- Hello from Queretaro, México.
- Today, we're gonna take you along with us,
as we show you a day in our life here in the city.
For breakfast today, we came to this place called Micaela
and it's in the neighborhood of Alamos
here in Queretaro.
Looking at this place's Instagram,
like everything you order here is picture perfect.
So it's kinda cool for that reason.
This is my first time here.
May you've been here before, right?
- Yeah. I've been here before with my best friend
and I really fell in love with this place
the first time I came.
I've tried to order so many different things
every time I'm here.
And I'm really glad that this time
I'm trying something different as well.
- Something interesting about this place
is that they have milkshakes of various flavors
like Kit Kat, Mr. Fields and S'mores
They're actually some of the most expensive drinks
on the menu if not the most expensive
at about eight bucks a piece
but that's something I don't think I've ever seen
at any restaurant in Mexico before.
- Well, for today I got this tropicana smoothie
which is a smoothie with coconut water, strawberries,
bananas, pineapple, and orange juice.
Yeah. And I was pretty surprised
because I didn't thought it was going to be this huge
but it's absolutely gorgeous.
It's becoming a bit hard for me to drink it
because it's so tall and my neck is not that long,
but okay, I'm gonna try it.
It also has a little bit of honey, I can feel it perfectly.
I usually don't like honey, but in this case,
it's a very well balanced mixture, I'm really loving it.
And I love the color in it and the flower at the top.
It was a very good choice honestly, I'm happy.
- I got a vanilla chai.
It's really hot in this glass cup
There's like little flower petals on the top or something.
- Mmm I love it.
My vanilla chai was 85 pesos,
and May's smoothie was 83 pesos.
This restaurant is really famous for its French toast.
So we ordered that to share.
And then we each ordered our own entree as well.
- All of our food just arrived and we seriously
have so much to eat on our table right now.
I don't think we're gonna have to eat ever again.
But I got the chilaquiles verdes.
Chilaquiles are tortilla chips,
and in this case they're covered in a green sauce
that has some like sour cream,
and cheese and onions on it as well.
And then I got it with cecina,
which is like a thin strip of beef.
- Today I got this omelette filled with grilled chicken,
spinach and cheese. I think it's goat cheese.
It comes with beans with a little bit of extra cheese,
and small piece of bread. So I'm gonna try it.
- So I just tried my chilaquiles and I like the salsa.
The green sauce is really good.
I'm not a big fan of the cecina though
because it's kind of tough.
It's a little bit hard to chew
and cecina that I've ordered before was pretty tender.
But May informed me that there's a couple different kinds
of cecina and one is tougher to chew and one is more tender
and actually the one that's tougher to chew is more common.
So it seems like that's what I got here.
This French toast looks so good.
Maybe a little unhealthy, but so good.
- It's too big.
Am in love. Don't get jealous. So good.
- All right I'll give the French toast a try.
- It's so soft and so creamy,
but honestly it's not sweet at all.
I thought it was going to be more sweet, but it's not
- [Jordan] How? There's sugar all over it.
- Yeah, but you cannot feel it.
So that's something that I'm really loving
about this French toast
because yeah it's over the top soft,
and it's very well balanced with the cream cheese
and berries all over the French toast.
So yeah, for me, it's a 10 out of 10.
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- So we definitely ate way too much
but I enjoyed my breakfast.
I can highly highly recommend the French toast there,
as well as the vanilla chai.
How about you? Would you recommend your omelette?
- Yeah, definitely. The portions of everything was huge
and I honestly couldn't finish it.
I just think I finished my breakfast,
but like the main thing I ordered but not anything else.
- Yeah, forget about it. And your smoothie was so gigantic.
Like you were sipping on that thing the whole time
and you finished about a third of it.
- Yeah, it was impossible to finish it.
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- So I've been doing some car shopping,
and ideally I want a small SUV,
something that's four wheel drive.
So today we're here at Hyundai
seeing what options they have for us.
So this white Hyundai Tucson, it's not four wheel drive,
and he informed me that they don't have four wheel drive
in their brand.
