Egyptian Street Food - Seafood HEAVEN + Traditional Egyptian Food Adventure in Alexandria, Egypt!

Alright, check it out guys, I'm Trevor James, we've just arrived in Alexandria, northern Egypt, we've got the Mediterranean Sea right next to us and I'm really excited because today we're going on a full

street

food

adventure

, let's take a look. Alexandria is famous for being one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, right here on the northern coast of Egypt, with the best

food

in the entire country and today we're going to dig in to try some special Alexandrian-style

street

food, like the Alexandrian breakfast. amazing

seafood

and more, so make sure you watch until the end to enjoy all this crazy street food with us, let's eat amazing guys, check this out, we are in Alexandria and you can feel the history as we explore today first. we're going to have a local

alexandria

n style breakfast and i think it's right here let's check it out oh donkeys in the streets here come on guys let's fool the sky oh in the back here assalamu alaikum we just got permission to take a quick look at the silly and these beautiful breakfasts oh look at these guys, wow, look at this beautiful variety of silly beans, we have falafel omelettes, eggplant eggs, tahini, baba ganoush, it's all here, this looks so delicious, look at all this beautiful. food here wow, this will be a healthy and colorful breakfast, this is the food of your dreams, let's go try it, wow, here we are, look at this, today we have a beautiful full breakfast, wow, thank you, this is amazing . wow and falafel, yes, beautiful, wow, thank you, very nice look at this beautiful full breakfast, amazing, amazing selection of heavy and healthy foods.

Here we have so many dishes cooked in the Alexandria style, so we have the complete fool, which is a broad bean spread and you can see that it has a little bit of tahini and a tomato, onion and cilantro, almost like a sauce on top, we have a little eggplant, a beautiful scrambled egg, this is tomato, onion and cilantro, we have some cucumbers with a little country. cheese this is super oily fried white cheese look it's completely saturated and fried you can see it looks a little crunchy on the outside beautiful this is falafel and what I love about falafel in Egypt so far is that it's actually cooked with fresh broad beans beans while in other countries they are cooked with chickpeas and here in Alexandria they cook it in balls instead of burgers we have a good salad here we have some pickled radishes we have some beets we have a beautiful tahini and hummus oh yes, this is what life is about here and you can see this place is full of locals who love the scene and love the food here wow oh yeah very nice very nice it's very tasty and it's really all about the tahini on top.

It's got a little bit of a tart, citrusy freshness to it with the cilantro and the cilantro and the onions, it gives a lot of power and a nice punch and a healthy feel to all that thick, heavy, oh, number one, really good fried cheese, okay, come on try the fried cheese oh a little lemon in the cheese oh good thank you oh with the tahini the cheese with the tahini is good and the bread is good thank you and he just put a little lemon in there and we're going to put a little tahini there too oh yeah, just dip it in tahini, that thick tahini made with sesame, let's try it wow, it's all about the texture, it's quite well seasoned, it's a little salty and it also has that citrus touch, but it's so smooth it really is smooth . soft cheese with a slight crunchy touch on the outside and then with that tahini that is also citrus, it is a perfect falafel, thank you very much, thank you very much, it was incredible, see you, goodbye, it was incredible and we have a lot more food to eat.

Today in Alexandria, let's check it out guys next before heading into the local

seafood

market and eating the seafood of your dreams. We found an amazing Egyptian fondue place with a huge line outside. This is so beautiful. Northern Egypt. Alexandria. This has been. inhabited since 400 BC. C. and it's great to be here. Today we will have a lot of delicious food. Just look at these Alexandrian streets. You can feel the history here and just ahead is a local Alexandrian cheese fondue with local meats. You can see the street. It's full of people you can order and sit inside and that's what we're going to do, let's try it here we go guys, assalamu and after ordering some delicious fondues we were ready to feast, check this out. specialty of Alexandria, look at this special fondue of Alexandria, so both fondues here have a mix of mystery cheeses.

