 I just went straight black with my Vietnamese coffee. I've never done this before. So this might kill me. I don't know We took a quick trip back to LA and of course we had to eat at all the new restaurants that opened up in our favorite Asian food Haven the six to six. There's a brand new food hall started by Asian Americans. There's a new miniature Chinese skewer spot There's robot made Vietnamese food and there's also a restaurant that feels like a Chick-fil-A had a baby with a dim sum restaurant Only in the six to six hit that like button and let's go our next new concept in the six to six is the blossom market hall This is a brand new food hall in the Mission District of San Gabriel The blossom food market was inspired by the six to six night market Basically, no put here to have food hall food market 365 days out of the year So like there's always gonna be like new stuff here, but you know, it's not just Asian They got Jamaican. They got Mexican and you know, there's a lot of food is in the six to six because food halls are really only in metropolitan like Areas with lots of people and you know a lot of that culture people out here love food. Let's go eat some food But you guys we're in front of AK fresh roast coffee This is almost like taking Vietnamese coffee to like a more innovative level. I'm from Vietnam You know, we're more like the Southeast Asia, you know that we're from there So allow me to do the pond on I'm a huge coffee drinker. I love coffee She told me to drink the bottom first and then sip the top and then we'll mix the two. Oh Yeah, right time to mix it up pond on coffee There's actually a spot in New York that just opened called Le Fin And it is a Vietnamese coffee shop that also put pond on in their drink. I had a hot version here I have a cold version here. I like both Did you ever think you would see the via coffee mix for strawberry like that though? Never never. Yeah, you have to go up and down, bro It's like strawberry ice cream. I never thought there'd be jerk chicken in San Gabriel. I'm from Guyana Oh, what is a part of the West Indies, right? Awesome. What do you guys think you do best? I'm still still okay. It's the biggest seller and the party is the big parties you guys We are gonna be checking out the first Caribbean Caribbean West Indian Jamaican food you could find in the 626. Oh To your knowledge now. Have you ever seen Caribbean food in 626? Not in the 626. The only time I ever had it was in New York What do you guys know? This looks real deal Thank you everybody for clicking on that video and I want to give a shout out to today's sponsor new mobility It's a very very popular e-mobility brand that's popular around the world But now it's actually entering the American market They make some of the dopest moped style fully electric scooters. They even have e-bikes and kick standing scooters So they have multiple levels of the moped style electric scooter The top one is the end-class NQI and then the second one you would have is the M And the smallest model of the electric moped line that they have is the UQI and their security measures aren't pretty dope, too Yo, is someone stealing it? Check to see if you have a new store in the city near you Oh my goodness, that's beef. It's a lot bigger than Golden Crest guys Nelson, I don't think you've ever had a beef patty, right? No, I haven't I know first time having the Jamaican beef patty Dave's going into the oxtail nail going in on the Jamaican beef patty That's some of the best Caribbean oxtail I ever have not that I'm an expert on it But this is good. I really like how soft the shell is on the beef patty I think the meat is a little excessive. There's a lot, but it does taste very flavorful Mmm super tender Honestly, I think this is the best oxtail you can get anywhere near the 626 right now Hey, man, I'm not gonna lie to you guys I have not been eating a lot of Caribbean food grown up and I'm just really surprised that you know They brought it here to the 6 this is the best entryway for people to try Caribbean food in the 626 check it out I feel like here. I heard they have like some leachy cocktail beers I think so we wanted to bring something like this here because we don't have a lot of places like this like It's like the vibe here, you know, we're doing the local beers all of our wines are going to be small production So you can't find it in like Ralph's Trader Joe's or anything like that All right, this is gonna be the leachy blossom. It has leachy juice. It also has Japanese sake and some More like leachy flavoring. This is the standgap spritz. This is gonna be our yuzu cocktail Made with some yuzu sake. It's like high quality really clean This is gonna be these sake sunrise So this is made with a socket that's infused with tequila. So it's gonna kind of be