- I'm Tiana Attride, and welcome to "Ride With Me."
The show where we talk to people we love
- Oh, you guys are going to Paramount?
Fun!
- [Tiana] About the places they love.
- Should I cut into it?
Today, we're catching up with Tim Chantarangsu,
actor, rapper, YouTuber,
and of course, host of Thrillist's own, "Send Foodz."
- I might have done some canoodling at Progress Park.
- [Tiana] We're gonna get his record recommendations
for Paramount, California.
And I'll be heading there myself.
That's tasty. - Wow!
- To check them out.
Why is everybody here so nice?
So come along and "Ride With Me."
Nice to meet you.
- Hey, nice to meet you too.
- The first thing that I thought,
I went back and was like watching some of your stuff
on "Wild 'n Out" and I was like, dude, I'm almost scared.
I don't want this dude to roast the (bleep) out of me.
- No, you know what?
I don't even like roasting people like that.
People always come up to me, they're like,
"Yo, can you roast me?
Roast me, roast my cousin."
I'm like, oh my God!
You look stupid. (laughs)
- Not roast my cousin.
Tim, do you wanna tell us where you are going to take us?
- Yes, I'm taking you to the lovely city
of Paramount California.
It's where I spent a lot of my young adult life
from like age 10 to 20 something.
- So what was it like growing up in Paramount?
- When I went to the high school there,
it was like a 75, 80% Mexican high school,
and a handful of Asian kids there.
So that was new for me.
This was my first time being like,
wow, there's like no Asian kids here, you know?
And then eventually I think I was able
to really find my vibe there.
I met some of my bestest friends in Paramount.
We're still bestest friends to this day.
I had a whole like existential crisis
my first year at Paramount.
I went into it being like,
oh yeah, you know, I'm the class clown.
I can make friends easily.
But when I first went to Paramount,
I was like, yo, am I like actually shy?
Am I not the outgoing person who I thought I was?
But eventually I realized, no, I'm hilarious
and I have no problem making friends. (laughs)
- And I mean, being hilarious has worked out, obviously.
Shall we go ahead and dive into your favorite places
in Paramount?
- Sure, let's dive in.
Tam's Burgers, that is where everybody would go.
- [Tiana] They got a drive-thru, baby.
- After school you would go there.
After all the big football games.
After like the house party
you would go to Tam's at like 1:00 AM.
- Oh, Tim, hold up. - Can I help you?
- Can I get some chili cheese fries and a pastrami burger?
I like your nails by the way.
- [Tiana] Thank you.
- The food is just fire.
The burgers are bomb.
They do like a nice little like thousand island,
lettuce, tomato situation.
The greasy glob of Tam's chili cheese fries
it's like what you need after a drunk night.
- [Tiana] So is it like the kind of place
where you like mix it up every time
or do you get the same thing every time?
- I've probably tried about like three items
off the big ass menu,
but then like every once in a while
when I felt a little different
I might try like a pastrami burger, which was bomb.
- [Tiana] Oh my God.
Now that's a burger.
Damn!
I don't even know where the fry is.
- Sometimes it might be a lot of drunk people up there
and somebody might get stabbed,
but that was the risk you took for Tam's.
- Whoo! Buddy boy.
All right, do you wanna go to the next spot now?
Ah, Horchateria Rio Luna!
Ashley Leon.
One of my best homegirl from Paramount High.
She would always be like, "Man, I wanna open up
a spot in Paramount."
- Tiana, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- One day, she was like,
"Yo, I'm gonna open up this horchateria,"
where she would be selling like fresh horchata,
horchata Frappuccinos and horchata ice cream
and it was fresh churros.
And it really like popped off.
Like, it was crazy.
It was just dope to watch her do that
because I saw this idea brewing in her mind
and then she made it happen.
- [Tiana] It's so good.
- Of course, I'm biased 'cause that's my homegirl,
but also it's like everything there is bomb.
- There he goes. - And where is this?
- Senior Ditch Night.
Just instantly him and I clicked.
Of course, Tim was like the funniest guy.
Right? - Yeah.
- Every moment with him was like-
- A wild moment. - Something, yeah.
- Yeah, something's happening.
- He's always been like that.
Always, you know?
- My wife is like addicted to it too.
She's always like, "Yo, let's go get some hot churros
and some or horchata ice cream on top.
- Oop! She drip! - Oh!
- My B.
- Bye. - See you later.
Let's go.
Why is everybody here so nice?
- Alondra Hot Wings is another staple in Paramount.
It used to be just like this little like kind of mom
and pop wings spot.
And they've been growing and the wings spot got bigger,
but the flavor is still fire.
The wings are always like juicy and flavorful.
- There we go. - Thank you.
- The smell just. (laughs)
- I know, right? - The smell hit me so hard?
How hot do you like your wings?
- My family had a Thai food restaurant in Paramount
for 20 years, and Thai people do love their spicy food.
But when I have my wings, I don't go OD with the spice.
They have wings called,
I think it's like the atomic wings,
where you actually have to sign a waiver.
- I just need you to sign this for me.
- I did that once for a YouTube video.
It was rough.
- [Tiana] I'm scared to be touching it.
- I definitely like, you know,
I'm feeling it.
Screaming and drooling.
- [Tiana] Was it you and David for that one?
- No, no, it was just me.
This was a long time ago.
- Thank you.
Do you wanna take me on to the next spot?
- Okay, yes. Giyo's Tacos!
It's not even a whole ass restaurant.
It's literally just like a little small setup
and everything is just bomb.
Giyo's Tacos just has like the best chorizo, if you ask me.
Do you F with the lengua tacos?
- [Tiana] Am I dummy, 'cause I don't even know
what you mean by that?
- So lengua tacos are the tongue, beef tongue.
- [Tiana] Can I get two chorizo, two lengua,
and a breakfast burrito?
- So I love some lengua tacos.
I love like, also they do like big ass breakfast burrito.
Everything's fire up there
and that's just another spot I'm like, okay,
I tell all the out of town homies like,
we gotta go to Giyo's Tacos.
- [Tiana] Thank you, Tim, for sitting down to chat.
Do you have anything that you wanna plug?
- Just go to youtube.com/timothy for all my good stuff,
and of course, I'm always working with "Thrillist"
on some stuff.
So keep your eyes open
for whatever might be coming down the pipeline.
Other than that, man, I'm always trying to work.
There's always something brewing, so just stay tuned.