MEXICO'S EXTREME TACOS!! Mind-Bending Food Tour in Mexico City!!

this is not what i was expecting when i woke up this morning to have for breakfast [Music] tacos originating in mexico they're one of the most beloved foods in north america when you first visit the city you'll find there are taquerias everywhere places where you can get delicious tacos but it's not like tacos in the usa if you thought tacos here would be stuffed with the usual chicken cheese and sour cream you think that's spicy yes prepare to have your mind exploded you ready i'm born ready for tacos it's not brisket today i'm on a mission to find the most iconic hazeloko utterly bizarre we're literally gonna be eating a giant cow eyeball and outstandingly delicious tacos you'll find in mexico or anywhere else very happy very happy in tiny kitchens pushing out big flavors it's so very good using taco fillings you've never seen before and it all starts [Music] now i'm at el brego vuito in a city with literally thousands of taco joints this place stands out the morning is just beginning and i discovered this amazing meaty treasure right here this is past three feet of pork it's so thick it's like one of the rocks thighs um but we are not having this oh no i'm starting with yes that is an entire cowhead and it turns out this isn't a rare sight for taquerias in this city the head meat is some of the best meat you could fill your taco with today we're starting our taco breakfast with this our main ingredient these taco dealers have been around since 1969. you got it oh he oh he just pulled out like 16. this is like hannibal lecter's dream if he was a cow here you can eat inside or in the comfort of your own car in the parking lot it's already been boiling for a good five six hours so it's really soft oh yes that's like the temple right there when this place gets poppin they have up to 65 staff building orders and satisfying cravings this does not look like a cow to me i'm telling you if scientists dug this up they would say it was a dinosaur all right it breaks the jar that could be a paperweight that took like five minutes he just took all the skin off of this cow head this is not what i was expecting when i woke up this morning to have for breakfast cow head tacos let's go the head is cut into smaller more manageable less identifiable chunks then it's steamed on this flat top so it stays warm when you come here you can ask for a certain part of the face that you want in your taco that is cheek meat this is the eyeballs i don't know if there's bones here or not here maybe behind the ear and now the weirdest breakfast i've had in a while cow head tacos take that chunk of head meat we saw earlier chop it into little pieces and toss the meat onto a small corn tortilla we have some herbs here some onion too salsa verde going on top boom that is it look at this little masterpiece guys this is head meat this is the good stuff i'm gonna find a place to sit down and introduce you to today's eating partner let's go joining the show vladimir a mexican food youtuber with abundant food knowledge passion and storage capacity i'm very hungry and i need to eat muchos tacos yeah that means a lot of tacos these are tiny little tacos right yes it's just a little but just more delicious cheers [Music] oh good that's very delicious oh my nose cheers the meat's kind of oily and heavy but then it's balanced out with that salsa verde a little bit spicy is that spicy for you low spicy for us it's a low spicy for you guys it might be hell what i love is this tiny tortilla so you're not going to get full you can have like multiple taco experiences he says even though it's little it is vest are you kind of like a poet they do the double tortilla you have reinforcement but it's still very soft the way he's made it is steamed up with all that meat i love it oh how do you think about it oh i just said what i got we might have a little bit of a language gap but there's one thing that brings us together food oh yeah this is the first taco of the day but we have one more on the way right now tacos de cacte or beef cheek tacos renowned tender cheek meat is chopped to bits and tossed on a double stack of corn tortillas to make sure it doesn't fall apart under the weight of all that meat add herbs onions and an extra flavorful dose of salsa verde here's the thing this looks exactly the same my question is are we going to be able to taste a difference [Music] oh that's nice super juicy fatty succulent meat inside similar flavors but definitely a different texture this is more spicy i feel like it's the same spicy it's the same salsa you said that in english this is the perfect way to take your taco check this out it's a real taco expert this guy i can watch you eat tacos all day he gives it a pinch in the back exactly and the posterior part you have some meat and you eat okay he threw me for a loop he goes the last part right here you eat it [Music] whether you're happy sad sober drunk or hungover this place will make your life better this very tiny closet-sized taqueria often has folks lined up around the block senor alberto hola check out this place first of all this big old pot of boiling meat tons of different beef cuts in here what's remarkable about this is this is large just straight lard that everything here is boiling inside of the menu here is long if you're confused point and hope for the best as for me i'm going with this this is a rare look we're about to get boom okay look at that it's a half a cow head this half a head has been boiled for an hour with onion garlic and salt here they're utilizing the cow's eyes and surrounding tissue yes this is a real thing on the menu here and folks love it that's how you say i i just learned that so now he's cutting the eye out of here i mean we're literally gonna be eating a giant cow