 This is my first time trying it because, you know, I didn't want to try the ops for a long time Yo, I like this part of the pork right here that looks like that means gonna come off real nicely Yeah, and it did right there. I think Has the best full broth chicken and beef that I've maybe ever had Little known fact Philadelphia has the largest amount of Vietnamese outside of California and Texas Which means the fall has to be banging and the Asian parties are super lit So let's see how much better this Philly for is then New York City Welcome everybody to an episode of farm grows food We're here out in Philly today helping host a book event for our guys see mulew But before we go to that event, I'm out here with the via plug a B That's good And we are going to be going to the most iconic Vietnamese shops in all of Philly All right, you guys have come from New York guys been talking about Philly for a minute It's been a long time since you've been in the city I'm gonna take you guys to the top four spots in Philadelphia. All right Is one of the spots gonna be your parents shop? Of course. All right, but first before that we got to check out for 75 Hey, what's going on everybody? 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You definitely get the football outfit or any type of beef that you like if you don't like doing all the Tripe and everything but you definitely got to get the hang-zum and the nook bail which is Like the fatty scallion oil and then the vinegar onions Okay, so the foods arrived and this looks like delicious for but it looks like for but these two things we got to talk about this AB all right We got the nook bail right here, which is uh the fat skin from the top of the broth melt it down with some Scallion tips just drop that into your full hang-zum right here, which is vinegar onions Okay, so these are like pickled onions. You could throw it right in the bowl with the nook bail Do I just pour it all in just pour just pour a bit in I mean you don't want your cholesterol going too hot Okay, don't scallion for at first 75 That is beefy and oily Wow. See I didn't even think about the sriracha or the hoisinia Guys, I'm telling you for the price and it being in the city plus the nook bail the oil on top I got to give this a five out of five You know what it is it tastes like the broth could almost just be sold on its own as a beef soup Hey, and you know it's good because it's cash on the second spot in the plaza is for God tan tan now For God is not popular in every city like for example in New York You can't find a good chicken for but out in Philly. You really can why is that I think it's all about the ingredients There's a lot of poultry shops that sell live chicken here. So, you know, that's where we get it That's where we source our meat. All right, let's go All right, what did you just order? So I ordered two plain puffs small and a half a chicken That's how you do it, you know, you get the chicken on the side Pick that in and put it in your bowl. Okay. So I saw that they also What is that the chicken liver on top like the brown pieces? Yeah, you'll get some organs You get liver heart gizzard as well. Is this for God? How does it match up to your parents spot hang long? Yo, this is my first time trying it because you know, I didn't want to try the ops for a long time See that yellow skin not You see that yellow skin not all chicken Come out like that. All right, AB We got to be honest that you didn't want to try this spot because for a long time They were the direct competitor to one of your parent spots. They were right across the street You know, I have my own chicken fun. I just didn't want to go. All right All right. All right So so I need you to give an oath real quick that you are going to give your most honest opinion And if it is better than your parents spot if it happens to be then you're gonna say it I'm an honest guy. I'll you know, I'm sure I'll right now So this style is not going to be familiar to a lot of people outside of a vietnamese area because you have a plain broth Fuh, right? Yep. And then you have the chicken on the side and we're going to be dipping the chicken In this sauce right here with the chilies and what salt and lime. Yep, lemon pepper. Oh Man, it's different. It's definitely different from my mom's. It's way lighter So grab this piece right here. You got the breast meat. I got a thigh piece. Okay. All right. You got to dip it in the Lemon pepper right here. They like to call it the crack sauce. Okay All right, ab so in your initial thoughts, which one is better? My mom spots better man. Come on That was pretty good though. It's good. No, it's delicious man Yo, we're gonna we're gonna try tang long at the end of this video When you guys order for god in other cities, it will not come like this The chicken will be