a play on a tequila sunrise Alright our next new concept of the 626 is called bun bun bow dim sum express You know, everybody in the 626 is always trying to figure out a way how to bring the 626 flavors up to Pasadena We're up here in Colorado Boulevard. Now. What are you seeing right here? What are they doing with burgers and sandwiches man? So they're making the burgers out from the mantou right mantou bread and they got the white flour bun All right, this is the beef bao bao. I've never had it with the steam white bun. Let's see what it's all about All right here. I got the chicken bao bao got a little spicy sauce chicken tenders in the middle Theme bun was executed really well. It's really soft Taste wise. It's a little bland. I think they could add more sauce But the beef patty was good the pickles is actually really good as far as having the mantou buns as the bun of a burger I think more people should try it because it's really fluffy if you get the right one So I think it's a stay for now. I think it's a stay I think just need to add a little bit more flavor to give you more of a kick All right, so this is a fried pork bow. I'm about to break this open. Oh feel that crust Are you guys surprised that people didn't fry like humbows or char siu bao really good? I think people should have been fried. You know, I had a fried char l'humbao a long time ago in Shanghai once It was delicious. I don't know why people don't more it's weird because they fried the mantou But they don't fry the, you know, char siu bao, but here I have a steamed pizza bow. Mmm. Mmm. I just really like how soft and fluffy It's very easy to eat. Does it taste like a hot pocket at all? I think better man I think one thing more people should do is fry the bow. The outside is crispy the inside is still fluffy This is a salted egg yolk one. Of course. Oh my gosh Let's get it. Oh, that's a fried non-sauce bow. That could in bro I said that could in. I hear I'm going in on the you know the baked chicken breast rice The other variation is the white cream sauce and I personally like the white cream sauce My honest opinion on bun bun bao is that the product is actually pretty good But I think a lot of people are going to be turned off by the oddness of the menu and the mixture of like Anthony's dim sum and burgers and bows and stuff But honestly if you try it the fried bows and the chicken sandwich are very solid right across from chick filet So you got options chick filet is you're not so interesting option and this one is your interesting option All right, our next spot on our 626 crawl is actually this spot called taeho and they started in the oc You know in the vietnamese community, but now they moved up here I think with a new owner and a new look and they're just serving bun koon But they focus on pork ingredients rather than you know The Cantonese or chinese style where they have a bunch of different ingredients still really good guys This is all they do. It's just a bun koon. Let's check it out All right, everybody. We just got our food taeho is doing stuff differently than any other vietnamese restaurant I've ever seen they put stuff in these nice boxes. Look at this branding Okay, they give you this bag even though i'm eating here I just went straight black with my vietnamese coffee. I've never done this before so this might kill me I don't know man. They really making it like a fast food spot. Very interesting. Whoo Okay, take a look at the garlic noodles with the beef cubes, of course That's the classic, you know, filet mignon dish. This actually came out of a machine That was like a circular drum and now I've seen that technology a lot Supposed to replace like the wok and stir frying. So I don't know. I'm gonna taste it I'm gonna see how it is and then this is their classic house special bun koon Okay, you got the little fried shrimp and like taro cakes Yeah, the potato cakes with fried shrimp in it. That looks good. You have your greens your sprouts Obviously your fried onions bun koon, and then your Chalua chalua. I don't know how to say it, but it's you know, it's the sausage Wow, wow So what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna take a slice of this This is all going in Nice little dunk in the I like it how it overflow and it caught all the nook mom nook mom. So i'm not wasting it Traditional vietnamese food done in a fast food way man. This is crazy I really think it's cool how it started in the oc and oc having like the main vietnamese population in You know soak out it makes sense and then now it also makes sense For it to expand and go to other places like six two six Where obviously there is a lot of vietnamese and chinese vietnamese people and people just like vietnamese food out here in general Right off the bat the noodles have a super super