Asian Food Is BETTER Than Italian? New Ranking List

what are the top five food cities in the world ranked by a world-renowned food critic and the guy who's eating everything under the sun Andrew Zimmer I'll tell you what opinions on food are like bung holes okay everybody's got one but some are crap yet and others let's run the clip you had to say your top five food cities in the world Andrew what would you consider them starting with number five uh number five is a tie Paris and Madrid I I I can't separate them let's go for number four uh Mexico City the variety the the the flavors there is I mean Mexico City number four in my book one of the best cities in the world uh for travel and food number three Andrew uh Tokyo kind of obvious number two Andrew uh well the other great cuisine in the world is Chinese cuisine um and changu uh in China in the sichan province the the food there is just absolutely mined by yes they use a lot of chilies yes they they use a lot of heat there are also dishes that don't have that I'm obsessed with changu and the number one best food city in the world to eat in according to Andrew zimon not even close New York City if you just took the burrow of queens and partitioned it and it was its own City Queens would be the number one food city in the world Andrew Zimmerman caus a stir on the internet with his top five Food Cities and this is guy this guy is Andrew Zimmer he's literally literally eaten everything like I think even I don't want to have to compare him to Anthony bour and rip but I think he's eating even weirder food he had his whole show based around eating bizar well you know I don't really think his list was uh legitimate because he didn't really have any Italian food on there so I I'm just going to go ahead and throw it all out hey I'm just saying Andrew Zimmer has been saying this for years one episode took Zimmer to hoi men City where he spent the day eating around town enjoying some of the best Vietnamese food he'd ever had I love the cuisine of that country um I had that same experience in changdu China and in Paris France the the other cities that are real temples of gastronomy to be able to have food in those places at that level of execution or Queens New York for that matter um is something that I will never ever ever uh forget I think I'm the luckiest guy in the whole world I mean David food list always cause a stir because everybody feels you know their region might be superior but this guy I mean we got to talk about it because everybody eats food right so that's why everybody's got opinions on it right exactly and everybody wants their food to be the best so we're going to talk about it we're going to break it down and we not quite on Andrew Zimmer levels but we have eaten a lot of food ourselves so we're going to chime in there and talk about what the comment section thinks please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot pop boys but you know what goes on a lot of food well hey Andrew Zimmer you haven't had smalla sauce yet let me know if you want me to send you a bottle but check it out it's made in the USA real quick I got to point out this uh comment from Brady Buckner 6 he said yeah uh I think all these Jewish people like different weird foods what what is that supposed to mean well I mean this guy's name is Brady Buckner I can only imagine what he eats on a daily basis let's go to number five Andrew he had Paris and Madrid holding down the number five spot a split pick I'm excited you know I'm about to go visit Paris so I'm ready to see but but I will tell you this David A lot of people have criticized Paris over the years for not being that good although French techniques are always touted as the top techniques in the world sometimes even the people in France say no no no no no you have to go to Leon Leon is the home of french quisine Paris he's just for a bunch of tourist it's just making cro madams and hey guys as people who have traveled you understand that in these very high touristy cities sometimes that a lot of the food that's being sold is Catered toward tourists so it's not necess the best food it's just the food that's going to sell to all the tourists like when I went to Brussels Belgium the food was okay but it was just a bunch of waffles and a bunch of like muscles that were like decent but not great you know cuz that's just the food that sells musles and freets yeah musles and freets yeah I know I mean I guess it would be like comparing uh the food in New York City Times Square is not good Andrew the food in Hollywood La generally not good right so in these hi trffic tourist areas generally the food is not considered the best it is always considered a carbon copy everyone's serving the same thing right right right somebody said un unfortunately French cuisine is outdated and very much past its time yes it was a beast in the 1970s impacted all other Cuisines but it got super stagnant but guys listen if they carry over French techniques to any food that they're cooking out there