First Impressions of Karachi Pakistan 🇵🇰

Good morning guys from our first morning here in Karachi, Pakistan here with my bro Harry. Good morning guys, how are you? And we're super jacked to be here because Pakistan is a place I have always wanted to visit. The Pakistani people I've met all around the world have always been such great friends of mine, really nice people and so to experience Pakistan, the country itself, the hospitality and everything I am so excited for. So in today's video guys I'm going to be sharing with you my first impressions. Just walking around this place, we'll probably get some food this morning and talk to some locals, maybe get some recommendations, maybe hop in a rickshaw, who knows? Or maybe none of that stuff will happen except for eating. We're just going to kind of see where the day takes us and so come along with the adventures, let's do it. As-salamu alaykum. How are you? Good. All right we've got the busyness of Karachi, Pakistan right down here. Hello, how are we doing? Should we hop in this rickshaw? Do you know where to get good food? Food? Good food? Food? Yeah? All right, let's do it brother. All right guys, I guess we're going just as planned so far. Said we're getting in a tuk-tuk and here we go. Hello Karachi! As-salamu alaykum. It is a busy morning here in Karachi. I have no idea where we're going to be going to get food but our man is going to hopefully bring us to a good recommendation here. We're cutting a quick yui here and now here we go, full speed ahead. This is good food? Cheese paratha? Hello. Are there cheese parathas here? All right, we're going off the beaten path. Fruit stand? Oh, fruit. Oh yeah, we can smell the fish over here. It's as crazy as I imagined. Yeah, yeah. All right guys, we are in a tuk-tuk. We have made it to Karachi, Pakistan baby. Hello! Should we go stay here? It's good? Yeah. As-salamu alaykum. What do you think? Walk around here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. How much, brother? Yeah, we're finished. How much? Sorry? How much he done it? I don't know how much these bills are worth. I'm not sure what's going on guys, but you have smaller bills, bro? Because I only got a 1,000 spot, which I think is a lot. 500. Yeah. How much is that? Yeah, I think that's probably too much. Yeah, I think you'll hand it to him and he'll probably give it. All right, we're reversing out of this place. Not sure where we're going or what's going on, but looks like we're stopping. Thank you. Do you have a change? All right, so 500 is about two dollars and 85 cents. Okay, that's not bad. Okay. Thank you. Shukriya. All right, so now we gotta hop out without getting run over. And there we go. We are in the markets now. So it looks like we've got dropped off. We got a bit of a variety. We've got vegetables on one side and then we've got some fish over here on the other. Hello. As-salamu alaykum. Hello, as-salamu alaykum. Very friendly people here. Hello, nice to meet you. Oh, these are the good ones. Oh, he's making something over there too. Yum, yum, yum. Got some fresh goats there. All right. Oh, got some delicious, got some delicious fruits here. Hello, how are you? Very nice. Wow, we're getting such nice greetings. Every single fruit stand here is saying, hello, how are you? Oh, wow. I bet we're going to love Pakistan. As-salamu alaykum. We walk this way? Perfect, we'll walk then. All right, thank you. All right, so Harry asked if we can get some cheese parathas around here. So I guess we'll see if we can locate some then. We're walking along here. We've got a bunch of different shops, glasses, clothes, a lot going on. On the left side here, we have, you know, just motorbikes coming through and many things happening at once. So it is pretty awesome to be here. So much energy. I need a coffee though because we only slept for about like three or four hours last night. So overdue to get some energy before we really start doing some serious exploring here. Hello. Oh, a little gato. Let's see how we get through here. We just start walking and inshallah we make it. Oh, here we go. Hello, hello. Absolute madness. Oh, we got fresh barbers here. Might have to make a trip in a pretty soon video in the next couple of videos where we go get a haircut. But I just got one not too long ago. So here we go. Oh, are these cheese parathas? Cheese paratha? Paratha cheese? No? What is it? Tabati? Is it good? Can we try one out? Yeah. Looks like they're making it over here on the saj. Freshly made on the saj. Oh, that's going to be good. That is going to be good. Yeah, let's get snan. Actually, that's Arabic. Wrong language. Yeah, we have no idea what they are, but let's try them out. It looks like just pastry. It is, yeah. I think it is just some sort of pastry. 