🇮🇳 Don't Travel India Like THIS

Funny thing about flying across the world is uh when you get there you feel like you just flew you feel like you just flew across the world so 24 hours straight of travel and uh we have arrived in Delhi Indira Gandhi airport just had a quintessential India experience in the men's as it was completely empty at the urinals young gentleman decided to pull up right next to me and stare at my penis luckily i've been practicing the phrase so oh man so i was going to take the metro there's a lot of options here once you get to the airport a lot of a lot of taxi guys but they backed off as soon as i dropped a few hindi phrases that i know you get a prepaid taxi cheapest way is the metro though so i think the metro the metro is the way to go i think it's like less than a dollar to get to the new delhi railway station which is where i am headed so i don't think they start the metro until 6 00 am luckily it's 6 30 6 30 in the morning few hours of sleep over the last 24 hours i am not allowed to film in the metro i don't think so don't don't don't film in the metro i might get in trouble for this oh look at this guy see if i get shut down for filming in the metro i wonder if they're open you know it's time for some uh early in the morning time looking forward to getting into the city and getting some nice fresh hot samosa came all this way to have a guy stare at me at the urinal and to get some fresh samosa if nothing else where are you going i'm going over here where are you from i'm from the u.s where are you from i'm from jaipur jaipur nice beautiful you want jaipur uh blue city right no oh the bridge yeah that way oh thank you brother have a good day man all right so i was right no filming no filming in the subway i don't know if you're allowed to film don't know if you're allowed to film here but that's that's new delhi for you okay so the subway was 60 rupees that is uh 75 cents good deal definitely cheaper than a taxi if you go with one of the touts out front they'll try to get you for like 10 bucks or more for a taxi 15 20 bucks i think the prepaid one is less than 10 bucks yeah in the chaos it's good to be back it's like being in a violent ocean violent ocean of sounds and smells and your senses being bombarded from every direction i was here once before eight years ago so good to be back finally one guy come up to me and say put my camera away i wasn't even filming i just had was holding it in my hand and i was like i'm just holding it in my hand man i said who are you he said i'm a taxi driver i'm like get the **** out of here you're a taxi driver telling me to put my camera away you don't get to tell anybody anything buddy i actually don't know where i'm going so i bought a sim i bought a sim at the uh i bought a sim at the airport but it's not going to be finished loading until uh like noon so without the maps but that's all right it's already getting hot i gotta find some samosas got it oh there's something over there might be some samosas go check it out nope chai chai and chai chai chai uh he pointed over here at the kfc i don't know if the kfc has uh samosa but let's go see problem of going back and forth looking like a lost puppy dog in a situation like this is uh all right potatoes it's a good sign usually that means samosa i don't know i don't see any samosa maybe this convenience store i think this convenience store no samosa no bread bread pakora right maybe in here no everything's closed you have a samosa or no is it samosa out there or no that way yeah that's right straight let's go straight and everything all right thank you we got here some kind of chickpea and rice chickpea and rice time to take my life into my own hands all right going with the flow of traffic kind of kind of just going with the flow i feel like i'm hot on the trail you got samosa here no no no fish right here oh okay roti rice let's see roti roti come on man where the where the samosas at this is like fried bread hello sir okay samosa that's not samosa man come on this bread pakora no come on man come on what am i doing i'm looking for samosa okay i come to india just for samosa oh my god just for samosa yes i want the very best samosa not bread pakora no come on yeah these guys are you have so many friends you're the most popular guy in delhi no no no no are you are you mr modi you're the president you have so many friends come boys one photograph one photo yes first day in delhi i have so many friends all right come on boys come on come on boys they're all new subscribers to my channel yeah subscribe subscribe subscribe this channel i like this jesse st louis this guy same same right all right thank you guys nice to meet you all right created enough of a spectacle for now till i can find the samosa time to find the samosa samosa hunter let's see see if we can feel like we're moving away from the samosa now i feel like maybe that way samosa it's not looking good over here deadly deadly chukchuk all right all right you got samosa no no still no samosa this is like the hardest samosa hunt i've ever been on in my life no samosa still no samosa what is going on here still no samosa just got to go for it just got to go for it sometimes samosa samosa samosa no man there's no samosa we got roti roti rice puri huh i don't know i feel like i'm oh is this are we is this jalebi jalebi down there just keep going huh okay everyone everyone just keeps saying oh just just go down there just go down there to get some samosa you'll get some samosa eventually when you're robbed and you're naked looking for your samosa like a stupid tourist oh you got the barber shop we're gonna have to come back for that okay these guys he's trying to give me a $200 chukchuk ride for like a five minute walk that's hilarious so that's what happens though if you don't stay on your guard but that outdoor