Foreigners on EPIC Delhi Street Food Tour with local foodie! 🇮🇳

Hey guys and welcome to our India series. We have just touched down in Delhi and we are going to be spending the next two months travelling all over India. So if you want to see what we get up to, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Today we are going on an epic food tour in Old Delhi. We're just outside our hotel now, we're about to set off and I cannot wait for it. So we're doing this food tour with a guy called Anubhav Sapra and he is like a legend of the Delhi street food scene. So he's been doing street food tours since 2011. He founded the Delhi Street Food Awards. He's even done a TED talk on street food. So this guy is an absolute expert and he's going to be taking us to all the best places to eat in Old Delhi. We're just walking through Old Delhi now and about four people have told us to watch our bags, watch our pockets. Every single person is warning us of pickpockets which isn't really setting a good scene. I'm a little bit nervous already. Yeah, it makes you a little bit apprehensive but we'll see how we get on. Yeah, I know they're trying to be friendly but it's scaring us a little bit that every single person is doing that. So we have just found Anubhav and we are heading out for the start of the food tour. We are really excited. We can't wait for what he's got in store for us. Thank you, thank you for coming on the tour. Yeah, sounds good. We are starting our food tour with the oldest paratha shop in Delhi. Delhi's paratha. Paratha is typically a North Indian breakfast bread. We eat this in the breakfast time. So we start from here. This is a sweet sauce made up of dry mango powder. Right, wow. With melon seeds and banana. And this is what we call aloo matar. Aloo is potatoes and matar is green peas. Then you have sweet pumpkin. Then aloo methi, potatoes and fenugreek leaves. And then you have two different kinds of paratha. This is green chilli paratha and then mixed with the dip. So Jodhanna is going straight for the green chilli paratha with this appotato dip you've got. Try it with this one. It's sweet and spicy. Oh yeah. It's really nice. The saltiness and the spiciness with the sweet. Really good. What's the paratha taste like? It looks quite crunchy. It's probably going to be like a pancake. It's got like a slight crunch to it but then it kind of melts in your mouth as well. It's really good. As you'll know, I'm not very good with spice. So I've gone for the mixed veg paratha with the pumpkin dip. Oh wow. That is so nice. It's quite the pumpkin. It tastes a little bit sweet. It almost tastes like a mango chutney or something. It's like really sweet but the bread is nice and crunchy. It's a little bit spicy but not too much for me. This is absolutely fantastic. So we were just talking about the different cultures and religions around this part of Ozele. And places like this don't use garlic or onions because it's their belief that any kind of root vegetable, if you take them out of the soil, you're killing the plant and that's against their religion. So if you're wondering what parathas are, apparently they're called parathas and I've been saying it wrong. But my favourite one was there was like a caramelised banana dip with the paratha and that was absolutely amazing. Now we've got the dessert. The dessert parathas have arrived. And it's the same as before, it's like crispy pancake-y type bread but this time it's got condensed milk in it. So I love sweet food so I'm really excited about this. It's really nice and creamy. It's not too sweet. You'll like it. It's sweet but not too sweet. It's not overpowering. It's really nice and creamy. That is so nice. So I'm not a big sweet fan. I prefer salty to sweet so let's see what I think. Oh wow. Well it's really good. Not too sweet, you're right. It's almost custard-y. It tastes like custard. I was going to say it's like rice pudding in a pancake. Yeah. Oh that's delicious. So I was just looking at the walls and I saw that it's been awarded Hall of Fame status by the Delhi Street Food Awards. And I was just about to point it out to Jardana and Anubhav. And then I realised that it's actually the award company that he founded and the certificate is signed by him. So I'm guessing he already knew about it. But yeah that was just really interesting. So we're at our second stop on the food tour and this is Anubhav's favourite place in the whole of Old Delhi to eat. So I'm really excited about this one. Yeah, so we're at Shrimsthan Bhandar and this shop was established in 1950. And here we are sampling some of Old Delhi's specialities. To start from here we have Chole Bhature. Chole is chickpeas and the Bhature is this bread