Americans Celebrate Eid al-Adha in Pakistan
good morning from Islamabad we are at the F6 market and we are going to walk 2.9 K to the F7 Market there's a burger restaurant we want to check out there but while we're walking this Forest s yeah there was a monkey and another video that's still a girl's Fanta enforce is quite obsessed with that yeah always on the look apparently that's the thing yeah the monkey was scary yes but either way why we walk at least for a little while I want to talk to you about the layout of Islamabad and how I love the layout of this city so basically we're in F6 going to F7 and each of these sections has four sectors so you've got F6 one two three and four you have F7 one two three and four and in the middle of those sectors are the markets yes and by market it's not like one little Fruit Stand it's a whole strip there's a restaurant see the birdie food stalls yeah so for example the market here has a coffee shop a chocolate shop a huge gas station and it's a long strip it goes way way down there's going to be uh expat food like International Food there'll be local food in almost all of them in terms of a combination of local food versus uh expat like 400 Foreigner food I have 400 food uh but either way you get the idea so you might find KFC you might find Pizza Hut you might find big National chains in these markets and then you'll also find very local Pakistani food so that's what's kind of unique I think about this layout is it all makes sense and because it's all about is relatively flat at least the City versus up towards the mountains it's these straight long roads so it's pretty easy to Navigate to navigate and to find a way uh in between markets again they're about 3K apart at least from F6 to F7 it's a bit hot today but it's overcast and there's a lot of shade so walking for us I think we can do it if not we would use something like Uber or ingest to grab a ride or Kareem also works here so we're entering you know this longer stretch here with the green space but this is all still part of that same F6 market so it's like a long stretch of places that are you know kind of considered for the market so either way looking good yeah yeah I think so quite pretty nice data just to walk and enjoy the green yeah F6 is really the like the embassy area so it's sort of a to-do like entire class like higher class is what the taxi driver said yeah higher class good word um of an area so you're gonna find nicer restaurants and you know all the amenities that go into these long strips of markets so again in fact where we were coffee shops and chocolate shops over here now you're getting more like there's a Subway there's an oriental rug store there's a couple of different brands of banks there's a Broadway Pizza so it just you know separate sections but still the same what they would call F6 markets and there's usually a grocery store tied to these markets as well so let's see I think maybe even up here as we walk down and again all passing the F6 Market I think it's I think I actually see the grocery store up here so there's a lot hello again I'm happy to eat sir hello all right Boutique clothing stores and some of them kind of in this fancier strip anyway you get the idea so now there's an old bookstore there's a burger restaurant here more carpet stores and it goes on and on for quite a few blocks for this one market but okay we will uh continue walking work our way a little closer to F7 but it's again it's a beautiful day we're in the shade it's very green lots of flowers and it's nice I see a jewelry store over there some kind of like studio uh like hair makeup products steakhouses Mr Food Mr Food Mr food that would be Pakistani they look open so it's actually eat today so uh not a lot is open um but occasionally you do find one or two so normally these places are hustling bustling and at night is when they really come alive yeah it gets a lot busier and I don't know maybe it's busier normally but because of eat it's not oh yeah this morning yeah so typically so it's past noon now so normally a lot of these places would be open for like the lunch crowd but because of Eid it's pretty much all closed down there's only a few spots that are open here in F6 that's why we're gonna head to F7 and check out for a burger shop up there it's more of a national chain the place we're going yeah all right it'll be good hopefully it's open hopefully it's open it's a 2.9 K to walk but you can see now it's opening still part of the market all this so like three months later more jewelry stores a boutique Cafe as it's called lots of uh yeah lots of options it's kind of nice like each neighborhood has its own like self-sufficient amount of stores so agreed you can actually walk to get food buy supplies and that kind of stuff in each neighborhood that you stay in yeah that's the best part about Islamabad it's just this layout now the Blue zone is where most ex our most like tourists would stay I believe is like something like F6 through F10 it's a long strip of what they call the Blue Zone again that's going to be more of the uh here hold on oh it's getting heavy more food stalls more of these markets kind of all in this Blue Zone but you can see here's at one of the groceries that they're talking about uh and it's multi-level so this long three blocks all part of the same one market all right we'll continue on down the road here the one thing uh that to be aware of though when you do go for a walk is there are a lot of panhandlers yeah surprisingly they're I'm surprised I don't I think we've been out of definitely uh Islamabad has been full of them especially yeah well and the thing too so when you do go out to these markets um there are a