barber i'm not sure how sanitary it looked but it looked pretty interesting what do you think here we go samosa hunt day one samosa hunter i'm sweating profusely i need to uh i need to get a shower i think they just keep saying this way so let's go oh look at that see oh my god these urinals just a little dry heaving walking by the outdoor urinal no big deal as crazy as this sounds i think it's actually cleaner than it was eight years ago seems seems like they've really cleaned it up not sure if that's true or if i'm just desensitized to it but there were people like sweeping the roads and looks cleaner at least the parts i've seen so far hey namaskar so this is the start of paharganj neighborhood and it goes this way and we're going to find a nice chief guest house somewhere in there this is what is this uh i'm looking for samosa man maybe later later samosa samosa inside over there little steep best samosa best samosa how much 10 rupees 10 rupees right right there which one right there eight piece 10 rupees okay thank you he said the best samosa around is over here let's see let's see if there's samosa i don't know i don't know if there's any samosa over here these guys chai what we got there no sweets is this the samosa guy oh oh we got we got two samosa guys right next to each other yes buddy which one's better who has better samosa you or him he's got a longer line over here i think maybe his samosa is better yeah anywhere same same 25 rupees two piece that sounds good and fresh oh i like it we finally found samosa first day in delhi only took me uh two hours okay when you want to and this is what uh puri kachori okay that looks good i'm so hungry haven't eaten anything all day count that later i guess okay well here we go first samosa in delhi it's warm real warm i put like a sauce on it like a duck sauce or something like a what kind of sauce is this tamarind tamarind sauce or sweet like duck sauce yeah i never had i usually get like green chutney green chutney you got green chutney no okay never had duck sauce on a samosa before oh the sauce is spicy definitely different but that sauce finally successful on the samosa heart so we made another friend he's going to show us the gold star inn and how much is this place it's depending on the room how much it's depending on the room depends on the room of the room yeah which rooms are available oh okay i don't know yeah a lot quieter you can see the room if you like yeah how much it's depending on you can see a room okay you can see the room all right we're gonna see is the air condition right no i think no air condition yeah just has a shower and bathroom hot shower hot shower no cold shower how much go and see the room first well tell me how much first so i know what i'm looking at how much thank you they have to look to see how much it is because it's uh it's very difficult to tell the price when you don't want air conditioning you have to figure out how much they can get out of me yeah how much is it go have a look i want to know how much it is first before i get okay 1,000 for no ac and 1,200 air condition okay 1,000 no ac all right let's go look let's go look and 1,200 air condition 1,200 air condition okay 1,000 okay we'll go take a look okay it's more quiet here yeah it's quiet what floor is it on fourth floor fourth floor fourth floor okay because sometimes the elevator stops working right sometimes you never know nobody knows who knows we can sleep in the night yeah we cannot back in the morning you know wi-fi yes good wi-fi it's so so wi-fi good wi-fi good wi-fi you can see first change if you like you can take okay good take a look okay yeah 1,000 huh without air conditioning without air conditioning i understand i understand okay nothing is done no i'm looking for bed bugs um i go look at some other places and uh come back if i like it we'll see we'll see what else what else there is so many hotels to choose from you know yeah you can't pick the first one you got to look at a couple yeah you know i can just go down the stairs too okay no nothing no we have we have we have a room here yeah in the in a daily for 100 rupees well oh wow you can find 100 200 rupees well and toward 10,000 rupees so what's the 100 rupee what does that one look like ---- looks like ---- okay okay yeah that was nice it just a little bit smell like smelly like mold a little bit so you know i had a smelled maybe not so good you know yeah i don't like those much as much as you can pay a little more you get what you pay for you get what you pay for right yes thank you for showing me and now i know that's the standard for 1,000 thank you how much you were looking for all right around how much like how much is your budget yeah my budget is cheap as possible so not a hundred not a hundred but yeah a thousand is a good price but i just want to see what other options there are you know you're looking for more better than this for a thousand rupees oh look they got a workout park right there huh a little bit of workout you you hit the workout park yeah i can tell look at you like salman khan this guy before before sorry uh you're looking for you're looking for a thousand rupee and more better than this just the smell it had a smell i didn't like the smell you know smell like a musty smell like like mold or something you know you know like uh it doesn't smell good like it gives me a headache so i'm so lucky to have two people showing me around how much is that one same price thousand oh that's the first one that he showed me yeah thousand right but that's that's on the main street though right i thought it was he showed it to me it's right oh okay we can see we can see we can see i never knew i had so many friends in india till i came everyone's my friend now such a lucky guy just just give a smile and say right so we're gonna find something we're gonna get