New Zealand Family Celebrate MEXICO INDEPENDENCE DAY For The First Time (VIVA MEXICO!!)

what's up NZ and welcome back to another video where we try some amazing foods and different Traditions from different cultures around the world so today we're going to be celebrating Mexican Independence Day as a family what are you going to do Atlanta I'm soaking the corn husk ready for the tamales soaking the Corn house for the tamales yeah wow that sounds interesting chili sauce oh authentic chilies I'm kind of scared what are you doing I'm pulling out the meat oh yeah nice that's on this tray to do whatever oh wow nice okay we're gonna put the well it's good oh yeah soaking the Corn house I cannot believe we're doing something like this I've never seen those before soaking corn husks in water what what can I just say that there is pretty much there's not even like I can't even think of maybe like one restaurant even all the Mexican restaurants I've been to that have been like really authentic food that I've still never seen anything like tamales neither or anything like that we've never had it I know so as you can see this is our decorations for the day we've got the Mexican flag in the background and this is the table full of stuff that we're going to be using go see this box on Instagram called Tio Pablo and so basically it's got recipes and most of the ingredients we need to make all of this stuff authentic Mexican food made in New Zealand yeah I know some of it we had to buy but that's okay yeah and we've also got our corn and we're gonna make the guacamole yeah and then we found this fun game on the back of like a Vegeta kit it's like fajita yeah it's yeah got lots of things yeah you'll have some fun playing with that yeah and it's gonna be a full-on day in the kitchen yeah so this is the corn flour for the tamales and what else have we got we've got the red rice mix yeah say it and in Spanish and then we have these oh nice what are those for why are they oval I've never seen anything like that before but uh tacos like I don't know maybe all right let's get cooking so one thing I've noticed about the Mexican Independence Day Celebrations is that almost every ingredient that you guys use is incorporated you're incorporating the colors of the Mexican flag in there so green white red so I noticed that all the vegetables all the sauces and the salsas and everything like that they all kind of end up making even the drinks you have one green drink one white drink and one red drink yeah so that's pretty cool yeah so you'll see a lot of green white and red today so yeah what are you doing Atlanta and while we cook I'm gonna make a little snack and I'm making authentic guacamole and we've got some corn chips over there to have it so yeah nice cooking snacks guacamole yum Chef's treat yeah guacamole is a favorite in our house yeah I know we make it all the time we love it we're using YouTube to help us with our recipes all right okay time for the spicy man [Applause] oh my gosh I've never cooked with these before okay here we go should I be scared yeah very okay so we need apparently we need to de-pip them yes get rid of all the pups because that's what's hotter yeah so you actually just use all the Skins thanks Edward for sending us all this Mexican nice nice it was a legend Edward strikes again yep all right Atlanta what are you up to all right all right so we have we actually given different names for different countries so we always did that his Spanish name his normal name is kylo but his Spanish name is kailito kalito so today he's kailito for this video yeah obviously uh our culture is a lot closer to American culture in terms of like food and stuff like that than it is to Mexicans so today we are basically like going into a completely blind um we've done a little bit of research but we're trying to do it as authentic as we possibly can but we're just going to work with what we've got because obviously in New Zealand it's quite hard to find authentic I mean tamales there's only like one company in or sorry corn husks four tamales there's only one company in all of New Zealand that you can buy this from and we didn't even realize that one of our subscribers Edward sent it to us so yeah we're just trying to invest with what we've got I mean we've got like fresh pineapple we've got dried chilies this is like this sort of stuff is something that we would never cook with otherwise it's just not in our light kitchen so yeah it's gonna be interesting a lot of Firsts all right so we have our avocado and we have our tomato cilantro and it looks like the Mexican flag yeah it does okay now we're gonna add these all in this looks so good I have never had green chili in my um guacamole before there's a green capsicum or green chili oh wow yum and then now we add a little bit of lime juice in oh with some salt this guacamole is actually quite different I thought it was going to be the same thing but it's actually very different I'm done with the guacamole now do you guys want to come try oh yes okay I'm super first time ever trying authentic authentic okay wait are we bashing it smashing it guacamole oh wow oh wow I can just taste it because there's so much more effort put into that than what we do so authentic it's more fresh oh it's so good it's like it's like a different dish to what we have okay I'm just making the beef marinade look at this pineapple and onions with some Chipotle salt yum and look at this authentic Mexican Cola oh so good so the cola is going to go in here oh and is that going to be the base of the sauce yeah that's the marinade like the sauce wow you need the man to open the bottle can you do it did you loosen it I was expecting you to loosen it a bit oh it's not it's not a screw top oh I gotcha let the girls oh okay should we try some Mexican Cola yeah we only need half for the marinade yeah first oh yeah ladies first get it right go compared to normal it's kind of different but kind of not kind of different kind