Indian STREET FOOD Tour in the EAST VILLAGE - Samosa, Dosas & Butter Chicken in NYC!!

🧳 MARCO: / marcosworldnyc
🇮🇳 NY DOSAS: / nydosas
🇮🇳AMBO: / amboeats
In September of 2021, I flew up to New York City to dive deep into the food culture of the Big Apple. Come with me as I kick off my culinary adventures with an unforgettable Indian food tour in New York City!
New York is easily one of the most diverse cities in the world in terms of ethnic makeup and food. You can find just about any cuisine in the area, including lots of Indian food spots. For this adventure, I linked up with a local KZbinr and foodie names Marco!
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Our tour would take place in the East Village on the island of Manhattan, and kicked off at Punjabi Grocery & Deli. It’s a hotspot for veg food in the East Village! All of the celebrities who have visited have pictures on the wall!
Inside, it’s a mini-grocery store that sells lots of snacks but then they also have prepared chana, fried veg pakoras, samosas, aloo tikki, aloo parathas, kheer, and more!
They also have combo meals! Marco and I went with a combo meal but started with the veg pakora, which is essentially a vegetable fritter. It was so tasty and contained lots of greens.
It was even better with the sweet and glazy tamarind chutney, which had a kick to it. The hot sauce was nice and spicy!
Next was an aloo samosa with a mix of the tamarind chutney and spicy sauce. I loved the smoothness of the potato and was an authentic Punjabi samosa. The crispy outside and green peas, potatoes, and green beans inside were amazing.
Then, we got our combos, the first of which contained chana masala, palak mushroom, and roti. The palak mushroom contained spinach and earthy mushrooms. It was so tasty! The chana masala was creamy and chunky and I loved the roti!
Next were some flavorful black lentils and a cabbage sabzi. It was so good, it felt like I was back in Amritsar! The flavors were insane and the spice in the dishes hits you later.
Our total was $17 for four entrees, two rotis, the pakoras, and the samosa. They only take cash!
Then, Marco and I headed back out to go to NY Dosas, a man who serves up tons of South Indian food from a cart in Washington Square Park. There’s a dog park there and lots of people exercising. It’s the best food cart in New York!
At NY Dosas, we met Thiru, who serves uttapam, idli, dosas, and more. We ordered a masala dosa and another dosa using his grandmother’s recipe.
The Pondicherry Dosa contained masala, potatoes, and vegetables. The Family Recipe Dosa contained 6 lentils, spicy chutney, and coconut. They came with coconut chutney!
The dosas were super airy. The combination of the coconut shavings and coconut chuntey on the Family Recipe Dosa was outstanding! Then, we had some sambar, which contained greens, tomatoes, and potatoes.
The Pondicherry Dosa was gigantic, so we split it. It was savory and spicy with the coconut and spicy chutneys.
Then, we walked 10 minutes to Ambo, which specializes in Indian bowls, similar to Chipotle. There, we met Deep and saw their options. They have tons of options, like basmati rice, raita, chicken tikka, black lentils, aloo, and more.
We ate outside. My bowl contained paneer makhani, black dal, aloo, onions, and a mango pickle chutney. Marco’s contained chicken tikka instead of paneer. We also had some chai, which was like a frothy cafe con leche with cardamom and cinnamon.
My paneer makhani bowl was light and creamy, as everything started mixing together. I loved the black dal and mango pickle chutney. It was super balanced and only costs $11!
We finished with some fresh and cool mango lassi!
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Coming so much praises from a Italian is really something. Italians are really particular about trying different cuisine.They are not easily impressed as I came to know about it. Thank you so much David 🥰🥰 You're really the best person to introduce our cuisine to different people of the world. May God Bless You 😀😊🙏

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I love it ! Indian food is amazing & i can’t wait to take a deeper dive into the cuisine !

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@@Marcosworldnyc ...hy Marco !! Lemmi sum it up for u !! The best Indian cuisine is as follows : 1. Punjabi and Bengali (both share the no.1 spot ). 2. South Indian . ...all other stuff is just ordinary.😊😊 do try bengali sweets , they r just mind blowing and there is a very famous Bengali snack known as bhelpuri which has puffed rice, gram flour fried shavings, onions, tomatoes, coconut pieces, raisins, sweet n sour chutnies ( made up of tamarind and mint, corriender etc), lemon juice, peanuts etc. Its a rainbow of flavours like sweet, sour, tangy, salty and crunchy. Its the best on the go snack that exists !! Do try ! Highly recomended.😊😊

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I love to see that foreigner are able to eat roti in the way like we Indians eat

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Listening to Kirtan in the background is just so calming and blissful 😊

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Flying beast 😁?? If yes reply 1 if no reply 2 haha. But rightly mentioned, kirtan and gurbani in background sounds so soothing

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David you should plan another india trip soon!!!! I'm just loving this series!!!

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There's never any turmeric in any Chai😅 But definitely in most other dishes.

