Eating WEST INDIAN FOOD in LITTLE GUYANA!! Queens, NYC
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New York City is arguably the largest and most diverse cultural melting pot on the planet. The cuisines of over 100 countries around the world are represented in its restaurants. So when I got the opportunity to go on a food tour of the Little Guyana neighborhood, I jumped at the chance! Come with me as I go on a Guyanese food tour of Little Guyana in Queens, NYC!
Our journey began on Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard. Liberty Avenue is the mecca for Indo-Caribbean cuisine in New York. Shiva is Trinidadian and took me to have the ultimate Trinidadian breakfast at Tropical Jade 3.
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I could see shrimp, goat, duck, rotis, and more there. It’s a diner-style restaurant with a long buffet where they serve you. We ordered the doubles (thin, stuffed flatbreads), roti, buss-up shot, dal puri, bake & saltfish (fried pastry stuffed with salt fish), curry shrimp, and stew pork.
My Sorrel soda tasted a little like cranberries and Shiva’s banana soda tasted exactly like bananas! First, we jumped on the doubles, which were doughy and contain chickpeas and chutneys. They were very spicy! I loved them with the spicy hot sauce!
Next was the baked & saltfish. It contained bacalao, or codfish and was a little fluffier and had more texture than the bread in the doubles. The spicy sauce took it to another level! The stew pork was chunky, fall-apart tender, and went great with the roti.
The large roti with the curry shrimp was excellent and was more of a light, stew-like curry. I also liked the potatoes in the dal puri. But the curry shrimp gravy was out of this world!
Back outside were displays of fruit and vegetables outside a supermarket. We walked past nail salons, sari shops, Pooja shops, fruit vendors, and more shops selling cultural items. I could hear Hindi music coming from a lot of them. We stopped inside a sari shop called Henna Fashion Inc. Everything there was beautiful!
From there, we continued on an stopped at a coconut vendor outside. He cut the top off so I could drink the water inside. It was super refreshing! Then, he cut it open so we could eat the cool, filling meat inside! It took me right back to Asia!
At Anita’s Fashion Pooja Center, we saw statues of Hindu gods as well as Indian bridal gowns and other clothing. Then, on 123rd and Liberty, we headed to Avenue BBQ Hut. In the kitchen, they made us some BBQ lamb and BBQ chicken platters with barbecue sauce and garlic sauce over a bed of fries.
The BBQ lamb was delicious and high-quality. I loved the barbecue sauce and the fries underneath. It was my first time having barbecued lamb and it blew my mind! I couldn’t get enough of it!
We followed that with some sparkling apple juice and then jumped on the chicken. It fell right off the bone. One of my favorite Caribbean chicken dishes ever!
Then, we headed past bakeries, shops, and more to Fiwi Foods, a food truck on 124th and Liberty selling jerk chicken, jerk pork, oxtails, curry goat, and more. But we were heading to Little Guyana Bake Shop. Shiva even gave me a Backyard Republik gift bag!
We made a quick stop inside Singh’s Roti Shop & Bar, a famous roti shop with a huge menu. Everything looked amazing! We tried a crisp Carib lager and quickly checked out Sybil’s Bakery & Restaurant.
At Nest Restaurant, we got che chi kai chicken, two types of wontons, fried chicken with rice, and more. The che chi kai chicken was light and crispy, and the jerk chicken wontons were great. I also loved the Chinese chicken fried rice. The blueberry & cream cheese wontons were so unique!
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David, thank you for presenting some dishes from Guyana and Trinidad & Jamaica 🇬🇾🇯🇲🇸🇷🇹🇹❤🖤💚💛 Big ups for doing this.
Exactly considering we are all Carribeans
Also representing Suriname 🤩😍😋😋
Yees.
So happy to see our Caribbean food & Culture being showcased. Your guide is very knowledgeable. Keep up the awesome work David!
