city's best reviewed halal trucks all in midtown  manhattan to see if they're worth it now you  

might be wondering what is halal it's an arabic  word meaning permissible and it means it's meat  

prepared by islamic law now typically new york  halal consists of some combination of rice greens  

and halal meat either in a foil dish or in  a sandwich first stop royal grill halal food  

four and a half stars on yelp if i could fly  this man to california to live with me and  

cook me food for the rest of my life i would i  was in new york for about a week came here twice  

once in the pouring rain and once in  the freezing cold great food nice people  

underrated huge portions chicken tikka is my  go-to i'll come here whenever i'm in new york  

way better than the overpriced halal guys chain  food truck that charges 14 for a dry gyro wow  

we've got some shots fired already on this video  i didn't say it he said it let's check this out  

got my food expert greg with me and one of the  amazing things about the new york halal scene  

is it's not all the same they all have their own  personalities right absolutely royal girl's pretty  

famous they want a vendi award which nominates the  best street food vendors in the city and they're  

known for their chicken tikka this is a really  interesting delicious dish yeah one chicken tikka  

i don't want to eat this this looks too pretty to  eat this is like a work of art all those colors  

so what do we got break this down for us pretty  much everything but the kitchen sink here we have  

the chicken chicken which is a very deep red color  you have the white sauce which is like the yogurt  

mayo sauce a little bit of the hot sauce the green  sauce is like a mint chutney and also this mango  

pickle which is a really kind of a secret thing  you have to ask him for here now the owner is  

from bangladesh it has that kind of bangladeshi  flavor in this plate all right let's try it

this tastes like something i would order at a nice  bengali restaurant not on the side of the street  

here in new york city wow that first bite that's  a lot of flavor that's a lot of spices yeah very  

punchy spice and we haven't gotten to the rice  yet the rice here is also very special it's spicy  

creamy you get that mango pickle that minty flavor  the biryani flavor it's it's got it all over this  

place dude i have to say it this might be the  best rice i've ever had at a halal truck before  

it's up there for me for sure would you say  the halal cart in new york is like the taco  

stand in la i would say yes i mean halal carts  have really taken over new york i say in the  

last 20 to 30 years it's overtaken the hot dog  cart i would even say it's overtaking pizza  

as the number one street food you know we want  to say pizza is a street food but i'd say it's  

definitely by far number one street food new york  city i just have one problem with this this is  

our first stop and i want to finish it right now  that's the only problem i have with this this is  

unreal it's absolutely tremendous i'm  shocked there wasn't a longer line for this

quick meal nyc 4.5 on google reviews new york's  exquisite street car experience created by bengali  

chef mohammad rahman former russian tea house chef  the spices are delicate food is the best take your  

tasty meal for a sunny afternoon at bryant park  once in a lifetime experience as a native new  

yorker halal carts have become a staple of my  diet i've visited halal carts that are terrible  

meh okay and unforgettable quick meal  unforgettable best halal food i've ever had in  

a while whenever i'm in the city i always come for  quick meal perfect for vegetarians too and plenty  

of fish options to choose from my vegetarian  viewers i'm looking out for you guys too so quick  

meal is a little bit more of a higher end halal  cart the price may be a dollar two more but it's  

for good reason the quality of the ingredients  here so we're going to order the lamb over rice  

here they actually use marinated pieces of lamb  not the mince mystery meat stuff hello how are you

compared to royal quick meal is a lot simpler and  look most of the sauce is actually on the side  

so if you're someone that doesn't like a ton of  

sauce i think this could appeal  to you all right let's do it

this is a high quality lamb i can tell absolutely  it doesn't have really bold punchy flavors no i  

don't think it's meant to this one's meant to i  think more showcase the quality of the ingredients  

you know i would also i would love this like  a gyro or a sandwich too yeah the white sauce  

it's not even your classic white sauce this is  definitely more yogurt it's more like a tzatziki  

like a greek yogurt thicker has more of a yogurt  i don't taste any mayonnaise yeah it's not like  

a really strong flavor it's very different than  your typical halal cart this is for like the true  

meat eater someone that just wants that lamb  you're gonna get your money's worth with this  

i'll tell you what they actually have salmon here  and it's shockingly very very good probably not  

something you would normally think of ordering in  new york city i typically know especially from a  

cart but it's very good the quality here is next  level what's amazing about today's video is that  

everything here is right on avenue the america  six dab in midtown so if you're a tourist watching  

this is so easy to complete by yourself but  if you want to go more off the eaton path  

this guy offers new york's best food tour  that do in the most delicious neighborhood  

in new york city in queens of future and my  favorite halal cart in all of new york city  

is on that tour so if you want to taste  my favorite overall halal cart and i've  

been at a lot of them you come and take my  tour i'll put the link in the description

we're about to go try the famous halal guys and  when a card is as famous as halal guys you have  