80 is like, uh, how much? Like 30 cents? Did we get two here? Uh, I think so. Okay, should we try them out? Yeah, they're actually pretty big. Yeah, I feel like it's going to be kind of filling. All right, here we go. I actually have no idea what it is, but... Some sort of breaded, semi-sweet type of... I guess you could consider it a pastry. It's good for like 80 rupees. All right, now Harry's going to give it a shot here, yeah? That's some Pakistani food right there, bro. It's like, uh, sweeter than I expected. Yeah. It literally is just pastry. So yeah, gonna hit the spot. Very nice. He's like a king already. I think Harry and I might be the only ones around here with shorts on. Yeah. If that doesn't make us stand out. I have no idea where we're walking to. Oh, watch out. What are they making over here? Looks like something good. Cheese paratha? Paratha cheese? No, now where? Do you know where? Cheese paratha? Here? No, not over here. Okay. Sort of grocery delivery going on. We've got someone pulling it up right there. That's what, one, two, three stories up. And we're going all the way up. A couple nice goats. Hello, YouTube. What's your name? Avis. Nice to meet you, Avis. As-salamu alaykum. Do you know where we can get a cheese paratha? I don't know. Bansuro. Bansuro? Only at night to get cheese paratha? Yeah, you want to get on, bro? Fuck yeah. All right, let's do it. What's your name? Baba Jamal. Hello. Come on. Politician? Yeah. Ah, very nice. We're getting a ride with the local politician. Hello. Hello, guys. As-salamu alaykum. Right, ladies first. Let's do it. And here we go. Can you put your bag to the side? Oh, yeah. And here we go. Oh, man. All right. We're getting kind of close. Yes, sir. Full speed ahead. My portrait? Yeah. Ah, that's your place. Yeah, yeah. Don't try this at home, kids. Nope. This could result in serious injury. Yes, yes. Diarrhea, it's congested. Try and get a thumbnail. Yeah, exactly. Hello. Cruising. Yeah, we're cruising. Back where we had food. So we told him, take us to somewhere where we could get some food. Where are you going? Nice food. Somewhere to eat food. Yeah, next time we're giving Harry the middle. Oh, we got a bump. Oh. Too wet. Yeah, a lot of weight. That's you. Yeah. That's him on the billboard back there. Very nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're with a famous man. Yes, yes. Pakistan's most famous man. I'm consular. Ah, very nice. Consular this area. The boss man of this area. Yeah. Very nice. Here we go. This is how we do it, guys. Random things happen. You see the Guilletton food street? Oh, the food street? Yeah, let's try that one. Hello. All right. I have a rickshaw. Oh, perfect. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. My name is Baba Jamal, consular of this area. Consular of this area. Baba Jamal. Yeah, let's get a photo together. Thank you, Baba. Appreciate it. Consular of this area. Yes, Pakistan Zindabad. Pakistan, hey, hey, perfect. Look at this. We got a local's bus going by. Hello. All right. Looks like we got to get across to the other side of the street here. We've got the one bridge to get us across because otherwise the Middle Eastern crosswalk out here... I think this is still considered the Middle East. It would be a bit too hard to cross over there. As-salamu alaykum. So what do you think, man? True, they are so friendly. All right, here we go. We're going to take the bridge across here. As-salamu alaykum. Good and you? Very good. Nice people here. Everyone says hello. As-salamu alaykum. Very friendly. Here we go, guys. Crossing a pretty busy road. Got to be careful with some of these live wires though. These buses are so cool to me. Like you see them, they're like so decorated. There's like pieces of metal welded on the sides of them. And there's so many of them. We got one, two, three. And in between you have like motorcycles weaving in and out. Tuk-tuks. Just a lot going on at once. Pretty crazy. Yeah, things