In this video, I'm gonna eat bizarre French food for 24 hours. Oh, you made a mistake. [Music] So, of course, the menu today won't be bizarre to people from Paris or people from France, but I'm looking for food that you won't find in my hometown. For example, frog legs, snails. Today, I'm gonna dig as deep as I can. There's a lot more than frog legs and snails. Follow me, let's take this ride together, and find some weird food here in Paris. [Music] We've come to our first restaurant, our first destination for today, Let Escargot. I think that's how you say it. You probably, maybe, you've heard about it in rap songs, Escargot, my cargo, Biggie, anybody, Biggie Smalls, Escargot. It's French for snails. Either their address is 1832 or this place has been open for a real long time. It's a very well-known establishment that has a huge wide range of food, from typical French classics to foods like snails and even pancreas.

first wheel right here. We have two dishes. This is a tartar, or in French roughly speaking, this is a special gland from a cap. I'm gonna talk about that in a moment, but first, this is a beautiful presentation for tartar. I was told earlier that actually tartar in France used to be really popular to make with horse meat. Here they don't have horse. You better believe when I found that out, I asked, Hey, do we have a horse option? They said no. This is beef, French fries on the side. Can I tell you something? Here in France, they don't even say the French part, just fries. Take a look at this. You can tell it's like hand-chopped and not just ground meat. Oh, I got a nice big bite. Some raw beef for breakfast. Let's go. We we. It's so good. It's very light, aromatic. It's interesting because it's just, it's like sticky, cold, heavy, but the flavors couldn't be more light, really gentle. I love the feel, I love the taste, and especially when you put it on some bread.

oh chef's kiss very nice. That is our first course right here is the sweet bread. It's a mix of a few different things. There's a bread here, there's potato, and then this is a sweet bread, which is not a bread at all. This is actually a gland. What gland? Well, let me tell you. This is the thymus of a calf. What? Where's the thymus? It's like right here, basically. It's a small gland that's part of your lymphatic system. That sounds delicious. I've never had this. Your lymphatic system is part of your immune system. There's one thing this immune system could not fight off, and that's why it's here on my plate right now. Anybody would have the patience or thought to remove this part from the animal and cook it up and to make it look like a five-star meal. Look at this. It has a bold, smoky, almost slightly bitter flavor. It's super soft, nothing like I've had before. I would compare it mostly to something between the brain and a liver. That's weird. I mean, I like

it's weird in the best way possible. There's so much of it. Look how big this is. They do not shortchange their guests on the thymus. I mean, if you come here, you're hungry for this, and you might have to split it with a friend. There's so much. The best part about this very strange food is they brought me a white wine that they said actually pairs with this sweet bread. Yeah, last thing I want to say about this sweet bread. I love the term sweet bread because it is so euphemistic. The only way to get people to eat something like this is to be like, uh, it's bread. It's basically bread. What are you talking about? That doesn't look like bread. What kind of bread is it? Sweet bread. Just eat it. So, this is just our first course at this restaurant. At this point, they're gonna let me go into the kitchen and see how they make a few of their other very special unique foods. This is our Chef for today. She's going to be preparing the frog legs. Step one.

the frog legs are put in some flour after the oil is heated up here in the skillet. It just goes directly on there, a little bit of salt, giving them a little bit of a flip, more oil, yes. How do you say butter in French? Butter in French, yeah. Next is a combination right here of parsley and garlic. The frog legs are going to come out of the hot pan and into a cast iron skillet, and all that butter is going to go right on top. Oh yes, finish. That was our first food that we get to see in the kitchen. The second one is snail. So at this point, the shells are completely empty. Step one is to put the snail meat back inside its shell. All the meat has actually been cooked already in a broth, and so it's actually not going back into its original home, it's going into somebody else's shell. Now it's all about the flavor. This is a butter she's putting inside. It's a green butter infused with garlic and parsley. These are fantastic. Next up, we're gonna

