so good morning from cuenca ecuador today we're going to be walking around cuenca and showing
you a full day of what we eat finally yeah but if you'd like to see what cuenca is like we do
have a full vlog on that you can just click it right up there i think and you can see what the
city is really like yeah so we've been having a lot of people ask us pretty much on every single
one of our videos what are we eating and so more food yeah show more food what's ecuadorian food
like so today is that day we are going to show you our three meals of ecuadorian food so snacks
in between yeah that's right so we're on the hunt for our favorite ecuadorian food hopefully
we can find it all here in cuenca that's right so let's go find some breakfast and some coffee
so let's start with coffee it's funny that ecuador is known worldwide for its coffee export because
when we're here actually drinking coffee it's usually hit or miss
you can either get like instant coffee or you can get brewed coffee and it's okay or you can get
actually like really good brewed coffee we've had a various range of coffees while we've been here
and another thing about coffee is actually when you order it you have to order it either with
leche because they'll make it with milk or you order it as tinto which is like they make it
with water so they don't actually bring cream or milk to the table for you they'll make the
coffee beforehand with milk or with water so today we're drinking cafe tinto and it's instant today
so this is i always always order this for breakfast because it is delicious
basically what it is is it's grilled plantains mixed with onions green peppers cilantro and
other things kind of whatever people want to put in there and also with a fried egg on top
they make it with cheese and the thing is about ecuadorian cheese is that it literally tastes
like it's straight from the cow which is which is good uh but it's it's not for everybody i will say
it's good it's um it's a typical meal on the coast like we had it all the time on the coast
but it's nice that you can find it here in cuenca
as well it's a bit of a different recipe but still very good gracias
what do we have here oh this is a heat this is one of the best things about ecuadorian food is
everywhere you go they have these different sauces made with different spicy peppers and all sorts
of other flavors but they're always different wherever you go different variations of spiciness
flavor and you're just loaded on everything you eat and it's so good so let's load her up
okay so now we're just getting some lunch
at one of the best things about ecuador is they have these things called almuerzos which literally
just means lunch and spanish but here in ecuador they're special just around lunchtime and it
always includes a juice a soup usually sometimes it's like a salad instead and then a main with
beans rice and meat most typically and honestly they're usually about like two to four dollars
which is amazing and you can get plenty of food we often share them because it's too much food
for us to eat on our own but it's a perfect way to eat cheap food in ecuador if you want to just
like have a nice filling meal what kind of juice do we have in the day sar i think it's strawberry
from the taste not too sure but that's the other awesome thing is there's always these fresh juices
and they're always so good except if they're papaya don't love empire juice
but this one's delicious it's yummy like potato vegetable soup it's really good
okay so here's our main dish basically today we're getting a pork chop with rice and a
plantain some minestro de frijoles so like beans and a little bit of vegetables as well
what i love about ecuadorian almuerzos is that it's always different so there was a couple
different options between like carne seco and then we always get different types of beans different
meats and vegetables as well so you almost never know what you're gonna get usually you need to ask
actually kind of what is coming with the almuerzo sometimes they'll have the menu up in front of
the restaurant but usually they actually just have like a set almuerzo so you should just ask
especially if you have dietary concerns just to
see exactly what you're getting for that day and that's almuerzo
gracias
i like this because they actually give enough stuff for the rice yeah i cannot stand eating
dried rice with nothing sometimes it's ninety percent rice yeah a little bit of salt and salt
it's nice perfect mix
good place home where are those gotta get on the almuerzo train when you're here
i can't believe we have to eat another meal today we're gonna get lots of snacks too i'm so full
so close up
okay it's time to try this weird dessert thing we've seen on the street for so long
everywhere in cuenca there's people selling this thing and it looks like
ice cream cones with like whipped cream honestly i don't know how i feel about it but i feel like we
got to try it i keep telling eric we have to try once i'm not even a really big whipped cream fan
and it kind of looks gross to be honest but we're gonna do it and we're gonna try just for you
okay honestly this looks so gross to me
but i'm gonna do it i'm gonna try it all right it seriously looks so nasty
it tastes like how you'd expect just like straight sugar it almost tastes like like egg
whites with sugar like a meringue i don't know don't love it but try it do you want to try it
oh gross this is not good but everyone's lying not to eat them all day like i don't
understand what even is this like it's it's just like i'm eating sugar foam
like it's honestly like look at it look at this thing look at like no one should be eating this
but everyone is comment below if you love this treat whatever it's called
okay time to get some empanadas this is like our favorite thing to eat here
honestly i could eat empanadas all day every day but today we're just getting it as a snack
from this nice lady over here
yeah i am so pumped i love that this lady literally just sells empanadas and eggs this
is the best thing ever it's just like literally you just like open up a shop at your house to
sell eggs and empanadas i think it's awesome it's fantastic all right give me that empanada get it
get on my belly oh yeah i purposely did not eat much lunch just so i could eat this oh oh
so good this one's actually kind of tastes a little more like samosas which i really like
obviously chicken samosas heat them up for us they're so good i could live off these i think
oh yeah i know they're hot
i gotta open my mouth to air it out you know a little hop
it's like the most rude we've ever been as canadians
you think i would learn from your mistake but that was really hot
do i'm so excited this is gonna be so so so so good
tonight for dinner we came to tiestos which is just in the historical downtown part of cuenca
as well and it's a little bit of a more fancy place but we figured we should probably show
you at least kind of a variety of price ranges as well so tonight we're gonna have some dinner
and we start off with some bread and all of these different sauces and it's amazing so these ones
are not spicy these ones are medium spicy and then these ones are extra spicy so which one
are you driving the extra spicy obviously i'm gonna not quite literally yeah i'll spite him
you might not like the syrup you should probably stick with the medium or not hot just so spicy
it's delicious i love i love spicy food as much as it like hurts it's the best
cheers this is a malbec from argentina so we've been drinking chile and wine
most the time when we're here so i had to pick the argentinian
wow that is a very good wine this is so good it's called a campari orange it's a
that's a type of liquor and it's mixed with orange juice it tastes almost kind of like
there's grapefruit juice in here too but it's really delicious it's not ecuadorian i'm pretty
sure they'll call us from italy but it's nice to get something fancy once more treat yourself
wow are you so excited i'm excited i'm so excited for this i love when things like that are just
revealed it's so cool okay so we ordered the sea bass and it's like marinated in this tomato sauce
with capers and other types of like peppers and onions and it's just beautiful so very
nice they like served us awesome comes with rice i believe this is like quinoa of sorts and mote
this i'm not even really sure what it is potatoes potatoes
and salad of course so this is excellent this is the best sea bass i've ever had have
you have seen us before yes i have had sea bass before sarah so this is mote a really classical
food it's essentially boiled and then cooked corn kernels they often use this in place of rice
they'll just have this with different sauces as like a side dish in your meal it's really popular
not super flavorful but they're pretty good
i'm trying to cement the flavor of this meal in my memory forever this is so good i can't believe it
so yummy i'm so full we didn't even touch the fries oh yeah we have fries
oh this is just delicious just cleaning the bottom of this pan with some bread because it's just
can't leave any to waste it's so good
well thanks for watching this one this is not really our typical vlog we're not huge foodies
no not at all and obviously this is not a comprehensive guide of all the best foods in
ecuador this is just some of our favorites that we were able to find in cuenca so maybe comment below
what is your favorite ecuadorian food we'd love to hear from all of you yeah definitely and uh yeah
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then we have our main dish which today is the carne carne seco which is basically like a
grilled i don't even know what this what even is this