hey we're nicole and mico and good morning from santiago if you saw our last video you'll know
we were just hiking in patagonia here in chile we have made our way north to the capital santiago
and today we are going to explore and eat as much good chilean food as we can so let's go
all right we have joined a walking tour this morning don't worry it's not gonna be like
boring we're not gonna take you on a tour walking tour but we love joining walking tours because it
really gives us like a good overview of what's the city about what's the culture about like what's
going on in an area a new area for us so we've joined one today we're gonna learn as much as
we can before we go for lunch at a market and just eat our hearts content our guide has been talking
a lot though about safety he's saying that uh santiago was not the safe place that it used to be
and i guess a large part of that is because there's been a lot of immigration recently
because of the crisis going on in venezuela and it's just uh during covet some of the borders were
unmanned if you will for quite a long time so lots of folks have just come over but that also brought
organized crime the economy couldn't handle the influx of people so there's a lot more people
who are just having to engage in like informal economy and just making money any way they can
there's also a lot more people on the streets than i guess used to be and we don't have homes so he's
been really telling us quite a lot about how to remain safe while we're here in the center of
santiago so this is cathedral de santiago one of the most important cathedrals in all of chile and
it's such a beautiful beautiful church beautifully built the paintings on the roof are gorgeous
so one of the things that i think is probably most interesting that we've learned about on
this walking tour is that in 2019 there were a lot of protests here in santiago
and it was actually to change the constitution and they were successful
so there's been a lot of changes for like equal marriage laws and abortion laws
and those are all really recent and part of the protests are some of the reason that there's
so much graffiti in this city but we understand that was sort of from 2019 during the protest so
we see this everywhere there like the city so far just feels covered in what is this called graffiti
okay so our tour ended and our guide at the very end gave us a recommendation for a local sandwich
place and it does look pretty local and it looks super super good but we're not exactly sure how to
order because it looks like you order from the middle and everybody makes it in the middle in
front of you so we'll find out okay i think we ordered this right we got the our free candela
which is a fritter of pork and beef dressed and boiled in meat gravy that sounds amazing
i don't know if this is onions or like almost like sauerkraut i don't know we didn't understand one
of the words on the menu we just wanted to get it because it looks like the thing everybody gets
that looks completely packed in this could be a little messy everyone around us is eating with
a broken knife so i think pork knife it is okay the first one's gonna be a bit of a monster bite
just a very juicy burger with a ton of toppings i don't know how it's described
that's a really good burger the meat is so juicy and so delicious
almost like hot doggy like
the ground meat because there's pork in it i think i can really taste the fork great pork heavy
it's not bad it's not bad not my favorite thing world tastes like a pork burger
doesn't exactly look like much but it's delicious highly suggest good recommendation from our guy
okay that's great more food
we made our way to one of the big local markets here in santiago it's la vega central
we're hoping to get something to eat here but so far we're finding a ton
of other things besides food there's lots of food here but there's lots of things going on
here too so they call this the fruit market but i've seen like everything there's like dog food
and string and toothpaste and eggs and like you could buy anything here maybe not electronics
all right i think i'm getting i think i'm getting planned but i asked her to plan
and then he said a lot of words i heard let's see i'm not exactly sure but i think
it's planned which is super super super common at dessert here in chile so we have to try it
that's a huge piece that's a really big piece and this cat this cat would like to share with me
he's following me around look at him wait a little stinker no get away from my plan cat just my plan
all right we're going to eat the flame standing up otherwise i think we're going
to eat flan and cat hair he put this like syrup all over it this is like a serious dessert man
oh it's so sweet i think this is um corn syrup that is delicious it's
very sweet you need about a quarter of this piece awesome great choice chili
that's good all right well we didn't quite get fruit at the fruit market but you just when you
see good flan you just can't stop and walk away you gotta try a little change today because it's
really a thing here that is so good i mean it feels like i'm eating sugar cubes straight up
but like that are mushy they're like soft but that's really really good
this market is huge and lots going on i'm not gonna lie
i feel a little bit lost we're uh trying to leave now but oh i think i'm gonna exit
all right we've made it to the central market to santiago uh it's more of like
a fish market and it has a ton of restaurants so far compared to the last market this place
is a lot more jumpy or people are really uh eager to get you into the restaurant but
right now we're a little full so we're not really sure if we're going to eat anything right away
so being a seafood market i had to try some of the seafood um here uh i'm not up for a big meal
right now but i figured a good compromise between getting some seafood and trying out
more of the local cuisine is crab empanada i'm pretty sure it's crab because he said empanada
so i think that's crab um it looks huge and it smells so good
butchering it okay i'll show you the inside
there's not a ton of filling in there but that's okay because it is so fragrant
it's not as good very seafoody so nicole wouldn't like it
i love empanadas because they just come in all sorts of different shapes and taste
wow i can hear that crunch
sounds good all right we have left the fish market and are walking back downtown and
pase estado which is really lively right now we walked around here for our tour this morning it
was a little bit more quiet because it was early in the morning but everything really opens up in
the afternoon we're gonna try and find another dessert because south america um chile included
just like incredible desserts so we're on the hunt for some more
a few things in the world i like better than a delicious coffee and a great piece of cake this
is like pure happiness right here it's called tortoise and hopefully i'm pronouncing that
