Exploring Coyoacan + Chapultepec Park | Mexico City Day 3

It's nice and sweet. Good morning. This is our last day in Mexico City. We're starting the day at a special place called El Hidalguense. We came here specifically for the barbacoa. This place is only open on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The reason for that is because barbacoa is traditionally a meat that's made on the weekends or typically on a Sunday in Mexico. It's a meat that's wrapped in these leaves, and they cook it in an underground oven all night. It's cooked slow, so it's really tender and juicy. It smells delicious. It looks delicious. We have tortillas here and all the salsas and limes and onions. I'm very excited. My mouth is watering. That was incredible. If you were here on a weekend, you have to come here. The meat was so soft and tender and flavorful, and the salsas were amazing. We got here at 7 right when they opened, and we were the only ones there. We had the whole place to ourselves, which was pretty cool, but I hear this place gets pretty popular. Now we came over to the neighborhood of Coyoacan. We've heard awesome things about this neighborhood. I was just reading an article while we were in our Uber, and it said that this is the neighborhood that foreigners want to move to when they visit the city. We're really excited to check it out. They have a really popular market here that we're going to go to, and we're going to go get coffee, which is our first task because yesterday we waited nine hours, and that was brutal. We're not going to make that mistake again. Then we're just going to walk around and see what we find. It looks really awesome so far. We decided to do a coffee bang-bang. What that means is we go to two places back-to-back. It's a term that we learned from this podcast we love called Extra Pack of Peanuts. They do a lot of bang-bangs. They do ice cream bang-bangs, taco bang-bangs. You can do a taco ice cream bang-bang. There are so many options. We love just stuffing our faces. We wanted to experience as many coffee shops while we were in town, so we thought we'd just hit up two back-to-back. The first one is Cafe Negro, which is this very trendy, kind of hipster-y coffee shop. They have the white brick. They have a lot of wood and black accents, the subway tile. They have a lot of plants, which is my favorite. It's basically my dream coffee shop, so I'm loving it so far. We got an Americano. We're going to test it out. Caffeine, so good. Part two of our coffee bang-bang is El Jarocho. This place has been here for 66 years, a little bit of time. We got a cafe de olla, which is a traditional Hispanic drink that's made from ground coffee, cinnamon, and unrefined sugar that kind of has like a caramel flavor. I hope it's not too hot. I'm going to give it a try right now. I'll probably burn my tongue. It's hot, but it's just right. All right, our next stop is Mercado Coyoacan. There are tons of markets in Mexico City, but we heard this is a really good one to check out for food, as well as just not being a local. Some of the markets are better suited for locals and tourists. We did hear that this market is a little hesitant to photos and videos at times, and some stands don't let you take any at all, so we're going to try to cover it the best we can. We also want to be respectful and not get in trouble, so we'll see what happens. So the first thing we're eating at the market is a bunch of mixed fruit with this chili sugar powder on top. I thought it was going to be like that Tajin stuff, but it's a different brand, so I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but it looks really good. From our research, we found that the best tostadas in the market is tostadas Coyoacan las originales, and we got a chicken tinga one that has onions and avocado and crema on it, and beans also. So we unfortunately only ended up eating at two places in the market. We got here really early, and a lot of things weren't set up yet. Things are definitely being set up more now, but we still think we're a little too early to fully experience the market. Yeah, we really wanted to try the elotes with all the fixings on it, but the lady we were looking for, we couldn't find her yet. And this other thing called tlacoyo. I don't know if that's how you say it, but this is how you spell it. It's like this blue corn, kind of patty, and then you put a bunch of stuff on it, but we couldn't find that either. So womp womp, but that's okay. It was still a really cool market, and it was fun walking around, and the food we did have was good. There are a lot of street vendors set up, kind of on our walk back through town, so we're going to just hit those up and see if we can find the things we're looking for. So I'm not sure if it's just a Saturday thing or a weekend thing, but they have a ton of just vendors out on the street selling crafts, hats, souvenirs, you name it, they have it. So it's really fun to walk around. I'm loving this neighborhood so far. We haven't found elotes yet, but we found helado. So I got the peanut butter and blackberry jam flavor. I think they switch up their flavors often, so I'm not sure if they always have this, but peanut butter ice cream is my absolute favorite, and this is really good. Found them. So I got my elote, but without mayonnaise because I can't eat eggs, and I already feel kind of sick from the churros yesterday, so I don't want to make it worse. It's kind of like dried corn. I don't know if it's supposed to be like this or not. Might have just picked a bad stand. Win some, you lose some. So to make up for our sad elote experience, which we hate to be negative at all, but that was pretty fascinating. She Likes Killers, which is a traditional Mexican dish that we were recommended to get by