 Dollar for dollar, I think this is the best, most traditional dim sum experience in Chinatown. Chinese food in Germany? I think that one is like more Chinese right here because like in May it falls. Westernized. Yeah. This might be the greatest sushi you get in Chinatown. This is fire. Strawberry cake. It's fire. Five out of five. I have not had that anywhere else. You gotta try it. What's the hottest card dim sum? How good can omakase be at a Chinese food hall? Where do German tourists eat and how are the new shops adapting and growing? The answers to these questions and more in this Chinatown East Part 12. Now give us a thumbs up if you're excited to see what's happening in the best Chinatown in America. Our first spot is designed to compete with fleshing. It's got omakase. It allows their pizzas to all your traditional things. Let's check it out. Chinatown's first food corner. Mont Street eatery. Yes. Now is it like the very new and high-end fusion eatery? No, I don't think so. I think they have some very, very affordable and cheap options. We're here with our friend Dave. Is this the first food court you've ever seen in Chinatown? No, this will be the second one, one on Canal Street. Right, right, right. The one that's the most local, I feel. Mont Street eatery, brand new food court on Mont Street. Let's go. Mont Street eatery is open, but not 100% of the stalls are filled up with food spots yet. Yo, Andrew, do you think the people in Chinatown are ready for an omakase in the middle of essentially a hood food court? I do think it's a great option to have. I don't know how many people are going to come here, you know, and take a date out here yet, but maybe perhaps. They have no competition right now. No other place does this. All right, you guys, this is Bluefin Akami Tuna in the middle of Chinatown. This costed us $24, so obviously not the cheapest eat, but for the quality it might be. Chinatown Omakase. It ain't bad. For $8, great. All right, pizza time. I'm at the house. Oh, whoa. Thank you. What are you doing? Come support Don Mo Sushi. Wild Alaskan King Salmon stacked on top of each other. Guys, this may not be cheap, but it's relatively cheap for this level of sushi. We're in Chinatown. This might be the greatest sushi you get in Chinatown made by a Chinese guy. I'll give that. That'd be specifically a four out of five. This might be a unicorn in this place, man. I don't know. This is a standout. Hey everybody, a question that David and I actually get asked quite often is, when you do so many food videos, how is it that you are able to stay fit? And the reason is because we stick with an exercise routine and that's why I have to give a big shout out to our sponsor today, the Fitbot app. It's a workout app on iOS and Android that helps design custom workouts for you based on your goals and available equipment. For example, if you don't even have a gym, you can select that and they will make up workouts for you. 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It's a logo. I mean, that's pretty interesting. I don't know if you know this, but there's this trend about bringing kind of like the McDonald's or KFC China chicken sandwich style to America. And I think that's what they're going to try to do. Anytime you see a new roast meat spot pop up in the canto zone, you know, theoretically the standard here should be very high due to the region we're in. Let's check it out. Dave, have you ever tried this extra crispy duck? Yes. Not here, but yes. You think this is going to be better than Wafeng? I don't know how much it's going to be. I believe a Seiping Fond, which is four-choice meat, is at $9.50. So it's $10. Technically double price. The legendary duck buns from Flushing have made it to Chinatown. They're probably more expensive, right? $2 a bun. So not too bad. If for $1.75, Flushing is like a five out of five, I give it a four. More treasure rice right here. First of all, I got to try this duck. Good flavor, a little bit dry. Siu yuk, roast pork. Siu yuk is pretty good. It looked good. I really like the sauce. I really like this extra sause bun. It's very peppery. Got a lot of five spice. And what is the deets on the roast meats here at Mott Street, Italy? I need to know. At Mott Street, they're solid. They're not exceptional. I would say the chashu actually has a lot of flavor. The siyao guy, the soy sauce chicken, and the siu yuk are the top ones. But I will say that the convenience factor, that's really the thing with food courts, right? Food courts are never meant to like blow you out of the water. They're just meant to be like the best combination of like price, convenience, speed, you know, you don't got to sit down. I mean, there's still a