 Yeah, Mike, let's go. Markham, Ontario is the fourth-largest city in the greater Toronto area. Half of its 350,000 residents are Asian and mostly Chinese. It holds a lot of similarities to Richmond, Vancouver, the St. Gabriel Valley in LA, and Flushing, Queens. With that said, it was important to check it out on our most recent trip to Toronto. This is Mike and Sheldon from Canto Mando, and this is Karen, aka Fruity Poppin. They're Markham natives, and we're gonna be going around to the most iconic cheap food courts in the city. We start at the world-famous Pacific Mall. Even Russell Peters talked about it in his viral stand-up comedy set years back. I went to this Chinese mall. Some of you may know it, Pacific Mall. That's the wrong place for an Indian guy to go. Hidden footwear gem, right? Yeah, this is actually a footwear gem. They have all this random, super old sneakers, but they're mad cheap inside. They've got Dwight in the Orlando gear. Yo! So this is where your parents go when you're young and you want ball shoes, but they don't want to spend it at the expensive Nike store, so they go here to today's sports where they get you the gear. Guys, so we're here on the second floor. Second floor is where all the food is, but it's also where the most important thing is that arcade that no one ever goes to is. Yeah. See a lot of little kids in there, though. Oh, they're privileged. They're privileged, yeah. Want something quick? Go here. If you want something like sit down and choose what you eat, go that side. Pacific Mall is the most famous mall in Markham. Something? Something? Psy? Psy? Could I have a Psy? Psy. We're gonna be on the Kanto Mall. I'm with Kanto, Mando, and Karen, who's also Kanto. Can you give me the winner's card, please? Thank you. I really like this little egg. It's so fresh, so, so, so, so good. The lady was complaining that if she puts it in a bag, that it'll steam and get soggy, and it won't be crispy anymore. It's veteran tactics, man. It's a little bit spicy. It's a little bit spicy. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Wow, that's good. How fluffy. Why do Cantonese people love the word fluffy? How fluffy? If you're describing like a cake, a fluffy cake is better than a hard cake, right? Right. And it's definitely like the mixture of English in Canton like the, what would you call it? Canticlish. Canticlish? Canticam is big English. Let's keep it moving, guys, to go to the next spot. And then this lady's doing nails right here. It's perfect, man. You get your nails done, you get a meal, your tattoos, and you all you do it. This is a Beijing street food, right? Cold? Yeah, I've had this grilled cold noodle. I've had it, but not all. This is where we go for like the curry fish balls, beef skewer, the beef internal skewers and stuff. Oh, man, let's get some freaky stuff. This is the food in Beijing. Wow. This is a famous Beijing street food. This is the meat. This is the meat. And then this, we have young lotus root. Okay. And the chicken skewer, I don't know how to say this. This is a... This is like cartilage, chicken cartilage. This is... This is the most famous chicken in Hong Kong, I don't know, curry fish balls, and pork intestines, random beef stuff. Oh, it's just like in that style. This is fried fish skin. This is an amazing snack. But it's very... Eat hay is when you eat too many like fried, dry snacks, and like, you know, you're gonna get like pimples, like nosebleed and stuff. I, to this day, have no idea what eat hay actually means. Civic foods give you fire reader. There's more mainland people coming in, more Mandarin speakers. How do you guys feel about it? It's funny because I actually grew up thinking the majority Chinese in the world was Cantonese. Until high school, I didn't know that China was like majority Mandarin speakers. I thought I was majority. I thought, yeah, exactly how I was thinking. Everyone around me would speak Mandarin. Really? Yeah, but I would speak Cantonese, and I wouldn't really understand it, and I told my mom, she was like, oh, that's why you need to go to Mando's school. When I was growing up, because I'm the only Mandarin, right, and all my friends are Cantonese. Yeah, because I'm like, you're Chinese, I'm Chinese, but I can't communicate with them, you know what I mean? Are we the same or are we different? Same, same, but different. Same, but different, yeah. Same, same, but different. Should we eat or should we wait? Cheers. I guess we're cheers all the time. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Mm, the meat, hey, it hit me hard. Good, the meat is right. Oh, the exterior is a noodle. It's a noodle. It's a noodle, that is definitely a noodle. It's such a thick noodle. It's kind of like pasta. I don't like intestines though. It's not his biggest fear. I think I'm thinking about it too much. OK, I want to set the record straight. People call this dish intestine, but it's actually the colon. This is like one of my favorite things to eat. Really? Mm, yummy. I like the curry fish balls. It's not sour. What did you say this was? Chicken knuckle. Chicken cartilage. You like it? It's good, it's good, it's good. You confirm. I'm from the Xi'an. You are from Xi'an. The spice is totally on point. The meat will be a little bit better. I'm looking at this, I'm like, yo, why is it so small? These are small. These are tiny. Have you ever been to the streets in Xi'an? It's like a wind spear, and then you get like huge chunks of meat. This is the make your date fun kind of food. Oh, you never had this stuff? Oh, yo, you gotta try it, man. What's wrong? You gotta try it, you gotta try it. The guy gets this on the first date with you. Is he trying to? He's trying to test you. Trying to test you. Like, he thinks I can't handle it, but it's not a little bit to know. I feel kind of bad that we got all the weird kids and these stuff. Candy food is not this weird all the time. He got like fake rice and stuff, yeah. It's like eating the sponge. So this is what they call a Chinese hamburger. They chop up the meat, they mince it. Yeah. And that's pork. All staring at Karen eat. People from the south. Art everybody that wraps it up here at Pacific Mall, aka P-Mall. And right now we're going to go to Sheldon's family's Macanese restaurant. Macanese HK. P-Mall doesn't look like your typical Westfield mall you'll find in America. It reminded me a lot more of something you'd find in Asia, but with more space. It's accessible, it's cheap, it's kind of random, and it's a cornerstone of so many people's challenges. Okay, so our next stop here, we're at Kenny Noodle's. Kenny's Noodle. Kenny's Noodle. That was so fobby. It's so fobby. I said Kenny Noodle. So no, it's fobby because it's, there's no, it's the single Noodle. It's just. Kenny Noodle. So it's his Noodle. This is my family restaurant. And the funny part of this is that I have no idea who Kenny is. Maybe they wanted to name you Kenny, but then when was Sheldon he said. Yeah. It's kind of easy to say if you can't underneath Ken's Noodle. Ken's Noodle. Ken's Noodle. Ken's Noodle. It's easy to say if you can't underneath Kenny. Yeah, Kenny. Kenny's Noodle. Let's go check out Kenny's Noodle. Second one, please. Kenny, you're from, and you're probably from the Six. Did you go to Pacific Mall a lot growing up? When I was a kid, yeah. I used to be in the spot. What are some of your fondest memories of? Fish balls. It's in the fish balls there. It's definitely getting the fried pigeon right there. Pigeon is actually delicious. You guys have never had pigeon before? I've never had pigeon before. We came here just to eat a pigeon. Not a quail. So how did you source them? The balcony? You guys got them from like a pigeon farm. Yeah. I just leave it as it is. Obviously. Obviously. This was the most random thing I've ever seen in my life. The lights. Wait, why are there apple lights? I know. Is there apple lights? Ooh. Thank you. I'll get close up. Oh, okay. Who's had it? Have you? No. You? I haven't. No. How have you not had it? I come here almost every single day, and I kind of order the same things. I order the same eight things every single time. The egg yolk batter, fried cooktop. Oh, it's so hot. It's so hot. Guys, it's hot. In canto, I don't know if this one is cold, but like if you coat it with egg yolk, it's called gamja. It's translated to English. It's like... Gold sand. Gold sand. Oh. There's no bones. No bones, yeah. That's why I like it. That's the difference between white people and Asian people, is that there's white people who love the lake. Picking bones is part of eating for Asian people. And I think also just historically, like, I mean, back then, China was really poor, right? Yeah. And so you want every single part of the meat. But that's what I wanted. Because now, Chinese people like wasting food. If you're super rich, what you do is that you end up ordering more just to show people that I'm rich and I can pay for everything. Right, it's like flex. Yeah, it's like sharing the pigeon. Hold on. Let me just... Okay. There we go. All right, pigeon. I've had kale before, by the way. I don't know. Eat food. But no, not a pigeon. All right, let me take a small piece of this meat. Oh, so pigeon-y. Is that actually? No, it's not. You know, pigeon is not a bird we usually eat in the States, but it's a lot more common in Canada. And yes, these do come from an actual pigeon farm. Which cooked very well. I'm a bigger fan of duck, though. You're a bigger fan of duck? You can taste the difference. Yeah. It's not bad, though. Yeah, it's not bad. Pigeons are less fatty. It's a lot more meaty. It's stronger. It has a stronger taste. Yeah, it has a strong taste to it. I don't know what it is. It's stronger than duck. Is that the gamey? Is that the gamey taste? All right, here we have the egg yolk pork chops, and we had a pigeon. That was crazy. Yeah! Woo! Guys, I'm having too much fun with that. Yeah, you're having too much fun with that. No, I'm kind of excited. I'm