Hi everyone! We are here in San Francisco, sunny San Francisco. This is one of the most
expensive places to live and it's also just known to be like a very expensive
city, but we are taking you on the top ten best cheap eats in San Francisco today
So everything we eat today is going to be ten dollars or less, and at
each place we are getting like a full meals worth for ten dollars. It's not
just gonna be like a little dessert or something, it's gonna be like a meal so
you're in for a treat, and let's go to the first stop!
Okay so we just stopped by the first stop, which is Good Mong Kok Bakery, and we got some goodies
Enough to feed three people! All this food for only $10
We got some siu mai, we got some shrimp dumpling, har gow
And we got lo bak go, which is the turnip cake, and also
some shrimp cheung fun rice rolls. Let me try some shrimp dumpling. Gigantic!
Mmm, look how many shrimp there are in there. This, I love the best
It tastes really good and it's gigantic
Wow it's stuffed with meat. And shrimp. I really love it
This is the best way to start your day, with some dim sum. They open at 7am
so you can get your breakfast dim sum fix
Okay so now we're at our second stop, which is just a few blocks away from the
first stop, that was dimsum, and we got this two meat plate, which is BBQ pork and
roast duck. And it's seriously like piled on there look at it. And we got it over
some rice, and they also add a little bit of veggies on the side
Oh my gosh
This is like such a nice comfort food and only $8.80 for a two meat plate
Such a good deal
Let's dig in
Mmm
It's so juicy and tender and fatty, and if you look right there on the rice, you
got that beautiful juice just dripping down on the rice to catch all that flavor
So perfect
I'm gonna try the duck
Mmm
So juicy, full of fragrance and flavor
Mmm, delicious. And only under $10
This plate can literally feed three people
Now we're at our third stop of the day, and we are at The Bird
We got a fried chicken sandwich and we got it spicy, of course
Wow that crunch
Chicken is nice and juicy in there. You got the acidity from the slaw and pickles
Good texture, good flavor, I love it.
And you want it spicier, they have this house-made sriracha
I approve
Okay so now we're at our fourth stop of the day. We are at Saigon Sandwich in
the tenderloin and just warning you guys, this area's a little, uh, rough around the edges
But they have some really good stuff here, so here we have the special combination
that was only five dollars and it comes with the Vietnamese ham,
roast pork, and pate. And also it's loaded up with a bunch of veggies like
pickles, carrots and radish, cilantro and jalapeno
All right, first bite!
So good!
Smells really good
The baguette is really fresh and really crunchy, and soft too
Mmm, let me try
Wow, it's like punch-you-in-the-face flavorful
Yeah, very very flavorful. And banh mi is one of my most favorite ways to have like a
cheap meal because it's always very affordable
Mhm, so good
Okay so now we're at our fifth stop of the day
and we are at King of Noodles in Sunset
We're actually here not because of the noodles, but because of the dumplings
Cuz there's actually a place called Yummy Dumpling across the street and they sell a lot of
frozen dumplings to-go, but they actually serve those same dumplings ready-to-eat
over here at King of Noodle. So we got one order of their pan-fried pork chive dumplings
which is definitely one of my favorites
So let's give it a try
Dumplings have always been one of my favorite things to eat
like as a comfort food. It's always been fast and easy
I especially love them pan-fried for that extra textural layer of crisp
Okay so now we are at Volcano Curry of Japan, and we got this chicken curry
that's only $9.50 for this plate. They have a spice level called volcano and
Mom insisted that we get that, but since Mom's idea was to get the volcano spicy
I'm gonna let her try it in front of you guys
I'm up to the challenge!
I'm ready for the explosion of spiciness
Yummy! I didn't think it was spicy
Not spicy at all. You know, after you have tried something else that is really spicy,
this is a piece of cake. Very nice curry flavor and it tastes really good
Very smooth texture of the curry, combined with the rice and chicken
Perfect combination
Okay we're in this small cramped space, and we're in the Haight area getting some
sausage, right here. This was only $8.50
So we got the Hungarian sausage, smoked pork with garlic
And you also get to choose two toppings for free, so we got the
spicy beef chili and they really slathered it on there, and then we also
got a bunch of grilled onions. Sausage and grilled onions, perfect combo
And it's also worth noting that we're here on a Tuesday, and apparently on Tuesdays they
do burgers, and that wasn't what we wanted to highlight in this video, but if
you happen to be here on a Tuesday, definitely worth trying out because
literally everyone was ordering that and we were like one of the only people
ordering the sausage today. So let's dig in!
Mmm
Now you feed mama
It is bursting with flavor. Right?
Yeah
Oh my God I wish you guys could smell this
The sausage has such a nice, like, snap to it. And the roll is nice and toasted
It went on the grill for a little bit, and very soft. It's just a little bit cramped here,
but a lot of people take their food and go next door. It's like a bar, and they
have a lot of seating there, so they'll take their hotdog and go get a beer there
So that's an option for you guys, too
We're at this restaurant that serves Filipino food in the Mission, and we got
this plate with garlic rice and fried egg so it's called Tselogs, hopefully I'm saying that correctly
and that means it comes with the garlic rice and the fried egg and then
you pick different kinds of meat to go with it. So here we got the spam, and
this plate is $8.99, but they have other options, such as lumpia and filipino hotdogs
And their most popular is this sisig plate, but that one is a little bit over $10,
so we couldn't get that one. So let's give it a try
Cut this open. Oh gosh, wow
That yolk just burst, mmm. Nothing I love more than a runny yolk over rice
And in true Filipino fashion, I'm gonna cut this with a spoon
cuz that's what they do. Let's get a perfect bite, we got some spam, egg and the garlic rice
Mmm, wow. That garlic rice is very garlicky
and I love my garlic. Perfectly goes with the egg And spam is nice and crispy, very salty
Just the way I like it
Okay so now we are at a taqueria in the Mission. And it is very very famous,
you've probably heard of it, it's called El Farolito. And we got a super quesadilla.
It's freaking huge. This is only half of it
And it comes with steak, cheese, avocado, sour cream on a flour tortilla
And then we also have a bunch of salsas, so I'm gonna go ahead and put some on
Mmm
It's so good
The cheese is so nicely melted, got that crisp on the outside
And then everything works together so well. I mean, sour cream, avocado with
the steak and the cheese and that beautiful salsa.
I love my food spicy so I'm gonna put more salsa
Both kinds, the green and the red
Mmm!
Crunchy, nice texture. Mmm, the meat is very delicious
Well-cooked and seasonsed. It's only $8.50 for this gigantic quesadilla
Okay so we're at our last and final stop of this Top Ten Cheap Eats in San
Francisco tour, and we are at Basa Seafood, and they have $6.50 poke
which is crazy! So we got our little tray of poke, and we got the
creamy spicy salmon. Yeah, let's just dig right in
Mmm, mmm!
It's creamy, I wouldn't say it's like very spicy, but I mean for $6.50,
I'll forgive them. It's such a nice portion too, generous with the fish. If you have your
own rice, it's just a perfect meal! This is such a great way to end this full day
of eating with something light -- just poke. Delicious.
Okay so that's it for our tour of the best cheap eats in San Francisco
Hope you guys really liked it, and I hope it was helpful
And maybe you want to check out some of these places
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If you're a SF native and you want to, you know, chime in on the cheap eats in SF
and we missed out on a place then definitely write it down below and we
can try and check it out and you guys can have a conversation in the comments
about the cheap eats in SF! So yeah we'll see you guys the next one, byeeee!