London's Harry Potter Food Tour!! Kings Cross Station Market!! 🇬🇧

I'm here in King's Cross Station in London, well known for being the magical train station in Harry Potter. All the way down. This is amazing. Looking for platform 9 3 quarters. 9 3 quarters. Can we find it? It's here somewhere. This is amazing actually. Platform 9 3 quarters, yeah this is insane. Feels like an airport. Look, platform 9 3 quarters right there. I think it's further down. Yeah I know but look at it, look at it, look at it, it says it in it, it says it in it. This is amazing. We're here. So platform 9 3 quarters, huge Christmas tree. This is amazing. Come during Christmas for this, not for the cold, just for this. Let's go. So this massive queue is for the trolley code. So we're in the Harry Potter store at platform 9 3 quarters and look at all these cool things. Just got some butter beer, butter here, chocolate, got fudge, dude I might, I might get a bottle of beer. Why not right? Try this. Let's see what else they got. I think I might get this one. I think I might get it. Where's the hat? You see the hat? I think it looks better with the iron patch. It's pretty dope. This is very nice. Wow. This is beautiful. What's we got here? Gryffindor. This one's very nice, man. And it's, is it wool? 55 pounds? Dude, what do you think? Should I go with this one or go more colorful? Hey brother, what happened? This one? Isn't this? You know what, man? Cause I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. it's been a while since I've watched the movies but they were amazing how 23 years already all right what else should we go over there look at the suitcases the suitcases are awesome dude what do I get for my kids what do you think I don't think my daughter and even knows what this is once once I bring it there she'll be like what is this oh this is from the new movies this is from what do you think this one for my daughter yeah it's pretty cool it's 29 pounds look at this one I know right green and red no I'm not I'm not ready to take that on that's that's the enemy bro that's the enemy it's funny how over here it's like empty the personalized acceptance letter oh my god you can get a sentence letter do they have maps maps let's find something cool which is this one how many teams are there I forgot now got a Draco his Dracos Harry Potter mug what do you think these are the mugs huh this is really nice like I'm excited to be here this is cool this one this is a very nice sweater it's almost Harry Potter London I think it's a little too much with the Harry Potter London on the back but this is really amazing so these are the limited edition ones 25 years is the first book these are 33 celebration ones I think I'm gonna take this one I don't know this is amazing this one so I think I'm gonna take three good my daughter's both of them want one which fits me the Dumbledore Dumbledore's first ever one I think so I mean let me just take one second let me just see this is the one that I'm gonna keep right this store is just like forever just selling and selling and selling it's crazy at the train station everybody's coming through here it also goes to Scotland from here and Wales you see me paint a train up there I got wands baby and I can't wait to put this guy on once I step foot out of here very good happy to be here this is great so let me ask you how many people come through here every day like it's just too much right no because in a hundred years people are gonna keep coming like Sherlock you know same thing but it's bigger it's crazy ten times ten times this much no I mean we're at King's Crossing I mean huge intersection so what do you think for the kids these no bro oh wow let me get the the wand chooses the wizard mm-hmm perfect and we close on the weekdays so like fourteen and a half hours thank you so much you know what I'm gonna have my beer my butterbeer I don't remember where in the movies this is but butterbeer if you're an aspiring wizard or which it's like straight caramel it's a soda a decadent soda I don't like it at all it's too much wrong take a butterscotch maybe with alcoholic an eggnog like this not my thing what do you think wait two hours for this I don't know I don't know if I should wait this line I'm good yeah mulled wine how's that mulled wine yeah it's good smells great like cinnamon yeah how are you very good hey no mystery like that thank you so mulled wine when you come to Europe during Christmastime always thank you where are you guys from I'm from London, you're from all over I'm half Colombian, half U.S. I grew up in Spain my parents are Venezuelans yes, exactly but this is amazing six pounds guys oh thank you and let me ask you this market is every day the market is every day until the 23rd of December okay but we're only open from Tuesdays until Sundays Mondays we're off and what can we find here so here we've got food around here we've got cheese we've got like breads and treats there's another market up there it's called Canopy Street Market or Canopy Market I think and they have also similar but it's a little bit more shopping orientated it's also a really nice Christmas market they've got oysters there as well and let me ask you, what is this because I know what mulled wine is but I don't know so mulled wine is our recipe comes with wine we have fresh orange juice we've got oranges, cloves, ginger