- So check it out.
It's Trevor James.
I just got into Padang, Indonesia.
I'm so pumped because today we're going
for a full on street food tour.
Let's go check it out
(uptempo music)
- [Trevor Voiceover] This is Padang,
home of perhaps the most famous food
in all of Indonesia, the Nasi Padang.
You can find these amazingly powerful, spicy
and flavorful dishes all across the country,
but when we first flew into Jakarta
and tried out our first Nasi Padang meal,
we knew that we had to fly Padang to the source
to eat the real thing.
After a quick flight from Jakarta to Padang,
we landed and found ourselves in a morning market
with an empty stomach and nothing but dreams
of delicious and spicy food.
This street food video is packed with delicacies,
so make sure to watch until the end
because these five street foods are worth flying
halfway around the world for.
Let's eat.
- We are deep in the morning market of Padang.
This is what it's all about here, guys.
What do we got out here?
Wow!
Pepes?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Wow, look at this, guys.
Like roast banana leaves.
Pepe.
Oh, look at this.
- [Trevor Voiceover] These grilled banana leaves
were stuffed with dried, salted anchovies
and two types of paste, one with red chili
and one with turmeric.
The flavors you can experience in one bite
from the banana leaf, the paste and the fish
is truly amazing.
- So there's two types here.
There's the red sambal with these little,
I think these might be anchovies or little silver fish.
I think these are cassava leaves.
These are grilled inside of a banana leaf,
and then there's a yellow one here too.
Oh wow.
Alright we're gonna try it right out.
Okay, okay.
Oh yeah, look at this.
Oh, sambal?
- Yeah.
- Sambal?
Okay, let's try it out.
Mm.
Oh, that is quite salty, very spicy and pasty.
I think that cassava leaf is giving it a lot
of herbal, leafy flavor.
Mm, oh.
Cassava?
- Yeah.
- Mm, oh, and you can taste the banana leaf,
the smokiness in there.
Those are quite salty and spicy.
The little bones in there give it a little texture.
They're so small you can eat them.
Mm, wow!
- [Trevor Voiceover] After a quick walk through the market
enjoying all the action and the bustle,
we found a man making red chili sambal,
just one of hundreds of types of sambal in Indonesia.
And to my surprise, after a quick chat,
I got invited up to give it a go.
- Wow.
That is sambal.
(speaking foreign language)
Whoa.
(laughing)
Oh, me?
Okay, I'm gonna go make it.
Okay, okay.
(speaking foreign language)
Should I try?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
We got a crowd here.
Okay, like this?
Like this?
(laughing)
My first time.
Like that?
Oh! (chuckling)
oh, you can, it's like breathing in chili.
It's good.
It's hot.
Oh, and there's chilies in the water
I'm cleaning my hands with too.
So this sambal, sambal.
This is to make sambal.
Ah.
Wow, he was so friendly.
- [Trevor Voiceover] Next up, just a few steps
down the market and right before
our huge Nasi Padang feast,
we found a classic dish from Padang, the sate Padang,
grilled beef or chicken skewers over top
of boiled rice floured lontong,
covered in a specialty Padang sauce
made or beef and organ broth, turmeric, ginger,
garlic, cumin, curry powder and salt.
It's the perfect street snack from Padang.
- Wow!
Sate?
- [Women] Sate.
- Sate.
- Sate Padang.
Oh, look at this, guys.
Look at this sate sauce.
Oh, oh.
Chicken, chicken satay.
Lontong?
Lontong.
Oh, so this is the lontong,
and it is boiled rice inside of a banana leaf
like rice cakes.
Oh wow.
Oh yeah, look at that.
Okay, so she's putting a banana leaf on the plate.
Oh yeah, there's the lontong.
Sate, okay, sate (speaking foreign language).
Nice, wow.
Okay, oh!
Oh!
Wow, look at this, guys.
Let's go try it out.
So we have the lontong with chicken Sate over top,
so basically a rice cake covered in Sate sauce,
covered fried shallots.
Take that chicken Sate, dip it into that gravy.
Let's try it out.
Mm, wow!
That is delicious!
Oh, its like a slightly spicy, peppery gravy.
You think of your gravy that you have over turkey,
but you put some peppery spice.
That's what we got here with soft, tender boiled rice cakes,
mm, and nice and juicy chicken.
[Trevor Voiceover] Next up is a meal worth flying
to Indonesia for and the one that brought us specifically
to Padang, the Nasi Padang.
As you explore around West Sumatra,
you can see Nasi Padang joints everywhere,
and you could literally eat this meal three times a day.
You instantly get excited as you see the hundreds
of dishes freshly made and ready to serve
to you with the instant you sit down.
- Alright, so this is it,
what we came to Padang for, Nasi Padang.
This is gonna be a life defining meal.
Oh!
Nasi Padang.
- Nasi Padang.
(speaking foreign language)
- Oh yeah.
- Nasi Padang. - Nasi Padang.
(speaking foreign language)
- Nasi Padang.
- Nasi Padang (speaking foreign language).
Wow!
We're gonna get a ton of Nasi Padang here today, guys.
(speaking foreign language)
Oh, it's all here, okay.
Okay, let's go try it out.
(speaking foreign language)
Oh!
The deal here is you've got Nasi Padang.
There's hundreds of dishes to choose from.
You pay for what you eat, and you don't pay
for what you don't eat.