like chicken breast pieces in here. Basically if the spot doesn't focus on for god It's not gonna be good. I'm gonna give it a 4.75 out of five I'm gonna leave a little bit of room for the five, but this chicken is delicious That's good. I'm gonna give it a 4.5 out of five Especially once you dip the chicken in the crack sauce and then some of the crack sauce gets in the fuh Definitely a 4.5 out of five. All right, so we just left fuh god, tan tan And I'm gonna say I'm gonna bump them up another 0.25 for how many abg's we're in there eating fuh There's a lot of there's a lot of shorties in uh south philly man more people come out here than kensington All right, so we ate at two spots already. I need to take a break. I need some refreshing puhti Let's go into mr. Wish right here Have a drink make a wish Look how murky that is. I like that. That's how you know, there's a lot of fruit I've not had a drink like this since the shilin night market in taipei taiwan bro Mr. Wish is from taiwan. So, you know, they're giving you authentic buy All right, our third spot is cafe non. What are we going to get here ab? I get the boom bahui fried chicken and the beef fuh. Thanks bro. Appreciate that I get the boom bahui right up there. Um With the pig with the pig feet and everything, um chicken wings and uh the ball With the bone and everything yo, I like this part of the pork right here That looks like that meat's gonna come off real nicely and it did that's the oof right there All right. There's the bumble whey here I'm gonna go in first thing I'm gonna do is taste the broth It's spicy man. You can get it spicier too. You asked for the house peppers Lots of kick. It's gonna kick you cafe non That is really good. I'm telling you this is one of the most hearty beef fuzz in the city Like this will have you full for most of the day, you know, sometimes you get hungry later on The broth here is really like husky. So all right personally guys All the fuzz I've had in this video is delicious so far But I'm gonna say that this gets the edge over for 75 man. This is so beefy There's a little bit of oil on top. Like you said it hits hard that broth is husky. I love it guys I mean this broth is so rich. It really feels like I'm eating like a tonkatsu ramen or you know I'm going to a really rich fatty Chinese beef noodle soup spot the neuro man and I'm just gonna tell you this man This might not be for everybody, but this bowl of fuzz is for me I have two other iconic dishes here at cafe not you got the vietnamese chicken wings right here Let me break that open for you As you know, I'm a chicken wing fiend It's there's a scallion. There's a fried shrimp already and then it's wrapped in a one-ton skin I'm gonna eat this first man. I go for it. I never had this before Because I've had vietnamese like shrimp rolls before but not like this Wings no sauce Your fingers are burning aren't you? Yeah, it's worth it. It's worth the burn. It's worth the burn What's you guys taking a quick break from fuzz spots here in philadelphia? We're in south philly right now. AB. Tell us where we're at. We're at peas and queues. Let's check it out Let's get you fitted for the seamen event tonight. All right All right, we're with the owners of peas and queues rick and key. What's up? Yo, man, tell us about you guys's shop. These and queues. Uh, it's not just a clothing store We feel like we're more of a community-based shop that kind of really focused on like uh the creative vibes for philadelphia Yeah, and we've been here for uh, 10 year almost 10 years now. So we are happy to excited to start the community Yeah, this one is dope. All right grab a pair of shorts. What do you think of this? Oh, this is the rick set. You gotta grab this. He actually designed it himself right here You know, I heard dea dora is local to philly now as far as their american headquarters. I gotta get a pair of those Yeah This is tough man with the aged midsole made in italia Hey, I love it right now. This is so in right now and I love that everything's in the house too This is the peas and queues in the house brand. I think you need a rose cap. Oh, man This is dope. What is this based off of this rose cap? So if you see on the side, we originally came from chinatown philly Actually, so it says chinatown in chinese Aren't you guys we're gonna do a quick tour of peas and queues man. What are we looking at? Uh, this section here there used to be a map behind here. It didn't work out for us We put a whole bunch of wood on there. So that's some book bags some travel goods Over here is our particular section the local section. So all anything that's local brand philadelphia is all right here in this whole section Bumper total I think it's really important that we bring in local brands because a lot of the young kids Is trying to start up a brand and