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Restaurants I went to:
Crab Cellar Address: 1962 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Daruma Restaurant Address: 1823 W Golf Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60194
Hokkaido Ramen Santuka 100 E Algonquin Rd Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Good morning, you guys know how much I love buffets and I came across this buffet in Chicago
That not only have all you can eat king crab all you can eat prime burgers
But also all you can eat filet mignon definitely one of the most unique all-you-can-eat buffets
I've came across in a while. I think in the history of buffet eating
I never came across an all-you-can-eat burger buffet before
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All right, i'm gonna finish this up and uh
Let's go buffet
Good morning on the way to chicago right now my first time at culver's you've been here before
Many times what'd you what'd you call this place?
In and out of the midwest. That's what like out of towners call it
I never heard of this place before so apparently they got butter burgers just like in and out and they're known for their
Custard trying to find a place to eat. Oh, yeah. This is the best place to eat the culver. I love how useful these lawn chairs are
It kind of looks like an in-n-out burger
Bun is nicely toasted and buttered thin beef patty cheese
Does it get any more midwest than like eating this in the back of a car on lawn chairs in a abandoned taco bell parking lot
I like this stuff
It's very reminiscent of an in-n-out burger
Very juicy sheared beef patties. Very beefy. Very cheesy. You can tell it's good quality beef
This is delicious
Really good gotta say though
I think in and out still better if they had their own sauce. This will be really really good, too
It's I think the quality of the patty is very comparable. I don't know what it is
Wherever I go if I see spicy chicken sandwich on the menu, I want to get it
This is delicious
I think I think the chicken filet is one of the best i've had
Because it's so fresh. It's so crunchy. I mean listen listen
It's so crunchy and they loaded it with spice again if they put some sauce on here makes this even better but it's patty itself
amazing
Oh this custard is good
Hmm
That is like eating
Yeah, it's like eating pure silk. It's like tasty morgan freeman's voice
So smooth this custard is delicious
Hmm
We're staying at the euro star hotel this time in chicago a lot of things to do
I'm gonna be filming a lot of places hanging out with christine's family. Of course first meal
All you can eat king crab all you can eat burgers all you can eat filet mignon. How hungry are you?
Out of 10
Nine out of ten. We just ate three burgers. I applaud you. That's amazing
All right, you're gonna conquer this you're gonna conquer this how many steaks?
five
You do have to get your money's worth
All right, it's a little dark in here but this is um
The crab seller here in chicago, illinois, let me show you the vibe here. It's like a lounge vibe
We're literally in the basement of this place
And this place all you can eat
Alaskan king crab prime burger and you can get it out on filet mignon for twenty dollars definitely pricey all you can eat
but
All you can eat king crab filet mignon and burger i've never seen it before I had to try it
This is so cool. So they brought over four types of butter. Which one is yours?
