INDIAN FOOD Dinner Cruise on the Brahmaputra River + Pani Puri | Guwahati, Assam, India

The flavor, the chilies, the heat. If you're into spicy food and you're a vegetarian, you will die for this dish. Good evening everyone. I hope you're all doing amazing. This is David Hoffman from David's Bin here in gorgeous Guwahati, Assam, India. Tonight we're doing something very special. I'm here with my friend Kabashe and we're going to take a river cruise along the Brahmaputra. Brahmaputra river, the widest river in India, fifth largest river in Asia and this is a really awesome experience. So basically we're gonna get on this cruise and what is this cruise? This is El Fresco Grand. It's a small river cruise and it's here. It starts at four o'clock. We are here. It's 3.30 now. So we'll board the cruise and we'll have an early dinner. Also we'll have a ride in the river for about an hour maybe. So we'll enjoy a great food and a view. I need a beer. One beer. The price for this cruise is 400 rupees per person but that does not include food so the food is separate. Yes. Finally. Finally going on the river. Whoa. Hello. Hello. El Fresco Grand. Very nice. So it's like a restaurant on the top level and over here they have some music. Live music. Awesome. Alcohol. Hey how you doing? Hello. Later. Later. I have too much. So we're not in the second level. We're on the third level on the rooftop. Okay there's a lot of people here. Wow. Nice. Okay so as you saw the top level. It's an open terrace. You know there's two sides. That side is like a huge party so it's like you know four huge tables. Over here it's multiple different people parties. Right behind us we have a couple. Over there we have these two families and then right here what we have is the drink menu. So we have a bunch of different alcoholic beverages. So we have like gins. We have scotch. We have wine. We have cocktails and we have beer. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get the Kingfisher premium 650 milliliters. So that's like almost two pints right there and I haven't had a beer in India since I was here in November. So can't wait. There actually is some really good beer in India. This is like some craft beer as well but it's really hard to find beer in India. It's like it's just it's not common to go to a restaurant and ask for alcohol. It's just it's more water or you know chai. We have a whole lot of starters like a great variety from chili chicken, and also more of Chinese. They have Hakka noodles. They have spring rolls. They have the chili paneer and the chili potatoes. They have some great Indian pakoras. Chili paneer. I need that. Cheers. Kingfisher. Super light. If you guys don't know what Kingfisher is, this is the beer. The national beer of India. You can find it everywhere. They have some stronger versions. This one's pretty light. It's probably like five percent alcohol but this is like a double. It's but it's cool. I think I need two beers tonight. I'm fine without. So the way it works here is that this cruise is only one hour long from four to five. So we're having a super early dinner. There's a lot of things on the menu but what we went with is paneer chili for me and chicken pakora for her. And we told them a time. So they're gonna bring it at 4 30 on the dot. So it gives us half an hour to relax, have our drinks, watch the sunset and just chill. And I mean the breeze right now is like perfect. It's not hot at all. It's a little misty. That is just like a mist. Like a fog going over the river. And then behind us right over there that is the smallest island river in the world. I don't know. I think there's rocks this big in many rivers. Okay cheers again. Cheers again my friend. Thank you. This river is the property that belongs to the people of Assam. Like people of Assam loves Brahmaputra. Like it is the hardcore of everyone's heart. Here we have it. Paneer chili. This is one of my favorite paneers of all time. It's like a Chinese, Indo-Chinese dish. Big chunks of paneer. Oh chilies. You have green peppers. You have onions. You get a little bit of this. Grab another big paneer. The flavor, the chilies, the heat. I love the combination. If you're into spicy food and you're a vegetarian, you will die for this dish. It's like a nice spice. Wow. And this is the pakora. Chicken pakora. Nice minced chicken here. Nice and fried. Boneless. Boneless. Thank god but there's no sauce. It's not like chutney. It's there. It's there. That's ketchup. So she's saying to try it with a beer. Okay. I mean it goes hand in hand right? Fried food with beer. Always a great combination. Really good. That's outstanding. Coming on a river cruise in northeastern India. Almost no foreigners out here. This is all locals. Just a whole different world. What an experience. Beer. Super good. I love the sunset right now. The setting is amazing with the river. People. You see some fish. There's no dolphins though. Cheers. Again that is the smallest island river in the world and the reason we didn't go there today is because today is Shivrati. So Lord Shiva's day and as you can see the ferries keep coming with lots and lots of people. So the line just to get up to see like the idol is like super extensive. Look at that. So many people there. But yeah I mean we're seeing it from here which is I think the second best way you can see it right? Like from the river. We see river dolphins. Also we see like we tell it water crow. It's basically dipping all around and there are crocodiles also eventually but I don't think so it's there now. But river dolphins is the main attraction. So she says there's no more crocodiles. I doubt that. They're probably just not in this area right now. They're probably up the river because every river I've been to in the world has a goddamn crocodile. We finished the cruise and now what we're gonna do is we're gonna go buy some souvenirs. I need to buy some souvenirs for my family but I want to show you what like typical Assamese souvenirs are. They have like a