MMMM! I'm not having an orgasm I promise you. I might do in a minute!
mmm I'm dead I'm done! That's work done for the day,
what's the time it's 16:50 which means I'm starving
what shall I eat? bagels? no. poutine? yeah maybe! you know what I haven't had for a while -
Mexican food! that's what this video is about huns, it's time for some tacos!
let's go
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hola amigos welcome back to Montreal in Canada, this
video is the fourth part of my numerous part series coming from Montreal in
addition to the one I did about seven months ago
in the winter you can check out all those videos in the card which is
somewhere up above I don't know and at the moment I'm just walking through this crap
hellhole area to get away from like the noise in the main road secrets of
YouTube alright, and today I am out for a walk bitch
as Spike said in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ones and I'm just near Mont Royal
station. So as I said at the beginning it's time for some Mexican food you know
I will be doing a proper food video as in Montreal food that's coming up very
soon but today I just want to have some Mexican food again. why? there's two
reasons let's be honest you know most of you are from Mexico viewerwise and also
quite simply I just want some tacos basically so on that note, I've got stop
saying that, let's get going! so if you're naive and stupid as I was about three
years ago, I still am let's face it I used to think Mexican food was hardshell
tacos and burritos I know burritos you can get it in
northern Mexico but you know they're not real Mexican food let's face it so today
we are not looking for hardshell tacos from Taco Bell we are looking for
from corn tortillas proper corn tortillas, proper Mexican chorizo, suadero or tacos al
pastor if you're not familiar with those terms in terms of real Mexican
food I'm going to cover that in this video all right
it's a Mexico education no hard shell tacos! so this place I'm going to is down Rue St Denis
which I walk down all the time you go there from Little Italky down to like
the central area of Montreal and while I've been here the last three weeks I've
seen countless places that claim to be authentic Mexican food
and that's the thing we need to find out if it's authentic it's just up there
let's let these girls go past
so this is the place, La MatracaL La Matraca which I believe means the rattle
I'm not sure if that means a baby rattle or snake rattle I don't
know and it looks absolutely dead it's dark inside it's Tuesday afternoon it
says it's open at this time the open sign is not lit up so I'll see what
happens. okay I'll go I'll keep my hands and elbows off this table because it's
wobbly but yeah it's open look wonderful I know it's bit early like you know
6:00 p.m. I'm the only customer more tacos for me! and firstly one thing that
you should know about, can you see it properly I don't know I'll do a close-up
in a minute, restaurants in Montreal you have to get like a little menu with like a
chart on it, you just have to tick what you want so
it's very simple I did this in Poutineville when I had poutine the last time
so let's have a look at the menu, I'm so excited the tacos I can't even speak!
now I know it's noisy out here but it's too dark inside so you either have
the darkness or you have noise up to you so I've chosen noise. Choriqueso we
have frijoles, lots of tortas, look at all the tortas, Salchicha, milanesa
all stuff I'm so used to having in in Mexico, specials, Gringas, Quesadillas
etc but tacos this is what I'm having beautiful so you have SUADERO which
is normally like beef, al pastor which is very common it's like a Turkish kebab Greek
gyro kind of thing as it says gyro you know the thing that goes round and round
and it's pork, Chorizo yes so I'm having Chorizo the best tacos on
the planet and in terms of prices for three Suadero it's $6.75 plus tax
obviously on top of that yeah it's expensive but this is Montreal what can
you do. so the lovely waitress lady has provided me with saalsas, how do they
compare to proper Mexican sauces? you know the Verde
it feels slightly more watery and a different color and roja you know it
feels like that' it's of the bottle from the supermarket if I'm honest you know
that is not proper salsa Roja but you know oh it's not even Valentina but
we'll go with it it's okay. I think that's an even hotter one maybe
but they just feel slightly watery you know once the food has come and I've
chove it down my gob (mouth) as an English person does I want to talk a bit about the
subject of travel and weight and exercise and whether or not you put on
weight when you travel or not there seems to be this long-held myth that you
become a complete heffer (fat person) when you travel, it may not be necessarily place
okay just waiting for some people to move from
behind me and screaming children, ninos horrible everywhere Mexico Canada! look
what I've got huns, tacos! so I've gone something through little bit different
so I have tacos chorizo and suadero on the same tortilla but I also have, and
what's it called? Chuleta! see how prepared I am for a food video?