we got they need a platform So we offer them are you know one of our platforms to sell their stuff here They keep all the profits and everything from themselves and you know, it's really awesome that you know You have real estate in the store when you have a brand next up abe Where we're going going to home base ketherington tanglong. Let's go the dragon All right, so for our last and final vietnamese spot We have made it to north philly wearing kensington and we are at your family spot tanglong Can you tell me what it means tanglong used to be the old name of hanoi before change the hanoi and tanglong means like rising dragon Let's go inside Right, actually like six years ago. We filmed that episode of our tv show broke bites What the fun here and uh, I mean that was cool. It was a long time ago, man But now we back and we're doing a youtube style. Let's go in the back Can I ask you what makes your guys's uh chicken foot so good sauce the sauce is the money The lemon grass didn't sauce with the pepper. All right our fourth and final spot, man We're here at your family spot tanglong the food has came out now You guys have actually won an award for the beef. Uh, but I bought a newspaper Yeah, the newspaper said the beef was the one but you would say that the chicken foot is the one Yeah, because we had the chicken shop right next door the live poultry shop So it's as fresh as it gets. They're literally just clucking right next door. We got to start off with the chicken Uh yellow skin, of course looking very juicy. You're gonna dip it in the sauce right here I'm gonna get that lemon pepper. Maybe the chicken that fuck uh, tan tan was very comparable But I think your guys is brought this way better. Hey, man, that's your opinion I already said I like my mom's bottom already biased That's true. But no, honestly, that was really good, man And we ate here before six years ago and I thought it was the best fog I've ever had and I would still say It still ranks up there compare this Tanglong's broth for the chicken is way stronger. I think um, the chicken is comparable I think the chicken gives a slight notch. I will give Maybe just a shout out to foot a god tan tan. I like their crack sauce a lot a lot But in terms of where you guys need to go in Philly to get chicken fog Let me get a dark meat piece right here come to tang long Tang long Kensington, I'm not just saying this because abe's behind the camera is the best overall for god I've had in america. It's almost like it has its own chicken nook bill on top Which is like chicken oil and chicken essence. All right, you guys, uh, like we said tang long Best chicken fog in philly. However, we do got to get into their beef because uh, they won an award for the beef too There's a couple spots in new york. I got a shout out to one spy in chinatown Fubang it does taste like philly level. That's the new standard is it's philly. Hold on. Hold on a lot of ginger Dairy hat noi style Wow, no, your guys' broth is crazy too You know what I noticed about this is that I almost have a reverse vibe from caffeine non Cafe non did not have a lot of ginger and it had a ton of the fatty vibe This has very little oil on top and a ton of ginger All right, so the boom chowhan is pretty much like a boom tea noom So it's like pork belly But then the difference is the way it's set up So you see it's marinating in the fish sauce you get the meatball right here too Which is my favorite eat ball. I got the carrots and whatnot. Do I need any extra sauce? Up to you And then I just eat it like that It's almost yeah, it is a deconstructed vermicelli bowl right here. Let's go in. Let me get you some All right, boom chowhan noi from tang long in kensington You guys the spot overall beef chicken boom chowhan noi It's crazy, man. I hope I'm not just saying that to hype me up because we home me school I'm really not. I'm really not man. That is one of the best boom chowhan nois I've ever had Of course we saw vntn Sunny, this is your restaurant. This is the first loud spot in philly, right? Yep. My parents started Okay, and then when you took over did you try to like switch things up and update it or did you how much of the same did you keep I kept it by like 80% the same and then 20% is my little twist to it All right, tell us about what we're looking at because this is like pretty fancy presentation Thank you. I try so the first one we have is uh, we actually call it site golf in lao I know some places call it site oa pretty much the same thing the difference is site oil is more fermented So it has a little sour to this to it. This is the site golf which is not fermented There's gonna be a pork lemongrass sausage So my choice will be the ginger habanero sauce Every family have a their own version and my my version is the sauce is a different one. Okay Here is my mom's