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from manhattan where i live, just over there was an enchanted wonder land at international crossroads, a stew pot of neighborhoods filled with the languages, cultures, traditions of flavors of many lands. >> hey, how are you doing? >> my richial goes something like this, regular coffee, d doughnut. just across the river, the options are endless. ♪ ♪

the seven-train winds over through queens like a main cable. every stop can seem like another country, another region. get off at roosevelt avenue, you're going to eat well, for sure. example, this car sells tornado. >> the sound of victory right there. >> blood sausage with potato cakes. >> oh, man, that's looking really good. >> people coming to and from work. >> how often do you think the average person eats at one of these things. >> day laborers, they might live in these tiny apartment with the tiny shared equipment. they can cook. they're not going to go into the restaurant.

it might be more. >> sean is the director of the sweet vendor project. prior to going to law school he built a push cart, sold burritos. he found it with a small grant from university. he liv in manhattan with a bathtub and kitchen, you know, like most lawyers. >> so you live like a mile from here. >> yeah. >> what would be the options be nationality wise. >> you can columbia, and then there's the chinese, i don't know of anyplace in work, or the world that you can have diversity. >> here is another lawyer who represents vendors when they need help. in our state, it's all too often. >> to open up on the part of the

street, do you have a license? >> you have to have a license and permit for the cart itself. >> any spot? >> pretty much, yes. there has to be restrictions, i mean, a lot less interesting in queens. this is a wonder land. look at what we've got here. >> they're trying to do it. >> there's always talk about cleaning up. >> if you get higher rent, nicer buildings, they're n goingo want a street cart outn front. >> even if the spot is completely legal and we see it all the time where there are building managers come out and say, okay, you ent up rating the storage. you were pushing it. if you're an immigrant who

country speak english. tell me to move when you move. in a perfect world how many of these? >> i think the more pathways for people to come. you know, hopefully after five or ten years, maybe they'll have a restaurant. i mean, we don't say there are too many restaurants, so why too many food vendors. >> too many affordable

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ chanting ] ♪ ♪ >> better known as heens. half of the rap duo met with the "sweat shop boys" the living and breathing which welcomes to astro, wt do they call you? >> what chinese dumpling spot. you guarding dumplings is everything. so born and raised. >> yes. >> most of them i like, i've been able to help. largely or mostly. >> christians, pakistan.

>> not an india neighborhood over. >> more like gianese. it's hard to escape us, in like. which is why i like it here. >> marinated with sugar and soy, served cold. >> traditional indian food at home. what about outside the house? >> because the good is so -- food is so good at home. it's like loaning a pizza. >> why meat balls, pork, ginger, soy. >> sko we use to come and making enough grocery store. we always end upcoming back for jackson heights, which is the first place as you come. it's so great and diverse, it's like you get off on the 16-hour

flight no money in your pocket for india, it's like i'm already here, so let's start with this place. ♪ ♪ >> soup dumplings, piping hot and filled with pork and boiled. >> so what was the national bread count. >> it was in the 70% east and south asian, mostly chinese, all of these kids end up going to harvard. >> if it's alive it's alive in places like queens. >> coming here and make something out of it and the idea it's a positive thing and

diversity, there are other places. >> will america, as a whole, i guess 2042 is the year is the year that people of color become the majority in this country. it seems like a long, long time away, but, yeah, that is the hope.

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♪ ♪ >> if you're looking for amazing chinese food or korean food, this is the place. this joint is high on the list. josh are restaurant tours operating in queens. josh, aorean man who was adopted and raised by a jewish family owns the widely popular restaurant. >> it was good take off right away. >> yes, pretty much immediately, i was looking out of my house and we transferred to bagel

shop. we had ten seeds at a time. and then somebody text me and goes, congratulations. i go for what? he goes pete just gave you number one in new york city. i saw the article and i started crying. >> owner of casta. it's the only restaurant in new york with start. >> because you know everything -- >> you started making really sophisticated interesting mexican food, why? >> my brother come up with the idea to open the mexican restaurant. and then the next like restaurants, i sex a sport by -- and finally we open a mexican

restaurant. >> nice. >> both are fantastic, but tonight we're eating korea. soup with rice cake, abdomen spicy vanish. >> this is, right here. >> this is where yo krit zp-- h old are you? >> came to mirk in six. >> are you still with the -- i came to america in six. >> are you still with the program? >> what program. >> i didn't have much growing up at all. it was shunned from my household an it's not close to you. >> the shell fish in there. >> and we'll have a -- can't help it. i think as cooks we always grab it to what our dna is.

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>> some people say it's the most famous place you've never heard of, that's where we are. before i get to the details. this is historic. >> back in 1820s when queens was still mostly farm land and livestock. the manager of a racetrack, called the union course, opened a nearby tavern who frequented as the chaer in later iterations it became the old ivy and finally noos family. they jolted them all the backing room and hotel after the race got closed in 1898. today is owned by lieutenant.

>> i moved to jamaica queens. >> why jamaica? >> what did you do for a living. >> she didn't have all the education in the world so just had to do odds and they think it's pretty much similar that kol they come p -- you find a way to make it out of the rut or at least use that platform to have someone like me to come look and more. i would neverly. it's like what am i going to drink. that's not your store.

