WORST Day in Egypt!! Camel Cooking Disaster!!

[Music] all right the moment has finally come there's no thermometer there's no way to like check it and put it back in we got one shot if it's still raw it's ruined oh my gosh after being in cairo for two days my god and after being stopped by multiple police who asked us to delete our footage i think it's time to leave but i'm not leaving agent oh no [Music] we're jumping in a van leaving cairo and driving to one of this country's most out of this world sites we've almost literally effing run over about five times now when you're here you need to watch your back and your friends back today i'm on a mission to buy and cook an entire camel are people eating this yes it sounds straightforward but more threats of police at any moment police could stop us and literal threats from our own local producer make this day much more than i bargained for i know in the end i hope to experience one of egypt's most unique delicacies has he cooked this before [Music] 20 miles northwest of cairo about a one hour drive will bring you to a small village just on the edge of the delta's cultivated land but gosh home of egypt's most grand camel market fridays are the best days full of action camels proudly displayed and plenty of commerce and all that ends by 11am so we better hurry up before arriving our local producer tells us to proceed with caution so as to not create suspicion among the local police a quick word about our local producer his name is ahmed siddique he was hired solely for the purpose of preparing and executing our egypt production in all my years of hiring producers and doing this show i've never come across someone who's more incompetent he's conniving and paranoid so when he says we have to be careful for police i have no choice but to be paranoid too all right we are heading into the camel market right now there are camels everywhere we're trying to keep a low profile so of course we're gonna head in no idea what's going on another point let's go [Music] men smoke shisha some drink tea and some are taking a break after a day of brokering undulates this is a rare moment of peace in a place that's made up of pure chaos [Music] i suggest leaving your kids at home for this one prakash camel market if you don't keep your head on a swivel you will get trampled [Music] cash has been trading hands for camels for over 700 years on this very ground generation after generation families all the way from sudan ethiopia and somalia brought their best in show here right now we're in the camel market i feel like i've traveled back in time about 100 years maybe a thousand years it is wild here it's pure chaos there's loads of camels people they're shuffling them around sometimes they're beating them with sticks to get them to move it's nothing like i've ever seen before our ultimate mission here is to go buy a camel so we're headed to a vendor right now who is going to provide us with the camel we're going to negotiate i've heard the price of something like 1 500 so we're gonna go we're gonna try to get a camel and then see how much of the market we can explore before we absolutely have to get out of here now you guys know what's going on let's go [Music] don't mean escape [Music] this is the boss of the camel bladder from another mother in spite of the pandemonium no authority figures seem to really care that we're here i was the steady camera maybe ahmed was paranoid or maybe we're just lucky so far it's not working out camels are grouped according to who they belong to the guy who looks like he owns them probably does there are about 2 000 camels brought and sold here every week they're marked with arabic words so the gucci camels don't get mixed up with the carhartts traded for cash or other livestock these desert dwellers will be used for farming riding and for food are people eating this yes you eat the big one yes how much is this so two to three thousand dollars for an entire camel camel here wow to demonstrate the health of their camels merchants cut them loose the result spontaneous stampedes by creatures that can weigh over 900 pounds following close behind in hot pursuit the merchant with their whacking stick shoots attempting to subdue the animal once more all right so this is what you see all over this place there's camels running around freely and then there's people trying to corral them by beating them with a stick they grab them by the lip and then when they have them kind of subdued they're able to pull the leg back tie it up and then that restricts their movement enough so that they don't run away everywhere so that's why this place is chaotic now that i know the lay of the land it's time to do some shopping of my own [Music] [Applause] it takes years of experience to know which camels are worthy of your investment skilled buyers focus on their feet teeth eyes skin and hair color if you're as naive as me well there's some really young ones back here you leave it up to your local producer to negotiate when he comes back with a price tag of 1400 you just hope you're not being ripped off we have to buy one of these candles i'm told that this is the one you're just a