lot of open stalls. So we'll see what other restaurants come here. But the location is very convenient right off Mott Street. This is a aoyao sou bun, a kind of like a beef tongue bun. Just rip that up, man. It's supposed to look like a beef tongue bun. All right. It's supposed to be sweet too. Never had this bun before. All right. This is a Toisan sweet bun aoyao sou. It's like the Chinese buffet. They have the sweet bread at the end. Very dense, probably not meant to be eaten on your own. But I think if you eat it with kanji, it could work. Overall, my take on Mott Street eatery, not even all the stalls are filled up. So I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with. Solid option for Chinatown, New York. I'm glad to see it. Having the stalls here is going to give a lot of people a chance to have their own restaurant without having to open their own restaurant. Like burger and pizza over here. Hey, I know you were waiting. You're looking, you're waiting for burger and pizza. I'm intrigued by that restaurant. What's going on, guys? Chinatown cheap eats 12. Andrew, we are documenting a dim sum revolution because during the pandemic, a lot of the old school spots closed down. Now in their place, there's new spots. Some of the new spots are really high end, just serving a certain type of demographic. But here, this is an elevated experience, Andrew, that's still inexpensive at House of Joy. Bro, House of Joy is the biggest, newest cart dim sum I've ever seen. Now there are some other cart dim sum spots that just opened up, but as far as this build out on Pell Street with the gold and the new, you know, outside and the build out on the inside with the big LCDs, crazy. And it is true, Andrew, that cart dim sum is typically considered more mid tier or lower tier dim sum. Right, your most expensive top end dim sum spots probably won't do it off the cart, but most people, they like dim sum off the cart. It's more fun. Let's check it out. Andrew, this is a brand new build out that is pretty inexpensive. Look, a smalls 350, a mediums 425, a largest 495, extra six bucks. Some of the nicer spots, like dim sum pallets, Andrew, it starts at six. Look at these chashu bowels, they're very... With the honey on top. Glazed with honey on top. You can see how it's shimmering and shiny. This is a walnut bun, a hop-toe-ho. See-ha, see-ha. Look, they made the top look like a walnut. Oh, you got to get the one that looked like a dove, bro. All right, you guys, we are at House of Joy right now, and I have to say, Andrew, there's a lot of items on this table right now, maybe sands of the chashu bow that I've never had before. David, the people really want to know how much each dish costs that we get. Now, let me tell you this, if you get the ones that are designed like a bird, swan, or the dove here, or the one that's designed like a walnut, trust me, those are going to be charged as larges, but that's still pretty fair price. It's only five dollars. I have a gigantic jalapeno pepper stuffed with shrimp. This looks a little bit more Southeast Asian because it's wrapped in the leaf, and this is going to be... I forgot the name in Cantonese they just said, but it's a sticky rice ball with filling inside. Put a little toothpick. Come on, guys. Dim sum is the most intricate meal. Somebody had to do it. My life is jalapeno pepper. It's hot as hell right now. I cannot believe they're serving this with the seeds inside. Tweet mochi exterior. Yo, this is a good dish. All right, I'm going in on what I believe is a gigantic piece of pork with purple sticky rice on top. Wow, David's negotiating. I have the walnut bun. Very sweet, very fluffy. Pretty solid air. This is a meat ball covered in purple sticky rice. What did you think of the walnut flavoring? The walnut flavoring, it's definitely something you would eat maybe more towards the end of the meal because it's very sweet, but I liked it a lot. Animal dim sum. Mine actually has a ton of taro in it. This swan ass tastes a little good. Cashew bow, very soft, very fluffy. I've got a gau toy gau, which is a gau mean dumpling. Gau toy being this green thing. All right, let's go in. Wow, look how fluffy that was. All right, you guys, everything was quite affordable in terms of it being an elevated mid-tier dim sum experience. Right now around New York City, there's a ton of high-end dim sum spots opening, whether that's Hulu, dim sum palace, Hutong, and shout out to those spots. But a lot of those, it's really out of reach for a lot of people. I really like the elevated mid-rains, like House of Joy, because it's something affordable, but still elevated for the average consumer. All right, dollar for dollar, I think this is the best, most