Moroccan Food in Fez!! CHICKEN MOUNTAIN + Street Food Tour in Fez, Morocco!

Today I am in Fez, one of the great culinary capitals of Morocco. I will take you on an ultimate Moroccan

food

tour

. Wow, we smelled this cloud of vapor coming from here. One of the oldest and coolest tea shops you'll ever see. To Fez to try this tea, we will try some of the most famous

street

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s, including a legendary stall that people come from all over Morocco just to try. As we get lost in the maze of narrow alleys, there is natural light coming in from above. but sometimes you hide in alleys that look like caves, we eat meaty and bubbly Tajin and we have a Moroccan dinner fit for a sultan.

What a combination, it's amazing and I'll show you the best Moroccan food you have to eat. when you come to Fez I hope you are having an amazing day today I am Mark ws and welcome to the beautiful city of Fez we are in good hands we are with Fatima we are with Muhammad in Omar from Moroccan food

tour

s and I mean Fez was one of the cities which I was most looking forward to visiting in Morocco for its ancient history and also for being one of the largest preserved ancient city centers in the entire Arab Muslim world, but we started first with a great breakfast in Fez, here we are. is the place Sharifa garden good morning good morning, so we will start this food tour of Fez in this beautiful garden.

Courtyard, family house. Patio where we will have a local Fez-style breakfast. Would it be typical of the Fez style? Uh, yeah, yeah. we call it the Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions this is like an f style breakfast you have and like a variety of all kinds of breads two different soups cheeses and all the different things we have here bread normal bread uh this one is finished with flax seeds seeds flax yes, you have three different types of lamb s uh, this one is simple, this one is with this one, it is with vegetables, peppers and onions, okay, and here comes one of the most precious breakfast dishes, okay, oh wow man, this is one. of the best dishes, eggs cooked with Kalia, which is beef preserved in its own fat like the C of beef that is simply dried and preserved and condenses the flavor cooked in a Tagine.

Oh, we have to try those eggs while they're bubbling hot. the crispy Tagine crispy fresh bread with flax seeds oh, I can't wait to get in, it's still sizzling in the Tagine oh W oh wow, it's boiling steaming W very hot beef fat boiling boiling meat F oh, corned beef is so good which simply condenses the flavor magnifies the metin. I'll try the scrambled version, oh wonderful man, both good and actually totally different textures, from fried eggs to scrambled eggs. I love savory porridge, so I love it, there are tomatoes, there is rice. there and you can also smell the aroma of the grass, it's really good, very nice, nice flavor of the tomatoes, very mild flavor and kind of warm and comforting.

Yes, something good for breakfast because it's easy and calming on the stomach. unlike eggs which are really rich and filling, this porridge is nice and easy on the stomach, oh wow, what a way to eat eggs the next morning trying this Moroccan pancake, oh how delicious, very moist and fluffy and bubbly, a little sweet, oh, and you taste the taste of honey. I think there's a little bit of honey in there too and I'm going to try it with some of this natural Moroccan butter. Real Deal Butter, oh man, something like that. crumbles yeah w w w w w w that butter is a real bargain unsalted it has such a rich buttery acidity I mean it's butter oh yeah yeah that's as natural as it gets and then it's on to the next bread and this one is filled with vegetables oh it's really good, nice and tasty, you can try I think the onions and carrots in the center, maybe a little bit of cabbage, but you can try all those vegetables that really caramelized sauteed probably in a little bit of oil, um and then the bread is very delicate. delicious and guaranteed that when you are in Morocco you will have the best orange and citrus juice you have ever tasted in your life.

A quick breakfast that was delicious. I love this garden, but from here we are going to explore and to do a

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food tour of the old town of Fez and we are with Fatima Fatima who will guide us through welcome to Morocco, thank you very much and thank you for choosing Morocco as your destination , oh man, so GL glad to be here, thanks. You're welcome, we're usually in Fez. Now Fez is the scientific capital of Morocco and it is also this spiritual city. Okay, it was built in 789 by mul Idris. The first mulis is the father of our founder.

