I'm parisian and Sonny, I have to say, YOU DID MY CITY RIGHT. Great choice of dishes and of places. Can't beat what you did. 100% accurate and fair in my opinion. Hope you enjoyed your stay, just sad I couldn't see you in our streets. COME BACK ANYTIME ! ! ! !
@@alexnhan8527 lmao you think THAT was "french food"? btw, going to a nice restaurant in paris and ordering snails and calling them expensive is like going to a high end bar in manhattan and claiming that the $15 beer is expensive. no shit sherlock. and a $5 pack of cigarettes is $20 at LAX airport. "french food is overpriced cheap ingredients" lmao what a moron
ouais surtout les ris de veau - c'est quand même très spécial. Tks Sydney and come back when you want. Here to Toulon, we have much weird food to make you explore.
You should travel around France and try the regional specialties. It's incredible how each region has its own products, dishes, and food customs. Highly recommended!
@@ridgefrost it's just, with japanese gastronomy, the only gastronomy protected by the unesco. So... and if you only know frogs and those kind of things, you absolutly don't know french cooking, even not 1%. We are masters of cheese, wine, bread, venoisserie... but, yeah, french cooking sucks
@@Tristan.Raymondpersonally i do appreciate good cooking but i do not appreciate exotic meals which the french seem to focus on heavily, anything out of the ordinary or with a strong taste isn't really for me which is why i've had a hard time finishing even one bite of liver, and the funny thing is i'm from a french speaking background
@@ridgefrost gratin dophinois is absolutly not exotic, or jambon persillé, or andouillette de Lyon, or ratatouille, or foie de veau, or cassoulet, or boeuf bourguinon etc etc. French cooking do not focusing on anything, it's even the strengh of the french gastronomy, there is so many different type of meal, there's plenty meals for everyone.
While studying abroad a crew of Americans went to a high end French restaurant to get some snails. We thought the "special tool" was supposed to be used like a crab cracker. So a table of 6 naïve Americans were sitting around "cracking snails." Eventually one of us looked up and pointed out the whole restaurant was staring at us. Some in disgust. Some in laughter. Good times. Fond memories. Now anytime we make a faux pas we call it "cracking snails." From one MN boy to another...I love the show. Keep it up. Dontcha know!
@@iagreewithyou3478 Still likely the funniest thing I've ever done. I got one! And that's because the exact moment everyone looked at us was when I went full "oonga boonga," gripped the sunabitch hard down at the base and cracked the shell into a million little pieces. Not my brightest moment considering the utensil obviously isn't meant to crush..in my defense, it was week 4 into an Amsterdam study abroad and I was high 102% of the time.
Bernaise sauce goes really well with cuts of steak and other red meats. Fun fact, it’s basically a hollandaise sauce, just with added herbs, shallots and usually vinegar.
I’ve seen a chef doing a bernaise in a blender. When l studied cooking in France during my youth l had to do a bernaise in my A level culinary test and also one in my professional BTS. I remember getting a tiny pass. Probably freaked out too much.
My mother was French. Thru and thru. We went to Paris and tried everything at the best restaurants. I didn't think about WHAT I was eating, but Mon dieu! It's ALL so good
For my part, I'm 100% french but living in Tokyo. When I'm back to France (one or two times a year) I want to eat the Real McCoy of french cuisine, I hate the "nouvelle cuisine" which is just a hype thing full of Japanese cuisine influences for the ingredients as well as for the picky-tiny decoration of superlative plates full of nothing: NO WAY !!!
From UK moving to France very shortly. Dordogne region. Had to miss my my family's most recent trip dew to illness, watching this hurt! the food has to be one of my most favourite things about that lovely country!
Sonny, I'm happy to say that I recreate this whole video while on my honeymoon last week! My air BNB was literally next door to Au pied de Cochon by pure coincidence. Loved the first restaurants snails so much that we went back a 2nd time! Thank you for the recommendation, and I think I got you beat as i was there for the world cup celebrations!
