So today's plan is to sample all the Greek Street Food.
We have come to Athens Flea Market and I know this seems like a bit of a strange place to
be having street food but they have a lot of little stands and shops where you can get
souvlaki, gyros, baklava.
So yeah, we're just planning to walk down the main road of the flea market and just
peruse have a look around and see what we can sniff out and have a fantastic meal on
the street.
And if you're interested in recreating this little food tour that we're about to embark
on the closest metro station is Monastiraki so there you go.
Let's chow down.
Let's go eat.
Alright guys so brought out the big guns right from the start.
Someone's alarm is going off.
Oh, 11:15.I don't know why.
No, 11:10am.
I don't know why.
That is the most random alarm to have set.
Anyways.
Can you turn it off for me?
How do you do that?
Just press no the other one.
Oh, you did it.
Okay.
Good enough.
There we go.
Now it is time for food.
So we ordered the Gyro and Souvlaki.
Both of them in pitas.
And I should probably explain the difference because I feel like back home gyro, souvlaki,
kebab it is all the same thing to us.
It is like meat and a piece of bread.
Yeah.
But no gyro means to turn.
Yep.
So that is the one where the meat spinning it is the shaved meat and being cooked at
the same time.
Yeah.
And then they shave it.
The souvlaki is the meat on the skewer.
Exactly.
And then the kebab is the ground meat it can be like pork and beef and lamb.
Like there is different varieties.
That is kind of like shaped into a sausage shape.
Yeah, exactly.
Like ground meat.
Um, so yeah we're having gyro we're having souvlaki and the ingredients in here look
amazing.
We have tzatziki sauce, tomatoes, red onions, lettuce.
So yeah this looks wonderful.
And that bread.
It does look wonderful.
He put it on the grill and it just is warm.
And the price was also wonderful.
They were 2 Euros each.
2 euros a piece.
So yeah can't wait to dig in.
So here we go.
The souvlaki.
Let's see if I can get a big bite of the meat here.
Urgh.
Oh man that looks so good.
Wow.
It is so hard to film and not eat.
Mmmm.
Haha.
The meat is so juicy.
Is it?
Juicy and tender and it is like soaking the bread with its meaty juiciness.
And then all of the freshness of the vegetables right?
Mmmhmm.
Man.
We haven't even gotten to the vegetables yet.
That is like a completely different section.
So here we have Sam going in for the gyro.
It has been so hard to wait.
And watch him eat mine.
I'm so excited for this one.
Woah.
Oh man.
Look at those colors.
Oh man.
That shaved meat is just something else.
It is just so good.
Mmmm.
And I love how they've put lots of sauce on there.
You've got it all over your lips my friend.
I know.
I could tell.
And I love just how spongy the bread is.
Mmmhmm.
It just soaks up all the juices and everything.
Oh my gosh this is such a good start to the day.
So we have moved on to a little something sweet now.
It didn't take us long let me tell you.
Well we got Greek Yogurt.
And this is not just any Greek yogurt.
This is this comes with some amazing toppings.
Yes.
It has got a super saturated amount of honey.
It has walnuts and we also ordered dates as well.
So there you go.
I'm so excited about this.
This just looks heavenly.
Mmmm.
Oh my gosh.
What a contrast between the sourness and creaminess of the Greek yogurt and then the sweetness
of the honey and the dates and crunchiness of the walnuts.
There is so many lovely things going on all at once.
Haha.
Oh my gosh that is so good.
I've got to go in for more.
Yeah.
And this was the smallest size they had.
Mmmhmm.
And we paid 4.20.
Right.
Because we added a few extra toppings in there.
Exactly.
I like can't even eat normal yogurt after this.
This is so good.
Third bite guys.
Third bite.
Haha.
Alright your turn.
My turn.
I didn't leave you much.
I've been eating a lot.
Haha.
I had some of this yesterday when we went to the museum by the Acropolis.
It was so good.
We sat down at the cafe on the second floor.
Oh my gosh.
And I saw Greek Yogurt on the menu and I was like yeah that is what I'm having for my dessert.
It is pretty much one of the worlds best breakfasts or even desserts.
Like we could have it either way.
Mmmm.
Or street food like we're doing now.
I just love Greek yogurt.
I know.
It is like real natural yogurt.
I know it just tastes so natural and so creamy.
And I love.
Sour.
The sourness of it.
It is just you can't beat it.
You can't beat it.
And they had so many different toppings.
Yeah.
Where we got this I mean you could get a little more modern and contemporary and put like
sprinkles and chocolate chips.
Alright guys so we found a man who was selling nuts.
