In St. Louis, if the rice aint dark, it's not going to hit! I like how you got the same items at each spot to make the comparison of each spot cohesive.
I grew up in St Louis and I have been waiting for this video. If you left without trying our BEST ASSET, your assessment of our city would have been in question. It wouldn't have been a fair shot. The truth is this is the only food we claim to be great in. Our fried rice is unmatched! Salute for doing a great job. 🙏🏿
@@missyanndavenport3745 he didn't go to one "Black " spot that doesn't serve swine or filthy "shell fish". To me he's a savage who'll eat anything and complain for views, likes whatever y'all call it
As a huge supporter of your channel and a St. Louis native, I thank you so much for doing this video. It was so enjoyable to watch and I cannot wait to see the results. Definitely rooting for STL BING LOU!!!!
My family runs several Asian restaurants. Dark fried rice ain’t really traditional to Chinese style as it’s supposed to be a light side dish that compliments the main course. They likely adapted this for their area to accommodate customers who eat fried rice as a main course. This is more of a Thai style Fried Rice that uses dark mushroom soy sauces to give it that brown color while also adding an umami kick from fermented soybeans. From the looks of it, they prep this dark fried rice in bulk then stir fry the ingredients first before adding it in (Notice the vegetables and meat ain’t dark).
@@NeonKue Great point and even better insight into why it's darker in color, at some places damn near black in color🤢. In classic St. Louis style, they're doctoring something to make it better when the overall product still ends up being mediocre cause it's still not authentic. Reminds me of 20 years ago, give or take, when you'd get a bag of greenery with the smell of oranges. To find out people were using orange peels on regular brick bud to make it appear fluffier like some kind bud. The appearance enhancement was on point. After a few puffs.... the reality of being played is more on your mind than the effects of the green😡
@@blaquestarr007 I mean, fact of the matter is most of these “Rice shops” and American Chinese food aint authentic any way. It’s like how Taco Bell ain’t authentic Mexican food. It’s catered to meet the tastebuds of Westerners who want fried foods loaded with salt and sugar mixed together. It’s obviously gonna be different from region to region based on the locals. If you ever get a chance to try authentic Chinese food, it’s actually a variety of light and balanced dishes separated to complement the entire meal as a whole. You won’t find dark fried rice at their family meals unless they ain’t traditional lol Luckily I can also understand your analogy of greenery as well lol As a former Greenery dealer, we definitely did that shit that make reggies fluffier and add weight for profit. Never judge a book by its cover, it’s all just flash and bang hustle for good first impressions. The greenery I was pushing back then was purple haze (almost moldy black looking) that would put the heaviest smoker on their ass 🤣
With St Louis rice you suppose to mixed the sweet and sour sauce, red pepper and the if needed the soy sauce and you will get that ultimate BOW BOW BOW!!
Growing up in E. St. Louis, I lived in an area called Park Side. We would walk to the Rice House, Kam Wah, a pork st paul with cheese, order of chicken wings, and a black cherry vess was my go-to meal.
Ma man went to Bing Lau! That’s just a couple of blocks south of the Water Tower - that’s a “Get your food and bounce!” neighborhood! Well worth it too
@hatchett999ify That's cool but it's gotta be that Vess grape!!! Hot dog, hamburger, rice, St Paul, that Vess grape set it off! Bologna sandwich! You name it!!! That Vess grape y"all! Before the chinaman start selling Vess we use to buy them at the corner store for 10 cents and get 2 cents when you take back the empty bottle! Call that the "deposit!" Y'all young'uns don't know nothing about that! LMAO!!!
@@speaknoevil957 youngin??? Bruh we got the Vess from ALDIs on the regular. 17 cents a can if I remember right. Go to the Wonder bread store on Wednesdays for the bread. You right about that grape though. I was a fruit punch fan. I grew up around the corner from Wohls.
Thanks for giving STL another try...You nailed this review! When I moved to DC 35 years ago, I craved Good STL Hood Chinese food, good fried rice, Duck and noodles (still can't find any decent in DC) St.Pauls are the best...egg fu yung on white bread, mayo, pickles lettuce and onion, with extra bean sprouts. ONE spot in DC that makes them, AND good fried rice! Twin Dragon....just Like home!!! STL put Crab rangoon on erry body's fav list. DC needs St.Pauls and Duck broth with onions and noodles...thick slices of 5 spice fatty yummy duck.❤ no Vess but we have Rock Creek here.
