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What's it like to spend a day in one of Asia's least visited countries? Welcome to T-Orstee. Where else on earth can you explore a local market, eat delicious street food on a pristine beach at sunset and casually meet up with the president for coffee? People coffee has strong element in it all in one day. And today, our mission is to eat some of the best local Timoriz food, meet some amazing people, and discover why you might want to visit this incredible island for yourself. Hey everyone, good morning. It's Mark Wis. I'm so happy to be in Dilly, which is the capital, the biggest city of Timor Lee. And as you can see, I'm in a little bit of a different shirt than usual. That's because we have a very big a very special day coming up

and we're going to be hanging out today with the most knowledgeable guy in the entire country about Timorice food. He's also definitely the most passionate. Cesar, hello. Good morning, man. Morning. How are you? Yes. Great. Okay. So, here with Cesar, chef, food lover, promoter of all things delicious in Tim and also just a wealth of knowledge. So, it's going to be an honor to hang out with Cesar today uh to eat Timurice food. And we're starting with breakfast. Sweet. You're ready for this? Hello. Good morning. Nice to meet you. Thank you.

Basically, we are doing coffee shop, but now we have a food truck. Uh we sell a local food. So, now we have a ku. We call it kaldu. Kau years. Bically this one the rice. We use the local ingredients like ginger and then some chicken. Nice. So basically we eat when it's for raining time, it's for breakfast and when you are sick. We call it um it's a type of chili. Long pepper. Oh, long pepper. Oh, that's a long pepper. Okay. Oh man, that smells so good with that red rice made into a porridge. You can see it's kind of thickened with the starch of the rice infused with chicken. Oh, but there's more. These are the young

moringa leaves. Yes, moringa. Oh, yes. Yeah, I'm excited to taste the flavor of that long pepper in there. Okay, so this is our first meal of the day. And this is local timor rice as well, man. Look at this. Looks nutritious. Looks hearty. This is what you'd want to be eating when you're in Timor Lee for breakfast. Yo, $1 $1 meal. Perfect for breakfast. Oh, the flavor is good. The long pepper. You can feel it, right? You taste the long pepper immediately.

It's like peppery, but it's more fruity, right? And it's tasty. And the rice itself as well. The rice is great. Yeah. Flavor of the like chicken stock infused. And I got ginger. M. And the ginger. That's also what's giving it some warmth. Let's do it again. I have ginger. Yeah. Oh, got a big chunk of ginger in that bite. Oh man, that is like such a good porridge, but it's elevated with those timori spices, the ginger, the long pepper. The lawn pepper play very important role in most of the family in Timo, especially when they make the porridge.

And lawn pepper has been it's a native to the land. They grow on the trees, they grow on the rocks. That's why they call immanosetting cuz it's a vine uh plants. Okay, they're very good for your health. It's antibbody. For example, like my uncle, my dad's brother was beaten badly by the Indonesian military. My mom used to I remember my mom used to make this every day for 6 months to bring back all of this wound inside. Yeah. And then he's now still alive and using a lot of long pepper in the recipe.

Yeah. My mom cook a lot. Every morning we eat this. But through the European, that when the Portuguese arrived, they took this long pepper to Europe where they infused into their bread wine. The priest in Rome Empire, they infuse it. You get a little extra bite. Yeah. This is very tasty. But it's that long pepper and that ginger that just you're going to have the energy all day. That flavor. Yeah, this is a good base for what we're what's still coming up. And yeah, I am so curious to find out more about what exactly is Tim's food today. And you're in Tim always with coffee.

You're going to have more coffee later. We're not going to leave without some Timoriz coffee. And this is just the first cup of the day. There's going to be more coffee coming up. Yes. Let's do it. Cheers. Yay! I like it. Let's do it. Kim's coffee. Oo, Skyra coffee is everywhere. It's in my mouth. It's on my hand. Skyra coffee. And yes, she started off as a coffee shop, right? So, coffee is still one of the main things that you have to have here.

