today we're trying egyptian food for the first time let's dig in
hi guys and welcome back today we are trying egyptian food for the very first time yes this
stuff smells so good right off the top we're going to tell you what we're eating how much
it costs and then we're just kind of gonna go all in on all of it we're gonna dig in
and eat the stuff that's right yeah so do it before we get into all these foods um
please again have a little bit of forgiveness for us if we mispronouncing any of these words
wrong because we probably are we have canadian accents you know don't hesitate let us know in
the comments down below exactly let us know be nice well no better for next time that's right
okay so first up we have kushari my little cheat sheet song get it wrong kushari kushari is egypt's
national dish and widely popular street food the dish combines italian and arab culinary elements
kushari is made of rice macaroni and lentils mixed together topped with spiced tomato sauce
and garlic vinegar and garnish with chickpeas and fried onions for this bowl it is a 12
canadian dollars oh canadian dollar it looks like a massive bowl next up we have some bubba ganoosh
is a silky luxurious combination of eggplant tahini paste garlic lemon juice and salt
that is blended into the most creamy luscious dip it originates from the middle east and is
often served with pita bread olives or vegetables as a flavorful appetizer so it's kind of like a
hummus almost it is kind of like a chocolate is egyptian right i don't think i'm not sure but it
sounds like it's like a hummus so the difference between hummus and avoganoush is babaganoshi's
eggplant and hummus uses chickpeas that's right you got ahead of me steve that might have been a
fun fact oh blew the fun fact and then here is the delicious looking pita bread to go with it
okay so that's the bread we're dipping in the bubble gummies last but certainly not least
i'm most interested about this one to be honest it's in a pizza box yeah which is kind of cool
this is the one that i'm nervous about the pronunciation okay hawashi h-a-w-a-w-s-h-i
right uh so one thing i also learned was a lot of um there's different spellings for these i
guess depending on if it's like english versus translated so okay anyway it is a pita stuffed
with minced meat and spiced with onions pepper parsley and occasionally chilies i had no idea
it was like uh sandwich well it's like a calzone almost or something yeah it does and this looks
like a side of chili peppers which well never see how spicy it is so the price for the hawashi is
16.80 that seems pretty expensive compared to the yeah i get the uh pretty sorry it's pretty
thin and i can't tell exactly what's in it so maybe once we open it up it'll be kind of make
more sense but that seems like a lot considering that this giant bowl of noodles is four bucks
cheaper yeah and in case i missed it the baba ganoush was ten dollars and twenty cents which
that seems a bit steep for this but again we haven't tried it so all right so what we're gonna
do is we're just gonna gonna dig into what we want talk about it discuss it yes see how it goes so
i'm gonna actually go right in on this because i was gonna this was close to me okay sorry we
can both go in on it that's true which one are you gonna try steve i guess i'll go to the baganoosh
i'm actually really excited for the baba ganoush this this is like i said i see
the pasta and the rice in here well look oh no you missed it all it's all at the bottom
look at it's all underneath is all so we have to like we're gonna mix it together
yeah yeah okay but the tomato sauce tastes delicious oh yeah bobbing is good i want to
try something yeah oh yeah that's really good this is like spicy or like no it's got a real kick to
it though kind of a garlicky i don't know maybe there's some of the eggplant too it's good though
mmm it was really good i love i love hummus so eric's just reading the i was just reading the
notes off to the side here now so i want to make sure i get everything on my screen
i made a bit of a mess a little bit yeah that is really good though those noodles they're
delicious they taste a little bit like spaghetti but they're thicker wow but to me the tomato sauce
is really good i love the tomato sauce i'd like to more tomato sauce in here actually
there's a lot of rice and chicken and lentils and the chickpeas are in there as well that is
really good i know it's good it tastes like um it tastes like spaghetti but with like the extra
it's an interesting combination i've never had rice and like pasta together on in the same dish
no it works well yeah but it's just like a it's like a really well done really done spaghetti
yeah it's good toppings it's like spaghetti with the works is it right sorry i totally
forget is there meat in here at all uh no okay so that brings me to the first fun fact
we have a fun but you guys are all getting ahead of me on my fun facts kushari fun fact as
traditionally prepared kushari does not contain any animal products it can be considered vegan
as long as all frying uses vegetable oil so if they use vegetable oil in this which we don't
know for sure it's vegan wow nice remember that with chickpeas and hummus if we didn't
it's definitely vegetarian i feel like oh my gosh what smell this i just cut it
oh wow that smells really good we're all sniffing oh man okay there's a dipping sauce for this one
yeah yeah i'm definitely going to jump into this one next
it's very good yep i still don't understand why this was 16 though maybe because of the
mince meat maybe but there's not even a super super ton in there like it's like here it's
there's not a lot in it's not crazy something no and uh yeah yours is like doesn't have a
lot of meat at all no but no you got the end piece yeah the pita like it smells really good
but that tastes delicious the minced meat definitely has makes me look so
