 by all means necessary literally tastes like dad's cooking on sunday morning a hidden dumpling spot inside of an underground mall peaking duck boughs late night skewer carts in the full restaurant that we frequent the most out at any spot in new york city most of this all under nine dollars and i know you thought this series might have been over but you don't know just how deep this goes and maybe at first we didn't know either so let us know in the comments down below if we should keep going with this series hit that like button and china town cheap eats part 10 let's andrew we have been transported to taipei taiwan between the weather outside the decor in here this is the most classic taiwanese spot in china town feel like i'm in taiwan 20 years ago i didn't even go to taiwan 20 years ago david in front of us we have li the quintessential taiwanese cheap eats in china town everything here is five dollars or less even in 2020 you have these spicy wontons hong yo chao so we have tea marinated duck andrew taiwanese people really love to marinate meats in uh tea so they stuff the sticky rice into the holes of the lotus root come on man if you guys are looking for something different in china town that's not cantonese food this is it salted uh salt and pepper pork chop with the bujiao fun wow the uh five spice on it andrew this popcorn chicken this yensuji this is not your your your boba stop david david this is a dish that i do not look forward to trying this is some um intestine soup olaji and taiwanese oyster pancake this one's super valid does not have any of like um the sea flavor i'm personally not a big fan of like sometimes at the night market you're gonna get like very cheap oysters which i'm not saying they're bad or bad for you i'm just saying they're gonna have kind of a jeep flavor but here high quality taiwanese pork chop it is called taiwanese pork chop house and honestly this is a very juicy salty and peppery chinese pork chop it's very good man this is one of the best ones i had in in new york andrew you got the yensuji popcorn chicken i got the tea marinated duck this one i was first introduced to this at tea station in san gabry wow one of the many tea flavored taiwanese foods out there one of the things i really do miss about living in the 626 andrew are the tea flavored taiwanese meats finishing up here david we have the taiwanese sausage you have the taiwanese tea egg right here this is not a boba shop no disrespect to boba shops this is not a boba shop david i feel like i just walked into a 7-11 in the daan district in taipei city last but not least andrew we got to try some of the most traditional things here you got the taiwanese kimchi i got the lotus root with stuck sticky rice in the sweet syrup yo i'm not gonna straight up david i didn't know taiwanese had their own version of this lotus root is an interesting dish it's cold and it's very sweet it's almost like a dessert we got the intestine soup for you yo guys if you guys have watched channel long enough you know one of the few things i don't like to eat our intestines but uh since i want to show my respect to taiwan pork chop house and all the great and fond memories i've had in taipei and taijong and kaoshong it wasn't that bad they were able to cook out the funkiness of the intestines you can't travel right now it's 2021 who knows when we will be able to go again if you want to taste the taiwan i don't care if you like modern things old things come to taiwan pork chop house the only thing they're missing is terisa tang in the background all right you guys we're in front of food's old wade zone right now this is the deepest cut of the deepest cut spot we are like in an essentially an abandoned mall getting for $11 we are getting xie jiao guo tian and the food's old shaolong bao all right so you guys know man they close at seven even though yelp says eight they close at seven they said yelp she a tuola all right david we just got the food yo shaolong bao let's go check them out by all means necessary all right you guys we have secured it for seven dollars you get seven shaolong bao the guo tian the shui jiao which is the dumplings and the pot stickers were two dollars each my total was $11 here they give you some vinegar this is the very first time in my life i'm having the food's old shaolong bao hot it made them fresh honestly it tastes like a shanghai it tastes a little bit more like a tianjin baozi a gobi li baozi but this is good and you gotta try one guys one thing i know about fujianese food is that they really like to brace the meat so it's always really dark brown and i like even on the dumplings a lot of the meat is dark brown but that just means it's got flavor but you can also see the dark brown seep into the bun right here as you can see you're going to be able to see the brown juice in the background man this was pretty good i'm pretty glad i got the fujianese shaolong bao does it taste exactly like shanghai ni shaolong bao not really but is it worth getting yes so if you're thinking about coming to fujiou weijou at the bottom of this east broadway mall make sure you get there