RARE Indian Street Food (South Indian & Punjabi)

I've seen some videos from India where they're like tossing the dosa up in the air to catch it. What do you think about that? Would you ever do something like that? Oh, I do my own style. I don't copy nobody. This man is original here. Bro, come on. Come on. Take some pop. Nah, I'm good. Bro, first and foremost, his name is not Jaz. That's not an Indian name. What's your real name? Just Steve. Steve. Man's out in Brampton. Man's is out in Brampton. It's a Brampton ting. What's going on, everybody? It is a beautiful New York day. It feels like the summertime. And of course, we had to do an Indian food call again. Come back for part two. We got Jaz. What's up, guys? My name is Jaz. I'm from Queens, and my friends are from Punjab. We are going on a crazy Indian journey in this video. We're starting off at the most famous street cart over here at Washington Square Park, NY Dosa's, and then we're going to be hitting up a 24-hour legendary Punjabi cafeteria. And then the last spot is going to be a modern Indian spot that just opened that is serving very obscure but delicious and authentic Indian dishes. Let's go. These Vessi sneakers are the best waterproof sneaker ever made. Guys, big shout out to our sponsor, Vessi Footwear. They are making the most comfortable waterproof sneakers ever made. I'm not talking about water-resistant, not Gore-Tex boots, really comfortable sneakers. That is the patented Dyma-Tex material, guys. I mean, we were stepping in puddles. There was hail, sleet, snow. This is completely waterproof. So that actually allows you to move from the office to the gym to just doing errands outside. And I really think that that's the point of athleisure. Of course, you guys know that we love sneakers, streetwear, hype stuff. But on the other end, I have a deep appreciation for this simple clean style too. If you guys are interested in Vessi Footwear, go to Vessi.com and use our code for $25 off. And if you guys are interested in this style of shoe, if you got the outfits to go with it, and you just need something that's going to last, and if you do need to clean these, they're as easy as running them under the sink or just throwing them into the washer. You can simplify your life. Check out Vessi.com and use our code for $25 off. Peace! I'm making first the special Pondicherry for you. After that, everything's going to be off the menu. Okay, okay. That's like special off the menu. I'm going to mix it up now. This is a French cut. Yeah, I know. She's from my hometown, Jaffna. This is the very special Pondicherry Dosa. Oh my goodness, this looks good. Guys, the Pondicherry, it has coconut chutney with sambar. Pondicherry, sold out. It's like a little spicy, very coconutty, very fragrant. I've never had anything like this. NYC Doses, man. This is one of the best doses I've ever had. All right, you guys. We are looking at an incredibly rare snack right now called Jaff Malan. He said this is off the menu, but it is a real authentic Indian snack. This is the only spot in New York that you can get this at. So it has like dried coconut. It has like the wet coconut. Would you say that this is more South Indian due to the coconut? Yes, 100%. Jaff Malan. I love trying things that I've never had before. The crepe was something new to me. It's such an airy feeling. Yeah, and I think grabbing the coconut, to me, that was like a whole other thing. Treating the coconut like the protein. All right, guys. This is the Uttapam. Scorching hot in this large-ass onion right here. That's like a vegetable pancake. Yeah, it's like a filled veggie pancake. Oh, man. You get in this too, man. Oh, my hands are burning. Oh, oh, it's hot. It's hot, hot. Go for it, go for it. Oh, hot, hot. You gotta go. That's what they would call a hot cake. Oh my goodness. You know what it is, man? Ah! Uttapam. Searing hot Uttapam. More hearty, more vegetable-y. But I was more with the coconut joint. All right, you guys. That does it for NYC Doses, man. We got my man Sri Lankan cooking South Indian treats. Some more mainstream, some less known. But we gotta go to something that you know very well. I'm going to the Punjabi Deli in the Lower East Side. My people's food is so good. 24 hours a day. People have talked about this spot. Now, students I've talked to and also every Uber, Lyft driver I've talked to, they said go to Punjab Grocery. It's the go-to spot. All right. It's the go-to spot, 24 hours a day. Let's head down there. All right, you guys. We are on 114 East Houston. And this place is legendary. So legendary. I cannot even encapsulate how legendary it is. Tell us about it, man. Yo, this place used to be open 24 hours. Well-known in the Punjabi community. I was part of the 1AM crowd before. All I remember was just shoveling something into my mouth. I don't remember exactly what it was. You know we could not cover this without the help of another Indian comedian friend, man. We got Vivek. I was barely invited. I'm just here to continue my feud from last video. We are continuing our North-South-South-North Indian