A simple bearnaise and a beure blanc are two of the best sauces ever created. France and Mexico and south east asia have the best condiments/sauces on the planet
My Dad is French.. As a Canadian girl, I grew up with these amazing delicacies. Don’t rob yourself of culinary experiences... Enjoy foods from around the world!! 😍🥰❤️👍🇨🇦
Vitenamese food is a very healthy. With a lot of rawness vegetable. French food is very rich, lot of butter, rich sauce etc…i think you can’t find a country who is more opposite of the french food than vietnam.
True story: my father travelled to Paris on the Eurostar for just one day in August (many businesses close for the grandes vacances) about 25/ 30 years ago with my mother specifically to eat lunch at the Pied de Cochon and it was closed🤦🏻♀️ My father is obsessed with pig’s trotters. He still talks about Le Pied de Cochon to this very day; pulling on those brass door handles shaped like pig trotters was the closest he was going to get to trying the famed delicacy. My Dad is 83 years now… maybe I will make it happen for him.
Bro your 100% of my entertainment! I wait for your videos I can’t afford the Patreon but I wish I could see more. Love your videos! Keep doing anything brother!!! I’m from India originally and I loved the way you covered everything you did a great job I’m North Indian so I’m Punjabi. Thank you for not being disrespectful and covering everything the way you did. Keep doing your thing! Love you brother.
@@rathalos4783 pour le cheval, la consommation de cheval est strictement interdit aux Etats Unis, et pour le foie, les américains trouveraient bizarre de manger des abats
I remembered one time you said Europe wasn't interesting for you in terms of cuisine and I'm glad you changed your mind. France is an amazing country full of surprises and hope you can visit other parts of France, like, if you like guts, go to the city of Caen for some chef kiss, or the region of Alsace for some choucroute, the South and Marseille for the bouillabaisse etc etc And tbh, the restaurants you choose are gold 🌟
Yes, I also remembered when he said that Europe wasn't interesting for him culinary talking. That comes to the conclusion that we can always change our mind.
Dordogne, lot et Garonne, Burgundy region all with its colors fragrances and memories to pill . Should I add the Mediterranean coastline? Once you have done that slowly you can retire , rewind and replay till you return to check it out a bit deeper, eh eh. Have a safe journey.
@@Unsweetened8618 Turkey is not really in Europe ! Turkey is a transcontinental country that is located in both Europe and Asia. BUT the European part of Turkey, called East Thrace, accounts for 3% of the country's total area, or 23,764 square kilometers. The population of East Thrace is approximately 10 million people, or just 14% of Turkey's total population. To sum up: Turkey that is located in Europe is just a tiny 3% !
So nice to see Sonny in Paris, the City of Lights! This was a fun and visually beautiful video to watch. The French do have a magical way of making "bizarre" food look elegant, beautiful (and even spiritual by putting their patron saints on the plate). And it's cute how they tend to force people to drink their wine (because no wine or the wrong wine means you don't know how to live). Hope Sonny will eat regular French foods and not just weird foods in France. Looking forward to more videos from France.
The wrong wine doesn't mean "you don't know how to live" but that you have terrible taste :/ Some flavors go together some don't, nothing complicated here :D
For sure white wine is not made for these kind of associations. It is lighter so it goes with seafood, fish, cheese or dessert. Red wine is an absolute match when it comes to (red) meat and game
You need to do the reverse for American foods! I'm American and have been living in France for over 35 years. When I return to the US, there's corn dogs, hamburgers on glazed donuts, and so many bizarre things. Everything is fried!
WHAT is questionnable? What are you trying to say, here, hiding beyond that insulting silly name ANY Germs could only muster queer of their own jesty while sinking they too should be known as French thanks to Charlemagne founding their capital in the first and even second place, for that matter : koenigsberg Port-Royale.