I told y’all about 7 videos ago that that’s what St. Louis was know for 🗣️CHINESE FOOD (the best in the country as a matter of fact) and people wanted to argue like bro I use to live there, St. Louis isn’t known for BBQ despite what the food network shows told you, that KC……..I’m glad chime finally took my advice, A-1WOK was my personal favorite but I can vouch for yet bun too they solid……all you was missing is the cream soda Vess and you would have been official……salute tho
Facts i grew up by East saint louis and from what i remember it was never really known for bbq restaurant's its always been the Chinese food that damn imos and a bit of soul food
One thing I know being from St. Louis, if anything don’t hit, the fried rice and St Paul gone pop!!! And the Vess. And gotta keep ya head on a swivel also riding to the Chop Suey’s hrrrrrrrr! Good looking Mr ChimeTime! 👍🏾
I'm born and raised in stl I made of post a few weeks ago that he was going to the wrong areas ppl sent him😊 to the safe areas thats cool r what not but u have to go to the hoods for the best food especially south city
@@Winnyfruits a minute ago. i moved out of state and when i came back i was asking my niece to take me and she told me what happened. said it was a robbery gone bad
Thank you for posting this video. Just a little history, Bing Lau's Chop Suey was probably the first Chop Suey's opened in the late 60's. If you ate at Bing Lau's , you sampled a little piece of history. I knew Bing Lau and moved out of St Louis back in 78. I was surprised to see the restaurant was still operating after all these years. Thank you for the Chop Suey tour. It brings back a lot of memories.
Yes my order from the Chinaman is Beef fried rice with a side of egg foo Ying gravy and extra been sprouts. Damn I'm going to have take a drive to the Lou for one rice😂
I am so glad u help put East St. Louis fried rice and St. Pauls on the map. I literally grew up in East St. Louis and their fried rice and St. Pauls absolute hit. Try the bbq Snout in East. St. Louis.
Literally can’t get fried rice and a St. Paul from nowhere in the US over ESTL/STL 🔥🔥🔥 the peach Vess slap every time - Asian Gourmet downtown STL is also top tier if you want something on the safer side - but TYPICALLY, the worse it look outside/inside the better it is 😅
@@kevinmckay2483Chicago yes 🙌🏾 being that it’s Midwest, so it makes sense. New York tho 🤔 I’d have to strongly disagree…certainly not when it comes to fried rice
Yes, but you need to try the sandwich. Doesn't need gravy. We have something else called a "Happy Box," has fried rice, egg foo young patty and the gravy. Good stuff!! 😊
We definitely don’t have better BBQ than the cities/states known for it but our Chinese food is top tier. I hear San Francisco apparently has good Chinese food too along with NY.
@@ThatsWhatSheSaid6227 I'm from NY. The Chinese food is hit or miss out here depending on the area. If you want authentic Chinese food in NY, you have to go into the Chinatowns throughout the 5 Boroughs (the Chinatown food in Flushing, Queens is my favorite). In the hood it is ether hit or miss, but one thing is different, in the hood Chinese Restaurants do not put peas, carrots & eggs in the fried rice, but in some other neighborhoods across the boroughs Chinese Restaurants do.
@@amazing50000 Honestly y'all always say you gotta go get the good "traditional" Chinese food and stuff but lemme tell you here that some provincial cuisine's traditional food is gonna send y'all running away. My dad's side eat Jiangsu cuisine which is best known for sweet and mildly salty and I don't mess with it the taste just irks my stomach. My mom's side eats Shaanxi cuisine which is more spicy soury and a lotta flour products I def mess with that but for a western taste profile I could bet y'all wouldn't like it. Most of them are just extremely average such as shandong cuisine as well as Guangdong cuisine. Just my opinion though.
You listened!!!!! " YET BUN SPECIAL NO PORK NO HAM SHRIMP BEEF CHICKEN, SAME ST.PAUL WITH PEACH VEST.! I SAID WHAT I SAID. #YETBUN #1 ALLLL DAY #STL #STLOUIS #STLFOOD #CHINAMAN #STPAUL #STLIN60SECONDS #ATLIN60SECONDS #JENNICESOMEGA #GENISESOMEGA
Reminds me of the Chinese joint in North Philly where I grew up many years ago. My favorite was the Pepper steak with fried rice and an order of chicken wing.
Chime, it's probably Gravy Master. A 1/2 cap or a full cap will definitely brown the rice. A little goes a long way with the browning. Chicagoans love Egg Fu Young with their fried rice.
You missed a couple of the black owned spots. Gotta try them next time! So glad you came through. People outside of St Louis never understood what our fried rice was like until they tried it. The first time I went outside of the state and ordered fried rice I was perplexed cause the rice was light skinned with peas and carrots 😂 I never knew it was different until I left home.