year or two old to be fair i didn't choose a camel it was chosen for me relatively pretty soon we're gonna load it up we're gonna put it in the back of a truck well i have no idea how this works all right that's how you do camo shopping in egypt uh first for me it's a lot different than whole foods i'll tell you that [Applause] [Music] [Music] like the pyramids camels are a point of pride though that's not always clearly demonstrated the handlers even show a little respect for the sacred animal reciting bismillah before shoving their full weight into the hapless creature [Music] i wish this was the end of my transaction but instead it's the start of a new problem ahmet our local producer has failed to properly negotiate with the locals now he's quite literally being chased down liz do you know what's going on everyone's asking for money now that we're ready to go some folks don't want us to leave until they get a little something for themselves so right now we have our camel we're trying to leave they won't let us sleep they're chasing down our local producer everybody wants money everyone wants to get paid that's how it is everywhere it's all smiles in the beginning until you leave there's always something else ahmed circles to the back of the truck where cameraman kai and i are already rolling in his flustered state ahmed turns his attention from the crowd to the camera then to me if you don't include if you couldn't hear that clearly after walking into my shot ahmed warns me that if he appears on camera there will be a price to pay and that he doesn't mean a financial price very nice when you're in a new chaotic and near-lawless country generally it'd be the local producer's job to create a sense of security if you lose that too then you're on your own this is not how a production is supposed to go all i care about now is getting my team out of this market in one piece we have our camel now this is a narrow escape this is the camel market of egypt a once in a lifetime experience and once in a lifetime because i will never come back here again holy cow no no no no all right even this guy this guy right now he's asking for money he's asking for money from me this is kind of how it works here it always starts with smiles and it ends with a handout and sometimes chasing sometimes a little bit of intimidation i have the camera it's definitely time to leave [Music] [Applause] [Music] the camel is on the way to its final destination that's about four hours away we're in the van we're going there too in the meantime we stopped here at a camel restaurant it's a restaurant and a butchery let's take a look at what's going on here first of all all this camel parts if you look inside here there's liver meat is part of the trachea or a heart beyond that when you come here can anybody guess what this is oh i like it they're going to unwrap it i hope they don't think i'm going to buy it i just bought a whole camel for a lot of money wow this is a whole camel leg right here and a tail so i'm going to guess this back leg so this is the raw meat i'm gonna see if they can cook something up something like camel liver camel liver is a pretty common breakfast and treat in this area so i'm gonna see if i can get that the camel liver is sliced into bite-sized chunks then it's stir-fried with olive oil chopped green chilies and tomato then season with a seven spice blend including pepper cumin and cardamom this is great it looks incredible here is a bread this is what you eat it with i've had camel but i've never had camo liver cut it nice and thin and it looks quite tender i'm gonna try it just plain to begin with oh delicious the seasonings they put on there it's super savory a little bit spicy there's some chilies in here which stands out most to me is the texture the texture of liver can usually be kind of like almost mushy it can like make your mouth dry while you're eating it but here it's really snappy so i'm gonna break some of the bread off i'm gonna grab some pieces and that looks real nice really unique texture this is fascinating because you know my camel it can go months without drinking water i mean i do believe the liver is part of that as well as their hump they've got nice humps [Applause] [Music] egypt is predominantly desert seriously like 96 most of it looks like this infertile sandy dry not surprisingly all the life in egypt human and otherwise springs up near water especially around the nile river but dotted throughout the land you can find these welcome to the oasis a fertile spot within a vast wasteland 250 miles from cairo we hit baharia oasis home to about 27 000. [Music] we have traveled four to five hours outside of cairo right now we're in the middle of the desert and it is freezing but these steps must go on we must proceed the next steps we've come to a small community the plan is to prepare the camel tonight marinate it let it sit and then tomorrow it's going to be cooked and many people from the community will enjoy together but the first step is to slaughter an arabic word that means the people of the oasis here the majority are muslim that means the slaughter must be carried out in the appropriate ritual