's get it.
If you don't have the yellow rice with the golden yellow crust on your fried chicken
in Chinatown, I don't know what you're doing.
Yes, guys.
When it comes to meeting people in New York City and having random conversations,
I know that having a cute dog or puppy really will get you a lot of attention.
But apparently having some New York Chinese food
will have people come up to you and talk to you too.
Hi.
Yeah.
No, I hear you over here talking about them.
New Mei Mei Kitchen, right?
I'm going to let you know about this Chinese restaurant.
I want to say they do make the best chicken wings ever.
Their food is actually good.
And also throughout the whole pandemic,
they were the only people who paid it to the community.
And they're very nice and courteous when they bring your food.
I love this Chinese restaurant.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
The community is behind the spot.
That's why we shot here.
New Mei Mei Kitchen on Clinton Street.
It's for the community.
It served them during the pandemic.
It was there when they needed it the most.
All right, you guys.
Next up is New Kim Tong right here or New Kim Tuong.
This is a Chinese Vietnamese owned spot.
So they're a little bit more on the Chinese side,
but they do have Chiu Chow noodles.
I'm going to say the way that that soy sauce chicken is hanging
is pretty appealing to me.
But no, seriously, I got to go with the roast duck.
It's my favorite.
You know, growing up in Chinatown, I love barbecue meats.
It's my favorite thing about Chinatown.
By far, roast duck is the number one barbecue meat.
How do you know barbecue meat?
You're going with the op.
Yeah.
And you know the funny,
Chiu Ngap, right?
Chiu Ngap.
And it's funny because what sound do ducks make?
Ngap.
All right, you guys.
We secured the bag of the meats.
None of the Chinese Vietnamese things on the menu are for sale right now.
Literally, they only got the meats.
But you know what?
Hey, when you got the meats, what else do you need?
Guys, you might have to call this meat street
because there's Wa Fung right there.
There's New Kim Tong right here.
All right.
So what we have is the soy sauce chicken,
the duck, of course, the Char Siu and the roast pork.
You guys, this was only $11.25.
Wow.
For four meats?
New Kim Tong.
$11.
Let me try this siu gai.
Oh, very juicy.
Wow.
The chicken might be the winner here.
Yo, the meats here are kind of a sleeper.
Soy sauce chicken might be one of the better ones in town.
I recommend the soy sauce chicken here at New Kim Tong.
You guys, it's official.
New Kim Tong on Chinatown Cheap Eats Part 11 is a sleeper pick.
Our next Chinatown Cheap Eat is Lonzo Ramen.
Andrew, not Lonzo Dumpling.
It's a different store, but it has the same name.
Right.
So basically, they're serving everything from ma la tongs to beef noodle soups
to Lonzo hand-pulled noodles.
They got some Chinese-American dishes, dumplings,
and it's all pretty relatively cheap.
It actually feels like I'm inside of a food court mall in China.
Let's go check it out because they're very proud of the hand-pulled noodles here.
That looks more like maybe like me.
Okay.
Right here, this looks more like you.
Okay.
That's me because, you know, rounder face, bigger body.
That's Andrew.
Oh, this for sure kind of more looks like me.
All right.
Here, David, we have Lonzo Ramen's very, very own Lonzo Ramen, and it's a dry style.
All right, you guys, this is about $12.
Very interesting looking Andrew.
She said if we want, we can dip this like tsukemen.
Dip that in the broth?
And like I said, guys, one common theme here is a lot of people, you could Google it.
There's a very interesting and unique history between Fujian in Japan and Taiwan.
Hey, don't deny it.
Just apply it.
Straight up, this is pretty good.
Honestly, this gets a four out of five.
Yo, these noodles are good.
These noodles are cooked perfectly.
When we film at these spots, I'm not gonna lie.
Sometimes I don't know what to expect,
but I have to say here at Lonzo Ramen on East Broadway, I was pleasantly surprised.
It was $6 for these dumplings.
