Fam, welcome back.
So you guys know that we love food, especially street food.
And countries like Malaysia and other places have such fantastic street food.
But the question is how is the street food here in America?
So today we are at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon.
There's like a party happening back here.
It's a farmer's market / a bunch of like street food stuff.
We're gonna try almost every single thing here.
That's a lot of food. It's gonna be a lot of food.
Here we go. Look at all that.
Cheeses. Everything is on there.
Is this like the quintessential American street food?
Yeah, exactly. There we go, all right.
Farmer's market style charcuterie, yeah.
Okay, so this is a charcuterie board.
Did I say it right?
I don't know but it is like arts. Like little nuts and fruits and cheeses all together.
And like just different flavor profiles which is awesome.
I don't know if you can find this anywhere in the world.
I don't know. Yeah, I feel like this is very very American. This is...
I've never... Americans loved just kind of snacking foods like this. Yeah. Yeah.
So it has a little bit of everything, all right. Cheese.
What else you got there?
Cheese. Grapes. Grapes. There's some cured ham on top.
And the prize is that ham.
The cured ham, right? Oh my gosh, I cannot wait to try that.
Dipped in olive oil and walnuts
How was it?
I haven't tried it yet.
I've just been giving the boys. The boys love their fruits.
I know. Look at that. They're like, "Give me. Give me".
Yeah. I want to try the ham too.
Oh my gosh.
That was so good.
Just got some raw oysters.
We were planning to get all our food, go sit down and eat but...
No, we have to we have to eat this right now.
All right, so we've got this one has a vinaigrette on it.
And then this one has tabasco sauce on it.
And these are very premium oysters, so...
I don't know what that means.
Maybe they're bigger. They look really large.
Okay.
Do you know how to eat this?
You just slurp it, right? Mmm-hmm.
Did you get it all?
American street food is not too bad. So far. So far.
It is so good.
Yeah, Zae Zae?
I like the kiwi.
You like the kiwi? Yeah. Good. That's awesome.
What does Ky Ky like?
He loves the grapes.
Okay.
You like the grapes? Okay. Okay, that's good.
Got lots and lots of food.
Check this out.
Spread of all food. And we've already eaten some of our food too.
Yeah. We got hungry, so we ate some already.
But let's check our spread. First, we got...
Carrot and orange juice which the boys already drinking. They love it so much.
All natural stuff.
They're squeezing it while I was ordering it.
Okay, first thing...
Breakfast Pizza. Breakfast Pizza.
Oh my gosh.
Fam, look at that.
There's like the bits of the fried egg just on top.
That's screaming kids.
You want some?
Oh my goodness.
So good.
The crust is immaculate.
It's like... I would eat this breakfast, lunch and dinner. Perfect pizza crust.
The taste of it is like a nice like well-rounded pizza actually.
Kyren's even coming back for more.
So far it's very very American. We got pizza. We got charcuterie board.
We got some fresh juices. Right here. It's right here, Ky Ky.
We already had our raw oysters earlier. The raw oysters, yeah.
So let's see what's next.
Okay, let's open this guy. Oh!!!
As soon as I said American, we went Indian now.
Okay, we got a half order of... Goat briyani. Goat briyani.
So it actually doesn't look as appealing as... I hoped it would. Yeah.
But it's all about the taste.
Okay, not gonna lie that's good.
It's good, yes.
The thing is, it's not very complex to me.
It just tastes like... Are you kidding me? No.
I don't know. I feel like I... Take a proper bite.
Okay, maybe I just... These are so complex. This is like perfect.
Where's our other son?
Kyren, come back. What's wrong with them?
So seriously you don't think this is good? No. No, my second bite was better.
I think maybe my first bite I was distracted by children.
I didn't get any goat in there
I'm still not getting a lot of... The thing is, looks like children distracts your food.
It does.
The food tastes less nice when children are distracting. That's what I'm hearing.
I would like to agree with that statement.
Food tastes better when you can eat it quietly by yourself.
But yeah this briyani is so good.
I just wish they gave a spoon.
America, start eating with full spoon.
Zae Zae, you want some baby?
That's how you know it's American street food.
Is it spicy? No, it's not.
How's that?
Good? Good. Thumbs up. All right.
All right, next up we have...
What is this? Oh, I'm so excited about this one.
Dumplings. Nice.
So you can see here it is... We got an order of four dumplings.
What flavor is it?
All just pork.
All pork dumplings.
So this is what it looks like.
These are the pan fried ones.
You can see that they're perfectly brown. Yeah.
I'm gonna just dip it in, yeah?
That's really good.
Wow. Okay.
It's like a snacky food. I think that's like a perfect... It has a perfect bite.
It's like a two bite meat for each dumpling.
It is salty, umami, sweet.
I can really taste the pork. It's like a little bit fatty and juicy.
And it's perfectly stuffed.
