 David you will not believe how much it tastes like hot pot this one bite Dumpling lab has a winner To this day every time I hear it speak via It's pretty interesting when it comes to Asian restaurants You do not want to miss these from authentic Vietnamese bundao to po boy bun means to Phuket Thai food and Innovative dumpling lab and even South Asian Boba I mean, that's why they call this place New York because everybody's doing something new So please hit that like button and we might even release our very own fung bros dish at one of these spots. Stay tuned. Let's go All right, so our first new Asian spot that you've got to check out if you're visiting New York City is five spice It is a Vietnamese fusion spot on one of the coolest streets in New York City By the way, I'm a Leon Doris right there the kids stores not too far away This is Mulberry Street and we might even get our own unique menu items that are limited. So let's check it out Art everybody the food has arrived here at five spice And what I love about the fusion here is that you can get French fries that kind of tastes like McDonald's fries First of all, you know McDonald's have the best fries and then you can get like scorched brussel sprouts You can get like chicken vermicelli and they actually have very very delicious I mean look at all the onions in the jalapenos in this man can get incredibly good bun means I've got a fried fish bun me. I've got a regular one. What are you going for first for me? I'm going with this fried fish bun me. I love this dish. Oh my goodness with a little bit of the Aoli in there with some spicy sauce. This is incredible guys. This is the best bun me I've ever had in my life And I actually think it's really really important to have good Asian representation on a street that has kith ame Supreme, you know like all these things There needs to be Asian rep amongst that because there's so many Asian people that go to those stores You know, I love their take on mixing old and new here. You have your traditional full broth here You got this very dense kind of scallion sweet soy sauce that I'm actually gonna pour into it to make it like a consomme Man, oh my goodness. Oh This is my favorite by me in the whole I said it once I'll say it again You know this sauce kicks up And we were talking to Alex the owner of five spice and I was like honestly, I like this spot so much I always come here when I'm on the street like I would love my own menu item because we like to you know Do our own little fusions here. Honestly for me. I'm gonna take some of my favorite appetizer items like the fried brussels sprouts I'm gonna put them in the bun me. I think that would be like something that you know, oh Man, I mean honestly you can even dip this in the food broth right here. I've always been a huge fan of dipping bun me's in the food broth All right, so I poured their scallion oil consomme into my food to kind of beef it up See how that little concentrate how it's different than the food broth and then I'm gonna dip my classic Bun me into it. All right So I really like the idea of like a French dip bun me So what I did is I asked them for the sauce of the shaking beef a.k.a. The bowl luck lock which is very deep and thick and then this is the consomme from their beef brisket Here I got the fatty consomme from the beef brisket. I'm about to put this on the fried fish bun me And actually the fried fish it all really goes together I really did not think beef and fish would be you know two flavors that that compliment each other but that was Super good. All right in my hand. I got the new Pondon cocktail and the ube cocktail. What kind of ideas you guys got? I know for me. I'm looking to get my own bun me. I always wanted my own bun me I love the way you guys do the bread here the proteins everything So definitely my own twist on the bun me. Yeah, man I love the fries here and I love the beef brisket and I love that like consomme sauce that comes along with it Or that you can get with it. So I want I want to do something with that I mean, I think what I do is really cool. We can definitely do something with that Let's let's work together. We'll get back to you soon. All right Keep up to date with five spices social media and our social media to find out which dishes we got coming out at all their Locations and and I'm excited. Yo shout out to Irish cream, but I'm telling you right now. This ube cocktail is Incredible, you don't need Guinness anymore. You just got Pondon and ube New Asian concepts in New York City guys We have a Vietnamese spot called mom and we're not serving full or bun me's not even just one notch beyond that I'm talking about two notches beyond that guys Gerald speaks Vietnamese. He's a white American But he's here with his wife. That's running this spot guys, and it is super authentic Everybody speaking Vietnamese, and he does too. Let's check it out Okay, what are the all the elements at least? Oh, yeah, I'm down with housemaid out who housemaid Zoy jack home So let me translate that's tofu tofu Sticky rice sausage sticky rice sausage Let's not sausage fried intestine fried intestines Let's get it as this dish embodies what I love about Vietnamese food a lot of freshness fried stuff Honestly, you know, I'm not the biggest fan of intestines, but to show respect and to show that I don't give an f I'm not to go in on the intestines. I shouldn't have started with the intestines. I Got a little everything. I got the block of noodles right here. I love how it comes together All right, everybody. I got the pork belly here. It kind of reminds me of a