Hey there world travelers. Hey there. I'm Tanya and I'm Dave and we are Turn It
Up World. Welcome back to . . . Mexico City!
So this is our second day here in Mexico City, we had an amazing day yesterday. You
should definitely check it out. We checked out all the best street food places
across Mexico City and we challenged ourselves to $10 only a piece, that's
it, to see see what we could eat, and I tell you we had an awesome time it was so much fun.
really just going around exploring the different parts of Mexico City and some
of the best street foods. The difficult part was the challenge. The best part was
the food and the people. Yeah, the people were awesome. The food was amazing.
So today, let me just tell you this, so one of the places yesterday was a
fantastic churro place and the place we went to yesterday, called El Morro, was
the starting point of it all, which was I think around 19, early 1930s, so today we
are kicking things off with high energy and for breakfast we're gonna have
churris, except this time we're gonna be making churros
so we're heading into Mexico City, the city center of Mexico City to meet up with,
well he calls himself a top pastry chef here in Mexico City, so we're going to
his establishment, where we will be making those delicious pieces of art.
Hey, so we finally made it here. We are getting ready to walk into the cafe,
which is called Borola's Cafe Fusion and we're going to have an amazing little
session with our chef Ricardo. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it,
looking forward to it. So we need to get in there because I think they're looking
at us right now to make a move.
Turn It Up World. It's all about technique. It's all about technique. The process is
underway. Dave's starting off the first ingredient, which is the condensed milk, while we have
some rocking music playing in the background. Oh yeah. That almost looks like a caramely kind of cream
already, after caramel now next up is the milk itself. Ready.
"Nice Technique"
Next, it's the mixer. There we go. Tanya's going to do the mixing. It's all about technique. Nice form.
Whisk. He's cracking the egg. He's putting it in while you are mixing it. I've got to beat that biotch.
Excuse me.
Just so it gets a nice creamy texture. I have no idea what I am talking about,
but it sounds great.
Went a bit overboard
That's so good.
mmm, oh it has a spice too
Squeeze and push, and push, very close to the oil, in the beginning don't move and then you move very slowly
And for cut, down and up
All right. Here we go.
More close to the oil
This is gonna be an ugly churro.
Oh, nice job.
Wait, it's like moving. I need some help here. It's about to be a circle.
That's the extra crunchy
Extra crunchy
Nice
We got, G U, GU. Nice job. How's that? Oh, it was good.
Look at that masterpiece.
Good job from everybody here. Team churros.
In all the excitement, we forgot to try them on camera for you guys, but dang
those churros were tasty, but maybe a little overboard on the sugar.
I love Mexico City!
It's a beautiful day here in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City and we're now at
Puerto Chico, which is a lake in the middle of the park where you can rent boats and
you can actually you can get a two-person boat, a paddle boat, for sixty
pesos. You can get a four-person paddle boat or a hundred pesos and, if you want
to row yourself, you can get a rowboat for four for a hundred pesos. And you can
get a five, yes a five person for a hundred and twenty pesos, so, it's for an hour, these
are all for an hour time frame, so it's actually quite a bit of time. I'm not
sure we want to do it today. It's pretty hot in the Sun, so I don't know people are out
there paddling in the bright sunshine. It looks really nice, but I do see a lot
hanging out on the shady parts of the lake. Yes, and I didn't really put any sun block on today, so
I think I'm going to let the folks out there enjoy that, but it is definitely
something you can do, yes, if you come to Chapultepec
Park and it's not that costly, I mean jesus, 100 pesos is like $5, exactly, for an hour.
It's amazing. And, one of the things I am noticing here, we're in like a
ocean wave of shops, oh yeah, they got everything here, everything you want, everything you
don't want. Yes, and everything you think you don't want, you might need. You got to just talk someone, they'll
convince you, you need it. Exactly and, if you don't talk to them, they will talk to you. They
seem to be coming right out there, no problems trying to sell their products
to you. There's so much going on here from the Lucha Libre masks, to food, to
trinkets, to gadgets, to shoes, to clothes, my gosh it's just so much here you can't
miss it, and there's got to be over a hundred stalls here. Hey, you can even jog.
You can see all the paddle boats out there, that little swan boat, and Tanya is trying to
skip some rocks. Oh nice.
So we are back trying to regroup before heading out for tonight's
main event. We are heading to one of the most famous, I guess you can say, events here in
Mexico City. Hey, what's that? The Lucha Libre, Lucha Libre! And we hear it can be obnoxious, fun, crazy,
exciting, yes, all of those, but we also hear that you cannot bring any sort of video
recording equipment. Yes, no, no, except your cameras, except your cameras on your phones,
absolutely, I think we're going to make some masks too. Oh yes, that's like a really cool thing
so, before we actually get to the event, we're going to be making our own masks, so I don't
know how cool my mask is gonna be. It could be one of the ugliest masks you've ever seen
but you know what, it's all made with love. Uglier the better.
We're gonna give you a really quick room tour before
heading out the door, so we'll start in the bathrooms since we're right here. It's got
really nice, I mean, modern shower and I will tell you this there's a doorman
that you have downstairs so it makes you feel a little bit more safe, but it's
nice granite countertops, which is really nice, I love like the tile in the floor. It's
just really a well-thought-out little place here, and not even that expensive. I don't quite remember how much it
is a night, but this, I'll probably put that somewhere in the description.