number of people that will come solicit money from you while you're sitting down at a restaurant if you're like on the outdoor CD yeah if you're out on the street you're gonna be hit up I think the other day we were we were approached 15 times while waiting for French fries yes like yeah 15 times so I and a lot of times sometimes they're selling stuff like socks or flowers sometimes it's just kids begging for money trying to sell coloring books or um a mother with a baby yes or this guy behind us yeah and typically this guy's pretty committed but we I will say we are walking out past soccer pitchers and basketball courts in tennis courts so it's not uncommon to see some of these type of things in these markets now this F6 one is particularly fancy multi-purpose Sports Center that's what they call it oh wow no I got him shall we continue on I think probably once you cross the street here this guy will start following us they tend to stick to a somewhat of a territory uh so when it comes to the panhandling though uh usually I would say maybe 30 of the time one no and they stop and they go on but the other 70 they are very persistent kids are more persistent seems like yeah okay now the guys sort of drifted off now yeah thanks but you know if you give them money just for no reason then it just it only encourages the panhandling I think where they're going to see every Foreigner or tourist as a uh potential Mark to just get money from so we very rarely if ever would donate money or give money all right so now we are officially caught with this Street crossing we are out of the market area as we continue through F6 so I believe that was F4 now all of this represents F1 and on this side of the street maybe like uh f62 so like f61 on this side f62 on that side so it's all kind of divided out with these grids by streets these major intersections are what divide out the sections okay yeah our our friend behind us has now drifted back and that's kind of the the end of the market territory so he's turned around to solicit uh money from the next person who passes by we're also uh coming up to a bit of a park so you've got a green space here again fairly common to have the market to have a green belt usually there's playgrounds in all these districts at least in the Blue Zone you want to go to the playground we'll keep an eye out see if you can't come across a playground they're pretty fun aren't they all right well moving on also camels it's camels yeah oh my goodness that would be huge yeah exactly so uh of course today is Eid and part of this Eid is the animal sacrifice exactly and you were saying it's not uncommon to sacrifice cows like what you're doing here uh camels goats yes incredible and how many people will you feed with this one cow if you have a large family here today yeah it's family but it's like we have ex like external families it's everyone so in Eid it's like it's traditional that we shared this we we distribute uh yeah yeah and so how many people will come from your family for your house today do you expect a lot it's like more than like 30 plus years wow and this is this is this is close family yeah also friends yeah friends it's it's usually you know it's this we in our family tradition it's usually our fam our family it's really a first second constants and also distant revenues it's like it's like it's tradition that we all gather together okay and we we didn't the first day of eating okay day one day and will your family stay with you for all yeah yeah they're here for their holidays they usually come for their holidays they spend their summer vacations here I see and how how far away is is your family coming from uh some come from the Middle East some coming from oh out of your country yeah out of country most of them are out of country some of them do live here but most of most of our family come from countries to spend Eid or eat like in buddy then this choti here together right in Pakistan wow that's great well um so will you cook the cow meat today and eat today or do you butcher today and cook tomorrow it depends on us depends that when uh we have a tablet that's like a family like a family brunch so it's like dinner so so what we do is that we usually decide to menu what we're going to cook today okay if it's uh meat will cook cow meat we usually we traditionally our family eats run that's like a piece leg piece of a goat so we cook that that's our traditional family decision and Palau if you if you know below what's Palau no it's like it's brown it's with brown rice okay and you put like you can say it's it's goat meat as well it's like it's like it's like Biryani but it's kind of different it's rice rice Yes except seasonings like uh no it's not it's not spicy in Biryani it's spicy this is like a small it's normal normal it's not it's very mild it's like you cook it it's cooked with brown rice that's the difference I see the word in Biryani they use coloring they colored the rice to make it yellow it's a color look okay like like a saffron yeah exactly exactly like now I see there's another cow over here this is a neighbor yes this makes us and will they also sacrifice that cow today are we just no uh West some people sacrifice today and because they're three holy days indeed yes this is the Hajj this is like sacred sacred where Muslims go for pretty much to Makkah okay so this is the first day we people sectors on the first day second day and Third Day institution so it depends on you on your um it's different than your family yeah exactly but traditionally it's recommended that we should do it in the first days it has more like it's it has more sick it's more sacred it's more it's like you it's like we you own more Sunnah