beef. I know you're South Indian, but obviously all Indians come here, right? Like a lot of the core ingredients are the same anyway, right? So like it doesn't really matter at some point. Remember the last video, South Indians do not really eat that much meat, right? Yeah, that's true. And North Indians are famous for meat. We're eating a lot of chicken. A lot of chicken, a lot of goat, a lot of lamb. Beef, definitely not. But here, pretty much all vegetarian. Even though we both eat meat, right? Oh, I mean, I love beef. That's my favorite kind. Yeah, cut that part out. I do, yeah. For some reason, I thought you were like a... You couldn't eat anything. Yeah, I'm just finding out that my friends know nothing about it. There are some wild theories too about it too. It's like, it's just food allergies. It's nothing religious. Yeah, someone like linked it to like the caste system in one of the videos. And I was like, bro, like... All right, you guys. Let's check it out. All right, you guys. This is the hall for Punjabi grocery, man. And he said something really dope to you, right? As we were leaving. What did he say? Yeah, man. He asked where Andrew was from. I'm like, yeah, he's Chinese. He's like, oh, it's such a beautiful thing. I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, oh, to see Chinese and Indians come together. I'm like, yeah, man. Like the way we grew up is so similar. And I was like, yeah, he's like, oh, it's so beautiful to see Indian, Chinese people come together. And especially around this time. For sure. I mean, there's so much going on in the world. But we're here in America. And I think that that's... That's what we want America to be, right? This is like the ideal of what you want. This is what America should be. And parts of it are. Yeah, there you go. What are we looking at, guys? All right, I'll start. So we got samosas here. I think most people probably know what that is, right? That's like the most common fried Indian potato snack. It is basic, but for a good reason. Yeah, I got the chana masala curry. And then I got saag, spicy spinach. Hey, Andrew, why don't you get started, man? And then just go with some roti. We all gotta get a roti, right? Why don't you eat a pakora? Because you're excited about these. Usually when you go to a temple, you get these. But this is unbelievable. Oh, that's a high-end temple, bro. You didn't know that? That's a high-end temple. No, I've never... Like, I feel like whenever I've gone to the temple... Dude, every time... Yo, ask the guys inside. Like, yo, we go to the temple all the time then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a start. What are you getting at temple? Like, just rice and dal and that's it. No, that's basic. That's like... You need to go to a Punjabi temple, Dave. We go to an ascetic temple. They don't want to enjoy things, you know. You focus on God. Are you trying to say the Punjabi temples are more lit? Oh yeah, we got buffets. All right, you guys. I got the roti. I've never done this before. I'm gonna go in and what... It's all good mixed together? All mixed. I mean, I would go one by one. One by one, one by one. I'm gonna go with my favorite first. Roti. Yeah, I noticed that we made ours more look like Taco Bell soft tacos. And your joint was more like official, like... You know what it looks like? Like that taco mahal. Oh. Oh, that's good. The Punjabi eggplant was super creamy, man. Right here. Creamy and dreamy. All right, you guys. This is our final round here at Punjab Grocery. I'm getting this Aloo Tikki. You said it perfectly. Yo, this is good. I didn't even need the sauce. I gave the Aloo Tikki a five out of five. How do we say five in either Punjabi or Hindi? Dude, I don't know. Don't ask me. Hey, this guy's a great big phony. Come get the Aloo Tikki at Punjab Grocery. Five out of five. This is one of my favorite sweets. It's called Besan. I don't know how to explain it, but it's just sweet and fire. So if you are lactose intolerant and you're Indian, does that limit a lot of food? It does, yeah. If you're lactose intolerant and you're Indian, then you should not eat anything. Does this not taste kind of like the middle of a mooncake? It does. All right, guys. We are headed now. After exploring two New York, Manhattan, Indian classics, one from South India, one from North India, the samosas, the Punjabi grocery, now we are headed to a brand new mind-blowing concept, Dhamaka. So there's a chef and he gathered a lot of like little known dishes from all around India and combined them into one spot. All right. So we are here with the chef and co-owner, Chintan. Yeah. You have an amazing spot. Can you tell us about it? The Dhamaka literally means to blast. You know, like when you say let's have a blast, we actually travel across America to understand Indian food and to know why Indian food is not going forward and it's very stagnated. And that's what, you know, told us that how do we take this cuisine more and more forward. New York City is the only city where this concept can work. The people over here, all ethnicity, all religion, are