Okay, we have over 9,400 streets. In Callejones there are 9,400 streets and they are all pedestrian streets there are no cars there are no cars cars are prohibited and let me tell you this we have the narrowest street that measures 50 cm 30 cm 50 50 cm yes, we are going to go through one later okay, okay, amazing, let's find out, okay, you know what yala yala means, come on, well, okay, oh what a city, the narrow alleys are F and we're just getting started, so Fatima, how are you getting your bearings? ? Fez, the 9,000 lanes and alleys, well, I guess because I'm looking, I agree with that, so you never need a GPS, you always know where you are.

I'm the GPS, let's visit one, oh man, I'm done. I love just walking around exploring Fez. One of the things that is great is that it is only on foot, there is no motorized traffic so it remains quiet and it is great to just look up and admire the amazing preserved architecture. because in an ancient section, okay, yeah, oh, so they have to put up with it so the walls don't come in, it's 1,200 years, wow, 12th century, wow, and then of course one of the amazing things about Fez is that it's a living city, only people live.

There are businesses of all kinds here, I mean you never really need to leave the Old City along with its incredible architecture and ancient history. Where we are? We're in the famous square of uh honey, as we call it, let's try something different. flavors of honey and honey, by the way, 57 years, he's been here with all kinds of honey from all different flowers and it's mainly used for medicinal purposes, okay, so the first honey we're trying is caraway honey and the honeys. they are especially used for medicinal purposes oh man that is so sweet next Honey this is lemon lemon honey I don't have it I don't have it I didn't try it M wow extremely sweet too but you have the fragrance of lemon. in there, yes, you definitely taste the lemon, this is this medicine for brother, oh, okay, the medicinal medicinal honey, so much honey, it's very old and very strong, it really has the taste of candy, the honey flies everywhere , man, that's sweet, that's tasty. man, that last honey is absolutely amazing, like it stings your throat a little on the way down, but they said it's the strongest, it's the most medicinal, oh yeah, that was really sweet, but really good, sh, oh man , I love how sometimes there is a natural light coming in from above, but sometimes you hide in almost cave-like alleys with a roof on top.

There you go. The good thing is that you will get a cactus fruit and you will get a free lipstick. There are seeds inside, chew it, but no. hard and SW is healthy M a very good s and will give you your whole mouth red my mouth is full of juice very good it just liquefies on your tongue your whole mouth full of juice and then you have these really hard seeds in the center sweet and sour us we're getting deeper into Fez the markets are getting busier there's just stuff everywhere you look Smoked grills Seafood meat stalls butchers and then you can buy anything you might need man it's cool Walker exclusive city oh yeah it's getting getting busy back here oh this smells good oh yes yes yes yes of course uh this is a must in FZ wow, we smell that cloud of steam coming from here, one of them is a mix of meats you have everything there, like meat lamp, head part, cheek parts, any piece of meat that goes into that big meat pot, and here you have

chicken

with rice noodles and spices, amazing steaming meat parts and

chicken

with noodles, and you can get it two different ways, order two different ways on a sandwich, pile everything on a sandwich or you can put it on a plate and then eat it with bread, so I think we're going to go with the plate option and sit here, this is food the size of a closet. put it's literally a closet and then they have a little more seating here across the alley oh man what a place so we found a table squeezed into the closet fresh meat and what have we here so here.

We have two types of dishes, the first one is steamed chicken with noodles and we have steamed meat which is a mixture of lamb meat, sometimes you find goat or camel so it is a mixture of meat, you smell the aroma of meat but you also really smell the aroma of the cumin that sprinkles over everything, cumin, chili, salt and then you can also add more of your own seasoning if you want. Okay, so normally you would eat this one with your forks instead of the. instead of bread, it's okay, there are vegetables too. Some people prefer it in sand, others and it's PL, so oh it's so squishy, ​​it just melts in your mouth, yes, yes, it seems like it's not squishy, ​​it just melts, it's so hot, it's so tender and there's something. something like that herb you really taste there that packet that Pary parley cilantro is okay and then you can dig into the chicken oh Ultra tender and I love the cumin here it's also very tender yeah okay very good amazing can't wait to try the steamed meat, although we swing the meat, yeah, sure, sure, oh, it's so sticky.

