Namaste, As-salamu alaykum friends. I'm here in Faisalabad.
And I'm told that the best samosas in Pakistan are right here.
So we're gonna go find a samosa square in a second. But first where am I?
This is Faisalabad. This is clock tower.
And around this clock tower is 8 different markets.
You can buy absolutely everything here so we have a street which is all ladies clothes.
We have men's clothes, we have fabric.
We have, oh my god, like electronics and mobile. There's an entire street,
which is just electronics and mobiles. There's tons of food here as well.
Just anything you could want you will find here around clock tower.
Now let's go and find this samosa square and let's see what samosas are like in Pakistan.
I always wondered what this sign is.
So these guys go around and they're selling rat-poison if you ever see this in Pakistan.
Now the samosa store, oh there's 3 of them, ok?
There's 3 of them in this intersection we're going there. It's on the street.
And people here at clock tower, at the bazaar just so friendly.
I've been offered tea so many times already and food and everything. But I'm like, No no no.
I'm gonna try these famous samosas here and so I've made a lot of friends.
I'm feeling good already here in Faisalabad.
See what I mean? People are really friendly and you know, having a good time.
Typical Punjabis.
I really undersold what's available at this market.
Just seeing literally everything, like, from like the hooves of animals to kids' toys and fish, just.
I don't know... absolutely everything. Utensils, cups.
Sorry, I keep getting cut off, a lot of people wanna chat and offer me some hospitality.
Alright, so, I was walking down the wrong street.
We're on the right direction now.
This entire market, massive market around the clock tower is designed in the shape of a Union Jack.
It was planned like that.
There are just so many streets and bylanes that you can go down and explore here.
If you like shopping, oh my gosh, out of this world.
I promise samosas in about 10 seconds.
I have reached, what I will call "Samosa Chowk."
We've got Bismillah Samosa here.
We've got Al-Madina
and we've got behind me Al-Makkah.
3 different samosa stores on this little intersection.
And I found something really interesting these guys are selling, it's called a Faisalabad Naan.
So we're gonna try that and we're gonna go try the famous samosa here as well.
Alright, we're gonna try samosa,
and it does look something special.
He's just making it up now.
And a lot of people around here all eating.
Wow, thank you so much. Look at this!
There are 2 massive samosas in here.
It's covered in a yoghurt sauce.
And they've also covered it in chickpeas and in a sweet chutney.
3 different sauces covering these 2 samosas.
And what a samosa is...
A samosa is just a pastry,
filled with potato or any kind of filling.
You can get chicken; you can get mince meat.
You can get all types of vegetarian fillings as well.
And this is vegetarian. This is potato.
I don't know how I'm gonna eat this. So he has mushed it all up.
I'm gonna try and just, eat it like this.
I think I should use this.
It's a whole meal, it's so heavy actually.
This plate is really really heavy.
And you can see inside the samosa...
that it's full of spicy potatoes.
And this one massive plate is Rs. 80 or about ₹31 Indian rupees.
Now if I have to compare these samosas to samosas in India,
the spice is definitely a lot lighter.
More of a potato flavour, more of a light flavour.
Just a little less spice.
And I think that's because they're covering it in these 3 different chutneys.
And this is a whole meal in itself.
I've eaten half because I've to go and try
this Faisalabad Naan next which just looks crazy.
I've never seen anything like it.
And I gotta say thank you to this guy.
He won't take the money from me. He's like, "Leave it, don't worry."
I tried to get him to take it, I left the money with him but he just brought it back to me.
I really hate taking things for free.
Especially when I'm reviewing it, you know what I mean? It doesn't seem, um,
honest if you take it for free.
Anyway can't do anything about it cuz I'm here in Pakistan
and they just won't take money from me.
So let's go try the next place.
Wow, look at this.
Alright, so I'm at Al-Makkah restaurant and look at this.
This is the Faisalabad Naan and I've never seen a naan like this.
I saw them making it and I was like, "What is this?"
It's like covered in potato
and onion and in some kind of leaf, might be curry leaf.
Then it's deep-fried.
And you have various sauces that you eat with it. Different chutneys.
Let's see how it tastes.
Just break into it.
Look at that.
Bread inside
and on the outside
basically pakode batter.
How can I say what Pakode is?
Pakode is just like deep fried vegetables in a really nice batter, a really spicy batter.
This Faisalabad Naan is a very popular dish here.
A lot of other people are here and eating it.
But, honestly, it's not for me. I do prefer just a samosa.
It is a little bit too oily.
Because, you know,
you're putting bread which soaks things up into oil.
It's super oily.
Go for the samosa when you're here, ok.
And the Faisalabad naan is just Rs. 100 / ₹41.
So when you're here in Faisalabad, definitely try the samosas.
But I gotta say the best samosa I ever had
was what they call a Chinese samosa in Sahiwal in Punjab.
That was the best samosa I ever had.
And they also have like a samosa chowk as well there.
Alright, I'm gonna keep exploring Faisalabad.
I'm really enjoying myself here.
I just love the epic markets here, so fun to explore.