are getting a little tighter here. No more sidewalk. I guess that means we got to make our own. Oppa. It is a busy morning here in Karachi. As you can hear in the background, honking here is like almost its own language. They don't honk necessarily. They sometimes honk to get out of the way. But they also honk to let you know that they're coming through in like super tight spaces. These buses sound so weird. All right, we got to cross here somehow. Gotta find the spot. We're gonna try this one. And oh, there we go. Oh, it's really a skill to cross these streets, bro. Well, this is Karachi, guys. So busy. We're looking for some other chow right now to eat. You got a lifted rickshaw right there, too. That one probably rolls pretty easy. Hey, bro. We've got people waving. We've got people yelling. There is a lot going on right now. Let's see if we can get in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, they're gonna pick us up. These guys are gonna pick us up. Whoa, whoa. Oh, my God. There's so much going on. I could literally feel the heat of that bus as we drove by. Here's our buddies right here. Maybe they're gonna give us a ride. Hello. We need a ride. The question is, how do we get across? That is the real question. This is a whole nother level of Middle Eastern crosswalks. All right, here we go, bro. Keep her going at the right pace. And salam alaikum. Good, and you? Hello, hello. How are you? Hello, good, and you? Nice to meet you. My name is Matt. United States and United Kingdom. You can go there, then left. 10 minutes walking? No, it's almost five minutes. Five minutes walking, okay. Shukriya, my friend. Thank you so much, thank you so much. Oh, can we ride? Can we go in? Should we hop in? Nope, there they go. There was no time for goodbyes on that one. The guy just took off, and the guy just jumped on. They were like, give me this direction, and then they were gone. Yeah, I know. They had to get out of there. I thought they were inviting us to hop on. Imagine if we would have had like one limb on there, bro. We would have been split up. Oh my god, that was insane. Well, guys, I can tell you the good news is, is you can find a Dunkin' Donuts right here. It's just in time because I think we need to get a coffee over here. As-salamu alaykum. Perfect, perfect. Oh, shukriya, shukriya, shukriya. Ah, hello, as-salamu alaykum. Oh, they've got the good stuff in here, yeah? Triple chocolate donuts. And, oh, is that Oreos? Oh, sweet, sweet. I might have to try one of these out. Could I please have one of those? Triple chocolate. This one right here, the triple chocolate, please. And do you have iced coffee here? Regular. Oh, large. Let's go large. Yeah, yeah, large. Let's go caramel. United States and United Kingdoms. Oh, perfect. All right. So we've got the Dunkin' Donuts menu here in English, yeah? That makes it easy. Perfect. Oh, no donut. Yeah, watching the figure, huh? This Jordan belly has been built up. All those kebabs. How much? 1,000. Oh, 1,000. Perfect. We got 1,000 on the dot. Sweet. All right, let's take a seat. So guys, 1,000 Pakistani rupee is about $5.70, and that includes two coffees plus a donut. So honestly, that's probably pretty similar to what you'd pay for Dunkin' Donuts all around. I'm guessing that's what happens when you go to some of these chains. So yeah, definitely ready to get some coffee, man. I'm gonna be curious if it tastes very similar to like an iced coffee, I got an iced coffee with caramel, a large one. It's like similar to all the Dunkin' Donuts I've had in other countries. I'm sure it is though, because the consistency with these chains is always so impressive. All right, we've got our coffees here. I got the large one here. So that's probably what really drove the price up. Got the big one, toss the straw in there, and let's test out how Dunkin' Donuts is over here. Very good. All right, let's try this one out. Just load it up with chocolate. Can't go wrong with the donut. Thank you. All right, now that we got a little coffee in our systems, it's time to get some traditional Pakistani food. Nice people, nice people. We'll see if it ends up being traditional Pakistani food, but we're gonna cruise this way and see what we find. What did our guy say? He said Karachi Biryani this way. Karachi Biryani, all right, let's do it. He's gonna get the Pakistani belly. Oh, yeah. Not