Korean boss arm That is the best fermented shrimp paste dip I've had It's super funky and super strong But it has this little layer of oil that kind of balances it out man. Yo And they really created a vibe out here. All right here. I have a very very very Arbacious blood sausage about to just dip it in a little bit Yeah You know I'm gonna try The tofu guys. I love it how a lot of the ingredients are shifting from Vietnam. I'm sure with the current, you know Trade stuff going on. It's a little bit hard But uh man shout out to them guys shout out to Gerald what they're pulling off is really cool And it's so cool. You got people that are happily sitting 30 feet away from the restaurant. Okay, so the restaurant mom is across the street But they got the extension table near Grand Street Park right here. Wow You guys prefer this or you guys want to be with the crowd? I Do not have just any regular cafe. So you got actually the coconut coffee Which is a little bit different and then here. I got the penny work drink You know what it is when you come to a via restaurant, but let's try the coconut coffee Adds an extra layer on top of your regular via coffee, man. This is lit Any worth drink is nice and easy to drink another nice little sweet green taste to cover the greens here Mom NYC man. You can't come here Not feel the vibe. Of course guys. We're here at Guan Juan. This is the first Phuket based restaurant of been to Phuket is a very Chinese influence part of southern Thailand a lot of the names of these dishes I actually could recognize them in Cantonese. So I don't know if they're getting it from the Cantonese production Pronunciation or the Hokkien pronunciation, but this was called tofu. This was called Gyun This was called. I don't know guy pay, you know, so hey man always dope to see the fusion Yo guys, it's like a Thai version of Agadashi tofu, but of course it's Thailand. So it's got way more sauces These are the Thai fried chicken skins squeeze a little bit of lime on top This does actually remind me a lot of Japanese is a kaya food because they also serve these fried chicken skins at That's a banger. I don't know if you guys like fried chicken skins, but these ones at Wan Wan are the best I've ever had This is the yum hoi. This is a scallop salad guys. My goodness here. I'm just gonna go for the scallop first Guys that has given me vibes of like a scallop Salad all right here. We got the beef noodle soup This is not Thai boat noodles and this is not exactly like pho, but it's definitely something in between It's probably very very Chinese influence. Let me try the broth real quick. Mmm. Very sweet lots of soy Very herbaceous, so it's definitely more like a sweet or more soy forward Essentially, but let me try this out guys. I love trying other people's beef noodle soups. It's one of my favorite things For those of you who don't know Thailand has a very very deep food culture and the stuff that you would get at an Average Thai restaurant is just the tip of the iceberg This is like next-level stuff because these are actually dishes they eat in Thailand Maybe this one's a little bit more Chinese influence from the Hokkien side, but either way guys This is really unique and really delicious. I give this noodle soup honestly like a 4.5 out of 5 All right guys So this plate right here is something unique the components might look a little bit familiar because you have the fried chicken here You have the Thai sriracha, you know the less hot more sweet version And then you kind of got your Patsy you type noodles right here And then you got what is probably the fusion and American side of it all which is the fried kale For those who don't know out there Patsy you Pat kemao it obviously has very strong Chinese roots and this one is just showing it off right here when you're talking about Phuket and how it's really like the food is heavily influenced by the Chinese immigrants that went there guys I can see it right here. This is lobster tom yum only something you would find in the East Coast Where they have a lot of lobsters because they don't even have lobsters in Thailand, but they got tom yum noodles man I got to try this out. Let me just go in Man everything here is so good. Look at these oyster mushrooms gigantic It's the 7th cloud. This is a dish I've never had before the noodles are actually made out of fish So it's like a fish ball, but in the form of noodles and then on top We have a really nice brand, you know a little fried shallots and Scallions on top. Let me break this up man. I'm so excited man Sen Pla in a veggie broth This broth if I had to compare it to something else, I'd have to say it's closer to a one-ton broth But a lot more ginger and a lot more fish Everybody when it comes to new Asian concepts in New York City I mean you're talking about Phuket a place that a lot of people know for partying But they didn't know that the food is so good, you know Or maybe you didn't know if you went there, but a lot of people haven't been there So I'm just so glad that Thai food is just going deeper and deeper in New York City You got Isan Thai you got central Thai you got Chiang Mai and then now you have Phuket I love to see it man. New Asian concepts only in New York City All right going head-to-head with the Karaage burger from Tori Bien We have a Singaporean chicken sandwich coming up. There's also a bar upstairs called Singlish So this is one whole unit. They're doing some fusion Singaporean foods. Let's check it out Man, how would you describe the food here at Char? So like the food here, it's all focused on like Southeast Asian