 David, can you tell what this is? It is the Stingray, aka the Skate Wing. Who would have thought you could get this at a restaurant here? Let's make that a thing. Elm Donizia, let's make that a thing. All right, so before we continue with that video, I gotta let you know that today, November 9th at 5 p.m. Pacific, we are going to be on the Yamibai YouTube channel doing a two-hour crazy long snackathon giveaway. And if you guys know about Yamibai.com, that is the premier online destination to get Asian snacks and Asian products, which means that you guys are going to have the opportunity to win a year's worth of free Asian snacks, Asian kitchen appliances. We're going to be doing instant discounts and all you need to do is get registered for an account at yamibai.com. Super easy. Super easy. Today, November 9th, 5 p.m. Pacific on the Yamibai YouTube channel. All the links are down below. See you there. What's going on, everybody? Welcome to a very, very, very, very, very special episode of Fun Bros. Food and we are about to go on a crazy Indonesian food crawl. Do you know what I love about Queens? Is that Queens just got crowned in 2019 as the most diverse big county in America and we're in Elmhurst and Elmhurst is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Queens. So that makes it maybe the most diverse neighborhood in America. And you know we could not do an indoor food crawl without an authentic indoor friend. Oliver, you host some TV shows in Bahasa, so let him know. Hello, my name is Oliver Pras from Queens, New York, but the country is Indonesia. My mother is from Manado, my father is from Jogja. And I'm also a TV host in Indonesia. Oliver, what are we gonna be doing today, man? All right, so we're gonna be checking out some authentic Indonesian restaurants here in Queens, New York. We're actually in front of Awan Kitchen, one of my favorite spots here. It is one of the top rated Indonesian restaurants in New York City. And I heard it's relatively new. A couple of years, right? Actually, yes. We're actually gonna get a nice sneak peek. Ayo, kita makan! Let's go! Plates are coming in, guys. This is a tempeh manduan, basically from the soybean. And you can use it with the sauce. It's the sweet sauce and the chili chop. Originality from Indonesia. Indonesia, basically, is the traditional food. Okay, like can Indonesia. Like not just like one region. This is a roast satay. We call it satay kambing in Indonesia. This is traditional from the West Java. We're gonna pour it with the sauce, with the k-chop, and the bercili, and tomato, and the samsara. And this one, with poyong from Indonesia. This one inside the egg, crab, and shrimp. With the pork sauce, with the tomato sauce. This is of the Chinese diaspora, right here. Wow. And this one is the nasi goreng kambing. This is usually in the street food, you can find it. And this one is the pompano with the honey sauce. This one is from the jimbaran. Normally you find it in Bali. Bali, okay, more south, right? This is called rujak juhi. Basically, this one is noodle, with lettuce, cucumber, and tofu. With the peanut sauce, with dried shrimp. This one, this one, you cannot find anywhere. This is nasi bungkus, with the ayam bakar. This one, the duk iga bakar. Salad makhan. We are at Awang Kitchen here in Elmer's Queens. We're looking at goat satay. This is street food. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yo, let's go in on this show. Dude, let's do this. Do I skewer one of the rice cakes? You try it, go for it, why not? Be creative. Goat satay. With a little bit of tomato and onion that is fire. So a lot of people are probably watching right now like goat satay. I'm more like in the chicken satay, right? I like it, that goat's not gamey at all. It's tender, it's perfect. All right, our second dish is Oliver. This is fermented soybeans. You ever had this? Actually, between the goat satay and this fried cemented soybean square, these are two Indonesian dishes I've never had before in my life. Yeah, so it's actually one of my life goals to kinda introduce Indonesian culture, cuisine, food, entertainment, dance to the American consciousness. I definitely agree. I mean, it's top foreign population in the entire world, but it's a quiet four. Don't sleep on Indonesia. That's case in point, let's go. Tempe manduan. This is a fried soybean patty, right? Wow, if you look inside, so it's fried on the outside, it actually has batter and then on the inside, it almost looks like a vegetarian meat. Whoa. To be honest, I'm actually not a fan of traditional tempeh as an Indonesian, but this is actually fantastic. It's a nice spin. I had no idea that it was gonna taste like this. Bro, how do you describe it? It's almost like a taro. Like I would say, like a vegetarian meat, but it's really good. I love that outside batter. No disrespect to Manhattan, but you're not gonna find anything more authentic. In terms