- Hello, Tangerineys from the pueblo mágico,
Tequisquiapan in Queretaro, Mexico.
So Tequisquiapan is about an hour's drive
away from Queretaro.
I've been wanting to come check this little town out
since before we even got to Queretaro two months ago.
One of the main features is this beautiful church
that's behind me, which unfortunately looks
like it's under construction right now.
So you can't really see it in all of its glory
but it's kind of pink and has all these unique designs on it
still looks pretty awesome.
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- It was just last week though,
we were telling you in Queretaro,
it seems like most people stopped caring about masks
and a lot of people that stopped wearing them.
But here that is not the case.
Despite being an hour away,
it seems like almost everyone
out and about is wearing their mask.
- Even putting it below the nose,
I feel weird and people are wearing it properly here.
Okay, now we're talking.
This is the Mercado de Artesenias.
So it has all the handicrafts and the special products
from Tequisquiapan, I'm so excited!
It's my favorite part of any city.
And the great thing is now we can go in here and shop
to actually buy things because we have a home now.
So for the first time in all of our travels in Mexico,
we can start decorating and buying local products.
Ah, so excited!
(upbeat music)
(speaking in Mexican)
So we did walk all around that Artesanias Market,
but we were told not to record, which is kind of a buzzkill
especially when there's no signage saying don't record,
but I did get a little bit of sneak footage
so you could see a little insight
as to what that looks like in there.
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Oh, we had to walk all the way across the street
to get to this next Artesanias Market.
And I really like it in here,
there's things made out of like straw, what do you say?
Or like woven baskets and things,
lots of things made out of wood,
of course, typical Lele dolls that are from Queretaro
and everything in between.
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Oh, oh, I'm such a fan.
(both chuckles)
Hat stores, they got cows in here.
Let's see.
Normal head hair.
(Jordan laughs)
It's a little big.
You don't like it?
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- We decided to stop into this place
called Rio 33 for a quick refuel.
Gracias.
(talking in Mexican)
- We had to go with queso
because it's really typical of this region,
but in addition to cheese,
we also got some wine making material.
(Maddie laughs)
- So see us back here in about,
I don't know six to 12 months, two years maybe,
depending on how good we want the wine to be.
But yeah, he was telling us that there's cheese,
with pecans, with fine herbs,
there is a chipotle and then...
- Manchego.
So this is all from the region.
And it also comes with olives,
some meat and pecans and olives, I already said that.
(both laughs)
But can you tell I love olive them,
olive them a lot.
(both laughs)
Let's give this a try now this is the one with pecans.
I've never had cheese with pecans in it.
That's pretty good.
Two thumbs up so far.
So now I tried a few more,
I really like this one with chipotle
and the one with fine herbs, hierbas finas,
this has a really nice flavor to it.
And the manchego is very light.
The one with the pecans is very light,
it's not like a sharp or pungent cheese,
nothing like blue cheese.
- You know, I think that's been the case
for all Mexico cheeses that I've tried
or that seems to be an area where they make pretty
the light tasting cheese.
You don't find many pungent cheeses here.
- No, it's all for maybe queso de cabra.
But I think that's fine just 'cause I don't like it.
Okay, so this is probably not the cheapest cheese platter,
cheese assortment that you can...
- [Jordan] Queso.
- Queso. (Jordan laughs)
At 320 pesos, probably not the cheapest
that you can find around Tequisquiapan,
since this is cheese and wine country.
However, I think it's a really nice assortment
we can mix and match the fruit, the cheese, and nuts,
the meat to our preference and it tastes really good.
- This is a really nice restaurant too.
I like the ambience out here on the patio
with the tree growing through the roof right behind me.
- We are just about to finish up with this cheese plate
and I have to say one last thing on the topic.
In queso emergency, por ejemplo,
your blood sugar is getting low,
or you don't know where to go in Tequisquiapan,
I do recommend coming here and getting this cheese plate
because it's super good.
- You have some cheesy jokes today.
- Thank you.
That's so good that you did notice.
(both chuckles sarcastically)
I'm here all day.
- So Rio 33 is also a hotel
and we came into the back to go to the bathroom,
but we noticed this place structure here
I've never seen anything like it,
made of wood.
- I know I would have loved this as a kid.
- [Jordan] Oh my gosh.
- So right outside of this restaurant
is where we parked the car which looked like public parking,
there's no meters, no numbers, but there's a sign that says,
estacionamiento en bateria,
and I've never heard that before,
it translates to "in batteries" so we asked our server,
does that mean we have to pay,
are we going to get towed, is this free parking?
And he's like, "The truth is I have no idea."