there's some pepper in here spice delicious some chili oh man it is really good is that spicy
it sounds like a spicy it's well but you do that for everything
every that's remotely spicy some i forgot that that was spicy
i dipped the whole piece okay always going to try that 100 i'm going to try it but oh i just don't
i i'm hesitant to listen to kelly's uh kelly's a little bit of a spice drama queen not me ever
oh my god
they're spicy holy [ __ ] there's no recipe no it's spicy but i don't wow that is spicy i like
it it is that's got a good kick of spice it does oh it looks spicy actually i think it needs it
without it it's kind of boring that's the thing it has the minced meat has flavor like there's
a lot of pepper flavor and it's just peppery it doesn't taste bad it's just kind of like
not like oofy but you add that chili peppers oh that thing tasted up a big notch
the sausage is really good it's spicy but i like it there's definitely a lot of like chilies in
this sauce has ever tried the bubbly noose yet no i gotta jump into that next i would
like to try the baba ganoush with like olives or veggies this pita is very very like thick and like
very like dense tasting so kind of is overpowering the baba ganoush i'm going to eat a spoonful of
baba ganache on its own you're crazy get crazy get loud don't know the words guys
we're making such a mess oh okay i'm going to try a spoonful of it don't take a shot of my area
it's good it's good like it tastes very very very similar to hummus you're just ripping off
a piece of this stuff right yeah yeah the texture tastes very similar i kind of wish
there's a bit more garlicky but it's good it is really good it's right to me it's a little
of a more mild version of hummus yeah i love it i love hummus i look nice and garlic garlicky hummus
i think it's good this is all really good actually like it's definitely smooth but it
is but doesn't it remind you of hummus it does the pita kind of overpowers it though so take a
little bit with your fork maybe because the pita is very like whole wheat and dense and
it's so good this is all really like it says it's silky in the description
it is i agree it's very very smooth it's silky it's smooth right now my favorite thing is this um
washi if you say it properly yeah it's still another piece here instead
to me it's really the hilachi with that the spicy dough there i have a couple fun facts drop them
another fun fact about kashari is that it used to be sold on food courts in its early years and was
introduced to restaurants later so this was like a street food so that is all my fun facts on kashari
which i'm gonna be honest out of all this this is the most interesting dish not by taste by just the
the different ingredients in here like eric said i wouldn't expect there to be pasta rice and lentils
and chickpeas all in one bowl but it works yeah that's my second favorite thing on the out of our
selection today so far yeah well eric since you like the hiwashi so much and steve as well i have
a fun fact about hawashi talk to me about hawashi i feel like we're totally saying that name wrong
hawashi is commonly made in egyptian homes and is also served in some restaurants usually as a
takeaway so hawaii is very common for people to make at home okay okay maybe not be the best fun
fact but i thought it was kind of cool to find out how well it's a homemade dish right yeah
we're like hanging out here at home it is enjoying it that's always the most interesting thing about
doing these videos is the comments we get where people tell us how they eat these where they make
them and all this stuff i love hearing and reading them all it is a very um like just by the look of
it like something you would make at home like the pita see it's part of it i think for me the uh
hiwasha would probably be my least favorite if it wasn't for the chili sauce really yeah i feel like
i like it but without the chili sauce i would pick the um that's funny sorry over it because
the miss meat for me was uh good enough and then the the sauce just give it an extra kick yes you
know am i gonna make people cringe if i dip the hawashi in the baba ganache what are you doing
oh my god let's do that we need to do it but well before we finish up and while you guys have your
last bites on camera my last fun fact of the day is about baba ganoush this is a really fun fact
guys i'm ready let's hear it the literal meaning of baba ganoush is spoiled dad referring to the
fact that when you eat it you just can't help but feel a bit spoiled i do feel spoiled it's
so silky and smooth i thought that was a really cool fun fact that's hilarious spoiler dad that's
the literal translation that's funny again guys this is what the internet told me if i'm wrong
but i am actually really pleasantly um not pleasantly i mean i expected it to be good
based on the descriptions but it was different than i thought it was gonna be but in a good way
yeah yeah it was really good and i'll definitely be trying bubba ganesh again that was probably
i mean i'm a dipper i'm a bread and dip girl so like bread and dip i could eat all day long
so that was one of my favorites i would love to try it with some olives or some yeah something
other than just bread in there yeah yeah um but otherwise i think that the kashari was my next
favorite and then the um washi all right guys but we want to thank you so much for joining us on us
experiencing egyptian food for the very first time but that's it for today's video thank you
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in the next one here come some bloopers youtube and chill bye we're trying guys food no we're not
for the first time oh i was like what did you see my face i'm like
what did i say wrong one more time do you enjoy this one that'll be very chewy
but i like my pasta spice oh not spicy saucy sausage sausage i'm not gonna say my saucy boy