- Fellow explorers, some pretty exciting news
from Resorts World Las Vegas this week.
And they just announced their new food hall
that they're opening ,a 24,000 square foot food hall
that is going to be inspired by Singaporean hawker centers.
They're gonna be opening 16 food stalls in this food court
where many of the food stalls are actually famous stalls
from across Asia, famous foods from Singapore,
from Malaysia, from Thailand, and even more.
And so in this video, I'm gonna give you a preview
of what those are, so you'll know the tasty Asian eats
that you'll be able to get in the summer of this year, 2021,
when Resorts World opens.
Now, when this food court opens,
it will be the most Michelin Plate and Bib Gourmand concepts
under one roof in the USA.
Resorts World released some renderings,
some concepts of what it's gonna look like.
It's gonna have views out onto the Las Vegas Strip.
And the centerpiece of the food hall
is gonna be a 10 foot lucky cat,
made entirely of gold coins.
But what I'm really excited about is not the lucky cat.
I'm excited about the food,
so let's get into these 16 food stalls
that are opening there, where they came from,
and what they're gonna serve.
Starting with the Eastern stalls,
the first food stall is Ah Chun Shandong Dumpling.
This is a restaurant originally from Hong Kong,
and specialize in water boiled dumplings
from the Shandong province of China.
What's inside the dumpling?
Pork paired with bok choy, garlic, chives, and coriander.
I love dumplings.
I'm definitely looking forward to this one.
The second food style is Boom Tong Kee.
This restaurant started in Singapore,
in Singapore's Chinatown, in 1979.
They are famous for their Hainanese chicken rice,
which is a poached chicken,
served with chicken broth and rice
that's typically been cooked in that chicken broth.
Now like all good Hainanese chicken,
it'll be served with three sauces on the side,
dark soy sauce, ginger paste, and chili sauce.
I really love Hainanese chicken in Singapore.
And so I'm also really looking forward to this one.
I wanna point out this video is not sponsored
by Resorts World, or this food court.
I'm just really excited about these things.
And so I wanted to share it with you.
Resorts World, if you are watching this though,
and maybe you're having a grand opening,
I would love to come.
The third stall is called Fuhu Shack.
This one is gonna be offering up Western re-interpretation
of Asian classics, particularly Peking duck,
but Peking duck in burritos
Stall number four, Geylang Claypot Rice.
This restaurant started in Singapore over 40 years ago,
and they specialize in rice dishes baked
in really hot clay pots,
rice, meats, vegetables altogether, super good.
It'll be really interesting to see
how this is gonna work in a hawker food hall type setting,
because of the original restaurant,
it takes up to 30 minutes once you order to get your food.
I'll also be really interested to see
if the clay pot rice is actually served
in the traditional clay pots like this.
Stall number five, Googgle Man's Char Kuey Teow.
This is a stall originally from Malaysia,
and yes, that's really the name of it.
Googgle Man's Char Koay Teow spelled that way.
Googgle coming from the goggles
that the guy who owns this stall uses to cook
the char kuey teow.
Char kuey teow is a stir fried rice noodles,
served and cooked over a really hot walk.
And so that's why he wears goggles when he cooks it.
In addition to the rice noodles,
char kuey teow typically served with shrimp,
cockles, Chinese sausage, eggs,
beansprouts, chives, in a mix of soy sauce.
Stall number six, Kuru Kuru Pa Yakitori.
This one is created by the Aoki Brothers,
famous DJ and producer in Las Vegas.
And this one's gonna specialize in yakitori meat on a stick.
How can you go wrong?
Stall number seven, Nori Bar.
This is gonna be the food hall sushi bar.
In addition to sushi, they're gonna have an eclectic menu
of sakis, matcha green tea, and Japanese beer, all on tap.
Number eight, Pepita's Kitchen,
originally from Manila in the Philippines.
Pepita's Kitchen is famous for its lechon,
which is roasted suckling pig,
stuffed with additional ingredients.
The original in Manila was visited
by the late Anthony Bordain.
This one's gonna be bringing some really interesting
and unique Filipino food to Las Vegas.
Number nine, Springleaf Prata Place,
another chain from Singapore,
specializing in South Indian food,
in particular roti prata.
Roti prata is a Indian stretched fried bread.
It's made by stretching this bread,
frying it in butter, typically serve with curry,
which there'll be doing here.
Crispy on the outside, and fluffy in the inside,
roti prata is really good.
They'll also be serving teh tarik to drink,
which is a typical pulled tea,
served in Malaysia and Singapore,
where they literally pull it to pour it.
It makes the tea extra frothy, and it's a pretty strong tea.
Stall number 10, this one's called Ten Suns Braised Beef.
This is a stall originally from Bangkok, Thailand,
specializing in Thai braised beef soup.
The original stall, they braise the beef
based on his grandfather recipes, for four to five hours.
Interestingly, the stall in Bangkok
is open from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
This is breakfast and lunch food.
I'm pretty sure in Resorts World,
it's gonna have to be open a little longer.
Actually probably makes a pretty good hangover food.
Number 11, Tiger Sugar,
this is a bubble tea shop from Taiwan.
They're famous for their black sugar boba milk.
It has these kind of streaky black sugar things on the side.
Really good bobas to die for.
They've got locations around the world,
and now they'll have one in Las Vegas.
In addition to the milks,
they also do really good milk teas.
Stall number 12 will be the dessert bar of the food hall,
typical to hawker centers and food courts
in Singapore and Malaysia,
will often be stalls that just sell drinks,
and just sell desserts.
And so they're going with that vibe,
and there'll be a stall that just sells desserts
at this food hall.
Stall number 13's called Mamak.
In Singapore, they call a sundry shop a mamak,
that sells gifts and snacks and things like that.
So if you wanna take home some snacks and gifts,
you'll be able to do it from Mamak.
Now, those are all the Eastern or Asian stalls
coming to this food hall.
There are three Western stalls opening up.
The first one is called Streetbird Las Vegas.
This one pays homage to all things fried chicken.
The second Western stall is called Mozz Bar,
specializing in, you guessed it,
mozzarella and burrata cheese.
I really like mozzarella cheese,
so I'm interested to see if this will be as good
as the mozzarella cheese from Eataly, down the Strip.
And finally, Western stall number three, Blood Bros BBQ.
This is a famous barbecue restaurant in Houston, Texas,
that'll be serving up classic Texas barbecue.
I love Texas barbecue,
so I'm looking forward to this one as well.
Now I mentioned that most hawker centers
in Singapore and Malaysia have a drink stall,
usually somewhere in the middle.
Well, this is Las Vegas, so it's not just a drink stall,
it's gonna be the bar in the center.
There will be a 16 seats center bar in the center,
that's gonna have a rotating selection
of beers and drinks from around the world.
And there's gonna be a hidden speakeasy,
hidden somewhere within the food hall.
So now you might be thinking to yourself,
"Chris, this all sounds really tasty.
When does it open?"
Summer 2021, this year is the official date.
Hasn't gotten more specific than that,
probably because there's a lot of things,
like visas for people, travel and all that
to bring these chefs from these other countries,
and get these places going.
I'm pretty excited about this, because I feel like
it was the late Anthony Bourdain's vision
to bring a traditional hawker center to New York City.
It never happened, but Resorts World is doing it,
bringing it to the Las Vegas Strip.
Now, if you want to see more
about Singaporean style hawker centers,
more about more char kuey teow,
more about Singaporean chicken rice,
you can check out my videos right here,
where I eat lots of those tasty foods,
including in char kuey teow in Singapore.
Well, as usual, I won't say goodbye,
'cause I'll see you in one of these videos.
You can also find the links in the description below.