Hey Tangerineys! I am future Maddie, and I'm future Jordan, and this is future Laska. Say hi. We
have time traveled to the beginning of this day because when we started this
video, we had no idea what was actually going to be happening. We thought. What did we think?
We thought we were going to be featuring the local coffee company and
then a local business. But what actually ended up happening is those things, but
also a crazy adventure that we did not expect with two new friends that we've
met here in Guadalajara, so buckle up, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Get ready for some adventures.
This morning we are super excited to be
trying some locally grown organic coffee. Someone reached out to us named Oscar
and he wanted us to try his family's coffee, and it's grown a few hours away
and their family business has been around for 40 or 50 years. And Laska
always wants to try our coffee, but she is a psycho, and has way too much energy
already so you don't get any, right?
Okay, the official unbagging. We're very excited about this. I also don't really
know how to open a bag of coffee like this, cuz a lot of them have like a
little tab across it. So but it looks like here, you're supposed to tear it. Yep it's
going. Is this how you're supposed to do it? It's not open on both sides.
Guys, this is like the candy tasting all over again.
Why won't this come out? How do you work this candy? You are not trained to. AAAAH
Okay, okay, okay, we've got it.
Oh. Oh my gosh! Smells so, mmm. So, step one, we're probably going to do about three
to four tablespoons. That's a nice fine-grain too.
That's really good, it releases more of the flavor. And then pinch it, and then
the coffee stays fresh. Okay. What's the name of it? Oh the name is El Buen Cafecín.
100% natural. Okay, next we get water from our Berkey, we've told you guys
about this one other time before, but this is what we use for filtered water.
And you just take water from the tap, and we put it in the top here with a few
drops of black wormwood and walnut tincture, with clove, to kill any bacteria
or parasites that might be in the water. We get this nice clean water out
from the bottom. You pour it in the top!
We will be tasting our very first taste of this coffee as soon as this brews.
We'll give you an honest opinion of it, or if we don't like it, you will never see
this video, so one of the two things will happen.
By the way guys, if you're
interested at all in this Berkey for your travels, and making sure you always
have clean water. It's one of the very few things that we put in our car in
the very, very limited space that we had. We'll put the link to the Berkey from
Amazon down below in the description. If you end up buying that, or anything after
that, it really helps us out. We get a percentage of the sale. So you would be
supporting us a little bit and helping us continue to make these videos and put
them out every single day. When it comes to the taste testing coffee, I'm going to
let Maddie take the reins. She has much more complex taste buds, what do you
think of this? Well, first of all I have to share a fun fact with you guys,
because as far as tasting stuff goes, there's three types of tongues in this
world one is non tasters. These are people who have very few taste buds and
they're spread out a lot. Two is regular. That's me. Two is regular tasters, and that's
an average amount of taste buds spread evenly apart. Three, is super tasters,
which is the tongue that I have, which is lots of tastebuds, and they're very close
together. Okay, now we will proceed. You know there's something that happens in a
lot of the US, and I think it sort of happens here too with store-bought
coffee, is they intentionally over roast or burn the beans because that's what
Starbucks does, and people have grown to like the taste of burnt beans for some
reason. But this, there's a lot more complexity to the flavor. I'm on my third
cup here, and this stuff is so much better than the coffee we bought at
Soriana, I'm really enjoying it. Would you get this again? Yeah, partly just because
I prefer to buy from local vendors, or farmers, or whatever, because there's less
food miles, so it's better for the planet. I think it's good to support a local
economy like this, where you're living, or close to where you're living, as opposed
to like, Starbucks. No offense. We'll link to their Facebook page down below and put
all the other pertinent details in case you're interested too. And just so you
guys know, we're not being sponsored by Oscar or anything, and not this company.
He gave this to us as a gift so that we could try it. In fact, he said he didn't
want any (publicity). Yes he specifically said. But we made sure it was okay to include this. But
just for your guys's information, this isn't sponsored, we're not being paid or
promoted to do this or anything. We're just doing it because we love trying
local stuff, and think it's really cool that this has grown just five hours away,
and that it's natural, and organic, and all that fun stuff. We've been wanting to
feature more local businesses and showcase what what Guadalajara has to
offer. And along those same lines, today we're actually going to be featuring
another place. A local restaurant, so stick around. Alright, we are walking
to the restaurant now.
