BEST NOODLES & BURGER Tour of New York City

I just been home only a few days, but I gotta head into the city because next few days It's gonna be a crazy crazy food feast. I'm showing a bunch of friends around, New York City Kind of like my first unofficial food tour. It's not business It's just me showing my friends around But we're going to a lot of places Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens. Some of my favorite places in the city It's gonna be a great food week. Let's go My favorite dumplings in Manhattan Thin, super thin skin. It should be a shame to go outside. Look how thin the skin is And then this is fish ball dumpling. With my friends Ollie and David right here Love fish balls Special ones with meat stuffed inside They're so good Pork chive dumpling It's just stuffed to the brim with filling. That's like my favorite thing here. It's just a ratio of filling to dumpling skin It's got great fresh chive flavor, that's why. You can taste the chive flavor more here than anywhere else. So good This is a new item. It's like a bunch of cow parts. Fujian people don't usually eat chili oil, but we will have our fill of chili oil Very light and beefy You cannot come to Manhattan without going to this place for some amazing chashu and Fresh every single day. Duck is good, chicken is good, but you got to get the chashu. Oh, they raised their price It used to be like $3.50. Still worth it though. So the great thing about this place is that you get a chashu over rice for $4 It's so cheap. What I love is they add all that sauce onto your plate of chashu. It's great Rice and chashu is such a bargain get Usually they give you a lot more usually to fill it to the brim with this with this delicious roast pork My favorite chashu place in the city. It's such a good deal Now I'm going to my favorite noodle place in Brooklyn. Haven't been there a lot because you know, it's really far, it's Brooklyn Let's go. Yunnan Flavor Garden. Haven't been here in a long long time. My favorite noodle shop in Brooklyn Let me show you. It's really traditional Yunnan cuisine. When I come here I only get three things. The regular crossing the bridge noodle soup. Great story with that by the way The cold mixed noodles and then the dumplings and sour broth God, I haven't been here in so long This is something I always get here. This is the cold mixed rice noodles This is my favorite dish in this entire place. Ground beef on top, some peanuts, some little soy This is so so so amazing. Gonna mix it up Oh, look how much meat they put on top and beautiful white rice noodles on the bottom Oh, man, that's the hidden treasure right here and noodles gonna be so springy And delicious and usually eat this in the summer because this traditional dish is hot, right? So some people don't like to eat it in the summer. So that's why there's cold versions of it I mean, it's got like pure cold, but it's cold It's such a unique noodle. So good, right? Oh my god, that's friggin awesome The little bits of meat, just slightly sweet, slightly sour, slightly spicy Such great umami flavor in this as well Just slurp it and be happy a classic Dumplings and sour vinegary soup and spicy soup. The dumplings not gonna be the best dumplings you ever had But dumplings with a soup here is pretty darn amazing The dumplings is made with egg flour Wrapper is thin and it's meaty and the soup is the key here The soup is gonna be sour and spicy. It will warm your soul up You gotta love vinegar to love this dish. I could be freezing in the Arctic walking here have this you'll be warm Crossing the bridge noodle soup. This is very classic ingredients in crossing the bridge noodle soup Of course, you get a quail egg, some sprouts, some greens Let me tell you a story really quick. The legend has it that there was a scholar. He was studying for his exam He decides to isolate himself in a little private island and the only way to get there is crossing a bridge And each day his wife will bring the food to him and each day the noodles will get cold So then she realized okay, if I covered the top part of the soup with oil the noodle retains its heat So she separated the ingredients and it took the ingredients in the soup across the bridge to him Put the ingredients together and the soup is piping hot. That's how crossing the bridge noodle soup was created. And now it's a classic It's got to go in when it's boiling hot So each slice of the pork is going in separately And the soup broth is so hot and it cooks immediately Chicken going in giving this broth even more flavor And then the veggies and tofu goes in as well And this thing is ready to eat. You see the little layer of oil floating on top That's what makes this really special. Noodles go in last because you don't want the noodle to overcook and that's ready You got to eat it right away It's so good on a rainy day It's like I crossed the bridge into Deliciousville. Yeah I like to get a bowl of just regular