- I mean, can we have a...
Oh, that's hot, a Cuban episode.
- (beep) He warned you
- I know, but you know what people say things are hot.
- It's never that hot.
- You never know what hot is, and it's really hot!
- Oh! (beep)
- Woo!
Dude, are you ready for summer vacation or what?
- This man loves to waste money on stuff that nobody buys.
- Excuse me?
Hey, welcome to Miami
'cause we got a special Miami episode of "Send Foodz"
on Thrillist from my kitchen.
We got food from Miami, Miami.
- Woo, they don't give a (beep) about corona out there.
You guys are irresponsible as hell.
- Anyways, I'm Tim Chantarangsu.
- And I'm David So.
- Are you hungry?
- I'm so (beep) hungry.
- Do you like Cuban food?
Because we got a lot of Cuban food today.
- I like Cuban food.
I likes the womens as well
and I love the culture.
- Mm.
Everybody's nice and tanned.
Got their cheeks out on the sun,
glistening.
What say we start off with a drink?
- I like drinks.
I like to party.
- He does not party.
I like to party.
- What are we drinking?
- We are drinking mojitos.
- Mojitos?
- Mojitos dude.
- What's in a mojito?
- Um, let's see.
Usually it's like, you know,
you got your mint leaves in there.
And then they do that, they muddle it
with uh, some (beep) man.
You got some lime juice.
Rum.
So here we got this little concoction from Drinkworks.
A classic collection mojito cocktail.
And let's see. - Ooh.
- Oh, it's the same pods from last time.
But, I figured it was gonna be this.
So, I got us some soda water this time
so it's not so syrupy.
Ah!
Put some of this mint in there.
- Oh, we should of muddled it up first.
- Ah, we should of muddled it up.
I feel like I'm about to eat pho.
- Like that.
It burns.
Take a lime.
Ooh, these are juicy limes too.
- Oh wait, here we go.
- Wow, that was a lot of juice!
- Why do you need to squeeze?
- You pop it down and then, ow!
Ow! In just got a tetanus shot yesterday,
can you do it for me?
- Ugh, Tim.
- Dude, that's mine!
- I wanted to test it to see if it worked.
- Ugh.
- Only child here huh?
A little club soda for me.
Ooh. - That enough?
- See, all that chewed up mint.
- Cheers.
That's great.
- I enjoy that.
- Refreshing, minty, sweet.
All right.
All right. So, first up
from Sergio's, straight out of Miami bro.
This isn't Cuban food in LA dawg.
Thanks to Goldbelly, we can have food from Miami
sent right to us.
- Wow Goldbelly, thank you so much Goldbelly.
- Wow Goldbelly, thank you so much.
Shout out to GB, good old GB.
This is from Sergio's
and you know, we got some empanadas.
- Oh man, can I tell you this though, real quick.
If you guys have had Hot Pockets,
this right here is where the Hot Pocket originated from,
all right? - Facts.
- Ohhh.
If we wanna talk about meat
that's some meat.
- That is some meat right there.
- Ooh. Do we have some hot sauce?
- We do have hot sauce.
- Can I have some hot sauce with this?
- I got you bro.
Let's see, we got some Tapatío
or we got my mom's sauce.
- Your mom's sauce.
Don't (beep) play.
Don't even bring that other shit out.
- Aw, that looks nice.
Looks like a nice little shredded chicken situation.
- I like it.
- I like that.
- I like that a lot.
Here we go, would you like me to sauce you up?
- Yes please.
- Let me try to avoid this little chili pepper there.
- Oh.
- Cheers.
Mm.
- That's a really good empanada.
- You can't go wrong with that.
Mm.
- It's like a dry, meaty ragu in the inside
but you can tell there's probably like
tomato paste in there or something.
- Nice, low-key, saucy shredded or ground meat.
- Wow.
- Crispy, flaky empanada crust.
Poppin'.
- I could eat empanadas every day for
the rest of my (beep) life.
- Damn, really?
- Mmhm.
- I don't know if I could have empanadas every day.
If somebody asked me if I could eat empanadas every day,
I'd be like empa-nah-dog.
- That's why you got the glasses.
After this, we have these croquettes.