Fried rice experience here for me is the nostalgia of calling everybody when I was putting in an order, especially if you were kickin it with family on a Friday or Saturday night. Who all want some rice? 😂 and families are loyal to a particular one or two locations. Hella guilty of if those options were closed, I’d wait til they opened bc I didn’t want to go anywhere else. lol. Didn’t wnna risk a place I wasn’t familiar with not being good and me being salty lol! Rice order be messed up and you be mad af. lol.
There are a lot of bbq places that have good rib tips, snoots, pork steaks, chicken and hot links. I don't buy rubs from them. Pappy's and Bogart's ribs are good to me. Never tried Stellar Hog or Salt N Smoke. Sugar Fire's ribs are only OK to me.
I'm from Norfolk, VA and we used to have fried rice like that and I miss it so much. At some point in the '90s all of the Chinese places started making this flavorless, yellow rice and called it fried rice and that's all you'll find now. I agree, fried rice with bean sprouts just tastes different (in a good way).
Bing Lau is great. Went there instead of Popeyes down the street because some guy bought all the chicken sandwiches and was scalping them and somebody got mad and stabbed the dude. General Tso hit hard. Rice was great.
Young's in East St Louis is the Best!!!!! That is accross the bridge on the East Side! We have good fried rice 100 miles away though! You can ask for no peas & carrots and say I want brown rice!!! You just say no vegs or no soy beans!! Bruh😂😂😂 if you didn't taste salt it probably is similar to a place in Belleville, Il that has NO MSG in their rice!!!
I'm was shocked to see you try Stl Foods. I like watching your channel to get ideas when I'm heading out town. 1 place you forgot was Johns on W Florissant.
I live in Chicago but I'm incredibly familiar with St Louis and Wentzville. There's only one Chinese restaurant that makes Saint Paul sandwiches in Chicago and no one understands how delicious that this is. Actually believe it's one of the cultural specifics of St Louis. Thank you for the thorough review¡!!!!!!!
Man I appreciate your vids and all the places that you're going..I wish our people were more inviting and welcoming. Where you can go anywhere without having to worry about safety. Food is definitely a universal soul satisfying language 💪🙏👈
Bro CT, when ya went to "Sun's" you missed yo Blessing, because Ya didn't get the "Fried-GIZZARDS" and if You didn't eat a "STL - TRIPE-Sandwhich", You Have-NOT Experienced "Da-REAL-STL"🤩!!!
Because a while back people who would be one of the first to comment would get recognized by the creator. Younger generations saw this and have just been copying it ever since, even after creators stopped responding
The fried egg is egg foo young and its very good if made right. Also dark soy sauce is used to make dishes darker and its not so much used for flavor even though the kind I have in my fridge is mushroom.
He is saying what other people call it here. He isn't calling it that. As many Chinese restaurants that are here, they know what people call it and don't have an issue. 😂
Yes, a st paul is supposed to have pickle, mayo, and lettuce. Adding sweet and sour is crazy, they are usually not seasoned but I've never even thought of having it seasoned. A duck st paul is nuts. You saved the best vess for last.
In St. Louis, if the rice aint dark, it's not going to hit! I like how you got the same items at each spot to make the comparison of each spot cohesive.
Yesss
@@Lissie122 that food is dogfood and y’all be thinking it’s hittting! 😂
Anything else is albino. St. Louis hit different. I’ll put money behind Hunan chop Suey, yet bun, and China king on south kings highway
Point blank period
Cohesiveness.
They use something called ‘browning sauce’ to make the rice dark… the St.Paul sandwich is actually an Egg Foo Young patty on bread 🍞
Was just about to say the same. Guess it is a regional thing to call it St. Paul. The Dmv recognizes this as egg foo young
I thought so, in Detroit
We call it a egg foo young, and it comes with rice and gravy
@@glammagurl572yea it’s like that in Texas too and it go crazy lol 😂
It's called egg foo young in St.Louis as well,it's a St.Paul in sandwich form
Yeah, I add grace's browning sauce to my chow mein noodles I make at home. Gives a nice color without adding hardly any sodium.
In Saint Louis ESPECIALLY with Chinese food, usually the more dangerous the area the spot is in, the better the food
Not true
True 💯
Yea like John’s right across from Kings !!! I don’t kno how he skipped that place!!
