Toronto’s Best Chinese Food!! Chinese Capital Of Canada!!

This is Chinatown in Toronto. No it's not. This is actually one of four different Toronto Chinatowns. I'm here in the GTA in Markham, the real heart of the Chinese community here in Toronto. Today I'm exploring the Chinese culture, the people, and most importantly incredible Chinese food. This is the second largest Chinese community in North America, home to 700,000 people. Behind only New York City, the hard-working Chinese community in Toronto has been here for over 150 years with multiple waves of immigration and is a huge part of the Canadian history, both the good and the bad. From Hong Kong to Guangzhou, the Chinese people in Canada have come from around the world, bringing different dialects and all of the eight main cuisines from This is the real capital of China in America. Sorry New York, let's go. First Markham place, this is one of the biggest Chinese malls in all of North America. Markham is the biggest Chinese community in all of Toronto. 40% of the 350,000 people that live here are Chinese. They came from 1877. Sam Ching, he was a laundromat guy. He came, he was the first guy, first Chinese immigrant, and then after that, over the years, many different ways of immigration. In the 90s, that was when the Hong Kongs came. All the HK people came, you know, Great Britain was handing it over back to China. They immigrated over here, so we have a lot of people from Hong Kong, but here you can literally find every piece of Chinese culture, eight different cuisines. In this small 180 shops, there's like 24 restaurants. I see restaurants everywhere. I'm excited. We have a list of places we need to visit. We have no reservations. The great Anthony Bourdain. Let's do this. So the Chinese community here is not a monolith. They come through many different ways, from Guangdong, later from Hong Kong, and now the new wave is coming from mainland China. Everybody's coming now. Wow. Wow. Everything in Mandarin and Cantonese. Massive mall. What are we doing here? China Telecom, Time Circle. Let's just walk around. You know, when I was in China, this is how I felt like you're in like the middle of malls, and it's just like never any stalls, and there's people everywhere always. Thai food. Got some Thai food here. Fruit. Tasty House. Boba Tea. Boba Tea everywhere. Everywhere. Literally, Boba Tea is taking over the world. What else is here? Hokki Chinese Bistro. Cadillac Express. So this is the food court. Not that many people right now. It's off hours, like 4 p.m. Oh man, Hong Kong-style noodles and snacks. Lunchbox. More noodles. Barbecue. Nice seating area. Look at the courtyard. Well, it's basically, it allows the air to come in. Oh man, you got the ducks over here. Yeah, so Chef Dev told us there are two best barbecues over here and over here. So which one do we choose? The one with the bigger line? So he's making shumai right now. And what's in this shumai? This one. Fish. Fish? Fish and pork. Fish and pork? Yes. Okay, so it's a mix. Yes. Looks nice and creamy. But it still has to go to be steamed. Yeah, yeah. And then over here he has some noodles. They have rice roll and soy sauce. Sticky rice and sausage. And the barbecue is right next door. Extra barbecue house. And then we have the other one. So I guess we have to get in the line here. Let's get in the line. Thank you. It's K, I think it's KS Barbecue and Noodle House. I don't know if there's a letter missing. So what do they got? They got barbecue pork on rice, chicken on soy sauce. What are we getting? So then I'm going with roasted duck and roasted pork on rice. Oh, so you get both. Okay, that's the one she got. You should recommend. Yeah, I think that's the one. Number eight, which is nine dollars. And over there he's chopping. See, he's chopping it up. I hear you guys have the best barbecue. Best barbecue. Thank you. So what do you recommend? The roasted duck and roasted pork? Yes. That's the one? Number eight? That's the one she recommends. Number eight. Okay, I've got number eight. Yes. You can take number 16 and then barbecue too. Number 16. Yeah, give me number 16. Yeah, for one more dollar, you get three. So what is that? Pork, chicken, and? Up to you. You can lose pork, barbecue pork, and duck. Okay. Give me whatever you recommend. Okay. Thank you. For you to go. For you. Cash only. Cash only. Thankfully, they take American dollars. I don't even know what the exchange is today, but it's the same thing, right? Yeah, same thing. Oh my gosh, look at the back. Look at the back. Thank you. That's a lot of meat back there. You got the pigs hanging. Do I just wait here? Yeah, it's right there. You eat here or to go? Hey, I'm gonna eat right here. Okay. And put some sauce? Yes. What sauce are you gonna put there? That's good. Yes. Chopsticks. Only chopsticks. I'm chopstick travel. I live my life eating with chopsticks. I started eating with chopsticks when I was like 12. Okay. You want a soup or tea? Tea. Tea. Thank you so much. Free tea. First time come here? First time come here. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Xie xie. Xie xie. Let's go. It's nice. Should I go sit under one of those beautiful umbrellas? Of course, when you're eating Chinese food, you're gonna go with a lot of rice. Rice culture. The sauces. Oh wow. And then this piece. Look, this one has the nice skin, the meat. Look out for the bottom. All right. That was so good. What a bite. The crunch. Like chicharron. Each one has its own flavors. This one just has too much bones. This is the best one. Yeah, this is the best. Now here, mix it around like this. So tasty. I love looking around here. I don't see anybody listening to me. Everybody's from China. This is amazing. If you really want to experience Chinese culture, you have to come here to Markham. When you're in Toronto. Hey, Xiaoma. Xiaoma. Food Ranger, where you guys at? Oh, there they are. Get some of that cabbage with the skin. Nice bite. This is the best. My friend Chef Dev was saying they go to Extra BBQ House or KS BBQ. They're right next to each other. In between there's a Korean food that's closed. We went for the one that had the shorter line, but now it has the longest line. Lots of people there. That pork. This pork belly. Mental. And next we're trying more BBQ. Extra BBQ House. Yeah. I want to choose something different. I'm ready to just go straight pork. What's it got? Who has the real best? I mean, yeah. Whole suckling pig. Sucking pig. Mid-sized pig. That's fire. And there's a line now. That one has a huge line. It's swapped because this had the big line. It's had the huge line before, I know. This is quick and you're entertained. This guy's name is Xiao. Xiaoma right there? No, Xiaoma. What am I saying? Shumai. I'm getting Xiaoma and Shumai confused. It's Xiaoma in a Waited 10 minutes so far, but that smells good. You can see right here got the pork belly. Literally the entire pig is hanging and he's cutting it piece by piece. Here you got duck, got chicken, and you have some more pork. The pork is just like glistening, just falling. And you still see the duck head. I mean that's what China is all about. Duck. It's one of the best duck in the world, China. I don't know. The Guyanese will say they have the best duck curry though. She's saying the barbecue pork is what it's really famous for. Barbecue pork, huh? Yeah. I mean that's that's the best part. That barbecue pork right there. That's it. That one hanging. And then the roasted pork is the other one. And they have over here like some feet as well. I think it's feet for like Latin. It's like this like looks like stomach there too. That's right. Hello. Hi, how are you? How are you doing? Good. And what do you recommend? I heard your barbecue pork is the best. For me, I recommend all. Everything is the best. Everything's the best? Yes. So what should I just take? You can take three meat, only 10 bucks. The three pieces again? Yeah, the three meat. Yeah. Okay, I'll do that. Only 10 bucks. It's very cheap and nice. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you. So you won't forget to go, sir. I'm gonna eat here. Okay, try. Try. Tastes very good. It's very good? Yes. So how many order do you need? One or two? Just one? All right. Cash only, right? Yeah. Hello. Okay. This is chicken feet. This is intestines right here. Yeah. These are. This is a bonus chicken. Bonus chicken. Yeah. Chicken feet again. And this is a gizzard. Gizzard. That's good. I like that. Chinese, when you try any of this, this is all sweet. Got that soy in all this. It's always gonna be tasty. Here we go. All right, I'll let you try a little bit of gizzard, okay? Yeah, let me try some gizzard. Look how friendly she is. She's letting me try some gizzard straight from there. Yeah. Oh, I'm gonna just try one? Yeah, sure. Oh, perfect, perfect. I'm gonna put it here, okay? Oh, you're gonna put it on the plate for me? Oh, that's so sweet. You have to share. Yeah, okay, okay. Just let him try, okay? Perfect. Where are you from in China? No, I'm from Malaysia. You're from Malaysia? Yeah. KL, Kuala Lumpur. Yeah, Kuala Lumpur. Oh, I love Kuala Lumpur. Some of the best food on the planet. Yes, yes. Did you travel there? Yeah, yeah. Yeah? Yeah, I went to Penang, too. Penang, wow. It's the best. Yeah, no, Penang food is ultimate Malaysian food. Yeah. I'm going back next year. Yeah. I also like going to Singapore. Singapore has the Chinese influence as well. Huge. Yeah, the Merindah Bay Hotel. Oh, that's the best. Very cool. I know. That's the icon of Singapore. Yeah. All right, she overdid it. Okay, thank you. Okay. I give you the best thing, okay? You gave us the best thing. You got spice? You have some numbing spice? This 10 bucks, right? Yeah, 20. I give you 10, okay? Oh, okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I got some of my Canadian dollars I'm going to keep. All right, let me get all this food. Okay, just enjoy. Oh, wow. Massive. And you gave me spice? Yeah, I gave you spice. We do it ourselves. Here's the plate. Here's the plate. Here you are. Thank you. All right, let's go. Let's go right here. Make sure you say good, okay? All right, thank you. Most important thing. Got some spice right here. David, hand-delivered to you right there, my friend. That was... I'm so happy we went there. Gotta have spicy. Gotta have spicy. Look at that. Oh my gosh. No, they did it like extra big for us. How beautiful