Samoan vs Afghan vs Guatemalan Food (7 More RARE Cuisines!)

so this is the charmaine yes [Music] when i was growing up in kent washington i would have never guessed that it'd be ranked as one of the most diverse cities in the country and it definitely didn't feel that way when i was younger but things do change a lot over 10 years and every time me and david come back to visit there's a new restaurant serving food from a different culture so we wanted to show you some of the spots around our hometown guatemalan samoan venezuelan himalayan and afghani just to name a few let's go andrew we took a quick trip back to our hometown of kent washington yep and i'm super excited to do this video today we're going to be trying so many different cuisines that we've never had before and we can do this in our hometown of kent because kent currently is ranked top 10 in the nation for most diverse mid-sized cities and in the entire state of washington andrew today we're going to be trying guatemalan samoan australian venezuelan himalayan and afghani that is quite a mix first up is in tuba guatemala all right this is the guatemalan restaurant this is antigua guatemalan restaurant the difference is like more like we use like a little bit less spicy all our tamales are on banana leaf slightly different you know between the guatemalan tamales and mexicans on guatemala it's like kind of traditionally have like ciao mean you know colony of uh japanese people somehow it's a kind of mix of culture you know with the mayas and spanish yo all right in front of us we have this amazing guatemalan spread right here some of the dishes look familiar to something i've had before but some of them look totally different guys if you guys are excited about this video make sure to smash that like button hit subscribe and turn on your notifications david do you know all the names here no uh i know guaraches was a tamale chinchito chow mein yeah pupusa and that is tortilla de jarina and this is pepian all right so this pepian dish is considered the one of the most traditional and it is the national dish of guatemala right now so we got to start with this this is a uh this is a chicken soup right here yo andrew i i'm a chicken stew guy hey you're a chicken chicken curry chicken stew that's um me look at this tortilla pocket that they've given me these are handmade tortillas let me just pull this out for you oh wow they're steaming wow you know how thick these tortillas are they're almost more like i did not know what you were you were busting out right there no this feels more like roti um or like a scallion pancake wow okay yo please please enter give me some peppy okay man pepian okay right off the bat resembles somewhat of a borscht uh soup but it's a more chicken base it has a very deep flavor tomatoey but not like tomato soup yo pepian what a way to start guys we're gonna finish this food oh my gosh there's so much i'm excited already wow well so here if you look at this plate i have a sausage right here oh tell me that doesn't look like the lao sausage andrew while you are doing that i have the guatemalan horchata it is different than the mexican horchata i'll tell you why in a second lighter less cinnamon okay dip it in the sauce here wow in tamale oh you know what that was like heavy corn flavor this is the guatemalan tamale and they're a little bit different because it's got tomatoes in it yeah they have tomatoes in it and the corn is supposed to be a little bit fluffier and then also it's wrapped in a banana leaf and not a corn husk oh wow that's a very soft and fluffy tamale right there guys we have to start finishing up here at our guatemalan spot because we have so many other locations to get to oh but the food was really good and i could eat every dish i'm gonna i could eat more of every dish but i'm gonna hold myself back all right so we got two guatemalan desserts to finish off our meal here before we go on to the next spot this one right here is moete and let's go dig in anything like this this is beautiful looking their layout and their whole the care that they put in the food is just great man but warm wow wow that was like a warm soaking pancake dude that is a way better version of a bread pudding yes cinnamon that is decadent man let me tell you that wow it's almost like a sugar donut with filling inside wow it's almost like a banana coconut fried in a doughnut hole that was really good too but for me i gotta go with that takes the kids to the desserts though but man both were delicious andrew the next spot we are headed to is a food that i am sure that probably 99 of our followers have not had before yes it is samoan food now if you guys don't know there's actually a large samoan population in the seattle area approximately 10 000 of them basically this is the only kind of samoan food you can buy at a restaurant in this area it's called lily's bakery and they're gonna have some samoan food hopefully and also a lot of baked goods that's our pineapple filling we get to try it right now let's try to follow my half moon pies there's also the filling inside the the moon cups that i just gave you the only difference is there's no whipped cream on top of it like like the moon cups but it's almost the same it's just some people just like it that way [Music] okay david we are outside of lily's bakery we're here in kent still over on the west hill by the way guys this is samoa we are popping up samoa on a map polynesian island meaning it probably has a lot of different influences um but polynesia being the overall broader term for a number of the islands in the pacific but this is particularly samoan food outside of the history guys let's get into this food but this is a coconut spinach david for you this is a turkey tail right right and this is lamb that's cooked in some soy sauce this is a barbecue chicken and this is a polynesian sausage essentially and then we have desserts here we have the lamb curry okay and then you also have the sap soy which is their chop suey coconut spinach never had it before wow it almost tastes like the cream spinach you would get at like uh laurie's or san francisco prime house of prime rib but with more coconut yeah instead of cream it's coconut cream all right guys