 We need to know, Aria, is that the veggie bun meat? So that's a meatless bun meat. Oh yeah, that's the veggie one. No way. That's the veggie. It's good, right? So what's it made out of? Soy sauce? It's made of pig. Is it made of? No, no, no, it's veggie. As you guys may know, the podcast format is blowing up right now. So we're going to sit down with two comedians who run the biggest Asian-focused comedy podcast in America. Mike and Fumi from Asia Not Asia. I guess you could say we're hitting up Asian hipster food spots with Asian hipsters. Actually, I don't even know if that's completely true, but whatever. Nice. Yo, this is crazy. So I look in there and we found a doppelganger of Mick. Mick recommended that we film at this spot and Mick's doppelganger is in there right now. That's me. You coming all the time? No. I've never been to this place. I've never been to any of these places. I've been DMing each other about it. Yeah, we Google, Missing Google. I have very strong feelings about Vietnamese food. We are with Mike and Fumi. Fumi and Mike from the Asian Not Asia podcast. It is the hottest Asian podcast in New York City. Is it? Is it? Wow, not at all. But you guys are also both stand-up comedians. We're all stand-up comedians. We're hoping all this food is on you. Stand-up is on you, though, because don't worry. That was the most fierce thing ever. Let's go check it out. I'm trying to get some Brooklyn points today. All right, okay. It's funny. First up, we're hitting up Five Spice in Brooklyn where we're getting Bun Me Tacos. Mike is Vietnamese and originally from Orange County. So apparently, he's super picky and critical about his Vietnamese food. Let's get his hot takes. The kids are becoming more hipster. We're in right now. I'll say that. We did a really good PR move with the Pho and the Vietnamese coffee. I got to give credit to the Bun Me. I think that is like, that's the new sandwich now in 2019. It is the sandwich. I feel, I have mixed feelings. It's like seeing your child grow up and date other people. And you're just like, you know, just be careful. All right, you guys. The food has arrived here at Five Spice Vietnamese Tacos. And Bun Me, when you look at this food immediately, are you like, are you thinking like, oh no, they made a taco on a Bun sale? Or are you like, oh. No, I'm, you know, banks out. You can make banks out. You could be a God because banks out is really difficult to like kind of control. So the fact that they made it into a taco is like, I got to give you props just for the attempt. Because we want you to represent for your entire room, of course. Okay. I do like it. I do like it. It took a minute for you to process. Out of five? Like you were thinking. Out of five? Out of five? It's sort of like you ever like do a VR headset and you're like, you know, you feel like you're, you're seeing that you're on a roller coaster but you're not on a roller coaster and you're not really sure what you're like. Like it looks like my mind is like, this is a taco but then inside my mouth it's like on. So like it's like, what's happening? You know what I'm saying? Yo, it's crazy that they're able to make a Bun sale shell which is usually really crispy and crackles and shattered. But it's flexible like a tortilla. And it has that chew too. So now I'm going to try the broccoli. But with fish, I got one here. I got one here. What? Thank you. Yo, fish sauce is a key ingredient in Vietnamese food. Fish sauce. It's really cheating because everything tastes good with fish sauce. I mean, these people love fish. Bowluck lock with actually some mango papaya salad on the side of the bowluck lock. This is a very popular dish. These cubes are huge too. These are definitely bigger than the average bowluck lock. Yeah, they're very big. If you're real Vietnamese, you're going to love this meat, this gray one here. It's called Zalua. Zalua, right? Is that the head cheese? It is. No, it is a pork roll. It comes in a roll like the tube, right? It is like a, it's like Vietnamese salami. We got the bread here, all right? We got the pickled vegetables. We got, this looks like straight up ham which is a little unusual but that's fine. And then we got Zalua right here. And then we got all the, oh, we got the mayonnaise. That's really important. I do like it. And then also, everybody knows this part right here is the best part. It's where all the juices and everything have gotten all at the bottom of the bread. This is the clicker sandwich right here. I have the veggie bun meat this is a this is like veggie meat so it's not real meat although it looks like pork it's soy protein guys people a lot of me people are buddha and they don't eat meat so the meat thing is kind of like I don't want to say it's new but it's not necessarily like you have to have meat and everything one thing I will say about soy protein is sometimes it has more flavor than the actual meat because you're able to pass more flavor into it I mean if this is not real meat then I will never have to kill a pig ever again because this is outstanding this is really good this tastes just like pork so that's a meatless body oh yeah that's a veggie one no that's not veggie so what's it made of? soy protein? it's made of pig is it made of pork? no no it's veggie he's Vietnamese and you could not be convinced it would be a very Vietnamese move to sell a veggie meat with just regular meat in it it's a super Vietnamese move but this is outstanding it's very good I'm really impressed we have to try the pho and this is the special this is spicy it has short rib in it it kind of looks like bumbo bay almost the suit does it does look like bumbo way when it comes to Vietnamese food I'm very right winged okay I'm very like purity okay without keeping the culture clean but if you honor the culture that's different because I feel this is like an extension of it what I look for with is like is the broth pretty clear is there not a lot of like little small oil bubbles on top because you don't want too much of that you want the the boils to be really clean okay the broth is good that's usually the first thing I want to always be able to feel like I could just straight up drink this broth in a cup like just by itself and then that would be good pretty good just try it wow wow yep yep I like it it's got it's got the um that five spice taste eat the whole piece terrible all right we're wrapping it up here at Five Spice a modern Vietnamese restaurant now we got to go to a modern Japanese restaurant but guys first make sure to hit the like button on this video let's go all right pinion on the following people I'm just gonna name a name you go ahead Ali Wong dope so dope you know what people that kind of also don't talk about is that uh she really brings a bay area it's kind of humor to the world like peeps like like obviously her movie um always be my maybe hat was set in the bay area so there's a lot of like really cool bay area things she's really repping uh that people don't know about there's a lot of bay area jokes in it um that you don't you wouldn't pick up on unless you came from that particular community Aziz Ansari