When you think of meat, you might think of:
meatballs, and bacon, and chicken breast,
but depending on where you go in the world,
meat has different meaning.
When you travel you see things like octopus on the menu, and duck,
and here at México,
it's actually insects.
There's a long history of eating them here in this country,
so today we're in San Juan Market, in México City,
looking for some of the more strange things on the menu,
and we're gonna learn how to cook them.
Let's go find some bugs.
-Ok, back at the hotel, and,
I'm meeting my two team mates for this challenge,
that will be coming with me for the rest of the trip. It's Ale Ivanova and Alex Tienda,
and they should be waiting at me in front of the restaurant,
there they are. Let's sneak up on them.
They don't see us yet. Let's see if we can surprise them.
-Hey!
-What's up, that's them.
-What's up, that's them. -Hey!
-Hi!
-This is Ale.
-Hey!
-And Alex,
-And Alex, -Hi, Alex Tienda.
Let's do it!
Here we go!
Hey guys, we're back in the restaurant called Chapulín,
in the Intercontinental Presidente Hotel in Polanco,
Got it.
This is our Chef Josefina,
-Hello, welcome to Chapulín,
and today we are cooking some insects.
On this table we have a lot of tasty treats that you may have never seen before.
Josefina is gonna coach us through what exactly we're eating, so:
-This is escamoles, this is the rice, this is chapulines, chicatanas,
-And the flower? -And the flower, of pumpkin,
-a pumpkin flower
-This is a chicatana, it's a big ant.
-We will make a mole with this one.
-Lime, salt.
-They're salty?
-A little bit, yeah.
It’s got some kick.
-Fish, with grasshopper.
Today we're cooking some bugs, we've talked about that already
but, this particular one is called escamole, Josefina was talking about it already,
that's to have it -by itself- in a "tortilla"
so I wanted to figure out what ant eggs tasted like,
I think it's gonna be good, it's called the caviar of México.
Actually is really nice, just like a pasty kind of texture, but,
really quite tasty.
We're gonna put it in risotto and it's gonna be delicious.
Ok, we just finished in the kitchen, cooking with Josefina,
now is the best part which is sitting back and enjoying the food we just made.
So, first we have risotto with escamoles,
-3, 2, 1,
-Oh, yeah, yeah!
-Tastes like delicious risotto,
-It's really really good.
-But just the idea that you're eating ant eggs would make most people go:
-Exactly. -Yeah,
here it looks like you cannot see them,
It's actually, they kind of look like risotto anyway,
-It just looks like risotto, it doesn't look like escamoles,
-Like you could tell what are you eating. -You should definitely try them.
-Ok, this is a taco, with suckling pig,
and a little of mole chicatana,
-Looks good.
-Ok? -Perfect.
-Ok, after a day of adventures and eating we're dancing,
-We're dancing. -And,
-also eating some dessert.
-So, what do you guys think ¿Would you eat bugs?
We did and we liked it,
-We loved it.
-We definitely liked it,
-Actually it was really tasty,
-you got to get over the fact you're eating insects,
and then is actually really tasty,
So, if you don't know Alex Tienda, check him out. This is Ale,
their's channels will be in the link below, and I wanna say thank you
we'll also saying thank you to Grupo Presidente and Aeromexico for putting this togheter for us.
-Thanks -you know- all of you for watching the video, to make this possible,
-Yeah, thank you guys too.
Experiences over possessions, Kick the Grind, you guys know it,
and I'll see you later,
-Bye! -Bye!
Translated & subtitled by Luciano Orlievsky.