 You definitely get the duck get all the different types of duck the country-style duck the honey roasted duck get them all They saw didn't retreat. I ain't retreating There is said to be eight different Chinatowns around New York nowadays and probably the most talked about is Manhattan and Flushing But do not sleep on Brooklyn's 8th Ave because it might just be low-key the cheapest and most diverse There's Chongqing chicken pot. No frills fujinis honey roast duck chundu grilled fish top tier egg tarts And of course, Asian McDonald's sandwiches. So hit that like button and let's take a trip to Brooklyn Guys before we get started on this 8th Avenue Sunset Park food crawl make sure you like subscribe leave a comment below for the Algorithm and turn on your notifications according to this eater NY article There are nine different Chinese enclaves or mini Chinatowns in New York City Of course the three biggest being Manhattan Flushing in 8th Ave And a lot of people have been asking us to do this video for quite some time today We are exploring Brooklyn Chinatown a lot of Chinese people started moving to 8th Ave in particular back in the late 1980s and some people say that a lot of Chinese people started because of the number 8 I don't know if that's the main reason but it might have had a little effect because especially in Cantonese Bot rhymes with fought fought is prosperity. It could be a prosperity road. So we're here on 8th and 57th This is a very busy corner. I see durians hanging. We got guys working right here And even the world famous Shin-Fa bakery with their don tot is right there We might have to get in line and we are in Hong Chow district Shanghai right now That's the vibe I get man We like in the outskirts of Shanghai to think that it was only just like 31 years ago when Chinese people really started Moving into this area and they set up a lot of businesses. I still saw some old Italians hanging out I saw a couple, you know, Vinnie and Donnie's out here. So, you know They thought didn't retreat I ain't retreating they loved a little e-bikes out here I don't know who's pushing those in Sunset Park, but I've seen 20 of them already guys. Have you never been to China? Yo, look how low rise that thing is What is famous about this place The egg tarts, the egg tarts are so good There's always a line for the egg tarts because it's fresh and it's crispy. All right, you guys We are in front of what Shin-Fa? Shin-Fa bakery. These are the most famous egg tarts They're po-tots the Portuguese style in New York City. Nice flaky exterior brown on the inside size pretty big You know, it's funny. There's some really famous chashu bao's at Mei Lai Wa in Chinatown, but there's not famous Don't hot no don't I and they're fresh like they just made it like freshly made All right They sell so many that like almost every don't hot you get is gonna be fresh. It's just like the most high spot on 8th Ave Yeah, look at this law Go ahead. Let's just take a bite. Cheers. Hey Does it live up to the hype? They might be the best ones in New York City. I Would give these a 4.5 out of 5. I think the size and the deal that you get you cannot beat Mmm. Mmm. What do you think about it? Like how do you describe it versus like the other ones you have like other places? It's like I don't get diarrhea from this You mean unlike the other spots. Yeah. Yeah. Hey say no more Kelly Hey Brooklyn keeps it real aren't they sort of like the Floyd Mayweather of Don Tots pound for pound But Mike Tyson of course would have destroyed Floyd, but you just got to compare it in class I did want to say Floyd, but Floyd gets paid so much that I don't know that might mess up the analogy But maybe I'm overthinking it. Yeah, Floyd Mayweather You didn't expect to see legitimate luxury goods on the street, huh? Dang, man. I feel like I'm on Rodeo or Madison I mean look at this Oh This is 60 she said 60 bucks for the Yeezy's man as you can see the face is looking good. You got the boost here No, I know a couple people who would rock these so the community is definitely a lot tighter than you'd say the city and then I'm like Chinatown or like Right because it's more of a local population that's been here right where's Chinatown so he's in and out in and out You guys probably don't have a lot of tourists, right? Uh, no actually no nine eight out But like 86 Street or like Manhattan, you know, they're up and coming guys We're at roast 28 here on the corner of 52nd and eight This spot is considered to have the best cheap roast meats even better than wafung in Chinatown, New York You know they're serious about their duck here because they have two different styles They have a ton of different styles of chicken even go guy, which is salt-baked chicken country style Which is a stewed chicken of course typical soy sauce scallion chickens roast wings now I get to something fun Okay, and I want to try all the different duck you have because you have three different style of duck, right? The operation here at roast 28. It is very advanced. There's a lot of people behind there Um, it is a little bit more expensive. So for two each something fun was 850 now That's actually still really cheap considering the quality here But of course, it's a little bit more than wafung, but I guarantee