correctly which i think in english translates to cake of a thousand leaves because it's like
tons and tons of little layers of like pastry i think traditionally it has like um
i forget the word i think it's like i think it's uh like kind of like a pureed fruit in it
this one though might have dolce de leche which would be delicious so let's try it look at that
and the cake is actually quite dry i'm gonna need a glass of water with it that is super good though
it's really sweet by like not doesn't quite overdo it which is like dulce de leche it's not
like overdone sweet which is why i think i love it also we read that this is a really common dessert
to have at birthdays and like big celebrations um yeah it's awesome 10 out of 10 we eat again
okay so we have been seeing this all day it's called mate hopefully i'm saying that right um if
i'm honest i've been avoiding trying it because it does not look advertising like look at that
that does not look like something i'm going to enjoy but we're trying it it is
a like dehydrated peach in its own juices with extra sugar a little bit of cinnamon and then this
down here is the mate it's like a kind of barley here so i'm honestly nervous it smells really
sweet and really peachy it feels more like a food than a drink because it's so much i actually don't
know how to eat this do i drink it i think do you think i drink it i don't try drinking it
not as sweet as it like smells it's not bad
it's cold which is helpful i don't know about the water it's so weird oh okay the barley stuffed
it's good it's like barley and pear juice or um
peach juice that's a super strange combination to me though i don't really
know how you eat it do you eat it like you just take a spoonful every time i you must
oh i know but it's weird right that's cool why is there crunchy stuff in it
it's like kind of bland and then it's perfect though because the whole juice is so
yeah sweet should we try this i'm a little scared
piece juice is it good yeah really good okay it reminds me of like the
little canned peach juices that you have as a kid
i read it was dehydrated but looks pretty hydrated yeah it doesn't feel dehydrated
that's actually pretty good it's pretty good okay it's like a nice it's like a meal it's a good
drink for a hot day feels like a snack and a drink combo it's a two for one okay i like clever clever
so we're on the bus headed off to san cristobal hill which is like
the highest point right here in the city of santiago uh usually you can take a telefiko
up which is like a cable car but it's not running today there's also a funicula you
can take but that has not been running for quite some time from what i understand so
today we are taking a bus because that's the only choice we're just gonna head up and get
some really cool views there's actually a ton of stuff up here but we'll see what we can find
you know after spending a ton of time hiking in patagonia it is really nice to get a ride up hill
all right the bus made it to the top of san cristobal hill i feel like we didn't earn our
right to be here because other people have like run here and biked here we just got on the bus but
that was a very good choice because it definitely would take us at least an hour to walk up here
it's really beautiful you can see the city behind me our guide earlier today actually said that if
you go anywhere with a good like to get a good view of santiago don't go before like 4 p.m
because the smog which you can still see behind me is apparently quite bad until now
so it's still quite bad if you ask me and it's like after six but better than earlier i guess
so up here has san cristobal hill are you into tons of things there's a zoo
up here apparently uh there is a japanese garden there is a church and the big statue of
mary which we actually don't have time to go see or we're going to miss the last bus back down this
hill it's going to be the place really neat place it's very like there's a lot of like nature and
greenery which is refreshing because of course santiago is a huge city so i don't get a ton
of that when you're down sort of closer walking on the streets so it's quite beautiful up here
all the chilenos that we met at the o-trek in patagonia
said that when we get to santiago we have to try some piscola
piscola is basically pisco which is kind of like a brandy or like a high-proof spirit mixed with
like a coke and i think she put some red bull in there i'm not exactly sure so
this may not be true to the definition of piscola cocktail but it's pretty it's pretty close
cheers
oh yeah that's pretty good you know what it reminds me now don't hate me for saying
this it reminds me of a rum and coke but pisco and coke pisco i guess is really
famous here in chile and and the surrounding region so a lot of people love piscola so
this is not too bad another drink you could try is pisco sour i'll try that next time
i do not think this plant is big enough
okay so this is i understand it's like a pretty typical dish here it's like fries
and then topped with a bunch of stuff so in this case i got shredded beef chives or green onion
bacon and there's a ton of cheese down there somewhere and i see a little bit
of onion as well it looks so stinking good as if we haven't eaten enough food today okay let's try
okay it's like
it's like an upgraded taco this is so good
i don't think i'm sharing this is for me i got it this is an individual portion
okay i gotta have some it smells so good i'm still pretty full honestly from a day
of eating but i think i'm ready again after smelling this you're uh you're having some
you can't finish all of that i mean i could try you got the leftovers i'll have all my favorite
bits you get the rest wow oh my goodness i think it's because the beef is salty it's so good that
just that just elevated fries to a whole new level you know what it reminds me of a canadian poutine
without the gravy and an upgrade on all the toppings that is good right this is like
this is like upgraded poutine come on canada this is so good all right that food was delicious
which is great because that's pretty much all we could fit in our stomachs for today yeah we're
incredibly incredibly full and it's gotten dark since we went into that last restaurant so we
are going to leave you here and this is actually also our last video for chile yeah we've got new
adventures coming up we're heading over to bolivia tomorrow so that's going to be incredible so hit
subscribe if you want to see more of that yeah and we'll meet you there see you in the next one
with regards to the uh earlier this morning we mentioned earlier because of the increase of us
immigration all right that's a loud bus let me do that again
okay i've been walking around for a little while with this and just like casually eating it
and that is actually really good it's like a drink and like a little bit of food in one time
not bad great for a hot day