This Hotpot is Cooked in a GIANT WOK! Trying "Stewed Hotpot" & LOBSTER TAIL Pho in Vancouver

Mike Chang here in Vancouver. This is gonna be a really exciting food day. It's gonna start with the chicken sandwich That looks amazing This is the spicy chicken sandwich You can get this in spicy or sweet and spicy or regular Look at this ginormous monster of a sandwich a whole sized piece of fried chicken in the middle Jalapeno sauce coleslaw on top. Oh my gosh. This looks like a fire-breathing Dragon sticking out its tongue before you even bite it. You definitely smell the heat This is a spicy yet Extremely delicious fried chicken sandwich. Oh my gosh and the heat Just come at you in waves. I'm sure everyone heard that beautiful crunch on the outside inside the deliciously juicy chicken breast There's heat coming from the sauce. There's heat coming from the jalapenos when they say spicy They mean it You could tell right away, this is fresh from the fryer Guy next to me had the same reaction. He's like, oh my god, it's really spicy Trying to get a mouthful of coleslaw to kind of cool the heat off a little bit Coleslaw definitely helps even though this thing does feel like lava on your tongue spicy. It's so good I mean the flavor from the spice the delicious umami from the sauce the crunch from the jalapenos and the coleslaw I mean all that works so well together. If you love spicy chicken sandwiches, this place is definitely worth a try So a fries place at Seoul Poutine This is really good. Fresh crispy fries nice and stretchy cheese curds delicious gravy Poutine something I get every single time I'm in Canada. I've always heard rumors about a all-you-can-eat poutine buffet That was in Montreal never was able to find it. But if that doesn't exist, that's a really good idea Canada All-you-can-eat poutine, I'd be down for that. Also, I got some garlic wasabi dipping sauce. Oh I highly recommend getting that garlic wasabi dipping sauce Oh, that sauce is creamy with a bit of kick or a very with a stick rich poutine after this. I'll go grab some dinner So I'm here at the wooden fish and this place is a modern take on northern Vietnamese cuisine So a lot of dishes from Hanoi. This smells so good This is seared sable fish in a hot skillet and what's making the smell so wonderful It's the large amount of dill that's in here. I think this is one of the few fish dishes I've had that has dill and dill is one of my favorite herbs. It smells good. It tastes good in this fish Look at it. So buttery and juicy. The meat is so soft and tender and flaky This is such a buttery piece of fish Delicious sear on the outside inside pure tender buttery Melt in your mouth meat and it's soaked in all that great aroma from the dill as well There's some onions some peanuts some scallions on top. This is served with some vermicelli and salad and of course fish sauce Also lemongrass orange tea, this is really really good. Take that buttery fish a little bit of vermicelli little herbs and veg Put the fish on top Dunk it in a little fish sauce Rescue the herbs I was left inside Just like most Vietnamese meat and seafood dishes. It tastes even better with some fresh herbs One of the most tender pieces of fish you'll find anywhere. I Love that dill. I love it Two giant deep-fried lobster tails on top of stir-fried dried pho. Look at this covered and Fried onions peanuts herbs beautiful deep-fried lobster tail The noodles are tossed with some tamarind sauce until it's golden brown Deep fried lobster tail. It's just so sweet tender and juicy Noodles are buttery. There's some refreshing crunchy sprouts on the bottom The noodles also carry with it the nice sweet sour and zesty flavor of a tamarind So you get something that's naturally sweet and scrumptious and then a refreshing crunch from the sprouts on the bottom. I Love dried pho because the noodle texture is so awesome. Also, this is Hanoi cuisine So you got the wider pho noodles as well. Also, there's tons of herbs in here. There's peanuts to give it even more aroma and flavor Everything from texture to flavor balanced and delicious And of course the signature dish here is the pho. So this is Hanoi pho and it smells and looks Incredible inside it is stuffed full of meat. Look at how much beef is in here There's raw cuts of beef cooked brisket. You can see all that delicious Marbling and fat. There's also pieces of bone marrow in here for some extra Gelatinousy texture and inside the hot broth. It's just melts and the pieces of bone marrow joined together with the meat It's just free flowing around this bowl This is about as much meat as there is noodles And I've never seen anything like that before in a bowl of pho. Of course, there's wider noodles in this pho as well Also, I got an onsen egg swimming in this pho broth I don't think I've ever had Hanoi pho before This is a fantastic Bowl of pho. Just from the broth alone. It's one of the beefiest broths I've had ever You can taste more of the spices in here. I feel like than the pho I've had before Mmm, I taste some cinnamon, star anise. The broth is just so flavorful I can't stop sipping on that. Oh my goodness. The flavor is just so deep That brisket absolutely melts in your mouth. You can taste all the marbling and fat The wider noodles definitely has more of a chew than its thin counterparts And I highly recommend Getting the pho with the bone marrow. Bone marrow is so nice and gelatinousy. There's some chewy meat mixed in with