Escaping Egypt!! Oasis Desert Food and Leaving!!!

[Music] i can't say it's my favorite country it's not exactly a loss here i can't say things here have gone smoothly but i can say with confidence that today is my last day for you or for any of you what do you love about [Applause] egypt leaving the bustling cityscape of cairo and heading into the desert with one of the best choices i've ever made this is a place in arabic i can't pronounce it but in english it means difficult place a name that can be used for all of egypt leaving the country would be even better but that will come soon we still have one more day here can you like write it guys you don't have to learn other languages you just figure it out last time we had a little mishap at the camel market no no no this guy right now he's asking for money but so far life in the oasis seems to be mostly free of conflict and police the way folks live here is completely different from the big city what are you feeding this thing today i'm joining a couple villagers so i can walk a day in their shoes this is something they do often here i want to see how they live and of course how they eat i have no idea what that is this is my last chance to squeeze some good moments out of egypt sounds good yeah it all starts here today is our fourth day shooting here in egypt what we figured out so far is a place to shoot is actually not cairo even though we have proper permits even though the press office of egypt has said it's okay for us to shoot almost every time we've come up against the authorities or police they have tried to either stop us or make us delete our footage so we're trying to be extra careful that's why we're here this is an oasis a place in the middle of the desert about a five hour drive from cairo that has so many different natural water springs that a huge population is able to survive out here today we're spending the entire day with an egyptian farmer we're gonna see how he lives what he eats and hopefully no police we'll see [Music] we are here we're inside the farm this is one of his compounds a place where he cooks and hangs out during the day this is the gentleman himself oh he said welcome meet amen a villager who's dedicated his life to the sun wind and sands of the desert this is fantastic i'm so excited to be here because we're going to see a very unique way of life and it starts here with his breakfast render down lamb fat in a blazing hot wood fire then add tomato then green bell pepper season with salt pepper cumin and cook until the sauce forms that is dish one in the second dish he has the same vegetables but he adds one ingredient i've never seen before come take a look this round shaped biscuit is called kishke an egyptian ethnic food that's been eaten for thousands of years this is super hard it's basically a fermented wheat milk mixture that's been sun dried until it's dehydrated and hard [Music] it's so interesting it's super hard grainy but it has a cheesy taste to it too have you ever left cheddar cheese out on the counter for too long it has dried out a little bit but you ate it anyways because you're an animal like me it tastes a little bit like that and so of course he doesn't eat it like this he mixes it in with these other vegetables it's gonna kind of rehydrate it bring it back to life and we're gonna see what that tastes like pretty soon i'm excited break the kishk into smaller chunks then cook with tomato and green bell pepper season with salt pepper sugar and cumin now a third dish is being prepared by ibrahim i am here with ibrahim he's also making some breakfast too this is fool oh he wants to feed me already all right thank you oh that's good yeah tasty that's this is what we saw i think one of the first places we went to in cairo what's interesting is when you start having the same type of food in different places or regions everyone can make it a little bit differently the one we had was more of a paste with kind of crushed up mashed fava beans and this is kind of a combination it's got the fava bean paste with whole beans in there too there's tomato there's green bell pepper and there's spices i think i like this style more good morning this looks incredible this is just breakfast and it's so many different items this is called sun bread i'm told this bread is kind of cooked half in the sun and half in the oven just like with the egyptian bread they use that as the utensil i'm going to start with that how do you say delicious i'm going to work my way up to the kishk but this one is the mountain that's outstanding it's like the world's best marinara sauce the sun bread is awesome it's like half stale half crispy but it's the perfect vehicle for all these foods what's your favorite thing here all the gifts from god are good good answer this is the one i've been wanting to try the kisk it tastes a little bit cheesy when i had it it's raw form let's try it out now [Music] oh that's awesome this is so good i try to put my finger on it though i mean it has the tomato some fresh vegetables oh god how do you explain that the texture is like a coarse oatmeal but the flavor is just something completely unique there's some acid from the tomato and then a lot of richness from the milk in that bread is confusing but it's really good is this a normal breakfast is this how you usually start out your day [Music] so i notice there's no meat here do you have a meal where you usually eat meat lunch which animals do you eat the sheep how often are you eating the sheep quite often because we prefer to eat our own food we don't want to get from anywhere else far from modern conveniences or really modern anything life out here is all about self-sufficiency so farming and raising cattle are essential traits for farmers out here what is the most lucrative endeavors the balance is important otherwise this imbalance will force you to need things from other places and so on [Music] these men don't actually live here their homes are further into the village this is a separate space for their cattle this is the farm behind me now almost all the animals are kept within these brick walls let's go inside and check it out [Music] first what we see the cows why i want to pet you they don't want to be pet it turns out cows are used for agricultural work like tilling irrigating and parting oh no we have a situation they also provide the usual meat and milk i may have to give up on this whole petting thing it doesn't look like it's working out and their waste helps to fertilize this already stubborn sandy soil i'm an unruly bull is it a bull hold on let me look underneath it's a bull horses and donkeys carry freight goods or supplies one of my favorites donkeys actually you'll still see them being used in the streets of cairo one of africa's biggest cities can you like write it that's incredible wait me uh [Music] i think i might be a little too heavy then there's the sheep one of the most commonly eaten proteins in the country fun and games are over we are heading into the sheep pen right now and our butcher is here he's gonna do his best to catch one oh my gosh he made quick work of that i was told earlier they're eating about one sheep every two weeks that's like 25 a year that's a lot he's taking the lamb to the slaughter point now and then you guys know what happens next here in this muslim-majority country it is the belief of those following islam that all living creatures were made by their god animals exist for