coming! Are you guys okay? Are you guys okay? Oh, my God. Let's go. That was a little weird. It was a little weird. I'm not like... Oh, my God. All right, so our next stop on the Markham Food Crawl is going to be FMP, which is First Markham Place Plaza. It is the most known food plaza in probably all of Markham. They even have a knockoff in Typhoon. FMP! Egg yolk pork chops, roasted pigeon. These are all dishes I never had before. Chachou fond spots. You'll see long as both these ones. And they're right next to each other. They do the exact same foods, but they've been competing for ages for five. That's why they need somebody in the middle, you know? So they don't have any licenses. And they got the Koreans. The Koreans are in the middle being like, yo, neutral zone. Yeah, neutral zone. This is the DMZ. We want to show off the food here at FMP at the food court. So we're all going to break off, grab one dish at the potluck, and we'll have ourselves a feast. FMP. Let's go. It works. It works. FMP food court is actually really diverse. It's got everything from Thai, Lao, to Malaysian, to classic Cantonese, to Tianjin food. I definitely recommend it. We got the shengjian bao. Pan fried soup dumpling. Soup dumpling. Not soup bao. This gobu li baozi means dog. Dog don't care baozi. Dog don't care baozi. All right, so we're about to get like a three topping rice from Extra BBQ. We already actually got one from there, but we're waiting on that one. So we kind of need to call Sam King. So we're going to get that. They give you the obligatory vegetables? Yes. Here they don't, right? Well, me. Let's start with the one that we're doubting the most. All right, so pick a piece. Barbecue meat wars. The seal your wars. Cheers. Cheers. That's sweet. It's pretty good. It looks so cute. The crispy pork is pretty good. Okay. Wow. First the chashu goes. It's a close one. I got to go with the first one actually. I'm going to go with the first one too. I got to go with the first one. All right, I got to try the duck. So on the roast duck, I got to give it to the yellow spot. But actually surprisingly, the chashu, I got to give it to the white spot. Agreed, agreed. Okay, agreed. Crispy pork. I like this one. Okay, the yellow spot. That one has like more flavor. So actually the chashu here is actually kind of dry. It is dry. It's very dry. And then you have jajangmyeon northern style. So Cantonese style jajangmyeon, right? It's like red. Exactly. And it's kind of like sweet and sour though. When I went to Beijing, not even that many restaurants served jajangmyeon, I really saw it on the Bhutons. It's a very traditional classic taste. There's not too much of an urban twist on it, but it's just very like whole home food. Saladimba, which is pan-fried soup dumpling. We got the shenjin, I think like the texture of the like the skin isn't that crispy and it's kind of thick. This is a northern, what do you say, it's called a Tianjin Shaobing. It doesn't have anything in it. It's really just a flaky bread. I think you're supposed to eat it with something. Like dip it in something. It's a little dry. And then this one's the shenbing. This is a Beijing meat pie. Is it juicy? Is it good? Someone grab that. That's good. It's amazing. Really? Yes. I want to try them too. Angie, any take on the shenjin bao? It's good. Hot takes. I like it. I think it's crispy enough. I like the mix between the soup and the crispiness. Ha cha, which is like shrimp, rice noodle roll thing. You can tell it's fresh because of how squiggly it is. When it's rolled too perfectly, I almost tend to feel like it's not going to be that good. It's not too thick. But you kind of see how thin the noodles are. This is a loud sausage. It's really good. This reminds me. It's like no other sausage I've had before. It's kind of like a pie. But like a pie in a sausage format. It tastes like a vegetarian burger. Yeah. It doesn't really taste like sausage. This is crazy. I didn't think a loud sausage. Wow. So this is actually a loud dish. This is nam kao's dish. It has crispy rice and like a meat mixture. Nam kao. That's good. Wow. That is good. It's like a sweet and sour soup in rice form. That is a Taiwanese sesame oil chicken rice wine soup. I'm going to try this sesame oil chicken soup. That's really good. You know how that's good? Because the lady who was selling it to me was a little old Taiwanese lady. It's a little bit oily. But it's a little bit rich. What has the sesame oil on top? I rate it cured. This is the oil. Everything. Oh, I just got a much more oil. Cheers. Cheers. I guess I'm trying. This has more vegetable taste. So what was your guys' favorite? I got to give it up to either the Tianjin food or the Laos food, actually. Yeah. These are really good. Hey. The Southeast Asian and the Northern Chinese, essentially. I'd say this is something I've never tasted before and it's just so unique. I got to get up for the Laos food. I think it's like that. Everybody's on the champagne. Yeah, I'm good. I'm