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Hey everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day? hey everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day. This is Mark Wiens. I'm in Mombasa, Kenya, on the east coast of Africa. It's Mark Wiens, I'm in Mombasa Kenya on the east coast of Africa it's really a melting pot of cultures and foods today I'm gonna meet up with Farhana, a local food detective and today I'm gonna meet up with Farhana, a well-known local production tour youtuber she is a local youtuber she makes videos about travel she loves to eat street food as well, so it's gonna be a lot of fun she loves to eat street food as well, so it's gonna be a lot of fun Samil and we're also gonna meet Samil they're gonna take me and you on a street food tour of Mombasa we're gonna take me and you on a street food tour of Mombasa gonna eat that some of our Farhana's favorite places we're gonna share all of the delicious food with you in this video right now awesome to meet you Nice to meet you Mark nice to meet you, Mark Farhana, very nice to meet you Farhana, very nice to meet you so happy to be in Mombasa, nice to meet you also hello Man, nice to meet you hello hey, what's up man, nice to meet you How are you doing, Samil what's up, Samil hi, Mark how are you doing? oh hi, Mark how you doing Welcome to Mombasa, Mark welcome to Mombasa, Mark thank you so much I hope you like it, it's a beautiful sunny day here today this The place is called? and what is this place called? this place is called Lighthouse, there's like some lighthouse somewhere with here Mama Ngina Drive is famous for its snacks and people come here Leisure and this...Mama Ngina Drive is known for snacks, for people come here to relax yes, all like junk food fried snacks, and we gonna try that's how we start today the journey that's we are gonna start off with thank you asante try this try that very nice I've tried cooked but never raw Wow I've eaten it cook, I don't think I've ever eaten it raw he holds a whole trunk-like palm stem in his hand and he's just like he has this stock that's like a trunk and he just slices it raw oh I love it it, it's awesome oh yeah it tastes like a...that's a coconut flavor but it's crisp like bamboo shoot' like a bamboo How about shoot or something? Tasty? how is it, nice? really good cheers let's see who gets the sweetest? oh mine sweet mine is very sweet mine is very sweet mine is good everyone's coconut is good, the coconut juice is a little bit sour yeah you all get good ones, it's a little bit sour just the tinge of sourness yeah, there's nothing better than coconut but yeah, there's just nothing better than a coconut it's one of the most refreshing things you could possibly have on a hot day which Mombasa is today which Mombasa is today , I was so thirsty that was really good, I was so thirsty you know my thirsty is crunched he actually scoops it out for you and like depending on your luck what type of meat you get some is very jellyish very young what type of meat you get some is very jellyish very young I got quite a quite a jam because it's quite a thick coconut meat At the same time you can also see but at the same time you can see that this coconut meat is very soft and delicate, as delicate as coconut milk it is gonna be nice and soft and and creamy, coconut creamy By the way, this is The copra of a whole coconut and by the way, that's like the entire coconut, in this one chu nk it's soft yet meaty at the same time it's soft yet meaty at the same time now, this is a really good one, it's super soft and it tastes delicious while we are eating coconut, he is frying Cassava and as we were eating the coconut, he was freshly frying some cassava, add salt, chili and lemon juice and you put salt, chili and lemon, once it's ready he takes out a piece and sprinkle it seasoning and he decorates it you season it he season it for me he cuts a little slit in it and he decorates it with the seasoning a little slit in it to fill it up with the seasoning a combination of salt and chili and then squeezes on the lime they loaded it with a thick layer of chili you can see that kind of caked on there fresh just it's fried it's fresh it's hot are you ready yeah yeah cheers oh wow, it's so soft oh wow, it is so soft the wind blows paprika into my eyes oh I got a little bit of the chili in my eye with that wind got but that's okay but that's okay, fried cassava is delicious but that's okay, it's incredibly good I think this is absolutely delicious, the more chili the better I think this is absolutely delicious, the more chili you have in your cassava, the Tastier it is that's it, I like eating with you oh, for sure for sure, okay I love eating with you yeah it's really really soft cassava is starchy and dry but that's it It's charming but at the same time like that's the attractive thing about it we're just moving down the line as we were eating that cassava and they fried some more cassava then they were freshly frying the cassava it's it's also fried cassava but in chip crisp form instead of the thick pieces it 's great, chilli, salt, lime Yeah, the combination of chili, salt and lime juice yeah yeah it's a lemon or a lime it's a lemon or a lime? it's a lemon oh it's a lemon okay it's a lemon okay it's a lemon okay it's a lemon okay so fragrant lemon is a bit too...more sour a perfect salty snack yeah, when you start with one you can't stop, you just keep on eating that's exactly right this is the roasted one roasted cassava roasted cassava the roasted cassava roasted sweet corn roasted