things off with a South Indian breakfast feast we were lucky enough to have two

locals show us around during our time in Hyderabad Saliesh and Rakesh and on this

particular morning we met at Minerva cafe where we ate vada a savory fried

lentil donut Dona upma a semolina dish with vegetables and chilies Pongal a rice

lentil dish served with sambar and chutney puri a puffed up hall of

flatbread paired with curry food Uttapam a savory pancake that's a bit thicker

than a dosa and full of nuts and vegetables and lastly Minerva's

specialty coffee which is served with milk no sugar and yet it has a natural

sweetness to it so let's jump into the South Indian

breakfast feast and then we'll take you to visit Golconda fort which once

stored the world-famous Koh-i-Noor diamond within its walls

good morning good morning guys greetings from Hyderabad India today is a very

special day we're gonna be visiting a place called Minerva coffee shop and

it's one of the most famous places you can get breakfast in the city of Hyderabad Oh Minerva

coffee shop is one of the most reputed places in Hyderabad it has been serving

breakfast in almost 29 years and these people love it over here because of the

quality of food and you know the variety and the taste so if you like you know

one of the best places in town so this one is the main branch over here is the

first branch and it's been expanding ever since awesome let's go on and have

some really good food so excited we're trying something for the very first time

as Vada these are made with the lentil paste and they're a savory doughnut

apparently there is true staple at this restaurant oh I'm just gonna break that

bad boy in half look at that looks incredible so there's a number of

different chutneys you can try some of them are like this coconut your sambal

there's ones that are spicy just one that's peanut based so I think I'm gonna

go for a peanut base dunk it in oh oh my gosh so crispy on the outside

fluffy a kind of light taste to it combined with that sauce it's delicious

so neat to be having savory doughnuts because I usually associate doughnuts

with a as a sweet dish mmm so good I should mention that this restaurant

that's been open since 1987 is a vegetarian only restaurant next up I am

gonna try it in the coconut Wow look I'll pick that coconut is

oh don't my gosh anything with coconut is an instant win for me one of my

favorite chutneys for sure so now trying this with the Sambal

apparently he's supposed to dip it in here for quite a while let it soak

so it's lentil and tomato based oh it tastes a little good it just soaks it up

it's very liquidy and the last one for me to try is a spicy sauce whoa whoa oh

wow oh those will sweep as a sweet and spicy

sauce let's quite potent them I love this right

first time trying it and it's an instant hit with my taste buds alright your guys

turn to try it we're on the outside and soft inside I love it love it

you guys have a favorite chutney yeah it's got a lot of kick well how about

for you if you have a favorite chutney yeah my favorite Japanese the girl not

one okay it's often creamy I'm not that spicy so I think that's good enough for

a start in the morning well I really like that one - that's the

first one I actually tried so the second dish of our self Indian breakfast food

tour is upma and this is made with semolina as you can see it's been kind

of molded into a round paste here and it also features vegetables I can see

chilies here onions and carrots so yeah I'm just gonna get after it in a dissect

it here a bit so you guys can see what it looks like

check out this time for my first bite guys really excited about this and again

with any South Indian dish especially breakfast items you've got your variety

of chutney so there's a peanut one a couple spicy ones here and the coconut

so I really like the peanut well actually I like the Kamal to be honest I

really like peanut one especially so I'm gonna try it with that first don't can

you good oh wow that's still good it reminds me

of polenta it just has that same consistency like the semolina is very

fine alright now they try one of this place

it once this spicy sauce I love it's kind of sweet and spicy that gives a lot

more kick Wow this place it's hitting me hard hitting me hard in the morning

alright dude I think we've both found a winner the second dish we're in love

this upma so good so good huh oh it's incredible it's really just like polenta

the best part is this ginger chutney put that on top and he just paid it into me

today I love it love it the great thing about it it's a spine

grain realize the little vegetables throughout yeah a little bit of peanuts

in there green chili for the ginger chutney not standing you know what's

incredible is when you have with all these different chutneys it like it's

almost like you're having like three or four different dishes because every

every one changes the flavor yeah I mean that's the best part about it right yeah

