Extreme MEXICO CITY STREET FOOD TOUR with 5 Mexican Guys CDMX!

Good morning, I hope you're having an amazing day. It's Mark Wiens, I'm in Mexico City. Before coming to Mexico City, I got an email from Moises, and he watches our videos, he loves to eat, and he said, when you come to Mexico City, I wanna take you around, I wanna show you some amazing Mexican street food. So I'm on my way to go meet Moises now. He's gonna take us on a Mexican street food tour of Mexico City, especially focusing on the center of Mexico City. We're gonna visit some of the legendary markets, but first, we are gonna go eat breakfast at this stall, which is in La Condesa, that is known for, well, okay, I'm gonna show you. We're on our way there now. This is gonna be an awesome day of Mexican street food. Not Moises, but he's waiting for you over there. Okay, cool. Nice to meet you. Cool, nice to meet you. Hi. Nice to meet you. Moises. What's up, man? Nice to meet you. How are you? Chilaquil. Maybe we can say it's a chilaquil sandwich, green and red. This is my friend. Hey, nice to meet you. Horacio and Julia. Hola, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Hola, nice to meet you. And a torta, it's a sandwich, and so they start with a loaf of bread. I think they fill in frijoles? Frijoles. The beans. Beans. And then they have all the ingredients laid out here. Chicken. And then you have to choose between a green chilaquiles or red chilaquiles. Okay, and that includes cheese and cream. And what's in the chilaquiles? Is it chips? It's tortilla with salsa. Fried tortilla. Fried tortilla, okay. So it's like crunchy, but then it turns kinda saucy. Yeah. With all the salsa. Yes, exactly. Grab your tortas with my friends. I like more green. Green, I think maybe 80% of people like the green. Oh, okay. Okay, so green is one of their top sellers. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they told us that they were done with the green ones for today. Wow, already, and it's only 9 a.m. Really, really good. Esta es verde? Tenemos cerveza. Sí, this is green. Gracias. On the inside is actually a milanesa, which is a fried, breaded piece of very thin chicken. And then they put in some beans at the bottom. They put in some cream. She adds in the, you can see that those are actually like fried tortilla chips, which are kinda crushed up and then added with the sauce, the green chile, to make it kind of saucy. Oh, the bread is crusty, but like really fluffy, soft. You've got that thin layer of fried chicken. You can taste the green chile in there, for sure. And then it has like kind of a, I mean, the chips, they're not crunchy anymore, but that creates kind of like a tortilla sauce, which just explodes with flavor in there. You've got the cream, you taste the cheese. Yeah, yeah, that's very good. What do you think? Awesome. I think it's awesome. I love it. Really good. And I think your review was very accurate. My favorite part is the chicken mixed with the sauce. Oh, yeah. Awesome. Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is not a light morning breakfast. It's heavy, it's dense. You've got carbs on top of carbs on top of carbs, and it is delicious. I'm really starting to get into the depths of this torta, and it's just, that green chile is awesome. And look, more and more people are arriving. Moises was telling me that if you come at about 11 a.m. today, the line will go down the street. So, perfect timing. This was an amazing way to start the day. And we're on our way next to Mercado de San Juan, which is a, it's a very well-known downtown market. Wow, that line, as we are leaving, it's stretching into the park now. We just arrived to Mercado de San Juan. This is known as a gourmet market in Mexico City, and already, there's a lot of exotic fruits. This is a really cool market that I wanted to visit. Cherries. Cherries? Okay, thank you. I'll try. Gracias. Look at the size of those. Wow, look at the size of those. This market is known as being a high-end, very gourmet market. You walk around, you see cheeses. They have all sorts of different meats imported from around the world, but it's a very nice market. It's very clean, it's very organized, and yeah, they have some very high-end gourmet foods here. We've stopped at a stall that serves all sorts of pre-Hispanic and exotic bugs and creepy crawlers. Ah, okay. There's the salt. Oh, no. It has a trunk flavor. He just freshly fried up some scorpions. They're not too huge, they're little scorpions. So he said, eat the scorpion, chase it with the mezcal. It's kind of juicy. Oh, it almost has like a nutty, kind of like slight chocolatey flavor to it, with a little bit of a bitterness. That's a good combination. That was a tasty scorpion. Are you still alive? Yeah. This market is fantastic. You'll find so many exotic things, but some of the stalls are not that open because it's a Sunday morning right now. I'm glad we got to try a scorpion, but we're