- I'm Cody Reese, and I'm your New York City host for
Five Buck Lunch.
My love of food has taken me to more than 35 countries.
I've worked as a cook, farmer, and cheese maker.
Now, I'm in NYC in search of the tastiest,
and cheapest food my debits can buy.
Join me as I take you to the dankest lunch spots
for five bucks or less.
Now, believe it, or don't believe it,
I've been eating like a monster for most of my life;
fried chicken, candy, swizzle sticks, chewy mushes.
Don't get me started,
it can be hard to find healthy food,
especially when you only got five bucks,
but, I've decided to turn my life around
and start treating my body like a temple.
Luckily, I've just heard of things called a spring roll,
and I'm looking for the Vietnamese version,
soft, crunchy, fresh little boys.
I think it might just be the secret to me finally getting
that Tom Cruise body I've always wanted.
Let's go try to find one, huh?
Woo, damn!
When you're working out, you've gotta remember to hydrate.
Okay, so today we're talking about health,
and I have a couple questions about my health.
- Okay.
- How healthy do you think I appear?
On a scale from one to 10,
with one being nearly dead,
and 10 being just freshly born.
- I'll say a 7.5.
- It's seven.
- A solid seven, really solid seven,
and I mean that.
- Thank you.
That's pretty sick.
If you had to compare my own personal body to a vegetable,
what vegetable would you compare it to?
- Oh, definitely like a carrot because there's like
the thing on top.
- A carrot.
- Yeah.
- You roast those guys for a long time, they get really
nice and soft and sweet. I like that.
- Yeah, I could imagine my little head poking out of the
ground and someone being like, "I'm going to grab that".
He's like oh, he's vaguely Jewish!
- Yeah. Yeah.
- What vegetable would you choose?
- Snow Pea.
- Snow Pea?
- They have like pot inside so like -
- It's kind of like Mary Poppins, you're just perfect in
every way.
- Oh my god.
- Have you been to Ba Xuyên right there?
- Uh, is it the banh mi spot?
- Yeah.
- Yeah. I didn't even know the name, I just called it the
banh mi spot.
- What do you usually get?
- Number 8.
I don't even know, but I just say number 8.
- Yeah, I saw that. Have you been to Ba Xuyên?
Just down the block?
- Yeah, we go to Ba Xuyên pretty often.
- Oh, cool.
- Before our show was working, that was where we did
most of our meals.
- One piece of health advice for the entire world out there.
What would it be?
- Eat now, think later?
- People actually seem to think my body is all right. I'm
not totally convinced and I'm still dedicated to eating
healthier. Let's go see what I can find.
- Just parking up my ride. Here I am in Brooklyn in Sunset
Park at Ba Xuyên. They've got cold drink, hot drink,
bahn mi's, but today I am getting
a nice healthy little spring roll.
Let's go inside and see if I can't eat some of these pounds
right off of my terrible little body.
Come on in.
- Hi.
- How are you doing?
- I'm good. Thank you.
- How long has this restaurant been around?
- We have been 18 years.
- That's amazing. You've been here all 18 years?
- Yes.
- What's your like most popular item on the menu?
- We sell a lot of number one's.
- Number one?
- Yeah.
- Cool. Bahn Mi. What's in that?
- Pate, the butter, head cheese, pork rolls,
ham, barbeque, and all the vegetables.
- Vegetables? Damn. If I had five dollars, what could I get
here?
- Avocado shake.
- What's in that?
- Light cream, sugar, and condensed milk.
- Oh, that sounds good too. I heard that you also have
spring rolls for five dollars. Is that right?
- Yes.
- Cool. I would love to get those. Nice. Perfect.
- Thank you, sir.
Thank you so very much.
- All right guys, it's my first unwrapping video. Let's open
these suckers up, huh?
Yeah.
Nice.
Nice little spring rolls for a big bad boy.
Now this is a pretty classic style here. You got a bunch of
stuff going on here. You got little shrimpy boys, you got
chives, cabbage, bean sprouts. You got rice noodles, some
grilled pork tucked in here. All wrapped up in this kind of
like soft, gummy, and stretchable little rice paper here.
Also comes with a nice little peanut sauce. You got a spicy
sauce no problem.
Oh, yeah. (mumbles) I could eat a million of these, you
guys.
There like nice little crunchy fresh salad inside of like
a chewy little ... It's just super fun to eat.
Oh, yeah.
If you're in Sunset Park, you got a few dollars and a
guilty conscience, get your sweet little tooshies on down
here and get yourself a spring roll. Come on!
Thank you for joining me on my journey to get healthy.
I cannot wait to see what my body looks like after this.
I've a feeling it's going to be night and day.
Anyways, I'm going to chow on down so why don't
you get the heck out of here and give me a little piece of
mind?
So let's say you've got $5.50. How'd that happen, dude?
I'd get myself a number one bahn mi. It comes with
a bunch of different kinds of meats, it's got head cheese,
it's got pork roll, it's got barbeque, it's got ham, it's
got a bunch of little vegetables on it, and it's got some
butter on there too.
It's very dank.
$5.50? No problem.
Help.
maybe saved a few duckets or lost a few pounds.
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