 Uh, I'll slap you if you say a three. Uh, I'm a bagger, and you're ready? Tres! Oh. Yo, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to another grocery store episode of Fungbrows Food. En Español! Hola, hola! We are covering and trying all the food from the hot deli of the top Mexican market in LA, Vallarta. Vallarta. Vallarta. Vallarta. Me llamo Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Is that with a C-O-N? Nelson? Nelson. Nelson. OK. Basically, what we're trying to say is that we don't speak Spanish, guys, but we are going to do our best. Vallarta is the number one Mexican supermarket chain in Southern California. And it was designed to be the modernized Mexican market, sort of in a way the same way that 99 Ranch and H Mart and Mitsua were designed to modernize. It's supposed to provide it at an elevated level for people that are, you know, the first generation from Mexico, but also for the second, third, fourth generation that have that heritage, but also are looking for something mixed with the American culture. So we're about to eat everything from the deli at Vallarta's supermarket. Vámonos! You got to say food in Spanish? Comer. No, wrong. Comer comida. I feel like we got to try the Mexican dishes first. This is $8.99. Costillas de Pueco. Oh, my gosh. This is so tender. Look at this. Oh, it's falling apart. That's really tender. Kind of has like a seafood taste. Not completely. I'm like a pork stew. The meat is a little chewy, but it's tender enough to fall off the bone. I give it a four out of five. I'm going to start at a 3.5 out of five. I'm going to go with a 3.5 out of five. It really accentuated the flavor of the pork. This is the chili ranho. I thought it was a piece of chicken fillet. This might be one of my favorite Mexican dishes. Chili ranhos is like cheese and chili. Oh, my gosh. Look at that. Tell me that ain't fine. Oh, my gosh. What does arroz mean? Arroz is pepper. It's rice. Rice. It's destiny. Chili ranhos. One of my favorite dishes, bro. It's a big, fat chili pepper. Slap on some of that Mexican cheese. I give that a 3.5. I'm moving it up to a four. I give it a 3 out of five. Tacos. And I believe you have the spinach and pork here. All right. Carnitas is pulled pork. Pull pork. So some verde is a. Green sauce. What's verde? Green sauce. Green. Verde is green. Just got one bad Spanish speaker. Trying to school another bad Spanish speaker. I grab the carnitas out of taco. Let me grab pollo. Pollo and then what? The carnitas. Tacos. The flavor's actually really good. They put a ton of meat. Oh, I've been sitting there, so it's a little dry. The flavor's really good though, I can tell. From my experience so far, I've had much better things than viata than the tacos. For the chicken one, give it a 3.5. Chicken. Chicken was all a 3 out of 5. I give mine a 3 out of 5. Here is the carnitas in salsa verde. Really good flavor. What do you like? You like the carnitas or you like the sauce? I like the sauce. The flavor is like a 5 out of 5. Yeah, that flavor is good. But the carnitas, quality, a little dry for it. I give it a 4-2. That is still one of the best things I've had so far. I still think the carnitas pulled it down way too much. Let's talk about the algorafrescens. This is a pineapple one, peanut. Green one? Yeah, I know. Trust me, this piece is a pineapple. This is the fruit medley. And David, you have the cantaloupe one. Fruit medley inside of it. You know what I really like about these algorafrescens? These are really light and refreshing. They're not overly sugared. Guys, moving on, I'm to the hot bar. All right, guys, I'm eating the beef barbacoa first. Barbacoa first? Kind of like a stew. I'm going to try the beef steak. Yeah, lunch. Beef steak? I mean, to no surprise, it was the sauciest. Time to try this chicken one. It's not bad. Lean. White meat. White meat. Blanco meat. It's the chicken for the gringos. Beef steak, barbacoa, pollo. I agree. I agree. This beef steak, though, this steak right here. Yo, you guys, you guys. Cinco out of cinco. Wow. Put beef steak on the beef steak. I would have to object. But I give it a 4.5 out of 5. So you gave it a siest. Dia cinco. Uno, dos, tres. Quatro. Cinco. I give it a quatro. The chicken mole. This is a very, very Mexican dish. This is cinnamon. Whoa. That's deep. That's like a dark roux flavor. Have you guys ever had dark roux from like gumbo? You talking about down on a bayou. You talking about the roux. I'm talking about Norland's gumbo. That was a flavor I haven't really had before. I can't say that I prefer it, though. Still got to give it a score, though. Yeah. I start, I give it a 1 out of 5. I give it a 2.5 out of 5. For the culture, I give it a, I slap it. You can say a 3. I was slapping. I'm a back head, you ready? Tres. All right, this is