An Italian Tries Indian Food for the First Time

Are you ready for this? What is this? I don't know. These are petals. And these are candies, sweet candies. Oh wow. So it's like, you can say like mouth freshener. Oh, so after you eat this. Yeah, just take like a tiny bit, you know. So it's like mouth freshener, you can say. And also, it's like a good for digestion. For digestion. Okay, so after you eat, you come here, you take something. Just take like one hand. Yeah, yeah. It's like licorice, you can say. It's like licorice. I want to try the mango. Wow, it's fantastic. Does it taste super mango? Not super mango. It tastes mango, but it's fantastic. It's really refreshing, like... Ten of the ten. Amazing. Ten of the ten. It's so creamy. Yeah. I think we need to get another one. Well, yeah, because we ordered one, right? Just ordered one to try, but... Try it. Oh, thank you. I was just thinking to finish this amazing mango, and then put all the seeds later. First time eat Indian food, but I need to say something. It's not the first time, Amora. I eat in the airplane. British Airways give you Indian food. That's right, I think we have a curry or something. I was terrible in airplane, but this is not. This smells amazing, and I don't think I've ever been more excited to try anything in my entire life. Yeah, me too, because this is real Indian food. So... Not airplane food. Airplane, everything is terrible. Look what they gave us. Look at this giant thing of rice. Yes, it's crazy. Should we start with the famous Chicken Tikka Masala? Yeah. Chicken Tikka Masala is... Oh, by the way, if we butcher any names, apologies in advance. We're going to try our best. But, you know, it might happen. Chicken Tikka Masala. Tender, boneless chunks of chicken broiled in a tandoor and sautéed in a rich tomato, onion, and butter sauce. And by the way, we take spices number three. No, I was the one to ten. So we were chickens. Chickens. Number three. Chicken Tikka Masala. I put here by side. Sure, okay. So I can use the rice with other things too. The sauce is so vibrant. Oh, it's so soft. Oh my gosh. Should I just get a little rice in there too? Okay, ready? We're starting off good, guys. We're starting off really good. The chicken is so soft. Cooked perfectly. And it's not too spicy at all. We probably could have gone a little bit more spicy. More spicy? Yeah. Wow. What is your score? I'm giving an 8.5. I honestly think if we had gotten it spicier, I could even go higher. I say 10. 10? I say 10. Right off the bat? I was trying to be conservative in case there was something better to give a 10. This is my favorite. It's really good. Wow. I could eat this every single day, obviously. This is my favorite already. Because it has perfect flavors. And this is the best? Like, I don't know. Isn't the chicken perfectly cooked? Indian food. I'm shocked. This kicks the airplane. Okay. I was joking about the airplane. Because the airplane, everything is terrible. I know. But that was my real Indian food. The first experience. And I need to say, every time I go to the airplane and they bring me that, I say, I need to eat before to fly. Because I hate it. But this... Is amazing. Is the deal, I guess. I'm putting my cuisines on top. This can... No. Italy is Italy. But... Well, it's just the first plate. It's just the first plate. But this is damn good. Wow. What we eat for the next six days, I go to breakfast. Let's go chicken curry. Chicken curry. So, we need a clean, hard palate. How works... Okay, wait, wait. Yes. Because the guy at the restaurant said we need the raita, which is a homemade creamy yogurt, shredded cucumber, roasted cumin, and herbs. I think it might be that. This has to be it. Because I taste the yogurt, I taste cucumber. And this is supposed to clean the palate for the next flavors. At least that's what the guy told us. Now we can go with the chicken curry. Chicken curry, boneless pieces of chicken, cooked in a light, mildly spiced gravy sauce. Okay, thank you. I don't know if chicken curry is going to be my favorite, but... I don't know how anything can beat the first thing we try. I don't know. Cheers. Spicy. And that's a three? Oh my gosh, it's coming really strong. Nine. Nine point five. For me, it beats the chicken masala. For you, it beats. For me, because it's too spicy, I take down one point. But this is... For me, it's up. Because it's got a kick, I'm