Did you just time travel from the 90s? [Laughter] Do you wanna go outside?
Go for a walk! [Laska talking] Now that's a temper tantrum if I ever saw one! [Laughter]
Hey guys! We actually did not think we were going to be making this video
because it was one strike, two strikes, and this was our third strike for us to
be out. But, we are here at El Apartamento. This is our third time coming, both, two times
before that we're closed. So we're going to show you about this awesome place,
which is pretty cute with all the plants, and the decorations, and the hybrid
fusion of English and Spanish. But if you're new to our videos, I'm Maddie and I'm
Jordan, and we are Tangerine Travels. And we are drinking tangerine-colored drinks
right now. And the yellow drink as well. Do you want to say about the menu of the day.
Yes, we both got the menu of the day, it's 110 pesos and includes a salad or a soup, and
then an entree, and then their agua fresca, which it was, what was it?
Pineapple it strawberry? Yeah, pineapple strawberry. It's really
good! We're not usually ones to order agua frescas, but this is the bomb.
Yeah everything's so far. The bomb? Did I just say "The bomb?" Did you just time travel from the 90s? [Laughter] It's the bomb!
Well yeah, we ended up getting this lemonade with ginger in it because we
didn't realize that the menu of the day came with an agua fresca. But so far
everything tastes like fresh-squeezed juice, like you can tell they just put
the ginger in there. And the atmosphere is really nice too. There's plants all over
the place. We'll show you a little bit more in the bathroom area, they've gone a
long way to decorating this and giving it a special ambiance. It's sort of like a
hipster, chic vibe. We're going to take them with to the bathroom?
She says, she doesn't say anything else except we're gonna show you the bathroom.
[Laughter] Well the bathroom is the cutest
part so far.
Again, the flies are complimentary.
I think whoever started this restaurant really liked Instagram or something
because it's a motivational quote central.
I feel like, also, there's not a place you can be within this restaurant that isn't an Instagram perfect place, from the tables to the plants.
To the lighting. On all the menus they have various quotes, and it's interesting,
they're all in English, and so are a couple that ones they have on the wall.
Like over here it says "Be the person your dog thinks you are."
hashtag good vibes only, hashtag blessed. [Laughter]
You know, come to think of it, the only motivational phrase I know in Spanish is "Si se puede." That's it, that's all I got. I know carpe diem.
Just kidding, that's Latin. We just got the first course of this meal, which is tacos of
some kind, and they were able to accommodate no onion and no sesame seed
for me, and no avocado for Jordan. And this particular item has a nice blend of
black beans, avocado, they did some like fried Parmesan cheese in here. Alright, my
first bite, oh my gosh, there's nothing better than burnt cheese. It's not burnt,
but crispy cheese. What do you think? I love that crispy Parmesan when they like put that
down there, on the pan, and roll it up, remember like I got in Tlaquepaque. But yeah, it's
really good! If you watched one of our previous videos, you'll know that I don't
have the taste buds that Maddie has, so I can just tell you whether it's good or
not. Not describe it with "It has a smoky flavor and an essence of this and that"
No. It's, it's good. And then for the second part of this meal they give you
this, what I would consider a superfood salad. It has mushrooms, quinoa, asparagus,
tomatoes, almonds, and a bunch of other really healthy delicious stuff. And I
particularly like this because a lot of the ingredients are high in selenium
which blocks the absorption of mercury, which as I've told you guys before, I'm
dealing with mercury toxicity, so that prevents more damage, which is awesome!
What do you think in this place? All the food and everything? I don't like
their hours. Yeah I'm not a huge fan of these weird hours. And then we got here, so they
don't open until 2:00, and then we got here and Maddy tried to order something
off the breakfast menu, and they're like "No, we already started breakfast on the
weekends." What? And then probably for like a half an hour on the weekends because
the rest of their hours are just as strange. But the foods really good, and
the prices are decent. They're not the lowest in the area, but it's reasonable for what you get.
Yeah, the quality of food it's like, I don't know if this is all organic or all
whatever, but it seems very fresh. Like they just cut everything up for you
right when you order, and of course they accommodated my allergies, so that's
really cool. It really does mean they're preparing it right at that moment, which
if you know about restaurants in the U.S. that is not the case back in the States.
So everything that we got there was 260 pesos plus tip. Hey Laska,
do you want to go for a walk?
You wanna go for a walk? You wanna go outside? Go for a walk?