Uh, and yeah, Kim Marie's coffee. Some of the best in the world. That is Skyra coffee. I'm flying sky. Bye-bye. Byebye. Thank you very much. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next up today in Dilly, we are at the local market where we're going to walk around. We're going to explore uh and find out some of the local ingredients. Uh Cesar, tell us about this place. Uh this is Marcado Tabeshi, one of the oldest market. Very busy. The biggest one in Timor and in Di. And we'll see a lot.

Yeah. So, we're just taking a look at some of the ingredients. Galangal, ginger, turmeric. Ginger is used in the a lot in the local cuisine, too, right? Lemongrass, everything fresh, everything local and a lot of the spices are indigenous to Kimmorstee, to the island. Right. These are some of the spice islands. Yes, it is. Spice islands. What is that? Sikumorei in a local language, but in Bahasa it is called Kenur. Ah, this is very aromatic. Yes. Oh, it's good for your body. It's like ginger. It's family of ginger. Okay. It's the funny thing sometimes they call it New Zealand ginger.

Oh, okay. Which they don't have it in New Zealand. Okay. I started. I never seen this one in New Zealand. You can pinch it and then they give you that smell. Look, look at this one that I Oh, so aromatic. This one. Oh yeah. Oo, the fumes go up your nose a little bit. Really good. Yeah. Gingery and like peppery all at the same time. Yeah, this market is incredible to see all the ingredients that go into Timori's cooking and so many indigenous ingredients as well. Notice some good ginger.

Take the opportunity. Yes. Yes, thank you. People are Thank you, Orio. People are super friendly. Caesar over here. Caesar spotted some of the long pepper. Oh, everyone's laughing. Everyone's laughing at you. You spilled the long pepper. Cesar, look at this. So, we found a whole box of long pepper. This is one of the spices of life in Timor last. Yeah, they do kind of look like dried mulberries, but it will give you a shock to the taste buds.

Sun is starting to fully blaze in Timorstees, so it's time for something icy and cold and refreshing. This is the Indonesian street food that introduced this in Tim. Before 1999, no Timoris made this. Okay. After independent Indonesian, maybe we can learn how to make it. So, this is like a shaved ice. Estendal. So what is this one? This is bread goes in. Neon colored jellies go in. Coconut. Coconut water. Oh yeah. Peanuts. Nice. Now a fresh block of ice. He's going to shave it right here on this grater. And then the cup is underneath there collecting all the ice directly onto all those toppings. Perfect.

With the condensed milk. With a lot of condensed milk. Wow. Yeah. Oh yeah. Indonesian version always like that. Tons of condensed milk. Oh, and the like the jam, the sweet sugary jam. Okay. You got to mix it around. Look at the chunkiness of it. The jellies, the peanuts, the bread in there. Soak it up. Oh, I have all of I think I got everything. Yeah. Oh. Wo. The flavor is not bad. Mhm. M really cold on your teeth in contrast, but the syrupy neon sweetness with all the different textures in it.

Different textures. Yes. That is good. It is refreshing. Kind of like a pudding. Kind of like a shave ice. Kind of like a milkshake allin one. When the sun starts heating up for the day, this is what you need to be eating. Okay. We're continuing on through the market. Man, I love how they're carrying the all the different fresh vegetables, too. Seeing different types of beans. Seeing different types of spring onions and herbs and the seaweed as well. Yep. Wow, dude. That seaweed, it almost looks fake. Look at the color of that. Yeah, it looks like plastic. Yeah. Check that out. This market is absolutely incredible. and seeing so many unique ingredients. Everything is here at the market that you

would need for any Timuriz food you would ever want to cook. So, what is this? Uh, Cesar local brandy. Okay. Toabu. Okay. This one is less strong. Let's go look for the strongest one. Stronger one. Yeah. See, young people, the older ladies, you know better. She said we need something stronger. She said come over here for the stronger one. All right. He's challenging us to set this on fire before we drink. Before to test it. It's like testing it, right? Yeah. How the How do we do that? You can see that blue flame coming.

