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00:00USA. What part? Boston. Oh, green town. And so where is this Mezcal place? Right here.
00:09Are you scared? No, I'm not scared.
00:18Hey, how are you? Wonton is in Oaxaca. About to go for a little stroll around
00:24the city. Now, this is my first time here. I know nothing about the city. I know no
00:29one here at the moment. Meeting up with people tomorrow. And I don't even know if
00:33just walking around with a live stream backpack is going to be kosher. But hey,
00:40I've never had a bad experience in Mexico. I've been here, I don't know, I
00:46went to Tijuana as a kid. I went to Tijuana on Rediscovering America. I went
00:51to Tequila Mexico, courtesy of Jose Cuervo for saving a plane. No big deal.
00:56And now I'm in Oaxaca. I think the furthest south in Mexico I have ever
01:02been. I've heard good things. We'll get to why I'm here in a bit. But, shall we
01:08head outside? You know what? We're going to the market. There's a giant market
01:14down here. Oh yeah, that looks like a market. That's definitely a market.
01:22This is the Oaxacan cheese that they were talking about? Oh yeah, quesadilla.
01:28You guys make a grilled cheese?
01:32Yes, 300 grams of cheese.
01:34We have it with chili, without chili, with ham, with chapulín, if you like.
01:41Oh, okay. I like it.
01:43Do you like panela?
01:45Can I eat it now?
01:47Yes, yes.
01:49Alright, I'll try a panela.
01:53I like this one better, the one with ham.
01:55Okay.
01:57Oh, but is this...
01:59Is this like cream cheese?
02:01I don't think I eat that
02:03with a spoon.
02:05Yeah, so
02:07it looks good, I just...
02:09It's a little hard.
02:11It's not very soft.
02:13Do I eat with a spoon?
02:15No, not with a spoon.
02:17Okay.
02:19Yo regreso.
02:21I will return.
02:23Lo siento.
02:25Should have realized that
02:27not knowing any Spanish at the moment
02:29might be a problem.
02:31I almost just bought a block of cream cheese for lunch.
02:33She did say dorito at one point.
02:35I did hear that.
02:37It's a little hard.
02:39Was she offering to serve it
02:41with doritos so I could kind of like
02:43dip that in the cream cheese?
02:45That would have been pretty good.
02:47Where is White Sox Dave when you need him?
02:49Here we are.
02:51It's been 12 years since I
02:53studied Spanish
02:55in my school, but
02:57I'm fluent.
02:59And I'm very hungry.
03:01You're still hungry?
03:03No, I forgot how to say thirsty.
03:05I never thought I would be
03:07in need of White Sox Dave,
03:09but he probably
03:11could have resolved that.
03:13These chickens look good.
03:15Okay, I found a spot that's
03:1710 minutes away. Comes highly recommended.
03:19We'll get a nice walk-in.
03:21We'll get to
03:23see the sights. I'll work up
03:25an appetite.
03:27It's a win-win.
03:29Ah, yes.
03:31This is it.
03:33Alright.
03:37So we're gonna get the
03:39grasshoppers with queso.
03:41Shout out Uncle Lester Cam
03:43and join up on me.
03:45Grasshoppers are on Uncle Lester.
03:47The cocktail has arrived.
03:49You know what? It looks so beautiful
03:51I'd love to savor it, but
03:53we can't let the
03:55ice melt.
04:06Yeah, that was great.
04:08This seems like a pretty nice place.
04:10They don't have to be too concerned about the ice.
04:12They get the ice from bags.
04:14They're not making their own cubes.
04:16And here come the crickets.
04:24Look at this. It is bubbling.
04:31Those are
04:33tiny crickets.
04:35You're not really gonna taste the cricket.
04:37Those are so small. They've been seasoned
04:39but maybe it will give
04:41these tortillas a nice crunch.
04:53That might be the longest cheese pull
04:55I've ever seen in my life.
04:57Full wingspan. It's incredible.
05:05Okay.
05:08That was almost
05:10too long of a cheese pull.
05:12Bon Appetit.
05:18I love how at that first place I was like
05:20no, I can't just eat
05:22a chunk of cream cheese
05:24for lunch and now I'm just
05:26eating a chunk of cheese for lunch
05:28with
05:30some crickets sprinkled in.
05:32I'm gonna try these crickets on their own.
05:38Mmm.
05:40Nice little
05:42chili lime flavor to that.
05:52I can go higher.
06:00Holy shit.
06:05Dude, I think I need to
06:07stand up.
06:14Oh my god.
06:18It's still going.
06:20This thing can go eight feet.
06:24Alright, this is getting out of hand.
