Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee orders takeout from Basil Box with friends and reviews it in the car, praising the spicy flavors and eco-friendly paper-mâché packaging. She eats with her hands and notes the wholesome taste while starting her first food vlog as a woman in the space.
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Okay, so today I'm going to start my first food vlog. Today we are visiting this Basil Box. It's takeaway, obviously nothing, uh, you cannot eat anything inside. So here's my mask and my gloves, and let's see what they have to offer. Hi, I'm her mom.
This is Sarah and Tim.
Hi, Sarah. Hi, Tim. I think I've seen your photos.
How do you know?
I've seen your photos. You've seen me in my photos?
Yeah, yeah.
Make sure you Photoshop some hair on me, okay? I'm sure.
Make sure you think we look pretty before you post it.
Sure, sure. Okay, so I'll have the same that we took that day.
Okay, so white rice with—
Jasmine rice, I think. Yes.
Yeah, gotta get the technical term. So how have you been?
I feel okay. Um, I'm feeling bored.
Yeah, is it just you today?
Yes, it's, it's gonna be me and then Jawad's coming tonight and it's just me too. It's just been me the whole day.
That's rough.
Like, I've been the first in our shift hours.
Oh wow.
Like, I work on the Wednesday and Chris came, he's coming for Yeah, and then for shrimps?
No, no, the vegetables.
Vegetables. Okay, this is— this looks good.
Water chestnuts and peas.
Is that water chestnuts?
Yes.
Okay, I thought there were potatoes. Do you have anything in potatoes?
Sweet potatoes?
Yes, sweet potatoes. Yeah, you can put that a little bit and What else? Corns, please. Yeah, and some greens, like little bit. Yes, and that capsicum here. That's a green pepper. Yeah, that would be good. And I'll take some prawns.
Yeah, how's that going online? Culinary school online.
Well, I haven't started college yet. I start college in September.
Oh right, right. I thought you were in. Sorry, I thought you were in already. No, online high school must be pain.
Yeah, so I'll take, uh, sauce with sauce. I don't like sauce much.
She doesn't like sauce.
Which one should I take?
So if you don't like sauce, then don't take it.
Can I take sauce on the side? Okay, then I'll take the hottest one, the hottest sauce, which Yeah, which one is the hottest?
That's the one.
That's the one. Yeah.
Okay. Did he? Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, so where did the herbs go? The big one.
Can I also have some cheese?
That's not cheese.
What's that?
Oh no, pickled vegetables.
Don't worry about it.
I thought that was cheese.
Grated cheese.
No.
Okay, and some, uh, okay, some— what do I have? Uh, yeah, green chilies please, lots of them. Some more please, some more please, some more. Yeah, and some— which seeds should I take?
Take everything.
Yeah, take everything of a little bit of everything.
Yeah, she, she just wants everything. That's it.
Yeah, I'm just making a food video.
This is my dad.
Hi. Hi.
I'll take the royal. That was the first one.
Thank you.
Nothing else.
Oh yeah, I forgot I liked that. I'm going through the box because I think you— Yeah, you do. Yeah, I do.
I really do.
All right, no problem.
You take the keto box, the salad and beef, and I'll take double chicken. Oh yeah, and, uh, vegan curry and peanut sauce. Oh, that's thick. And I'll take a bit of everything. Yeah, I'm like, it sucks. They did everywhere.
Yes, please.
Now it's my turn.
Yeah.
Do you want it?
I'm not having it.
It's I thought you were not having. No, no, but I'll buy. Okay.
No rice.
No rice.
Double chicken. Yeah, take the base. Take salad.
Take a salad and chicken.
Sorry.
मुक्ता मुक्ता शामिल। मम्मी देख, देखो हमारे डिस्काउंट का सेम है मैंने। चिकन। That's double chicken? Okay, yeah.
And what do you suggest with this?
I would suggest sweet chili lime. What is this? These are vegetables.
Can I have these, a little bit of these vegetables? And the rest of the topping you decide.
Okay.
What do you think would go good with that? Me neither. Sweet chili lime then.
Yeah, he's fine with spicy. Lighter than this one. All right, that's good.
Yeah, yeah, that's good. Okay, unless tea would have been— there is—
don't know whether you can see— there is turmeric tea latte. That's— my son says it's just healthy. Okay, so I am— we are in the car. I'm inside the car because they're not allowing to eat inside. So we've got the food in the car, and here is my box. This is called a food box. This is a very interesting box because the, the COVID is plastic But this is made of paper mache, which is I think eco-friendly. And so we we save the planet with this kind of boxes. More such boxes are very much required. So this has rice in it, as you can see. Okay, so this is rice and prawns and lots of you saw what they gave a lot. A lot of green vegetables, and this is a nice wholesome— because I love prawns. I love, uh, whenever I go out, I'm eating prawns. So let me just pick up everything in one bite.
I have a phone here also.
There are some Beans, which are soft, and also some red chilies which I'm mixing to get the hot flavor. And this is— these are all, uh, there's some sweet potatoes. This is a very healthy joint, but I love This joint because it is, it's very tasty. The whole, it's very wholesome. The food is very wholesome and very heartwarming. I'm taking, trying to take one, one more, two more. Okay, I'll use my hands now. Okay, I'm gonna go up this walk.
Bye-bye.
We Indians, we can do with our hands. Mmm. Now I'll mix some of this gravy. Let's see how it tastes. I probably need my fork now because this is too, too much of a— too soiled. So it's jhal also, like it's spicy, it's hot. The chili is very hot. I'm taking one whole bite. Very tasty. Ronnie's sitting there looking at his mobile. He doesn't want to eat now. Hmm, that's good. Go on, take another photo.
Really good.
I really like the taste. Okay, so I'll eat in peace now. Enjoy. I hope you enjoyed the video.
