members of the barrio today we're going on another cheap eats food crawl in one of queen's
most expensive neighborhoods long island city 10 or less we'll be trying food from all over
the world with a bunch of queens locals you do not want to miss this is it possible to
eat cheap in long island city i don't know long island city is pretty expensive man i think so
i don't think it's easy but it's possible and it might not be for long
every great cheap each journey usually starts with a dumpling spot
eight piece pork and chive dumplings and then one order of the eight-piece veggie that's it
i think it looks very well presented
it's a lot prettier than your typical dumpling spot i would say you can tell that the
skin is very thick that's the way they like it here a lot of times when we dumplings i like to
smother it with a lot of soy sauce but here you said it's not necessary they have the homemade
chili oil and the sesame seeds already put on also the scallions and the cilantro cheers
you're absolutely right you don't need any extra sauce on it with a chili oil
chives just melted in my mouth like one beautiful bite simply started at the lac3
as a little stand for a few years after that they became a food truck in midtown the lines would
be down the block and now they are back in lac where they started as a fast casual restaurant
i love hearing stories like that that's how it works sometimes in new york you start as
a food truck or a little stand you work your way up you get popular on social media bam you
have your own shop i guess i'm not a vegetarian fan but john got me eating all these vegetables
tastes like what my mom makes the pickled vegetable is a good addition it's got the extra
sour rich taste to it than just regular edamame i like it
crispy skin delicious hmm you know what even though it's vegetable
it is darn good i'm a huge fan of pickles so this is my favorite side here
healthy cheese right here healthy beans really almost everything on the menu here qualifies
what a long walk we have our next stop is half block away
these guys are busy they're moving fast
big slices story with slice is that dave portnoy from barstool sports gave them an 8.1 and the
place really blew up after that nothing's more new york than pizza right it looks good it's
got the oil on it let's see the flop oh big time yeah it's got the big flop huge flop
and mine has a little piece of buffalo ranch on it from
ben's order but all right let's let's try this all right first time for both of us
definitely a step over joe's oh yeah thin crispy like tomato sauce definitely a fan of this sauce
a little zesty i like this a lot i like the crust most of all cheese is very good the oil matches in
with it after one bite it's so much easier to hold this up i didn't realize how iconic this new york
fold was so i started traveling to other cities to eat pizza and i saw people you know just kind of
holding it like this and i thought i thought everybody eats pizza like that i didn't know
i didn't know you needed to come somewhere to get that classic new york city experience and you're
in queens and right here in long island city i made the right choice they ran out of margarita
and they rushed me to get this it's got the right amount of crunch that's pretty important my pizza
buffalo slice let's give it a shot i'm not a big big fan of grease but let's see how it goes
that purple sauce is really good
so christmas in the philippines is crazy which is why my mom is very embarrassed
but i don't have my christmas tree yet please don't put the date when this was posted because
i'm supposed to have this by september i was supposed to have this at september maybe mid
december right like yep early for next year early for next year hopefully it lasts till next year
yeah we were literally at this truck a few days ago we asked all the local well what
their favorite spots are and everyone says this is spot to go tacos one al pastor one fish taco
i'm excited after ben topped it up i actually watched their video of this place i was
drooling i need more good taco trucks in my life thanks a lot guys thank you you're not
really eating tacos unless you've got jaritos or mexican coke i'm sorry it costs a lot more than
you would pay in mexico but i will say that you get humongous portions this was uh 450 for the
barbacoa i feel like in mexico it would be 50 the size it would also be a ton cheaper but that's a
different story but look how much guacamole we got in here it's like more guac than uh
goat meat i'm not putting any salsa here i'm just gonna take a big bite let's do it let's try this
freaking genius
that's a good way to describe food pineapple one pizza maybe pineapple and taco genius
i'll pastor convert here barbecue very solid actually sort of like the perfect type of food
i know they eat this a lot on weekends in mexico in the morning it's cold out this is warming me up
oh wow this is so tender the goat meat is great generous amount of wok oh my gosh i
got the fish taco here last time we got the shrimp taco and that was delicious
the vegetables are fresh and crispy i love this taco
when i think of long island city i always think of these luxury high-rise condos
right on the water but i never really gave the food scene much thought
the manhattan people won't come here as often but the queen's people love long island a lot
of manhattan people won't go above 14th street so getting them to come to long island city
which is one stop away five minutes from grand central you got to do it you know if
you if you want to explore queens like some baby steps and the queen's just one stop
this bakery has to be my favorite bakery in all of queens i've tried many
but this one takes a spot he's got me excited let's do this let's let's get some dessert after a
day full of eating cheap stuff four chocolates and one almond yeah
definitely one of the finest views all of new york city and manhattan right here got it all
the empire state building the chrysler building there's a reason people spend the big bucks to
live here that view that view doesn't hurt me sucker for a romantic story and we have a story
for ben and ming right here that mr action kid was an accomplice to their surprise uh engagement on
his live stream this guy here told me the plan of uh wanting to propose to his girlfriend ming so
he's like hey you want to set something up we'll do a live stream so we came over here we bought uh
pastries from that same bakery and he proposed right here where oh wait where was the actual
proposal spot like like show me an actual small i thought they had a plaque for your proposal
it was a good awkward five minutes of eating the wonderful croissant right over on those
seats the three chairs exactly three chairs and then we came over here i stood and i was like
okay yeah he's waiting for it to happen and then he's like all right ming oh my god okay
okay this is very cool to be eating with manhattan behind us and very cool because it's
like 40 degrees with 15 mile an hour wind chill we're shivering but we're gonna eat this cheers
i just bit right into some kind of a huge chocolate chip it's like heaven in my mouth
i'm such a chocoholic oh almond croissant you can see all the powder on it give it give us a go
it is so flaky so buttery you look at the inside here
amazing that's all i could say so good super flaky love the chocolates
i'm a big fan of chocolate so this is great i think we should have bought the
hot chocolate or coffee right now that would have actually been perfect but
outside of that the sun's about to set new york city good friends here what else could you ask
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action kid as well hope you enjoy tell me in the comments which of these cheap beats
you most want to try i'm curious thank you so much for watching as always till next time bye