 What do you make of Kamala Harris being half Jamaican? That's gonna be great. I can't wait to have jerk chicken on a White House lawn now. They're gonna have real oil drum. They're gonna have like soca parties. Yo, I am pouring the oxtail soup onto the roti. Exology. Yeah. You're mad. Yo, what's going on everyone? Here at Ms. Lily's, if I get some jerk chicken, some Jamaican food, I'm telling you. Got kalalu, akisaw fish. It's going to be delicious. Right now, we got here. Everybody falls in love with amazing rhythm. But oh, let me get back what we have to do. We're about to eat and have a good time. Who knows when we'll be able to travel the world again. But the good thing is that America, and specifically New York City, is like a mini replica of the Earth when it comes to cuisine. We're going on a Jamaican food crawl today with our comedian friend Vince Chang, a Jamaican American of Black, Chinese, and Tino descent. Vince's great-grandfather was a hawk of Chinese that immigrated to Jamaica over 100 years ago. He's gonna be showing us why Jamaican culture and food are so famous, despite being a country of only three million. A big impact from a small island. Let's find out why. Real quick, I gotta give a big shout out to our sponsor, RevTown. That is a premium direct-to-consumer denim brand that is delivering jeans, high quality, comfortable, stretchy, made with Italian yarn. These selvedge jeans right here are made in Milan. Basically, you know, selvedge jeans are considered higher quality, and for $79, they're able to do that because they're delivering straight to you, cutting out the middleman. Right now, I'm wearing a 32 by 30. I like this fit a lot. So if you guys are interested in RevTown, check out the link in the description down below. Our first stop is behind us, Peppers. Yo, Peppers is a fast, casual Jamaican spot. It specializes in jerk chicken. It is from Flatbush, Brooklyn, originally. Let's link up with Vince Chang. I'm Vince Chang. I'm Jamaican Chinese, representing from Constance, being Jamaican by our grandfather, is actually Chinese, and that's where I get the Chang from. And right here, we're at Peppers, one of the best jerk chicken all in New York City. The best is in Brooklyn, but now the same chef is right here, so so. That accent came through real strong when you were at it. So when we're talking about Jamaican stuff, you gotta have that accent, and then when we're not talking about it, you can go back to your regular point. What is the Jamaican population in New York City? There's a lot more in Brooklyn. My Crown Heights has a whole bunch of history of Jamaicans coming up. All right, so before we go in there and get a very, very authentic jerk chicken experience, how would you describe Peppers? Like, where does it fall? Is it like a Panda Express? Is it like P.F. Chang's of Jamaican food? It's more like the P.F. Chang's of Jamaican food. You go down Brooklyn like on Flatlands, Flatbush. You know, it's literally a hole in a wall. When you go in, it's like authentic. This is like a fancy Peppers. What? This is like, I don't know, the Four Seasons of Peppers. Like, this is nice. Let's go in and check it out. Hey, you come here a lot? This is a brand new place. It's supposed to be the best in the city. For the eye order from Peppers, of course you gotta order the jerk chicken. What should we get for people who have never been to Peppers before? What do you recommend? What are you about to get? I got the jerk chicken. See, this is delicious jerk chicken. You see on the outside how it's crispy and stuff? This is when you're having your open fire. So it's supposed to be crisp and it's not wet. Jerk chicken. Remember how that changed? This right here, that was really good. It's jerk sauce, okay? I'm telling you, this is spicy. You got Scotch Bonnet Pepper up there and so many different other like all spice. The Scotch Pepper. Scotch Bonnet Pepper. Some places have a real spicy jerk sauce and some people don't. Jerk sauce. All right. Feel that kick? Bright and sweet. Got a little peppery spicy kick to it. Jerk chicken was good and I'm impressed that how it's really still moist. For me, relative to the other jerk chickens I had prior, I'm gonna give Peppa's Jerk Chicken a five out of five. Rice and peas describe it to us because obviously people are looking at it like, what do you mean rice and peas? This is rice and beans. It's rice on peas. Technically you get rice and beans, whatever. But if you're not curious. So it's rice and beans. It's rice and peas, all right? Rice on peas. For people who are like Asian that haven't had a lot of Jamaican food before it almost tastes like Thai. So I see it right here. You got carrots, cabbage on here with a good seasoning and a good balance. And right here, sweet plantain, which so is delicious man. This of course, the oxtail. This is the other dish that you have to get here. Yes, exactly. Oxtail. That is really good. Right here I have this thing called a festival. Festival. This is like a fried doughnut. Do people do this with the oxtail and the festival right there? We eat everything together. It's a fried piece of bread, very