Thanks for showcasing the West Indian culture & food in Queens! Felt like I was there again. Your guide definitely knows all the good spots👍Keep up the awesome work!
Yes thank you! When we collaborating?
Please collaborate, as trini I would love that
TRINI & GT TO DE BONE!!!
David it’s Ravi who also hooked u up with backyard mas DJ Shiva. When back in ny and wanna do another round holla
@@yuhvibez u don't know my spot is wat better tamreine sauce is like half of a cup .
Great to see my trini food heritage showcased. Although I didn't understand why it was just showcased as indian food culture. We are a happy blend of Indian, African and Amerindian.
As well as European, Lebanese, and Chinese!
@@gk891 and Venezuelan 🥰
@@SexyBeautifulBabe Oh yes, mustn't forget about the Venezuelan influences in Trinidad whether it be in their food or in their music (parang is one of my favourite genres of music).
@BlikzMusic Indian snd chinese
Agreed! I think David is a bit uninformed and a little uneducated on the topic.. and in other videos it's highly cringe the way he pronounces "barra" .. like I wanna slap him lol
OMG David!!! I'm Guyanese, from NYC. I wanted to recommend this to you, but you beat me to it. Now we need you to visit Guyana!!! Do it! Do it!
NYC GT🇬🇾💃🏾
The legend of how "doubles" got that name is this: it's originally a street food brought over by Indian indentured labourers and was originally called "bara" (the fried dough shells) consisting of only one bara and topped with channa (chickpeas). Then one day a buyer at a popular seller asked for a "double" or two baras with the channa instead of one. This caught on and eventually everyone was asking for a "double" and the dish eventually became referred to to as "doubles". Many different sauces and chutneys (condiments/salsas) have been added over time from tamarind, mango, cucumber, coconut, pommecythere (juneplum/golden apple/ambarella), moolai (white radish), chilis etc. It's traditionally sold from a box attached to the front cart of a bicycle.
Interesting thanks. still waiting to try doubles .
David, it’s a Ro-Teeee, not a roadie….😂😂😂 loving the Guyana tour!
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Like… he’s so nice and positive… but if a coworker ever said “row dee” I’d call HR
@@Kjaja07 🤣🤣🤣
🤦🏾♀️he’s hurting my head
Mon for di roadie
Liberty Ave aka Little Guyana is an homage to the entire West Indian community. We are so grateful for the privilege of having that community available to us. We are able to get all of our respective cultural ingredients, "home style" foods and Caribbean supplies. Our food and culture is a testament to the amazing diversity of the Caribbean. It's a wonderful blend of people from every race and creed. Thank you for showcasing this facet of NY during your tour. We appreciate it😊❤🙏
Please tell him this!!!
So that’s mean you guys are INDO-CARIBBEAN!!
@@Masha-kd2im indo caribbeans are West Indian too ? He didn’t say that indo caribbeans entail the entire West Indies he just mentioned that they are West Indian too
Sounds like Indians are not liking this video....😄😂🤣😅😄😂🤣😅
@@vk-s I’m Malaysian Indian not Indian from India, indo Caribbean the ones who did this to themselves
I remember walking around little guyana feeling like I was in a different country! Loved it!!
Me too!
This was a wonderful showcase of West Indian culture but the guide was mistaken in his explanation of the differences between West Indian and East Indian….these terms are derivatives of the colonial period West Indies and East Indies when India and Pakistan, and parts of the Caribbean were colonies of the British Empire. Two trading companies were established to manage the colonies The West Indian Trading Company and the East Indian Trading Companies. The territories over times were referred to as the West Indies and East Indies….the term West Indian was originally assigned to the native aboriginal people of the Caribbean and South America that lived in the British colonies, but overtime came to refer to anyone of any racial or ethnic background that was born in the West Indies not only the descendants of indentured laborers.
Thank you for your explanation
Thank you. Columbus was searching for a route to go east and ended up west in the Caribbean so he called the indigenous people "west Indians"
He didn't mention the African contribution to Trini food
@ Deon Gibson
Just want to point out that the term West Indian has nothing to do with Indians in Caribbean.