Nice video indeed, it's interesting, funny and shows the real thing, what local people would invite you to try. I'm Italian but I absolutely love French cuisine too. Keep up the good work.
I spent 10 days in Paris this summer and I miss it so much. We ate at Pied de Cochon also. Sonny being my favorite TH-camr serving up a video of food in Paris? Pure gold! Thank you, Sonny!
@@deadinside8781 Luxembourg Garden was my fave. Also, Versaille. Picnic in grass at Eiffel tower. Sienne boat dinner cruise. walked cool neighborhoods like Pigalle, Montmarte and Le Marais. Ate amazing food. ate charcuterie on our airbnb terrace, took the Metro everywhere, visited museums galore.
Love the snails! Definitely goes to my top5 dishes of all time. I introduced veil liver to my parents as a sidedish for christmas table, everyone loved it. It was cold smoked and served with smetana, a type of sour cream. You got to add some cranberry jam to the cut too.
fun fact : i’m parisian and my mom used to make calf liver alllll the time. The thing is : it’s smell so good when it’s cooking but i HATE the taste ! It doesn’t taste like meat at all ! I think it’s the first time of my life that i understood that if something smell really good, it doesn’t mean it’s going to be my taste after all. Thanks mom for keeping doing this dish for the rest of my childhood even after i said i hated it ❤️
Growing in rural Midwest in a family with mostly Germanic roots, there was never any waste when it came to foods..."throw-away" cuts like sweetbreads, tongue, heart, etc... were regularly prepared, and they were delicious.
I have to agree. And add to that the Frog Legs; well, there wasn't much in this video that was bizarre. Except maybe the really fatty pig portions of the trotter and snout. I have never learned to handle pure fat!!!. Just a personal aversion. Texture, perhaps. But I was surprised he didn't have more dishes of wild animals like rabbit, squab, dove, or pheasant. As for fried liver, that has been a favorite of mine since I was a young child. Although we always had the heathen version of liver and onions!
Hi from 🇦🇺 sweetbreads we’re my favourite as a kid. Crumbed and made into ‘chicken nuggets’ with a garlic chive and lemon aioli for dipping, they were melt in mouth delicious. My kids loved ‘mamas special chicken nuggets’ until they found out what they were 😂
Au Pied de Cochon in Paris has the absolute best French Onion soup I’ve ever had. I’ve been trying to find one better for 42 years with no success. My hats off to Paris!
@@hangxoft2925 Each food has its own identity and upsides, vietnamese food is amazing and in terms of street food probably more varied than french food. But in terms of looking classy in high end restaurants, french food probably wins. 1-1.
Whats crazy was when I went to paris in August. That was the first restaurant I ate at to try out escargot, frog legs, and salmon. Also the same exact seat I sat at next to the entrance. Love the videos Sonny.
Un ami visite régulièrement "l'Amérique profonde" ,celle loin des grandes villes ,et il apprécie énormément la nourriture qu'on y cuisine. Prenez le temps de cuisiner ,trouvez des aliments sains loin des usines à bouffe et avec un peu de talent ça ne peut être que bon.
Frog legs & Beef tartare, escargot or sweet breads, I love them all. I'm from Ottawa Canada and got the chance to try those foods at different times but they are very pricey. As for your comment on how they know what piece(s) of the animal to cut, I can say that the slaughter house I worked at 50 years ago actually had 2 men doing just that. Of course there were many doing the actual cutting up the animal (I was the man who put their lights out) but they also carefully carved the skull to scrape that meat which was used for some medicinal purpose.
God... I adore escargot. That looks delicious! I havent had frog legs in years, but they were lovely and very mild flavored. It's hard to go wrong with some butter and herbs. This episode makes me want to go back to France.
