 Tell me why Thanos just seemed like a strict asian dad. I think as an asian. I really like Yeah, I was just like, yeah, I mean I get where he's coming from. He's just trying to be strict on humanity Yo, what's going on everybody? Welcome to another episode of the hot pot boys And let me tell you this it is getting very hot today. I'm not gonna lie guys I'm almost embarrassed to admit that we have yet to cover this cuisine. Oh, we are at One of the new school modern search one restaurants in a six-two-six Hip-hot It could have been based off hip-hop. So this food today It's a gonna be a mixture of traditional Chengdu food and Chengdu is known to be the Gastronomic center of China Chengdu food by some people is considered the most flavorful food in the entire world I'm super excited bro. We have some professional food experts to help us guide us through this journey The owner of hip-hot is from Chengdu China one of the partners in the restaurants is Cantonese So they created a crazy mashup fusion cuisine that is still authentically Chengdu But it's got influences from everywhere. Let's go. How about boys hop hot tight? All right, so before we get into the food we have to introduce our foodie guests foodie experts Jocelyn and just eat you guys have a huge falling on Instagram under hangry diary under hangry diary So what are we looking at right here? Oh man, I got a lot of sauce of mine Oh, it's really good though. So this is a low calorie good for summer It's funny because usually things that are considered refreshing are not spicy But this is like refreshing and spicy and that's why I think Chengdu food is so interesting because you're gonna have something cold That's nice to eat, but it's actually gonna give you that kid smoky scallop I've never had a scallop like that. So that was not that spicy But it's actually a little bit sweet Has a smoky barbecue flavor a little bit feels and tastes like a clam more than a scallop That's why I was kind of you know intrigued by that, but it tastes really good Now we got the spicy squid firefly squid you guys this is very unique to hip hop First of all, I do want to note that some people are gonna be looking at this and kind of being like you like look at those Squids you see all the legs. It looks so real Firefly squid That was better than I thought I didn't know what to expect That is the most tender monster. I've ever eaten does not taste like how it looks like to me It's still the explosion of juice. Yeah, that was crazy. What do you guys think about ABC's like us not fully eating? Like the adventurous things well, I do think you guys eat a lot of Interesting it's just that people don't get used to it, but they taste actually really good. I just think that They just got to be a little more adventurous and try new things You know, I mean if the trend is changing the culture is changing you gotta live up to This is really traditional in Chengdu man, they love Chuan Chuan man They eat it like 2 a.m. Yo, I remember when we were in Chengdu. That was the first time I'd ever been there and Everybody just has a huge pot of this and they're just eating skewer after skewer The chef told me that these little flags here on the skewers are like essentially what like a fortune cookie would say so something nice Something encouraging You're gonna eat up all the food other food bloggers. Yeah destroy them I'm gonna try this tofu skin real quick Because if you know about tofu skins don't repeat it really soaks up All right We have our next round of food and these are actually more traditional So Chuan Chengdu dishes. Yeah, I think the Chuan charm was very traditional the lamb fun and then the scallops and the squid were more Like new school. Yeah So what do we have here? Acid and a lot of people don't know that my poor tofu actually means like It's kind of a bad name right well It was named after of the lady who made it supposedly the story goes that she has a lot of scars on her face They just named after her scars The original my poor tofu This is the real thing Fire First my logistic really had it's it's coming you feel it right a little tingly feeling And the strong bean paste very very strong But I love the tofu some some bottle tofus are really soft tofus really soft. This is a very firm This is the swan chai not red, but it's still super hot swan chai you sour veggie fish I think a lot of people initially might be like ooh sour soup, but you don't mean like Not every culture has a sour soup, but Thai people eat sour soup There's a lot of great sour soups out there, but it's not I don't think enough to the American palate. It makes sense The farmers only had vegetables and they traded with the fishermen and they fuse the two the cod and the veggies No, you see David sweat right there real sweat eyebrow you glistening dog It's like it's like spicy without being heavy this one. Yeah, you know, it's a light spicy I think and that comes from peppers. There's a couple different types of peppers in there. I see red I say green and jalapeno So here we are entering the seafood around now This is what really sets hip-hop apart from other search one restaurants because only until recent history What left past 10 20 years has the region of search one gotten heavy amounts of seafood So let's start with the appetizer of the seafood section We have a uni steamed egg the search one restaurant. This steamed egg is quite common, right? But not the uni part So this is not just any ordinary steamed egg guys if the egg is mixed with a shrimp soup Wow, that egg is super light Let's move on to the razor Man, that's actually a lot of razor clams razor clams This tastes very Cantonese, you know, it's such a mixture between Cantonese and Sichuan No, no, they do love razor clams in Hong Kong, but they wouldn't serve it like that, right? Yo guys, what's the verdict on razor clams? What do you guys think about versus regular clams? They actually have a lot more meat and would you guys agree they taste a lot more chewy, too