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calamari and creole sauce hi everyone welcome to d'Ernys right in here actually
one of our favorite places to eat yes check our temperatures good even though it's hot in the sun
a little bit of the spritz spritz and temperature and me
Riki hi and this is the lovely Devina she's always our waitress she's amazing thank you
and we're in we're in please we will sit in the front like we normally do thank you we always
pick this table it's got the best views and it has the greenery which makes Riki's eyes pop
not seen as you are wearing your sunglasses see what i mean poppy green eyes
and here come our menus like like we ever look at them
open to cocktails we hardly ever look at them cocktails thanks Devina the cocktails are
actually great because they use like fresh fruit phoenix and all the rest of the wonderful things
she also normally has a board outside where they have all the specials on
okay so you got specialities and skewers with choices of sauces this is amazing and then your
little snack things if you just want a little quick snack oh a wonderful healthy salad look
at that marlin salad yum while she's looking at the menu does the table rock a little yeah it does
well look at this how awesome you can actually fix it pull it back to your rick oh it's got a foot
it's got a special thing rock it now i love that that is like one of the best attention to details
it's like a little a little shoe that you can put under if it rocks a bit oh wow that was quick
Riki went off menu she's getting the chips and salads it says you can get the chips i can
but it's calamari with creole sauce and i of course i'm getting the greatest thing
it's ball reverse or magic ball or bowl reverse i don't know it's an upside down bowl and it's like
my favorite thing and the first thing i ever had at Erny's and i'll tell you that story in a minute
yeah okay so that is Pereybere beach just over there and that's why we really like to come to
this place but on their menu they've got a lot of things like beef and prawns and calamari
and chicken and you can get them in a creole sauce or a variety of choices garlic butter
okay so if you're wondering why it's not too busy it's because we've come here at like 11 o'clock in
the morning as they've opened because you know it's a little bit difficult sometimes to make a
video food when it's so crowded with people but it gets really busy and when they have special
evenings you actually have to phone and book they do like saxophones and salsa evenings and
it's really cool the very first time i ate out in Mauritius the very very first time we sat right
here and it was Erny who actually served us and that was the first time i ever had bowl reverse
and that's why it's always got such a fun memory for me Riki obviously had the rougaille and then
she just had to join Mauritian cuisine to find out how you make a rougaille but it
was actually Erny who was the first person to ever give us Mauritian food in Mauritius
okay so it's a really big restaurant we always sit um outside
but uh inside you've got lots of tables and fans and things and a really awesome bar
and this is actually Erny she was the first person in Mauritius to give me Mauritian food
it's just so nice that we can go to the same place we came and got our
first Mauritian here well that also had the calamari and creole sauce i
we're doing an exact replica and Erny speaks like so many languages german french creole english
a little bit italian she's wonderful
thank you thank you Erny this is the bar where they'll make you all your cocktails and uh
things like that but but it's all the way at the other end that the most important thing is
any special vanilla rum it is like the best thing in Mauritius yeah every two weeks like this very
much yes they really do and and i i come to be a tourist every time to come get this there is
sugarcane vanilla secrets
have a look inside oh there you go look at that it's sugar cane and vanilla and all sorts of
grapes and all sorts of other secret ingredients and it is the best rum in Mauritius
Riki filming beer okay so just in case you have no idea what we're talking
about when we say Pereybere just right up here at the north next to Grand Baie
zooming in zooming in zooming in that's the amazing Pereybere beach it wants me to flip
my phone around again and we're right here we're actually there but this is inaccurate
right here all the way zoomed in yeah we're actually there i'm on the beach though apparently
when we used to live in bay we used to come here a lot because they have so much different choice
on their menus but i would say 90 maybe 95 of the time i'll get the bowl reverse
it's always my favorite i've got a great story when we come to it i'll
tell you it's fantastic story about bowl reverse look at this
now focus look at this snacks have arrived yeah this is the one of the little um these are the
fish but you can get chicken or calamari or all sorts of these little wonderful wonderfulnesses
such a great way or you can just come and have a beer or cocktail and just grab some of these
and spend the whole afternoon enjoying it when it gets a bit too hot on the beach
i can hear Bryan salivating over here what do you mean here it's dripping out of my mouth go for it
grab one well i'm just gonna have one straight up because they're actually hot yeah i mean we know
they're nice but we're showing for you there's actually a nice piece of fish inside and so
crunchy make the best of these little things here we go Riki this this is a garlic garlic garlic
let me zoom in on that look at that it's a big chunk of fish gorgeous look at that flaky wow
oh and it's nice fish it really is nice and this stuff
you know me i love it her garlic sauce and pop the whole thing in they are perfectly hot and scrummy
happy giggles from Riki these these they are so yum but but Erny makes her own green chili green
chili i'm not gonna put too much on but here we go it's so fresh it is so fresh and mouth-watering
it is yeah i'm going for another one i know it goes perfectly with these things i love them
some apple in it so i'm going that's classic i'm going to try some of that
Riki's going to try a little bit of the chili chili oil that's a lot of chili in fact
let's try and slush it off with the no no i missed garlic okay there we go here we go good luck
Rikii was lying it's really really hot it's not just chilly i've ever eaten no i'm kidding it's
yum man it's so fresh it's like fresh chili okay no it does have a bit of it does have a burn
no it's not that bad but it's nice and fresh i really do like it
in case you missed it on the menu i think these are 150 rupees and the chicken ones also and you
get a lot of them and then they've got other ones like the calamari and octopus and the