of not yeah that makes sense there you go you want to try I've got lipstick on so you try first okay as a difference oh I like it do you I like it it's it's better than normal Coke what what do you think I like it yeah I like it too I like it it's almost like you know raspberry and Vanilla Coke it's almost like its own Mexican okay I'm putting it in the marinade here we go here we go this is so interesting what whoa fizzy onion fizzy onions yeah okay I can see why they might use this as a mess all right this is about ready our chilies are ready to make their chili sauce so I'm gonna put it in the blender with some broth I've got the broth in there already and all of these delightful chillies and then we'll blend it together here we go a Moment of Truth we're going to blend it up hopefully this is right oh how's it going in here chef good I'm just about to start frying the Grande tortillas so we can start making the enchiladas because um these they come obviously a little bit sort of you know stiff out of the packet yeah so you need to fry them a little boil just to loosen them up but so it makes them easier to roll up when you put all the fillings inside of it ah and then we'll stack them in the tray and then Chuck them in the oven so we've got chicken enchiladas we've got pork tamales and we've got beef soft tacos sounds good to me just do it sounds good to me so approval has been made nice he's approved okay Lanta so what are you making you look really busy I'm making the masa for the tamales whoa that looks good I know so I'm currently making a tamales as well as good as I can basically but this is just something that I have never even like seen or heard of before so this is like our first ever attempt I mean what do you think about that keep it open at one end apparently yeah to allow the Heats to escape so a few in so we're just combining everything got our corn husk and then we're going to put them in the pot let them boil so apologies guys I know I don't know how well I'm doing uh apologies in advance to anyone who might get offended you know if we're not doing it the perfect authentic way but we're just doing the best that we can so again this is this does look amazing though also shout out to all of our Hispanic or Spanish-speaking subscribers as well we just want to we thought we'd make this video for you because your Independence Day is such a huge uh you know part of your calendar year and so we thought why not we'll give it a go uh because if you haven't seen our Thanksgiving Video we're kind of modeled it after that because we it seem to be very popular so we had a great time experiencing Thanksgiving for the first time and we know I've seen comments like after comment from you guys saying that you should try Mexican food try Mexican food so today we're here we're doing it we're giving it our best shot and we can't wait to try it so [Music] thank you [Music] foreign welcome to the family guys pull up a seat come and sit down with us and join us at our first ever Mexican meal uh can you just tell me when you learned to speak Spanish no I've just been doing some research and just figuring out what the Mexicans say during Independence Day let us know let us know how his accent was Fiesta yeah welcome welcome to the fiesta all right so we have let's just go through the food although you guys have probably seen most of what we were making in the kitchen yeah so we have got some enchiladas we have got some soft tacos and this is like what the rice and the beans and the meat is for then we've got some tamales and then we've got some what's this one haritos that's certain type of soda so we've got different flavors and we've also got some drinks so we couldn't find the Hibiscus one in New Zealand so we just went with lemon lime bitters because it seems you guys use a lot of lemon and lime and flavors like that yeah and then we've got horachata which is the rice milk I'm excited to try the hot chocolate it looks and smells good it looks so good and then this this is just a lime drink so as you can see we've got the Mexican flag here red white and green so I don't know about you guys but I'm starving can we talk about how long we spent oh man like I just want I I feel like it needs to be said do you think do you think that this beat Thanksgiving it felt very close to the amount of time spent on Thanksgiving it was about three and a half hours yeah I actually you know what I feel like that I was on me and denzy were a much bigger helpless time around huge in the kitchen yeah exactly well it was all hands on dip it was Atlanta and I for Thanksgiving yeah um but this time the boys were involved and every component just seemed to have a lot going on anyway I'm tired of smelling this okay I want to taste it now should we should we start with it start with the enchiladas chicken enchiladas chicken enchiladas Rojas I'll dish it up and then we'll try it okay so we've dished up the enchiladas the rice and the refried beans and we've got a little bit of sour cream but at first I think we should give the horchata a try okay okay I'm really excited about this one all right ready drink it drink it oh oh wow oh wow that is so good what what it's like a dessert it's like a dessert drink oh wow yeah it's like the rice pudding cut but like yeah oh my goodness how is it like a milkshake vanilla and stuff that is amazing evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk and rice milk and all that oh yeah lots of different flavors really weird for like a cold drink yeah it's just something you're not used to it yeah it's got different flavors in there but I love it it almost comes together to make like a caramel taste but it's so good it's so good that is amazing guys let's do this okay let's move on okay all right enchiladas yeah so you need a bit of enchiladas a bit of rice and a bit of beans okay chicken enchiladas okay oh wow oh that's so good that is really good that that Rice is incredible I actually didn't hold high hopes