lot of bamboo carved things. They have things made out of wood and a lot of things that are like animals like tigers, rhinos. It's been pretty tough to get a rickshaw and the reason we're taking a rickshaw over a tuk-tuk ride is because it costs 20 rupees versus 80 rupees. So it's four times the price. This is a lot you know this is not as fast obviously in a rickshaw. Rickshaw. Really cool experience. A lot slower than a tuk-tuk but it's very relaxing. The only problem is that they slant the seats a little bit too much so you're always looking forward like falling forward. Like last time I hit the brakes I flew out the freaking thing. Luckily I'm holding on all the time. But this is like you're enjoying. You get good videos on the rickshaw. I think this is more like eco-friendly also. Less pollution. Exactly. Yes. Save the world guys. So the rickshaw ride from the river costs 20 rupees. It's a good bargain. I mean it's like 30 cents. That's up to me. Yeah 20 rupees. Thank you my friend. Thank you. Thank you. And now we're in this area and we're gonna buy some souvenirs. Where's souvenirs at? Oh and when we're done I might have some pani puri and see how many I can eat. Sure. Sure. I think I'm gonna have to have a lot. I want to do a challenge. You guys let me know. Should I do a pani puri challenge? What is it? The rhinos. Look at the rhinos. So big. This is incredible. So many things. I mean I love the rhinos. The turtles. What else is there? Do you have lamps? Game stands. You can take this. Turtle? It's so cute. I don't know. I don't know. I gotta see. I mean I like the stuff. I think the rhino is the best thing but oh my god. Look at all the rhinos. Go see all the rhinos. There's so many. Oh this is cool. This is like really cool. Wow. I like that. Should I get one for tomorrow? How much is it? 450. I mean I don't need it that bad. Here we have a bunch of rhinos. As you know the one horned rhino exists in Casaranga where I'm going. I'm going there like in a week and a half and it's actually pretty light because they're made out of wood. So I think I'm gonna take one of these home with me to Miami but not a bite here because she was saying it's probably half price over there. So I'm gonna hold out for now but they're pretty amazing. It has so many sizes. They have huge ones. You can see right down here like this one weighs a lot. This one weighs a lot but it's really cool. I mean I love these and there's like tiny ones. There's also a lot of like baskets. Everything here is made from wood. You have some lanterns. You can see you have like beer mugs right here. So many things. Is there a mask? This is japi. This is a traditional thing of a stamp. Basically it's used by the farmers to cover their head while farming but now this is a like a little fusion version like you can decorate your home. There's a bigger one you can show them. Crazy. That's huge. As you guys know I collect masks everywhere I go in the world. I always try to bring a mask home from my wall. It's like the collection. I'm just trying to build a nice wall so when I'm like 80 years old I can look back and reflect on the places I've been you know. So I'm gonna get an elephant mask. It's $2.50. A deer mask $2.50 and the reason I'm getting this is because a lot of national parks up here. There's a lot of wildlife right and then I'm also gonna get the you know what the farmers used to wear and this is only $100. This is like $1.50 for this guy. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna place them together on a wall. So I'll put it like that. Something like that right like this. What do you think? Yes. Let's go like that. Yes. $600 guys. I just want to tell you. You know how much that is? It's nine US dollars for all these gifts. Gifts for myself. Alright so. How much? I'll keep this. I'll keep this. Let me get $500. I did it. Shopping done. Shopping shopping. We didn't eat so much for dinner. I'm gonna end this night with some pani puri. Yes. And here we have our guy. The pani puri guy right here and I'm the puri god. So here it costs 10 rupees for five pani puris and the way it works is that you just keep going really fast. So I have it. That works right. From the guy's hand. He doesn't like that. So he actually gave us an extra one. My god it's a lot. Those things are like it's filling me up quick. Pani puri is so delicious. Yes it is. Like it's worth trying. If you are in India you need to try pani puri. It has different names as I told you in the last video. Gulcha. No no it's puchka. Puchka. It's golgappa. Golgappa. Pani puri. Pani puri. And I don't know if rest of India has some other name also. Because I love pani puri so much I'm gonna end the night with pani puri and when you start eating he doesn't stop feeding you until you're done. So we're waiting for them to be done and then he'll bring up then he'll give me six more or five more right. So 10 rupees for five. So basically I'm going to spend 20 rupees 30 cents for what I'm eating right now. There's a lot of mosquitoes around right now. Aasam is full of mosquitoes but I can do it. Yeah perfect. Let's do it my man. So he puts the he makes a hole right. Put the aloo in it. Put some pani. Pretty fast too. As you eat he's popping them in your mouth. So good. I know people that eat like a hundred in a row. My friend here's the man. He loves the camera. Ah nice one guys. 10 delicious pani puris. Puchka all the way. We had an amazing time out there on the river on the cruise. We had some delicious paneer chilli. That thing was super hot. Nice kingfisher beer. The view was amazing with the sunset. Seeing the smallest river island in the world. Then we came over here we bought some souvenirs and ended it with a feast of pani puri. And the mosquitoes are like killing my friend here. They're about to eat me alive. So I hope you guys love this video. If you did, give me a thumbs up. Leave me a comment below. Subscribe to my channel and I'll see you in the next food travel adventure somewhere in Aasam India. Peace.