Okay. Oh, look at that. Yeah, it is on fire. All right. This is the Okay, our man. Cheers, bro. Let's set up us. Fin. Oh, that is nice. Oh, and this is from the Palmira palm, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, this is like Yeah. local. Okay. And that is Yeah. Just a hint of sweetness. It's good stuff, man. I'm gonna buy this one. I'm gonna buy Yes. Auntie knows her beverages. huge honor to meet up with Mr. President, the president of Timorstee, Mr. Jose Ramos Horta and I think he's just arrive. He's just arriving.

Amazing. Hello, Mr. President. Nice to meet you. It's just incredible. He's the president of this country, Torste. And just walking around, hanging out, meeting people. This is something never would have expected. coffee in Timor. When was it? Well, I have to tell it has a fascinating history. It was brought here by the Portuguese over 100 years ago. Okay. Then in 1920s, there was a coffee disease that destroy every coffee plantation in the world. Coffee trees, not all, many survive here in Tim or Leon. News spread the Portuguese said some scientists here. Then they studied the DNA. So in Panama, Colombia, people who especially in coffee, they all know about what they

call the Timur hybrid. The Timur hybrid that resurrected the coffee plantation. Wow. So if you love coffee, you have Timour to thank. Yeah. And all the conversation about coffee. And finally, here it is. Here you go. Timoriz coffee. Oh, thank you. Oh, and food is coming as well. Very typical Timori is like breakfast. Okay, this one. What would this be? You call this now a pancake? Yeah. Now pancake.

Let's eat. I'm going to taste that with him coffee. Sweet and bitterness coming together. M. And like the crumbliness of the sago, right? The main the [clears throat] main is sagu. What you see here is sagu. Okay. The inside usually coconut shredded coconut with a little honey. A little coconut honey sugar. Okay. But you know Mhm. this normally is food of the poor. This come from a palm tree. It is the trunk of the tree. Mhm. You chop up the trunk, the whole inside. Oh, it's a lot of work.

You have to crush it, rinse back and forth, back and forth, then put to dry. Mhm. Then you know crush make it powder. Make it into like a flour to make these. They will set under the water. Then also try the sweet potato. This one. Wow. Oh. Oh, that's amazing. I did. Yeah. That is chocolate on the inside with sweet potato and fried and crispy. Incredible. One more question, Mr. President. Yeah. I'm really curious to find out what is your absolute favorite Tim Kimori food. My favorite is called Katupa.

K A T U P A. Rice cooked with um coconut milk. Oh, not coconut water. Coconut milk. But then nicely put together inside weaving of coconut uh leaves. and that's my favorite. And then would you eat that along with fish? Yeah, you eat along with fish with any Yes. The imanas the spice timman. That's why I love timar as well. I love spicy. Once in Singapore, I was giving a speech. I said, [clears throat] "Listen, uh, your prime minister, Lick, when you taught you people, uh, to work, work, work, no, my advice to you is to start drinking teor coffee because the teor coffee has strong element in it.

You can credibly argue timburries drink so much coffee and we have so many children. There's a correlation. You'll need to increase the production of coffee. It's going to be high in demand. I can guarantee I'll be drinking a lot of Timoriz coffee during my trip. Oh, thank you so much, Mr. President, for taking the time. You he you will be drinking so much teor coffee that few uh 2 3 months from now he will tell feather my wife is pregnant.

Oh we did not even scratch the surface of the amount of accomplishments and what Mr. President has done for Timor Lee but all I can say is that hanging out with him he's so down to earth. He is hilarious. And Mr. Jose Ramos Horta, he is an inspiration to all of us. But from here, we made it to the next spot where we're going to have lunch. This is the kitchen where everything happens. Yeah. Okay. So, just seeing some of the cooking before we eat. So, over here, some of the Timori's yellow style rice cooked with turmeric and coconut milk and also some herbs. Very aromatic.

What's in the bamboo? This lamb. Oh, you have some sabokco there, too. Yeah. So amazing. not only a restaurant, but it's also catering. They cook everything here outdoor over firewood. And then we're going to step inside and see the different dishes that they have for the day. So, we are sitting down for this special Timuriz meal. Everything looks fresh and vibrant. I love the mix of vegetables, the colors, the culture. Sitting down also with the owner, chef, the owner as well. Yeah. Thank you so much. She has another restaurant that's bigger than this. Okay, cool.