you like more rewards it's like that sort of like you could say it's if you do it on the first stage on the first day is the majority but sometimes people but it depends a lot but there's no compulsion okay so it's it depends upon you what you want if it's if you're comfortable on the first day you'll do it on first day then other than that if you want to do it in the second day you can do it on the second day okay okay my name is Jonathan oh Jonathan hello pleasure to meet you sir thank you yeah thank you for letting us uh come and see this is our first uh need oh it's our first time in Pakistan and we're just so happy to be here on Eid to have the experience to see sort of more of the local Traditions yes yes yeah that's yeah you're enjoying your stay here it's been amazing uh Pakistani people are so friendly and the food is so good yeah yeah yeah absolutely well and then so do you when you when you have the like they're pulling out the sacks now do you use the different cuts for different purposes or yes you can use we use the different cuts for different purposes recipes this is like for the rice food right yeah and the run that I told you like that's we cook lamb roast it's sort of like lamb Bros you're roasting the lamb the very best used in the Palau Palau is a form of rice okay that's the brown rice the Iran is basically your leg okay the entire leg of them so basically you can use it as a lamb chop okay or you can just cook it as a whole there are variety of options that you cook some meat okay and it depends on the cut you we disposed of the intestines right because uh we can't eat those because the fecal matter in there right of course yeah they got the whole gut sound yeah but the liver is hydrogen fishes it has high amounts of nutrition we usually eat kidneys on the first day we usually could eat kidneys okay and is that your family your family family it's good to hear the traditional so we every family has a different Traditions you need so in our family we cook uh we use uh like lamb meat we a lamb meat cry like sort of like we eat a Karai and the on in the morning we usually have this uh with the Kool-Aid this we call the kaleji I see yeah it's beautifully a Punjabi term of the cooked liver okay all right all right now um these men here are they part of your family or do you bring them in their specialists their butchers okay they're known for it we usually what happens is that there are two ways either you can call them and if you have a big Gathering of your uh sacrificial animals yeah over here or the other ways that you can take your animals to the Patricia okay they'll do it there that way it saves them time then you'll just have to go and collect the the pieces okay okay and so that's what these men's profession is uh they are professional butchers they come your family has hired them out too common sacrifice oh that's amazing yeah quite amazing yeah any yeah it really is it really is uh yeah very nice well thank you for letting us uh yeah yeah thank you thank you all right all right yeah it's just a look into part of what happened so often right now during today on Sunday the special Eid as we walk down the street again the animal sacrifice is very very cool to see people told us if you just walk around you're gonna see animal sacrifices and I thought nah but we were thinking like okay well is there gonna be like a big celebration a parade a festival downtown and they're like no everyone's just kind of it's It's All Over yeah this so this particular eat is definitely all about the family and so again just walking right past that Park and sure enough there's those guys sacrificing that animal so we're still technically in F6 so it was a good call to walk yeah absolutely we kind of went back and forth but I'm glad we walk because now we get to see that and learn about that that those Brothers those two guys were brothers yeah uh to learn about and that was their grandfather's house to learn about their family tradition I thought was pretty sweet that's really cool all right well who knows what else we'll see between here and there but either way we High we definitely got that uh cool peek at the light speed yeah animal sacrifice for the celebration and all that family so very cool all right well we'll keep walking all right so just as we're walking to F7 Market this gentleman pulled up hello sir of seven markets yes okay 200 200 all right so 200 would get a little faster because now we're sort of out of that shade from those trees so to hop in take a ride from this guy there goes Forest to uh get a ride from this guy not bad all right thank you sir what's your good name your good name your my name Jonathan ah Jonathan NASA nice to meet you yeah thank you thank you for the right sir all right a little better yeah the air air yeah go on so I don't know if this man is just a regular like taxi guy or or what but it's one of these little uh commuter vehicles that you see all around so yes who is this man Christian yeah yeah you're a Christian yeah okay all right well there you go yeah very nice you can see this is now where now we've crossed the road so we are officially in F7 territory also equally beautiful so many large trees you like that wind nice Grant are you getting any yeah all right uh just the market so now we've passed all the green zone and as we get a little closer you'll start to see like this is the F7 Green Space Park fruit vendors are fairly common like what you saw right there is there like a playground in that space and all of this all this shop now this Begins the M7 Market yeah it is good sir just here is fine yeah yeah perfect uh yeah perfect thank you sir all right so now I I have a drop in F7 Market yes