DMV: Sinaloa: Pure Quality
hey what's up this is joe i'm in mazatlan sinaloa and i wanted to make this video to kind of show you the culture that i found here in the state of sinaloa before i came i had absolutely no idea what the whole place was about and since i've been coming down it's just been constantly awesome a place that's continuously opened my eyes to all kinds of different music, culture, food it's one of my favorite places in all the world to go i asked in the last video if you guys had anything that you wanted to see you guys came up with some really great ideas i've made a list of that so you'll see some of that in this video but more in the videos to come with that being said if you like this video please hit like and subscribe and as usual i've included an optional donate link in the dropbox if you'd like to contribute to this project otherwise thanks for watching and we'll see you on the road the state of sinaloa is located on the west coast of the mexico mainland and contains some of the world's most beautiful beaches noteworthy for hosting an influx of german and french immigrants during its history this state has stayed true to its roots and inspired an entire genre of music it contains its own unique take on fresh seafood and a convivial atmosphere which is unrivaled our journey into this fascinating culture begins on the mazatlan malecon the longest in the world all along the uh the malecon in mazatlan are these thatch roof huts they call palapas it's kind of like that but on the sand on the beach they all sell what they call mariscos which are basically seafood, fried fish is a mazatleca specialty cocktail de camaron which is like shrimp cocktail, ceviche with lime juice and tomato juice and stuff onions and various other things so i heard about this place puerto azul a lot of these places don't have a lot of people right now but this place is absolutely packed let's go check it out this is a what they call a cocktail de camaron and it's got octopus pulpo as they say lime juice with oysters as well big slab of mexican mayonnaise which has lime limes sea salt so i got the ocean right there the whole view of the city of mazatlan doesn't get any better than this pulpo, a little lime, some salt, salsa picante from Sinaloa, you're ready very common here on the beaches to bring out a table and an umbrella for you extra chairs stuff like that having nurtured a long time interest in both hunting and butchering i inquired to lili about the possibility of acquiring a large amount of meat for the freezer it just so happened a friend of hers had a connection with the butcher in town and we managed to score an amazing deal on a sizable quantity of beef as i was preparing to do the butchering myself the butcher informed me the cost would be the same so we sat back and watched the professional do his work so this is like the day's entertainment right here we're in the mercado in mazatlan and this is more entertaining than watching tv! the guys working at this carniceria were extremely accommodating to my request to learn more about the butchering process explaining in depth where each of the cuts came from and displaying an unusual amount of enthusiasm for their work all told we came away with about five kilos of beef: ribeye steaks, tenderloins, a beautifully marbled cut called arrachera, and a couple pounds of beef fat on the house this banquet of beefy deliciousness cost around forty five dollars the equivalent of four dollars a pound. we got these ribeyes at the carniceria the mercado the el centro and they cost about four dollars a pound so everybody back home complaining about the price of beef, come to mexico! that's what four dollars a pound gets you baseball is an extremely popular sport in sinaloa with a total of four professional teams the mazatlan Venados have their own stadium here and it's extremely common to walk past folks wearing merchandise with the team's logo this is a new park that just opened up and really nice this park had been under construction last time i was here so it was great to see it finally opened up i was surprised to see this statue of french explorer jacques cousteau on display here and after doing some digging found that the mayor of mazatlan had requested this a couple years back a symbol of the area's love of maritime history and conservation having a semi-arid climate the rainy season in sinaloa begins in march and lasts through the summer with the rest of the year seeing little rainfall this winter everything was nice and green the result of two hurricanes and an unusual amount of precipitation over the summer as i was meandering my way down through the mountains to get here, i just missed lili's birthday so i took her out for a special day Sinaloense style complete with beach seafood and banda music musica banda is a style of music that originated in sinaloa with elements of german polka music combined with traditional mexican music it's notable for the prominent use of the tuba as well as percussion instruments it has since become insanely popular across latin america and around the world four bands playing music out here just to show you how popular it is. within a quarter mile stretch of beach there were a total of four bands belting out this style evidence of its extreme popularity in the state. all of a sudden the tuba player has