 She sound like she was rapping So we go out to eat a lot and a trend that we've noticed is that more and more successful restaurant chains from Asia are Opening up locations in America. We're in New York City with our friend Jack and we're gonna eat at eight different spots Let's go. We are outside of flippers in Soho. This is a chain from Japan Jack You help bring this to New York City Straight from Japan. What was the process like man? It was crazy It was just a lot of relationship building meeting with the owners bringing them to New York letting them see our stores Here it is. All right, Jack. I've seen a lot of hype about these Japanese soup plate pancakes David have you had it? I have not had them. I've had soup plate pancakes in my life Yeah, I mean these are the adventure with flippers first open. There were lines out the door These are the hypers pancakes in the game right now flippers. Let's check it out I'm here at flippers. We're at the upstairs is super vibey. You guys did a hell of a job bringing that Tokyo energy here Yeah, yeah, it's very well thought out. Yeah, the vibe is just amazing We have a array of pancakes here and some of them are the more traditional flat style And then some of these are the Japanese soup plate pancakes, which is what flippers is mostly like famous for yeah And I'm a huge fan of pancakes David. I've been a pancake fan My entire life ever since Nate the great. Let's just go in on this one This is the lemon ricotta. Lemon ricotta. So it's a lemon ricotta pancake Has some almonds or walnuts. All right guys. This is the ricotta honey Lemon pancake so good light fluffy ricotta with the lemon on it So good. I love how you know that was like a regular pancake and it looked like it had a lot of cream But it wasn't that heavy. This is the original souffle flippers pancake jiggly I want to just smack it And I think the way that they cook these is pretty interesting right they have to whip up the batter really nicely So it's very airy and then you plop it onto the grill. Yeah, man. Let's try it This is the original flippers souffle pancake Yo, I like the egg flavor to me So it almost tastes somewhat like an egg pancake I could see why people waited in line because I've actually had a souffle pancake from just like a boba shop before because they Were trying to copy flippers, but man this one is like next level That's the best one. I've ever had like that was that actually exceeded my expectations to be honest Yo, let's go in on this matcha souffle. All right guys. This is My favorite one. Oh my god What is that syrup I might have to get John's reaction real quick Give them pork give them pork. I thought I wasn't gonna be able to try it because you guys are gonna finish it They have savory options not just sweet prosciutto lettuce Some form of Japanese ranch on top of a regular gigantic It does taste like a French crepe. Yo You know French recipe. I'm not gonna lie. I didn't know if I was gonna like this one. Yeah, I'm enjoying this a lot This is you guys there matcha Regular regular because there's a piece of mochi on top. Let's check this out. Oh Yo jack up I think it's Think it's cool how the Japanese say pancake they call it pancake key That might have been one for me If you guys like mochi, you've got to get this one in my hand. I think I have the most perfect bite I have the strawberry cream. I have the souffle pancake. I have the real piece of strawberry I even have that strawberry preserves that they oh my gosh Expectation what I expected to like the most I gotta put the lemon ricotta And the matcha flat pancakes up there because they would just Hit you with so many different layers of the same thing that matcha just hit me different. I felt like My mouth was just exploding all these different flavors And I first took a bite of this and it was the great It was the great ratio of like that yolk taste with the egg and a little bit of cream on top There wasn't too much stuff going on. I thought the souffle pancake really shined in this All right, guys, if you guys are enjoying that video, please make sure to hit the like button Help us out on with the algorithm You guys we are outside paying the quidion Upon Le bon liquidion. What did you order? You said there's a flute pastry? Jack you picked this out though. My boy was like, yo, you got to have a belgian waffle There's like a thing. I'm like, all right You gotta have a belgian waffle I'm going to take a bite off the top Whatever the souffle pancake was that the opposite is different It's cutting up my mouth I feel very french because I feel like I'm in the french army right now On a weak trip you just pull this out Put this in your pocket and just save it for later. Yeah What do you think of our pastry? It's a french joint Whoa, this is so good it makes me want to laugh All right, you guys if we were just in soho We had to shoot to the east village because there are brand new chains being directly