before 7 p.m because that's when they're closing up shop all right everybody i got the fried guo tia which is fried dumplings i had the steam dumplings the sui jiao and i had the fujiou shaolong bao for all for $11 at fujiou weijong guys it just opened at the bottom of the east broadway mall this is a super deep cut if you guys are looking to come here make sure you get there before 7 p.m because that's when they're closing up shop because you don't want to eat in the dark all right everybody hey this was a deep cut spot chinatown chi beats 10 chinatown chi beats part 10 guys you know that we're analyzing things that very few people you know dedicate their brain power to analyzing we're on bowery and hester right now in my opinion one of the most underrated food streets now most of these spots on the street are more designed for you know 20 30 40 a person however we are going to be showing you today how to order for $10 from places like new hong wang right here this is an amazing seafood restaurant i never personally been here they said it's super underrated a lot of people don't know about it funny bbq the original malatang you know twar spot until the spot across the street the straight from donbe opened up so that's a donbe twar spot this is a Sichuan twar spot plus we've got the chinese version of the louisiana boil you know we shot a video there's subcrab and you've got the windham hotel with some very interesting dishes like shrimp garlic fries real quick i gotta let you know that this episode of chinatown chi beats part 10 is sponsored by you scooters guys you scooters are the scooters that you see us riding around town we've said it on our instagram we've shown it in other youtube videos they are our favorite scooters to ride around the city they're a super lightweight and portable you can pick them up you can fold them up you can take them upstairs you can take them down the subway the acceleration is great they're super durable and the suspension will surprise you all i gotta say is to be honest that we could not get the series like chinatown chi beats done this quickly and go to this many spots if it wasn't for the scooters so if you guys are interested at all check out you scooters dot com and we actually have a code called fun bros that if you use it you will get 60 dollars off all right you guys we just ordered take out from the bowery beer garden they do have some interesting and uh asian inspired items the owners are asian but obviously they want to cater to a very diverse demographic here are cajun garlic shrimp fries yo you guys i know a lot of people might be skeptical of bar and grill food and uh even you know the way it looks is just kind of interesting not necessarily delicious i'm gonna go ahead and give this a four out of five okay for 12 they give you three of these tacos but they're really high quality um the chefs can't do these but they do tacos well here guys they give you two different types of sauces this is it right here make no mistake guys it's bar and grill food but it's elevated so i got 10 tofu skin skewers for like seven bucks this is a dombe chow kow specialty for about five dollars i got this grilled eggplant you could not get this cheaper almost if you made it yourself if you had to get all the garlic and get it all up in your eyes and everything this is really the best barbecue you can get in china time that you know mimics mainland china this is all the different uh chinese barbecue seasonings that are obviously influenced from around the world uh due to the silk road straight up guys this tofu is silky and it almost kind of feels like a cheese i'm gonna go ahead and give these a 4.75 out of five but you know what i'm just gonna go with the five i'm gonna give the dopey here at friendship ppq a five out of five if you want to order this dish you know for five dollars i believe they just call it kow chedza kow chedza i'm also gonna go ahead and give this the five out of five it's good it's cheap it's right here it's underrated hey guys not all cajun seafood spots are gonna look this clean this nice this kind of pretty you got the little lights up top you know sub crab is trying to do something what we looking at okay what i've just opened up are two extremely hot steaming plastic trays of food here i have the mince herbal noodle with an egg on top and then i have the logic which is your spicy diced chicken with chili obviously based off the Sichuan dish who i think is really cool about sub crab is that you can actually spend almost like a hundred dollars per person here if you're getting you know the king crab the snow crab obviously all the seafood you can drop 100 but you can also eat here for only like 12 10 dollars a person this noodle dish right here let me just break up the oh my gosh this right here was only nine dollars and then here your laji ji which is fresh piping hot and spicy fried chicken laji ji a lot of spots serve this dish but not all spots also specialize in seafood so for a spot that specializes in seafood i'm going to give this a 4.5 out of 5 this is solid made by the same chefs that are cooking the $100 