- Hello Tangerine from Oaxaca, Mexico.
We missed you guys last week
because it was Maddie's birthday.
We wanted to take a little bit of time off
and celebrate that and not work for a week.
But in a previous video, we were talking about
how there's a new law that says
when you're flying back into the US,
you have to get a COVID test
within three days of that flight.
So we wanted to show you what it's like
to get a COVID test here in Mexico.
But before we do that it's noon right now,
we haven't eaten anything. So we need some food stat.
- [Maddie] And Laska will be joining us. Laska.
(bright music)
- So we're at this place for breakfast called Baltazar
and they have something that's very typical of Oaxaca.
And that is tetelas which is,
how would you describe tetelas?
- Kind of like a tamal sort of
but they're usually a triangle shape
and it's made out of masa corn dough
and then they put something inside of it usually.
And then the way that we've had them served here before
is that there's some type of salsa on top.
A bean salsa, red salsa, mole, coloradito.
- [Jordan] Yeah.I love this place though. They're so good.
And pet friendly. So we bring Laska all the time.
- [Maddie] Yeah, it was nice.
They just brought a bowl of water out for her this time two.
That's the first time it's ever happened.
- Please give me a tetenfrijolada
and also an anti-flu juice
- And I'll have the juice. Where is it?
Defender juice please.
and tetenfrijolada also but for me, no onion
and if it has sesame ,no sesame please.
And I believe that's all.
(bright music)
- [Maddie] Wait.
- [Jordan] I'm too hungry to wait.
- [Maddie] Well, usually we try to show you
what the food looks like before we dive in,
but at least we still have one plate.
Yum.
And the ever curious Laska.
- So my hopefully yummy jugo was 39 Pesos,
really fresh ingredients in it. It's a nice size juice.
And then these tetelas were 75 Pesos.
And I am excited to be digging in because they're delicious.
- [Maddie] And we we're about to starve.
- Oh, wait, I need a new word other than delicious.
They taste are really, really good.
- [Maddie] Really, really good.
Oh, I love the vocabulary there, Jordan.
Everybody pull out your encyclopedia.
We actually got the same exact thing.
And this has chorizo, cheese,
they put like fresh herbs of some kind or another.
I don't actually know what these are.
And then inside it also has chorizo
and bathed on the whole thing,
it's drowning in a bean sauce. It's super good.
- [Jordan] What of your jugo?
Oh, this is defensor.
I think it has beets, carrots and apple.
Oh, on the chunky side, but you know, tasty none the less.
Well, that was just delightful.
And before we get this COVID test done,
before I get run over by a car
for walking in the middle of street
and looking at the camera, instead of my surroundings.
We're going to drop Laska back off at our apartment
because since dogs can either get or transmit COVID
I don't think she's going to be allowed there.
Bye Laska. We'll be back in a bit.
(door closes)
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(bright music)
- So despite the pandemic,
the city is absolutely bustling
especially the closer you get to mercado 20 de Noviembre
or I think there's also Benito Juarez market.
Tons of people, tons of vendors, very lively.
(bright music)
- We're going to this place called Salud Digna.
I looked up online and they have locations all over Mexico
and I tried making an appointment online,
but for some reason for their Oaxaca location,
you couldn't make an appointment.
So we're just walking in here blind.
- Well, according to the sign out front,
we do actually have to make an appointment.
So Jordan's trying to do that on his phone right now.
And hopefully we can get in today,
but we'll see what happens.
- [Jordan] So online, it said you could get a PCR test,
an antigen test or an antibody test.
And the antibody test is about 160
and the antigen test 220
and the PCR test way more expensive than the others.
Way more expensive than the others at 900
and apparently here at this location
they're only doing a PCR test.
So we're going to try to find another location
where we can do a cheaper test
because we don't want to pay the 900 for the PCR.
- Alrighty. We may have found another option
and it's two blocks away.
So we're going to give it a try.
This what seems to be the start of a wild goose chase
to find this COVID test is exactly why we were saying
tourism is about to get crushed
because we are familiar with Oaxaca and we do speak Spanish.
