non-veg food tour of chennai having flown from bangalore earlier that

morning my friend david and i met up with our local guide deepak

who showed us around some great food spots where we sampled all sorts of beef

and chicken dishes our first stop was sukubai a restaurant

specializing in beef biryani but we ended up trying a whole lot more

including beef brain and beef liver wow look at that guys i have never had

beef brain i will be trying that for the

first time that afternoon we enjoyed some filter coffee on the beach right

next to the chennai marina lighthouse and we also visited the fish market on

marina beach which is the longest natural urban beach in india

then in the evening we had dinner at adaba this is a type of roadside

restaurant usually off the side of the highway

here we ordered a grand total of 13 chicken dishes plus

roti some of the highlights included maharaja chicken

maharani chicken and ramba chicken everything was so colorful and each dish

tasted better than the last so bring your appetite and let's kick

off this non-veg food tour of chennai

all right good afternoon good afternoon guys greetings from tonight india

it is our first day here and i'm joined with my good friend deepak

thank you for coming along and today we've got a special episode because

we're going to be trying biryani local biryani and what kind are

we going to have like we're going to have like beef

biryani a lot of beaches from beef oh my gosh wow that sounds

incredible this place looks bustling they just brought the biryani and the

restaurant by the pot can't wait to go inside and try some

this restaurant is called tsukubai and they serve some of the best

biryani and chennai as usual the place was packed

these are some of the dishes that were recommended to us beef

keema yeah beef grain beef liver beef fry beef cutlet beef papaya

beef masala beef biryani

oh my gosh i'm so excited for this lunch what a feast of feast we have an

absolutely incredible spread of food it's basically

biryani and a number of beef dishes a lot of meatballs

now time for a tour of all the dishes in front of us we ate

parrots which are flaky layered flatbreads made with maida flour

beef cutlets which looked a lot like beef patties and had lots of spices

beef paella which is the lake bone beef keema

which is ground or minced beef and then of course there was beef liver

beef brain deep fried beef and of course beef biryani

this meal basically is all about the beef okay so i'm gonna start with some

paratha so as you can see i'm just gonna break

it in half oh my gosh it looks wonderful okay so now that i

have that we'll start adding we can call these curries i suppose

beef curry perfect i'm gonna make sure to soak in the sauce here

absorb all the curry

oh wow that's really tender meat it just melts in the mouth

so typically i'm not a huge fan of liver but i'm going to give it a shot let's

try it here oh wow look at this big cube of it

whoa oh very strong liver taste but you know what

i'm not i don't usually love liver but this tastes pretty good

this is some of the most tender liver i've ever had most flavorful very tender

oh my wow

just take a piece wrap it up i've never had brain guys

this is uh this is a very exotic experience oh

it's a i can tell just by picking it up in the hands very mushy

very mushy as you would exactly i like jelly

as you would expect from brain

oh that is incredibly soft oh that tastes good i didn't think i

would like it i thought it actually was i was actually like prepared to feel

like oh but it's tasty it does have a very

gelatin like consistency it's mushy and it's incredibly soft in

the palette full of flavors too i'm going after some

more of that that brain this rain is good

oh my gosh

and it's kind of like ground grounded up yeah ground up

the flat bread is incredible it's just it's the perfect way to kind of grab a

scoop of whatever you're trying oh wow look at that you can see that

it's very juicy the sauce is running down the juices are

running off of my fingers time for a bite

that's one of my favorites oh yeah that'll be easy to chew

oh dude that's incredible look at the size of that check that out

oh my gosh guys that is the beast the sauce is oozing i think i'm gonna go for

the sauce first look at this

oh that's pure fat guys

chewy chewy delicious fat some people don't like fat i do thai

because i'm dying oh yeah

okay and this is what this restaurant is known for right it's famous for its

biryani some say it's the best in the city some say it's the best in

the world let's find out grab a little bit in my hands but i've

got to say that biryani is just unbelievably delicious

i can see why people think it's some of the best like so many flavors the rice

absorbs just about everything you throw at it

and the best part about this experience was just seeing how they were preparing

it outside and bringing it into the

restaurant adding the gigantic pots beef brains it tastes like gelatin but

i'll tell you it is the best thing out of everything here you just get the

what is it

you go in you just get this thing right here look at this

it's like a brain taco

oh it's straight up tastes almost like a mix between the

consistency of butter and yogurt just like it's like oh

so good everything's so good

i don't want to get big but i can't stop eating

oh my god that'll be too spicy a little spicy huh

and now i'm moving on to dessert and guys i have

a wonderful bread halva in front of me inside of it we have bread obviously we

have raisins we have seeds i think it's flavored with

cinnamon and cardamon

oh my goodness it just melts in your mouth

i love it i love it i'm gonna eat the whole thing

all right guys what a meal what i loved was the beef brains

and the price cannot be beat that entire feast was 700 rupees

i know 700 rupees that's less than 10 us dollars it's like 980 or something and

that's for both of us both amazing incredible value and where

we're going to head to next next we are going for the marina

oh wow we're going to be trying something like mud coffee

never had that before i can't wait to try it

guys so right now we're at marina beach and the mud coffee isn't an option at

the moment it's gonna open at six o'clock

so yeah we'll go there another day really looking forward to trying that

but in the meantime we're at chennai coffee

and yeah let's go in and see what we can find inside of there

so we're just chilling here by the beach there's a nice breeze coming through the

