 Oh my gosh, how do I navigate this thing, man? Woo! Bihun! This is even better than the last time I got this on Gailong Road. This is one of the best chicken sates I've ever had in New York City. Chili crab, are you ready for your examination? You see this? I'm using the head as a bowl. Hello, uncle. Okay, uncle, what do we got here? Mr. Fried Rice, uncle. Thank you. Good job, man. Thank you. Adi, uncle, hey! Adi, what's up with that? Chicken rice! Chicken rice, Adi! What started just as a dream of the late Anthony Bourdain has now become a reality. There's an authentic Singaporean hawker center in New York City. I'm talking about chicken rice, skate wings, chili crab, beef rendang, satay, Singaporean aunties and uncles cheffing it up. Now, does it feel like a hawker stall? Well, I'm gonna eat at every single spot and hopefully I'll find out. So hit that like button and let's go. All right, everybody. 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Hey, starting off, you know we gotta start at Hainan Jones for the iconic chicken rice. All right, here we got the steamed Hainan chicken. Woo. All right, you know the rice is gonna be flavorful. It's very juicy, very Singaporean style right here. Oh, that is super good, man. I gotta pour a little bit of hot sauce on there. All right, here I have the roasted chicken and rice. As you can see, man, this has the brown skin on top. That is the mark of a good roasted one. They make it good here. As you guys may have seen in other videos, I do love chicken and rice. It's one of my favorite dishes. I could eat this three, four times a week and this one, man, they made it to the tee. It is juicy, just like the Singaporean style and just to have an authentic version in New York, that's amazing. All right, our second spot, we're about to be trying the Hokkien Prawn Meat at Prawn Aholics. Listen, I gotta be honest. The Prawn Meat is a dish I've had in Singapore, but really only once or twice in my life. And this is a lot of pork and seafood, which those are two ingredients that usually aren't in the same dish. Yeah. High quality seafood, high quality pork belly. I'm excited. This is a very, very authentic Hockerstall dish, man. And it's very hard to find around America. If you guys have never been to Singapore, trust me, this is more of a deep cut dish and you guys gotta try it here when you come to Urban Hocker. Put a little bit of Singaporean hot sauce on there. All right, for our third spot, we gotta get the original Bihon, AKA rice noodle here at White Restaurant. Here I have some authentic seafood, Bihun. Bihun is actually Hokkien dialect for meat fun, which is rice noodles here. And guys, this is a very much a cafe style food in America, when you think of cafe food, you're thinking about avocado toast, but in Singapore, they take it to the next level. Seafood noodles, baby. Woo! Oh, that's an everyday noodle right there. Egg, rice noodle, nice, creamy, kind of starchy, milky, murky chicken broth. And if you wanna know how to say like hao chur or good eats or ho-sik in Hokkien, it's ho-tia. And for our fourth spot, we're about to be trying the authentic sambal stingray here at Mr. Fried Rice. That is Mr. Fried Rice right here. That's the main himself. Oh! The last Singapore stingray, yeah, some part of the queue, just like. Guys, the last time I had sambal stingray was at a hawker so I think it was an old airport way, maybe. This is the dish that everybody has been talking about. Mm! Yo, that sambal sauce is kicking, feeling all the spices. Mr. Fried Rice, uncle, thank you. Good job, man. Thank you. Woo! Authentic, delicious stingray in Manhattan. That's kind of crazy. Chili crab, are you ready for your examination? What you guys are looking at is an authentic chili crab from here at Urban Hawker, guys. Like they said, they got black pepper crab. They got white pepper crab. But this is the classical style that everybody goes to Gey Long Road just to get. I've did this several times in Singapore. I'm telling you, it never disappoints. I was super surprised to see this, Andrew. Are you surprised to see this? Yo, in a hawker stall just across the street where you can get satay, you can get chicken rice, you can get everything here. Guys, I'm gonna crack this open. Dave, I gotta give you some of this crab juice right here. Because I'm gonna use the crab head as a bowl. Put the rice in there. No, I'm telling you, Andrew, everybody here that works here is like straight from Singapore. And this is like something that's almost unbelievable. It's almost like a cultural food museum because you're gonna get an authentic Singaporean hawker stall experience in the middle of Manhattan. We're talking about, like, we're smack dab in the middle. Let's just say the top is 100, the bottom is zero, where we're at in the lower east side, we're at the fifties right now. I would say that this one is just a notch spicier than the last one we had in Singapore. That's why I do appreciate it, though. Oh, the flavor's picking. And we have the fried mantou. This is oftentimes a traditional thing. You'll eat with it. It is the fried white bun. Just gonna dip it in that. David, this is super hot. Look at that, sauce on the mantou. Let's go. This is even better than the last time I got this on Gailong Road. Yo, where is Ronnie Chang? Just come to Urban Hawker for this. If you just came here and got this in the chicken rice, that would be a fantastic A-tier start to your Singaporean hawker stall, like Cyclone Journey. You see this? I'm using the head as a bowl. That's what I do after I defeat my enemies. All right, guys, I think that Urban Hawker is an excellent place for lunch. If you're just a tourist or obviously if you work in Midtown, this is gonna be a great like dope little escape from your office into Singapore for 20, 30 minutes, an hour you get back into the office. But obviously for dinner time, Andrew, this is gonna be a great opportunity for friends to come check out all the things. You know, maybe you come with like seven people to each get two things. Now you're trying 14 things. What I love about hawker stall food is that it's never short on flavor, but oftentimes they can make the food light enough where you can eat it for lunch. It's not going to slow you down. Obviously chili crab is maybe more of a sit down dinner but man, it's just cool to have everything all in one place in New York City. All right, so for our sixth spot, I'm outside of Ashes Burn It and here I got the Roti John. This is a traditional kind of egg omelet on a roll. And then we also have like a brisket sandwich here. All right, so this single Roti John is actually a curry beef egg