oh dude this is like a gotcha moment yeah the Shane Gillis and then Aziz after my gosh I know no comment no comment Russell Peters the reason I mentioned Aziz and Russell Peters next to each other is because they're so different they're very different Russell Peters is mad at and Aziz is really mad Russell Peters he's got this kind of humor that's very broad and like a lot of easily digestible Aziz are digestible you kind of understand what he's doing not to say he's doing hacky stuff but he's just it's it's easier to get yeah but Aziz he's like making these little jokes he's the one he's gonna make a bit more joke do you agree that those are two literally opposing styles nah man I mean I think it's like if you like comedy like I think you can like a lot of stuff that's that's I feel like is the the misinterpretation of comedy sometimes is people think like oh if you like her you know you can't like this other person right it's like I think if you're a true comedy fan you want to laugh and you can find a lot of things funny and I think that's what I like about Russell and Aziz because they're like completely different and I guess you can both consider them under like the Indian or brown category but they're so different they live different lifestyles you know what I think that is a very true artist opinion we all almost all have to have two brains versus like I guess like white people only have to have the creative brain and they don't need to worry about the activism social justice absolutely that that's the that's we sometimes struggle with that because like sometimes we're just trying to be funny and just you know we always say like we identify as being comedians before identifying as being asian and like that's one of the most liberating things about comedy and then when people hit us with like the oh I don't like what you said about this or this comedian like why aren't you speaking at this thing why don't you have Andrew Yang in your podcast it's like dude I'm just trying to be funny like why can't I do that you know it always comes back to the the title of the podcast Asian not Asian find out Spotify and iTunes and it's it's always just there are things that you're both things at the same time it doesn't make sense but you're both Asian and not Asian at the same time that's like a very I feel American experience even now like I'm eating pho but like I don't speak Vietnamese right so it's like I'm both of those things at the same time and I think we're just trying to figure out where do we fit in America where like where does where do we where do people even want to hear us about us and I think that's uh that's what we're trying to do because we don't have time to do the Asian not Asian podcast and go to Donbow so Donbow even though we walked there past all the brownstones in Brooklyn we're just gonna take the ramen into the podcast room so there's like a couple flies in this building right because there's food here yeah and they were all over the fake food yeah that's weird hold on where they where they maybe they were fake flies we're on their channel we're gonna be on their Asian not Asian podcast it's an honor to be here but watch the episode why don't you explain to us yeah and I knew I had to get it because I'm with a person who's born in Japan that's hilarious and this is super Japanese I'm gonna start crying how do you explain what this is yeah what is nacho is like it's our version of like kimchi I guess it's like our fermented thing every country has like fermented it's fermented soybeans it's mad sticky it smells a little bit I admit I didn't really like it that much when I was younger uh I definitely start eating it probably like in middle school or high school it's like it's kind of like beer it's like a choir taste like you ever had this a lot of foreigners do not like it you guys you call us barbarians my god Japanese trap sort of I think this is dude this is like you guys experiencing each other's culture yeah like we're kind of like the bridge between yeah I knew he wouldn't get it though this is called ikura it's like seven row yeah you got the you got the benefit out of this relationship yeah this is not f***ed with this is good you know why Vietnamese people love fish dog you know what this needs though these little fish sauce that's what you know what it is I heard ramen in Japan is not treated with the same like reverence at sushi so that you have more liberties with it it's like it's like comparing McDonald's to like steak Peter Luger's like sushi is like it's expensive right it's a it's a delicacy ramen is like it's like peasant food so it's it's like the new york version of a dollar but is it funny how much it's been dressed up in america yeah I mean is it funny I mean I think it's like exotic to people here so we'll charge 15 bucks for a bowl of noodles it's like five bucks in here you know why it is though because ramen is actually from china and sushi is from japan yes we used to call ramen chuka soba chuka it's like chinese food it doesn't really quickly talk about this is still in my mouth it's in my mouth okay this this is real when I eat this at home I have to go to the sink and then rub my mouth with water because it gets just like you judge the the you got to judge the ramen well that's just you've had this before you know this is the instant version of like a good ramen because we got it out here which is at curlby right which is like the instant food version of ipudo oh really so this is tonkotsu ramen tonkotsu ramen is from the western region of japan like the kansai area or like kanto no kansai area and it's pork broth which is not very popular where I'm from in like chiba we just eat like you know miso based or miso or soy based ramen so it's not very popular because it's very heavy and some people say it's a little stinky uh I mean it's pretty good considering it's like the fast food version of it you know the noodles get a little soggy but but but uh iporo makes their own noodles so I will say in japan they always say ramen is supposed to be made quickly and eaten quickly so it is kind of like a fast food give me out of five four four pretty good pretty good yeah I think everything at kinao street market is good I think this is a solid four I think this is a solid four this is a negative five that is the lowest rating ever negative I can't blame you man the rice was all right not so is is interesting thank you so much for watching that episode of four girls food with asian not asian all right guys in the comments below let us know if there's anybody else you guys want us to meet up with that is involved in the community because we love seeing the asian community in new york definitely check out our link below to the podcast episode we did on asian not asian we say some crazy stuff all right guys thank you again and until next time we out peace we had fast casual japanese food with i don't know if you're at fast he's fast casual look at his terrace house so casual i present check him out yo you are terrace so make sure you guys check out the video we're about to do right now uh but yo that was my fumi asian not asian