high garlic taste to it, which is really good Very savory the beef cubes, you know not super chewy very tender very very tasty You know you got your veggies, you know make it seem kind of healthier But hey this garlic noodle with the onions super good So while this isn't the first time that i've seen a kind of a fast food version of vietnamese food This is the most modern presentation Something where you're putting it in a box you're kind of mean it to uh be for like the office crowd where like you would want a corporation to have like an In office lunch and have an order like 30 boxes of teho, you know, I would definitely come back And I think it's a great spot for lunch. I told you i'm not scared This is straight black vietnamese coffee. No condensed milk here. You got the lychee yogurt yogurt is very very popular nowadays Let me start with this Oh, that's pretty good straight black Whoo, straight black to the domey. All right you guys our next new six to six concept Is chow wei two now this is actually a tau doh restaurant Now I know that you have had some chewed out food before in the six to six Oh, yeah growing up. I had a lot of chewed out food, but it was mixed with the vietnamese version Or also, you know a chewed out mix with cambodian version, but I heard this is the Pure chewed out food like from chow joe. Yeah, this is actually from the tau doh region of guangdong Pop it up on a map guys There are so many chewed out people in six to six whether they're from tau doh from the diaspora Let's check it out. All right, you guys. We're at chow wei two got to keep it quiet in here Now what do you see that kind of reminds you of the chilled tau vietnamese food you've had and then what kind of just looks unique Oh, definitely, you know the noodle soups, you know very common This spot has less of that satayness, you know from the vietnam aspect of it This is the four fresh cut beef tau doh noodle with the uh hofen This is a very clear beefy broth It's almost like something you made at home But like with more cuts of beef than you normally would put in Like we said guys, this is a really popular style in shenzhen from shantou I think uh, the reason why it's very clean is that you can you know complement it with any of these sauces Right, right, right. Let's dip it in a little bit of these um into some of these satay sauces now What you going for? This is the garlic. This is the sacha and this is the chili So, you know, we're gonna have to go with the og sacha sauce. Oh the sauces here are crazy, bro Hold up. Hold up. You got some of these sacha sauces five out of five. All right, you guys We're looking at the tau doh fish cakes and a tau doh beef rib I noticed that I haven't seen that beef rib at the chill gel viet spots, but I've ever seen these fried one tons Oh, yeah Damn super tender Packs hella flavor Oil just dripping on it man. What type of flavor very savory Huh, it was good man as far as I know This is like one of the only ways in southern china to eat this because You have to go up to like inner mongolia to get the other type of you know, barbaric eating All right, last but not least now we got the oyster pancake Now there's actually some debate whether chill gel people uh came up with this or it was like a uh, Hoken like shaman fujian thing, but they are right next to each other So you guys some of these things they are too history tau doh omelette Little dip Not oyster pancake I think the biggest difference I noticed between the chill gel southeast asian food and the chill gel chill gel food Is the satay is on the side versus the satay being cooked into the broth I guess, you know, there's no right or wrong answer. I think it has the best both worlds I think the more canto, you know, chinese people will probably come to this spot more whereas the southeast asian canto Is will probably go to the chudel, you know slash viet slash cambodian So yeah, it goes to show you the diversity of just being chinese because when you want something cleaner You got to get the chow doh food, but then you want you want something just go Bamba like it's gotta get you gotta get the south asian man because the flavors be crazy We are at a famous sheng fu tang in sangebro But there is an anime public event today or jujutsu kaisen, you know jjk I know all about anime, you know what i'm saying? Yeah, they're my people Something missing archives, but it is a sneaker consignment store inside of sheng fu tang Which is pretty interesting, you know, you got boatwind sneakers all in one place to check it out What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a sneaker store right inside sheng fu tang? Right inside well the advantage is that people is like it's unexpected, right? It's like an added experience The disadvantage is like Because they're not expecting