seafood right so they put the same mastery into this dish this is a 13 herbs dish got 13 herbs and spices come on a real chef had to come up with that guys we're inside a funny BBQ right now i'm not gonna lie it does actually feel like china because they are serving all the dishes that you might actually eat in china but while your dinner here can get kind of pricey i'm gonna show you the cheapest eats and the best deals right here at funny BBQ and let me just start off with the number one best lunch special deal here at funny BBQ shout out to car from 12 pelk because he posted this on his instagram first and this is the beef malatang this is only during lunchtime seven dollars look how much food they give you look at all those noodles you get veggies you get your greens you got your bok choy you got your lotus root you have thinly sliced beef you have tofu you have thinly sliced potatoes here for those of you who don't know malatang is probably the top three most favorite dishes of the youth in china right now and it's super popular i mean they serve it at a lot of different spots and a lot of different people do different variations i'm about to show you a dry version of it but man this malatang you know coming from Sichuan this is all the rage right now people love this dish okay guys for a seven dollar lunch special malatang i'm going to go ahead and give this a four out of five it is super solid and i think it's a great segue for people who are trying to get more into mainland food in Sichuan food in general because i know like a lot of abc's maybe you didn't grow up eating this food because that's not your your mother's or father's region food the next killer deal here at funny BBQ is actually this dry pot okay you can call it a gan guo or maybe on the menu it might be gan huo guo but basically it's a dry pot um i have instant noodles i have three types of meat i have all the veggies that you need guys for this much food during lunchtime this is only eleven dollars okay dry hot pot gan guo i'm going in for a second bite already that's how you know it's legit i'm gonna give this a five out of five definitely get the dry pot i i prefer it over the malatang i think the soup can get a little bit spicy and plus it's really hot outside but this just tastes like instant noodles tossed with spice and all these other different ingredients i think you could easily share this between two hungry friends and you'd be good for lunch okay they also sent over some of their skewers now skewers here they are a little bit more expensive but they're super high quality they range anywhere from like you know two to four dollars each i've actually never had this one all right i'm gonna try this one grill crispy rice cake baby this is only something you're gonna see at a tiny spot okay you have a hot dog but it's cut in a way where it almost looks like a flower stem or like a rose stem funny hot dog at funny baby keep not bad it's like you're kind of good base pepper on there kind of tastes like the time when he's one so not bad this is a popular fujinese dessert here it's like an ice ball you've got like sticky rice on the top you have nice sliced watermelons you got a little bit of sweet syrup some peanuts i actually had this dish a long time ago but i don't get to eat it often i'm chilling now wow i needed that all right so if you guys are nostalgic at all and searching for a vibe like it is in china you can go to friendship bbq across the street or funny bbq across the street why do they have similar names i do not know but i can tell you this funny bbq is probably more for the youth it's gonna remind you more of like a middle class spot okay it's a little bit more lit a little bit more like a club and then friendship bbq is going to be like a slightly more expensive maybe higher quality uh more family sit-down spot so you got your choices here but there is mainland china in china town now all right you guys we're looking at the new hong wang lunch specials they're about 675 each the only thing that was nine dollars was this uh zing zing you know xiouyu which is a uh steamed soy sauce fish of course we've got some very classic Cantonese dishes that are very traditional this is a seafood centric spot new hong wang you've got the squash uh winter melon you've got the hamae which is this tiny shrimp right here kind of looks hilarious in a way um you might not think this has much flavor but it's actually a very subtle complex flavor multi-layered but all subtle this is just the black bean rock cod fillet with the diced uh you know string beans which is a little bit more thai pai dong which is like a uh a little bit more of a outside hot fired wok chill jiao influenced style of course here we've got the zin dan omelet which is a crepe egg all Cantonese people know that this is how we grow up eating our eggs whether it's in a sandwich or it's on anything else this is how we get down the crepe egg this is nine dollars um but this is an incredibly complex dish to get for nine dollars and to get the homemade flavor for nine bucks you've got the black bean pan fried fish fillet 675 that's the