 So my buddy Rich, the German wonder boy, the golden hopper, he was just visiting. He was hanging with Andrani and I and I gave him a taste of Old Monk. The good one? The good one. And he said, I'm not a big fan of rum. I said, it depends on the rum for me as well. I said, but trust me, you're gonna like this. You might like this as much as you like some of the whiskies you like. He said, all right, let me have it. And I gave him a taste and he tasted it. He went, that's really good. I said, I know, right? He said, that's the best rum I've ever had. Right on. I love it. It's a good rum. I don't think it's the best rum. I have it a lot more rum than Rick though. You drink way more rum than I do. Juice! Yeah. I love Old Monk. Yeah. Hey, welcome back to our stupid director, Ethan Corbyn. I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or Twitter. Today we got a... Do you have a favorite? What? Is it whiskey? Would whiskey be your favorite? If it was a liqueur? Yeah. Any spirits? It depends on where I'm at. Take a weird beer and wine. It depends on where I'm at. Whiskey is usually a Jameson. But rum would be a really close second go-to, right? Especially if I'm at the beach or at a pool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because my favorite rum is Myers. It's a dark, spiced Jamaican rum. So good. It reminds me of childhood. It's interesting because I love whiskies, right? But after that, I love vodka. Yeah, no. Vodka drinks are... I don't... I mean, I'll drink vodka. I'll drink anything. I'm not really discriminatory towards alcohol. Except for, like, fruity drinks. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of any fruity drinks. Okay, it depends. If I'm at the pool or at the beach, sure. But usually, they're too sweet. No, like, me too. I don't want a strawberry margarita. I want just a good margarita. Yes, a plain margarita. But anyways. Anyway. Today we got a food video. Let's begin with stuff to imbibe on. Unreal South Indian street food, 90-year-old cottonseed milk stall, and giant bread mountain. I don't know what any of those mean. 90-year-old cottonseed milk stall. Okay. Cottonseed milk. And it's from such a thing existed. It's from a channel called Chasing a Plate, Thomas and Sheena. We haven't seen anything like this. No, we don't know them. One but... And giant bread mountain. South Indian street food. Mmm. Sounds delicious. Here we go. Oh, this is insane. Oh, it's such a crush. Today we're in the south of India and we're in Madurai. The city is known as the street food capital of the south. We have got so many hidden gems and lights. I have to share with you. Madurai in the south of India is the city that never sleeps. In the nighttime street food scene, like no other in India. This is our third video from Madurai, and we're delving into the heart of the local food culture. We eat an evening favorite. Kottiparotta at a roadside street. Oh. Unbuffer. Unbuffer. Let it go. Stop doing it. Let it play. Come on. Technology. Be friendly and kind and workable and stop. There we go. There we go. We hope. There we go. Kottiparotta. We drink madurai's iconic parutipal, a steaming hot cotton seed milk from a third generation family store. Ouch. Yeah. It's a sticky halwa. Whoa. From a legendary shop that sells over 250 trays a day. In this India series, we show you some of the country's best food. Oh. To traditional recipes. You don't want to miss this series. He looked upset. He looked very upset. We hope you're hungry. Let's eat. They're cute. Good production value on your... It's an Indian street. Ha ha ha. Very unique drink. It's something that you only find in madurai. And it's called parutipal. Actually, this one is perfect for me because it's supposed to be good for coughs and colds. And I've got a really bad cold at the moment. So I'm hoping that this will cure me. Mam, you have COVID. Ha ha ha. Parutipal. Yeah, this is going to be good for me because I've got a cold and a cough. Why don't you tell them that? Okay. That looks like soup. Oh, the drink. Ginger. It's going to be perfect for me. Just a bunch of onlookers. Jaggery. Sweet, delicious. I love jaggery. That's a thick looking drink right there, man. I like her. Parutipal is made up of a ton of different ingredients. So it's got things with the strona. The water. Indian is so crazy. He's straight up with saying, Move! Get out of the way. That's hilarious. I wonder what that tastes like. Really? Ginger is going to be good for your throat, for sure. Yeah. It looks like soup. Yeah, it does look like a soup. Don't do that. That guy's going to hit you. 20 cents. It'll be $6 here and less here. $6 here and less here. So many people in here. I love all these people. Me too. I wish you had smell vision. That's insane. Me too. We're going to fight our way through and try that. It is crazy great. It works there. He's tall. Are those parathas? Is that what he said? I think so. What was that? Me? He's back here. And a bunch of people eating on banana leaves. This is nuts. This is one of the craziest food places. The amount of people here. He's like, yeah, what up, crazy wide dude? I love all these people. The sounds you can hear, that crashing sound. Oh. It looks like fried rice. Wow. It's such a crash. Over this side, they're making the trotto or the bread. And over this side, they're making it up. This is amazing. So we made our way through the crowd. We're on the back now waiting for one of only four people in the place. Look at this. At the back, they've got all the gravies cooking to go up the meal. It's got a mud floor still. It's essentially just a roof on the side of the road because it's built over a tree even. Wow. That's cool. It's almost like a popular very rare in a city. It's popular local places in New York that are just always packed. Yeah. Temp-free structure. And that is exactly what it is. And the food that everyone's chowing into. So, so good. Nice. Oh, nice toss. A portion of Cattu Parotta in this place is amazing. It's like nowhere else we've ever been. And the food looks... This is the Cattu Parotta. Look at that bread that we've seen cooking over there. Uh-huh. They take the bread, and I can see egg in there. I can see tomato. I can see chicken. Obviously a whole lot of herb spices gets all put onto that hot plate together. And then cut up with those big... Oh, some chicken. Okay. We thought we had some chicken gravy coming. Oh. Oh, that looks unbelievable. Look at all that flavor. That's literally falling off the bone. Look how busy it is. We've been here about 20 or 