- All right.
This is my first trip to Mexico.
And I discovered nine things
that I think they're not so obvious.
And I wanna share with you in this video.
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Mexico has a lot of art. Now we're in Frida Khalo Museum.
Frida was a Mexican painter.
When you come here, you can really see,
she went through a lot of pain in life
and she was expressing this through these art pieces,
through the painting.
You can tell there's a lot of self portraits.
And on the other hand, she was trying to show
the body doesn't need to be perfect either.
She had so many accidents and surgeries over the years
probably you should read about it.
One thing you should definitely do when you come to Mexico,
is to come to the Frida Khalo Museum.
I'm not a museum guy.
I'm okay going to one museum.
Maybe every time I travel, but this is crazy.
This is just the life of this person in this house.
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So when you come to Mexico, you know that in Mexico
you have very sophisticated food,
very colorful and all that.
But on the other hand, there's something very
very important, which is called vitamin T.
It's the key to Mexican happiness.
Pretty much everything that you can find
with the letter T.
And you can find it on the street.
Tortas, tostadas, tacos, tlacoyos.
Pretty much everything starting with a T
is part of the vitamin T,
part of the Mexican diet and the secret to their happiness.
Tortas in Latin America literally mean cakes,
but in Mexico to is like a sandwich,
the sandwich that you stuff it with meat or cheese
or whatever you want.
The bread has two lines.
And it's divided in three, the original bread is
called Telera and it's amazing.
It's white bread.
So if you don't like white bread,
probably you won't like this but it's really worth trying.
This is part or the vitamin T.
This is actually called Swiss because it's only cheese.
Originally it's with meat. We have zero tourists here.
It's just local people.
So eating now tostada.
And if you see my tostada at the moment
is pretty much a deep fried tortilla, which is very crunchy.
And then they have variety of toppings.
You can put vegetables, meat, cheese, cream.
That is it pretty much.
- [Ale] My personal favorite way
to get some vitamin T is with tacos,
the most iconic Mexican food.
They're generally composed of corn tortillas, meat, cilantro
onion, and salsa.
But if you don't eat meat, you have vegetarian options.
The best way to eat them is quickly and aggressively,
while continuously making an mmmm.
- It is unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
We pay like $2 for six tacos.
Tacos de Canasta.
Tlacoyos, it's a very, very thick tortilla.
I think like stuffed,
you can choose beans, cheese, and stuff like that.
And then you put your toppings.
That's it.
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- [Ale] Fresh, dried, ground up, sliced,
Mexicans love chiles for the flavor, texture and the heat.
They use them in and on almost everything,
including salsas, and even sweet foods
like pineapple and mango.
- This is the advantage of Mexico.
He was telling me that they have chiles
since a very young age, since they're four years old.
(Ale speaking Spanish)
That's why they have the big advantage, right?
Us we just start, when we're over 18.
Anyway, this is fruit mango
with a lot of different chiles salt and lemon.
Beautiful.
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- [Ale] You don't know what Mexican food is
till you come here.
And this is a 100% true.
I tried so many Mexican restaurants in London,
in Madrid and so on.
Nothing tastes like this.
The truth is that you can have the best Mexican
restaurant in your neighborhood
but it's not gonna taste like this.
Even tacos.
The one we try abroad have nothing to do with
the Mexican tacos.
Now I'm having some quesadillas,
and the food is really delicious
and it doesn't taste at all like the Mexican food abroad.
You know that Kristina doesn't like repetition
at all in any kind, but she wants to come back to Mexico.
And that means that the food is very tasty.
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- All right.
The bus was not too bad, actually.
I dunno why people say
"don't take the bus, don't take the bus".
It was not too bad.
Well, this is called Metrobus.
Metro bus, no issues.
We went to this local market, got the food, took the bus,
and now.
Oh my gosh,
I love Plaza Garibaldi is where all the Mariachis are here.
And I had to say one thing "ahorita",
"ahorita" actually means in five minutes,
in two hours in five hours, it doesn't mean right now.
Like "ahora", now in Spanish.
So next time you hear a Mexican saying "ahorita",
just be careful.
Okay. So the other thing is safety.
So Mexicans, since a very young age.
They learn how to be more alert
and pay attention to their belongings.
You know, I was born and raised in Argentina,
and it's the same in my country.
You just need to be more alert 'cause you know
there's people around that, that checking you.
So you have areas that are more safe than the other ones.
But on the other hand, you still need to be responsible
like anywhere in the world, and pay attention.
And Mexicans particularly learn
from a very young age to do this.
So if you're a tourist,
and you wanna be with your camera everywhere.
For example, right now me, I have a massive camera,
but I'm in a very, very sort of a secured area
full of police.
Just try to be more mindful in terms of where I go.
On the other hand yesterday,
I was in the center, in a massive market full of people.
And for some reason I wanted to use my camera.
And probably that was a bad decision
'cause there were people around checking me,
and you know, it's like everything.
You don't wanna be showing too much your possessions.
But on the other hand, it's not as crazy as people describe.
Try to find the balance, common sense and you will be fine.
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Oh my gosh, traffic in Mexico city, can you hear it?
This is crazy.
And traffic lights mean nothing.
Yellow, green, red, nothing.
People still go through the police is here.
They need to stop the traffic.
And even that, sometimes they don't even follow it.
I think it's just, just too many people, too many cars.
But yeah, it's not that simple to cross and to drive
in Mexico city, as you can see.
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All right, "mi casa, tu casa".
Mexican people are super, super, super welcoming.
We spent over a week here in Mexico.
I cannot even explain you how much,
I like these guys from everything.
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Always polite, always willing to help.
Always trying to help you out as well.
Even though sometimes they don't know.
So that's the thing.
Mexican people will send you everywhere,
because they want to please you.
And they cannot say, "I don't know".
So, even though they don't know,
they will send you somewhere.
So for example, when you go to the market and
you're confused or you are lost and you say,
"Hey, do you know what this market is?"
And they will say,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, three cuadras, tres cuadras,
or three blocks away."
And then you go three blocks away and there's nothing.
Oh my gosh, Mexico city.
In any case, you get my point.
They will always try to help you,
they're super nice people.
And I think whatever judgment you have before coming,
like you know, like they don't like Americans,
or they don't like this type of people.
It's not true.
And if you can speak the language
it's gonna be even better.
So if you can speak Español, they will love it.
But they're very curious about your culture as well.
When you speak to them, they will ask you question.
"How about your country?
How about that?
What's about the food.
Like what do you eat?"
They're really curious people.
We went to a lot of different markets
and they were asking us a lot of different questions.
Yeah. I think that's what Mexican people have.
And when they host you.
So for example, we stay with few friends
and parents of our friends.
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They were extremely nice,
and they told us straight away "mi casa, tu casa".
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