perfect lunch dish you've got the zin dan this is a crepe egg 650 oh my gosh five out of five a um out of um this was a banger i'm not gonna lie guy team guy team guy team guy means why um honestly it's like the eggs that mom and dad used to make but maybe better last but not least you've got the winter melon funcipo yo i'm not gonna lie ander of all the dishes this reminds me the most of dad's sunday morning cooking of like all the spots in china town new hong wong yo david i'm not gonna lie mom and dad actually cook like three out of four of these dishes new hong wong literally tastes like dad's cooking on sunday morning this is actually bugging me out and you say that you know taste smell brings you activate you know memory receptors i'm going back what what are we calling this new new fun one new home fun china town cheap eats part 10 no tourists locals only a lot of interesting concepts what i love about eldritch is that it is in china town but a lot of the businesses actually serve japanese or american food here you got flour shop you got zest rum and you got takumi you got simple these are all great lunch spots and by the way a cafe granddaddy right there so shout out to them but we're going to hit these businesses up we're going to show you what to get we're going to show you what's a good value eldritch street let's go all right i'm here at takumi i got some lunch specials they are fujinese owned but fujinese japanese spots man they're getting really good here i have the yellow tail and scallion roll boom here i actually have a snow crab roll and these two rolls together for the lunch special price is only 12 that's saving you about two to three dollars here here i actually have a teriyaki salmon combo and i got to say this slab of teriyaki salmon is actually really really big look at that wow they give you a lot of salmon for 14 dollars they even give you the the shall my which is you know more the japanese version but obviously it does look like the cantonese one here you have a little california roll salad and rice and by the way you know we wanted to keep this whole series under eight dollars or ten dollars but of course you know we kind of went to all the cheap spots already so we are expanding the price out to you know the 14-15 dollar range these are still really good deals and really good quality food but of course you know you might have that we're we're saying this is a nice lunch maybe maybe not every single day lunch but this is a nice lunch not dry tender flavorful the yellow tail scallion this is the roll that's going to give you a little bit more of that premium feel i gotta say for 12 bucks on eldridge street guys you can get decent japanese food and sushi here on eldridge street last thing i gotta try japanese shall my i'm usually not a big fan of this but let me see what i like soft it's more made out of fish cake um a little bit sweet not bad chinese-owned japanese spots i know maybe for many many years before they kind of got a bad rap because they were like oh it's not authentically japanese but i mean doing this type of food they're doing a good job they're learning they're getting better yo andre how are you enjoying your uh takumi lunch special i think eldridge is a low-key japanese street her cheap japanese food eldridge is a pretty good street all right while andrew's next door we are getting the lunch special here at zest ramen so i got the vegetarian tomato ramen here at zest um it is owned by tai chinese so they also have tai shrimp rolls they also have uh squid skewers so these are actually miniature squids in some sort of like spicy tai reduction so it's kind of a fusion between tai and japanese culture and of course we've got the japanese street snack from osaka the takoyaki balls all right you guys this was pretty cheap this along with a free shumai appetizer the japanese style one was 15 dollars these were all about five or six dollars each so um it could add up but also if you want to keep it like totally could be a cheapy i know that they hired a lot of japanese shelves to consult with the menu here tomato-based vegetarian ramen yo david i had to run over because i look so good i know that david is a huge fan of anything tomato-based when it comes to yun shan michin david loves the tomato-based one ramen he's got to try tomato egg everything he's a tomato guy this tomato-based one and maybe a little bit more chinese influence i do know some japanese spots have this as well though and um i actually highly highly recommend this i'm gonna go ahead and give this a four out of five and i noticed you were quick to uh abandon your teriyaki bento hey teriyaki salmon is solid but you know what you're getting this looks really new this is a tai shrimp roll and you can tell that the crust is kind of like uh kind of has that spindly uh flour on top uh i think it would could have been vermicelli noodles or something else what do you think about how they have a crispy what do you think about how they have a fusion of tai culture and japanese culture here takoyaki i actually think tai japanese fusion works pretty well all right andrew i'm