of Indonesian food than here in Queens, New York. Yo, I'm not gonna lie. I think definitely as far as Indo food, because we lived in the 626 for a while. I think Elmhurst got it beat already. Oh, look at that. That's the depth. So we got nasi goreng gambing, which translates to fried rice with goat. See, I got a grilled pompano here. This is like a popular fish that I feel like they also eat in Indonesia and the Philippines, and it's got grilled with this honey sauce right here. This looks looking crazy. Is it interesting that grilled pompano kind of looked like the emoji fish? It does. Bro, you gotta try it with the sambal, man. Indonesian sambal is no joke. Last but not least, you guys, we've got a very special type of rojak here. This rojak Ujuhi has squid. It's got egg noodles underneath. It's got lettuce. It's a whole mixture of awesomely good noodles. Yo, that's just, wow. It's different. It's different, man. Wow, let's mix it up. I'm gonna go in on the nasi goreng. Let's split it up. We'll just do it. Nasi goreng. I mean mine on chip. It tastes different. Wow. It's different than the beef. You taste the tenderness of the goat. It's so smooth. When goat is done well, it's wildly, wildly underrated. How long? Great job. Good job. It's good. What can you tell us about the Pampano fish? It's a fish that's common to many South Asian countries. It's a cuisine that is incredibly popular. Indonesia is very well known for the spices, the amount of spices they have. It's actually one of the nicknames of the Spice Islands. Pampano fish. Pano. Mmm. Yo, you guys wanna try eating like Indonesian? With your hands? With your hands? Man, I'm... Let's do it. If you wanna go wash your hands right now, I'm down to go wash my hands. I'm down to eat this fish with my hands. Let's eat the rest of the meal with our hands. You don't eat with your left hand. I'm gonna eat with your right hand. Guys, all right. Three finger technique. Can I eat this fish? All right, go for it, man. Take some of this sambal, this crazy spicy sambal right there. With the hands, it hits different. Yep. It hits different. Mm-hmm. Rojak Juhi. It is a Rojak, but with Juhi. I like this Rojak a lot. The Rojak Juhi. My favorite Rojak I've ever had. And I'm... Whoa, that's quite the statement. Because it has so many different flavors in it. And sometimes the sauce on Rojak is so strong, it's overpowering, but I thought this one's a little bit more mild so it fit my personal taste. Oh, we got potatoes too. Nice. I love Indo coffee. Yeah, on fact, the most expensive cup of coffee in the world comes from Indonesia. Indonesian coffee. Kobe. Our next dish here is the Fuyung Hai, aka the Indonesian Chinese Egg Fuyung. Dude, this is my very first time trying this. Wow. Mm. So as you can see, it's like a egg crepe kind of stacked with vegetables and other things with the sauce on top. I'm an egg crepe guy. I eat lots of egg crepes. That's good. I think there's a connotation in America about egg fuyung. People generally don't eat it, but here, obviously, this is part of the Chinese diaspora that's been in Indonesia for a while. Moving on. This is me. I am Kang Kung. You can see the noodles with... In the water spinach, in Indonesian, we call it Kang Kung. Mm. Oh, this is really good. That was really good. Oh, man. My top two is the me. I am Kang Kung. Yo, that was fire. That one and the nasi goreng, because nasi goreng is just classic. Yeah, the nasi goreng with the goat, right? The goat goreng. I love the pampano fish. Yeah, I was like... With the honeys. I'm going with the pampano. This is Igabakar. This is a short ribs with some beef broth. That looks amazing. So soup and short ribs, that is a meal. Yo, I've never seen that. You got to try it, bro. Igabakar beef short ribs. Right off the bone. Mm. This grill flavor, smokiness is crazy. So soft and tender. That's a beef soup. This is a quick beef broth that you can use as a supplement to the beef ribs. The celery and the carrots in there taste it, bro. Guys, I'm about to unravel the nasi bonkis. Oh my gosh, look at that. So this is their, like, to-go box. This is their, like, Chinese takeout box. I guess so, yeah. Rice to-go, yeah. I do prefer to substitute the chicken with what's called rendang. Oh, beef rendang. Beef rendang, yeah, the beef curry. Another good one. All right, guys, just dive in. Let's get a couple bites, man. Is that a coconut? Is that coconut meat? Nasi bonkis is like the Indonesian beef embalm where you just put all the side dishes in together, you mix it up, and it's just delicious. For me, it was the jackfruit. And a lot of people actually use jackfruit as a meat substitute protein. Dude, that's a green sambal? If you get a chance, get the green sambal here at Awang Kitchen. All right, you guys, by no means are we done. No, we're going to Indo Java, which is right across the Boulevard to the Indonesian bodega. You guys want to know