which is stuffed with paneer which is cottage cheese. And then you have samosa. It's aloo matar samosa, potato with green peas samosa with two different kinds of chutney. Coriander mint chutney and the sweet chutney made up of dry mango powder. Then here we have Bedmi Puri. So this Puri is like a puffed bread which is made up of whole wheat flour and stuffed with lentils. Then you have chickpea curry and potato curry. That is really really good. It's so soft that bread. But it's really nice that it's got like a slight bit of a crunch to it. But it's really fluffy in the middle. That's really nice. I think I prefer this one, that was very rich and a little bit spicy. This is a bit more easy eating. So samosas is like one of my favourite things to eat back home. So I'm excited to look at this. Wow. Look at the filling in that. And I think that's a cashew nut is it? Right, I'm gonna go in and dip it in this mint chutney. Oh wow. That is so good. Definitely better than at home. And here we have like everyone's favourite, like locals' favourite dish, sweet dish. Jalebi. Oh wow. Is it really sticky? It looks like it's gonna be sticky. It's so sticky. Is it like the one that we had in Sri Lanka? No, it's sweeter. Is it? I can't really think what this tastes of. It basically just tastes of sugar. It just tastes like I'm eating sugar. It's really nice. I can hear the crunch. Is it quite crunchy? It's crunchy, yeah. It's hard to explain. I'm doing a bad go at describing this one. It's nice. It's very sweet. I don't know if I can have loads of this. Again, I'm just gonna try a little bit. Because again, I'm not very big on sweets. Oh wow, that is sweet. It's good though. I like that it's crunchy. I can see why a lot of people love this. Because Anupav is so well known in the Indian and the Delhi street food scene. There are literally people queuing up on the street to get selfies with him as we're trying to go between restaurants, which is quite funny. Walking around in Chandi Chowk with and without a guide are two completely different experiences. So we had to walk like five minutes just to meet our tour guide earlier. And every single person stopped us trying to sell us things, trying to make us go on their tour, not often taking no for an answer. It was a little bit intimidating, a little bit scary. But now we're with a guide, it's a complete different story. It's really relaxing. Not a single person has come up to us to try and hassle us or sell anything because they can see we're the local. Definitely, if you're coming here, I would recommend getting a guide because it's a complete different experience. So we've just arrived at our next stop and we're gonna have some masala chai. So this is basically tea with ginger, cardamom, sometimes cinnamon, a little bit of sugar, just loads of spices in there to make it hopefully so much better than normal tea we have in England. This is our first time having it, so I'm really excited. So having our first masala chai of India, it's very, very warm. They've put hot milk in it instead of in England, it's cold milk. So it's incredibly hot. So I don't know if I'm about to burn my mouth, but I'm gonna give it a go. It's really nice. I can imagine that it'd be really nice in winter when it's a bit colder when you go outside and you have a nice sweet. There's so many spices going on that it's very, very different to English tea. But I like it. That's really nice. Jordana doesn't usually like hot drinks. She doesn't like tea in England. She doesn't like coffee. So it's gonna be interesting to see if she likes the masala chai. It smells so nice. Just smelling it alone is great. Like it just smells so, so nice and like all the spices you can really like. I don't know. I feel like you can taste it just from smelling it. It smells really, really good. Oh, that's gorgeous. Yeah, I think I've found my hot drink that I like. You've found one? Yeah. Wow. That's so good. We'll have to learn the recipe so we can make it in England. Oh, that's so, so delicious. It does really, like even though it's hot outside, I don't know, it's just a really nice comfort. Cheers. So currently we're getting a lot of spicy smells at the moment because we're in Asia's largest spice market. We're just walking through it and you can just feel it at the back of your throat and up your nose. But yeah, it's a lot of sounds, a lot of smells going on. It's really cool. I've never experienced anything like this. The smells are so strong. It's just getting all over my throat. I'm just having like a coughing fit. It's a little bit hard to breathe. It is definitely an experience though. It is mental in here. So we are at China Ram and this has been voted the best sweet shop