As a highschooler in drama club, we performed Shrek the musical, hear me out lol, and we had a banquet dinner after the show to celebrate. Our schools chef at the time prepared blooming onions along with a ton of other shrek themed food but out of everyting, she prepared frog legs, which no teen in our backwoods upstate ny town had ever had before, and i still think about that meal like once a month bare minimum. thankfully she moved onto a job where her culinary skills were very much valued. just had to share a nice memory this reminded me of
Sweetbread! My father used to prepare this when I was a kid. He would slice it thin, bread and pan fry it. Serve it with lemon and parsley. Very tasty! Thanks for the memory.
French chicken chasseur in early spring feels heavenly. I have a good culinary experience and when it comes to eating escargot or any edible snail, I know the best season where the eggs can put any premium caviar into shame. They're some of the finest things in life, I've experienced.
@OB1 Look how much butter is in all this Cuisine! I love butter, don’t get me wrong. You could eat anything cooked with this much butter. Pig Ear & Snout……disgusting.
What is quite interresting about french food is that there are different specialities in each region...so you basicaly tasted one 10th of our specialities 😁 The choice of parisian restaurants is perfect though 👌 but come to Toulouse or Lyon or any other french city and you'll discover much more 😉
@@michieljuta976 Let's say that France is the only country in Europe where, thanks to the mild climate in winter, and good fertile soil, you find such large herds. there is such a wide variety of cheeses, meats and poultry, fish, seafood, wines, fruits and vegetables from the north and south, cereals, pastries, high-end confectionery, chocolates... Probably the most productive and complete territory in Europe in food production. And stable for 2000 years, with a gastronomic history strongly influenced by the Romans, who were already very refined cooks. We eat very well everywhere in Europe, but France has the largest choice of quality raw materials. And a know-how, a passion for food and the pleasures of life. The Romans disappeared as the dominant civilization, but they transmitted this gastronomic heritage to us, and we adapted it to our regions. I think we are the best in charcuterie. Also in pastry. In wines and cheeses. Thanks to the richness of the terroir, unique in Europe.
Had me laughing when he "traveled" through Paris from the first to the second restaurants wich happen to be 5 mins walk away from each other :D Also, the second one is open 24/7 so definitely a good place to end up after a long night partying in city center, to wash the booze away.
I would suggest not hanging out for too long in this area after a long night partying. A lot of scumbags in this area and it's getting worse every day.
When I was a kid, all summer we would hunt for several hours every evening catching these huge bullfrogs. Then we would take them back, clean them, brine them in buttermilk overnight, and then mom would season, bread, and fry them. Damn, they were delicious.
Thanks a lot for sharing our cuisine !!!!! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂. You should now travel in France (out of Paris) to show the other dishes we have in the countryside !!! you'll love them all, with the wines of course !!!
I've had sweetbreads, my sister made it in culinary school and it was fantastic. It wasn't bitter the way she made it. We went to Le Cordon Bleu. If you eat it well done the texture is better.
Sweetbreads, frogs legs, snails, it has to be tried, all delicious, I need to try Pied de Cochon for those crispy ears, not eaten there and I've lived here for 28 years !
i guess "bizarre" is subjective and in this case is relative to the north american palate/viewer, but i didn't perceive anything remotely such in this entire segment- in fact, i can't recall the last time a food program made my mouth water as much. everything looked absolutely incredible and made we want to plan a whole food tour in paris (and france in general). thanks so much for this incredible content.
I'm Swissgerman and I wasn't surprised at all. The veal liver and the pork cuts he ate, exist here too. But they are eaten very rarely because they take a long time to prepare, the young generation likes the quickly prepared stuff sadly. I'm not sure what part of the pig snout he ate, but the one I made a while ago had some extremely tender meat under the thick skin. I was a bit surpised that he didn't eat cow stomach stew, that would fit perfectly in the ambiente of the restaurent. Maybe they don't offer it? In the winter there is the "Gnagi" here in Switzerlnad, which is the ankle and a bit upwards of the pig. Excellent taste and I usually make it in the oven for the crispy skin and then use the bones in a stew the next day.