For some bizarre reason the younger generation of black folks think so.
Everyone before knew that it mean everyone according to who immigrated there because of the the term British West Indies.
Indians know that it doesn't mean just them, but strangely younger black people think that's what it means and they are offended by the term.
First of all he never called they are West Indies by root. He said his ancestors came to caribbean from India as indenture labour and finally they established in caribbean and didn't return.
By the way there was no such term or country named as Pakistan by that time when people from India reached at Caribbean. Correct it if you don't know at all.
We Indian know Columbus expedition to India by travelling west to east to reach in India. He thought world is round , so he needs to travel towards west to reach east in India. By travelling west from Spain the land he reached he called as this is India. That's how the America and caribbean called as west India or the native people there called by European as Indian. This is how it got the name West Indies.
I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in different countries. Love from Korea🇰🇷💕
Wow thank you for this video showing all of the great food from the Caribbean / I AM FROM TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO so this warms my heart - miss all this good foods lol
For the real Guyanese experience you gotta try our national dish, served on Christmas morning..Pepperpot!! With fresh baked bread. Yum! Loved this food tour!
Probably should’ve went to Sybils for that
I miss my pepperpot and baked bread
@@ArthurKillingsworthJr I was gonna say the same thing...I thought they was gonna actually get something from Sybil's...he could have let him try the pepperpot with bread and the local Guyanese pastries...the guide is from Trinidad so he must really don't know our national dish...all he introduced the guy too was Indian and Chinese food ...anytime an Indian person introduces Guyanese foods they always just introduce curry and roti...forgetting that curry is Indian food and not true Guyanese food
@@stagg2158 "Guyanese food" includes Indian food... Taken from your perspective, "America food" would be just BBQ, and not the melting pot that is it's true heritage.
@@todaysrules6730 never said that it wasn't.....let me repeat Guyanese food is not just Indian and Chinese food all I am sayingis that the national dish was not shown...Guyana does have a national dish and it is not roti and curry but I do like roti and curry...and don't tell foolishness about America and barbecue because barbecue is done all over the world
Love the video, but the West Indies are called that because Europeans wanted to differentiate it from the East Indies (because I guess all the places they colonized were "Indies" to them). Actual Indians from India didn't start arriving to the West Indies until the early 1800s, long after it was named that.
Late 1800. France was the first to abolish slavery, thans to the Haitians. Spain then England followed. France recaptured Haiti later on and eventually freed her in the early 1900's.
David. Thank you repping Little Guyana. As a Guyanese, I am a little disappointed that you went to only Trinidadian restaurants with a Trinidadian tour guide. You need to check out some of the Guyanese restaurants in Little Guyana 🇬🇾 🇬🇾.
@Tyran Basil Did u watch the video properly ? He went to tropical jade which is Guyanese. He went to Sybil’s and Nest.
@@randysingh6548 I was responding to Tyrant’s post.
He went mostly to Guyanese restaurants..
Tropical Jade and Singhs are both Trinidadian, not Guyanese
Guyanese food is very limited and the curry is not very good. Their Chinese food is good though. But Trinis have more of a variety when it comes to food.
Definitely checking out Little Guyana 🇬🇾 next time I’m in NY
The part in which David’s companion mentions about the combination involving coconut flesh with brown sugar reminded me of my childhood days; the heavenly combination we used to wait for while growing up back in Kerala(Southern India).
Popular with kids in Trinidad. Or with a drizzle of sweetened condensed milk
Finally you made your way to some west Indian food 😋 1 of the best foods ever!!