this is the turkey butt so they call it the turkey tail it's man so this is roasted to perfection this is the ass of a turkey we are eating ass today all right guys this is the turkey tail turkey tail i know the butt of a turkey tastes so good very fatty that is a fat turkey ass i'm killing a tailbone it's sweet it's caramelized it's just falling apart my mouth so guys we are here moving on to the lamb so she just gave me a slab of lamb guys uh here if you come to lily's you can get actually you can taste all the food and it's really really cheap man everything on this table only costed less than 30 dollars so i got a shout out to them yo andrew i'm i can't wait any longer i want eat them one moon pie man try the moon pie break one open though here we go you're gonna break it oh it's gonna crumble oh man these look good this is the samoan moon pie wow dude that's really good and you know what i think i really enjoyed about it the filling was not overly sweet i'm not gonna lie i thought it might be when i first looked at it but it was totally light it's a it's got way more of a like a real fruit flavor to it yeah this definitely makes me more curious and i'm glad we got a chance to do this because um you can't find samoan restaurants in every place in america yeah yo so far andra i gotta say this food crawl has been two for two antiqua guatemala was delicious lily's samoan bakery has been delicious i'm excited for the next spot let's go on instagram shout out to joseph tt ali he david takataka and just be like hey man i'm at lily's bakery what i loved about going to um antigua guatemala and lily simone bakery is that they were really hubs for the local community and it goes to show you how diverse kent is because you're not going to put a samoan bakery somewhere where there's no samoans you're not going to put a guatemalan spot where there's no guatemalans guess what and we have next we have another cuisine that i've had once before but have not really got a chance to indulge in here we are gonna be having some of the finest venezuelan arepas [Music] we have arrived at paparez uh i've got the mall team i have the kolita these are drinks that are are very common in venezuela so before we start the meal cheers oh that doesn't just taste like coke that's a little bit fruitier almost pure sugarcane this tastes like a beer that says beer like a delicious beer this is really good actually i i kept drinking that i did not expect to like it you know what non-alcoholic tell me it doesn't taste like a beer bro my taste buds are drunk [Music] andrew this is the number one venezuelan dish the arepa and here i have this curry sauce david you have the cilantro sauce these are hot steaming fresh aripas david you got the pork one i have the beef one venezuelan or red bus yo that this to me was seriously like the best this was a five out of five wow what's in it i have a pork one but it's like it's really juicy pork and it was not dry look how much pork i had to cut through oh this is the best array bar i've ever had it's the easiest to eat and david formalized look wise it does look like the chinese um hamburger of the rojo more all right all right i gotta try the beef one man cause i'm beef and cheddar this is like a this is like an rv special right here which one's better wow which one's better bro pork i won't that one was surprising but the pork one's better either way really better there's a reason the pork is number zero zero's not even a number there's a reason the park was numbered with your beef man no the beef had way more flavor all right flip the camera oh what a bite i got so excited the happiest john has ever been by the way john doesn't smell this much come on man three two one pork ow pork the pork hands down [Music] we're just making a pit stop in this video because we had to do something that kind of would cleanse our palate bamboo dude i'm not gonna lie the drinks price wise it could be you know eight maybe nine dollars but it's worth it guys this is the vietnamese rice paper salad dude i think this is fascinating i don't think have rice paper salad we don't have anything like this in china rice paper salad right i'm going to try this rice paper so right off the bat i will tell you this the texture of the rice paper gets a little getting used to because it's really chewy and feels undercooked but as you start to chew it actually it soaks up more of the sauce and your saliva in a way and it gets softer and softer it has some lime it has citrus it has the mango flavoring it's a little bit spicy so actually overall that's really refreshing and i'm actually enjoying that a lot that was the perfect thing to eat in the state that we were in these leaves are super refreshing i gotta see john try it dave i feel a lot better right now it's going down yeah it's like kind of weird at first right but it's kind of good wait wait five more seconds i'm refreshed [Music] all right so we've made it to our next spot himalayan cafe david so this spot serves actually a variety of everything from indian food to nepalese food but obviously it's called himalayan cafe because here we have himalayan food so the interesting thing about nepalese food is that it's really in between china and india you can get just indian food or you can get more east asian food and then nepal is like this really cool mix in between this first dish thank you sir we have the momos of course this is the one of the most famous dishes from this region it's a steamed dumpling often with vegetables but the difference about this between like chinese dumplings is that there's really no soy sauce you don't eat it with the black vinegar either you kind of have this tomato-based kind of i want to say tikka masala sauce it's similar to that but pretty much you pour it and eat it with a momos nepalese momos all right i would say for me momos are one of my favorite dumplings and to be fair they're pretty similar to the chinese dumplings to be honest but some of the spices are different and some of the sauces are different i think a lot of people go to nepalese spots and just get momos which is cool but it like goes way deeper than that and i know that on a cold new york dayander because there's a lot of himalayan people in new