gonna need you to compare the uh japanese renditions of the shumai from takumi with zest because i had a takumi okay let me try this here at zest but i'm not gonna lie they look exactly the same they might get them from the same spot i think they're both frozen listen guys i know that you know the japanese culture is a master at innovating but i gotta say that the chinese shumai are way better than japanese shumai it's not even close they hear look they got the little uh poke bowl street matcha waffles oatmeal cranberry cookies so it's gonna be tasty to china town people and non-china town people exactly that is exactly it's gonna be tasty and healthy all right and this is like a japanese style like exactly hey why do you think there's so much japanese food on elridge i believe the reason is because in this area the the residents the people who come here and dine in they most of them they like chinese but they like japanese but they like asian food so anything asian japanese chinese vietnamese tai like any type of asian right they're all doing really really great so andrew it is really interesting that elridge kind of has this like chinese japanese fusion zest ramen was trying to find that like inflection it's partially because this spot this street was not already overpopulated with chinese restaurants so that sort of like china town extended yeah it was kind of a low-key street so it's kind of forming so you have fujao uh you have shujao fujao dumpling right which is one of the cheapest best dumpling spots in the town but then you have all these japanese spots cool i got this ume yeah choya soda choya soda and they let you know it's zero percent alcohol oh y'all man let's try this spicy salmon right here yeah man kind of kind of hard to oh oh you gave me everything no you gave me everything spicy salmon poke i can see why they survived the poke wars what i love how it's really cold it's really chilled it's got a lot of flavor guys this was only 12 75 that is not even very expensive at all for poke i don't need poke all the time but if i do i'm gonna come to simple and you've got a japanese hamburger hamburger curry hamburger curry it's pretty good that meat tastes really clean i like that that must be really high quality ground beef once we expand it out of like 10 11 dollars and maybe even stretch it to 16 a lot of options opened up actually nothing that we've even ordered today is over $15 retail and listen guys it's 2021 if you want to have a you know a certain type of lunch you probably gotta at least drop 15 bucks all right last but not least we have this matcha cream waffle here it's really cool looking matcha crescent i've never had a croissant waffle before it's pretty good i give that a four out of five i'd love to see people transfer their masterful chef techniques from you know other provinces or other countries and then transfer them to to cooking things like japanese food listen i think if you want to cook something very traditional you go for it but if you don't go for it too because to be honest that's the great thing about being in america you're exposed to all these different things and america you know still is pretty open to non-traditional foods of course and sometimes those even sell better than the super traditional stuff you know for uh better for worse so go for all right so one of the best chinatown cheap eats is actually a late night eat it starts at five p.m and it's on grand street yes you know what i'm talking about i don't think we film this yet it is the chinese skewer cart on grand and christy so you know it's the cart because you can start to smell it when you're even like you know 20 30 feet away depending on where the wind is blowing all right it is ran by this really cool couple they're actually fujinese but they know how to make these kind of like northern style like shinjiang skewers so i'm about to order a few chicken legs chicken legs chicken legs chicken legs chicken legs we are looking at my jiucai and then jingzhengbu and those are my yang rouchuan okay in front of me here at the xiaocao truck on yelp it's called chinese pinchos i don't know why that is called that i have a chicken and a yang rouchuan so that's lamb right here i got chicken right here let's go to it was that the lamb that's yang rou okay four out of five much higher quality than you think not a lot of fat but i think some people might prefer that let's get in the chicken one very solid go with the yang rouchuan all right because the davis recommendation i'm going to just try the lamb because not that the chicken's bad you know it's probably just not as strong as the yang rouchuan they got better very solid kind of spicy not gonna lie quality is good here at the pork aka the jiu rou and i can actually see i do think it's pork belly because i can see the layers of fat and then the layers of meat right here not gonna lie there's a little bit of stickiness which is good the skin is really crispy the pieces of fat we're a little bit um a little bit harder but they started to melt in my mouth as i chewed them all right wrapping it up here at this cure cart on grand