you here They might they might say it's better than wafung so, you know I'm not even gonna pretend like I can differentiate the yim go guy in the honey roast duck in the country stewed duck right now I got to eat it. Okay. This was definitely the country stewed duck Right guys here is the salt-baked chicken. This is something that you can't find at every sue may spot going for a place of the Honey roast up. Wow really good Really good. All right, I'm gonna try this chashu This chashu looks picture-esque, but let's see how juicy it is Mmm, okay, not bad. I thought it was gonna be dry great candy on the outside. Oh Clear out. This guy don't care anyways I'm gonna go ahead and say that roast 28 dollar for dollar is the best deal in New York City for Cantonese roast meats It's not the best I've ever had but for the price and the speed it might be the best My recommendation here If I'm the roast 28 you definitely get the duck get all the different types of duck the country style duck the honey roasted duck Get them all Get the duck Continuing on our sunset park eighth ave crawl. We actually moved over to seventh ave to what Somebody told me was the best search one restaurant that nobody knows about in the entire new york city David we're outside of I think I got the tones completely wrong Tuan Tiansha, but this is Tuan Tiansha Tuan Tiansha is a chain from Chengdu Uh, I believe they do not have any in Flushing or Chinatown Manhattan. Let's check it out We are at the hottest search one restaurant in New York City that is not being talked about Uh, Tuan Tiansha Tuan Tiansha the brand. Okay, so this is okay Brooklyn brand. Yes. A lot of people having Cantonese food and Cantonese food they might want some other Spicy food. So that's my favorite. Andrew. This is the 52 dollar and 99 cent grouper I also got the uh, neuro pin, which is the fatty beef slices for I think like four or five I'm excited because they have the potato noodles right here. This is one of my favorite noodles of all search one grilled fish Okay, Andrew, I know they said that it wasn't bony the grouper, but Be warned. There are still some bones Uh, this would be a pretty tough dish. I feel like for non-asians to get into to be honest like I like it But um, just like the intensity of it. I think even abc's would be shook. This is a search one liang fun As you guys can see clear jelly noodle. This is pretty good Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, that's good I really like this liang fun because it has a lot of fresh chopped garlic So it's got that fragrance and that spice but also has a lot of sweetness. I'm feeling this dish. This is my favorite one right here Yo, the liang fun was hitting that was crazy because you know, you can get liang fun at a lot of spots But this was a 10 out of 10. Wow, this is my this is some of my favorite liang fun I've ever had all right, and we are taking a look at two fujinese dishes There you can find them in chinatown, but not exactly like this I heard that this is more similar to the style that they're eating in fuzhou in 2021 There's a chinatown style that's almost like a hybrid with the kanto look Um, and i'm looking at a razor clams spare rib soup now. I cannot find the razor clams I can just only assume it's in the flavoring of the broth unless there was some sort of misinterpretation But it smells very good. This soup was only six bucks. Wow soup For six bucks with spare ribs guys noodles for 250. I got a lot of food to eat today So i'm only going to take one big bite of this. Let's go Here's my take on the ban min I might actually like the one in the city more only because they're using more sweeter peanut butter So it kind of has that sweetness flavor to it while this one It is actually very high quality and i'm enjoying it the flavor is a lot lighter And there's less sweetness to the peanut butter. Oh my goodness enter. It almost tastes like dad made it It's not too salty this Rib soup with the clam juice is hitting One of the owners just came out. She asked me is this video going to be on doying And I said, you know youtube she did not know what that was So then I just said, yeah, it's going to be on doying. So somebody out there put this on doying Next spot is something that I believe is completely unique from manhattan's china town from flushing This is a chongqing chicken hot pot Now, uh, I think a lot of people are familiar with the mala dry hot pot The things that you might get your lotus leaf your spam and all that other stuff But david this is a little bit different. I've never had chongqing chicken pop before so I'm actually super excited to try this. It told me it's going to take about 20 minutes Hopefully, you know, we'll go in their order check out some other stuff come back Let's do it. Oh my goodness Man, this is really interesting guys, there's holes in these chopsticks so that you can take these extendo clips You know what it is andrew this allows you to get a fresh pair of new chopsticks all the time Guys, you know what it is. They're not wasting an entire chopstick. They're just using half of one So I guess it does help the environment a little bit. You do have to have some good chopstick skills to hold it This far back though chongqing chicken pot A little sweet spicy, but not