FIRST TIME IN MEXICO CITY Why you have to visit CDMX! 🇲🇽💖

It should be horizontal. We're gonna go to McDonald's. We're gonna refer to ourselves in third person. So what's the first thing? What's the second thing? My face looks fat. Look at this. It's so nice. This is better than where we live. Going out for the first time. Just gonna explore this neighborhood. This is not where we were. What is this? This is the... Beef. And we got pork. And an egg. Okay. Commence. Vacation Brian. Reporting in. We're at some cafe. It's like a chocolate shop. It's a picture. Or a video. Could be a video. Could be a picture. So day 3 of our Mexico trip. She flipped out. I came to the rescue. What more can I say? We're going to this Tuesday market. Just trying to remember what the market is called. What Tuesday is in Spanish. Okay. We're going to Tuesday market. And it's just food? Or... Oh dude. It's so much more than food. So they have like fruits. And they cut it into like... They cut it into like unique shapes. So that it's all like... Like a penis? You're not talking about that penis food we saw yesterday? Okay. We'll see you at the market. Is this papaya? It's hefty. Okay. This is our little haul from the market. We're going to make some guacamole. So we got avocados here. Tomato. Onions. Lime. And then we got some fruits. Here is the watermelon. And this pomegranate. And then we also got a dessert. This is like some kind of... It tastes like rice. Paper... Rice crackers? But it has Nutella inside. And we got chips to go with our guac. And this is for dinner. Let me show you. We got this beautiful paella. They gave us a sample to try at the market and it was delicious! And then what I want to get is this cracker. Flying gummy flowers! And then we got McDonald's. MM for Meskin McDonald's. Tastes just like American sausage. Very sauce heavy. Sauce heavy? A lot more sauce than Canadian. But still it's delicious. The right way to eat fries in your sauce of ice cream. That's disgusting. What happened to this is disgusting. If you remember what it looked like before, this is what it looks like now. You just eat the whole thing. Gone! We are hot sauce shopping right now. So we can add it to our paella for dinner. But we're torn because we don't understand what anything means. Which one? This one. This one is extra spicy? This one is extra picante. Extra with three X's. This is a good one. How do you know now? You feel it? It speaks to me. Basically we're going to get this one because we asked someone and they recommended to us that it's not too spicy. Look it says for family. See that? Watch this one. It does say that. I think they just talk about size. Ah, family size. Now we're going to go find something sweet. Like a sweet snack for me. Gross. That's the person who ate my ice cream. Should we get eggs? I'm not interested in eggs. Where are the snacks? I don't know what to get. I'm going to grab one of these. It's two for thirty. I'm going to grab two of these. Oh no, I'm not. I'm going to grab Oreo cream. Chocolate Hershey bar. A little grocery haul for tonight. We got some bottled water. Which I really hate using plastic bottles but we can't drink the tap water here. We have to drink this bottled water because there's no kettle here. Either. And then we got some yogurt. We tried this the first night we were here and it actually was very yummy. It's a bottled yogurt but it tastes really thick. Almost like a Greek yogurt. So we got a few of those and then we got some baguette chips for our guacamole. And then we got something to satisfy my sweet tooth. And then this hot sauce. And last but not least we got this huge bottle of tequila. And this was only two hundred sixty pesos. So it's like about fourteen, fifteen dollars for what would have otherwise been like double the price in Canada. This is the paella we got from the market in the morning. We just kept it in the fridge for the day. It smells so good. Oh wow, a dangerous amount of hot sauce. Oh yeah, it's got a kick. Oh yeah. I feel that kick for sure. Okay. That dinner was really good. But it was really spicy because I put too much hot sauce on. So I'm going to try this biscuit thing. It looks like this. It's got this like rice paper situation and then on the other side it has chocolate and I think coconut. Okay, we're just going to have some simple breakfast today with the groceries we bought and then the plan is to go see the castle today. We actually live quite close to the castle. You can see it from our windows just right over there. So we might just walk there. My sunflower is still alive and well. There's another one. So nice. It's beautiful. Gotta bring a door knob. So you can access it. This weirdo is walking on white tiles only. Goes to Mexico. Eats Korean food. It looks pretty authentic. It looks decent. I can't wait to dig in. So good. I never even get this in Canada. Is it called Sikhye? It's like a rice drink. It is a rice drink. It's very cold. After lunch, we went around the Reforma and Roma area to do some vintage shopping. Window shopping. Look at this sunset from our apartment. It's like I think we live here. You look very pink. Having a makeover. And later that night, we went to some local parties. Hello. We're at the Casa what? Casa Ghiyardi. It's one of the really famous estates that this Mexican architect built. What would you call that blue? Periwinkle blue? Oh, yeah. I know my colors. We booked a tour at Casa Ghiyardi which was the last house Louis Barragan built. This is probably one of the places that a lot of people would visit when they go to Mexico City. I found it through a video on Nowness which I'll link in the description. Because someone currently lives at the house, they do charge a photography fee if you wanted to photograph the interior. It's about 500 Mexican pesos so that's 35 Canadian. This was also the day we had to move Airbnbs but before we did that, we had to stop by this taqueria near our first Airbnb that actually appeared on Taco Chronicles on Netflix. The owner was super friendly and gave us very generous portions of food. The