06:26I gotta put it back.
06:28Oh, that was an insane
06:30cheese pull.
06:33This is it. We finally found it.
06:35I don't even know if the guy who recommended this place
06:37is still watching, but
06:39we made it here.
06:41I'm no longer
06:43hungry after that
06:45cheese crickets, but I'll see if
06:47they got any mezcal.
06:49Oh yeah, these are views.
06:51There it goes. My first taste of
06:53mezcal in Oaxaca.
06:57Should I sip or shoot it?
06:59You know what, first I'm just gonna
07:01see what the palate's like.
07:05I mean
07:07that stuff warms your soul.
07:15Don't even
07:17need this, but
07:21I think this is an orange, not
07:23a lime.
07:29It is.
07:31Orange.
07:33Come to Oaxaca, they got green oranges.
07:41Do you speak English?
07:43No, very little.
07:45I'm going to
07:47Juatla de Jimenez.
07:51Oh, I'm from Juatla de Jimenez.
07:53He's from Maria Sabina.
07:55Ah, yes.
07:57Maria Sabina.
07:59Are you going to eat mushrooms?
08:01Yes, with
08:03Maria Sabina's great-grandson.
08:05He did ask if I would be
08:07eating shrooms in
08:09Juatla de Jimenez,
08:11and yeah, I probably will be.
08:13I actually 100%
08:15will be, because that's
08:17where shrooms were
08:19first discovered by the Western
08:21world. Look up the history of Gordon Wasson
08:23and Maria Sabina.
08:25But that's when it was like
08:27a very religious practice, and then
08:29this guy Gordon Wasson came in
08:31who was a banker at
08:33JP Morgan,
08:35but then in his
08:37free time just had a passion
08:39for mushroom. He went down to this town
08:41where they were known to be doing
08:43mushroom rituals
08:45that they worked into their
08:47religion, and then he wrote an
08:49article about it in Life Magazine,
08:51and that started the whole
08:53shroom craze
08:55in the United States and Europe
08:57and the rest of the planet. So this one woman
08:59pretty much changed the world.
09:01The Beatles went down there,
09:03Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones,
09:05and then just a bunch of
09:07other hippies all started coming to this one
09:09town in Mexico, and
09:11Maria Sabina
09:13I think was like
09:15she was actually banned from the village
09:17because they're like, look at all this
09:19attention that you brought us.
09:21And yeah,
09:23it was tough. Now the town
09:25has sort of embraced it
09:27I guess for tourism purposes,
09:29but
09:31I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
09:37Yes, I will.
09:39I love that dog.
09:43USA.
09:45Boston.
09:47Beantown.
09:50What are you doing here, man?
09:52First day here.
09:54It's very
09:56easy. One, two,
09:58three, four streets.
10:00All the way, you see where that tree is?
10:02Santo Domingo?
10:04And about past that
10:06palacio, all of that is considered
10:08centro histórico.
10:10Everything you're going to
10:12see, you want to buy is in these
10:14four blocks. Touristic.
10:16Local, you might want
10:18for this to be
10:20really good at it, and I know a lot of people
10:22who come here and do a lot of shows in here,
10:24you might want to go to the market
10:26the 20th of November.
10:28Oh, I haven't been to that market. I went to one of the other
10:30markets, but I didn't go to that place.
10:32It's right here, bro. You can go there now.
10:34Okay. Right now is perfect time because
10:36this is a rush hour hour. Sure, I'll go.
10:38Come on, I'll show you. How long have you
10:40lived here? I lived here like
10:4211 years. 11 years.
10:44I live in California, bro. Oh yeah?
10:46I wanted a nice divorce
10:48and I had two choices.
10:50Stay there and be broke, or come to
10:52Mexico and be okay.
10:54Yay, that's it.
10:56I chose Mexico, brother, and it was
10:58okay. You're in the
11:00state, only in Mexico, that has
11:0298% population indigenous.
11:04Really? Yes.
11:06Okay, yeah. That's why I've heard
11:08this is the culture
11:10capital. Yes, of Mexico.
11:12Yeah. And another thing,
11:14this is the safest state in Mexico.
11:16Zero cocktail here.
11:18They killed them.
11:20These indigenous people killed them because
11:22they lost so much money to them
11:24and they don't like it. Yeah.
11:26They don't want to allow them to come in here,
11:28so it's really big, big off.
11:30Nice. This church right here is Zocalo.
11:32It's the oldest church
11:34in Oaxaca.
11:36If you get lost anywhere in Oaxaca,
11:38which is really easy, you see the mountains
11:40over there? Yeah. 5-10 minute walk,
11:42this mountain. Okay. 5-10 minutes
11:44over there, you get to the mountain. Another
11:465-10 minutes there, you get to the airport.