inshallah. All right, how do we start this thing up? Here? Whoa. No, no. How do we get it? This one? No, no. You can't figure it out? Oh, man. Almost knew how to drive it, but he let us try. Shukran, brother. Oh, we tried. It was a failed attempt. We stalled that thing out, guys. That was a complicated one. I've driven a rickshaw before. Normally, you just pull the gas. This time, it was like stalling out. There must be gears or something. All right, guys, we're cruising. It's about 2.30 in the afternoon already. The time feels so off because we just changed by like two or three hours coming from Jordan. So it feels so much earlier, but the day's going by quite quickly as we're taking these first impressions of Karachi. It's a nice place here in Karachi. Biryani. What? Biryani? On the backside, yeah? Perfect, perfect. Name is Chipu Burger. Chipu Burger? And also SIM card. SIM card? For the phone? Opposite, opposite side. On the opposite side. Amazing, thank you. The legend. The legend of Karachi. Perfect. Nice to meet you. Oh, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Thank you for the recommendations. We'll see you next time. Bye. Such nice people here. Everyone's ready to help. They're like, GoPro, in order to get my attention. I was like, oh, yep. They're like, YouTube? I was like, yep. Zamzam. There's definitely got to be a biryani. Oh, yeah, this is a good sign here. Hello. Biryani here? Eh? Oh, perfect. I think we'll go with two biryanis. Eh, chicken. Yes, please. Perfect. The delicious type, yes? Amazing, amazing food. Perfect, perfect. So how do we cook it in here? The biryanis in here? The good stuff. You're the chef? No problem, no problem. We've got some seating back here. Yeah, there's seats outside. Let me get a seven up, too. Seats outside. There we go with the boys. How we doing? All right, this is where the magic happens. He's pulling it right out of there. Fresh biryani. Toss some pollo up on there. And, oh, we got a nice hefty scoop of it there. All right, there we go. That's looking delicious. Shukriya, shukriya, my friend. And here we go. Yeah, let's chow down on it. So here we go. We're gonna try it out for the first time ever. Let's see if it's too spicy or not. I don't know if there's any specific way to eat this other than get a nice large spoonful. I'm digging it. Oh, yeah, that's what we call delicious. G-double-O-D, guys. That is delicious. It's not too spicy. I wasn't sure what to expect. I was thinking maybe it was gonna like totally burn my mouth. But it's more of a light spice right now. That's just kind of nice, actually, in this semi-hot weather. Not too hot yet in the midday. So it adds to a nice, warm, inviting Pakistani meal. All right, let's see what's going on with Harry over here. He's gonna try his first spicy Pakistani meal. Wrong language. We're not in the Middle East anymore, bro. Okay, so a bit of chicken. That's how you pop her apart. No knife. I'm used to having a knife, but I'm gonna go for it. And survey says... Not as spicy as I was expecting, but really, really good. Lots of flavors. The rice, different types of rice. Got pilau rice, white rice, and yeah, really nice meal with the boys. With the boys, with the squad right now. I will say this is definitely much more traditional than when I was eating those donuts a few minutes ago at Dunkin' Donuts. So hopefully this makes up for it. Guys, I will say, whenever I get to a new country, it's always so hard to start using the local language words. Well, actually, we don't know any yet. But I keep saying Arabic words. How do you say it very good? Bota chai. Oh yeah, it's bota chai. That's what we call bota chai, bro. You guys, as you can see, I'm making some solid progress on this. I really like biryani. It's like, sometimes I can be a simple guy. Just rice, chicken with some spices, and I'm happy. That is a delicious lunch. And it really is quite filling. I mean, this was a full plateful. Now we got some fresh Pepsi. This one's still a little dusty from being in there for a while. 