New CHINESE & KOREAN Food You've Never SEEN

whoa so good man I love it I love it oh my gosh it's like a sandwich fried rice mad good M woo so in this video we're leaving Manhattan to check out some neverbe seen Asian food it's mostly in Brooklyn but a little bit in Queens so by the end of the episode I'll need your help on suggesting some other spots we need to check out hit that like button and let's go all right our next spot is not quite in Brooklyn but it's in math Beth Queen so it's pretty close and I'm here with the queen plug Perry Stacks from image n y we're at Driftwood and this is a brand new Asian fusion restaurant I mean I want to say they're doing Asian fusion right here but how would you describe the food here so the food at Driftwood is uh Asian Americana they do uh highly influenced with uh seafood dishes so it's it's a mix of a little bit of Asian influence all right we're in the back of the kitchen of Driftwood with Shane Shane you're the chef owner uh how would you describe Chef uh Driftwood and what were you trying to do here uh Driftwood is pretty much like my experiences working in fine dining working in a lot of casual restaurants as well trying to blend the two together food that I like and then try to make it like a Asian Americana comt food kind of style I tell you I know the food is going to be good cuz look at his arms he got the tattoos if your Chef is not does not have tattoos on his forearm forget it all right it does the chef have a full sleeve tattoo and a serving childhood dishes with French techniques all right everybody we got the starters here what I think is cool about Mala tots is that Mala is like a seasoning that they're kind of sprinkling on everything and it's just something that I wouldn't have expected you know tater tots with Mala something so American it's so Chinese now M I'm going to try it up with a little bit of uh [Music] smizzy M these are so good you guys got to get these all right we got the crab boughs here never seen anything like it let's get it snow [Music] crab dang man I just came back from Boston and I had like a lobster roll and a crab roll this this is killing it man it's like a Asian lobster roll right that all right here we got oysters with a palelo [Music] Minette wow taste the Asian Pier no I never had an oyster that was like sweet and fru too that was crazy yeah it was really good got the two cheese dishes cheese corn ooh M so much Grill flavor in this corn it's crazy the filling on this craw fresh ragon a little peppery a little cheesy really good and then here man I have actually this tea s this Tea Leaf salad I feel I love the burmes Tea Leaf salad so I think I'm I'm really excited about this one wo I got to try some that was refreshing man man cuts through everything lots of different textures you have nuts you have fried one ton strips in there you have corn you have all these different ingredients wow all right so the Entre have arrived here at Driftwood in math Beth Queens math Beth is not ready for this um what are we looking at Mimi so here we have our rice noodle rolls or in Chinese we call CH oh the ches and butter look how little squishy these things are look they squishy squishy oh this is a new CH fun this is not the old CH [Music] fun man some wet I taste of Wal tons of w i get that salt and pepper Vibe and that is so delicious so this is one of the signature dishes right one oh my gosh it's like a sandwich fried rice let's [Music] go wow the flavors come together really well oh true smoke smokiness and that soy cured uh yolk is crazy what about this dish so here we have our pork Isis Fri SK take it Lettuce rice and you dip it in the Perry Perry vinegar wow Perry Perry vinegar is it that's your vinegar bro yeah Perry Perry vinegar right here I love Perry Perry sauce it's it's one of my favorite man shout out to Portuguese food all right let's try this [Music] it almost feels like the first time I had Filipino Leon with the pineapple sauce but it's like a spicier Twist on it with the lettuce wrap it's crazy the skin is really good crazy so this is kind of like your Korean chicken and waffles but the waffles are like the the Hong Kong egg waffles yeah wow wow all right cheers M this is like eating an Asian-American Student Union all in one plate it's like you got some Thai Chili you got some Korean uh chicken the goou Jang sauce and then you have the Hong Kong egg waffle the gai M sticky salty chewy Sweet Taste some maple syrup in there yo I'm going in a piece of this cheers cheers [Music] yo that charred butter is I don't even know if I've ever had charred butter in my life these Entre are going crazy it's like I'm trying to think a lot of flavors going on yeah of all the fusion Inspirations that go into each dish whatever Shane's doing is he that dude is creative guys I'm here at Driftwood and mass Beth queens and I'm trying SMA on they're so inventive creative dishes here here I got the CH fun but it's not just any CH fun saltiness helps highlight the SMA I love that so good man I love it I love it all right and last but not least for the hot dishes we got their