- What?
Dude, look at, look at this.
- Mushroom-flavored dark soy.
This is for a restaurant.
There's no, nobody puts this in their house.
This is too much.
If you're watching this video, if you have this much
soy sauce in your house, start a restaurant.
- Hey, what's going on guys?
It's Xiaoma.
Oh man, today we are in New York City,
really beautiful, but actually most of this video
is not gonna be in New York City.
I'm super happy to announce that I'm gonna be
doing a partnership with this really amazing supermarket
called 99 Ranch Market, which is actually the
biggest Asian supermarket in the United States,
which is really cool.
It's kind of like Asian-Chinese supermarket.
I'm going to be going out there today, and they've got
all kinds of amazing Asian goodies that you can't
really get anywhere else.
The closest store they have to New York is actually
in Jersey City, so we're going to be
heading out there today.
I'm going to be bringing along my friend, Dan.
You know, he's just your average American.
He doesn't really shop at Asian supermarkets,
he doesn't really eat Asian food, anything like that.
So I'm going to take him out to 99 Ranch.
We're just gonna give him some money and see
what he would buy.
First of all, I have to find out where he is.
Hey Dan, what's going on, where you at?
- Hi. - Hi.
- [Masked Woman] I watch your YouTube.
- [Xiaoma] Yeah!
Are you in the street?
Oh, oh, I see you!
Hey!
- [Xiaoma] What's up, buddy?
What's up, man.
- What's up, high five.
- Are you excited, man?
- Yes.
- You excited?
- I'm pumped.
- [Xiaoma] Dude, everybody wants to know what you're
gonna get at the supermarket.
- What am I gonna get?
- What am I going to get?
I have a list.
- [Xiaoma] Ahh!
- Okay, I got.
- [Xiaoma] Woo.
- Vegetarian mushroom oyster sauce.
(yelling)
- [Xiaoma] Don't, don't, don't share your list, dude.
- Not sharing the list, okay.
This is stuff Martina said I should get.
I don't know.
- [Xiaoma] All right.
So this is yours.
This is a check in your name that says
you can buy whatever you want.
- Can I open it?
- [Xiaoma] Yeah, go for it.
- [Dan] 99 Ranch Market.
Those are good prices
Hey, look at that, a gift card.
Whoa!
- [Xiaoma] Yeah.
- I don't usually...
- [Xiaoma] Where do you usually do your grocery shopping?
- I usually do grocery shopping at Fairway Market
on Second Avenue and 30th Street.
- [Xiaoma] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's an American grocery store.
They'd have everything you'd expect.
I eat a lot of eggs...
Milk...
Vegetables
Fruits
- [Xiaoma] Yeah.
- [Dan] Today, my wife gave me a list.
- [Xiaoma] All right, here we go.
Coming to pick us up.
- Hello.
- What's going on?
You guys all ready?
For the Asian supermarket extravaganza?
All right, we are coming up on the supermarket.
- This is what I'm planning to get.
- Okay.
- And we'll see what else strikes my fancy.
- Okay, all right.
Whatever looks interesting to you,
whatever strikes your fancy,
just throw it in the cart, baby.
All right, man, get in.
(laughing)
Let's do it.
Go, go, go.
- [Dan] I'm not getting in. - [Xiaoma] Why not?
What do I look like, a four-year-old?
We gotta start at the top of the list.
- Okay, what do we got?
- Vegetarian mushroom oyster sauce.
- Oyster sauce, let's go get some Háoyóu, Háoyóu.
- [Dan] That's what it's called?
- [Xiaoma] It's called Háoyóu in Chinese, yeah.
- Wow.
- This is a pretty good supermarket.
Oh, baby, look at this, look at this.
You want, you need vegetarian, right?
- Vegetarian...
- Well cause your wife is vegetarian.
- Yes.
- Oh, here we go, here we go.
- Vegetarian mushroom oyster sauce.
- This is vegetarian also.
Oh, they have two vegetarians.
- This is exactly what she wanted.
This is vegetarian oyster--
- Actually, no, no.
We have another vegetarian here.
Do you cook with oyster sauce?
