- My name is Prez, and I work at Thrillist.
Around these parts, I'm known as the 5-Dollar Lunch Guy.
Every episode, I'm gonna put you guys onto
the very finest New York lunch for $5 or less.
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(laughs) No, I'm good.
I'm not hungry.
Maybe later or something.
It's kinda early. (sighs)
What?
My guy, really?
We're doing this again?
Oh, tequeños.
Why didn't you say that before?
Now a few years ago, I was introduced to Patacon Pisao.
It's a sick little Venezuelan mom-and-pop joint,
but their $2 tequeños are bangers.
Now I know they have two locations in the city.
One uptown and one in the LES.
So you know I'm hitting up the LES.
It's closer, and there's more stuff to do.
So these are the rules of "Operation 5 Buck Lunch."
It's got to be good, 'cause nobody
wants bad food for lunch.
No big chains, 'cause that's just too easy.
It's got to be $5 or less.
And whatever I don't use today,
rolls over into the next episode.
OK so what is your favorite food?
- Wine! Oh, yo.
- No, no it works, it works.
If I gave you five bucks, what would you eat?
- Oysters? Where from?
- You know what?
In this entire show, this is the first time
we've heard oysters but that's, actually, pretty solid,
'cause oysters are cheap.
- Bye-bye.
- Thank you so much, appreciate it.
If I gave you five bucks,
where would you go and eat?
- You could be creative.
You could go out, you could cook.
- You would cook, OK.
What would you make?
You'd pick a few things up?
- That's solid, that is solid advice guys.
- Absolutely, we're always going out,
we're always buying stuff.
But you know what?
You can always hit up a stall on
the side of the street,
where they're selling fruits and veg,
and get a little something, you know?
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Aye, you guys didn't know,
the Lower East Side is home to many
of the communities that make New York food great.
Honestly, you have the Italians,
the Chinese, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans,
Eastern Europeans all living here,
in the same neighborhood and all making amazing food.
Wait -- shout out to all of the immigrants
that make New York food great.
I should put that on a T-shirt.
Immigrants make New York food great -- yeah.
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Have you ever had tequeños before?
(laughing)
- Do you know any really good places to get
tequeños around the city?
- This is your first time here?
- And you're from Venezuela?
- And this is a Venezuelan joint.
What would you get if I gave you five bucks
and you were here.
What would you get for five bucks here?
(laughing)
- You can get tequeños.
- Yeah, they have tequeños here.
They're like two bucks, so that's cheap.
Will you just tell me a little bit about tequeños?
- All right so tequeños, basically,
is a Venezuelan appetizer.
They can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, dinner, after-hours.
It's, basically, think of cheesy bread.
Cheese wrapped in dough and fried
until it's nice and moist inside.
And cheesy inside and crunchy outside.
When you dip it into our sauces,
it's just out of this world.
- Guys, you're welcome, you're welcome.
How many tequeños can I get for five bucks?
- You can get three of them for $5.
- That's amazing.
Can I please have that?
- Of course man.
There you go, thank you.
(mumbles)?
- Yes please.
Actually guys, I'm starving.
Look at that.
We are sorted, $5, eating, let's go.
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Look, look, look, look, look.
These are long.
I don't think I've ever seen tequeños this long.
That's why I keep coming back.
Guys, come here and look at this.
Look at this beautiful piece of art.
You know what this reminds me of?
This reminds me of a croissant with cheese.
Look how it comes apart.
This is the bread,
this is a bread-cheese fusion.
This reminds me of a pig in a blanket.
I don't care where you are,
what time of the night it is,
you have four or five beers in you,
this is gonna hold you over.
Oh my God.
It's amazing by itself.
The bread is crispy,
the cheese is cheesy and savory, can't complain.
I have some decent experiences with rosada,
but verde is my god.
If I could put this on everything in the world.
If I could put this on fries
or cereal or waffles,
I would do that.
This is happening to us.
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Verde sauce is my president.
Now by itself, this is good
but with the verde sauce,
It's like an aioli, close to.
Mild, it kinda oniony.
Let's see what the rosada's about.
Oh yeah, this is sweater.
This is a savory, this is your sweat.
You can't mess it up.
Let's put them together, hold on.
I was told about putting them together.
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That was sexy right?
Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
The best of both worlds.
Guys I am stuffed.
I apologize for the mess.
I've always been a messy eater since I was a kid.
Shout out to Jonathan.
Shout out to Patacon Pisao.
Hit up all their locations.
Here, LES, uptown, Coney Island,
Queens -- Elmhurst, shout out.
I'm stuffed, let's get out of here.
What we got, what, three tequeños for five bucks?
That means we did every single one of our rules.
It's within budget, not a big chain,
and most importantly, it's delicious.
No complaints guys.
Definitely check this out.
I'll see you guys next time, peace.
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Yo what's going on guys?
It is Prez, your 5-Dollar Lunch Guy.
If you have a suggestion of where
we should go next time,
leave it in the comments below.
Other than that, follow, like, share, subscribe.
Peace.
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