today we're in London and we're here to eat
this video is all about eating our way
around the best food at Borough Market
the best British food makes use of the
region's incredible produce, seafood and meat this is our first video from London
and we're hunting down the tastiest food at Borough Market watch out for
mouth-watering fresh oysters, London's most famous doughnuts and loads more
in this three-part series we'll show you London's best British food from heritage
recipes to British classics you don't want to miss this series get ready
for some mouth-watering food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate
we hope you're hungry, let's eat!
Borough market is one of the oldest and largest food markets here in London
it's been around since at least the 12th century
now there are tons of YouTube videos out there where people show up at Borough
Market and just eat their way around the market and there is nothing wrong with
those videos there is a lot of good food to be found here but we have got a
hit list, we've talked to locals and we know which stalls are overhyped and
which ones are absolute must eats so let's go and eat
I'm super excited about our first stop we're at The Ginger Pig which is a
famous London butchery but they also do world-famous sausage rolls so we're here
to grab one of those
we've got our sausage roll here and these things look really hefty so as I
mentioned before The Ginger Pig is a really famous London butchery they
started as a farm and their whole ethos is that if you engage in really good animal
husbandry and you treat your animals well then the result is that they will
taste better how good does this sausage roll look it's
hefty we went for the pork and Stilton so Stilton is a traditional English blue
cheese
oh man
really strong hit of that Stilton as soon as you bite into it very strong
blue cheese but not overwhelming because the pork has such a beautiful flavour it's
very well seasoned so it's got a great hit of salt lots of herbs and then flaky pastry
on the top it's beautiful gotta go for another bite
this is one good sausage roll we actually have The Ginger Pig cookbook at home and
I've made these sausage rolls, they didn't taste anything like this
this is next level ohhhh the meat in this thing
you really taste the quality of it I think that's why my sausage rolls that I made at
home tasted nothing like this because of the difference in the meat now I got completely
carried away I was so excited about the sausage roll that I didn't even explain
what a sausage roll actually is so it's sausage meat in this case there's various
cuts of pork mixed with a lot of herbs, spices and also the Stilton and then
covered in a pastry so a really simple flaky pastry
this place has a really neat feeling there's lots of different stalls lots of
people just wandering around having little samples of food there's bakeries
there's trains rolling over the bridge up ahead there's one right there
crashing its way past us it's a really neat little market now we're gonna get
some fresh seafood some oysters
we've grabbed a plate of rock oysters and they look incredible so we went for
some different sized ones to show you just how different these can be and
these are the same sort of oyster but just different ages so we've got some
small ones here some mediums and then these giant rock oysters so these giant
ones are about five or six years old so the small ones would be quite young and
so they said at the shop to start with the small ones and work our way up
because they get more briny as they get older so we've come to this particular
shop there are a lot of oyster sellers here in the market we've come to
this shop because they've been peddling the trade since 1792 they get all their
oysters from the coast of Mercy Island in Essex and they're all wild spawn so
I've gotta dive in I'm gonna go over the small ones first like they told us to we
put some pepper on there and we also put some vinegar and shallots so some red
wine vinegar with shallots in it and of course lemon so I'll just squeeze some
lemon on there let's get this little guy
Wow ohhh beautiful flavour
really good saltiness not too strong at all and a super burst of creaminess and
he said to us they will be extra creamy because at the moment it's
summertime and it's spawning season so they've got a bunch of eggs in them and
the eggs are very, very creamy let's get some lemon on this big guy and jump
straight in and see what the the taste difference is like now like I said these
are five or six years old he also showed us one that was about twenty years old
so they just had the shell not the actual oyster there it was humongous
let's go one go with this huge guy
ohhh that's good, much meatier so a lot more texture in its consistency
flavour-wise not too much stronger is a little tiny bit brinier like
he said so a little bit more of that salty sea taste but not as much as I was
expecting with that jump up in size and age you can tell that these are super
super fresh oysters they're really really delicious and they go really well
with those condiments so just a little bit of pepper nice little squirt of
lemon and I really love the tanginess of the red vinegar and the shallot over the
top
that was a great oyster stand to visit and they're shucking about two and a half
thousand oysters a day so it's a very popular stand
I love how compact Borough Market is so you can hop from stall to stall and eat
your way around the market pretty easily we're just outside our next stop we're here
for a chorizo roll
awesome, thank you
I've got my chorizo roll in hand so let me show you what it's made
up of so everything is sandwiched between what looks to be like a ciabatta
roll and this is the chorizo sausage so fermented, cured and smoked sausage with
a ton of dried and smoked red pepper mixed in with the meat it's a pork
sausage, some rocket and then a slice of grilled pepper and he drizzled some
olive oil along the top of it all as well it was a little bit disappointing because
the rolls weren't cooked to order so the sausage has been sitting and the roll
has been sitting like it was warmed on the grill and then it's just sitting
there so let's see what it tastes like
the sausage has got a great flavour it's very very smoky and that's the overwhelming
flavour that's coming out of that mouthful the bread roll is way too crispy and hard
so it's almost painful to bite into and it's quite it's gone a little bit hard
so it's not as soft as I would have liked
the arugula's quite or rocket is a
nice peppery hit and then the pepper's beautiful and soft
I'll have another bite
it's okay but it's not knocking my socks off
next up we're having something we've heard is very very good it's doughnut time
so hopefully these blow that sandwich out of the water because that was
definitely not a highlight of today's eating
sometimes research doesn't pan out like with that last spot but I'm pretty sure
that we're on point with this next stop we're here for Bread Ahead doughnuts
now Bread Ahead the bakery is famous for these donuts they have a real cult
following and they look spectacular
right near Borough Market is the Thames so we've decided to come down to the river
for these doughnuts and look at the four we got this one is pretty special this
is an Eton Mess doughnut I'll tell you about what Eton Mess is soon this is a
custard chocolate doughnut, this is a classic jelly doughnut that's using
blueberry jam for that one and that is a vanilla cream doughnut but it's the
Eton Mess doughnut that I want to go go for ohhh check that out so Eton Mess is a
English dessert I imagine named after Eton which is a place and a school
but the dessert is cream, meringue so you can see there is a meringue
sitting on top here and strawberries so this looks like it might be a vanilla
cream I imagine there's meringue pieces and that strawberry this is gonna be a mess
oh my god wow oh that is a mess oh man I'm covered in
doughnut it's so good
very light doughnut so the the actual doughnut itself is nice and airy nicely
fried and then you've got the crunchy bits of the meringue and that is a
vanilla cream so it's a beautiful vanilla custard basically in there oh
I'm so glad I'm covered in this it's really good and the strawberries add a nice
little freshness it's a cool little place too because they've got the doughnuts
right there in the market stall but the bakery is right there also so you've got
big glass windows and you can see all the doughnuts and bread etc for the bakery
being made
ohh and look at that I've bitten in again and there's a whole lot of cut-up
strawberry pieces inside that that cream that is good let's try the classic jam
doughnut now because that is a real measure of a doughnut's quality I think going classic
so this is a blueberry jam doughnut and they get the fruit for their jam doughnuts
from Borough Market
mmm
yum
as simple as it looks beautiful jam full of fruit quite sweet
that jam maybe a little sweeter than I like I'd prefer a little bit of tanginess
there and the outside is nice the doughnut's once again really aerated nice
coating of sugar another beautiful doughnut now I won't
eat them all on camera but let us know if you want to hear what the chocolate one
and the vanilla cream one was like