[Laska talking] Now that's a temper tantrum
if I ever saw one. [Laughter] You wanna go for? [Laska talking] Roh roh roh roh.
If you wanna go, Roh once for, roh once, hold on. [Laska talking] You didn't let me finish.
Aww! She tries to grab on to every single pole
with her tail.
Stay.
Her ears are so far back! Now just press the orange button.
I meant Laska. So in one of our last videos we said, Jordan said, "Is that a cat?" and these
are the type of words that we have to spell out now. She knows c-a-t.
Laska, is that a cat? Is it a cat? Where is it? Where's the cat? Where's the cat? Where's the cat?
Do you see it? [Laughter] She's so alert!
So right now, we are going for a walk to get one of our new favorite snacks /
candies that we tried during our trying Mexican candy for the first time video.
This is totally not what I was expecting these to taste like. It's like a
marshmallow treat. Like a rice crispy kind of. Except. I really like this! I do too!
And it is called Alegría, alegría. I still
have no idea. It's called something, we're not sure how to pronounce it. It means joy, but it is not a joy to pronounce, at
least for me. I don't know how to, I don't know how to say it yet. And I think it was yesterday
someone in the comments said, oh she's eating a tissue! Gross! No! Laska you freak! Oh my gosh. Someone suggested that
we needed to get her a sled, or something, something to pull. and we agree with you.
We agree with you, we should do that. In fact, we hear that the rainy season is
coming up and it floods sometimes. So we're considering getting a boat and
then she could just doggie paddle us everywhere we need to go. What do you
guys think? Boat, huh? Laska, do you think we should go out in a boat?
No, do not!
Laska, up, up, up. Laska, up.
Laska. Laska.
Laska is obsessed with water bottles, she grabs them and holds them in her mouth for like an entire walk sometimes. I mean she's the
most well-behaved husky you ever did see. And now she's going to throw it away. I said
she's going to throw it away.
Good job Laska. Yay! Good job!
So there's elections that are happening soon here and we've noticed some
differences between the way, candidates are, or like people try to get you to
vote for their candidate versus the ways it happens in the U.S. Here, people put
giant stickers on the back of their car windows. On the rear window.
And by "giant," I don't know, we're talking at least a foot and a half long maybe? Yeah, I think it covers most of the back window.
It's nothing like a little bumper sticker, which is what you often see in
the US. Yeah, then also in the US, they'll have, people will have yard signs. You'll
have signs out in people's yards. Or on the corner of empty lots, on fences, but they're huge! They're, I don't
know, five, six feet long. They're just huge eyesores. But here you don't see any
of those big signs, or at least very, very seldomly. I don't think I've seen any. As we're walking around I was
reminded of something that a lot of people have asked, and that's about dogs.
And we did a video on this, covering what it's like traveling
with a dog in Mexico. But here, especially in Guadalajara, it's really nice to walk
with a dog here in Guadalajara because all dogs are on leashes. I honestly don't
think I've ever seen a stray walking around, ever. So that either means that
Animal Control is doing a really good job, or I mean, I don't know, there just
aren't strays around. Yeah it seems more like a similar to dog culture that
were accustomed to, yeah, rather than in a lot of the cities, it seems like Mexican
culture doesn't so much treat animals as pets. Just sort of as things that you
have around. And I can already hear what you guys are saying. We're not trying to
over generalize about the dogs in Mexico and how people feel about them. But it
does seem to vary greatly depending on the city. For instance, when we were in
San Blas, there were a lot, a lot, a lot of strays. A lot of street dogs. But they
were very mellow. We never had to worry about taking Laska out and that they
would be aggressive. But that's not the case in all cities in Mexico. So. But here,
it's nice because they're all on leashes and there really aren't any walking
around without an owner. Something interesting about San Blas is that it
didn't seem like that many people actually had dogs there, but rather they
would kind of adopt strays. And then those strays would hang out around the San Blas Social Club.
Just follow them around, or hang out by their house, or their business. Show up every
morning "Where's my food?" Hey guys! You guys! I just found another 50 cent peso piece on the floor!
I don't know why people throw these on the ground all the time! It's like
they're worthless or something. You are such a dork! I don't know why I like them. They're so cute! Well I
think we'll give you our last few cents here, on that note. Thanks for watching
our video today, we hope you enjoyed it. Finally got to go to El Apartamento. We
totally recommend that restaurant, you should go there, it's delicious. If you liked
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