more exotic ones i think up to 250 so wonderful wonderful snack it actually fills you up a lot
and these are chock-a-block full of fish it's not like all batter and no friends i already bit into
some of this but there's a lot of fish a lot of times you don't get any fish in it you get this
tiny little piece or you get the minced fish the supplements fish no this is proper fish and it's
a delicious flaky fish oh man i'm actually going to put it over more literally it's that
good it's that good it really is not much oh wow you're putting tons on i put tons on last time
you might not just not have seen you're getting so brave so you can eat chili now no you can't
uh i think we will leave her there to explode so of course we've got our toilets is in hers and
massive fan when it gets hot
really cool little sitting areas as well here comes our favorite person
wow oh i'm so glad i got the chips oh no no no no i am the winner thank you
look at what i got it's bowl reverse
it is so cool i just love this are we gonna take a thumbnail oh my word
calamari in creole sauce oh it's delicious with surprise i know it should be rice but you know
how good does that look oh man the classic the traditional the one and only
upside down bowl look at all this stuff with the inside oh man how beautiful is that good blend
all of that to you there's a magic story to the magic bowl wow so cool it is awesome
what have you got in there explain oh wow they're just little bits of thing there's
chicken there's things that you don't know what they are it looks like a little shrimp
i don't know what that is but it's yum it's been a rice with gravy mm-hmm
and of course the egg on top chicken egg on top all little bits that make up the
bowl reverse i think this is actually a piece of mushroom oh yeah i'll let you know some bok choy
i'm not sure if that's mushroom or bamboo heart oh wow
that's nice i really just love this i really it's one of my favorite dishes and the sauce
is like sweet though savory it's a savory gravy savory gravy oh man it looks great
if you come to mauritius this is a must-get yes upside-down bowl reverse
however you call it get it yes i agree calamari in rougaille
good there's a good rougaille well obviously you guys so nice it's got a sweetness and
how did you get it that soft really the calamari is so soft
oh wow it's amazing that is not like a chewy rubbery thing at all that is delicious
oh man look how no chew it has there we are she just had a piece in her mouth and now it's
gone you're just left with a beautiful rougaille flavor you get it with the salad salad dressing
have a nice meal thank you this calamari is so soft yes you're a master yes
thank you thank you in case you didn't say it because i just had one
those are really good fries really really good the story behind bowl reverse goes back a while
there was a chef who used to cook meals for four people who had come and ordered at the restaurant
but he'd always take a little piece off each plate and put it down in a bowl so that he could then
try it and see if the sourcing was right before he sent the plates one busy night he didn't have
a chance to do this so he just kept putting him in the bowl and he thought well i bet not wasted
i better just try and he thought well let me just make my supper out of it he chucked the the rice
on top and i thought well that doesn't look very good put it on a bowl turned it upside down lifted
it up and thought wow this looks so good but but the egg is to hide all the little bits and bobs
and the rice is flickering it's a surprise awesome i like it it's cool and it's completely true
anyway it highlights the asian chinese influence of food and mauritius and it's delicious it's
delicious Riki;s taking some of this i'm not actually sure what it is but you'll let me know
any ideas it's not mushroom definitely not mushroom you see look at what was
hiding out and it's a little shrimp you get almost anything it's always a surprise
that's delicious Bryan's never sure quite how to eat it no i never know i think you just grab a
piece of each with some rice that's exactly what i have been trying just grab a little
yeah and enjoy it please don't shoot me
but the chips were really nice yeah and you know i like a good chip butty
right so chip butty is where you put chips on bread but you had such a good rougaille sauce
i'm gonna make a rougaille chip butty no way yeah no way i mean way way
with calamari
good
well there you go a different way to eat a classic mauritian dish water as usual by Bryan
who would think of that have you tried some calamari with a bit of the chili because
it's also seafood believe it or not just a bit that's the whole bunch well that's just a smidge
just a smidge just a smidge Riki give it a try give it a try
so it goes with all seafood okay it's like you can stop blinking
this this should be served all over mauritius just like the sauce and chips and rougaille
oh yeah like a chip and dip tell anybody but someone should do fries and rougaille
sauce yes like a chip and dip but fries and rougaille i think fries and rougaille sauce
it's so nice and tomatoey and fresh and herby yeah and by herbie i mean curry leaf and
methi yeah and if you wanted you can chuck some chili in because it can handle chilli
this is actually a red letter day that's Riki's plate and i didn't help her at all
while maybe just that little sandwich but other than that she ate it all licked the plate Riki
i would but this is a nice place so Erny is the Erny is an owner-run place Erny is the owner and
she's always here looking after you and that's really cool always support owner run businesses
Erny just told me that open from 11 in the morning till 11 at night or even later if
there's still clients and every day every day wow she works really hard
very professional she also works very hard Davina learnt this from her grandfater because i like to
do it yeah i am not able to do it like this no i don't i haven't seen anybody do it like that your
grandfather taught you a great skill wow and that whole meal was 500 rupees oh plus the fish 150
650. oh yeah okay so that's Erny's over there next to the big white Ocean Spirit building at
Pereybere and there's usually enough parking on the street if there isn't though give Erny a call
she's got two parkings two or three parkings at the back cool so it's another place you can eat
on a Monday sorry i know we're driving back but i just realized that
because there's not many places open on Monday but from 11 o'clock in the morning
oh it's awesome about the music on the radio it's the YouTube music what tubers is always
for traditional Mauritian food and great seafood you've got to come to
Erny's well anyway everyone thanks for watching and we'll see you next time