Street Food in South Africa’s Most Dangerous Slum!! Alexandra Township!!

In this video I go to the

most

dangerous

neighborhood in Johannesburg. Do you think Alex's is not safe in search of the

most

exclusive

street

food

in South Africa? Fried sausages Fried meats French fries Starch and starch and processed meat I think we should find that but first let's back up. South Africa is a complicated country with a dark past, although apartheid ended almost 30 years ago, its effects can still be seen in the once racially segregated underdeveloped urban areas known as

township

s, what is a

township

? and then we'll look at working in the mines or factories and that kind of thing like a settlement, so maybe if you had more money you would live in a different area, but it's basically a place that you would just put there, it's different than the place you chose come with time, municipalities. became known for innovating unique

street

food

s, what people lacked in resources they made up for in creativity and skills, so we have a toast base and then I'm not sure I probably explained it in the voiceover, they're happening many things here this morning.

We are starting in the municipality of Alexandra, one of the poorest urban areas in the entire country, as evidenced by the food you will soon see. This is River Park Cafe located on the outskirts of Alexandra. This is how I usually make my entrance. No, actually, I won't be joining my partner for the day. Fried chicken expert and restaurateur Andrew next to him, restaurant owner Chef Zanell, they both grew up in townships, she grew up here in Alexandria, is this what you would normally serve a person? I thought what you were doing. this for the show this is ridiculous this is huge this is Chef Janelle's signature sheep tripe and intestines stew or foreign Moldodu actually starts with more cleaning than cooking you have to make sure you wash it or wash it wash it so that when you eat it, it just doesn't You fill the sand, all the pebbles in your mouth, then you boil it for two hours, so my foot has to be soft, very soft and then the flavor you want it to taste like game or not because it smells like it has some power which is desirable, yes, the ingredients are cut into small pieces and put back in the pot, the chef adds beef broth and white pepper after another hour of stewing, it's ready to serve and then you have this on the side.

When I was a kid, you called it dumpling. I think my mom would call it like a pop over flour, yeast, sugar, salt, butter and sliced ​​carrots, put together into a dough. Let it rise to a bubbly batter and load it into muffin trays. Steam for 30 minutes to achieve this. This fluffy cloud-shaped dumpling I love the texture of it, it's like a big fluffy and soft one, it's so good that we put it in the sauce, oh yes, super tasty sauce, it's interesting, it has a wild sheep flavor. but really good, it has personality, it's not one of the girls holding the suitcase and the distributor, no problem, it's Howie Mandel, so we try the meat now, it's definitely tender, yes, soft texture, very nice, but once you get into it, you forget about the smell of game and I don't mean it as an insult, it's like it has a gamey smell, but when you eat it it's like cheese.

It may smell strong, but you eat it and it tastes delicious. So how long have you been cooking this recipe? Here it is. Years have passed and we continue to improve it. Jeff Sanel took over a small restaurant from his mother in the deep. Alexandra moved him here four years ago. I think when people say deep here it has a certain meaning. What do you mean when you say deep? Oh hey. It's deep because that's where you come into Alexandra's call, you know, it's the chamber part of Alexandra Gamora the Deep or the belly, the core of the township where all the social problems explode in the middle of people densely packed against each other, It's where Zanel sometimes grew up. you don't have water or electricity and sometimes I feel like we have been neglected so much, there are too many potholes and also a lot of young people yes, they are not working so when it comes to employment it is very hard and that also gives Rises to Crime so there are too many challenges to here Do you think Alex is safe?

Is not safe. Is not safe. More than 60 percent of Alexandra households earn less than 2,300 a year. Just five clinics serve nearly 180,000 residents who have a stable life here. It's like standing in quicksand, but Sanel is proof that anything is possible in my family, most of them didn't finish school, but then I made up my mind that I would challenge myself and go even further, since you know, acquiring a diploma in civil engineering but this is what you love and this is what you want to pursue yes, I always told God that I wanted to open my restaurant one day and I was saving money saving money until it came true, do you think There are There are many people here who feel defeated, yes, there are too many, there are many people, there are too many, too many to better understand the inner workings of Alex Andrew and I delve deeper into the densely populated belly of this municipality, the population of Alexandra It is four times larger. more that its infrastructure was designed because it is a congested place, you know, many people from different places occupy the same space, so it is definitely hot in such a densely populated area that people here struggle with sewage blockages and flooding due to low water pressure when I see a place.

So, I'm looking around, I see makeshift houses, borrowed wood, corrugated steel, a kind of mosaic to make these little spaces where people live now, but I must say that the atmosphere here is much lighter than I expected, since that people are filming here, there are people. visiting oh you can walk look that's what I'm talking about this woman lives here she's literally trying to dodge our shot we came here of course we asked permission but the people are very accommodating and welcoming this is what they have and they are open and willing to share how they use Ubuntu, as people who get together and try to make the space work so that people are different from different backgrounds from different places and just try to make things work when it comes to the municipalities Do you think that municipalities are responsible for creating their own unique food types and cuisine.