people who want to have newer outlook to every cuisine. Not only Indian cuisine, you look at any other food, you look at Chinese food, you look at Korean food, the kind of spectrum or the kind of variations that you have in these foods in New York City, you won't find it anywhere. All right, you guys, we are looking at this exotic spread here. I've never had any of these foods. Have you guys? No. Yeah. I want to get into this food because this looks like some Indian food I've never seen before. It looks to me more Southeast Asian mixed with Indian. Even though he said it was from all over the place. Right. Like just the most obscure places all across. I mean, it's like Northeastern. Yeah. So you guys' minds are blown right now. My minds are blown. David, we got to go with the craziest dish. We have the goat testicles. I think I'm holding two right here in this spoon. And we're supposed to eat it with the pav. We got the pav buns. They are topped with some goat intestines in curry with the goat testicles. Let's go in for it. I might get some Indian points for this. It just tastes like the beef ball in hot pot. The testicles, they don't taste like testicles. They just almost taste kind of like some type of kidney minus the iron. Best testicles I've ever had. All right. This next dish is their premier dish. It's a kind of fresh garlic clove lamb stew. The lamb is marinated for 30 hours. It takes five hours to cook this dish. Let's go in on it. I'm just going to try this big piece of garlic right here. This is Indian food I've never had before. And this is like authentic regional cuisine. This is a presentation I've never seen before, man. It's like, oh my lord. So this is a lamb rib and goat belly seek kebab. Goat belly. Oh yeah. I think a lot of people are used to eating pork belly. I like Korean barbecue. Goat belly. That's better. That was a really good kebab. It's very spicy, but very fragrant. Fried fish. That was the spiciest fried fish I've ever had in my life. Let me get some of this lamb rib real quick. Oh. Yo. Honestly, this is the softest lamb I've ever had. It's so good. It's so much flavor. This meat here is some of the best. It's the best Indian meat I've had. What? All right, you guys. Rounding it out here. We've got the pig brain ceviche salad. Almost, you know. Pig brain salad. Oh my goodness. Oh wow. Hey guys, pig meat cabeza. That was the best thing I've ever had. These tiny little pig brains are tasty. I must say, I do like some pig brains. All right, so my favorite thing here at Dhamaka was actually this pig brain ceviche. That was delicious. My favorite was the garlic and lamb stew. This is their premier dish. The garlic infused oil and sauce at the bottom is crazy. And for me, it was the goat belly. It's so much flavor and it's not too spicy. And the way the presentation was for it, that's unreal. It's cool to see people wanting to shift the idea of Indian food. It's just like you take it out for $10 and, you know, you kind of just eat it really quickly and don't think about it. Like the fact that he's so passionate about the flavors and about trying new things is super cool. And like, I think that's over time what you want to see happen to Indian culture in general. Yo, you guys, this was so dope because actually all the spots that we went to today, I'd never been to it. My whole mind opened up. I think seeing the range of Indian food from the cheap Indian street food cart to the grocery store deli to this new age regional cuisine. It was like, that's just a lot of expansion that my taste buds and mind had to do. So I thought that was very, very cool. And I hope that everybody else out there watching took something away from it. There's always something about every culture that you don't know. Yeah. You know, and like, there's always something that somebody else can teach you. And today it's this, tomorrow it's something else. And it's like, that's what traveling across this whole diaspora is going to do. Yo, you guys, thank you so much for watching this episode of Fun Bros Food. This was our India Food Crawl through Manhattan part two. Huge shout out to our guests, Jaz, Vivek, man, I appreciate you guys. Find their Instagrams and social media down below. It is so dope to have your mind open in this way. It's fun, it's accessible. I recommend that everybody do it, especially in this time where obviously travel is scant. Everybody, thank you so much for watching this video. In the comments down below, let us know what you thought about the food and let us know if there's another regional cuisine that you want us to check out around New York City. A portion of the proceeds of this video are definitely going to go to the Indian COVID relief funds. And also another portion is going to go to the farmer's protest because without the farmer, the country has nothing. Yo, guys, thanks again. Shout out to Dhamaka. Shout out to NY Dosa. Shout out to Punjab Grocery in Delhi. And until next time, we out. Peace. Everybody's a tough guy until it comes to the testicles. Yo, guys, I got to take a thumbs after this for sure.