then it has potential maybe uh perhaps the new elevated version of any cuisine is uh has some new Fran influences they're part of the Franco sphere David I will say of all the picks this seems to be a heavily debated one so anybody in the comment section below who has spent significant time in Paris eating food you guys let us know what you think in the comments down below does it deserve to be number five Andrew also controversial was Madrid because some people don't like food from Spain actually even though Spain also influenced a lot of Latin America yeah so Spanish influence food is very popular around the world obviously we understand Mexican food very uh also spines right all the Latin Cuisines are Spanish influence because that's who colonized them but man I will say this I've been to some Spanish toas restaurants multiple times and in a in New York which which should have pretty good it was good but not like amazing all right let me let me just say this I like this gambas Al Al AO that's really good I think they have it in Portuguese as well Argentinian also Argentinian right I don't like the croads you know to me uh uh what What's the paa I don't know kind of overrated I would out of 10 paas I had in my life two of them were fire yeah maybe like yeah uh they it smells good though uh this they got this calamari sandwich they've got a lot of stuff but yeah this one was uh pretty controversial cuz some people in the comments were saying Spain has the worst Food of anywhere I've been in the world probably doesn't have the worst food but maybe has the worst food for a highly ranked country yes right right right yeah you guys let us know what you think about toas man I just think I don't know I don't know man they don't you have it's good it doesn't have enough spice for me it's a lot of olive oil but I like olive oil uh number four Mexico City I don't think this one is debated Mexican food is really good and Mexican food is very vast and diverse we understand this they have Coastal Mexican they have different influences they have inward like you know Inland Mexican right you could go to pbla which is more uh Baja like you said different are know from caloa you know man you want to go to caloa or you go to Waka all the food is good man yeah it's different um by the way guys uh that we I haven't been to Mexico City but I've been to a lot of spots run by people who just came to New York from Mexico City on the lowend Andrew takera Ramirez and on the high end Karima which is more I guess representative of the Michelin star restaurants that most people when they go to Mexico City that's what they go because it's relatively cheaper in Mexico to go than a uh Western European country or like a North American hey guys even the world famous Caesar salad was invented in Mexico at a hotel in Mexico but but but Andrew it was actually invented by this guy from Italy who moved to Mexico to work at this hotel so does it count as Mexican know so it does and it doesn't so basically this goes to speak to Mexico City's hyper International history yeah by the way earlier I know that it's in North America I know Mexico's part of North America I just said it wrong um Andrew here are some street foods that they have Andrew tacos with fries in Mexico City deep fried tamales yeah no they I mean dude Mexican food is good it's good I and again it's more than tacos and it's more than a lot of stuff yes you can go to certain taco trucks and it seems like they're serving the same six ingredients over and over again in different forms between the tostadas and the and the everything and the burritos and the tacos but trust me Mexican food is good I don't think that we we've only started in the past 3 years or 5 years in America started to get that Ultra high-end elevated Mexican food that they've always had Mexico City all right David I think this next city is not as debated as a top five City if not it's usually top three for a lot of people what is it Tokyo Tokyo Japan yeah I mean you're not gonna F in fact Andrew the guy interviewing him said just next one next one it's too good it's too good it's my favorite yeah that guy the interviewer said Tokyo is his number one and I don't blame him I think Tokyo is easily top five for almost anybody who's ever been anybody who's been Tokyo should be top top five now I think the it's not just that Japanese food is the greatest and I'm not saying even Japanese food Japanese food solely is the greatest in my opinion but I think how they execute everybody else's food and the cleanliness and the execution of it all and Sushi is top tier cuz you have some good Chinese food in Yokohama right yeah they have good Chinese any Italian food when Japanese do Italian or French food when the Japanese chefs are doing it they are doing it with quality and Precision in that jaes mindfulness so I'm telling you Japan is up there not to mention Japan you know but I think the only knock on Japan is like maybe the food doesn't have a lot of spice like hot spice is