Liver is certainly NOT a strange food, and it's very delicious (a southern dish). My grandparents on both sides were ethnic and we enjoyed all manner of organs meats and odd bits. It's the care and preparation of "anything" which determines how amazing it is.
It's also very common in many countries in Europe. Pork, veal and lamb liver taste almost the same (a bit gamey), while the chickens liver is lighter in flavor.
If you were french you would not believe that it is a strange food which and you having heritage and family that eats that food makes it more of a regular food whereas some people may not have had liver and eating liver isn't as ubiquitous as other parts of the animal which I think is the comparison as it is "strange" to the majority of the people watching his videos. :D
Living in QC, Canada, we can buy escargot at the grocery store for something like 3$/115g ( around 36-42 escargot in the can ). It's so cheap and easy to bake... in a plate with garlic butter and cheese over it. eat it with a good crispy bread like Ciabatta.. its delicious ! :)
There is a difference between store snails and fresh snails bro. Even more when its prepare by a chief in Paris, which is the most expensive city in France. For exemple, this snails recipe is from burgundy, and in burgundy you can eat it for a small price and it gonna taste better than any parisian restaurant
Most hilarious food review I've ever seen. I already had tears in my eyes when he said "That frog must have been a gymnast". But when it came to the comparison between "Simon Art Garfunkel" vs. the porc trotter with Sauce Bearnaise, it just blew me off. Thanks for the really great entertainment! And by the way: now I'm hungry, too!
So fun to see your reactions! Both restaurants were my favorite hangouts in 1996, watching you tear through that pigs trotter had my mouth watering at 0800AM in Seattle this morning, to say nothing about the escargot, Oh to have that for breakfast!
I hope you can book 2 monthes then, because as France is a very old country, each 100km you will find completely new different specialties (North, West, East, South-West and South-East of France look and taste like whole different countries) !
You are more than welcome !!! come over here :-) Restaurant are much cheaper in France than in the UK or in the US, trust me ;-) Happy & proud that some of you like our cuisine. thank-you
You should try "Canard au sang" a recipe you can only find in France with a whole duck pressed to extract its blood and juices to make a sauce. Also try "ortolan" a delicacy forbidden now.
I love frog legs & Beef tartare. I’ve never had escargot or sweet breads. Though I have prepared sweet breads quite a lot…while in culinary school and during my days working in restaurants. If there were a place close to me that made escargot I’d absolutely try it. Anyway, much love to y’all. Love the video, as always. ✌🏻🥰😊
I ate escargot and i think he overexaggerated them a bit. They mostly taste like the butter you stuff them with. They just give a small amount of "different oil/fat" and texture to it. But basically you could replicate this with any spongy food - like tofu for example - and the same butter.
@@sneer0101 yes I know it does. At the time of my cooking them I was part of a religion where it is forbidden to eat certain things….thymus glands being one of them….as they are seen as unclean. Now that I’m older I’m no longer part of any religion and I eat what I like. I just haven’t tried sweetbreads as of yet as they are difficult to find where I live. ✌🏻😊
@@sneer0101 p.s. I only recently had liver and I didn’t like it. Though I’ve prepared it many time and it always smells so tasty….I did not like it at all. 😂😂😂😂 I also never ate shellfish or pork until I was an adult. Of course I wouldn’t prepare pork either as it was unclean and we weren’t even permitted to touch the flesh. But I realized that those food laws were necessary to keep ppl from getting ill before refrigeration and before understanding safe cooking temps. So…now I’ll try just about anything…tho I do have a line I won’t cross because of my own tastes. ✌🏻
calf sweetbreads (or "ris de veau" in French) are my absolute favorite meal. Unfortunately, it's quite expensive and you have to order them from the butcher because it's rarely on the shelves. It is indeed the thymus of the calf (there is the same thing with lambs) which is a gland which only exists in children because it produces growth hormone and disappears in adults (it's the same in humans).
for those of you that havent tryed snails, the taste is amazing, the textur is a bit like a gummybear, so If you dont like to eat snails, just try the green garnish cooked in the snail, that is the best part.
