welcome to my guatemala food tour in this video i will tell you
everything you need to know about food in this amazing country
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because it will give you a lot of information that will make your stay absolutely amazing
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hello from guatemala and i'm super excited to show you what this country has to offer in terms
of food now luckily i know someone who is local and has given me some tips on what to look out
for and not fall into the tourist trap that is not try to have just mexican food or peruvian
or you know international food here so i'm really excited to show you what food in guatemala is like
i'm obviously going to be trying international food and some other options because you can't
just eating same thing every day so let's go start this beautiful tour of guatemala
and let's try all the exquisite food this country has to offer
so something interesting to try in guatemala it's subanik
it comes with three different meats let's see what it is like so good
you have to try this this is tamales it's basically corn stuffed with
either beans or meat and it's sort of steamed in banana leaf absolutely fresh and these are tayuyos
sort of the mayan pizza and it's basically bread with stuff inside frijoles or beans
and this is the sauce that it comes with so you top it like this and you're done
obviously it's not possible that you come to guatemala and not try mayan stuff
so i have bollos de chaya in front of me it is basically these little corn balls mixed with chaya leaves
which i think is like chives i'm not sure though and cheese so i'm quite intrigued
what it is like i mean i like everything that's made with corn which has been really amazing
well the sauce makes it really nice as well as the cheese wow something to try definitely
definitely a good idea i gotta wait for my main now which is also mayan stay tuned
my main is here and this is another mayan dish called chalcum
it is made with three different types of meat and veggies and spices and it comes with these condo
little things i've actually never seen them before it's quite nice i've tried a little bit before
sitting on the video so let's see what it is like to eat chalcum
as the tomatoey flavor
it's more like a stew and quite nice
yeah i'm gonna go finish this and we continue with the video
i'm sitting in a place called rincon topico and it is in antigua and it's more like a no-frills
place if you want to come have a local experience so right when you walk in you will see some ladies
making these fresh tortillas and the chicken being roasted right in front of you you just go order
you know whatever you want um it's usually to make things easier order of the day so today is pepian
which is this soup has this consistency and it's really recommended by someone who's a local as
you know something that's actually property guatemalans i'm going to try it now
it's quite nice has a slightly
smoky flavor which is really nice and the same thing goes for the chicken inside
oh my god this is so good second thing i ordered is this chicken which is like
being freshly grilled and it looks really good so i'm gonna go to finish all of this
because i'm really exhausted after walking around pretty much the whole morning
see you in a bit tonight it is some really yummy chicken soup with some veggies
avocados rice and a papaya juice i mean i can't get any healthier than this wow look at that
food for today is this is a beef dish with a little bit of sauce and some potatoes
it usually comes with rice avocado and some tortillas hilachas
so when you're eating in guatemala don't order too much
i'm gonna show you what my starter and my soup looks like and luckily i didn't order a main
this is the seafood soup this is huge this is a soup and this is my hand for reference purposes
so it's like massive and this is my starter don't order too much
i don't really think there are any specific breakfast dishes here um i checked but i couldn't
find much on that so it's usually just you know continental or american style or just with it
with a touch of local flavor with like tortillas and other things but there's some really good
options there's a lot of healthy food trends here so if you like to have like you know almond milk
and instead of normal milk or you want veggie or vegetarian or vegan options there's plenty
of that here not just for breakfast but like tons of everything that you see there's a lot of vegan
places here a lot of vegetarian places and lots of options so let me show you a few breakfasts that i
had here and what you can have and then we move on to you know what else we can eat here in guatemala
timbales is a local breakfast treasure that i accidentally discovered
in tikal it's a soft fluffy pancake topped with the sauce with bacon egg cheese and spinach
candied fruits are something interesting here in central america and there's quite
a few different options so do try some i'm going to try the coconut and a little bit of
fig and i think is an orange with something on it i can't really tell my spanish is bad
a big advantage of being in a tropical country is you can get like lots of fruits and these
are my favorite because they're super cheap it's like almost a dollar for one of these
and it's clean clean and clean and it's super amazing ripe fruit to try it out
this is horchata and it has become my favorite drink um in such a short time it's made with
a few different things like almonds and whatnot i don't know the exact ingredients
but it makes for the perfect dessert it's really nice it's really yummy but do ask for it without
ice but cold that's the best way to drink it really love it you have to try this as well
so good i love this
this is tea of jamaica or hibiscus tea and i've been drinking this a lot here in guatemala
even in el salvador because i like that the fact that most of it has no um sugar very less calories
and it kind of has this tangy cranberry like taste which i really like so yeah cheers to jamaican tea
okay so i found this really interesting fruit called jocote
in chichicastenango market and i was passing by an ice cream shop and i found the jocote ice cream
i haven't tried it yet but i'm gonna see if it actually tastes like the fruit
i fell in love with the fruit it was like the love at first taste
wow actually pretty much like the fruit
actually a little less sweet than the fruit so if you come ahead if you see jocote
fruit or the ice cream to give it a try i really like this so i'm gonna go finish this one
now so this is something really interesting that you have to try sort of like street food but
more natural these are fruits so my favorite are the mangoes that you have with this so this
is how you get it with some lemon and some salt and they're slightly unripened so they're quite
tangy and you can just buy them from the ladies on this on the street side oh my god i'm so good
they're laughing i love it it's really nice and tangy should definitely try
this is pinolito which is a little bit like horchata but what's special is it has ramon
which is the main mayan nut it's kind of like a
superfood but if you don't care about that like i do drink it because it's yummy
oh especially during summer afternoons i've had a wonderful time eating around in guatemala it was
very different than i actually thought and while you can get a lot of you know mexican and whatnot
the food from guatemala is actually quite nice as well
so i really hope you enjoyed going around with me there's one thing that i missed and i would
recommend and that's to try kakik it's a it's a stew made with turkey and it's
definitely tried and if you go to coban or if you are going to antigua you can definitely find it
there i missed it there and i'm regretting it so i really hope you liked the video i'll see you in
another country eating my heart out uh stay tuned until then and you have a beautiful day ahead
guys this is brown boy travels let me know what you think of the video
in the comment section if i've missed something please let me know also give me some suggestions
about your country i will see you in the next video until then you have an amazing day ahead