Visit Guyana. We have more than 300 Waterfalls and the Land of Many Waters. Many Cultures
Wow that’s awesome, you went to all our favorite spots when in New York bro, nice really enjoyed this, thanks for showing, can’t wait to visit, take care and happy holidays my brother
David's the go to channel for food videos, every time I eat dinner i have to watch you. That bbq chicken and lamb has me dyin man I wanna go to NYC just to try it out
This was great David..and your foodie guide is very good at his recommendations. Your father would have been so happy😄
Nice to see Jamaican Food in the mix🇯🇲 all the foods you tried looks so delicious.
That's my neighborhood. I'm 🇬🇾. Glad to see that you enjoyed the food.
Broo r u indian
Oh what a lovely Restaurant plus they can also cook! Cheers and Good luck with more videos!👋👍💥🤩🥳🏋️🤼⚓🥂🐣🐥🐠🐓🦋🐌🏞️🥬🗣️🧞🕴️🌴🦜🦐🥩🌈⛈️🏖️🔨🌛
Boom! Nice finally you get to enjoy our side of tings 🇹🇹 🙌🏾
David I am so amazed that you enjoy the Guyanese spices, 2 of the restaurants you visited is my cousin's restaurants which makes me feel so happy, Little Guyana and Singh's
Its so good! I had an incredible trip in Guyana and I absolutely plan to visit another Guyanese Restaurant in the US when I get a chance. Sending you and your cousin best wishes and hoping business is going well at Little Guyana and Singhs too. Thank you Lolita!
That’s great you showcase Caribbean food and culture in NYC cheers from Orlando
The Trini guy took him to little Guyana.🤣
I'm Trinidadian and I love how you showcase our food have been waiting for this.....will like to some day see a colaboration with taste of trini and cooking with Natasha
Just subscribed to your channel cause of this video! big up the west indian community, thank you! I could go for some Jade doubles right about now!
Wow the food looks amazing!! The co host was super cool too!!
Thanks for bringing me in New York because I'm here in Philippines.. the videos amazing.. foods is very Delicious ilovettt
Worlds most dangerous drinking game, take a shot every time David says 'right'
Lol..Yes!
I know! Right??!
Right
Right brother
That’s Home for me!!!!! He was is the heart of Queens in West Indian scene. Wow!!! Liberty Ave and Lefferts Blvd is home
I"m from Guyana and I enjoyed this.
Fellas thanks for opening my eyes about queens i knew of the roti and food spot there my uncle always took me there . But the bbq lamb & fries I'm going there summer time
Very nice guys.
Happy new year 🎊
Absolutely loved this video ! Food looks so amazing !!!
Oh gosh,I drooling with all the good food..Being ah Trini,doubles with pepper and a Apple J is the ultimate. Everything look delish🇹🇹👍💯😋❤
LOVE The Nest !!! The Jerk Chicken Fried rice is AMAZING
You definitely have the right guide with you David. Uncle Shiva knows all the good spots and the fact that he started you off with Doubles and Trini food, made it even better! We have to get you to Trinidad & Tobago to try some more of our food.
Love this... Coming from a West Indian from Trinidad and Tobago ♥️
doubles orginally made more or less w/ split pea and flour and the bread is fried, some places now use little or no split pea in the bread thats why its more white not yellow.. Originally called a Channa Bara. with one peice of bread and the "double" came about as a matter of more bread to eat the rest of the channa /chick peas or like a "taco". Salfish and bake is great !
I am from NY, thanks for sharing this video food looks delicious, definitely am going to make my way out there
Singh's is my go to for home cooked Trinidadian food when in NYC! Great representation Dave! This true Trinidadian restaurant has a great representation of the dominant cultural cuisines offered on the island such as Indo, Creole and Chinese. It is that combination of cuisines that makes Trinidad unique. Most importantly is the "homestyle" ambiance at Singh's that people from all walks of life go there for; whether you just finished a 12 hr shift at JFK or you are a visiting professor yearning for something heartwarming and belly-filling and a "Trini lime" (social gathering). At any "lime" in Trinidad you will usually find gastronomic representation from all the cultures and peoples from all socio economic levels and that's what makes us equal at the table! Keep up the good work and PLEASE visit Trinidad soon, I am sure being from South Florida you have Trinidadian friends, if not the fans on here will hook you up ;-)
What about Afro trini foods??