similar to a fried doughnut at the Chinese buffet spot. With the sugar on it. Rasta pasta. Now it's, you got pasta but you're adding so much more flavor to it. I mean, it's creamy. And then you add some a little bit of jerk spice to it. Rasta pasta. Kind of like an Alfredo, except with just more spice. All right, so our next round here have peppers. We got mac and cheese. We got the jerk pork. Hold on. Before this and no disrespect. Peppa. Peppa. I want to say peppers. Peppa. Did I say peppers? All right, so our next round here have peppers. Peppers. Yeah. My bad. Here at Peppers, we have the mac and cheese. Jerk pork. I got the fried salmon. Jerk pork. This dry jerk rub almost reminds me of like the Indonesian beef rendang. It's like a dry kind of deep spicy curry flavor. All right, here we have mango jerk. Is this popular too? Oh, yeah. See, you're gonna have a little more sweetness with the mango jerk. In Jamaica, our number one fruit is mango jerk. Mango jerk. For me, when the jerk chicken came, I could do or do without the sauce. But I feel like for the jerk pork, I really want the sauce. Cocoa bread, salmon fish sandwich. That cocoa bread is so soft. This takes me back to those buffets we would go to with the mac and cheese. Oh my gosh. This is wrapping up the fast casual Jamaican portion of this video. We had to wash it down with, you know, some drinks. I got a Jamaican genuine soft drink cream. I have the Jamaican soft drink pineapple. Ting, you gotta have Ting and cola champagne. Now sweet, tangy, but careful your teeth. There's almost sugar in this. Jamaican sodas. Basically tastes like a, you know, whatever flavor it is, but way sweeter. Last but not least, what drink are we looking at? This is cola champagne. Now they can mix it with rum. Sometimes mostly people mix rum with Ting. But the thing about this is that everyone knows about cola champagne and Jamaica. Yo, it hits you like a shot. You can't drink a full cup of that. I could see that going well with some rum. Prepances of family business, you know, we have tried for years get it into the city. You know, even though it's during Corona time, it's still an amazing accomplishment for our family. And you just want to share the good food with the whole world, you know. All right, Vince. We got to verify again. Your grandfather is Chinese. Yeah. So I mean, we got the, we got the Chinese sign right outside the Jamaican spot right here. That's rent. I know that symbol right there. That means people and that means get the hell out. That's all the, that's all. All right, guys. That wraps up Peppers. We are on to our next spot called Bun Hut. All right. So our next spot on our Jamaican crawl is Bun Hut. It's kind of this new Caribbean concept that the chef is from the Caribbean. He's from the Bahamas, but he puts an Asian twist on the food. Can't wait to taste this. I mean, if you look at the history of Jamaica, a lot of the indented servants that came through from China was in the 1800s. Right. And people got to realize this is when like slavery started to become abolished all in the Caribbean. So these Chinese people came to get away from the over population and find jobs. These Hakka Chinese people came right here and started talking to Jamaicans, my family. And then you get the mix and you get me. So starting in 1850, there starts to be some Indian and Chinese influence in the cuisine of Jamaica. This is the Bun Hut on Staten Street. What can people expect from the food? Listen, it's too much. It's too much to even talk about. Come on down and check yourself. The idea was formed from the trip to China when they had the bowls. The idea was to bring it back and fill it with Caribbean flavors that's something that is not a market for it. It's not out there. All right. So we got our spread here at the Bun Hut. We are looking at, I mean, a lot of different Caribbean flavors, but in bow form here. You got the axel, the jerk chicken. And here we got shrimp. I really like the conk right here. Another thing to go. That's what it is. This is a coconut curry chicken roti. Roti. Caribbean bowls. This tastes actually really Chinese. It tastes like a Mushu pork. Yo, when you went to China and you told them you were part Chinese, what was everybody's reaction? Well, first of all, I went to the hotel. They would say, hello, how are you? I said, oh, Ni Hao. And then I'll say, what's your been saying? They're like, oh, snap, you know Chinese. And they're like, what the hell is going on? She literally did not believe me. Like I had a show proof that I was Chinese. And then from there, I was treated like a king. Round two. Round two. I have a jerk chicken bow. Coconut curry chicken. That is so good. That axel. Generally, what's the feeling towards Chinese? Because they've been there for like a hundred years. Are they considered Jamaican as anybody else or still, they're still like the Chinese Jamaican? As of now, from what I know, they're part of Jamaica. For me, I'm not going to lie, guys. The roti is sweet. This was the five out of five. This and actually there's, let me throw a curveball. The conch. We got to say right, man. Conch. Conch. Yo, I