"[yowls]" "[speaking native language]" "There's the" "[Man speaking native language]" "A lot of the people in the neighborhood can't afford it now, so a lot of them are moving out." "Most of the houses is going co-op or going condos." "They changed the neighborhood." "It wasn't like that before." "I've been in Harlem 50 years, 20 years in this restaurant." "All the kids you see on that corner," "I watched them grow up from 2 years old." "You got to figure I do about 1,500 pieces of chicken a day." "That's, like, Monday and Tuesday." "And then on the weekend, I do, like, 3,000, maybe." "I grew up in North Carolina, and I have a large family of 12 brothers and eight sisters." "We grew our own chickens, our own vegetables and everything." "I never went to no school to learn how to cook." "I learned it all from my mother." "The seasonings?" "I can't tell you that." "I can't give you that secret. [chuckling]" "My mother, she told me if I ever opened up a restaurant, do not use deep fryer." "Always pan fry your chicken." "And so I came back down south to get my big frying pan." "I can fry at least 25 pieces of chicken in it." "Deep fry is easy, but pan fry is not easy." "You put more love into a-- a pan-- pan fried chicken because you got to stay there with it." "You know, you got to continue to turn it and cook it and make it come out right." "There's not a lot of what we call soul food places left in Harlem." "And there's a lot of people looking for soul food." "How are you today?" "Real good." "What would you like?" "Hey, Cookie." "Hey, Charles." "Woman:" "What's your favorite?" "Everything." "Especially the fried chicken, the barbecued chicken, the turkey wings, the collard greens, the string beans, and, can I say, the yams."