BEST Cheap Eats In New York's Chinatown Vol. 22

So pretty. I think this is the best bum in Chinatown right now. So good. I love this place. Egg salad sando. It's a good dog. That potato bun. Super soft. Yo, Steph, you got to try your strawberry. What? What is this? I love noodle soups. What kind of deal is this? Seriously, $13 for an all you can eat noodle. This lady is full blue and Paris Baguette is also blue. Okay, Chinatown cheap eats part 22. And this series might just never end because Chinese people never end. I mean, they never stop working. That goes for me, too. Anyways, if they open up shops, I'm going. So, let's explore a viral Japanese press octopus cracker, the best one ton noodles, possibly the best bunme in the city, and a whole new looking grand street. Come join me and my intern Stephanie as we go eat through the city. Hit that like button and notification bell. Let's go. Welcome everybody to Cheap Chinatown East part 22. As you know, we have eaten at pretty much every single spot in Chinatown and there's always new ones popping up. So, our first spot is Senbe NYC. It's bringing a famous Sukiji Market street food to New York City. Let's check it out. It's something that you haven't seen before. All right, everybody. I'm here with the owner, Jod, in the background. She's making our first sendby. And I'm here with my friend Taiwan Steph. Say hi. Hi. All right. Well, you're going to be joining uh me on some of these food adventures. So, let's just see what's new in Chinatown. So, Jod is about to pour the batter in. And added the add the seafood. So, what is the se what does the press do? How does it make the seafood taste different? Well, the press basically was uh cook the seafood really fast and then make the batter into like really crispy cracker. Um the deep wood at the end is still uh we we were not able to change the nature. So it would taste like a bit chewy like a jerky. Thank you. Break it. It's so fragile. So pretty. It looks like a piece of art like or like fossils or something. It looks like too pretty to eat. You got you got to get to the middle of the cake. I'm scared. I'm ruining art. Oh my gosh, it's Oh my god, that's delicious. Okay, I got to try that off with this. That tastes really good. Step, I don't know, Steph, you can figure it out. It's so messy. But let's get into it, guys. Uh, this is a freshly pressed cracker. All right. M. Oh, that shrimp. I mean, that's a whole shrimp that's pressed, fossilized, jerkyized. Getting the octopus. M. That has a lot of seafood flavor. And I got it brushed with a lot of the the tare sauce. And it's a little bit like a slightly spicy like teriyak. Listen, this is jam-packed with flavor. It is $25, so maybe it's not like quite a lunch, but it's definitely a really cool snack. And there is nothing like this in Chinatown. Plus, you know me, if you've seen my videos, I like to eat shrimp whole, sell it everything. And they also actually have this jam-packed seafood chowder for $10, which I actually think is a pretty good deal because this is all fresh seafood and then you can also eat it with your cracker. Ooh, bye guys. seafood like you've never had before right here in Chinatown. Senbe, New York. And of course, I got to try my sbe with my smala sauce. Just put a little bit here. M. How's that kick? Just a little bit. Oh man. Potatoes, shrimp, octopus, all made in house. They also have these really good uh matcha lattes. Uh this is a strawberry matcha latte. Strawberry jam is made in-house with brown sugar. Everything's very high quality. This is the ube matcha latte. I'm going to try both of them right now. M. Wow. You can really taste that. This doesn't taste like anything else I've tried. Delicious. Next up on Cheap Chinatown Eats, or should I say Chinatown sleeps. It's important that I get a good night of sleep and the only way I'm getting it is because of plank mattress. 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So, it is a perfect opportunity to get a new mattress right now. I just want to fall asleep right now just doing this video. Back to the video. All right. Next up, we got Bunme, their second location. Now, this group has been making their name in Chinatown. They started on Elizabeth Street as a stall like this and then they started the sitown restaurant over there called Kitchen Co. and now on Eldridge and Grand Street, they have a brand new bum stall and I got to check it out. Got to see the quality. Is it the same? What are the prices? Let's go. All right. So, one thing that's really cool about this new location is that they're focusing on making the Vietnamese baguette. There is a slight difference between the Viet and the French baguette. And at the original store, they're serving the French one, but now with these new machines, you've seen this in the Vietnamese uh street food uh videos. You've seen this. This is where they make the Viet Baguette. So, I'm excited to try the authentic Viet Baguette. Crispy on the outside, airy on the inside. Crispy on the outside, airy on the inside. Bunme kahoot. Bringing the authenticity. I love that I'm getting a chicken bunme with pate mayo. Oh, that's so much. Oh, look how yellow that mayo is. Look how yellow it is. That's not Helman's. That's not best food. Oh, what was that? That's a special sauce. Special sauce. Oh my god. [Music] Wow. Oh my gosh. That looks like too much. Oh my goodness. Is this just like how they make it in Vietnam? I got spring rolls and a bunme for $14. Bunme is $8. Totally worth it. All right, everybody. Here it is. The chicken bunme with pate, mayo, and a Vietnamese baguette. Look at that. M. That was so refreshing cuz I got a lot of the veggies in there. A lot of the diconic carrots. M. You see that little mayo piecing out? No. This is hell good. I do like it better than the even original or the one day we had before. I like this. See how it squeezes down? And once it got compressed, it stayed compressed. And I'm not really squeezing it. I'm just biting into it. I think no matter what flavor you order here, I think you should get pate in it. Pate