manner the animal must be alive healthy and well fed until the time comes after invoking the name of god there's one quick cut and then we wait this platform you're watching now centers videos based on western norms only but around the world a site like this is not shocking nor sensational it's a part of life that at least in this culture no one is too young to witness [Music] what we're in the presence of here right now is real men and they are making quick work of this camel it is freezing out here you can see my breath see what i'm saying after slaughtering it they skin it they hang it up and they kind of debone it they go joint by joint they're getting all the muscle off in as big of pieces as possible and they're putting that in these buckets over here to the side and then that is what's going to be cooked tomorrow right now it is 8 18. i'll say it's 10 p.m so people think i'm tough too right now it's 10 p.m very late but it's worth it we're gonna stay up late to make sure this gets done properly marinated with olive oil cumin coriander garlic cayenne salt and pepper soon this camel meat will be made into mandi an ancient style of underground cooking prepared by the bedouins a nomadic desert people who span across many countries [Music] day two with our camel prepared and ready to cook we're heading out of the oasis and 110 miles southwest into the white desert far from civilization far from modern conveniences but also far from modern inconveniences like the egyptian police [Music] here just beyond these mountains we're headed to a place where we're going to be cooking all that camel from yesterday here in the desert so i'm excited it's going to be a good day we have a lot of food and a lot to see let's get going [Music] upon arriving to our tented desert camp instead of meeting bedouin people we're introduced to local tour guides who we abruptly find out have never taken on a cooking challenge like this before now we'll see local tour guides who have never cooked anything more than chicken attempt to cook an entire camel this is going to be interesting [Music] mandi is a barbecue style meal very popular in the arab world in maundy the meat must be arranged on a rack and slow cooked underground here's how they do it they've already dug two holes and buried steel barrels in the ground load those holes with fiery wood until they burn down to embers has all the meat from last night it's been marinating and he's putting it on this grill this apparatus that's going to soon descend into a barrel and get cooked from below with a bunch of cinders cinders embers you know what i mean the way they slaughter the camel is really quite unique because they've almost like just deboned it and taken off the biggest chunks of meat possible so it's not like little bitty sirloins or steaks like these are big chunks of meat going on here all right this is a big moment we've been waiting for the gentlemen have all the meat stacked up here this has got to be something like 40 pounds 45 pounds of meat just huge camel chunks and we're bringing it to a barrel this is the most important part it's going to go descend into the pit these arms are going to catch the sides so it's not touching the fire all the meat will essentially cook and steam inside okay the blanket goes on trapping in even more of the heat and it's almost like they're going to seal it around the edges using the water so now they take the sand they bury it they go around the periphery in the end the goal here is to make it really sealed in there we want the heat to stay in there long enough for all that meat to cook through it's a lot of meat it's something like 40 45 pounds of meat that's gonna have to cook before they remove it in a couple of hours while the main course cooks other dishes are being prepared rice egyptian bread salad stewed vegetables and braised camel heart oh yes take a look at that big beautiful chunks of camel heart just bubbling away in the pressure cooker camel hearts have to be huge the animals are so tall they have to pump blood all the way to the top of their freaking head which is also very tall i'm going to try it right now [Music] whoa good yeah all the organs of the camel taste a little bit different the heart tastes like liver it's very livery it has a beautiful texture it's kind of softened up it's got that beautiful dense meat oh that's so satisfying it's very nice it's interesting because out here as soon as you get in the shade it's very cool so it's not that hot it's just that you get baked by the sun so being under here having some nice warm bubbling hot heart is quite satisfying love it back to the meat pits three hours has elapsed all right the moment has finally come there's no thermometer there's no way to like check it and put it back in there's a way to pop open the oven door here we just have to dig it up we got one shot if it's still raw it's ruined [Music] under this sand is our dinner has this team pulled it off oh you can see the steam billowing out from the hole will the meat be cooked through all that remains is the lid to be popped off and we're gonna see the meat we're about to find out oh my gosh the meat looks completely