I love 90% everything you ate and would love to try the last 10% (the last dish). Someone said you have to try canard au sang. Oh yes do it is so good. Among the unusual dish, try the tablier de sapeur. It is more or less fried pig fat. :) You also have to try all the kind of pâtés and other terrines. Charcuterie in France is no joke.
Man, that pig ear looked so good. 39 year old German here, I still remember an older story from around 19 years ago. Our boss back then invited the whole team to a farm after we've spent 2 years on a restoration project of a historical farmhouse ( Carpenter / woodworker ) and the farmer family that was living there had a butchers license and they grew, slaughtered and prepared their animals inhouse. They held a really nice BBQ for us, imagine gigantic plates chock full of nice, tender organically grown meats of all varieties. One thing I still vividly remember were the smoked and charcoal grilled pig ears, was the first time in my life I've tried something like that and they were absolutely delicious. Thanks for taking me on a trip down memorylane Sunny!
Hello, 40yo French here ! When I was a young teenager my mother used to go to the German market in Aix en Provence and she brought me pork rind sausages. I love that. these are the best sausages (along with morteau sausage;)) in the world. Can you certify to me that it is something German and that you also have it at home? pork rind sausage \0/ I'm calling your name!
@@TwiztedHarlequin Ooooh , maybe I don't know ! She said to me it was german. But maybe every country have his own rind sausages ^^ And Oh my god, this is Sooooo Good.
Note for the snails: We usually do not put the bread in the shell. First we eat the snail, and then we put the shell in a way that the butter drip in the plate. Once all the snails are eaten, we sauce the plate with bread.
Nice to see American people loving our cuisine. However its funny how you ask how to telle the words "in French" but "tartare" or "sauce" are literally French words haha. In fact most of the technical terms used in cuisine (French word also ;) ) are French !
You are in the right place for great food mate. The Latin quarter for me a few years ago remains an unforgettable experience ! And those snails are lit! Damn good…Creme de Cassis also not to be forgotten!
''Bouchons'' are the equivalent of Pubs or old Taverns in England/Ireland. It designate a place where you can eat & have a drink. Wine being more popular in France (since the Romans) than beer (which was the Ancient Gauls Celts main alcoholic beverage) a bouchon is 'slang' a wine bottle stopper.
Snail and frog legs - reminiscing on my time in Mauban PH, foraging snails during low tide and had them cooked in coconut milk along with some squash “ginataang kuhol”🤤 My mom used to cook frog legs, adobo-style sans the traditional soy sauce but with all the other traditional ingredients. Uber good😋
Béarnaise is a butter and egg yokk emulsion (as a mayonnaise) seasoned with tarragon, Shallot and a touch of vinegar. It's a speciality from a region in south west France, called "Béarn", it is traditionally served with prime rib.
Ironically the first time I ever had frog legs was in Minnesota in the mid 70's, The restaurant had a frog leg fry night. I was a kid but found them to be delicious. Still do!
@@aikifab I’ve seen people do it. My mother made use eat literally every single thing with utensils. I got teased so bad for eating sandwiches, pizza, cookies, chicken legs/wings, and even more with a fork and knife. My roommates use to hide the utensils to force me to eat pizza with my hands because they found my manners so ridiculous. So I’m sure if someone tried hard enough they could eat anything with utensils. I just thought it was amusing to see eating with hands in a fine dining establishment lol.