- I don't know what she's gonna do with it.
She's the head chef, here's the list.
- Cause she told you oyster sauce, all right,
we got some oyster sauce.
What's your next up item?
- Udon noodles.
Let's go get some Udon.
I've never seen this, banana sauce?
Yeah, you want to go get some banana sauce?
Hot, spicy banana sauce?
- I've never seen sauce like this.
- Yeah, banana sauce, this is Filipino I think.
This is actually ketchup made from bananas, I think.
- [Dan] No way! - [Xiaoma] That's what it is, yeah, yeah, yeah dude.
- What are the ingredients in this?
- Bananas.
- Water, sugar, bananas, but where's the red part?
Oh, Red Forty.
- There's a lot of good stuff in this section.
- You know, Asians need their sauces.
They need their sauces.
- Hold on, I can't figure out, how is it oyster sauce
if it's vegetarian mushroom
- Because instead of oyster extract,
they use mushroom extract.
- There's a lot of variety of banana sauce.
Udon noodles.
(speaking in Chinese) Noodles
This way, this way, this way, this way.
All right.
- Is this Durian?
- Yeah, man.
You've never seen durian before?
- Here, go long.
- Do you like Yakult?
- No, I can't stand the stuff
(laughing)
- When have you had that before?
- When I attended a Yakult Golden Swallows game,
baseball game in Japan
- Wow.
Were you looking for fresh Udon or like dry?
- If they have fresh, that'd be good.
- We found some Udon for you, dude.
- Beautiful.
Whoa, jumbo Udon.
- What?
- Whoa, look at that.
(speaking in Chinese) This is a famous brand called Myojo
I've never seen jumbo udon
- This one looks like what you would sell in the U.S. as
Ramen noodles, except for it's cold.
It's beautiful, it's single-serve.
Okay, the next thing?
I'm looking for Mirin.
- What is Mirin?
It's like vinegar, right?
- I'm still trying to figure out what it is.
- Like Japanese rice vinegar?
- I don't know.
I didn't make the list.
Hey Mirin.
- [Xiaoma] Ooh, we got Mirin.
- [Dan] Yeah, thank you.
- [Xiaoma] All right man.
- Sweet cooking rice seasoning.
- Okay, all right, bag it.
Bag it, bag it, baby.
What is she making with this list?
- I don't know.
The last one is Hoisin Sauce.
- Oh, Hoisin Sauce, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hǎixiān jiàng.
Oh look, of course, 10,000 different flavors
of Laoganma.
What is it?
Can I make a recommendation for you, dude?
See this?
This is known as Laoganma.
- Laoganma?
- Yes.
- Hey, it says it right there, Laoganma.
- Yes, Laoganma, right, right, right.
This is like the Chinese sauce par excellence.
If you get one sauce from China, it's gonna be this sauce.
- Is Laoganma a sauce or a company?
- It's a person.
- This is the person?
This person?
- This is the Laoganma.
- This IS the Laoganma.
- Yeah, this is her, this is her.
- If I eat this am I, is my mouth gonna burn?
- No, no, no, no.
That's the thing, it's not spicy,
it's just really flavorful.
- I'm down, fried chili in oil.
- So we gotta get your Hǎixiān jiàng, man.
- Hoisin Sauce.
- Your Hoisin Sauce.
Ooh, look it.
We got your Hoisin Sauce.
- Think this will be enough?
- This is like a tank.
- If I was gonna start a Chinese restaurant.
- No this is good, because you and your MREs.
- It'll at least make the MREs taste good
- What?
Dude, look at, look at this.
- Mushroom flavored dark soy.
There's a lot of soy here.
- This is like when you go to the gas station and
you want to pour oil, and you have like--
- This is for a restaurant.
Nobody puts this in their house.
This is too much.
If you're watching this video, if you have this much
soy sauce in your house, start a restaurant.
- Now we're gonna go to my favorite section of the store.
- What's up, what we got?
- Vegetables.
- Veggies.
- At least, I need Chinese broccoli, bok choy, at least.
And then other vegetables,
- Yeah.