happy. Regazzi. This is... Indian food is unbelievable. Who knows in India? Oh, I'm sure it's ten times better. Better, yeah. Which is going to be my boy, because this is excellent. No, this is really good. Like, say it is ten times better, it is like, wow. I need to know if it's some Indian. Go to that location. Yeah, yeah. Tell us if it's real, like, good or not. This is unbelievable. This, to me, is like the perfect meal. You have a plate of rice, you put the curry over the top of it for like a fall, cold fall day. Yeah. It's going to warm you up from the inside. It has all the little spices and veggies in the sauce. Nine. Nine out of ten. 9.5. Clean the palate and clean the fork. This is perfect even for... Take down the spiciness. This is vegetable korma. A delicious royal entree. Fresh garden vegetables gently simmered in a spice-laced creamy sauce and garnished with nuts. This looks amazing. I love vegetable dishes. I wonder what kind of vegetables are in here. I can see peas and beans and maybe carrots. This is the best thing ever. This is 11. I got this. Wait, wait. I'm sorry, this... Whatever flavor is in here is blowing my mind. I feel like I just ate dessert. It almost tastes like dessert. Indian is my second cuisine in the world. I am... In the world. Shocked by this. What is this spice in here? Because whatever it is, it's my new favorite flavor. Wow. That is delicious. Guys. This I'm... We didn't order enough. Nah, no kidding. No kidding. This one's 11 out of 10. I cannot believe how good that is. That place. Wow. That's incredible. I want more. But... I need it. We have so many things to try, Amore. Eat them all. I'm trying. I need to know what's in there. What is in that spice? That's beautiful. Wait, that is beautiful. Sounds like pizza to me. It looks like pizza. It is a pizza now. The bread... It's okay. No, it's okay. Like... It is good. Like... Yeah. That's gonna blow your mind. That is incredible. The bread alone is a 7. To me. I could give it an 8. The bread. Alone. You need to use it for touches. You need to use it to scoop up the sauces, I think. I see. What are we eating today? I don't know. But give me more bread because I need more sauce. This is... Tandoori chicken. It's tender chicken marinated in yogurt with fresh spices and then barbecued over flaming coals in the tandoor. Sounds fancy to me. It smells spicy. The crazy thing is, this is delicious, but I'm scoring it lower than the other ones because the other ones were just out of this world. 6. I was gonna give it a 7.5. Me, 6. I think it's really good. I'm glad it didn't get spicier because I think we would've been in trouble. But compared to the other ones, it doesn't feel like anything super special. I'm gonna give it a 7.5. Okay. We didn't even start with the appetizers. What did we do? Oh, this is the super famous one. Oh, this is the famous... This is called butter chicken. This is chicken makhani. Makhani? Universally popular butter chicken. Boneless pieces of tandoori chicken cooked with onions, tomatoes, butter, and creamy sauce. So it's the same type of chicken that we just ate, but it's in a sauce this time. In a sauce. This is like super, super famous. Put it here in this spot. I don't think you gave me any chicken. Yeah, yeah. Okay, there we go. My score go up. It's really good. Yeah. But it's beating the other people. See the other dish? For me, no. For me either. 8. 8, ragazzi. I'm giving it an 8.5. 8. It's excellent. I love it. I can see why everybody likes this, but it's still... It's not blowing me away like some of the other ones. The other ones blowing me away. We say 8 like it's a 5 or a 3. I know. Which you never give 8s or anything in your whole life. But... Like it's always a good, good score if you give it an 8. You're giving an 8 like if you take a 5 here. Appetizers! Oh, a fried ball! A fried ball? Then what? Vegetable samosa. Crispy fried turnover deliciously filled with mildly spiced potatoes and peas. At first I think we try it by itself and then we can dip it in the sauce. Yeah. We're going to try it with this sauce. This needs sauce. For the fried. It's a little bit dry without it, I think. Mmm. This sauce fits. Mmm. I like that. You try the green one. No, the green one, no. Mmm, no. It's minty. Mmm. You're brave. Mmm. Tomato and this fits. I like it. It's fresh. This fits. Fresh flavor. So this, what is your score? 