 just know you're indian-american but don't let the stereotypes get to you just do what you want and as long as you're happy with it that's what i think david's dose of radar went off what's going on everybody today we are in the east village and i'm super excited because we are about to run a south indian food episode so previously our indian videos have been more focused on north indian food because that was probably what was more available to us at the time but today we're in east village new york and we are outside of one of the best and only south indian restaurants in the city and you know we couldn't do this video without a south indian friend and here we got yeah i'm a fake i'm a comedian here in new york city my parents are from south india i am from new jersey which is like kind of an extension of south india right and of course the compare contrast we ought to get our north indian friend in on it too yo what's up my name is jaz i'm south jamaica queens and my parents have opened up i'm aware that there are some conversations that as a chinese person i don't really know about yeah that the indians are have we're going to have a really nuanced discussion and i'm going to kick as much as the cameras that's what pujabis are known for right that's what we're known for you got you got the sheath on your leg yo wait come here baby did you mean kick as in real life or on the internet uh at the sat kumas all right we're outside of one of the only south indian restaurants in manhattan kaladi let's go hi guys thank you so much for having us any time yeah so here's the owner ramya what made you want to start this place lack of south indian food in the city simple whenever i craved indian food most of the indian restaurants in the city only serve north indian food most people probably are more familiar with north india yes yes when british ruled india they couldn't take the spice and chicken tikka masala is not even indian food it's a modified dish to accommodate a white palate at that time northern indian food is more sweet or more rich with cream butter south indian food is more lentils and rice in general indian food is rice but southern india use a lot of a lot more of rice i think and also the flavors like we use curry leaves a lot we use hices a lot it's like a night and day difference is south indian food more indian hi okay i'll be do we're gonna talk about that i'm diplomatic and say like i'm not answering okay you know what these guys don't have to be these guys don't have to be talking about this off camera yeah okay we have an appetizer here it's called paunee pori so the paunee is the water paunee literally means it's like a seasoned water it's like a seasoned oh it's seasoned water and then the pori is this like little fried thing that it's like balls is what she referred to it as and like you pour this into uh the paunee so you pour it in it and then you got to eat it like right away how many seconds do you have before the paunee puri becomes soggy maybe like 15 yo let me do it it almost explodes like a gusher if i didn't just uh this water is sweet usually in like india it's really spicy hey real quick can we uh introduce this chai tea i just remember and this is my only reference guys in slumdog millionaire he's like do you want to be a chai lonely chaiwala called such an assistant from mumbai chaiwala what is chaiwala i think there's so many of these terms that like a lot of indian people don't even know right and you know because it's like such a vast and you guys speak so many different languages too right so as a south indian do you feel like you represented well in bollywood or is it like sometimes they make jokes or like they do they just don't get like the face time in it i don't think that they do but not enough north india when people talk about india that's like the default the the culture of like what it is internationally known is north india and so i think that's where they really benefit from all this all this stuff so i recently saw like that movie west caution by angling yeah but the chinese will be at the chinese movie we've seen a few like east asian films become these like international sensations with such a strong film culture why have we not seen that and then for indian people yeah maybe people are not ready to see it i guess or the ideas that come across or it's not popular enough in japan j-pop used to be way bigger than k-pop for many years but what happened was j-pop didn't really i guess evolve into a hugely global um product because j-pop more fed the local japanese market because the market is big enough for where they could sustain a whole industry off of more local and like a very niche like overseas market but k-pop because korea is not that big they had to make it popular across the world so i don't know if maybe that's part of it like in baliwood they just have such a big internal market that they don't need they don't need are we supposed to put sugar in this yeah if you want yeah i would like some sugar in my channel these are idly nuggets which are steamed lentil cakes tossed in house blend spices this is a chickpea battered fried chicken the batter itself has a lot of spices these are munchkins they're like lentil hush puppies this is a potato cheese and ground beef dosa wow these are the things that my mom or any south indian mom makes for breakfast this is puri or it's called the big poof on the menu it's a puffed wheat bread that's a lamb pilaf no one can eat this for breakfast all the time how many of these have you