11:485-10 minutes to the mountain.
11:50Nice. It's a really small city
11:52and compacted, so every day
11:54you're going to want to see. Come on, let's go.
11:56Well, hey, if you show me around
11:58a bit, I'm happy to
12:00buy you dinner.
12:02No, you don't have to.
12:04I haven't spoken English in a while,
12:06bro. Okay.
12:0811 years, you know? Yeah, yeah.
12:10I work and I barely come out
12:12during the day, only for him.
12:14But this is one of our oldest
12:16churches in Oaxaca
12:18and it's absolutely gorgeous.
12:20This is Zocalo.
12:22Come here, brother.
12:26You can pick him up, though, right?
12:28Or something like that? Yeah.
12:30Alright, cool, yeah.
12:32I'll take a quick look.
12:34This is when the chat started telling me to run away
12:36from that guy before I got robbed.
12:38But I thought it'd make for a better stream
12:40if I trusted him to be my tour guide.
12:48Oh, no, he was whistling
12:50to me.
12:52Yeah, yeah. Nice in there, huh?
12:54It is. That's very cool.
12:56Do they sell crickets in here?
12:58Oh, I got you.
13:00I got you. How do you say that?
13:02Chapulines.
13:04Chapulines.
13:06Oh, yeah.
13:08Some with hot sauce, some with garlic,
13:10and some with lemon.
13:12Can you just ask for a small amount of the
13:14hot sauce ones?
13:16Just try this.
13:22It's all crunchy, but it tastes really good.
13:24And it's full of protein.
13:26This is with lemon.
13:30These are the larvae. These are the babies.
13:32Oh, I had
13:35the babies.
13:37Middle-aged, youth,
13:39and like teenager age.
13:41And then they're full-grown.
13:43Okay, so I got the full-grown
13:45ones, right?
13:47Are these the teenagers? No, the full-grown spicy.
13:49Oh, okay. Let's go.
13:51Yeah, because I had them in queso, and it
13:53looked cool, but you couldn't
13:55actually taste them.
13:57The 20th of November market.
13:59And it's cut into three sections.
14:01Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
14:03Is that a pizza?
14:05Everybody has good food in here.
14:07Oh, this is what
14:09I was trying to find earlier.
14:11The best place about this place is right here.
14:13And then is this mole?
14:15Yes, that's mole.
14:17And these people
14:19are famous for mole.
14:21Oh, wow.
14:23Hola!
14:25They have everything for you. They have sausage,
14:27they have beef, they have pork,
14:29they have lamb, and everything you want.
14:31Go over there and look, and you're gonna see
14:33the cacao.
14:35Oh, yeah. That's the cacao.
14:37And here is one cacao
14:39right there on the bottom. You can see that's the fruit
14:41right there, the yellow.
14:43And they get harvested from that.
14:45Chocolate comes from a fruit, so don't
14:47let your parents tell you it's unhealthy.
14:49And so where is this mezcal place?
14:51Right here.
14:53Are you scared right now?
14:55No, I'm not scared.
14:57This is the market I'm thinking of.
14:59Gordon Ramsey did his segment
15:01here in Oaxaca.
15:03He got
15:0520 million views.
15:07Ramsey.
15:09That fucking
15:11rapscallion. But he did good for Oaxaca.
15:13He gave the city 2 million dollars.
15:15He's building a whole big
15:17section of it called Ramsey-Gordon
15:19Centro.
15:21It's a whole area.
15:23He gave the city 2 million fucking dollars.
15:252 million dollars and he's building
15:27a Ramsey-Gordon Center
15:29in Oaxaca? Yeah, yeah.
15:31It's like a shopping center for poor people
15:33who didn't have stools.
15:35He gave them a whole area he's building
15:37for them. Each one
15:39his own stool.
15:41And his own market.
15:432 million fucking dollars.
15:45No, don't laugh at him. I like him.
15:47That's cool. He's still a pretentious prick
15:49because he's calling it the Gordon Ramsey Center.
15:51But hey, you're allowed to do that if you donate
15:532 million of your own money.
15:55It's like a food complex over here.
15:57What I don't like?
15:59These little bastards.
16:01What you call it?
16:03What's his name?
16:05Dan Bernstein?
16:07No, what the fuck is Dan Bernstein?
16:09He's just a sports radio guy in Chicago.
16:11What the fuck is his name?
16:13A guy from the movie.
16:15Lopez.
16:17Mario Lopez?
16:19No, George Lopez.
