hi we're nicole and mico full-time travelers adventuring wherever the wind takes us
we spent the past few months touring the middle east before making an unexpected detour across the
atlantic ocean and arriving in mexico we landed in mexico city and loved exploring the vibrant
capital but have since made our way to oaxaca a new and colorful city that we are visiting for the
sole purpose of filling ourselves up with as much of the local cuisine as our stomachs can handle
we made our way to oaxaca yesterday on a very long bus ride brought with mechanical
issues over here and we're really here to eat oaxaca is known as the food capital of mexico
so we have found ourselves a local market it's a sunday and we're going to eat our way through it
barbacoa i think translates to barbecue it's kind of like a mexican style barbecue where they take
like lamb or goat i think this case lamb spiced and they uh stew it over a fire for an extended
period of time until it gets really really soft and then you can put in like a kind of like a taco
form and then he puts it on top of the meat and then let's seep in the broth even more into the
into the taco shell it's gonna be really messy but i'm going to give it a shot anyways
a little bit spicy that is soft soft meat wow it's so um flavorful like it feels like
it's been cooking for a long time that is for meat lovers for sure that was awesome
i don't know that's like goat cheese or feta cheese but that's what i'm here for
i think that is bean maybe it's like black bean all right there's some crispy fresh tortilla
it's good right that's good i think it is like like almost like refried beans
maybe cheese and like a really crispy tortilla it's a good snack i think it's
an amazing snack yeah like midday three o'clock and it is salty potato chips
with nutrients there's gotta be some nutrients in those beans
so i guess that's how they flatten it right on the spot
look amazing so she's using like the fresh bread that she's just making in front of us here
okay so i got an empanada which is basically just a dough typically fried or kind of baked like we
had it there and it's filled with usually meat and sauces this is filled with chicken
and some sort of green sauce it looks incredible it looks so spicy
that's good it's almost going to taste like cinnamon or something in it
i can start sweating that's a lot the tortilla is really soft
i thought it was going to be harder and crunchier and the sharks are really soft
honestly the spice is overwhelming and there's cilantro in here that's pretty blooming as well
it's barely it's plain yet very flavorful if that makes sense like there's not a lot in it
um but like it packs a serious punch this dish ain't messing around
oh wow so i got the molotes and it's like fully kitted up so it's like uh
more of like a snack slash appetizer it's uh i understand it's corn and potato based
on the outside and then fried and then they've got a bunch of different ingredients inside
don't know quite yet but i'll take a bite look at this monster it's heavy
it reminds me of like
almost like a tater tot because of like the kind of cheesy like tomato on the inside i don't think
there's cheese in there it's like potato and tomato but like the garnishing on it is really
turning it into like mexican tater tots that is yummy it's like an empanada
no
yeah it's just like kind of more plain potatoes on the inside it's a good thing it's a good snack
okay so we found we found some desserts i just picked the two that look the best to me
pastry filled with some sort of like custardy goo
it's good it's like you don't need a lot but it's not very sweet this is really nice
i feel like a lot of the desserts we have lately have been coated in like
sugar water and like oozing with it this is not
which is a nice change of paste better than kanaki though no nothing is better than canafe
some sort of fried dough with almost like marshmallow paste inside
i think it's like whipped cream inside oh no it's kind of like marshmallow i was right
okay this is i might like this one better
so i just grabbed a popular oaxacan dessert this is a nervous it uh translates to snow
and it looks like a almost like a sorbet it's like a water-based ice cream they say
oh that's really good it's almost like shaved ice with a lot of um
flavoring it's so sweet that's good this be awesome on a hot day
is that your healthy ice cream did you call it i like that i'm gonna run with that
it has like a spice of some kind of like um
nutmeg or cinnamon maybe what we got is the newest flavor which we looked up and translates to nut
so it makes sense i think it's i think it's almonds in here it could be walnuts
whatever it is it's delicious this might be the best part of the day so far it's really good
it looks so good but we just had that in mexico city so
we're gonna leave room in the belly but manju looks good
okay so this is the half day and it's made with uh corn flour i believe and um
fermented cacao beans so that top is like i think it's like the basically the corn
flour apparently it's really popular specifically here in the oaxaca region
oh it's quite nice it tastes like kind of like really watery chocolate milk is it cold
it's cold and she put like she started with like some sugar almost like sugar water
to begin with which i believe is not like normally how it's served like traditionally
but i think it makes it really yummy i think i'm glad she did okay i also thought i would hate the
stuff on top i thought it'd be like really gross it tastes really like it's nice it's like a nice
texture it's just really soft and i don't know gives it some like some uniqueness oh weird yeah
it is kind of like watered down chocolate milk but like with like syrup in it yeah it's good i
actually really like it yeah it's really like just refreshing and gentle it's a little too
watered down for me yeah yep but the stuff on top is pretty cool it's a little weird powdery
thing i know i think it's product i think it's the corn flour whatever it is i like it's good i like
it's almost like a oaxacan pizza like a mexican pizza you got like a thin toasted
tortilla shell on the outside and then you got like a filling of chicken cheese
peppers avocado on the inside it looks packed and it's super hot
the pizza no tomato sauce oaxacan style that's really good you can really taste the cheese
the chicken and the avocado in a toasted tortilla shell is just that's awesome
that's really good it's actually quite plain like i don't think there's like spice outside
of like the natural ingredients no it's just like chicken and cheese and avocado and avocado
i think avocado makes it really different that's yummy but we're gonna be stuffed we got chocolate
wow not messing around with that hot chocolate
mexican hot chocolate is said to be like the mother of all hot chocolate because of course
chocolate is found in this region of the world of course right
originally mexicans and sort of laptop america have been consuming
chocolate for a very long time and apparently their mexican hot chocolate is the best this
is like a whole meal i guess it's usually eaten at breakfast i'm a little nervous to eat this i'm not
gonna lie i don't love the look of it i don't love to look at it i'm not in love with the consistency
okay
when in mexico
okay
it's like a mix between chocolate and oatmeal like chocolate and oatmeal
okay that's interesting it's like i thought it's gonna be really chocolatey
but it's a bit more bland it's like plain oatmeal but like without the
texture of oatmeal just like if you only if you strained out the oatmeal and just had
the liquid that's kind of like what it's what it's like drinking it
not my favorite thing here okay i can see how this could be a breakfast you've actually
had a lot of it i think it likes it's pretty good yeah that's good because not my favorite
all right what's good we're done another food tour and we are absolutely stuffed but we have more
chocolate always a little bit of room for dessert we certainly didn't grab all the foods that oaxaca
is known for but um we small little tasting and more than fills up for the day this is delicious
i think this is a great way to end our day and um yeah we're headed out of oaxaca actually this
evening on an overnight bus what fun heading over to a place called porto escondido we're so excited
it's on the water it's on the beach and we're super pumped so yeah get ourselves some vitamin d
and have to swim off all these calories that we've taken in today they will try surfing or something
so we'll make you guys there thanks for watching
also we learned that a second ago the bean thing i had it's called the melitta
which actually that's all that's all i got it's almost like a water substitute yeah with all
the sugar with all the sugar perfect every pot or something might as well be water basically