with the chicken. Oh my god. I think this is the best bum in Chinatown right now. It's the best bum. $8. Bum koot on Eldridge. They're all serving the Viet Baguette now. It's so good. All right. For $6, you can get these summer rolls. How do you say the summer roll in Vietnamese? Goonun. For $6. Very. All right. For $6, you can get these summer rolls. Goonun. For $6. Smells so good. Wow. That's so good. M. Wait. I love this bread. It doesn't cut my mouth. It's soft but still crispy. It's not cutting my mouth. Usually like breads like and bun me like cut my mouth and it's really hard to get all the ingredients in it. But you're right. It's the the pickled vegetables are so refreshing. This is delicious. Oh my gosh, guys. There's sugar cane on Grand Street. I want And then what? You know how to make juice out of it? I mean, let's just buy it. Whoa, it's so big. It's taller than me. All right, we're at Maxis Noodle 3. It's widely known for the best wontons in New York City. Originally from Flushing, they just opened their first location in the city. Let's go. Yo, as you can see, Maxis 3 is packed right now. This is like the third day that it's been opened. I had it a couple years ago in Flushing, and it really is some of the best one tons I've ever had in my entire life. The way they make it, they have their own skin. They make it super big and uh it's actually based off of a family friends recipe over in Toronto. So, the story is really cool. It's like a ode to her mom and everything and the dad's out here. He's super funny. So, shout out to everybody in the whole team. It's just good vibes. I'm just going to show you the snacks real quick. Here they have the curry fish ball, the kaludan. Put a little bit of that uh maxi signature lachu like chili oil in it. That's really good. Yeah, the fried oneonton. Are fried one tons very traditional? Is it kind of like an American kind of like guo thing that kind of got so popular that now even Chinese spots are serving? I don't know the history. You let me know. M. It's good already. All right. Here we have one of their most popular dishes. It's alamon. Um, this is beef brisket with some tendon. We have the wanttons with the shrimp and the little bit of pork and then the dumpling which has wood ear mushrooms, bamboo shoots and pork and egg noodle. Let's try it. M. So good. [Music] All right. So, here we have the hall fun with the dace fish ball. Now, as you can see, these fish bowls are gigantic, and dace is actually a very popular fish in China. Um, everybody's had the fried dish snack that comes out of that can that's probably not super healthy for you, but I ate that a lot growing up. And d is actually considered high in protein and low in fat, so it works. Good source of protein here. I got it with the rice noodles like the whole fun cuz I wanted to try it. Now, I know that Maxis's got their own chili oil. I got to put a little bit of my own. M. Oh, the whole point is perfect. So, M. A lot of flavor in that fish ball. I love the amount of scallions that they got in there. Look, it almost just look like it's a it's a scallion fish ball. What's it like? I have the galugan right here. I'll pour some of that delicious sauce on this. Yo, Maxi, I'm telling you, I created a new dish here. Quality is so good here at Maxis. They measure everything out to the ounce to the to the smallest number possible to make sure everything is consistent between all three stores. So, all right, I'm going to try the fishkins here. This is another snack they have. Usually, I wouldn't really just buy fishkins, but hey, they hooked it up. We'll dip it in sauce in the broth. I just might crack that up into my noodles. Mes noodle. Every bowl of noodle with three toppings is only about $13. 13 like 40 if you use your credit card. Obviously, there's a credit card fee, which I think is hilarious that they put it on the menu. There's two numbers on the menu. The regular number with cash, and then the CC listing price. So, at least they keep it clear and transparent with you. My favorite part is how thin the skin is. It's really translucent, very high quality. Um, if you can't see what's in it, I don't want to eat it. M honestly the shrimp one ton was really good but after I had that bite I think this one wins. All right so when it comes to the debate between the one tons here or the dumped wing here at Maxis I'm going to roll with the dumpling only because it has like more flavor and stuff like that. I think when you eat into this big one shrimp one ton, it kind of it does taste really good, but it also kind of reminds you a lot of like a hackow dim sum, which is good in one of the top dim sum dishes, but it's very familiar. So, I think the dumpling offers just a more depth of flavor being that it has a little bit more onion, it has bamboo, it has woodier mushrooms, and it has like a little bit more of a pork and shrimp mixture. Maybe it's more like, I don't know, 50/50 in that sense. while this uh shrimp one ton is primarily shrimp. So, I think it's just that the dumpling is just uh I guess offers something a little bit more different. But anyways guys, Maxis, it's going to be a stable here in Chinatown. It's going to do well. I'm going to be back here again. It is definitely a cheap Chinatown eating. Mhm. Guys, I just came out of Max East and I realized something. You know, a lot of these chains from Flushing that are proven in Flushing are coming to Manhattan's Chinatown. This has been happening for probably the past several years now. And I think it's going to happen more and more because the chains in Flushing, when you open up something in Flushing, it doesn't have to directly cater to as much of a Western crowd. So then it's kind of like I feel like it fits the Chinese taste buds almost like 10 out of 10. versus sometimes if you open up in Manhattan's Chinatown at first you kind of have to immediately cater to kind of the western gays or the western taste buds, you know, because there's a lot of tourism here. So anyways, I do think that there's that's one observation I had uh about Flushing