that plate is. Got the gizzards as well. Yeah, the three combo. So the pork belly, got the roasted... So this is barbecue pork here, and this is roasted pork. I don't even know. I think this is the pork, this is the duck, and this is the skin. Got it, got it. And I got spice. We have soup. She gave me like a nice soup right here. I have no idea what's in it. Cabbage and rice. The trifecta. I gotta try the gizzard though. She threw this in extra. Nice little gizzard. Even that's sweet. It's a little tough though. Over here, we have the beautiful barbecue pork. The skin, the sweetness. A little bit fat in there, but nice and tender meat. This one's definitely better than the last one. And they threw some spice. I don't know why she added this, but I guess I'll try it. Now again, there's eight different cuisines in China. If you think that's right, let me know in the comments below. It's amazing. Nice spicy chili. Gonna put some duck. Look, this one, trying to get the piece that has like the least bones. Always bones. Again, I prefer extra barbecue. This is the pork belly. So this one I'm going to actually dip into this sauce. I have no idea what that is. What is that sauce? It's nice and sweet. This is the sauce for the belly. Another sweet sauce. A little bit of spice in that one. The skin. This place is worth the drive. One hour drive to get here. So good. Cabbage. Spice it up. Look at that red. It's almost like a roasted red pepper. Mix it in. I need that cabbage. I need something healthy in my life. China. I want to go back. She's from Guangzhou and she's making right here pork dumplings. So these right here, no? Pork and spicy sauerkraut steamed buns. Man, that looks good. You know what? Anytime you pass by one of these Chinese stalls, you see the money tree. They definitely believe in the money tree and the cats, no? Brings money. Brings money. Good fortune. Money, money, money. Can we see this? Here, let's see. Maybe from here. Wow, look at that. Rolling it out. Yeah, yeah, for sure. These are very small. This is a san jian ba. San jian ba. Yeah. San jian ba. It does it perfectly. You know, dumplings are a huge part of Chinese culture. Everywhere you go along the Silk Road, dumplings is king. How many years have you been cooking? Yeah. How many years cooking? Yeah, five. Five? Five years. That's five years. And so you guys do dumplings. All dumplings. All the soup dumplings. All soup dumplings. So you have xiaolongbao. Yeah, it's the, this one. It's all fresh made, yeah. All fresh made. Man, I almost feel like I need to get a bun. Get a bun, yeah. Yeah, pork bun. I might get the pork bun. Which is your favorite of the buns? I just need one. It's pretty famous, but you gotta wait for it. I mean, I'm always down for the traditional pork bun. You know, this is a staple. When I was in Shanghai, this is what I'd eat every morning. This and jian bing. It's not jian bing. It's Shanghai style. No, no, no. I know it's not jian bing. Jian bing is the pancake. Yeah, Shanghai style is that one. The 8.99 one. Maybe that one you've tried before. Yeah, no, but I've tried these a bunch of times. Let's see. I guess I've got one of these. I'll take one. The steamed one. Yeah, yeah, of course. Steamed. But you have to, you gotta wait for it, okay? Oh, I have to wait for it? You're gonna steam it right now? How long does that take? Seven, eight minutes. Seven, eight minutes? Let's do it. Let's do it. It's the minimum two pieces that you can pick another one. It's the minimum two pieces that's steamed, so you can pick the other favorites to have a try. Let me get one another flavor. You want cabbage or spicy? Cabbage, yes. I like spicy more, but... Spicy. Spicy. We do spicy and they have spicy here. This is chili oil. It's good. Chili oil. Look at the chili oil right here. Yeah, it's homemade chili oil. Oh, that's beautiful. I guess I'll have a try later. I'm gonna try. Yeah, where are you from? Me? Yeah. Same as my mom. It's like, you know, Guangzhou, near Hong Kong province, you know. Okay, beautiful. Yeah, so right outside of Guangzhou, right outside of Hong Kong, you have Guangzhou, you have Shenzhen. Shenzhen as well. Shenzhen is near Guangzhou, near the city. This is like, it's almost like five cities back to back and they're all massive and they're all modern, super modern. Yeah, have you been there? No, but I've been seeing the videos and it's like all skyscrapers. It's like Shanghai. Very cool. Very cool. How much do I owe you? $5.65, please. So let's do one that and one spicy. Is that okay or you want cabbage? Yeah, spicy. Spicy is fine. Spicy is good? Okay. I actually have changed. She's gonna put it into the steamer. Look, she's putting it in. Oh, cool. So family is really important in Chinese culture. Yeah, in every culture. No, I know, but you really feel it here. Like I see, you know, kids working with their parents. So, oh, thank you. Not too much. Not too much? Yeah, I always like kids to live at their home. Yeah, I know, but I like family together more. For sure. In my room. Yeah, I mean without family, I feel like it's nothing. You know, it's not nothing. Yeah, you know, it's not complete. What language do you speak? Cantonese? Mandarin Cantonese. Mandarin