30 minutes waiting for food. Wall-less now. He coughed and he was like... He did. It's like, you gonna be all right, dude? Can't sit here talking about it any longer. Oh, look at that. Nice and dry, actually. Very nice and dry. That looks so interesting. I want it. So good. There's a lot of the Paratha all the bread in there. And that's taken on the flavors. So there's what? Bread, egg, chicken? Yeah, it's kind of like a matzabra with minced chicken. Oh. It didn't so long through. I was literally just thinking what I'm gonna eat when I get back home. I don't want to eat on a banana leaf. That is so well-rounded. Perfect amount of salt as well. I'm getting a pepperiness. Unreal. It's starting to see why there's so many people here. Let's grab some of this chicken. That just looks unbelievable. That looks just like all flavor. Yep. That's a roasted chicken. Smoky, spicy. That's gonna go perfectly with the Paratha. Wow, that is such a good combo. This is an incredible stall. This is one of these ones where you would travel halfway around the world to eat here again. I think I paid $10 for my Chick-fil-A meal. Yeah. And I would rather have that. That's not late for India. What time? 11pm. Yes. Carrot helva, lentil helva. Oh. I like it more than glob, gentlemen. Really? Yes. Carrot helva, we made it on our channel once. So good. Not any kind of helva I've ever had, though. I was gonna say, when we saw that earlier, that's not what I would have thought that is. I've never seen anything like that. No. That looks like a goo. Wow. It's a hot goo. What kind of helva did they say it was? Pick it up. Yeah, not anything I've ever seen. It's ghee, semolina, and sugar. Yeah. She's so sweet. Did she say her name's Pushpa? I didn't hear it. She said it so quietly. I love that they not only did this, I love that they kept this in the edit. Yeah. Tell us what they're actually saying in the comments below, please. I want to know. Yes. Not just food culture. Exactly. Everything about their culture. So sweet. I'm so interested in this. It must be like a mango? It has a very gooey texture. Clearly. Yeah. And very shiny. And that's from all of the ghee. Yeah. What kind of helva is that? It's not a regular helva. What film is that? I can't tell. It's wild. The taste of the halwa is so strong. They're very buttery and sweet. And we're just chatting to the guys and they said that they sell a minimum 50 trays of that halwa a day. They're very famous. There are just people pouring in. They've been here for over 50 years and they've got a really reputable brand. And when we were chatting to them, they said, okay, you've tried the traditional one. Have a taste of these specialty ones. Those look more like halwa to me. Can I add oil? A carrot halwa. A milk-based one. So I want to try this carrot one. This is very interesting. So these are served room temperature. And it's getting into this almond one. I love almond flavored stuff. Almond. This is these ones. Yeah, those look like halwa to me. The goo one. I don't even recognize it. And a very subtle almond flavor. Oh, that was quick. It was lovely. I like these too. They seem like really genuine people that are there to experience the culture, the food. That was wonderful that they let all that, those people stay in the video. As opposed to what a lot of people would do is cut the video, talk to them, restart your video. In what you do. I love that they just kind of kept that in there. I thought that was so sweet. Yeah, what kind of halwa is that? No clue. It can't just be regular halwa. Well, it just said it was, she said it was just somalina and ghee and sugar. So strange, because there's a... Obviously we've made karat halwa. And we had... In India? India, the five star. Right. In Delhi. Yeah, I think it was in the shape of... Oh no, that was glab jamun. I think we also had halwa too. I think so. We had two glab jamuns that day. And glab jamun at the five star. At the five star. Which is one of our favorite days. Oh man. That was actually the first day. Yeah, that was day one. That chef, man, knew. Incredible. That food was so good. All of the food. It's funny, everybody we talked to... Because it's true, we were this way before as well. We talked to people here who've never been to India and they're like, I love Indian food. And Andrani's always like kind of rolling her eyes because like most Indians, she knows in America, there's only one kind of sort of Indian food people get. That's Indian food usually. Versus when it's made, homemade by somebody here from India. And then the ultimate is when you go to India, you taste the variety of foods and how eclectic it is. And again, how it still tastes Indian. Yeah. Absolutely. So please let me know what that was. The second thing looked absolutely incredible and so unique. I love... It's one of my favorite parts until anybody does a video in India. Especially if they're like white or foreign in India. Oh, I know. People just staring. Staring. I love that he coughed into the car. I know. And they don't have any under... It's not understanding. They don't have any awareness of or care at all about the camera being on. Yeah, it's just here. If you did that, most people would try to get out of the way. Yeah, they would know what's going on and they're like, I love that. The other thing I love and I bet tastes really amazing is any of the places that you're going and you're getting like the chicken dish that we saw, that was some fresh chicken right there. That chicken was... Probably just murdered in the back. Alive and just killed at the butcher two stalls down. Probably. Yeah, legit. Probably. And Johnny said that's one of the things that amazed her like about how the disconnect, which I talk about all the time, about the eating stuff, because for her, any time they wanted to get that for home cooking, you go to the butcher and it's not refrigerated. The fish were just pulled out of the water. The chickens were just killed. And oftentimes they're killed right there while you're getting your chicken. They're killed and plucked and handed to you. Now Americans prefer to not see the murder. Yeah. They basically prefer to have their own fashioned reality. Hashtag America. Our own fashioned reality. It's pretty accurate. It's pretty accurate. Anyways, that was great. Please let us know what other food videos, street food, all that kind of stuff. Always. And they always make you incredibly hungry. And now I need to go eat some food. Go eat something. So let us know what other videos we can react to down below.