what town are we in? the name is Los Amates Los Amates yes where are we at today? Rancho
Grande is the name of this Rancho Grande oh you have a few hours in Guatemala and you speak Spanish now
tell us what we're eating today... normally when we are visiting places like these they
buy us one little soup every day is changing this case is beef soup when they are making
soup from a cows they are taking more bones from the spine or legs sometimes you can see the cartilage
what's the vegetables in here in mexico it is famous and they call chayote in Guatemala we
call it wiskil it's like a potato sometimes they add with that soup it's
very good the green one's almost a little bit like a potato it's definitely got a different
texture and texture and different flavor but is this consistency is similar in between a potato
and some celery the yucca has got a little bit of a different texture to it when you bite into it it
almost sticks to your teeth a little bit instead of breaking apart like the fibers yeah almost like a fruit
yeah almost like a fruit but it's like a nectarine or actually the yucca is a root it's
interesting because the vegetable is coming from highland here for example they produce only yucca and ... and cows
okay yeah i'm not gonna eat mine is that okay
i'm gonna be real honest with you i'm an American on this one this is like pure grizzle
did you put some lime in it i just did it changes the flavor it's really good in this area you will
see more chicken soup and beef okay because this area is more popular uh chicken chicken another
one is ceviche like a shrimp cocktail with a lemon juice tomato oh ceviche with lemons on it and it's like raw fish
yes usually fish or crabs i don't know why i i know exactly what it is or shrimp i just couldn't picture it actually
and here yeah we are making ceviches with uh bull testicles bulls testicles yes
we call here ceviche de criadillas let's look at what you want to get when maybe we can share something
i say just get a little bit of everything in this restaurant
they have many choices here what would you recommend in this area for example palm cheese avocado we call guacamol avocado with onion pieces and they add limon juice i love it
okay sometime they add a little coriander leaves okay is this a green cherry yes what are
you guys actually drinking here is this an alcoholic is it just a frozen limonade i
don't think i've ever seen green cherries before no i think this is a with some dye
wow that is so good yeah very refreshing oh brain freeze i like to drink drink drink and then ahhhh
so tell us what we have here this one is not from Guatemala can use that word syncretismo syncretismo is a
local things with another adds for foreigners in this case for example the cows is not from
Guatemala this one is real Mayas because avocado is from Guatemala from Maya the corn is from Mayas
yes but here yeah we are using sincretismo union two different culture right and European European
is for the cheese these are thick compared to like most chips yeah they're different yeah only
the style to prepare the corn it's different like to pico de gallo for example is not from Guatemala
this one is coming from because they invented the ceviche the chicken is everywhere everybody has chicken everywhere on
here is mostly Mayans is primitive produce yes but that this one is ... because the ...
from here here is only squash tomato avocado chili pepper and black pepper also yes this is Maya and
corn for example you can have a choice to make corn tortillas and they are using hands but the
process to grind the corn yeah they use it the stone right now they have electric machines another form
they are making tamales corn based it's like paste and they're using banana leaves and they put
little paste on it and after they cover and with the paper because they cover one big bowl and it
steams it exactly okay with that the steam is boiling inside and it's cooking the tamales and
now they have a different style to make tamales i want to try this oh so this is different
now we take a piece of chicken i was expecting the fondue to be more of a
thinner it's more thick and full of cheese if you want to try to eat black beans go ahead you
can do and you can make like two taquitos yes perfect like for example i will take a little ...
yeah it's ham inside the cheese fondue but look at the cheese it's like that is i know
you're probably not gonna like it because it's stringy yep you got to try i don't know one bite
look at this no that's cheese in America you don't get cheese like this
okay good yeah that's not that's not so bad i like cold cheeses more than stringy
i love cheese this one we call pico de gallo is the base for making uh ceviche
do you want to try go ahead pico de gallo goes on chips yes it's a good idea
that is tasty that is good just a quick update for lunch for three people we had soup
i had some fondue april had some guacamol yeah nachos and guacamol
Selvyn had a chicken plate dinner came out to 170 quetzales did i say that right yes which is 25
and 25 cents U.S. just to give you an idea don't forget about drinks oh i forgot about the cerveza and uh
yeah the frozen limonades heck those those in the U.S. would have been $10 a piece