We come for the This is the original. This is the original location. Cheaper version where everyone can afford. People that work in the warehouse come get this meal for $1.50. Then it looks absolutely stunningly good. Any order that you should start with or just I will start with the papaya flowers. Yeah, let's go for I'm so curious to try the papaya flowers sauteed down. I'm going to have a big chunk on my spoon. Oh, yeah. Here we go. Okay. With the yellow rice. Here we go. M nice. Oh, I love the texture of the papaya flowers. Kind of crunchy and a little bit leathery.

This is a food that So good. People live overseas in Australia in Europe. $10 for the small tiny bit of papaya flour that you can buy for 25 cents or 50 cents in the country. That's how special papaya flour for us as a timberish. So, it is a special food, but it's incredibly tasty. Yeah. Just a I think the texture is what's really good as well. It's almost meaty, actually. It is. Yeah. It's almost like a fake chicken. Yeah. Like a shredded chicken. Yeah. Because of that fibrous texture. You want to go to the next one?

Yeah. Fiddle head ferns. Oh, so this one is like a salad. Fiddle head ferns with banana blossom in it. Banana blossom. I'm going to get some of the rice with that as well. I'm going to put a little of this manas. Let's not forget the manas. I can't resist that any longer as well. All together in one bite. Okay. Special for Timoris live overseas. Oh wow. Oh, with that eggplant. It's okay. Oh man. Smooth, silky, sliding through your mouth. Now you can go to the chicken curry. So I'll take some of the chicken put inside there.

Oh, okay. There's carrots in here. There's potatoes. I think it needs a little immanas as well. Oh yeah. I'll go for the other manas, the ones with lime and chili. Otherwise, the flavor will contrast with the chicken. Put that on here. Let's add a little bit of that. A lot of chili. H. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark wins with chili. Imanas. Yes. The ingredient of life in Tim. Nice. Oh, wow. Thanks, chef. Good job.

Thank you, chef. Oh, that's so tasty. And the lime manas just explode in your mouth. They're actual pieces of lime. So you get the peel, you get the pulp, everything in there. Plus the fieriness of the chili. Mhm. The timor chilis, man. You can actually taste like the sunshine and the atmosphere within the chilies. And two more full of sun flavor. Oh, nice. I'm going to go for more. And before we finish the rice and the next, let's move on to the sabokco. Yeah, there you go. Wrapped and roasted. actually charred and roasted within the palm leaves.

Oh, that one's a fish. Super chunky in there. Oh, embedded with the aroma of the palm leaves as well, huh? Oh, yeah. Uh, this one we call the reef. It is a reefish snapper. Oh, thank you. Okay. For you. Okay. Incredible. Oh, you want some flakes apart with some of the rice. It's so aromatic. Just embedded with the aromatics. It's these herbs as well. That's what it steams with or roasts with. Thank you. M. Oh, it does have tamarind leaves, right?

It has that sourness to it. Plus that basily pepperiness, plus the turmeric and ginger in there. Make your mouth feel happy. It's so herbal, so herbaceious. No bite without the chimo like the chimo is like put a little get a little chili on there flour things all the herbs in there. Let's have a big bite. Here we go. That is delicious. The entire meal is fantastic. Oh yeah. I'm so happy. We're sweating again.

Yeah. Super good. Real deal. Authentic Timor food. Yes. Oh yeah. Okay. And this is for dessert. Mention about that. Yeah. Mr. President had mentioned this and now we're having it for dessert. He mentioned this earlier today. But the sago pudding made from the same shago as those pancakes that we had earlier today at the coffee shop with him. M. Nice. Not too sweet. Nice and creamy. A little bit starchy. Just cool. Refreshing. Perfect way to end an incredible meal. Bye-bye. Thank you so much. Oh, that was an incredible meal. Loved everything. But those papaya flowers, those Timoriz papaya flowers are something you have to try. In the back.