@@byronyoung1763 That is true
Facts 😂😂😂
I grew up in St Louis and I have been waiting for this video. If you left without trying our BEST ASSET, your assessment of our city would have been in question. It wouldn't have been a fair shot. The truth is this is the only food we claim to be great in. Our fried rice is unmatched! Salute for doing a great job. 🙏🏿
STL ❤
Definitely STL has theeee best chinese food in the country‼️‼️‼️💯💯
Lmao if y’all only can make rice can that’s terrible
calm down buddy dont get your panties ina bunch
I cook my own at home ( bought three Chinese cookbooks and a wok) healthyer. Only spend $ where I'm respected.
This St. Louis food tour has been fun for me...and I live here.
Chop Suey in STL is Top Tier! I'm not big on St Paul, but it's good too.
@@missyanndavenport3745 he didn't go to one "Black " spot that doesn't serve swine or filthy "shell fish". To me he's a savage who'll eat anything and complain for views, likes whatever y'all call it
@@byronyoung1763bruh stop yapping nobody cares
@@cedricspencer720 says the slaveass savage
@@cedricspencer720 ong
As a huge supporter of your channel and a St. Louis native, I thank you so much for doing this video. It was so enjoyable to watch and I cannot wait to see the results. Definitely rooting for STL BING LOU!!!!
My family runs several Asian restaurants. Dark fried rice ain’t really traditional to Chinese style as it’s supposed to be a light side dish that compliments the main course. They likely adapted this for their area to accommodate customers who eat fried rice as a main course.
This is more of a Thai style Fried Rice that uses dark mushroom soy sauces to give it that brown color while also adding an umami kick from fermented soybeans.
From the looks of it, they prep this dark fried rice in bulk then stir fry the ingredients first before adding it in (Notice the vegetables and meat ain’t dark).
man we dont care either come try it or shutup.
Exactly right our rice is cold pressed ingredients stirred in
@@NeonKue facts! They are eating low grade food.
@@NeonKue Great point and even better insight into why it's darker in color, at some places damn near black in color🤢. In classic St. Louis style, they're doctoring something to make it better when the overall product still ends up being mediocre cause it's still not authentic. Reminds me of 20 years ago, give or take, when you'd get a bag of greenery with the smell of oranges. To find out people were using orange peels on regular brick bud to make it appear fluffier like some kind bud. The appearance enhancement was on point. After a few puffs.... the reality of being played is more on your mind than the effects of the green😡
@@blaquestarr007 I mean, fact of the matter is most of these “Rice shops” and American Chinese food aint authentic any way. It’s like how Taco Bell ain’t authentic Mexican food. It’s catered to meet the tastebuds of Westerners who want fried foods loaded with salt and sugar mixed together. It’s obviously gonna be different from region to region based on the locals.
If you ever get a chance to try authentic Chinese food, it’s actually a variety of light and balanced dishes separated to complement the entire meal as a whole. You won’t find dark fried rice at their family meals unless they ain’t traditional lol
Luckily I can also understand your analogy of greenery as well lol As a former Greenery dealer, we definitely did that shit that make reggies fluffier and add weight for profit. Never judge a book by its cover, it’s all just flash and bang hustle for good first impressions. The greenery I was pushing back then was purple haze (almost moldy black looking) that would put the heaviest smoker on their ass 🤣
A "Call in for your safety" sign at the front door is wild af. That ish ain't normal.
Right. I live in New Orleans and have never seen that. 😭
In St. Louis. That’s very normal. Bro risked his life for every combination plate. But they be soooo good
Wtf is going on at that restaurant 😭 they blasting anybody out there
Yeah STL is very different.
That took me out
With St Louis rice you suppose to mixed the sweet and sour sauce, red pepper and the if needed the soy sauce and you will get that ultimate BOW BOW BOW!!
Calm down brudda
@@TheBakuganmaster99 fr 😂
Exactly how I eat mine!
Tell em!!
Facts 😂😂
PSA - on the East Side (IL) the place is called the Rice House.
On the StL side (MO) is called Chinaman
Growing up in E. St. Louis, I lived in an area called Park Side. We would walk to the Rice House, Kam Wah, a pork st paul with cheese, order of chicken wings, and a black cherry vess was my go-to meal.
@@clpearson71Damn, Black Cherry 💯…. Fyi 🔥
My coworker was from the Ill and me being from the Lou, I didn't like saying that c word. So, I adopted the Rice Term instead.
The orange rice house in Charlie park . Still hit 🔥🔥🔥
And 23rd and state st.
Vess Soda, thats a Midwest classic
Orange Whistle, tho
Yeah full of made men chemicals. Read the ingredients.
@@HirorYuGundy yep we know, that's why we don't drink it anymore, but we remember them days though. That's all we're speaking to.