- They look like little Twinkies!
- Oh man.
Oh, there's some ham in here.
- Really?
- Oh, hold on a second.
- Mm.
Oh my.
- Crunchy exterior.
- Wow.
- Salty, smokey ham on the inside.
- Wow.
- With that cheesy potato goodness.
- Wow.
- I mean, this right here
is how you end up dead at an early age.
Tim, sauce me up real quick.
- Oh, now you're taking it next level.
Now you're talking.
- Steve Harvey over here.
- Croquettes!
- Bro.
- That's great.
- Wow, right?
- Wow.
(beep) wow.
- Amazing.
- In fact, I'm gonna have another.
- What?
Seductive with it.
- Oh.
Amazing!
I'm gonna eat your second.
- Somebody likes the food today!
- I do!
You're making me embarrassed.
- OK, so.
More stuff from Sergio, bro.
I know you're enjoying what you just had
but we got more (beep) from Sergio.
What the (beep) is this?
- Turkey picadillo?
- Turkey picadillo.
And then we have some ropa vieja.
- Ropa vieja.
- Yeah, that's what I said.
How you wanna get down with this?
- I want some rice.
- OK.
Well I'm glad you wanted rice, because I happen
to have some leftover rice here.
- I love it!
- It's brown rice, though.
- That's good.
- Just gonna warm this up for a second.
- This smells so (beep) good and
don't forget the platanos mother(beep)!
- Wow. Plantains.
How beautiful, I love it.
All right, that enough rice for you?
You want some more?
Pace yourself, dude.
- I know, I'm gonna pace myself.
Can I have a spoon please?
- Yeah.
- I'm going to take a little bit of the ropa viejas.
- Me too, me too.
- Look at this succulent meat with
onions and this great delicious sauce with
all the spices and the tomatoes.
And then we have this turkey picadillo.
- Picadillo!
- Picadillo.
And then I'm gonna get a little plantain.
- OK, OK, OK.
- Was Scarface Cuban?
- Yes.
- Say hello to my little friend!
- Yes.
- Look at this right here guys.
- I see what you're doing.
I'm picking up what you're putting down.
How's that?
Oh, he dropped the spoon on them!
- That's so good.
That's (beep) good.
- Let me get some.
- It's like spicy, it's vinegary,
it's savory, it has like this little chili kick to it.
- This episode isn't about my mom's sauce David.
- I know but it needs this because
at all these spots they do have
a similar hot sauce salsa, like this.
Didn't come with it, so its something that's needed.
- That's poppin'!
- Bro.
- Yeah, that is delicious!
- You have this succulent cooked down meat
torn to shreds with those sweet onions on the inside.
Mmhm.
Then you have this sweet fried plantain.
- Platanos.
- I'm in heaven.
We have another episode after this.
I'm not gonna taste any of it.
Well we can't do a Miami-themed episode
without having a cubano my friends.
Salty ham.
- Mm.
- Pulled pork. - Mm.
- Pickles. - Damn.
Mustard.
- Ey.
- Toasty bread.
- Wow.
- Also Swiss cheese.
- Oh.
These are from Versailles in Miami
and also, there's a Versailles in Hollywood.
- Same?
- Same. Cuban food.
The mustard is really
what's making it all kind of come together for me.
- It needs to have that zing,
like when you touch a hot plate when somebody told you
it was already hot.
- And shout out to Stevie Davey for making these so
crispy and toasty and delicious.
- I know, we would've never done it like this.
We would've had this (beep) cold.
- Yeah.
Microwaved.
- Oh yeah, microwaved cubanos.
- Yo!
Oh man, you and that knife, dude.
Jeez.
- Look at that little cutie in there.
See all those layers of meat.
- Mmhm.
- You know, Swiss cheese Tim
is a cheese that you choose that has the least amount
of calories when you wanna make a sandwich.
- 'Cause there's holes in it.
- No but, awesome.
That is an awesome observation.
- Isn't that how it works?
- I didn't even think about that.
- All right David, so we've had a lot of
salty delicious food so far.
What do you say we have something sweet?
- Sure Tim.
What do we have coming up?