unprepared! I've never had it before it's Chuleta
I think is pork you've got onion you've got lime Limon cilantro coriander and
obviously the meat but there are five of them so let's get tucked in! look
at this for a food angle I've never done this before! we have the three different
salsas here so I think I will go for the one that they believe is the hottest, the
thing to know about proper Mexican tacos you do not put salsa on the top and you
don't fold it up what you do but not until you know you eat it
Salsa so goes in the middle hands not on the outside bit of lemon oh it's going
in my face so this is suadero and chorizo. so we've got a lot of onion
on this so good, I'm not normally a keen of, keen of onion? a fan of onion! the tacos
are frying my brain
right good yeah that is proper tacos I'm happy, meat perfect
yeah there's a bit too much onion for my liking but cilantro perfecto. I've never had
suadero and chorizo on the same one all of God this salsa is hot hmm
as always total mess when I'm eating. That is real tacos in Montreal, we found them
okay it's time for the chuleta which I have never had, it tastes like
chicken but it says on the menu pork. Oh f**k!
good! however not as good as the suadero and chorizo and just look at the
tortilla you know it's not those silly hard shell ones, who made that up who
thought that was a good idea ,a stupid person probably and there's something
that someone taught me I think it was Nefer in Mexico City when I did the Mole Poblano cooking class
you don't move the taco to your face you have to like you
know move your face to the taco like so! I need more salsa.
I'm gonna have all the salsa! oh there's more people arriving now
I'm not having an orgasm I promise although I might jdo in a minute, mmm I'm dead, I'm done!
I never thought I would find somewhere
that does Mexican food like they do in Mexico, well done Montreal! I need like a
flatbed truck to wheel me home oh my god my stomach is full I have a
food baby, that was beautiful and the waitress in there she was from Lima Peru
so he wasn't Mexican, hola! classic, Canadians glaring at this camera what is
it about Canadians and glaring at the camera Mexicans don't do that! yes she
was some Lima Peru and we had a nice little chat about when I was in Lima
about ten years ago and so yeah that is that place is awesome and there are so
many other places that I've seen walking around that do authentic food as I said
so even if you are Mexican and you're in Montreal absolutely if you're worried
about not getting proper good Mexican food in Montreal you can't get it so
I'd be unhappy right now I need a Starbucks! okay I'm home we have decent
lighting and I'm sweating like a pig because I've walked home in the spirit
of talking about food and exercise and yes before you start I appreciate the
irony of downing a bucket of tacos and a venti iced mocha from Starbucks before
talking about this but never mind so I've watched a lot of videos in the
past about travellers saying oh yeah when you go traveling you'll put on so
much weight but honestly in my experience obviously everyone's
different that's not been the case for me over the last three years
yes I've put on the way in Mexico which I'm currently losing also over the last
18 years of travel so right back from when I was 18 19 going to Thailand
Australia it's always been the case where I've actually lost weight I feel
when traveling and obviously it will depend on the person so when you are
younger also you've got a better metabolism faster metabolism so you will
probably keep the way off but the thing is with a trip like that you know you
will be saying in party hostels you will be drinking a lot of crappy cheap vodka
you will be eating crappy processed takeaway food all the time and also you
will be booking the same dolphin kayaking tour five days in a row and
cancelling it every day because you're so hungover and also you wake up next to
a dustbin bag full of mashed potato you will cancel every day so you won't go on
these trips that you actually booked that could potentially keep you fit that
wasn't me by the way that was a friend that kind of trip potentially you might
put on a bit of weight but honestly when you travel I find that you're at least I am
I'm far more active than I would be you know just sitting in one place in the UK
because you're always going on ships you're always climbing up mountains of
volcanoes and going on treks and you know even just when I'm walking about
filming a regular video just on the street you know I could be walking for
like nine hours a day so it's not like I don't get any exercise so it's important
to remember with weight loss and exercise
you know also think about weight loss when you want traveling because you
can't just eat crap all the time but you need to balance it out with exercise as
well in my case it hasn't really been a conscious thought to think oh I must get
some exercise today because I feel like I get
on a daily basis anyway obviously it will depend like I said on your type of
trip or what kind of sort of person you
are you know honestly unless you are downing
like a tube full of like lard every day for 12 hours a day then you're not
really going to put on weight when they're traveling particularly if you
are younger and you have a decent metabolism which for me is beginning to
fail unless 40 hence where I need to get a bit more exercise and I used to so
when that is that video this video done Mexican food it is possible to get
Mexican food or thetic Mexican food in another country ie Canada in module but
I'm gonna do this in other video so over the next six weeks I'm going to Paris
London Belgrade Istanbul and Bali so I'm going to try and do like hunting real
Mexican food video in each place and I'm gonna give every where out of ten so
today eight out of ten for Montreal in that place because the thing I think
that let it down was the salsa says they just weren't the same there's what I
would have before I know it won't always be the same you know it was pretty good
in comparison and so yeah thanks for watching I know this is a bit of a
simple video but that's life ah then I'll then see you in the next one
catch you later