it They they don't really you know means like they're not here to like purchase or just kind of like look So the usual like um demographic for boba, you know, I mean it's like the cool kids, right? Um and then you know like even with the anime thing happening right now It's just like a huge like merge of like culture so Art you guys real quick. We had to try teddy's tacos. They're sort of like a second generation mexican american spot But they actually have a tacos chino Which is their asian inspired taco right here and they told me actually uh their saracha And then asian slaw, which is the sort of pickled asian fusion like korean purple cabbage that uh kogi made famous So you guys full circle kogi taco was like You know a korean chef cooking mexican tacos. Here's a mexican cooking asian inspired tacos Yo, that's pretty good guys. There's absolutely some gochujang saracha vibes I actually think that this uh tacos chino with the cheese baked them So it's almost like a queso taco definitely has legs because um if you look at for example The kogi taco was a little bit more on the asian side. This is a little bit more on the latino mexican side But both are a fusion and a fusion done well All right, you guys we are at ipo malaysian copy team. Uh, they are from ipo malaysia, which is nearby pinang The way they cook their soft boiled eggs for the kaya toast here is pretty interesting They drip this uh hot water Into another chamber and once the water disappears, uh, like a cafe sudah press Then the egg is ready. Um, this is kaya toast right here. Let's bust it open That's kaya jam big old piece of oh yo butter right here Mix it up mix it up All right, you guys we do an authentic kaya toast into 626 malaysian kaya toast straight from ipo That's good. I've never ever ever ever ever had anything like this before that's the best kaya toast I've ever had in america ever the jam the butter is very heavy in this because you know how big that butter was but hey, man I've never had anything like this. Honestly, it kills the kaya toast. I've had in new york guys. I'm a big fan of kaya toast I'm not even gonna dip it. I just lather it on there, baby Yeah, yeah, yeah psych psych. I do dip it might be a little too much butter The butter is crazy All right, you guys the food here at ipo is incredibly authentic You have a singaporean style hainan chicken hoi lem kaifan over here. You've got bakate This is a ju kuot pike what yeah pike what medicinal Tong with the goji berries mushrooms all types of spices and things in your life is and One doesn't mean David have you ever seen authentic bakate in the states? Have we ever seen authentic bakate? In america all right now The singaporean style hainan chicken does not typically come with bones unlike the malaysian style They tend to eat more roast chicken in malaysia as well. All right, here we go ipo hainan chicken Right off the bat. I totally taste the quality of the chicken. It's a lot more Chewier than you know, like the let's just say the other fusion hainanese, you know chicken, but I like it man very authentic three two one Oh my goodness. Here we go bakate last time we had bakate. We were in kuala lumbur. Yeah bakate This is bakate from ipo Very erby soup very erby like flavors. It's medicinal, but that's authentic Honestly, I didn't know what to think but once you take the bakate and you dip it in this sauce now Let me see. Let me see five out of five. That's a heavy statement. Let's see Oh Last but not least we have the wonton mee which is a wonton mee, but it's kale kai So uh curry wonton mee. So this is supposed to be together the noodles have a ton of soy sauce malaysian style sesame oil Um, I'll just try it All right, wonton Aren't you guys wrapping up our meal here at ipo? I've got a warm milo and you've got a thousand plus This is a malaysia only drink thousand or a hundred a hundred Oh, man, you go in a thousand. Yeah, honestly, I think this is one of the most authentic malaysian Uh chinese restaurants i've ever been to in my entire life I'm glad it's here in the 626. I think the 626 was being short changed by not having enough good singaporean malaysian food And ipo changes that I lived here for a very long time And this is by far the best malaysian spot Well, I win That's that's the boss that's the boss Now you know that the 626 always has some interesting concepts that you probably would struggle to find anywhere else Yeah We are at a corgi themed boba shop But that also serves soufflé pancakes that apparently jiggled like corgi butts way that thing jiggler man remind me some corgi boot Guys literally there are corgi butt ornaments, you know decorations, trinkets Everything here this moves like a corgi butt you guys. This is the creme brulee soufflé pancake Um previously you could only get this at japanese