- If they're looking fresh, and in season,
we're gonna take 'em.
- What are you looking, oh!
- This looks good.
This looks good as hell.
- The salty duck egg?
- This looks very good.
I would eat this.
- You wanna get some of these?
- Cooked salted duck egg.
Have you had this before?
- Yeah, these are--
- What'd it taste like?
- These are actually really good.
They're like really salty.
- Oh my god.
No, I can't have that much salt.
- Why?
- One egg...
- [Both] 1,290 milligrams.
- No, that's too much salt.
- A little bit of salt never killed anybody.
- Okay, yeah, but 1,290 milligrams of salt did.
I wonder, should I go with this one?
It's wrapped in styrofoam.
- Ooh, do you know what this is?
- No.
- You like how it's like dark, like this?
- Yeah, it grabs the eye.
- It's preserved duck eggs.
Kinda like a funky sort of flavor.
- What's it taste like?
- A little bit like ashy.
- Ashy?
- Not exactly selling it.
- Maybe the next time we come here.
- But I will take the duck eggs.
- Get some salted duck eggs, yeah.
- Looks like a breakfast to eat on the go.
What's the one that's white with black dots in the middle?
- Yes, it's that one.
- She loves this stuff.
- Yeah.
- How do you pick a dragon fruit?
You know, a pineapple you smell the bottom?
- Let's get our guy here.
- He says the color and the size.
This one is like a good one.
- Beautiful.
Oh, that's new.
A unique product of Korea.
- What is this, yellow melon?
- Yellow melon.
- Huáng xiāng guā, what's that?
I don't know
He says you can eat it like an apple,
but it's gonna be a harder skin.
- (laughing) You're supposed to cut it.
- I love the fact that this is made in Florida,
but it has Chinese and Korean on it.
- The future of our world, everybody together.
- Oh man, dude, dude, dude!
Bok choy world.
- See, she didn't give me a lot of details.
She just wrote bok choy.
Little did I know, small bok, baby bok, medium bok.
Then you've got Bach, with a -ch.
Small bok choy sum?
Taiwan bok choy?
Large boks, wow this is an extreme variety of boks.
You know what's funny, as an American, most of my
bok choy knowledge comes from restaurants.
- Right.
- So what kind of bok choy do they give you
at a Chinese restaurant?
What's the difference between bok choy, guy choy, kim choy.
Mama bok choy, baby bok choy.
Can we get the Chinese broccoli now?
- Oh, let's get the Chinese broccoli, yeah.
What is Chinese broccoli?
What does that mean?
I think she wants Gai Lan, which is here.
- Nah, I don't think so.
- I think this is a lot of times
referred to as Chinese broccoli.
- Gai lan, or kai-lan is the Cantonese name for a vegetable
that is also known as Chinese broccoli.
- Learning some Chinese today.
- Well, learn something new every day.
- Gailan, baby.
- This is an Asian vegetable, right?
And yet, look at this.
- Product of the USA.
- [Dan] God bless America.
Now that we're done with the healthy greens,
- Let's go get some unhealthy shit.
now we'll go to the unhealthy sugary snacks.
What is this?
- Oh wow. they make chestnuts in China, damn.
- Chestnuts, yeah.
Dude, Chinese people love chestnuts, man.
- Everyone loves chestnuts.
- Oh, Pocky.
Whoa!
- Can we get some Pockys?
Pockys, everybody loves Pockys.
- What's this?
It's like an off-brand Pocky.
From Thailand?
I thought Pocky was supposed to be from Japan.
This is not off-brand.
This is the same company.
Wow, Pocky's branching out.
- [Dan] Wow, Pocky's really going big.
- Pretzels, wow.
Pocky is going wild.
Hey, look at this.
You people could really, really save a lot
of money with this flex.
Instead of traveling to Asia, buying this to bring
back for your coworkers.
- It's so true.
- Stay home, relax.
Come here.
Bring this for your co-workers.
- Those are really good.
- They are actually really good.
- They're delicious, yeah.
Dude, Asian people love these.
There's things where you just like (slurping)
slurp 'em out.