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you guys vibe so well together! you can feel the chemistry & genuine vibe through the screen. marco was a natural on camera ❤️✨

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As a Surinamer I watch all your video 's and love the food of the other country's 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷 thanks for coming to my country David love you 🤩🙏💖💖 cause my country never really gets filmed and stuf and visited so I am grateful that you once did that

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Suriname has a significant indian origin community right?

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@@j.s.vismale5576 chandrikapersad is this ur president?? that feels like a hindu name lol

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[@manasatony6502]

What an amazing video!! Love watching people try vegetarian Indian food. I'm vegetarian myself. The yellow dosa is called "adai" in Tamil. It's a mix.of various lentils and is super healthy and protein rich. The brown powder that came with it is called jaggery which is sweet and goes with the adai. :) We have adai quite often here at home.

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So much love from 🇮🇳

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David's knowledge in indian foods is spectacular

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It’s great how u guys are enjoying all the different Indian food. X honestly with any Indian food u will never get bored. So many varieties

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In india lentils & rice is a staple food khichdi is national food. These two when eaten together fulfils all your healthy nutrients required for a human body in a day. It has almost all proteins. In india it's recommended by doctors to their patients as this meal is easy to digest & thus fulfilling all the nutrients requirements also

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So happy to see both of them are enjoying our Indian food. You should visit journal square too . Best wishes!!

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Video dropping soon!

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Your tour in india specially Ahemdabad, Gujarat 👌 was awesome

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I love the shabad kirtan in the background at punjabi grocery and deli..

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Amazing to See David visit Punjabi Deli. Having worked at Punjabi Deli for few years, this video bought back sweet memories. What's even more exciting is to See Mr. Pali still working there. 😀

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Indian food is awesome

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You two make a great foodie team, keep going!

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Marco is the best! Great collab!

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🇮🇳 is Great...Food people...everything about it...YOU LOVED IT ..Dhanyawad

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I liked the punjabi deli the most. Roti sabji 😍

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Good to see David knows almost all the names of Indian food....that's great 👍

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Wow great Indian food tour. Loved this one 💯👍❤

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Having no work since this morning I've been seeing Indian Food Videos but your video made me drool.

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You are doing the great job. Great ambassador for Indian cuisine. Respect bro. The way you enjoy the food which clearly show in your face.

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That Shabad Kirtan in Background, amazing...

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Small food stalls can really surprise..

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Do remember, there's always a way to enjoy INDIAN FOOD .. & a True Indian knows it very well ! 😄

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you should do a Bay Area vs NYC Indian food vid. I'd be super curious how it turns out

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That yellow lentil pancake (grandmom's recipe) is called 'cheela' in India..you find that a lot in North India as well and is eaten with a garlic tomato chutney..Very common indian street food actually

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Your content are awesome man but shocked to see the views on every videos you deserve more

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Thank you David I am glad u did this video DosaMan from new York luv to see this video

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Overweight and obese not the same thing. In our region there is hardly anyone above 30 BMI

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It is the indian blend of spices that makes anything delicious

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My favorite spot! I love the samosas

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David is like indian guide 😆😆

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"Never too much spice" - an Indian in disguise

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Superb food tour 😍

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Superb vlog David, Marco. Awesome food.

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Great tour David, I admire your understanding of Indian food. And your positive vibes.

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Every human in this world must try Indian food, ur they can come to India I will be there,.

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Here's more Dishes That u have to Try if u Come India

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Love from India💕

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You made me cry by sipping sambhar from a cup. Use spoon dude with evey bite.😋

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Now David know how to eat curry with roti perfectly 👍👍👍

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For indian aspect samosa for 2 USD is equall to approx 145 rupee , and with that money you can have almost 30 samosas in india😅😅

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In the Punjab Deli shop they were playing Shabads (Holy Song of Sikhs )

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I'm grateful to be born in India. As I can enjoy tons of delicacies and cannot get bored from it, and interestingly we have maximum varieties in Vegetarian food items and snacks. Unlike other countries veg food options are very less or you have to eat just salads😏.

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When we say Indian food is the best.... its not arrogance...its a fact

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you make me mouth watering, Yummy! I love Spicy food too

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Try going to Jackson Heights in Queens.you will find mini India there. Indian/Bangladeshi/Pakistani restaurants/shops.

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luv it..now im hungry and its 3am

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Hey I'm from India and love indian food

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From India's Uttar Pradesh State...Get a thumb's up guys🙌😀

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Samosa is the king of all indian street foods...

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reminds me of me and my friends

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Good to see u in NYC I am indian in brooklyn.

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Awesome video food looks amazing.....do let me know if you ever come to Dallas would definitely show really good delicious food here also...

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Indian food videos is the video views maker on channel , anyways Great video

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It can be either a mango pickle or chutney...... both are different..... can't (don't) mix it........ pickle is made for long lasting, while chutney is fresh made (daily)..........

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Sambar is made of with mashed lentils , vegetables and spices.

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in india for 2dollar you get 30 pieces....

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wow this is in East Village??? I go next time :)))

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Great partner

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Thats same guy from fung Bros.

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yessir thats me !

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Did you get a picture on the wall of that Punjabi place?

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Dave’s vocabulary mmmh, mhmm,hmmm

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Where about in the East Village is this place. Never knew of it