Check it out. Yes. Next up, we are in the neighborhood in Dilli and we're going to see where we're going to try and we're going to I think they're cooking it in the back. It is another one of the most important dishes of Timorstee. So, it's called batadan and it's just thick porridge with corn, with pumpkin, with beans, really like carb heavy, really nutritious. Traditionally, Bataran is a very typical Teimo island countries, eastern part of Indonesia. I love to eat cuz rain water is not the same as Java less rain. So butter is a substitute for rice and then the meal is developed from there and

it's actually good for farmers. Um during resistance u you have to feed a lot of people. That means just add a lot more water. Okay. Then you can feed stretch it out. Stretch it out, right? You can make it last for more people. They expand. Once you cook, And we are here right at the perfect time. She's just finishing off the pot. I think a few more touches. Boil it a little bit longer and then we're going to taste it. We're going to add moringa and then Oh, moringa goes in. Yes. To make it even more nutritious.

Oh, now we have some serious moringa leaves. Some reinforcements. Let's just take a bite. Let's take a Moringales actually have protein, right? Have protein. Green tasting. This really is the It's like the food of all foods. So good. It's probably one of the single healthiest leaves you can possibly eat in the world. You're giraffing it, man. It's simple, but homely and very like packed full of energy. Definitely. And yes, definitely for maximum energy. This is what you want to be eating. every kind of starchy carb you can imagine all in one stew that all boils together.

Yeah, heavy carb, but then you have pumpkin, you have peanuts, peanuts, protein in there as well. And of course, we have some uh mana to go with it. Some of the chili sauce with spring onions. Mhm. Oh, okay. Let's just take some tomatoes, too. Yeah. Cool. That's Yeah. Just really hearty. M. You can feel the corn just exploding like I mean just maybe it's a pumpkin. And they're dried corn, too. Mhm. So it has more of like a starchy like a thicker texture to it. I love boiled peanuts, too. Yeah. Oh, the peanuts give it flavor.

The sweetness of the pumpkin. Yes. You want to try with the chili? Definitely. Oh, add a lot of chili. That's going to really enhance it as well. Yes. Okay. The chili has tomato because the lady is also like half Indonesian. So, this is Tim's food. But also like eastern part of Indonesia also eat the same food. But the manas has a little bit of Indonesian touch to it. Manas. Oh yeah, it's good. Oh, the tomato just add sweetness to it. You can feel it. You feel the fumes of the chili going like to the back of your throat on that with the crunch of the spring onions, green onions in there.

Oh, it's nice. And it's spicy too. Mhm. You absolutely cannot eat bardan without that manas. That chili sauce just completely elevates it. Mhm. Super food. Mhm. Good for vegetarian people. I think this is good. Like this is like bodybuilding food right here. All we need is batteran and coffee. Timmorese coffee. Yeah, we do more coffee later tonight. Look at the dick laughing. He was laughing at our chili intake.

All right. Get the pumpkin in there. Mhm. Oh. All that Imanas. I agree with you. More complete when you eat with Imanas. You need it. You need the Imanas. You can say to the audience. Timor Manas. Manas Leo. Auntie is cracking up again. [clears throat] easy. Finish. Oh, what an afternoon snack. Welcome to Tim. Oh, I need to lean back.

Man, the sun today was intense. But, uh, sun is starting to go down. And it's a beautiful evening in Dilli. And we're going to stop for one of the Indonesian staples. It's also a favorite here in Dilli, which is called Bako. It's a noodle soup with meatballs. And hello again. Yeah. Ready to eat again? Ready to eat again. Here we go. Let's eat again. A little bit of cabbage, a little bit of flour noodles, and a little bit of rice noodles all together in one bowl. And then egg goes in. Then it goes over to the broth station. Then you have the meatballs, the soup in the middle, the tofu as well.

I think what's great about this place is the atmosphere. Yes. Peaceful in the park under the tree shade. Starting to be evening. Great atmosphere. This is like the spirit of tumorstee right here. So bako. Yeah. Noodles. That's we got the super sized meatball as well. An egg in there. Man, you going to do your double seasoning move? Double two-handed seasoning. Let's see this one. Okay. Oh, look at the colors. The double swirl. It looks like the top of an ice cream cone. I know, right?