The food of the townships is basically a modulation of many things in terms of culture, where you are from and in terms of survival. A good example of that would be the slide. I think we should find out that I know a couple of places, but I'll take you to a slide. It is a guilty pleasure that borders on vice. An unhealthy pile of delicious fried processed food. The recipe here starts with mortadella and salami on sandwich bread. then a fried egg, another slice of bread, cheese and a burger covered in barbecue sauce, but don't stop there, load the jar with Russian sausage, Viennese sausage and well-seasoned fries, you can find this calorie bomb exclusively here at Alexandra , the cost for all this dollar and a half, so how would you approach eating this because there's so much food here?

I don't even know how to put it on my face, so you go to the middle pots and then grab it wherever you can. and just bite the bottle most of the time in the middle oh, you'll go straight to the middle. I'll go straight to the middle. We don't have tissues. You know what, let's go for it. Delicious processed meats, very salty. I just got my sodium for the week this is something that keeps you out of the house for a day because that's what you want to do with a drink and drink more. Russian starts with pork sausage that has been smoked.

It has no relation to the Russians. No and this is very similar. a Vienna like a hot dog sausage, so what they've done is I think they've taken pretty cheap ingredients and prepared them in the best possible way, yeah, so if you have a cheap type of sausage like this, don't want. Just by boiling it in a little water it will be soft and we will also take away the flavor, but if you fry it, you make it crispy, give it a little texture and then you have a little explosion of flavor in every bite. calories Do you think they are here?

You're there all week. It surprises me when I come to places like this. Some people use the word

slum

, especially in some parts. Yes, Islam, a bad word. The word Islam he uses is a derivative of a bad word. but at the same time it also shows your struggles and diversity and it's like the story you know from the

slum

s to the forest, you know it's just a story Andrew is no stranger to adversity, he was born and raised in Soweto, the most big. In South Africa, he went from entry-level restaurants to starting his own business serving the best fried chicken in town.

He now lives in the city, but still visits Soweto to experience the unique township food he grew up with. things, a hearty favorite that we will try soon, so Soweto, I am told, is a huge township. Originally, people came from different areas of the country. Soweto was one of many hundreds of townships created under the infamous group areas law implemented by apartheid. The government will remove thousands of non-white people from more developed areas and assign them to separate townships depending on their race, black or Indian, today Soweto is home to more than 1.2 million people, 98 of which are black Africans, so where are we now?

We are in the deep blue of DK, in the cultural markets there is a very popular marketing service. In this corner of Soweto you will find rows of storage sheds that have been transformed into a makeshift hope market. Here you sell live chickens, beer in boxes and food for everyone. Well, our meat is getting ready to heat up. Andrew invited me to a stall for a snack. They told me they are called rocks. I mean, you could build a house out of this while eating it, but you can also eat it. This is Calabash. chalk a type of edible clay found mainly in West African countries, so they break it into smaller pieces, take it and just take them out, okay, I'm going to take a smaller piece.

I don't want to be rude, am I rude if I post? the dirt back on the floor Hospital, although that's where it comes from the floor it actually has a nice texture when you chew it it's like uh oh you're not supposed to chew it you're supposed to suck it oh terrible texture to choose from but because it's Clay , what happens is that it is going to melt in your mouth. It's like cake to my teeth right now. It has a fun slimy texture. I don't hate her. I've tried something similar in other countries, but it's much grittier and this is a lot.

Minus Sandy is very thin, it just creates a weird Play-Doh texture stuck to the side of my teeth that slowly dissipates and gets swallowed over time, in contrast to Haitian mud cookies which are thought to make up for the lack of nutrients, Calabash chalk is consumed by African women as a cure for morning sickness. Great, so this is good, we actually came here for meat. I was going to say food, this is low food, but we came here for foreign meat, just on the opposite side of the storage sheds, clever twisted frame. of corrugated steel and disgusting materials formed in a carnivore's paradise they have the menu on the wall some of these words I don't know okay dad is amazing and salad today we're going straight to the protein with beef liver and beef heart the organs are cut and It is thrown on the grill, then comes a generous shower of strange seasonings, the hot, steaming organs are cut into smaller pieces and covered with more spiced salt and Peri-Peri sauce as an accompaniment salsa and acha.

I think we're going to eat first and then have a drink after that, okay let's do it so things start off with the spiciness, there's no lack of flavor here, they've heavily seasoned everything here, super salty. I'm going to try to break it down with a little bit of this we have basically just a sauce yeah it's just onion, tomato and chili it's fresh it's almost clean so you can have it again or have a creamy brown sorghum beer it's a drink community, you don't use a cup, so let's Eat it through this very creamy fermented plastic container, it reminds me a little of Korean makkali, but it has more of a sorgumi flavor.

Every culture has something similar to this. This is our version. Well, I noticed that here it's kind of like a cut heart liver. The head is this food cheaper than a steak, yes it is cheaper, do you think that could be one of the reasons it is here? It could be one of the reasons, but the main reason is to show what kind of man they tend to be, men, men. hearts and cow's liver how important it is that in a neighborhood like this to reinforce your identity it is important to show people how they perceive you the image is everything it's just the way they cost themselves I mean now you live in the city but when you lived in Soweto, did it matter more?