traditional dim sum experience in Chinatown. Guys, we're here with the owner, son, father combo at Mott 46 Bookie Man. Tell us about it. Hello, I'm called Jumei. We have bozai fond and we have skewers here. Right here, we have the chicken and mushroom. Oh my goodness. Look at that. All right, you guys, this is the bozai fond. Of course, we're going to put the sweet soy sauce on top. This is $7. A lot of spots right now in Chinatown, you know, for the bozai fond, they're charging something like 14, you know? So this is a pretty good deal. I mean, obviously, most of them probably averages 10 on the high end, 14. $7 for a dish that other places charge $12 for. If that ain't Chinatown cheap beef, tell me what is. As far as the skewers go, these are really cheap as well. This chicken wing is $2. These fish balls are $2. God, Lee. Guys, this is a $7 bozai fond here on Mott Street. You will not find it any cheaper in East Village. You can go to a spot and they might charge you $18 or $20 for the same dish. But here, $7 bozai fond. This is new to Chinatown, in a way. All right, our next spot on Chinatown cheap eats, part 12, is HK one-ton garden. Now, this spot actually was over on Mott Street for many years, but it moved here. But introducing this spot, I have a special friend. This is a local filmmaker, a New York native, OG of Chinatown, Jane Louis. So, Jane, actually real quick, we're actually working on a short film together in Chinatown, and she knows everything about Chinatown. So, explain the spot. So, you're a famous one-ton noodle, and I took Samo Hong there for one-ton, like 30 years ago. Wow, Samo, the martial artist. The one on Mott Street. Okay. Yeah, he liked it. So, did it move and get replaced by something else? Oh, yes, another one-ton noodle, but this is original. All right, guys, here at HK one-ton garden in classic Kanto fashion. They have more than 100 items on the menu, bro. Look at this. This looks like a pamphlet for a dictionary. I have a couple dishes that I just wanted to try. These are not only... These are not necessarily the best things here, but this one is, guys. They would recommend... You have the Aolam one-ton mean, which is the beef brisket with one-ton and noodles. Guys, this is a classic HK dish. I mean, I can just show you right now that you can look at the brisket and see that it's really super tender. The worst thing about brisket sometimes is that it's not tender enough, guys. But, man, you come here. Look at that. Look. And then you have the sweet and sour chicken, which actually comes separate from the sauce, which is interesting because that kind of reminds me of the sweet and sour chicken that's the Chinese Korean style, right, that you actually dip it. So, I poured some right here. Takaya, which is the chicken wing right here. Now, they're pretty small, but I think they're juicy. Let me try them out. He actually put the soup in with all the meats, and then he poured a little bit of, like, extra special soy sauce into it, too, for that extra flavor. Let me try the one-ton real quick. Guys, I got all this for $21. This was about $9.50, and then these two were about $7 or $8 each. Guys, sweet and sour chicken dipped into the sauce. That's actually hella good. The reason why I got this dish is because I saw it on the menu outside with the picture, and I was like, oh, that just looks different. That's just something I don't usually get. All right, guys, I'm here with some patrons of the restaurant, Melia and Katerina. You guys are coming from Germany, but what made you come to HK once on Nudelord? Actually, we were just passing Food Street, and we just decided to come here. Okay, what drew you in? Was it all the pictures of food on the outside? Kind of, yes, definitely. Like, they have a big map on the outside. I get some fried duck with Shanghai noodles and a soup. How does it compare to the Chinese food in Germany here? I think that one is more Chinese right here, because in our Chinese food is more made for Western eyes. Yes. Here, I have two more dishes. For $8, you can get this very soft, insucculent pigs feet. This is not usually a dish I would order on my own, but they recommended it. They said that this is what they do really well, and I'm sure a lot of more old-school or traditional people, they're going to really like this dish, but I'm about to try it. And then here, you have your beef chow fun, AKA your gongchong-geo-ha, dry style. And this costs about $12. So this is on the higher end, but that's probably because the beef is really high quality here. So very soft, cooked well. I don't know if you like pig knuckle. If you don't, don't get it, but if you're okay with it, I would say try it. I can tell why this spot is