$5 vs $272 Biryani! MOST EXPENSIVE Biryani in THE WORLD

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This restaurant is bustling Completely packed inside so I'm uh, I'm grabbing a seat outside It's about 95 degrees today Luckily, it's still earlier in the day. So hopefully the temperature will hold a little bit until I finish my meal I Accidentally left all my cash back at the hotel and they don't take credit cards So I'm gonna head off to this other place. I wanted to go try and then see if I can find an ATM Around the corners in is rabies an authentic Pakistani restaurant. So got a fresh roti And the dish they brought over is called paya and in this particular case, it's a mutton hoof curry And this is a very popular dish in Pakistan in India I remember eating this many mornings when I was in Pakistan and this thing is just full of natural soft good gelatin This is delicious the curry just has so much flavor when you're first putting your mouth First thing you're tasting is you're getting a lot of fat. I mean, this is mutton Basically a layer of fat floating on the surface And then the richness of the curry completely takes over and just tasting all those great spices a couple bites later The heat kicks in. Yeah a lot of flavor in the curry and check out the mutton I'm cutting this with a plastic spoon and the leg here. Look at all this great Cartilage and tendon and this is all that rich gelatinous. See good stuff. And again cutting this with a Plastic spoon put it on my roti That is a fatty fatty mutton If you're not used to eating something like this, it may not be your thing. I love it though This whole thing is just so incredibly soft. There's some marrow right here That you can suck out I'm gonna show you guys. That's some good marrow. You got to get a hold of that That is some outstanding marrow soaked in curry If you want some authentic delicious Pakistani food, this is where you go. I mean, you don't have to get the mutton leg. I think they have chicken as well. I Love this stuff though. I think the spices balances out the fattiness of this dish so well, let's see what else is around Breakfast slash lunch number two. Well, I got some cash and I'm back and look at the size of the paratha freshly fried crispy toasty on the outside Whoo Glistening with oil on top still. My chicken curry is here. First of all, let's tear this up. Oh my goodness This feels and smells amazing It's so toasty on the outside This is freaking delicious. There's definitely a local place all locals in here and it's packed. When I got here it was packed. When I left For about an hour, it was packed and I came back and it's still packed First of all, this is amazing perfectly fried so toasty on the outside. So you got a nice crunch inside Beautifully soft perfect for dipping into the curry and the curry itself. Oh Look how tender this chicken is again I'm using plastic forks and spoons to dissect my meat today and they're all just falling apart. Look how soft this is If you guys want something really traditional come here and try this place out and Ravi's is really good place. I just went to Yeah If you want traditional Indian Pakistani food around this neighborhood, you're not gonna go wrong I mean the paratha first of all, this thing is just bomb-tastic. The curry is so flavorful the chicken These you guys saw me just break this down with a plastic fork. Just wonderfully tender. Also this place I met the owner all the staff Incredibly incredibly nice Again when I walked in and saw a full house, I knew this place is gonna be good and a hundred percent blew past my expectations This curry is so spicy. Highly highly recommend One more food item before wrapping up lunch. That says bucket beer on it. As soon as I walked in No, that smell of spices and masalas is pelting me This is a takeout place couple giant pots of biryani. Got my water. I'm gonna go home and chow. Just got back here's my bucket of biryani. Two sauces yogurt sauce and gulab jamun. So this giant bucket of Biryani weighs about two pounds. I say two to three pounds all this about five dollars and they fill this up So this is chicken biryani So this is Tamil style biryani and usually I get mutton, but I got chicken this time just to try something different This is so freaking good. Everything I had today It's just so amazing and I couldn't even wait like I wanted to talk about those a little more But then as soon as I sat down and opened this bucket up the fragrance from the masala Remember those old Looney Tunes cartoons where the fragrance is like turns into a hand and it kind of drives the person towards it That's kind of what it felt like. Always have this near me so I can just inhale the awesome aroma That's coming out from this bucket. The chicken I've been using plastic cutlery to like not even plastic forks, but plastic spoons and forks to cut meats all day It's all been that kind of tender And this biryani is giving off the same vibes, oh my goodness, this is delicious There's some chilies in here And every time the spoon goes into my mouth as I'm chewing that the fragrance of this dish is just Pours in through my body. Also, they give me a little sauce for the rice. Wow I don't even know what that flavor is I think maybe a combination of a curry and cumin in a little tomato in here as well. Oh The sauce is so good. Love the egg too, especially the yolk. It just gives it an extra bit of creaminess Hmm, I highly recommend this place. Oh, I taste cinnamon as well They're just so much. It's like a complex flavor profile coming from a five bucket biryani I can usually feed two people. Gulab jamun. Oh, that's delicious as well. And this is setting the stage for what I'm about to eat tonight So this food day is not over. I've tried three amazing places today and tonight I'm going to a place that serves the most expensive biryani in the world. A giant gold covered biryani That's coming up so I'm gonna just feast on this and probably just go work out until then. Alright, see you guys in a bit Just got inside the restaurant. They're preparing the biryani out back So this dish has been trending on social media a lot Especially in the last year and there's actually quite a few of these luxurious food items here in Dubai I wanted a biryani just because I really like biryani. I'm just really curious to see how they made a dish That's typically very affordable into something quite extravagant It's done. This is easily the most expensive Exquisite plate of food I ever seen assembled in front of me. Let me show you this is Right here the most expensive biryani in the world. It cost $276 for this ginormous plate I don't know how much the plate itself weighs but what I'm holding right now is Easily 15 pounds and that makes sense because there's there's about five to six pounds of meat alone on this plate There's potatoes three full eggs four lamb chops handful of lamb meatballs chicken and then Mutton kebabs sitting over three types of rice There's