today we're eating one of america's favorite
street foods the hot dog we'll be visiting three of the best rated hot dog stands in new
york city hope you brought your appetites billy's hot dogs this place is really intriguing 105
star reviews on google the best hot dog i've ever had cooked just right all the reviews are
totally true good hot dogs but especially such a friendly owner this spot has no social media
no phone number just a schedule off of google i don't even know if this is going to be here come
on all right so simple it's so new york we heard you were the best hot dog cart in new york you
seem very popular around here i'm seeing the line i'm going to send people to you i'm afraid okay
i have so many customers i can't even handle it we can do is just put over
here help we want no experience we're about to eat hot dogs on a bench
next to central park does it get much more new york than that so excited
that was my dream when i came here was it it's one of those things you want
to do because you see it in the movies this looks fantastic look at this thing this
is the og street food of new york city if you think about it before halal before anything
else hot dog ready let's go let's try it i think of a hot dog experience in new
york city i'm thinking of this right here like nice snap to the dog when you take that bite
onion sauce adds another layer to the flavor i think this is what you go for this is what all
the reviews said to get is the onion sauce what about you how you feeling simple but perfect you
don't need much you like the bone great sausage and the fantastic onion sauce i almost never see
long lines at hot dog stands in new york we even saw billy running to a car somebody just pulled
up ordered a hot dog that's how much of like a neighborhood celebrity this guy is i saw people
running over real quick everyone has a chat with a guy they even have like like holiday cars from
families probably around the area that's so cool having that neighborhood guy get a hot dog be it
coffee be it anything where he knows what you want and he's got absolutely no attention he could be
the first ones to ever film him as far as i know this is a milestone moment our baby boy who's not
born yet just had his first new york city hot dog is he kicking no mckee will soon he'll be
happy only locals know about it i think i think if a tourist walks by they're gonna think
it's just one more vendor thank you it was it was that was honestly one of the best
hot dogs i've had my entire life was so good thank you keep up the good work i did
not know this was a thing in new york i had no clue that you could charge your
tesla here learn something new every day santa salsa we're gonna get some venezuelan street
hot dogs or we'll call them hipster hot dogs this is the hipster capital of brooklyn bushwick
also the street art capital vintage stores a lot of good food a lot of good bars yummy
venezuelan hot dogs hip atmosphere friendly staff i love santa salsa almost as much as myself
okay let's see so santa salsa started as a push cart and rockaway beach here is to enjoy
the artwork on the walls with the food the music you can find almost in every corner hot
dog carts where they have this super crazy version of hot dogs and burgers
and sandwiches bacon onions cabbage and carrots fresh potato chips ketchup mustard special sauce the
santa salsa and the guacamole this looks like a hot dog it's about to go to some kind of awards show that we're
presenting it for the judges this is the pero contodo five dollars
this one best hot dog in new york city by the village voice and it has like
every ingredient you could possibly imagine on this like an american hot dog
on steroids this is a kosher beef frank onions cabbage chips cheese ketchup mustard santa
salsa i don't even know where to begin with this salivating like this this looks
fantastic i'm gonna take a big bite it's really hard to describe how many flavors i
just experienced in one bite but i see a lot of them and something i love about latin hot dogs
are the chips potato chips cut up inside of them it takes me back to my time in puerto rico i mean
he said they stayed true to the roots of venezuela and these hot dogs this is just taking something
simple bringing it to south america and going absolutely wild with it and i'm just such a huge
fan of it this is so interesting you always ask us about vegan food you have great options here
just look at this one it looks delicious there's a sweet plantain inside with beans and wasa kaka
venezuela and green sauce it looks delicious guys oh my god this is so good these held up fantastic
like i thought this would be a complete mess but somehow the way they're created they actually
hold up as a latin sweet plantain and hot dog is a great idea for a vegan hot dog this is delicious
coming from a concert that doesn't have like non-vegan options probably at all you know
so and you have a lot of vegans in bushwick too right that's a smart move whole menu is
like almost 50 vegan people come in here and feel like absolutely comfortable you know
not just like oh we have one two items for you you know it's like oh no like the men is
created for both my goodness this is so gorgeous and do i just it's so savory it almost tastes like a high
quality taco it's almost illegal this should be a hot dog it's like this is more than just
a hot dog this is good this is really good want something unique i don't know if it gets much
more unique for hot dog in new york city than this i love meat guys i love my meat i love my beef
i love my turkey i love my pork i love this one so much when she's pregnant she knows all
about cravings so trust trust her opinion so ben you just bought a 15 used
suitcase from the thrift store next door samsomite i was gonna go to chinatown to
grab one of these but 15 is better than 50. dog day afternoon named after an al pacino
bank heist movie which was actually shot right on this block chicago style hot dogs
in new york city hands down the best chicago dogs in nyc ashamed to say i never tried a
chicago hot dog until i came here and they gave me the best possible first time experience
all right i'm pumped 4.9 let's go i love in the vintage vibes in here it feels like i'm going
somewhere after school if i was from chicago i have high hopes low expectations high hopes but
i was selling pop-up hot dogs all around brooklyn and new york like with a hot dog hocker and just
like make hot dogs for like people in like bars like late at night and everything like that but
this was always just a dream of mine to have a brick and mortar have like a place that reminded
me of when i was a kid like you know video games eventually comics records and all that stuff just
by chance we happened upon this spot and it's a dream come true i love hot dogs anywhere i go
i'll always eat a hot dog i even eat a water dog you know penn station everything is just just
has to be ripe like we have like fresh pickles neon relish that's very specific for the
chicago dog and all the hot dogs are steamed instead of grilled so that way they don't lose any
of the juice they don't dry out they don't get too salty and they plump when you cook them then it
goes to the neon rails pretty much what happens after that is you put the tomatoes in there
too then you have a fresh pickle dill pickle we use a little bit of a half sours so that
has a little bit more freshness to it a little bit more crunch just add some peppers right
on time for the spice and some celery salt how spicy are those peppers they're not too spicy
at all they're gonna be like the best way to describe them are like small pickled jalapenos
and this is a chicago dog i think a good rule of thumb is you should always watch your hot
dog being made you should eat it by yourself as quickly as possible good old vienna beef
from chicago i actually liked how he said that they make the poppy seed buns here like they
don't even want to ship them in from chicago got that big snap and they keep the flavor inside
and i definitely noticed that of all the hot dogs we had today i have to say that this actual hot
dog had the most flavor to it in chicago you don't have hot dog like carts and stuff like that
you go to yeah there's places they're like this they're counter service places and there's there's
a lot of them a lot of really famous ones it's not really a street food in chicago like it is in new
york it's not a street food no imagine trying to eat this on the street that's a good point this is
this is tough enough to eat just sitting like this we are transporting you back to the midwest here
you go no thank you i'm looking forward to it eating something like this it's like a special
occasion thing it doesn't have to be but there's just so much stuff going on and the celery salt
for me is what does it i don't know if you've tasted the celery salt when you're eating
it yeah i think my baby's happy right now you're not her baby anymore john i know i lost
that right we had a hot dog cart on the side of central park then we had a venezuelan hot dog
spot in a bar that stays open till 4am and then we have this spot which i think kids would love
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