Mexico City Surprised Us! North America's Largest City is Incredible | CDMX 2024
this video is brought to you by Squarespace [Music] welcome back to another day here in Mexico City you guys if there's anything we know for sure the longer we are here in the city the more it surprises us yeah and unfortunately our time here has coming to an end we've been here for almost 2 weeks this will be sadly our last video but we're going to use this time to kind of reflect on why the city surprised us so much during our time here I just love how loud and bustling this city is there is so much to look at at every single corner you turn you're going to be shocked at what's going on in this city if you happen to be new around here my name is Anna and Trevor is currently behind the camera please hit that subscribe button and also the like really helps us out also for those of you that watched our last video you might know that we haven't been feeling the best we haven't had the best luck here in Mexico City so been really enjoying ourselves but had some tummy problems I think that's pretty common for those of you that come to Mexico City the more we read about it it seems really really common but update we are definitely doing better our original plan was to do a full-on food video today don't think that's going to happen cuz we just don't really want to risk anything we are traveling in a couple days got a lot of hours on a plane but we're definitely going to be eating some stuff all right we're jumping right into the thick of it here we found this what we think there a quesadilla Street poop place and look at this you guys this is what it's all about like people are just sitting around you got food back there frying right on the street are you excited to eat this is totally not what I expected at all especially when it comes to quesadillas like this is fried so maybe we're not doing it exactly right and someone will take say we're eating something totally different but I think whatever it is it's going to be really good all right a little bit of clarification here this is actually a deep fried quesadilla I think it's called like quas or quas not sure how how to properly pronounce it but we got two right now we ordered three in total one is cheese one is chicken not sure which is which we'll figure it out comes uh on top with some there's some cheese there some gred cheese some cream I believe and then some lettuce smells and looks amazing I think this is going to be yummy and very [Music] messy I've determined this one is the chicken is really delicious I love all the toppings on top because it's like inside the chicken quite mild it's not too no spice to it or anything I think there is some hot sauce over there if you wanted to make it spicy but it's nice and crunchy on the outside because it's deep fried and then on top with the lettuce you get like a little extra crunch from that some creaminess from the cream and the cheese really yummy this is going to be a delicious L well I'm really excited to try this one this is cheese but can I just point out how crazy this is we're sitting in this little tiny area with like a dozen people everybody's looking at us I don't know if they can speak English and hear what we're saying but whatever we're having a blast let's try this [Music] cheese I don't know what the secret is here in me Meo with this amazing cheese but whenever we get like an empanada which looks something like this the cheese inside is always absolutely incredibly fresh but then there's some more cheese on the top got little bits of lettuce which makes it crunchy but the wrapping itself like this kind of like tortilla I think it's made of corn is just exceptional you guys this is why we've come to Mexico finally we're starting to feel a little bit B better with our bellies and now we can eat some more of this uh yummy yummy street food the uh soda game or the juice game here in Mexico is unbelievable you guys this is actually made by Coca-Cola of all things but it's fresh mango juice it is absolutely delicious and is back here chowing down on the last one which I believe has some shizo okay actually needed a few bites on this one to get a proper consensus on whether what when I think about it the first bite it was kind of just all the doughy outside and I didn't really get the inside but it is teso and also potato I don't know if you guys can see that in the big chunks of potato really delicious might be my favorite hard to say all of them honestly were exceptional I thought maybe the cheese would be the most boring but the cheese on the inside was so exceptionally yummy I also love the cheese that's on the top I'm sure everybody knows what type of it type of cheese it is except for me I'm not quite sure but maybe you can let us know in the comments and also can I buy this cheese in Canada cuz oh my goodness it's so good I also want to point out we're the absolutely only tourists here and that's the best way that's the way it should be well that was absolutely delicious and right behind the uh place we just ate at there's this little uh Market with all kinds of food there's even more food here this is a total local market I don't see a single tourist here you wow I had no idea this was going to be like this so I don't I could not hear what you just said but what I wanted to say was one of the things I really wanted to do when we came to this city was go to one of the local markets there are tons of