we wanted to find out all the differences

between Starbucks in India and the US.

This is "Food Wars."

At a Starbucks in India,

we get our hot coffees in four sizes.

No. 1,

Nikhil: a short, Joe: Short,

Nikhil: a tall, Joe: tall,

Nikhil: a grande, Joe: grande,

and the big boy,

Nihil: a venti. Joe: venti.

I can't think of a single reason

you would order a coffee of this size.

Who is putting this much caffeine in their body?

Me, Nikhil. Me.

Let's measure this to see if it has as much as it should.

Joe: Whoa, wait a second.

Starbucks, I'm disappointed.

It's close. It's 18 ounces, ish.

All right, if I'm paying this kind of money,

I want a bang for my buck. 20 ounces to the T.

I think that's 20.

I was about to dunk on Starbucks,

but they actually gave us the 20 they promised.

Cheers.

Ah.

Look into the eyes

of an insane caffeine addict.

My vision has just gone blurry.

India's iced coffee comes in three sizes.

Both: Tall.

Grande.

Venti.

And an even bigger one, we got the trenta.

I want to mention now that our venti iced size

is bigger than our venti hot size.

The venti hot was 20 ounces.

This is 24 ounces.

And, of course, let's measure it.

Nikhil: Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Can't believe we have done this.

It's not even 16 ounces, Starbucks.

And this has ice in it,

which should melt and give you more liquid.

Is that how fluid dynamics works?

Maybe not.

But my disappointment is palpable.

Yeah, I'm gonna go 22 ounces.

I don't know. It's 2 ounces. That's fine.

[laughing]

It's totally not a big deal.

That's, like, two sips.

I can't speak for anyone else,

but already my bladder is about to burst.

So maybe I don't need 24 more ounces in my bloodstream.

If that wasn't exciting enough,

we of course have our biggest iced size,

which is the trenta. 30 fluid ounces.

The bladder buster.

This is for anyone who wants to spend

most of their day in the bathroom.

So you think, what, 28?

Again, 2 ounces off.

You know, Starbucks, 4 ounces more won't kill you.

Ah, this is actually pretty good.

Starbucks actually good? What the hell?

Anyone who watches "Food Wars" knows

we use this measuring cup for everything.

And I know I don't clean it,

and I don't think Joe's cleaning it,

and I don't think Yuelei's cleaning it.

So this thing, never been cleaned -- yeah, mm.

And of course, if you're in the mood

for 96 fluid ounces of Starbucks coffee,

ba-bam!

Get yourself the coffee traveler,

aka what Joe drinks in an afternoon.

Here in India, we don't have a huge coffee traveler.

We just have this little guy.

It's an India-edition tiny pet coffee traveler.

It's got a lot of cool India iconography on it.

There's a batsman, there is an elephant,

all sorts of cool Indian stuff.

And you can put in 355 ml of coffee in here,

which is around 11.83 ounces of coffee,

roughly a tall.

So, the perfect size.

We also have 1-liter bottles for iced latte and cold brew.

Word on the street is they contain 1 liter each,

or 33.8 fluid ounces.

It is so weird using the US system of measurement.

I'm so used to our normal, correct metric system.

But let's not start an actual war over here. Sorry, Joe.

Yeah, um, I don't care.

Let's take a look at calories.

A hot venti latte in India is 289 calories.

For comparison, a normal serving

of dal chawal is 200 calories.

[sighs]

In the US, the same venti café latte

is 250 calories.

So it looks like the US has 13.5% less calories.

It's at that temperature where it's, like, room temperature.

[Windows shutdown music]

My brain is Swiss cheese.

Everything I say is idiotic.

A hot venti mocha,

which is also what my friends call me,

is 473 calories.

And in the US, our venti mocha is 450 calories.

So, according to my math, once again,

that's a calorie decrease of 4.9%.

What do you think of that, hot venti boy?

OK, Joe, it's not a competition.

Let's just try something a little sweeter,

like this venti caramel Frappuccino,

which looks, uh, decadent, to say the least.

Oh, my God, that is so sweet.

602 calories.

And I can feel every single one of them in each sip.

OK, genuinely, I have had spoonfuls of sugar

that are more savory than this drink.

How can you make something sweeter than sugar?

How?

That's a lot of calories, my man.

Ours is 470 calories, which is also 24 ounces.

Now, I should note, in the US,

the calories listed on Starbucks.com are, quote,

"based on standard recipes

and do not reflect customizations."

Get this out of my face. I hate this.

