- All right, check it out, guys, it's Trevor James.
Just got in to Morocco, hanging with my buddy Firas
from Marrakech, and I'm so pumped 'cause tonight,
we're in the main square, Jamaa Al Fna,
and we're gonna have some delicious food.
- Welcome to Marrakech, Trevor.
We've been really looking forward to this day,
and we're gonna get some Moroccan classic dinner,
and we're gonna have a lot of fun.
- Awesome, can't wait to try some meat.
- Yeah.
- [Trevor] Let's go!
(upbeat music)
- [Voiceover] This is it.
Downtown Marrakech.
And here, at the main square,
there's hundreds of street stalls that sell
tons of delicious Moroccan street food.
And today, right off the airplane,
we're meeting up with our buddy Firas
to eat some delicious street food with.
Let's eat.
- It is so good to be in Marrakech,
and right up here is the main square, right?
- Yes, yes it is.
- Jamaa Al Fna? - Jamaa Al Fna.
- It's gonna be really good.
This feels so cool to be downtown in the heart of Marrakech.
- [Voiceover] First up, before going for some of the best
juice of your life and some snail soup,
we're going to pure meat heaven.
Get ready 'cause what you're about to witness
is one of the juiciest, sloppiest meats of your dreams.
- Lamb heads everywhere.
It's gonna be good, and I can't wait to taste
that first bite of meat in Morocco.
- Yeah, let's go do it right now.
- So you know a good stall up here?
- Yes, okay, we'll stop by somebody I already know.
- Okay. - Yeah, I know this one yeah.
- Okay, I think we just found meat heaven.
So we're gonna try some lamb head and tanjia, okay.
- Tanjia and steamed meat also, also steamed meat.
- Oh, wow.
- You can see- - Look at this.
- That's the brain right there.
- [Trevor] That's the brain?
- [Firas] That white plate, yep.
All that here, that's the brain.
- [Trevor] So we got brain, we got head, the tongue.
- [Firas] The tongue.
- [Trevor] Oh wow, and this is the...
- [Firas] This is the little tanjia.
- [Trevor] Tanjia.
- [Firas] That's the meat pot I'm talking about.
- [Trevor] Okay.
- [Firas] With preserved meats, garlic,
cumin, salt, everything.
And also boiled-
- [Trevor] It looks fantastic. Let's have a seat.
Look what we got here.
- [Firas] These are the breast.
[Trevor] The breast! Of the cow?
- [Firas] Breast of the cow, yeah. Female.
- [Trevor] Female cow. Whoa.
And we got so much delicious meat here.
So what should we order?
- [Firas] Let's get a little tanjia.
- [Trevor] Tanjia?
- [Firas] Yeah. And some steamed meats also.
- Okay. So we're gonna get a tanjia, some steamed meat,
and, oh this is gonna be good,
first bite of food in Marrakech.
So that's the tanjia right there?
- [Firas] Yes. That's the tanjia right there.
- This is gonna be really good.
First meal in Marrakech.
And look at all this crazy meat you've got here.
We've got the cow breast, we've got
tanjia pots full of delicious lamb, and all of that
delicious fat and brain. - Yep.
- Look at that. Oh wow.
- [Firas] Meats, preserved lemons, garlic, cumin,
and butter, smen.
- [Trevor] Oh smen. - [Firas] Yes.
- [Trevor] The preserved butter, right?
- [Firas] That's the most important ingredient.
- [Trevor] Is that really potent, strong?
- [Firas] Yes, it is, it is.
So first, they bring the plates, it's empty.
And they pour it for you.
- Oh, they pour the tanjia?
- Yes, yes. That's the beauty of it.
The tanjia is Moroccan special.
- Oh wow.
- You're not allowed to eat it anywhere else,
but Marrakech. - Just Marrakech.
- If you do, you're ruining the beauty of it.
- Oh and look at all this meat up here.
Is that a lamb head?