put that in the oven and come back in just a little bit. Say goodbye. The moment has come. The moment has not come. [Music] And that is ready. The butter is kind of oozing out of some of these. I can smell the garlic right now. It looks fantastic. I cannot wait to try this out. So we just came from the kitchen. Right here we have the frog legs and the snails. The smells here are incredible. [Music] Right here we have the frog legs. It's okay just to eat these with your hands just like you're eating a piece of chicken. This frog is incredibly flexible. It must have been a gymnast. You can see I love how they cook it at such a hot temperature and so much oil that it just crisps up the skin on the outside. That is so delicious. There's nothing not to like about that. It tastes buttery. You taste the parsley, the garlic. Until you actually try it, it does sound a little bit strange. People in France eat frog legs, but I think 90% of the people

watching right now, they saw this in front of them, would not hesitate to try it. Just the smells alone lure you in. It smells so good. I wish you could replace wing night in the US with frog leg night because I could totally go for this. Five Frogs, but only in front legs. If you go to Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, they're gonna have all the meat. Actually, they eat the skin too. I love what they're doing here, but I think, uh, I want the rest of the Frog, you know? I'm paying for Five Frogs, five Souls. Where'd the rest of the Frog go? This brings us to our final course here at this restaurant, the escargot, the snails, fresh out of the oven. What's amazing is they have snail drawers inside. You can see that they have many different flavors of butter. So the butter has been infused with other ingredients, other flavors. This one though, I think it's a great choice. Now the thing is, when you eat snails here, it's very different than in Vietnam.

because they have a whole tool made just for picking up this nail. Oh, there you go. That snail ain't going anywhere. With the snail secure, we take our little fork and we dig for that piece of meat. So, somewhere deep inside there, butter, parsley, garlic, and then a big dark brown gooey slimy snail. Let's try it out. Hopefully, but slightly soft too. They paired this with bread. Now, the toasted bread is cut thin because it's meant to be stuck inside of the snail. [Music] I gotta say, I thought the snail holder was overkill. It is very effective. The funniest part to me is that they just boil random snails and put them in random shells. I'm a big snail fan. Ever since moving to Vietnam, I've had dozens of different types of snails with different preparations. I love that, and I love this too. Well, I gotta say, here in France, snails are much more expensive than in Vietnam. This is lunch. Soon we're gonna head to dinner at our next

location this damn good. So, we've had lunch already. I've been walking around all day. I built up an appetite, and now we are here for dinner at a restaurant obviously called. Probably this restaurant is 70 years old. Here, you're gonna find a lot of classic French food, and not just little bites either. They have some seriously big heavy food here. I'm gonna step into the kitchen immediately to see how they whip up one of their most unique dishes. Let's go right now. I'm in the kitchen with Kristoff Lemire. Here we have calf liver. It looks gorgeous. It looks slippery. I've never had calf liver. I'm not sure the reason for it. Maybe it's more tender. Maybe it's more innocent tasting. We're gonna see how they prepare it here in just a moment. Let's do this. He takes a liver. He's going to dredge that in a little bit of flour. The butter goes into a hot skillet. Dredge the liver once more. Beat off some of that flour, and then boom, nice and easy, right into that butter. The

sound is incredible. He starts basting it. He's putting the butter over the top, cooking it from both sides. The smells in here are incredible. It's rich, it's buttery. Next, some garlic and a bay leaf go inside. He gives it a little bit of a flip, and my gosh, that is looking incredible. I've never seen a liver cooked this way where it has almost a crust on the outside. Here, it's coming out of veal demi-glaze. Look at that thick, beautiful glaze. Gently moves the liver over to the plate. First, he puts on lemon, capers, parsley, and croutons. Chef Messi, it looks incredible. My first time having calf liver. Let's go. [Music] Well, bonjour. Welcome to our first course. Right here, we've got the calf liver. Come take a look at this. The final preparation. I gotta say, with the French, you gotta give it up to them when it comes to the presentation. It is so soft and bouncy. You can tell it's definitely not cooked all the way through. This is

not well done. That is certainly intentional. Let's cut it and see how red it is inside. Oh wow, you can really feel like the tissues break apart as you cut it. It is not like a piece of wagyu or something like that, so it's not like it necessarily looks, you know, super pink inside. I'm gonna scoop up some of that glaze. Let's try it out. Alright, first taste. What do you call this in French? My first taste here in France. Let's go. That is a very bold flavor. The glaze around it is sticky. It's wonderful. It has a salty, savory beef flavor to it, but the liver itself is so intense. It's almost like a little bit gamey too. Very strong taste, and the texture too, almost like it's spongy when you're biting through it. Not dry at all. It's funny because I said I would like a white wine to go with it, and they said, um, that's not going to be strong enough. How about this bold flavor to go with other bold