It's all two wheel drive,
but that's a 2018 with 55,000 kilometers.
And that is 440,000 pesos.
So it's a little higher than the budget I'd like to be in,
and it's not four wheel drive.
So I don't think there's going to be any options
here for me today.
That guy told me that Hyundai Tucson had 55,000 kilometers.
But then I looked at the odometer
and it said over a hundred thousand.
So I'm not sure if he was looking at the information
for another car, or just had the wrong information or what,
but anyway I think we're gonna head
to another dealership now.
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So now we're at Alemania Motors
and they specialize in German vehicles here.
They have an Audi SUV, that's 4x4,
but it's a bit higher than my budget,
but you know I was thinking,
I don't want something so ostentatious.
So maybe like a yellow Lambo?
What do you think May? Lambo?
I wanted to come to Alemania Motors
because they get a really great reviews on Google,
but I was totally not expecting them
to have a Lamborghini here.
I think that's a definite contender.
Or I have an idea, we could do the Porsche and the Lambo,
and then you mix the two colors and you have Tangerine.
- [May] I would look prettier with one of those cars.
(laughing)
- [Jordan] Yeah until you get kidnapped.
- [May] That's a possibility.
- So at Alemania Motors, they took down my WhatsApp number
and he's going to text me if they get in any new inventory
that fits the type of vehicle I'm looking for.
But right now we're just gonna run into Costco quick
and grab a couple things that we need.
But for some reason at Costco, "a couple things"
always turns into a cart full of crap that cost me like
several hundred dollars.(laughing)
Whenever people find out there's Costco's in Mexico,
they're always wondering like what's it like in here?
Well, I would say about 50% of the products are the same
as if you're shopping at a Costco in the US.
And then 50 are going to be catered more
towards the local market here.
And as for prices,
well you have to remember if you're shopping at Costco here
the sales tax of 16% is already included
in the listed price, whereas shopping in the US,
the listed price is before tax.
So just in the difference of sales taxes,
you're looking at about a 25% difference in price.
And 25% difference is usually about
what you're going to experience here versus in the US.
Yeah, those are really soft, especially on the inside.
And there are 329 pesos.
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- Look at these, I think they are so pretty.
- [Jordan] Are they plastic?
- No, they're not.
- [Jordan] Oh, they're like real dishes.
- Yeah. But look at this. It has hearts on it.
All of them are so different.
- [Jordan] Well then. - [May] I love them.
You really know how to make a woman happy.
- I just have to get your cute bowls.
This vase is really pretty and it's like... it's solid.
This thing is heavy.
By the way do you know what the difference is
between a vase and a vase? About 500 bucks.
But yeah, this is 289 pesos. So like $14 or so.
I have an idea! Instead of buying a car,
maybe I'll get one of these for 1500 bucks instead.
I mean, I wouldn't mind cruising around in this.
Maybe get a side car for Laska.
So she has a place to ride as well.
I have some good news.
I got outta there spending only 3000 pesos.
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For dinner tonight, we're getting some Oaxacan food
at this place called Zandunga.
This is my first time here
but I've been to a restaurant called Zandunga
in Oaxaca city that I absolutely loved.
So I'm hoping, crossing my fingers,
hoping this is as good here as it was there.
We're outside right now. It's really pretty back here.
You have the papel picado when you're walking in,
you have the painted walls, the open air, the trees.
I like it. What do you think May?
- It's pretty cool.
I love all the colorful ribbons all over the place.
So yeah, I like it. - Yeah, I like that too.
And speaking of cool, it's getting kinda cold.
- I'm fine. - Well of course you are.
You're in your warm stuff that you got from Costco.
- I'm loving it. It's like wearing pajamas.
(laughing)
Yeah, I love it.
Maybe I should go for the other two colors.
- Get all of them.
- Yes. I feel I could wear this the whole week.
- And if you got all the colors,
you wouldn't just have three outfits,
you would probably have like 10 outfits
because you go this top with the blue pants,
this top with the grey pants and so on.