and Cantonese. Yeah. Nice. Guangdong people, you know, they speak both. So what's one special thing about Toronto? In my view, you know, it's quiet. It's good to live. No, you know, it's not, it's not, it's not stressful. And then it's hard to say, you know, yeah, and easier, you know, more peaceful life. Yeah. Peaceful. Yeah. It's not the, well, if you go to downtown, you got to hustle, bustle. But outside of that, it feels very slow. You know, it's like, it's Chinese food around. So it's amazing, right? It's the best. It is the best. And then also a spicy one. I tell you. I tell you later. This one. Spicy. You can, you can just take a look there. It's very close here. Yeah. Yeah. And let me ask you, so Markham is the real Chinatown, not downtown. This is the real Chinatown. Actually, for now, it is. Yeah, this is like the same like Flushing and New York, similar, like big Chinatown, everybody, all Chinese restaurants. Cause now, you know, in, in Chinatown there, it's, you know, it's messy and dirty. Not really like, not really Chinese people around there. It's, you know, the old generation stay there. Yeah. It's a new generation. Like the community, Chinese community, it's around here, not there. Cause they're only for walking, you know, the buildings walking. Yeah. Nobody wants to get there. So dangerous. We went to the east as well, in Scarborough. Yeah. But it's, you know, not, you cannot see really, it's, you cannot see really Chinese people sit around there. Cause now here it's like, this is the real thing. Actually the Chinese people live around here. It's more, it's a different community. Yeah. So that's one thing that we're learning is that when people from 1995, 97, when people from Hong Kong, they were coming, there was some affluent Hong Kong, like they came with money. They didn't just come and, you know, yeah, they live in this area. So it's more of an affluent community. Yeah. Outside we saw an amazing car, right? In Scarborough, mostly it's like, you know, um, the old people and also, you know, not with like the money, you know. Yeah. So yeah. So it's like, uh, hope everyone is happy every day. It's amazing. I love your smile. You're amazing. You too. You too. The mom. Famous my mom. Same. Yeah, yeah, for sure. What is this? Chili oil. You'll like it. Let's try it. This is, uh, did you make it? You make it? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to eat right there. And this is spicy. Oh, so you wrote it down? Yeah. And then the other one just for, I put the napkins and fork inside. You guys have a try. Yeah. And what was your name again? Uh, Wendy. Wendy. Yeah. Thank you Wendy. I'm David. And your mom, what's her? She's Nidhi. Nice to meet you. I love you. You're the best. Thank you. Thank you. You're so nice. They're so cool. All right, let's sit down right here and try it. Had to try myself a pork bun and we also have a spicy one. So here we go. And she gave me the delicious spice right there. Let's see. What's this? So what's spicy? Does it look spicy? Look at that. This looks good. I'm going to go with the original first. Shanjianjing. Shanjianjing. Barbecue pork inside. Ready for this bite? Dude, it runs. It runs. Oh my gosh. It is delicious. So soft, the bun. Put this on this. Wow. If it wasn't spicy enough. Nice chili oil. Oh, there you go. That is spicy. And over here, this is the spicy. Oh, that was good. What a great bite. I hadn't had one like that. The inside was so soft. I'm gonna try this. That one's more running. This one's more in bits. We also have some, I guess, some greens in there. Almost like a fish ball in there. Guys, it's like I teleported back to China. The bun, so fluffy. Oh man, both of them are good. Look how red it is. What is it? Shanjianjing. Shanjianjing. Yummy food. So yummy. So after thinking about it for a bit, I think I made my decision. Extra Barbecue House is the barbecue winner. It was so good. They beat the other ones. It was great. Spice. My face is red. Oh yeah. I'm pretty full. Let's walk around the mall. Let's see what else they got here. Kingsmart, beauty gardens. You have small telephone shops. What else you got here? You got a learning center. This is for kids. Inbox. Some more traditional spaces over here. Wedding store. Everything in Mandarin as you see. Literally catering to the community. Over here, silly area. So this is the real red. Beautiful for Chinese New Year. This is great. This store is cool. Yeah, I haven't seen it. Can I see this? Is that okay? This one? Yeah, I just want to look at it. It's very beautiful. Parades. Yeah. So when I was in Chinatown in San Francisco, they had a parade going on. This is what they were doing, the dragons. Love this store. So colorful. So red. Yeah, red means lucky. Means lucky? Oh really? I didn't know that. Yeah. So every lucky thing is red. Lucky cat's white though. Yeah, like cat's white and gold too. And gold. What's the lucky number? Eight, right? Eight, yeah. Eight's like the lucky number. