Eating BRAIN and making friends in Alexandria Egypt | vA 11
good evening my friends, from somewhere in the market in alexandria, so let's explore the market from france yes yes nice... as soon as i turn on the camera the welcome starts... anyway so let's explore wow yeah so for this video let's explore a little bit the market of alexandria, here in downtown area i'm back in downtown, and then we'll go for some food, hopefully we can film the food as well how are you my friend... hello uh... how are you how are you... i am fine, thank you very good... he does not understand you... but you say zayek, no
in egyptian arabic, right how are you... very good okay see you later i actually love the camera effect, it brings the place to life yes, i want to drink... how much 3... 5 dollars
5, 5 for the camera, okay tamarind juice nice to meet you, cheers he said, one picture, ah one picture for him, okay, i will take a picture thank you, mr president, mr president, mr president for this street okay, nice okay france street okay, where are you from... france, france yeah the street is called france street, this is france street, like france street, like my country so here i am at home, so i'm allowed to go in the street mr president yes, i can go, okay okay, thank you, see you, thank you and we have a tamarind juice on the way ah it's so good, i love the middle eastern tamarind juice okay let's dive a little bit in the narrow streets, see what happens in the cloth section always the fancy cloth for women, which is funny... there are always a lot of stalls with uh some clothes for women, but that you actually don't... you actually don't see often
women wearing this kind of cloth on the street actually, i guess it's more for in the house oh yes, i came here before, and i know there is a very narrow alleyway at some point, and i found it, look at that and here we are, in the middle of the jewelleries and nail cutters and all the things for the eyes i love this part of the bazaar of alexandria, it's very very narrow, very funny what's that... ah, that's some buttons some fancy buttons and actually it's funny because it really looks like i'm the only guy in this section well i'm not interested in buying anything, i'm just interested in the local cultural landscape somehow but what's interesting is it's only... well only women come to buy here, but a lot of shops are owned by guys ah beautiful jewelry shops here, they really like those rings in the middle east i have several of them now, one given by a policeman here... welcome photo, okay you're from alexandria right yeah okay you see always... right okay, thank you it's very good to see actually how how nice egyptian people are, it's very different from the reputation they have actually picture, yes... film
welcome, thank you i just crossed the eyes of a guy from the army... quite lucky he did not say anything and it seems he's not following me that was close and we arrive in the section for the furnitures, oh and there is music, and actually uh the fact that i crossed the eyes of a guy from the army made me remember what want to tell you... it's quite an experience to film here in the streets actually, it's quite a very intense experience actually, because you have many people, the vast majority who are very happy for you to film they make... they say the welcome... they they open to you. they want to be in the camera you have a small minority that really uh... and even quite aggressively tell you not to film
and uh, but that's a very small minority, but and then there is also the issue of... as you can see all the furnitures around here and then you have also the... yeah of course the problem is uh... if the wrong policeman catches you, then they're gonna bring you to the police station, and you're gonna have to delete all your footage so then you're always scared of that basically, so it makes it quite a... quite a special experience
to film here, because you always have this, this fear on the way basically... look at that all the chairs ready to get bought look at all this beautiful work they do... no no no and i think i found what i wanted... look at that that's stuffed pigeons can i... can i eat pigeon... hi hi hi, hey how are you... can i help you... yes, can i... you like pigeon,
yes but i want to film also, is it okay to film, i want to film also... after cooking, after cooking yeah just like this yeah yeah, not the cooking... uh above 65... huh after cooking above 65 temperature, ah okay okay above 65, okay okay, we take care of the temperature... okay nice, how much is one... one piece hundred pounds, hundred pounds, and one piece is enough for one person no, as you like, okay i'll take one piece yeah eat here, can i eat here, yeah please okay we get one pigeon... actually there is no there's no one in the restaurant, it's a little bit sad okay he's calling me, let's see what happens what happens... you warm it up or uh... yeah yeah you put in the oven oh okay, nice samsung, sony sony, sony 4k, yeah, okay yes if i can have salad as well yeah please, yeah great, and uh and water, or do you have juice or... as you like... oh water, i will take water, water yes okay