more? Check us out only on Fung Bro's YouTube. All right, guys, continuing on our trip to Elm Indonesia here in Queens. I'm going to eat this boulevard. Right now, we're here in front of Indo Java, one of the most famous and few Indonesian bodegas. The only places you can actually find Indonesian spices, Indonesian ingredients, and they even serve hot food, but we just missed it today. So this place is actually home to warung slasa and warung kamis, which means warung, which is like a small place you eat. Slasa means Tuesday and kamis means Thursday. They only make enough for a certain amount of portion. All right, so Tuesdays and Thursdays here are particularly lit. Let's head in, let's check it out. Indo Java, let's go in. Hello. Hello, look out there. So this is Elvie, she's the owner of Indo Java. How are you doing? Good, how are you? How long have you had this store here in Queens? Actually, we are in here, it's like 12 years. Broadway is three years, it's total is 15 years. What do like Indonesians from Indonesia when they come here, they say, oh, it just feels just like Jakarta or something? Yeah, they feel like at home. If there's homesick, they come here and then they feel very happy. Let's get some sambal. Let's check it out. Okay, we're definitely picking this up. Yes. We gotta get this to get in. But it's spicy, be careful. This one is martabak, martabak is like pancake. Inside there is like peanut, cheese and chocolate. Oh my God. Oh, definitely get it. That will put you to sleep for sure. Try also this one tofu inside this vegetable. Okay. All right, I'll get that. I've never had that. That looks interesting. Also in Indojava, they have pre-made foods that are already pre-cooked and all you gotta do is just microwave them or heat them up right here. Oh, look at this, we just had this. I do have it, yeah. Oh, the chichato musul. Hi, it's very good. Every Tuesday and every Thursday, the menu changes, right? All is changed, yes. Makase. Yo, I gotta tell you this, the Indonesian language sounds cool. And you got two cool things. Ah, man, I got the martabak and then the ramayana. Whoa! That's like an egg roll, let's go. But it's an egg roll, but a fried tofu, right? It's a fried tofu egg roll ball. Is it kind of like the Indonesian pizza pocket? More or less. I mean, I wasn't expecting that many things. There's like a lot of things going on in there. It's not an egg roll, it's an egg ball. You guys, I got the chichato migoreng flavored one. Does it taste like Indomie migoreng? Actually, the other track, it's been a while for me. They're done. This tastes just like the authentic instant noodle migoreng, jagang bakar cheetos. This is a Indonesian roasted bakar corn cheeto. Whoa! The corn flavor came in out of my head. This is my first time trying it. And in LA, all our favorite Indo spots, they're always sold out of this. This is a tranquilizer dart in a cake form. Oh, I'm excited, dude. Martabak. It's like a sponge cake. That's not a Western cake. I need to go to the gym. I think that this is the most underrated dessert in the world. Martabak wins in my opinion. I love it. The Martabak is a 10 out of 10. Don't turn your back on the Martabak. We're continuing our journey in Elmhurst. Where'd you take us? So we're here in the heart of Elmhurst, right? We're here on Whitney Avenue. There's two Indonesian restaurants here in Elmhurst that are literally side by side. Sky Cafe and Asian Taste 86. Yes. All right, you guys, we ordered from Sky Cafe, multi-regional pan Indonesian. We're gonna go head over to Asian Taste, which is Javanese. Ending hour, Elmdonizia Crawl on Whitney Ave. Let's go. Here we have the Mi Komplete. Mi Komplete. I'm not gonna lie. This is my favorite dish. The Mi Komplete from Sky Cafe. That's good. Such a simple dish, but so tasty. I love the texture of the noodles. Nobody's going for the beef bone. This is the nasi bunkis, but with rendang right here. Oh my gosh, look at that. Look how deep that rendang is. Look at that beef. Large pieces of jackfruit. That's percadil. Percadil. And then you got your egg right here. I'm just gonna chop it all up. Nasi bunkis rendang. Been waiting for this. I mean, it tastes better with your hands, but... Beef rendang, to me, I think is the root of that very deep Malaysian curry as well. Where it's just like, it's super, super spicy, but not in a hot way. Yes. Very, very enjoyable. Give you something fresh and something different, but not to overpower you. You know what I mean? Last but not least from Sky Cafe, we have salt buntut or oxtail soup. Put some lime in there. Yeah. Squeeze the lime in it. Salt buntut, oxtail Indonesian soup. Mm, really herbal. This is definitely a healthier variant. If the broth isn't too thick, they don't put too many different spices on it. I think it's quite pleasant. Yeah, it looks like a really light soup, but it actually has tons of herbs and spices in there. A lot of like