what is this so this is grasshoppers
this is a bug that we eat in mexico and
it's crunchy is it like almonds so it's
it's own genera
i don't know yet maybe i don't know
maybe i shouldn't be looking at them so
closely
welcome to my vlog and another beautiful
day here in valencia today i am going to
meet with a local who is going to show
me rustafa
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i lived here in rustapha for about one
year i've seen quite a lot but it's
different when you talk to a local when
they take you to the local spot and i'm
really hoping i can give you a deep dive
into this wonderful neighborhood come
with me and let's discover rusafa
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so i'm meeting a hector at la finestra
and let's see why he decided to meet
with me here ola
i think i walked by this place but what
is this place well it's a very chilled
out place it's a mixture between a bar
some italian guys run it
and finestra because well it has the
same meaning both in valenciano and in
italian this window right means windows
let me show my spanish here okay exactly
very nice spanish yeah
when it's a very relaxed spot they only
have here pizzas pizza okay you can only
ask for pizza you cannot choose
the toppings of the pizza
if you are a vegetarian you can ask for
vegetarian people i am okay and you are
too i am okay that's why i really like
it here um so vegetarian uh two and one
non-vegetarian
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it's like almost you feel like half of
the restaurant is outside too exactly
yes is this the that's the vibe here
like
yeah definitely
right now it's a bit empty yeah yeah but
usually it's super crowded here yeah and
you don't have to make a reservation i
see the people also they're different
like the waitress yes the the lady and
the like they're just very like very
very casual yeah definitely very very
outgoing they don't they don't want to
fake anything they want to be authentic
and you told me that this uh they have
like long tables they used to before
kobe of course there were these long
tables where you would sit
and meet the strangers right yeah sit
next to people that you had no idea who
they were very
very social
okay
so these are like almost like a
small size this is a tapa right uh-huh
so that's like putting a top on
something like tapa in in spanish
literally means lead to have something
to cover your
your your drink your drink exactly and
so you can share so usually if you
you're here with a couple of friends and
each one gets different ones exactly
it's like it's like yeah and it can even
become an eating competition oh really
very good
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so this is like one of the typical quiet
street here in rusafa well it used to be
but then a lot of bars and terraces
started popping up here and people that
live here kind of started getting uh
upset
because well there are people that live
here of course and there's some other
people that only come here to party so
yeah people that live here don't really
like that and well you can see that
there's
some uh
some people that have they express their
feelings telling that they have had
enough here
we live uh respect our
arrests i think spanish are allowed they
can take a lot of noise exactly
especially if they are drunk
yeah it can get loud we used to live
next to the the market
and man like until 5 00 a.m it's like
non-stop exactly non-stop yeah so rusafa
when it first started gentrifying
it started gentrifying through art right
so a lot of art galleries started to pop
up here and some bar art kind of kind of
vibe yeah
but then the prices of the places
started to going up and there were a lot
of restaurants popping up and a lot of
bars and a lot of discotheques yeah and
so then now the art galleries what in
the beginning gentrified the area are
now starting to live because
from what for one part they don't want
to be
close to a lot of parties yeah because
well if they have art
yeah you don't want to exactly yeah
especially this type of boutique shops
for example like the mix in between art
gallery and a shop like the boutique
shops yeah started gentrifying the area
the prices are so so high for those type
of establishments that they have to live
way easier to have a bar right yeah
you'll earn more from about exactly from
a boutique shop or than from an art
gallery no one will stop drinking
they'll stop buying art but they won't
stop drinking exactly
and what i noticed not not just in
rusava but anywhere in valencia
the streets it doesn't matter if it's a
tiny street or a major street it's very
well lit like in the states you can see
that like some places are
they just start looking sketchy because
there's no light there you know
10 years ago
you would be scared to be working in
rusava i've heard it wasn't a great
neighborhood before so
what kind of people were living here
well it's originally uh an arab
neighborhood a lot of arab bazaars yeah
yeah if you were to come to rusalfa you
were to buy drugs or get
very bad things yes yes and now now it's
a it's a better area it's become a lot
of expats everybody comes here exactly
there's definitely something that
attracts people how long how long you
live here i have been living here in
rusev for two years now two years two
years living and working here in rusalfa
yeah
and
yeah i found it an amazing neighborhood
but and i've also kind of seen the
development of the neighborhood how it
has changed in a positive way in a
positive way yeah definitely definitely
and of course well the mercat the
rusalfa yes it's a lovely architecture
isn't it yes yes i really like the
typography they use a very art deco
style
and this shot it's like the postcard of
rusafa it is i love also all the veggies
all the stunts inside the market are
amazing seasonal vegetables everything
yeah it's so cool
now we're walking towards kind of the
center where there are a lot of terrazas
a lot of bars like most of them night
life yeah yeah over there it's a lot of
people and have a drink probably there
yes yes okay all right
what we were talking about earlier this
is what all of rusava was about this
type of bazaars