hit by a tuk-tuk we're gonna get robbed in the alley maybe so they give you a commission yes 100 for both of you or 50 50 or 100 one room 100 one room oh okay oh okay but there's two of you guys so 50 50 okay full oh no too full huh must be a good place if it's full i don't know long time maybe we'll see we'll see if i like it so many places to go so many places to go you know i want to go to the mountains and rajasthan and maybe uh karnataka you have to make a what schedule schedule yeah i know i know well i'm not gonna spend too much time in delhi that's for sure no no no yeah hotel noble these guys they got a good room i can tell that guy has an honest face how much room yeah huh thousand no ac no ac thousand oh they're in my budget though they're in my budget let me look let me look i look let's go good morning sir looking for a room no room full oh you've got the best place the best place always full sir yes sir okay i don't know what he said but something about that side cool jesse st louis okay subscribe okay all the good ones are full it's a problem it's a problem all right good to meet you man ram ram so after then after delhi where do you go then uh probably haridwar haridwar rishikesh maybe um yoga meditation yeah and uh waterfalls and stuff you know mountains i like the mountains maybe almora bageshwar or something like that hello hotel star well he knows i'm a star from holland yes one thousand okay can i look please yes please thank you oh right here huh this one right here oh i don't know ground floor very noisy huh upstairs you have room no noisy down here huh very loud down here right the room is right on the right there very loud people coming in yeah does he have something up there no he doesn't have full everybody's full is it is it a holiday actually it's not a holiday it's a festival time diwali no diwali is on next month next month yeah why what's the festival because yesterday yesterday before is a big a bigger biggest tribe and also people that come from the other state oh the farmers okay all right i just i'm worried it's going to be real loud in there for a single room that's all you have okay sorry man it looks very nice though okay this is going to be a problem a little bit big problem little bit big problem everything's fine no no worries thousand rupees everything's a thousand rupees what's that what do you do today today i look for a hotel and i eat samosa no no room huh all the good all the good places are full it sucks what about this one pink city this one this one's one thousand ah hey pink city pink city no huh how expensive okay they said it's expensive no room huh wow back to the main road huh no no this is harder than finding samosa finding samosa this morning very difficult finding hotel also difficult that's why it's a hotel hunt but you should always make reservations in advance because don't do this in india what do we got um maybe i go to uh carol barg carol marg how do you say it you're with me don't worry okay you take me to your house oh more selfies will you subscribe my youtube channel yeah so youtube channel okay here we go take a selfie selfie take it take it with your phone one selfie here we go hurry up slow phone oh slow phone one selfie one selfie that's the slowest phone i've ever seen it's broken you buy that in china yeah okay oh there we go selfie here we go one selfie okay there it is look at that okay thank you all right buddy boom boom boom boom boom all right keep it real guys thank you you're welcome all right so we might have a hotel before it gets dark maybe maybe before dark we have a hotel got a lot of good food here one guy tried to tell me the bread pakoda was a samosa one guy tried to tell me that you know the bread pakoda yes he said oh that's samosa and i know i was like that's not samosa i know i know i know what it is but you know they think i'm stupid okay more another one hello your levy all right come on hairdresser i'm also driver driver rickshaw driver of course of course you are yeah with the shower and uh toilet clean clean please and no smell no smell 1000 maybe special price for me 800 only one room is it only the last room they have they will show you but in the after that if you want to change the room you can change after the 12 o'clock oh i see i see is it bad why would i want to change what floor oh ground floor okay yeah okay let's look let's look thank you yeah you too it's because it's because of a strike yeah yeah good but you know what it's good that the farmers strike okay definitely smells clean 12 o'clock huh i don't know if i like the wall it's falling apart man the walls are not looking good buddy hmm yeah so did the other rooms look better than this or he said if you want to change if you want to change that there is more better than this yeah let's look at the other one okay and then i if maybe i come back okay thank you brother okay so many brothers i have so many bhai sahabs in india everybody's my bhai sahab they have a room but there's a 1200 no air condition air condition 1400 let me see let me look and see if it's worth 1200 if it's if it's worth 1200 then yeah 1200 i don't know if it's worth 1200 if it's the same as the other ones yeah it's depending on the room depending on the quality it's nice if it smells good if it's clean maybe 1200 1200 is how much is 1200 10 would be it would be around 15 15 no yeah 15 15 usd 13 no 1200 will be he can show me no it's 15 it's 15 man what floor is it on first floor okay good all right oh yes clean oh this is dirty you clean yeah 1200 huh 1200 okay you clean make everything nice and good oh he just checked out okay good all right so 1200 okay 15 15 bucks usd okay all right let's do it all right so what's the name of this place this name hotel stay stay hotel stay okay we're gonna do hotel stay for one night so india is home to the bengal tiger