- Borough Market has been here for over 1,000 years.
It's the oldest market in London.
Today, it goes beyond food, so welcome
to Borough Market.
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So we're finally in Borough Market.
If you remember before, we've been in Spitalfields Market,
which was more like vintage stuff,
and then, Covent Garden,
which was more hipster / fashion sort of thing.
Today, Borough Market.
According to people, this is the most
international market in the city of London.
Let's see, let's verify that if it's completely true or not,
but first, first things first, let's grab a coffee.
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Borough Market has mainly three areas.
The Three Crown Square,
where larger producers and merchants are,
the Green Market,
where small specialist produce traders are,
and finally, the Borough Market Kitchen,
where the street food traders are.
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This place is so big, there's over 100 stalls here.
There is vegetarian places, Indian places,
Iraqi cuisine, French cuisine, Spanish, Italian,
gourmet, like there's so many options.
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Alright, so we're in an Argentinian place.
Cumbia, we have Cumbia here.
(speaking in foreign language)
(chuckling)
(speaking in foreign language)
(chuckling)
The most Argentinian Spanish guy I've ever seen.
The music is like Cumbia, Cumbia.
Do you guys know Cumbia?
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I should eat empanadas de carne, like meat empanadas,
but hey, this one is spinach and cheese,
and it's delicious.
Oh my gosh. - Wonderful.
- Do you want one? No?
- You cannot say no.
(laughing) - You cannot say no.
- It's a present.
You cannot refuse. (laughing)
- Here we go.
- One for the camera woman.
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- This is what I really miss about Argentina.
This alfajorcito con dulce de leche.
Oh my gosh.
You guys come here. Amazing.
So good!
This "Porteña", 10 out of 10.
Let's go.
- [Shopkeeper] Bye-bye.
- Bye. Thanks very much!
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Cheese, one of the most important things in this market.
We have couple of stalls here.
Typically, there's more stalls,
but you need to come Wednesdays and Thursdays.
I'd love to have one, a very, very small,
because we're gonna be all day with this.
- This is a buffalo milk cheese, has been
washed with Glera grapes.
Prosecco Superiore grapes.
- Mm, this is quite nice.
- This one is aged in Treviso
- I like this one. This is the one.
- [Shopkeeper] Okay, this one?
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- [Ale] Better Italian cheese than British cheese, right?
= No, no, no (Ale laughing)
They do. They do nice cheeses too.
They don't only do cheddar, they got lovely cheeses here.
- I don't know how we're gonna survive
the whole day with this cheese.
Hopefully it's not gonna melt,
but the lady is very nice, Pamela.
She's Italian.
So yeah, I have special love for Italians.
They're my blood. You need bread for this, right?
- [Kris] Yeah.
- Bread Ahead.
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They have berries
from Kent, like local berries.
Typically, most of these ones,
they come from Morocco, from South America.
I dunno, like, Argentina or Chile or even Spain.
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Flat mushroom, Portobello mushroom and chestnut mushroom.
I don't like dried figs, I don't like dates
and I don't like prunes.
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- Tea means
tannin.
Black tea hold a lot of tannin
and tannin makes the bitterness of the tea.
That is why we add a tannin.
- Ah. - Tannin means
bitterness.
The best quality tea is always
full of tannin. (plastic ripping)
The cold water or tap water will bring down the temperature
100° to 80°.
And tap or cold water has an extra diffused oxygen
developing the flavour
- This is like a shot or like slow, slow?
- Yeah, slow. (laughs)
- It's no tequila, right? (laughs)
- It's a tea, man.
(both laughing)
- This is quite nice actually.
- It should be nice, man.
Second flush. Not a second infusion.
Second flush is the second crop of the year.
That is a fast crop, fast flush.
- This is a fast one.
This is a second. - This one.
Second flush.
So I'm a tea taster, specialized in Darjeeling.
This tea never get bitter.
Never.
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That is the why Harry and Dad...
They came to my shop and bought the tea.
- Look what we got.
(laughing)
A royal tea. - Yeah.
- Prince Harry's choice with the second flush.
And which one was the other one?
White tea.
White tea to sleep. - Yeah.
- So yeah, we're gonna enjoy tonight.
- Yeah. - Thank you very much.
- Thank you, sir. - Thank you.
- It was a pleasure. - Have a lovely day.
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♪ What do I believe ♪
♪ What makes me feel it ♪
♪ To write you this song ♪
I know that knowledgeable people like this place...
I just wanted to say, Billingsgate.
And surrounding the market, obviously,
a lot of different restaurants and shops
and coffee shops...
And surrounding the mar...
Thank you so much for watching
and see you next week.
And I see the train as well here. (inhales)
So probably we will need to repeat.