stuff coming to Chinatown. But either way, Maxis adds something. But I'll tell you this, there's brand new spots popping up. Noodle Village, there's all these different chains right here. There's Tessle Mini, there's that Hong Kong uh drink chain that just opened up. There's Leomo. There's all these new spots in chinatown is not going away, okay? It's just changing. Our next stop is located on the outskirts of Chinatown on Grandon Essex. It's a new snack shop called Chinatown Snacks and it's founded by Eddie Chan of Chinatown Social, the clothing company. Let's go. Hey, what up? How you doing? Good to see you. What's good, Steph? How you doing, Rook? Great. Tell me about your store and what you got. Hey, welcome to Chinatown Snacks. We're Chinatown Louis Sai's newest bubble tea shop and we do serve a lot of snack foods. A lot of snack foods that we do have is the stuff that we grew up loving and liking. Uh this is Chow Town rice noodles uh with fish balls. We have a mama mama Chan's favorite special sauce. Want to take a look. Mama Chan, hi. How are you doing? Thank you for coming. Also, the next one we have is our hot dogs. We serve 100% beef hot dogs with my best friend's next door pickle guys condiments on it. The fresh homemade sauerkraut, hot dog relish, and some of the bread and butter pickles. My next thing is the egg salad. We homemade for me. Iire inspired by my trip from Japan. This is really good. I also use pickle condiments on all my stuff. There's the pickle pickle red onions and the pickle bread pickles. Oh my god. Yeah, for sure. And we do have basubis, our rice balls. We're very famous for that. We have uh our spicy tuna. We also have a spam egg matubi and a kimchi fire rice. This is we're trying to do. We're trying to do something for the hood. I'm born and raised here and uh we're trying to, you know, do something for our community. What do you like about I am from Hawaii? So I grew up eating stuff from Hawaii. Really? Oh, I didn't know that. Making me so happy. Try that right now. Try that. Let me know how. So what we do is we use actually use sushi rice and we use for for the rocket in our rice. Well, a lot of people in Chtown, they don't do that, right? So we're trying to do something cool. Oh, thank you so much. Take a bite of that. Okay, here we go. Oh my god. Is it good? It tastes like home. Oh my god. You miss home, right? Got you. Yo, this is so good. Thank you for pulling up. Yo, I love it. You're from Hawaii. So, that's the that's the ultimate ultimate uh love right there. Yeah. If you're from Hawaii, say it's good as a wrap. Yeah. So, I'm super excited cuz this famusubi has food in it, too. They do it right here. That's how I like it. Anyway, so I'm used to like just the basic spam sumi, but this one in Chinatown snacks, they have the sushi rice with their Chinatown snacks secret sauce, fury kake, spam and egg, and then of course the nori or seaweed on top wrapped around. So good. It brings me home. All right, they got their darn chung. So good. Looks so saucy with their mama chan sauce. Looks delicious. Let's try it. I'm going to try this first. Lots of sesame seeds. M. Wow. So flavorful. That's delicious. It's so soft. Have you spent time in Hong Kong? Does it taste like Hong Kong? I've only had jalan in Hong Kong. So, but this is delicious with the sesame seeds and the sauce, the hoyen sauce. Let me try this chung. M. I love this texture. It's so chewy but like soft at the same time. So good. I love this place. All right, everybody. You got to try the chung bun here with a little smala to spice it up. But I love that they're serving this snack because this is really like a Chinatown, Hong Kong, Cantonese snack right here. M, bouncy, sweet. That sauce mixture, I just want to dip other stuff in that. The thing about Chinatown snacks is that it's not just serving Asian snacks. It also serves hot dogs. And luckily they're getting the pickle and the sauerkraut straight from next door and all the relish which from the pickled guys who is super famous. So check that out. See the little dog right there sticking out. M nice little snap to that. It's a good dog. That potato bun super soft. You got a hot dog. Get chunk bun. I think this the only place that does it. For $8 you have a Japanese style egg sando. Now, this is their version. So, they use Qi mayo. They use a blend of spices. They put it on the potato bun and they put some of these purple pickled onions on top with some of the sweet pickles. Egg salad sando. Yeah. Get your protein in. It's like between the spamubi, the egg salad sandwich. It really is a lot of the snacks from your childhood that you love, but just done a little bit differently. I love eggs. And plus, eggs are expensive right now. So, this for $8 is actually really worth it. All right. Here we have the Korean fried rice on a giri. Guys, look at their onager. Look at how they're wrapped. This one's going to run you almost $4. A little bit more premium for on aniri, but let's see the flavor cuz it's all about the flavor. Okay. Tasty. Nice little rice ball. I taste the kimchi. Just a little bit of small on top. Is it bad? It's staying together. That's a lot of flavor. Here we have the spicy tuna oni. Lot of flavor. See some of those pepper p uh pickled peppers in there. And I like how the tuna is all throughout the oniri. It's not just in the middle. All right. So, for this large passion fruit green tea, this is $7. And I actually really like how it looks. I thought there's a lot of different layers to this. A lot of different colors of orange here. Let me sip that first. Ooh, I love fruit tea. I actually prefer fruit tea over milk tea. Controversial opinion. That's just me. Not saying you have to live your life that way. Yo, Steph, you got to try your strawberry green tea, though. Oh my god. Salad sandwich. It's like Japan. I feel like I'm like traveling the world right now. This is like tomago sando. It's so good. Bread is really fluffy. The egg salad isn't very salty, which I like. All right. This is 100% beef dog with pickles from and sauerkraut from the pickle