Very good, very tender, so tender, you can feel it so sticky. He said this is the oh, that's the testicle. Maybe the skin potentially. the outer skin of the testicle yes, go ahead, it's very delicious, okay, I was but I was moving, oh, it's smoky, yes, before us, it's so sticky, it has such a sticky appearance that it actually sticks to your finger mhm, I think it deserves a dip in the tomato sauce oh, the tomato sauce just brightens it tomato sauce the freshness of the herb in there like the cilantro maybe the parle and the skin of the testicle definitely jumps a little in your mouth, it sticks to the roof of your mouth a little bit oh that's tasty man everything is good incredibly soft and tender full of the aroma the spice of cumin so good so warm so fatty oh it's an honor I'm going to cut with scissors the scissors okay yes yes oh man it's a meat steam bath oh thank you Shan what a man this is a place you have to eat when you come to Fez Shan thank you oh what yes what a stop.

He is an oh man, he was amazing and what an amazing friendship. Hospitality, what a man, oh there's just food everywhere in a little hole in the walls, what a city, and you get completely lost in this incredible labyrinth that is Fez. I'm talking not just about your orientation, but even the time of day. I just have no idea where you are, what time of day it is here, you are just lost in this incredible labyrinth of the streets of Fez Nar, which is 50 cm long, there are many n streets in the eastern Medina, this is one of them. okay, okay, ready, come on, let's go here, we're going down one of the extremely narrow streets of Fez, watch your head, watch your sides, it's literally a tunnel, watch out on the left, oh wow, there's a business here, okay, watch your head to the left, it's down, okay, on the right side, okay, and we've emerged, that's incredible.

I mean, it's more of a straight tunnel than a lane into an open courtyard and then into another very small alley. It is a hallway from right to right. It's extremely cool. and then we move on to the next lane, so that's where we're going. We are going up to exactly a tea shop. Okay Mr. Abdullah is an icon please watch your head oh man these are huge steps to climb. narrow steps be careful oh you with this little triangular step here go to the left side here we go legendary place yes welcome thank you hello thank you it has to be one of the oldest and coolest tea shops you have ever seen the boiling water in the copper and it has this burner that goes below the water level, so you just control that with the fire with the water and you're making a tea with so many different herbs and you're using just a whole handful of herbs. uh you put that in the water and then you can choose different herbs depending on what you want okay and that's the tea boiling in the little cups and then it goes straight into a whole freshly hand packed cup full of herbs. of freshly packed herbs in a cup of tea goes on, so those herbs are left to sit for a moment and this metal container at the bottom is just to hold it because the cup is very hot, but let it sit for a few minutes before you start . drink it, oh man, oh oh man, that's so good, it's just a complete herbal experience, mint, maram, geranium, dried herbs, fresh herbs, that's the most herbal drink, the most herbal tea you've ever had in the coolest tea shop, a little bitter, a little. a little sweet, all natural, just pure, pure herb, still solid, oh look at the color man, it's a pure and herbal herbal salon in your I came to Fez to try this tea, oh yeah, that's so good, the richest tea you can drink, oh this. one, yes, it's a cup of tea alrightWell deserved, yes, well deserved, thank you, yes.

Greetings, Greetings, Greetings, Greetings, oh that was a legendary tea, one of the best purle teas ever and we are right in this square, now we are in the noisiest area. I call the Medina office square the loudest because of the hammering, oh yes, this is what we call safarin. The name safarin comes from Asar, which is yellow in color, so they are producing copper here. Many pans and other things are made of copper. Here yeah, okay, yeah, oh, thank you. you have in your hands this is what we call B and this is dough of almonds, orange blossom, cinnamon, sugar and we use the dough F from the outside, we shape it into a triangle, okay, so we will stop at a small very congested intersection here to try a little. of the soaked sweets and honey oh, we have a lot of honey today, actually M, can I break off a little piece?

