When you're in a new country, a new city
what better way to learn about the place
than a food tour? We are joining Eat Mexico on a
street food tour!
Stop number one we are starting with
tamales and atole so atole is a like
watery drink made out of corn dough
I'm going to try it with chocolate
flavored and rice flavoured and then tamales are
like a traditional early morning or late
evening meal and it's corn dough mixed with
lard and it's whipped and then spread onto a
corn husk and then filled with lots of
fillings, rolled and wrapped up and
then steamed we've been here for 10 days
Thomas and I in Mexico City and we still
haven't had tamales so I am excited
Mmmmm, it's like a thick watery hot chocolate so good. Try some.
Mmmm it's really really light
it sort of looks like it'd be stodgy but
it's not at all and it's really...
the mole is really,
really complex it's just so delicious
I don't know how else to describe it, it's really good
Chicharron or pork rind- it's so light and
crispy. Amazing. Fresh tortillas
from a tortilleria. We just learnt from Karla our amazing
guide that tortillas have two sides
so there's a thin inside part and then a thick
outside bit you should always put your
filling on the thin inside bit so it doesn't fall to bits! It makes so much sense!
I am so excited to
try this quesadilla it has got huitlacoche
in it which is a corn smut direct
translation from Spanish to English is
corn faeces but they like to call it
Mexican truffle and so it grows in the
corn crop and it basically destroys the crop
doesn't it? Yeah but they do it on purpose
now, do it on purpose, because it's a
delicacy
Put this juice down. What's the juice? Don't remember. You'll see these juice stands
all over Mexico City so this is a green
one with lots of cactus and celery
celery, pineappple and this one is like a tropical
with like guava, pineapple, limes and
Wow
it's like mushroom really earthy
sort of has the texture of garlic
Muchas gracias. We are learning so much on
this tour with Eat Mexico like all
sorts of interesting things
yeah like how Aztecs used to get high on chiles. The tidbits
you learn it's so good you just you're
constantly learning all these little things it's not like
you're learning big stuff you just learn
all these interesting little tidbits
ooooo crossing the road we were in a
little market before and there were lots
of chicken vendors selling fresh chickens
and the chickens here are yellow in
color because Mexicans don't like
white chickens they think it's
like a turkey it's not healthy
not healthy.
so they feed the chickens with marigold petals
so that they turn yellow. So they used to eat the
corn that's why they were yellow but now
there's not enough corn for the chickens
because the humans want it so they have
to do it some other way. Nuts!
We are trying a cemita which is a sandwich which
originated in Puebla, it's like a brioche style bun and they hollow out the bread from the top
papalo which is a herb
which is like a cross between
what was it? Mint and rocket or arugala
homemade chipotle, tonnes
and tonnes of Oaxacan string cheese and avocado.
Mmmmm, super fresh, really cheesy
It's like the perfect sandwich
We're at a tacos de carnitas stand and here they take the whole
pig and they stew it, it's basically pork confit
so it's cooked in lard for six to eight
hours and you can get anything from pork leg to
stomach to uterus to brain
to cheek, Karla hasn't told us what this
one is but it looks very uterus like to me hahah
It's chewy, tastes really good
it reminds me of stomach. That's getting close to uterus hahaha.
I think there is a mix of parts in here. We
got the best of both worlds
stomach and uterus!
Basket tacos, the tortillas are stacked and then hot oil
is put on the top and then they cover
it with a cloth so they have a different texture to
a normal
tortilla. This one's got pork
super tasty, really simple with
pork inside like oily but not heavy.
They soak the bread in a guajillo
sauce
Guajillo is a pepper but it's not
spicy and they fill with potato
and chorizo but crumbly chorizo
Oh wow. Dream sandwich right here pambazo
smashed up potato
chorizo, lettuce
cream, cheese. It is wild
We're trying a squash blossom burrito
there's cheese like grilled over the
top of the thing
Hot! Gooey, cheesy, so fresh. Wow!
And that's the tour done, that was
brilliant
we ended on a sweet note we went to a
Mexican sweet shop and we got like
amaranth
candy
I've be wanting to try this one for ages
a cajeta which is wafer
sandwiched with Mexican dulce de leche
but it's made with goats milk instead of
cow's milk. How good does that sound?
What did you get Thomas? I got a like a sugar cured
lime which has been stuffed with some sort of
coconut stuff. Mmm it smells so tangy. It looks
incredible, that was the best tour
Look at this thing. Wow mmm it was the
best tour, there's something so
special about being with a local person
and learning about a culture and
learning about a city you learn so
much more than about the food but it
really opens up your mind and your
ability to order and see and get street
food. We've been walking around Mexico
City for ten days and seeing so many
different types of street food and having no
idea what anything is especially with
the language barrier and now I just feel
like so much more in tune, plugged
into what's going on. It's fantastic
Eat Mexico guys if you are in the DF
check them out they have a range of
tours market tours late-night mezcal
and taco tours, a taco crawl all sorts
Street food one like we did today
incredible. We are posting video three
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hope we've inspired you to eat and
explore like a traveler, not a tourist. Adios!