- We got this (beep) right here
from a spot called, oh this is heavy,
Pink Pie.
- Ooh.
You just pulled the whole...
You ruined the magic of it.
It had the whole thing going.
- Ah-hah!
- Wow.
- Oh, interesting.
- It's pie in a jar?
- It's pie in a jar, they got different flavors here
Oreo, Nutella, carrot cake, Key lime pie, s'mores.
I think I would try the Key lime pie since
Key lime pie comes out of Florida as well.
- I'm going to do the s'mores.
Wow.
How beautiful is this?
- Wow, that's really cool.
- You got three little marshmallows that are toasted.
- Mmhm.
- Who would've ever thought that we would wanna
eat pie out of a jar?
Yours looks like somebody threw up in there.
- Little bit.
- Yeah.
- But I like it.
- OK.
- You gotta get in there to get that crust.
Oh, that is a tart-ass Key lime.
- That's thick.
- Mmhm.
- You know what I could use with it? Some milk.
- Or, would you like some ice cream?
- Who doesn't like ice cream Tim?
- Now this is real ice cream.
This is not lactate, this is the real shit my guy.
- Mm.
This is definitely for people who have a
severe sweet tooth, because this is very sweet.
- Sweet as (beep).
So here we got a whole bunch of pastries
from Vicky's in Miami.
Or as they call them Que Rico Pastelitos!
Is that what it was?
- So anyways guys!
These pastries, puff pastries,
nice and crunchy, nice and toasty.
So we have a place out here called Porto's
that have their version of this
and I wonder if its just as good.
Cause Porto's is (beep) fire.
- I love Porto's.
- You know what I'm saying?
Cream cheese, we have guava of course,
that guava paste they put in the middle when they bake it.
- What is this one?
- Straight guava, oh wow.
Ooh wow.
- Interesting!
This cream cheese, it's not sweet.
- No?
- This actually is savory.
- I like this.
This isn't too sweet, you know what I'm saying?
- This is a savory version of what I normally have.
- Maybe do like a-
wow.
- Interesting. - That is so good.
- Oh, look at that crunch!
The guava and the salty cheese.
- That's what I'm saying.
- This one's already combined.
- What the heck?
- Yeah, you thought you did something cool,
they already did it.
- All right, we're not done yet bro.
We got more sweets for your little sweet tooth.
- Thanks.
- Up next we got some cookies
from Cindy Lou's Cookies.
They're seriously delicious bruh.
Whoa.
- Cindy Lou, you do not (beep) play.
What in the holy hell is this?
- That's a mother(beep) cookie right there bro.
- That's a cookie dookie.
Oh, there's so many different ones.
What is this one looks so good!
- What the heck?
- Baked with love.
I don't know which one I wanna eat first?
- What did you just say?
- I got it.
- Tim, they baked it with love!
- What is this? Do you wanna do this one?
- I wanna try it 'cause it looks so interesting.
So gooey, OK.
Yeah.
- You ready for this?
- Cheers.
- Peanut butter and chocolate.
- With that vanilla ice cream on top?
Poppin'.
- These are good cookies.
This is definitely made with love.
- Mmhm.
And butter.
- I think butter is the love part.
- I think so too.
Mm, and then, take some of this ropa viejas.
What?
- Let's just slow down for a second.
- Some of this ropa vieja right here.
- That's exactly how Sergio wanted it.
- All right, well David.
So, what would you say your favorite thing
you ate today?
- I'm just gonna choose
the restaurant that I enjoyed the most.
And I'm talking about Sergio's.
You're talking about the croquettes,
we're talking about the ropa vieja,
we're talking about the plantains!
Are you (beep) kidding me?
Sergio, are you married?
- And, OK cool.
So I would go with
the Cuban sandwiches we had from Versailles then,
since I've been to Versailles a few times,
the one in LA.
I just, the sandwich was really...
It was all right. No I'm kidding.
All right, y'all. We hope you liked
this Miami edition of "Send Foodz."
Remember to support your local businesses.
And thanks to Goldbelly you can support
your not-local businesses.
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Thank you for watching "Send Foodz" on Thrillist.
I'm Tim Chantarangsu.
- And I'm David So.
- Peace, bitches!