dishes, right everybody We got the food right here. This is the Api Api burger It has a kind of a papaya salad and then sambal on it for the heat And then obviously you have the wonton mee and this is also a really really popular dish also with a little side of sambal And of course you got your kaya tart I'm excited about that because kaya toast is really big out there. So guys, this is some new Singaporean Indonesian Southeast Asian later Wow Examining this burger this does look like chicken thigh. It's got sambal sauce dripping. It is crispy fried Kind of has a thick crust to it lots of papaya salad on top to kind of cool it down and bring it all together This is the Api Api meaning in Bahasa Indonesian fire fire burger guys Dude, you guys this is unlike anything. I've had before their salted egg yolk as well I'm telling you guys in terms of it being interesting. This is the most interesting chicken sandwich. I've ever had You guys I've never had french fries like this before there is a slight Singaporean chili sauce dusted on there as well as the salted egg yolk mayo aioli That salted egg yolk aioli is one of the best ones that I've ever had sometimes they get it make it to egg yolkie Sometimes it's not enough. This is right in a sweet spot. All right, you guys you are looking at a brand new item This is a kaya tart. They took kaya toast pandan and the Portuguese egg tart don't hot from a cow Mix it all together. You cannot find this over in Asia You cannot find this in New York or the West Coast until now I'm telling you guys crazy rich Asians just set off a chain reaction because now we're eating kaya Portuguese egg tarts And they're delicious. There's a five out of five Man, I cannot tell you how much it feels like Singapore here Especially more of like the old colonial towns out there or even in Malaysia as well guys It's got that great vintage vibe here. I have the wonton me I got some shrimp chips. I have this very very gingery soup. I'm actually going to pour a little bit on I know that people eat it separately sometimes, but I'm just I just need a little bit of moisture in there Mmm, so wonton me of course is wonton lo mein right in Cantonese and I'll tell you this Cantonese diaspora food Sometimes I really like it because it's like Cantonese food, but kicked up some notches It's just got some extra flavor. It is hard to find this dish in New York City only a few spots serve it But I got to say this is probably the best version of wonton me. You guys got to check it out Mmm, this is globalization right here and there is no more global of a city than New York City right now Look at it I'm meaning a sambal fried chicken sandwiches with some wonton me and a place that feels like Singapore guys this Quality and these products feel like like they're being ported straight over and that's what I just love to see guys I'm so excited for the future of Asian food in New York City. Let's keep it moving All right, everybody. We're here at Cafe Joa. It's a new kind of Korean inspired Cafe over in the East Village. We got Chi here. Who's a you know a partner here. Can you tell us about the drinks? So you got a strawberry matcha the Stracha latte classic now. It's a classic drink And on this side you got the masala chai. All right guys, and then they also have like Korean bowls in the back We're gonna try some but let me just try the drink. Can you hold that please Chi? Thank you You may know Chi from our Pal park video in Jersey The star of it I like that that's real strawberry and it's not too sweet. So I like your guys to take on the Stracha latte Here's the masala chai Kind of spicy, but I like the balance of this one a lot Okay, so they do have hot food that you can order from the back This is the kimchi fried rice with a fried egg on top. It looks like an Instagram photo right here Look and how picturesque made it and then here I have this Jolli Pong latte It's actually off the menu, but it has the Korean Jolli Pong like a rice snack on top. That's gonna be snoking in there It's gonna taste probably like a Cereally milk. Ah nice light and toasty. Okay. Let's try it kimchi fried rice and For a new Asian foods that you have never seen before here. We have the hoji chop maple butter Souffle pancakes now. Maybe they're not gonna be a great punch brunch food Watch this. Let me drizzle some boom whoa Super fluffy. I like the butter on top I feel the hoji chop coming through guys if you're a fan of hoji chai at all You definitely got to try it in pancake form because I've never had this before in my life Guys nice little daylight cute cafe up front and then in the back. They got the speakeasy That's where you're gonna get your hot food your brunch food and your drinks not gonna show you everything You just got to come to Cafe Joa and check it out. Have a new way. All right you guys We are at Dufflin Glab NYC right now. You've never seen anything like this You think we're at a modern hotel right now, of course, we got something hyper traditional right here This is a mackerel jiaozi. They eat this a lot in Dalian, Shandong, you know coastal northern cities This of course is a popcorn chicken. You got to have that in 2022. These actually are Mala Huoguo dumplings. These are guo tia, but with mala huoguo beef filling. This is a shrimp toast modernized for the 2022 market. These are Sichuan chicken wings qi chi and of course, this is their version of Koshu This is a mouthwatering chicken Fish jiaozi or shui jiao underrated I want to say popcorn chicken as the dish is overrated, but I love it every time. Huoguo guo tia, guo tia is the more pot stick or