gonna proceed onwards to La Merced, which is one of the ultimate markets of downtown Mexico City, and there we're gonna do some serious street food eating. We just arrived to Mercado de la Merced. This is one of the most well-known markets in Mexico City. It's huge, and just riding here in the car, you can see the energy starts to pick up. It's getting busier and busier. There's stall after stall of just everything you can possibly imagine. This is just a gargantuan market. This entire area is all market. We are on a hunt for street food, though, but we're passing through everything from batteries and wallets to plants to kids' toys to little jumping dogs. Passing through a passageway, a canyon of shoes, we are arriving to the food section, or one food section. We're stopping first to eat some quesadillas, flattening the masa, and then they're frying over the hot plate. They're filling it with some kind of a meat mixture, and then they pull them up, roll them up, and then, whoa, look at that, basket full of candy. And then they fry over here, and it's almost like a wok-looking, rounded hot skillet as well. They smell unbelievable. A chicharrón quesadilla. Awesome. So, this is made out of pork. Okay, and there's chicharrón in there? Yeah, well, it's a different kind of chicharrón. It's a different kind of chicharrón. So, it's not the pork skin. It also has meat parts. Okay, and there's cheese in there also? No. No cheese. So, no cheese. No cheese, but there's a chicharrón. And then just a salsa roja. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Mm. It's extremely good, extremely good, extremely good. The tortilla is fresh made. Yes. Here, and the salsa, the salsa roja, the red salsa is very good, extremely good. Look at all of that meat stuffed in there, and the salsa. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, that's ridiculous. That meat is, like, so fatty, oily, and salty. And then, oh, that salsa is awesome. And then, yeah, you can really taste the freshness of that tortilla. They grill it over those hot plates so that it sort of gets crispy. Oh, that's superb. Oh, wow. Look at that. So, this one is cheese and salsa verde. Cheese quesadilla. The thing here in Mexico City, not all quesadillas are with cheese. This one specifically is with cheese. Yeah, that's very interesting. Yeah, but the cheese quesadilla with green salsa. Stringy cheese. Okay, and next up, this is the only one with cheese, and it's also with salsa verde, the green salsa. Yeah. Really good. Yeah, that's like a mozzarella-tasting cheese. I think it's called tinga. Tinga. With green salsa, beef, onions, and tomato sauce. We got some amazing, yeah. It's almost like a barbecue salsa. And again, those tortillas are just awesome. And I love how they fry them, like double fry them, so that they get kind of crispy. So good. Which one is the best? Chicharron. Yeah, I agree. I agree, that chicharron was unparalleled. Muy, muy bueno. It was absolutely amazing. Okay, we're moving on. Okay. There's so much meat in the air. We need salsa. Gracias. Also, there's green, there's red, and there's more cajeta. Can I put some salsa on it? Chicharron is very spicy. Green or red? Yeah. Because we had red on this one, so the green. We can try both. Salted beef. They also, in these tacos, have french fries, nopales, and onion. That's a plus. The deal breaker here, the game changer, is that they add on a whole handful of french fries. That's like a whole pack of french fries on top of your taco. You've gotta really squish it down to get this all. Look, it's just overflowing with french fries. Cheers. Cheers, man. Oh, wow. Oh, that's amazing. Oh, the salsa in there. Then you've got those oily, crispy french fries. The beef, it's salty. Oh, it's awesome. They add texture, right? The french fries, crunchiness. Look at all that. Okay, now I've gotta try this onion. Oh, it's so sweet and juicy. Never in my life have french fries on a taco tasted and sounded so delicious. That was absolutely awesome. We've gotta try this. It's the same meat, but the process is different. Right down the lane from where we just ate an exploding french fries taco. Okay. Hola. Let's go pancito. And it is the? Beef stomach. But it's in a spicy broth with smoked chiles, I think it's guajillo, and pasilla, those kinds. And oil. And the beef has four stomachs, right? So it's different texture for each of them. Cool. Squeezing. Hold your stomach in. It looks like it's a clay cauldron just full of soup, red soup. And it's called pancita, which is a variety of cow stomachs within a soup. And it's gorgeous. You can see it just herbs overflowing in there. There's a paddle that she uses to stir it with, and she just dishes it out. This place is bumping. Mmm. The first thing that you have to admire here is the size of this spoon. That's a good size spoon. I'm just gonna taste the broth first before I do anything. They added some onions, some cilantro, and some