flavors that's intense. This is one cup of potatoes. Let's try that. [Music] Oh, that's nice. Much better than KFC. Sorry, that was my white trash comparison of the day. There are a couple of other things on this menu that I have to try out before leaving Paris. [Music] Course number two. This is a pork trotter. If you can see where the hook splits and then the skin right here, it's not crispy. It's a little bit more soft when you touch it. It's not like a Filipino crispy pata. It's more like, you know, a French. It's more like a French pork trotter. Where do you even begin with a masterpiece like this? You can see it reveals the bones inside. My guess is that they probably grill it and then they put it in the oven to finish it off. And that is what's making this skin right here so gummy. Let's try it out. [Music] There's like a pork-flavored gummy bear. Unbelievably rich but super sticky. Just

sticking to the inside of your mouth as you eat it. It's a really clean but heavy flavor. And then on the side, how do you say that? Yeah, how do you say sauce? I want to try giving this a little bit of a dip in the bangier sauce and see what that does. The best bites so far. That sauce is everything. The sauce has a beautiful slightly sour element. It just makes everything taste a little bit lighter. This is like Garfunkel, but this is Simon. You need Simon. Actually, Simon's fine on his own too. Turns out he didn't really need Garfunkel, but together still they make beautiful music. Are the young people still paying attention? Do you know who I'm talking about? [Applause] Boom, final course here. This is kind of similar to what we had already. Can you look at that and distinguish what that is? Give you a hint. It's part of a pig. The, you know, this part. It's the snout. I'm gonna try to use my fork this time.

wow, that is just like pure fat. This is one of the richest dishes I've ever had in my life. It's so soft; it's been cooked so long. The meat and the fat just peeled right off. Considering this is almost like eating pure butter, there we go. That is pork butter. What I've learned from the last dish is that this is so much better with biane's sauce. How was that? He's going, Yeah, that's great. A delicious snout-like skin and just pure fat. But when you mix it with that sauce, it's very lovely. So there's a patron saint of butchers. I bet you didn't know that. His name is Saint Antoine, and this dish is called the temptation of Saint Antoine, and it's all the stuff that will make him be tempted. Take a look at that. That is a big old chunk of pig ear, but it's mostly just cartilage and skin. Let's give it a little bit of a dip. Oh yes, it's like Doritos but better. Oh delicious. The ear itself is already

beautifully seasoned. The skin around the outside is a bit gummy, chewing, and then you have that nice snappy, crunchy cartilage on the inside. It's been boiled the perfect amount of time. You wouldn't want it any harder or any softer. That is awesome. That is probably one of the best pig ears I've ever had in my life. For most people, that wouldn't be that many ears, but for me, that's like uh 10 years probably. Our final mystery need to end our day of bizarre eating here in Paris. This is the tail. What they've done is they've taken off some of the skin, but they've left this right here towards the end. There's some muscle here. I don't even want to dip this. This looks incredible on its own. Oh good. It's like they have this delicious seasoned flour, some crumbs on the outside. It's savoring. It's bold. The similar flavors to the other body parts, but just a different texture. And that's what's fun about eating something like this is a lot of it's going to taste

similar, but each body part is going to have a little bit different texture. So, we're gonna be chewing. Some are just going to be completely gooey and fatty, and some, like the ear, are kind of snappy. So, this wraps up our dinner portion of the day. We've had lunch, we've had dinner, we've been eating these bizarre French foods for 24 hours. It's time to conclude the day, guys. That is the end of our video. For me, the most intimidating food was the liver of the calf. So bold. How can you be so young but so bold? Before we go, I want to say a huge thank you to Secret Food Tours for making this video possible. They went around and did a lot of the research for us so we could make this video happen. Secret Food Tours at secretfoodtours.com. They do food tours here in Paris. If you come to Paris for a limited time, or if you just want to make the most out of your time, I highly suggest doing a food tour and seeing the best of what Paris has to offer, guys.

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