>> i do -- being someone that's from queens, something that's special like this shouldn't be just giving/close to friends. someone has to tell you about it. someone has to say, you know, it's around the corner, to the left, to the right. if somebody tells you about it you have to determine where it is historical. >> ways the american field ever made. ♪ . i mean it was -- >> which season was shot here? >> it was a pivotal moment. >> wait. let me remember it. is he right there or right here. >> he's right here.

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queens is always changing, always in flux, the landing spot from people all over the world. new arrivals from quebec being an example. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sandwiched between two cell phone stores and a couple of jewelry shops is lots of fast food. >> lhasa fast food has historically been first stop. the community's presence is pretty well-known and i think it's very fitting. they're looking for a home, where are they going to go. >> so you guys grew up together? >> grew up together in queens. i believe was saying little league -- >> what position -- >> they p me in the outfield, it matters. >> yeah, i broke the other side. >> i don't know who did what.

>> he joins me for dinner along with his friend. >> i like to call them close friends of mine. >> really involved the voters and advocating the conditions that come up. >> mr. president, i know you're not too good at listening, but you'll have to hear us now. americans are not going anywhere. latino americans are not going anywhere. and we contribute to this country. and turning out we pay more taxes than you do. >> i have a sense of what i think is right and what needs to be done. i can't let back -- and let the community be under served. >> you'll have your work cut out for you for the next four years. >> there's no other way to do

it. it would be that simple if people didn't work like this. >> it's both unique and disturbing to know that you're also from queens. the values you've been running on are not the queens' values we know. we all of us, will make sure you don't forget where you came from. >> how much traction were you getting? was it hunger for that. >> there were definitely a lot of people -- because it's just a new community, trying to make it in america. trying to maximize whatever they have. you mean space, cell phone store, we have put it in the restaurant here. maximized the originally can. there are other people that get that believe in the promise of america and believe in their

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>> anthony: and a winner. all right you won your first race. >> laurie: you know in a way you didn't win anything but -- >> anthony: not quite good enough. i love this place. the ponies, the beer, the oming sense of despair and melancholy. did i mention they have jamaican beef patties. >> laurie: people like it here because you can get your emotional feel for the horses you can look down into the paddock and people like to sort of see sort of how the horse is behaving. >> anthony: all right i smell victory, or is that horse shit? >> anthony: fourth race number two to win. >> anthony: oh no. ughh, smoked. i need to win on a long shot now. i need to get well. i need to come back.

>> anthony: built on the side of a former conduit for brooklyn water works that brought water from eastern long island to the ridgewood reservoir, aqueduct racetrack opened in 1894. the glory days of horse racing are long gone, but for those few proud remaining degenerate gamblers with a few bucks and a dream, aqueduct is still there. >> anthony: it's a judgment free zone here though. >> laurie: totally. >> anthony: it's kind of a come as you are situation. >> laurie: yes, i think that's true of queens in general and you can kind of fly under the radar, you know? you have not been harassed too much today right? >> anthony: no, guy comes up to me he says "hey you look like anthony bourdain." i said yeah i wish i had his money, he says "you're right, that [ bleep ]." it was great. it was like the perfect encounter. >> laurie: that's queens. nobody gives a shit. ♪

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happens we just get another day. alright you ready? ♪ >> anthony: the world is in queens and like the world as a whole, it is constantly changing. here in the jamaica neighborhood, a growing number of immigrants from african have put down roots and with them restaurants catering to their tastes. like here at africana. >> blessing: my name is blessing osagiede. i come from nigeria and this is a nigerian restaurant.

we started in 2000. the first three years were really, really tough, but thank god we're still alive were here we're healthy. my mother had a restaurant in nigeria, for 20 years before i came here. i love to cook. when you come in here you feel at home you feel like it's the motherland, you know. >> anthony: this food is really good. >> sarah: it is very good and she was worried about it being too spicy, i don't think it's too spicy. >> anthony: no never a problem for me. >> anthony: sarah khan has made it her mission to find and write about some of these great little off the grid places throughout the borough. >> anthony: you're studying the intersection between food and how did you get to that point? >> sarah: so i kind of cobbled together a way to travel, learn languages, and eat. >> anthony: and do you ever worry that by celebrating these communities you're helping destroy them? >> sarah: oh absolutely, absolutely. >> anthony: i worry about it. >> sarah: but, you know, those stories need to be told, through what they do, though how they survive.

>> nikita: my name is nikita. i have been here in new york since 2001. i am from gujarat, india. ♪ >> anthony: every meal, every dish, has a story, often a very personal one, often a story of hardship, separation, difficult times, but when somebody cooks for you they are saying something. they are telling you something about themselves. where they come from, who they are, what makes them happy. >> kim tase-soo: my name is kim tase-soo. i came to queens from seoul in 1974 and stared living here. >> anthony: a whole hell of a lot of people in queens, the people who make the borough what it is. who make it such a great place to eat and explore are very far from the places that they once called home. ♪

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