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you want to put a number on your body, put the number eight. Where are you from? From China? Yeah, from China. Yeah, whereabouts in China? Yeah, it's good. What city? What city? It's Guangzhou. In Guangzhou? Yeah. Also lots of people from Guangzhou here. Yeah. Do you know Guangzhou? I've never been to Guangzhou. I've been to other cities, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai, but no Guangzhou. One day when I go to Hong Kong, I'm going to cross, I'm going to Guangzhou. Oh yeah, it's very near. It's near, yeah. It's Guangzhou, Shenzhen, like all these together. It's like three, four cities. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shanghai is a really beautiful city. Yeah, I know. Shanghai is gorgeous. Love Shanghai. Guangzhou and Hong Kong food is similar? No, no, Cantonese. Yeah, yeah, Cantonese. It's also speak Cantonese. Oh. Yeah, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. It's similar. It's similar actually. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, what's the small steamed rice like pancake you guys have? It's like a breakfast in Guangzhou. Oh, chow fun. Chow fun. Yeah, chow fun. Yeah, it's good. It's good. Yeah, yeah. When I was in Flushing with Xiao, we had it. Yeah, it's the one they put it on the flat top. They put like shrimp. It's easy to make. And then just steam and done. Yeah, yeah. I think one minute is okay. I'm sorry, what's your name? Ms. Li. Ms. Li. Yeah. And how long have you been in Canada for? It's almost 30 years. 30 years. So you're a true Canadian. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Well, this is a beautiful mall. Lots of good stuff here. Is this your shop? Yeah. Yeah. And so what do you sell here? Just all like Chinese. I love those, by the way, the red ones. These are cool. The lanterns. That's for the new year? Yeah. For any occasion, that's good luck. Those guys up there, the red ones, it's Chinese, right? Because I saw in Japan too, those. Yeah, yeah, those. You know, two or three hundred years ago in Chinese culture, the fat man, he always don't want the money. I understand something about that. That's why they made these cats fat. From my understanding. It's something with good luck, you know, you know, you have wealth, obviously you're well fed. It's like salted fish. That bag of salted fish. Yeah. Is that for consumption, you think? It's for consumption, no? You eat this. No? No. It smells very salty. They have a bunch of herbs. I think all medicine. It's like ginger mixed with stuff. It smells good. It smells great, actually. I'd say it's from the sea. Can you see this one? Oh, it's super hard. What is this? I have no idea what this is. Like a sea sponge, maybe? Yeah, maybe it's a sea sponge, but it's rock solid. Kind of looks like one, especially these here. I think it's a dehydrated one. Yeah. Right? It does look like a dehydrated sea sponge. $300 for like a certain amount of weight. I don't know, maybe a kilo. Massive kiwis. Look at these kiwis. Massive. Oh, my God. They're nothing. There's nothing inside it. Is this fake food? For seasoning. Might be like a dried lime or dried something. Look at that. What is this rock? Could be iron. I have no idea what this is. Sometimes they eat like the, I don't know. They have like the unique toilets. The ones you want. Right here they have ginseng tea. These are like different pieces of bark. Got some more. Ginseng. Ginseng. That's ginseng. Looks like a sponge right here. Is it a sponge? No, it's chicharron. Chicharron, yeah. Nice and hard. Right here they got a mix of figs. Can't read anything. Mushrooms. I think these are mushrooms. These are mushrooms, but they're hard. Dried. They're dried, yeah. For flavoring, maybe. It's a cool spot. Let's keep going. Information Center for Study and Immigration in Canada. Wow, this is where people come to, you know, finalize their documentation. Hello. Hi. How are you? Good, good, good. How are you? Very good, very good. Sorry, I'm from Miami. I'm just learning about the, you know, the Chinese community here in Markham. So what do you guys do here? So we do two things. Education, application, and immigration. Yeah, two things. So a lot of people still immigrated to this day from China? Still, yeah. And where do they come from now? We're mainland. Mostly, yeah, mainland China, Hong Kong region. We're doing some clients from Vietnam, Thailand too. Okay, so it's not just the Chinese. Not just the Chinese, we are global. Yeah, because we've been meeting a lot of people from Guangzhou. Oh, I'm from Guangzhou. I speak Cantonese. Amazing. And Mandarin. So where's the best Guangzhou food in this area? For sure, around the corner, the roasted pork. Oh, so we already had that, so that's it? Yeah, the roasted pork and the Cantonese bakery. Which one? Which one? Also around the corner. It's called Markham Bakery something, yeah. Sorry, what's your name? Oh, sorry, sorry. Yeah, let me grab my name card. My name is Hera. Hera? Yeah, my last name is Yang. Hera is our new guide for the day. She's taking us around for the rest of the day. She's famous. You're what we need today. Oh, thank you. Hopefully, I look good on the camera. You look good. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate this. So, you know, we've been learning a lot about the Chinese community here in Toronto. Obviously, here, Richmond Hill, it's the biggest community in North America outside of New York City. That's true. So, what can you tell me about the community and how it's come in waves? Because we know, like, we heard, you know, in the 90s, big affluent community from Hong Kong came in. Guangdong originally, 100 years ago. Before that. We're just trying to learn a little more. What can you tell us about the Chinese here in Markham? Oh, the Chinese here in Markham? To be honest, yeah, actually, I'm a newcomer. I've been to Canada only seven years. So, I'm a newcomer, too. Yeah, so I think it's really diversity. Even, yeah, sometimes we say it's a Chinese bubble, but we are from different regions. Sichuan, Beijing, Guangdong. Yeah, my people. Guangzhou, right? Hong Kong. So, diversity. Diversity, including food, culture, community. Yeah, different commercial business. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, where's the hottest hotpot? Hottest hotpot? Spicy, isn't it? Yes, spicy. It's called Liu Yishou. Liu Yishou? Yeah, it's around the corner, too. Highway 7. Yeah. Oh, so it's on the highway? Yeah, on Highway 7. Oh, are the restaurants outside or literally on the highway? Outside. Yeah, because outside, there's like a... Along, along. I'm pretty sure it's along Highway 7. Okay. Yeah. Your English is perfect. Yeah, it's amazing. I'm still learning. No, no, no, not at all. But a bit of Japanese. A bit of Japanese? Yeah, a bit of Japanese. Arigato. That's all I got. Arigato gozaimasu. Sorry. So, I'm sorry. So, I'm so excited to talk a lot in front of the camera. So, can you tell me about yourself? Yeah, I'm a YouTuber from Miami. YouTuber from Miami? Yeah. Oh, subscribe. Because... Awesome. Oh, YouTuber from Miami. Oh, it's amazing. Okay, subscribe, subscribe. Thank you. We have a lot of content from China as well. Oh, okay. YouTuber from Miami. That's right. Okay. 1.29. Don't be shy, though. Don't be shy. Oh, my God. Now you're famous. Guys, come to her. Do you need help with your... She's the new guy to Marco. For myself, I came here as an international student. So, I got my master's degree first for the first two years. And then I worked here one year, and then I started to do my paperwork to get my permanent residence in Canada. Is it easy for people to migrate to here, to Canada? It used to be, but right now it's getting harder and harder. Yeah. I heard that Canada's cutting back on allowing more people to come in there. Like, it's literally slowing down. Yeah, still food, but diversity. Because when I was living in... When I lived in China, mostly I got Chinese food. I stopped with my comfort zone. But right now, I'm really into tacos, Mexican cuisine, Vietnamese cuisine. Embrace different variety of the cuisine, right? Yeah. Italian food. Yeah. Go to Scarborough. Go have some Caribbean food. Caribbean food, yeah. I need to try Caribbean food, but not my top list yet. You haven't tried Trini food, then? No, Trinidad and Tobago. Trini food. Trini. Oh, that's new to me. It's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like Indian food a little bit. It's like Indian, but with a twist. Yeah, with a Caribbean twist. Oh, okay. I'm heading to Caribbean next month. Where are you going? Heading to Bahama. Oh, you're going to love it. You come next door. I live next door. I live in Miami. Oh, yeah, but I will pass in a stop by Florida. That's where we're from. That's where we're from. Miami, Florida. Yeah. You mentioned Houston, though. No, Miami, Miami. Miami, Florida. Miami, Florida. That's where we're from. Actually, we were in Houston two months ago, but that's... Yeah, we were in Houston. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, how do you like Canada so far? Oh, I love Canada. I'm in love with this country. If it wasn't for the cold and the real estate crisis, I would live here. Oh, that's true. It's very nice. The people, I'll tell you, the diversity, but the friendliness. No matter where I go, it's open arms, no problem, clean, safe. I'm happy, you know? Oh, okay. Definitely a great place to raise a family. I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good to hear. Yeah, yeah. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Canada. If you're here, you can feel like you're at home. I'm very happy to be able to live in Canada. I'm sure you can, too. Come on. Please subscribe. David's been here. David's been here. Amazing. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. We really appreciate you talking to us. Oh, no, no problem. My pleasure. My pleasure. I want to be a YouTuber for a long time. Oh, wow. But I still have to work nine to five. Chinese should come here. They come to you guys. Yes. To get, so they go through the process, you help them with the study. Yeah, yeah. We are licensed. Oh, licensed. Great. Yeah, yeah. And so it basically would help them get the citizenship. Exactly, exactly. Amazing. Come here. Come here. Love China. Love Canada. Love United States. Love the world. Yeah, yeah. First market place was amazing. We just scratched the surface. Only stores and food court in there. Outside, look at the amount of restaurants. Over here, we got restaurants. Over here, it's just like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. It doesn't stop. The whole thing is