GREAT AMERICAN FISH MARKET (Catching Fish - Pike Place Seattle) | Fung Bros

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I'm originally from LA and now I live in Seattle and I'm repping the town. Hey, I'm Tiffany aka feeder on Instagram. I'm born and raised in Seattle, so shout out to all my local foodies. Hi, I'm Sonia from Seattle Bites. I'm originally from New York, but now I'm repping the Northwest. 2017 Zagat Award winner, so you know my food game is strong. All right everybody, that's the crew for today. We're about to hit up seven of the most iconic spots around Pike Place, and we're meeting our tour guide Justin at spot number one. Are you guys ready? Let's go. We got to take a picture at the most Instagrammable spot in all of Seattle, which is the gum wall right here. This is our tour guide Justin for the day. What's happening everybody? So what's the first spot? First place, we're gonna go to a place right here called Daily Dozen Donut Company. Started in 1990 by two sisters, Stu and Barb, who had a dream to build a business selling mini donuts, but they had some help. The Donut Robot Mk2. They make 30 DPM. That's 30 donuts per minute. Yeah, I got the donuts here, but most important of all, a food tour. No leftovers, all right? This is a food tour, not a food diet, all right? I love it. Get in there. Cinnamon and sugar powdered donut from Daily Dozen Donut Company. Dig in, y'all. It's awesome. It's so light and fluffy, and then because it's warm, you can't get any better than this. It's warm and fresh and coated in sugar and cinnamon. It's perfect. The ultimate mini donut. It's not too large where you're feeling guilty, but it's delicious. Let's keep it moving. I think it's pretty crucial that Justin has the pink umbrella so we never lose it. Did you know that the term Greek is not regulated by the FDA or any governing body in North America for that matter? At least you can call anything Greek. Essentially, yeah. To make authentic real Greek yogurt, to get that rich, creamy, thick texture, these large companies are taking shortcuts. They're adding cornstarch. They're adding thickeners. They're adding things that are not part of the traditional yogurt making process. That's why we're blessed here in Pike Place Market. We have Eleano's Real Greek Yogurt, family-owned and operated. They started right here in Pike Place, and they take low margins just so they can show us a real Greek yogurt. This one in here is called the Marionberry. The other one's Passion Fruit Real Greek Yogurt. If you post a photo of Eleano's yogurt, you'll get like 100 likes right away. It's like such a hands-down Seattle favorite. Wow. Is that like cheesecake without the guilt? Exactly. That's exactly what I think. I want to eat this with that donut just now. Oh, that's a good call. Former fat guy thought right there. Absolutely. Inner fat guy thought. Seattle is a diverse place. We have people coming here from all over the country, all over the world since 1851. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we lost two-thirds of our Japanese-American farmers. That's a huge loss. This mural is reflective of that by Aki Sagabe. It depicts the life and plight of Japanese-American farmers. After Japanese internment, none of those original Japanese-American farmers ever returned back to Pike Place. Imagine building Generation as well and losing that, right? That's a tough loss. And so we want to remember that history. Especially with the Asian community. I think it's important to note that they actually helped build a lot of this city as well. Now we gotta go try some Pike Place chowder. Pike Place chowder is an over seven-time award-winning canoeing clam chowder. They've won many awards, including awards in the East Coast. That is really good chowder. Ain't that good? Yeah. They get fresh seafood from the fishmongers for their daily market special. Best chowder in Seattle. This is the seafood bisque. So this is another award winner here. It's pretty much the whole ocean. You got shrimp, you got lobster, you got crab. Really good. You can taste the seafood, and it's not too creamy. Would this make it on your gram? Of course. I only post the good food, and I've definitely posted food from here multiple times. We're about to go to Chucker Cherries for some chocolate-covered cherries. So we're a family-owned cherry company out of Eastern Washington. We work with local farmers in the area to get all these cherries off the trees. And from there, we dry them up with hot air only, and then cover them in different blends of gourmet chocolate. The bean cherry, it's a little more tangy than sweet. Shout out to Microsoft. Easily the most popular non-cherry item that we have. It's so good. You can taste the toffee flavor. That's really good. This is like candy. We're number two producer of sweet cherries. Turkey has number one, I believe. But cherries are such part of Northwest. So whenever cherry season hits here, it's always huge. Turns out big crowds. The next stop we're going to is Beecher's Handmade Cheese. All right, now we are outside of Beecher's Handmade Cheese, where they make cheese fresh and daily. And you can actually watch them through this window right here. It is a mixture between gruyere and cheddar cultures. We're going to start with those cheese curds. It's like free cheese. Kind of like eating an eraser. Way tastier. Yeah. It kind of crumbles in your mouth. It almost has a rubbery taste at first, but then it breaks down really fast. You age this 15 to 18 months and then you get the flagship cherry. So this is on a honey oat cracker. So good. This is like one of my most favorite cheeses to get in Seattle. I never really had these many thoughts about cheese, but now that I'm eating it, the texture changes and therefore the taste changes. What's your favorite type of cheese? Nacho