the enchilada. I'm going to get the Salvador rice. The Salvadoran rice and Mexican rice are different? Enchiladas. I blame myself. That's pretty good. Yeah, I never had a cheese enchilada that traditional. With the cheese in the middle, normally just put the cheese on top. I like the beans. Pork and spinach. Oh man, I'm torn. I was this close of giving it a score of Cinco. But how salty it was. I kind of dialed it back down to like a 4. Between this and the beef steak, those two are fire. Guego. The pork and spinach, you're tripping on the pork and spinach. Let me go 4.5 on that. All right, me too then. Guys, guys, guys, guys, I didn't give anything a 5 yet. So what? So what? Cinco. Cinco. Out of the hot bar, make sure you get the pork and spinach. Verde sauce, I mean it's green. And the beef steak. Oh my gosh. Oh. Chicken wing bar. You guys, they actually have orange chicken. Oh shit. All right man, this one right here? All right. Is that really how you say orange? Na-ran-ha. Na-ran-ha. Ha ha ha ha. Na-ran-ha chicken. Okay. Definitely tastes different. I'm not mad at it. I like how the batter is really soft. I wouldn't say it was super sweet. It was a little bit spicier. We got the chicken wings. They're pretty good. They're really solid. They're pretty good. If these were fresh, lemon pepper sucks though. I give it a 3 out of 5. 3 out of 5. Orange chicken 3, wings 3 for me, boom. This is actually one of their premier items. Pork. Pork, corn, chicken. Let's go. Pork tamale. You know, that's the one that reminds me of the most of a tuna. Corn and corn tamale. Corn and corn. Mmm, oh this is sweet. Hey, I'm dating this one. My prayers were answered. Let's try this other third one. Chicken. Oil. All right, this one's the best so far. But we got two more. All right guys, poblano, tamale, and I got the beef one. Dave. Andrew's gonna pick that one out, bitch. Yep, yep, no, it's predicting. Why? No, it's predicting what you like. So you try to predict what I like, just like you try to predict my moves when you guard me. No, it's cause you told me your tactics. I like the cheese though, the cheese is good. Oh, I'm not a fan of this one. This is snarky. This is. It's no bueno. Not this one, not this one. Beef, boom. What's your favorite tamale? I said my favorite tamales were the sweet ones. I'm going with the beef. What do you think my favorite is, huh? Let me guess. Personality predictor. Mr. Preference Picker. Five, four, three, two, one. It was that, uh, the first one. Forget it, if you don't even remember, you can't say it. It was the chicken one. Oh yeah, the chicken one. Oh, no! No, it was the one right there. Now see. You're gonna say you know me, and then you don't know me. There's strawberry banana, strawberry, and horchata. This is a particularly light and refreshing version of horchata. Wow, the chicharron! Chicharrons, guys, true story. I was eating some very, very crispy. I know this story. I was eating some very, very crispy Chinese pork. Whole crispy. And it was so crispy that it chipped one of my tooths. That's pretty good. I wasn't the biggest fan of chicharrons, but I gotta say, this is cool. 4.5 out of 5. I gave it a 3. Yeah, I gave it a 3.5. Some pork guts. Oh! No! Oh, my, my, my! No, not bad. As far as the toasts go. It just tastes like pork. Let's go, let's do buffalo wings. It's a little bland. Not too buffalo-y. Okay, I got the roasted chicken. I got the spicy chicken. You hit me with the roasted? All right. Okay, roasted chicken. Oh! Now what do you think of the frypeas? The flavoring is good. I'm skinned. Chicken is kind of dry, though. This flavoring is not bad, but it doesn't have a lot of spice to it. Jalapeno roll! I'll go with it. I'll tell you this. Jalapenos and cream cheese go together very, very well. I give it a 4 out of 5. I will give it a 3.5. Oh! Yeah. Yeah. I hear, sir. High quality. We also have the bone, we offer the bone in rib, and then also the bone out. It's good and weird at the same time. Yeah, it looks weird. It looks weird. Not like it kind of looks like burnt wood, like after a fire. But it could be fire. Yeah. I think I like the American barbecue rib better. They didn't put a lot of flavor in it. Okay, here they have the pico de gallo. Classic. Pico de gallo! Here they have ceviche. This is the ceviche de camarón crudo chili. This is the ceviche cocktail, cocktail, camarón, aka the Mexican shrimp cocktail. Wow! Wow. That's real block. A1 ay uno. A-hoo-hoo. ceviche first. What do you guys think about the tortilla chips? I don't know. These are actually not my favorite tortilla chips, but that's ceviche. It's good. I gotta be the best store-bought ceviche I've ever had in my life. This is like a gigantic fudge sundae shrimp. We lost one. Oh, God. Yo, that ceviche was 4.5 out of 5, maybe 5 out of 