am pouring the oxtail soup onto the roti. Excalibur. Yeah. You're mad. You know that on this Jamaican food crawl, we have to check out so many different tiers of spots. And we are at sort of like the most mainstream commercial fun party vibe spot that's accessible to everybody in the city, right? Definitely. Miss Lily's like, the food is great. You're going to look at a little bit, but it's more about the vibe. We're not in a Jamaican neighborhood or Caribbean neighborhood at all. Exactly. We're in the East Village right now. What are we looking at right here? This is what? Aki and Salfish? Aki and Salfish. Aki, not Aki. Aki is one of the staple fruits in Jamaica. Got to be careful with it, because actually, if it's not ripe enough, it is poisonous in a way. It will make you sick. Like very sick. Like in rare cases, you can die. Aki and Salfish, guys. It's hard to describe as an Asian, it's almost like a like a lychee, but none of the lychee tropical flavor. It does taste more like eggs. That's a breakfast for champions. And then also here, you got the greens, the kawaluw, like it's in the same like realm of like Spanish and Kale and stuff. Now, Festival, we had that too, you know, it's bread. It's like a dumpling. No shade to peppers, but this festival was better. Yeah. This festival was better. The next two dishes here, we got pepper shrimp, which is our traditional Jamaican dish. Yeah. That we haven't had yet. And then this is jerk corn. So this is kind of like one of Miss Lily's kind of new fusion dishes. You go to any kind of Labor Day Parade or you're on the road, they'll put this like in a Ziploc bag. Shake it up. They keep the shell on and you just eat it up and you're going to have that spice. It's going to be a kick. Jamaican pepper shrimp. Look, careful, careful. Told you, baby. Here we have jerk corn, which is a little new bit of a new item. And then we have their world famous jerk chicken. And we have to try it here and judge it against peppers. Now you see that you got the grill over here and you got the crisp. But now you see it's saucy. Like they put the sauce on top and I told you to be careful of that. Jerk chicken. I can taste it's been on an open fire. But you have that kind of like smoky feel. They put a lot of sauce on it. So it's still like moist on the outside. You want that crisp on the outside but moist on the inside. When it's all moist, you kind of lose that authentic kind of feel about jerk chicken. All right. This or peppers? Peppers. Just, it's all right. These are peppers. Peppers, peppers, peppers, peppers. Corn. Grilled butter in my arteries are getting clogged right now. Crunchy coconut shavings on like a buttered up corn. I don't really taste the jerk. Again, just like something you eat after dinner. People come to Ms. Lily's now they may want to go to Brooklyn and go to a pepper sandwich. All right, Vince. We're in front of Ms. Lily's which is sort of like the outward facing mainstream Jamaican spot in Manhattan. Which is a perfect time to ask you about a bunch of mainstream Chinese Jamaicans. Now I'm not trying to leave out any of the obviously regular Jamaicans. We got to talk about the Chinese Jamaican Chinese. Exactly. Kidfrost from Two-Line Crew. Yes, I knew that. And it's in the eyes. Tessie and Chin. Tessie and Chin, shout out to her one of the amazing singers to be there. She was on, what was it? The Voice. That typically is a Jamaican Chinese woman. Like more Asian than ever. But you know she got a little bit of a bumper. That's a Jamaican right there. How Anderson, aka Slow Mo from the NBA. He's Chinese Jamaican? I didn't know that. You got to see it in the eyes. Patrick Christopher Chung in the NFL. Now knew that however he looks Dominican but we were talking about his dad and his dad was a Mr. Miyagi. Sean Paul. Tyson Beckford is part Jamaican Chinese. You see it in the tight eyes. You see, I'm telling you when you see a black man with like Asian eyes you're like, hmm, you look like a model, but what kind of Asian influence do you have? Ayesha Curry. Ayesha Curry. Now, see how new Steph Curry like little general style chicken. All right you guys we got real quick a Jamaican stereotype section that we're going to be running by Vince Chang over here. Okay. All Jamaicans are Rasas. No, not all Jamaicans are Rasas. Rasas is a culture. It's kind of like it's a religion. It's a religion in Jamaica. You know, we believe in God and John, some of that, but not every Jamaican is a Rasas. All Jamaicans smoke weed. No. Okay. Weed is a part of our culture. It's a belief that it can open up our minds and stuff like that and it's natural. But not every Jamaican smoke weed. No. All Jamaicans are aggressive. See, that's a stereotype. Yeah, like we are aggressive but not every Jamaican. We are calm and right, but when we get vexed like vexed is like angry you'll see another side Jamaican. All Jamaicans are either lazy or have 20 jobs. Okay. No, we have multiple jobs. You understand the medic caretakers that come out of Jamaica is insane. But me, I have four jobs. All right. It's just in our culture. We always want to work. We want to