pan fried type. That's a musket Sichuan to the max. This is dumpling labs famous shrimp toast guys I never even had this shrimp toast dish until I got here. It has a little cream on top It's like a little shrimp sandwich and it's so good It's kind of like if you deep-fried a hakao from dim sum and you put a little sweet cream on top. It's delicious Mala chicken wings, plenty of mala on top. We break this up You know how I do with chicken wings, I get down Got that Sichuan kick If I remember some slang in Sichuan hua that the higher brothers taught me Basel swan Guys what I love about the dish Koshu Aji is that everybody is doing it everybody is doing their own version every region of China It's such a popular dish. This one has a lot of cucumbers chopped up. It's almost like a spicy chicken salad. Let's check it out Mala but quite refreshing Interesting. All right. I got to try one of these mala beef dumplings. I never had such a spicy dumpling before You are witnessing a crab rangoon dumpling. They're mixing one thing that's very americanized one thing that's very traditional Oh my goodness There's cheese. There's real crab in there Especially if you know the way that they are making these dumplings. This is a very yentai Shandong style the small little ingot style. My goodness. This is the best crab rangoon I have had in my life What? preventive cool little cocktails here at dumpling lab, but over here back to the dumplings guys because we are at dumpling lab We have the black and gold Umi uni dumplings and then here we have the truffle dumplings and here we have the spicy beef But we have the swan rong which is like a garlic oil mixture that we're going to dip it in start with the uni You've never seen a uni dumpling before The taste of uni is coming out. That's crazy But is it worth it with the gold it might be the quality here at dumpling lab is really good Obviously a lot of people try to do truffle dumplings, but let's see how they do it Wow, you know a lot of elevated fusion spots when they say they have truffle or uni in the dish You know, you can't really taste it, but here it really comes through and they make sure it's pronounced This right here is the spicy beef mala dumpling and i'm going to dip it into this garlic oil. Yeah I feel like i'm in hot pot the mala spice inside of the beef wrapped up It gives me that hot pot sauce and then I dipped it in here and that was the dipping sauce God That was I think that was the best thing I got to go in again. Hold up David you will not believe how much it tastes like hot pot this one bite Dumpling lab has a winner As you guys may know boba came from taiwan But that does not mean that other asians or really anybody else for that matter cannot participate in the boba games We are at a Bengali owned daisy boba shop. As you can see they got pistachio They got malai they got mango but mango and a mango lassi way and faluda. Let's check it out it's called pilate boba and uh, so we infuse South asian ice cream into boba and it's like a milkshake kind of okay, so we put the ice cream in Just serve boba I'm at pilate boba. This is the first daisy boba that I've ever had I heard there are a couple other locations in the new york area, but this is the only one in Manhattan This is a malai kulfi boba kulfi is almost like a creamier spiced version of ice cream Malai is the flavor Hold on hold on. It is one thing to be exposed to a brand new flavor that you've never had before This is my first time having the malai flavor. This is my first time having kulfi Especially in a boba format. That's a new fusion. It's delicious. It kind of tastes like Nuts and pistachios. It's spiced. It's delicious in my hand. I got a mango kulfi. It might taste kind of like a mango lassi Let's see though. Whoa kulfi is definitely an extra creamy ice cream. That's really good I can see this getting more popular because the mango lassi is something that's universal everybody who's tried it Really likes it now. It's here in kind of a ice cream smoothie Drink form with boba at the bottom. So it's mixing just a bunch of stuff that people love I love that they're tying in their own culture In with this. I think boba is almost like a blank slate now. It's a format It's a thing that you can add on to so I think that's really cool man. Shout out to new york city So this is a falooda kulfi it has basil seeds and noodles no one in new york does that except for us Wait, what do you mean noodles? It's like a it's not more of like it's like a sweet noodles. Okay, I'm trying to say Let me try this man. You said noodles they got South asian noodles and ice cream and smoothies mixed with boba This is a rose flavor one by the way Really good guys Are those like crispy noodles? Oh soft like noodles you can taste it just add some cool texture to it man This is so invented. I'm so glad I had this Man, I love what they're doing here because they kept a lot of the traditional flavor and a lot of the traditional elements But they were able to make it sweet and creamy for everybody. I think anybody's gonna like these Next up on our brand new asian concepts video andrew people are always Designing products for the monied international student. Exactly. We are blocks away from nyu and here We have a shandong owner that is serving northern street snacks noodles and beans for the students out here And listen guys jambings is is getting crazy now. You can add anything into it. So they got more traditional stuff here This is the true northern You know chief. I'm trying some of this shout out to this guy, you know, he looks traditional and then boom