nice... i'm gonna try... finally i'm gonna try the famous egyptian pigeon, and look at that i'm going to show you something, oh on tv you have... i don't know if you see, look at that, on the left that's a very young omar sharif, the most famous egyptian actor ever, that's omar sharif yeah from lawrence of arabia and you are heka, ibrahim heka chief he's the boss okay i think the salad is coming this is toom... okay, and this, tahina sesame, no... potatoes, no just this, thank you so this is tahina this is toom, oh, i love it let's try the salad first very good, the salads are always good in the middle east let's try the tahina that's so good actually, wow the tahini is really really good a bit different than what i'm used to, let's try the toom wow, really good as well, the toom is like a garlic mayonnaise basically, i think wow wow wow fantastic, wow it looks awesome, unbelievable, so it's a pigeon stuffed with rice, as you can see some.. i guess that's a zucchini, eggplant... i don't know, like sausage you still have the head... here i think it's the head of the pigeon
i don't know if there is... i don't know if there is a lot of meat, but wow unbelievable let's try the... the rice is so good, let's try the sides first, let's try this one so you see it's vegetables stuffed by with rice and herbs very good, there's so much rice very good, so let's... wow but actually there is... where is the meat because i cut it, and it was rice immediately there is a bit of meat here. i guess that's... that should be pigeon meat
probably for the first time in my life, i'm gonna eat pigeon meat it was really good really really good how is the food very good, very very good, so let's show you... so to show you, you see inside... maybe there is meat somewhere here, because all these parts inside you see it's like stuffed with rice and um, i guess i'll have to eat with my fingers at some point, but there is some meat actually hidden so the meat is actually hidden here, you see like there is a bit of meat here a bit of meat, oh that's the liver pigeon liver very nice and let's... okay there is a bit of meat very small bones very nice, the skin, pretty good there is actually a bit of meat, but not so much... i will definitely need to eat somewhere else after oh look at that, what i found... a nice big piece of meat,
and there is the head here that's the wings very nice neck i think that's it, i'm done... photo, okay you're welcome, okay bye, let's go... we're done with the pigeon, let's go to finish the meal quickly, with another restaurant that is very interesting nearby and there is a small fair on the way, wow it's only for kids go go go go no no no no no no, i don't know if he says no for the camera or not, but anyway, that's the quick view at an egyptian fair here in alexandria you see all the columns, it's very typical from alexandria, and here i arrive at the restaurant, i have something to show, hopefully they let me film hello how are you, good, how are you film okay, okay, thank you paris... oh psg... 3... paris saint germain 3 who scored, messi, mbappe, neymar neymar, hakimi, captain salah salah no, salah, liverpool here it's mo salah, but you like psg yes, psg good, okay so here what i want to get is, they make sandwiches with brain, so i want to get a sandwich with brain, but i'm not hungry anymore because they gave me too much rice there, so let's get only one sandwich, so we have some brain at least, do you have um... do you have the brain, yeah yes yes okay okay good how are you, fine, thank you can i get one sandwich with brain, the brain is from sheep or from cow, what's the animal like like this... yeah a sheep, like big oh like a cow, like with horns, yeah okay okay so it's brain
from cow, okay so it's good okay... i can sit here okay, but just one sandwich, just one okay one okay one brain, and one kidney i'm happy that they're all happy with the camera, oh i can sit here, okay perfect let's sit here and uh let's get a sandwich with cowbrain, fantastic, i'm always cautious because here sometimes they... some places they don't want you to film at all and let's film a little bit the process so this is for the brain, this is okay... so he's frying the bread, to put the brain inside after very nice, one of the best places in alexandria okay let's put it here, and i need to pay actually so i have to eat first thank you very nice, look at that, so they gave me of course tahina, some pickles, and that's a kidney sandwich, and that's the beautiful brain sandwich, oh my god fantastic let's start with the brain, so you see this is brain that's very good, so you see the bread is fried fantastic it's very hard to describe, it's um, well you can see it there is a... there's a lot of viscosity... it's not liquid, it's not solid, and it's quite fat i think i don't know, but it has a good taste with the...
they put a lot of pepper, i like it, i don't know how to describe it but i like it let's go for the kidney sandwich, very full i love kidney very good so i guess from this very nice street restaurant, here in alexandria in downtown alexandria, that's the end of the video, so see you for the next adventures guys, ciao
2022-11-20 22:59