lime as well in here. Oh. It has like this smoky flavor to it. You can taste like a roasted flavor of it. And it does have a little bit of an argini taste to it. That's delicious. I got some onions in there, too. Okay, now to try some of the chunkier bits. Oh, how about this? This chunk right there. Oh yeah, that looks like it has some texture. Mmm. It's really tender. Mmm. It is a little bit jiggly. That broth is awesome, though. It's so, it's made with roasted chili, so it has that wonderful smoky chili flavor to it. Green sauce is like a guacamole sauce. Mmm. Okay, and also maybe that chili. Okay. Thank you so much. Oh, you're welcome. I think it's better in taco. That's the way everybody's eating it if you look around this massive dining room. It's very oily. It's very oily, yes. Very, what? Oily. Spicy. Oh, I wanna get that chili. It's a little bit chewy. A little bit rubbery. But delicious. In the kitchen back here, they're boiling more of the soup, and that just bubbles away. That's a serious boil. And then I guess once it cooks here, then they transport it to the clay vessel at the front. That's where they distribute it. That's where they serve it. And then, wow, I can feel the heat coming off the tortillas over here that they're making fresh. And by the way, the tortillas here are also top-notch excellent. Not only was that food amazing, but it just, it will arouse your senses. That's so visual. There's so much going on. There's enough food in this market to make you go dizzy. Pambazo. Yeah, I've never tried that. Wow. What's the name of this again? This is a pambazo. It's a bolillo, which is bread. And it's fried and dipped in a tomato sauce. So that's why it's red-colored tomato sauce coating all of the bread and fried. And then it's filled with potatoes and chorizo mix. And they also put lettuce, cream, and cheese on it. And salsa, of course. You can eat it here. Let's eat it. Let's go. Cheers. Pambazo cheers. That is, that's flavorful. You can taste the chorizo in there. You can taste the salsa, the cream. The bread is pretty cool. Not healthy, but very good. Definitely. The chorizo is really good in there. The chorizo in there, that's what rocks it. That's what flavors, that's what powers this entire sandwich, that chorizo. That was it. Extremely good. You will not believe how many different types of salsa and meat juices are all over my fingers and all over the camera. All over the camera. This market is just out of control. There are just masses of fresh ingredients. Any kind of Mexican food you can possibly imagine, you can buy the ingredients here. Do you need a piñata? You have about 1,000 different choices from dinosaurs to Power Rangers. Mamey. So many people here. I got sandwiched. This is a fruit called mamey. Kind of looks like an oval egg shape. This is a fruit I've never tried. And on the inside, it looks similar to a papaya. Oh, it's really sweet. It's almost like a condensed, non-juicy papaya with a very sweet, almost honey sweetness to it. It's a very dense fruit. It's like condensed sweetness. We have just emerged from the depths of the market. If you go to the dictionary and if you search for culinary wonderland, La Merced, this market will be one of the top results. It's amazing. If you love food, you will just be in awe. I was just walking around with my jaw open, my mouth drooling. There's so much food. There's so many fruits and vegetables. There's so much color. There's so much energy. I just love how they cut the mangoes here into like a bouquet. It looks like a flower. He sprinkles on quite a nice layer of that chili chamoy. I think I got it all over my chin. Oh, that's delicious. The mango is sweet and then you've got that salty chamoy, which contrasts it. I got it all over my chin. Yeah, the mango is sweet. We're on our way now to downtown. Micah also got a mango without any seasoning. He ate the entire top half. Oh, hi, Micah. This is the center downtown of Mexico City and we're going to a place that's called El Morro and they are, they're legendary. So this is the place you come in Mexico City to eat churros. The takeaway line actually snakes all the way down the outside, but the line for sitting in is not that long. So we decided to get a table. We're gonna sit down. We're gonna sample the churros here, the original. We're getting permission to enter churro paradise. This place is as crazy and as hectic as the market, but in a totally different churro kind of way. I didn't want to stay in the kitchen for too long because it's so hectic and they have such a system. I don't want to get in their way, but they allowed me to just go back and see how they make the churros. They have the batter coming out of a spigot and he's such an expert. The churro master, he takes these long chopsticks and he kind of swirls it around into a giant circular shape, coil after coil. It's like a hose. It's like a donut hose. And then it goes into a bath of sugar. It's