too much mala Yo It's very important that I bite into this piece of white meat chicken to see how juicy it is Mm. And not only that andrew I have a beef tongue that I added in Wow Yo, yo, I got I got I got crazy theory They crazy theory for the mainstream like americans. They know sechuan or seshuan And they kind of know like chun do a little bit more But chongqing is coming in there with a lot of flavor and it's not as well known about region chongqing is like the austin texas On the rise. This is a pretty interesting map right here, andrew. Uh, you have all the major cities in red right here Here you have beijing. I know how to read that one, but then Dave you said this one's tianjin I was hoping that that was going to be shandong like something where it's shandong Oh, let me see now. Is that not chingdao? Let me see where shandong is It might not be I think a lot of people always think of manhattan china town flushing when it comes to boba But they actually have a unique chain to eighth ab brooklyn only mud flow The mud flow menu is going to mimic actually the drinks that are really popular in china because so many people In eighth ab are from china. I think that they're carrying over the taste Yeah, I got a strawberry milk with strawberry jam pretty unique looking. Yeah. No, this looks really cool And then here I actually have this brown sugar orio latte. So this is a coffee drink They he said to shake it up before you drink it There is a mud flow of sweetness flowing through my veins, but I like it David I always wondered why at bogus shops Sometimes they'll just have a sweet milk drink because I feel like americans wouldn't do that But here's the thing in america When you grow up very like, you know with that american culture you end up drinking a lot of milk So you don't think milk drinks are that special But to chinese people, maybe they don't grow up drinking as much milk So when they're not cow milk, so when they get the chance to drink cow milk and just strawberry jam to them That's a special drink. Yo, you know what this tastes like? valentine's day Wow, dude, I like valentine's day. Give it to me We got a gory youtube s**t Stink industry or if not the distinct neighborhood regarding the fujinese population mixed with mandarin or if not thaisanese Me, I'm thoisan. I'm thaisanese itself So if you mix all these two together, especially with the shopping and also down the restaurant part asia I'm really close with them. Be honest Was there any beef between like the fujinese and the Cantonese like at some point here? I believe so. I believe so. Maybe we've got to ask our ancestors, man But for the young kids, they're not about that, right? Everybody's good. No, we're all good. We're all abc's at the end of the day So David three years ago actually with our friend jack in sinmei I actually did a brooklyn crawl So I hit up a lot of the old spots like the kai fang Dumpling and stuff like that But this spot lao jea was not around and this is kind of symbolic of how the change of eighth av is happening Right, it's the modernization the elevation the commercialization A lot of people like to come here and hang out. So let's go check it out real quick All right, so lao jea is actually a chain from fujin And so they came here to flushing a few years ago and they've just really just grown in popularity since so I'm not going to have time to eat hot pot on this trip. But hey Lin shu hao jay lin's been here. So that's how you know is the spot So guys, we're actually across the street from lao jea over here on 53rd We're outside of hei yi xiao chui You know, I didn't know fujinese people eat so much seafood but it makes sense because fujin is next to the water But not at all fujinese restaurants. Do you get seafood? Do you like the food better in eighth av or flushing for you? For me, I like gonna for the eighth av Okay, because you're fujinese, right? So there's more like fujinese food, right? So you're saying that eighth av has the best fujinese food in all of the city Hey, man, it sounds pretty cool. Look at the structure. Look how old it is Look at the brick the color the setup does this look like that we might be in a beijing hutong Yeah, either a beijing hutong or maybe old macau possible David, what are we looking at here? This is usually a pork soup. That's what the fujinese give you here You have your pan fried dumplings or guo tia jiaozi Okay, and then david here you have some interesting seafood chao ngao aka rice cakes The second I see this, I immediately know it is fujinese style because people from food zone Especially your shaman, they love seafood. It's really fresh. It's not bad You know for five dollars, I could see someone picking this up for lunch. That's a lot of carbs though We have the guo tia, the guo tia, guo zas Oh, these are not bad. Wow You know what I noticed Is that um Sometimes fujinese people they tend to cook the filling almost in a soy sauce braised So you don't really need to dip it in soy sauce because the inside's already been braised in it. There's the thing About china town sometimes you go to a spot you get like 10 of these for like three dollars But they're not freshly cooked. They've been sitting there now. These are freshly grilled So i'm gonna say that this is worth it. All