- [Firas] Yeah, that's a lamb head, yep.
- [Trevor] We should get one of those.
- [Firas] What call this?
- [Trevor] Sheep head.
- [Firas] Sheep head, yes. We call this (foreign language).
- [Trevor] Oh yeah, we're definitely gonna get one of those.
Wow, look at that.
Baby sheep head.
(foreign language)
- So it's a baby sheep.
- We've got two sheep head delights here.
So we've got a mixture of all the cheek and tongue,
it's cured.
He's just putting a little salt on there.
Look at that massive plate of lamb head meat.
And here's the tongue, look at that tongue meat.
Tongue meat is some of the best in the world.
And I can't wait to try it in Morocco,
with that sauce and cumin.
It's gonna be good.
And the tanjia.
The specialty. - Yes.
- [Trevor] Look at that.
Wow...
Look at that!
You can smell the lemon in there.
The preserved lemon. - The preserved lemon.
The smen and everything.
- The smen, that preserved butter, it's potent.
- Something left for us.
- Smells really fantastic.
- Yeah, as I told you, it's the Marrakech special.
- [Trevor] The Marrakech special.
Oh that meat just looks like it's so soft.
- [Firas] That will make you big.
- Yeah. (laughs)
Okay, so we've got the delicious lamb head meat right here.
- [Firas] Steamed meats.
- [Trevor] Look at that, so essentially, the entire head.
- [Firas] Yes, exactly. Cheeks and everything.
- [Trevor] Cheek. - [Firas] Forehead.
- [Trevor] All the fatty bits around the jaw.
- [Firas] Exactly yes.
- [Trevor] And then they salt like you were saying,
they salt the bread.
- [Firas] They salt the bread.
- [Trevor] And the rich...
- [Firas] The rich broth, cook it inside.
- So like a fatty broth and then we've got the tanjia.
- [Firas] Most popular Marrakech dish.
- [Trevor] Most popular Marrakech dish, right here.
- [Firas] And I told you, you're not allowed to eat it
anywhere else but Marrakech.
- [Trevor] Really? - [Firas] Yes.
- And then over here.
- We have steamed meats, and some of the tongue.
- [Trevor] Okay.
- [Firas] And then every dish is served with soaked-
- [Trevor] The bread.
- [Firas] Yup, soaked with...
- [Trevor] Awesome, and then they serve it with a-
- [Firas] With salt and cumin.
- [Trevor] Salt and cumin.
- [Firas] That's the only thing you have to add
to this dishes. - [Trevor] Oh man.
So let's go right in for this.
- [Firas] No no, you don't eat it like this.
We eat it with bread. - [Trevor] Okay.
- [Firas] Yes, we cut little pieces, first.
- [Trevor] We take some of the bread, just a little piece.
- [Firas] Just a little piece, like this.
We dip it inside the broth.
- Oh wow, look at that.
That just looks so fatty and juicy.
- You can take a nice chunk of meat, like this, you eat it.
- Oh man. Cheers.
- Cheers. No, we say, (speaks in foreign language)
In Moroccan.
- What does that mean?
- That mean, that's Moroccan, "Bon appétit."
- Bon appétit. - Exactly.
- Okay. (speaks in foreign language)
- Oh yeah.
Wow.
That is insanely succulent.
The most tender meat of your dreams right there.
- [Firas] You can dip the bread a little bit just like this.
- [Trevor] Okay. That'll give it a sharp, citrusy kick.
And then take the meat.
Look at that.
Juicy goat meat with a citrus kick.
And actually you can really taste the cumin in there, right?
- [Firas] Exactly. - [Trevor] The cumin.
And it's fatty and heavy.
That is some of the heaviest, most soft,
succulent meat, you've ever tasted.
- The tanjia is known to be very simple dish.
- Very simple.
- That's not very complicated, no.
- [Voiceover] This is pure meat head.
