Good evening, guys from another video here in Iraq proper. And in today's video,
we're gonna be going out into the town here into Baghdad, and checking out
some places to get some food here with my buddy Ty. How we doing? With this
fixture over here? And then, we got Luke right inside here.
[Speaking Foreign Language]
What’s your name, boss? How are we doing? Nice to meet you, Ibrahim.
So, we're pulling up to the place there, nicely lit up here,
back in the neighborhood. So, looks like this is the spot we're gonna be
having dinner tonight, got a very traditional look to it. We
got Ty shooting some shots here. So, we got a Sony right there? Yeah indeed. Yeah
Nice, nice got the Sony. Sony, man here. Salam Alaikum [Peace be upon you]
Oh, it's a cool looking place here, very traditional with some live turtles in
there too, a couple little baby ones. They’re alive right. Oh yeah, that one's
moving. He's gonna be the Yad of the trip. Yeah, he's got the big one. Yeah, yeah, we
got a table over here. Let's see. Yallah, this way,
yeah pretty sweet. You got your curtains coming in here.
and--
Oh, the food looks pretty nice here. Oh yeah,
and this is our spot. I like it. It smells good, it's got a nice Middle Eastern
I can’t wait. smell to it. Yep, oh you haven't had a
shisha. No, no, no. Yes, it's Ty’s shisha, virginity here in Iraq.
That's shisha o'clock. It's definitely shisha o'clock.
As a disclaimer though, shisha is bad for you, don't smoke.
Yeah how long ago did you get it? like
three years ago? Three years yeah, nice. He’s already looking left to right, well
it's right to the left. Where are the shishas? That's all that
matters. So, 10,000? I’m guessing. No, 5,000? No,
no, this is the-- ten--
ten year seven. That's seven yeah. This is the
seven. Which one's Tleite? Now that is five.
Okay Yeah, what Arabic words do you know these
days? Nothing.
Yeah, oh you're getting pretty good. Yeah, you're meant to be in Lebanon, you
know French. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, are there Iraqi beers there?
You know. Okay yeah, I figured I’d check. So, how was
the Iraqi beer? It was good. Recommended? Yeah. It's brewed here? Yeah, it is-
it's brewed in Baghdad. Yeah. Even the beer? Yeah.
Yeah well, we'll try it hopefully in another video, maybe we can get one on
the train down in one of the upcoming videos. We make it down to Basra. Exactly
yeah. I’m gonna get one of those in one of
those, and one of those. So, I would equate that to
chicken kebab. Chicken kebab extra thoom. Apparently no
chicken. Oh no chicken here. Oh, oh. Only meat.
It’s okay with me, the lamb. That'll do? Oh sheep, yeah.
It’s like a mozzarella stick with meat. Yeah.
And there's Iraqi kebab, it is not like that. It is
like meat, and some tomato.
So generally speaking, like in Baghdad anytime you order a kebab or meat, it's
gonna be lamb or sheep. Sheep, yeah, yeah.
Okay so-- so, it'll never be beef or chicken? No. Okay,
that's good enough. They can't. They can't. Oh okay.
Cow meat is very strong, they can't put it in the--
on the fire. Oh okay. Okay, that's good to know. Guys this is how I’m figuring
out what's on the menu but every time I move it away, and put it over, some of the
words change, it went from becoming to swearing.
And then, over here looks like we've got some chicken on the
menu. I’m probably gonna go with that. I had sheep up for the last meal this
morning, so me too. I need to change it up a little bit,
today. Is cherry juice like a big thing. people drink in all of proper Iraq?
Yeah. So to get a server here you-- you say captain,
you say captain to get a server? No, I need to--
Oh okay because I heard that-- I heard that in Kur-- in Kurdistan too people
called them captain but like that's the way like in the US,
you’d say like, hey boss. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Reyes [Royal]. I’ll have the-- the chicken, and the rice,
please. Is there any anything with chicken?
Chicken ball? Sure.
Yeah, what's a chicken ball? Oh, is it-- is it chicken testicles?
It’s just testicles, chicken ball or is it just it's like a
ball? No.
Oh yeah, perfect. I’ll do that yeah, and with the rice. Well [Foreign language], the Iraqi
coffee bro.
People didn't like when I did this in Kurdistan-- I am shocked. That is- That is a crime.
What to cool it down?
Now I can drink it? I do not approve.
Alright, well I guess even at this table, it's not approved. I approve, it’s fun.
