- What's going on people.
Quorum, New York.
We're here.
Jackee's Jamaican cafe.
My mom's own restaurant.
Don't mind the crack heads and shit,
that's just part of the day.
Let's roll.
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We're going to show y'all what bodybuilders eat
at restaurants. Eh, not really bodybuilders
but me, because I'm, a little different
but we gonna enjoy some food here
Stay tuned, we about to show y'all.
This is my old, the little bum ass cousin DK.
He used to be a tyrant to me when I was a kid
but he don't want no smoke these days though.
Ask him, ask him, ask him,
see he tried to tell me I could still get him.
See, shit crazy.
Oh, come on, come on come on.
- Very welcome. - Back up
for a second we trying to show them
what they got, what we got here.
Oh, you know what DK,
you tell them what we got.
- Uh, peace, love and soul folks,
welcome to Jackee's.
I'm that brother
they called DK.
You got curry goat.
You got oxtail.
That's the big headline.
Everybody loves everything
but they go crazy for this oxtail here.
Stew chicken, curry chicken, four cheese mac,
jerk chicken.
Ackee and sawfish, jerk pork, all that good stuff.
The entrees come with cabbage and plantain.
Come down anytime you got an empty stomach
and we'll take care of you.
- My mom cooks everything.
She right here, let's go talk to the chef
Chef say what up.
- What's up guys, just come
on down to Jackee's Jamaican Cafe in Quorum.
You see how big this boy is?
He live on that food.
- Yo look right,
I'm gonna keep it a hundred,
the Mac and cheese is the winner over here.
Even my little kids, they come here,
They don't wanna eat nothing else.
They just want mac and cheese.
Yeah it's a Jamaican cuisine restaurant.
I'm 100% Jamaican.
My mom and my dad are fresh off the boat.
My mom been here for forever, but if you hear her talk
you would think she came
off the boat yesterday.
What up Brookie.
What're you doing? - [Brookie] Where are you?
- I'm at grandma Jackee's restaurant.
No I'm not.
Look,
You want to see grandma?
Look, she's right over here.
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I'm going to get the rice and peas and the oxtail.
Let me get the chef. Chef!
- Well, the oxtail is the best thing in the store.
Everybody wants,
a lady ordered curry shrimp just now
and she wanted oxtail gravy.
It's ridiculous in this store,
you can't make enough
of that oxtail.
It's ackee and swordfish is our national dish.
Curry goat is one of our main things and the oxtail
- Spicy.
That's what- - Yeah
- That's what like the
the whole thing is around it. It's spicy.
- Natural herbs.
We opened during Corona virus
in like March, I think like February, March, and um,
right when COVID hit
we thought we were going to take an L from it.
But yo, honestly the business did good.
So COVID actually, I think COVID actually helped us out
because it was all mostly takeout and delivery.
So I think during COVID
is the reason why it actually took off as good as it did.
- I had no idea-
- My punk, ass little sister talked her into this shit.
- Yes
- And we've been begging her for like 30 years.
- Look, look, we've been trying to get her
to open a restaurant,
but my punk ass little sister talked her into this
She part owner, but where the hell my sister at?
We don't know.
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DK hook me up, I'm gonna get a medium,
I need the rice,
I need the oxtail,
and hook me up with some of them plantains too.
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Y'all look.
Yo, they treated me like I'm a regular customer.
They gave me like two pieces of oxtail.
Y'all what's up with this man?
I thought like, (indistinct)
yo, why y'all did me like a custy cuz?
Yo look. Yo, you go to any Jamaican restaurant.
They be, mad stingy with the oxtails.
They did me like I'm a regular ass customer.
No, it's a ton of food, it's not a ton of oxtail.
They gave me a whole, I got a whole thing
of rice and two pieces of oxtail on the side.
See how they do me in here.
Yo, you want to know what's (bleep) up?
My mom's did me
like that last time too.
Y'all I got home and I took it to go,
I got home,
I had to call her like, yo,
you know you did my plate dirty
like I was a custy?
Whatever though. That's a whole other story y'all.
You see my mom be talking about how
"Yo they only sell large oxtails now."
Cause everybody be trying to order the small,
and then they be bitching
that they only got two pieces of oxtail.
This shit is $11.99, a pound.
Right ma? $11.99 a pound right?
$11.99 a pound right?
$11.99 a pound,
And (bleep) would be over here acting
like they gonna order a large for $4 and get 10 pieces.
The sodium is through the roof
and this is high in fat, the oxtail is high in fat so,
it's just, not conducive to doing a prep.
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- Thanks for coming down, brother.
We appreciate the love and support.
Wait hold on I've got a phone call.
Hello? Yeah he's right here.
(laughs loudly)
He don't wanna talk to you
- Yo, I'm not going to lie though yo.
My cousin used to have hella muscles. Yo hell-
- [Cameraman] For real? - Y'all look.
Longwood high school is a big high school out here right?
Yo, this (bleep) still has the record
for the triple jump in track. Nobody-
- All right - And look,
he had the triple jump and long jump.
Someone beat his long jump
but the coach told him straight up
no one will ever be this triple jump ever.
But yeah, Andre Ferguson.
Y'all got my meal at Jackee's.
I'm about to finish eating it.
Y'all about to check out.
Yo man hit the like hit the subscribe button.
I think that's it.
See y'all later, man.
- [Cameraman] He still wants more oxtail
He's gonna take all the oxtail for the sale today.
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