7 Up. Oh yeah, let's try them out. Nice and refreshing. Ice cold, nice cold 7 Up. All right, so we got some chai options. Zafrani, it's good? It's a good one? Yeah, all right. You want a zafrani, bro? Zafrani chai? Two zafrani chais, please, brother. You ready for a zafriyani, bro? I have no idea, but we're about to find out. So here's our setting, guys. Oh yeah, there it is. So this is the zafrani chai. I have no idea what's in it. And I guess we'll find out if our bellies like it. Looks like there's almost even a little spice in there, but it's boiling hot. So we'll have to give that a minute to cool down. All right, here goes the lad. Still quite hot. It's like a very sweet tea with milk in. Yeah, that's really, really sweet. You can tell there's a lot of sugar in there, but it's nice, very nice. Napkin, napkin for both sides. And let's try the Pakistani tea here. That's nice. Yeah, it's very sweet. I feel like it's like their version of whipped cream, lots of sugar. And it's more of like a milky tea. I've only had like this type of like milky tea in the Middle East before. I can't remember the last country I had it, but I was pleasantly surprised. Because honestly, like something that's milky mixed with tea is not what I would imagine I'd enjoy. This is good. Hello, assalamu alaikum. You got a juice box? Nice, enjoy. Assalamu alaikum. You're going to school? Ah, you got the marker board. Very nice. Enjoy, enjoy. Speak English? Nope, practicing. All right, bye. 760? Oh, that's a good price. Hey, I got it, bro. I got a, I got a grand ski. No change. Shukriya, my friend. That was very good. And what is 1000 again? I still cannot get my conversions right, guys. Let's see what that was. And $5.70 for two chais, two sodas, and two full meals. Shukriya, my friend. It was very good food. Thank you very much. Shukriya, shukriya. Thank you, bye. All right, and guys, we're going to keep on moving here. It's already the afternoon. Oh, it's almost, it's almost sundown. We've already mentioned it's the afternoon, but now it's actually like starting to turn into a bit of golden hour. Hello, hello. We've got the Karachi flag right up here. There it goes. In the wind. There he is again. Salaam alaikum. High five. Hello, salaam alaikum. All right. Yeah, so this is the modern side here. We got shoe stores. And hopefully somewhere on the other side of here, we've got the SIM cards. Is our guy's dad on the other side? I don't speak Urdu. No Urdu. So we've got a bit of a language difficulty here. We don't know what he wants. What do you want? Smile. Enjoy. Oh, hello, my friend. He was shouting for us from far away. Just a little English. You have SIM cards for the phone? No. No? That one is damaged. Oh, okay. Do you know where we can get a SIM card? No. Do you want a SIM card? A SIM card, yeah. Which SIM card? A fast data. So we walk this way? This office. You see this? The big one? No, no. PTCL. You know the PTCL? And we find PTCL. All right. PTCL. And Clifton Exchange? No, no. We say to you off the camera. So we're starting to realize we need to learn a little bit of Urdu because a lot of like the rickshaw drivers and probably I would say like 60% of the 70% of the people we've met since we've arrived here and walked around the streets don't speak English. And usually you can find like one out of like five, six people that are able to at least communicate with us enough to do it. So we got a rickshaw guy here. I don't know if we can tell him. Yeah, let's hop in. Here's our guy. We got the old school one. Goodbye, my friend. Bye. And we almost crashed. Those guys just hit the rickshaw. The nice part, guys, is you can get a rickshaw literally anywhere. Hello, our friend. Hello. We were looking. One of the guys didn't understand us. So we kept looking, found another guy. Whoa, almost lost my arm there. Yeah, you got to keep your body parts inside. It's like a big one. Yeah, exactly. You got to keep your limbs inside of the vehicle. That's for sure. Straight. Yep, straight. So we're going to see if we can navigate us over to the cell phone shop to get us a SIM card, guys. We need some faster data than what we have now. Assalamualaikum. Hello. We got a honk over there. Full speed ahead. Hello, sir. Hello. Welcome to Karachi. Ah, shukriya, my friend. Shukriya, shukriya. Here we are. We are downtown. Assalamualaikum. Oh, this is a well-known one. There's the sign, guys. Karachi, the cricket city. Uh, left. Left here, left. Oh, left. And we made it. Hello. We've got some big skyscrapers over there in the distance. I kind of have an odd feeling that we're going to end up at corporate office. Yeah? Yeah. I said office, and the guy said yes. But maybe he didn't understand me. Left here, right? Left. Yeah. All right, we're here. Zona office. Oh, actually, that could be it right next to it. You got it, bro? No, 500, I think. 