Hey, a little update on the guy chi dynasty up here and then he got the The bull that you got the bull's dynasty Low-key everybody knows someone who looks like this Man, there's just something really natural about sitting on this bench. I don't know what it is though. I just Can't put my finger on it. Wow. That's a sticky mix. That's different than other jambing mixes. I've seen uh-oh Andrew we're looking at a ching dao jambing Designed for international students and you were saying it was different. Yo, the batter was stickier It looked a little bit different than other jambings. I've seen it almost looks Would you say to you it looks more like a dosa man? It looks more like a burrito. Yeah a dosa exactly We got to eat it soon though because listen. There's juicy spicy crawfish inside I think the fact that we got Shaoan Shao, which is the crawfish is crazy Obviously super popular in china right now. Who knows this could be the best jambing in new york. Let's crawfish jambing The jambing as expected is chewier. It's a little bit more malleable. It's not as crispy But it almost feels a little bit more like non I never thought that I would have crawfish in a jambing, but now that it's here It's okay. I'm not the biggest crawfish fan personally This is one of the most unique jambings I've ever had and I'm not surprised because every year someone's gonna do something a little bit different With these traditional chinese street snacks. Well, literally it's like a burrito. You could put anything in it All right, here. We have some authentic beijing dao jang man david We had dao jang man in the hutong of beijing. How does this look compared to it real quick? Give me your birdie. This is one of the closest versions. I've seen especially like in the nyu area And of course you've got the luto joe right here. This is a green bean Joke essentially a kanji And these are dishes that like a hundred year old person wouldn't want to eat Yeah, man So I don't know if this spot is for the students or the professors or the Parents that are come visiting their students here. But uh, yeah, I would say this jajang man looks fairly authentic I would I would give it maybe a seven and a half out of ten on the authentic scale Honestly, I feel like I'm back at a church meeting from back in our childhood And with your verdict, I know you have jajang mian snob It's not quite like the hutongs, but it's getting the job done Now we have one of your favorite dishes of all time where you're a tomato egg noodle snob You got to tell me how it is. This is uh, fan cha jiao dan mian Obviously guys, if you guys have been watching the channel, this tomato is a fan cha This is a stir-fried egg at jiao dan. So yeah, let's get into it, man This is like probably the most underrated Combo in china to be honest in terms of like, you know, like people don't really put this on a pedestal From other cultures, you know, they like more eat one tons and things like that It's a winner It's a winner Andrew there was a really good ratio of tomatoes and eggs to noodles Sometimes you just get like so little tomato and so little egg. It can still work out that way I'm not a big fan. I know some provinces and some restaurants do it that way This one give you a ton Fred, how's that taste? Kind of tastes like um, like a breakfast noodle with eggs Pretty good All right a few years ago We did a series called make it happen featuring young asian-american entrepreneurs in new york city Now to be honest a lot of those projects did not work out But one of them that did is by tay a korean from hawaii who's doing kona coffee We're at a second shop out in uh, chelsea right now. The first one was in les Check it out guys, man. I love to see old friends make it macadamia nut coconut hawaiian latte All right, you guys we're at yama daya in grenwich village right now And uh, they have some really hard to find japanese items It is chinese owned but the workers are from japan and I think one of the funniest things was the shoplifting wall Guys don't shoplift here because they will put your picture And blow you up You guys have all been to an asian market and they do carry some extent of japanese products, but here at yama daya, of course, they got the super deep cut stuff They've got the muscat green tea. They've got not just castella cake which everybody has they have the white peach castella cake So many different mochis and daifuku's and All right, you guys we got the vanilla milk cream waffles from hakaido from yamata This is a brand new japanese spot And I would say that previously a lot of the japanese spots in the city were kind of like from the old days You know 80s 90s during the japanese economic boom, but they're coming back again And uh, I know it was authentic because the lady could not speak english only japanese arigato Very simple, but you can taste the hakaido cream. It's different Like I said, one of the things yamata prides themselves on is having japanese things that the h-marts and the 99 ranches and the other Markets don't have only japanese Hi Oh, these are so fluffy Wow, david by the way, I think you've been saying the name wrong. It's yamadaia or yamadea anyways guys hakaido milk cream waffles um I feel like yamadaia has transported me to like yokohama like a little outside of tokyo because to be honest One of the the lady at the cashier She really did not speak any english at all. We were asking a question But I thought that was a very authentic experience at the same time So guys whether it's chinese owned or whatever this spot is super authentic and they got people straight from japan Wow