eyeball it's huge right here this part it's everything around the eyeball of the cow it looks pretty gnarly it's already been boiled for a long time so the collagen everything should have rendered out a bit and now he's going to cut it up so we can actually put it inside the taco so he's going right down the middle he's pulling something out okay [Music] he said it is uh it's the eyeball he's scoring it to create more surface area so now when it steams it's going to warm up so much faster than being one big solid piece of meat now he's breaking it apart like an accordion or like when you do paper mache in elementary school and that one is going to steam for a little bit now it's taco time he dips the tortilla in this lard and then he throws it on the flat top that's gonna get nice warm and soft this is the steamed eyeball meats all that's getting chopped up i'm gonna take my first cow eye taco right here the eye meat is topped with onions then your choice of sauce i'm taking vlad's recommendation guacamole with habanero okay he's scared for me i think because of my complexion he thinks i can't handle it i can't handle it how do you like eyes i delicious all of the head eyes cheeks mouth it's very delicious cool all right well i got you lime this time oh yeah in the tacos it's indispensable what does that mean oh indispensable we must have lime give it a little bit of a squeeze these look awesome all right let's go for it [Music] oh i love the lime and this one's especially fatty so it really needs lime in mexico we say robecco probably [Music] this is so fantastic it's served hot on the street in the world's smallest taqueria what's your favorite part of the head i really like cow tongue they have tongue here right this is a cow tongue soon it's gonna be a taco first they clean the tongue and boil it with onion garlic and salt in this compact secret cooking compartment go watch eight episodes of friends and when you return the tongue will be ready cut it into thick slices and slap that on a tortilla with onion and more spicy green guava this cow every day was like oh i freaking love grass with these very taste buds right here lime it up boom [Music] it's like a beef roast you can just feel the fibers kind of break apart as you're eating it it's so very good it's got some spices it's an explosion of flavor i love it [Music] it's big bold tender juicy fatty delicious taco bell get on your game man oh look at this spoiled beef tongue final bite final bite yeah [Music] one of a kind these are great tacos so great we're only about halfway through the day we have so many more to go you guys face check this out please come on for more tacos another location another variety of tacos come with me this way i'm at takadia el torito a family run takadia that's been here for 64 years this gentleman is one of the grandchildren of the original founder this is hector hola here you can find their classic taco el pastor but their signature dishes are wait for it intestine tacos they sell over 4 000 a week i'm gonna experience that soon but first another signature creation the brisket taco they cleaned and cut the brisket into chunks then it's tossed in this very unusual pan to cook with onion garlic and salt for about an hour this is just so much brisket all around the sides the pan is a little bit lower and that's where the meat is hanging out braising in its own juices when it's done it's done and ready to eat trace taco de brisket yeah these are going to be doubled up tortillas so he puts it right on that dome it's going to soften this up a little bit oh that looks nice boom to the cutting station here getting a little bit of grease everywhere oh i can taste it now wow that is so well seasoned it's certainly no texas brisket it's a little chewy that's why he's going to chop it into little tiny pieces but the flavors are outstanding chopping away hector he's going wild he's a loco he's crazy he's slightly annoyed oh he puts it in the shell and he puts it back over here on the iron dome meat down this is the first time i've seen this today boom so every time you order this you're getting it cut straight from the brisket um yes everything all right we've got some herbs going on there a little bit of onion and salsa and that is a beautiful plate of brisket tacos what is this meat in spanish suaveno it means brisket first this is gonna be awesome see this taco it's more biggest than in other places it's really big it is full of meat chalupa what do you say [Music] whoa so beefy so full of life and flavor the principal difference that the brisket in usa it's not in barbecue i just spent recently a lot of time in texas where we had smoked brisket which is very very soft this is cooked much faster because of that it's a little tougher but they cut it so much that it feels soft enough the taste is delicious and the salsa is not very spicy yeah it's not that spicy i thought it was spicy i have heartburn right now i need a pepsi ac this has two tortillas what do you prefer do you like one tortilla or dos tortillas the fat people the gorditos like me prefer two tortillas because we eat more more food and check this if tortilla broke all these in the taco because two tortillas so that's a brisket we do have one more taco here you ready i'm born ready for tacos it's not brisket right here a type of meat you don't usually see in a taco at least not in the usa that's right we had brisket and what goes better with brisket than cow intestines step one clean the intestines for obvious reasons next add them to a pot with salt onions and black pepper and cook for one hour transfer the cooked intestines over to this here pan where it continues cooking in its own intestinal juices right here a giant mound of cow intestines that have been kind of brazing almost frying in their own oils i'm gonna put my pesos