seafood boil in their very own Driftwood sauce see what I do so there's the sauce at the bottom here this is like at the bottom of the bag that you would get got to dip that little fingerlings little looks like my thumb look that little thumm real yummy ah small the only time I'll pour SMA on my [Music] fingers get in there don't worry I've been practicing dessert guys and of course it is still impressive and if we have a sweet potato cake roll that's kind of based off the Hong Kong cake roll you can find that at any Bakery and then you have a um milk tea pudding milk tea pudding ooh okay okay and then you have a prman turnover with ice cream I've never had a Pon uh roll at all bro this is actually one of my favorite things to do is like alamode so I'm going to try this roll cheers wo bourbon caramel that's bourbon is very strong amazing all right let me try this milk tea real quick oh that's smooth Earl Gray classy guys Driftwood masth Queens come over check it out Grand AB it's incredible new Asian restaurant right in a place that you wouldn't expect all right on to the next spot see you guys later all right everybody our next new Asian Concept in New York City takes us out to Bushwick Brooklyn we're outside of noan uh this is their Brooklyn location I'm out here with a special guest J ke from righteous eats what's going on y'all peace peace peace J ke you've had the food here yes sir how would you describe it to people I would describe it as Korean American manifestation in food form they have some new Jes that are different than their East Village location so I'm really excited man shout out to Jay Le man let's go check it out check it [Music] out all right everybody we're here at no on the place is blast music a lot of uh early 2000 songs and late ' 90s I love it it's got the vibe here we have their Korean Bara Pizza they have roasted uh kimchi on the sauce along with a nice Bara piece and then I've topped it off with some small ey check the link down [Music] below great the light cross crispy all right everyone this is the Premier new dish over here at noan in Bushwick this is the bulldock pizza the Bushwick bulldock uh bulldock in Korean means essentially fire chicken spicy chicken dish except it's on a pizza I love the idea of Asian pizzas I'm so excited shout out to Jin for coming up with [Music] it guys I think the pizza here is very impressive it was spicy and has the thei the little rice cakes on top and it's just super Saucy everything here has a lot of flavor there's a lot of cheese at this restaurant so for those who are cheese adversed watch out but check out noan Bushwick it's got a crazy Vibe feels like a club it feels like I'm in a hip-hop club eating good food that's why I like it shout out to Jerry how to our next spot all right everybody next up on Asian food in Brooklyn we are here at peek in house pecking house is started by a guy named Eric Wong really cool Chef 11 Madison Park did the whole French train bear type situation created this spot it's totally something different it is not your Nashville hot chicken sandwich this is their signature chili chicken and it's made with tanin chilies and Sichuan chili crisps so it's not just one type of chili and I tell you this I can smell it off of it right now it kind of reminds me of La Gama and a number of other things but I'm super excited guys we have the Salted egg yolk here we have their chicken sandwich right here that's gigantic and then their signature cornbread with like their apple honey sauce which I'm going to get into but anyways guys uh first comes first this is what you got to go with this is a thigh chili chicken here at pecking house I'm very [Music] excited W wa mad good mad good man Eric killing it woo I think one of the unique and cool things about this spot is that their water station over there you can get sparkling and still water as much sparkling water as you want they don't even charge you for it that was unlike any other CH chicken I've had let's check out The Salted egg yolk I'm going to take a bite here man it is so crispy you can just see it you can hear it guys what I love to see is like Asians doing their Twist on things you know and I think that's the great thing about America is that culture is shared so they're totally infusing Chinese flavors whether it's salted egg yolk or tanin and Citron chilies all in a one piece of chicken let me just eat this skin real quick hot hot was so hot that was so [Music] hot telling you the Brooklyn crowd can take funky food we talk talk about salted egg yolk fried chicken thighs I feel like Brooklyn people are down for that wow all right everybody this is their pecante chicken sandwich it is gigantic I'm about to cut it uh I think it has two pieces of chicken filet in there let's see if this knife can go through I'm pretty good at cutting things in half the pante sandwich is their most popular and it actually infuses Latino flavors because I think the other co-owner is Latin oh my God man look at this beauty oh my goodness oh my goodness guys I did bring SMA I don't know if I'm going to need it here because everything