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Everyone's expecting it to be and more. Hey everyone, hope you're having an amazing day! It's Mark Wiens and it's a beautiful morning in Sydney Australia So Today we're going to be focusing on eating some of the greatest, some of the iconic legendary Cheap Eats of Sydney. We're beginning this Cheap Eats tour in Merrickville and it's a little ways outside of the center of Sydney. There's a big Vietnamese population here, so the first place we're going is the original, one of the most iconic Bun Me Sandwiches pork Rolls in all of Sydney And it used to be in this little tiny closet sized shop right here.

but then I think uh, they expanded to the next door location. so now there's still a Juice Shop here. But the Pork Roll sandwich is next door. the original with everything.

Pork roll. Yes. chili original with chili and crispy pork as well. Does it come with Oh okay okay, maybe we can do two.

Then one is the pork roll and then one is the crispy pork. Okay, okay, thank you very much. How long have you been open here for 13 years? 13 years? And was it originally? yeah, next door it was originally next door. Okay, but now juices is there and now you've moved here.

So the original: Merrickville Pork Roll: This place is so iconic and Sydney I mean they're known for bun me? Bun Me is so popular. People have just huge followings for banmi and this place is one of the places that started it all with the pork roll. They actually they're really nice here. and then I decided to order two different versions.

One is the original pork roll which comes with all the Vietnamese ham and all of the different cold cuts uh deli meats and then another one which is the crispy pork roll which is more of a crispy pork belly which goes into the roll. But one of the incredible things here is just this. They have this mountain of fresh herbs and vegetables and a small mountain of Pate But there's coriander, there's onions, there's pickled carrots, there's mixed vegetables. It's an impressive display of all the toppings and ingredients.

And I think one of the great things is they're so generous with the ingredients, they just pile things into your roll. Okay, all right, thank you very much. Here we go, let's try. let's see what we get first.

Wow, that's heavy that's fully fully packed. or or it's it's huge. I think we're starting with the pork roll. The original bread is so crispy and then it's big, but you can tell it's light at the same time.

There's chilies, all the pickled vegetables, the carrots, the radish, the green onions, the coriander, and there's a variety of porks and Vietnamese hams onions in there. Um oh it's so good. it's so there's so many toppings, so many things going on in there. Oh nice chili in there.

You got the freshness of the Cucumber the carrots, you got that pickle flavor and then the the combination. The bread is extremely crispy but so light and Airy and puffy all at the same time. and then that combination of the Pate the mayonnaise just makes the perfect moisture layer that just keeps it so juicy all the way through. I'm gonna move I mean I've had the amazing Bun Me in Saigon which are similar to this but this is a little bit of the the owners their own style.

I mean taking on that but then the way they make it and that mountain of vegetables. oh this is just a like absolute classic. Delicious. No wonder it's so highly rated.

Why so many people love it? Dedicated to the Pork roll here at: Merrickville Now we need to try the crispy. Fork Come back up, let's do a switch. Thank you! So Mike has been Michael's been already enjoying the Crispy Pork Crispy Pork Belly roll. Oh look at the insides of that.

so it has crispy pork belly loaded in there. There's also the pate and mayonnaise mixture plus all the vegetables. Put some chilies in there. Huge slices of cucumber some Pac-Man Mariners on my okay we're definitely going to have a pate mustache when you eat this.

but um you have the Smoky roasted flavor of the pork belly, a little bit of the crispy edges and then all of the refreshing herbs as well. I Love the Cucumbers thick cut and huge. One slice of cucumber fills the entire roll. A little bit of chili in there.

You've got the the acidity of the pickles which contrasts the richness of the pork belly, then all wrapped up in that crispy roll. Delicious! You can't go wrong. a bun me like this. a sandwich.

Okay so it's like if you come here here even if you're not hungry like you'll still eat the whole thing and it will go down so easily. it's like deceivingly light and fluffy yet fulfilling. We're off to a great start that was extremely tasty. We're moving on to the next Cheap Eat.

next up on this cheap Eats tour of Sydney. We're in an area that's called Asheville and we're on our way to a kebab shop to eat something that is extremely iconic. Uh, this is one of the the things I was most looking forward to eating in this entire food tour and the Kebab shops should be somewhere somewhere just down the road. Welcome to Metro One Kebab shop.