Yeah, would you guys agree that they taste a lot less sandy like sometimes regular clams can taste really like Because this is like a bigger piece I would say that almost razor clams maybe to almost taste a little bit like If you think clams at all have like a bunk to it razor clams, I will say I think the little clams Per square centimeter have more flavor. It's about a pound tastier The razor clams are more designed to take on the flavor profile of the sauce that it's cooked in Hangry just say it just say what you say think if you disagree say it You're right It's the signature dishes at hip-hop. This is this signature dish here At hip-hop clear the table for the crab Yo, so a lot of people I feel like they're not used to eating crab one cooked like this two with potatoes Three fried potatoes and rice cakes. So this is why this is an interesting dish Oh, I could see why hangry's a food blogger. She ripped apart that leg with expertise She didn't know what she was doing Show the abc's how to eat a crab leg because you you destroyed that you destroyed that with surgical precision What? Oh, okay first, okay never So you can't like a combo so you get both such one crab would have thought I never heard of such a thing. That's why I said hip-hop serves the best crab in town What do you think about all the genre mashing between chinese provinces? Because 20 years ago The people from that province is like they only like their own style of food Right, but now 20 30 years later. It's like so much You know like fusion now people can can't find like what specials on the internet and they are keen to try these So that's why they're like more infused dishes and that's why they're more like seasonal dishes up in Up in la or even in china right now you right now in all of la you're saying that the hip-hop crab Is your number one crab? Yes Number one crab. Okay. We are here with chef chou. Thank you chef chou What do you uh, hope that people take away from your restaurant because hip-hop It's got so many new things and so many new styles Maybe styles of interpreting Sichuan cuisine that nobody has seen before very self very rare You know compared to the more the traditional restaurants. Those are great too, but you are doing something new here What do you hope that people take away from this? I hope when they eat they Don't think too much just judge by their tongue If this that's something you like it's something you like don't think too much like it's Traditional or this more than we can go back to the store But the most important is you your tongue really likes not your brain It's the taste. Wow. Follow your tongue chef chou hip-hop Sichuan crawfish And this is a gigantic crawfish. There's almost lobster status To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of crawfish usually this has so much flavor That crap to me Are you with that? As you care for an inhaling Sichuan oil straight up no cap. That's the best crawfish I've ever had in my life. Yeah I'm not a fan of crawfish and I'm digging this man. This is my third one or this is what delicious I actually think you could cook anything With this flavor that whether it be crab shrimp or crawfish and it would be delicious I don't even like crawfish, but this I ate the most crawfish in my whole entire life in one setting Shredded potato shrimp soong soong sha it almost tastes like Potato chip fried shrimp. Yeah shrimp. It's like shrimp chips Well, I also try a lot of fried shrimp at different places But this one is different because it comes with the shredded potatoes And it's so crispy that you can hear the sound Right the potato floss is really addicting because it kind of like melts in your mouth. It's a little bit chewy It's crispy, but then it all kind of like shrinks in your mouth. What was your favorite dish? Man, I gotta just go with the crawfish. Wow. Yeah, the reason I have to go with the crawfish is because anytime there's a A spot that can kind of like convert me not liking something I'm just like hey, you know, it's good. Just piggyback off. You're saying like when you When you like something you normally don't like that's when you know, it's good I personally was wowed by What's the mall for tofu? Oh That was really good with the big chunks of leek and onion and then it was the soybean sauce was very very strong Did you notice it was not silken tofu? No, that's it was firm tofu crab crab number one Well, I can't eat it alone for the crab because it comes with rice cake. What's the number two? That is the shredded potato shrimp It's so you need that I can't find it anywhere else in LA right now. Just see what you're going to do That firefly squid, you're right. No squidiness And squidiness being theoretically about it. No, no, no, I would say between the squid and the crawfish Those are two things that I'm not huge fans of that they killed it here And they're so good And it's sort of like chew said chew same earlier that she doesn't want people to focus on whether this restaurant is traditional or fusion or modern Sichuan or fusion with Cantonese She said that all those all those things may be true, but she does not want people to think about that It's just about did this taste amazing. Thank you so much for watching this episode of hip hop Shout out to chef chew shout out to the partners here shout out to hangry shout out to justine Jocelyn everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you for providing your expertise and your opinions And shout out to chef chew for being so cool and shout out to our partner as well All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching that episode of fun bro's food. We're with hangry diary We're at hip hop moderate park shout out to nelly now Let us know in the comments below if you guys know of any other restaurants that are doing really cool things around LA Especially the six to six. We'll want to check them out. All right, everybody Thank you again. Follow hangry diary davin nelson andrew Justin and justine we out