🥢MUST-TRY vs MUST-AVOID Street Foods in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s CHINATOWN!

hey guys it's Mike Chen here in Bruno iders and welcome to [Music] Chinatown this Chinatown was established in the 1980s and it's really vibrant I see tons of food tons of shops a lot of souvenir stores there's bubble tea shops so today just going to walk around and find some food to eat W I don't think I've ever seen dumpings on a skewer before or crab R go there's tons of these little stalls selling grabb and go food items like little boxes of fried rice SK wordss of fried chicken dumplings crab Rons buns pretty interesting oh taaki shop that ginormous line back there was I think they're selling um the Korean corn dogs and then bubble waffles over [Music] there so this is like a like a sron place that has soup dumplings there's steamed dumplings there's noodles they all there's also Cantonese dishes I'm thinking I'm going to I want to try a beef dish because I want a Chinese beef dish cooked with Argentinian beef so we're going to get a beef skillet try some dumplings I miss dumplings so they told me their beef noodle soup is actually pretty good so they can me to get that instead of the dumplings so got my beef platter got my noodles I'm excited I'm excited to be here I love exploring different Chan towns around the world this looks like a phone one also for drinks wal I missed this [Music] too my sizzling pepper steak came smells good that's actually a pretty darn good plate of pepper fak wow this is really good this is a dish we would sell a lot um back at the restaurant but definitely didn't taste this good I've had this dish countless times this is probably the most tender I've ever had the beef oh yeah that be is ridiculous it's tender it's delicious the sauce is good I like the peppers I like the onions I don't really love carrots in this dish but the onions and pepper definitely are infused with that nice flavor from the beef that's good I was just going to Y like some needles with this dish but got to get rice got to eat this with rice this is such a nice Saucy dish I was right to try the beef the beef is Rous really really good okay wow my noodles just came this is a pretty pretty ginormous bow of beef noodle soup tons of cilantro boach chy look at this egg never seen an egg in this dish before this dish smells pretty nice okay it's a pretty darn tasty bowl of beef mle soup broth is nice and beefy tons of flavor is very concentrated good amount of beef in here fried egg that's a big bowl beef needle soup found some vinegar that's a really tasty beefy broth with a little hint of heat it's delicious that's some vinegar definitely level up the heat what a hot oil smells really good too oh yeah there we go perfect racial not a bad egg good texture on the noodles oh man oh I'm so happy right now I miss Chinese food M beef is good this country is some of the best beef you ever taste beef is really good I'm really going to miss the beef in this [Music] country add some hot oil to my pepper steak oh hot wh is really good too this is a great little restaurant I'm surprised more people on't here probably because they're not on the main strip food hair tastes awesome the only problem with the beef noodle soup is that it's so hot outside and this thing will raise your body temperature by a lot especially if you add a lot of hot oil it's going to be brutal when I go outside Peach bubble te pretty good so when you go through the Chinatown Gates that's like the quiet street the street next to it this street that I'm on there's so much stuff here there's Chinese there's Japanese food there's Korean food this is one of the busiest chinatowns I've been to [Music] anywhere there are a lot of dumpling shops here I counted at at least six or so places that sells dumplings huh yeah I don't like this not much of a filling really really doughy faing really doesn't taste like anything I taste some cabbage also this wrapper is really really thick yeah this is not good so like I said there's a lot of Japanese and Korean restaurants in a sushi shop look at [Music] this I noticed that people here don't e l of seafood seafood is something you rarely see on the menu I got their 12 piece combination platter looks pretty good the sun is so bright here by the way that's a pretty good roll first of all fish is incredible melting your mouth tender the rice the rice is interesting it's vinegary the texture is good just a little different than what I'm used to the roll looks like salmon avocado cream cheese delicious cream cheese is awesome avocado's great definitely a good change of pce to have some seafood it just stranged to me ever since I got here I mean this country this city is right on the water we don't see Seafood anywhere even had the brunch buffet I was at the only Seafood was I think some shrimp some oysters that's about it I guess in this country the beef is so good you don't need the seafood this sounds really