air it's comfortable the people come here and just have a

coffee and they just walk inside if you watch the previous

bangalore videos you know the drill pour the coffee back and forth from cup

to cup to cool it down and make it frothy

we paired the coffee with a masala vada which is a bit like a fried veggie patty

with onions herbs and all sorts of spices

oh that's nice when they were preparing it they put in quite a bit of sugar so

it's nice and sweet the coffee is delicious too it's got a

nice nice strong taste to it after that coffee we stopped to visit

the fish market right on the beach

so

so wandering around the fish market has been fascinating in fact some of the

stalls are just actually opening up they close during the hottest hours

which makes sense and then open up in the mornings and evenings

now you can find all kinds of different fish there's shrimp

there's crabs almost all type of fish we can find here

like the falls the crabs after the sun sets they'll open all the

shrubs they open them yeah and they're also open in the

mornings as well mornings and uh mornings and evenings yeah deepak was

telling me that these houses here have been built for the fishermen it's free

of charge and it allows them to live nearby their

work and have a comfortable place to stay

walking around the fisherman's area here by the beach

there's so many boats there's so many nets all over the place

apparently the fishermen go out around four or five in the morning come back at

seven bring the fish to the market and at that

point in time restaurants and other customers will

come and purchase the fish for the day it's fascinating to see it up close and

in person like this

so

and now guys where we're going is the border we're north to the border

of tamannadoo and then telangana so we're going to have a drink

and this drink is made from a palm tree it's actually an alcoholic beverage

and it's legal in talangana but it's illegal

down here in tamannaah

so

long story short we had quite the adventure we drove

an hour and a half in search of a drink but

it's not available right it's not available until march so remember that

we're going to redeem the night because we're at a great dabba

so basically daba is a it's a restaurant right on the highway it's

open air as you can see they have a lot of non-veg dishes

what i'm excited about is the the chennai masala

that's like chickpeas with delicious sauce i don't know what else i mean

we're gonna get some chicken

so by far the coolest feature about this roadside restaurant is that there's an

open air kitchen we're going to go check it out from what

i've seen there's about four guys in the back

one of them's rolling roti and other guys helping to prepare as well

someone's doing meat someone's doing rice there's a lot going on man

yeah man this is amazing this is part of the the best part about this place

absolutely so we're gonna go check it out and show you some scenes of that

right now

dinner that night consisted of 13 chicken dishes plus roti

i'm going to let deepak tell us all about them this is andhra

okay and this is rotis yep this is the boneless chicken

boneless chicken yeah and this is uh the drumsticks drumstick chicken yeah this

is the pepper chicken

rambo chicken yeah and that is uh kashmiri chicken kashmiri chicken yeah

this is uh guys if you haven't guessed the theme

we've got a lot of chicken to eat like it's basically the biggest chicken

feast you can have in india like have you ever seen so much chicken

no no me neither this is incredible this is absolutely

incredible yeah that'd be awesome so i'm noticing

some cashews yeah this is a little bit spicy a little bit

spicy rambo chicken is the most spiciest one rambo chicken is the most spicy one

okay these are so nice and thin i can't remember how many they prepared

for us but it was a lot like 30 30 roadie oh my gosh all right look at

that guys oh my gosh absolutely really creamy yeah no the

chicken is tender and i'm tasting a bit of crunchiness of

the costume this is rani rani yeah maharani the queen yeah the

queen's dish yeah is this something you've had before

no this is the first time your first time to try it wow so again chicken

i'm grabbing some of the egg i'm also noticing onion in there

oh my gosh that's good you taste the egg on the outside

that one has the most amount of flavor so far it's just like a flavor explosion

so let's go to the king we've done the queen now we'll go to the

king and this one has a green colored green color well it looks like neon so

yeah i'm noticing big chunks of cashews i think for some of these dishes they

use some of some similar vegetables oh yeah look at that green egg guys look

at that green egg wrap that up in a blanket here and pop

it in the mouth oh the king is more spicy than between

and i also like that one better everything we've had has been delicious

so far i mean i just can't believe we have this many chicken dishes

i've never seen anything quite like this hydra buddy

hide it ready yeah okay let's do that one well this one has

the most amount of basically salad on top

guys i should mention that each dish has completely different spices

every single thing you try is different from the next cucumber in between

oh yeah it cool off a bit feeling a little spicy now