Spicy one and mine's with the garlic
I love buffets. I love all you can eat and I really love very unique specialty all you can eat places like this
That crab dip is so good spicy creamy that thing is chock full of crab butters for your crab
I'm, just gonna put a little garlic butter on my toast here
There's so much garlic in this butter
This is the spicy butter
Oh, that's good. No, the spicy one is the best spicy butter is so good
Round one crab legs are here
Oh my goodness thing with king crab, sometimes it'll hurt you a little bit but i'm telling you worth the pain
Sweet delicate crab meat with amazing garlic butter
My spicy butter is so good because something sweet something spicy and all that is good and butter all in one bite
That's peach i'm gonna do a little different garlic butter and a little of the spicy butter
It's way different
When you're eating king crab
On a buffet than getting it in like intimate setting like this
Which is more attention paid to the dipping sauce the crab itself
Nothing is overcooked if you're coming here
As good as the garlic butter is
100% get the spicy one. I mean seriously
I've had this stuff on vegas buffets before ain't nothing
Like eating it like this the care they went into
Making the butter taste so delicious
Oh man never has sweet and spicy tasted so good since hot oil on ice cream
I'm just kidding. That's much more acquired taste and the steaks just arrived. So
The way they do the steak
They're tiny little maybe like three ounces and one of them is
I think dill and butter on top the other
Melted blue cheese and crispy fried onions
That is so tender
This does not taste like buffet steak
I mean, it tastes like a good steakhouse steak tender filet
You can taste a wonderful char and that was just the dill butter one this i'm really looking forward to crusted blue cheese
with fried onions on top
Winner winner steak buffet dinner melted blue cheese over steak. There's something so amazing about it blue cheese on its own
I personally can't eat it on its own
Melted over steak becomes something otherworldly good personally. I don't mess with steak that much but this butter sauce is so good
Dip it in some butter and garlic
You should dip your steak
Raw and live fish when you got delicious dipping sauce sitting right in front of you you dip whatever you can in it
Second steaming bucket is here. Thank you
Oh this burger looks delicious perfectly cooked
Look at that juice flowing out of the burger and the burgers are eight ounce patties with cheese
Dijon mayo cooked to a medium rare
That is good burger, I don't want one of these to myself wow, this is delicious again
Dip it into that spicy butter
Wow, thank you
Thank you. Appreciate it to the friend that just brought me the hot sauce. Thank you so much
I forgot to ask for your name. I'm just dousing it on my burger right now
That's such a good hot sauce, oh it's good
That on that burger makes it even more exquisite. I asked for another burger
I know the burger is probably the least economical thing on this menu and I shouldn't be focused on it
But I can't help it. I love that burger. We're here with uh, christine's grandparents right now eating this stuff
Good
You're all good
Grandpa you having fun
These three here are focusing exclusively on crab legs
Yeah, you gotta make up for the burger i'm eating
Doesn't it just makes you want to eat more crab?
The butter just makes you want to eat more and you're usually one of those who's like
Oh, I don't like things diluting the natural flavor of my seafood or whatever
And you're just dunking those in the spicy butter right now. It's that good
Oh, yeah
Hello
my precious
You can already tell how juicy this burger is just from the outside looking in beautifully toasted bun
Crispy onions rocket for cheese covering a half pound patty
This is so good has some chilies to it
No wrong way to use this burger. I just want to say grandpa
Is a trooper. This is like round was round five six
and grandpa just told us that
He'll keep going. He'll keep going till the end till they take the food away till they won't serve us anymore
Love that buffet attitude. Love it. That's kind of that's you gotta have when you come to a buffet like this
No giving up till the end
Last thing they brought over
triple layer
Coconut buttercream cake they brought over. They said this is the best thing on the menu
Holy crap, that's like thanksgiving christmas new year chinese new year valentine's day chinese valentine's day all the holidays
I love all in one bite. That's a moist buttery
delicious
Piece of cake
It's good, right? Oh even grandma likes it not too sweet again best compliment for asians for dessert
Not too sweet. Oh, this is definitely an experience. I love this. Oh, what a good place
Probably one of my favorite buffets i've had this year quality was so exquisite again the butter
out of this world the burger
Man, I couldn't stay away from the burger. Everything was excellent. I don't know when this video is going up
The only thing is they're going to temporarily suspend the all you can eat for a little bit
I guess king crab legs prices are skyrocketing. They did say hopefully as a temporary thing
So definitely check in with them if you want to come for the all you can eat experience