a lot of imitators like this one the original  guys don't go here if you want to try the halal  

guys don't go here it's very confusing because  they even use the same color scheme you can see  

we found the original halal guys by the line the  halal guys 4.4 on google best food in manhattan  

at a great price you may need to line up and  wait to order because all the locals do the same  

and they know better than anyone oh my god  this was excellent we got the beef gyro and the  

combination platter loved every bite the white  sauce was special guys were great at the card  

loved it all right it's got the hype we've  got the og of the halal scene in new york  

city a lot of guys opened in 1990 and they  were actually a hot dog cart originally by  

three egyptian immigrants today they've got  six locations in new york city 94 locations  

worldwide with up to 400 more coming  they may be coming to a mall near you

we've actually returned to six and a half ave  if you saw my 10 curious nyc secrets video  

this may look familiar and it's a cool spot if  you want a little hideaway to eat your halal guys  

so this is something i don't really like about  halal guys is they give you sauce packets i would  

much rather they do it themselves because part of  the experience yeah i mean they're very corporate  

now at this point they have all the branding on  it just want to look at this i say it really does  

need the sauce the meat at first glance looks very  dry i'll be honest guys my first time ever eating  

halal guys i've been waiting years and years  to try it here we are all right let's do it

there's no flavor not chicken  at all you know i don't  

dislike the beef with the sauce with the  white sauce and the red sauce it's not bad  

i'm gonna try the chicken i think you're  gonna like the beef a little bit more  

yeah the beef is definitely better than a chicken  on its own but not very good either chicken's  

not really good you know i i was thinking of an  analogy for this i'm not the biggest fan of joe's  

pizza for the record but a lot of people want to  go there just to say they've eaten there i would  

say going to halal guys if it's on your new york  city checklist go for it yeah but it tastes pretty  

mediocre to me like it's not the worst i've ever  had i just don't think it's worth waiting in a  

super long line for it um this is a worldwide  chain now even with the sauces it's still not  

good it's very bland to me i don't like it i think  it's maybe one of the most overrated foods in new  

york city i would say a lot of guys maybe in  the past it used to be better yeah sometimes  

the places expand the quality goes down but i  don't even know that i went here three years ago  

and it tasted just like it did now so you are  going to get consistency but not in a good way

eb nice to meet you me too adele's 4.5 on google  reviews my every week late night dinner currently  

the best food in the city for me don't even  think just go here it will be worth it normally  

a typical time to place order stand in line 30  minutes but definitely worth it they work really  

fast you know that if there's a line at 11 pm it's  got to be good and the line doesn't lie the guys  

working were fast and efficient the chicken hero  was delicious the chicken over rice quite tasty  

same thing over the spicy rice makes it even  better this is my favorite spot guys i will  

say that up front this has always been my favorite  and now greg's going to try it spend at least 40  

minutes in this live wow it's insane it is 107  people just waiting it was all the way down to  

that that pink truck down there huh that is crazy  adele's hasn't even opened yet and she wants to go  

right before her flight right yeah so we  have a flight at like eight o'clock it's  

almost six now and there's a lot of stuff we gotta  get it before we left so i wanna do the combo  

platter spicy rice do you like some veggies  some broccoli garlic yeah give us the works

and this is about five pounds worth of food  so let's start from the top they gave us  

french fries they gave us falafel then we've  got veggies including broccoli here we've got  

a mix of chicken and lamb and if you can get to  the bottom somehow someway we have their famous  

spicy rice it's actually better to use a  spoon but this is messy it's messy food

that is good you know what it is for me i think  they're they're white sauce it's the best white  

sauce i've ever had in the city there's a reason  for those long lines folks i'm telling you i can  

see it it's good it's good i don't think it's good  i just feel like the flavors for adele's are a  

little bit more classical new york halal which is  why i would personally put adele's in my top five  

must visit food destinations in new york city oh  i've got a bite of that spicy rice it's got a lot  

of flavor i think it was kind of covered up out  of meat it's growing on him this is very good i  

would definitely come back ideally not at the end  of that line though i say it every time but right  

in front of us we have radio city musical such a  cool new york city moment to even be here i think  

the evolution of halal carts and how popular they  become in new york is really a testament to the  

diversity of new york because this was a food  that was aimed at muslim taxi drivers and now  

all new yorkers eat it many new yorkers will  tell you this is their favorite street food  

yeah and really something for everybody if you  like chicken if you like lamb if you're vegetarian  

you can even get it with falafel and quick meal  you can even get fish and i do like that they  

all bring their own kind of spices maybe depending  on the background of the country you know egyptian  

bangladesh pakistani wherever i appreciate that  and i mean let's think of a new york pizza every  

place has their own little take on him just like  halal and i don't think halal gets enough love  

from tourists no way more from locals if you  like halawa you probably love greek food in  

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