so pale. You have to introduce your churro on the hot chocolate. They're crunchy. They're gooey in the perfect kind of way. They're sugary. It's sweet and salty. It is really, really good. Oh, that's amazing. Dip it in the chocolate. You've got the extra chocolate factor. You've got the milkiness of it, so it's juicy. Yeah, I think what's good to me is it's just the perfect gooey, crunchy texture combined all together. If you love churros, if you love sweets, this is a place you have to visit in the world. Yeah, those churros are next level. We're walking on our way to El Zocalo, and there are just masses of people, but El Zocalo is the historic center. It's the main plaza. Everything in Mexico City sort of leads to El Zocalo, and we're coming up on it very soon. We made the walk through the Sea of Humanity. We made it to El Zocalo. This is the central plaza. It's a giant plaza. It just opens up. There's some very important buildings here. This is where they hold a lot of public events, places where lots of people can gather. Wow, it's huge here. We're stopping next to eat esquite, and it is one of the, a very, very common Mexican street food snack throughout Mexico City. Really nice. I got a big chunk of mayonnaise, and that's good. Yeah, the corn, the salsa in there is salty. A little bit spicy. It's creamy. It's also warm on a cold day. It's a fantastic street food snack. It tastes so good. It's so addictive. It's salty. It's limey. It's cheesy. It's creamy. Turkey tortas. We've made it to the next spot on this Mexican street food tour of Mexico City. This is a place, you can see in the window here, they have some giant fried turkeys. Simple, but very tasty. This place has been serving them since 1928. This is an institution. Yeah, the bun is really, really soft, and then you've got the shreds of turkey. It just tastes like a classic. Some chilies. The soup in a coffee cup. Oh, that's just like straight up turkey broth. It's, yeah, I think you're supposed to add your own salt because it's not salty, but it is good. It's like, it's very, it's very turkey. The turkey torta is over. This is the spot. It's, yeah, it's been around for a long, long time. Overall, it's good. A little bit plain, but pretty good. We've got one more stop on this Mexican street food tour, and it's gonna be a good final ending. Here it is, the final stop. Do you want a cheek? Cabeza. Cheek, and? Yes, I want a cheek, very badly. Which other? Cheek, and there's also eye. There's ear. Choose me your two favorite. Okay. Yeah. I would choose a cheek. Cabeza and cheek. Cabeza y lengua. Maciza. All right, everyone has their favorite, man. My trust is in you. Okay. Which salsa is for this? So beautiful. You know you have a good taco technique when the meat doesn't fall off, right? Cheek taco. Wow. That's insane. It's fatty, it's juicy. A little bit chewy. The beef cake is so good. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Amazing tacos. It has the best flavor. It's my favorite. It's absolutely amazing. Cheers, man. Cheers. Let's go cheers. And next one is cabeza, which is a mix of all the head meats. So there's some cheek in there, there's some eye, there's some, yeah, yeah, some parts you don't want to ask are in there. That's spectacular. Which one is better? Cheek or cabeza? Oh, no. I sort of like the cabeza. The mix, yeah. That's just a blend of head. So we've come to the end of this incredible Mexican street food tour. It's been so much fun hanging out with all of them. And they are just starting a YouTube channel. It's called, what's it, what's the name? Five Mexican Guys. They're just starting it right now, so go check out their channel. I'll leave a link in the description box. They're gonna make awesome food and travel videos. Yeah, we're gonna do Mexican food videos. Mexican food. And Mexican recipes, so you can cook for friends and for family and surprise them. I've thoroughly enjoyed hanging out and eating with all of you guys. You guys too. It was awesome. Thank you. It was amazing. Thank you for coming. I had a great time. It was a pleasure. Muchas gracias. Remember to click thumbs up, leave a comment below, and also click the subscribe button. I'm gonna be publishing lots more food and travel videos. Goodbye from Mexico City. Bye bye. Nos vemos. Thanks for watching. Nos vemos. Tell me, what was your favorite food from the day? It's hard to decide, but for me it was the pambazo. The bolillo filled with potatoes and chorizo. It was the best. Mine was the quesadilla of chicharrón. I loved the head tacos of los corpullos. Really good. My favorite one was the beef taco with french fries on top. And it is something that you will only find at markets. And maybe we will be coming back soon. So don't forget to stay tuned. Yes. Okay, and I have to say the quesadilla de chicharrón. Mine was also the taco with the french fries on top. I loved it. Oh yeah. Look at that. Okay, quesadilla which is great.