hey everyone I hope you’re having an
amazing day it’s mark means I’m in
Mombasa Kenya on the east coast of
Africa it’s really a melting pot of
cultures and foods and today I’m gonna
meet up with Farhana she is a local
youtuber she makes videos about travel
she loves to eat street food as well so
it’s gonna be a lot of fun and we’re
also gonna meet some meal and they’re
gonna take me and you on a street food
tour of Mombasa we’re gonna eat that
some of our Hannah’s favorite places and
we’re gonna share all of the delicious
food with you in this video right now
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hello nice to meet you what’s up to me
oh hi mark how you doing okay and this
mom I’m gonna drive is known for snacks
so we’re gonna start off with by the
demo huh you find the caboose time oh
okay
Sanpei yeah try that Wow I’ve eaten it
cook I don’t I don’t think I’ve ever
eaten it wrong I’m done and he’s just
like he has this stock that’s like a
trunk high and he just slices it rock oh
yeah it tastes like a hey that’s a
coconut flavor yeah but it’s crisp like
bamboo shoot’ like a bamboo or something
really good mine sweet
mine’s very good ones it’s a little bit
sour just the tinge of sourness but yeah
there’s there’s just nothing better than
a coconut it’s one of the most
refreshing things you could possibly
have on a hot day which Mombasa is today
I was really good I was so fast yeah my
friend he actually scoops it out for you
and like depending on your luck what
type of meat you get some is very
jealous very young I got quite a quite a
gem because it’s quite a thick coconut
meat but at the same time you can see
that it is gonna be nice and soft and
and creamy coconut creamy
and by the way that’s like the entire
coconut in this one chunk it’s soft yet
media at the same time this is a really
good one it’s super soft and it tastes
delicious eating the coconut he was
freshly frying some cassava and you put
salt chili and lemon
once it’s ready he takes out a piece and
he decorates it you season it he season
to floor me but he cuts a little slit in
it to fill it up with the seasoning a
combination of salt and chili and then
squeezes on the lime they loaded it with
chili you can see that kind of caked on
there
it’s fried it’s fresh it’s hot yeah oh I
got a little bit of the utility in my
eye with that wind gust but that’s okay
but that’s okay it’s incredibly good I
think this is absolutely delicious the
more chili you have tastier this know
for sure for sure okay I love eating
with you yeah it’s really really soft
cassava is starchy and dry but at the
same time like that’s the attractive
thing about it
we’re just moving down the line as we
were eating that cassava then they were
freshly frying the cassava
it’s it’s also franca Sava but in chip
crisp form instead of the thick pieces
no the combination of Chile salt and
lime juice
is your alignment oh it’s a lemon oh
okay it’s so fragrant lemon is a bit
more sour a perfect salty snack yeah
when you start with one you can’t stop
that’s exactly right
this is the roasted one roasted cassava
roasted cassava dusted me nuts the sweet
potatoes did sweet potato and that’s the
sweet corn another stall just down the
road you’re still on the ocean we’ve got
the ocean breeze
he is roasting a variety of things
there’s maize there’s there’s also sweet
corn there’s sweet potato
sweet and chilly and that’s what I love
about it it’s really soft and then you
get the sweetness and the chili at the
same time it hits you at the same time
mm-hmm
I like that the three notes is
contrasted by the lemon and the salt
though actually this one is the sweet
pork growing up when I lived in Nairobi
for a few years now when I was like one
of my main street food snacks growing up
the roasted maize the juiciness most of
the other things were a little dried but
it was so juicy
we’re getting ready to move on from this
area maman Gena drive but it’s a great
place people come here locals come here
to relax if our Hana was mentioning that
it’s especially popular on the weekend
people even pull up their cars
you can order snacks they’ll deliver it
to your car you sit in your car you
overlook the ocean you got the ocean
breeze it’s just a real chilled out
relaxing just friendly environment and
people are really friendly here – yeah
Mombasa is amazing
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take a little drive through Mombasa and
we’re in the real back streets here you
really notice the mix of Arabian and
Indian cultures and local man this is a
busy enough okay I better move back over
here but what a what an action energy
place and I’m very excited for all we’re
gonna eat next
oh right yeah see but yes samosa and I’m
very excited for you to try the chili
but you’re so let’s go
hello these are the chili ones these are
the Dalbert years and these are the pack
potatoes vrc’s because I’m Campbell this
place looks like a gem it’s like in the
really in the back streets of Mombasa
down an alleyway you can actually smell
the aroma of all the the deep-fried
things
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oh yeah that’s cool
this is the best out in the world
without a doubt I really want you to try
the whole gym that’s gonna be my first
bite that’s gonna be drivers like and by
the way Farhana is also vlogging be sure
you check out her blog and I will leave
it in the description box below thank
you this looks unbelievable this is what