tacos were freaking delicious. The next day, we took a bus out of the city to see the Teotihuacan Pyramids. Transportation was actually very easy. We took an Uber to the bus terminal and there you can buy round-trip tickets to the pyramids and back. We're here. Okay, we can walk this way more. Lift your arm up higher. Extend it. You should do this. Yeah. We're going there. And we've gone this far. We're here. We're going to climb this. Base camp to vlog. Base camp to vlog. We have reached base camp. Over. Okay, we're as ready as we'll ever be so let's go! Status report. We're like halfway. Halfway done? We've discovered the mummy. It's place of residence. Another one. Finally. Naruto ramen. Does it live up to its name? It looks like the Naruto because of the circle thing. The next day. It's Saturday. It's already like 1pm and we're getting breakfast. We're at this place called Market. It's really cute. They've got like an outdoor patio situation. I got that thing that you said was a traditional Mexican breakfast. And I got something else which I will just put here. I don't remember the name. But I think I ordered something vegetarian by accident. Even though I wanted chicken. There's chicken in mine. Okay, what are we doing? Dude, we're flying through Mexico City. With a bird! We're riding these scooters. I have safely completed one scooter ride. I gotta say that was kind of stressful. I felt like I was going to die in the middle of traffic. What did you think? Dude, it was so fun except she's just really slow. I was scared! Refer to the video of her riding by. That is 1 tenth the speed that she... Would recommend if you're a coordinated person unlike me. Now we're at this market. It's like a Saturday vintage market. It's in Jardin Ignatiel. Or something like that. I'll show you around. Hey, freeze! Brian just made the purchase of his life. C3PO, beautiful. Actually beautiful. I just ordered a chamoyada with mango. To be honest, I'm not sure what I ordered, but here we go! Oh, that's really good! It's like sour. I think it comes with tamarind. This is easy. It's a gallery. Look at this burger. Brian got this one, the mojito azote. And I got the tarong, which is a grapefruit drink. Wow, that's real good. After a morning stroll around our neighborhood, we headed to Koyukon. Someone we met at a party a few nights ago recommended that we have to visit the Frida and Diego house, and they were absolutely right. The artist couple shared the studio space in Koyukon. The red house belonged to Diego, where a lot of his original art is still preserved. And the blue one belonged to Frida. Then we went to the nearby museum of Al Carmen. It's inside a beautiful monastery and a garden. But below that, we saw mummies. Okay, now time for some food. In the area, there's the Al Carmen market, so we got some lunch there. This was definitely more of the higher-end market, so lunch was a little bit more expensive than usual. And I got to try a cocktail at the show. Gracias! After lunch, we explored the Koyukon neighborhood. This was definitely one of my favorites in the city. It's super vibrant with cobblestone streets and colonial architecture. Our last stop of the day was Yunnan University. It has one of the biggest campuses in the world. And we took a nice afternoon walk before heading home for the day. 50th Uber ride. We are about to embark on a journey around Lake Zochimilco. Oh. I'm impressed. What do you mean you're impressed? My Spanish is, like, top-notch. Oh, dude, my acne. We'll find out later if we've been scammed or not. We'll also find out later if my acne is gone. Acne update. Okay, basically, around this lake, you can rent these, like, boats. What are these boats called? I don't know. Boats. And someone drive you around. Or what is they steer you around? No, it's like the Venice of Mexico. Yes, essentially, yeah. But it's so packed. Like, we're about to, like, get in a boat accident with this other boat. Here's how this looks. There are all these boats waiting around. And we're just going around this lake for an hour. That's the tour. Oh, there's so much stuff. Yup. We went back to the Tuesday morning market again. And this time, we're trying something new. I have no idea what I'm eating. But this looks pretty good. A local gentleman who was sitting across from us told me that this is called Takoyo? What's it called? It's a batter corn tortilla thing that is kind of shaped like an empanada and then topped with cactus and I have, like, a slice of meat here and some pickled onions. We couldn't film inside the house, but we definitely recommend visiting here. There's so much history here about Frida's life and the entire museum is painted in this vibrant cobalt blue color. Brian got a chicken quesadilla and I got a... Well, I thought I only got a cortita, but I guess I got a cortita and a quesadilla. I think this is just a cheese quesadilla. Time for the cortita. Right after we left the market, we walked past this other taco stand and it smelled and looked so good that we just had to. So we got more tacos and we brought it back home. And we just added some avocado on top there to, you know, level it up a little bit. One was like the stewed soft pork and then the other one was a intestine. This is the one I'm eating right now. And it's so juicy, even, like, 40 minutes taxi ride later. On our last full day in the city, I went on a solo tour to Louis Berragon's house and learned so much about his work and his life as an architect. And then we met up for lunch at this Hindu temple, one of the best Indian food I've ever had in my life. And then we came to this super fancy post office in a search for postcards. So we have arrived at Gringotts. I'm, like, half expecting ******* elves or goblins to, like, pop out and be like what can I get you? I'm half expecting someone in my family left me a huge inheritance. I need a couple gallons, you know. And the very last stop on our trip was the vast counsellor's library which looks like it's straight out of a movie. And there you have it, friends. That's 10 days in Mexico. See you next time.