yeah it's just clear United State one flavor throughout yeah you're eating

like three four we have like five right there oh yeah and you can mix and match

it to your preference you're actually just mixed together yeah coconut and the

ginger oh it's like sweet and spicy so next up is Pongal and if it looks

familiar to the last dish it's because it is shaped like the last dish so it

comes with steamed rice featuring lentils also has cracked pepper and

curry leaves I can tell already that's a lot more dense than the last one that

tasted like polenta so I've got a little piece here and my spoon he's gonna try

it with the peanut sauce which is always a winner

love that chutney sauce that's awesome so good hmm

this also has nuts right yeah oh wow I really enjoyed the nuts in them it's

definitely thicker and it's uh it's got a nice savory taste it just combines

very well with the sauces next one I'm gonna be trying the spicy ginger sauce

which has become one of my favorites when I'm not choking on it what I know

what I think for this particular dish and I actually prefer this place eat

ginger sauce I think it goes even better together all right so next up is puri

which is basically a puffed up flatbread it's made with wheat and it's cooked in

deep fried oil so what I'm gonna do is tear off a piece like this oh I forgot

to mention it comes with two different curries they're not chutneys this time so

we've got a vegetable curry and a potato mash so I'm going to try to vegetable

one first nice thing is that you can just put it right in the center kind of

roll it up like this and then just pop it in your mouth oh wow how did

delicious vegetable crime this is delicious like these curries are a bit

more filling than the chutneys so even though the curry itself isn't filling

the amount of curry you get makes it rolling so you could turn this into into

a meal for sure the biggest puri I've ever had

I love the vegetable curry it's a little spicy it's really rich in flavors you

make into a taco brought it up there we go

pop it oh the flavors are just unreal I could

eat this at any time of day what about you did everyday everyday anytime are

they yeah last but not least we're having Uttapam and this is known

a savory pancake from South India it has a lot of different ingredients you've

got cashew nuts you've got onions you've got curry

leaves you've got carrots it looks absolutely fantastic I can break off a

nice piece and it comes with typical chutneys and curry so you've got the

coconut chutney over here you've got the vegetable curry

you've got the peanut based chutney and then you have the ginger so let's go for

some ginger let's go for some spice start it off I really like this pancake

the savory pancake it's got a lot of vegetables

it's nice trying something a little bit thicker too so yeah if you're in the

mood for something a little bit more filling a little bit more satisfying

you'll probably want to order this pancake it's dense it's thick the other

thing I should mention is that is cooked in ghee and that makes it gives an extra

special flavor it's really delicious no man we're gonna finish things off with

the coffee which is absolutely perfect because you know it's gonna help wake

this up and I need my coffee of my morning right yeah don't get my chai or

my coffee I get cranky so I'm gonna try this one decent amount of milk and

apparently there's no sugar so it's gonna be interesting to try

Oh piping hot oh it's got a richness milkiness to it it's got a little bit of

natural sweetness to just subtle that's a really good cup of coffee I can see

why people come here for that so the South Indian breakfast was delicious I

loved how many different savory options there was in fact there was nothing

really sweet which is fascinating it's a great way to start the day I loved all

the different variety and now we're gonna move on and check out an

attraction for a bit after that feast of a breakfast we all got in the car

together and drove all Golconda Fort for a tour this Fort is located

about 11 kilometers outside of Hyderabad and it's one of the city's top

attractions breakfast foods so good and the problem is like every dish she gets

there like the first issue like Wow and you just you have too many bites so the

next is too many bites and then my third dish you're done and we had six or seven

dishes I know how many we have fire sick wife was the coffee I'm stuffed

So Golconda Fort has a history of more than 400 years and then it was built another

coat of Shahi dynasty and Golkonda Fort the name itself says that the fort is

round in shape I mean the land or the fort encompassing that area is round

that's why gol is the name cona is nothing but a hill so this is a round

fort on top of a hill and this place is pretty much known for its diamond trade

and all they have a lot of merchants there was a bazaar inside the fort where

a lot of merchants all across India would comment rate their diamonds the

world famous Kohinoor diamond is also said to be from the Golconda fort I

forgot to mention the price of coming here it's 300 rupees for foreigners and

25 for locals got my ticket here and I actually thought the entrance to go in

here is gonna be much sooner it took quite a while to walk here and that's

just a testament to how big this place is is absolutely massive

to give you a bit more information Golconda fort dates back to the 16th

century and it's considered to be one of the finest strongholds in India it was

built atop a hundred and twenty meter high granite Hill offering a wide

vantage point so any approaching enemies could be spotted this fort was

constructed to be impenetrable the gates were studded with iron spikes to stop

war elephants from breaking them down its water pipeline was well concealed so

that their supply would not be interrupted during a siege and its

advanced acoustics system meant that even the smallest sound as entry gates

would echo across the whole complex wildest security while the city of

golconda was known for its diamond trade and many diamonds and gems were sold

here from the nearby mines the famous quarry nor diamond which is believed to

have come from the coal ore mines on the south bank of the river Krishna was even

stored within the walls of the Golconda fort at one time hi guys welcome to go

GolKonda Fort enough for this is a fort which has a more than 400 year old history

with it and then this fort was developed and built acoustically in the olden days

so it's such that when you get on inside a dome and then you clap you can hear

the sound way in the top so that's a way of giving a signaling to the soldiers of

the fort so this technology was used as a way of communication yes that's that

was a way of signaling back then well so yeah you can actually experience that

once you climb upstairs that's incredible a way to do that

to climb up to the top of golconda fort was long and sweaty but very much worth

it for the views we got to enjoy in the end my one big tip is to bring lots of

water so you can stay hydrated

definitely burning off my breakfast this morning to reach the top of the fort you

need to walk 360 steps

we haven't be able to put our cameras down since you come here huh

no we haven't stopped we haven't something photos and video incredible

yeah I mean it's huge and I mean basically what you have to do is decline

360 steps you get all the way to the top once you here the temple once you get to

the temple take your shoes that's like how you doing every Hindu temple you can

never walking with shoes so yeah so once you enter there's more boulders there's

some paintings in the bottom very bright colors some Hindu gods and then you keep

going up you have these huge two boulders yeah in the middle is connected

by a pole with jewelry I guess people giving offerings and then over here it's

colored an orange and this is the street Maha Kali temple this is great I mean

another great day here in Hyderabad like totally awesome the thing that I thought

was really cool about the fort as you're walking around you get so many

different vantage points you get some great views of the city and just as you