5. I give it a ceviche 5. Woo! Yo, before we get into the sweets section, and let me say, not you guys, for me, my own individual person. I like things that have a bit, the artisanal hands. That look good. Nell, Nell is a more of a fan of the robotic factory products. Ah, yes, yes. Andrew's a sour guy. Andrew actually doesn't like sweets. Yeah, he's a sour guy. Oh, okay. Personality. Sorry. Everybody know what Andrew likes. Sorry. I do like some sweets, just not too much. Tell me who had the most cavities growing up. I did. These are stuffed cookies. Everybody, I know the flavors, but by you guys, you don't know. No say. No say. I think it's no say. It's not. It's no say. No say. You said no say. It's just your tone. You said say. You guys don't know you finished. Oh, you guys don't know finished. We are going to have a competition to see who can judge the flavor combinations. Correctly. Three, two, one, go. Caramel leches. It's a caramel cookie. It's caramel inside. Exactly, right? Okay. Don't take the leche. Peanut butter fudge. Two, one, go. Chocolate cheesecake. Brown sugar. Pecan pie. Chocolate cheesecake. Okay. Three, two, one, go. Do you have any to have? Peanut butter jolly. Peanut butter jolly. Raspberry oatmeal. Raspberry oatmeal. All right. All right. This is a slice of pineapple. Or better yet, in Spanish, peanut. Sweet potato. I've never seen a candy sweet potato. These are all candy. Look at this. These are both pieces of squash and pumpkin. Wow. You see that shred? Wow. Okay. This is bread. Bread? Yeah. I think it's bread, bro. It looks like Cayman Bao. And then this is like Bola Bao. Yeah, pink Bola Bao. And the whole kitty Bola Bao. This is, I think, what probably is considered the Mexican macaron. Wow, that's dumb. The bread's good. This is a Cayman Bao. Sweet potato. That's kind of nice. Ah! I ate like one strand and I thought it was nasty. This is flan napoletano. This is charcoal flan. And last but not least, the tres leches. Yeah. Shall we all try the original flan? I'm a fan of flan. It's not bad. It's like a fairly firm. There's different flans. I've definitely had different flans from different cultures. Chocolate flan. Wait, chocolate or chocolate? It's good though. It's better than regular flan. Oh, it's better. It's better than regular flan. I don't think so. Wow. I don't think so. Yeah. It's good or what? Yeah. Yeah. Chocolate cake, boy. Last but not least, guys. Oh my gosh. I have such high hopes for this one. Please do not disappoint me. Because I love tres leches. It's because of the size difference. It's good. It tastes good. It's a little more moist than others. The taste is there. I actually like this one better because it's actually lighter. All right, let's wrap. All right, out of the three. Which one's the best one? I'm going to say one, two, three. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm going with the flan first. Wow. The tres leches. And I haven't had that. Chocolate flan. Look on his eye. He's about... Uno, dos, tres. Oh! Cuatro, cinco, tres leches. You know what? I think this show goes to show people at home. It's okay to disagree with your friends. You know what it is? You know what I like is that, you know, we all kind of disagree on things sometimes and we make fun of each other and we get at each other and try to predict each other's personalities. But really what it comes down to is that we all are trying different things together. We're just trying new things and we're just having fun doing it and I thought it was a good experience overall. For me, I think it's really cool because growing up, I didn't eat, you know, a lot of these foods, you know, even though I grew up in Lincoln Heights. For me, even for me, to try all these new different foods. Makes it more accessible, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I would say the same thing for, you know, the modern Asian markets. They're making it more accessible because obviously the ultra-traditional, you know, a more farmer's market, direct to consumer style. But it is daunting. Obviously when you present it in a very systematic, you know, commercialized way, it's a great transition point. Thank you guys so much for watching that video. Shout out to Nelson Chamber of Hoopa Life. This is David and Andrew from the Fung Bros. Guys, let us know in the comments below. If there are any other supermarkets you guys want us to cover. And number two, make sure you let us know what do you think about these new school ethnic markets in America that are kind of really designed to be accessible to everybody. Yeah. Are they keeping the culture? Keeping it traditional? Making it accessible? Sorry. All right, guys, thank you so much for watching that video. Subscribe to our channel. 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