Yes.
And he was very friendly and animated.
He was so friendly and passionate and also very generous allowing us to sample them.
Yeah, he let us try the nuts before we bought them.
What a nice guy.
We ended up getting a sweet one and a salty one.
And then because we bought two packs he gave me a whole bunch extra in my hand.
He was just like open your palm and he put a whole bunch of nuts.
So we got all this.
Um the sweet ones were 1.50 (Euro).
Yep.
And they look like this.
Yep.
It is basically peanuts and they are kind of coated in this caramelized brown sugar.
Yeah, exactly.
And then this looks like sesame seeds on the exterior.
Yep.
And then the salty ones.
You can actually see the big chunks of salt on them.
Yeah, you can.
It is course salt.
And the peanuts still have the skin.
Exactly.
So we'll start with the sweet ones.
And it is a windy day today.
Mmm.
It is windy.
The sweet ones are so good.
I know the sweet ones those are sesame seeds.
Are they?
Wow.
We've it is funny these are quite common all over the world.
We've had these in Buenos Aires.
We've had these when we lived in Korea.
Mmhmm.
Especially the sweet ones.
And now salty.
They are so good.
Nothing like a little sugar mixed with uh peanuts.
These are nice to like mix together.
Yeah.
It reminds me of that sweet and salty popcorn that you would have.
You know you just mix it together.
It tastes so much better because you're you know you are not indulging too much in either
way.
Haha.
Exciting moment over here.
Trying my first Greek coffee.
I somehow didn't manage to try Greek coffee the first time I was in Greece.
I don't think I was drinking a lot of coffee a few years ago.
No.
Yeah that is the only thing I can think of.
And yeah we've found a cute little cafe here in the heart of the flea market so we thought
let's sit down for a quick drink.
Oh, that is potent.
Yeah, strong coffee?
Potent, rich, strong.
Yeah.
It came with a little sweet treat.
Looks like lokum.
Turkish delight maybe.
A little nibble.
Mmm.
That is really sweet.
Cool.
That is more than enough sugar.
Haha.
Yeah.
That is all you need.
And yeah we're just having this little snack uh right out on the street as you can see.
Right on the market.
The flea market.
So the antiques market.
It is pretty cool.
And we have baklava on the way.
We do have baklava on the way.
On the way.
Well dessert is here.
Bubaba-Baklava.
Baklava.
Better believe it.
We've been having a lot of this here in Athens.
Oh yeah.
Look at all of that syrup just oozing out.
That honey.
I should say honey yeah.
Oh my.
Syrupy honey.
Oh, how is that?
I think I could just eat Baklava everyday and never get sick of it.
It is just so good.
So good.
So nutty.
So many layers of pastry.
Mmmhmm.
Oh.
And I should mention to that the uh the Greek Coffee was very similar to the Turkish and
Bosnian coffee we've had recently in the sense that the ground are at the bottom.
So that just shows you how strong and potent it is.
Yeah.
This has just been wonderful.
Like I am in my happy spot right now.
Beautiful weather, great dessert and really good coffee.
Greek food for the win.
What more can you ask for?
Traditional bread.
One of this.
Traditional this.
Uh huh.
Traditional please.
Koulouri.
Oh that looks delicious.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
Thank you.
Bye.
Alright last but not least.
Last but not least.
We found some bread.
It is reminiscent of a pretzel I would say.
Yep.
Apparently this is called Koulouri.
Yeah and the lady said this was the most traditional of the ones that she was serving.
Yes.
It is a ring shaped piece of bread covered in toasted sesame seeds.
I am anticipating.
Okay hold it up again.
I just can't help myself but to go right through.
Of course.
Haha.
There we got.
There we go.
Okay try it.
What say you?
That is huge.
Salty?
It is kind of pretzel-y.
It is not salty no.
No?
No.
Sesame seeds on the outside?
No course grains of salt or anything like that.
Just sesame seeds.
Oh.
Bread and sesame seeds and she had a block of um feta cheese.
Yep.
So if you want cheese with it they can like slice it open I guess or just give you the
cheese on the side.
That would have been nice but we're getting kind of full.
Oh and before I forget how much was that one?
50 cents.
fifty cents of the Euro.
Now that is a deal.
Not bad.
Alright guys that concludes our Greek Street Food Tour here in Athens, Greece.
We ate so many delicious street food items.
And we'd love to know what are some other Greek street food items that you can try.
We obviously didn't try them all just a very small component of them.
But everything was really good and that was just a lot of fun.
So ciao from Athens, Greece.
See you guys in the next video.