ported from asia all the time This one is from china. It's called gel and chill. But china. What's the name? It's So you guys this is a brand new dessert coming to the states from chengdu china For me, it's one of my favorite and most refreshing guilt-free chinese desserts. It's about bing fun from chengdu. Let's go You brought this from chengdu, right? Yes So uh before this I kind of like did a lot of research So I went to chengdu and did a lot of market research and found this store Were you worried at all bringing something as traditional as bing fun from chengdu to us? Yes, absolutely because um People never know about this before like americans didn't know this at all Overall sechuan cuisine is getting so popular in america and this is part of sechuan cuisine, right? So it's like Everything sechuan Yo jack this is your first time I you know, we know uh higher brothers the chengdu shuo chan hui hua Oh, she says she a higher brother's fan. She's a higher brother's fan a higher brother's fan of this Yeah, all right jack. You got the rosies. I got the rosies revenge. I got the money between. I'm sorry being fun Asia's love the jiggle. Yeah, that's true You know what it is I like it because it's kind of like reminds me of those uh leechy jellies that we used to eat growing up Except it's not too sweet. I would say those leechy jelly cups a little too sweet for me now. So it's so refreshing It's a spot like I just had dessert but I keep on eating this like Kind of like the soup plate pancake. I can just keep on like I eat like a bucket of this jack Are you taking this over a boba? I'll have this over boba any day I don't like that boba We're gonna get a nice mixture of the black sticky rice black sticky rice is one of my favorite asian desserts actually And then i'm gonna try this mango right here Oh, don't make a fresh together. Oh wow Guys, we're here at meat fresh this spot is from taiwan It's from taijong taiwan and taijong guys also where boba originated from too. It's a sweet dessert. Everybody loves it Let's go inside and let me go through what we got You got the meat fresh signature. This is grass herbal jelly You got the black rice dessert and like we said black rice is very popular Around asia east asia and particularly also southeast asia, but you got the little scoop of uh, hong dao right here And then here you have the taiwanese doufu hua But in cantonese we would call it doufu hua meat fresh It tastes like dough Who's chinese food dinner? These flavors are like in a way an elevated version of something i ate when i was a kid very traditional flavors Oh, super traditional Oh, okay. Thank you Oh, you got a light siso. That's the red envelope. Oh, yeah Are you the manager? I'm the owner not the manager Nice to meet you our two female asian entrepreneurs taking over concepts from asia Maybe it takes A female touch to bring an asian concept to the states without without just seeming like a bunch of asian goons All right, you guys this is not a chain from asia But it is still something that is foreign to new york, andrew from out of town. It's from detroit What do you got here? vodka vodka. This is the pep Yeah, and apparently there's uh these like square slices that are cooked in a little pan That's like the new thing like a little not the big pan, but the little one pep one Is fire. David, I love how uh the bottom is actually really crispy and then the inside's really fluffy I like it as a switch up But I would still go when you are if you made anything All right, you know why last thing the thing about thick crust pizza is that it starts to kind of taste like a bread stick More than a flat pan pizza. So I think for me. I actually really like these toppings I like the flavor, but I would still go for a thinner crust Detroit, baby All right, andrew, this is not necessarily a direct chain from asia But it is directly porting an item that new york has never seen before from asia Yes, we are talking about the jambi the famous chinese crepe It's not always about somebody in america franchising a chain from asia But a lot of people are now seeing something that they ate in asia or have had over there And then they're literally just bringing it over and starting their own single shop But there may be some slight adjustments obviously for the different demographics of america And you look like the emoji from the iphone Yo andrew when I was trying to get an authenticity percentage out of him, of course my dongbae You know how the dongbae guys are he said a hundred very confident, man If I know one thing about dongbae people jimby Not the addition of the pickles did a lot. I'm into it, man delicious What has allowed them to capture the authentic flavors of beijing with the tianmianjiang and everything so perfectly I feel like the ratios are like on point The ratios of the different ingredients that affects the flavors you can have Relatively the same ingredients and something but