 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell. I'm here today at a international food festival in Jerusalem. This food festival is being held just outside the walls of the old city Jerusalem spectacular setting. And I'm here today with my friend and Jerusalem's food favorite viral food influencer Shimshon Lashinsky and Marcus James, a friend of ours as well. And this is a really cool event. This place is divided into three. So there's a French section, an Italian section, and there's also a South American section. Entrance is free and it's a bunch of local restaurants and the prices are fixed up to 35 shackles. This event's been running since 2019 so it's in its fourth iteration here. And we've been to two places so far and we made the mistake of going for meat before dairy. But everything here is kosher and entrance is free as I said. So you just need to pay for what you eat. There's places to sit down. There's marionettes circulating, entertaining people so very very family friendly. Really cool event and this is running until the 14th of April so if you're looking for somewhere in Jerusalem to bring your family if you're interested in international food definitely I recommend checking this place out. Hi guys, this is an exciting time for Jerusalem. We're in the middle of just before the festive season of the Passover holidays. We've got the international Jerusalem food festival. There's just so many things to eat. Everyone's thrown us out of the house. The house is kosher of Pesach now. We need food desperately and we've got fantastic opportunities here. It's a cheap price, 35 shackles which is about $11. There's a very big controversy in Jerusalem and people are very angry. There's two sides to the story. First of all the people say how can you have an international Jerusalem food festival a few days before Pesach when we're cleaning. When we're busy for Pesach we haven't got time to have fun and on the other hand there's all the people just want to get out of the house and have some fun so this is a question here. Throw out the husband, the kids, the wives, throw them out of the house and have some fun or stay home and just get ready for Pesach. A lot of people are confused. A lot of people are worried. They don't know what they're doing. I mean to help solve and find you clarity for anything here so we're looking forward to having a lot of fun and see, experience, different things, new flavours. Come and join me. I haven't been fed enough yet so once I have a feed more then I can eat more, then I can work harder. Two thirds of every sandwich I buy, how can I survive? This is the jungle here. She won MasterChef three years ago for her cheese sandwiches and now she's branching out into meat sandwiches. It's been minced meat and we've ordered one of the sandwiches. She has a place in Jerusalem in dairy and in Tel Aviv meat and she's blowtorching her sandwiches. Have you ever seen people blowtorch a sandwich before? It's the first day and it'll make it a bit more crunchy so we'll find out. Let's go for it. We have the Rachel Steak Sandwich. It's with a berekas. It's got all sorts of dips and spritz and it's got a special cucumber and it's going to be a bit spicy. It's got tahina so it's all part of adventure. Look behind you and see what's going on there with Rachel. She's got a long line now starting up so it's good. Let's see how we divide this in three people. I don't know how we're going to do that. I don't know. We'll try our best. It's hard work here. So try and have a bit. I don't know how we're going to do this. Here we are with the curry chicken from Siam and we're having discussions whether it's more Thai influence or more Indian influence. It's some sort of combination probably more Thai and I normally like less spicy but for me it was delightful. It was just challenging enough not too challenging and a lot of different vegetables and colors in there as well and I definitely tasted some coconut milk in there as well which makes sense and possibly cilantro do you think or not? Yeah so overall I would give this about an eight or nine out of ten. It suits my Israeli palate. It suits my standards or desires for Asian food so they're well done. Really enjoyed. We're still in the middle of the food festival. There's about 30 or 40 choices and we've tried to take things which are a little bit different from the usual. There's hamburgers here, there's churros, there's steak sandwiches and we've had two interesting things and now we're looking for our third thing and probably we'll go for this special kind of khala bread with meat inside but there's so many other options we regret not having the dairy one first. Our partner here, food partner Daniel Rosell said wait wait maybe there's going to be some dairy stuff that's good and those Georgians have certainly got it there. It's got all sorts of cheese and cheese on the chips and there's kind of an amazing pastry as well so always listen to the Daniel and you'll go well. We've got Georgian food here and they're putting in also the good also the interesting meats and we've taken the filling, the eggplant filled with nuts so hopefully we'll enjoy it. It looks interesting, it looks delicious, it looks delightful. That's a lot of raw onion there so I don't know if we can eat that and then sing in the choir that could be a problem and so we're going to see if it's savory, it's supposed to be savory or sweet, we'll find out in a minute. Let's try this. The dominant flavor is the fried egg plants but the nuts certainly give it a bit of a crunchy taste as well and there's no, I think they don't have garlic in their food for Georgians so it's quite interesting, it's delicious. Hi, Marcus James here, happy to be along for the ride with The Shimshone Show, Shimshone TV and to be tasting amazing food, absolutely enjoyable. This is the Georgian food with the nuts and eggplant roasted eggplant I think, maybe fried, I don't know, debatable but it's absolutely tasty so you know it's also served cold so it's not a warm dish but very tasty, tie-in, tie-in In any food festival you always regret something that you didn't have so we went, we went and had meat quite quickly, we didn't have the dairy, Daniel Rosehill said wait there'll be dairy stuff first but we didn't do it so now we need our food consultants here to tell us, have a taste and tell me what you think of this Georgian delightful dish, taste it and tell us. Very good, that's tasty, sit with me, we'll sit here and enjoy these hot chips, hopefully they're hot we like them hot, pretty good, it's basically a frozen product so we have to be honest it's not handmade but it's good, two coins, double, double, fish tie All right, welcome here to our USA street so you can enjoy yourself in the saloon over there and I will keep you safe, don't worry. Okay, by the way, you're a bro, you're a bro, did you see my treasure? I don't know if I want to see your treasure but you're a cool guy and keep up the good work Oh thank you, thank you We've been at the international kosher food festival in Jerusalem and we just hit a bonus, we hit gold with that Suzy fish bun here from America, wow and she's doing a lot of interesting things with food, she's now in Israel, she's looking at ideas and generally I wanted to ask you what do you think of the Israeli food scene? I think the Israeli food scene is like none other, it's incredible, you could eat out every single meal and never exhaust your options, the quality is really interesting, fabulous and I just, I like how all the different cultures come together And you also write a lot of cookbooks so probably the number one Israeli cookbook would be Ottolengi I would say, yeah we get a lot from him, what he does with the Israeli kitchen, the Middle Eastern kitchen, it's pretty amazing isn't it? It's incredible, although a shout out to my girl Ladzine Assessment, I don't know if you know her book Zababa but that was a huge success She lives outside the Carmel Market and feeling like a love letter to tell on the events of Israeli food scene in that book Just in summary because I've probably done about 300 food reviews in the last year and a half and I'm trying now to use less superlatives, I'm trying less to get excited because sometimes the same restaurant is good and the next time it can be less good so I just had that discussion about a hot new restaurant that I had a great experience at, Shumshon Lesto and unenviable position, what happens when you go someplace and you don't like it or you find things that are wrong, that must be very tough to decide how to write It is true, I try to be honest and tell people what I thought about the meal, I don't want people to waste their time and money to go to a restaurant and go there and count on me because I'll meet them the next day, well I just feel the responsible On the other hand I don't want to get sued because now we're hearing, I spoke to a lawyer he's dealing with suing people reliable and all these kind of things so it's kind of a very difficult balance here We're living a tough life with a lot of responsibility but we're also pressing and having a lot of fun so that's the main thing I can't wait to get into the food festival, what do you think of that? It was interesting but I think you've got to start with the Georgian food, the kachapuri you'll love it Okay, kaksamach and keep up the good work So if you want to keep following me, I mean every a lot of different places but secret Jerusalem and Facebook group is an amazing place to go and keep seeing us and keep giving us likes and comments and come to Jerusalem, this is where the fun is