On this food adventure, I went to tour the San Miguel Market in Madrid, Spain. This is a great place to visit, sampling some of the best Madrid's market food has to offer. After the market, I went to El Sur to eat gambas, which is shrimp with garlic sauce, and I had some Cuban pulled pork. That pork was my favorite dish there. For dessert, I ate churros with hot chocolate, and this place was incredibly packed, so get ready to wait in line! To end my food day, I went to one of the oldest restaurants in Spain, Botin and it's famous for its roast suckling pig! #spain#madrid#spainmadridmarket
Hey guys, my first full day here in Madrid and just
Such a breathtaking city everywhere you walk like every single house every single brick just oozes culture and history
And madrid of course is like the melting pot city in spain where a lot of people from all over
Reside here and bring with them different backgrounds cultures recipes
So trying to figure out what to eat in madrid right now is a little difficult because there's just so much
But I feel like my first day. I got to go to the famous san miguel market
It's pretty funny tapas, that's the choice
Fitting but there's the market. Let's go eat
This is a covered market. It's been around for over 100 years and everything here everything is related to food
So my strategy for today eat the heck out of this place and we're gonna start from here
San martin this place is supposed to have amazingly fresh seafood
And and apparently a sea monster
Oh good lord
A variety of fried seafood and just crab in all sorts of dishes. Oh my gosh
Oh, this is amazing looking crab tapas. Let's do this
It's crab seaweed and there's wasabi in here
Never had crab and seaweed as my first bite of food ever in my life before but i'm excited about this
It's good, maybe like a 7 out of 10 good a little overly salty
I love the crunch of the seaweed and the sweetness of the crab. I can't really taste the wasabi element here
The sauce is a little barbecue-y. I think these are sea grapes nice and crunchy
I think all the ingredients are incredibly fresh and I love the fragrant sesame element of this as well
But I wish I had like a side dish of rice to eat with this because this is a little over seasoned for me
I think this is supposed to be like a kind of an asian interpretation
Of crab and seaweed with the sesame and with the sauce I suppose that maybe mimic a little of the teriyaki sauce. Nope
Getting a hint of the wasabi a little spicy
Still good not a musket
This is a little one-sided sandwich made of burrata cheese and there's savory versions like the pesto and there's the sweet version
Oh this I like the cheese tastes like a really creamy fluffy slightly salty mozzarella
And leaves just such a nice milky flavor in my mouth. The cheese is so incredibly light
and airy
But there's still little chewy strands in there
And I could see why this can be served both as a savory dish and as a sweet dish
The cheese itself like I said just slightly salty but really just tasting how incredibly milky and creamy how light the texture is
So with some blueberry tastes like the lightest
Milkiest cheesecake. I'm actually really loving this
This place has the largest variety of empanadas
I may have ever seen some of the
really interesting flavors like
Tuna and egg starting with tomatoes
bacon and pineapple
Korean empanadas different shapes different ingredients. Let's let's start off with the tuna
So it looks like tuna and some egg whites I love tuna by the way
That tuna tasted like
It lived on land his whole life. Oh, that was so dry
I think the pastry is a little too much and it's really just not enough filling and this thing
Yeah, this is a bummer pork loin and apple
Much better one of the tastiest empanadas i've had. I mean apple and pork. This is genius
Oh
That filling is so good. It's like a pig ate a bunch of apples
And i'm eating that pig right now a little dry still but that flavor is out of this world. I mean a little dipping sauce
I'll make this really awesome. This is the pear and chocolate
Oh
I smell the pear already
That's awesome
Little cinnamon. There's a slight hint of chocolate more so on just the outside
It's just fragrant juicy pears the outer shell not too heavy and this thing is stuffed get this when you come here
This is a classic ham and arugula in a wrap
I'm sure this is not the highest quality of ham but still rich and savory smooth texture delightfully smoky flavor with just a hint of fat
Love the bacon here
Love it
A bunch of olive tapas and I got some ham and cheese
chilies and looks like
Anchovies and crab and people are just eating this having a drink since I don't drink. Let's just eat it
Ham and cheese. Does that look like olive pac-man to you guys?