50? 500. 500, oh. Fuel, fuel. Nah, that's too much. 500 is... Whoa, 500? Like that? That's expensive. That's a lot of money. So I gave him 200. I don't know how much. My mother's hospital helped me. That's four pounds. Uh, how much is that one? 200? 200 is... Yeah. 200? 500. 500 too much, brother. 500. 500? Yeah. Guys, drop a comment if we're paying too much. 500, is that a deal? It's $3 to go five minutes away, seven minutes away? It seems expensive. You say 400. Because 500 too much. 400, okay? Brother. I know, but we're paying for the taxi ride. 400? 1,000. 1,000? Okay, we'll give him 400. How much is 400? Uh, like $2.60, 20 cents. Oh, that's not bad. 400, okay? 1,000. 1,000? No way, we're not paying 1,000. Khalas, bro. We're not paying 1,000 for a rickshaw. Take it. Not a chance. My friend. 500. 400, my friend. That's expensive. Don't try and scam us, my guy. It's five minutes. Five minutes, okay? Thank you. Shukriya. Shukriya, we'll see you next time. Hmm? No, we don't need a ride back. We'll stop here. Salaam Alaikum. SIM cards? Oh, perfect. Perfect. Shukriya. All right, here we go. PTCL. This is where we get a SIM card. Salaam Alaikum, my friend. Hello. Salaam Alaikum. All right. Thank you. Hello. Salaam Alaikum. Hello. We wait here? Busy day over here at PTCL. The rickshaw driver definitely tried to scam us there. I was like, how much we would have paid? Yeah, 169 pounds. Yeah, but it's still for a rickshaw. He's trying to ask a thousand. That would have been like three pounds, like five US dollars to go that distance. No way. I know prices in this area. He's good at making you feel bad though, isn't he? Oh, well, the thing is, is I know I've been to other places where sometimes, like you don't actually know if his mother's in the hospital or she's not. Sometimes I just try and put that aside and just say, all right, what's the cost of the ride and then pay for the ride? You know, we can't help everyone in the world as much as we'd love to. So it's kind of the reality. Okay, guys. So the video kind of just cut off back there because I guess when I walked into the place and I was filming and then Harry walked in and he was filming, they told him we're not allowed to film in there. And so when I went up to the counter, I didn't hear that. So I was still filming and got in a little bit of trouble, which makes sense. I mean, they have like confidential documents. I wasn't really thinking. I was just more trying to film to show you guys the process. So anyways, though, enough with all that. We were able to grab a 20 gigabyte SIM card. But keep in mind, if you're going to get a SIM card, you must bring a copy of your passport and also a visa. So if you have that, then you'll pay about 3,000, which is 20 gigs of data. And then I believe unlimited calling and texting, which comes out to about $17 and 10 cents. So not too bad, I'd say. So yeah, basically, it's easy to get a SIM card if you've got those documents with you. Bring cash. I don't know if they accept card. Didn't ask. But yeah, they are very strict when it comes to having all your documents. So yeah. Other than that, though, guys, my first impressions here in Pakistan, they've been great. Like so much going on. I mean, obviously, here the city life. There are, I want to say like, what, 5 million people in the city? Yeah, it's definitely the largest, I believe, in Pakistan. And it's in like the top 20 maybe in the world. So definitely quite a lot of overall people in the city, very loaded up. And yeah, it's been a great time. Oh, just realized we're walking past the police station and I'm filming. Well, they must not mind because the guy had a machine gun and he was looking at me. So that's good, I guess. So yeah, that's where we're going to end this video, guys. Really excited to show you so much more. Pakistan will be in Karachi for quite a few more videos exploring here, sharing with you guys markets, things to do. We're heading down to the beach probably in the next video. And so it's going to be a great time. So make sure you guys hit that subscribe button if you're not already subscribed. And if you've enjoyed this one, hit that like button. And we will see you guys tomorrow in the next video.