street here i have the jiu chai with bacon this is the green chai and this is actually one of my favorite skewers because who would have thought just grilled chives was going to be so good wow i highly recommend this one this one's called jing jeng gu and this is the inoki mushroom wrapped in bacon i'm not gonna lie i think this is another go-to get your veggies in get a little bit of bacon fat in it wraps it all together all right here we got the king oyster mushroom this is the da wang gu and these are you know the big huge mushrooms that you've seen you know they they're up to like 10 inches long a little salty i think all the sauce really stays on this one and absorbs it overall guys having this at grand street is very very rare because this is a cart that you're probably gonna mostly find in like flushing it's a very hard working couple i say check it out they're open late from like five to 12 a.m i think so check them out tip them treat them nice you know keep them safe obviously this area is relatively safe for the most part but you know hard working i've seen them out even when it was like kind of cold too so check out the skewer cart on grand street late night eats let's go all right you guys we're in front of four five six shanghai restaurant and as you could see andrew there's quite the commotion because new york times just said that this place has the best value shall we bow in manhattan it was written by a non-asian i believe so i'm not saying that they don't know well you know i think it's fair that we give our opinion because new york times has just said that these are the best cheap shall we bow in the entire city get eight shall we bow for eight dollars now that is not the cheapest but that's still pretty cheap the thin shavings of ginger right there let's get it i'm just gonna dunk it four or five six restaurant they are good they're good the skin is still a little thick for me it's actually kind of like a weird mix between a jiaozi you know like a shui jiao and a shall we bow to meat that's a big a meatball you're not wrong if you say it but definitely the meat is like a little bit too big and not refined enough but it does actually have a very good taste to it yeah these are not anything close so i would say in chinatown there are some shall we bow's that are going to give you more of a den tai fun feeling these are not it these are definitely a lot bigger a lot bulkier the meatballs larger it does kind of taste like more of a regular jiaozi like dumpling eight for eight dollars you can't go wrong it'll fill you up but i think for the western taste buds they like it more yeah yeah i would say for western people i could totally see why this gets the number one xlb shall we bow in chinatown but if you're looking for something more authentic it's probably not four five six but it's good all right for four five six i give this a four out of five though they're pretty good and we're in front of canton lounge right now and i actually had no idea they serve dishes that are like a hundred bucks here bro like it's in the middle of a street that's like you know pretty cheap goes to show you that amongst all these uh cheap foods you actually have restaurants and you've always had restaurants where you could easily drop a hundred dollars per person 24 bucks now you guys are thinking 24 that's way to uh not a cheap eat but if you split this between two people that's only 12 bucks a person for lunch so in front of us we have a 25 dollar peaking duck lunch this is legit peaking duck you have your buns you have your scallions you have your cucumber you have your tianmian jang or your hoisin depending on what kind of sauce they use oh my goodness so let's see how many buns that this actually makes i think legitimately it's enough food for two people peaking duck lunch 25 dollars at canton lounge very fancy i'm gonna say it it's worth it it's worth it if you want peaking duck for lunch split it between two people 25 dollars that's only about 12 50 per person and you get a peaking duck lunch now is this the top quality badong you know peaking duck that would usually retail for maybe like a hundred or 150 dollars no but it's quite good guess the job done gives you that vibe i like it i think i'm gonna come back to canton lounge and try some of the 40 50 dollar dishes okay so following our theme of finding really good lunch deals it kind of takes us out to east broadway a little outside of china town but still where a lot of chinese people live david we're outside of a new tai restaurant that is serving healthy tai lunch food called seven elephants it's i've got a cool fast casual concept i personally have really yet to see tai food served in this context let's go see what they got hello okay yeah so is this an authentic style of eating tai food yes it is but we just put it in the same box yeah okay so could we call this a tai bento um of course in tai life it's called kouken or bento all right so here's what i love about seven elephants i know that it kind of just looks like a regular kind of tai bento lunch spot but you have to understand the food has got a lot of flavor