maizi that's the sweet potato and that's the sweet another stall on the side of the road, you are still by the sea, blowing another stall just down the road you're still on the ocean we've got the ocean breeze he is roasting a variety of things he is roasting a variety of things here's maize which is sweet corn and sweet potatoes there's maize, there's there's also sweet corn, there's sweet potato sweet and chilly and that's what I love about it's really soft and then you get the sweetness and the chili at the same time stimulate your taste buds at the same time it hits you at the same time so good so good that also mm-hmm because of the lemon's sour, salty and prominent sweetness, I like it very much I like that the sweetness is contrasted by the lemon and the salt though actually this one was the sweet cron, growing up when I lived in Nairobi for a few years now I was like one of my main street food snacks growing up roasted sweet corn the roasted maize that's really good the juiciness most of the roasted dry but this was very juicy most of the other things were a little dried but it was so juicy so good we're getting ready to move on from this area Mama Ngina Drive is a great place we're getting ready to move on from this area , Mama Ngina Drive b ut it's a great place people come here, locals come here to relax people come here, locals come here to relax Farhana was mentioning that it's especially popular on the weekend people even drive to People on the side of the road even pull up their cars.
You can order some snacks, and the merchants will deliver them directly to your car. You can order snacks they'll deliver it to your car. Sitting in the car and looking at the sea, blowing the sea breeze, you sit in your car, you overlook the ocean you got the ocean breeze it's just a real chilled out, relaxing, just friendly environment and people are really friendly here too Barcelona is really a very wonderful city yeah Mombasa is amazing drive through downtown Mombasa, we enter the real "ordinary alleys" take a little drive through Mombasa and we're in the real back streets you can note you really notice the mix of Arabian and Indian cultures and local it's too busy here man this is a busy...and okay I better move back over here It's really a vibrant place but what a what an action energy place I'm very much looking forward to what's delicious next and I'm very excited for all we're gonna eat next these are chili and fried dough this are the chili ones, this are the dough bhajias and this is the XXX this place looks like a jam it's like in the really in the back streets of Mombasa down an alleyway you can smell all kinds of fried delicacies You can actually smell the aroma of all the the deep-fried things oh yeah, oh yeah that's cool oh oh man oh yes, now that's the goodness, Kenyan pure goodness this is the best soda in the world without a doubt I'm really excited to try this I'm really excited to try this I'm really excited to try this Try this fried chili I really want you to try the whole chili one I can't wait I can't wait ok I will eat this fried chili that's gonna be my first bite By the way, Farhana is also doing vlog and by the way, Farhana is also vlogging everyone must check out her vlog, I will attach a link in the description area be sure you check out her vblog and I will leave it in the description box below thank you this looks unbelievable looks unbelievable this is what Mombasa is all about to him, Mombasa it's all in this plate there are potatoes coated in batter and fried it have fried pack potatoes, it's coated into this flour kind of paste and then topped with coconut butter and t hen she just doused it in the coconut chutney and pilipili chili sauce, which is really a fusion of local Mombasa and Indian and Arabic styles and the chili pili pili sauce it really has a mix of local Mombasa Indian Arab These represent the flavor , cooking styles and spices that's those are the main representations of flavors and cooking styles and spices ok let me try this chili okay we gotta start with that chili how about it? how is that spicy? is this spicy? awesome a little bit spicy you can taste the spices in it but you taste the spices in there too maybe the turmeric, the coconut comes in nicely There's chili sauce on top of the chili and on top of the chili you've got the chili sauce as well so you've got chili on top of chili and yes the potatoes in this are really good too well yeah the potato is really good too it's like a silky smooth potato pack yeah yeah that coconut chutney it's also a little sour maybe because of the lemon juice added? maybe from the lemon juice? Lemon juice, yeah lemon juice, yeah oh, it's really good these are, these are deep fried snacks yeah those are, that is like all deep fried snack you can put on a plate Taste all the deliciousness like deliciousness on a single plate that you could you could one it's true that one is really too how about chili? how is the chili? it's not that blow away you see...so hot! do you see the...okay the spicy the longer it sits in the chutney the better it gets because it soaks it in a little bit Got some coconut sauce yeah, it did kind of absorb I think this chili definitely wins I think the chili definitely wins yes as Samil said the longer soaked in coconut sauce the better yeah, as Samil was mentioning it gets better the longer it sits in that chutney because it absorbs it all Samil went elsewhere and bought me some STONEY TANGAWIZI Samil went down the lane and bought me a STONEY TANGAWIZI a very strong ginger beer a very strong ginger...
