flushing queens one of new york's best places to eat sheep and eat well today we're going on
a chinatown food crawl to show you some amazing hidden gems for as little as two dollars we'll be
joined by two chinese-american youtubers who know all the secret places you don't want to miss it
best cheap beats in new york are hidden down some random corridor like this you're absolutely right
john because the one we're going to right now is actually all the way to the back
wow it's like we're going on an adventure here would you ever come all the way down here now that
you guys are showing me i'm up for it okay this is how you know it's real menu is not in english this
is how you know we're gonna get the peanut style noodles and also the wonton soup pretty simple
wow
thank you i got my trusty vinegar here i love putting vinegar in this soup
because i have a special place for sourness but you don't need to put vinegar in there
because the soup actually tastes really good by itself as well so this is like chinese
grandma food yeah comfort everyone loves this everyone comes here and they get this
it's so silky to write just disappears down your throat let's have some vinegar i have to say this
is one of the coolest spots in new york city to eat i feel like we work in the restaurant and
we're in the back just chilling here right now they were like come welcome that's it
what's the key here with the peanut noodles you just flip them like a hundred times get all the
sauce in between all the noodles my parents make this at home but i like these more they just
paint me to do this come here and mess around all right you missed some spots every single noodle
has got to be drenched everything has to be the same color like so simple yeah simple comfort
food in the back alley here of flushing yes not gonna lie this is as good as it looks wow that's
impressive that is impressive just ripe it's not super sweet like i don't know a pad thai it's just
subtle nice for six dollars here i eat the whole thing i'd be full i really think i'd
be folks is there any better value in new york city than chinese food i don't know
dollar pizza but dollar pizza is not this interesting my favorite is chinese food i've
been filming in new york for over five years i think this is the most hole in the wall
hidden gem spot i have ever filmed that i agree honestly i told my friends ditch the mcdonald's
be brave come in here check it out because you might not be able to do it in a few years
because spots i guess are disappearing oh big time yeah there was a lot more images two three
years ago but now you see brand new buildings everywhere and this is one of the last ones
this is the famous green menu you can see it everywhere online
here we're gonna eat number three and four which are the fish balls and a fujo dumplings with soup
plates here start with the fish balls they show me and i love them ever since i'm a
protein lover i love meat whenever i eat meatballs there's always fresh meatball or
pork meatball it's one thing for this one they stuff pork inside of fish pork instead of fish
oh my gosh yeah it shoots out a little bit the broth everyone got a bite got
that fishy flavor on the outside and then a little bit of pork pork yep on the inside
a little surprise on the inside i'm not for chinese myself but when i visited ming's family
i actually sometimes for breakfast lunch and dinner the fujinis region of china
where your family's from is there one dish they're most well known for pujo is also
in the southeastern part of china which is near the coast it's a coastal city so they're known for
seafood as well so fish balls obviously perfect here is a fujinese dumpling and
you could have these fried or in soup and here we have a soup option and pork inside with pork
inside and just like the last one the skin is very thin all right let's try it let's do it
this is more of my style definitely more of my style
no fish taste here yeah i don't i'll be honest i don't love the fishy taste if you're into
that you'd like this they got the silky smooth exterior nice serving of pork right in the middle
we're doing a cheap eats video today but sometimes i feel like these cheap dishes it's actually what
tells a better story about the culture i think so yeah like i would say if you look at vietnamese
what would you say is the most it's a signature dish yeah and i think with that it also has a very
a humble origin story but i'm really enjoying hearing the the story of this particular food
and how it pertains to ming and her family i think that ties it all together really nicely
actually i want to go to your house and eat some of this oh man their cooking is amazing yeah
yeah like a mexican family like like six meals a day six meals a day
look at it it's gorgeous you're so happy you're so happy she's so proud you're also
invited to her family's house now we've all earned our invites all right i'm going to
the adventure continued i used to say that times square was the busiest place in new
york city but lately i think flushing is winning my subway was so crowded coming here
the subway station the main street i mean i'd love to see the area coming back to life yeah
flushing queens has got to be one of the only spots in new york city where
you could go and legitimately not see english at a lot of these businesses
it's funny you know i never noticed that until until you're joining us right actually
okay okay they gave us all of it
i want to recognize this from our last video i'm so honored doing good
we're going to have a little fun here ben and ming want me to try this without telling me
what's inside and see if i can figure it out but john will give you a clue we'll tell you the name
in chinese this is called highly bing which is also diviang in fujonese oh i know because i know
exactly what this is now i'd like you to just buy into it you have a very like devilish grin
on your face i'm afraid of what's in here i mean i'll try anything once the surface is fine right
it looks peanuts yeah it kind of looks like a dessert i'll take it let's try this
surprise i don't know vegetables what am i missing uh-huh
he was he was scaring you he tried a scary sound like there was like squid or something
crazy inside of this it's just like veggies or what kind of vegetable is it a cabbage and a lot
of different things oh man let down let down it tastes a lot healthier i was surprised about that
yeah just from the outside of it never having tried this i was expecting i don't know either
something crazy or if he didn't say that just like chocolate it looked like a dessert to me
try it out fried exterior veggie inside yes
i keep thinking it's french toast and the flavor is completely different
this is a breakfast item yeah so look it tastes better right when it comes out in the oven in
the morning right now we're here in the evening i gotta give venom in credit they always take
me to spots that i've never heard of and i try foods that i knew nothing about i'm just
expanding my palate because of youtube such good friends are great youtube channel as well you
better subscribe to them you're into these kind of cheap adventures all right up there definitely
not cheapies that's like fancy dim sum in the morning and wedding venues and evening
i haven't been this close to food coma level and i don't know how long like this
carb overload i just want to pass out right now take a good long nap a lot of liquids
i'm gonna slurp it i'm gonna do what you do it looks more fitting for this environment
very refreshing yeah so it's just a mix of soybean and milk together pretty simple
yep they make it out of this huge machine they serve it uh as early as five in the morning
people start going to work training is literally 20 feet away yeah and all types of people come
in here not just chinese people we've had at least like three people sitting in that
seat since we started filming here right now we don't know this restaurant we're just hanging out
very flavorful oh yeah a little spicy too oh yeah actually just woke me up
i was this close to a food coma and now i'm back i should have started with this
yeah this is like an egg drop soup with cocoa what do you tell our viewers who
might be intimidated to come here not speaking chinese never been to flushing before i would
say come with a trusty set of pictures of you what you want to eat that way you don't need
to speak the language because pictures tell a thousand words i think for twenty dollars you
could be beyond full oh yeah twenty bucks will go so far here even in today's inflation day of age
today's day and age of inflation twenty bucks in flushing you're gonna feel like a king if
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