Here at Cocina GDL, and we're here with Emma who has started it with his
family, and how long ago was that? It was approximately four years ago.
How did you get started? What made you decide to? Well, we first started this
business we have the necessity to open a kitchen for our employees and our
business right there. And there was a lady, she made her meals and all of
her food was really awesome, so, once my father, my father he told her, "Why don't
you open a restaurant?" and she was like "I would love to but I don't have the money
to do it." So we started up a project four years ago to make all of this place
which was a parking lot, to make it as a restaurant. So pretty much that's how
this place started back then. And you were saying how it was very difficult. This was news to us
that to get permits, you have to get special permits and pay fees to the
government for the foundation, for the roof, for all of the different parts of
the structure, right? Pretty much everything here. You need to pay
fees, almost everything. For example, just because we're gonna make this place a
business, for the use of water, pretty much everything.
But yeah, that was a really big struggle because they were asking for nearly
forty, forty thousand pesos to start this business. You're just probably
starting from scratch, and you don't really have anything, you haven't made
anything from the business. I can imagine how difficult that would be. Yeah, when we
first started with this place, we had no roof. They were asking us for
twenty thousand pesos to put the roof. So one by one, the pieces of the roof
of the ceiling, so every single time this person from the government came
here, he didn't even notice we were adding more blocks to the roof. So we
moved through almost 10 15 meters over that way. Is this something we shouldn't
have on camera? [Laughter] No, probably not. What are you talking about? This roof has been here forever, we
already paid for this. If you ever come here, which you should come here.
You guys should come here, the food is soo good! The speed of the food, it's really fast. The deliver you every single thing
in less than five minutes. Five, ten minutes, it's really fast so. Yeah, we noticed even
when it was so busy, we came on a Saturday and there was a big line at the register
of people ordering, and every table was full. We still got our food and really
quickly. Just so you guys know, again, he did not ask for us to do this video, and we're not
being sponsored, we're not being paid. We just think it's really cool to learn
more about local businesses, and the stories behind them, so we wanted to
share with you guys, and show you what a local business in Guadalajara looks like and
how it got its start. Okay, so I just ordered something that I've never had before
here in Guadalajara. Well, actually in Mexico, ever. It's called Carne In Su Jugo (Meat in its juice).
Do you wanna share a little bit more? This dish is one of the most
typical dishes from Guadalajara, it consists on sliced meat, grilled meat, with
some beans, green tomato sauce, and some bacon as well. Then as far as having the
tortillas with it, are you supposed to make it into like a taco? Oh no, you just
take it in the hands, and have a couple of bites of the tortilla.
Also, these salsas, it's not really spicy. But, as you know, if it's not spicy, it's going to be spicy.
When anyone in Mexico says "No muy picante" it's not very spicy, it's spicy,
it's gonna be spicy, and it'll sneak up on you the longer you eat it. Okay, well let
me try a full bite here. Mmm this is really, really flavorful! And what kind of meat is this? Is it pork or?
No it's. Rez (beef)? Rez, Carne de rez. Alright. Oh my gosh! This so flavorful! I got huevos a la Mexicana, and
its eggs bathed in red sauce. So is this the same kind of red sauce that's going
to come in huevos divorciados? Sometimes, this sauce comes with the chilaquiles. The red chilaquiles.
They put the egg on the salsa and it gets baked with this salsa.
So this is, you said like a cream, a cream sauce with granola and then papaya, banana, apple, and strawberries.
It kind of reminds me of like a very creamy sweet yogurt. I don't think we pointed
this out earlier, but everything here is made completely from scratch. That's
correct. Down to the juice the large litro (liter)
of orange and carrot juice is 32? That's correct. 32 pesos.