it's cooked all fresh i mean even the fact that they do kind of have like a cafeteria style food that's kind of like a chipotle and they also have their fresh food here i mean i just think that's just a style of tai food that's not that popular in america and you got this green curry with this little uh layer of oil on top i'm about to pour that on top of my beef like half of it boom look at that beautiful let it run down let me try this drunken noodle out i've never seen a drunken noodle so pepper everything here was $28 including tax i like it letting the jalapeno shine and he was saying everything about this dish is pretty authentic except for the change of chilies obviously they wouldn't use jalapenos in tai land they're probably using the red tai chilies let's try this beef right here with the curry good beef is tender simmering in the sauce you got their pad thai right here solid pad thai is a side dish no egg in it here you have your king oyster mushroom now what i think is cool about this dish is that they told me that this dish got more popular in tai land in the past like 10 15 years so it's somewhat recent so that's why a lot of tai american restaurants don't serve it because most tai american restaurants are opened up by people that probably have been here for more than 10 15 years a lot of people go to tai restaurants hoping for a lot of spice a lot of peppers you know something that's really spicy so this is actually on the sweeter side all that food i give that a solid 4.5 out of 5 i could eat that multiple times a week all the things they got you have your tai iced tea right here it's very sweet but very delicious your tai iced coffee i would say tai iced coffee is one of the most underrated tai items out there to be honest and they also actually have this dessert of this like roti green matcha that's like this sweet matcha syrup that you're dipping the roti in and i just didn't get it but you should definitely get it if you check out seven elephants over on east broadway so on to the next spot all right so when talking about vietnamese spots on grand street i got to give a shout out to foe grand we've actually eaten here so so many times and uh let me tell you what we like to get so this is the number one this has all the different beef in it right and this is only 925 now here's the cool thing about foe grand you can get rice noodles with it or you can actually special request and you can get thong mean aka egg noodles with your foe okay so now most people would not choose to do this i'm not going to say categorically it's better but definitely try it when you get the chance it really goes well with the boat call here egg noodles right i know for david david likes to use more of the sriracha and the hoisin for me i don't use sriracha at all i only use the garlic chili and the hoisin sauce right here so i do the half half mix i honestly do believe that this is the cheapest foe you can get in manhattan that is actually worth eating now there might be you know for the number one that has all the meats 925 you can get a foe that's 850 here very beefy the broth is good i've eaten here probably a hundred times in my life i'm not even gonna lie all right so one of the most underrated and unknown hidden gems on the menu is their bun me it's actually super good the bud the the baguette is really nice really fluffy now they do use romaine lettuce so i'm not gonna say that this is the most authentic bun me ever but it is delicious i do like it things do not have to be authentic for you to enjoy them one thing you got to know about foe grant is that their grilled meats here are very very solid they have lots of little barbecue and char flavor on them here's the chicken and i would say it really cuts the difference between maybe like a more western kind of grill spot in an asian grill spot but man i think that's a nicely done bun me for the convenience the price the quality and the reliability of foe grand it being on grand street i have to give foe grand a five out of five i come here at least twice a week david we come here twice a week at least once a week for sure up to three times a week let's go one of the things i like to do when i have some full broth left over and a bun me of course dip that baby see you at foe grand and they got a back to all right so our next vietnamese spot on grand street is nam sun now this is a spot that actually specializes a little bit more in different dishes so each spot has their specialty here they got the avocado smoothie you know but each vietnamese spot is probably initially owned by chinese vietnamese people that speak both chile jiao cantonese prime mandarin and vietnamese let's go what you're looking at right now here is the number one this is the classic foe but it has brown noodles which makes nam sun different the fact that they even offer this and that means that they're trying to also reach a different audience who might not want the rice noodles here we got the bun kun which is the vietnamese chung fun so they are like really thin rice rolls with meat inside the way they make them is a little bit different than