- This is mine.
- We'll see about that.
- Platanos?
- I did not say platanos.
Rewind, I said platanos.
(upbeat music)
- My name is Becky.
- My name's Andrew.
- My name's Blake.
- Hi, my name's Sean.
- And today, we're trying platanos.
- Plantains.
- Oh, yeah.
- Platanos.
- For the first time.
Platanos?
- I did not say platanos, rewind I said platanos.
- I think that plantains are kind of a fibrous banana.
- I've personally never tried it so I'm super excited.
- I've had those plantain chips from Trader Joe's
that come in a bag.
- They're like dried.
There's a lot of people here
like Pero Like team's always talking about it.
Like everybody's kinda telling us
that it's really, really good.
I just wanna see what it is. - Yeah.
- Like, let's see if they can really bring it or not.
- Yeah, make us believers. - Yes.
(upbeat music)
- Okay. - K.
- This is what they call, "Platanto Frito."
- It starts with a "P."
- Platano. - Drag him.
- Platano Frito.
- I've definitely seen this before, so this is what
I mostly associate with the word, plantain.
- Why did you flip it this way?
Did you poison one of them?
We'll never know.
- That's interesting cut, you know.
It must have been a really expensive knife.
- Yeah, they slice right through.
- Oh, it smells good.
It smells almost like
barbecue-y. - That's really good.
- That's an angle.
That's at least 35 degrees, at least.
- ...really good. So this is supposed to be a dessert?
Or would this go as a side?
- [Producer] This would be a side.
- This is good.
- All right, let's do it. - Cheers.
- Boom.
- Mmm!
- That was a loud "mmm". It's like that?
- This. Whoa!
- (laughs)
- What do you serve plantains with?
- I don't know.
- Mofongo?
- This is really good, whatever you serve...
You don't need to serve it with it, I just eat it.
- I didn't expect it to be so sweet
and it's like caramelized.
- I could totally just have like a bowl of this.
- Mm-hmm.
- Maybe put some ice cream on this bad boy.
- Mmm.
- It's not sweet like it's just a bunch of sugar
or nothing like that. - Yeah.
- Like it's- caramelizes a bit.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I really like when it gets like crunchy on the ends.
Ten out of ten. Would eat again.
(upbeat guitar music)
- Tostones!
- Tostones.
- These are huge.
I know the plantain itself
wasn't this big. They must've like really smashed it.
So that's interesting to me.
- They look like little latkes.
- What's a latkes?
- A latkes or a latke is like a Jewish potato thing.
Fried and delicious.
- It's garlic butter on the side?
- Oh! - Okay.
- Smells great.
- Oh, that garlic butter smells so good.
- It does smell really good, right?
(crunching)
- Mmm.
- (laughs)
- Mmm. I'm killing it with the reactions today.
- This isn't sweet.
- I don't even care what you're saying, this is so good.
- This is really good.
- It's not crispy like it's fried hard,
like it's this weird middle ground.
- I like this one. It's a little tough.
I could see myself craving this. Every once in a while.
- So which one do you like better, so far?
The first one or this one?
- Mmm. I think this one.
- Bananas, you need to do better, okay?
Your older cousin plantains is flat, it's angled,
it's sweet, it's sour, it's doing a lot of different things
I need you need to step it up.
(upbeat music)
- Mofongo!
- I feel like I didn't need to eat the first two,
y'all should have just lead with this one.
- (laughs)
- What is the meat in the center? - [Off-Screen] Chicken.
- I'm gonna eat it.
- Dive-in, I guess.
- Mm-kay. Hmm...
- This is a meal. This is mine.
- We'll see about that.
All right, if you like it.
- Yeah. This is delightful.
- So it's a little bit harder than the first one.
Way softer than the second one. It's a nice middle ground.
- And this is also made from plantains?
- [Off-Screen] Yeah.
- This is filling though.
- This one's been seasoned. This is a prepared dish.
- It's really... they like all three dishes
have tasted very different. - Mm-hmm.
- Which is kind of what is so amazing to me.
- All right, now I have some meat
and the plantains together. Let's try that.
This is really good.
- The only reason I don't have things to say
is 'cause I'm busy eating.
- I almost think it's like a three-course meal.
- Can I get this with a side of the second ones
and then the first ones for dessert?
- Can you eat too many plantains? Is that like a thing?
I feel like that's a lot of fiber.
- Sometimes fiber is necessary.
(upbeat music)
- Final thoughts are plantains are fantastic.
I would eat them again. I would try them in other forms.
- I was talking a lot of junk, walking in.
Everybody was telling me that I need to try them.
They were right. It was good.
- Yeah. - I tore it up.
- I liked how there was a lot of diversity in that.
Like, literally, like there were three different meals.
- They would try to pull the last plate away from me.
I was trying to get a couple more spoonfuls.
- Overall, I'm a big fan. I'm gonna have to get
like a plantain cookbook.
- Two thumbs up. Ten out of ten. Definitely recommend.
- But I would see myself really eating
all of those again. For sure.
- Yeah, if there's places we should be going to eat these,
can you let us know in the comments below?
- Yeah. That would be good. - Please help.
- We both live in L.A. - Yeah.
- And yeah, bananas are probably like
one of my favorite fruits.
- If you were on a date, which one would you give it?
- I feel like the last one, the mofongo,
would get a little messy. So I might just stick
with the first one.
- The first one, yeah, okay.
- I think I would go with the mofongo for a date.
'Cause I feel like you get like a Lady and the Tramp
situation. Where you guys...
- Oh. That's good. Oh, that's cute. Okay.
- Oh, your fork went that way. My fork went this way. Haha..
(upbeat music)
- [child] Pero Like.