the benefit of human beings and they must be treated with kindness and compassion [Applause] [Music] when it comes to taking an animal's life for the purpose of sustaining your own the slaughter must be carried out in the appropriate ritual manner the name of god is invoked in order to emphasize the sanctity of life and that the animal is being killed for food with god's consent after all that's blood drains it's time for butchering here aside from the blood which is never eaten nothing else goes to waste this skin is skillfully peeled off and will later be used for leather production the organs and meat will soon be cooked up into several dishes dish one the grilled lamb meat the meat is chopped down to small chunks ribs tenderloin sirloin shoulder front and hind quarters all of it together marinated with onion salt lemon and black pepper that gets grilled on an open fire i'm here with ibrahimovic we're making a few different dishes out of this sheep it's going first on this oh yes you get all the onions up in there [Music] the cooking style here is a balance between speed and flavor it's practical efficient and these cooking methods can be done pretty much anywhere at the same time it's given just enough love with seasonings and spices so it tastes great too that's really good really delicious crisped up a little bit almost dried out just on the edges zone once you kind of crunch through the surface area it's all super juicy inside the main course has just started and this is something special a dish made of rice and meat well known in arab cuisine but each country makes it a little bit differently this is how they do it here [Applause] they boil meat in a big pot along with tomato and green bell pepper then season with salt and black pepper and let it simmer for an hour right now we're making our main dish this is called kapsa it smells good yeah now he's gonna put in the rice please [Music] it's got kind of like an orangey broth i think from the meat itself plus the spices together the tomato the onion the rice is going to be flavored and then as you're eating it there's going to be big chunks of meat inside wait how long you know about 20 minutes and that's going to be ready thank you while waiting for the capsad to be cooked ibrahim brings me to his fields for a surprise so this here is the power of the oasis a huge vegetable garden of ibrahim here he's growing all types of plants he's going to show me some of his giant vegetables despite the arid climate farming isn't impossible in the oasis as long as you have water here in ibrahim's field he's growing tomatoes onions and these oh take a look at this that is crazy look at this this is a giant turnip he fed this the ooze from tmnt2 he's gonna pick one of these and we're gonna have this with our dinner it's crazy because it's already almost out of the ground why i've seen turnips maybe this size this is 10 times bigger than anything i've seen before this one's even bigger okay that is the record breaker right there that's legit 20 pound turn up here freaking huge so we have our veggies i think we have to get back to the meat and uh hopefully we can incorporate this too this is an incredible spread we have here the culmination of many people's effort coming together in one big meal all right i love these guys usually when we do a scene with people it's like no you can need to be natural everyone here is looking forward to it they're taking bites and they're not holding back at all that's what i love to see here the world's biggest turnip they've just been chopped into pieces here and served raw i'm gonna try one of these not bad it's interesting because it's not as crisp and it is a bit woody i heard when they get really big they can be kind of woody tasting this is the grilled lamb we saw earlier and then this is kapsa this beautiful blend of rice and meat together it looks like a lamb shank this is incredible [Music] wow that is delicious the lamb itself is super tender juicy protein it's just falling off the bone you really get the full flavor of the actual lamb mix that with some rice the only thing you have to watch out for is bone fragments because they absolutely pulverized the sheep as they were kind of cutting it down to size when is the last time you had kapsa i'm better for this last night really and you're not sick of it no never beautiful it's very delicious between the grilled lamb and this kind of more boiled lamb it's like you cover all your texture bases one is kind of smoky and crunchy the other one's super soft and tender so you kind of get every beautiful aspect of the lamb i want to try this one raised organs and meat in a mixture of onion and tomato seasoned with salt cumin and black pepper that's too hot that's clean okay sheep spleen super mineraly bungee savory this is a beautiful taste skinny the kidney oh wow that's a small kidney that's good i'm loving all these organs the throat this is interesting this is the esophagus and this is something i didn't know that people ate ever except i had it about a week and a half ago in zimbabwe for the first time ever [Music] here i am in egypt and i'm being offered esophagus once again what is it you like about this it's crunchy very crunchy [Music] this is a beautiful meal it's super delicious satisfying i really appreciate it for you or for any of you what do you love about egypt if you're perceptive and if you've watched this whole series you may have noticed that i history civilization nature open air excellent weather and those who come to east and drink from the nile will always come back egypt is the center of the world whatever you crave on earth is found in this medicine science archaeology egypt is mentioned several times in the quran so in the quran god says enter egypt in peace so it's the safest place on the planet from another mother that was a donkey what's its name mickey mouse oh my god it's happening [Applause] i don't need to fall in love with every place i go every minute we're shooting in the city we're looking over our shoulders i don't really like it and my point of view even though it echoes from a large platform it's still one among millions rolling but be less obvious people in egypt have gone through a lot especially in the last 10 years awesome if things are gonna indeed change for the best it's gonna take time and when it happens or if it happens i won't be here to see it today's gonna be brutal i have no idea what to expect it's gonna be bittersweet it's sweet because we're getting out of cairo and i can't wait to be literally anywhere else but egypt but it's bitter because it is uncertain whether we're gonna get back the roughly ten to twelve thousand dollars worth of gear that the government officials here thought it was appropriate to take from me [Music] in the end after one more hellish series of interactions with airport authorities i'm finally giving back my hard drives batteries lights and cameras that they took from me on the first day in true egyptian fashion they treated me like a criminal to the very end walking me to my gate and ensuring i didn't open any bags before entering the plane when the airplane wheels finally lifted off well that was one of the best moments hot experience since i got here [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: Best Ever Food Review Show

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Length: 16min 43sec (1003 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 17 2022