uh chung fun but they pretty much have it on a white pan they steam it they roll it all right so here we got the nam sun special combo plate this is actually 32 so obviously it's not a cheap eat but if you share it between like four people that is definitely a cheap eat here you have your daikons and carrots you have your grilled pork right here you have your beef that's wrapped in beetle leaf um and then you have your shrimp over sugar cane right here this is a classic dish all right i'm gonna try the bun kun this is a dish that we really got into uh in LA at a spot from a spot called Bummy Chakali a super budget vietnamese spot shout out to that in the 626 i know a lot of food vietnamese people that always kind of talk down on the chinese vietnamese owned viet spots because they say that the food does not hit hard enough it doesn't taste as authentic i don't know to me it still tastes pretty good but okay i'm about to put the banh hoi wrap it over the bolat lat get a little veggie isn't about to wrap it up here at nam sun guys listen the experience here is a little higher end than full grand i love full grand and i do think the price point is a little bit cheaper at full grand but you're not gonna get this experience all right you guys we are in a very busy hectic but very fun energy canal street right now we're for the chikarashi which is sort of like a premium poke spot but this is only like 15 bucks david what we're looking at is a search one crisp salmon rice bowl so you have the raw salmon it's doused in the sauce it's going to be a little bit spicy laying over a bed of rice with a lots of buddhikaki it's cool to see like Sichuan flavors be implemented into poke yeah so david we got extra fish this one cost us $15 but you can get this for what 12 $13 the dole whip was a 450 this is watermelon dole whip wow everybody loves dole whip but now they got the watermelon one you know for me i'm more of a watermelon guy over pineapple guy so here we go chikarashi cheap chinatown eats pya 10 it's not bad i like it but you know it's cool okay so right off the bat the salmon got that little Sichuan buzz going on right now it definitely hit my taste buds right away i wish there was a little bit more of like the salad elements it's really not a bad bowl if i was you and you're into salmon i would definitely try for $13 and you know shout out to this dole whip it does kind of taste like a jolly rancher but in a good way kind of a dick thing yeah so are you going to up the score four out of five all right you guys we're in front of alimama desserts right now you've got mochi donuts you've got all types of rose petals uh lychee rose tea you have your cold brew royal milk tea right here guys everything here is made to look aesthetic and so you got a uh vietnamese cafe suda cream puff no no it's a brown sugar bubble oh this is a brown sugar boba cream puff i'm sorry okay so that's this one right here that i'm busting open very much you know i mean it looks like a boba on the inside it looks good mochi donut with the gold on top you know what it is now mochi donuts um originally came from japan uh japan got them from the west innovated on it like as many things in japan are so check it out for me the chocolate flavor is actually really high quality i like that a lot donut is a bit chewy for me cream puffs with boba inside it's almost like the cream has laid boba eggs inside of the cream puff mm yeah you're right it's chewy you guys if you are at all into that instagram west coast asian ig girl lifestyle come to alimama no doubt let me just tell you that they are playing all of my top favorite edm remixes refreshing drinks though dave you have many boba in there yeah they have um i could tell there's a lot of that uh pee vine that gives it that blue color flavor which is a very difficult flavor to describe it's almost like a you said pee vine like it's down mule i think it's pee pee flower oh yeah yeah yeah pee that's what i'm saying chocolate my man is going to be able to put coconut and chocolate on the guidance i okay this is a hong kong favorite egg waffle it does come from hong kong just so you guys know but this is another cheap eat this is only going to be five dollars toy saw man making guidance i over on bowery and pal let's get it all right let's be real everybody i cannot wait to eat this because we all know the egg waffles uh they're only good for like 10 minutes so they poked a little hole on top to let the steam out so it doesn't get soft let me pop this open wow wow chocolate coconut condensed milk this looks super delicious all right i'm about to dive into this there we go that bite has everything in it do you see that do you see that mmm not bad five dollars one of the best parts of doing this series is showing the faces and personalities behind these small businesses it's easy to walk in and grab food and not even exchange maybe a smile but if you try i think they'll try to i'm just glad to see a lot of these people weather the storm so let us know in the comments down below what your favorite spot is and if we should continue this series thank you for watching peace