Good morning guys! Good morning it's josh. It's Vicky. A Couple of Nomads. Today we're
going to take you down to old central downtown Valencia take you over to the central market
as well we can check that out the mercado and get something to eat and also a dessert
surprise so it's a brand new place just opened up. You'll see what we're talking about when
we get down there so um we'll see you guys down there stay tuned.
All right we are in our taxi.
All right guys we're here um Mercat central in the back so there are some vendors outside
here so we're going to kind of look around and go inside and show you guys around. This
is a probably the biggest market in Valencia so it'll be a there are a lot of like fresh
produce and food and so it's a it's very nice place to work out so let's go.
How beautiful it is.
Oh we have a chicken.
Fresh eggs, a bunch of nuts.
Onion jam, lemon of course orange marmalade tomato really good.
Salted dried cod you have to rehydrate it for about 24 hours.
So the funny thing about the baccalau the people eat here so much.
it's salt brined, so it's very very salty like you have to soak it in the water for
at least 24 hours.
Now first time when i came to spain i didn't know that and i'm usually too impatient to
read the direction of the package of bacalao. So i was like oh i'll just use it and i made
a dish out of it obviously it was inedible because it's way too salty. Guys you have
to soak it in the water minimum of 24 hours. You have to change the water and once it gets
rehydrated and then the salt came out then it's you can enjoy the really delicious bacalao.
Obviously you have to cook and make some dish out of it but yeah i i can't believe i took
a bite it was like eating like a thousand tablespoon of salt.
Chicken donuts never had those.
Oh
We're gonna try this juice.
So delicious. Unfortunately central bar is closed this guy this place has delicious sandwiches
i believe it even has a michelin star i can't remember. Um but usually you just walk right
up here to the bar stand grab a sandwich and you're on your way. These are all one euro.
Valencia wine one euro a glass.
Josh to the rescue!
Yay!
All right so we have to go outside and eat it. We have to go outside let's go. All right
we made it outside, let's see what we got to eat we got one bocadillo, jamon and tomato...
with pimon and tomato
yum a little bit of cheese some cherry tomatoes some jamon let's give it a try.
it's not too much bread jamon of course is delicious
cheese,
very creamy and tomato makes it nice and fresh.
Your turn. I'm gonna try this bocadillo. ohh.
i buy it into tomato and juice went
everywhere
you know the best thing about Spanish bocadillo it's so simple so fresh you don't need to
put a lot of things but it's just a perfect combination. So guys next we have the Spanish
empanada what they call empanadilla here. One thing we've quickly learned about Spain
is their love for tuna. They have it just about everywhere so i got a tuna and tomato
uh empanada. Let's see what's uh see what's inside. Crispy oh you hear that this actually
looks a little spicy but i think it's just the tomato, let's see.
Yum.
A little sweet from the tomato of course fishy from the tuna but not too fishy.
A delicious protein snack!
All right so that was a delicious snack we paid one euro for the bocadillo for the sandwich,
one euro for the empanada or empanadilla one euro for the beer one euro for the wine so
we're out of four euros for a pretty good snack sitting out in the nice warm sun today
here in Valencia. Yeah typically pre-covered you would have been able to sit inside and
or eat inside there's some restaurants open but unfortunately right now as you can imagine
um with the restrictions, though they're dining in type of places all close you can grab some
food but you have to come outside of the market and and and i haven't but which is fine it's
beautiful weather so there you go. We may have broken the rules with the uh strawberry
smoothie but the guy didn't stop us and we didn't ask so i don't know. I tried my best
to try to sip it as quickly again and put the mask back on cheers.
Okay.
All right we've made it to the seafood section of the market.
ohh its still moving.
Look at eels.
That is a huge octopus.
Tortillas.
Pumpkin. Manchego. Chorizo. Onion. Jamon.
uh
Looks like we got some different beers here cerveza with seawater.
Sea water superior taste. awarded by sommelier. all right so we got a different patata for
a different um.
Tortilla tortilla is a basically a spanish egg uh this one's like omelette omelette type
thing it's manchego cheese we've never had this kind before so let's give it a try.
Lots of potato, manchego.
Very good. I'll try the beer.
That is a very good craft beer.
Manchego is a very kind of salty sheep's cheese, so it's from Spain delicious. I think it's
uh one of the protected origin
cheese.
mmm.