It's like this olive is trying to eat this ham right here, but little do they know a larger predator is lurking nearby
Wow, actually
The whole combo is hitting me just now
Oh my god, the olive is so fresh tasting with the creaminess of the cheese and the savoriness of the ham
It's like i'm eating the tastiest breadless sandwich. I'm not even quite sure what this is. It looks like anchovies and chilies
Little sweet little spicy and the anchovies actually quite chewy
Got a nice chewy texture. I was surprised
I thought it was gonna like fall apart, but it contains such a nice flavor of the ocean
Looks like a crab claw that reached into a bag of cheetos
It tastes a little like imitation crab meat like something artificial
But as you chew it and let the flavor develop a little sweet and then the crab flavor hits you again
The olive is the star also the beautiful sweet crunch from the pearl onions all together with that crab claw
Probably the most surprisingly delicious thing I had today
I'm rich now. This is one of the best foods I had in Peru
This stall is pretty interesting. So you pick a flavor you pick the toppings toast it hot or cold
Whoa
It's nice and toasty on the outside bread is really fluffy really airy
The ice cream is obviously melting but it's not completely melted. So you still get that nice icy taste
Chocolate on top. I like the toasty crunch on the outside. This is really interesting
It's like you're eating a toasty bun with an ice cream center
This is one of those things that's it's fun to watch it being made and it's fun to eat
I think I tried everything I wanted to try inside this market, but i'm still hungry
So let's get out of here and go eat more tapas
Hi, I totally underestimated how much I actually ate at the last market
So after the subsequent food coma at the hotel i'm ready to eat again and it's only five o'clock
So still late lunchtime here. Let's go
I know I had the ham wrap before but saw this start salivating. Let's get another sandwich
This is hornazo pork loin stuffed inside this pastry. You got little sandwiches as well
Or if you have a bigger appetite iberico, this is spanish pork. Look at this. That's amazing
The pork is even draping over the outside of the sandwich that is so pretty
Strands of fat running along the sides in the middle of the pork the ham I had this morning
It was good, but it wasn't all that juicy. This looks like a juicy slice of ham
Bread crunchy on the outside soft on the inside
Ham is ridiculous. I wish it was more of it because I feel like the bread to ham ratio is a little off
That was a melty
Slice of ham smoky and savory. I love the chew of the lean part of the meat
And I love how that fat just renders and melts on my tongue
I mean i've had this in the states, but just eating this here is just such a deliciously unique experience
This is the hornazo and it's heavy like a brick
oh
It's in this pastry. This is basically a meat pie chorizo pork loin slices of ham on top eating it as it is right now
It's probably not the best thing you really
Need to put this in the oven and roast it I think but since I don't have an oven and I want to eat this
You gotta make do
This is so incredibly good, I mean the pastry is so gentle and soft, but really when you take a bite
It's all about the meat. You got the spicy chorizo the smoky ham in that pork loin
Oh my goodness that pork loin that thing might just be my spanish food soul mate
I thought it was gonna be way overly salty to the point where it's maybe
You can only take like a few bites and then that's it. Oh, man
The different types of pork blend together deliciously
It's like with all the different pork powers combined a captain sandwich up here again already good cold
Can you imagine what it's like out of the oven? In this place according to one of my viewers the torto is the best
Look at this. It's just full
You can't stuff a single bit more calamari on the sandwich very tender
Crispy fresh out of the fryer
And that's all it is. It's really there's nothing on this sandwich except for bread and fried calamari
Oh
That's one of the tender-ish fried calamari I have ever had and what you do is spray some lemon on top
Little mayonnaise
And then just unhinge your jaw the best you can and indulge
I love how seemingly simple this is fried calamari
Some mayonnaise some lemon juice, but the thing is the calamari is fried so
Perfectly. I mean we all have fried calamari before usually you gotta chew that sucker, right?