middle eastern exactly wow look at the
coco chanel
over there oh
oh they said no oh okay
okay okay it's okay i don't know who is
buying all that type of stuff but
somehow those places are still open they
survive them they are surviving maybe
you know maybe they have their clientele
so it's uh yes but at least again it
gives another layer of flavor adds to
the mix exactly yeah so the melting pot
that results yeah it does right you can
see a lot of graffiti right here yeah
i really like that it's kind of uh it's
a bit scary but at the same time it
gives the
vibe the roof of a look the colorful
i've seen a lot of graffiti in el carmen
yeah like the old town
doesn't have much urban art at least
it's not known for that right
yeah if you want to look for some very
good urban art you have to go to olcam
i think it's interesting if they let us
should we ask him
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hey this is the authentic or the real
what used to be rusafa in the beginning
this type of shops
are up a antique or non-antique but
typical stores oh tea huh
if you want real good tea black tea yeah
you get it here
awesome and clothing and clothing yes of
course i'm clothing traditional clothing
cool cool some bed sheets okay exactly
the arab community is very well known
for the rocks right yes yeah flying ones
which are the flying ones but i think we
have this model
so that's nice okay
so yeah there's that the authentic
rusofa oh i love the chandeliers over
there that we don't chandeliers and uh
uh-huh
nice in this corner there's this mexican
restaurant but don't let them fool you
they are not mexican they are italian
oh they are oh my god italian it's the
worst place you you would ever want to
present because you know coming
especially from from l.a mexican food
it's so good in the corner the next bar
which is called la mescaleria uh-huh eh
that is a really good mexican restaurant
that's more authentic that's oh yeah i
trust you
we can better come here to la mescaleria
and have an artisan made tequila the
most yeah
is this like a part of the the plant
well the mezcal is the plant but the
mezcal is the one that has the worm okay
so you have here i like tequila too
tequila but tequila is like champagne
that i didn't know i thought it's just
like tequila's from one region in mexico
which is in guadalajara and mezcal it's
like you know the difference between
champagne and cabba which is uh every
year every sparkling spanish wine
exactly every other it won't be called
yeah yeah the same thing here you have
the region are you from
i am from mexico city mexico city from
the center okay um but it's way more hip
to drink my scalp than to drink tequila
in mexico
what what's the difference like mezcal
mezcal has a more um the taste is
different yeah the taste is super
different because they have a different
process okay so it has a more smoky
flavor nice okay okay and it's way
stronger well i learned something today
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okay so
with thanos
they don't let them they don't let them
export the one with the worm so yeah i
here here in rusava you won't be able to
find a typical spanish restaurant or a
typical
yeah spanish bar because it's so
cosmopolitan yeah it's a trip around the
whole world if you come here all
countries all countries in one alipoos
okay three different kinds okay so this
this place is so authentic right that in
mexico with the grasshoppers which we
call them chapulines i never tried that
i thought they do this in
in china
yes in mexico as well
okay okay are you ready again what is
this so this is grasshoppers this is a
bug that we eat in mexico and it's so
delicious it's toasted and it has spices
it has a bit of lemon
and it's crunchy
and it's very typical to go can you
prepare me like with the taste like is
it like almond like seeds like uh
it's uh it's its own genera
food
i know what it is but what does it taste
like
it's salty ah salty yes
crunchy crunchy crunchy
are you ready should we toast
uh i don't know yet
you wanna
i'll give it a shot first
yes yes do you do this before you drink
or
and after i'm during yeah
okay okay
it's good
yummy okay i'm going to try this one
okay
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oh yeah it is different it's smoky right
i guess i never had mescal before
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this is a god's drink
very smoky very cool
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try the cricket try i don't think i'm i
don't think i'm drunk enough for that
come on it's just a snack
maybe i don't know should i maybe i
shouldn't be looking at them so closely
this is a real tapas see what i told you
before the tapas
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so that's typical they serve this every
time yes it's a mexican tapita
okay maybe i try it and then drink or
should i drink and then try it try it
and then drink
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okay
only for my viewers that's the only time
i'll do it
okay
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oh
that's not bad i'm telling you can you
believe we've been talking about this
for now
okay okay okay yeah yeah salute all
right all right not i'm not bad
it's like some spice so you see the the
the warm that usually goes say at the
bottom yeah they dry the worm and they
create a salt assault out of it
and that's where it's on top of it when
the tequila
is it a special type of worm that's in
there or it's a natural growing
worm inside of the agave plant
which actually there's they're the
i believe that's the representation of
the agave plant
okay so this one
i like the labels too the scorpio
this was the most smoky
to me i mean i don't know how to
describe but this was the like the
with most smoke and this had like more
of um like a
piercing kind of alcoho
alcohol
i feel the alcohol stronger in this one
even though they're probably the same
this 40 70 oh yeah it is different it's
47. more alcohol 47 proof and this is
40. okay you do feel it yeah
and this this for example five okay
47.5
yeah that's why i'm drinking that one
right
all right
all right yeah should we carry on of
course our bars visit where we going
next
you