- [Trevor James] And look at this, guys.
Now he's just putting some water
mixed with saffron into these tagines.
- (man speaking in foreign language)
- So, that is beef, and the one with olives is chicken.
Oh, look at the color here.
Oh, that is so aromatic.
(man speaking in a foreign language)
This is just street food of your dreams.
(upbeat music)
All right, check it out, guys. It's Trevor James.
We just got into downtown Marrakesh,
and I'm so pumped 'cause today
we're gonna be going for a full-on
Marrakesh street food adventure. Let's check it out.
This is it, Marrakech. We flew in directly to eat.
And here, deep in the back souk alleyways,
there's a street food culture unlike any other.
You can get lost in the labyrinth of these alleyways,
and find new foods waiting for you around every corner.
And today, we're going for a full-on breakfast
street food tour for our first day in Marrakesh.
Let's eat!
Wow, it is so amazing to be here, downtown Marrakesh.
We're exploring the deep souk alleyways in the Medina.
And I'm so pumped 'cause today we're
gonna have a ton of delicious food.
And right now, we're going for breakfast.
Let's check it out.
First up, before finding the nicest man
selling a super strong oregano soup,
some delicious street pancakes,
going to egg and preserved meat heaven,
and finding tagines of your dreams,
we found classic Moroccan street food
at a little breakfast stall, the bissara fava bean soup.
Run by a generous man who gives free soup
away to those who can't afford it.
Awesome, here we are guys.
- Oh.
Look at what we got here, guys.
This is bissara...
(speaking in a foreign language)
Oh, so it's a fava bean soup.
(foreign language)
(laughing)
- [Trevor] I'm just going with it here.
Oh and there it is, look at that.
Wow, so that's the dried fava bean, olive oil,
there should be some cumin and paprika in there, wow.
Beautiful.
Wow, and everybody's so friendly here.
Okay.
Okay, oh.
(laughing)
- [Trevor] With some paprika? With paprika?
(laughing)
- Okay, let's try that out.
Oh, wow.
Wow that is extremely hardy and hot.
This is chili I think.
(laughing)
- Wow, it is so great to be trying the...
(laughing)
And we found the true character of a vendor.
That is so strong.
It's thick, you can taste the pure fava beans.
Oh, and tea.
(speaks foreign language)
Let's try it out.
Um, oh, oh that's delicious, extremely sweet tea.
It's almost like a soda. It's so sweet.
That is awesome and look at this,
we've got a big pot of bisarra, fava bean soup.
You can really taste the pure fava bean flavor in there.
It's healthy and wholesome.
That is pure energy right there.
This would be perfect in the winter.
(speaks foreign language)
Oh, and olive oil, wow. That is amazing.
He's in the zone.
- (speaks foreign language)
- For strength, yeah. For strength.
- (speaks foreign language)
(laughing)
- I think he's not saying any real words,
he's just communicating with us through body language.
Which is all you need.
(laughing)
So friendly this guy.
- (speaks foreign language)
(laughing)
- [Trevor] Oh, there we go.
(laughing)
Awesome.
We're actually having another random meeting
with this man later again in the video.
But, first we have another three delicious breakfasts.
Starting with the super strong and medicinal oregano soup,
the hassowa.
And when we asked for permission for filming before hand,
he told us his story of how he served this daily soup
to the locals for sixteen years.
To bring them health and how it's his side job
from being the Imam of the local mosque.
And he told us to shoot whatever we like
and share it with the world.
It is absolutely magical here in Marrakech.
Just look at this guys and I want to remind you
that before we go to our next street food,
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Alright, let's go see what else we can find.
Awesome guys. And now look what we found right here.
I think we have a local soup vendor.
Hi.
Oh, look at this guys.
So, think we just found a special...soup.
- [Vendor] (speaks another language)
- [Trevor] Look what we found here guys.
This is a oregano and semolina soup.
Oh, yes. In the deep alleys, the souks,
of Marrakech. Thank you.