Why is this so -- and they put, like,

they load the syrup in here.

How can a human being drink one of these?

I don't understand.

And now, our most calorific overall drink

that we have here in India,

a venti strawberry and crème Frappuccino,

963 calories.

Oh, my God.

I didn't even think it was possible

to experience a sugar rush

and a coffee caffeine high at the same time.

At 963 calories, this is nearly 50%

of your daily caloric intake.

So please drink this at your own risk.

And I am a risk-taker.

Whew.

I feel transported to another dimension

where everything is more colorful

and I can taste sound.

I don't know. I feel like

we should have an ambulance ready

if I'm going to finish this drink.

That's a lot of calories, I have to say.

I'm very impressed.

Our most highest calorific drink

is the mocha cookie crumble Frappuccino at the venti size,

and it's only 590 calories.

Oh, God.

This looks so bad.

Oh, man. It's so powerful.

Like, it's so sweet

that everything from here on for the rest of my life

is just going to taste like paper.

So, what about the cost?

This venti Frappuccino will cost you 390 rupees,

which at the time of filming this video is $5.14.

In the US, a venti caramel Frappuccino

is $5.45,

or about 413 Indian rupees.

Now, I want to point out that this is 24 ounces

and not the India 20-ounce venti.

So if we break it down per fluid ounce,

it's about 11.5% cost per fluid ounce decrease in the US.

Let me give you some context about Starbucks in India.

They are catering to the rich and the elite,

because it is very expensive over here.

In South India, where I'm from,

you can get a filter coffee for less than 40 rupees,

which is a fraction of a dollar, and it's delicious.

Starbucks would cost you upwards of $5,

and that's unaffordable for most of India.

Here is everything that you can find in a menu

at an Indian Starbucks that you won't get in the US.

Quick clarification.

Some of the items we have here are location-specific

and specific to the season that we're ordering them.

It's currently summer here in Mumbai,

and some of these items are store-specific.

So maybe you won't get them when you go order,

but let me know.

And here's everything you can only find on the menu

at a US Starbucks you can't get in India.

Now, a bit of clarification.

We know Starbucks will customize drink orders

and there are thousands of variations

and special secret menu items.

Thank you, Starbucks.

So just to make things not completely insane,

these are the official things on the Starbucks menu

at both India and the US.

Cool, and let's go.

All right, let's begin with all the hot exclusive drinks,

starting with salted caramel latte.

Not bad.

Stardust mocha.

Boom, we have clarified, no sparkles.

Nothing about this screams stardust.

I don't know what you're talking about, Starbucks,

but it tastes good.

Chai tea, or as we call it here in India, chai.

Can I just say, it's a bit of a pet peeve

when you guys call chai "chai tea."

It's like calling tea "tea tea."

Let me describe a good chai to you.

All right, it should be warm. It should be gingery.

It should feel like a hug from your mum in your childhood,

and it should perk your morning up.

And it should be under 10 rupees, but this is expensive.

Hello! It's Crystelle, and I'm here to talk about chai,

which is actually my favorite drink.

Every person has their own recipe for chai,

but it's a combination of spices and black tea

and some milk, and usually sweetened with a bit of sugar.

But for me at home, in my recipe,

cardamom is the most important spice,

cinnamon, ginger, a pinch of cloves,

and my secret spice is a bit of black pepper,

just to give that lovely, warming, spicy feeling,

but it's not savory.

It's just a lovely blend of spices.

The flavor is not bad, but I wouldn't call this,

I wouldn't call this a chai.

You know what? This is a chai tea!

Because it's not quite a chai,

it's not quite a tea.

Fair enough, Starbucks. It's a chai tea.

Next up, and the drink I'm most excited to have,

thandai spice.

Now, thandai is consumed primarily in North India

in the state of Uttar Pradesh,

where it's this drink that's sweet.

It contains spices, it contains rose petals, saffron,

and sometimes, optionally, you can add bhang,

which is marijuana, and it's completely free,

legal, and optional to add it.

And people enjoy it during the festivals

like Holi and Maha Shivratri.

What, I'm sorry, did he say that

that drink has marijuana in it?

Or you can put weed in it?

I mean, this is California.

So if there's a drink you can put weed in,

you'd think that we would have it, right?

Not bad!

It's got little pieces

of pista and badam and other nuts.

How did you get thandai right

and mess up something as simple as a chai?

USA, we got a lot of hot exclusives.

I'm going to start all the way down here,

with something called the caffè misto.