So this isn't like the biggest deal
to us to be asking people, asking questions
trying to find this, but if you're new to a city
and you're just trying to go there for a week or something.
What a gigantic pain in the rump.
- But I did just learn that they have a COVID tent
or a testing site at the airport now here.
So that's the most convenient place of all.
- [Maddie] Gracias.
- I'd like a COVID test,do you have them here?
- [Attendant 1] We don't have them anymore.
Let me check. Here we don't have them anymore
- Okay, gracias. And how much is it?
- Well, we tried a Farmacias Ahorro.
- Del Ahorro.
- Farmacias anyway, that one back there didn't have it
and sent us to Reforma, the neighborhood Reforma
or which other one?
- They do do them there. It's just that it was out of stock.
- Yeah, so
- So I think you said either like on Colon
or to Colonia Reforma.
- The wild goose hunt continues.
- [Attendant 2] Come on in, welcome.
- Do you have COVID tests here?
- [Attendant 2] No. On Colon and Las Casas.
- So we went to another for Farmicias del Ahorro
and they told us to go to the Colon location
which is the location we were just at, after 4:00 PM.
But at that location,
they didn't tell us to come back after four.
- They just said they didn't have them.
- So I'm guessing this is just one of those things
like people trying to be helpful and
- They don't really know.
- Yeah. So they're just sending us somewhere
without actually knowing.
- Yeah. So we're going to get back on the phone,
keep searching.
- When we came out today, I was expecting to pay 220 Pesos
a person for an antigen test
and the place that we thought we were going to get it done,
wasn't doing it there.
And then we walked pretty much all over town.
And now I looked up another place, another laboratory,
Laboratory Juarez that has the antigen test as well
but they're charging 700 a person or 1500 for the PCR test.
So I think we might just have to look into
the airport option.
Because that we were told that's the cheapest anyway.
- And besides it's getting to be the hottest time of day,
we're sweating our booties off.
Even though it's like 83, maybe.
In the low eighties, it still feels hot
when you're in the sun and just walking around like crazy.
So, we tried though. It should not be this hard.
I don't think it should be this hard.
- Why don't we go get some tejate.
- Tejate it's a Oaxaca video tradition.
We passed the salida I don't know where to get in.
- Okay, why don't we go over there?
Oh, can we go in with this salida?
- Salida? No.
That means the opposite of where we can get in.
- I know, but it means it's an entry.
It means like it's a way to go in.
- It means we could sneak in.
We found the entrance.
Finally we passed by like three exits.
I was beginning to think you couldn't get in here at all.
And yes, now we're going to look for some tejate.
Except I don't know if this is the like goods mercado
where you can buy clothes and household items and whatnot.
Or if this is a food one.
The food one might be across the street.
- And you know what I bet what we can find in here ?
A fake COVID test.
- Okay. Covered it. I bet you could.
You could ask a guy and he'd get a guy
and his brother's uncle would get it for us. For sure.
- [Jordan] How much is a glass?
- [Seller 1] Large? Yes. 30 or 40
Sugar?
- [Jordan] Just a little bit.
- [Maddie] Thank you. Can I record?
- [Seller 1] Yes. Go ahead.
- [Jordan] And a lot of this part please.
- [Seller 1] A lot of foam. Very good.
- [Jordan] Thank you.
- [Maddie] Thank you.
Just what I need after walking around in the sun.
- [Jordan] A pinata?
- Yeah to hit a pinata and get all my frustrations out
for not being able to find a COVID test.
Oh. So if you are just tuning into our channel,
you're new here.
We try tejate in basically every Oaxaca video
we've ever made.
It's this delicious drink with lots of ingredients
from local, like mamey and cacao something or other.
I'll put it on the screen, but it's very good.
Refreshing cold and it's got this foamy stuff on top,
which is the best.
The foamy stuff is a little different than normal.
It's a little more like crunchy or something.
But it still tastes as good as usual to me.