Oh, wow.
Thank you. Beautiful. Awesome.
And look at that, we've got olive oil and oregano on top,
in this rich, oh, you can really smell that oregano
and that semolina.
Beautiful. Let's try it out.
Mmmm. Oh, oh wow. It's good.
Yeah, it's delicious. Very nice.
Oh, wow. That actually taste quite medicinal.
It taste a little bitter, with he wholesome oregano
and semolina flavor.
And I hear this is good for the stomach.
And you can take a plate of dates here as well, beautiful.
That's what it's all about. The dates
and the oregano semolina soup.
Thank you. Thank you. Buh-bye.
Oh, that was just amazing.
Next up, we're going for a classic
Moroccan breakfast pancake, the msemen.
Loaded with tons of honey and butter.
Awesome guys, I think we found something right up here.
This is msemen, which is a Marrakech, Moroccan flat bread.
And we're going to try it out for breakfast.
Hi. Oh, msemen?
- [Female Vendor] (speaks foreign language)
- Oh, look at this.
So we've got msemen, which is like a flat bread,
with flour, salt, and looks like their putting
some seeds on there.
And here they are right here. Oh, beautiful.
So I think these ones here are filled with onion and fat.
And then this is the classic. Oh, it looks greasy and good.
So you can see we've got the dough and cover it oil.
Oh, wow.
(speaks foreign language)
(laughs)
So just trying a couple phrases in Arabic here.
"latheeth" is delicious, yeah.
And we've got so much flat bread
and we're going to cover it with butter and honey,
and you can see over here that's what their doing.
So this is the whole flour version and it's really healthy.
I think this is meant for diet,
but you can see we've got tons of butter and honey here.
And we're going to get our flat bread with that. Mmm.
And of course some Moroccan mint tea.
Oh and this grill is just getting full.
And this is ours here guys.
Look at all that butter we're going to put on. Wow.
Tons of butter and then we're going
to load it with honey too.
Oh yeah, look at all that honey. Beautiful.
That is awesome. Oh, and just rolling it up.
Thank you. Awesome guys. Let's go try it out.
Awesome guys. So we just got the msemen.
Look at this, when it's all chopped up, look at that.
Absolutely soaked with butter and honey.
Here we go let's try that beauty out.
Mmmm, oh wow.
(speaks foreign language)
That's really good. It's sweet, flakey, it's crispy,
but saturated and it's also a little wholesome from
that semolina.
Oh, that's the perfect Marrakech pancake right there.
Next up, before finding tagine heaven,
we're going for another Moroccan breakfast specialty,
the khlea, a.k.a eggs with tons of smen preserved butter
and preserved beef as well.
Look at this guys. We're exploring the back lanes
and, oh, it's just saturated, it's vibrant with color here.
And we're going to go see what else we can eat.
Next up, we're going to go to a local little cafe here
to try a classic Moroccan breakfast
and it's going to be with reserved meat and eggs.
Right here, at the Olive Cafe.
Hi. How's it going?
- I'm good, thank you for asking. How are you doing?
- I'm good, nice to see you.
- Good, welcome to our place.
- Thank you so much.
So you have the preserved meat with the eggs, the khlea.
- Yeah we... just to show you the good way to say it.
Khlea.
- Khlea.
- Exactly. One more thing in Arabic language,
it means to be come afraid.
The words mean that somebody,
when he become afraid means khlea.
- Really?
- Yeah, but no same.
- Oh, it doesn't connect.
- Exactly.
- Okay. So here we go. Oh.
(speaks in foreign language)
- [Kitchen Staff] (speaks foreign language)
- Just try to learn more words.
- Yeah. Okay so.
- Here is the khlea.
- Khlea, so that's preserved,
is that preserved beef or lamb.
- No, beef.
- Beef. So it's preserved beef and is that the...
- It's a kind of butter.
- The smen.
- Yeah. You know it?
- The preserved butter.