restaurants. It's a lane. Taste of Guangxi. Xifeng. I have no idea what some of those places are. China's massive. Over 100 cities in China with over a million people. Huge. Over 24 restaurants around the parking lot of the mall. So over there, stores. Over here, restaurants. Here we have Mabu Hong Kong Cafe. This is another one. Brown Donatsu. Original Korean. Flaming Kitchen. Sugar Marmalade. Same thing here. And then Dingtaofeng. This is where we're going. We're going for some Xiaolongbao. Shanghai dim sum. Lots of people in there. It's packed. It's packed. So what are we doing here, Cindy? Xiaolongbao. Xiaolongbao? Yeah. Perfect. Shanghai Xiaolongbao. Soup dumpling. Soup dumpling. For sure. So you want? I'm getting. I'm getting. I'm getting them both. One and one. Perfect. And then they have never-ending dim sum. I mean the list. The menu. Over 154 items. Look at this. How massive this is. How are you, Fiona? I'm good. How are you? Very good. Very good. English menu? Yeah. Just one and one. One and one, right? Yeah, that's perfect. Can I see the you guys steaming back there? It's okay? You sure? Yeah. All right, let's go. Follow me. These people are nice. Let's see. Let's see. Can we actually see it? Wow. Wow. Look over here. Look at what they're doing. All right, let's go inside. Let's go. We'll go inside. Come. Come. Come. You said I can go in, right? I can go in? Okay. Okay. Okay. Ni hao. Ni hao. Ni hao. Ni hao. Ni hao. Oh, wow. Wow. It's never-ending here. This is great. Okay. Okay. Okay. Wow. So, okay. So he's rolling out the dumplings. They're small with pork. Yeah. Wow. This is great. Small dumplings. Yeah. So you have so many variations. What do you have here? What are those? That's the pan-fried dumplings. That's the pan-fried? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pan-fried. So you have steamed dumplings. You have pan-fried dumplings. Yeah. Pan-fried. Yeah. And what are the ones specifically that he's making there? The mini dumplings. Mini. Mini dumplings. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like it's tiny dumplings. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Woo. That's a scallion pancake. Yes. I've also seen this in Korea a lot. In Korea, they do this big time. Pajeon. Pajeon. Right here, they're steaming the dumplings. Man, it is beautiful. I prefer steamed over pan-fried. That's my personal preference. I love how he's doing here. There's tiny ones, man. I haven't seen it this small. It's like little balls. What soup is this? Egg drop. Egg drop soup? That looks really nice. It smells so good. And everybody here from Shanghai? It's okay. It's okay. Thank you. Oh, look. Look. Look. Right here. This is a mini dumpling. It's a soup dumpling. You can see it's soaking right now. These are the pan-fried, which is a little different. These people are so welcoming. So welcoming. So friendly. Yeah. So friendly. Thank you. You're from Shanghai? No. I'm from Guangzhou. Guangzhou as well. Yes. We met a lot of people from Guangzhou. Cantonese. How long have you been here in Canada? A long time. No, bro. You? No. Six years. Six years. Yeah. You know, one of the coolest parts of this restaurant is that from here, you can see the whole entire thing. Glass. Super high ceilings. This is exactly how it is in Shanghai. These big tables. So family style. Big, round. So you can just move the food. Thanks, guys. How do you say thank you in Cantonese? How do you say thank you in Cantonese? Okay. We go. We go. We go. Let's go eat. You know, I was really full, but after seeing all this food. Oh my gosh. Look at that. That's my order? That's a spicy wonton. That's our order. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Spicy wonton. Nice spice. Vinegary. Soy. It's nice. Very nice. YouTube. Oh. Yeah. We'll give it to you. We'll give it to you. This is fantastic. This. This is spicier? Spicier. All right. Spice. Here we go. Spice. Here. Guys, it's so soft. It's so soupy. Amazing. It's magical. It's like I'm in Shanghai right now. Oh, wow. Spicy. That is the xiaolongbao. That is the soup dumpling of Shanghai. This is the staple. When you're in Shanghai, this is what you have to try. I remember you pick it up and then see it. The soup is right here, right? And the way you eat this is very, very unique. That's how you eat it. Just like that. Pull the soup out. And then. That was correct, right? A little bite. So a little bit of this. A little bit of this. It's a little bit of soy sauce. We have soy. The xiaolongbao. The whole thing or just the soup? Hot. Gotta add some spice though. And it feels like I'm back in China. This is so great. One more. For good measure, guys. Xiaolongbao in Markham, Ontario. GTA. What an epic bite. I'm so happy we came here. You know everybody was talking about we're in Chinatown in the east. We're in Chinatown in Spadina where we were. But really this is China. This is where you get the best food. The real experience. And everybody's so friendly. They want to talk to you. Come here. Eat their food. Definitely gotta do it the other way. You gotta suck it out. Because if not, it pops in your mouth and it's super hot. Sesame seed. All right. So this is sesame seed dumpling. This is a dessert