had in your lifetime yeah uh that's a good question probably like a thousand a thousand it's like every time your mom makes this your hack guys you're north indian this is not your native cuisine no how many have you had in your life probably like a hundred these easily a hundred but there's more like a sunday breakfast so you're not like you're necessary your parents wouldn't make it you will go out and get it we no we do go out and get it we don't we wouldn't get it at all i cut it like a lasagna yeah south indian dosa my bad i already went in i went in oh man oh that's good it's crazy it's not spicy okay i'm a little disappointed for people who have never had this imagine like an orange jean mixed with lasagna but with indian flavors almost like an indian quesadilla that's a good contrast the lentil soup is definitely my favorite sauce but you're right you're right and that you needed all three though my parents don't really eat meat so like a lot of the meat spices i'm not as familiar with but it looks like it's just like fried it looks like a pacota a little bit right okay are you allowed to eat meat around your parents here's the thing man i'm allergic to so my parents are like fine you know what i mean but it's like normally they would be like no you can't do that especially the beef there's beef in that generally like indian people are gonna be like no they didn't do that this is actually a story a couple years ago i brought a slice of a pie a pepperoni pizza home yeah my dad eyeballed me for so long yeah i was like you want some i literally told him that he was so angry he threw my pizza out and then one time i ate canary steak it was so good i love i love canary my dad threw it away in the morning i was like so yeah caramel fried chicken oh man wow that has a kick to it this is actually tastes more like a spicy mayo yeah so this is more of the fusion kind of westernized that is your mint chutney so this is like a idli nuggets which is interesting because most of south indians are gonna eat just straight up idli so she has their spin on it where there's like some meat she's gone and nuggets which is nice and then the dip one of those things is called a sambar that's like the classic thing so i gotta idli nuggets oh that's interesting yeah it's like healthy zero this is dal vada it's like fried dal into like these like potato balls hell yeah yeah they got more oh that's the very popular fish courier was talking about wow that looks spicy it looks spicy is everyone's definition i know i know because i can't sometimes i don't know what to say when people come to an indian restaurant they say like oh it's spicy and i'm like you're coming to an indian restaurant so and i have a very fancy drink which we got very popular for this summer it's a rose popsicle the popsicle goes in and we make the popsicles in house so try it out let me know i'm going in on this pulau pulau is one of my favorite dishes i love pulau pulau is a mixed rice dish it's actually not really fried in the same way that like chinese do it in the walk i think this is so yogurt i think they're supposed to go on the pulau so these are puris which again is like a flatter version of what we ate before super good super like light like i make a mitt out of it or so it's like a try it's kind of like a triangle you know and then you just go like this yeah that's correct okay and then you mean a little bit like uh the way people would eat injera and eat the opa yeah fish curry dude this is so good wow yo v you grew up eating this i did yeah oh hell yeah you guys are Punjabi now i see you gotta do this this this this yeah but the curry you gotta clean the whole plate man you gotta clean the whole plate yeah that like that like texture that's it yeah because if you don't then your parents are gonna come back to you this is like if i put some of the fish curry on that no that's fine what about put some fish curry on the potty that i would get mad oh try it you would get mad yeah get a mad all the people more mad about it is more hinders thing i yeah i'll do it i'll do it i don't know man let me you about to feel the fire right now let me just now i'm like even more mad i know this is like we might have to cut it out pixelate frankenstein's story pixelate this guy andrew's the food mixologist that's one of his uh yeah archetypes all right pretty good how bad is it okay i i mean i told you it wasn't okay already so you know what v's like yeah i mean v i'm just letting you know it's offensive all right you guys man we are wrapping up uh just this spot we got one other spot that we're gonna head to but we got a lot more in-depth discussion mostly about the indian american experience all like the indian american put the camera on me put the this man has damage right he has damage and we're gonna work through it what's your guys quick take on the did you know there's a Netflix show about like indian matchmaking i'm going good bye all right guys we got to move on to our next spot shout out to ramya and kaladi um but we got a second spot we're going to go to dude we are on a south indian chrome we are let's go all right you guys we just walked a few blocks over and we're at amnesia which is the only vegetarian spot the the owners from south india what rapper from new york does jazz look like tony yayo look at this guy it is the goatee and everything jazz also how is it wrapping with 50 cents you never flipped on 50 though no 50 could always trust you yeah oil teas keep what can you tell me about the vada it's like similar