@@HirorYuGundyonly live once. It tasted good!
That's some st Louis shit....we drink wildwood pop same as this vess
Ma man went to Bing Lau! That’s just a couple of blocks south of the Water Tower - that’s a “Get your food and bounce!” neighborhood! Well worth it too
Sure is lol
Haaaaaaaa 😅
No it's not.
STL in the building and proud of it. Thanks for being real. ❤️
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FACTS THOUGH 🤞🏾🫶🏾💪🏾💯💯💯
When that fruit punch hit though. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 SO STLOUIS!!!
Or Vess Peach.
What about that Pineapple
@hatchett999ify That's cool but it's gotta be that Vess grape!!! Hot dog, hamburger, rice, St Paul, that Vess grape set it off! Bologna sandwich! You name it!!! That Vess grape y"all! Before the chinaman start selling Vess we use to buy them at the corner store for 10 cents and get 2 cents when you take back the empty bottle! Call that the "deposit!" Y'all young'uns don't know nothing about that! LMAO!!!
@@speaknoevil957 youngin??? Bruh we got the Vess from ALDIs on the regular. 17 cents a can if I remember right. Go to the Wonder bread store on Wednesdays for the bread. You right about that grape though. I was a fruit punch fan. I grew up around the corner from Wohls.
The jail comparison is crazyy 😂😂😂
Took me out lol😂😂😂😂
That’s cause those Asian folk giving them a preview where ppl going to end up if they get rob lmao😂😂.
Thanks for giving STL another try...You nailed this review! When I moved to DC 35 years ago, I craved Good STL Hood Chinese food, good fried rice, Duck and noodles (still can't find any decent in DC) St.Pauls are the best...egg fu yung on white bread, mayo, pickles lettuce and onion, with extra bean sprouts. ONE spot in DC that makes them, AND good fried rice! Twin Dragon....just Like home!!! STL put Crab rangoon on erry body's fav list. DC needs St.Pauls and Duck broth with onions and noodles...thick slices of 5 spice fatty yummy duck.❤ no Vess but we have Rock Creek here.
I told y’all about 7 videos ago that that’s what St. Louis was know for 🗣️CHINESE FOOD (the best in the country as a matter of fact) and people wanted to argue like bro I use to live there, St. Louis isn’t known for BBQ despite what the food network shows told you, that KC……..I’m glad chime finally took my advice, A-1WOK was my personal favorite but I can vouch for yet bun too they solid……all you was missing is the cream soda Vess and you would have been official……salute tho
Waiting for him to come down here to KC!!
Facts i grew up by East saint louis and from what i remember it was never really known for bbq restaurant's its always been the Chinese food that damn imos and a bit of soul food
China wok off bayless has the best general tso chicken i ever had..
Get that bish “3 times spicy”
best in the country is crazy ima have to try it out
Bruh you’ve lost your damn mind if you think St. Louis has the best Chinese food in the country.
One thing I know being from St. Louis, if anything don’t hit, the fried rice and St Paul gone pop!!! And the Vess. And gotta keep ya head on a swivel also riding to the Chop Suey’s hrrrrrrrr! Good looking Mr ChimeTime! 👍🏾
I'm born and raised in stl I made of post a few weeks ago that he was going to the wrong areas ppl sent him😊 to the safe areas thats cool r what not but u have to go to the hoods for the best food especially south city
Thank god my guy finally tapped into real Saint Louis
It's the extra dark soy sauce that causes the darker rice, which has less sodium than regular soy sauce, but lots of umami flavor.
We finally got some love 😂
I love the Chinese food here. You should also try out St. Louis Kitchen, Harold's Chop Suey and Chinese Express
They killed Harold. His wife runs it now but it’s not the same
@ImLuckyNumber9 when did this happen?
@@Winnyfruits a minute ago. i moved out of state and when i came back i was asking my niece to take me and she told me what happened. said it was a robbery gone bad
Thank you for posting this video. Just a little history, Bing Lau's Chop Suey was probably the first Chop Suey's opened in the late 60's. If you ate at Bing Lau's , you sampled a little piece of history. I knew Bing Lau and moved out of St Louis back in 78. I was surprised to see the restaurant was still operating after all these years. Thank you for the Chop Suey tour. It brings back a lot of memories.
Bruh should've got the egg fo Yung gravy to the rice.
Or made it a Happy Box..rice, egg foo young patty and gravy. That shit hits.