for the rice just a perfect amount of a little bit of spice yeah a little bit any tiny bit yeah it's actually only a tiny tiny bit of spice I never would have put rice with enchiladas I know well this reminds me a lot of Italian cannelloni it does a bit doesn't it what is tomatoes spice builds up a tiny bit yeah it does yeah it does that milk drink should help yeah maybe that's why they have horchata Maybe although I doubt the Mexicans have any problems with spice yeah and this is all very mild I have to say yeah yeah okay so on the back of the fajita kids fajita the heater box he was like what's a Vegeta there was this fun little like game where you spin the wheel all right see what you get okay spin it to win it what is that story time story time create a story out of three words chosen by another person at the table okay I'll give a word you give a word and you give away okay and then you have to make a story okay okay okay the first word is chili dog muffin off you go go quick quick story once upon a time there was a dog that ate a chili and what did you say and needed a muffin after okay yeah okay it's not good it was that was yeah Mom's time too okay I'll spin it spin the wheel so wait the chili was so spicy that he had a head over muffin to take the spice yeah to help him with the heat gotcha okay ready so wait he wasn't a Mexican dog obviously nope oh couldn't handle the heat adios Mio what is your most embarrassing story Go the whole let the world know okay everybody wants to know most embarrassing Story come on everybody wants to know the gossip okay one time when I was um working in town in the city um I was standing at the lights and it was a really busy intersection and I was wearing a skirt and the wind ah you had a Marilyn Monroe Moment Like right up oh man yeah like were you like fighting against the skirt no it was just everyone in the cars were laughing and everyone got a view so and I was horrified what a show yep okay wait before we do this I reckon that we try the tamales okay okay are you ready now that I got all spicy he got do you know what can I just say something yep I've never seen anything wow like a tamale it just smells a lot like corn all right you ready okay I'm nervous wow it's like it's giving me mashed potato Vibes but it's corn but it's corn flavored it's something like mashed potato with like mint but it tastes like corn are you trying to wrap your head around it yeah I'm like I'm just getting like through all the textures and the taste wow I definitely like the enchiladas video that's probably because it's more of a kiwi thing as well I don't not like it oh yeah I can taste the spice but it's not spicy I'm liking it yeah liking it I'm liking it but it's so different to anything I've ever had that's so strange it's very strange wow this is something that you just can't even get anywhere here in New Zealand like I mean not that we know of I don't know of anywhere that makes this do you know what I think these are what I think these are kind of like your Mexican version of like a corn dog I think they cook up a big batch of them oh yeah they have them all sitting there and you just come along you grab one you wrap the husk off and you probably just eat a lot of dinsy did yeah probably a lot of people in Mexico I don't know actually you can tell us it just looks like a snack that you just pick up and you just munch away I like it I've decided I like it that is nice it is it's good I like it I don't know the flavor's good but I can't write my right yeah it's a teaching for us I could describe it as eating like really mashed up couscous yeah yeah yeah that's the only thing I could yeah it has it definitely has a couscous Vibe it does well actually you know another thing that reminds me of what you guys probably actually haven't had yet is polenta oh yeah I've had polenta yeah it reminds me of polenta it reminds me exactly of polenta what is that yeah it's like a dish that an Italian Dish and in fact it's made with corn as well ground up corn yeah and I'm guessing that you can do all sorts of flavors inside like you probably have vegetarian ones or you know you could do like all sorts should we do a game all right my turn oh wow that was a terrible spin hurry one of your most embarrassing stories yep okay tell the people okay Okay so I was probably about I don't know maybe uh between the ages of around like 11 to 13. so kind of like around that area so it's probably around 12. yeah and uh we were in Venice um it was just me uh my mum and my dad and we were visiting Venice and we were in the hotel room and there's a famous story in Venice where it's called The Ghost of Venice right it's about this guy in a mask and he like wanders the streets at night and you know he's um you know he's just a scary guy that is like kind of haunts the city and so my dad had spent the whole day telling me the story which was kind of like freaking me out right so we got to the end of the day and we had to go back to the hotel room and get changed because we're all going to go out for dinner but the hotel room was uh one of those things where you put the key card into um turn all the lights and the electricity on in the room yeah and have you got some of that so here you go uh and so I got into the room and I anyway I was probably I was taking ages like playing video games or something I can't remember I was just taking much longer so my mum and dad left the room and they said oh Sam we'll just wait for you outside and so anyway I was standing there and I was getting like my I I was put my shirt on I put my and I was getting my pants on and then they were just around my ankles and all of a sudden all of the lights and everything just completely shut off like pitch black dark and I was like I know that my mum and dad aren't in here so who just turned off all the lights and so I had so I started screaming and I like basically bust down the door and I came running out of the hotel room with my pants around my