make some money. Jamaicans say man after everything. That's like saying Canadians say A after everything. Like some do say man but they also they always have like a ending word. You know what I mean? Like seeing or yearning. All Jamaicans have dreadlocks and listen to reggae music. Now all Jamaicans have dreadlocks. Dreadlocks came up because we believe not to cut our hair. You know, you're going to buy one stuff that's like for our strength and stuff like that. But in our culture it's like we just never cut our hair. So it would naturally lock up and that's where dreadlocks came from. All Jamaicans only speak patois. No, I mean patois is broken English but there's a lot of Jamaicans that can speak perfect English. All Jamaicans run fast like you say bold. Yeah, yeah, we all run fast. I'm not going to lie. Like, yeah, we all run fast. And last question. Everybody sort of wants to be Jamaican. Yeah. Because Jamaicans are just cool man. All right you guys. We have arrived at the classic originator Golden Crust. We're in downtown Brooklyn right now guys. Golden Crust is like the staple of people who are just starting to get Caribbean food, right? If you're not used to going to one of the Mama Pop shots this is like the commercial ads. Kind of like the McDonald's of Caribbean food. This was the first Caribbean franchise. Yeah. And it started in the Bronx 32 years ago. I mean they got a ton of locations. Oh yeah. This is very 2021. We have a plan based ting. We can get a beyond meat fake beef Jamaican beef patty. I'm curious to see how well it's going to taste. This is Golden Crust 2021. They got vegan ting. What do you make of Kamala Harris being half Jamaican? That's going to be great. I can't wait to have jerk chicken on the White House long now. They're going to have real oil drum. They're going to have like soca parties. This is bun and cheese. Bun and cheese. Right there. This is sweet. You're going to see a little fruit in here, cinnamon. You bite in this is a good snack here. And then look we came in here. There was nobody here. The phone brothers they have an attraction because of them. They were coming. They were a little bit mad that we were filming at first but you were like all right mama thank you. Okay. Hey we got some rum back there. And I don't even know what you were saying but I was like I was like hey Vince it's working man do more of it. I think for me this is what I'm going for. I had to try the Beyond Beef Jamaican Patty. Man break this up. I have a mild beef and then you have the spicy beef. This looks like beef until you compare it to the real beef. Golden crust patties. I'ma be real. It doesn't look good inside but it tastes a lot better than it looks. I'm not going to lie guys. I would say that this Beyond Beef Patty would be cool until you eat the real one right next to it. It tastes like a toy store. It tastes fake. We're back to jerk. We're back to jerk. We're back to jerk. This eskipi fish and whiting. If I had some tartar sauce it would be not bad. Flavor is not bad. Jerk chicken here and golden crust. It's not any peppers but it's got it's still got flavor. Now stew chicken. The brownie. Now this is supposed to be wet on the outside. Stew chicken. And it's good. So that's some good stew chicken. All right you guys that brings us to the end of our Jamaican food crawl with Chinese Jamaican comedian friend Vince Chang. Yo thank you so much for showing us. I know that obviously it's not the same as going to Jamaica or Kingston. We've kind of determined that Manhattan probably doesn't have the most authentic Jamaican experiences but would you say going to Peppas is a pretty good compromise? That's a great compromise that just a Jamaican food like how authentic it can taste. Like when you saw it it looked flavorful. It tasted flavorful. The people were kind they're nice. It's about so many people coming together being as one and just sharing so much information and creating the best food the amazing culture and one thing living together in peace and harmony. All right guys here I have bun and cheese rainbow cake rainbow cake I already went in. Sweet. This was better than I thought. This definitely does look like a fruit cake or a cinnamon raisin bread. You're going to taste this give me sweet. All right bun and cheese. That's how you top up a night off. Lord of mercy. Yo last thing Vince I need you to speak some Mandarin and take us out man. I'm Vince Chang. Thank you to the Feng brothers. All right everybody thank you so much for watching that Jamaican episode of Feng brothers food through New York. Shout out to Vince Chang man. You can find me Vince Chang 21 on all platforms from the Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. I want to thank the Feng brothers so much Andrew and David for putting me on this platform. These guys are dope. They just been educated on some real Jamaican culture and straight up tomorrow they may have some dreadlocked they may have a nice little split and a nice girl with a big backside and saying yo we're going to give the buddy to them. All right you guys thank you so much for watching and until next time we out peace.