Right. Egg Foo Yung without the gravy is just a St Paul
Yes my order from the Chinaman is Beef fried rice with a side of egg foo Ying gravy and extra been sprouts. Damn I'm going to have take a drive to the Lou for one rice😂
That's how I was introduced to city rice, and one of those chili powder packets.
@@anthonybrooks1559man listen he ain’t ready for that Happy Experience 😂😂😂
I am so glad u help put East St. Louis fried rice and St. Pauls on the map. I literally grew up in East St. Louis and their fried rice and St. Pauls absolute hit. Try the bbq Snout in East. St. Louis.
So, we just gonna ignore the alcoholic beverage on the floor in Yet Bun? 🤣
Nigga he on the block fr
I was looking for this comment someone was drinking a fifth waiting on they food😂😂😂
We call’em China Man in va. When the woman there she answers sayin hello China womon! I swear! 😂
Yet bun is the spot. Get you a black cherry Vess
Literally can’t get fried rice and a St. Paul from nowhere in the US over ESTL/STL 🔥🔥🔥 the peach Vess slap every time - Asian Gourmet downtown STL is also top tier if you want something on the safer side - but TYPICALLY, the worse it look outside/inside the better it is 😅
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can…
Chicago and New York for sure.
Y’all good out there tho
@@kevinmckay2483Chicago yes 🙌🏾 being that it’s Midwest, so it makes sense.
New York tho 🤔 I’d have to strongly disagree…certainly not when it comes to fried rice
Also Vess Soda Is A St. Louis thing !
fam! I've been drinking Vess since a yungin. I'm in my 50s and I'm out of KCMO. Now that Peach NeHi back in the day tho!
Thank you for showing st. Louis love
I'm giving you 👍🏿👍🏿just for going to Bing Lau or how we pronounce it, Bing Lou. If you not familiar with the area, you definitely were in the HOOD.
John's on West Florissant and Goodfellow is the best no questions needed
I approve this message!!!
He totally forgot thee best in the city!!!
Yes, Indeed
East St. Louis rice house for the win
Rice house open late! E Saint
I find it so entertaining to watch you eat. You make certain foods seem like the best on earth. 😂Thanks for posting. I will definitely keep watching.
They must he using Dark Soy Sauce on the rice. It's way less salty than regular(light) soy sauce and mostly used for color in Asian dishes.
Mushroom sauce
It's most likely either oyster or hoisin sauce
Can’t believe he went to the hood. That’s wassup. Right on chime
You should've tried Johns, been in St.louis over 40 years! Right across the street from Kings.
John’s not good no more
John’s has the BEST rice in St. Louis hands down!! Right across from kings !!!! He missed out John’s all day !!!!!!!! 🎉
ST LOUIS BEST FRIED RICE PERIOD
So glad you liked the Peach Vess. It's one of my personal favorites.
"They Cooked This Shit Right" 🤣🤣 "Taste It Craig" "Taste It" 😂
the your mom joke when he was talking about the bread caught me off guard lmao
I just realized the St Paul is an egg Foo Yung sandwich without gravy
Yes, but you need to try the sandwich. Doesn't need gravy. We have something else called a "Happy Box," has fried rice, egg foo young patty and the gravy. Good stuff!! 😊
@@anthonybrooks1559 omg that sounds amazing! Next time I come there I'm getting both.
It's too good
Vess peach is my favorite but so many flavors black cherry good too Vess. Try Ski and Excel bottling also.
So St Louis can't do BBQ but they be banging on the Chinese food? Cool 😎
We definitely don’t have better BBQ than the cities/states known for it but our Chinese food is top tier. I hear San Francisco apparently has good Chinese food too along with NY.
@@ThatsWhatSheSaid6227 I'm from NY. The Chinese food is hit or miss out here depending on the area. If you want authentic Chinese food in NY, you have to go into the Chinatowns throughout the 5 Boroughs (the Chinatown food in Flushing, Queens is my favorite). In the hood it is ether hit or miss, but one thing is different, in the hood Chinese Restaurants do not put peas, carrots & eggs in the fried rice, but in some other neighborhoods across the boroughs Chinese Restaurants do.
@@amazing50000 Honestly y'all always say you gotta go get the good "traditional" Chinese food and stuff but lemme tell you here that some provincial cuisine's traditional food is gonna send y'all running away. My dad's side eat Jiangsu cuisine which is best known for sweet and mildly salty and I don't mess with it the taste just irks my stomach. My mom's side eats Shaanxi cuisine which is more spicy soury and a lotta flour products I def mess with that but for a western taste profile I could bet y'all wouldn't like it. Most of them are just extremely average such as shandong cuisine as well as Guangdong cuisine. Just my opinion though.