recipe of the beef jerky called esteem hang Um, it's gonna be paired with my mom's sauce here It's a chili paste with a little bit of peanut in there and soy sauce called nam khao with the cured pork And this is a lettuce wrap. This is the most popular Like party food in the lao culture and this is my twist right here bing gai or talk bing gai which is Fried chicken wings chili oil that I developed during the pandemic sold online at its own and also at some local markets Yep, local markets online and this is you with your hands. Yep. All right. My hands are clean hands are clean We got it going with the soy cock cycle cycle. All right cycle We're gonna call this the jail Eat this hold on hold on hold on I just ate a bunch of bean in these food, but I got a second wind my other stomach open the heart the gut Yeah, what would it be this esteem hang which is a beef jerky And this one here is the crowd favorite It's like sweet Cheers cheers cheers a lao crispy sweet like a crispy sweet fried rice with um A little bit coconut in there Next up we got the wings bing gai one fighter. Okay Good. I love lao food. And of course here we got the lao papaya salad to end it off Cool minty sweet a little bit spice and you know what I like about this one sometimes um in the uh Papaya salads, you don't really get much greens, but this one got a pretty good amount of greens Go to tang long and go to bfm north philly kensington Boom and everybody that wraps up our vietnamese crawl through philly Uh, ab why do you think the vietnamese food in philly is considered so good though? Like is there some historical context? Maybe yeah, like there's been a lot of immigrants from the 80s I heard even some from the 50s. I came over here. So there's a large vietnamese presence here So when immigrants come they're going to bring their food with them philly delphia has the best vietnamese food on the east coast Now I do need to spend a little bit more time in boston. I heard bosses pretty good, you know, but uh I know that compared to new york dollar for dollar philly's got it All right, you guys we are here for simu leo's uh book launch in philly of his book. We were dreamers It's his autobiography. We are going to be uh moderating tonight So it's really cool to see everybody online like take a look All right, you guys we are headed to the green room right now if it was up to simu Yeah, these are these are two pretty incredible friends of mine. They've been you know in the youtube game for something like 10 years and uh, you know, they've been they've been kind of, uh, Rocking with asian asian american culture talking about food talking about, you know, politics and identity and and all that You know, we're two million youtube subscribers. They're uh, you know, really great friends of mine today So please guys put your hands together for the phone bro. It gives you the beat What happened where's your dreams at man? Did you achieve it? We we were dreamers just it just sounds so good I feel like that's almost exactly Why it's so important to kind of coax it out of them because they really aren't these incredible stories of an inspiration of sacrifice Of perseverance. I think I think I think it's this even though I wanted to rebel against my parents expectations of me I was so like their influence of like success the definition of success was so pervasive That it affected like I was completely unable to imagine A pathway outside of the one that they set for me. All right, everybody So we didn't have time to go get philly cheese steaks in philly. I know there's a lot of great spots Not pats and geno's only but de lasandros. There's angelos. There's jacks. There's maxes However, I'm getting the most authentic cheese steaks at shorties in new york city They bring their bread in from philly every day And they bake it here fresh guys. This is the original philly cheese steak with whiz with onions. Uh, let me try this out That bread is really good and the whiz is flowing out and I gotta say man Maybe maybe the philly cheese steak is the precursor to the chopped cheese I mean, I know the chopped cheese is kind of like a cheeseburger But it's kind of like a philly too. So I don't know. Maybe it's like a cross between but this is pretty good Juicy the broccoli rob is hitting wow Wow Hey, I know not everybody has time to go to philly and sometimes when you are in philly You're too busy to go get the cheese steaks, but I would say shorties is a pretty good You know representation of it. I would say my first choice is definitely the original whiz and with onions And then I would say that roast pork sandwich is pretty good too But you know what you don't have to take my word for it because I know I'm not a philly food expert But you know, you check out the reviews for shorties and you know, come check it out in new york