16:21He's Mexican, right?
16:23He fucking over here and he did a little something
16:25in here. He did a little segment
16:27and everything was okay and fine.
16:29But at the end of the day
16:31you know what happened? He got the money
16:33and he left.
16:35He didn't help nobody.
16:37If my mom hears me telling you this
16:39she'll probably fucking hire people to shoot me.
16:41Do you want a cigarette?
16:43Well, I have
16:45a pack from that my friend
16:47gave me from
16:49my China days.
16:51I have a pack of cigarettes
16:53straight from China.
16:55Authentic Chinese hoons.
16:57Oh, man.
16:59They're not metal, are they?
17:01No. You can have them.
17:03Chinese shit, man. I heard they're strong.
17:05No, these ones are the ones that all
17:07of the foreigners would smoke there.
17:09So, they're not like super strong.
17:11Oh, yeah.
17:15Okay, come on.
17:19I just think they might be like a few years old.
17:21We'll see.
17:23A few years old, yeah.
17:25These were the ones I used to smoke out there all the time.
17:31Can you smoke in the market?
17:33Yeah.
17:35Okay.
17:37Oh, yeah.
17:40Do you have more crickets?
17:42I'll show you the big mama who actually
17:44supplies everybody in here.
17:46She has farms. Cricket farms.
17:48How large is a cricket farm?
17:50It's big.
17:52You can actually take tours.
17:54You see how people come in
17:56in the morning.
17:58I'm going to show you the lady that actually
18:00cooks for everybody.
18:02How do they kill the crickets?
18:04They have them in
18:06a farm with plastic covers.
18:08So, they have them as babies.
18:10They put them in these
18:12fields full of lettuce,
18:14tomatoes, all kinds of fruits,
18:16vegetables, and stuff in there.
18:18And they let them live.
18:20And they just keep cleaning them.
18:22And feeding them until they get big.
18:24When they get big, they just go in there with a net
18:26and pack them up.
18:28And then they kill them?
18:30No, they put them in the water and wash them off.
18:32And then they fry them?
18:34Yeah.
18:36So they kill them eventually.
18:38But yeah,
18:40that's after they've lived a long
18:42good life.
18:44This lady has some of the best
18:46mezcal. Her family owns 90% of all
18:48mezcal here.
18:50All the bottles you see,
18:52everything is made in her farms.
18:54And she's one of the granddaughters
18:56of the mother.
18:58She has the best mezcal.
19:00She sells crocodiles, pumas, whatever.
19:02I don't know if I'd be able to bring that back
19:04to the U.S.
19:06You have to have a good mezcal.
19:08If you want to try some mezcal.
19:10Yeah.
19:12This is tobala.
19:14Tobala.
19:16Cozana.
19:18This is the other one.
19:20Do you like cozana?
19:26Okay, yeah, almost a little too sweet.
19:28This is my favorite brother.
19:30And actually,
19:32I love this fucking thing.
19:34This is so good.
19:36It's so smooth.
19:38So very smooth.
19:40That was definitely the smoothest I've had.
19:42How much is this?
19:4450 pesos.
19:46You can have some of this.
19:48I like that it's served in a beer bottle.
19:50You gotta remember that this is not a beer.
19:52No, but you can drink it in there.
19:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:56I think I'm just gonna do one of those.
19:58If you want to clean your body,
20:00before you brush your teeth,
20:02before you do anything,
20:04you take a nice shot.
20:06That will kill all the germs inside your stomach.
20:08A shot of what?
20:10Mezcal in the morning.
20:12Before you wake up, before you brush your teeth,
20:14before you drink any water,
20:16you take a nice shot of mezcal.
20:18That will kill all the germs in your stomach.
20:20If you do that for one week,
20:22no more than one week,
20:24all your stomach problems will be gone.
20:26I'm gonna try that.
20:28I came in and I did the mezcal.
20:30I haven't taken a medicine in six years.
20:32I haven't bled.
20:34My stomach hasn't bled.
20:36I go to the doctor in the U.S.
20:38You're lying.
20:40Somebody must have done something to us.
20:42I'm like, no, man, it's just mezcal.
20:44So much that he started taking mezcal.
20:46I send him from here five liters every three months.
20:48Okay, so for one week, a shot,
20:50right when you wake up?
20:52Wake up, right before you brush your teeth.
20:54You take it.
20:56She's the one who cooks
20:58almost 100%
21:00of all the chapulines.
21:02This is our ants.
21:04The special ants that come out here once a year.
21:06Ant eggs or something like that?
21:08No, ants, actual ants.
21:10That's their back.
21:12Oh, yeah, you're right.