major like incredible markets here in the city but just because of our timing here having to move places having bad stomachs it didn't happen but we just happened upon this it happened that the quesadilla place was kind of on the oat skirts of this Market called San cosme I had no idea this was like this in here no shortage of uh fruits and veggies you guys look at all the colorful fruit here this is crazy place to go if you want to do some shopping buy some food if you're cooking for yourself good place to be so my stepmother had actually asked me to pick up some vanilla she really likes Mexican vanilla apparently it's better here than that you can buy in Canada so keeping an eye out I feel like this be the place to get it but who knows we actually found a large vanilla but it's not quite what we're looking for either way we'll keep an eye out I don't think it's going to happen but it's just a lot of fun walking around this Market there's so much to see I have to think on the weekends this would be a lot busier but look at this you guys it's just like an endless endless endless section of different kinds of things you can buy got candles over here some stuff's covered up so I imagine that will uh come alive a little bit later before we get any further in the video we just wanted to say a huge thanks to Squarespace a longtime partner for being a sponsor once again you guys probably know that we built our very own website on Squarespace but did you know that you can build your own website using Squarespace Squarespace is the all-in-one 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what's kind of neat is they're doing it right in front of this thing so in the last video we uh showed you A View From right over there of this but we thought today well we'd go we'd maybe go inside huh yeah we actually discovered last time that you can go up inside when we were sitting over there at this rooftop bar we were looking over and realized there's an elevator we goes straight at the top we can see people people walking around so we thought maybe in the next video we should go see what the view is like so yeah I don't know if you could hear but Anna said there is an elevator you can still hear the guys they're super loud they don't know we're filming they need to be more quiet huh a uh quick but yet beautiful elevator R up and now we're kind of in the middle at the top so look you can see the kind of Center up there it's uh it's a little weird here cuz I actually feel a bit shaky you're holding I'm not usually too bad when it comes to Heights you're like Trevor's way worse if we're on a balcony and we're looking down he gets really like whoo get away from the balcony but I'm usually pretty good about it but there's something about being up here seeing the Dome above me and just the way the visual like looking down makes my knees we like I'm a little bit shaky and I feel like I need to hold on yeah take a look at these stairs these are the rails like a bit over here so it makes it it makes it kind of difficult to walk down you can see Anna way back there how you doing I don't know they're just stared but I don't know it making my KNE I'll make fun of her for this don't worry a little later after the video we do have some spectacular views here of the square and of course the surrounding City it's really fun when you're in a massive City like this to come up to a high Viewpoint so you can really get a really much better perspective in the last video we did go to Rooftop Bar but you didn't quite get the same kind of like perspective of the entire city as you do up here um but you can see like we've talked a little bit in our past videos about the elevation and how they they made the city so I'm not going to harp on about that but we are sort of in a valley here we're very high elevated and you can kind of see the mountains around us although there is a fair bit of smog yeah the views up here really just kind of put it in perspective on how big this city is you guys like look at this it just looks endless as far as the eye can see there's the uh Square down there as well and of course we have the beautiful structure here like right behind we're still not even like right at the top but this is I believe as high as you can go so it's uh it's worth coming up I would say yeah it's definitely worth worth it it was 150 pesos per person so that's like what is that um it's $8 for every hundred for Canadians probably six and a half probably about $8 or $9 USD I'd say get per person not too bad for a view like this so it is the next day and we have come over to one of the main malls sort of in this area I think it's called reforma 222 which probably the address as well but can't use our camera so if the sound sounds weird we're filming right now on an iPhone well there's a reason we can't use the camera though what well a security guard came over to us I know I but I don't know the actual reason we took our C our regular old blocking camera and the security guard came over and said No cameras allowed phone's fine but no like I don't know if she thought we were filming a commercial I'm not really sure but yeah that's literally the first time this has ever happened in a mall where someone came over and said you can't use your camera but whatever we'll still try to do this and show you guys what I wanted to show you is just how modern this place is like look at the stairs and the different floors there's like three or four