ankles like screaming like the ghost of Venice is gonna get me help help I was like screaming like that and I had like no pants on and I know and they were just cracking up laughing because they were like oh whoops oh we took the keycard with us and there must be like a a one minute shutdown yeah so all the lights shut off for like a minute after you leave the room a new freak and so and I just absolutely lost my mind anyway yeah there I was in the middle of the hotel with my pants around my ankle screaming for help okay I'll do mine before we try it okay okay foreign [Music] [Music] let us know down in the comments so you think she was imitating in the family now it's time for the beef pineapple and Cola with spicy mango sauce soft tortillas yes okay you ready okay smash it oh wow oh man that beef that is so good that is the most flavorful thing in this whole table beef and pineapple and cola and Coca-Cola it got us that's so good wow wow and um fresh onion just oh my goodness so good that is ridiculous how good that is it's so good eh it might be in there you go so good Kenzie what'd you think of that beef let's go oh man if you hear Disney say that beef is good yeah it means it's outstanding that was really good man and even just that little cook with the spicy mango sauce oh yum sauce wow yeah man Mexican spicy sauce with red with mango red jalapeno and limes yum that's my jam okay I don't know about you guys but I'm actually feeling really sleepy oh my goodness I do remember in our Thanksgiving Video we actually we joked about having a nap but we didn't realize that we were feeling sleepy because of something that was inside the turkey so I don't know about what it is about Mexican food but I'm feeling sleepy I feel like I need a siesta yeah because that was like what probably five or six hours in the kitchen yeah another Fiesta another Fiesta denzy's ready for a second Fiesta yeah we're gonna have a siesta yeah yeah your Fiesta can't outdo El siesta [Music] oh wow how long were we out for did you Fiesta too hard did you need a siesta no I fell asleep the whole time ah and that brings us to the end of our first ever Mexican experience that was absolutely amazing we hope all of our Mexican uh viewers Or Hispanic viewers have an amazing Independence Day this year and so I mean some amazing food felt in some laughs yes and I think it's time to why don't we just say what our favorites were or let's just go through our list of uh you know first second and third okay start with you Atlanta okay I liked the enchiladas the best that was my favorite okay okay and what was second uh second was the beef tacos nice and then yeah okay I thought you're gonna say that gotcha okay ready Guardians what's yours first second third same same the same same as Atlanta okay what are you gonna do um so I liked the um beef and pineapple Cola flavor especially with like the raw onion we don't often have raw onion yeah probably never very fresh um and then secondly the enchiladas and then the tamales oh yeah I but I think tamales could grow on me I would go with um oh this is a tough one this is actually really close yeah I'm gonna go the beef pineapple and cola first yeah then I'm gonna go with tamales second yeah oh and then I'm gonna go with the enchiladas third gotcha I just feel like enchilada because I have had a lot of cannelloni in my lifetime yes and I just feel like it's something that wasn't as like of a new experience for me wasn't as challenging on the taste buds yeah but I really enjoyed the tamale Adventure I loved it it was something new I'm glad I've tried it now can I just say as well that we have had Mexican food before or what we consider to be Mexican food but it's not authentic it was not authentic like this yeah so um I found the tamales to be really authentic never had that before yeah but even the beef and the pineapple like just kind of it's like it goes another few layers deep into to authenticity yeah so even though probably if we got to Mexico this might not even look authentic so I feel like we we took a step further into a more authentic Mexican yeah we definitely did yeah anyway guys thank you for making it to the end of this video we really appreciate it we hope you enjoyed it as well hope you had as much fun as we did yes and also let us know down in the comments uh what's your favorite Mexican dish you know what do you guys have in your household uh what's something we missed out on I know there are I could name a few dishes that we actually didn't have that are very popular Mexican Independence Day I think pozole is one of them so I think pozole is one of the main ones actually it's like a shoot like a sort of a pork or chicken stew yeah so um we would like to try that one maybe another time yeah let us know how we did with the cooking because you know it was a huge effort yeah it was a huge effort yeah and it was a whole new adventure with different flavors I mean we never cooked with chilies or anything like that no dried chilies so it's uh yeah I enjoyed it because I enjoy spicy food yeah I enjoyed the whole journey of learning a whole new way of cooking yeah same Yeah well yeah true even the cooking process yeah yeah and the kids were great they help teachers someone asks I mean like yeah yeah the horchata was a big hit yes it was lovely that was definitely a new drink that's like that's to me that's that's like the pumpkin pie of this video yes this is something I feel like we need to show other people now yes it is the kids would be able to cook with the kids it would and if you like that one guys make sure you smash the like button also make sure you check us out on Instagram because Atlanta's over there for Atlanta's kitchen yep go and check us out and also make sure you let us know in the comment section how do you guys do your favorite Mexican dish how does your family celebrate independence day and also a big thank you a huge thank you to all 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