guys. Wow, that's really good. Why is everything so good here? Like you said, it has a snap, but then it's still juicy and those the pickles on top. Chinatown special dog. So good. So, the next item I have is something that a lot of people are not going to focus on. It's a tuna salad sandwich. I know what you're thinking. Maybe you're not a big fan of tuna tuna salad, but let me tell you this. I am. I always get it at Subway. And this has pickled hot peppers and sweet peppers in it. So, look at that color. This is unlike any other tuna sandwich you've seen before. And it's in Chinatown. Chinatown snacks. Chicken of the sea. Oh, wow. I don't know what it is about tuna sandwiches that I love. And I don't know what about it is so polarizing to people. Maybe it's canned fish. Especially with these sweet peppers and hot peppers. Oh my gosh, look at that. Made with Qi mayo, too. Uh, yes it is. Oh, don't tell me my secret. Never, never, never. This is a good tuna sandwich. Very good snack. I like it. Little bit of American snacks, a little bit of Pan Asian snacks. Chinatown snacks. Also to come here and get these cool shirts. Look at these. Chinatown social, baby. Chinatown social. Look at these. I wear these shirts. Yeah, I wear some of these shirts. High quality Grand Street in Essics. Okay, this is a strawberry green tea with fruit cocktail and strawberry popping boba. Let's go. Ooh, this is good. There's not as much. What kind of green cheese is this? One's not jasmine. That one is, right? The passion. They're both jasmine. This one doesn't taste as jasminey. This one doesn't taste as jasminey as the passion fruit one. But so it's good for people who don't like that jasmine taste. But I like jasmine and that one. Passion fruit one was really good. The jasmine taste. Jasmine taste is like very like this floral similar to like how crosanthemum tea has that like flour taste but each flower tastes different. There's so many textures in here. We got the chewy jelly and then the popping boba kind of like ikura like salmon row but sweet. So yummy. We have peach black milk tea. Peach black milk tea. Try this. Wow, that's so good. What? What is this? There's luchi or litechi jellies and mango jelly. It pops in your mouth. It's like a burst of sweet liquid and then this milk tea is so good. What kind of milk is this? It's a regular black tea. Yeah, that's what we trying to do. We did special. Is this like Earl Grey? Yes, it is. This Earl Gray Earl Grey black tea. Wow, I know my tea. I didn't know that. Yeah, putting fruit in the black tea, it is a little different. It's cool, right? This is the most unique drink I've had here. This is the most unique one. Earl Gray peach tea with fruit at the bottom. Not the usual boba pearls, not the cassava root, dark ones. We're talking about this is like fruity, but milky. So, I I kind of like it. It's kind of interesting. This is actually more of my speed because I like fruit teas more than like honey boba and brown sugar boba. I'm actually not really into it. This is the drink. My other favorite thing here I had was the egg salad sandwich. I think the tula tuna salad sandwich is solid and the charg fun rice rolls are impeccable. So come to Chinatown snacks granon essics. All right everybody, our next spot on cheap Chinatown eats is Faulk Noodle Express. It's the express version of Faulk Noodle that's on Catherine Street that took over E- Noodle. But anyways, guys, they got $5 salmon dumplings. I got to try it because this is a cheap eat on M Street. Let's go. All right, everybody. We have Faulk Noodle. I got Steph here. Yeah, I know I'm Chinese, but Faulk Noodle. That's kind of a funny name. Anyways, um I I think it's just a name. It doesn't necessarily mean anything in particular, but here. Everything we got was less than $25. Here you got these sauced up Gal Udon, aka curry fish balls, which I like because they're not perfectly round, so it kind of gives me that more handmade vibe. I don't know if it is. And then here we have these fried chicken curry boughs. Gala bao, I believe. And oh, they're little like little mini bites. That's kind of cool. So, they just threw those in the fryer. And then you have these salmon dumplings, which I've never had before. Salmon dumplings for $5. Oh, what? You getting salmon in Chinatown for $5. Where else? And then of course, we got Taiwanese beef noodle soup at Steph. You're Taiwanese. You're typ casting me. Okay. Well, I mean, you should in theory have the best radar for this type of thing. Yeah, it's in my blood, I guess. Okay. So, let's take a look at this beef. What do we got here? It looks good though. No, it looks very You got the beef shank right here. A lot of nice little tendon in between. So, go ahead. Pour it on. Kaiwana. Okay. Little spilling. Sorry. Messy. Okay. Ooh. Yum. All right. So, this was 1050. All right. This is [Music] noodle. That's good. That's so good. This uh salmon dumpling cuz I'm interested. So, one. It was a little bit better than I thought. Spicy. I'm not going to lie, I didn't know what to expect from salmon dumplings for $5, but uh I've seen Steph eat noodle a couple times and she tries to create a smaller tiny bowl out of her spoon from the bigger bowl. See? Perfect bite right here. That's pretty good. All right, here's the curry bow. M. Wow. Very pranking curry. I got the little curry sauce. I might dip a little a little extra. Baby m curry flavorful. Honestly, listen, they're taking the recipes from their uh other bigger store and still incorporating them here at the express concept. That curry is good. That's good curry, man. Yeah, fish balls taste good, too. Okay, ready for meat test? Meat test. That's tender. That's tender, guys. Faulk noodle. It might be a new Chinatown gem because like they're serving some stuff that you just haven't had before. I mean, I think the seating arrangement, obviously, there's not a lot of seating space, so it might be more of a to-go spot for you guys. But I say check it out, man. on M Street. Croth was that broth was impressive. Editor's note. This is B-roll. Close-up