Best Hot Pot in Manhattan

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Hou Yi hotpot located in Manhattan Chinatown is the best hot pot spot in Manhattan.
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Yo what up, we're at the Hoi Hot Pot place
and we're gonna enjoy some awesome hot pot
This is one of the best hot pot places inside Vietnam
Look at the sauce, this is the best
Super spicy on one side, regular on the other side
but the sauce itself, the soup itself is super good, super yummy
This is Dan's sauce, it looks like slime
His sauce doesn't look that good
I'm gonna make some awesome appetizers
I don't know how to make sauce because I don't come to hot pot that often
Yeah, I love the spicy so much, they don't
It's gonna be, my side's gonna have the really spicy side
I'm gonna go make some awesome sauce
Okay, what I like to do
Minced garlic, absolutely, okay
You gotta have cilantro
Gotta have lots of it, it's great, okay
Soy sauce, this is cha cha
Okay, Chinese barbecue sauce, that's what they call it
Must have
You gotta have a scoop of soy sauce
Black vinegar, just a little bit
I like a little acidity, a little sourness
And here we go, shumai or huasheng, this is the toughest choice
Every time I either do huasheng or shumai, okay
So this time, let me do shumai
Yeah, you get tons of it
Oh, it's good
Gotta get it in there
Oh, that's awesome
Okay, now, hot sauce, that's not right
Okay, gotta look for hot oil
Chili oil
There we go
Yeah
Oh, man
That's what I like
The only hot pot place probably in the world that has icy
Yeah, yeah, we're going for that
Also, it has like plum tea and dong gua cha
This is all so freaking awesome
And then once you finish the hot pot
You can use some ice cream
Look at this, look how spicy this is
This is all hot oil
Mike, I think they made this extra spicy for you
You gotta have watercress
100%, you gotta have watercress
You gotta have potatoes
What is this? What did we order here?
Oh, my God, that's a mistake
Don't ever get yang gao because that fills your stomach up
Okay, someone got fish tofu
I got fish tofu
Probably not the best choice
And Dan likes to eat rice with his hot pot
Oh, I forgot to get rice
Don't ever get rice
This guy is like a hot pot immature, okay
So this sauce that they have here at Houyi
It is gonna be, I'm telling you guys right now
About the hottest sauce you'll ever have in your life
Look at this, oh, my God
And look at my, look at my
Look at my actual sauce
I'm gonna mix it up a little bit for you guys, look at that
This is so spicy
Okay, I'm like the hot spicy king
So I love this stuff
We got our lamb, must have
We got our pork bacon
We got our pork belly bacon
We got our beef
We got our beef right here
So now we got quite essential ingredients to start our hot pot
So here we go
Alright, I love tripe, okay
Most people that I go out to eat hot pot with
Don't like tripe
You gotta try some tripe in your hot pot, okay
The thing is with tripe, it's really quick
So you put it in
There we go, alright you put it in
Literally like a few seconds
Maybe like 10, so count to 10
Like 7, 6, 5
4, 3
2, 1
And you gotta take it out, otherwise it becomes old
Alright, so I'm gonna try the icy
It's good
It's so spicy
It's so spicy because you're weak
Alright, Dan just made the mistake of
Putting in the greens right away
Because guys, if you watched my last video
On hot pot, if you put in greens right away
It soaks up all the sauce and oil
Floating on top of the hot pot
So you usually wanna eat your greens last
Also, before you eat your hot pot
You should've drank some little fruit juice
Little yogurt to cover your stomach with
Because hot pot is really kind of acid-y
Okay, the only thing we're missing now
Is an egg
No, we're not getting rice
Don't do it
Do yourself a favor, get rice
When you go to hot pot
Don't get rice, okay
Get an egg, don't put the egg in your sauce
Put the egg into your pot
Let it boil
Alright, this is the frozen tofu
I love frozen tofu in hot pot
Because it soaks up all the awesomeness
It's so good
Dip it, oh yeah
It soaks up all the juice and seasoning
It's one of my favorite, favorite things
Frozen tofu
If you guys never put Spam in hot pot
You're missing out, Spam is awesome in hot pot
Really good Spam
Okay, this is a seaweed knot
It's pretty good, it's pretty good
Those of you who never had it before
Seaweed is really, really good
It's not crunchy, it's a little chewy
It's not one of my favorites, but still, it's not bad
So Mia came up with a new trick
You put the beef into an egg white
And then you cook it
And she's saying this is going to be amazing
So let's see if it's right
If it's not, then she pays for dinner
Alright, supposedly this is coated with egg white
Supposedly this is really awesome
Let's see
You think it's way better?
Mia's a genius
It's either really good or it's undercooked
One of those two
Alright, we gotta put the potatoes in
If you guys listened to my video
You would have tried potatoes in hot pot already
Potatoes in hot pot is one of the best things
You'll ever have in your life
One of the best tasting potatoes
You'll ever get to eat
So put it in early and let it cook until it's all like
Like soft
And like mashed potato-y
If that's a word, mashed potato-y
So no one's touched the rice cake that Mia ordered
I did, I had one
There's like 20 left
Alright, Dan almost made a fatal error
He was going to put noodles
Into our spicy sauce
Big no-no because then the noodles will soak up
All the awesome spicy food
I mean all the spicy goodness
And we will have no spicy goodness left
We want spicy goodness
Notice how it's all cracked so the wonderful soup can get inside
Okay, now we're going to
Crack it and peel it and eat it
Alright, so here's the egg
Now what you do, you take the egg
Dip it in your seasoning
Okay, see that
Now
You make it, you poke at it
So it breaks
And that's going to get all the sauce into the yolk
This is going to be so
So good, so next time you go to a hot pot
You do this
Alright guys, now we're going to look for a potato
Look at that, oh it just falls apart
See that, it's falling apart
Oh, it's so good
Now dip that in your sauce
Now you can drink the soup
Mia's going to drink the soup now
This is the time
So, how is it?
Good?
Alright, so this is the time like for example
This is when you eat your radishes
Radish takes like half hour to like cook really good
Or like winter melon
But if you got winter melon, put it in there
I'm hitting the treaded food wall right now
So we're done with hot pot
Now it's time for some ice cream
Not a lot of hot pot places give you ice cream
So this is really good because the yogurt and milk
Will also help with the spice in your stomach
Okay, so the ice cream is finished
Now I feel complete because I have a spicy hot pot
Mixed with the milkiness of the ice cream
That balances everything out
I just had a balanced meal
That is both healthy
But mine is really not healthy because
My hot pot is full of grease and oil
And my sauce is full of grease and oil
But, I'm happy
I'm satisfied, nothing beats a hot pot
And for those of you who think that
You can only eat hot pot in the summer
Cause I'm like, you guys wanna go eat hot pot
And someone's like, nah, it's summer, it's too hot
You can eat hot pot whenever you feel like it
Guys, so that was my first attempt at
Vlogging a food outing
So I'm still trying these things out
But I do go to a ton of cool food places
So if you guys like this video, let me know
And I'll keep making them
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Alright guys, see ya