Now, that's a little bit more expensive than your obviously like average dumpling spot in Chinatown.
But look how beefy these are.
Get the dry ramen though.
Get the dry spicy ramen.
You know what?
Take some of this chili and just boom.
Boom.
Let's go.
It feels like Hong Kong.
Everybody in there was speaking Cantonese and it started raining.
It's very humid.
All right, you guys, we have coconut.
This is going crazy off the top right now.
That's super refreshing in the rain.
Very sparkle.
Really, it's good.
Really good.
I have my verdict.
I think that although a lot of other chains have come over from Taiwan,
so they've since surpassed Coco's,
Coco's still a solid choice.
Maybe aesthetics need to get upgraded a little bit.
Guys, Coco's is always on the board.
High quality.
They do more than milk tea.
They're doing fruit teas, berry sparkles.
Starting to rain really, really bad.
We got to go.
Shout out to Coco's.
All right, you guys, we are on Christie and Canal right now.
And they have some really cool Japanese snacks at Yaya's,
which they import, they curate almost like a boutique streetwear shop.
Hey, you guys know Yaya's.
It's a classic spot.
You can get onigiris.
They have two locations, one on Grand Street, one on here.
But I'm going to go grab some dry snacks.
And of course, they got a bai bai tea.
You know, the famous chicken brand from China, aka Popeyes.
And Popeyes, you guys, has some new items.
They have a fish sandwich, chicken nuggets.
Chicken nuggies?
Beignets.
Yo, Marco, Marco.
What do we have here?
Marco, you know, we see all those crazy exotic snack shops over in the East Village.
But Yaya's is the first exotic snack shop because they have garlic shrimp glaze flavor.
What?
Garlic shrimp flavor.
Yeah, we got to try this.
We're definitely trying this one.
And then we have beef noodle soup flavor.
Yo, Josh, behind the camera, he's Taiwanese.
He knows a little bit of this Neuroman business right here.
That's crazy.
Is this pho or just regular beef noodles?
Oh, it's Chinese beef noodles.
Like Taiwanese style, like Chinese style.
All right.
All right, you guys, we're inside of bai bai chi, which is the Chinese name for Popeyes.
As you can see, you know, we're at the Chinatown location.
Hence why everybody working is Chinese.
We just ordered the nuggets.
They ran out of the Cajun flounder.
But I also got the beignets and the cheesecake right here.
So $6 for your chicken nuggets at Popeyes.
Let's go try them, man.
I love Popeyes.
Yeah, those look really, really good.
These aren't chicken nuggets, as in like kind of the chicken ground up mixture.
It's actually full pieces of chicken breast.
Wow.
There's a lot of flavor in that.
I know they say usually with bone more flavor.
But I don't know.
The boneless ones might have a little more flavor than the ones with bone.
Beignets.
Cheesecake.
Fire.
This is fire?
Fire.
It's hot, but it's fire.
Not bad at all.
Not bad.
All right, you guys.
Next up, Chinatown Cheap Eats.
The original Ya Ya's location.
They have a lot of curated Asian snacks.
You are looking at some Taiwanese potato chips.
This is beef noodle flavor.
Niu Rou Mian.
Kou Wei.
This says garlic shrimp flavor.
Almost looks like the boil or something like that.
And what do you got here?
Another garlic shrimp, but for the Doritos.
All right, guys.
These are all $2.75 each.
So it's a really nice stack.
Not only does it smell like Niu Rou Mian.
Let me see.
It tastes like Niu Rou Mian.
Let me see.
That tastes exactly like the beef.
Garlic shrimp Doritos.
Hella shrimpy.
Wow.
Tastes like you're chewing on shrimp heads.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm going with the Doritos.
Yeah.
I think the unanimous winner is the beef noodle soup one.
Just get this one, guys.
I don't know about the shrimp ones, but this one's fire.
All right, you guys.
We're at one of our favorite coffee shops in New York City.
Cream right now.
And they have a brand new item for Cheap Chinatown Eats.