levels here everything is white even the logos are white what I really like about this is sometimes when you go into a mall it feels really enclosed you have no idea what time of day it is cuz you can't see outside this is like a big Atrium so you have sunlight shining in so you're not going to get lost and feel like is it midnight is it 8 8: a.m. you have no idea I it's like you're indoors but Outdoors at the same time so if you're looking for like super high-end Brands like all the designers you're going to want to go to the paleno area of Mexico City they've got everything there I like this mall cuz it's kind of like middle of the road it's got some of the brands that we like to shop at that we can afford to shop at like there's like mango there's p and bear there Zara places like that I mean Nike is right behind you Nik so we'll talk a little bit more about prices here specifically food prices coming in we were a little shocked just how expensive things are one thing we did is we go back and look at reviews about a restaurant we want to go to and we noticed the prices since like 3 months ago have gone up drastically so we're paying at least double the prices we were paying in the Dominican Republic and really in the areas that we're in uh in Mexico City here like we were down in candessa Roman Norte I realized these are some of the more expensive areas in the city but prices are very close to on par with what You' pay in like a Toronto in Canada for example so a little shocked at that now the thing is if you go to some street food places like we've been in other videos you can find food for a lot cheaper but just know that if you're going to go to some of the high-end restaurants you're going to pay maybe a little more than you expect you guys probably know that in general we don't do very much shopping that's not at all where our budget goes to and people that watch us regularly probably even noticed when we buy something new cuz it doesn't happen that often but that's one nice thing about coming to a big city and having access to basically everything is that it does give us an opportunity to stock up on things get some new things that we might need we go through our our clothes get a little bit battered cuz you know we travel fulltime we don't have that much stuff so things wear out more quickly than they would if you were just you know at home switching clothes having access to a full wardrobe so it's really nice to come to a big city and have like all these options to purchase these Stu and we might have stocked up on a few things I might have bought a couple of things the other day well next up we decided to come over and try some wine take a look at the inside of this place there are literally thousands of wine bottles in this room and over half of them are Mexican wine that's right we're going to try some Mexican wine today I bet you you did not think that was going to happen in this video to be completely honest I can't think of anywhere we've been in the world where you kind of come across like a Mexican section of wine but apparently it is very very popular here now we have three different wines to try one the one right in front of me is a white wine it is chardonay chardonay is not usually my favorite but I'm going to give it a go we have an orange wine coming up as well gu an orange wine and there's one that's red as well but let's try this out now I'm not the best at describing wine I'm not a somal let's say that in case you didn't know smells really good let's see Chardonnay again Chardon is number my [Music] favorite yes it's classic chardonay it has that kind of oy taste that's the first thing I think about when I think of Chardonnay um the guy said there's also you know as soon as they suggest there's some mango and vanilla in here I taste it right away it's could be colder I usually like my white wine really cold it's nice and crisp though and it goes down nice and easy but I think we're going to have to try this little secret orange wine I feel like maybe somewhere in the world we tried orange wine but I don't remember where it is I'm actually going to go to my phone for this cuz they there is some a few notes like in the U in the actual menu so this the actual grape is verdejo which I think is traditionally a Spanish grape yeah we've had verdejo before yeah so that's what this is made from and it's from an area called el Marquez cartero if I said that properly so I I tried to look up all the regions these were from and they seem to be quite a bit north of Mexico City but kind of in the center of the country it seems to be where all the three wine regions came from and he said this is an area that's very well known for its lighter whites and sparkling Ty he said the other thing he said is it's because of the high elevation I guess is that's why all the wineries are up there it's really dry really interesting smells acidic and maybe a little bit sweet but I can't quite tell from that or not let's [Music] see oo wow really interesting this is one I'm definitely not familiar with it's not sweet at all I actually expected it to be a little bit sweet just from the smell of it but not at all it's very very acidic it does have a little bit of a like a punch to it I find this really really difficult to describe because there just one that I'm really not used to if I was picking between the this one and the the white chardonnay I'd actually probably go for the Chardonnay not that