interesting and it's made by a robot I think that's the robot so this is the robot sliced noodles I asked of the robot was going to be slicing these noodles they said the robot only slices in the morning I guess even the robot needs to take a break so really simple just uh some veg some onions and some sliced noodles and what smells like fermented bean sauce and it's a it's a soupy noodle wow it's a soupy fermented Bean noodle I'm not really a huge fan of the flavor of the soup I think this should have been a dry Noodle and I think if it was a dry noodle this would have been really really good because the noodles themselves the texture phenomenal hand C noodles the dough is good the thickness is perfect it's got a beautiful chew to [Music] it but there should not be a soup noodle if this was a dry noodle they put the same sauce on here add some of that delicious Argentinian beef this might be the best noodle in Argentina still like I said texture is really good you could tell this is made from fresh dough I would have liked to see the robot cut this dough that would have been fun I think the number one food in this Chinatown are these Korean corn dogs they do look a lot bigger than the Korean corn dogs I'm used to I'll get one [Music] now I've had this a couple times in my life was it always this big this is close to half a pound I say and when you hold it up look at this I feel like this thing is about to fall off the stick it's so so heavy oh oh wow I don't think I've got to the cheese part yet who so normally the Corin corn dog I'm used to you BT into it and it's cheese this one's got a sausage in here I think it is rice flour because it does taste a little Airy and crispier than usual but this is definitely the densest Korean corn dog I've ever had I mean one of these will 100% put you to sleep it is so so decadent all right finally got to the cheese part so it's sausage on either end melting mozzarella cheese in the middle and then this part this part at the bottom that's a sausage as well I think wow this is unlike any other Korean corn dog I've ever seen before it's about twice the size twice the weight it's dense it's heavy I feel like if you come to Chinatown one of these in a bubble tea ready to go home I'm going to a buffet later tonight so I can't stay in Chinatown that long I think one more place that I'm going to call it and this restaurant is on the Edge of Chinatown tea and chicken there you go Koreans got beer and chicken Chinese we got tea and chicken wa so nobody here and this is a this is a Mala Ton restaurant so here you just take one of these white bowls and you start loading your bowl up with any ingredients you want so pretty typical stuff bean sprouts greens there's beef t tendon that is a ginormous beef tendon tofu shrimp oysters and down here are the skewes there's chicken wing chicken feet it's like beef lamb squid sausages just got a couple skewers of beef and some Chinese [Music] chives all right my skewers are done two nice and fatty beef scores beef in this country just on a whole different level juicy tender add some cumin and chilies and this is going to taste exceptional I always chase that with some barbecue chives that CH goes so well with the SK this place makes Mala T personal little hot pots I got some potatoes some Bean curds some more Bean curds some kak tofu wooder oh it's not bad and I got plenty of Loco beef I think this is the spiciest thing I've had since coming to Argentina this country I don't think people eat a lot of seafood I don't think people eat a lot of spicy stuff this thing is just spicy not very peppery but very very spicy oh my God that beef is just as tender as the last Chinese restaurant I'm tell me if you love meat if you love beef there's not many places better than Argentina wood ear is good potatoes good beef is just unbelievable sure tendra oh t hot yeah this is definitely the spiciest thing I had on this entire trip I think even when you ask for something spicy in this country it's not going to be that spicy this this is Chinese spicy and I also haven't had hop on in a few weeks today is just pure Chinese comfort food day for me well except for sushi and a massive Korean corn dog I'm leaving in a couple days so really glad I was able to come here and check out the local Chinatown like I said always love going to the local Chinatown wherever I am I just feel so happy wherever I go like I just feel so happy when I know that a Chinatown exists and I had no idea this Chinatown here was going to be so vibrant and festive and food focused because sometimes you go to a Chinatown it's just a few restaurants but here you got restaurants you got food stalls tons of people walking around eating drinking bubble tea and that what China sound's all about all right I got to hurry up and finish this and get ready for tonight as always I'll place that wi to list down below for you guys thank you all so much for watching until we eat again see you later