So maybe you guys know what the heck does en bateria mean?
- He did say it was free parking though.
- Yeah, free parking,
public parking.
- He just didn't know what it meant.
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- In just about every city and town through Mexico,
you see a colorful sign with the city's name
but they forgot to include the rest of the sign.
- Call the police there's been a robbery.
Quiapan is gone!
(both laughing)
- Quiapan.
- So far though, I think this pueblo mágico is really cool,
it's super walkable, so we're just going to walk you around
and poking into the shops.
Of course, seeing the Artesanias,
looking at all the restaurants with wine and cheese
that I want to go in, but I'm full.
So hopefully all the walking will create room
but it's really quaint, it's a beautiful day.
I think it's a high of 78 today.
It's sunny, there's a little bit of a breeze
- I think it's a really pretty town,
and someday we're going to have to come back
and do like the ruta de quesos, vino, y arte.
- Oh yeah.
And maybe we just bumped into Rubin again,
Rubin our driver that we told you about
that took us around for a city tour,
he was taking somebody else around to here,
Peña de Bernal, and some of the wineries.
I think that sounds like an awesome idea
to avoid all the drinking and driving.
- Yeah, that sounds fun.
- I'm sorry, does that say helado de vino
because sign me up.
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We're here in Tequisquiapan, on a Tuesday,
and it seems like pretty tranquil, pretty relaxed.
I'm guessing this gets a lot busier
on the weekends because a lot of things have been closed,
like going into a market, a lot of the stalls are closed,
things like that.
And it just seems a pretty sparse
with people throughout the town.
- And usually we would consider that a good thing
because we don't have to fight the crowds,
we don't have to worry about finding parking,
and various other things that come
with lots of being in a place.
But I think what also comes with that
is now we don't really know what to do
because there's not a whole lot going on right now.
- I feel like this is maybe more of a town
where you do like the little day trips
you go check out the cheese-making,
you go to a vineyard, something like that.
- Yeah, and we were originally
when we were planning to come here
before going to Queretaro,
we were going to stay for a whole week.
I think we might've been bored, honestly.
- Supposedly 78 degrees right now,
But in the sun, 78 has never felt so hot.
There's this cheese store that I really want to go-to here
since they make the cheese locally,
this particular one I heard has over a hundred
different kinds of cheese
and you get to try a bunch of them.
So I'm hoping that's still the case during COVID
but we're going to go check it out.
- Jordan, I love how you pointed out
that this is the happy cow.
And in this case, unlike pollo feliz,
where they're killing the chickens
in order to like roast them and serve them to you,
the cows actually are happy
because they get to live,
you're just taking their milk to make cheese.
(speaking in Mexican)
- Port salud.
(speaking in Mexican)
- Hmm!
- Oh, I like that.
So it has mustard seeds, it has a good flavor to it.
(speaking in Mexican)
So this one manchego cooked with beer and made with beer.
Did you taste the beer?
- I don't think so.
(speaking in Mexican)
- [Lady] No.
- No, okay.
They're all really good so far.
I think my favorite is the first
it reminded me of like a cheddar, like a sharp...
- Yeah, so you were afraid of this one
because you can see some blue in it
and you hate blue cheese.
- I can't stand blue cheese.
- But it doesn't taste like at all.
- All of these are very smooth.
Like they're very like the meltable type of cheese.
(speaking in Mexican)
- Gracias.
(speaking in Mexican)
- Okay.
(speaking in Mexican)
- Okay.
- Gracias.
(speaking in Mexican)
How do you think?
- It's the lightest of all of them.
- Yeah.
- Definitely the least amount of fat.
- So after trying a whole bunch of cheeses,
were getting on the very first one we tried,
port salud with mustard seeds,
and then this one is actually a sheep's cheese
with like hierbas finas, or fine herbs in it
and this one was awesome, I love this.
(speaking in Mexican)
- Oh, rompope.
(both laughs)
I want champagne.
(both laughs)
(speaking in Mexican)
- Okay.
It's good, it's good.
So this is rompope translates to eggnog, I believe.
And it's pretty thick, you can taste
that there's a little bit of alcohol in there.
It's pretty tasty.
- Oh yes, you can taste the alcohol, but it's sweet,
not too sweet.
(speaking in Mexican)
Oh wow.
(speaking in Mexican)
There's just so much good stuff in this.
(both laughs)
So our bright idea is that next time we come back
to Tequisquiapan, it's going to be on the weekend
and we are going to check out a vineyard
or one of the cheese-making facilities
to take some type of a tour around here
because I think that's where a lot of the magic is.
- Yeah.
- The magic in the pueblo mágico.
(both laughs)
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