an OG spot. That right there is a 4.5 out of five. As you guys know, HK one-ton garden. It's an OG. It moved from motte to mulberry. It has some low-key dishes. They're really good pigs feet, the beef chow fun. I would say the beef brisket one-ton noodles. And then actually the sweet and sour chicken that was actually really delicious. So you can see international crowd, all types of people here. Check it out. All right, our next spot on Chinatown Cheap Eats is Sam's fried ice cream. This was started by a guy from Chinatown named Nelson Chow. Shout out to him. And basically what they do is they take a big frozen piece of ice cream, they batter it, they fry it. You can get all these different toppings on it. No, have you had fried ice cream before? I have, but not in New York though. In LA at the Japanese restaurants. This is different. Okay, let's find out. Let's go, Sam's fried ice cream. All right, guys, we got our strawberry cheesecake covered in Oreo crust with whipped cream and fruity pebbles on top. All right, and this was $7. No, you got a sweet tooth. What's going through your mind right now, bro? Hey, you know, oh, hey, hey, after moving to Asia, I've been cutting out in the sweets, but you know, have a cheat day today. I'm excited. All right, Sam's fried ice cream. This is better than the Japanese joints because here you get to customize it however you want it. You get to put the whipped cream, fruity pebbles. They have like honeycombs, Reese's Puffs, whatever. They have a bunch of variety on how you want to make it. Man, let me tell you this. They are providing something that was missing in Manhattan. So $8, customize your fried ice cream, share it amongst your friends. It's totally worth it. All right, everybody. So we're inside a Ho Yee and it's definitely like kind of a crazy place. This reminds me a lot of China. First sauce, tons of green onion, a little bit of cilantro, garlic, of course, with a little bit of sesame paste, the mahjong, and then I'm going to do a little bit of peanut butter actually and then a little bit of sacha. This is the sauce that everybody likes, a hot pot, the sacha-jang. All right, you guys, the food has arrived here at Ho Yee and they have some really unique like fusion broths. For example, here, this one is a garlic butter broth and this one is a beef butter. So it's not necessarily tied to any sort of province. I'd say it's almost maybe like a Taiwanese style or a general Chinese style. But all right, you guys, one of the things I've been really looking forward to in this hot pot is this ramen right here. I know some people, they don't like to use like, you know, cheap things to like fill up their stomach, but I don't care. All right, you guys, Ho Yee Hot Pot, Chinatown Cheap Eat, $37.95, Andrew, unlimited drinks, unlimited ice cream, unlimited meats, veggies, mushrooms. Bro, what I love is that it's actually really fun. So this is not the fanciest hot pot. It might not even be the cheapest. In fact, Andrew, it might be the least fanciest hot pot. I mean, look, you're eating in a shed, okay, and we're eating next to a graffiti wall and this is legit. We're outside on the street right now. So it's definitely an interesting experience. It really feels like that you're out on the streets of like China, like somewhere maybe on the outer skirts of Beijing, Shanghai, downtown, or like Beijing. I think it's actually really, really fun. So definitely come check out Ho Yee Hot Pot, guys. Is it going to be, you know, the best hot pot you've ever had in your life? No. But is it going to be a really fun experience that is totally worth 40 bucks? Yes. Hey, but actually, the broth tastes really good. They use a lot of butter. So it's just really fun to eat. All right. So my next spot here on Chinatown Cheap Eat is a spot that I have never been to. I never thought about going to. I've never even seen it on Yelp. I'm outside a food station right here on Canal and Center Street. Let's go check it out. All right. So check this out, guys. We're here. This is kind of like your Chinese buffet. Now it's interesting because it's very, very hard to find a Chinese buffet anywhere in New York. But this is one of those concepts where they have the hot food here. And I like it. It's very much like one of those buffets because it has a few Western dishes, like the fish right here. It has like your shrimp here. You have your chicken wings. You also have your batikai, you know, ginger scallion chicken. You have your fried shrimp right there. Here you have your roast pork. It really does look like one of those Fujianese Chinese buffets that I grew up eating at. All right, guys. We're here at New Cameron Bakery over on Canal Street. Another spot that's