- I'll get these if we can try 'em in the car.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- [Dan] How 'bout an assorted, it comes in a bin.
- Okay, you wanna get assorted.
Yeah
Got like a bunch of little flavors?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
Ooh, these look really good.
- This does look good.
- Yeah, have you had these before?
- I think like on Multicultural Day
at Lakeville Elementary School.
This looks so luxurious.
This you'd have at like the Ritz Carlton Hotel or something.
Doesn't that look luxurious?
- So here's another thing about Chinese people is
that they are big fans of walnut kernels.
- This is walnut in sugar?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hell yeah.
Wow, people in the Philippines eat...
kind of interesting stuff.
- They do eat interesting stuff.
- This looks like--
- Straight up garlic chips?
- People in the comments,
is this stuff as strong as I think it is?
- Dude, this is straight up fried garlic.
- Yeah, I know.
Is it gonna burn?
This would be great right before a meeting
if I don't want the job.
- Oh.
- Great seafood section!
I can't believe how many live stuff they have.
Live conch?
How do they know it's still alive?
- You can see it moving.
- Where?
- It's like gooey.
- Yeah, I know what a conch looks like.
- I don't know what a conch looks like.
- There it is.
- This is a conch!
What is a conch?
Who knew that a conch looked like this?
- If you wait for it to dry, on the beach,
then it turns into a thing that makes noise.
But, now, you see it's got feet.
- [Xiaoma] The only time I knew about conch was
from Spongebob Squarepants.
- I like the taste of squid
but squid's one of those foods that...
Just looks...
- Are those shrimp alive?
- I don't know.
Wild Argentina red shrimp.
Red? Doesn't red usually mean cooked?
This is something I've never seen before.
- What, black tiger?
- Black tiger shrimp.
- What is that?
- I don't know, it looks good though.
Does the black tiger part make it like...deadly?
All right, I'm gonna get some shrimp, hold on
- Oh, sorry.
- It's okay.
- Do you come here a lot?
- No.
- So you like the seafood?
- Yeah, I buy Asian food and everything.
I came to get these.
- What's that?
- Like the wrapper.
- [Xiaoma] Oh, for making sushi! - [Woman] For making egg rolls and stuff
No, I'm not going to make sushi.
- Oh spring roll wrappers.
- Yeah.
- Oh.
- Wait, I wasn't finished.
- Nah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
- Shrimp you gotta eat straight up.
- No.
- You don't take the head off, you don't take the skin off,
no antennas.
- No.
- That's how Americans eat shrimp, the proper way.
- No, no, Americans eat shrimp by taking everything
off, just the meat.
I've seen Ari eat it the other way.
- I'm also buying ice cream.
Have a good day, guys.
- All right, you too.
- All right, as a final thing, you know, I need to get some
some single-serve Ramen noodles.
- Ahh.
- I usually get--
- What are your instant noodles?
- I usually get "Oriental" flavor,
which I know you're not supposed to say,
but that's what it says on the label, unfortunately.
- Dude, Top Ramen?
Are you crazy?
This is Asia world.
We don't do Top Ramen over here.
The best instant noodle, honestly,
something called Indomie.
- Okay, they have to be vegetarian.
- Oh, vegetarian.
I think these are vegetarian.
- Fried noodles?
- Are Ramen fried noodles?
- Ooh, do you like spicy Ramen?
- I'll be honest, I usually don't use the whole packet.
- This is an excellent--
- I usually only use half the packet.
- Spicy one.
- So that first one I got, you said it was from Indonesia?
- That one's from Indonesia.
This one's Korean.
- This is going to be too spicy.
- It's extra spicy.
- I'm down to get one from different cultures.
- Yeah.
- Hey, Nissin.
This is not one I've ever seen.
I never seen Nissin like- this is like high-end Nissin.
- Oh yeah, this is high-end Nissin.
- This one looks nice.
- Dude, this is premium, man.
This is premium instant noodles.
- Four minutes?
Usually Ramen's three minutes.
What kind of noodle is this?
- Welcome to premium noodles, man.
That's what I'm sayin'.
This one's Thai, I never had it.
