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and do you miss havana have you seen the
real havana in cuba uh havana havana is
the copy tell the cube
what's your favorite cuban food cuban
food
the rice the bread
the banana green remember guys you
cholesterol
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and this is a culinary tour culinary
means food right yeah yeah yeah awesome
it's all about the food today yes
a lot of cuban food i'm really excited
for it welcome to lira havana this is
the core of the cuban community in miami
and yes this is the closer you can
probably feel from cuba it's only 90
miles away from key west shore so we're
very very close to the island today
though we have now mexican food honduran
food guatemala salvador and most of
central american food and workers living
in this community
so the tour begins and this is kai ocho
this is eighth street kai mean street
and ocho means eight so this is the
eighth street mini havana
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but with beef but humny ordered me with
spinach
for all of you here look
how is it in cuba pretty much everything
is fried and this is fried too it has
usually it has beef it would be four
eggs
we the cubans we don't drink the whole
thing by ourselves we share with people
uh he's the only authorized vendor for
peanuts in little havana very very
popular in the island
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and cuban community go represent by
chicken and they are crying because
they're helpless us cannot send them any
money any dollars because of the embargo
basically idea is u.s is against
communism in the dictatorship yeah
guayaberas
this place reminds me of a tiger
who do you think he's showing the anger
and now they are taking us to a proper
cuban restaurant and they added this
outdoor seating just like in new york
because of pandemic and this is virgin
mojito mojito mint flavor
this is mint flavor right
this is one of the most popular drink of
cuba cheers
hello
gracias
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bread is the most special part about
cuba bread is the only actual thing made
in cuba from the cupid sandwich oh bread
is the only thing pork ham
uh cheese i believe uh face race and
pickles and french fries these are the
smallest french fries i've ever had
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so we're going to the domino park
they've been playing domino on this
corner from the last 60 years gypsy
immigration started from 1960s
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and these are pictures of all those
and this is only latin american hall of
fame or walk of fame walk of faith
enrique's father and ganecaras is not
popular in us but it is in cuba to many
life
you can't take it home known as the
grandma of little havana
what they call in bangalore thank you in
chennai they call it what is it
they put ginger and kimchi
in chennai in in uh
they call it
we love this is very similar to the one
in india
it's very
yes
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and we had ganekaras in azuka and azukar
means sugar in spanish
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they report them to try and they cover
the green leaf
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i said it right
where is it what did i say mexico
no
most of the things made it
different people say in mexico because
if you go to mexico they say oh we have
the best tourists right yeah okay so
this is originally from spain yeah and
then from cuba yeah
they thought they're regular ones you
can have one
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now time for cuban ice cream which is
handmade
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what fruit what flavor do you think you
have
yes so
ice cream that has maria cookies
inside with pieces of guava and guava
jelly on the top
it's vanilla ice cream with voila
basically guava jelly jelly cookies nice
you like the guava fruit yes
yeah it's amazing and all the cuban food
that we just tried
you know the reason because just the
bread was authentic the other stuff like
meat
they are in shortage of that i feel very
sad for that because all the resources
that cuba had were because of allies
with soviet union or job soviet union
collapse all the resources that cuba got
also collapsed as well
okay they have shortage of so much stuff
and also because of embargo with the us
government and us
flights we come in so that's why 60
years stage of
cuba saying
some of the people got stuck in the past
is
not even able to help cuba to solve
their food shortage problems that's
really sad to know yeah i mean
historically it's always been a battle
between the u.s and communist countries
they really don't want the spread of
communism to happen so yeah especially
in the middle of the 1900s i mean there
were lots of movie stars and famous
people who were accused of being
communists and put on trial and like it
was called the red scare yeah yeah the
u.s has historically been very good as
communism and
that's why a lot of part of why a lot of
cubans have come here and the cubans who
live here now tend to be very against
communism and tend to be more
conservative for that
reason feels kind of sad leaving the
nature
but it was fun
okay let's go
hi miami and if i ever come back to
miami i'm going to choose that same
airbnb because airbnb is just a
room but that was a house
full of
really amazing people
department though
everything yeah you can just stop here
yeah
time to check in
oh no lying behind me
yeah it's a huge line
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