spots and then you could only get it at korean spots And now you can get it at uh taiwanese spots. So this is a soufflé pancake at cafe dur Right off the bat not not very sweet, you know creme brulee is usually super sweet Yeah, I would say guys that this is a good this is a little bit a little bit um fluffy cantonese like egg pastry Cakes and or the mom likes the wheel cakes the wheel cakes. No, not the not the wheel cake Not the wheel case. That's a taiwanese wheel cake angel food cake the angel food cake All right, this is this was pretty good though. Honestly guys come to cafe dur bring your corgi I saw people with dogs outside bring your date bring your dates bring your dates. I brought I brought a date After she saw this wig limit. I saw something else wait All right, everybody, you know, we just came from the blossom market But I got to show you what all hamburgers got. This is the jalabi Yes, the most famous filipino fast food chain in the entire world is now in a hamper right next to the la fitness Aka esporta over there So you go work out get your chicken or eat chicken and then work it all off. Let's go And by the way the jalabi's american headquarters is based in west covena. That's 626. That's just a few miles away Hey, look how busy it is here at this jalabi. That's how you know the area needed it All right, I got the chicken joy the new spicy. They put the little flag in there You got the pork rice jackfruit, uh cake and then you have your gravy, of course So i'm gonna go in on this david first of all no sauce But did you know that the jalabi group also bought out the world's famous michelin star dim sum team ho wan from hong kong Guys, so glad the jalabi's came to the 626 Do you want to see a jalabi's come to your city? You let us know and maybe jalabi's will see this video And maybe they'll think about opening up near you Artist working man, what is this father? What is this author? Bova shop owner of two locations. Uh, also new york times best seller All right. No, we got a bala macho here. That's guava nectar milk And matcha lactose free milk. Obviously, of course perfect perfect for me. Hey sesame. Hey is play on word with a black obviously black sesame Hey zima Uh, neonite. It's a milk lactose free milk all for you. That's a puree there Doesn't that look it looks like a ink blot chinese painting Yeah, dude, we have a new we actually yeah, the people that have been watching maybe they know that we're always here But we actually have a second location opening in suido's artesia like right on the border Uh, good. Yeah on south street Uh, it's an awesome like area a lot of foodie spots there a lot of great great, uh concepts and businesses But anyways opening up end of this month march. So we'll see you in artesia Our third anniversary was just like past week. We've been here for three years. So I feel like Um, just over the years people have understood us more They actually appreciate that what we what we do for the community here that we're actually like we're about it You know, we're not like just here for a quick grab man guava matcha. Here we go. Stir it up You see the layers Oh, that was very refreshing I love the guava the guava hits first and then afterwards the aftertaste you feel the You taste the matcha, you know, the boba is always great here at boho moho very soft very chewy All right, let me try this black sesame right quick Tastes just like tongyun you guys know the black sesame rice balls It tastes just like it. All right Our next spot is mellow mellow dessert if you are from the six to six You already know this is the most aesthetic kind of coconut jelly spot in the game It was started by a one joanese woman in america. This is the first location in san gabriel So shout out to the one joanese ladies out there. All right. This is it comes in this jar So you got a little bit of matcha powder on top. You got a little cream a little red bean on top It's jiggly. It is real jiggly. It's kind of really soft. I thought that was a little softer than I thought That is the most decadent creamiest red bean dessert I maybe I've ever had because you know red bean is a hit or miss I would highly recommend it everybody mellow mellow All right, you guys our next concept that is new to the six to six but not new to southern california Is irvine's very own all that shabu it is a korean-owned chain But as you could see really sort of like caters to the americanized population the fob chains from china Often open up enrolling or six to six like san gabriel first not that many no see right right But the asian americans are starting to like not necessarily go to like xiao long khan or da long yi Right, they're more coming to all that shabu. All right, you guys Uh, they do clearly have some things that they don't have in the chinese