Like chocolate sauce and strawberry sauce. A little bit of lime juice. Oh, teamwork. I love this. Okay, team work. And you got to stir it all up cuz you want that tomato sauce and that sweet soy sauce to go into your broth to get it like a sweet and sour flavor going on. Try the broth. Oh, yum. I can feel the MSG. Nice. Bako is always nice with the MG. You need it with that broth. Oh yeah. But with that Oh, that sauce almost has like a wistachure sauce with it. Yeah. It's like a wister sauce more than a more than the sweet ketchup.

It's more like wistachure sauce. So it has a like sour fruiness, but also the lime helps it. I think the lime as well. Yeah. Shall we try the Yeah. The meatball? Let's try the meatball here. Small meatball first. Mhm. There you go. Oh man. And the texture is good. Very spongy, peppery a little bit too, huh? This is the meatball that I actually look into. Mhm. You have to bite through it, you know.

It's not too soft. You feel the fibers of the meat as well. The beef fibers of the beef a little bit like bouncy, peppery. Mhm. Good. We also have the giant size. Look at that. It's like someone's head. It's like a tennis ball sized. Yeah. There's no way to eat this in one bite. I'm just going to All right, I'm going to split mine. It's too big for me. You know how to do that? Yeah, you should definitely split it. cuz I got That's the reason why that cut into I got meatball up my nose. Taking that bite.

There you go. And actually, we haven't even tried the noodles yet. Right. Let's do the noodle. There's so many meatballs on top. We haven't even tried the noodles. Okay. Ready? very regular one that you can see like in Indonesia everywhere something very popular something fast easy and also comforting practical as well that's how people students cook the noodle as well pasta then we also have this giant piece of tofu m which looks like it's stuffed is it yeah it's stuffed it has like kind of like meat inside okay I feel in my you can see I used to hang out with my friends I love to eat this Cesar is showing us a secret. Oh, so you season up your own bite.

Yep. And a little chili. Manas. Can you say Imanas? Iman. Manas. Four different condiments on this. Four different seasonings on this meatball wrapped in tofu. Tofu and chili. It's all mixed up. It's a lot of flavors going on in your mouth at once. Mhm. Such a beautiful environment on the beach in Dilly in the evening. The sun is going down, the sea breeze and a bunch of like a dozen different stalls set up selling all different sorts of fish, seafood, there's octopus, there's chicken, there's organs as well,

which are all pre-marinated, skewered, and some of them are I think they're halfcooked as well. Uh, but they set up the grill over here. They're actually just setting up still right now. So, it's going to get more and more popular throughout the night. But then you just choose your skewers. They grill it up fresh. And then they have all these tables, plastic tables and chairs set up along the beach. So, you can enjoy. This is the best way to enjoy your evening in Dilli. But Daniel, you're joining us also for dinner. Cool, man. Nice to meet you. Stall is all set up and ready. They got to keep fanning it otherwise the flies will come, I think. So that's why they're continuously waving the plastic

bags. But now it's just self-service. Choose whatever you want. Squid on a stick. Good. Yes. Yeah. Let's go for try this for sure. Sure. Let's get this fish. Yeah, sure. Okay, let's go for this chicken. Yeah, that looks good. This is their Imanas here. That goes with everything. The chunky chili sauce loaded. This one's loaded with green onions as well. We're going to need a big bowl of that. So then all of this food, you would typically eat it with ketupa.

Yes. Once you've chosen your seafood, then it comes over to the next station and it's going to get another coating in that lemongrass oil. Oh, fully brushed. Oh, everything gets the full treatment. Oh, that squid's going to be good. Okay, Daniel, you ready? There you go. That's our food. Looking good. I love that part, actually. Yeah. Great. All right. Okay. Here it comes. Right off the grill. Oh man, that smoked great.

