with one hand and a pure white lotus with another hand with pure white lustre like the combination of jasmine. >> anthony: heemanshu suri is better known as heems, half of the rap duo known as the sweatshop boys. he was born and raised in queens, a living breathing example of the glorious mash up that is this borough. so it seems just right that a first generation indian dude takes me to a chinese dumplings spot close to his hindu temple. hew garden dumplings is everything you need in life. >> anthony: so born and raised in queens? >> heems: yeah. >> anthony: in what neighborhood? >> heems: most of my life i've been in glen oaks and belrose which is like further east. >> anthony: largely or mostly indian? >> heems: our neighborhood is mostly punjabi, and then there was the christians from kerala, malayala, and pakistani's those three. >> anthony: and the next non-indian neighborhood over? >> heems: more like guyanese, instant indo-caribbean. >> anthony: right. >> heems: and then the other neighborhoods like whiter but still indian. it's hard to escape us in queens, which is why i like it