to like what we had actually that's a staple is like a street food for sure i got to get this on the street of telugu what telugu is the language but you can get it like pune is the street you get it there i can see i made fun of so much for that being a street name right pune you probably got the punjabi too right a little bit it's funny because my dad's cousin lives in pune yeah and they're all like that's a rich town if you don't know if you don't get the joke good and this is the idli which we had like a fusion version of it at kiladi but this is like kind of what it's supposed to look like what andrew's gonna do is he's gonna put the the mix in the burger like you eat it kind of like a slider really and you would do that even in in here yeah you would so there's a bail point it's basically like a usually you gotta have it as a dry snack but this is like more freshly made kind of cornflakes with veggies in it but uh yeah oh my god i do want to stress too that like stuff like that is really easy to make at home like the if you have like a instant pot or like the migos crock pot like you can like uh it's like super easy to make that kind of stuff yo that lentil soup is delicious i didn't think a bean soup would be that good how's the lussey yo man tastes like home guys day try the saffron lussey oh you delicious yeah this is next level i'm on a i'm in a different universe with this one got a little seed in there boom okay close it up oh how about you do it it almost looks like a a southern atlanta georgia country roll out like this is one of the things if you tell white people about they're not going to be like oh i know exactly so so i mean major points for having major points major points and you dip that in the lentil soup like is that okay that's better than what you did before it's better than what progress is progress verdict says good man it's like a it's like a conflict snack you know you make it at home yeah it's possible this is on home you appreciate it when somebody makes an honest effort to say the accent like in the indian way i do i always say that like if people don't know how to say my name the right way we're not friends it's not that hard number one and then two it's like you got to have the respect to like say the name the right way right you gotta put in the effort it has like a meaning that i care about if you make an effort to actually say it right yeah i'm okay with it but we're making fun of it and i'm like dude come on well what do you see me what's your real name i'm jesse i say the right way just these bro yeah my dad had put a little western accent to it from the day you guys we are looking at two different types of rice is here we are from southern india this one is the lemon rice right which is referred to as chitra in my family almost looks like a poppy muffin this is tamarind rice okay yeah so this is like another staple they look nearly identical man it was pretty good it was i think the tamarind flavor was like pretty like for south indian people you're expected at your peak to become the ceo of google sure yeah jazz the most famous punjabi right now is nap all the punjabis are gonna get mad there's no way it's napped now you guys are all coming to america but it's not all indians who can come to america right it's like privileged people can cover yeah that's basically how it works it's like the way that a lot of indian people come is through the h1b you have a job or you're going to college that's not my parents but that's not true for the punjabis right they take the hard route to come here you know you can't really talk about it but yeah okay you know crossing borders and stuff you know russell peter said this in an interview he said in canada the ratio is our flip more people came in the hard way and they have fewer of the elites and in america we got more of the elites fewer of the hard right in canada when i go there the punjabis are kind of seen as the body guards kind of the macho dudes that these are like kind of guys who could beat you up on the street but then in america like the image of indians is pretty different while it's funny because the image of like for example cantonese chinese people in america is more like working class and then in canada cantonese people all come from hong kong and they're more elite what do you guys think is the future of indian food in the western world i hope the future is like helen i think that's a super cool restaurant that is like authentic and then i could see like me and my friends hanging out and i think the way she describes she wants people to feel in there which is like you get a bunch of drinks you know you're hanging out i think she nailed it on what her objective was because i felt like like she wanted just a fun environment right yeah i liked a new twist to it i felt like she achieved it don't let other people define who you have to be not even your parents you can find successful role models that mimic your life philosophy but you got to look deep deep cut enough i don't know for some people they need to see somebody who looks like them be outside of the box and be successful so they can follow the footsteps did you guys know that tim grover michael jordan's trainer is actually punjabi no that's crazy he's born in punjabi his name is tim grover sing to be fair to tim grover i don't think he benefited too much from being it we kind of hurt him yeah for example you're talking about names like he kamala harris refers to herself as like kamala harris right but her name is kamala