B-roll. Guys, I'm not saying that this has the space of a fur shop, but if you are looking for a beef noodle soup, 1050 is not bad. They give you a decent amount of beef, man. You know, I love my fur. I can eat fur all the time. But this one, I got to say, I got to give it my stamp of of approval for 1050. Very impressive. Hey, there's still new cheap eats in Chinatown, and they are cheap indeed. Listen, like I said, I like this beef noodle soup, but where' the leafy part of the bok choy go? Maybe that's why it's 1050, cuz they took the leafy part and used it for something else. But anyways, at least they give you the stem. All right, so newly arrived to M Street, but not newly arrived to Chinatown. We got the Malaysian beef jerky spot. If you guys have not tried this, it is unlike any other beef jerky you're going to get. They're grilling it fresh, you know? They're like smoking it right here. So, they were on Elizabeth Street, but now they're located on 59 M right here in the mix of things. Look at it. You got auntie just flipping those flipping those burgers. They're not burgers, but you know what I mean. Like cork. Which one are you looking at? Spicy chicken or or beef? All right. Because you know what it is. I feel like in Chinese cultures like beef is not always like the main meat. You know, usually it's pork, but I you know, it is a Malaysian beef jerky spot. So, we got to get cafe by the way. Great cafe. You still have the leftover just All right. Here is say it in Cantonese manner. Try it. This is okay. And then I hear I got the good. Want to try it? You can handle it then. In a way, the chicken still there's less meat, but it's a little bit like more wetter, like juicier. But this is the OG one. So, Malaysian beef jerky spot on Mod Street. Just moved here. The ladies are funny. Shaming me and my family for my Chinese level. Oh, good. It's the new year. All right, we are outside of the everchanging, ever evolving M Street Eyer. You know, they got some new stalls. They got a Shian spot. They got a Japanese spot, uh, and some other spots. So, let's check it out, guys. Right now, I'm ordering a hot oil noodle here at Authentic Shiion Flavors. The Laoan, the boss, I think he's from Shian, so it's authentic. All right, so we got our Bang Bang noodles. This does not have meat, but it was only $11. For a couple dollars more, we could have got meat, but we got meat at the other spot. It's all good. Lot of flavor. Anyways, guys, uh we're here on the stage here at M Street Eater. I've never eaten here. Obviously, this place is a work in progress, but I will tell you this, it has its crowd and it's packed. Byang noodles, I would say, usually have like some meat in it. I think this has a little bit of egg, but no actual like pieces of meat, but they got all the flavor. Look at that. Do you like noodles this wide? Uh, yes. I love wide noodles. By the noodles, $11 at authentic Shian at M Street Eater. Yeah, I like it. Actually tastes super like Italian. So, I think it's really interesting. I have this theory. Obviously, not only do Chinese foods and Italian foods visually look very similar, although they taste very differently, the western Chinese like from Shian that has a little bit more of the Middle Eastern influence does taste closer to something that you would get obviously from the Middle East or possibly some parts of, I don't know, Greece, Italy, you know, things like that or like, you know, North Africa, like some of those flavors are all tied into there. So that's why he kind of Anyways, if you guys have not seen my videos comparing Chinese and Italian food, check them on my Instagram. I'll pop some of them up here. Well, I can eat really spicy, so this is like not hot, but it's very flavorful. I don't like when things are spicy and there's no flavor. This is like honestly really balanced. A lot of good pepper here. Let's be honest, a man who is trained took his time and handstretched and handpulled these noodles for us for $11. All right, guys. Here we have a very elusive and rare to find beggar's chicken. Let me real quick tell you the story about beggar's chicken. The story goes this there's this beggar, this very poor guy in the Jang Soo region and he steals a chicken and then he like doesn't know how else to cook it. So he wraps it in a lotus leaf, hacks it with mud and clay and then bakes it and then it turns out to be super moist, juicy, and flavorful. And so that's the story behind the beggar's chicken. Yo. Oh, Chinese tamalei. Yeah, they look a lot like enchiladas. This is not a traditional Chinese beef roll like the neuro denging which is like usually in like the scallion pancake. This is some fusion stuff. Definitely an Americanized dish. This is got so much garlic here. If you can zoom in on that. Look at that garlic oil dripping. All right, you go in on that. I'm going to go in on the beggar's chicken. Oh yeah, they give us a soup on the side which I believe is a chicken soup with plenty of white pepper. All you say is haler. But I know you can actually speak Chinese. Like you speak way more Chinese. Just just talk host host in Chinese. Just let them know. Let them know you're Chinese. You are. You can speak it. You're like fluent. You're Taiwanese. You have to be fluent. No, you're not shy in English. You're shy in Chinese. See, this is the thing. This is the thing about a lot of ABC. See, my Chinese is bad and I'm not shy with it. And I'll go for it. But then a lot of people who can speak it better than me are shy with it. We could have this discussion. Maybe this is a podcast topic. We don't have to talk about it now in Chinatown Chief Eats, but it's it's it's a unfortunate uh dynamic that happens. Beggars chicken. I mean, so overall, it's really hot. It's moist. But I mean, like probably could have a little bit more flavor. Like I would like maybe a sauce if they have like some chang, you know, or some something like that, some t, you know, in Cantonese. So just something a little bit more saucy on this thing. But the pieces of chicken are big. And I think for $11 for this beggar's chicken