york i like to go get a good tupa i had a bunch of stuff to do that day and i had to power up with one dish one noodle soup between fur one ton and dupa i'm taking the tupa alright so david we just had himalayan food and it started to rain outside but now we're on our way to nasa's seafood which is actually an australian spot i did not expect to see an australian spot in kent washington see when we talk about ethnic spots and immigrant spots i guess we're also including australian immigrants too all right to be fair if you made me bet money it is from a uh person from australia they also came from another country originally i mean all right let's go check it out man we're pulling up here arrived where is this spot naese's seat hey it's next to el ranchito all right man [Music] we're here with william from nasa's seafood story is we are doing fish and chips australian style fish where are you guys originally from the fiji islands okay so you guys are from fiji and then you guys lived in australia for a few years and now you guys are americans now yep hey man that that's a beautiful immigrant american story what a journey oh yeah yo we guys we made it in the nase's seafood i'm so excited andrew we have authentic australian fried platter you have shrimp you have calamari you have the imitation crab you have the australian whitefish and we've got every single fish they offer here oh by the way guys there's all different types of sauces they even got an indian chili vinegar because they are daisies from fiji oh my gosh they have the garlic vinegar yo first up we gotta go with snapparander snapper cooked perfectly guys the batter that they make is super light and crispy it totally melts away but it gives you that initial crisp halibut just going to eat it by itself that's one of the lighter cleaner white fishes to me that's kind of like eating the chicken breast of fish halibut i mean i can tell from all the fish and chip spots whether the person came from britain or australia i can tell that they do care about it in a different level than in america they prioritize them definitely american fish and chips are at the bottom british and australian fish and chips are definitely at the top so guys man if you find a fish and chip spot that's owned by a british or australian person definitely try it out especially if they're daisy [Music] after we have arrived at our last and final spot on this ultra diverse ultra international kent washington food crawl we going to dogwood cafe and lounge yeah they have eggs benedict here french toast very ethnic just kidding guys we're going right next door and this spot is called afghan kebab house and we have arrived at afghan kabob house we are having an authentic afghan experience here as you can see we're sitting down on the floor we've taken our shoes off they put the place mat here for us david in my hand i have the bolani okay which is a spinach bread spinach flat bread that's kind of folded over honestly it looks like a quesadilla that's the closest thing that comes to mind and david here you have the montus yeah and not to mention we have this delicious mushroom soup here yeah one two whoa that's good it's got like chickpeas on it uh definitely a little bit different than the momo but if you guys know where afghanistan is it is situated next to pakistan pakistan is next to india i gotta be honest it definitely has like a 50 50 experience between like a ravioli and a dumpling it's packed pretty loose like a ravioli it's flat the inside is not kind of clumped into a ball which is more like a dumpling i would say the thing that gives it the ravioli vibe is the white sauce yeah kabuli pulao and lamb shank yo andrew this is amazing i love pulao okay pulao is actually one of my favorite things raisins and rice i think i gotta take a fork with this piece i'm gonna break off a piece of this lamb shrimp right here oh lamb shank [Music] the lamb is good the lamb is like actually a lot lighter than i thought you heard it from him afghan kabob house and ken washington check it out uh what was your favorite thing that you had on this trip man first of all i think that there was something there was pretty much a five out of five at every spot we went to at least one thing my mind keeps going back to the cinco out of cinco five out of five muy yeti at the guatemalan restaurant that was definitely a banger i would definitely say the uh tortilla de harina moving on to the samoan spot there and there's no question why this is the number one selling item the moon pies the moon pie was overall the best thing there especially with some heavy whip on top moving on from samoa to venezuelan venezuelan spot dude we had a debate about it and i think about it enter andrew i have to concede yeah it was the beefa the beef orlando the pork woman was really good too but i thought the beef one just had way more flavor more spices more layers to it himalayan cafe i would say the best thing there that i enjoyed was the momos and the chow chow i thought those were the best things the fried halibut was amazing i actually really loved the chips there the fries and then your favorite thing at afghan kebab house i think maybe afghan kebab house was my favorite out of everywhere i thought like i said everywhere had a five out of five item okay in my opinion afghan kabob house might be number one so i would say afghan kebab house the montu were crazy personally i gotta go with that lamb shank man just it was so fresh it was so tasty i could eat it by itself all right you guys thank you so much for watching hit like subscribe turn on your notifications please let us know what other cultural concepts you would like to see us check out i think food obviously is not an entire culture but it is the easiest way to get introduced to culture you guys thank you so much for watching until next time we're live from kent washington we found bros going back to l.a soon we out peace we're ending off our most diverse city in washington food crawl which is you know ken our kent food crawl in and it's so cool because over the past several years while we've kind of been moved out of kent um ken has just exploded with the amount of diversity

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