Here's our little kitchen, so it's really kinda cute. It's a gas range four burner
oven here, which is neat, bake your cookies everything else silverware
plates. They have these really cute bowls in here, a little refrigerator which is just
all you need, you know you don't necessarily need a giant one here, and
they give you a couple little things in here. It looks, ah, it looks like they
knew we were coming, mmm Coronas and a little water. So alright this is really neat
guys, so this is another, this is kind of our sitting area here where we are going to be doing work
later on, but look at this, this
is ridiculous, this is amazing so if you can see off into the distance over there
there's some mountains and if you kind of come over this direction here that's
Chapultepec Castle. That's amazing, it's like right here, we have this view
and, if you look down, that's traffic. So just come with me really quick, it's
raining and that's, you know, the price you pay. You get the little cooler
air this time of year, but it's raining but this is a huge,
I'm way over here. How are you? So this is, this is it. This is amazing
coming out here you can sit in the morning have your coffee
listen to all the traffic as it goes by. I know look at that traffic. Now that's what we're
talking about. Exactly, welcome to Mexico City! But, you know what, thank you guys.
We just wanted to give you a really quick room tour. I think that's it. It's not that big. It's
almost like, it really is almost like a little studio. Should we show them the bedroom? Oh
Yeah, I got so excited
about the balcony there, here's the bedroom, it's just a queen size that you get there, two
closets, you also get more double doors that lead
you out to the balcony here, the same thing here, just like another balcony, but
what's interesting, what's interesting about this balcony is it's kind of
shared with the neighbor, so I don't know how much we're going to be using this one.
That's like the neighbor's apartment is right there so, we could jump over and
join them for the party. Yeah, no thanks. There's Internet it's Wi-Fi high speed she said and we can
watch just about whatever we want on Netflix, which we do love, as well as
YouTube, which we do love, so that's it guys. I mean it's a little cute quaint
place here it's got a really comfortable feel and it's not even that expensive, so
that's it.
So, we made it, so when you first walk in here, you have to kind of choose your
mask. Dave and I chose two. I don't know who's gonna
be prettier or who's gonna be uglier but, you know what, a mask is a mask, and
the more beer I drink the prettier it will look.
And so that was an incredible fun session we had, I mean look at this mask here, look at how girly
the mask is. Oh, hold on a second, we actually have some treats, and what's inside? They're little miniature
wrestlers. Yeah, and they aren't edible. They're not edible but look at this. How cute is this? It was such a fun time
and this mask lashes, look at Dave's mask. Yeah, it is definitely a little bit neanderthal. It's
almost like Deadpool. Looks a little Deadpool like. Yeah it's like
the futuristic Dead Pool mask.
We're in the Juarez neighborhood in Mexico City and I gotta say it's really
really nice. We heard it's up-and-coming, we've been in you know, we've
spent more time in Condesa and Roma Norte, and Roma Norte as well, but this is
really, I really like Juarez, a lot of great restaurants and little quirky shops and
art galleries, yeah, and it's definitely definitely up-and-coming. I know we've
read how back in 1985 they had this devastating earthquake that really
devastated the area, yeah, but it's nice. This thing still works? Wow, it's an
actual telephone system. I don't hear anything. Nope, I think that's dead.
I don't think that it necessarily works. What is this thing?
So one thing really cool that we noticed down here as we're
walking along there's all these really amazing painted skulls, they're, they almost
remind me of a Tim Burton movie you know that kind of artistic design just really
neat now I'm not sure if this may have something to do with the fact that
Dia de Muertos is coming up soon and it's just kind of something to symbolize
that, because it kind of has that feel but it's just a really cool piece of
art. We're probably gonna try and capture some cool photos here.
This is really really cool.
We are actually starving and, oh my god, for the grand finale here in
Mexico City tonight we're at a place called La Casa De Tono, and we actually
got this place from several locals that told us we need to try it. Now
it is somewhat of a chain but it's sort of like a cafeteria style food, yeah, and they have some really great dishes.
Exactly, they got great Pozole, right Pozole, supposed to be really good and it's 24/7
supposed to be very good food at a great value, so we want to give it a shot. We actually probably
should have gone here yesterday. Yeah, I know, we could have actually saved the budget. Yes, exactly.
We ordered this dish, oh my gosh, it's the Pozole with the Maciza,
which has pork and all the great onions and things that go along with it. It's really interesting, it's like a
huge bowl. So, there's two options we could have chosen. Could have chose the small one or you could
have chosen the large one. We went with the large because we are really hungry and
of course, and plus the large is so much bigger and if you look at the price, the small is 58 pesos and the large
is 63 pesos so, for 5 more pesos, you get practically double the size from the small so, yes
and if you're wondering where the menus are, let me show you.
They're right down on the table
They're kind of like inside, encased in glass, here right on the table.
Are you going to drink that broth?
Since you like the broth so much, you want my broth. Yeah, I want that broth.
Thanks for that broth. Thank you, number two. Number two. I guess David really likes that Pozole.
That's good, there's a little leftover down there, finish that up.
Well, that about does it
for us and Futuristic Deadpool over here. Oh yeah, I'm ready for
bed. It's been a long long day. We had a lot of fun. We made some really cool masks
as you can see, yeah, it was awesome Mexico City always brings the energy. We
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