in the whole of Delhi. Every year since 2003. And this is what we've got. I'm not sure what any of these things are. I'm sure our tour guide will show us, but they all look so, so nice. So this is cashews and sugar. Oh, that's lovely. And again, not too sweet. Really nice and very soft. But yeah, it's so pretty. I don't want to eat it because it's so nice. As you can hear, it's so busy here in Delhi. But I'm just trying the edible. So this coconut one. And again, it's got the edible silver on it. Again, very pretty. I'm going to try again. Oh, wow. Very sweet. That one is my favourite. That tastes so nice. It tastes like coconut, but it also tastes a bit like cake. It's very, very sugary, very sweet. That is really good. So what we've got now is a lot of background noise. But also starch, sugar, butter mixed together with nuts and dried fruit. It feels a little bit like I've got jelly with nuts in, which is a little bit odd. It's super chewy. Do you like it? It's really nice. It's absolutely fabulous. It's so loud. So our next stop is Amritsar Lassiwala. And we're going to try some famous lassis here. So the name of this shop is Amritsar Lassiwala. And they hail from Amritsar. So Amritsar is a land of butter and milk. So it's a very popular drink out there. And it's just yogurt with sugar and banana in it. So apparently you need to eat the top bit first. So I'm going to go for a scoop. That's the cream. And this is the cream. That is sweet. But good. Really good. It just tastes like a very sweet yogurt. Really nice. It's not even with a straw, it's with a spoon. Is it that thick? Yeah, it is pretty thick. I don't think I could eat a full one. So we're just on our way to the Muslim area to get non-veg food. We've jumped in a rickshaw. And this is our first time in India in a bike rickshaw. So it's going pretty fast. I think we're pretty heavy. I was just thinking we're definitely heavier than the average Indian passengers he gets. I feel a bit sorry for him. He's working hard though. I would suggest if you're going to come to Delhi, I think the best way to see it is to do a food tour. And get a real feel for it with someone that's local. And the pressure and the anxiety really goes away when you're with a local that's showing you around. You don't get hassled. So I would definitely recommend doing that. Yeah, 100%. It's a very chaotic, loud place. Not everyone that we've spoken to speaks very good English. And just having that guy acting as a translator, he's a local, he knows how it all works. It really does just relax you, doesn't it? It does. It really does. So next stop is Karim's. So this place has been open since 1913. And according to Time Magazine, it's one of the best places to eat in the whole of Asia. So we have gone for the Mutton Seekh Kebab. We've got the Mutton Korma. And we've got a bread. What's the bread called again? And we've got a Kamini Roti. The Korma. So I'm not great with spice. So I normally get Korma in England. And it's yellow and it's creamy and it's sweet. And this is quite spicy, I think. And it looks completely different. So I'm interested to see if this tastes anything like the Kormas back home. If it looks or anything to go by, I'm going to say it's not going to taste similar at all. Does it taste like a Korma back at home? No, a bit. It tastes more like, I don't know, maybe like a Bhuna or a Khao Phrase that you get back home. It's not really like a Korma at all. It's very nice, though. So it's rich. It's got a little bit of kick to it, but not too much. It tastes a little bit citrusy. I'm guessing they've just put some lime or lemon on it. Yeah, really nice. Can't wait to dig into the mutton as well, because this sauce is gorgeous. It is so soft, it's just falling apart in my mouth. I've never had mutton so soft. Or Korma so spicy. So this is the Mutton Steak Kebab. Oh, that's really good. It looks very soft. It's so soft. The spices with the lime is really, really good. Yeah, that's delicious. Just having a little beverage break before our next meal. And we're having Thumbs Up, which I think it's going to taste a bit like maybe Coca-Cola or Dr Pepper. I'm going to have a little drink. Yeah. It tastes better though than Coca-Cola or Dr Pepper. It tastes really good. It's like a big thing in India. And because the cricket's on at the moment, it's gone like, India will win. So come on India. So we've got our first dish. And now it's all going to be about chicken. In the last place, it was all about mutton. And now it's going to be all about the chicken. So we've got like a butter chicken dish here. And it's a bit different. It's not your traditional butter chicken. We had the chicken on skewers and they were cooking it that way. And