What is this, Ben?
We got vegan strawberries made with organic strawberries.
It's non-dairy based.
Cheap Chinatown Eats.
Just tart enough to let you know that it's real,
but sweet enough to let you know that it's ice cream.
Come get it, this guy's cream on Essex.
All right, guys.
It's 12 p.m.
I'm here at the Baxter Street Market.
I'm trying to see if they have my elusive mushroom chicken steamed rice dish.
Maybe they sold out.
Let me ask them.
They don't got it.
I don't care where you are in the world.
Any Chinese-American enclave, Chinese-Canadian enclave,
Australian, New Zealand, wherever.
Boba does not stop.
Here we got Miss Du's Tea.
Now what they're trying to do is use super high quality ingredients.
Make it a slightly, what, less calories.
You know, make it a little bit healthier.
You know, that's what Miss Du's about.
You want to look like Miss Du, you got to drink Miss Du's.
I'm going to get Miss Du's.
I'm going to let you know how it is.
Miss Du's starting all their drinks at 50% or less sugar, guys.
Less sugar, less calories, all the taste.
Okay, so I'm drinking the mango pomelo right now.
This is really good because it is not that sweet.
It almost tastes more like a traditional Hong Kong dessert from Mango Mango,
but even less sweet than that.
This is the black grape with cheese foam on top.
Yeah, this one's kind of like a smoothie.
It's pretty good though.
Cheese foam at the top gives you that little creamy saltiness.
You drinking that like you playing a flute.
All right, so I have the hand-hit lemon tea, but with watermelon.
Basically what they're doing is they put the fruit at the bottom of the cup.
They take this long mallet, which they wouldn't let us film,
and they just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Mashing the fruit makes it way better.
So drink Miss Du or don't.
Marco, there has been the return of Wonton Garden.
What do you know about Wonton Noodle Garden?
Oh man, well, first of all, it's definitely a cheap eat.
They have great food, great pork chops, salt and pepper pork chops.
They have amazing roast pork noodle soup.
That's what I come here for, basically.
Okay, you get the chop.
They actually do a very unique Hong Kong noodle cart style.
It's the same as HK Wonton Garden over there.
It's very reminiscent of Hong Kong in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s.
Let's check it out.
All right, here at Wonton Noodle Garden, guys,
this is a Cantonese wonton staple in Chinatown.
Don't get it twisted.
Here we got the ao lam wonton mien,
which is the beef tendon stew with big noodles right here.
This is the chow mein and then you have the big wontons.
Now here, they claim that the wontons are larger than other spots
and the beef tendon is bun fei sou, which is the half meat, half fat.
So it's under $9, guys.
And you can get regular wonton mien here for $7.25.
That is a steal.
Okay, so here we have these salted salt and pepper fried pork chops, right?
That's the go-to right there.
And then you have deep fried cheung fun,
which is rice rolls that are fried with honey sauce.
Mmm, that's like a little soccer ball.
Golf ball.
Still solid.
Even as a wonton, it has plenty of white pepper, a lot of salt in it.
I love it.
This is what heaven tastes like right here.
Tender pork chop right here.
They do it best.
Wonton Garden.
Oh, here for dessert.
We got the fried cheung fun with little crispies on top.
Oh, wow.
Six bucks, guys.
Six dollars.
It's not a fancy dining Chinese restaurant.
It's just like kind of your late night cafe style authentic street cart noodles.
And man, I mean, stuff like this, it's good.
It's good.
Listen, they just put me on fried rice noodles.
I'm never gonna get the steam anymore.
I'm never doing it.
All right, everybody.
Thank you for watching that.
That wraps up Chinatown Cheap Eats part 11.
Hopefully, you're still drawing a lot of value from this series.
You know, seeing the shop owners, the people, the culture behind it all.
And you know, don't worry.
If you think that we need to venture out to Queens or Brooklyn more, we will.
That's coming up soon.
But let us know what you want to see in part 12.
All right.
Until next time, we out.
Peace.