21:14These are the larvae.
21:20If you come here at 6 in the morning,
21:22there will be a line on the table.
21:25Hello, how are you?
21:27And she cooks it fresh
21:29in the morning, hot.
21:31And you can see them alive in the morning.
21:33She brings them alive for people to see.
21:35Oh, wow.
21:37She is the one person
21:39by 5 p.m., as you can see,
21:41by 5 p.m., everything you see will be gone.
21:43I've heard
21:45these are a great source of protein.
21:47Big time, and they clean your stomach.
21:49They clean your stomach.
21:51Didn't hear that.
21:53If you have oysters and stuff,
21:55they're really good.
21:57She has one with almonds.
21:59Take a taste of her stuff.
22:03The lady probably got it from her,
22:05but it's fresh in here.
22:09It's a lot fresher in here.
22:11Very good.
22:13That's the best grasshopper I've had.
22:17Put her in a video.
22:19What is the name
22:21of her place?
22:25Doña Jose.
22:27If you ever come to Oaxaca
22:29and you're looking for some
22:31solid fried crickets
22:33slash grasshoppers, don't know
22:35which they are, come to Doña
22:37Jose. He's the best
22:39in town.
22:41Wow.
22:43Muy bien.
22:45Muy bien.
22:49Those are great.
22:51Look at all the flavors they got there too.
22:53That place is huge.
22:55What's the name of this market?
22:57Centro Abastos.
22:59I think I did hear that this was
23:01the best market.
23:03Coffee is
23:05cultivated around here, right?
23:09They don't have to go to Starbucks.
23:11They can probably get pretty good coffee
23:13just at a local spot.
23:15I don't drink coffee from Starbucks.
23:17I drink coffee from Oaxaca, bro.
23:19I'm from Oaxaca, man.
23:21The best Oaxaca coffee ever.
23:23I've been to Italy.
23:25I've been to Brazil
23:27where they have it.
23:29I even been to fucking Lebanon
23:31where they have coffee.
23:33Have you ever tried Stella Blue coffee?
23:35I tried that.
23:37I even tried
23:39the monkey coffee.
23:41The monkey coffee.
23:43Oh, yep.
23:45Cibit poop coffee?
23:47$100 for a cup like this.
23:49The coffee that they poop out the seeds
23:51and then they use it.
23:53It's supposed to be good.
23:55They grind it and make you coffee from the poop.
24:03Do you want to try beef or do you want to try mole today?
24:05What type of mole?
24:07They have all kinds of mole.
24:09They got all kinds of mole in here.
24:11Alright, I'm getting
24:13a mole sample.
24:17Amarillo.
24:23All very good.
24:25Negro is best.
24:27Can I do like a
24:29pollo negro mole
24:31quesadilla?
24:33Something like that?
24:35You can have
24:37a plate with the rice
24:39and chicken and mole.
24:41Are you heading out?
24:43Dude, let me get your number.
24:45Thank you very much, man.
24:47Look out for your boy?
24:49Yes.
24:51Oh, yeah, of course.
24:53That guy was the man.
24:55In a lot of places
24:57I wouldn't just walk off with
24:59a stranger for a market tour.
25:01But
25:03I read the room, I felt like I could trust
25:05him and it worked out well.
25:07Prior to him, I was just hopelessly
25:09walking around the city
25:11like, you saw me when I
25:13first walked in this market.
25:15I tried to get lunch, I almost ordered a block
25:17of cream cheese.
25:19I met him just because I saw his dog.
25:21His dog was cute.
25:23Then he made a joke, he was just like
25:25you gotta pay me if you wanna keep
25:27filling my dog.
25:29But then, yeah, I guess he was
25:31from California
25:33went through a divorce
25:35at some point and just decided to move to Mexico.
25:38But
25:40I got a great tour.
25:42I've only been in the city for a few hours.
25:44That was an incredible
25:46lay of the land.
25:48Mike is A-OK in my book.
25:50I'm sure the chat was freaking out for me.
25:52And yeah, there are a lot of countries
25:54where I would never do what I just did
25:56but I feel
25:58like I'm a pretty good judge of character
26:00and like
26:02I could tell if things were getting too shady
26:04but things really never
26:06got shady at all.
26:08And now I got
26:10dinner and then we're gonna end the stream
26:12after I eat.
26:32The beef is chewy
26:36but the flavor is there.
26:38It's delicious.
26:40And I need to sprinkle on some of these.
26:42Chapulines.
26:44Chapulines. Yeah.
26:46Do you think they go well with mole?
26:48Yeah.
26:50Mole covered.
26:52Pretty good.
26:56Salud.
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