yeah that just, it slightly burns going down it slightly goes up your nose , this is what you want when you drink STONEY that's what you want when you drink a STONEY that was sensationally delicious that was sensationally delicious in this part of town and this area of town is where you really get a feel of the culture of Mombasa too It's great, this is beautiful it's great, this is beautiful okay we're moving on sorry fels, this is when it usually get crowded around this way no problem no problem along We're going down the road and we're going to have some ganache, which is very popular in Mombasa. Cane juice we're stopping just down the road for some sugarcane juice which is very popular in Mombasa that machine looks like it's gotten a lot of use over the years looks like a car engine it's like...it's almost like a auto engine he takes a sugar cane what's even better than that he takes a lime he takes the sugarcane what's even better than the sugarcane is he takes a lime and ginger, Making them into a "sandwich" shape makes sugarcane juice extra refreshing and a chunk of ginger sandwiches it into the into the sugarcane squeezes it fresh it pours out into a picture like a like a sugar cane waterfall and that is fresh sugarcane juice wow, you can taste the ginger in it wow, you can really taste the ginger you know yeah yeah it is it is for me, no It's for me like just sugar cane is too sweet with no other taste but with the addition of the lime and the ginger to spice it up makes this sugar cane juice that makes it good you're right it's not overly sweet it's the perfect sweetness with ginger and lime and you're right you know it's not too sweet it's the perfect sweet , ginger, lime combination Walking on the streets of the old town of Mombasa, you will see that under the reflection of the setting sun, all Some houses have turned pink since step outside and the streets of old town Mombasa are just like illuminated and pink from the sunset oh and then the fluorescent lights just came on right as I said that next we are going to Mcor Macdera next we are going to this street at Mcor Macdera where they have all the barbecue on the road you can have goat, roast chicken, everything and you can get goat meat, you get a grilled chicken, it's all grilled so grilled chicken barbecue, mutton as well, we have salads and lots of chilies as well we have We are at Macdera Street and a long stretch is food all the way down the road Barbecue , at the street is many barbecue We are at a Stopped in front of a place called Damascus Shawarma and right now we're stop at a place called Damascus Shawarma I'm stepping into the meat bus oh you can smell it oh yeah, it smells so good oh yeah oh that smells good that smells good few things in the world that make me happier than a hissing role of meat here you are can find this This is where you can really notice the melting pot the mix of cultures.
This is where you can really notice the melting pot the mix of cultures . Mombasa has a long history and of course food that are present and that have so much history including of course the Does food in Mombasa need chilli? chili wraps it up and I like the touch where you like puts the wrap back on the sliced chicken under the oven to heat chucks it back on to the pile of chicken in the heat makes the skin hot to kind of give it a final warming edge beautiful beautiful here is called Damascus Shawarma (Damascus Shawarma), I think the owner of the restaurant is from Syria? it's called Damascus Shawarma so I'm yeah, the owner is from Syria? Yes yes maybe it's from Damascus okay, maybe from Damascus delicious oh yeah this hand-rolled Shawarma is too tender, it melts entirely like handheld shawarma just so tender and it's so easy to eat with Farhana so awesome to eat with Farhana she likes spicy too sorry (too much) oops...