our friend Moni. I'm aware of Facebook. She Likes Killers. I don't know how to say it. It was super exciting because it's like colorful. It's skirt steak. It's called arrancera. It's a Spanish word. So here we go. I'm excited. So I'm a big texture person, and I don't normally like things that are kind of soggy, but the flavor on this is good. Our next major attraction for the day is El Bosque de Chapultepec. So this is actually one of the largest parks in the Western Hemisphere, just under 1700 acres. We're not going to explore the whole thing. We don't have enough time or energy. We're pretty pooped. But we are going to go to two of the most popular attractions in the park. We're going to go check out the castle that's down at the end of the road behind us and the Museum of Anthropology. Which we hear is a really awesome museum. We were kind of torn of what we wanted to do museum-wise because we're not. Adam loves museums more than I do, so we don't go to them that often, but we hear it's a great museum. So we're pumped to check it out. So let go. A couple things to know if you decide to go to the castle. You cannot bring water in. So we bought some right as we were waiting in line, but we chugged it and thankfully are now really hydrated. You also cannot bring any tripods. We had our little bendy guy that we use for vlogging. We had our stabilizer. We couldn't bring that either. Or our microphone. So we're going to cross our fingers that where we left them with a guard is safe. Alright, so all the signs are in Spanish, so we're not picking up a whole lot of information. But what we have learned is that in the past, this area was a sacred place for the Aztecs, an imperial palace, military academy, observatory, and now it's a museum of national history. So lots of cool stuff inside. Lots of history, art, swords, and all kinds of cool stuff. So it was really fun to walk around. And then also the views are awesome too. We made it to the National Museum of Anthropology. This is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico and it holds the Aztec people. But we're definitely going to check out all the other exhibits too. Top of the day is at Taqueria Orinoco. We both got tacos al pastor. We got all the salsas here. It came with pineapple. And it also came with these little papa fritas. Little potato things. So here we go. Our time in Mexico City has come to an end. We are so sad to leave tomorrow. We have a really early flight and a really long travel day. So we're cutting the Mexico City vlogs here. We absolutely loved it here. It was such a cool city. One, it felt really safe. I know that's a concern people have, but we felt safe the entire time. And that's even carrying expensive camera gear and whatnot. So we felt safe and you shouldn't be concerned about safety coming here. We also just loved all the green spaces. So it's a massive city, but we kept finding all these cool little parks. And it just really added to the whole vibe. Yeah, that was one of my favorite parts is the walkable neighborhoods they have. On a lot of streets they have a median in the middle that has its own sidewalk. And it's kind of like a park-y kind of thing in the middle of the street. And then just finding these little pockets of nature and the trees and the architecture. And it was just cool. And it's extra special at sunset that we happened to catch last night. So yeah, so that. And then also the amazing tacos. We can't get over those. So we wanted to rank each of our top three picks. So we went to seven taco shops total. Five on day one and then one yesterday. So if you have yet to see those vlogs, go check them out so you know which tacos we're talking about. Adam, what were your favorites? So my number three was Tacos Coyocos. Like a sidewalk cafe taco stand, which a lot of them are. But this one was just cool looking. So it had that suadero meat, which was just excelente. And my number two was El Gran Abanico. Hard to say sometimes. And that was just a madhouse. But just the flavor and the rapid service. And just, it was cool. And then my number one was El Vilcito. That was just an awesome experience there. Crazy like nighttime experience with just a cool vibe going on. The crowd. So yeah. Okay, so my number three is Tacos Manolo. The tacos were just awesome. And we got to eat outside. It was just a really cool vibe. I mean all of them had a really cool vibe because it's all like street food. My second one is Tacos Coyocos, which is the suadero meat one that Adam mentioned. The guy was so nice. He gave us our tacos for free, which even if he didn't, it would still be my number two. It was just really good to like try a different kind of meat that we'd never tried and love it. And then my number one is also El Vilcito. That's a must do. It's a little out of the way, but it's so good. And the vibe was just awesome. It's just a unique setup. And then we got to talk to a couple of locals there. And it was just a really fun experience. Yeah, you can't come to Mexico City without trying that place. Yeah, that's our number one must do when it comes to tacos. So speaking of coming to Mexico City, if you would like to come here for yourself, we have created a guide with all of our must eat, must do things, including things we didn't even get to do that were on our long list of things people suggested to us, things we researched. So check that out. The link is in the description below. We hope you get to make it here. And until next time, adios. Ever since I can remember, I've been popping my collar, popping, popping my collar. To prevent sunburns. Look at that. The back of your head. It's ridiculous. The back of your head is ridiculous, girl. It's ridiculous. I'd like to walk in the shade, though, eventually. To the left, to the right.