bengal tiger king cobra the elephant and the most dangerous animal of all the tuk-tuk driver king of the good time king of the good time king of the good time king of the urban jungle this is crazy so we've basically been in india for about 24 hours now and um getting ready to leave soon some of you might have heard about hurricane ian and it basically uh slammed directly into our house and the power's been out i haven't been in touch with sam and it looks real bad and so right before i left to come here you know there was a question of should i go but it looked like at the time the hurricane was headed more towards tampa and so i thought it was pretty much gonna miss us and unfortunately that did not happen and so now i gotta get home and uh as soon as possible and uh and make sure everything's everything's okay and everybody's safe um so it's like 6 30 in the morning now i've slept very little in the last geez it's been like 48 hours now going on just a few hours of sleep and uh i think four hours of sleep is the most the biggest chunk i got um so i just booked a flight back and it's uh not until 11 30 tonight so i have like 17 hours until i'm getting back on a plane for 20 something hours to go back so um i guess i'm just gonna get up and pack up and go walk around for 17 hours or a couple hours or something get some food but uh this is not obviously how i intended for this to go but um i thought every everybody was gonna be safe i thought everything was gonna be okay i thought the hurricane was gonna miss us i didn't think it was gonna be a big deal but uh i can't uh there's no point in me being here if all i'm doing is worried about back home and i'm not in contact with anybody so it's uh that's what i gotta do i mean now i can say i've had the um i've had the uh 15 dollar a night paharganj hotel experience i mean it wasn't so bad the fan kept it pretty cool um it has a slight musty smell it's pretty quiet it's not the cleanest but um yeah i don't know oh the one thing i will say is the bathroom so normally in india you have what they call a bum gun which is like a sprayer they don't give you toilet paper but this does not even have a bum gun so i don't know what you're expected to do after you drop a deuce i guess i had to take a shower because there's no bum gun and no toilet paper so that's a new one for me quite a curveball anyway um i'm not really feeling that um motivated to film but i'll try and just capture the last couple hours before i head back a lot of times i think people think all that india is is this chaos but uh there's actually some really nice neighborhoods first of all it's a huge country there's mountains deserts beaches lots of great stuff but even in delhi delhi gets a bad rap because there's some very nice neighborhoods i mean they're upper class and more expensive hotels and food will be more expensive but uh i think sometimes everyone who hasn't been here thinks the whole country is like baharganj which it's not so check out some other neighborhoods today and show you the difference forgot to mention yesterday the uh hotel hunt situation um mistakes were made and i would say first one is personally i prefer to have a place booked ahead of time but i've seen these other travelers you know they just go and they do a hotel hunt and it's so much fun and you know it makes for good content that may be all well and good but once you step off like a 30 hour flight and you're exhausted it is not fun hunting for a hotel so have the first night booked in advance because i was so exhausted i kind of got sucked into being led by some touts and a good rule of thumb is if uh the hotel needs to pay commission to have people stay there it's not a good hotel which was the case with where i stayed but it actually wasn't that bad but it was pretty bad so i should have just i had bookmarked some places that i wanted to check out they cut it they like to cut it razor razor close razor sharp so i should have just gone to one of the places i bookmarked it was more expensive but i think it would have been a little bit nicer but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter all that much i didn't get bed bugs or get bitten by mosquitoes or anything or sweat my ass off so in that sense it was good but today hoping to try some food that i have not tried before some new types of street food for me so let's see if we can do that i actually heard this place is good the giant chihuahua let's check it out hey food giant chihuahua i recommend there's one thing in particular rajma chihuahua good right very good here yeah yeah yeah rajma chihuahua you recommend it good yes please thank you 90 90 yeah and uh what do you have for drinks we have all these oh can i try the shikanji yeah why not it's good what yes sweet salt uh sweet only sweet salt whatever you recommend whatever you like i will go to you for mix mix mix do it okay so they have a special soda here shikanji i've heard of it it's like lemon yeah giant soda shikanji it's like lemon right something like that it's supposed to be good perfect thing to go with oh and also um egg samosa yeah okay so no samosa today okay all right well first second third okay soda get the soda here and then rice and then all right great okay i'm a little worried there's ice in it i didn't know maybe not living on the edge yeah good good it's good very nice refreshing so give this guy the rice right down there so keep going okay first second third i'm i'm totally confused with the system there's a slight eggy taste to it and i think it's kidney beans rice curry papad onion bhaji no how do you say sabzi right i don't know i forget how to say onion forget how to say onion looks good rice and beans staple of many cultures around the world what's that the onions okay we got another guy and that is what yes yes with the paratha which one so first