It’s just the people sometimes forget that I’m not just drinking this for the
flavor. I’m also drinking it mainly for the caffeine because
I don't know, I’m still jet lag from flying here from the US, two weeks ago.
I’m gonna use that excuse but I’m not really, you know two weeks
ago way over jet lag. I’ve been jet lagged for two weeks, I feel like.
Alright, well Ty can vouch for me then, but the coffee is really, really good
actually. With a little water just cooled down, it was literally like a drop, you
know just enough, so the-- the taste buds can handle it now. My tongue isn't
used to you know drinking boiling hot tea which I learned very quickly in
Kurdistan, when I was there the last two weeks that
everyone drinks the tea, when it's fresh off the kettle, and their tongues are
just used to it. So--
Fresh bread here. No plates needed which is the-- the
good way.
Let’s see how it compares to the Lebanese hummus.
It’s good. It’s good, yeah.
That is really good hummus. Yeah. Alright, that's giving me good vibes,
that the food's gonna be super good too if the hummus is already this good,
the main courses. Let’s go for I learned this in
Lebanon, you got to get a heaping scoop, good non one side's pretty crunchy, and
the other side's got a nice chew to it. Actually I’d say, this is probably more
of like the first actual Iraqi meal we've had. If you saw in the
first impressions video, we ended up at the place that we thought
was the Iraqi traveler's cafe but it's just a place where the group which is an
online group meets. And so, we had some western food which was great but we're
here for the true Iraqi cuisine which is gonna be
so good, I can already tell. Ooh, more bread.
Oh, look at that thing. Oh so, we basically got the same thing
but you got chicken, and I’ve got-- Oh yeah, it's like I can roll this up into a nice
big burrito. Yum, look at this. So, it looks kind of
like a-- a kebab. So, this is gonna be good. I’m thinking, I
might need to eat this whole thing like a burrito.
Yeah, this is how I love to eat them, you know it's a little taste of the
Middle Eastern culture back with how I like to enjoy a meal which is rolling
it up, and at least back home in a tortilla. So,
we've got a whole bunch of good stuff here. We got the duma?
Dolma. Dolma, dolma. So, it's Ty’s go-to in every Middle Eastern country. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah so, that looks pretty good, that's it. That’s definitely a plate full of food,
that'll keep you going for days. Got some rice,
and Luke got the same thing as me except with a little lamb on there, sheep.
Same stuff, basically. Yah, yeah. So, I gotta start out with the Iraqi
juice here which is grape juice, that I guess is
called raisin juice.
Whoa, it tastes just like the liquid form of raisins.
Luke's reaction is a bit more like you can taste the grape, you can taste the
raisin, But honestly, this reminds me of like when I was a kid, I had these little
red packets of raisins that were dried out obviously because
they're raisins but that tasted literally like a blended up form with
liquid in it. Quite good though, I like it better than raisins.
Let’s try out the meal here, I’m thinking.
Alright, let's toss one of those in there, one of those in there,
a little bit of lemon juice. Oh, it's just sprayed Ty there. That's all good.
And we'll toss a couple pink pickles. I think that's what it is a pickle?
Yeah. Alright sweet. So now, let's-- let's do this Mac way-- Actually, I’m going
to set this pepper aside for now, roll her up like a little burrito here.
That's a fatty. Oh Look at this. I’m supposed to eat this whole thing.
Alright well, I guess you can only
eat the whole thing by starting with the first bite.
Wow, this is gonna keep me fed for
literally days from now but actually, since I rolled it up to a burrito, the
first bite was tomatoes, and onions. And yeah, it's fresh, it's good especially
in this naan, as you can see, it's quite squishy,
made the way that I like it where it's not- not like crispy. It's like, it's
got a nice chew when it blends in with the flavors of the food here. So, we're
gonna do one more bite here, and try, and hopefully get the chicken on this one.
That is good. We got some chicken in that bite, and it just made very well. You can
tell, it was grilled with some good spices on it.
Yum, for a good first meal,. Made some proper progress, almost
finished that entire burrito here but I am getting full but I’m-- I’m gonna power
through this thing because it's been like seven hours, since I had a meal. So,
here we go.
Alright, first Iraqi meal was an absolute success here. Shukran [Thank you] my friends.
Very good food, thank you very much.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
I’ve got a full belly though. Geez, I am gonna need to hit the gym after
the amount of food, I’ve had since I’ve been in Kurdistan, and Iraq, I am full.
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