And we are here to eat something called the Halal snack Pack or HSP for short. Oh so that hot meat melts the cheese based on Turkish Cuisine but it's kind of a thing that was started right here in Sydney It's an Australian it's a like iconic takeout staple of Australia and especially in Sydney And so she starts with fries, chips that are fried and that makes the base you can choose. Oh one more thing is that you can choose from like eight different sizes all the way from kids size to regular to large to nine inch to 11 inch, 13 inch 15 inch pizza box, an entire pizza box of a Halal Snack Pack I Went with the the large size which is one of the classic sizes uh but they start with a base of french fries, then I got the mix of meat so a mix of chicken as well as beef uh which. he then griddle fries that goes over the fries and then on top three different sauces.

the garlic sauce, the barbecue sauce, the chili sauce. all that is heavy thank you very much thank you Hot, warm, gooey Saucy it's so heavy. Oh I forgot about the cheese. there's cheese melted.

Oh there's so much going on. Oh fully loaded the cheese? um oh oh wow yes oh that got everything I was expecting it to be and more. those hot freshly cooked crispy fries. The cheese, the layer of cheese which I had totally forgotten about just melted on top the meat on the spit, then griddle fried, then draped all the Kebab Meats and then all of those sweet and sour and slightly spicy sauces.

the garlic chili sauce, the barbecue sauce, oh man, that's tasty. One of the great things is that they cook it all hot and fresh. So much meat on top of it, so much cheese, so much sauces, it's moist, it's gooey. as we continue to eat this.

I Do want to tell you a little bit of a story of how this was invented and how it became so popular here in Australia because there are I mean around the world I think there are variations that are similar to this but also a little bit different from what I'm reading a little bit about their history. it can be traced back to the 1980s and you know it has origins in Turkish food With the Middle Eastern Community in Sydney that began I mean adapting to the local culture, adapting also to the European influence in Sydney to come up with this dish. But as the story goes, it wasn't until about 2015. There was a there was actually a Facebook group here in Sydney called the Halal Snack Appreciation Society that began talking and creating a buzz around Halal snack packs reviewing Halal snack packs uh, rating them really bringing cultures together through this dish.

I Think through the Facebook group through the the talking about Halal snack packs, it led one of the the Australian Senators Sam Dastyari was in the Australian Parliament to hold the debate about Halal certification and halal food and that's what's what's Also created a buzz and created a more of an awareness about Halal food in Sydney and the Halal snack packs. So here we are today. It is a staple. an iconic dish, something that you absolutely have to try when you come to Sydney the better it gets.

The fries get a little soggier, saturated with the meat, juice and sauces and the cheese oil. Thank you very much thank you thank you very much. Nice to meet you. Also Hsps would be available at any basically any Kebab shop throughout Sydney that you can find like the place that we went to is called Metro One Kebab Highly recommended when I was doing research about the best.

HSP in Sydney Uh, this consistently ranked as one of the best with a lot of loyal fans customers and now I can see why. Huge portion sizes, good quality ingredients, really friendly service. it was outstanding and that entire box cost 20 dollars so but it's huge and she did put two forks in it so I think it could be considered for two people. it's a it's a sharing Snack Pack I Would highly recommend it.

Okay, we're moving on. We've got a lot more food to eat. Thank you! Next up. We took the train out to an area of town that's called Granville.

It was about a 30 minute train ride out of town into the suburbs of Sydney and I wanted to especially come the restaurant that we're going to. They have a few locations around town now, but I especially wanted to come out here because I believe this is where the original location is welcome to. El Jannah This restaurant is an institution in city started back in 1998, but they have multiple locations across town now and it's a Lebanese Australian Charcoal Roasted Chicken is what you come here for. although they have Fried Chicken on their menu too.

I You know I believe it's developed, it's changed. It's almost run like a fast food restaurant now where you get of all your food at the front and they have some seeding. A lot of takeaway orders, but uh, you walk in here you can immediately smell the aroma of that charcoal chicken. Warning: you may eat more chicken than planned.