There are supposed to be seven or more different mystery cheeses in here that make it super cheesy and delicious, so this is the beef and caramelized onions with oh look. The cheese looks amazing soft and gooey and here we have cheese with shrimp and crab meat. You can see they load it with pepper and the real joy here will be eating this wine bread, soft like an extra soft baguette. bread and you load it up, oh yeah, look you can load up your meat and your cheese and go kill it, make sure you have lots of meat, lots of cheese on that smooth wine baguette, let's try it, wow, that's it. it has so much cheese it tastes like feta, it really tastes like salty feta with spicy beef mmm that's so tasty, now let's go get some shrimp and crab, look how gooey it is, you can load it up with that wine bread , make sure you get some shrimp some crab oh, it's spicy and gooey, here we go oh oh, that's really good, it has such a unique cheese flavor, oh, and look how gooey, it's spicy, it actually tastes a bit like feta cheese, it's salty.

It has the taste of shrimp, this combined with meat is the perfect combination and you can see that we are like in a grocery store, here there is pasta, jams, juice and coffee, they prepare it for you and you can also buy your groceries here. this is so tasty wow shukran thank you thank you it was so delicious and we have a lot more food to try today let's move on this is a cool city and let's take the tram let's go for more food Let's go to seafood

heaven

. We will head to the market. We'll get on the tram.

Here first, awesome guys. We're on the tram heading to the local seafood market. Let's buy something delicious. seafood, have fun, bring it to the grill and I'm in love with Alexandria so far, you just get this historical feeling, you can feel the energy in the streets and the food has been amazing, let's look for more after a quick tram ride we're headed to the local seafood market for a feast awesome guys we are going for seafood delicacies this is so cool guys we come to the local seafood market and you can see there are hundreds of varieties of seafood and vegetables. fruits, everything is here and let's grab some seafood and then take them to one of these local grills and have a big seafood feast oh we found some assalamu alaikum ah look what we have here guys we have a few tons of tilapia from different fish. this is buri this is burri okay so let's get aburi and tilapia and why is this guy so friendly he's scaling them for us here so we got this is the loot and the giant tilapia look look look at that cool and He's showing us the gills here, the bright red gills, so you can tell this tilapia is a beautiful fresh chicken, so we've got tilapia and the loot, so we've got our seafood here, guys, and we're going to carry on, goodbye and look what we have. here guys, fresh calamari look at this guys, we have a lot of delicious calamari, it's a huge tray, we're probably only going to get a couple, I think we're going to put this in a tagine casserole, so I'm just going to get two, for Please, two grand, he's going to escalate them for us.

Oh yeah, look at all those squid. Incredible, yes, it is incredible. People are very friendly here in Alexandria. I love this seafood market. Alexandria, yes, thank you. Great, let's go. to continue, oh yeah, look at this up here, we have shrimp, oh, satin crab, look at this, oh, nice, pretty blue crabs, natural blue, these are still a little bit alive, you can tell they're moving slightly, so Let's get a couple of these. two two uh two pieces of crab two pieces two pieces look at those beautiful blue crabs so we also have some beautiful shrimp here I think we'll get them and put them in a tagine stew we'll get a kilo and put them in a tagine oh yeah Wow, that's amazing, thank you, thank you, thank you, okay guys, now we have our seafood and we're going to find a grill up here, you can leave the meat, leave the seafood fresh and have a delicious meal oh here we go here's the girl assalamu alaikum wow thank you so we have the seafood here oh beautiful and we are going to grill it right here what happened next was nothing less than pure magic these guys know how to cook and in a matter of seconds they had all the seafood taken to different sections of the restaurant to roast them, bake them and sauté them, all Alexandrian style with cilantro, tomato, onion and tons of flavor, look at that, right on the grill, a little oil, oh, right on the fire, the crabs are on fire, oh.

Yeah, and that's actually a tomato cilantro water that was just drizzled in there, look at these guys, the crab, all the butter seeped out and turned into a burger, a crispy burger and you can also see all these shrimp. He actually just served our shrimp. grilled and they're in an absolutely beautiful tomato, onion and cilantro mix and look at this now guys, we take the fish and we stuff it with tomatoes, cilantro, onion and a little bit of chili too and we're just flattening it and that's going to go straight in the oven , look at the color, it's beautiful and now we're in the back guys watching how they make the squid, so we have tomato, cilantro and onion in this pot here and we're I'm going to serve that squid right in my look at that wow beautiful squid my friend, yeah man big welcome oh yeah yeah thank you thank you amazing and now it's all here guys beautiful look at this beautiful huge table full of seafood we have such. a variety of cooking methods here we have this is a baked fish, he loaded it with tomatoes, onions and cilantro, you can see it's all grilled, crispy and charry, we have beautiful grilled shrimp, he also loaded them with tomato, onion and cilantro. smoky appearance and then here we have a similar mixture of boiled prawns.

