all right starting off the Bahia food Vlog at a restaurant called yamanja which we have
learned unfortunately appears to have lost maybe half his business due to the covid
pandemic now to me and Ivana it's still a very beautiful restaurant because it's
our first time here but we're joined by the Lovely Leah and the equally as lovely Vanessa
who is a local and is more familiar with the restaurant a bit of a bummer because I
think the part they've lost was the original partner was like incredibly beautiful right
with that being said we are trying our first dish which smells like it's coming home it's
very small oh my light that you can find the shell crab small and white it's this tiny one
because I've seen people on the beach collecting them yes exactly the one that makes a tiny hole
play what it's for yeah I know you can eat so I should put the lime on top yes okay lime on
top and I'm thinking this is ferofa yes okay and then I just eat with ropa eat it
[Laughter] it's so cute girl and she's enjoying some traditional but yeah
crackers yeah but no I'm feeling good okay so just eat like this with foreign
baby
Berry crab flavor I mean you should try wanna okay you might like it better smells actually good
I think you're like iguana very good kind of tastes like it's cooking like tomato sauce
or something a little bit I'm not sure an onion and lots of spices I like it
um and I like the lime kind of sour fresh it's like a
crab salad appetizer very good appetizer right yeah winter ball
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super spicy but so good I love it
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all right introducing mokeka and karuru now first things first it would be impossible to
make a Bahia food Vlog without talking about dende oil so you'll notice the theme Here is this bright
sort of yellow or orange sort of Rich color and it comes from dende oil which is the oil from
a certain type of palm tree my understanding is outside of Bahia you're not going to find
this oil it's like regular cooking oil but it comes with an epic punch so even the farofa
which is a staple food in Brazil is bright yellowfa because it's farofa with dende oil
the flavor is very hard to describe tastes like dende oil but it tastes very good so
I think it's in just about everything here um in typical Brazilian fashion it's right to eat
everything all at once so I tried to arrange my plate beautifully but realistically we can just
start going for it on this on top is mokeka and Cameron which we've had before and it's very good
amazing food so good food and it tastes um very fresh it's dinner oil it tastes lime it's very
fresh and very good it goes great with rice and profile this might be my favorite Brazilian food
really mokeka mokika came around oh my gosh five-star food let's be clear six star food
the flavor is so unique oil we've also got this here which is again within the oil of course
which give it the yellow color right which is a
great texture but I think it's right to mix everything so you go in rice
it's so good nice oh my gosh it's so good this might be the best food we've had in
Brazil oh my God it's so good absolutely six stars wow the flavor is so unique it's really
amazing no this is the first time we've ever tried this uh karuru which is okra
and then the oil sort of made into like a saute stir-fry type thing first time trying
oh it's very good the over is good flavor the overhead is that funny texture we're
kind of slimy yes it goes very well with uh the dende oil and again I think it's right
to do everything all at once so you can do karuru and mokeka and rice and faroqua
amazing food six stars you need to start eating okay it's very good you're gonna love it
looks so bright and yellow it's yellow it's kind of like favorite color so [Music]
it's so good you wanna the flavor is hard to describe but so delicious
very good push down coconut milk yes there is coconut milk
amazing it's so rich good taste buds yeah you got it rich and
lots of spices going on I don't know what's in onion tomato yeah bell pepper onion Tomatoes bell
peppers but it's not spicy it's not spicy it's just a lot of flavor that goes into this dish
it's so good and it's Rich let's mix it with the piran exactly um I think
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mochika sauce with flour it's like thick mochika sauce yes how could that be bad
that sounds good very good very good and you're supposed to mix the karuru
super good chronicaruru and the fatappa together let's try it
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interesting in all of the dishes they got that similar distinct flavor which is dandy oil
I cannot describe it please kind of like peanut e
don't like nuts earthy and nice they're actually nuts here too oh where okay just found out there
is nuts in mokeka yo ivana's baseballs are so good she can taste all the ingredients
very good anyway six stars I love it absolutely right you guys know I have a lack of credibility
when it comes to my favorite Brazilian food it changes every week but why do you have food
very good mokeka with Cameron with farofa and rice absolutely six star food [Music]
all right I'm gonna go ahead and say my new favorite Brazilian food and actually one of
my favorite foods in the whole world okay with vatappa with rice and the dende ferofa
I'm telling you it's so good you guys know I don't even really like seafood yet I'm
still learning to like seafood but mokeka and Cameron is so delicious I do like the perum
but it has a very strong Cameron flavor so it's only okay for me but mokeka with that rice and
the dende ferova six star food I'm almost ready to say seven star amazing oh my gosh the flavor
is so good listen I still love perennial sandwich I still love uh cowol in minutes
rice still left your hostel and even just rice beans a profile I like a lot of Brazilian food
but as of right now my favorite Brazilian food this right here absolutely six star food it
is very good it's very good but it's uh very filling so I'm still working on the last bit
our plan today was to do a food tour I think we might
have to continue tomorrow because I'm stuffed
more praviaji than there was in the meal
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today
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maybe halfway