broth and after I taste that I like to level it up a little bit A little hot oil Definitely a little vinegar Now after something salty and savory and Soupy needs something sweet and gooey. And here it is This is the place for the best egg tart in New York City and you gotta call ahead You cannot just walk in here and buy it The mythical Egg tarts and the problem I have with this place is that they used to be much bigger and they shrunk it It's still a lot of value, but they shrunk it Look, I mean they look big but they used to be much bigger. Fresh out of the oven Toasty. Oh, I wish it was hotter. It's not. Oh, it's pretty hot, but it's not like hot. I want it hot hot Look how flaky this thing is and gooey. This is just the greatest. Slight char on top Amazing. Right? Look at that beautiful sweet custard It's so smooth and eggy. You gotta try this One of my favorite noodle soups. Walk up here Best lamb noodle soup in New York City. Fresh noodles just go in And the noodles are actually one long noodle. You take one long dough and you tear it up A little hot oil, tiny bit of vinegar Love these things Amazing Joe, Joe's joining us. I think like this is the first I've ever had. Best lamb noodles in New York City. Best lamb noodles Here we go. Whole fresh fish roasted, buried under all that greens Human roasted pork ribs from the oven with sesame and garlic. This is one of my favorite things Rabbit, make sure it has some of that seasoning on there. There we go. Yeah Good? Yeah, it's amazing. Happy pork day to me Dig past the cilantro, the herbs, the seed. These are the enoki mushrooms This is good eating. This Dipped in some sauce. Oh my god And then you got potatoes, carrots, onions, all that stuff is stewing in the fishy broth and the fish Right here. Look at that fish Roasted in the oven and then here and when you dig in look at that. Oh, that's just too indecent Look at this. Oh my gosh. Soak that in the broth a little bit and that is ready to eat This is amazing I love the potato Food adventure day number two, Henan Hui Mian. One of the best stir-fried noodles in all of New York right here That is the greatest thing. It's so elastic So good. Lamb stir-fry. Food tour wouldn't be complete without a visit to the New World Mall Today we are feasting. Got cold noodles, big plate of beef sitting by Ali David's got some lamb over here. Show them the lamb. Oh my gosh That's a good lamb chop We've been there very happily with you Welcome to Hui noodles Night dinner time and I'm trying out the usual because I've been filming a video on Chef Alvin Kaelin's show on the burger show and we met he invited me to try his burger He said it's one of the best in the city Maybe he's a little biased, but I want to try it out So this is his new restaurant in the city. Alvin if you don't know he owns Egg Slut over in LA Which is a fantastic place, but I'm gonna try the burgers here That just looks like my burger is for us. This is the burger by Chef Alvin. What is this burger? Explain this right here It's basically pureed tomato Cheese double patty, red onions. Oh my gosh on toasted bun. This is just amazing looking That's beautiful. This is the Mighty Burger. I'm streaming at the same time. By the way, I have a stream now on Twitch So if you guys want to follow me live right there, that's my stream. What's a smash burger? Uh-huh, smash it on the pancha. Uh-huh. And then once that side gets super crispy We put that crispy side into the gooey part of the cheese and flip the entire thing. Oh my gosh We smash onions into the beef as well. Oh my gosh, dude This is like just beef with a bunch of pulverized onions in there. Yeah, is that bacon on top or no? No, that's crispy cheese. That's crispy cheese. Okay Oh my gosh, but the double patty, this is so good. It's the pickle. That's where the magic is happening right now Yeah, it's a magic pickle You made that pickle? Of course. Dude, that's the perfect burger pickle. Yeah, that's doing wonders to my taste buds right now I'm gonna head home today. So I was in the city for about two days Ate a bunch of different foods, took people on a lot of food tours. It's just something I like to do for friends It's not, well obviously it's not a business or anything like that. Man, I just feel like I've been eating just Continuously and haven't been working out a lot because every time I get home it's like midnight So I'm gonna go home and detox just for a day and get some workouts And then I really don't have that much time to spend there because I'm going to Israel in two days But before I do that, I gotta show you guys one of the best burgers I've ever had in New York City, ever Let me show you. I mean before that we're eating some noodles because noodles and burgers, you know, it's like this Ichiran Ramen This place opens at like 9 a.m. Basically, we're having breakfast noodles right now It's been getting a craving so it's not gonna be as good as the one in Japan But it's as close as I can