cinnamon, cassis star anise brandy and cointreau so it's like spiced wine and it's hot yeah, spiced hot wine it's good it's good I mean it warms you up you need it first time I had this I was in Poland and it was freezing in Krakow it warms you up people often take it with brandy or an extra shot oh yeah? do I get brandy with this? how much for the brandy shot? brandy is 2 pounds extra throw me 2 pounds extra in there you know I'm going to enjoy life a little bit nah man we're here in Europe, we're alive thank god yeah, definitely better buenisimo 8 years here and where are you from in Colombia? Bogota she's from the capital my family is from Barranquilla Sofia Vergara and Shakira they're all from Barranquilla now everything is cashless so you can just spend, spend, spend if you want to try something also unusual next door, we have mead honey wine you can try, we've got quite a few let's go there but you're here yes so you have mead wine yes we do would you like to try any? I guess I'll try one I'll try a little shot let's try one and they also have beers you have IPAs I'll try a standard what's your name? Ben nice to meet you here we go so that's a Welsh honey mead made off the west coast of Wales I can't even believe that's honey that's honey wine sweet, a little dry fantastic so this is the heather mead which is made by monofloral pollination so they have fields of wildflowers and then the wildflowers die out at the end of autumn and then they're just left with fields of heather the bees just pollinate with heather plants and you end up with this really rich thick honey almost like a manuka honey that's got a sort of minerality, really sweet coats the palate flowers pure flowers so Ben, where are you from? me, I'm from Surrey so a little bit south of London so you're English? let me ask you, how's the economy now with the Brexit and everything it's difficult, I think a lot of people are struggling with the cost of things going up due to things like that but I think since the pandemic this year people are recovering a bit more and they're sort of trying to spend their money they're enjoying Christmas we've heard a lot of people spending their money a bit more now that it's Christmas as well I'm from Miami and just the past six months I've seen a rise in everything I feel like everything's double or triple same thing I heard here that everybody's trying to be a little more cost savings, trying to figure this out because it's hard it's hard because a lot of the everyday stuff like supermarket shopping has gone up, basically so you've got to really be clever and budget quite cleverly on groceries yeah, it's the supply chain as everything goes up in one thing, the next thing has to go up hey, thank you so much for this, this is great do I owe you anything for that? no, it's free stuff thank you, appreciate it we're going to go eat some food now thank you it's hard, not easy times but we're here to help support and to bring more business and that looks amazing, whatever that is that looks so good that's fudge? bono bono what's your name? Glenn are you English? yeah, from Brighton, just down the road I want to go to Brighton Beach oh, have you? it was like 20 years ago a little cheaper back then I heard it's like Miami, Miami Beach there's always something going on good food down there? yeah, good food, good everything and how's everything in terms of the economy now especially that area is it being affected? yeah, I think everyone's feeling the pinch at the moment wherever you are really to be honest nothing too terrible but it can always be better so which is your favorite? I really like the mango passion fruit salted caramel this one? with the cheesecake it's like three layers dude, I've never seen this it's like a fudge bar so each one is, how much? $4.50? alright, let me get one of those thank you, thank you so much, we're going to try this now let's do it bring this out wow, break this in half dude, it's hard oh my gosh that was not easy alright, salted caramel look at all the layers here got salted caramel it's got cheesecake the chocolate cake looks good so many flavors hey, amazing it works, good stuff it's like four different flavors in one I love the saltiness to it get this one it's like extra good you buy three, you get it for £12 thank you wow keep going we were even watching you yesterday in Tobago where are you from? London, but my mum's Guyanese and my dad's Jamaican welcome to Jamrock amazing, what's your name? Therese David, pleasure, nice to meet you so what's your favorite, ackee and saltfish or pepper pot? I've never had pepper pot because my mother's side of the family migrated over here when they were quite young so they kind of climatized like the London have you been to Brixton? Brixton, oh yeah I heard there's pepper pot in Brixton where? there's some Guyanese restaurants I had doubles Trini doubles there I would take doubles over saltfish and ackee oh yeah I grew up, my dad is a Rastafarian so I grew up on like the vegan, ital kind of stuff but I love Trini food because it's got the Asian and African blend you can't beat it, roti roti's the best I was walking past and I was like it's the baldness right? it's the beard I was like is that the guy I was watching yesterday night in Tobago that's amazing Tobago's great and Barbados you were watching 100 hours? it was the