or $12, you get uh quite a bit of protein. Whoa. Tons of garlic. I don't usually think there's that much garlic. Usually I feel like there's more garlic than there is red oil. More than like the Loa. All right. Freshly made beef rolls. Kind of has like a chipotle mayo or Sriracha mayo on the inside. Wow, I'm so curious. Yo, this tastes exactly like something you would get at like KFC in China. They have like these snack wraps. Yeah, they have these like kind of like Chinese fusion snack wraps in like a lot of the fast food chains in China. And I think this is what they base it off. Yeah, it overall tastes very like westernized. M Street Eyer. Stumble in here. Get a feel for a lot of the uh I would say elderly crowd. They like to chill here. But that also means that some of the food is really good. So go around, check out the stalls. It's very cheap. M Street Eyer always switching things up. I see new stalls popping up right now, so I'm excited for those. But come check out Mr. Eery. All right, I'm going to try dipping this chicken into this soup here. I know that's not usually how you eat like, you know, Hainan chicken or like Kunai, but maybe the beggar's chicken. Maybe it needs a little bit of this. All right, so correction because I want to get the facts straight. I thought at first I ordered yo, which is the oil noodles, which are vegetarian. They have no meat. But then he asked if we wanted bang noodles or the skinny noodles or the skinny noodles. But I got confused because I thought when he said bang noodles that he was referring to the dish bang bang noodles which I'm usually it usually does have meat. It has like tomato egg. It has like either pork and chicken and then something else that you mix together. That's what I in my mind is bang but he's just referring to the noodle itself to the noodle itself. So you can get yo poor man with bang bang noodles. And bang is referring to what? Um, it's like the sound the noodles make when they pull it and smack it. It's like rubber. Like a rubber band. It's a good analogy. Yeah, that's what it is. All right. Another spot that just opened up on Grand Street that actually took the place of my friend spot, Nori. Nori used to be here, but now it is a new Yun Chang Mishen, aka a rice noodle spot. It is Yunan rice noodle with unlimited noodle refills, guys. $13. The deal here is crazy. Um, but uh I do think it's the same people who did uh Yun Shang Rice Noodle over in Chinatown on Bayard Street. It's the same team. So, let's go in. They're open up late. All right, guys. So, this is a new location and they're trying to get it popping. Um, so they got a lot of crazy deals here. Look, if you repost or sha uh tag on Xiaoong Shu, WeChat, Tik Tok, um Google or Yelp or all these things, you will get something for free. So, that's cool. But I will tell you this, guys. $13 for Guaian crossing the bridge noodle. That's That is a crazy deal. That is a Chinatown cheapy right here on Grand Street. Grand Street and Forc. How do I even do this? Okay, just putting in all the ingredients one by one. I guess this is like pickled cabbage. Put some wood ear mushrooms. I feel like I'm cooking right now. This is fun. I'm like building my own noodle soup bowl in a cute cauldron pot. There goes the shrimp. [Music] [Music] tree. Green onion/callion cat. Okay, after I put in the noodles, I'm going to take out some to my bowl. Let's get some soups. I love noodle soups. This smells so good. Especially on a cold day. This is like This is comfort food. Okay, I got my first bite here. Has a little bit of everything. The noodles, the soup, the pork, and vegetables. Here we go. M. That hits the spot. It's hot. It's flavorful. It's spicy. It like warms my heart. [Music] Cool. All right, guys. Uh Steph's a little shy on camera. She She's She's working on it. Guys, I cannot believe this spot is open 24 hours right now. It is open 24 hours on Grand Street. That is unheard of. There are not a lot of spots open 24 hours, especially in Chinatown. I think this might be the only one. I don't really know who's at the 6:00 a.m. crowd, but I can tell you who should be here at the 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. crowd. M clean interiors, nice music, brand new spot. $13. That is a cheap eat. You can't even get a cocktail around here for under $16. And you can get a big bowl of hot noodles with meat and veggies for 13. Think about it. Do the math. And last thing, not to mention, what kind of deal is this? Seriously, $13 for an all you can eat noodle pen. [Music] Hang lang. All right, everybody. I got to say this block on Grand Street is changing a lot. And one of the reasons why you know that is is cuz of this juggernaut right here guys. I know there's a two lores over on division street but this is a Paris Baguette in prime grand street area and you have Haiti. Shout out to Burger by day and uh I Milky still here doing their thing. Paris Baguette. You guys know the name. It kind of comes out of nowhere and obviously isn't competing with these old school Chinatown bakeries. the Daong Hua Bakery and the Extra Krispies down there and the Belief Bakery and just so many bakeries here. Is it going to take away from those bakeries or is it just growing the pie? I don't know. But it is new in Chinatown and it is cheap. So, I got to check it out. Paris Baguette. Let's go. All right. So, as you can see right now, it's not super busy in here. I don't know why that is because I usually would think everybody loves Paris Baguette, but let's go check out some buns. Actually, Steph, why don't you pick out some buns? keep coming back every day for the same thing. This is This is your favorite bun. Yeah. How many times have you had it? Five. Five times. This blueberry one. Yeah. Oh, and she's got the blue jacket on, too. When When they first started, I tried this and I was addicted to the pineapple for a couple of days. And then I decided enough of that already. I'll try something that's become my favorite now. So, you're saying you're all about blue cuz you have the blue IKEA bag, the blue jacket, and