I don’t know what they talking bout but we BBQ frfr u never had STL ribs 😂😂
You listened!!!!! " YET BUN SPECIAL NO PORK NO HAM SHRIMP BEEF CHICKEN, SAME ST.PAUL WITH PEACH VEST.! I SAID WHAT I SAID. #YETBUN #1 ALLLL DAY #STL #STLOUIS #STLFOOD #CHINAMAN #STPAUL #STLIN60SECONDS #ATLIN60SECONDS #JENNICESOMEGA #GENISESOMEGA
Thank you for explaining Chinese Restaurant
Mr.Chimetime keeps 10 dimes everytime... Having me rolling 😂
Seeing that hoods are the same across America tickles me lol
I love Northland! 🔥🔥 Grape vess
You forgot about Hunan chopsuey.
Chong wah in Ucity
I'm low key happy that im not the only one who despises soft vegetables mixed in with fried rice 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣
Stl pride ourselves on our Chinamen, idk where BBQ came from. Edit: We call it "Chinamen" cause you (most likely) buy it from men/women from China.
it’s actually a historically racist term lol
Nice
@@Sassafrassassassaman shut up
Get outta here @@Sassafrassassassa
You can't say that in every city 😂
Reminds me of the Chinese joint in North Philly where I grew up many years ago. My favorite was the Pepper steak with fried rice and an order of chicken wing.
7:58 shit got him turning into a t-rex
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Volume on max, scared the mess outta me too 🤣
Chime, it's probably Gravy Master. A 1/2 cap or a full cap will definitely brown the rice. A little goes a long way with the browning. Chicagoans love Egg Fu Young with their fried rice.
Jus so yall know, them last two spots is in EAST ST LOUIS ILLINOIS. We call it da rice house not no damn chinamen
It's the chinamen 😂 even in East Stl
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Okay cool well here in St. Louis we call it Chinamen
Which one is the rice house the first or second estl
@@mztrubea3933 the last two he tried
You missed a couple of the black owned spots. Gotta try them next time! So glad you came through. People outside of St Louis never understood what our fried rice was like until they tried it. The first time I went outside of the state and ordered fried rice I was perplexed cause the rice was light skinned with peas and carrots 😂 I never knew it was different until I left home.
“So long fried rice, hello fried chicken”!!!
Fried rice experience here for me is the nostalgia of calling everybody when I was putting in an order, especially if you were kickin it with family on a Friday or Saturday night. Who all want some rice? 😂 and families are loyal to a particular one or two locations. Hella guilty of if those options were closed, I’d wait til they opened bc I didn’t want to go anywhere else. lol. Didn’t wnna risk a place I wasn’t familiar with not being good and me being salty lol! Rice order be messed up and you be mad af. lol.
Not gone lie the Vess slaps more in a can. The bubbles be bubbling
I used to wish they put Pina colada in a can.
All drinks slaps better in a can.
Been yelling that to the world he should have got the can
Vess and Mistic best drinks in STL hands down ‼️💯💯💯
Thanks for visiting us 💯
It's about time you visited what my city is known for.. The best barbecue comes from people's houses😅😅😂😅😂😅
There are a lot of bbq places that have good rib tips, snoots, pork steaks, chicken and hot links. I don't buy rubs from them.
Pappy's and Bogart's ribs are good to me. Never tried Stellar Hog or Salt N Smoke. Sugar Fire's ribs are only OK to me.
You said that!!!
@@danap.7668 I live in Arizona my neighbor's pay me for plates every time I grill 😂
I’m glad someone said it! Very few bbq places come close to what comes off your own grill! I would have sent him to Ropers and that’s probably it.
@@michellegleason6647 Right! Ropers is the only place I like besides my family's backyard
Thank god for no peas and no carrots.. in New orleans, they dont do it either, and thsts how i grew up. Brown rice with flavor and whatever meats
The minute i saw how dark that fried rice was.. i knew it was gonna be it!!!! Chicago has some amazing fries rice too.
Mr. Chime'Nuh man. Had more Suey in one day. Than I've tried in all my life.
I'm from Norfolk, VA and we used to have fried rice like that and I miss it so much. At some point in the '90s all of the Chinese places started making this flavorless, yellow rice and called it fried rice and that's all you'll find now. I agree, fried rice with bean sprouts just tastes different (in a good way).
Finally he tried the best fried rice in America!