breadfruit I was like oh wow did you see how different countries use the same type of food differently my husband he's just migrated from Jamaica and where's he from? what part of Jamaica? Ochi Ocherias I was like Ochi it's nickname where's the best crabs no he hates crabs Alice you heard it it was like crazy I said this is the guy that went there beforehand and he was like no I was like yes you know my face is a meme they put the emoji the turd emoji on my mouth and you went back again yeah we went back we have to next time we go Ocherias we'll do like two more trips to really see the country you've definitely got a fan over here we're cooking and we're still watching you know people have told me they're literally cooking while they're watching you can't not be eating while you're eating and go mmm nice you know when I'm eating I'm going to be starving all the time it's too much you made my day by the way thank you have a great day you too take care I love your accent I'm American accent I mean you've got canolis this is Chile what do you have here you have small croissants and canolis we have a mixture of Italian biscuits and canolis from Sicily what's Christmassy we have our canoli here and it's basically the flavour of the month which is like think of Ferrero Rocher really indulgent really rich and decadent just for Christmas do I have that so what's good Christmas London food you always have to try oh god a roast Sunday roast definitely and when you have Christmas dinner all the trimmings turkey with cranberry and rocher pudding roasted parsnips and Brussels sprouts you have to have you have to experience that while you're here that sounds like American Thanksgiving to me but you don't have Brussels sprouts and you don't have roasted parsnips and you don't have rocher pudding roasted parsnips and it's the way you cook the parsnips Rosemary sold me you sold me I might have to watch YouTube yes so it's David's been here on YouTube David's been here this is the one Casa Canole we are at markets during the weekend and we are here every week Tuesday to Friday but at Christmas we're here every day unfortunately not for me I'm not working but we're always here did you say complimentary no no you're too kind Casa Canole look at that what a beautiful Canole the Canole is basically baked and then they fry it so there's two versions so you either fry it in vegetable oil or traditionally they used to fry it in lard but we have it as it's vegan friendly so we fry it in vegetable oil and then you have the sweetness of the ricotta it's basically ricotta cheese from sheep and then you mix it with icing sugar that's the base of your Canole filling and then we add things like pistachio essence and all the flavours to make it that flavour so we've had a chocolate kind of like a very rich ganache flavour to that so every so often seasons we have flavours of the month like we had pumpkin because obviously it was Halloween and that's Christmas and it's very obviously you know the whole rich indulgent kind of thing so everything you want at Christmas here we go they used to fry this in lard? they used to so decadent chocolate fudge beautiful chocolate on top wow Italy in your mouth? this is the ultimate Italy I had some of these huge ones in Boston a little Italy of Boston the best thing ever crunch sweet my daughters would love this the ultimate foodgasm wow Sicilian Canole how many languages do you speak? two, my own and obviously English she killed me dude she killed me with that one I'm trying to learn different languages as well only because I like travelling so just out of common courtesy and respect to wherever you're travelling it's always nice to know the basics I think it's time for samosas? what do you think? let's see wow, lamb samosas chicken samosas, cheese chicken kebab roll where are you from? from India Hyderabad so where's the biryani? this is from Gujarat oh this is Gujarati and what is the best of these? vegetables and lamb samosas and onions yeah so right here, this is like a pakora this is like an onion bloom that's just been fried got the spinach, got the mushroom eggplant, vegetable I think I'm gonna go with the lamb give me a lamb let's do a lamb do you have any chutneys with that? any tamarind or anything? so what's your favourite dosa? masala dosa oh man I had a cheese genie dosa in Hyderabad egg dosa man, sponge dosa, egg dosa the pizza dosa dude there's so many dosas have I had biryani? dude I've seen the mutton biryani being made in my face there in Hyderabad how many languages do you speak? just two and you don't speak Hindi? a little bit I can understand but I can't speak that much if you guys didn't know, Hindi is the official language of India but each state in India has its own official language so what is the language you speak? Telugu from Telangana so how long have you been here? two years and why did you come? for masters so you're doing this on the weekends? not on the weekends when I don't have university I come over and work here it's Tuesday to Friday and how's life here in England? in India it's good and you're going to go back after you're done with your masters? you go back you contact me, we do mutton biryani together samosa the Indian empanada the best thing they ever invented I think it's samosa empanada haris here we go this is the lamb samosa so soft, not too crunchy I'm