here is already so so spicy with Mala but let's check it out this has waken cheese guys this is the picante Fried Chicken Sandwich here at pecking [Music] house surprisingly that whole thing stayed together pretty well I like it a lot I really love the cheese it does kind of have like a deeper darker like I want I don't want to say like mole Vibe but like definitely something more from the Chili Peppers is very Mexican but let's try some SM laa on it [Music] ooh [Music] wow so good all right ending off here in pecking house guys an O2 you know Southern American food you have cornbread here with real pieces of corn inside [Music] I love it man you got a Chinese and Latino Guy cooking fried chicken and cornbread with their own twist I know you got a bunch of other people in Brooklyn doing all different types of foods um I love the take and the quality on it I definitely think you guys got to check this spot out pecking house our next Ultra Modern Asian concept is milu I'm telling you guys their whole aesthetic here is being being copied in other cities I don't want to name any names but look you guys are looking at a eggtart dant soft serve the owners are from Hong Kong they were from 11 Madison Park as well so you're really seeing like a lot of elevated Fusion spots these days but very few spots do it the right way I think milu is one of those that does it all right you guys like we said this is a modern elevated almost like Western Hong Kong Fusion you are looking at K Chong s you which is ginger scallion um you know brazed salmon uh steamed salmon I'm sorry you've got some of the broccoli right here but look at even at this salad I think this is pea sprouts with cilantro and a lot of green onion as well so this is different as well but anyway we got to get into this this is actually more of a home style dish you do see K Chong you know ginger scallion fish but salmon it's a little bit more of like people do that in their family we did it all the time growing up that's why we got to come back [Music] like we said this food crawl of modern Asian Concepts is brought to you by SMA if you want to get some check out the link down [Music] below [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh all right guys we are at Grand Street in Bedford one of the most famous intersections of Williamsburg Brooklyn and welcome to the newest and smallest location of the non Shang Shalom ba Empire this is actually an Express concept they just opened it tons of to- Go orders but it should be the same original quality that you can get at nonong in Flushing which is the original location so I'm really proud of this chain because they started in Flushing they expanded Manhattan now they're in Brooklyn I mean look they're serving sholom BS to everybody and I love this concept because you can freeze these sholom BS and steam them up at different locations so right here we have their spicy beef Shalom ba uh spicy beef is not a a traditional flavor but of course I think it's a big hit with the Americans because Americans like beef do my little dip my little vinegar ba bath right there woo that's spicy that kicked me I like it so far kind of tastes it has a little Sichuan [Applause] flavor it is spicy beef they got soy milk [Music] too all right my other dish here that I really wanted to try is one of my favorite kind of combinations which is a tuno Bing wrapped around some juicy beef you might know this as a neuroen bing um really popular dish lots of sauce I'm assuming it's going to taste a little bit like a peeking duck bow maybe who knows let's see what I really love about this concept is that it's exposing all different types of people uh to traditional shom BS and some non-traditional stuff but they have a lot of traditional stuff on the menu I'll tell you that I don't know if anybody's ordering them but I think it's cool because this concept really feels like something more you would find in Asia as an Express dumpling spot so here I got SMA of course you guys if you guys are interested click on the link down below H let's Dows [Music] it I mean listen guys non Shong from flushing to maybe the rest of the United States now because once they get this system down and they're spreading RR New York who knows maybe they're in different cities so I'm really proud of them but we got competition coming into town because D Tha fun is on its way to Time Square so you know we'll see which one takes over but I got the spicy beef one I know it's pretty spicy earlier but I'm going to add some smalla make it extra spicy oh my God I don't even know if I if this is [Music] smart oh that spicy beef one is good guys nonan Shan the maybe the next great Shalom bow chain from America another new old thing you start to see too is Chinatown Concepts directly porting themselves over to uh hipster Williamsburg so big Wong restaurant has been around since 1978 they basically replicated themselves here do I think they might have had an opportunity to Hipster and modernize it but do I also think some people like that 1980s style I don't know you tell me different strokes for different [Music] folks