dumpling. It's like the xiaolongbao. Same thing. But with sesame seed. As you can see, it's black. Still steaming. Oh man. These people have been treating us like kings. Thank you so much. This restaurant's the best. You know lately I've been going on trips and sometimes I, you know, I'm not really happy. Trips are rough. But when you run into people like this, it makes everything even better. And especially like really going back to China and this trip and this experience with everybody being so friendly. This is... I'm so happy. Made my day, guys. Still hot. So sweet. Oh my gosh, bro. It's like a sesame black pudding steam. Oh bro, this is probably the best Chinese dessert I've had. Everything is very beany in China, very jelly. This, both of both worlds. Like sweet with a little bit savory of a dumpling. It's like a thing like a Nutella melted seedy dumpling. Bomb. This is the best. This is the best. Oh my god. No, this is better than xiaolongbao. Best xiaolongbao. But the sweet sesame, the best thing on earth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Xiexie. All right. Thank you so much. Bye. We got one more spot. We're going to Hong Kong cafe right here. He told me that literally you just walk to the left and it's a great spot. Hong Kong milk tea. That's what we're going for. This place is amazing. The weather's amazing. Look how many cars there are. Dude, it's like a sea. And they're all here for some delicious Chinese food. Oh, you have a mix. You have Korean, you have Japanese, you have a bunch of stuff here. Green tea restaurant. What's it got? This I can't even understand. I don't know. Oh, it's green tea. What's this? Yongsheng rice noodle. Yang's braised chicken rice. What a variety. Yeah. Dude, they got every cuisine in China. It's back here, the Hong Kong cafe. Let's go. It's okay. It's a great day. Hong Kong cafe, they're closing in three minutes. But luckily for us, they're going to give us the milk tea. I think the Hong Kong style milk tea. One hot, one cold. Can I pay card? Is that okay? Only cash. Only cash. Fine. Fine. You keep that. Keep it. No problem. Thank you. So they're closed, but they're selling us the milk tea. One hot, one cold. Are you guys doing live? No, we're not doing live. Don't worry, man. You know what's funny? People have asses here. A lot of people have asses. I know. I know, I know. Switch streamers, switch streamers. No, we just ate the best xiaolongbao ever right there. So good. So good. It's a very nice cafe. So this is traditional, how it is in Hong Kong. I'm guessing. It looks like it's very similar. Let's do this. Thank you. All right. Cafe de Hong Kong. Here we go. The milk tea. That's tasty. That's matcha. Oh, that's a good tea. And this is just the same thing, just on fire. So if you're cold, you get this. If you're hot, you get this. This looks like it is in India, like chai. It looks like chai. You know what? It's chai. It's very chai. This one just doesn't have too much sugar, but definitely cardamom. Cold one is better. If it's cold here in Canada, I would definitely warm up with this though. All right. That was Markham, Chinatown. Love you guys. That's David right there. I'm David. What's up, man? How's it going? Very good. You? Good. Well, awesome. So tell me one thing you love about Toronto. It's really inclusive, I would say. Well, can you tell me one thing in Mandarin to the audience? Ai ni, which means love you. Oh, bro. Thank you. Xie xie. Nice to meet you. They did tell us that the wealth, there's wealthy people here. Lots of wealthy people from Hong Kong came here. Wow. He's balling. Yes, he is. Soon. So we just walked into this noodle spot. This place is awesome. They're just like, come, come, look at the guy stretching noodles. So they're waiting for an order. I think two orders just came in right now. He's putting the dough here. He's putting it to this machine that's compressing it into this, like, looks like the way they do sausage, right? It's coming out like a big noodle dough, long, five foot. He's going to stretch it out. He's going to bang it. He's going to keep banging it and it takes it apart almost like hairs. This is going to be cool. I've seen this a few times in China. He's cutting it. Boom. Yeah. He's tenderizing that dough, making it nice and thin. All right. So here he goes. He's grabbing some flour. Then he grabs the dough, rolls it up, rolls it around some more flour. Oh, he's stretching it. And now, oh, there he goes. Wow. Look at that with his hands. Look at that. Look how many he does. He keeps taking it apart. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, dude. He does like a million. I remember one time I saw this when he did like 500. Wow. And that goes straight to that boiling water. This guy's the man. Thank you. I think it's to the southwestern of the China. Yeah. The restaurant is beautiful. Good stuff. Love it. Thank you so much. One Canadian dollar for this one. One play. Oh, here we go. Oh, here we go. Yeah, I need to get something today. Dang it. I got two more. Here we go. Here we go. Getting that pepper. No. Feel the rhythm. Feel alive. All right. That's it. We didn't get anything. Next time. Xiexie. Xiexie. All right. Bye. You guys are too kind.