rajma chawal experience like a kidney bean curry i i'd never seen kidney beans in indian food before i didn't know they use kidney beans now i know they do giant soda not really digging it it has like a slight eggy initial eggy taste which is a little weird and i'm a little worried about the uh the ice that was in it unfortunately so this is kanat place it's like a central uh traffic circle a big traffic circle in delhi and because new delhi was a planned out city by the british when the british ruled here uh they have a lot of these traffic circles and it's very organized in the center here when you get to like old delhi and some of the uh older parts of the city it's a little bit more chaotic i'm not i'm not sure paharganj is older it is closer to old delhi uh so it's going around chandy uh almost said chandy chowk which is in old delhi but going around kanat place right now it's kind of more of a little bit more upscale more shopping more expensive stuff and more expensive hotels more expensive restaurants but they are supposed to have some good street food here so i'm going to try to try to hit a few of those off that i have not had before so walking around this back street now for the next stop here for something else i haven't tried before chole bhature but i think it's similar it has chickpeas in it i think it's similar to chana masala i think i don't know if the spicing is similar i think uh i think it's they don't open for another half hour though another way you can tell you're in a fancy neighborhood and i'm not actually even joking about this but you see you've got mcdonald's taco bell starbucks and it may seem like i'm joking when i say that's how you know you're in a fancy neighborhood but those are actually status symbols like the the imported like fast food places are viewed as because they're usually much more expensive than the standard street food like exponentially expensive and so it's often like i remember the first time we were here we made friends and they insisted that they they must take us to kfc they must take us to dunkin donuts and it was a sense of pride they wanted to show off that they could afford kfc and dunkin and while i can understand on one hand the status symbol aspect of it it's an example of what i refer to as the cultural homogenization of the world and eventually if left unchecked all you're gonna have all around the world are starbucks taco bell mcdonald's and they're you know so on the one hand i understand they want to they want to kind of show off you know we can afford mcdonald's it's a status symbol but on the other hand i cringe when i see this it makes my heart break because it means that these things are displacing something native to and hopefully uh we can get it under check so the whole world doesn't turn into one large strip mall so okay it's a little confusing but um i'm in another hotel now in a different neighborhood i'm not staying tonight because i'm leaving tonight but i had already paid for this hotel for two nights as soon as i basically booked that hotel and parked on yesterday still not if i was flying back um i booked this place that we had stayed our first time in india eight years ago hotel cobley and um so i just i'm here to drop my bag use the wi-fi take a shower if i have any energy go check out the neighborhood around here but um i mean this shows you the difference in price so this place is 22 a night um it's much nicer much cleaner um nice little courtyard outside and it uh 22 a night so it's not just about price here it's also about the neighborhood so i would definitely recommend this place um i can't remember the neighborhood um i think a little bit south of here the neighborhood is called lodge pot and agar and uh anyway so nice little courtyard here at hotel cobley beautiful mellow little neighborhood the neighborhood is called jang pora just remembered that so let's go out and see if we can get some food so this place is near a famous uh sufi temple uh nisrat hazmuddin uh down the road and there it's known for i think they have like chanting and stuff like that we went the first time we were here not sure if i am up for it right now but uh it's a little bit mellower neighborhood so this is it pan de tan de jati traditional sweets and vegetarian restaurant all right let's see what we got here what do i serve serving veg veg food only veg fully veg okay good uh chole batore uh can i get egg chole batore and uh samosa egg piece and uh no tandoori roti okay no roti and uh see one uh black tea one black tea okay okay right this you don't like it no just the gulab jamun you don't want me to film the gulab jamun why him film him what it's a camera this guy like akshay kumar you see akshay kumar seemed like maybe they didn't want me filming but in the publicities chole bature samosa tandoori roti black tea and nobody else is here so it should be nice and fresh and hot and delicious veg pure veg food i'm not clear on what pure veg means but uh i guess they don't they don't cook meat here at all i guess that's what that means so look at that yeah please oh no oh this is not roti this is chole bature come with okay okay sorry chana and then okay and then is this the same chana masala same oh okay so chole bature is chana masala and it comes with the bature which is a type of bread and i ordered two roti which i didn't know that it came with bread because i've never had chole bature before so he was asking me again if i wanted the roti which i've already got two breads so i don't need uh i don't need it looks good so chana masala with i guess these are called first time chole bature here we go oh so good so good oh yeah the best chole bature i've ever had bread is so light in comparison to the one we had yesterday it was much easier to get this one and it's chana masala with bread better than yesterday for sure infamous