Which I highly recommend you do and don't forget that cake
This is a pretty adorable bubble tea shop
So i'm going to be in chicago for the next few days exploring the food scene last time I was here
I actually did a day of filming where I didn't publish it because it was just kind of a random day of filming
But I found some really good restaurants, especially this japanese one
So up next is what I found in chicago a while back. Enjoy the rest of the video
So apparently there's a whole area I think around arlington heights outside of chicago
That's a ton of japanese restaurants and supermarkets. So it's kind of a chilly windy day
And I wanted to get some ramen
I heard this place is pretty good. Bannai's kitakata ramen
It's like a salad on top of my ramen
Bunch of pieces of chashu tons of sprouts underneath wavy noodles spicy miso ramen extra spicy
Broth is thick and creamy. I would highly recommend getting extra spicy
Noodles are really unique. I've had many noodles like this before it almost tastes like a chinese
Thin hand-pulled noodles really smooth on the outside. Very al dente didn't think I really wanted the veggies, but that's a nice crunch
Chashu is excellent. Yeah this part you see that that's the melty part. You want to see that on your chashu
I mean something kind of
different
Than what i've had in the past but ain't no mistaking that this is delicious that definitely hits the spot
Also, I got this bowl. So they put charred chashu with some kind of sauce over rice
It's kind of like that bacon boys to get when I was in tokyo
That's really really really good if I wasn't going somewhere else after this
I'll get a big bowl of this on this whole area. Not just japanese restaurant korean restaurants, too
Tons of japanese supermarkets as well. That looks right
this place
Daruma this place is called
Whoa, this is cool. Thanks
Wow
Look at this
This is part of filming that's kind of frustrating
So whenever I go inside a place you have to see where the light is. So the light is coming from here
so that means I would have to sit here, but then
You really should be sitting here. But then
You see you see how it's like really backlit
Not good
Yeah better or am I sitting you know what?
Sit right here. All right first dishes here. This smells
Incredible. So it's marinated sliced pork belly with chives in a
Lemon and when I tell you this smells
So good
I feel like i'm underselling it and I was told that this is something you must get every time you're here
I think this is beef tongue. It's basically stir fried beef tongue with scallions
So good
Scallion if you used to ride ones, they taste a little sweet in addition to the fragrant flavor
Also, what it'll do is cover up any of the gaminess from the meat
Oh, it's so good
It's how I know a lot of people never had it or maybe a little apprehensive about trying it get yourself some tongue this kind
If done, right?
It's just so tender a little smokiness from the pan and paired perfectly and goes just perfect
with these fragrant sweet scallions
I don't suppose i'm supposed to add some of this on there, too
Why not? I feel like if someone puts pepper in front of you, you don't add it. You're just being rude
Although this is uh seasoned perfectly already
Oh, that's so good am I supposed to be adding the chilies? Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay
That's why you gave it to me
Thank you. So this is the toro takumaki. So it's medium fatty tuna. Usually I like it as fatty as
tuna-ly possible
Yeah, i'm not a sushi expert this is delicious the rice is flavorful a nice crunch from the veggies fish again
melts
Like nobody's business and this is my fatty
Piece of tuna. Oh
I know I call it the wagyu of the sea other people call it wagyu of the sea. It actually does look like wagyu
Yeah
you can
You can literally see the fat as soon as you just look in its direction
I wonder what happened if you eat like
a piece of a5 wagyu served under a fatty piece of tuna you ever hear about those people that just
Spontaneously combust maybe that was the cost. Wow
Tonkatsu with uh burned garlic oil on top
Beautiful gooey egg
scallions some mushrooms
Oh, yeah, baby. Oh that looks so pretty thin straight noodles beneath the surface
They give you a lot of noodles in this bowl of ramen, by the way, this whole thing is 12 bucks
Wow, that's good smooth and rich giant piece of chashu
Noodles are perfect
Burn my tongue a little bit. Luckily
I have some spares
Chashu chashu is really tender
I wish there were more fatty pieces though
And that's just a personal preference
That was good that place is pretty impressive because usually you go to like a sushi restaurant or a ramen restaurant where
uh
What is that? Oh
That was a tornado warning. We used to I remember living here. We used to have these tornado
Warning sirens go off. Anyway, like I was saying that place is like a like a ramen shop a sushi restaurant
In in izakaya all combined together and they were able to do all that
Well, so probably one of the most authentic japanese restaurants i've been to in the u.s
And the pricing is good if that restaurant was in new york or anywhere in the vicinity of new york that bowl ramen would be $16
All right
belly full of food
Storm clouds are coming. I'm gonna go home get some work done and
Call it a night. See you tomorrow