This barely have to put your teeth together and this thing disintegrates little lemon juice little mayonnaise fresh roll
That's all you need to enjoy this
All right now for a proper sit-down meal I heard the pork cheese are amazing and I heard the prawns with garlic is amazing
This is their most known dish the gambas garlic shrimp and man, there's a lot of butter in here prawns
And this lake of butter and garlic and chilies as well
There's really a couple ways to eat this first of all eat the prawn
Oh, that's plump and tender after you eat that
Take your bread
Dip that baby in there get it all up in there
Make it go deep dive in
Oh, yeah, if you like garlic and butter and most people do you'll love this
This is the pork cheek. Oh my gosh. That is so tender
Oh man
That thing just falls apart sitting on a bed of potatoes
I've got a tender feeling about this dish
I'm confused because the pork is on top of a bed of mashed potatoes and when I put this in my mouth
I couldn't really tell
Where the mashed potato ended and the pork began
That's how tender this piece of pork is. Oh, I like this much more than the shrimp. This is where my heart belongs
Just had an idea here's some pork potatoes bread
Dunk it in that garlic butter
There you go
Mashed potato and pork jaw goes on top a piece of prawn for the finishing touch
There you go a pork jaw prawn garlic butter mashed potato open face sandwich
Oh
Oh, you can't beat this. It's like the greatest hits album of food
Also, I heard their paella here is excellent and this will be my first time having this dish in this country
I'll be honest. I've had this many times in the u.s. None of which tasted good
Oh
First of all how they get their calamari so incredibly tender in this country
I have no idea but restaurants really need to start learning that in the u.s
You can taste the essence of the ocean in here
Essentially a little briny creamy incredibly robust flavors
This this is changing my entire perception of this dish this and the pork jaw my favorite thing here the prawn
Oh
Oh so much juice
And actually it all leaked onto that little puddle right there see that that's prawn essence
Gotta get this when you come here today was really awesome. I woke up I ate
I fell into a food coma
Woke up ate again
That's like a garfield-esque type of day and what an amazing experience getting to try all the local foods
I never had before i've always said the best way to get into know a culture
It's taking a bite out of it. I wanted a churro
That's one of the must try things here in spain and this place is the most popular and check out the line
Two lines out the door this line doesn't just extend out the door. Look at the inside
This is nuts for churro and hot chocolate
There's the churro there's the hot chocolate they're all waiting to get seated
If you want to just eat at the counter like what i'm doing
You know, you can just skip all that. Oh, it's like chocolate quicksand
Oh
I might need a knife for this so thick
And what you do is you take your churro and I just realized there's like a couple sizes of this
So you get the thin ones and there's big ones, too
Put us
And this is like a chinese youtiao like chinese fried dough. It's so thick looks just like that
But this is the thin one you like that one better. Yeah, this nice lady here. She
She gave me a piece of her her youtiao
Oh, yeah
No dinner after this
So you don't know me so well
I'm gonna eat this
And go to dinner right away. Thank you so much. That was delicious. Thank you
So this is the churro that we typically see in the states really thin really crispy
And this is definitely more doughy and airy
It's a little salty incredibly light and crunchy. Oh my gosh, this is actually really amazing
You're gonna need the hot chocolate because it is pretty salty
So with the sweet chocolate brings balance to this churro's life that gets really heavy really quick
I mean absolutely delicious if you love churro
That is churro heaven right there freshly cooked. It came out this nice little spiral. They cut it into pieces
They give you a lot. I mean just the chocolate itself
If you if you just drink that that's gonna fill you up and then with a greasy churro
And as magnificent as that was super crunchy on the outside and dipping that into chocolate
It's just a savory meets sweet meets happy place
But now I really need some food food and for dinner since I am in spain the original home of the suckling pig
That's what i'm gonna get and i'm gonna have it in the oldest restaurant in the world