been elevated to rock star status we got to the restaurant for lili's birthday dinner the sinaloa-style banda was in full effect Ceviche de camarón, raw shrimp that's basically cooked and lime juice which effectively cooks the shrimp if it's marinated long enough if not you got raw shrimp Banda, ceviche, the ocean, Lili... doesn't get any more Sinaloense than this! so what do they call people from mazatlan? Pata Salada. just as we were finishing our dinner we rushed outside to see an incredible fireworks display holy damn serious fireworks! it's not the aim of this video to address any stories you may have seen on the news but suffice to say that after traveling through a majority of mexico i frankly never felt safer than when i'm here the roads are good and there's a pervasive atmosphere of friendliness wherever you go this where i'm at is in the cocina economica it's usually the cheapest way to eat in mexico i just got some huevos con chorizo, my favorite, I'm on a diet so tortillas are unfortunately off the menu otherwise cool little place, hole in the wall, i've had some of my best meals in places like this, so i'm hungry see you later... that plate of huevos con
chorizo i just ate back there was 55 pesos for that and the coffee. for just the chorizo was 40 pesos which is like two dollars a little bit less and then so that with the coffee i mean that was less than three dollars, a pretty substantial meal. it would have been more substantial with the tortillas but [ __ ] try to beat that! so these are carnitas and of course i have to get the mix though liver kidneys heart lungs all the good stuff they are not quite as adventurous as i so they get the regular old carnitas cheers just got this what they call nieves which is like sort of like shaved ice with every single possible flavor you can imagine nuez which is like walnut pistachio, these nieves are a kind of shaved ice made from fruit juices and absolutely packed with flavor in this one bowl we had about nine different types including such unusual flavors as plum, cream cheese, pistachio and walnut an extremely fertile state in terms of agriculture sinaloa is known as mexico's bread basket with around four growing seasons per year there's never any shortage of amazing fresh produce so we join lili who's doing something looks like cooking to me as you saw this is the arrachera which you may have seen if you've seen some of my previous videos this is a favorite of mine it's a very tender cut of meat with good marbling it's got good fat content not too much one of my favorite cuts of meat here in Mexico so anyway this is marinated for about 30 minutes in the juice of oranges Lili has these oranges, she's squeezing the juice out of them soy sauce and uh what they call salsa inglesa salsa which is worcestershire war-chester-shire my grandma used to say worcester sauce so anyway we're going to marinate that and salsa maggi i think she's going to use for something asparagus and something else this is a salsa in the making they roast the vegetables in the pan with no oil until they get a nice black on one side of it it'll be sort of black like that the quality of this produce correlates directly to the quality of the finished product and is a huge overall contributor to the amazing flavors found south of the border that's really the flavor of the salsa it cooks it a little bit i had no idea about mexican cooking until i came down here and watched lily cook i had no idea how salsa was made what the process was it's actually as it turns out pretty straightforward different from a lot of other cooking processes around the world they call it a tooth of garlic and the whole thing is a cabeza which is a head of garlic and one tooth it's a baby tooth, no that's a big tooth beautiful next we place the arrachera in the marinade and place it back in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to marinate with just a few ingredients in mexican cooking you can create flavors very intense flavors it's it's pretty impressive a couple of vegetables and salt and pepper No pepper, because you have chiles, just salt it's just tomato a couple of peppers roasted in a pan like that no oil no nothing and then ground into a molcajete like this and then sprinkled with sea salt and you taste incredible first you do a paste with with garlic and salt okay first the paste okay and then you are adding the rest of the ingredients like onion peppers and tomato instead of roasting you can boil boil okay but i prefer to roast them it's better flavor roasted yes i prefer so you get more you could boil these but you get more flavor roasting them in a pan like that the smell is absolutely incredible and that's it that's a salsa i'm not mexican but i'm gonna try and this is what we're left with it's a beautiful color it's so tender it's like butter like mantequilla the state of sinaloa is for me one of the most interesting in mexico with its own unique spin on music and food unpretentious vibe and some of the friendliest people you're likely to meet anywhere it's a place that always keeps me coming back my hope with this video is to shed some light on the true culture of this incredible place that with any hope you can look past whatever preconceptions you might have and experience it for what it is thanks for watching and we'll see you next time
2021-12-06 20:11