white and saffron rice where the chicken is sitting on top of there's keema rice right here Which is a minced meat rice and the third one is chicken biryani rice where the mutton is sitting on top So there's a ton of meat on here and ton of rice What's giving it a lot of value is is all the gold they put on top of this So it's covered in 23 karat edible gold now I don't think I've ever eaten this much food that's covered in gold before I feel kind of weird doing it because I think I'm Much rather just crumpled it up into like a maybe a ball and just take it home But I just see that there's some leftover when they were putting the the the gold on the meat Sometimes there'll be a little leftover on a paper and I'm just like, oh I would like to take that. So again, I love biryani when I was in India I think the biryani I had in Hyderabad. It's always something that remains fresh in my memory Love this dish and this is definitely the most exquisite like the most elegant and for sure The most hoity-toity version I've ever seen my life. Oh also The biryani comes with four different Sauces and I've had my fair share of expensive food items in the past like a giant mountain of lobster or a five Wagyu steak buffet. I just never had a dish with so much gold on it I figure while in Dubai when I try something extravagant just grab a little bit of everything saffron rice white rice with pomegranate seeds go ahead and take this piece of golden chicken off a Golden mutton meatball some of this keema rice with potatoes lamb chop and this mutton Kebab and just a bit of all the different types of rice So this one is the nihari. It's really like a Pakistani meat sauce. So there's tons of chilies in here. This is the badami This is almond curry with a chicken base. This is the chapati masala, which is a northern Indian masala This is a pomegranate raita, which is a yogurt sauce with of course pomegranate seed inside But I really just want to try everything on its own first First of all lamb chops delicious. It's spicy tons of cumin super tender meat and the gold part It's like exactly what I just tasted before without the gold really this gold has no flavor It just makes the food ingredient more expensive and more glitzy. But this is a delicious Piece of lamb. I'm just gonna put some Some of the sauce over it And mix some of the sauce into the rice The keema rice is definitely my favorite. Oh my goodness. Well, that was kind of difficult to break into this mutton meatball here Hmm this mutton meatball is definitely dense Good flavor. It's a marinated chicken. I Don't know if it's because it's covered in gold. I'm not sure I mean, I'm always happy to see gold, but I don't know if my stomach really can tell the difference But that bite just made my whole entire body happy That's one of the most tender juicy flavorful Piece of chicken you can put in your mouth the now marinated one. That's delicious, too Just gonna put some sauce all over it mix it up with my rice Hmm Everything about this dish from the different flavors of rice To the meat to the sauces they give you just provides your taste buds with such an extravagant biryani experience Now if you never had biryani before there's different ways to cook this and each Region uses different spices and different cooking methods Like I said, probably the best ever had was hybrid ad and I can't sit here and tell you what's authentic What's not and anything like that? I can only tell you what tastes good and this thing from the different types of rice which in itself Which is a delicious meal on its own but paired with a succulent tender meat that's just highlighted But all these amazing spices it just takes your taste buds on this grand and infinitely delicious drink This is why I love Indian food so much. They're just so much going on and none of it conflicts with each other It's like the most complex. Yes Harmonious symphony. So when you take a bite of the rice on its own We're what I'm doing right now is mixing a lot of the ingredients together all the spices and ingredients and the sauces even I'm loving this Yogurt pomegranate sauce, by the way So basically when you put a bite of food in your mouth every time you chew I feel like this thing is giving off a new And vibrant flavor profile like you chew a couple times. You're like, oh, there's the cumin you chew a couple times Oh, there's the curry. It's just so many things that highlights all the ingredients that's in here. I know The gold has a lot to do with the value of this dish, but this dish on its own It is a delicious dish with that said I'm still eating the heck out of that gold That's going to stomach but when I first found out about this dish, I was just thinking you know what it's just gold It's probably gonna taste. Okay This is really really good. My favorite meat as much as I love the lamb chops There's a hundred percent of marinated chicken and then even the all marinated chicken. I love the mutton kebabs All the meat is good in here the rice I feel like beer biryani for me rice is so Unbelievably important if I can take a bite of rice and flavor profiles just start popping up every single time I chew that's a winner for me and this thing definitely does that this could feed about ten people if a bunch of people want To get together. They want to see something pretty extravagant. You some gold. It's definitely a delicious dish So again, it's this whole process took about 45 minutes If you want to come here and get this gotta order this a day in advance And like I said It's just so many different flavor profiles and textures because with the three sauces all the ingredients here It just seemed like there's like infinite flavor combos I was thinking about this like a gold that Sunday at Serendipity 2 in New York City is like what? $1,000 and I think I don't know cuz I never had that somebody somebody before but just from pictures I think there's way more gold here. So for a gold infused dishes 277 for this giant. I I think this will feed at least eight people and I think there was some some chicken wing covered in Gold for a thousand dollars. I mean this 277 Gold aside again, this is good. So I guess if anyone ever wants to have a gold covered dish That's probably the best option. Also, the sauces are so nice. This is the meaty sauce This thing is super spicy so much meat flavor in the sauce goes good with rice. I say it goes good with the mutton as well The almond one is incredibly nutty and you can taste right away the fragrant of the nuts That's inside the sauce with every single bite those two I think are my favorite sauces Alright, there's no way that we can finish all those especially after a big food day already But got this also because tomorrow's an off day. So just gonna be hanging out in the hotel room watching movies This will be the in-room dining. Of course, it's always our place at Wintu is listed down below for you guys Thank you all so much for watching until we eat again. See you later