- Feels good on the throat. I was so thirsty.
- [Maddie] Me too.
And this is 40 Pesos for this gigantic thing.
I don't even know how big this is.
Like a liter and a quarter, liter and a half. I don't know.
- Hi friend. How much is it?
- [Seller 2] I have cups at 25,30,35 Pesos
- Okay. Gracias.
- [Seller 3] Is there a flavor you'd like to try?
- [Maddie] Leche quemada?
- [Seller 3] Its traditional"leche quemada" with (inaudible)
- Do you have burnt milk and soursop?
- [Seller 3] Yes.
- Oh, okay. A large cup with two flavors if that's possible.
So these are ice cream in stainless steel containers.
And they put like an ice cream inside here
and then spin it around
with ice inside of this outside container.
Thank you very much.
- [Maddie] Gracias.
Do you want to sit down?
- [Jordan] Ah, yes.
- [Seller 3] If you'd like, you can sit down over there.
- [Jordan] Gracias.
All right. I'm guessing this is going to be guanabana
which in English is soursop.
It's unique, but I like it.
- I don't even know what this tastes like.
It's almost like, I don't even know. I really don't know.
- I thought it tasted like a white pomegranate.
- I was thinking kind of grapes.
Like if you froze a grape and it was a little bit sweeter
than a frozen grape.
- I think I came to like a famous Nieves place
because they have pictures up on the wall
with like Mexican actresses from across the years.
- And I think that just means
that famous people have come here maybe
but not that this place is famous.
For a second, I was like, great we're trying to get in
and we couldn't find an entrance.
And now we're trying to get out
and all we can find is entrances.
- It smells like leather here.
- All of a sudden you have an accent here.
Here. An accent like this. Where is that accent from Jordan?
- I have no idea.
- This whole day did not go how I was expecting.
- No, not at all.
- This has been way more eventful than,
we were just thinking this is going to be a chill day.
Go get a test, go on with our lives.
- Yeah.
- That did not happen but
- Instead I got Nieves.
- And I got tejate.
- Maddie just said
she would've definitely worn different shoes
if she knew she was going to be walking this much.
And every time she says her feet hurt
I always offer her a piggyback ride.
- And I always decline.
- So, well would you like to piggyback ride?
- No.
No, I had a neighbor that offered me a piggyback ride
when I was younger and she bent down to get something
and I went flying over her shoulders
and I've never wanted to be picked up like that every since.
I don't trust.
- You don't trust me?
- Nope. I don't trust you nobody I don't trust nobody.
- So you trust somebody?
- Just not you. I'm just kidding.
So in our last video, we kind of posed the question.
Is it time for us to leave Oaxaca?
Because we kind of had this weird scary experience
where someone was following us and then yelling at us.
Well, it kind of made us do a lot of thinking about
do we want to leave Oaxaca?
And the answer is yes.
Not because of being followed with that crazy guy.
But because we would like to look
for our more permanent home.
Like a more permanent home base,
just like we had back and forth Morelos
and for a variety of reasons,
we don't feel like Oaxaca is it.
There's so much we do love about this city,
but we're kind of looking for something
a little bit different.
So here's some ideas that we have so far.
We are looking at Cuernavaca
because we've never been to the state of Morelos before.
San Miguel de Allende, probably not to live long-term,
but we really want to visit
because it seems like a beautiful historic city,
a colonial city, very similar to Guanajuato,
another city we've been to and really loved.
- [Jordan] Queretaro.
- [Maddie] Queretaro, yes.
We'd love to make our way back to Guadalajara eventually,
but we need your help.
Where should we go next?
Think though, from Oaxaca North of, in the country.
We're not planning on going to Chiapas or Yucatan
or Queretaro, at least not right now.
We spent so much time there.
But so going back up through the country,
let us know where you think we should go next.
Especially places that would make good long-term homes
for us, including Laska.
So pet friendly cities,
that's always a consideration for us,
but that's kind of where we're at right now.
A lot of question marks and a lot to plan at this point.
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