cheese. Nacho cheese. We're going to have that in there. A whole. This is our mac and cheese. Right. So it's world famous. It got famous here locally in Seattle. Martha Stewart, she found about this mac and cheese and she gave the owner a call. She said, Kurt, come to my TV show, make a famous mac and cheese. He ends up going on the show, but he doesn't make this version. He makes a different version. They don't know the wiser. Wow. He flips it on her. Bait and switch. You know, I taste that pepper. I taste the smokiness. That's definitely different than your regular mac and cheese that's like cheddar based or American cheese based. Nah. So we're walking through the market. I see a bunch of tulips. Growing up, a very Northwest experience is going with my dad and the family up to the tulip festival. And there's tons and tons of tulips there. I went like three times in my life. My dad, he loves like yards and flowers, but we went to the tulip festival a lot. This is how Northwest I am. All right. Now we are outside of Peroshki. Peroshki having one of the longest lines in all of Pike Place. And a lot of people are familiar with Perogies and Peroshkis. What is the difference between those two? The difference between a Peroshki though, it's baked. Oh man. I could see eating just one of these and being good like for lunch. That's really hearty, man. Cinnamon cardamom. Kind of a braid if you will. Kind of twisted there. That's a really good cinnamon twist. Kind of citrusy. So we had a lot of good food on this food crawl so far, but Seattle is very much known for its seafood. And every time someone visits Seattle, I always tell them, yo, we got really good affordable seafood up here. So one of the most iconic parts of Pike Place market is fish throwing, especially salmon. And so I think today we might get to see a little bit of the fishmongers in action. The story is the owner was getting a bag of clams for someone and he was just like, Hey, just toss it over the counter. So the toss wasn't like super dramatic. It wasn't really a long toss anyway, but really that's where it all started. So literally for convenience reasons, you guys stole the fish because it's fast. Exactly. You ready to do the fish, man? I think we've got to hit up a seafood restaurant next, man. Where are we going? We're going to go over to Etta's seafood restaurant. What do we got here? So this is a Dungeness Crab Cake. Right here from Etta's. It's a Tom Douglas joint. Tom is like a three-time James Beard Worldwide Chef, Iron Chef Champion. Iron Chef America. Iron Chef America, which is not bad. He's probably the most celebrated chef in Seattle. Wow. Okay. So I got a high expectation for these crab cakes. Yeah. You can see all the crab meat. There's no filler. It's so good. That's not really a crab patty. I feel like it's literally like a crab ball. It's just being held together by the crust and there's really nothing else. Like look at all those, the shredded crab right there, the stringy crab. You know how when you pull a crab out, it kind of shreds? So the crab cakes were actually the last thing that we're having on this tour. But how are we finishing them off, Justin? These are a John Boy Flor de Sol Sea Salt Caramel. The sea salt definitely like balances it out so it's not like overly sweet and you just get a little bit of that saltiness. I really like the texture too. It's not too chewy and it's not hard. We're at Oriental Mark Grocery Kitchenette. They do Filipino style plate lunches. The Apostle family has been running it for three generations. Auntie Lai is the main cook here. She's here every day. She don't take a day off. Congee is one of my favorite foods, man. It's a good comfort food. Do you ever make it with a thousand-year-old egg in here? No, because that's the Chinese version. If you want that, you have to bring your own egg. I'll walk it over from Chinatown. No fancy. This is just good food. Nowadays you're starting to see farmer's markets in New York, L.A., different neighborhoods all around the country. But their model is this place because we are the longest consecutively run farmer's market in this great nation. Well that pretty much wraps up our Pike Place food tour. It was super informative. Thank you, Justin, man. Shout out to Saver Seattle if you guys are looking for some tours. Yeah, thank you guys for joining us. All these local foodies and yappies here. What was your major takeaway? You know, you haven't been to Pike Place, but I feel like we experienced it on a different level. One thing that I would say is a great takeaway is the fact that Pike Place market isn't just for tourists. It's one of the few tourist attractions that locals actually frequent on the weekends. Favorite thing that we ate today? Man, it's probably going to be the pirozhki or probably Elinose Greek yogurt. Elinose and chowder. All right, definitely the donut from Daily Dozen and the clam chowder were delicious. I know it's cliche to say this, but you got to come to Pike Place. It is a place that is unique. And yes, this farmer's market is pushing the standard of farmer's markets around the United States and North America. So that's really cool to know. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching that video about Pike Place market. I hope you guys learned something. It was really fun to shoot and shout out to our sponsor, Audible. Check out audible.com slash phone bros or text phone bros to 500 500 to start your free trial right now. Super easy. I am actually listening to Damon John rise and grind. So he's from Shark Tank and he also started the clothing line FUBU from back in the day. So it's super relevant to what we do. It's about persistence and entrepreneurship. And it's just really inspirational right now. The link is down below. 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