I dislike this it's just something that I'm really unfamiliar with last up on the list here is a red I absolutely love red wine but I usually drink it in colder climates it's 30° C today breaking some records here in Mexico City with the heat as of late but this is a cab Mero Cabernet Salon Mero so you guys might be familiar with with that if there's any wine drinkers that watch the channel a cab usually a heavy wine low can be heavy but at the same time it can be a bit lighter than a cab when you blend them together they usually pretty good this is um produced up in Guan watatu Mexico which I think is like 4 hours north of here again high elevation even higher than the city and I think because of that elevation they can grow The Grapes needed for something like this I really like the color of this and I'm going to have to smell it here smells Divine as well let's try it nice and smooth dare I say a perfect red wine you would not know the difference of like if I was in Napa Valley in California right now you would not know the difference between this wine and that wine I'm actually a little bit shocked here of the quality of wine you can get in Mexico Anna was the one who found this place she does all the research by the way I just get to come along for the ride and when she did I was like well how let's go try it but how good can Mexican wine be well it can be really really good so recommend coming to this place we're coming to the city the last thing we'll touch on though totally unrelated to Wine but I'll talk about it while I sit in my wine is the English language we get a lot of comments from you guys and since we were here on Instagram stories people would uh send a message a DM and say like can people speak English here like how do you get by do you need to know Spanish I would say that you don't need to know Spanish in this city there most people I would say under 40 can speak English it seems the minute we always try to speak Spanish for the record but the minute we get tripped up people know obviously that we're not Spanish they'll they'll flip over into English so they're always very helpful Mexican people are so friendly and they just make you feel right at home here all right we'll check this out they gave us some Mescal on the house as if we didn't have enough to drink there but anyway we had Mescal in a previous video and I think you guys know we absolutely loved it should we do a quick little cheeries to perfect way to end Mexico I know ending Mexico City I think it's obvious we had a blast here how's the how's the me how's the Mescal ooh wow m pungent it's good that clears out the sinuses So speaking of sinuses I think you guys know we had some challenges we got here we had a little bit of altitude sickness know that Mexico is something like 7,300 ft in height it's as highest we've ever been highest we've ever been when you get to 8,000 ft is where a lot of people get uh altitude sickness uh quite commonly so just know that if you're a possibility yeah yeah we flew in here with head cold so that was just a bit of a bummer and then we got a little bit of food poisoning so all the things happened but did not ruin our time here in the city this city is awesome we had super high expectations coming in we knew that this was a city we wanted to come to for a long long time we just never really made it here so this was our first time here so many people told us that we would love it like literally everyone we talked to was like oh I love that City it's amazing you're going to love it so we were super excited it definitely did not disappoint you could live here for 20 years and not see everything to be completely honest again largest city in North America and I think this is the most we filmed one city like we put up four videos now over the course of a month so we've done similar like videos in Bangkok but we like hopped in and out of Bangkok this time it was all at once absolutely loved it there's so much to do in this city dare I say something for everyone right there really is and there is so much we didn't get to do obviously it was only two weeks here and being written off a little bit of that there was some other stuff we wanted to do we'll have to stay for next time yeah if you guys have any favorite things to do here in Mexico City leave a comment below that helps out others and will help out us when we come back if you don't know who we are it's Trevor and Anna delightful Travelers hit subscribe click the like button hit share it that just helps us out if you're a channel member or patreon thank you for your support that goes along way don't think that's uh lost on us but next up it's time to go back to our home country yes so we're heading back to Canada but we're going to stop over in Toronto for a few days since expect a video from there I don't know it it's been years since we filmed in Toronto a long time so I think we'll have enough time to film one video in Toronto probably going to involve lots of food and lots of sites and in a way I cannot wait to get back home to Canada especially in the summer you can't beat Canada I heard the weather right now is really good it would probably be terrible by the time we get there but right now it's hot and really nice that's right well it's going to change cuz we're coming home that's it all right guys that's it from Mexico City wishing you delightful travels see you soon [Music]
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