Yes, you knew it. If you look good, you'll get all the girls. I have to try this. Oh wait. Now I'm married. I'm ready for liver and this is low for seasoning, okay, it's clean meat. liver easy to make very dry and almost inedible chalky this is very soft almost like a little pâté these guys grow tons of supplements they know exactly how to cook it I'm curious you know I ate a lot of food yesterdaydifferent tree all over Johannesburg and I can see that people here really like and appreciate meat but in a place like this in Soweto or in this part it is so humid what type of meat is the most available chicken chicken is very popular , is the daily staple in many our communities so processed meats are big, as you will see compared to Alexandra Soweto is a far reaching township here you will find densely populated makeshift slums, rows of typical houses and modern suburbs, the food is equally broad from nose to side, they dine at vibrant bistros like this one, they are selling an exclusive silhouette, a prize that many travelers seek, they called it Cota, so we have a base of toasted bread and thenNo I'm sure I explained it in the voiceover.

Kota starts with the whole damn loaf of bread cut into quarters buttered and toasted. Each toasted section is cut to form a container. Now we need to pay attention to the feelings that most dates have. The basics, what would the fries be? Also, meat like mortadella and Russian, but today we have a premium room. The meat empanadas are grilled and the onion rings are battered and crispy, but Kota is a banicha creation, so banicha originates from the living Indians. in Durban and they used to have curry inside and people would go to Dallas, but we adopted that, but then we put our own spin on it.

At the time of construction, the hollow bread is filled with French fries and topped with coleslaw. that rice is a tower of triple beef patties layered with melted cheese, top it with onion rings and garnish with pickles, okay, show me how to eat this. Are you going from top to bottom because it's so big that I'm going to take it to you? the two largest patches, the burgers are placed on the side, only the top is temporarily placed, squished a little and tried to enter. Oh, I like that driveability, 10 out of 10. We're having a real cultural moment right now, it was fantastic.

Okay, we heard your review. I can taste the meat. This is definitely different because they use 100% pure beef. I like the fries, they're not thin, they're nice and thick and wide, and then the onion rings are crispy. They are crispy. I love garlic bread, even though it's essentially like garlic toast. It has very tasty rolls. I'm going to try just the burger here, super juicy. The fat ratio is a good ratio. Oh my God, four dollars and 80 cents. This is ridiculous for 4.80. It feels like a hurricane going through from Alex to here feels completely different, how would you describe the difference?

Alex still has new settlers. People come from outside Johannesburg and still move to Alex. It's too small where people are generations and grandfather, my father, now this. It's a good girls' community, it's more suburban than places like Orlando West, so if there's any street Deep kloof belakazi, where Nelson Mandela and this used to love, it's a diverse area when you look at the township, whether it's Alex or Soweto, what are you doing? Do you think those are the biggest struggles people face there? There are many problems with electricity and good roads, but the opportunities are great for you in your story.

Do you think you were given opportunities or did you just have to create your own opportunities? you work harder how lucky you are i washed the dishes from the beginning i was moving i had to sleep on the way sometimes it's all the sacrifices that got me to where i was but you see so many people here they look a little deflated as if they had just done it of being defeated, then what do you say to those people? I know you can't solve all these problems, but you know, when you meet people who seem a little defeated, they say, "Oh, it's Tuesday, it's noon, I'm just going to drink, that's a sad story because you can't convince them that It will be a better day because they have to change before you can change them the government can only do so much a community can only do so much but it is always up to the individual beautiful angel, thank you, thank you very much, can I have a handshake neglected?

The best food review show is a small team of independent creators and everything we do here works because of you, click the link in our description to join our patreon and receive exclusive benefits a peace agreement or. no agreement who is the host of that show Steve Harvey Steve Harvey is good, it's not Steve Harvey, although that's the way it is, we'll fix this choking pole The alcohol percentage would be like that of beer, like five percent, I think. it could be more than five percent, the longer it stays the stronger it gets, so does it depend on the bank?

There's a lot about lots these days, actually, not all we have is protein, basically, it's like a bodybuilder's diet, basically, with the Rockies, not even a cheat meal like it's normal food. I don't know what it is, but the woman loved it if you tried it sometime. I'm willing to try it today. I promise it won't increase your estrogen. I hope not. It's a good meal to share. Yeah you know me on the weekends get two of my friends Hey guys I wanna share a sandwich together boom guys that's the end of this video. I hope you enjoyed it.

I want to say a huge thank you to Andrew. Thank you so much Sunny for having Thank you, they are great to hang out with and especially to eat with Welcome To My Hood again and guys the way to the place find Andrew right here on Instagram this is his handle go there follow him and follow his fun food adventures here. In South Africa, guys, that's it. Thanks so much for looking. See you next time, okay, okay, so I think we can get a higher burner.