omelet. They're eating it around Singapore. I've actually seen this before on Instagram but I've never had it in real life. So this is like all of those Instagram videos come to life. That's what I love about this. Ooh, that is so good. That curry's coming through and it's egg and it's warm and it's soft and I love it. Here we got a really interesting item. This is the Rendang Beef Brisket Sandwich. Now, as you guys know, Singapore was like a British colony so it has a lot of like Western influence already there. So this is one of those Western influence items that is actually from Singapore though, sort of like a Hong Kong cafe type style of food or maybe like a Mosburger where it's like an Asian version of something American. And I love beef Rendang, so I'm excited. Authentic Rendang flavor. You know beef Rendang is one of my favorite dishes and with the better fries. Yo, something I never thought I'd have. All right, so our next spot is a Filipino restaurant. It's not necessarily a hawker stall but still Southeast Asian we're about to try the Crispy Pata. Yo, Chef Anton here is bringing the Crispy Pata. Did I order the Uber XL? This is the escalate of Crispy Pata's right here. Yo, this is crazy. Lock it in here side by side and with alongside the Singaporean of hawker vendors. Oh my gosh, how do I navigate this thing, man? Right here, this we have the Crispy Pata which is normally the front ham hawker of the pig. So this one guys guy is braising for four hours then we deep fry it for about 12 and no, not about exactly 11 minutes. All right, should I just do it with my hands? Here, off. You can do it with your hands too and you can do anything you want. Mm. You can hear that crispy skin on top. I might have to shatter it but guys, this is not really hawker stall food but it is restaurant food. And as you guys know, Filipino family parties are like a staple and they're so fun. So this is a party starter right here, man. As they would say in Tagalog, so set up. All right, I'm about to pour a little sauce here. Put it on the rice, make a little bite. All right, so here I got some authentic Nanya laksa with rice noodles and Nanya for those people who are not familiar, it's kind of like an ancient mixture between like Malay and Chinese people, right? Exactly. And what do we have here? These are my grandmother's no-yang meatballs we call them meatballs. What kind of meat is it? Means pork with water chestnut, shrimp, onions wrapped in bean curd skin. There's something crunchy inside of there. Water chestnut. Water chestnut, yeah. Hey guys, I might just also throw it in my laksa too. Anything particular about the laksa? So this is, we cooked it in shrimp broth and it's got light coconut cream, like a light curry, basically. You can see all that seasoning sticking to the noodle right there. Daisy is your mother? Daisy's my mother. Shout out to Daisy. Okay, our next spot is Smokin' Joe and they're actually serving what is called Western Hainanese food and it actually comes from the Hainanese immigrants moving to Singapore and seeing that there's no Western style food so them creating their own style so it's like an old school fusion, not a new school fusion of East and Western flavors. Let's check it out. What I really like about spots like this and food like this is that it really is a well thought out fusion and sometimes when people try to just throw dishes together that have never met before it can be kind of weird but here they've had a lot of time to perfect it so I like it. It kind of reminds me of like Hong Kong cafe style food. All right, so as you may know there are all different types of people in Singapore namely a lot of people of Chinese ancestry, Indian ancestry and Malay ancestry and this spot Mamak's Corner is serving Indian Singaporean food. Most of the Indian influence is from South India so I'm pretty excited to try it. All right, here's the lamb biryani just like it is in Singapore and South India. It's actually not as spicy as I thought but just as flavorful. Let me get some of these pickled. Yo, this is like this really just reminds you how much of a multicultural society Singapore is. Shout out to Lee Kuan Yew. Fresh off the grill. So this is a chicken satin with a plain hot sauce, rice cake and cucumber. All right guys, we're here at Paddy NYC. Is that how I say it? Paddy NYC. Paddy NYC, the Malay spot. Honestly, right now I just feel like I'm over at Newton Plaza in Singapore. Guys, I can tell. Look at the grill marks on this chicken satay man. You kind of need it to look like it's covered with stuff. That's how you know it's good. That was exactly what I was looking for. Oh my God. We can see all the spices on it that honestly do look like a little bit like hair. It's just spices and ginger, don't worry about it. But man, that's delicious and I love how the peanut sauce is chunky and dark and it's got these, I'm not gonna lie, I forgot the vegetable but this white one is very popular over there. This is one of the best chicken satay I've ever had in New York City. All right, we're here at Yum Yubu to take it out of Southeast Asia for a second and back up to East Asia. Here we have the Korean Yubus and this is obviously similar to the Japanese style, the fried tofu pockets, but they do it a little differently. So let me try this one. Yo, guys, the Korean version of this, I gotta say is really, really good and honestly, they're the ones popping up spots that are only serving this item. So it's gotta be good. Salmon Yubu with a little bit of wasabi on top. Great snack if you want something sweet and dense and rice-filled. All right, you guys, that does it for our very first crawl at Midtown's Urban Hocker Singaporean Hocker style experience. I'm telling you, I was blown away by the authenticity. I never expected something to be like this and then for them to bring in so many people from Singapore here to recreate that authentic flavor and experience, it was super dope. I highly recommend it. Yo, guys, given the quality, this spot is actually super, super affordable, also given that it is in the middle of New York City. I mean, that crab over there was only $48 and actually, listen, for a Hocker style dish, you might think that's kind of expensive, but for Dungeon's Crab, it's not. So definitely come here and try it. This is a Singapore sling. This is the most famous drink mix that they have in Singapore. Like I said, guys, nowadays, some people travel, some people are not traveling again, because of whatever happened over the past couple of years. So whether you can, or you can't, or you just want that Asia vibe, come to Urban Hocker, Midtown, throw up the map. Wallawe!