the blueberry buds, maybe. This lady is full blue. And Paris baguette is also blue. Okay. Due to her recommendation, we got to get the blueberry one. Blueberry cream. Cream bio. Why that one? What What was about the positioning of that one? I don't know. It just looked really balanced. And um I don't know. Look, look at it. It's perfect. So, I probably won't get these cold sandwiches cuz for $10 because it's kind of it's kind of giving airport vibes and I'm not about that right now. Here you go. Okie dokie. Let's try the Paris baguette hot dog pastry. Just looking at it, the hot dog doesn't look as good as the Chinese one. And there's like a bunch of other stuff on it. First bite. Okay, right off the bat, the bread is not as soft. as the Chinese one. It's kind of dry, but the sausage is smoked, which is nice. I guess there's like too much going on. I think there's like cheese. Is that ketchup? All right, guys. These two buns together came out to about almost $10. It was $9.88 after tax. So, yeah, still a cheapy, but yeah, you could also get one of those sandwiches there for $10 as well. So, one thing I would say about this sausage bun is that the bun really isn't that soft. It almost feels like a hot dog bun regularly. How does that compare to the, you know, the Cantonese um Chungjai Bao? I must say I think the hot dog at most Chinese bakeries is better. But yeah, this has more toppings. Anyways, let's check out this blueberry one. This highly touted blueberry puff. Oh my gosh, this one might be crazy. Honestly, I think this is what you come to Paris Baguette for. The savory ones are okay, but the sweet ones. Oh my gosh. Oh my. [Music] I like this. Fluffy, not too sweet. She recommended it. Wow. Oh, I just got something in my eye. The cream here, it's not too heavy either, but there is a lot of cream. That's good. That's That's the winner here between these two. I mean, like I said, I think some of the sausage ones, they're cool, but come here for the sweet ones. Wow. All right. Next up on Chinatown Cheap Eats, we're also still on Grand Street. And I don't know, I think there's a Grand Street revitalization because we have Go Sushi right here, which is brand new, and then also this Bam Mart. Now, this this brand of mart is from Japan. I believe it's called Takino Mono Tagame, something like that. And this is a Japanese convenience store. It just opened up on Grand Street. I mean, Grand Street is going through a lot of changes. It's not all Chinese businesses, but I think a lot of them are Chinese R. So, anyways, let's go in this convenience store. I know Steph behind the camera, she's a big otaku, and she actually speaks some Japanese, so she might have to, you know, really help us dig into this spot. But, let's go. So, like Andrew said, I do speak a little bit of Japanese. I grew up in Hawaii, which is Japanese adjacent. I took some Japanese classes in college and I watched a lot of anime. I've been to Japan many times and in Hawaii we have so many stores like this like Nijia market, Doniote. But this is Japanese ice cream. There's so many Japanese snacks everywhere. Their fingers and of course the cute stuff. My favorite. And over here we have the the popular blind boxes, the Smekis and the Sunny Angels. These are so cute. I'm so excited. All right, these are some things that stood out to me. This is the Cali Chinese style spicy hot pot or Malahua flavored chips. I'm super excited to try this. We got the um steak flavor chips. And then this is the Hokkaido scallop ramen flavored baby star noodles. Um, NATO snacks. I grew up eating these. Can you read any of this? Yamitsuki barbecue. We're in the natto section. I love natto. Um, some of the ones that stood out to me are the tamagoy flavored natto and then this d flavored one. That sounds really interesting. It should I'm I'm It's giving me like sweets, maybe some sour flavor in that. Which one are you going to buy? I bought one. I got to I want to try this. Hey, uh I was just looking at the chili oil section here. Um of course they have the SMB. This is a popular one you can get. Uh this is Mamoya. I haven't seen this one. And I haven't seen Chef Troy's. Apparently this brand is from Torrance, California. So it's probably a Japanese American guy. Is that guy Japanese? Whatever. Doesn't maybe he's mixed. Um I'm curious about this dry one though. This garlic and sesame bites of fodkake. I might get this one just to see, you know, cuz I like to see different products out there. It's very inspiring. But who knows? Maybe one day. Anyways, okay guys, this is the cute section. Oh my gosh, my favorite section. I just like being around all these cute little fluffy things and Oh my gosh, the best. Okay, best cuz I'm Steph. All right, so my favorite. That's my impression of Steph, by the way. Oh my god. Eat your mouth in Chinese. That's how you say cat. What is this a thing? What? Musan. Musan. Was this Kirby? This is like the Japanese version of chill guy. That dog that's just like This is like the Japanese chill guy right here. Bamart. Grant Street. Man, Grant Street's cool because there's actually not a lot of Japanese stuff on Grant Street. So between Go Sushi and Bamart, these are the first, in my opinion, from what I understand, the first J real businesses on Grand Street. So see how it does. But it's got some cool stuff. So, in case you guys don't know, tonkotu or tonu in uh Chinese, it is the pig's bone, which is like what tonkotu broth is. It's like bone broth that's the bones that's been simmered for hours and that's how you get that twin. Y is bone. Another way to say pig. Yeah. But also, hi twin is like ocean pig, which is dolphin, which kind of makes sense. It's cuz it's cute and like chubby. Andrew, you have to open a blind box with me. It's a Smisky. They're glow-in-the-dark um little figures that are so popular and cute. I've never I've only bought them for my friends who are obsessed with them. But this So that's not necessarily the one you're going to get. No. So each series has a bunch of different ones. This is the moving series. So he's like