BEST FOOD TRUCK in NYC! Adel’s Halal | AMAZING Street Food!

Move over Halal Guys, Adel’s Famous Halal Food is the best halal cart in New York City! Halal Guys may be a big name and a rapidly growing chain, but Adel’s is the best street food in NYC and one of New York City’s best food trucks! Its mouthwatering chicken over rice and lamb over rice is better than any dish at Halal Guys. Similarly to Halal Guys, it’s located in Midtown Manhattan right by Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall. Next time you’re visiting the Big Apple and visiting Time Square, swing by Adel’s for great NYC eats! It’s a well-known local eats spot and not yet a tourist attraction.

In this video, we pit Adel’s vs Halal Guys, to determine which one is the best, and it’s no contest! Check out my video and see what the best chicken and rice cart in NYC is!

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Restaurant Deets:
Adel’s Famous Halal Food
1221 6th Ave, New York, NY 10020

The Halal Guys
6th Avenue &, W 53rd St, New York, 10019

Hey guys and welcome to another episode of  UA Eats. I’m UA and today we’re gonna head   to the best halal place in New York  City. And I don’t mean Halal Guys,   Halal Guys is the most famous place. But  we’re gonna go to my favorite place which  

Is Adel’s Famous and it’s not far from Halal  Guys. It’s maybe just a few minutes away.   But first before we go there, let’s go  to Halal Guys first. Come on let’s go!  So we made it. I’m at the original  Halal Guys location at 53rd  

And 6th Ave. It’s the one directly by  the Hilton Hotel. Now they claim that   they’re the halal cart that started it all.  They claim to be the very first halal cart.   They started out originally as a hot dog cart. But  then they started making halal food to cater to  

Cab drivers who wanted halal meat. And lo and  behold! Through taxi drivers word of mouth spread.   And now halal guys has locations all over the  US, and imitation carts all over the city. Now  

I no longer think Halal Guys is the best halal and  the best chicken over rice in New York City but,   before we try Adel’s let’s give this a  try and compare it. So let’s check it out!  

Hi, can I get a combination platter, so chicken  and lamb? “Chicken and beef.” Oh chicken and beef,   sorry. Alright guys I just got my food so,  let’s find somewhere to settle down and eat.   Alright guys we found a place to  eat, so let’s see what we got.  

So this is the halal guys combination platter.  Sometimes people just colloquially call this   whole thing “chicken over rice.” But what I got  is a combination platter. So I got beef gyro   and chicken. If I can be a little honest I feel  like Halal Guys is a little past its heyday.  

Chicken over rice is what made them  famous and the chicken looks a little   dry if I can be honest. But we’ll have  to taste it. The gyro meat looks okay,   this was always my favorite thing here, so let’s  try that. And what’s kind of lame about Halal  

Guys now is they no longer drizzle the sauce  on top of it for you. They kinda just give you   these packets. Like the hot sauce and the white  sauce separately so, you know, it is what it is.   And be careful guys, the hot sauce is really hot.  

Alright guys let’s try the chicken first. Meh… I mean it’s kinda like I said earlier. I feel  Halal Guys was once really great but now the   chicken is just so dry and not really moist at  all. It doesn’t really have much flavor, they’re  

Kinda just relying on the white sauce. The white  sauce and the hot sauce are great. Their recipes   for the white and hot sauce? Fire. But the chicken  quality has fell so far over the years. I’m not  

Sure if you can tell here but just looking at it I  hope you can see that it’s just really dry and not   appetizing. So if you do come to Halal Guys,  pass on the chicken. I know chicken over rice  

Is what made them famous but it’s just not good  anymore. Next let’s do beef. Mm… Ohh… Mm… The gyro’s pretty good. Skip the chicken,  gyro’s where it’s at. The gyro is juicy,   it tastes like it was freshly carved. I think  what it is is Halal Guys is just so famous now,  

They have locals, they have tons of tourists.  They’re just cooking meat nonstop. And the gyro,   they can kinda keep it fresher, they just  slice it off as they need it, But the chicken,   to keep up with demand they just keep it on  the flat top the whole time. Keeping it warm,  

Not necessarily cooking it. But it just gets  so dry. Now before we go, let’s try the rice.   Again, the rice is very average at this point. I  remember when Halal Guys was the talk of the town.  