That's perfectly normal. Okay so we're getting an exclusive look in the grill room here at: El Jannah It's an amazing I mean they have capacity to do how many chickens could you do at once here in one cheese week before? Four chickens per sheet? Yeah, it's busy, especially during weekends. Old school all full. Yeah! Oh look at that action spring when the Fire gets too hot and that's incredible.

But there's three car sized grills going down. It's just a fiery furnace. just the coals are so hot and then the they have an automatic rotisserie on a Little Engine That continuously spins them so that's how they get that incredible Char on the skin, the smokiness, the fat drips down and the smoke comes up and just embeds into the meat. Wow what a What a grill room! Oh fresh chickens? Okay oh man, it was an honor to spend some time back here in the pits of El.

Jannah They wrote the roasting chicken is unbelievable. That's a fresh batch. They're ready to be served. and so when you eat here I mean you're just guaranteed hot fresh charcoal roasted chicken.

Thank you very much thank you very much thank you! Yeah, that charcoal chicken smells so good and it's so cool that this place aljana is a fast food restaurant. but it's a it's its own homegrown restaurant right here out of Sydney Lebanese in ethnicity and origin, but then truly developed right here in Sydney Australia That chicken looks incredible. Oopsie spilled the fries and the fries. I Believe come with uh, their own chicken salt as well.

We got pickles. We've got the garlic sauce. We got bread underneath it. Oh yes, look at that chicken.

Look at that skin. It's so bubbly and puffy and crispy. Okay. I got half a chicken.

So I got the breast and the thigh drumstick in one side. Oh oh, should we just tear this open? It's so crispy. Oh I bet it's so juicy and hot on the center. Let's just bite into it.

Okay, oh wow, that's tasty. You immediately taste the flavor of the charcoal, the smoke in the chicken. the skin is so crispy, it's almost the crispiness of it being deep fried. It's actually because you have the fat reacting to that hot charcoal.

I Think he taste a little bit of that chicken salt that maybe has been sprinkled well on the fries for sure. Maybe a little bit on the chicken as well. or did that happen when I spilled the fries? But anyway, it's just like a really clean, smoky chicken with crispy skin and with the meat leaving the meat really moist. Pickles: I've heard a lot of good things about the the garlic sauce.

and then let's tear in for a for a piece of bread. Let's try that garlic sauce. and I do remember being in Lebanon and eating the roast chicken. It always has to be eaten with garlic sauce and some of the greatest garlic sauce you'll ever eat in your life.

Oh with that garlic sauce. Oh man, that's creamy, so rich, so fluffy and creamy and dense actually. And then immediately you taste that garlicky. Aroma While that's good with the roasted Smoky chicken.

next up, let's try it with with bread. Try that chicken breast. Break off, break off a piece. so moist and juicy in the center, Add on some of these bright pickles, squeeze on a little bit of that garlic sauce.

Oh, it's so thick. It's so thick a piece of chicken got stuck in it from my last dip. Again, the smokiness of the cooking, the richness of that garlic sauce and then I like it with the pickles, the acidity to just contrast to break down the richness of that sauce, all of the flavors complementing together. Excellent! Okay and now we do have the fridge which are coated.

you can. If you look closely you can see the fries are sprinkled with a special seasoning which I believe is a chicken Salt which is quite famous here as well. Oh yeah, immediately it tastes like a combination of salt. Plus Dry Chicken powder seasoning coating the fries, giving them a little bit of extra flavor to add to the full chicken Grilled chicken experience.

Charcoal chicken experience. Oh even the chicken breast is nice and juicy. Maybe dip it into the garlic sauce, then into into bread and then add pickles and actually to make it even take it to the next level. you could definitely add some fries as well.

Um yeah, that's just I mean I think one of the reasons it's so popular is it's just a meal. everybody can enjoy everybody in the family. It's laid back, it's fast, it's fresh, it's tasty. I Already did mention they have a number of locations around Sydney maybe even Australia and they have some that are closer to town within the central business district.

but I just have this thing, especially when I travel I Love to go to the original location I mean even though the locations I'm sure they all pretty much have the same exact food. Maybe the same taste for me? Somehow coming to the original location gives it more meaning and more history and then maybe the taste even is the best. Thank you very much So welcome to Central Sydney We're right in the CBD as they call it that Central business district at Town Hall and this is the I mean the center of business and this is where the heart of Sydney is. We are on our way to an area which is called Haymarket which is known for its Asian population and its abundance of delicious Asian restaurants which is uh should be right up ahead and we're going to be at the next restaurant.