And with all that delicious tanjia and tons of delicious,
juicy, potent lamb head meat, we were absolutely stuffed.
And finished with a classic cup of Moroccan mint tea
before going for more.
- Thank you. Look at that.
So this is it, right here, the famous mint tea.
- [Firas] It is more simple than the tanjia.
You just boil water, you add some tea seeds,
some tea seeds, and that's-
- Tea leaves?
- No, no no. Not tea leaves, tea seeds.
- Tea seeds? - Seeds, yeah.
Like black seeds. - Oh.
- Black seeds, and also, this mint.
- Cool. - To give it tea seeds.
(speaks foreign language)
- Whoa. Oh wow.
- Refreshing. Even if it's hot, it is refreshing.
- That is so minty and sweet.
Ultra-sweet, like.
- No, it is sweet.
- That's a defining feature.
- It's a sweet drink, yeah.
- It's so sweet but it's also refreshing and hot,
at the same time, perfect.
First meal in Marrakech.
- [Voiceover] Next up, Firas is bringing us
for some amazing snail soup.
- This is such a cool market, so much food everywhere.
And what do you think we should try next?
- You gotta try that snail soup.
- Snail soup? - It's 100% Moroccan.
- Wow. - It's right there.
- Right up here? This is just packed.
(speaks foreign language)
So much food here.
And action, it's great to be in Marrakech.
- We will try it at this stand.
- Right here, number five? - Yeah.
- Okay, so they've all got numbers.
So here we go, this is ours.
So it's essentially snail soup.
- [Firas] Snails cooked in soup with spices.
And it's also spicy, it's very spicy.
- [Trevor] Spicy? - [Firas] Yeah, spicy.
With pepper, salt, any of the spices.
All the traditional spices.
- [Trevor] Moroccan snail soup right here.
Smells potent, like peppery almost.
- [Firas] Exactly, exactly. Cumin. Cinnamon.
- Thank you. Wow, look at this.
You just pull it out? - Pull it out.
- Nice. - Then you eat it.
- Then you eat it.
That's good. Peppery and maybe a little cinnamony.
- Yes exactly.
- And salty as well.
- Salty, but it has a lot of pepper.
- A lot of pepper, and you can taste the herbal bay leaf
in there as well, and they're also not rubbery at all,
they're just soft, I like that, very soft.
- [Firas] They melt. - [Trevor] They melt.
Almost gooey in a way.
- [Firas] They're gooey. That's the beauty of it.
- [Trevor] That's the beauty, yeah, peppery-
- Many people are not brave enough to eat this.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Oh, it's delicious.
- Yeah 'cause it looks like an insect.
- It's good. Thank you.
- [Voiceover] Next up, to finish off the night,
we went to go try the best OJ in the world.
Super fresh and all natural.
- So what should we get next?
- Some juice. - Juice.
- Moroccan special juice, it's a natural orange juice.
But we should try it.
- And these are all juice stalls here.
- Yes exactly. So we're gonna pick one.
Number 19 looks fine.
- Two orange, yeah.
(speaks foreign language)
- This is so fresh, look at all the fruit they got here.
And we're gonna get the classic orange, so cool.
In Marrakech.
Oh yeah, look at that. Fresh.
Thank you. - You're welcome.
Thank you, wow.
(speaks foreign language)
- Let's try it out.
- It's refreshing. That is nice.
- That is the most delicious orange juice,
you'll ever taste right there.
- It might seem normal, but it's not.
- Oh it's super sweet.
- It's Moroccan orange juice. - And fresh.
Oh it's full of that rich orange flavor.
- It's very nice.
- And it's ice-cold and refreshing.
- Yep. Very good. - Thank you.
What an amazing first night it's been in Marrakech.
Thank you Firas for showing me around.
- I hope to get you another time here in Morocco.
- It was a blast.
- Really looking forward for another trip with you.
And with Ting. - Amazing place.
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That was amazing.