It's Friday which means it's market day in a
nearby town called Ocotlan I think that's how
you pronounce so we're going to try
and get a colectivo which is a
shared taxi and head 20 miles out of Oaxaca
With a little bit of difficulty we found the bus
station to get to
Ocotlan, is how it's pronounced. Octolan.
So we're on the bus it cost 20 pesos
and it takes about an hour I think to
get out there.
We were going to get a colectivo which are
that that car right there oh it won't focus
that one but they say where they're
going on the front but we just could not
find anything going to where we're going
so. The bus is good. The bus works!
So the market actually runs all week but
Friday is THE market day and people from
surrounding countryside come in bringing
their wares to sell so that's why we're here
today and it sort of sprawls across
several blocks of the town so we're just
going to go in and explore.
We've managed to find tejate a drink
which is made out of cacao and corn dough I
believe mmmmm it tastes like a nutty milk, it's really good
it doesn't look great
with these curdy bits floating on top but it
does taste good. Let us know anything else
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so we found the famous empanadas and
empanadas in Mexico are actually tortillas. Giant tortillas
are then folded in half and this one is
stuffed with mole. Oaxaca has 7 types of mole
and this is amarillo mole which is a yellow
mild mole without the chocolate
it's also got chicken and cheese. Can't wait to get into it
Mmmm, the tortilla's quite crispy. The mole is really
really melllow but still lots of flavour
there looks to be a herb in here
if anyone knows what this herb is called I'd
love to know please comment below. It's really
really good
All right, we also found the nieves
section or the ices section
which this market is really well known for as well so
we ordered a mamey
flavoured one mamey is like, it's hard to describe. It looks like a
cross between a papaya and a rock melon
yeah it's a very strange-looking fruit
I'll find one in the market and insert it
here and it sort of tastes like sweet
potato. That looks amazing and this
one is a tuna flavored one I don't know whether the
tuna is the white one or the red one. The white
one this is a strawberry I think. Oh yeah yeah
So tuna is not tuna fish I think it is
a sweet cactus and we'll also try and find one in the
market and pop it here. The tuna is just incredible
in flavor it is so smoky Thomas described
it like licking a barbecue and it
is honestly what it tastes like it is
completely savory so maybe it's not a
sweet cactus like I thought it was. It's definitely not
sweet it was totally like Sheena said
it's like the barbecue just finished
just nice and hot enough that you could
just run your tongue along the grills
that's what that tastes like
it's incredible. Well that was a bit of a
treat I'm really liking this market
because it's got a much more country
feel to it to me it doesn't feel like a
city market it feels like people have
sort of come from all around to be here
so there's lots of interesting sights
and like there's goats being led around, turkeys,
traditional dress and much more to
explore
so we've found a little vendor who is
selling goat which is barbacoa chivo so
we've ordered some goat tacos and we walked
past before and people were tucking into
this sopa or soup and it looks super, super good it's
got goat, potatoes, some beans and look at
that broth it looks so flavoursome. And tacos
Gracias! These are goat tacos. We will put all
the prices below of everything we're
having today to give you an idea of what
we're spending it looks really fiery
but in fact it's quite bland so
probably needs a bit of chili and a bit
of lime and a bit of onion to jazz it up.
Gracias. Horchata
which is rice milk isn't it? Awesome. The meat's really tender
meat's really tender. Okay so Thomas and I have
been puzzling over the ices we
he had before and we're thinking
about the red and white one that we had it
doesn't really make sense because the tuna
which is the fruit like it being smoked
didn't make sense so I had a look and found out
that that combination is actually
very Oaxacan and it's called
leche quemada con tuna
So the tuna fruit or prickly pear cactus
is actually the red one and then the white ice was
burnt milk which explains the smokey taste!
talking about the ice made us want more
We're terrible, such greedy guts.
Sheena got the same and I got actually got
strawberry this time it's really tasty
you have to come to this market but make
sure you come on Friday it's amazing
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