super low-key. Chinatown adjacent. More in the very busy area right next to the train station. Low-key Cantonese bakery ran by a guy who's Chinese Malaysian. Here I wanted to get a couple of things that you don't find very often. Here I have the black sesame roll. This is your classic roll cake, except all with black sesame. I believe in Cantonese, it is called hakemao. Strawberry cake, okay? Look how vibrant this looks. This looks fire. And then here we just have a Western-style cake, but they did a really good job at decorating each slice with the watermelon design, all right? Man, I'm telling you, my goal here is to find and explore the nooks and crannies of Chinatown and adjacent areas. Even if it's not on yelp, even if people don't talk about it. Whoa, yo, this is fire. The strawberry cake is fire. Five out of five. I'm gonna go in on this. American cake with the watermelon on top. The number one thing that you gotta get at New Cameron Bakery on Canal Street is the strawberry cake. I have not had that anywhere else. You gotta try it. We are looking at Peking Duck Pizza from Burger Pizza Kwan. These are chefs formerly from the Marriott and Times Square. It doesn't look like much, but I like it. Honestly, you can tell this tastes like a hotel flatbread. There is some hoisin. There is marinara, but it's like a sweet, almost like Filipino Jollibee Joy, Jollibee Chicken Joy type ketchup. So ultimately, these flavor profiles, surprisingly, they work. And those are chicken tenders in the burger. Yes, sir. Hey, they don't have any Chinatown. You can't get this in Chinatown. You got it now. All right, guys, I'm pouring the house sauce on. And then for me, I like a little bit of ranch. So you know me, I gotta pour some ranch on. I'm bringing the Marriott Times Square menu to Chinatown with their own twist. This is something Chinatown has never seen, ever. The Burger Kwan is a Chinatown chief eats must try. You have never seen something like this in Chinatown before. Chinatown is changing, but maybe also for the better. All right, guys, here at Zunping Cafe, it's named after a famous guy in China. This is the Sago Yogurt. Sweet yogurt-y. Kind of tastes like Beijing style. Has a little pizza sago in it. This would be really great to eat after like a hot pot or like a hot meal. I've never had this in Chinatown. I've had yogurt in Chinatown. I've had Sago desserts in Chinatown. I have never had a Sago yogurt dessert. Yo, Steve, give us a quote, man. The machine is automatically cooked for you. You said it's AI that's going to cook the food for you. Guys, this machine behind me, I'm not sure if we have time to tell you how it works, but it washes it, it can cook your bok choy, and then it'll stir fry it. All right, you guys, we are here with the AI bok choy. I'm fascinated to try this. Like we said, nobody's touched it. It ain't bad. I just bought this hat for $3. So think about it, guys. You can buy a new hat and eat lunch for like $10 in Chinatown. It's crazy. Hey, David, how's this hat look? All right, our next spot on Chinatown Cheap Eats is not necessarily Chinese, but it is definitely within the zone, and this is Don Juan Grocery on four sides in broom. They have a Dominican hot food section, and I feel like they definitely put their own cultural influence into the sandwiches. So, Andrew, it's not just some regular bodega sandwiches. Legitimate Dominican food up until they sell out, usually around 4 or 5 p.m. So I got a little bit of time. Let's go get some perneal. All right, guys, so the good people at Don Juan said I could film myself getting some food. I'm going to show you guys what I get. Hey, what's up, man? Hey, do you have any more chicken stew left? No, we have some pepper steak, which is really good. We got some roast pork. Okay. Oh, my goodness, yo. Can I get like just one small thing with the black beans and then two meats? Like a little bit of both? You can charge me for whatever. Thank you, bro. Thank you. Enjoy, man. You guys, Cheap Chinatown Eats, this is the first time we've had Dominican food on there. This is straight from the cafeteria at Don Juan Bodega. Hey, we only went there because I think it's totally arguable that that is in Chinatown. You could call it LES, but you know, whichever way you call it, it's not wrong. Here I have the Dominican chopped cheese. David, here you have pepper steak, you have perneal, and you have chicken gravy on top of some black beans and rice. That was $6. This was also $6. Even a lot of Dominican bodegas, they don't carry Dominican food because they're trying to cater to the population, but there is enough Dominicans in that building over there. Wow. Don Juan Grocery. Their perneal is good. Wow. Bro, this chopped