Yeah, go ahead, it almost looks exactly like a jelly bee and it's very similar to a jelly bee soaked like a honey-soaked fried dough, but it still retains its crunchy texture even when it's soaked in honey, but just saturated absolutely saturated with honey and you also feel the taste of fried oil, then we have this slipper, a slipper called a slipper, okay? white sesame flour and also D dipped in honey and oil Di and street food with honey to go, oh yes, you really taste the taste of sesame immediately and again. I think everyone is completely submerged in honey look man this whole lane is just full of candy this is candy alley here just

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s of candy soaked in honey so cool traditional Moroccan toothpick oh it's really okay we call it B in Arabic okay a very old way of how people use it as a toothpick oh cute but it's a flower and then you use that root it's like yeah whistle we call this script Tre and it's usually quite popular forisa or normally it we cut into small pieces and put the chicken soup on top ah, okay, yeah, okay, so here's the dough on the bottom, ah, so.

It has a really oily texture and the making process is so incredibly cool, how you just roll out the dough until it's paper thin, almost transparent. I mean, it's actually clear in some areas, but the dough is so oily, it's amazing how it chooses. you lift it up and then you just put it on this specially designed spherical hot plate that there's a fire burning underneath so it's just this spherical shaped hot plate and then you just fold it and cover it so it has all the different layers, go ahead oh thank you. Oh, you could see it is so fresh and spicy, thin, slightly crunchy and sticky, yes, it reminds you of filo, but it is a little thicker, crispy, salty, sticky, very good, spicy, fresh and a little oily, delicious .

We have stopped at another busy place. intersection here in uh and sells a variety of dairy products, including the local yogurt locer cheese, so we'll try that next, okay, oh, it's really thick and crumbly M very soft, yes, very soft, smooth and creamy, A little tart and creamy, yes, yes. yeah, that's like cream cheese, cream cheese, but like next level, very natural and okay, yeah, and then we have some yogurt here, this is the absolutely overflowing natural yogurt, oh, it even separates, that It's sugar-free, sugar-free, okay, it's wobbly, it's completely melting. mouth, it is like the silkiest yogurt I have ever tried, it dissolves like silk and tofu, almost yes, it is very pleasant, very light, in fact, yes, compared to that cheese, it is very thick, although the yogurt is very light, yes, and refreshing, almost puffy, yes, you can drink it. it's so thin mhm it's liquid and then we also have the one with sugar it's also smooth but not as smooth as the other one without sugar that's good you can feel the difference yes yes yes but I really like the natural with no, no sugar needed, but both are really good, you taste the freshness of the dairy.

I will try the drinking method, which is the Moroccan way, yes, yes, exactly. I barely feel it go down, it just happens, uh, it slides down, now you're Moroccan from here. we have a dinner it's going to be a big dinner planned welcome thank you welcome thank you hello very much thank you very much thank you very much sit down for the full meal tonight but let's wash our hands in the traditional way first in the traditional way is fine and then a little soap on the center and this is done for special guests so it's an honor an honor to be here we're starting this meal with the salads and I'm starting to realize that in Morocco the best meals are in the homes oh yes, ex, some of the best dishes you get, some of the variety are at home, and there is a wide variety of plants that are stuffed or preserved in tomato sauce, okay.