7.5 or 7? I was going to give 7.5. 7.5. You don't have to eat it for appetizers, in my opinion, because this can fool you up immediately because it's the potato. But it's good. It depends if you want to have this in one dish, yes. How could you not love a fried potato thing, though? Yeah. I mean, obviously, it's going to be excellent. Yeah. Here we have a lot of fried. This is vegetable pakora. Fresh vegetables dipped in a delicately spiced chickpea batter and fried to golden perfection. That sounds divine. Actually, it's good. I have no idea what it is, but it's good. Let's try all three and give our score. Okay. Let's try this little green one next. Interestingness. This is not my favorite, but I need to say I will see it in it. If somebody offers it to me, yeah. Okay, this doesn't make much sense, but there's a smokiness to this. Like, I didn't taste it at the beginning. I bit into it. I really liked it, but there's a smoky quality that I'm not sure that I love. It has cream inside. I'm giving them sevens. Six. This one is my favorite. The chip is my favorite. Then this one. And then... Super. And then the green one I didn't enjoy very much. But they're pretty good. They're pretty good. So we have... So this is paneer pakora. Homemade Indian cheese dipped in chickpea batter and deep fried. Wow. This is deep fried cheese. I'm going to eat it without sauce and then... Okay. Ready? Yeah. There's not much flavor going on here, right? It's like a... I was expecting a flavor bomb and there's not much flavor, actually. But the sauce, the brown sauce, fits everything. I have to say, I really like the texture of this thing. The cheese is kind of like chewy and I like that. But I just wish there was more flavor going on. It's flat. The cheese is flat. Let me try this sauce tomato thing. Six point five. The tomato. The tomato can make them go eight. Yeah, exactly. I was going to give six point five also. But with the tomato, with the cheese... It gives the cheese a something. It's good. You have to dip in the... Of course, we don't know if that's the right sauce or what it is. So tell us in the comments what we're supposed to put with this. But I like the tomato. You're speaking with somebody who can never eat Indian food. So we all don't know what we're doing. Have grace with us, guys. We're doing the best we can. But I accept all the comments for the next time I go there and eat how it has to be eaten. Right, right. Tell us what the brown sauce is supposed to be with, what the tomato is supposed to be with. With the green, too. I think this is gulab jamun. A light pastry made with milk, cheese balls, and touched with a honey-thick syrup. Ball and cheese in honey. Oh, wow. I like that. I love it. That's really good. I was expecting it to be filled with cheese, but I think it's like pastry and cheese. Nice. Mm-hmm. You need to order. That has a lot more flavor than I was expecting. Yeah. It's like delicately sweet, though. Not super, super sweet. At least for me. Yeah. I think it's really good. Because the syrup is the sweet part, and then this doesn't taste sweet, so it goes well together. It goes well. And then I think we have another dessert here. It is this that we tried to open before. Oh, right. Looks like banana pudding. Indian banana pudding. Ras malai. Homemade cheese balls in a sweetened thick milk flavored with rose water and nuts. I think our balls disintegrated because they're not cheese balls. Well, it tastes like ricotta in the beginning. It does taste like ricotta. It's Italian ricotta sweet. Sweet ricotta. And it gets better the more flavor after. The after flavor. This is good, but I still think I would choose this first. I choose this one. Yeah. I give an eight. I was going to say eight. Eight. You're in my mind today. Almost. We don't agree. We fought with something. We appetizers. But out of the desserts, this one I think is the number one. Number one. I am shocked, ragazzi. I was looking forward to this. I thought it was going to be good, but I did not expect it to be as incredible as it is. As it is. I love this. I love it. I would go back and eat this all the time. Indian food. Applause. You made it in the top food in the world. And do you know what that means? Coming from this man right here. That statement. For him to say that. Now, we finished with our... Delicatessia. To you guys. To Indian food. You deserve the best food in the world.