that as well the rare pieces Oh, that is so tender as well I don't think I've ever had an onsen egg inside a bowl of pho before. But look at this beautiful golden color That egg is so velvety. Mix that in with a deep beefy flavor of the broth That just tastes like pure silk and there's no sriracha or hoisin sauce because that's just not the way they eat pho in Hanoi But if you do want some heat, there's some hot sauce here and some pickled garlic So I'm gonna add some pickled garlic. I'm gonna put it in my small bowl just to give it a little taste test Mmm. Oh My goodness add the pickled garlic. I don't think you need a hot sauce. Just the pickled garlic This thing not only has heat it has delicious heat along with a little vinegary-ness Some acid. Mix that in especially if you have bone marrow and you have a really rich bowl of pho Mmm Well, that is exceptional, especially when you munch on the little pieces of garlic It just sends an extra layer of sharp spiciness to your taste buds It's one of the most unique bowls of pho I've ever had Like I said, I don't think I've ever had pho from Hanoi before but this makes me want to go to Hanoi Also something I noticed they don't give you any herbs like bean sprouts or lime with your bowl of pho either That's also because that's not something that's traditional in Hanoi Definitely come and give this bowl of pho a try. 10 out of 10 Oh, it makes walking around in this cold rain so much better. That pho with that garlic sauce I don't even miss sriracha. Now I'm gonna walk around in the cold rain and go for dinner So from Vancouver back to Richmond. The drive was about two hours with all the traffic So definitely hungry again and dinner is gonna be a hot pot. That's truly truly unique and something I never had before This is a hot pot. I never tried before. It's basically a giant wok right here Very reminiscent of like of like going to a country house in China and play with a metal drinking cup And basically this restaurant called Shan Li Deng Which pretty much means stewing in the mountains and you can get inside this giant wok How special fish or you can get a stewed goose with vegetables or their Northeastern special Which includes a bunch of pork and beef and ribs potatoes or just a pork only one There's a chicken one and then a spicy chicken one So they said the most popular pot is the fish. I got the fish, but I added in some pork belly I added in some beef some potatoes and this this is what you've got to get when you come here These are pretty much raw mantou dough. And what they do is they slap it inside this wok So the bones are gonna steam inside the wok along with your food and there's two different kinds ones made with cornmeal One's made with just plain white flour. This is really really exciting They came with a food giant fillet of fish went into the wok So did the broth my potatoes my pork belly everything is inside. Also, I order some Cui Liu Bai Cai This is one of my favorite Chinese dishes is vinegar cooked cabbage Very simple dish delicious and it helps to give you extra long chopsticks, too. I love this dish It's basically just stir-fry a lot of vinegar a little cornstarch So simple yet so good So this is the giant pot you see here on the side This was the dough that is now steamed into basically a flat mantou giant cuts of fish and veg Stewed inside this brown Sauce, there's my pork belly Nice and tender a little spicy a little numbing pretty good. Let's try the fish. Oh my gosh Giant fillet of fish covered in chilies and peppercorn. There's a lot of bones in here. So you got to be careful Super tender flaky meat and that flavor of this broth has definitely penetrated that fish. Oh my goodness So much stuff in here fried tofu. There's a giant potato. That's all nice and mushy now well Well potato so perfect right now look at this giant piece of pork belly there should also be chunks of beef in here Beef is nice and tender and spicy as well Really want to try these things So these pieces of dough are cooked on the side of the wok and it's steamed as well So part of it is crispy part of it is soft Look at how nice and airy it is on the inside. This one's like a little mix of the corn dough and the regular white dough One side deliciously crispy other Seamy soft and pillowy. You gotta dunk this back with this broth If you ever come here, you gotta get these freshly made crispy little mantou I love how well pillowy side soaks up this delicious soup. And I also love how crispy it is on the other side That tastes even better than the fish and the beef and this is the corn version Take that for a dip The corn version little less chewy a little bit more sweet. I think I like this one better This is such a crazy Cauldron of delicious ingredients you can just kind of mix and match You can add whatever you want in here and get a goose if you want different types of fish. I Super so delicious. It's really earthy rustic just a boiling cauldron of umami and what they will do is they'll come by and ask you if you think it's too salty if you do then they'll add More soup to kind of balance the flavors out right now I think it's pretty good and you can also get some hot oil to dip the ingredients in That's really good hot well as well, this is a really delicious and very unique hotpot experience I highly highly recommend coming here and trying this out I think you'll love it, especially on a cold windy rainy day. If this doesn't warm you up nothing will