Let's go try it out.
Okay, thank you.
Wow!
Okay (speaking foreign language).
(speaking foreign language)
Oh, rendang?
Oh, wow!
(speaking foreign language)
And look at these monster prawns!
It's all here.
(speaking foreign language)
Wow.
Sambal?
(speaking foreign language)
Sambal?
- Yeah.
- Ah, sambal.
Just looking at this is getting my mouth so hungry.
Oh, he's putting the candles down.
It's a romantic experience.
(speaking foreign language)
Whoa!
I am completely overwhelmed with the selection here.
I think I've got a at least 20 or so dishes here
of delights, and this one right here is a true specialty
from Padang, the beef rendang.
It is gonna be thick and rich and spicy.
They let the curry and the coconut milk evaporate,
so the paste that it's cooked in becomes so thick.
There is so much here, oh!
Shrimp?
Oh, okay.
(speaking foreign language)
Oh, right here.
It's all here.
Wow!
(speaking foreign language)
Okay, so there is so much here, I am completely overwhelmed.
There is so many different chili pastes, sambals,
thick curries.
All these spices coming off of this is insane.
We've got the beef rendang.
We've got the dendeng batokok,
which is like a beef jerky covered in green sambal.
We've got huge, we've got huge, monster shrimp.
We've got tons of different types of fish.
Ah, thank you.
Cow intestine and tons of food here
(speaking foreign language)
Okay, so rendang?
- Redang.
- Oh yeah, oh, it's still warm.
Beef rendang, ohh.
There it is.
Oh, it's so warm and thick.
Gonna put it with a little rice here.
Oh yeah.
This is gonna be the moment of truth.
Here we go.
Mm!
Wow!
Mm.
That rendang is so powerful and spicy and rich and thick.
Oh, you can just put that right over your rice.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, I am definitely a little overwhelmed
with the selection here, but this is a feast of a lifetime.
There is so much food.
I think I'm gonna go in for, oh man,
you gotta stand up to see it all.
Here we have some chicken.
You can dip this into this sambal here.
The sambal can be dipped into a lot of things.
That just looks amazing.
There is some fried fish, spicy green sambal,
another fish over here covered in a red sambal,
chicken in a green sambal.
We've got djenkol beans.
So I think actually what this is is beef intestine stuffed
with scrambled eggs.
Oh, wow, look at that.
Oh man, I am just blown away.
Mm, mm!
Oh, yeah, oh.
I think those are eggs.
They taste like spiced eggs.
- [Trevor Voiceover] After feasting
on all these different spicy dishes,
spicy from fresh chilies and creamy from coconut milk,
we took a drive around
and enjoyed the natural beauty of Padang.
And our taxi driver brought us to his favorite lontong joint
where all the drivers go.
- Lontong.
Oh, special lontong.
- Hello, my friend.
- Okay, let's have a lontong.
Ah, thank you.
(speaking foreign language)
Just one, yeah.
- [Trevor Voiceover] Enter longtong sayur,
a spicy start to the day made
of those same lontong boiled rice cakes,
covered in a super creamy coconut milk,
spicy, jackfruit stew and topped
with rice noodles and crackers.
You're definitely gonna get
your morning spice kick with this.
- Okay, so we just got the lontong here.
Very nice.
I think we found the taxi driver's lontong.
And this looks awesome.
So we've got the crackers on top, pink crackers.
The base, the soul of this is this boiled rice cake
that's wrapped in a banana leaf
and here, jackfruit.
Whoa, that is gonna be a flavor concoction.
Mm, wow!
That is burning, that is a burning joy.
Boiled rice cakes, super spicy broth.
We've got the jackfruit.
We got noodles.
We got crispy crackers.
Oh, wow.
The jackfruit just takes on that flavor
of that spicy broth that it's in.
It is burning.
My tongue is on fire right now.
- [Trevor Voiceover] Later in the evening,
after hanging out and enjoying more
of the beautiful scenery of Padang,
we went to have a delicious seafood feast by the seaside.
We ate at just one of many seafood joints in Padang,
grilling their fish and prawns out on the street
and covering them in a flavorful turmeric,
coconut milk sauce that's super addictive.
And while we thought we were just going for grilled fish,
part of the joy of Padang is that everywhere you go,
you're served a ton of Nasi Padang dishes, as well.
We ordered the classic grilled fish and prawns
and were given delicious side dishes, as well,
like coconut milk djenkol beans,
eggplant with spicy sambal, bitter melon,
a red and green sambal sauce for dipping,
and a huge bowl of rice.
Padang is truly a food heaven in Indonesia.
- And the joy is that you can just
put everything right over the rice.
I'm gonna start out right here with the ikan.
Oh yeah.
Oh, it's still so hot and fresh.
Oh, that flesh!
Roast, grilled ikan, wow.
That orange turmeric paste just looks so flavorful.
I just gotta go right in.
Mm, wow!
No bones, juicy, mm.
Oh, just lightly spiced.
Look at that.
Mm, the turmeric, the grill, the char.
You can taste the smoke in there.
So delicious, and you can also just dip it
into any of these.
Got a red sambal here.
Oh yeah.
- [Trevor Voiceover] The food in Padang was truly
out of this world,
worth flying halfway around the world for.
And this seafood feast was just so packed with flavor.
You've really gotta try this out.
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