You can actually see a little bit of chili seeds in this one and oh, those look like plums. We have another whole roasted fish here, covered in breadcrumbs and you can see it's totally black. and cherry, the onions, cilantro, tomato, he sprinkled a lot of lemon in there and we watched him pour the tomato, cilantro, water on top and then we have a beautiful fish tahini and a shrimp paste, we have two amazing grilled ones. crabs and what was cool was you could see the juice of the crab grilling into a patty when it came off the grill and they're gone, but it looks like it's going to be really delicious and what I'm most excited to try is right here, here we have a beautiful squid and we were watching him prepare it, it has tomatoes, onions, cilantro and we saw him put some chili paste in there too, so it will be spicy and fragrant, and what you can pick up all these squid and what's great is that you can grab anything from the seafood market and they will cook it however you want.

Wow, that's really good, a little spicy, a little spicy, yes, and this is just the first bite of food I am very surprised by how delicious it is, you can taste a lot of dill in there, it has a very mild dill flavor and it's also quite spicy and then the onions give it a little bit of sweetness and the calamari is very mild and this is just one of many dishes here and we're right in the market, you can see the grill is on, we have the ovens on, people are buying fish and you can walk right into the market and have some The best seafood of your life, here we go, look at these guys, let's go get this beautiful crab, oh, look at the meat there.

Wow, this is the mail so there are no eggs, you can just see a little bit of the gills in there and this was correct. on the grill oh look at the butter exploding, let's try to make it almost taste like butter and after trying the amazing baked fish and the rest of this incredibly tasty seafood we finished the day exploring more deep streets of Alexandria and found an amazing liver sandwich, this one It's such a cool town, guys, and just up ahead, next, we're going to get some Alexandrian sausages and liver, up here, beautiful, we've got liver sandwiches, sausages, wow, look at these guys, wow, look what we've got here. . we have boiled liver, this is beef liver and you can get it in a beautiful little bread like a baguette here, beautiful that smells so aromatic, oh yes, we are going to put it in those buns, those mini baguettes, look at that, so in this bubbling stalk here I smell a little bit of onion, it almost smells like mushrooms and a little spicy, it's the pure aroma of liver.

Wow, it looks good and a little bit of spice too and look at these guys, we've got beef brain in it. wine bread and beef brain sandwiches and you can see we are loading all these sandwiches in the back with tomato and a little tahini, everything is ready, thank you sandwich, liver sandwich and liver plate, oh, beautiful, look at the selection. This is an Alexandrian meal so heavy that it will leave you unconscious. We reserve as much food as intestines stuffed with rice, parsley and tomato, sandwichesliver and wine bread, brain sandwiches, tahini, cheese bread, chili and tomato sauce, coleslaw, potato salad, fried liver and kidney, spicy eggplant yogurt with cucumber and tomato and cilantro first thing we go to try is this beautiful fried stuffed intestine with rice and tomato and it's seasoned, you can see all the grains of salt in there, let's try a bite of that, oh yeah, that's so delicious, you can taste the dill in there and it's well seasoned, all those Grains of salt on the outside give it a lot of flavor and it is also crunchy because it has been fried, that rice is very good, let's go straight to eat this beautiful fried brain sandwich, we put a little lemon on it, oh, how good, It's actually one of the best. brains I've ever had it doesn't have any smell it's just buttery and creamy with a really nice lemon flavor next guys let's go eat that beautiful liver sandwich look I don't know if that's my favorite because it's just a big bite of liver and I'm not sure if I like the taste of liver as much as other flavors.

If you like liver, this is really good, but if a big bite of liver in your mouth isn't your thing, don't do it. Don't order this because it is just an intense liver aroma. If you like this video, be sure to subscribe and check out our merch in the description below. We have tai howlett and travel eat repeat merchandising. I'd love to know what you thought. this video also in the comments below and thank you very much for watching. It has been an incredible day in Alexandria.