just saying. Okay. I like the crispy pork. Oh, okay. It's cool. It's good. These two. The Nam Cao. The Nam Cao. Nam Cao. Do you think it's funny how sometimes you grow up in a community but you don't kind of explore the community so you just go to the things that are comfortable? That's why it's always fun to explore your town with someone else. Yeah. Because then you hit the spots that you would never normally hit, you know? All right, so this FMP is where we used to always hang out in high school but now there's a new spot in town that's called Downtown Markham and we're gonna go to the next new spot in town. Everyone's there so let's check it out, all right? Let's go. So this tour was mostly based on food courts but later that night we did go to the most famous restaurant and probably all of Markham. It's the Fisherman Lobster Clubhouse. They're known for stacking their huge main lobster and crab towers that are super high and it's definitely nothing like I've seen in the States. To me, the lobster was worth it though. All right, so we have made it to our last destination which is Downtown Markham and Downtown Markham is not what I typically think of as a downtown. Yeah. It's just like really new stuff. This is built within like I think three years ago less than five years old. They're moving the Cineplex from FMP where we were at down here. Ah. So FMP got an upgrade. So before this there was no central spot. It was FMP before but there was no downtown before this. Now there's a new downtown so they're building up all these houses and different townhouses around this area. And yeah, they even got the school York University here. They just flopped on that. They flopped on that. So is it for the rich mainland falls? It is. It is. Kind of. 100%. Like it's I mean, it's a VIP cinema. So there's a VIP booth. VIP area, VIP seating. And even the places around it, the condos are like luxury. So this is who would want to pay that much to live in Markham is probably like a rich fob. It is. Yeah. Are you guys integrating with the fobs now? There's still a little bit of a gap, I guess. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's still there. The university you get to kind of like now not really. Growing up growing up in high school not so much as kind of this separation gap but in university you can kind of bridges. So you got to get to make more friends and party together and stuff. So that's true. Partying together will help learn the line. Like let's say let's say I got a Lamborghini you got Lamborghini and he's driving a Toyota. Like you know what I mean? I'm not part of Team Supercar. Supercar crew, yeah. It's very hard to relate when you don't got money. You know what I mean? That's the hardest thing. And you hopped out of a Supercar. What's that again? All right, if this was if this was a yeah? Vet Mons instead, maybe. If this is good, you can't be with me. Okay, okay, okay. That's your car. That's your car right there. Bye bye. Chiong, chiong, chiong, chiong, chiong. Lucalus Bakery is a very good Hong Kong bakery. They have really good pineapple buns so you can check it out. She's a fan. Go for tea, for example, is like a really big Chinese restaurant. It's like a late night chill spot. Go for tea, like go late night grab a bowl of tea, hang out. Hey, you want to go for tea? Yeah. We appreciate that so much. Oh, thank you for showing me around. And we'd like to give you the Markham Pass. You get the Markham Pass. I get a Markham Man. Markham Man. Wow. Markham Man. You get a Markham Man. You get an official Markham Man. Yeah. He's in the city. He's in the city. He's in the city. Markham Man. He gets a Markham Pass. Oh, man. A 70% drink bubble tea. Thank you so much, sir. Big shout out to the guys from Kanto Mando. Shout out to Edward who couldn't be here. We got Sheldon. We got Mike. We got Angie. We got Lina. And shout out to Fruity Pop, aka Karen, also a Markham native. Markham. Also at Markham. Markham. MK. Keys are folk. Keys are folk. Keys are folk. MK. You guys need a nickname. There's no nickname for Markham, right? 905. 905. We're the 905. Why? Because that area code 905. And that's Markham. Hey, everybody. Thank you so much for watching that video. In the comments below, let us know any other like ethnic or Asian neighborhoods around North America that we should check out. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching that Markham Food Tour in the greater Toronto area. Until next time, we out. Peace. So my major takeaway about Markham is that the area is huge. It's very spread out. It has a ton of amazing food and the area is changing every day. It's one of the other huge Chinese enclaves in North America. Like I said, along with the SGV, Flush and Queens, and of course, Vancouver, B.C. I will be back again soon. Oh, feet up. Oh, it has to be flat. It has to be flat. Oh. Oh. Like this. Like this. Hi, yo. What's up? What's up with these Asian supporters? What's up? What's up? We're out in Markham. Markham, the 905.