Well, hopefully because I didn't make a reservation so hopefully I can get a table but here it is
It's like i'm entering a cavern
Almost 300 years old
So this restaurant used to be an inn and it is actually quite large it's multiple stories and i'm dining in the cellar right now
Which I think I think is the coolest place to dine in this whole place
The ambience is so unique and got a couple of their specialties
Suckling pig you have to get then got the roast lamb as well
I heard about this place when I remember andrew zimmern came here
On one of his shows so ever since then I wanted to try this place out to crossing another item off my food bucket list
Cheers
Oh, yeah, I love them sparkling bubbles, this is the famous suckling pig and the skin
Crispy skin. I haven't been this excited for pork since the lechon experience in the philippines. Holy hog. Look at this color
The pork just crunched through the outer layer of skin. Oh, man. This is what porky dreams are made of
That really ranks up there with some of the best suckling pig i've had the skin as I thought
Crispy melts in your mouth pork obviously so incredibly juicy
So you get that nice contrast and texture and the flavor. I mean it's simply seasoned but it's perfectly seasoned
This is their other specialty roasted lamb. All right, this is a little tough on the outside
not the crispy skin kind of good tough, but
A little hard so hopefully it's gonna be tender and juicy
Actually
My fears were unfounded because just cutting through the meat I could tell this is tender
This this is succulent. This is everything you want your lamb to be
That's a good piece a little bit of skin tons of meat
That's a juicy slab of lamb
I think the initial flavor was the best and again really simple ingredients simply seasoned a little bit of salt
I think that's about it. Juiced soaked through the meat. It is slightly slightly gamey. Not too bad though. It's delicious
Mash the potatoes up. So get all that nice juice all up in there. That's a nice piece of pork
I'm, just gonna rub some potatoes on that
If you want to know what it's like to have a porky shana in your mouth take a bite of that
Oh
The potato is so good, too
Right. Yeah, potatoes are excellent, especially when it's soaked up in that juice, right?
If I had to choose between the lamb and the uh
Suckling pig 100% of suckling pig. No, don't get me wrong. The lamb is delicious, but the pig
That's divine. This is gonna be a great piece. This is the toe right here
Oh my gosh, this is where all the collagen lives
Oh god, this is so amazing
Beyond tender and juicy the motherland of the suckling pig
And it really doesn't disappoint this piece right here
This is the essence of the suckling pig the crispy melty skin and that's what it's all about that layer of fat
That is the source of the magic
So when you crunch through that potato chip like skin and get to this part you want to know bliss. This is bliss
Greatest finger lick ever I think for the lamb. I'm just gonna go ahead and caveman this
Actually, I don't know
I said I like the pork more and I probably still do but this is slowly gaining my favor because it's so incredibly juicy
And this is quality lamb
Otherwise, it's just getting way too gamey and this is like you can taste that it's lamb
But it's not all that gamey at all. Hey, did you guys like it? Oh my gosh
You ever had
Wow, this is k and haley, by the way
Yeah, it is that good don't don't just trust me trust them
That was an amazingly satisfying meal, it's not just that the food is delicious i'm eating at the oldest restaurant in the world
It just feels different, you know, like i'm sitting in the cellar of this probably haunted building
This is way beyond just food. This is a total total experience. Oh, this is really cool
This is the wine cellar and the server was saying that
How was it good? You're good. Yeah
Yeah, and the server was saying that there's 300 year old bottles of wine down there
And also the royal family used to use this as a passage into the city
I'm gonna try to take you guys down there. Let's go. Oh, this is crazy
super old bottles of wine
Oh my gosh
That was pretty cool that was a remarkable meal and even more remarkable
Establishment. I mean I took a bite of history tonight and history had crispy skin and it melted in my mouth
One of the most awesome dining experiences i've had. Hopefully you guys like this video
Thank you all so much for watching until we eat again. See you later