Oh I can smell the noodles I can smell the dumplings. We're at the next place. Yeah so welcome to Chinatown Noodle Restaurant! This place is so iconic and even as I was standing outside on the sidewalk for a little bit I met a few local people who said this is their favorite place for noodles in Sydney I Love how the menu here is giant red on the wall you could just see everything they have clear printed on the wall. This place is called Chinatown Noodle Restaurant They're known for their noodles and their dumplings.

oh she is the noodle. She was the noodle Master he'd be in the kitchen. We're gonna see them as they make the hand pulled stretch the noodles. Um, and they have the noodles in a coil already and then she just like stretches it out with her fingers into a couple of different uh, strands.

But they're like very strategic and now she's gonna, she's gonna hand pull them. We're gonna see the process before they then get fried into the stir-fried noodles. For those noodles, she just slaps them out on the table just releasing all of the air bubbles and just stretching them out. Then they go directly into a bubbling walk and they say they're gonna boil for about five minutes.

Foreign? Okay, that batch of noodles is ready. Foreign. Thank you very much. Very good Butter donut.

Okay, that's the eggplant. Okay, Cheers. Thank you very much. Okay, let's start with those noodles.

fresh out of the wok. Oh man. they're thick, They're hearty, They're boiled and then stir-fried That sauce, chicken, bell peppers in there. Wow.

oh man. I Love these all noodles already. but they really slide in the Chopsticks okay and you can actually hear them in the kitchen. They're slapping out the noodles fresh, they boil and then stir fry.

Oh wow, oh that's so good. Oh man, the doughy gooeyness of the noodles, the texture, the thickness, the hardiness. and then stir-fried and extremely hot oil. so they have that smokiness, that breath of the walk to them with the seared soy sauce.

So fragrant that's so good. Um oh wow, that's everything I thought it was going to be delicious I Will stick some of this onto my my plate though. and then I will season with some chili oil. Oh yes, bump up that chili.

Oh yes, Oh wow. put the extra chili oil. that texture that flavor is incredible. Okay Braised eggplant.

Oh huge pieces of eggplant. braised. let's just fall apart. It looks like they're melting.

Oh look, if you squeeze all the eggplants literally just just melting and it's melting in my Chopsticks it's falling apart. Oh that's hot. Wow! You should not put an entire piece of eggplant in your mouth at once in farm. Dutch Eggplant on fire.

Um but it literally just melts in your mouth but it's crispy on the edges and then the inside is so gooey with disintegrate and then it's a little bit sweet. so it's that Sugar that's just been caramelized that is really soft and tender and really tasty. Oh man, more chili oil to my bowl and then some vinegar and the hot fresh steamed dumplings or boiled dumplings have arrived. Give this a nice bath and chili, chili and vinegar.

Here's our hearty dumplings: Chives pork Thick, meaty, doughy wrappers that are so like warming. Oh that's fully loaded that's so tasty. and then have some tea and then the final dish we got is dumplings and chili oil. This is a different kind of dumpling and then in that chili oil soup.

So I think we better? Maybe we should take a bite of The Dumpling with the Chopsticks and then Chase with some of that chili oil broth. Oh or hot. Oh yes, it was just like hot oil just squirted out into my mouth. Oh that was incredible.

They're so juicy, they've just absorbed, become saturated with that chili oil. Oh, and I want to taste that broth so bad? Oh, boiling chili oil vinegar in there coriander Sichuan Pepper immediately. a little bit numbing, but it's more of that citrusy fragrance that's so good. Oh, and it's a totally different wrapper from the The Boiled dumplings.

The Boiled Dumplings is more of a doughy wrapper and this is more of a silky one ton wrapper. Both extraordinary. Everything here is good. A few things in the world are as satisfying as a player played a home homemade stir fried noodles like that.

Man, it's Shogun Um, you can taste the handmade quality of the freshness and that is really what stands out as well. Oh what a meal. And these are not like little portions. These are Big portions.