Beautiful roasted obun, man, there are like 15 different salads. from the chard to the eggplant, pick it all up with bread, oh, the Swiss board is wonderful, roasted, smoky, juicy pumpkin, oh, okay, okay, pumpkin M oh, yes, mhm, yes, I like it nice and spicy also, cinnamon, okay, yeah, orange serum, blow some water, oh, okay, oh, pumpkin is amazing. it's this fennel, okay, oh oh, the fennel is wonderful, really refreshing and crunchy, try the pastia, oh this one is really good, not with the chicken with the crunch of the almonds, sweet and salty, and you have so many textures in something that is really a delicacy oh that one is very tasty that great balance that harmony of sweet and salty oh here comes the main dish wow oh nice oh another giant tray and this is what we call isa it's like breadcrumbs oh is that one The bread that we saw in is made exactly in the egg exactly that like uh on top there is chicken cooked in onion and lentil sauce how gigantic is this a Tajín also huge Taj that's what it's called it's like a super size exact super size super size it's like a entire ecosystem almost with chickens there are even nests there is a nest there there are dates with nuts the chick or the lentils um and then all that bread that we saw being made in the market cooked in a kind of hot plate shaped like an egg uh a little piece of chicken mixed with a bit of bread in the bottom exactly oh, some of those almonds is also good here we go m m oh wow oh what a dish wow good wow benan benan Ben oh, the bread is so thin and then it absorbs all that sauce the reduction of onion again the onions are simply simmered to give them their full potential for sweetness the flavor of the almond and garlic is as if the bread has been fried and then soaked in the juices and sauces M mama, so rich and filling that You can tell how rich and filling it is, you can try all the flavors together mhm, yes, try a clove of garlic, yes, oh, the garlic just slides up like butter, oh, the garlic is amazing, it just disintegrates into your tongue, it melts, oh, this is a spectacular dish and even the sweetness.

The garlic is so sweet too, oh man, it's pure butter, garlic butter, digging around you'll find figs, it's been steamed, so it's so fluffy, sweet and fruity with the nuttiness in there with the taste of the chicken and the juices, oh, that figure is amazing, the next main one. Of course, the next plate oh yes, another absolute construction Mountain yes incredible oh yes yes yes actually I have here pieces of lamb well also parts of the shoulder also this is what is called suck suck actually in two different dimensions suck in terms color and mamar which also means roasted okay then mamar is like reddish because it's different it's like with a little bit of reddish sauce it's different like with the paprika uh and onion again and muham roasted in the oven uh yes again the reduction sauce of onion and of course you have many other things decorated with you, we have the apricots, we have the pear, yes, and it's also okay, so for this, go with a spoonful of bread and, oh, a little bit of lamb, oh man I think what's really amazing about Moroccan food and these huge dishes is just the complexity of each individual ingredient all incorporated they're almost like dishes on their own but then combined to create even more complexity W very good oh wow M oh that sauce the onion yes oh yes we call it mhm that's the onion sauce and, yes, yes, oh wow the onion sauce is amazing, you can tell the onions have been cooked for so long to the point in that they just melt the fruits here, it's perfect, it's just an incredible harmony of sweet fruity, salty, together, oh. man, that lamb was just roasted until it was so tender, oh man, another spectacular dish, every dish is a celebration.

I took a bite of par in that bite, try mixing the fruit which is totally unique as well as the way dried fruit and fresh fruit are used. in the kitchen, oh man, what a sensational dish to delve into that almond butter paste with the pear, the D, what a combination, it's incredible, all just embedded in the lamb, it's like a masterpiece, served a desert of amazing culinary creation, yes, thank you. you gotta try it first, okay, so we'll sit down now for dessert, a whole tray of dessert and then a lot of fresh fruit, but let's try some of these, some of the traditional desserts, this is a whole roll that looks like, I mean , something like wrapped like a snake, a coil full of almond paste and similar again to the felo dough on the outside and almonds and a lot of honey it has that moisture of sugared honey, extremely sweet but with that crunchy touch.

F dough with the nutty flavor of almonds and it really has that fragrance of maybe orange blossom, try that, this is a special kind of Y local berry, yes, which is only available during this season, very soft inside, it's almost like jam and almost has an almost unbelievable apricot flavor, talk about how convenient it is to be able to finish your meal and then go straight to your room to go to sleep, but it was an amazing meal, the hospitality, the variety, the diversity of the Food was just amazing. Many thanks to my friends Muhammad and Omar from Moroccan Food Tours for organizing the entire day of this trip and I will have all your information in the description box below.

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