sir the best the best drive this guy all right so that guy so nice now we paid we did pay 200 to go like eight blocks but you know it's uh whatever I I think I was so sweet so why not it's getting hot it's getting hot did you guys uh prefer to walk or did you like the ride right right okay all right so 200 well spent and now the name of the restaurant we're going to is that's easiest yes cheesiest so cheesiest is a big chain restaurant but I think we're all in the mood for that at least like a big fat burger we have our fingers crossed the cheesiest is open but when I look around here I mean this is the kind of the heart of F7 Market and it's all looking closed all that's closed because of Eid so hopefully the Big Chain is open we definitely are got a hankering too do you want a cheeseburger yeah yeah you guys want a cheese Paratha but all the local places that we went to earlier were closed so I might have to settle with a cheeseburger yes you also want a cheese Paratha well cheese Paratus let's see if we can find some all right we happened right across what's up Paratha this is a one of the restaurants has reviewed very well on Google so we're gonna go in there and at least get one cheese Paratha because that's what the kids have really been craving you coming with me bud all right this is a side meal before our big meal hello hello scientific videos okay all right so you can kind of see the rotating menu board hello sir uh can I please order one cheese Paratha yeah this boy he wants his cheese Parada again I forget a menu you want to choose Parada yes big boy do you like Pakistani food oh okay hi guys hello happy Eid nice good job busy day yeah today very busy yeah yeah lots of deliveries eat yeah lots of people ordering food okay let's see what's your channel name our channel name this us here bags packs family thank you we'll put that video on cheese Paratha and Panda delivery okay so the menu I think we just want a cheese cheese Paratha yeah nice so we have one and then mineral water four ready to go four mineral water small and that's it all right hi guys good luck enjoy good tips food Panda food panda is the name of those guys very popular eating delivery apps okay well my family's out there so we go out there I'll wait for the waters you'll bring the waters okay should I pay now or pay attention after food okay thanks guys alrighty okay water's coming one cheese Paratha the guy's gonna bring the cold water next uh the food Panda guys are pretty cool they said they're so busy today wow yeah yeah of course I might turn this fan on you think yeah your good name again Heather nice to meet you sir so on his honeymoon oh yeah yes congratulations thank you the marriage with your family on Eid it's very nice to meet you all thank you thank you and then they just delivered thank you sir cheese Paratha uh the best cheese Paratha so they just brought that out it's kind of cut it really in quesadilla style that's the first time I've seen him do that uh so that's actually a convenient little snack and I have a hunch this must be like a ranch dipping sauce Forest you want your cheese Paratha hot hot there you go okay don't you move your chair closer you want a cheese Paratha for us all right granny you're gonna go for a slice yeah yeah that's probably a good idea we were all hot and sweaty and this fan is really uh that's awesome I love that they just like aim the fan right at you and cool down all right so cheese Paratha again this is the first time I've seen him cut it like quesadilla style so okay well that's one way to eat it hot for us yummy I haven't seen uh sauce with it I haven't seen sauce before so like a ranch I think like maybe mayonnaise help yourself okay well cheese Parada time passing okay oh is it hot yes it's hot it's three cheese oh wow three cheese we're at that is that normal or is that a special it was a special menu item I said she's probably said three cheese I was like yeah let's do three cheese okay well it's gonna be good quite delicious yeah yeah it's a tasty cheese Parada is what it is yeah and again what a Paratha is where we're at quite yummy all right well we're gonna enjoy the little snack and then hopefully continue on too cheesy ass we're gambling they're gonna be open which is why we stopped here at what a Parada to get that the little cheesy snack I think that was a good call to stop yeah yeah okay bye bye okay cheese Paratha in the bag so that that goal was accomplished that check yeah I've been would have been really sad if we would not have got at least one cheese Paratha as we are flying out tomorrow so that may have been the last one in fact saying we'll see we'll see but uh Pakistan we're coming back to eat more cheese for us yeah that's a must so total bill there 769 it was like four and change for the Paratha and then the waters uh were the rest of that so yeah okay yeah and you can see F7 looks a lot whoa F7 looks a lot like F6 in terms of you've got all these local restaurants jewelry stores clothing stores restaurants glasses it's just it's kind of all the same so each one will have slightly different restaurants as anchor stores but all the in-between stuff it's going to be very similar between all these different markets but we have a few blocks to go before we get to find out if cheesy us is open or closed yeah I really want a burger now that I've been thinking about them all day so we'll find out Moment of Truth as we approach cheesiest in the back corner there I see obviously some white cars and I see some people coming in and out of the general area of cheesiest is it open we're gonna find out it seems to be a pretty popular it's definitely a big chain I know nothing about it please grab motorcycles