not very like it's almost impossible to find spicy food in Japan it it's hard it's hard I'm sure that there's Japanese chefs doing Mala and like sichan quisine get one of those Devil's ramens I'll say this I I looked it up Andrew Tokyo has over a 100,000 restaurants it's the highest restaurant density of any City in the entire world whoa Tokyo was number one and I think the key is I think the thing that shines on Tokyo the brightest is the fact that Lawson's you could have a good dinner at Lawson's yes at at Lawson's as the as in the convenience story yes yes yes and they have so many different types of Cuisine $4 million uh 14 million population moving on to number two Andrew he Dropped a Bomb on this one okay Zimmerman said chundu chandu Channer as in the sichan province think about this one cuz at first I was like yo is Andrew Zimmerman just trying to flex a pick that like 97% of other people wouldn't have on their list but then I thought about it and I said most people's favorite new style of Chinese food is suan and it's been so influential because it almost is like a new style to the world yeah I mean I feel like for the people that I've spoken to that have been to chundu or sichan in general I think you know chong ching I know it's like kind of a separate place but essentially chungqing and sichan I don't want to say it's the same type of food but they're closely related let's be honest so essentially the spicy region of China a lot of people really love that because it's not just spice for me when we visited chandu first of all I don't think we really got to experience the totality of the food culture there we went to a couple like one food Street and then we had hot pod and skewers with the higher Brothers Shout out to them but it was like if you focus on just the hot chili suchan Mal oil it can get a little repetitive but they really do have a crazy depth they have non-spicy dishes they have fragrant dishes they have great desserts the food culture is crazy out there yeah actually traditionally sichan food is supposed to be 70% not spicy 30% Mala but I just believe due to Modern Trends and just the way people have been consuming it switched to 7030 the other way all right um yeah but yeah chungqing don't sleep on chungqing too I thought this was a good deep cut pick though shout out to Andrew Zimmerman and number one Andrew he had New York City New York baby and uh I mean is there any real surprise here because this is sort of the world's Capital the United Nations is here I believe the most Cuisines and most countries are represented in New York out of the any City in the entire world guys it's a hyper competitive environment for restaurants man I mean we we have friends in the restaurant business and uh uh many of them are successful and some of them it was just too competitive they couldn't make it with rent cost and just the food like the standard out here is so high you could you know it look at all the food instagrammers and even including us and everybody who's who films out here constantly we have friends who only film in like queens and Brooklyn and they have whole careers just covering that food and obviously what Andrew Zimmer and said where he's like even if you just took Queens as a burrow and ranked it it would still rank number one in his opinion because of the diversity it has it has everything from Asian Cuisine from to South Asian Cuisine it has European Cuisine it has Greek you know it has Indian it probably has its fair share of obviously Latino Cuisine um just everything Queens is called the world's burrow I I would say the Queens would have the most authentic ethnic Cuisines whereas Manhattan would have the most like elevated experiences more catered to like a diplomat or a rich Banker from those countries and to be fair when you go to certain parts of Queens it is hyper diverse hyper busy kind of nut it's nuts out there sometimes there's there's so many different types of people and there's so many of them okay so this guy came in and said you know NYC isn't really that great to be honest Philly has better food than NYC all right let me tell you this let me tell you this on a blue collar American side I think I know what he means though because as New York got so great at all the ethnic Cuisines I don't think the pizza here maybe quite is as good as it used to be or like you know what I'm talking about like I could see Philly really putting their heart and soul into like bar food no I think I think I don't think the bar think Philly beets and cheese steaks and Chicken F Philly is better than New York as far as chicken probably Vietnamese food overall better than New York and and like I don't think they win in pizza man dude the pizza spots out here if you if you're willing to pay5 what about a real cheesy lasagna huh or a Sunday gravy yeah maybe Italian American food but like not Italian know right right right not Italia Italia um Andrew what are some other spots that he's leaving out so all right so a lot of other spots people