A travel vlog by Nate and Kara Buchanan documenting a rainy day in Cape Town: they try Ethiopian food at a local restaurant (detailed platter, injera, traditional tea), visit the District Six Museum to learn about apartheid-era forced removals (noted as ending in 1994), and check out Cape Town’s coffee scene (visit to Truth Coffee, sampling a 'battle brew'). The video closes with them returning to their apartment and commenting on meals and small travel finds.
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July 13, 2016
1994
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Still raining a little bit.
It's been raining here in Cape Town all day. So we've just been hanging out in our cute little apartment.
But now we're going to venture out into the rain and go grab some lunch.
Nate suggested we try something new today. So we are at this Ethiopian restaurant here in Cape Town because we're not going to be able to make it to Ethiopia this trip. And we heard their cuisine is very unique. We've heard good and bad things. But the lady who started this restaurant is from Ethiopia, and her mom literally mails her the spices, like, from Ethiopia. So I think if we're gonna try it, we're at the best place possible besides Ethiopia. So far, we've had a fun experience. Our table is this big basket.
But.
The basket had the cat on it until we sat down and she took the hat off. Getting a hand wash before we eat.
Thank you very much.
Awesome. It's so war.
So I just ordered tea, which is.
Tea made the wild herb from the highlands of Ethiopia.
It smells very.
It tastes a lot better than it sauce.
It tastes like minty dirt.
Yeah, like you dropped your gum on the ground.
So I'm gonna reveal your plate, and then I will reveal your dishes.
Okay.
I will dip them onto the final plate.
Is this the bread that we eat?
So this is your mixed platter that has beef, chicken, spicy lentils, yellow chickpeas, pumpkin and tomato salad. This one we call kaisega wat. This one we call doro misir wat, kekalicha, pumpkin wat, and tomato tomato salad.
Wow.
So this is our authentic teenjera. And then we have the rice injera. So this one is typically in Ethiopia, the ice one and the rice one is, you know, substitute. You unroll a bite size and eat and enjoy.
So I take it like this. Yeah.
And then you scoop. And this one's chicken.
And enjoy.
Is this edible?
Everything except the actual steel plate.
But this is. You're supposed to eat it so good.
So, yeah, it's usually much better once the sauce is inside the plate.
Oh, fantastic.
Much better. So you can clean the whole plate.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
Enjoy.
What in the world is yelling? Good, rocks.
How long did it take me to talk you into this?
All day.
So this white bread, which I'm pretty sure is pronounced injera, we had had some people tell us that it tasted like fermented bread and it wasn't any good, but it's described as a sa sourdough pancake. And it's actually really, really good. It has like, kind of a funky flavor, but in the best way possible.
How's the pumpkin?
I'm not a huge pumpkin fan, but.
That'S actually really good.
Really glad Nate made me try new food today.
I'm not gonna say Ethiopian food is, like, my new favorite cuisine. I was getting a little tired of the soggy bread by the end, but it was a fantastic experience and I would definitely eat it again. Since it's still raining this afternoon. Even though we're not big museum people, we decided to come to the District six museum. Because the apartheid is a huge part of South Africa's history, we decided we should learn something.
The museum had a ton of information. In fear of butchering the entire apartheid legislation. We'll keep it short. Basically all the non whites were forced out of Cape Town and had to live in townships. And this just ended in, like, 1994. 91. Crazy recently.
And some people still live there. And the guy who sold us our ticket was referring. Like, he was telling us about it in first person because he experienced it. Like he was saying. And then we did this and my parents did this, and it was just crazy how recent it was.
And because museums make us sleepy, we're going to get coffee.
So Cape Town has, like, a really big coffee culture. There is a coffee shop on, like, every single corner. But we had heard that truth Coffee was by far the best. So we decided to come here and check it out this afternoon.
So, Nate.
Tell me what you got.
I went with the. I don't know what it's called, but.
There is, like, a battle battle brew.
You want me to do the talking?
I went with the battle brew coffee. It's got butter, some kind of oil, and some other weird stuff that I've never heard of in coffee.
I don't know how I feel about that.
Thank you. Enjoy weekend, folks. Thank you very much.
We bought some coffee from this place because Nate said we can't come back every single day. So we're just gonna make our own.
Not complaining about eating in. When Kara cooks, cooks dinners like this sandwich looks delicious.
Yay. We call it fancy grilled cheese. Nate was emptying out his rain jacket pockets. What'd you find, Nate?
I found an octopus card receipt, which I think was like, the metro maybe in Australia.
That sounds right.
And I found a food wrapper. It appears to be Japanese, which is.