If you're wondering why I'm so excited for this dinner,
it's because of all the places in Mexico,
Oaxaca has my favorite food.
So anytime I get a chance to have Oaxacan food,
I'm so excited about it.
So 491 years ago today, the city of Santiago de Querétaro
was founded. And we're eating dinner here in Centro,
in Zona Centro tonight.
So after dinner, we were thinking about going
to some of the main plazas
to see if there's anything going on
for the anniversary celebration.
Have you seen anything like that in previous years?
- Yes, but I'm not sure about this year.
I looked at the social media for something special
but honestly I didn't see anything.
- Yeah. - So let's just try.
- We'll find out.
All right what'd you get, May?
- Well today I got this thing called a nopal zapoteco
which is like a grilled nopal. - [Jordan] Yeah, a cactus.
Yeah a cactus with... cactus sounds weird, but okay cactus.
(laughing)
Because for me cactus is another different thing.
Anyway with tasajo, which is beef.
And I think it has onion
and cheese, pimientas, peppers,
red peppers, green peppers, yellow peppers,
all kinds of peppers
- [Jordan] You're scaring me. Put your plate down.
(laughing)
You have a knife at my face
and you're about to dump all your food off onto the table.
- Because I'm trying to explain my plate to everybody
and you're getting too close
and I cannot do that because you make me so nervous.
So I have to defend myself.
(laughing)
The only thing I have.
Okay, weapons down, here it is.
- I got the mole negro or the black mole.
And I was actually never a fan of mole,
until going to Oaxaca and trying the mole there
in Oaxacan restaurants.
And then after that, trying all these different kinds
of authentic mole, like yellow mole, red mole, black mole,
and then some others as well.
I turned into a lover of mole,
and now it's actually one of my favorite Mexican foods.
But below the bed of mole sauce is chicken,
and then there's rice as well.
So I'm excited to dig into this,
and that's what I'm gonna do here.
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It's good. Okay, so we were just having a little discussion.
- It's not a discussion. Okay, go on.
- So I know "discussion" in Spanish means argument
but this was not an argument, it was a discussion.
But anyway, we were talking about nopal
and she's like it's weird for me to call it a cactus.
Yes it's a type of cactus, but here it's nopal,
like that's just what it is.
- Because cactus is another thing.
It's another species of... cactus.
(laughing)
I got confused.
(laughing)
- It's okay. It's okay.
But she looked it up because I was like,
"well what would the English translation be
without using the word cactus?"
And I didn't know.
But apparently it's a prickly pear cactus.
- Nopal. I'm not gonna use that word
because first we're in Mexico right now.
Second, because that's so weird
and I won't remember it for sure.
And third, because I don't care.
Nopal is nopal. It's raining by the way.
- So we had to hurry on inside because it started raining.
And if rain got onto you right here, it could damage you,
and you might not be able to see or hear us.
So now we're safe inside
but that might have ruined our plans
for like any anniversary celebration tonight.
Maybe the rain will stop by the time we're done eating.
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(laughing)
- So for dessert, we got these fried bananas
and they have a condensed milk and a type of cream.
They call it sour cream here,
but it's not the same sour cream that you're used to
in the US.
It's much different than that kind of sour cream,
but it's nice, it has a little bit of sweetness to it.
And I'm always a big fan of this dessert.
What are you getting the chapulines for?
- My father. - To eat?
- He loves them with esquites.
So it's a very nice gift for my father.
- Grasshoppers. - Yes. So original.
I'm gonna give you grasshoppers for your birthday present.
Me? Yes. Ummm...
- Okay. - In a quesadilla
He's not happy.
- And then I'll be spending my birthday alone
because I'll be mad at her.
- Okay! If you're watching this, he's gonna regret it.
(laughing)
- So last night after we finished eating,
we went to plaza de los fundadores,
to see if there was anything going on
for the city's anniversary and there wasn't anything at all.
But if you liked this video,
please share it in a Facebook group,
and click on this video that May and I made last week.
I think you'll really like that one as well.