- Absolutely. Salted with, and even the beef is dry,
so that's why it gives a different taste.
- Cool, and then what else to we have here? Butter.
- And some eggs.
- Perfect.
- And of course after we need some salt, pepper
and that's it.
- Cool. And after cooking up the eggs
with the khlea in the pan, it was ready to eat.
This looks amazing. Thank you.
The khlea.
- The khlea.
- Oh, fantastic. And what is this here?
- Here we got some salt and it's already salted.
- Pepper.
- Exactly, pepper and cumin.
- Awesome, amazing, this looks fantastic.
- I'll get you some bread right now.
- Okay, thank you. Look at what we got here today guys.
Full on authentic local Moroccan breakfast.
We got the khlea, so this is preserved beef,
it's made by cutting the beef into strips,
letting it dry in the sun, and it's married in garlic,
coriander, and cumin.
And then it's cooked in a mixture of water,
oil and animal fat.
It's cooled and then preserved
and it's mixed with these eggs
and served with this beautiful bread
with tons of semolina flour and served with salt,
pepper and cumin.
And then look at this here, this is the pure beauty.
Super thick, super strong, Moroccan mint tea.
And look at that thick layer of sugar on the bottom.
That is going to be potent, minty, and sweet.
But first things first, let's take a bit of this bread.
Oh, look at that. Oh, you can just use your hand,
break it off. Oh, it's warm.
It's so hot, right out of the oven.
And we're going to take some of that khlea
and scoop it. Oh, it smells like upgraded bacon,
really preserved beef and you can see there.
Just looks fantastic, let's try it out.
Mm. Wow. Oh yeah.
Oh that is pure joy.
You take the bread, the bread is wholesome,
you can taste the semolina and then this,
this khlea here, it's salty from the butter
and the preserved beef is so strong.
It really is like an upgraded bacon,
it's so aromatic, salty, wholesome
and also quite greasy and heavy.
That is a full on breakfast right there.
Thank you, that was so delicious.
For our final stop on our breakfast tour,
we hit the back streets
and found a hole in the wall style tagine shop.
And even ran into our favorite soup vendor
from early morning.
Look what we found next here guys.
True tagine heaven, these are still being prepared
and we just had a chat with the owner.
We're going to try out, they've got beef or chicken.
We're going to get beef
and he's also making a beautiful chicken stew,
right behind here look at this.
Oh and he's just added in some potato and olive.
Oh that is beautiful. Amazing.
And look at this guys,
now he's just putting some water mixed with saffron
into these tagines.
So that is beef and the one with olives is chicken.
Oh, look at the color here.
Oh, that is so aromatic.
- [Vendor] (speaks in foreign language)
- This is just street food of your dreams.
Life doesn't get any better here
on the streets of Marrakech.
Wow, this is a little pre-tagine tea.
Mm. Incredible, so sweet and minty.
This is tagine, from heaven.
(speaks foreign language)
Oh, look at this guys. Wow.
Tagine right on the streets of Marrakech.
Just look at the steaming tagine from heaven.
Oh, and we got our buddy here.
- (laughing) (grunting)
- We got our buddy here from the bisarra soup.
(laughs)
Wow, that's incredible. That's so amazing.
What a great day here in Marrakech.
And just look that this tagine guys.
We got tomato, potato, zucchini,
I think there's a bit of onion and carrot in there as well.
There's beef and then they load it up with paprika,
black pepper, cumin, and a little bit of that saffron water.
Oh, and you can just take your bread and get that tomato.
Oh, look at that tagine, beautiful.
The beef is on the bottom,
so you got to earn your way there.
We're just gonna get a bit of that tomato and potato.
Oh yes. Right on that bread.
Mm. Mm. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
That just taste like home cooked vegetable stew,
that your mom would make.
With some light seasoning.
Oh that is beautiful. Perfect, perfect.
Street side tagine. Mm.
What an amazing morning it's been in Marrakech.
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