shabu, which is the baby octopuses Oh my god, this is very korean right here. Oh shoot you guys we got to get some of the dango This is very very japanese and korean right here. All right, you got I think got some of the uh korean barbecue sides right here Some of the panchans Okay, they got some kfc all right When we meet kfc we're talking about korean fried chicken of course These are korean japanese sauces. I'm just gonna get one full of sesame one full of perilla with cilantro That's very unique. Well, I think it's just cool to have this many like kind of asian american shabu spots in a six Um, I think it's definitely a cool option to have but personally for me I prefer both traditional shabu shabu and traditional chinese hot pot over this particular style Right, but how's the vibes? I mean they're blasting. No, no the vibes is here. I mean they got kpop booming I think this is more catered towards the younger crowd I think if you want to taste I do agree that you know might want to go with more chinese style It packs a lot more flavor in their soup bases and Here it's not a bad choice. You know, I feel like it's a little bland asian americans I feel like sometimes they I don't want to say fall victim but fall into that american mindset where the ambiance And the core matters more than food and it really just depends on what metrics you value and prioritize in your life Hey at the end of the day It's a good thing that you know We have that variety where that you you want to go fobby spot or do you want to go to an asian american spot You know, it's good that you know, it's more diverse that way All right, you guys we had to come back during a time where the line died down a little bit. Um No, they have a melona bar seasonal flavor at shing futong, which started in taiwan I I've been in taiwan I had shing futong in taiwan by far the best boba i've ever had in the entire world But for it to come to the 626 is crazy. Let's get the melona bar boba though shing futong rose with a shing futong rose with a shing futong rose I got their limited edition hollow ballo hollow purple hollow purple drink By the time you guys watch this video, you can't buy this drink anymore But i'll just let you know how it is pretty good. It's like a flavored soda This really has a very strong melona bar flavor They partnered directly with melona to make it happen. So this is not like a knockoff imitation guys. Don't be a loner Get melona. You know shing futong it came from taipei Then it landed in flushing then it came to rolling heights and then it went back to east village Even though the melona one's cool. I'm gonna stick with the og I actually like the hollow purple a lot Our next concept that is brand new to the 626 and I believe america is called little skewer Now remember there was a time where just having a new skewer spot was like a big deal Is it possible that the little skewers are better than the big skewers? I'll tell you this looks like party fobs that agree with that statement Find out we are at little skewer. The owner is from dongbae and I'll tell you this dongbae people. They know how To bring a very interesting fun party chinese vibe I had no idea that this place would look like this stepping in here, man Everything here is a tiny portion on a tiny skewer. That's pretty good. Aren't you guys? We are at little skewer a.k.a Xiaojiu Dian and we have ordered a bunch of xiao chua. This means that these are like micro skewers It's almost like the slider of burgers, but the skewers now what you're going for man For me, this looks the most whimsical one straight section of corn. That is crazy We're at the time to do that xiao chua I think the concept behind little chua and actually nobody told me this is It just feels like more fun for less money With the bigger skewers sometimes you got to like Give it half half like here's half for you half for me. This one no sharing needed How is you going to eat four skewers at the same time? Now I know you play pro ball in asia and you guys went to a liao name one time We did go to liao name. We ate a bunch of these man. This brings back a lot of good memories when I was out in asia You guys know about dongbae culture um It's mixed with a lot of like manchurian culture as well Which was like a nomadic group very similar to mongolians and I think that that's why you have such like hearty You know warrior food Like the chua's think about just going in the war in the middle of the night blizzard cold you start a fire Have some chua's man. Yeah, and just chill with your homies probably the rest of your like crazy soldier types I mean that's what people are doing right now drink beer and drink beer and just like hey Think it back in the day man if I'm just chopping up some boar and just hook it on the fire History repeats itself guys