moving different things. There's also what we call a chaser. It's like a very rare one that you don't even know what it looks like. Yay. So it looks like this. I like to seal it. Okay. Yeah, I know. I I know which one I got. Wait, no, I don't. I knew it. Oh my god, it's so cute. There's two of them moving a giant box. So, pick the toilet one. Oh my god. You got the one. You got the one that comes out of the toilet roll. Oh, I think I want to I want to put him here. All right. And let me tell you, if you are planning on coming to Banart and shoplifting, don't do it. Cuz they got facial recognition on these security videos, bro. This is like this is using that Chinese technology. Okay? So, do not come here and try to steal. Don't slip a little, you know, natto under your armpit and try to walk out. They will have your face scanning. His face, their face, that's the street scanning your face. This might be the most secure convenience store in New York City. All right, so also on Grand Street, right next to Bamart, is Go Sushi. This is a brand new sushi spot on Grand Street. Um, it is ran by Chinese as well, but they're not related. They just happen to be two Japanese concepts next to each other on Grand Street. What a coincidence. But I'm going to go in there. I'm going to try their lunch special cuz I got to try their sushi. Let's see this interior. Wow. Wow. Shut up. All right, we're in the back of Go Sushi. We're going to make some sushi with Darren Sufu. Yes. All right. Can you see your crap? Oh, some fresh. So fresh. Avocado. Yeah, this is avocado. Best avocado. And e efficient. This is the most efficient sushi here. Okay. Wow. Kobigo. Kobigo. Right. All right. Here at Go Sushi, they have a killer lunch special here. Three rolls for $18. And you can get all these different rolls. Uh they have a peanut avocado one, too, which I did not get, but you know, they have all these different options. They also have pretty big ramen bowls. So, you can get your Tory ramen, your tonkatu. So, anyways, I got three rolls. Here it is. They were made super fast. Here we have the blue crab. We have the spicy tuna crunch. And then you have the unagi avocado. Let's try this first. No extra soy sauce. No wasabi. Just by itself. Good. I taste the unagi. Nice roasted and sweet. Here we go. No soy sauce. M my question to you all out there, how much wasabi do you dippy when the soy sauce mixes with the avocado? Pink [ __ ] Small sauce. Pink. Nice little lemon in my water. A little palette cleanser. Sush is not bad. Three rolls for 18 for lunchtime right here on Grand Street. I don't know, man. This could be a new classic. You guys got to check it out. Ghost Sushi Steph, though, you got to try the sushi. I usually don't really like Unagi that much, but it's really good. Oh my god. I think they use crispy rice for the crunchy part. I think that's what it is. Look. Here we go. This is the snow crab and avocado and tobico. The little eggs on top. All right, everybody. Next up on Cheap Chinatown Eats. This is a spot that's been on Grand Street for almost 2 years now, but I've never walked inside. Is it a restaurant? Is it a wholesaler? It's Wong Sun Hing Lung. Is it related to the rice roll spot on Henry that's also called Sunhing lung? I'm gonna go find out. Let's check it out. Yes, this spot is a very hole in the wall. It is. I confirmed related to the spot on Henry Street. So, you know the term fun aka rice roll is going to be delicious here. I might have to buy some. Take a look at it. Okay, they got it in bags right here. They got them in rolls. Nice and fresh. Leo Sansina. Oh, look at that. They got meat inside. PA Henry Street. And the only thing we don't have is the the steam rice roll. Uhhuh. And then we uh all the stuff here we make over at Henry Street. So bring it over here like a retail shop right here. Right. Yeah. So this is basically another retail location for the Sunhing Long on Henry Street. Um and that's going to be more the the factory or central kitchen. Hot sauce. Yes. Yes. Hot sauce, please. What? We ordered. All right, everybody. For 375, I got the curry fish ball. Gal Utan. Um, it's definitely not going to be made super as fresh as the location on Henry, but I figured they're they're probably doing so much business. They were like, "Oh, let me sell the the whole fun like wholesale, you know what I mean?" So, they got them in the bags. Three bucks if you want to take it home. So, they're like a new supplier on Grand Street. But anyways, let me try this. It's actually kind of good. It's a little bit more like um bouncier and more together, a little bit more firmer, which I don't mind cuz sometimes when you get the chung fun, the rice rolls, they they get too gooey and too liquidy. So, actually, you know, this spot's not glamorous at all, but Wong Sun hanging lung over on Grand Street, right next to Haiti down there, I mean, in a pinch, it's not bad. Another spot I want to shout out to is Double Krispy Bakery. And I know that this has been here for a while. We filmed that here a long time ago, but I just want to say they got a new sign. And you know, I'm always down to see Chinatown spots, you know, renew themselves and put a little bit more time and effort into their signage and marketing because that was needed. This thing is glowing. You can't miss it now. All right, everybody. That concludes our Chinatown Cheap Heats volume 22. If you have watched to this point, you understand how many videos we've done and how many restaurants we've actually eaten at and how many restaurants keep opening in the Chinatown zone. I mean, it truly is amazing. And shout out to my intern Steph because, you know, she's joining me helping me eat all this food while David's gone. But, uh, let me know what you thought. Did Steph get better at, uh, explaining and presenting the food over the time? Hopefully, you could see the progression because she's just starting to get into this thing. But anyways guys, hit that like button. Check out her links down below. Check out all the links to the restaurants below. And until next time, I'm out.