then they put butter and cream in it and yogurt. And yeah, it looks completely different from butter chicken that we have at home. So this restaurant is called Aslam Chicken. And if you go to certain restaurants in India, they actually call it Aslam Chicken. So that's the name of this dish. Because they basically nicked the recipe from this restaurant because it was so successful and so popular. A lot of people in India prefer this to the traditional butter chicken. So this is a real nice treat for us to try this. I'm a little bit worried about my arteries just looking at this sauce. It doesn't look the healthiest. It's got to be tasty though, surely. That is not what I expected at all. It's obviously very creamy. It's very, very buttery. You can taste it from all the marinade for the chicken. And it works really well. Yeah, that is absolutely not what I expected. It is really, really nice. Oh, wow. That is really good. I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting that. That is really good. Also, it's not like anything else you've ever tasted. It's really hard to describe, isn't it? Yeah, this is really good. So this is my favorite so far though. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Straight in at number one? Yeah. So now we've got Shami Kebab, which is chicken with lentils and spices. And I'm going to put a bit, and it's deep fried as well, put a little bit of lime on there. And I'm going to dig in. That is so different to any kebab I've ever had. I know, it doesn't look like a traditional kebab. No, in England, we wouldn't call this kebab. I don't know what you'd call it, but that's really nice. It's almost like, I don't know, I was going to say like... A chicken burger? I was going to say like corned chicken. Like you'd get like corned beef. It's almost like corned beef, I'm sure. But it tastes really good. A little bit spicy. Oh, it smells lovely. Is it nice? Yeah, it's got all like the spices and it's like a bit like custard. But yeah, it's really nice. And then the sweetness of the mango ice cream is really good. I've had bread pudding before, but never with mango sorbet. So here goes. I can't believe it goes so well together. It feels like it shouldn't. But yeah, the hot and the cold. Yeah, it's all so sweet. It's really creamy. This is amazing. And then we've also got rice pudding. So I'm going to have a quick try of this. It's a lot thicker than we get back home. Back home it's a little bit runny. But yeah, really nice. Really good consistency. Not as sweet. I think the bread pudding mango is my favourite. But that's still a good contender. So our final stop of the day. We have come to Kulfi. And we've come to the oldest Kulfi shop in all of Delhi. So Kulfi is... There's two options. One is similar to sorbet and one is similar to ice cream. It's milk based and it's got different flavours. And the only difference is it's not emulsified. So I think it's going to be similar to ice cream, but maybe a little bit different. So we've got a few different flavours. We've got a pomegranate sorbet. We've got the mango Kulfi. And we've got the classic flavour, which is saffron and pistachios. So I'm going to dig in with the classic first. It's really nice. I love ice cream, so this is great. It's similar to ice cream. It's a little bit thicker. It almost feels like halfway between an ice cream and a sorbet. It's creamy, but thick creamy. That might be a bad explanation. No, I would say the same. It's like in between sorbet and ice cream. It's really good though. It's really refreshing. The pomegranate one tastes more like sorbet than the other two. That one is a sorbet. That is a sorbet. But that tastes really, really refreshing. And this one's really creamy. And yes, mango. It tastes really good. I'll be honest, saffron and pistachios I thought, A, they don't really go together and B, do they go with milk? But apparently they do. Oh, that's really creamy. It's really nice. So, what's been your favourite? It's so hard to say. I absolutely love ice cream. I love it. And I think I prefer this to ice cream. I feel like you can tell it's made with real fruit. So, like, you can taste the mango. This isn't made with artificial flavourings, artificial colouring. This is literally just mango, milk and sugar and you can taste it. It's so fruity. And I'm going to go rogue and say made with the sorbet. The sorbet is so sweet. It is gorgeous. I agree. I think sorbet was my favourite as well. But it was all beaten really, really good. We have had the best time on the food tour. We've absolutely loved it. Unfortunately, we need to dash off. The food tour has ended. Our train is literally here. So, thank you so much. We absolutely loved it. Thank you.