These are filling. Hearty warming. Northern Chinese Food: We got this business over 20 years already. Over 20 years.

And you did you say how many generations you are? The third third generation. Oh okay. but we have the similar, uh, the store in China Oh okay. so you have two restaurants.

What's the other five? oh five. Right now it's the same name under the same name. Oh okay. okay and how where where is is it? Mostly northern northern? Chinese or where does your family come from? Okay, okay oh great.

The food is amazing! Thank you very much thank you! Oh that was extraordinary and the owner here is so nice. Such a nice guy! The staff are really friendly as well. Again, I Didn't even have plans I mean to to film here in the kitchen but they were just so gracious to allow me in the kitchen to see the process and making the noodles fresh. So friendly! Highly recommended! That was wow that was so good.

so hearty! Oh okay, we have one more place to go to on this cheap Eats Ultimate Food tour of Sydney Next up we are in Paddington and we're going to a place uh it's called Indian Home Diner they specialize in cut it Bobs I Know they have chicken tikka but they're really are popular for their wraps with different sauces Indian sauces. Welcome to Indian Home Diner Really nice cozy place I Love how they have everything here ready at the front. They have all the different curries ready that you could choose from. they have none available.

They have samosas and they have chicken tikka. Now you could get a variety of different curries, but one of the most popular things to do on the menu is to choose your own Kebab which they have some of the classic mixtures with chicken tikka which is wrapped into a really puffy naan. Then you get your choice of different curry sauce which then goes on and then you can wrap it up I I Immediately had to go for the double Tikka Indian Kebab So that's double the amount of chicken tikka and what she does is she grabs one of the puffy nuns, adds on some of that curry sauce, and then takes the chicken tikka and then just kind of like mashes it into the nun. Then you get a choice of either a potato fried potato Fritter or a fried onion Fritter in that just smashed down into the chicken and then you get mint sauce all over it.

Great concept! I Mean like a roll fully loaded? Oh it smells so good. All right and there it is. cool. Thank you very much, thank you very much.

Oh it's aluminum lined to keep it nice and hot and then wrapped again. Got the double. Whoa! I don't think I want to unwrap it all the way though. Oh it's fully loaded.

Got the double chicken tikka, all of that vindaloo sauce, the mint sauce. oh man, fully loaded. oh that's warm and thick and okay. can't wait to try this.

Um oh yeah oh that is tasty and my favorite move is how they how they make it. they cut, no knives are used, they use the the tongs to just slice the chicken and the bajria with the sauce and then they roll it up, wrap it up, they stuff it with the tongue still inside of your non-wrap and then they bag it up and then pull out the Tong's last to hold it together. What a move! Um oh you can taste the cumin seed. it's just warm, it's hearty that is delicious on that bite.

I got a big piece of that. It's onion bhajia, crispy until it's a batter. There's the onions you know I think it might have been really good with a potato cutlet but I mean I don't think it can go wrong actually. the vindaloo sauce which they said is very spicy.

a little bit spicy but it is flavorful and again a little bit of a cumin seed flavor and turmeric flavor to it. I think the only thing is the shot starts to absorb so it'll be I Mean it'll be a little extra but to have a little bit of sauce on the side the vindaloo sauce to then just drizzle on top as you take bites that would take it to the next level. Chicken Tikka really tender Smoky This is extremely satisfying, flavorful and everything wrapped up into the naan so it's easy to eat dollar Church And then one thing I wanted to mention about the price: I got I think it was 15 I got the double Tico so that was two times the amount of chicken tikka. but I mean I'm I wanted it to be full and blooming but you can also just get the classic the normal one Tikka which is 11 I believe I'll have all five of the places that we went to on the Sydney cheap each tour in the description box below you can check them all out.

People have been so friendly and it really was a such a mixture and also showing the the diversity the amazing ethnic diversity that makes up Sydney delicious cheap eats in Sydney and I Want to say a huge thank you to you for watching this video. Please remember to give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. Leave a comment below I'd love to hear from you and if you're not already subscribed, make sure you subscribe now for lots more food and travel videos. Goodbye from Sydney and I will see you on the next video.