The rice was buttery and fragrant. The chicken  was moist. The beef gyro is still good so I’m   pleasantly surprised by that. But the rice was  average. Not really a strong saffron flavor.   Not really buttery or anything.  Honestly they’re just letting their  

Sauce carry them at this point and I don’t like  restaurants that just coast off their sauces.   The protein and the carbs need to be good  too. So anyways, I’m gonna pack this up.   No disrespect to a legend, it’s just the mighty  have fallen. But mad props for starting the halal  

Cart trend. Anyways, let’s head to Adel’s  and we actually passed it on the way here.   Alright guys, we walked over from Halal Guys and  we’re now at Adel’s Famous Halal Foods. Now this   is the best halal cart in the whole city. Halal  Guys may have started it but they perfected it, so  

Let’s get in line. Alright I just got my Adel’s Famous Halal, so   let’s go find a place to eat it. Alright guys  we found a spot so, let’s see what we got.   So I’d love to say that I got two of these just  to show you both of the meats, but the truth is  

I just love this place so much I just wanted two  of them, so let’s dig in. Now this one is chicken.   Chicken over rice. With white sauce and hot sauce.  And unlike Halal Guys, the chicken is spiced up  

And marinated and it’s just gonna be great.  And then next up we got our lamb over rice.   Now I actually really enjoyed the lamb over  rice at Halal Guys but, just look at these big   generous slices of lamb. Oh this is gonna be great  too. Alright let’s try the chicken first. Mm….  

Oh…. Oh one more bite. Mm… It’s honestly night and day compared to Halal  Guys. The chicken is moist. It was sitting on   the grill for a while but it was marinated, so  it’s not dried out. And because it’s marinated  

It has more spice, it has more flavor. That  chicken is just an A+ and Halal Guys is like   a D or a C-. The best part about this  place, the spicy rice. Just mix some of   that chicken up with the spicy rice  and it’s just… It’s just… Mm…   It’s just… Mm…

The Halal Guys rice is just your typical yellow halal  cart rice. It was once buttery and fragrant and   had that nice saffron flavor, now it’s pretty  bland. But Adel’s man, that rice, it’s spicy and   it’s not really very hot. So, if you don’t  have big spice tolerance don’t worry too much.  

It’s not super hot, it’s spice ridden. It’s  spice-y, not spicy if you know what I mean.   And it complements the chicken, the white sauce,  the hot sauce, I think the white sauce at both   of these places is kind of comparable. The hot  sauce at Adel’s is definitely less spicy compared  

To Halal Guys. The hot sauce at Halal Guys will  kind of burn a hole in your mouth. But this hot   sauce is more than hot enough. So anyways the  chicken was fantastic. Alright, lamb next. Mm… Oh… Oh man… Wow… It’s just, I would say the lamb gyro here compared to the beef gyro

At Halal Guys, I would say that they’re  both pretty good. Pretty comparable,   I think I just kinda got lucky at Adel’s. At  Adel’s I saw them slicing it right away when   I was kind of at the front of the line. So maybe  I just got lucky, maybe I just got some fresh pieces.  

Maybe at Halal Guys it was kind of sitting out  for a bit, but it’s good. It’s got that charred   exterior, that soft interior. It’s juicy. It’s  not just lamb flavor, you can kind of taste a   little bit of spice in there. I really wish Halal  Guys had lamb and not just beef. And…

Mm… Honestly in my opinion, the lamb goes so much  better with the white sauce, with the hot sauce,   with the spicy rice, maybe I just like  lamb, but in my opinion if you get lamb   it all comes together. But if you can’t decide  they do combinations too. If you can’t decide,  

Just get both. Anyways guys, I think  that’s gonna be it- Oops… Anyways guys, I think that’s gonna be it for this video. I just  wanted to show you one of my favorite street food   places in all of New York. If you’re ever in  Midtown Manhattan, in this Rockefeller Center,  

Radio Music Hall area, skip Halal Guys, check out  Adel’s Famous Halal Foods. You won’t regret it.   Anyways, thank you so much for watching. I hope  you liked the video. If you like my content make   sure you Like and Subscribe. I’m gonna finish  this. Until next time, I’ll see ya later!