@@angelaalbury986 unfortunately those Trinis from the country side cannot make Afro Trini foods. They try to make it but it’s always horrible. The city folks need to teach them.
@@angelaalbury986 you are correct our Afro family’s cuisine is very underrepresented
Gotta love this guy. Thanks David!
Loved this video. I miss all the delicious food from that part of Queens New York.
Bloody hell David you always make me hungry. 😂 I seriously need to get into Indian food more.
Thank you for this video 👍
Great video. Am making a pilgrimage to Liberty Avenue from Central New Jersey just for the food and your video is very helpful.
This is the indo Caribbean population, the British brought Indians from India to Trinidad , Guyana, Suriname , Mauritius, Jamaica and Belize . Btw trinidad and Guyana have the most Indians in the Caribbean Bc the British brought more Indians to those two countries
Indo Fijian checking in, how is it that both of our cuisines are better than mainland indian cuisine? I live in Australia and the mainland indian restaurants here dont even have chilies if you ask for them, super bland food with hardly any spice. Love to visit my bros and sisters in the West Indies one day.
The way he ate the barbeque man!! It was insane 😃😃
I absolutely enjoyed this video
David, it’s time for you to visit Guyana 🇬🇾 and Trinidad 🇹🇹
David you need to go back to sybills and try some black and white pudding along with some pepperpot. To DIE for!!!! Loved this tour
such an amazing video! Do more in NYC TRINI FOOD!!
You definitely have to come to Trinidad bro!!!... the food here is crazy good.
Big up backyard..... great video
Good job David... keep going
@25:13 Barf-i?? LOL 🤭😁 Whatever ya do, David don't barf-i with all that grub in ya tub.
Awesome video ♥️
🤣 "I'm the king of spice"..."is the hot sauce really spicy?" Lol
Very good recommendations thanks for showing these hidden gems. 👍
🤤 Miss Queens so much!!
Lots of love from India... please keep try more Indian food...
Shiva is kool dude.. nice food & that BBQ is nice... amazing ..
Big up from Trinidad 🇹🇹
That looks amazing!!!
Ughhh I miss the food from queens right now. My Sybil’s and Little Guyana Bake shop are my favorites. Thank you for educating people that Guyana is not the same as Ghana.
avenue bbq hut is one of my favs, love the steak and fries
Love your videos bro ❤ keep it up
David loves spicy until he meets up with Guyana and Trini pepper sauce. 😂
Moruga Red Scorpion and Seven Pot 🔥
😂😂😂😂
Was hoping you would do this! Wow
Yaaaaassssss !!! 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾 Looks delicious !!
thanks for sharing
Shiva looks and sounds like a perfect food buddy
🇬🇾🇺🇸🇹🇹 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 I love Avenue BBQ hut I remember when it was cold outside I was doing Uber eats I went to Avenue BBQ hut to pick up and the Madame see that I was cold she gave me a free soup 🍜 amazing 🤩 Customer service God bless them
So glad you toured Little Guyana/Liberty Ave. Your guide was not doing justice to the explanation of foods. I think you understood the cuisine better than he did and were able to express the flavors, textures and even ingredients. I wish i was there to showcase it better haha. Nevertheless, you tried some new things and it was a great video! Keep it up!
Great video!
i miss this neighborhood my Guyanese peeps, Trini peeps food the people music jamming!🇬🇾🇹🇹🔥
This is so exciting for me, i'm a longtime Queens resident but i'm disappointingly not familiar with this area, I spend much more time in Jackson Heights, Flushing, Elmhurst, Astoria etc... i'm totally going to check it out!!!
I would love to see a cook off between the Guyanese and Trini communities in NYC and Toronto.
Oh looorrrd.