if the ratios are off, it's not even gonna taste right I mean you got a guy Who's from china who probably grew up eating some form of jambings growing up and he's making them here in new york So I have no reason to believe that it's not authentic This Is the best jambing I've ever had in america With the addition of duck this is one of the best jambings i've ever had period A shout out to tenzin the deveton and his chinese wife the jambing shop David we are outside of another authentic food from asia, but it's not open necessarily By a chain store. This is one of the more popular chains kind of popping up around new york We are on st. Mark's. This is joe's rice rolls Let's check this out I would say that this style of elevated churng fund andrew really only started popping up a year ago. Yeah What I like about the flavor David there's a lot going on There's a little bit of soy sauce a little bit of sesame sauce curry on top of that and there's oh How am I I think the how am I setting it on fire? You really need that strong kind of seafood flavor Honestly, there's a lot going on. There's just a lot of flavor. It's delicious. Honestly. It is delicious. Try it Andrew we do out there, man. This churng fund is not cheap. No This with the fish ball addition was about 13 dollars. Whoo. However I think it's worth it and every time i'm on st. Mark's and i think this is Andrew on this trip to new york, I think this is our like third or fourth time getting this Andrew our last and final spot from the port from asia food crawl Is dough club Because we are going to be having japanese mochi donuts. This is opened up by the same people who did taiyaki I mean, I think the owners of this man. They're really cool people. They know how to kind of take the And particularly I mean they have a trend of taking the japanese things that are popular And then putting them here in chinatown, which I think is really cool. And yes, these are super trendy from la to new york Mochi donuts are popping guys. Let's go try We're looking at the ponder ring donuts from dough club. They feel like mochi in it, but they're not okay Let's try this Oh, you having the milk maker right off. Oh, you skipped ahead. Oh, man These are a lot easier to eat than the actual mochi ones. Sometimes the mochi ones get a little heavy, but but no For me, Dave, I'm not a huge mochi guy So for me the mochi mochi ones were a little too much. So this is purple bevel or macho Favorite one, uh donuts For me actually the cookies and cream is my favorite I've had a lot of cookie and cream donuts whether it be talking of voodoo donuts blue star donuts in portland This was easily the best one that I've had that bacon one that I had that one Hit my mouth differently, you know, it just like Amount of flavor and the salt it all ran together was the most unique these Other cutest donuts in here. Wow very fluffy Not too thick a little chewy I'm gonna go ahead and say that these are the my favorite donuts I've ever had. No, these are Great, just you can squeeze them. They're airy, but they're chewy. I will say it. I'll mess with these donuts, man These are good. All right, you guys Andrew There's no better way to take out a direct from asia crew crawl other than a Ruby hot chocolate in an Earl gray toffee milkshake. It's good to get a little fluffiness in your life sometimes Can't always be uh in the streets like most asians are You guys this is really dope. I I do think that this is more this is the elevation This is asian americans bringing concepts from asia that seem eons beyond what we have available to us porting it over Obviously, it's all about the execution sort of like you were saying earlier I do not think the japanese are mad that people are doing japanese style western donuts nowadays in 2020 There's no laws like oh you have to have heritage from that country to bring a brand or a concept or an item from that country Over here. I think what should exist is a constant effort to pay homage And do it justice which I do think these all these chains that we covered today did do aren't you guys that does it for our chain from asia Now being poured into america. I guess you could say it's the Please let us know in the comment section below another concept from asia that needs to make its way One for one to the u.s. David you got one. I know one of your favorite restaurants From singapore that has a nice yeah toast box could come over And maybe the only thing that I have to change is they'd have to cut off some of the high labor items on the menu You know what is funny that I would like to see come to america are some of the asian items from the fast food chains Over there to come over here like some of the Chinese mcdonald's items about the mcspicy. Yeah, the chinese mcspicy If there is one sandwich you need to get at the chinese mcdonald's it is this Thanks for watching this video. We are in new york city as of right now, but until next time we out