Mombasa is all about to human masa it’s
all in this piece we have fried pack
potatoes it’s coated into this flour
kind of paste and then she just doused
it in the coconut chutney and chili
chili chili sauce it really has a mix of
local local Mombasa Indian yeah Arab
that’s those those are the main
representations of flavors and cooking
styles and spices okay we gotta start
with that chili
awesome a little bit spicy
but you taste the spices in there –
maybe the turmeric the coconut comes in
nicely and on top of the chili you’ve
got the chilli sauce as well so you’ve
got chili on top of chili
well yeah the potato is really good it’s
like a silky smooth potato back yeah
yeah that coconut chutney it’s also a
little sour any from let me just use
Evan juice it’s really good yeah those
are that is like all deep fried snack
like deliciousness on a single plate
that you could you could one the longer
it sits in the chutney the better yes
because it stops it in a little bit yeah
it gets towards the chili definitely
wins yeah as Sam Neill was mentioning it
gets better the longer it sits in that
chutney because it absorbs it all Cemile
went down the lane and bamyas bonito he
sees a very strong ginger
yeah that just slightly burns going down
it slightly goes up your nose
that’s what you want when you drink a
stone eating that was sensationally
delicious and this area of town is where
you really get a few a feel of the
culture of Mombasa sighs it’s great this
is this is beautiful
okay we’re moving on we’re stopping just
down the road for some sugarcane juice
which is very popular in Mombasa
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that machine looks like it’s gotten a
lot of use over the years it’s my goat
it’s almost like a auto engine he takes
the sugarcane what’s what’s even better
than the sugarcane is he takes a lime
and a chunk of ginger sandwiches it into
the into the sugarcane squeezes it fresh
it it pours out into a pitcher like a
like a sugar cane waterfall and that is
fresh sugarcane juice
Wow really David ginger
yeah it is it is it’s for me like like
just sugar cane is too sweet with no
other case but with the addition of the
lime and the ginger to spice it up that
makes it good
and you’re right you know it’s not too
sweet it’s the perfect sweet ginger lime
combination sandscape outside and the
streets of Old Town Mombasa are just
like illuminated and pink from the
sunset oh and then the fluorescent
lights just came on right as I said that
next we are going to this street at
McCormick Hodari where they have all
these barbecue on the road and you can
get goat meat do you get a grilled
chicken it’s all grilled so grilled
chicken barbecue mutton as well we have
salads and lots of chilies as well
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we are at Madera Street stretch when is
food all the way down the road barbecue
is mainly barbecue and right now we’re
just up in facebook damascus jobar much
I’m stepping into the meat bus oh you
can even smell it oh yeah oh that smells
good few things in the world that make
me happier than a hissing role of meat
buddy but this is where you can really
notice the melting pot the mix of
cultures that are present and that have
so much history including of course the
food in Mombasa
chili
wraps it up and I like the touch where
you like Chuck’s it back on to the pile
of chicken in the context of give it
that final warming edge beautiful it’s
called Damascus shell arma so I’m yeah
the owner is from Syria okay
maybe from Damascus
oh yeah
in hire like handheld show Armas just so
tender and it’s so easy to eat that’s so
awesome date with Farhana she likes
spicy too we are yes that’s okay
shout out darling Oh Shawn Mobilio Oh at
this place yeah so they come right now
here something about your arm oh when
you get to the bottom it’s even better
because if garlic sauce has accumulated
to the bottom there so it’s all mushy
and like absorbed into that that Fred
and that means I would love a coffee oh
wait wait
that sounds like the perfect thing
before we eat more meat the local style
of coffee that you’ll find all over the
the coast of East Africa and then he
squeezed in some ginger and you can
smell that ginger black coffee oh yeah
that smells really good strong smells
really good yes I love it I love it that
is strong strong black coffee it’s kind
of almost chocolaty but then with that
ginger bite
one more one more but yeah I couldn’t
stop at one I had to get I had to have
another one and I think he squeezed in a
bunch more ginger this time yeah that’s
a lot of ginger ugh it’s so good
conveniently right over the little blue
picket fences where we’re eating next
all along this street you can smell the
smoke in the air there’s a number of
different rural restaurants this
particular restaurants called a posse
Darwin cafe it’s the best one there food
is really
they’re drilling all the meet medical
front I it looks incredible
vegetable bunny misshapen monk you want
to try a one no like you want to order
one of everything or again I’m standing
here with the girl masters that are
making mr. cocky on this grill and this
one is that you can pick up you can pick
on that side but you can you can feel
the heat reading optic radiating off the
girl you can smell the meat and aromas
we ordered a bit of everything we’re
gonna have a mate piece that’s for sure
very similar to martabak or Amitabha
which you will find throughout Southeast
Asia and the Middle East and for me