going to go with this chutney in India you have this just like you have it in Miami twice a day that's going to be good spicy tamarind lamb onions nice layers spicy it's good lamb samosa man oh wow it's really like such a simple thing, a meat pie but at the same time so good this is amazing but you know what you can really use? some David's Vinegar Hot Sauce because I'm literally selling it to you right here yes bro dude he didn't have enough spice that heated me up this samosa? bomb, he also has egg rolls cheese lamb roll Christmas markets you have to have German sausages right here, look at this hello can we see, is that ok? that's fine? it's amazing, what do you have here? you have like 3 different styles? smoked, red bratwurst we have a white bratwurst, which is just pork and herbs then we have cheese, which is like a frankfurter with cheese in the middle is that the best seller? the cheese one, yeah your accent, where is that from? I'm from Cambridgeshire so we travel everyday from Cambridge to here amazing, my cousin, Italian she studied in Cambridge she married a Punjabi Cambridge guy I live in Oxfordshire at the minute so I'm from Cambridgeshire but I live in Oxfordshire so it's crazy this is amazing and you guys here everyday? everyday till the 23rd and that's when this market stops yeah, I think so I'm not sure about the middle market is here all year that bit is here all year but the sheds and that they go on the front curb so this is a Christmas market? yeah, Christmas market how many are there in London? a lot right? I was looking at the list and it was like 20 small ones like this all over the place by different stations that fire is nice and warm I'm staying here, I'm not hungry but I'm going to do this I have a YouTube channel what's your name on there? David's been here you will be here what's your name? she's like the most English girl I've ever met I love it you're the most English girl I've ever met really? I'm from a little village up it's called Ealing how many languages do you speak? one it's a curry first so it's just sausage and then the curry sauce is a speciality sort of thing German can you write down your YouTube? yeah for sure so David's been how long have you been doing that for then? I've been doing this since I was 23, I'm 38 right now oh wow I'm an old man thank you I was going to say I was going to eat but why do you want one? it's just big right now I had a lot of food I can wrap one up for you what's the story on this German sausage place though? this is a botch it's just on the phone I have no idea to be honest just German sausages I just work no you're making me laugh thank you nice to meet you too here's your pen my man how are you doing? some lentils, got some rice this is Bombay, Mumbai Marathi, what are you doing there? it looks amazing this chicken wrap is this chicken 65? you can do chicken 95 oh it's paneer tandoori chicken India always does it right where are you from? Gujarat so Ahmedabad or Surat? Ahmedabad Gandhi Tokla how many languages do you speak? Hindi, English, Marathi anywhere you go in India everybody speaks 3 languages Hindi, English and then there's local it's more than 40 languages there's 35 official I think 35 official but some some more maybe more I'm saying 40 but it must be more how is it living here in England? have you been here a long time? 15 years it's nice sometimes you go there you like it and then come back you eat and come back? do you stay in one place? no I'm from Miami, I don't want to be in Miami I want to be somewhere else they're coming for vacation when you go there, people behind you this looks the cauliflower, spices that's Indian street from Mr. Bombay oh you're a resident so what did you give me here? this is chicken with some coriander on top the cameraman has to try it's almost like to have more that was so juicy the spices it feels like tandoor it's tandoori chicken so it's baked chicken and they put it on the grill and mix it with all these things wow what's this one called? because this is the one everybody has to try tandoori chicken tandoori chicken tikka I'm not going to have pakora or samosa I'm going to have a damn chili you eat this like this? spicy? can we do it together? finish damn it's hot he's got a smile David not so much he's going to give me something to calm down Raita he's a pro oh thank god thank god sorry bro you were dying tell me something in Gujarati how are you? Mr. Bombay it's ok I know I'm messing with you you know what I need? I need literally a lassi mango lassi chili sauce mint sauce thank you this is why I love India hospitality we are loving people I just told him I was boiling give me some raita he's like no you're going to have one of these onion bhaji coriander on top the raita right there onion bhaji the best onion bloom ever but it's stuffed here hold on some potatoes onion and gram flour it's refreshing but it's big in India you eat this a lot we make it at home they have this on the street? it's the first time I've had it like this usually it's like onions in India they make it like that they make it flat then they're going to fry then you have a flat bhaji so it's a small one they call it flat bhaji I learn something new everyday I didn't even know about this one spices too much they kill me 1-10 it's like a 4 it's like a 15 bro spice? I need all this raita just to cool down