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- Hey, guys, what's
happening, what's going on?
Welcome back to another London video.
Today I am here in Chinatown,
I'm joined by, come!
I'm joined by Cheng,
she's one of my friends here in London.
What we are going to do
is go around Chinatown
and eat all the things.
A couple of months ago,
I went to Hong Kong,
and I had a food tour,
and basically we went around
all of these authentic places,
and I've never actually shown you
some of my favorite spots here in London,
so today we are gonna have
some bubble tea, dim sum,
ice cream, like, bakery
goods, loads of things.
We are going to eat as much as we can.
Are we ready to go?
- Yes, super excited.
- High five? (hand smacks)
(Cheng giggles)
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- Okay, first up is Wan Chai Corner.
We've sat here for dim sum.
Some goodies that we've
got is barbecued pork buns,
which is super nice.
In here, we've got some
rice, some veggies,
and what was it, chicken feet,
which I actually really like,
but some of you might be disgusted by it.
This guy is lotus leaf with,
like, glutinous rice inside.
This one is called (speaking
in a foreign language), where,
what do you call it in English?
- I think it's deep fried donut?
- Deep fried donut?
I guess it's not really.
And then this last guy is, what
do you call this in English?
- Crystal prawn--
- Crystal prawn dumpling.
It's on their menu, but
this is the vibe here.
It's time to tuck in.
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Okay, just finished up dim sum.
I am quite glad we had that,
like, a breakfast lunch?
I guess a lot of people go
and get dim sum for like,
well, English people call brunch,
so it was super filling,
loads of stuff to order,
there are a few places in
Chinatown you can get dim sum at.
We're actually walking past
one called the Golden Pheonix,
which is somewhere I go to as well.
That one is your favorite?
- Yeah.
- And I think now we're
gonna grab some bubble tea
and some bakery goods.
In Chinatown there are two main places
for bubble tea which I like.
One is called Coco, it's
where we're at right now.
There's another place called Chatime,
and they're both kind of similar,
but I remember when I posted on Instagram
about going to Chatime,
someone told me I need
to go check out Coco,
and I've been before,
and I quite enjoyed it.
And what is quite good is, well,
there's a queue right here,
and anytime there's a queue,
especially with full of
Asians, you know it's good.
Inside, you can customize your bubble tea,
you can get it with milk,
you can get it with fruits.
Do you like bubble tea?
- I don't, actually, really,
but the Hong Kong Summer
Tea is really good.
- Yo, are you even Asian if
you don't like bubble tea?
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Okay, just waited one hour to
get a pearl milk bubble tea,
and when we've left, there's
still such a long queue.
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Okay, we've got ourselves
pearl milk bubble tea.
Also went to one of my
favorite Chinese bakeries
called Golden Gate Cake Shop.
We got ourselves a pineapple bun,
and also--
- My favorite!
- An egg tart.
There are a lot of
bakeries here in Chinatown,
and this is probably one of my favorites
because it is a bit more authentic.
It's probably not the most popular,
there is one called Bake,
which a lot of people go to,
but in here, it's quite
small, it's got a nice vibe,
it's got a nice suburban Hong Kong style,
and I like the bakery goods.
If you've never been to
a Chinese bakery before,
they do a lot of sweet goods, some savory?
Mainly sweet?
- Mainly sweet.
- And you can have it either
for breakfast, lunch, or
dinner, or as a snack,
any time of the day,
you can always have a Chinese bakery good
and milk tea to wash it down.
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Next stop, we've arrived at
this place called Bun House,
and it's super nice in here.
Downstairs, you order your things,
there's things in the menu at the back,
and they actually have buns
pre-prepared, and pre-steamed.
Some of it you have to order.
So we've got ourselves a pork
bun, a steamed custard bun,
and then we've got a thing called mantou,
which is gonna be fried,
but it's gonna take about 10, 15 minutes.
We've actually came upstairs,
it's super spacious up here.
It's not normally this quiet,
but the vibes are really nice.
