Hey everyone and welcome to Ugadi
It's actually Ugadi we're gonna go find out all about it and you won't believe who we have with
us this is San from Sans Food Escapades on facebook we'll put a link for you guys but
she's actually going to help us explore this whole thing because there's these things and i
don't know what they are um you can take a picture here and then you have this traditional background
okay great so we're going to take a picture here so we'll see you guys in a minute after the photos
this is actually a mugu and what you do is you put it outside in front of your house and it
has to be made out of something edible so that the chickens and the birds can come all enjoy it
that's so cool it's actually made from rice like the one we did at Diwali
but wow how beautiful is every everyone dressed i feel a little underdressed
and even San she's looking really good how beautiful does everyone taste are you hungry
did i say taste i said look everyone looks good and i'm a little hungry San seems to know everyone
it's just we can't walk step without her talking to someone Riki getting footage of things
well there are just pretty people everywhere i know everyone looks amazing they really do
oh man everyone's getting photos done i'll just swing around so you can actually see
everyone's taking photos
Apparently there's a flute, Krishna's flute
and we have an organization called sauver la nature
which means to save nature to save nature yes okay so saving nature that's fantastic
Riki but we're going to come here we're getting our photos taken but
first of all let me do a piece of video do the flute thing i'll hold the umbrella
what are these
i'll talk to you soon okay okay no problem enjoy your thing
we trying the sweets what's it like is it good
it's kind of like a biscuit um but it's not overly sweet these are normally very sweet okay oh cool
there's so many interesting things not sure what that is but we've been told to
follow so we're following someone will give you someone someone will give you it's made of chili
jaggery which is indian sugar
salt tamari mango and neem leaves so these are six different tastes right in one in six tastes in one
one this this symbolizes the different tastes that we have in life so on ugadi day
is the first things that we take it empty stomach because it's a medicine in fact it's a medicine
so you grow in age you live longer i need lots of this
oh man, it's so heavy
Ugadi, the New Year. They start it by prayer, they draw rangoli mugu
these are supposed to be food for the insects this is called this thing these are made with rice
carrot and also and you cook it in this pot yes oh wow should i actually cook it in this pot
and that's breakfast for Ugadi you want to taste it yes please
making a little cup for me Riki also got herself some i think it's savory
it's made of rice
it's good it's really really good it's nice it's very savory it's got like curry notes
and spices and vegetables vegetables it's like sticky like it's a built-in
curry with the rice so you can eat it with your fingers so it's easy to eat south indian food
great video of everyone everybody looking so beautiful
happy Ugadi everyone
they have loads of these mugus and some of them look really good
oh man patience it must take to do these
this one looks a bit like a bird
maybe a peacock yes
it really is
some of these instruments are amazing
so this is what's really cool about mauritius all the mixed cultures and stuff
so here ugadi is celebrating new year for the telugu south india
and everybody comes together and celebrates and we even have a public holiday for it
and by the way we're at the beautiful Mahogany mall we did a whole video on it as well
okay so these are some of the traditional sweets
this one is ladoo yeah but it's a really big pakalo yeah
this one looks really nice
rice okay thank you so much
she's the lovely one he's been telling me about the sweets thank you so much
really good and this is tamarind rice
wow not even sure what that is and it's all those things that went into that beautiful
drink that symbolize all your emotions and feelings and then you consume them all at once
traditional seven curries
thank you is it a banana one
what is that i don't know
it's kind of like a chana puri but there's something sweet inside
sweet it's sort of like all those things tekwa
oh wow we don't really have enough hands but we got one of these i've
been dying to try one of these so i'm gonna try it
piow but with sesame
very much like a tekwa
oh man i didn't think anything could be louder than me but apparently Ugadi is
so if you can't hear anything before it's just been chaos can i suppose like south india a bit
quiet time now i'm the loudest again like it's supposed to be
oh wow Ugadi it's loud and beautiful and really
tasty well everyone thanks for watching see you again next time