Favorite foods - Bolivia Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
There's a plate called Silpancho. So in Bolivia they have a lot of rice, a lot of chicken, a lot of potatoes as expected. They don't have much bean, they don't have many beans, but with this plate, so you have rice and then on top you have a layer of like fried meat and it's really good. It's like a patty and then they they have fried potatoes and then on top they have lettuce. No, they have like tomatoes and onions and all it's just with an egg on top and so you have that and that is just delicious and it's really cheap and you can buy it in most any place in Cochabamba or in the outside cities and they also have a drink that kind of goes with it that's called Moco Chinchi and this Moco Chinchi juice is basically like a cinnamon juice with an dried peach at the bottom and so you drink the cinnamon juice and then you can eat the peach.
Video 2 Transcript
In Santa Cruz, you'll eat a lot of rice, rice and eggs with platano, like fried banana or fried yuca, which is kind of like potato and it's super good. And you'll eat, you know, just little bits of beef and things like that. Some of my favorite snacks in Santa Cruz was jugo de platano, it's just like a milkshake kind of with banana in it. Uminta, which is a tamale and with cheese in it, super good. I like the choclo, which is corn, big huge pieces of corn. Cunhape is a kind of a bready cheesy thing that's delicious. I love the sopa de mani, it's a peanut soup, super good. And recently I went back to Bolivia and we ate at the Casa del Camba, so good. I love the food in Santa Cruz. I didn't, there wasn't hardly anything I disliked. It was all delicious.
Video 3 Transcript
I love the bread in Bolivia and there's something called cuñape, which is like a little cheesy bread thing that was really good. I also love uminta, which is a tamale. Yeah, it was really tasty. I loved eating arroz con leche. Sometimes we would have that for dinner. Dinner is a very small meal and breakfast is a small meal also, so I'd eat a lot of like bread and hot cocoa and things like that. It was good. I also loved eating salteñas. It's like this wonderful juicy um empanada kind of baked thing, so you need to eat those. Also api with empanadas. It's like this corn kind of drink, hot drink that's spiced with cinnamon or other things that you eat with empanadas. Those are some of my favorite snacks that we would have in Cochabamba and Bolivia.
Video 4 Transcript
So the main meal is lunch. You have usually a very light breakfast and a very light dinner, but lunch you usually start out with soup, which is always very good. Usually made with like quinoa or vegetables, but I love sopa de mani. It's a peanut soup that is just amazing. And then main dishes, lots of rice and lots of noodles and meat. I loved picante de pollo, and I had a really good fish in sucre, like a fried fish. I love chuno, which is like a dehydrated potato. It really depends on who makes it. I had really good people making food for my lunches and I love chuno. And then they have choclo, which is like big fat corn that they put on the side. Really good fruit there. It's just amazing. Try chirimoya. That's like the best fruit. It's amazing. And the bananas.
Video 5 Transcript
So you have a thing called salteñas. Salteñas you can find in most South American countries, but I just love it. It's like an empanada. It looks like a football and it's filled with juice and with potatoes and meat and egg and a lot of yummy stuff. And so you just have to bite the top and then you suck the juice and then you start eating it. Because if you try to eat it when it still has a ton of juice, it'll just go all over your hand. And then I love this soup that's called sopa de mani and that's like peanut soup, which sounds a little bit weird, but the peanut soup is really delicious. It's just made, it's boiled with potatoes, with noodles, and you could put a lot of salsa in it and it's just delicious.
Video 6 Transcript
I would have to say my favorite food is this dish called pique lo macho. It's kind of a spin off of Hawaiian haystacks, but so instead of rice you have french fries, right, which is delicious because they're like homemade french fries, and then you cut up like the steak meat. You have that on there, and then you also have hot dogs, tomato, and onion, and hard-boiled eggs. Those are cut up as well. So it's kind of like Hawaiian haystack, but it's like Americanized Hawaiian haystack with the french fries, and with that you just put it with ketchup or fry sauce because I do have that down there, or you make it yourself with your mayonnaise and ketchup.
Video 7 Transcript
One of my favorite meals is called majadito and you have your rice and you have your platano and you have some it's like beef jerky type stuff called charque and that is so good with a fried egg on top as well as sopa de mani and that's peanut soup and it sounds gross but it is actually delicious and all the food is made with so much love and so much flavor which i think is unique to the country and they also have great empanadas and any kind of bread there is going to be beautiful so eat all the bread try as many different kinds of food as you can because it's all so good