Cap.... Ny and Cali got you beat
Sun restaurant 15 years ago used to be best fried rice...and pot stickers around.....moved away....miss it
Bing Lau is great. Went there instead of Popeyes down the street because some guy bought all the chicken sandwiches and was scalping them and somebody got mad and stabbed the dude. General Tso hit hard. Rice was great.
Young's in East St Louis is the Best!!!!! That is accross the bridge on the East Side! We have good fried rice 100 miles away though! You can ask for no peas & carrots and say I want brown rice!!! You just say no vegs or no soy beans!! Bruh😂😂😂 if you didn't taste salt it probably is similar to a place in Belleville, Il that has NO MSG in their rice!!!
That's egg foo young on bread ask for gravy next time to dip it in.
Nah not with a St. Paul. It's not like eating the patty with rice and gravy. You have to try it.
I'm was shocked to see you try Stl Foods. I like watching your channel to get ideas when I'm heading out town. 1 place you forgot was Johns on W Florissant.
4:10 Ramdom liquor bottle on floor in corner, bet money thier are no stray cats in this neighborhood 😂😂😂
Bullshyt…I work around the corner and can confirm they not cooking the cats lbvs
They’re definitely eating SPCA meat in those spots.
Keyboard gangsta
Thanks for breaking it down for those that have no idea. Chinamen is everything in the Lou baby. The black cherry soda is the best by the way😊
We got good ones on the Southside and they're just as unsafe too!
I miss STL food. I moved to Maryland in 2020. I’m tired of the light fried rice with the peas and carrots.
Another inmate processing area here 😂😂😂😂Chime try some red hot riplets chips and a Shabazz bean pie 🥧
Yup! Greetings from stl.
You should of got some fried chicken gizzards from Suns
My mom just said that
I live in Chicago but I'm incredibly familiar with St Louis and Wentzville. There's only one Chinese restaurant that makes Saint Paul sandwiches in Chicago and no one understands how delicious that this is. Actually believe it's one of the cultural specifics of St Louis. Thank you for the thorough review¡!!!!!!!
Did you say “Chinamen”?😂
Yup
Yeah we say that 😂
Don’t get mad when we say other words then
I came here for this. Damn y'all! I moved to England where they call Chinese food "a Chinese" and I was like Nope. Chinamen? Yuck.
@@thesmokinsalmonthen… say it.
HOLD UP! " So you can talk to the magistrate" LMAO...ok, back to the vid
Bing Lau smack my guy every time
The thing about it is Bing Lou has been around for decades! I was 11years old going here and I'm in my 60s and it's still going strong.
And still in the same location.
Man I appreciate your vids and all the places that you're going..I wish our people were more inviting and welcoming. Where you can go anywhere without having to worry about safety. Food is definitely a universal soul satisfying language 💪🙏👈
#STL Yassssssssss this hood rice no peas and carrots EVER
STL the queen of Chinese food 😂.
You mean KING my dude.
That chicken fried rice sure is making me hungry...can taste it in my mouth! As they "looking good, looking good"!!! Yummy 😊
Bro CT, when ya went to "Sun's" you missed yo Blessing,
because Ya didn't get the "Fried-GIZZARDS" and if You didn't eat a "STL - TRIPE-Sandwhich", You Have-NOT Experienced "Da-REAL-STL"🤩!!!
St. Louis has the best fried rice hands down & St. Paul💯
genuine question, why do people say "First" like it means something?
No
Because a while back people who would be one of the first to comment would get recognized by the creator. Younger generations saw this and have just been copying it ever since, even after creators stopped responding
Because all of them are elementary and middle schoolers
They just want attention
Facts😂. The internet be weird sometimes
Wana try the peach. Already know the fruit punch is bussin
Every Chinese restaurant I have been in with no AC and the door open the food has been good.
The fried egg is egg foo young and its very good if made right. Also dark soy sauce is used to make dishes darker and its not so much used for flavor even though the kind I have in my fridge is mushroom.
Just ito inform you bro Asian people think Chinaman is a racist slur
He is saying what other people call it here. He isn't calling it that.
As many Chinese restaurants that are here, they know what people call it and don't have an issue. 😂
It's ChinaMEIN, NOT Chinamen
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You're making me miss home. I will take a trip soon just for the rice lol. Thanks for showing us some love❤
Never heard of ham in fried rice
Yep, I prefer the roasted pork though.
That's my order! A whole order of ham fried rice.
Yes, a st paul is supposed to have pickle, mayo, and lettuce. Adding sweet and sour is crazy, they are usually not seasoned but I've never even thought of having it seasoned. A duck st paul is nuts. You saved the best vess for last.
I live in St. Louis born and raised and nobody fried rice in the country is better than ours