right, we're here on seventh av at taiwan station It's ran by taiwanese people and I do think a taiwanese snack shop like this is hard to find in Manhattan In fact, I don't know of one. So I gotta go inside and grab some here at taiwan station These two items the taiwanese sausage and the chopped up g pie chicken steak I mean um Okay tender not too peppery though If you are looking to mimic that night market ye shichang style This is pretty much spot-on Yeah, I would say the chicken is really tender. Maybe it's like too tender The crust isn't very thick, but it tastes good guys. I feel like i'm in taiwan right now Andrew, let's be honest you were enticed by the guangkang commercial Man, I saw this picture for this like pink strawberry Kind of baguette. I really want to try it. We're here outside of barley time. It's a relatively new bakery It's in all gold. Look the sign is in gold. It looks upscale. Maybe it's just my mind Maybe it's fake gold and i'm just it's just tricking me. Okay, but it's working. That's how i'm saying Yo this spot Feels like china like how decorated it is how big it is how new it is Okay here you kind of have this little fast food replication of A egg salad sandwich and a fried chicken salad. Is that a chicken nugget inside of a mini slider? This is like a kid's meal man. This is really interesting. Let's try it I don't know if french people would uh approve of this brioche baguette, but guess what? cares It was a chicken nugget In a sesame bun, but the sesame bun was delicious actually. Yo This is good Trying the egg salad sandwich and then i'm about to jump on that. This is good This strawberry cream brioche baguette is good. I'm gonna give it a four out of five Yo, you know where I feel like i'm at right now Church I feel like i'm at church growing up man. I haven't had this vibe in a while I'm not gonna lie. I haven't been to church in a while. What is it about barley time? That turns you into an imitation of a six-year-old There's been a recent trend in very chinese enclaves around america where a young Enterprising person notices that the mcdonalds in china Tastes better at least to them than the ones in america So what they do is they decide to open up their own chain Mimicking chinese mcdonalds So this is miss dong burger and the goal of this spot is to recreate some of the chinese mcdonalds burgers knowing That probably mcdonalds america will never serve fried chicken thigh and crispy chicken filet sandwiches You know, we are big fans of obviously asian mcdonalds. Let's check it out. This year. Wow look Blue and pink boxes very aesthetic. Let's go ahead eighth ab You guys eighth ab is just bustling So here's actually what I noticed between eighth and seventh ab seventh ab is way more chill Wider streets less busy. It actually has all the pharmacies the health clinics a lot of the schools The kids are on that side eighth ab is where all the commerce is the shops the fruit stands the market Everything and we're looking at miss dong burger. They said they've been around for about uh four years Guys, this really does look like a fast food burger Everything from the bun to the lettuce to the tomato miss dong's asian burgers I'm not gonna lie guys miss dong's is not necessarily fast food. It still took about 10 to 15 minutes for this food The shrimp is freshly fried It even has a little bit of shell on the tail add that little extra crunch This is the peaking duck fried chicken wrap from miss dong's designed to imitate kfc china And here I have your fast food chicken wings right here Hopefully this tastes just like the mcdonalds china chicken wings I'd say it's a little bready This one, you know a little bit too much heavy crust But overall it does get the flavor down of peaking duck. It has the temin jiang All right, everybody We're gonna wrap it up here for our eighth ab sunset park brooklyn china town crawl Listen, I know that we didn't get to everything And I know that there are some spots that are you know the legendary spots that we just didn't show But we've shown those in past videos and a lot other people have reviewed them We wanted to show a lot of like the new spots the spots that can't came up in the last like three four years And I think we also wanted to showcase things that are difficult to find particularly in manhattan's china town or even flushing like for example These uh asia imitation chains Um, I don't think you can get them in china town, but I wish you could because I would go there Honestly, these are good. What was your favorite man for me? I'm going to go with the chongqing chicken pot That was my favorite. I think it could have even used more improvements But I just love chicken pots whether that's guanmen ji Or the you know chongqing one. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie I'm not saying this is the best thing I had in brooklyn, but this was a delicious chicken wing. This was fresh salty crispy Just perfect. All right, you guys. Thank you so much for watching this eighth ab crawl Like I said, if you let us know in the comment section below what else we need to check out That's in the area a little bit further out. Let us know by the way this miss dong chicken wing was incredible Hey, david you think uh we can uh make it back by scooter Okay