we hope you're hungry because today's video will take you on a food tour in orizaba veracruz
we're gonna try some locals favorite eats like picaditas, pambazos, chileatole, coffee infused treats
and nutella-stuffed conchas
we're jenny and kevin
welcome back to Eat Baila Travel
today's tour will start with breakfast at the mercado
we're going to have picaditas which is a typical breakfast food in veracruz but especially in orizaba
if you want to eat like a local in mexico it's 100% guaranteed you have to come to a mercado
any mercado in mexico you eat like a local you eat cheap
in the mercados if you want to eat you need to come early from 7am to 4pm
today we're going to have two picadit as a green and a red the traditional Orizaba picaditas
a picadita consists of either red salsa or green salsa
they have a little bit of cheese a little bit of pork rinds and you can ask for an egg on the side
the green picadita has cheese, pork rinds and the tortilla is fried a little bit just to give it a little bit more of a texture
so the cool thing about this is that they look the same
but the salsa changes the flavor on both of them completely they're completely two different
two different picaditas even though they look similar now it depends what kind of mood you're in
red or green
and both of them thumbs up
for lunch we're heading back to my cousin's house for some pambazos
these look different from the pambazos i've seen before
and it is such delicious and simple goodness the key to a good pambazo are the ingredients like the fresh bread chorizo and frijoles
they say around here that if it's not messy it's not good
since you can't make it to my cousin's house for pambazos La Braza Home Grill has also some delicious pambazos
the pambazo is supposedly shaped to be like the pico de orizaba that's why it's so dusty with flour
um it doesn't look like much but the bread is so soft and fresh and inside we've got frijoles
it's really really good
this pambazo spot is across the street from the poliforum a beautiful park with fun sculptures and cultural icons
the poliforum building used to function
as an asylum for several years until it was turned into a cultural and recreational space
now it's home to five museums restaurants and this cool statue to honor the man behind
the voice of homer simpson in latin america who was born in orizaba
and for dessert we're gonna head over to Rovianda Plus for some fresh bread and treats
not to be confused with the regular Rovianda, which is just a deli with cuts of meat
the Rovianda Plus includes a whole restaurant a cafe
bakery and deli
so the thing you want to get at Rovianda Plus is this concha stuffed with nutella
i'm gonna try not to break it too much
oh hell no
it doesn't have any!
i bought the wrong one
here we have a concha stuffed with nutella from Rovianda Plus
amazing just a perfect amount of nutella so it doesn't get
a little bit too overwhelming it's crunchy it's delicious it's fluffy this one gets
sweet this is amazing this is the best
a popular local antojito in Orizaba is the chileatole which if you're familiar with
the mexican street corn might sound familiar i love this because it's almost like a
like a stew it almost reminds me of like a posole so it's basically an elote
mexican style corn but instead of on a cob you have it like in a soupy form and it's so delicious
this is probably one of my favorite things so i'm going to give it a straight up thumbs up
all right coffee lovers this one's for you
so here are some of the coffee shops that you'll definitely want to try when you come to veracruz
first off, Bola de Oro my favorite coffee in the entire world
and another one we really enjoyed is Cafiver Cafiver has their own shops around the city
but lots of smaller shops also use Cafiver beans for their coffee so just be on the lookout for the
Cafiver logo and any coffee shop that has it you're gonna have good coffee
and if you're in veracruz puerto (the port) La Parroquia is a place to go check out their coffee, their lechero
we will hopefully in another video show you exactly what's so special about the coffee from la parroquia
at the port of veracruz it's a whole experience it's not just coffee so keep an eye on it for
that one but if you can't make it to the port you could also find it at different places like here
Orizaba has one but we haven't gone because we want to make sure we get the authentic experience
when we say "parroquia" we're not talking about a church it's a restaurant called la parroquia
A Orizaba & Cordoba must is Calufe
At Calufe you get these buttered coffee cookies
and these coffee marshmallows that are out of this world there's nothing like them
it's a must when you're around here right i love the coffee flavored marshmallows
but the cookies that's my sweet spot
what was that new word we learned? "chopear"? yeah where you dip your pan or your cookie
in your coffee i love that coffee cookie with coffee
mexico may not be recognized for its coffee like some other countries but here in veracruz is some
serious stuff but there might be an advantage for the fact that the coffee's not as internationally
recognized as some other coffee for example when we're in colombia we learned that colombians don't
really drink their own colombian coffee yeah so we were surprised to see that so many people drink
nescafe which is not a colombian brand um and so we said what what's going on you guys have some
of the best coffee in the world why aren't you drinking this coffee from your own region that's
because it's so expensive we learned that when coffee starts to be produced for exportation then
it's no longer really accessible for the locals and it becomes too expensive
that's an advantage of veracruz delicious coffee everywhere you go
yes
i am so full after all that food today i have to go for a walk
jenny well she got a carb combo so she's asleep man that girl could eat and sleep
well leave a comment down below and let us know which one of the foods you'd like to try when you
come out here to Orizaba, Veracruz we know we haven't tried all the food yet so if you have
any recommendations for us please comment down below and let us know what you could recommend
well since i'm alone i guess i gotta say goodbye.