get right now. So let's go breakfast noodle. Everything is empty and that's me That's me right there Love seeing this every single time Any Ichiran I go into in the world. I just love seeing these booths and that's me And that's my stream right there. Oh $24 for a bowl of ramen. Honestly, I forgot how expensive this place was Maybe they raised the prices $24 for a bowl of ramen with an egg That's my that's my stream Now is it worth it to get an extra egg for an extra five bucks? It's an extra chashu All right, let's do it. Let's do the recommended dashi medium richness medium Mixed garlic one whole clove, please Scallions question, of course. I mean is this even this is even a question. Let's do it All right. So 10 is what I can get without it costing me any money Noodle texture extra. I love extra noodles. So let's get a whole serving of that. That's great extra firm as well All right, we're gonna put it over here It got so there musta There's my privacy that I love Thank you. There's my egg This is the only ramen restaurant in the world that makes you peel your own egg And they like teach you how to do it in case you never peel the egg in your life That's my ramen Peel this with one hand you guys have no idea How many things I do one-handed and I've gotten to do it so well because I'm forced to do it like that Alright, this is not going well Thank you my privacy when I eat my ramen This is just the most civilized way to eat ramen. It really is a little mountain of chili And I get every single time I come to Ichiran Go, I don't know how to make this pretty. I'm not a very artistic person I'm just gonna do what I can First thing I do is take a sip of broth. No chilies touching it. It's my favorite part the first sip Heavenly silk, it's not like it is in Japan, but still god, this is great Seriously, if you can drink silk I'm gonna be it. Look at those noodles. My favorite type of ramen is these super Super thin noodles. This is great. I can film a YouTube video and stream at the same time You gotta dip it in the broth a lot and it's gonna grab on for dear life. And that's what you want. Here we go All that spice Ten times man That's exactly the perfect amount for me And I didn't have to pay anything extra Because that would upset me. Ichiran versus Ippudo, I don't think it's much of a contest. Ichiran wins all the way Do I ever get broth on my camera? Yeah, and I just lick it off. Alright, let's see how the egg turned out today That's pretty good, I love that creaminess though. Like with that, with some noodles No, it disappeared. Oh good lord. No, I lost it. I'm running out of noodles here. And this is why you always get Kedama Extra noodles, always get it So I actually filmed a video inside Ichiran's kitchen Here in New York. I haven't published it yet, but I will. Oh, I got a neighbor here Hi. There you go, I made this. This is what this place is designed for, you don't talk to your neighbors So cute. I love the egg. I can't wait till we get to the bottom where I'm actually drinking the broth It's gonna be the best. Everything has sunk to the bottom of the bowl. Ah, it's so good Let's go eat a burger You'll see why you need to eat this burger when you eat this burger. Mediterranean street food This is one of the best burger places in New York City. You would never guess This is one of the best burger places because it's not really a burger place. Come on, let me show you You never knew burgers needed this until you bite into it. Greatest burger compliments See how she Literally folded a burger over the cheese. Glorious cheese melting and crisping and there's a burger wrapped around it It's like a burger cheese taco at this point. See how it's all crisp now. Oh, it's all glorious And then they're gonna put it together. Pickles inside, there's gonna be some yogurt inside, cheese In the burger patty. It's so good. And they're gonna pair it up with this chili pepper here. This is the burger, look at this Crispy cheese. Pepper on the meat, crispy fresh pickles Juicy tomatoes and and this feels really indecent right now because I'm undressing a little bit. A little pita I just want to give a shout out to the burger show I filmed an episode with them and that's how I found this place. This Is burger glory. See how crispy the cheese is right here. That is gonna be one of the greatest textural things It's so insanely crazy That's the sweet spot right here, all right The melty cheese on the inside of this burger. Oh man, it's so good. Bite of chili It's so spicy Little bit. You're stuffed with chili on the inside. Take a bite of that right here This is everything you ever want a burger to be, trust me There's a chicken pepper. You remember that burger diaper I always talk about? This is another burger diaper There's yogurt down here as well. So all the juice is just trapped here. And that last bite is gonna be the most glorious bite On the bottom of the burger, it's creamy, cool yogurt. Now I can go home