Ok, not count yes that's okay the best thing about shawarma is the further down... something about shawarma is you get to the buttom okay, it's even better because it's all the juice at the bottom because it, all that sauce has accumulated to the bottom there so the bottom becomes very soft and rotten, the bread and meat have fully absorbed the juice so it's all mushy and like absorbed into that bread and that meat can have a cup of coffee, this is the fall roar I would love a coffee and eat again I think that sounds like the perfect thing before we eat more meat the local style of coffee that you'll find all over the coast of East Africa and then he squeezed some ginger in it and then he squeezed in some ginger and you can smell that ginger it's black coffee, oh yeah that smells really good really strong smells really good smells really good yes I want to pass by I think this is what we need for this long day I think this is what we need for this long day Oh yeah, I love it, I love it That is strong black coffee It's kind of like hot chocolate but with strong black coffee, it's kind of almost chocolate but then with that ginger bite one more one more one more one more yeah I couldn't stop at one I had to get I had to have another one I think he squeezed a lot of ginger in it this time and I think he squeezed in a bunch more ginger this time Yeah that's a lot of ginger, that's...it's so good Conveniently, right over the little blue picket fences where we're eating next all along this street you can smell the smoke in the air there's a number of different rural restaurants there's a number of different rural restaurants called Abbasi Darbar Cafe this particular restaurants called Abbasi Darbar Cafe The food here is very delicious, it's the best one there food is really delicious This place has been open for many years they're been there for many many years so I'm very excited to come here to taste the BBQ so yeah , so I'm excited they are drilling all the meet at the fr ont looks incredible it looks incredible Makr do you want to order a few dishes or we have a little of everything I'm standing here with the grill masters that are making mishkaki on this grill and this one is the chicken tikka on that side you can feel the heat radiating from the grill but you can you can feel the heat radiating off the grill you can smell the meat aromas we ordered a bit of everything we're gonna have a meat feast , that's for sure is very similar to martabak or martaba which you will find throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
For me, Mombasa food attracts me the most. The point is and for me what's really fascinating about the food in Mombasa is that seeing how all the cultures have come together because you'll notice the influences from India with the spices and local Swahili coastal food you'll notice the the local Swahili coastal food and then you'll also notice the real Arabian Ara b influence as well But these flavors have been slightly changed but everything is slightly altered The fusion of various flavors has gradually adapted to the local environment in the long river of history it's been years and years of history in the making Mombasa is A beautiful city with amazing food Mombasa is a beautiful city with amazing food this is the spring chicken we're sitting down for the feast right now all the roasts are ready , colorful, and scones we have all the grill meat, the colors, the chapatti looks unbelievably delicious yeah it looks unbelievably good which dish would you like to start with? what do you wanna start with I wanna start with the mishkaki skewer Okay, that sounds like a good idea okay yes, that's that sounds good There's green chili sauce and red chili sauce so we have green chili, we have the red chili do you put a little on the plate? we just put some onto the plate ok yeah try without it first ok, this is just the plain mishkaki, there's a lot of sauce here sauces that we can try as well but at first we just have to try the meat on its own because it's marinated in quite a lot of spices as well turmeric marinated in as well, yeah okay okay wow so soft really tasty really tasty there's just a like an abundance of spice on there ok let's try the dipping sauce now yeah let's move into the sauce now this is green chili sauce this is red chili sauce this is tamarind sauce there's a green sauce there's a red sauce and there's a tamarind sauce, kind of mix all those together red chili sauce looks spicy, green chili is also red one looks deadly, and so does the green as well looks fantastic that heats...
Dipping sauce never it can never go wrong with sauce you can taste the sourness from the tamarind sauce you get a little bit of the sourness from the tamarind as well this skewer is so delicious mishkaki is fantastic ok farhana let's Try this kebab (kebab stuffing) all right Farhana, let's move into that kabobs this time I'm going to dip a little of this chili Sauce we're gonna go for that red chili sauce this one and I kind of keep this sauce is separate this time so that we can compare and contrast This is one biter, it 's great, oh yeah, the chili is so spicy, it's too tender, so tender , the juice inside is so chewy and it kind of oozes with like salty juices as you keep on chewing Try this chicken gonna for the chicken this grilled chicken? this I think this one is the spring chicken we got spring chicken which is a young chicken this is a roast chicken leg and we got chicken leg awesome look It looks incredible nice, yeah that looks incredible oh yeah, you can see how juicy this chicken is oh yeah you can see how juicy that is you can even feel how juicy it is with your fingers oh yeah you can feel how juicy it is in your fingers oh look at that wow, that is really good that one is awesome that one is awesome yet so so juicy and so tender very tender you can taste it You got that real like like smoky flavor from the grill you know the oil they put oh yeah they keep like brushing it with oil I think that's why the grilled chicken is so tender part of the reason I keep it moist as they keep on grilling it over the hot coal this one chapatti with egg and cheese You can see the melted cheese on the sides it's like melting on the sides it was very cool to watch him make this he first slaps that dough and then add keema stuffing) then he adds in the mixture and some keema then add cheese and then he adds in the cheese dig a hole in the middle of the stuffing, beat two eggs and then he makes a little like doughnut and then he cracks in two eggs and then stir evenly he like whips them up within the the dough folds the dough around it up Then something magical happened, he put the omelet into the pan without leaking at all and somehow magically he transports that to the grill without anything spilling and then fried it like a Thai style pie and then it cooks into a into a pancake very similar to mataba or madaba can you taste the egg inside? can you taste the egg? Of course umm-hmm is kind of like a smooth egg with ground beef, right? kind of like curddled eggs with the minced beef right there are a lot of onions in it, you can taste the onions inside, it's so delicious and also lots of onions in there, you taste a lots of onions, that is so good you like I'll give you a little more spicy, Mark you like it spicy you'll get it spicy, Mark I like spicy food, thank you, Farhana love spicy, thank you Farhana It's okay, let's have a little salad, add chili sauce you're welcome , so you take the salad, you pick up with all the chili and you put it on top of this and you put it on top of this and you take a big bite pick it up and put it on top yes yes addicted chili obsessed wow, a little too much wow, that may be a lot...