mentioned were Toronto and Vancouver shout out to Canada Toronto Vancouver have great food but they might be more heavy on the Asian and French europeanized levels yeah right Canada's kind of like a more French lers Amer Toronto South Asian you know and some uh Caribbean food but maybe not the world's food all right some other American cities Houston New Orleans and Chicago yes good food in those cities good food in Philly too too um but beating New York I think it's hard to say San Francisco and Seattle uh I would say the overall Bay Area first of all I think that's kind of cheating because that's encompassing so many different cities but it's like 25 cities right yeah and that's too many millions of people but I will say the Bay Area has pretty good food Seattle has good ingredients great Seafood in Seattle but expensive I think the key about Houston uh New Orleans and somewhat Chicago is that the the the purveyors of the food the restaurant tours don't need to Crunch the customer because they have lower cost of doing business right right right okay that's understandable Hong Kong and Singapore got to be up there guys Hong Kong if you count Hong Kong as its own City I mean that's pretty damn good because they also Hong Kong has a lot of everybody else's types of foods and they do them well maybe maybe they don't do Latin American food that well right now I haven't been in a while but as far as doing Asian food it's pretty good oh Bangkok oh Bangkok David or I should say David Chang where are you how come Vegas isn't on the list huh that's funny um somebody said uh Jakarta is kind of good Andrew you went there what would you say Jakarta like somebody just said there's more stuff there than you'd think yes I think I did go to some cool cafes in Jakarta that I didn't expect but maybe I didn't get to spend my all my time in there I mean unfortunately I don't think Indonesian food as an entirety is ranked like top five although it is really good so I think that I don't know about Jakarta maybe I mean yes there's good food listen anywhere where there is money and international tourists the food should be good right right but the one Andrew major economic Hub that got left off this list with a ton of billionaires was London I think if you listen to uh uh uh Gordon Ramsey recently he said London is really coming up the past 10 years but maybe still not quite on the same level as some of these cities you don't like some bangers and mash and a meat pie DAV is your what what's your pick for cities that he left off I got for me for me honestly I'm going to go with Toronto I think Toronto for at least for like Chinese food I don't think they have as many different types of Asian food definitely not as much Southeast Asian food but in terms of just Chinese food Toronto was probably better than New York and better than even man it's tough to I love San Gabriel alhamra area is like 626 which is like the east side of La 626 but like man Toronto might be in in terms of quality I still like the setup of 626 the proximity is so much closer though okay I think so I think that's fair I mean I think some of the 626 cities from the St Gabriel Valley man whether it's Arcadia St Gabriel alhamra I think those cities for the size of the cities are pushing their weight I mean there's really and a for particularly Asian food let's be honest and particularly the Chinese diasporic foods um but that includes I think like other Asian countries as well the food in the 626 is is fire you know I mean I think it's uh it's really good but and and I think like people need to remember Andrew Zimmer and he's coming from a place uh where he any City he goes to he's exposed to some of the best food right right like at least top tier food maybe maybe you could argue the top but he's going to go to some of the top places are what do you think some people said they left Melbourne off you have been to Australia are you going I think Australia has some good food you know again I'm not going to say I covered all the bases in Australia but food there is great mate it's it's pretty nice yeah we got a lot more than room meat and flat whites yeah yeah yeah we got a lot more than just the meat pies you know it's not I think a lot of people get caught up in the r meat and the rud Burgers but honestly you know due to the the uh beef industry and all the closeness to Asia we got lot of great Asian food hey for me I'm going to Central Asia just ending on that boom I think you can find it in Queens all right everybody uh let us know what you think in the comments down below what is the best Food City I think it always be debated but I do think some of these cities absolutely do belong in here Tokyo New York got to be on your top five honestly it was a it was a pretty solid list I don't know if it it probably wouldn't align exactly with my list but very solid list from Andrew Zimmerman himself let us know what are your top five food cities in the comment section below until next time with the hop hop boys we out PE peace