cheese is delicious. It definitely, I can definitely taste the Spanish side to it, so shout out to them for making it Dominican style. Chopped cheese a la Dominica. Don Juan Grocery. You can get this, you can get Dominican hot food, you can get cut for like $15, $20, right next to them called Moran Barber Shop. Guys, Dominican spots nearby Chinatown. All right, so our next spot on Chic Chinatown eats is a spot that we always come to because they're always doing new collabs and it's almost like a sneaker store, a slash dessert store, all right? So here at Milk and Cream, they actually just did a hot ones with first wheat feast collabo, all right? So you have the chicken nuggets here, but they're actually fully vanilla ice cream with some little crispy chips on the top. And then here you have the spicy ones, which essentially it's gonna be like spicy Cheeto dust on top of it. And it's crazy how much they made it look like chicken nuggets right here. And they even give you this honey sauce right here to dip your nuggets in. So, man, I just gotta go and try it because this is so inventive. So it's hard, kind of cold. First of all, even the non-spicy nuggets are kind of spicy. This is gonna be spicy, I can tell. Got a little saltiness, spiciness in with the vanilla ice cream. Wow. Yo, that is something I never had before. Guys, you've got to check out Milk and Cream they are doing some crazy things with dessert. All right, you guys, we are on Pell and Bowery. Come get the Hong Kong Gai Dan Zai. And I have a strawberry. I got peanut butter. I got condensed milk. I got honey lemon. I got chocolate. I got coconut condensed milk. You have all the flavors. Yes, you can ask for this, guys. Just make sure you tip. What's that? Ooh, that was coconut honey. Going in for strawberry right now. Tastes like a peanut butter jelly sandwich. This is a Chinatown cheat beat. This whole thing was only $5. Honestly, guys, the flavors do make it better. I'm gonna go ahead and give this a 4 out of 5. Very solid. I was waiting for the game to mature and evolve. Glad to see it. Just when you thought Dim Sum was leaving Chinatown, there is a Dim Sum resurgence. We have just showed you in this video, multiple spots that have just opened, and Dim Sum Palace is another one. This is a chain from Midtown. It is a little bit more on the expensive end, nicer end. It's gonna feel exactly like a new Hong Kong build out in there. But let me tell you this, this Dim Sum is no joke. And by the way, you can get it at all times of the day. All right, you guys, they do have some unique dishes here. I'm gonna go ahead and get the Dim Sum platter. It allows you to get one of every one. This is a green tea ball. You guys, I've never seen this before in my life. I'm just gonna try it for you right now. Coconut and red bean is just to me. And I got the parsley churring fun. I actually saw a worker eating this on a worker's table on the way in, and it really motivated me to get it. Good for breakfast. Hey guys, we have your dumpling platter here. There's one, two, three, four types of dumplings. These are chicken sumai. These are hakaos. These are chicken dumplings. And then these are your gao choy. Okay, these are your gao choy dumplings. So this platter was $15. That's a little bit on the higher side. But if you're somebody who wants to try all the different dumplings and you guys don't know what to order, then definitely try this. Let me tell you this. Dim sum palace is very, very high quality. Chicken sumai here, which is a new thing because more people are leaning towards chicken. And then here I have my shrimp unsteamed daofu. Guys, chicken dumplings. It's the new wave. Do you think that the chicken dumpling can become more popular than the pork dumpling eventually? When it comes to chicken versus pork, there will be nothing that can replace pork. I think that you can actually make a vegan version of chicken easier than you can make a vegan version of pork. The chicken dumpling will advance. It will expand because of people's religion, their health concerns and everything like that. And honestly, chicken dumplings, they're getting pretty good now. Here, the little tofu with the hakao filling on the inside. This is something that probably a lot of ABCs will not really order, but it does kind of look like a fancy dish. At least for $7.95, we got the Paikwet churng fund. It is steamed pork ribs with a little black bean sauce, topped with a little bit of soy sauce, laying on a bed of vertically placed churng fund, okay, which is super soft. It is hot. It's mad fresh right now. No recommendation at Dim Sum Palace. This is a deep cut dish. Not everybody's going to know about it. It might be kind of a new one, but