are you jeep of mashed potatoes
oh good potatoes oh it's delicious
hi i'm jeff and i'm angela and for some reason we call ourselves pure detour catchy right in
the summer of 2021 we quit our jobs left canada and sold everything we own to travel the world
full time right now we're spending a month on the windy atlantic coast of morocco in a
city called essowita and today we are going to partake in angela's favorite activity food tour
starting with breakfast this morning we're gonna hit up this place that uh every morning on our
morning walk we walk past it it's always packed with locals it's packed with tourists as well
expats we don't know what they serve we don't know what we're having but we're gonna go get a shot
do you want to have a pancake and i'll have an omelette absolutely yes
thank you so much we asked them what they serve here they said they had omelets and pancakes so we
ordered one of each comes with what looks like black pepper salt and either that's a
cumin or rasa hanu which is like a very popular spice mix they make around here
and the pancake has honey inside of it so right up just out yeah these are delicious
this is just like the turkish ghost lemmies that we got throughout our time in turkey
so we ordered cafe au lait and we're a little bit confused when this came out
because it looks just light milk but here's the secret
stir it up and you get your coffee so that is breakfast we are wrapping up there that
was 50 dirham and it was delicious let's see what else we can get into food tour is not
starting off so great everywhere we've tried to go to and do something at they've been closed
they're not open it's one thing after another so we've stopped at a place called snack me muna
so we got something here it's called a mixed taco which is
different from tacos i've seen elsewhere so it's a tortilla
and it's been like pressed and inside it's got things chicken sausage and falafel and they
also put french fries a bunch of sauce a bunch of salad let's give it a try looks really good
that's really good they got some kind of like spicy vinegar-based sauce in there as well
that's an awesome one the sausage sausage what kind of sausage is it uh
beef beef all right let's give it a go
yeah still have these french fries with this avocado avocado yeah
next up dinner at a restaurant
of course being right on the coast super famous for its seafood so we have ordered
some seafood dishes here not to mention that the olives in morocco have been amazing
we have ordered a lot of seafood here one uh angela has ordered a monkfish and i ordered a
it's a preset menu that comes along with it the first course they brought me out here
is this goat cheese with salad on these little toasts that
look amazing so we're going to give these a little try we're going to dip into the olive oil
is it honey not olive oil honey sorry
the little dried fruits the gucci's warmed the honey is fantastic it's delicious
so here we've got a very simple and classic dish
it is just a grilled monkfish very simply done with lemon oil rice looks like it's flavored
with maybe some saffron and some turmeric and some grilled vegetables let's give it a try
so beautiful so simple you can taste the freshness of the seafood here in
essewer it's really good all right i'm gonna give angela's fish a try here
that's really good that's good right i wasn't yeah i didn't really know what to expect with it and
so much so i'm eating more of it
yeah it's the monkfish it's very fleshy is the the best way i can really describe it
it's it's meaty it's not flaky like a normal fish would be it's
fantastic i have a seafood pastilla i have never had one of these before i've ordered it
specifically because it's traditionally moroccan so let's give this a go
oh wow it's delicious yeah it's so packed inside of here is monkfish and shrimp and calamari
you taste a bit of garlic in there there's some saffron that's in there as well it's fantastic
trying a bite of jeff's seafood pastilla uh the crust looks super
light and flaky and in addition to all the seafood that's stepped inside of
here there's also like vermicelli noodles i'm gonna give this a shot
i don't even know what to compare that to
um because of the the fish flavoring and like the crunchy crust it almost is like
slightly reminiscent of fish and chips but it's got so much more going on and it's super delicious
so for dessert we got some tea of course you can't finish a meal in morocco without some tea
and then we've got some pastries and this is actually the first time i'm trying moroccan
pastries but my understanding is that a lot of the moroccan cuisine especially
the pastries has a lot of french influence so looking forward to trying those
that's good flaky not too sweet really good so i have no idea what i'm grabbing a hold of here
we just ordered this plate of pastries but i am going to give this little thing a go
you ate the whole thing share it with me so the lovely owner of that cafe la tolerance was telling
us that he chose the name of that place because he said esauera is a city of tolerance that
they welcome people of all races nationalities he says traditionally this is part muslim part
jewish so i thought that that was absolutely lovely afterwards he came out with his wife and
they gave us this cute little place mat and also this gorgeous blue colored like tagine
pop we had to turn down to the tajin pop because simply we have nowhere in our luggage to take it
i feel really bad about it but such a lovely family run place definitely go check it out
we've popped in for lunch at this place called shay zach as jeff has said earlier we're kind
of having a tough time kind of researching restaurants because we find some place that
we like uh it ends up closed or you know the cove it has been hard on a lot of these tourist
oriented businesses so we are on the rooftop now this place called shea zak the owner zack has been
coming out it's been super sweet we've ordered a couple of dishes to share let's check it out
you want me to do it yeah i'm kind of scared i'm going to fling him across then i feel like one
of those laptops so i'm waiting if you fling it on the floor and be so mad i bet you will
oh my gosh nicely charred on the outside so you get those crunchy black char marks but
on the inside it's cooked perfectly to medium it's not overcooked it's so good you didn't eat
the lobster i i took a little bite of it and it's delicious now you can see from talking to
zach that he's like really proud of things that he makes and he takes pride in it yeah
he's done a great job what do you think oh my god that is awesome it's cooked
to perfection i am making a mess of myself and i don't care so we ended up finding this place
uh from google maps um just looking to see what restaurants were in the area
as we've told you multiple times now we've been having problems finding things as angela mentioned
kovid's been tough on a lot of people uh very highly rated place according to google reviews
so we thought let's just try and see if they're opened up came and it's been amazing so far
that's awesome he takes great pride in his food that he makes he's adorable super friendly yeah
did you have any salad i have not had any salad
it's so good nice fresh salad it feels like going to going to a
good friend's house and they cook good food for you it's your house
jeff was just saying to zach that this is probably the best meal we've had since
we've been here in morocco and we ate a lot and we're really really full but because we enjoyed
the food so much we had to order dessert so what they've brought us is a homemade yogurt that has
what looks like dates and figs uh and then these whole half walnuts almonds
and drizzled into local honey this looks amazing it was shot i'm gonna make a mess of myself
no come on like
in north america we think of yogurt as like a breakfast food or like something
you make dips out of but this is such a perfect dessert it's so good angela
said i can't have any of this but i'm not buying it she can get the hell out of here
right holy hell the dates the nuts the yogurt and honey alone is awesome yep
don't we make something at home because you're a bad person it's ridiculous how good that is it
should be so simple oh it's so good we are just finishing up here at shay zach this is zach the
owner he is phenomenal i'm going to leave a link a google maps link in the description
below for you so you can find this place if you were in esseweta come here it's going to
blow your mind it's fantastic thank you very much thank you very much thank you thank you
that is going to wrap up our eso with a food tour we wanted to show you a couple of more
places at least one more but it's been non-stop rain these last couple of days here in essewina
so we still have a couple of weeks left in morocco so if there's anything else you think we should
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