Oh yeah. Okay. I don't think that's enough chili, right? Or maybe it's enough. I don't know. Everything's fresh off the grill. Ready to go. Basted. We've got the Imanas. We've got the ketupa. Manas. Yes, you got it. Yes. Here we go, guys. Start with the squid. Yes. Let's do the Daniel's favorite bite of the head. Oh, yeah. Crunchy from you. Okay. So, come crunchy. It's crispy. Yeah. Really smoky. Um, got that like tenderness as well. Yeah. Nice and tender.

Tender inside. Mhm. Not [clears throat] rubbing. Can we push it a little bit into the front so we don't have that chuck in our like throat? It's perfectly flat so it will pick up the iman. You want me to put it on yours? Yeah, sure. Put on the top of the bowl. Here we go. It's like a plateau made for holding chili sauce. Come on. One, two, three, go. M. Oh, it's good. Mhm. I'm going to need a little more on that.

Mhm. The manas is kind of like Yeah. Nice and salty. Extra salty. Not too spicy, but it's more like a dipping sauce. Definitely not as spicy as some of the ones we've had. Yes. Um, but this is more a little more medium a little more runny, but great for dipping like seafood in. It's for Daniel who just came home. So, perfect to start with the medium spice and then super lesser spicy manas. Okay. And on that note, let's go a ketup. Oh, kupa first. Let me open this up. We'll go ketupa. a compressed rice, a little bit of turmeric, a little bit of coconut in there as well. Dip it into the sauce. That's this way.

Dip it in. Let it absorb. Yep. You can tell Tim's katupa is different Malaysian, Indonesian or Singaporean. Cuz ours, the rice is break apart. Oh yeah. In Indonesia, it's like already overcooked. Yeah. So it feels like it's going to be dense and really compressed, but then at the same time, when you bite down, it crumbles apart. Yeah. Crumbles. That's what I mean. Feel all the grains of rice. the same as Indonesia, Malaysia, they all stick together, right? And then also, additionally, when we talked to Mr. President earlier today, um yeah, he said this is his favorite food. So, it's only right that we had to

have it even though we had it yesterday as well. But I think this is something that's very special for the two Maurice people, right? Yeah. Special present. This is for you. Something that's available at all get togethers and good memories. Mhm. Okay, next skewer I'll do with a tribe. Oh, tribe. This is the one that local people will eat with the grass and poo inside. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, sure. One, two, three, go.

Okay. It's good. Come on. You tell me it's Oh, yeah. Nice and tender. A little bit chewy. Nice and clean. Nice and smoky. A little bit crispy as well. You feel all the layers of it. M daddy, you win. Next up for the chicken. Oh, this is like three chicken wings all in one skewer, huh? Be careful with the bones. Okay. Mhm. Oh, yeah. Juicy. I like it. Yeah, that is good. The skin is crispy, charred, juicy on the inside, and then Yeah. Again with that Imanas that just makes everything nice and salty and flavorful.

Let's go for the liver. Again, the ritual. The Imanas is a must. Imanas ritual. The Imanas ritual. Okay. All right, babies. Come on. You ready, Danny? Not bad. Mhm. Not bad. Could be a little bit overcooked. Yeah. But also could be juicier. Yeah. If you But you can feel the blood. Mhm. Cuz this is the organ that pump blood to your body. Still pretty tasty. Almost forgot about the fish. You got to do the ketup move with the fish. Grab some of that fish.

Mhm. You put on the top. Put it on the top. Put chili on it. Yes. Oh man, you're hired for the tim combo bite. Yep. Mhm. Yeah. What a day. Like a sushi. What a day. Oh yeah. Nice combo. Mhm. the rice, the smokiness of the fish, the immanas all together. Excellent speedy though. Oh, and then you can sit back and just relax and enjoy. Be careful, don't fall. Yeah. But yeah, full, man. Great atmosphere.

Deli has been fantastic today. Thank you for watching this video. I'm going to link the next video here. Uh we also went on another street food tour that you're not going to want to miss. and check out all the Timori's food as well. So, go check out that video and thanks for watching. Goodbye from Dilly.