definitely go for it. All right, you guys, we're in front of Harper's Bread House, 271 Grand Street. And this is probably the unofficial source of a lot of Grand Street Park bollards, just snacks. Yeah, I would say it's similar to a lot of the other bakeries on Grand Street, but it doesn't have as much hot food. They're more specialized in onigiris and sandwiches, but of course it is right across from the park. So if you need a drink, they got some Gatorade. They all have all different types of tarts. They do have a variety of drinks here. Everything is under $3. Just check it out. All right, so these, you got the spicy smoked salmon, but this is cooked. It is not raw. All right, you guys, so I just got a cocktail cream bun. I just got the ham and scallion. Of course, it's a little bit later in the day, so a lot of stuff is sold out right now. But you can tell we're in proximity to the park because they do sell Gatorades. All right, Andrew, we've arrived outside of Harper's. I got the ham and scallion. I like to get this before I hoop it in the morning. Wow. All right, David, I have the classic creamy booty bun. As you can see, split down the middle. That one's underrated. The sweet cream, really good. Have you had this cake before? Well, try it. Try it. Give us, let us know your opinion, man. We out here. It's creamy and like, smells like it's milky too. Okay. Do you mess with this bakery? Yeah, I come here a lot. Okay. How do you take a comparison of the bakeries? I mean... It's next to Grand Street, right? Yes. It's right next to Grand. And then it's closer. Like, everyone hungry, you can just come here to buy some cakes. Hey, man. You're here and it's straight from the store. It's Harper's Bakehouse. Andrew, how's that on a gearing? Let's try it. This is actually smoked salmon on the inside. But if I had a little bit of soy sauce and a little wasabi, this would be in. All right, you guys. I believe we finally woke up early enough to film Chinatown Cheap Eats to secure the ever elusive, thing fucking Chinatown. That steamed chicken, mushroom, egg, broccoli, over rice, sweet soy sauce. Let's go. Today, we succeed. What? It's sold out. You can never get it, bro. You can just... Dude, I think that lady in the beginning didn't know what she was talking about. How did it sell out in that hour? All right. Our next spot on Chinatown Cheap Eats is not a Chinese spot, but it is partially Chinese-owned. This is Granddaddy Cafe here on Grand Street. And it's not just any regular coffee cafe. It is actually doing a lot of Asian drinks right now. Here's a hoji chow latte, which is very trendy. This is a Japanese-style latte right here. And then this, of course, is your matcha latte. This is only about $350 to $4 each, which is way cheaper than almost any other, you know, fancy-your-part-of-town. So shout out to that, guys. I got to try the hoji chow. I'm sure a lot of you guys are wondering how this tastes. It's very much like a milky-roasted barley. Guys, they actually have a black sesame latte, but they ran out today because it just sold out, guys, Japanese-style iced latte. Very good, very smooth, man. Here's the matcha. Very smooth again. You know what I like about Granddaddy? It's right in the middle of still what a lot of people call like the exterior of Chinatown. And it's just offering something to the community that is kind of hard to find, right? There's only a Starbucks, like a few blocks away. It's kind of outside of the zone. But when it comes to that kind of cafe culture that's still showing some reverence to the Asian roots of this neighborhood, Granddaddy's doing a good job. So that's it, part 12. Whether it be a part 13, you know, I don't really know yet. The past year and a half has been crazy for a lot of people and especially small business owners. I mean, even several of the spots that we showed in part one, two, and three have long shut down. So it just goes to show you that running a business is a lot more than just serving tasty food. And remember, it is important that we not only try to preserve certain aspects of culture, but we also try to push our community to improve and do better. I mean, things don't have to stay the same to stay traditional, you know, to maintain culture. This is a living and breathing community of immigrants who mostly share the same goal of wanting to live a better life. Despite what you might think, what we're trying to say in these videos, being Chinese in America is not defined by cheap, delicious food. But, you know, we just thank everybody who has bumped into us on the streets and told us that this series has impacted them or even better yet, their business. We can all do our part. So until next time, we out. Peace.