It's not too much stuffing. It's not too little. It's like the perfect amount.
So good. I like it. I like finger foods for street foods.
I think having a fork and spoon is too much work. A bit easier, yeah.
What is this? What is this one?
Oh, this is the momo.
Oh, I'm like... Like what is it?
We have no clue what we ordered.
Chicken chili momo.
Look at that.
So this was from an Indian fusion? Indian Chinese fusion.
Yeah, Indian Chinese food. You are right.
And the flavor is chili chicken? Chicken chili? I don't know.
Can I have more dumpling?
Yeah, go ahead baby. He's asking for more dumpling. There's dip dip for it if you want right here.
I feel like this tastes like Asian ravioli.
That's a good way to put it.
It actually tastes very good.
It wouldn't be something I would pick.
I don't know. I just feel like it's too... It's too saucy.
Yeah. Yeah, too saucy, too sloppy for my taste.
Again nothing wrong. it actually does taste very good.
So I want to give Momo credit where credit due but...
I don't know. It's just something about it that I'm just like, "Arghhh".
What's next? Next up, empanadas.
I love that this is American street food
But like pretty much all these foods are from other countries.
Yeah. Except for the charcuterie board.
Charcuterie board is pretty American but I think that came from France actually.
Oh, probably. Charcuterie is definitely French.
America just steals everyone else's good ideas.
Really nicely fried. Look at the empanadas.
And it came with like three sauces. Did you open the sauces?
These things are huge.
What flavor is that one?
I don't know. I got one of each. I got one chicken, one beef and one vege.
Take a bite.
So we were actually debating whether or not to get the empanadas.
And I'm glad we did because they are really good.
Really good.
Again, this is not be something I'd eat every day.
It's very heavy.
Zae Zae loves this.
But it's delicious. Yeah.
Okay. It's not very like complex flavor, so it's just... Yeah, very simple. Very simple.
Shredded chicken, potato. Potato, maybe. A little bit salt and spice
and then wrapped in this curry puff looking thing.
Deep fry. That's it.
We have...
the Island Grill.
So there was like a set of like barbecue grills going so much smoke and all that
and I saw that I was like we have to get it.
And the line was crazy.
This one took the longest we had to wait like for about a solid 20-30 minutes.
It was like 40 minutes. About 40 minutes, yeah to get this.
But look at how amazing it looks. I don't want to drop it.
But look at that.
It was pretty cool. It was all women running the business too.
I'll try the pork for escape.
Real talk, I would have waited three hours for this.
Oh my god.
All right, 40 minutes is nothing.
That pork? That pork. You tried the pork? I just had my first bite.
Oh my gosh. It is perfection. It is flavor.
It just hits you with like... Yeah, like kind of like salty, fatty...
The texture, everything. It just hits you all at once and it's so good.
I'm excited for the chicken.
Can you cut me a piece because I don't have knife.
Because what? I don't have a knife. Oh, okay. I can give you a knife.
She just like me to cut for her.
That chicken.
This whole thing is a winner. Yeah.
So far, I would say this Island Grill is probably the best thing we've had.
It was just truly American. You know what? That's Hawaiian.
Hawaii. Hawaii is part of America.
So I'd say this is truly American food, right?
Would you actually call this American food, though?
I'd call Hawaiian food. Yeah.
But Hawaii is part of America, so...
It used to not be, right? No, you're right. It used to not be.
Hawaii and Alaska were the two last states to join the United States.
But fam, if you are here, make sure you pick up the Island Grill.
One more item I believe.
Just one? Yes, one more.
So this is the Bacon Butty.
It's like a British food truck.
But passerbys are like, "You have to get the Bacon Butty from there with the brown sauce".
Looks like a typical just bacon sandwich.
But let's see how good it is.
I'd prefer if that's hot.
That's good.
It's still good.
I never would have thought to just like literally only put bacon on a sandwich.
There's nothing else with it.
Oh, wow. Right? It's just like...
But that brown sauce though... It's so good. It's something about it.
I feel like this would... Actually this and the Island Grill is my two best. My two favorites.
Island Grill's still winning it for me.
There you have it.
American street food exists.
It's not a myth. And it's really good.
It's really good but...
I would pick a street food from a different country over America.
It's good. I still love it. I'm glad we have it here. There's some that are better than others.
One thing I learned is that the street food in America is less street food.
It's more like a meal.
That's true. More like a meal that's kinda served in a parking lot.
Yeah, it's more like a meal served in a parking lot rather than an actual like street food you know.
Like they cook at the side and...
They do... Some of them they did cook at the side, but it just felt that way.
Yeah, it's a little bit more prepared than just presented so
And the portion sizes too.
Let me know in the comment down below what you think?
What's your favorite street food?
Where else should we go check out?
Maybe in America. We want to travel. We like to travel and find new foods.
That's true. Let us know, all right?
We love you, guys. We hope to see you in the next one.
Bye.
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