We like to get the huevos al gusto all the time, and I think
that's 42 pesos. 42 pesos. And then if someone wanted to get this
dessert. This is called bionico, and as well, this is typical dessert from
Guadalajara, as the carne en su jugo. This one comes in different sizes. This is the
small one. Oh, this is the small?!? Yeah. It's pretty big for a small! And this one comes from prices starting
from 25 pesos. Awesome, and this. Oh my gosh, this is so good! [Laughter]
So for the first time here Guadalajara, we are
attempting to navigate some public transportation. But, we are not alone!
We're with a friend, thank goodness! We are going to be taking
a trolley bus, and then the Metro, we will show you what it's like along the way.
We are headed to Hospicio Cabanas? Hospicio Cabañas. Hospicio Cabañas.
Okay, so we're now here on the bus. Very first time being on a bus in Mexico. It costed seven
pesos, and you can use a prepaid card, or you can pay in actual pesos.
But you need exact change. You use a WAHHH [Laughter]
Okay, if you use a 10-peso coin, it will not give you change.
So even just to have your phone doing something on it, someone might just grab it and run out the door or something?
Or even worse, people, like thieves ask for the bus to stop. They go, they steal the money, steal every single person's and go.
Really? Is that common? Not really common, it hasn't ever happened here in these busses, the red ones.
So you're not going to worry about this type of risks.
We just got out of the train. This is our very first time also taking a train here
in Guadalajara. It cost seven pesos. Emma was telling us that it's very
safe as well, you don't really have to worry about anything getting stolen from
you. And also if you have somewhere else to go on another train line, it doesn't
cost anything if you're still within the train. We were in it in the most-crowded time of
day, and it still wasn't too bad. It wasn't hot, it didn't smell bad, it was
clean. We were going to go to Hospicio Cabañas, but we got here and they're
closed. So, we are going to be exploring around El Centro because there's still
so much that we haven't seen yet, and that we haven't shown you guys.
We just went inside Catedral Guadalajara. Is that the right pronunciation or close enough? [Laughter]
There's a lot of history to this the building has been destroyed and rebuilt
many times because of earthquakes and fires. And Emma was telling us there's
tunnels underneath and, secret tunnels, and inside there's some symbols of a
triangle with the eye inside the triangle. There may be some Masonic or
Illuminati representation here or something. I don't know a lot about that stuff. Other historic secrets, yeah.
There's a line, a train line that goes underneath the ground. During the wars, they found tunnels, there were a couple
of tunnels that pass underneath that the cathedral connected this place to many
other places around downtown. Around the time this was built, it has nearly 400 years.
All of these tunnels were built during the time of La Inquisición (the inquisition). Durante La Inquisición (during the inquisition)
I also thought it was pretty cool you were saying, this part up here, might be representative of
the Sun with the Rays sort of coming off at that points.
So we're outside of expiatorio, which, is this another Cathedral? Yeah, pretty much
It is a temple. It's a temple here and comes from the word expiar which means to confess.
And we just went into the catacombs, or the tombs here, where they have some
people buried. How would you describe the feeling going down in there? Because of all
the concrete and everything, it's very cold. Emma was saying there's no a/c
down there but you definitely have sort of like an eerie, you just yeah, you feel
something, there something. Yeah as soon as I walked in there, like there was this feeling
that came over my body. I don't know if that's just me knowing that there's
people buried down there and that's just a weird feeling I get because I'm not
used to being around that, or there's something else altogether effecting
that. If you're in the area, this is an interesting, unique place to go. There was
beautiful stained glass all around the church, and even the main point of the
church has stained glass all up and throughout that. So beautiful, beautiful
on the inside, and then you can just feel that unique feeling if you go down to
the catacombs. And then, once again, like Guadalajara Cathedral this had another
place where there was a triangle with an eye inside. Let us know what you think
that means. If you know the history behind that, why they put it in there.
We're, there's some secret, pretty curious about that. Society or something, or if it's just decoration.
What do you think?
Wow! Shenanigans! What a day! That was a lot of fun, this was our first time
doing something like this. Getting shown around the city by a local and it was
really cool. I think this was one of my most favorite days ever in Mexico
because we usually don't get this personal look at the history, and the
inner workings of a city because we're very new to it. So it was super awesome
thank you, big shout out to Emma who took us around Guadalajara for the day.
Even though it didn't go as planned, we still had a super, super good time and
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