Punta Gorda Street Food Tour in Belize!

Today I'm in Punta Gorda, District of Toledo, Belize, and I'm gonna take you on a street food tour at 100 degree Fahrenheit weather. I am super hot. This is the Central Park. We're gonna walk over here to a market. Hopefully they have some tamales, some corn tortillas, maybe even a coconut bender. There's a small market. I saw some pineapples and stuff. Let's have some fruit. I'm dying. Yeah, yeah, we're up right now. We're up 2-0 on Boston, so we're good, we're good. ¿Qué tienes? ¿Qué pones? Condimentos. So they have ketchup, mayo. What else? ¿Mostaza? ¿Vale? ¿Okay? ¿Dame uno? ¿Con todos? ¿Y yo lo como aquí? ¡Ale! ¿Qué pasa, amiga? Look at that hot dog. ¿Qué le vas a poner? Oh, that's a onion. So that's an onion. And then she has all the sauces over here. Perfect. Yeah, yeah, of course. And that's a very sharp. Homemade. Let's do it. Hey, man, you said three, right? But that's for you, okay? That's for you. All right. Let's do this, guys. Let's have a hot dog. All right, here we go. That's overwhelming with sauce. Love the hot sauce. I mean, it's a mix of things, right? So we have the hot dog, we have the bun, you have the onions, and you have, what was it, ketchup? Mustard? Hot sauce? Mayonnaise. So all three, it's a big combo. It's a big dog. With a lot of bread. I'm actually, when you take me back to the modern games in the 90s, 99s, this is the year we won it. Whoa. She made this thing spicy. I haven't had an old-fashioned hot dog in a while. So what is that, mango? Sea moss? No. This is heaven, this is heaven. It's good. The best seaweed on earth, that algae. Wow, that's fantastic. Love it. How much for this? Three dollars? I'm gonna get one of the bags, too, of mangoes. It's okay? Let's get this out. I like it. It's not perfectly ripe. So it's still a little crunchy. Wow, in this heat? Too refreshing. Come to him, buy some sea moss, and get this. Let me take another one. It's that good. Oh, wow. Hmm. You know what? Can I have some of that, too? Salt, right? It's the pepper, it's spice. Spice. Mix it in here. Controversial right there. Controversial. That's spicy. Now the salt with the pepper? Whoa, that'll wake you up. My eyes are like already getting it. You want some? This is the national fruit of India, you know that? Yeah, national fruit, mango. Here, try some. Try some of that pepper. I haven't seen you eat on camera yet. How much do I owe you for the bag and the moss? Four dollars? It's too spicy. I might have to get another one. It's too spicy. Yeah, but pepper and salt, the combination, it's extra, because it like destroys your tongue. And if you didn't know, sea moss is an aphrodisiac. Hey, what do you have? Barbecue? What barbecue, like? Chicken and sausage? Okay, can I have a sausage? So here we have sausage with coleslaw, house-made slaw. What else are you gonna add to it? Some beans on the side? Oh, that's good, huh? Whoa, oh, and tortilla. Well, it's gonna be good. Let's go find a seat. It's hot today. Seven, eight, nine, 10, and 10, 20. Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much, appreciate it. Sold seven, I gave her 10, an extra $1.50 tip. And it's the food right here. I feel bad, can I eat it right here? Is that okay? You wanna sit down? No, I wanna stand up, is that good with you guys? All right, so let's do this. So I'm gonna poke this sausage barbecue sauce, all right? Very smoky. Mix some of that beans. Bro, what do you have here? Pepper. Pepper? Don't do that to me. Belize is a country that loves, loves pepper. So I'm just gonna like. Really have a bit, bye. No, just on the side. And you get the tortilla, get some of that. You don't have a knife? Well, I guess I'll try to break this up like this. Perfect, yeah, this is gonna be some spicy sausage. You like spice? You like spice, huh? What's your name? I'm Joe. Joe, pleasure, nice to meet you. Joe, you wanna have a bite? You good? Let's have a bite together. You can grab a tortilla. We can have a bite together. If you're hungry. I'm over, like I'm stuffed. Let's go. Just grab this like this. Come on, man, you're Belizean. Tasty, right? It's not too hot. I thought it was gonna be hotter. Actually, you should get some onion and pepper and put it on your tortilla. Onion and pepper, let's open this up. So I'm gonna get some of the onion and pepper from right here. Look how spicy that is. Look at all the habaneros. Look at the habaneros. Habanero is a national vegetable. It is, right? It's like consumed that way. It's hot. Manja, manja. I like it. Smoky, not too much sauce. The spice is phenomenal. It's not over, I'd say in terms of heat, I'd say a seven. Not like crazy, but I usually have like too spicy. Okay, now, take care. Go, go, go, no problem. Thank you. Thank you for joining me on a meal. No one here wants to talk to me. Everybody's like shy. Too shy. Take care. Thank you. I'm overwhelmed with the food. I try to share it, because if not, not as much as the Belizean women. I have to make people smile, because if not, I love your bike, bro. Can I drive it? Can I ride it? I've never ridden that thing. You know, I have a license, right? I went to driving school. I went to motorcycle school. Yeah, man, I was 19. I went to Leesburg County, or Lees County in Florida. Hey, thank you so much, man. Thank you. My lips are boiling, by the way. But yeah, I got my license. It took me two days. I went through a motorcycle school. I got my license. Says it on my license. All right, so here we go. Walking through the market. A lot of different vendors selling very similar things, right? So you got beans, and potatoes, onions, pineapples. Do you have any juices? Is there any juices over here? Yeah? What do you have? Oh, look over here. We have watermelon, orange, tamarind, lime. I think I have to go with my favorite right now, which is watermelon. So this is for me. That's a tamarind? No, that's watermelon. Yeah, I'll take one tamarind. So I got watermelon. Let's do this really quick. This like saves me right now. How hot is it? What do you think? It's very hot. It's like a hundred something. Without this fan, I'm suffocating in Punta Gorda. And over here, look at this, Nate. Yellow ginger. Yellow ginger and achiote. So I thought that you could use it for like a marinade, babe. And for chicken. For chicken. Indigenous people use it for caldo. For caldo? Yeah. And then what's this one, ginger? That's the yellow ginger and that's the achiote. Here's the powder? Yeah. And how much for these? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, you too. Pleasure meeting you. Come to her, have some watermelon, buy some achiote. What else did I buy? The ginger powder, ginger, right? I'm like overwhelmed with the heat though. My nose is starting to drip. You ever had it before, Nate? No, I've never had timber. Okay, let's see what this is. All right, it's really good, actually. Wow. Tastes almost like a little bit like a lime and maybe a lime in a cantaloupe or something. Oh, this is it? That's it right there. That's on Nate. Oh yeah, it's like a date. Is it like a date? It feels like a date. Do you have one? Just one solo? No, so you know what? It is like a date. So it's like a little bit of like meat and then you have the seed, big amount of seed though. You suck on it, right? You suck on that? Oh, is it tamarind? Is it tamarind? You know what? It is tamarind. That's tamarind. Oh, because you can, tambran is tamarind. Oh, I didn't know that. I guess, right? Is that because of the language? Yeah, tambran. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Wow. Wow, that was good. Yeah, that's like. Oh, and she has a coconut one, a frozen coconut. I'm gonna start doing that in Miami, just freezing bottles like this. $10 each. That's really good. So you have honey here? Yes, we do have honey. Is this made at your farm or is this? No, it comes from like. Okay, can I see it? How much for one of these? So real honey, you'll always notice how liquidy it is. It's almost like, I mean, it's not like water, but it's not too pasty. When they add sugar, it becomes pasty. I'm gonna buy it from you, okay? So I'm gonna try it. I love honey. We can just drink like this. Oh, that's real. That is sweet, but it's not over sweet like fake honey. If you ever see honey and it's cheap, you know it's fake. Nani? No, I'm serious because people will be like, you know, huge kilo and it's like $15. I'm like, that's not real. Yeah, so nine, right? Fantastic. $9, so it's five US. It's a good deal. I'm gonna take this home. Lemon honey for your flu. For my flu, right? You can tell I'm sick? Yeah, I can hear it. Yeah, well, also I had a lot of spice, so. Had a lot of spice. Thank you. You know what, give me one more honey and then here, here, you keep all that, okay? Sure. Oh, so I'm gonna take two. Thanks, bro. Thank you so much. Thank you. Take care of your son, okay? Take care. Bye, thank you. So always, always, guys, bring a budget, support the locals, and let's see what else we find. How you doing? This is the main middle street, this street here. In town, this is where all the activity will be taking place here in the festival, so. It's already here. It's already happening. So over here, we have a place that has, like, snacks, nachos and stuff, and then in front of us, we have, I think, a funeral, because they literally just put, like, chairs and a tent on the street. Rest in peace. So what's this place called? ALG's Snack Shop? ALG's Snacks. How you doing, you're ALG? Yes, I am ALG. Pleasure, nice to meet you. What do you have here today? Well, we are right here, ready to serve our customer with, what is corn? So tacos, burritos, panades, so panas? Panades, yeah. Salbutes, what do you recommend? Oh, well, panades, salbutes, anything. I'll have salbutes, let's get a salbutes. I give you an order of salbutes, no problem. One order? Yeah. Perfect, thank you so much. Is it okay? I have to fry it first, and then now that it's fried, put in the minced chicken on it. This is the preparation of salbutes. And now we put our cabbage, which is another complement to the salbutes, and then we put the final that make it look like it's definitely a salbutes. So everything is homemade, everything is right here producing in Toledo. Food service, please wait five to 10 minutes. Took him five minutes, and we got salbutes. So these look like little tostas. You have some chicken, like a stew chicken. Repollo, so cabbage, tomatoes. And the best part about this is we got some spice. Let's drop it on top. All right, let's do this. Let's get a bite. Ooh, crunchy. This is a spicy street food tour today. Super spicy today. So I love the influence from Mexico. Like, this is like also just Central America, in Guatemala, in El Salvador, and in Belize, you'll feel that Mexican feel, you know? Tortillas. Mayan culture. They're good. It's actually really good. That was full, but I'm gonna have one more. It's for you, bro. They good? I love it. I really love the food here. I still need some stuff, right? Super street food, hot dog. Then we had a little bit of barbecue, some sausage with some beans. Then we had some spice. Everything was spiced. Mango with spice. Best thing for sure for me was the sea moss. The sea moss was epic. I had two of them. Then I also had a juice. We bought some stuff. You know, walked around the market and then came here. And how much is this? It's four. So two U.S. for this. Yeah, so they make their own sauce. And I got my sauce. I got my sauce, David's sauce. Yeah, we just launched like four months ago. Yeah, so I'm taking it all over the world. You wanna try? Nah, it's only Kashmiri chili. No, no, you have to buy 10 cases. Taste it, taste it. I'll try it too, because I love it. Pineapple, guava. Yeah, yeah, of course, of course. Everybody can take this. Yeah. So my partners are from Suriname. Their family's from Suriname. Yeah, it's spice. It's pineapple, guava, and Kashmiri chili. And there's obviously some other things in the base, but. It does, because it has that kick at the end. Yeah, I love it. We went through a year of putting the idea together.