what’s really fascinating about the food
in Mombasa is that seeing seeing how all
the cultures have come together because
you’ll notice the influences from India
with the spices you’ll notice the the
local Swahili coastal food and then
you’ll also notice the real Arabian Arab
influence as well but everything is
slightly altered it’s been years and
years of history in the making Mombasa
is a beautiful city with amazing food
we’re sitting down for the feast right
now you have all the girl we meet the
colors the choppa
yeah it looks unbelievably good what do
you wanna start with okay yes that’s
yeah that sounds good we just put some
onto the plate yeah tried without it
first okay this is just the play music
Aki there’s a lot of sauces that we can
try as well but at first we just have to
try the meat on its own because it’s
marinated in quite a lot of spices okay
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so saw mm-hmm really tasty there’s just
a like an abundance of spice on there
yeah let’s move into the sauce now
there’s a green sauce there’s a red
sauce and there’s a tamarind some kind
of mix all those together
they never go wrong with sauce when you
get a little bit of the sourness from
the tamarind is one fish kaki is
fantastic all right Farhana let’s move
into that kabobs we’re gonna go for that
red chili sauce this one and when I kind
of keep this sauce is separate this time
so that we can compare and contrast so
tender and it kind of oozes with like
salty juices as you keep on to it spring
chicken this I think this one is the
spring check we got spring chicken which
is a young chicken nice yeah that looks
incredible oh yeah you can see how juicy
that is oh yeah you can feel how juicy
it is in your fingers oh look at that
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well it’s awesome yet so so juicy and so
tender
we’ve got that real like like smoky
flavor from the grill
oh yeah they keep like brushing it with
oil part of the reason I keep it moist
as they keep on grilling it over the
hook well imagine my G with a like
melting on the side it was very cool to
watch him make this eye he first slaps
that doe then he adds in the mixture and
some keema and then he adds in the
cheese and then he makes a little like a
little like doughnut and then he cracks
in two eggs he like whips them up within
the the dough he folds it up and somehow
magically he transports that to the
griddle without anything spilling and
then it cooks into a into a pancake very
similar yeah
kind of like fertile day with the minced
beef right and also lots of onions in
there yeah that is so good you like it
spicy you’ll get it spicy more thank you
welcome so you take the salad we pick up
with all the chili and you put it on top
of this and you take a big bite pick it
up and put it on yeah yeah Gillian says
that maybe this is the ultimate chapatti
bite yeah Mombasa style I’m looking
forward that’s a big bite
oh hell
how does it taste I love that mixture
place it’s so good and with a chili
sauce that makes it incredible the
minute you take that fight okay next up
this is the chicken tikka leg I’m just
gonna wipe this thigh in the sauce yeah
it is really good that that spring
chicken that spring chicken was
excellent so you know this chicken is
also going to be good because I’m pretty
sure it’s the same marination it’s just
delicious it’s just like and you can you
can tell that it’s been marinated for a
long time because the flavor goes into
the meat all the way to the bone without
just being on the surface and taste
cumin in that bag ooh oh yeah oh what a
what a wonderful superb user kick out
these are chips they’re fried potatoes
known locally as masala chips it’s a
tomatoey blend of spices and cilantro
and there that just coats
definitely change that kuranda rule
they’re really tomatoey a little bit
sweet a little bit and then you got the
starchiness at the piano
who loses it’s Chris penis witness ah
see but the sauce makes up for that for
that so basically what we do get
chirps okay and then eat it together
with someone to be yeah yeah
sooner than the beating they put it all
it up yeah okay take a piece of the
chicken okay and you think it’s with the
chips okay together now will be my next
bike for sure
masala chips
nice that you’ve got that Tang eNOS
that’s what these these the masala chips
are very tangy got that like sweet sour
combo that was insanely good what was
your favorite food from the entire day
that was a really nice mix of sweet yeah
I have to say that I mean the meat was
absolutely incredible but for me the
uniqueness of yes and specifically the
fried chili that was the ultimate bite
of this entire day but I have to say a
huge thank you to Farhana or taking me
around to some of her favorite places I
will leave the link in this description
box but check out her channel she’s
she’s not only she loves food she’s fun
to hang out with and she loves spicy
food so go check her out go subscribe to
her channel thank you – Clara Hana
I also want to say a huge thank you to
sub meal for setting a lot of things up
for me in mombasa he’s done a lot of
behind the scenes work so thank you this
a meal
and this actually happens to be my very
first day in Mombasa so this was a an
incredible introduction to the food the
culture I love walking around the
streets it’s really a melting pot and
it’s a beautiful city that’s gonna be it
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