on this being absolutely delicious hector order me up some intestine tacos please as orders come in grab and chop a cluster of intestines slab tortillas onto the dome for some heat bring it back and filled it with intestines herbs onions and salsa you like intestines i love it take just a little okay we're just going to go straight intestine oh please be good it's crunchy oh oily punchy a little chewy too flavor good flavor too whoa i like that come on hit that with the lime repeat it's my favorite taco in the world i love eating with you ma'am you make it so much more enjoyable it's in my top rank 10. right absolutely yes top 10 of intestine taco it's exactly that's a very specific top 10 list it's also in my top 10. it's also my first one here's the thing it's so good very good i got the same very happy very happy i love this i love this this is so good is it so good it's juicy it's juicy it's chewy chewy it's everything you want in a mother freaking taco [Music] yes [Laughter] just a few miles away another 64 year old veteran of the taco trade taco el paisa here they serve up to 500 guests today 362 days per year every year but what sets them apart isn't just their disdain for off time but rather this this is a local cactus species also it's going into my taco somehow but first tacos de langanissa start by cutting longanisas or mexican sausage it's a minced pork sausage similar to chorizo next relocate the longanisas from the chopping board to this wok and let the oil take over once it's crispy it gets the chop pile it high with onions herbs and salsa why is it so red it's meat of pork with spices so the spices make it red yes just just you know the drill let's hit it with some lime the third double tortilla of the day is still warm soft and flexible it's crispy this is absolutely delicious the texturing here is awesome it's very spicy i need a glass of milk after this it's not spicy like painful or spicy like i have acid reflux now this is so good it's absolutely like a texture sensation it's so crunchy as you're eating it but it's also rich and juicy at the same time all of them seven down one to go our final taco of the day this is something i've never seen before this is a cactus it's known as nepalese the palace are the most commonly eaten cactus species in mexico even several thousand spiky thorns could not stop people from trying this next dish once the cactus is shaved it boils in a bubbling meat juice they add raw beef and cactus then season simply with salt pepper and lime this beautiful beef they're getting soft and then this can go in the taco with the beef it's a cactus beef taco after just a few minutes the cactus and the beef are ready for me to order in perfect eighth grade spanish there is napales taco boom he takes out some beef he's chopping it up into little pieces it's super soft but then we have the cactus right here he kind of juliennes the cactus all that goes into one tortilla he's so quick a little bit of cilantro a little bit of onion look at this plateau cactus beef tacos made in about 10 seconds first we have a nice drink now i was feeling a little bit heavy i asked for a tea they did not have one what they have here is called meat juice basically everything this was boiling in the cactus the beef this is the broth that was bubbling in cheers cheers be careful it's very hot oh yeah it's a little cactusy uh-huh oh it's warming me up from the inside this is nice on a cool night in mexico city here check this i took my taco and i shush really we can put it in meat by fat people by fat mentality it's great try it the cactus is in there all the spices and enjoy it let's take it away is wild that's like a french onion soup you just dip it in there it makes a tortilla even more soggy it absorbs all those meat juices do people do that or just you just the five people okay just us give it another little bit of a dip oh juicy hey the taco's got a drink too and there's so much beef flavor here but it's also full of cactus and the cactus is also slimy yes de nopal bring another flavor at the taco beef i'm gonna give it a dip i'm gonna eat it and then i'm gonna drink even more after that it's another flavor with the two combinations oh my gosh it's spicy it's salty savory there's so many different flavors going on it's powerful it's like fireworks my heart rate's going up i think i'm dying what do you think about this taco i love it best ever food review show is a small team of independent creators and everything we do here works because of you guys click the link in our description to join our patreon and receive exclusive benefits a piece did you like i showed you my taco in your can we have another camera over here this is the taco cam the taco kim is always searching for the taco automatic taco detection do you prefer food or alcohol ah the two is this one for me no no vladimir oh like this like this like this like this cool and now we're married let's keep this train let's let's keep let's this there's a train let's go sunny what are you favorite taco you know what i have to go intestine the longer neesa is maybe next and then after that the brisket but i like the intestine i like it's so unique and chewy and greasy what was your favorite taco all the tacos is my favorite the taco is my favorite food boom so that is the end of our video i want to say a huge thank you to you my sir vladimir you can see vladimir right here is youtube channel go there subscribe and see his fun food adventures here in mexico and beyond guys that is it for this video thank you so much for watching i'm gonna see you next time okay all right let's go should we get a dessert taco do they have dessert tacos with ice cream inside

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Length: 19min 24sec (1164 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 07 2021