star anise. You know, the Asian spices, to be honest. It's good. We gotta move on to our Asian taste round. So right here in front of me, we have smashed chicken or also known as ayam pinyet. You got some tofu in there. You got your sambal terasi. We have sambal ejio. So two different kinds of sambals for variety. Indonesians, they peel off the chicken. I'm sure other Asian countries, they peel off and then they bring it to their mouth. Oh my gosh. Ayam pinyet. Ayam means chicken. Pinyet means smashed. Ay. Smash chicken is great because when they smash it while they're cooking it, it kind of like tears the meat apart. So it's easier to get it off the bone. It is, it is, it is. I can eat that every day. You can try the tofu with the sambal. What I love most is look at this chicken skin right here. There's almost no batter on it at all. I'm gonna tear it apart. I'm just gonna bite it like this. I'm gonna take a piece of that too. Incredibly authentic, man. We also have soto batawi, right? So check this out. This is an Indonesian soup, right? You got some beef in there. It's cooked with coconut milk. It's tomatoes, potatoes, all that good stuff with some group book chips and rice. Soto batawi, coconut beef. That thing has been simmering in that coconut milk for like, ever. You also notice that Malaysian food is actually quite similar to Indonesian food. Not that spicy. Very easy to eat. David, can you tell what this is? It is the stingray. The skate wing. Who would have thought you could get this at a restaurant here? Oliver, you said you didn't even have it before. Yo, to be honest, I've never had stingray in my entire life. I didn't even know this was on the menu. Bro, I've been coming here for a long time. The stingray was just so authentic. I mean, I just had to get it. Oh my gosh. Is that bone? Maybe get a little lime, of course. Potty stingray. Wow. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. God, that's some of the better stingray I've ever had. The way they barbecued that top, it was super crispy and like, almost I forgot that I'm eating stingray. Best and only stingray I've ever had. Amen. That's fun girl's food for you. I gotta give a special shout out to Asian Taste for letting us film here for me. This is the only time I've really enjoyed stingray and I've had it like maybe four times. I think I'll just go with the smashed chicken on this one. Where you going, mate, Oliver? For Asian Taste, this is tough because, like you, it's between the party and the ayampinyat, but I'm gonna have to go... I'm gonna go with the party. Ah! This is my first time ever trying it. I was not only puzzled and surprised, I was, well, I'm thankful to these guys because they're introducing you to food from my own culture that I've never had before. I'm not introducing it to you. I'm just going out there and ordering. Give me the stuff. I can't get anywhere else. Yeah. All right, you guys. We are wrapping up our crawl, our journey through Elm Donizia, Elmhurst Queens, Indonesian crawl. Yo, here's a shout out to you, Oliver, man. Thank you, thank you, bro. Oh my goodness. What are we looking at? I got my iced jelly. That's the latter, that's the latter. This is one of my favorite Asian desserts, this black pudding with coconut milk. It honestly tastes like a sweet rice oatmeal. I love this. Yo, I like this a lot. When you really sink your teeth into the enclaves out here, that's what I love about Elmhurst and I'm so glad we got to check out Elm Donizia with you, man. Yo, I'm not gonna lie, just the fact that you guys enjoy Indonesian food makes me so happy as an Indonesian American since we're oftentimes overlooked because I just don't think there aren't enough of us here in America. We got a long way to go and I'm hoping to be a part of that big reason why a lot of people going forward know exactly where Indonesia is on a map. And also, when you think of Indonesia, I want you to be thinking of this guy, OliverprostTV, host extraordinaire. Oliver, you got a big mission. All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching that culinary journey through Elmhurst Queens, AKA Elm Donizia, who shout out to Oliverprost, check out his info right here on Instagram. Please let us know in the comment section below, what was your favorite dish? What's an Indonesian dish that we did not get to cover, that we need to try out? If I'm not wrong, it's not that good, I'm sorry, because I'm not wrong, it's not that good. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching that video. We are on Whitney Ave in the heart of Elmhurst Queens right now and until next time, we out. Peace! What's the hottest item that the Indo's are going crazy for? Is it the shampoo or is it the toothpaste? What is it? It's the sun balm. It's the sun balm. Let's get some sun balm, check it out. Okay, and I also want to get one Indonesian beauty product. I don't know why, I'm just saying I do.