this is the ultimate chapatti bite mombasa style quiche Mombasa style is full of chili that's a lot of chili ready? are you ready? I can't wait I'm looking forward to it The chili in it is a bit spicy that's a lot of chili into that big bite that's a big bite oh yeah oh yeah Served with eggs, cheese, salad and spices, it tastes How about it? how does it taste with the egg, the cheese, and the salad, the spice it's amazing I love that mixture it's so good and with a chili sauce that makes it incredible too spicy, the moment you bite down, it gets so spicy, the minute you take that bite, instantly it heat on your top next try this roasted chicken leg okay next up this is the chicken tikka leg I'm just gonna wipe this thigh in the sauce try to... until the sauce is fully absorbed till it get soak it up the chicken is so good really good Yeah, the chicken is really good that spring chicken was excellent so you know this chicken is also gona be good because I'm sure they use the same kind of marinade because I'm pretty sure it's the same marination pure deliciousness, like... it's just delicious it's just like you can taste this chicken has been marinated for a long time and you can you can tell that it's been marinated for a long time because the flavor goes into the meat all the way to the bone all the way to the bottom without just being on the surface I taste cumin I taste cumin in that bite too yes, what a wonderful piece of grilled chicken oh yeah, oh what a wonderful superb piece of chicken these are French fries these are chips these are fried potatoes our local called masala chips known locally as masala chips are French fries It's a tomatoey blend of spices and cilantro in there that just coats so just gonna tuck on the chips it's a tomatoey blend of spices and cilantro in there it definitely taste that coriander tomato Very flavorful, a little sweet, a little bit...
They're really tomatoey, a little bit sweet, a little bit... and then you got the starchiness of the potato The strips lose their crunch but the sauce on top makes up for it kind of loses it's crispness but the sauce makes up for that is how we usually eat it, get some chips so basically what we do here is we take pieces of the the chips okay okay and then we cut the meat, cut the piece of the chicken we eat it together with some of the meat so you take a piece of the chicken okay okay and then some fries, just eat it together? and you pick it's with the chips, just eat it like that okay okay eat together now will be my next bite for sure masala chips Sour yeah, that you've got that nice of tanginess Delicious, right? nice? these masala chips are very sour that's what these the masala chips are very tangy got that like sweet sour combo that was insanely good all day today, which is your favorite dish what was your favorite food from the entire day? Overall, I like that fried chili the whole, I like the sweet one with the chili I really like this, the chili mixed with sweet and sour taste is really good I really like that, that was a really nice mix of sweet and sour and chili for me that was...
from here, I have to say that I mean the meat was absolutely incredible but For me, uniqueness... but for me the uniqueness of the... especially the fried chili, that was one of the best dishes of the day and specifically the fried chili that was the ultimate bite of this entire day Thanks a lot to Farhana for taking me to her favorite places but I have to say a huge thank you to Farhana or taking me around to some of her favorite places I will leave the link in this description box everyone must check out her channel but check out her channel she's not only super fun to be with, but she's not only she loves food she's fun to hang out with and she loves spicy food is drop I do so Remember to check out her channel, if you like it, remember to subscribe so go check her out go subscribe to her channel Farhana thank you to Farhana I also want to say a huge thank you to Samil for setting a lot of things for me in Mombasa he did A lot of behind the scenes work so thank you very much Samil he's done a lot of behind the scenes work so thank you to Samil Today is my first day in Mombasa and this actually happens to be my very first day in Mombasa so this is a time Incredible introduction to the food and culture of Mombasa so this was an incredible introduction to the food, the culture I love walking around the streets It's such a melting pot and beautiful at the same time the city it's really a melting pot and it's a beautiful city that's gonna be it for this video that's gonna be it for this video we hope to see you again soon in Mombasa of course of course , thank you for sure for sure thanks oh thank you and thank you for your patience in watching and you too thank you for watching thumbs up Don’t forget to pop up and comment ooo leave a comment below ooo also click subscribe and also click that little belt icon so you can see my latest video ooo so that you get notified in the next video sense ouo thanks again for watching ooo goodnight from Mombasa ooo see you on the next video
