- Now that things are opening back up a bit in London,
I've been meeting up with friends
over some great street food in the city.
So I took my camera with me
so I could show you some good food to try
while in London and also introduce you
to some cool people that you might want to follow.
Just so you know for this video,
I'm classifying street food as
just anything that can be eaten standing up.
First up I went to Chinatown to meet Shu.
- Hello, I'm Shu and I make videos on YouTube
about food and London lifestyle
and today I'm so excited to be here with Jess
and we're now outside Chinese Tapas House in Chinatown
and we're going to try Jian Bing.
Which is essentially a Chinese crepe,
it is made out of flour and eggs
and inside you can customize all the fillings.
So you can have mung beans, spring onion.
You can have eggs, proteins, veggies, whatever you want.
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You can choose to add some Chinese sausage
and some meats and crab sticks,
but with this one we've gone all veggies.
We've got some fried dough sticks,
pickles, egg, and lettuce.
And then lots of spring onion, extra flavor.
And it's cool because you can actually
watch them make it right in front of you as well.
So that's really, that's the fun of the experience.
So we're now sat down.
Over in Newport with all the outside dining
and we've got both halves of our Jian Bing.
And the great thing about this
is that it's £5.50 for a huge, huge crepe.
So if you are sharing with a friend,
it's such a good cost-effective option.
But this is it, all layered up.
So you've got the batter of the crepe on the outside
and it's filled with spring onions
and inside we've got some fried dough sticks
and some lettuce and some extra egg.
So it's good for vegetarians.
I'm going to take a bite.
- So the pancake does have egg in it.
- Yeah. Oh yeah.
- Oh, that's good.
- Next up was a visit to Richmond with Mechi.
Hi, I'm Mechi.
"Londres My Way" in Instagram and we're here
in Richmond to try some Argentinian empanadas.
We are going to Chango, which is an Argentinian place.
They do the best empanadas in London.
So what we do in Argentina is we have like empanadas night.
We get together, we drink beers.
Wine, malbec of course.
And we have some very good beef empanadas.
Very nice flavors.
Like we do have,
sometimes people do invent flavors
and these are really good.
So everything is good here, actually.
(ordering in Spanish)
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- The thing is, how do you recognize which one is yours?
They have little letters here.
So this is probably ham and cheese, I think.
And usually this is a traditional repulge,
the way they close empanadas.
This one is a beef for sure.
And then you can check the corners
of every empanada for the lettering to identify yours.
So this is not a very feminine way to eat
an empanada, but I'm going to do a show for you.
So you have to open your lips
because it's going to drip a lot.
Let's see how this empanada is,
which I know it's going to be good.
Mmmmm.
- My next street food meetup was
in London bridge with Paige Mariah.
Hey guys, it's Paige of the YouTube channel Paige Mariah.
I'm an American living abroad in London, blogging my life.
And I'm here today with Jess to try some amazing food.
So we're at Vinegar Yard and we're going
to be going to Baba G's.
- And they have these amazing Indian style
nachos that are made of poppadoms.
Pachos, a cross between nachos and pappadoms,
comes topped with Indian style salsa,
raita, mango pulp, and chili pickle.
It's a side dish on the menu, but it's pretty big.
We decided to also order some Kali nuggets,
a vegan version of their spiced chicken nuggets served
with vegan raita and Baba's fresh chili sauce.
My next stop was to meet Jackson in Shortage.
- Hey guys, I'm Jackson from Black Eats London.
You find us on Instagram, Black Eats LDN.
We highlight black owned businesses across London.
And today we're in Brooklane, just here.
And we'll be checking out City Juice,
which is a sugar cane cold press company.
And we'll show you how it works.
So yeah, here at City Juice,
they do cold press sugarcane juice.
On top of just sugarcane juice, you can get other flavors.
You can get ginger and lime, pineapple, lime,
passionfruit, and the latest flavor is strawberry,
but they don't have it today.
But yeah, this is what they do.
- Welcome back.
Welcome back. We're here. Lockdown is over.
It's lifted.
The City Juice is back!
So I'm going to give you the rundown now
of us making a new flavor that we've got going.
Sugarcane and pineapple juice.
Come, come on, get involved.
Chop the ends off, as per usual,
we're gonna chop it up.
We got to chop it.
You want the raw ripe colors.
Pure, golden, delicious.
Put it in my machine.
(sugarcane crunching)
Getting the freshness out, look at that.
Pure gold, pure gold.
Pineapple go in.
And this is sugarcane with pineapple juice.
- Yay!
- Really good.
- My next adventure was to meet Kelly in Soho.
Oh, look, who's back.
- I missed you guys.
Those who may not remember me
from last video that I was in, I'm Kelly.
I'm one of Jess's most dearest London friends.
And even though I'm not a foodie, London blogger
like my girl, I run an art and design
collective here in London called Fount.
So we're here in Carnaby.
We're going to go into Kingly court.
There's this place that's called Club Mexicana
and they do Mexican street food.
So we're going to go and try the burrito.
- Oh yeah.
- We traveled here for Club Mexicana.
One of my favorite street foods in London.
They do Mexican with like a twist.
It's not authentic.
Just kind of like a fun Mexican and they do only vegan stuff
and it's still really, really, really freaking good.
My favorite is the, either the cheeseburger burrito
which is what I'm gonna show you today,
but there's also cheeseburger tacos,
which are (chef's kiss) delicious.
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I'm not sure exactly what's in this,
but it's essentially like what a taco
or a burrito and a cheeseburger would be if it was combined.
So there's the ground beef, but obviously it's vegan.
There's rice, cucumber, lettuce, tomato,
a delicious cheesy sauce, like a cheeseburger,
and a couple other bits that make it really good.
Buffalo chicken.
- It's a Buffalo chicken with ranch, we have pickles.
There's coleslaw in there.
And a really nice relish.
And it's just really really colorful.
And I honestly can't taste non-chicken.
It has a very meaty texture to it.
- One more street food I want to include here.
And that I've mentioned on the channel
before is a bilog from Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream.
A bilog is a Filipino dessert
and it's essentially a pandesol, which is a hot sweet bun.
It's stuffed with ice cream.
And the one you want to choose of course is the ube.
Ube is a Filipino purple yam.
It's really good.
Couldn't not mention it in a street foods video.
- Obviously there are so many more
amazing street foods around London to try.
So this video is a part one.
And if you have any suggestions
for other street food that you've tried in London
that was fantastic, leave them down
in the comments below and it might be
included in the next video.
Remember we love supporting small vendors, small businesses
in markets that are a little bit lesser known.
And for more tips for doing cool things around London,
watch one of the videos that's popping up around my head.