different from before you can see it's really cooked down from the heat oh yes this looks incredible the next move put it on the platter this was once the lid and then now this is where the meat is gonna sit did i pull some off wait really yeah the meat has become so soft the fat is tender juicy and rendered down look at that slow cooked beautiful steamed smoky you take some you take some i'll take some cheers oh man that is awesome all right please they'll continue their their backs are breaking that is awesome fatty tender smoky delicious juicy camel meat straight out of a freaking hole in the sahara desert it doesn't get better than that well done my man wow [Music] thank you so much for this opportunity it's a pleasure to be here hanging out with you you are welcome thank you this is great so first of all the camo looks amazing this is an incredible meal we have all the camel here how do we start in bahrain is first we can eat vegetables and salad and after we can eat it rice with the meat oh literally taking all of my willpower to not dig into the meat that's right in front of me it's like a delicious coleslaw oh so this is potatoes some other vegetables in here oh and there's some zucchini [Music] it's steamed it's got salt it's got tomatoes to add a little bit of acid it's really good which one you choose to eat from here oh i can pick let's go with this one oh no knife or anything we really ripping apart this meat just this one big chunk of meat is probably enough for all of us to eat this is incredible there's fatty bits there's protein all of it's getting mixed with the rice that looks gorgeous try it out oh delicious incredible i've had camel before but never like this man the taste is so delightfully smoky and there's some subtle spices it's such a unique kind of meat when you compare camel to beef to goat to sheep no this is different different from everything yeah yeah i agree it's hard to pinpoint it the texture is kind of like beef but it doesn't taste beefy i'm amazed like every bite is a little bit different and i love that since they're cooking in these huge chunks of meat it really retains a lot of its moisture i mean this is like one whole big chunk of camel i don't know which part this is from here the shoulder really yeah you know so i think that's the key to this unique style of cooking it's like keeping it all in one piece like this so that when you steam it for a long time inside you've got something that looks incredibly juicy oh yeah so you guys usually do chicken you do smaller animals today you took on a whole camel that's outrageous that's wild i thought leaving cairo would be the perfect way to put our problems behind us in the end i was introduced to a whole list of new ones but i'll take local squabbles over police interactions any day i'm thinking as long as we're in egypt it's probably best to stay in the countryside far from police gentlemen i want to say thank you again this is a great experience for me i can see why people like coming out here i mean places like cairo it's busy it's loud it's noisy it's chaotic and i like that too but sometimes you need a break and then here it's completely peaceful and there's something really interesting like when everyone's quiet it's real silence [Music] 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 of peace so there's a good chance they might run you over it's almost happened twice how you doing you think you're doing a photo and we kind of are we're doing one photo 60 times per second right now the camel butchering is taking place just a few meters from here meters what am i canadian i meant feet welcome hey welcome thank you no touch one touch no one touch how much camels you want i've got i've got many dozens of these this is like a mobile food vendor sweet potatoes maybe they just roast them on top and it keeps it warm are there any inside can you open this boom that is the end of the video guys this is the hardest series we've ever made so i hope you're enjoying it i hope it's all worth it this was a great day because we were out in the desert away from everything and it felt nice tomorrow we're getting back into it with more what's going to come next i have no idea you're gonna have to watch to find out that's it for this one thanks so much for watching i will see you next time a piece think on this walk home i'm not in a hurry i don't want to go back to the city oh man

Channel: Best Ever Food Review Show

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Keywords: best ever food review show, befrs team, sonny side, egypt, africa, african country, cairo, worst place to shoot, Egypt traditional food, Egypt food tour, street food in cairo, Eating camel, Camel meat, Bedouin, Islam country, Muslim country, Egyptian police, Egypt revolution, caught by police, Desert food, Life in oasis, where to eat in Egypt, what to do in Cairo, shooting in egypt, pyramid, camel liver, camel meat, worst producer, UNDERGROUND CAMEL

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Length: 24min 20sec (1460 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 13 2022

Reddit Comments

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