yeah yeah all these guys yeah food delivery in red it looks open yes is it is it it's so hard to say okay there okay it's well they're at least wiping down chairs a few lights are on let's find out it says take away are you open three o'clock okay what time is it now yeah what time is it now oh it's 2 30. so soon okay well that's good news so our here's the here's the new plan we're gonna go to sofa gold Mall grab snacks for the room for later in 20 minutes they open yeah so we'll come back then to cheesy ass yes all right well let's head back to the grocery get snacks and then we'll come back here in a little bit okay all right well the plans keep shifting uh this beautiful Eve day so the entire Mall it's close it's closed yeah I mean it's not a huge mall but uh it is closed so we're gonna pull yet another audible on this crazy day and we're gonna get a milk tea yeah yes okay sounds good I mean nothing like a hot milk tea on a hot day yep you want your little fire truck okay yeah how does Forest remember that this mall had a little toy fire truck that we did not buy him yeah it's his brain somehow retained that's information all right so instead of the mall we'll grab a little milk tea while we wait for cheese yes it's gonna be a dairy kind of day so a dairy day all right so where are we for the milk tea we're behind cheesiest we're here at this establishment hello sir all right maybe uh we can sit here in the shade these are the guys for the milk tea oh yeah I think they'll maybe well I don't know you guys want to sit down there is better up here okay so we'll sit here maybe right here behind these guys under the shade yes sir which one do you recommend special G yeah I think special is good I think okay you recommend and okay and uh how about is this the this is the coffee this is the good oh wait wait wait wait wait wait wait this too and cookie good yeah no no no no just just the tea okay maybe I'll order uh let no let's just do this how about what is the golden Malai okay how about this we'll do we'll do this I'll change it up a little bit we'll go one one specialty one and you have this this is my team yeah so one maybe two no one day one okay one cashmere one special two good nah no one special one cashmere yes this is uh why is this pink is that Rose all right cool thank you guys ah okay what'd you just eat coconut maybe coconut something white and coconutty I believe coconut quite good shredded coconut mine's just a milk tea and it's sweet and it's delicious yes you may Cedar so this is kind of a Nutty crumbs on top and that pink flavor it's sweet it's a very sweet tea all right sit here going for it all right go for it give the tea a try that's good it's good isn't it it's nice a milk-based uh tea with again I don't quite know what the red uh what the pink comes from maybe Cherry a rose of some sort but uh quite delicious did you taste gross oh just more I just taste more milk and sweet so I can't quite Define what that flavor is yeah you wanna try it like a sumac or something maybe remember when we were in uh Georgia and Azerbaijan and they had that red yes that could be that could be because the rose is not jumping out at me but it's definitely tasty and chewy yeah yeah it's it's some kind of nut powder on top yeah I'm gonna go for this uh traditional almost as a cinnamon could be but that one that's the traditional I want to try that that one tastes good yeah that one's good the traditional to specialize they call it tastes tastes pretty pretty standard yeah just good it's good just good drinks you like that traditional yeah it's kind of the Staple in the original the traditional all right well we're gonna knock out the teas we've got just a few more minutes to kill and we're gonna head over to choosiest cheesiest lunch has been served mixed platter Wings fries chicken rolls and look at this mega cheese pizza this is why they can't it's why they call it cheesiest cheesiest that's cheap that is a cheesiest Pizza all right a cheesiest for Forest hold on baby it might be a little hot it might be hot but anyway looks good granite dig in man if you want one of those rats you want to wrap a Tabasco you should Tabasco wrap it okay Cedar you're you're delicately tobacco in one Fry at a time you cut one of those at Cedar was good yeah yeah pizza that is a cheesiest that's the cheesiest of all cheese that's the cheesiest Pizza there you go cool all right so we've got Tabasco we've got rolls we've got Wings we've got Wings we've got Tabasco so much cheese so much cheese all right guys is that is it is it the cheesiest that chicken cheese roll that one so good yeah how's it with Tabasco the electricity yeah I love the jalapenos and Cedar how's that cheesiest Pizza cheese to the max huh guys so much cheese for us you liking that cheese pizza yeah home run oh cheesiest was uh it was a big hit it's a big hit the kids loved it it was really good food 13.99 for the total for the water the pizza the platter the pizza all that yeah fair enough so this day this day has been kind of a surprise we didn't know what we were doing we just started walking yeah to come across the animal sacrifice to learn about Eid from that gentleman's family it was great yeah that was cool and then uh have tea the tea was delicious the cheese Paratha and then obviously the end of here with cheesiest it's a great day just walking around Islamabad you never know what you're gonna see or what you're gonna are you gonna meet right small world who are you gonna run into absolutely all right everybody well we're heading back to the hotel get some AC and just relax for a few hours this is getting still pretty hot but we will catch you in the next episode foreign
2022-09-30 05:15