- Green curry flavor.
- We've got your, we got Filipino instant noodles, bro.
- Artificial pork?
That could be good, since she's vegetarian.
- Yeah, artificial pork flavor.
[Customers] Oh I love Mama noodles
- Do you think she's gonna like, do you think a vegetarian
person wants artificial [pork]?
Yeah, why not.
- Mama's is the best Ramen.
- Which one's the best Ramen?
- Mama's.
- Mama's?
- Why do you say that?
- I don't know, college.
It's from my college days.
- Good answer.
- Look at Mama's. (laughing)
- Oh, this, this one's mad good too
- Dude, Indomie, yeah.
Indomie is the best
- Yeah, Indomie is my favorite
- It's just so good.
- But Mama's, though!
Boom!
- Three different country's Ramen noodles.
That's just the tip of the iceberg.
They got all the major east-Asian countries.
Japchae?!
Dude, how did they get japchae in this?
- Wow, that's--
- How do you get japchae into...?
I should get this for my sister.
She's gluten-free.
Look, they got stuff for every dietary restriction here.
What else are we looking for, Ari?
- I think we're good, man.
- Can I go get my phone?
- Yeah.
- It's amazing, it's a grocery store.
But they also have a good phone store.
I have a phone model that a lot of people don't have,
and he custom cut a screen protector for mine.
- Wait, so while you were grocery shopping--
- While I was grocery shopping, he custom cut
a screen protector for my phone.
- I love it.
All right, you want to get a little snacky-poo?
- [Dan] Sure.
- A little snack?
They got like random Asian, Cantonese goodies here.
A roast duck, or whatever.
Once you're done shopping...
I love this.
Look at this, it's like you're in a grocery store,
and then bam.
- [Dan] I don't want to eat a full meal now.
- [Xiaoma] Okay, let's--
- This is dinner.
I can't spoil my appetite.
- Let's skip it, yeah.
One that that you'll notice in the Asian supermarket
checkout line, like you know how in American stores,
it's like in the checkout line there's always like...
Candy
and like other random shit?
- Toys, to try to convince children.
- Yeah, exactly.
In the Asian supermarkets, they try to get you
to buy roast peanuts
- It's kind of working, I do like roast peanuts.
- Yeah, right.
Spicy chilies.
Beans?
Flavored beans?
I don't know.
Oh dude, Chinese people love these.
Sunflower seeds?
All right, what do we got?
We got...
Do soft then hard or hard then soft
Let's do hard then soft.
- Why does that matter?
- So they can put the hard stuff in one bag, put
all your hard stuff in one bag.
Pull these liquids out.
It's like I'm teaching you how to grocery shop.
- Yeah, well.
To be honest, I end up eating out a lot.
- We've got hard, we've got semi-hard
- [Grocer] Hi, how are you?
You need bag?
- Let's hope our little pink gift card covers this all.
- [Grocer] Hi, how are you?
- Hi, how you doing?
- Do you need bags?
- Yeah, yes please
- Your total is $70.45.
You're getting three coupons.
- Great, coupons.
I love coupons.
- Three coupons, you can use it for bakery and deli.
- Oh, thank you.
- You're welcome, have a nice day.
- Thank you so much, man.
I really appreciate it.
If you wanna go get some roast duck back there,
after your shopping trip?
I love that.
Yeah, all right.
Wow
Dude
Look at this haul, man.
What do you think of that?
- I think that's a beautiful store,
I wish we had one in my neighborhood.
- Right?
I wish they had one in Manhattan, man.
Oh, there is one more thing.
We gotta slurp up some juice.
We gotta slurp up some jelly jams.
- Oh, what are you doing?
Now we're hitting heads, like the Three--
- Like a three-year-old.
- Like the Three Stooges here.
So what is this?
- It's slurp town.
- "Please take separate bite and chew before swallowing."
- No.
- What is that, for legal reasons?
- Yeah.
Ready?
- Does it just come out if I squeeze it?
- Cheers.
Should be vodka in here.
- Mmm.
- Fascinating.
Thanks for coming on this adventure with us, everybody.
- Bye.