harris you know so like even to that degree she's kind of let this name turn into like a more the angle of pronunciation angle of pronunciation i think it's very frustrating for us to see people who are supposed to represent us at this like elected level like indians are just waiting to have a leader that people are proud of you just want to see people like at least acknowledge that this is a community that exists but but some people would argue why you're giving tim grover a pass yeah tim grover's not a politician he's not like a pop star he doesn't claim to be just like representative for anybody there's siraj patel who just ran here and unfortunately lost but he he definitely has and you know there's a few at like the congressional level but at the national politics level this is why people have a problem in our community with kamala harris what would you say when people say oh you're being too picky you know if you don't demand that kind of respect for your your people now or just like you're never gonna get it all minorities in general it's always a fight to like kind of explain to people what you want and why what you want is important pave the path that you want and use the advice from them yeah oh sorry we got to pause that david's dosa radar went off dosas continue letting them know all right record stretch edit you guys can you letting them know while we have this gigantic shut the game down to your dosa they just put it on the table they're straight i don't know if that's more indian style you can study and do well at school and if you spend an hour every day of your doing music doing graphic design whatever you want to do just an hour every single day you'll get good at and you can do both you can like be like mom dad i'm a great student also i'm really good at this other thing but eventually when you go to that habit you're saying that you'll just stop the all that you have to pick but like if you're at the level where you don't even know right it's like you can realize that like nothing is all or nothing like if you're young everything is available you can like just you know work out and it'll be fine don't accept the role people like want to get oh yeah yeah i'm indian indian people are cool indian people can be sexy indian people can be whatever they want if you do that like just never let people define who you are just know you're indian-american but don't let the stereotypes get to you just do what you want and make as long as you're happy with it that's what i think but man thank you guys so much for being a part of this um what was your guys's favorite thing hypothetically whatever yeah so i'm still going to dosa in the idli would have been my favorite thing yo bill puri forever man so good i'm going with the pal bhaji that's my pick i'm gonna go with the idli in the lentil soup i thought this lentil soup was amazing oh i forgot to get the let this is we're gonna do this question and be out bollywood i'm not a huge bollywood guy but i do there are some movies that three idiots look on bro harry said the south indians don't watch bollywood is that true that's i mean that's more true because there's tollywood there's telegu uh hollywood everything's going in the street yeah so but i i'm into some of the bollywood movies man some of them are good give me a chance yo is bollywood like i don't watch it but my parents will love it they're like jazz why don't you be like them yeah they do i mean my biggest takeaway from this whole conversation is they tried to tear us apart yeah but we still did we stood strong we did it come on which is like i think that like a lot of us all minorities have like a lot of similarities and i think it's super important to like talk through them and i think what you guys are doing is awesome yo huge shout out to v vape man appreciate you yeah thank you guys so much jazz appreciate you thank you guys thank i'm not playing off any pre-existing controversy but there was 20 videos i watched about north versus south indian and then we gotta really have really wanted to see a fist fight yeah so my instagram is at indian mazel so it's like marvellous this is mazel except indian indian mazel and i host a podcast called nine to five cast which is about like workplace culture we got some other stuff that i'm gonna talk to these guys about to get some help but some youtube stuff maybe comment oh okay jazz where can they find you in the city my instagram is uh jazzyz i s s m o t a you got a mixtape dropping yeah yo coming soon yo to the streets of new york city in the comments down below let us know what your favorite south indian dish is and let us know if you guys would like to see us do this similar type of video with any other culture and i hope you guys really enjoyed that video uh and i hope you guys made it to the end because uh there was a lot of hilarious stuff that was said and insightful stuff and smart stuff and great discussion so thank you for making it this far and until next time we out yo jazz man we got the desserts this is the end slate shout out you guys for watching i appreciate it man we we just threw this in we don't even know about it yo what is that that's the vegan here vegan rice pudding right here right because everything here is vegan yeah and i got uh that's the regular keyer the unexpected man last but not least man of course this is a Punjabi sweet right yeah but it kind of went pan indian right yo this is like is it crazy to say that it's like man this is like uh between this and the the warrior-ness koolab jamal