The last item has finally arrived,
fried mantou with, I
think it's condensed milk?
Hmm, it's actually really nice, guys!
I don't think I've had
a mantou fried before.
It's good, right?
- Mm-hmm.
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- Okay, next stop, we've
made it to Jen Cafe.
This place is actually
really good for milk teas,
any kind of teas that you might have
when you've been to Hong Kong,
or if you've never been, I
highly recommend getting, like,
a lemon iced tea, or this here,
which is like one of my
childhood favorites called,
well, I'm not too sure what
it's called in English,
but in Chinese it's called
(speaking in a foreign language).
I might actually put up
the English name here,
so you can get that if you come here.
We've also got some fried dumplings.
They're pretty hot at the minute,
so I think we're gonna
have to wait a while
until we eat them.
But this is a good place just to drop off,
have a snack, maybe have some noodles.
The dumplings they actually
make right there in the corner,
so if you walk past, you can
see how the lady makes them,
then they actually go and fry them
and cook them and serve
them at your table.
This is a place I went to before
with my dad when he's come.
It's just a nice small little place.
It's got a lot of authentic
vibes, which is very nice.
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Okay, dumplings finished, tea drunk.
I literally could've sat
there, had some noodles,
had some rice, had some
pork, had some duck,
however, we've ate so much today.
How full are you at the moment?
- Full.
- Okay,
you've ate all the things in Chinatown,
and you wanna bring some stuff home.
Either go to the bakery,
get some stuff there,
get some takeaway stuff in
these little restaurants,
and the little cafes you've been to,
or there's a supermarket called Seewoo,
which does all the things.
You can get snacks, you can get drinks,
you can get things you could buy at home,
put it in the freezer.
For now, I think we're
gonna go to our last stop,
we're gonna get some dessert.
In this place, you can get egg waffles,
you can get egg waffles with ice cream,
like a new fusion thing.
Though I will want just ice cream,
and I know one place that I
don't think you've ever been to,
or heard of, that does
different flavors of ice cream.
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And we've arrived at
a place called Yolkin.
They've actually got so many flavors here.
Durian, White Rabbit,
so you might know what
that is, it's like a candy.
Hong Kong milk tea,
Vietnamese coffee, Horlicks,
it's got so many different options.
You've said you've never
tried durian before?
- No, and I don't want to.
- Is it possible to
get a taster of durian?
(speaking in a foreign language)
Yes, this is great,
'cause I tried durian
when I was in Hong Kong,
and this is the opportunity.
- Smell it first.
- I hate the smell.
Oh, no!
- Yes! (laughs)
I love it.
Yo, this was like one of my highlights
when I went to Hong Kong for my food tour.
I tried this.
It actually doesn't smell that bad.
Oh, no, that's not good.
I might actually get White
Rabbit and Hong Kong milk tea.
White Rabbit is a candy I
used to have when I was a kid.
Oh, mm, this White Rabbit is...
What's the Hong Kong milk tea taste like?
Oh, actually it does taste like milk tea!
Oh my!
Thought it would be quite
funny to get a fortune cookie.
I had to see what my fortune might be.
It says, "take responsibility
of your own happiness,
"never put it in other people's hands."
What's that?
- I can't believe
that you made me eat durian. (laughs)
- Okay, that wraps up
my tour of Chinatown,
and the places I like to eat here.
I am super full, are you full?
- Yeah, super full.
- I don't think
I can eat anymore, even
though there's a few places
on my list that I would love to show you.
I am gonna end my video here,
hopefully you guys have
really enjoyed seeing
all these cool locations in Chinatown.
I'm gonna link everything
in the description below,
so you can go check them out
if you ever come here to London.
But yeah, I hope you guys
have had a awesome day,
no matter what you've been up to.
Comment down below,
let me know what you
thought of this video,
let me know what you
thought of the places,
and also maybe tell me
what your favorite was.
Anyways, I'll catch you
guys in the next one,
I'll see you then.
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