That's so funny! I'm familiar with Queens but I didn't know Richmondhill was called "Little Guyana". You learn something new everyday.
If you’re ever in Little Guyana again check out Trincity and Sybils. The food is delicious!!!
I remember sampling WI foods there. 👍👌🖒🇬🇾🇹🇹.
11.26pm watching tempting omg. Great eps.
West Indian is ANYBODY from the West Indies/Caribbean, not just people descended from South Asia. People of African descent and other races in the Caribbean are also West Indian
It’s called West Indies because Columbus thought he landed in India. That’s where the name comes from. It’s was called West Indies before the British imported Chinese and Indians to fill the gap after they freed the slaves and they need cheap labor. It’s kinda a slap in the face how he intentionally cut Afro West Indians out of the picture.
Oh he knew.. all of us both Indian and African trinis are called west Indians . If he goes to India they won't accept him as an Indian. Its the same as a trini African won't be accepted as African in Africa. But some how trini Indians in trinidad always think they better than the trini africans .. the black race is the most hated and envied race .. every race thinks they are superior to them doesn't matter which country they live in .. And that's why he left out the afo trinis .
@@nelcia1849 I have to watch the video later. This same fukkery happened in a food documentary done years ago in Queens NY where the Indo-Guyanese tour person mentioned all the various foods on Guyana but made no mention of the African type Guyanese food. Pure eye pass.
@@nelcia1849 The strange part about who is creating the the music in the west indies. Who is the representative the country in the Olympics and a the sports. Who is really building the culture their that is recognized world wide that everyone is trying to jump.
@ Cameron Enoch
Only idiots think West Indian has to do with people of Indian origin.
People of Indian origin know that it means everyone
Please stop the idiotic comments about the term...its makes Black folks look bad, as it shows you have no basic knowledge of the history or culture .
Its the host/ White guy that started the Explaining of what West Indies mean, Not the Indo guy.
Yes I hate the way they leave out other food , but the place is a Roti Shop.
Most Guyanese and Trinidadians are extremely bad at explain their culture to other people. they are not doing it purposely to leave out black people like nelcia suggests.
A lot of black folks seem to have a chip on their shoulder that they cant get fixed.
I am from Queens in Rego Park so I am only 20 minutes from there .I used to hang out in Laurelton..
So happy you had Trinidadian food! I hope you do visit Trinidad one day, and hopefully, someone's grandma or aunty makes a good curried goat and hot paratha (or dhal and rice) for you :)
this is great, gotta go a couple blocks north to 101 Ave and see little Punjab and get the punjabi food, also come out to Hicksville, long island. I will take care of you in both areas!
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David... I watched a video you did last night and did what I said I would where I take a shot everytime you said "Right" and I'm hungover. 😂 Also, you need to make merch like a T-shirt that says "mmm" or "Right!?!?" Lol
Interesting and nice to see the Caribbean culture my wife being Guyanese she bad with pepperpot I gotta her teach her about our aloo pies 😆
That food looks phenomenal!! I would have to have goat and duck though! You’d never be able to get me out of the first restaurant!
I’m going to keep saying it, but we really need more of these restaurants and saree shops I. South Florida!!
If you go to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando,you sure to find West Indian food🇹🇹👍😋💯❤
Great place 👍Thanks so much guys 👏✌🤣🤣🤣
Apple J is one of my favorite too...I just love how he going off on the Bar B Q Lamb....Iol...I honestly think we in 🇹🇹Got the most amazing METHOD FOR BAR B QUE ..
Dude I want to go to Trinidad but I haven’t found the correct contact and the tourism board barely exist
Awesome video!!
Guyanese people are the best, Richmanhill is so high in culture.
lol he said he love spicy. mon that is spicy, seeing his facial expression. Love my Caribbean Food 100%
Making me hungry over here!! 😛
So far he is doing a good job with the tour!
Indo Caribbean food is great 😋
So is Afro Caribbean food
Southern Caribbean food is generally good.