As someone who's never been to France, i think you did a pretty good video about the foods that they have over there.. We're always shown about fencn pastries and sweets.. But they do have such unique foods as well.. Thank you for teaching us so much
Oh and btw, all of the regions in France have so much specialities, or products in term of food ! Like u can find "Quiche lorraine" "choucroute" / "cassoulet" / "andouillette" / "bouillabaisse" / "tartiflette" / "Waterzooi" AND SO MANY MORE !! If one day u go in France, please visit Paris yes, and others regions if you can, for the mountains, the sea, the view of beautiful things, different cultures and architecture types ALL around the country. In "Alsace" or "Moselle" you can find germans architecture due to the german occupation in 1940. In the north, red bricks in buildings AND.... I think you know for Paris. It's not because I'm french but except the politic, French is a very good country (to visit at least, living here is a bit different but better than much countries)
2:02 : it's "bouchées à la reine au ris de veau", a famous classical french recipe. 4:55 : it's not oil, but butter, caus' it's a "persillade", a french sauce made with butter, garlic and parsley. (You can eat everything with that sauce, that'll always taste delicious with a persillade!)
Frankly none of those foods were what I would call weird. They were all classic foods and I was amazed that you had never had calves liver. I grew up eating pretty much all of those foods myself and then later cooked them as I became trained in classic French cooking in culinarily arts.
I'm a 39 year-old Frenchman and I haven't eaten any of these foods aside from snails a few times with our Christmas dinner. My grandfather loved odd pork cuts, but the rest of my family doesn't. None of these foods ever come up in my casual conversations with other French people and aside from snails, I don't even think that I've seen them on a menu.
On Réunion island ( French territory) its a very common dishes call "patte cochon" a lot of Young this day prefer to eat at burger king than traditional cuisine
39 year old German here, never had calf liver either. I do like pork liver though, my mom used to make it a lot when I was still a bit younger. Just cut it into bitesized pieces, rolled in a flour / cornstarch / salt mix, then fried in a cast iron skillet with butter and plenty of onions until the onions start to caramelize and the liver get some color too. Then she served it with homemade mashed potatoes and a homemade elderberry jam.
We used to have a buffet in town (I live in Northern Indiana) that served frog legs and they were amazing. They shut down, unfortunately, so they are a lot harder to find now.
There was nothing in the video that made me hungry... except for the mashed potatoes and fries. I don't really like liver, escargot or extremely fatty cuts of meat. I cannot say that I don't like frogs legs, or beef tartare because I have yet to try it. And although these are foods that, I have never tried and are not common at all to me... I will try anything once. Well, anything except horse.
Dans les foyers Français c'était presque toujours les femmes qui cuisinaient. De nos jours les " grands mères" sont les gardiennes des vieilles recettes et sont extrêmement respectées pour leur savoir.
The calf liver is cooked to absolute perfection. The frog legs are 120% on the point but the pork leg should be filled, italian style. When I was a kid my dad always threatened me to prepare a filled pork foot, called zampone. Now, as I‘m 58ys, I love the dish.
Everything about this video was amazing, up until 3:50 when I noticed that the chef was preping and cooking food with a very large, fresh wound, on the top of her hand between forefinger and thumb, with NO gloves or bandaid covering the wound. LIKE... WHAAAT?! I don't care how many times you wash your hands, there's a semi open wound on the part of your hand that is constantly moving, therefore opening each time she moves her hand. And then preping food with this open wound.... 🤢 I'm sorry, after that, the tasting menu would be finished for me. You have a MUCH stronger stomach than I, Sunny. Thank you for your amazing work Sunny! Your channel is still one of my absolute favorites, hands down! I have been a subscriber since you had under 50k subscribers. And now you are well over 1M! Way to go Sunny! I hope you keep growing and succeeding! ❤️🥰
I'm parisian and Sonny, I have to say, YOU DID MY CITY RIGHT. Great choice of dishes and of places. Can't beat what you did. 100% accurate and fair in my opinion. Hope you enjoyed your stay, just sad I couldn't see you in our streets. COME BACK ANYTIME ! ! ! !
@@rohamisamazing political stuff ?
@@rohamisamazing what is polotical stuff?
It looks like French food is overpriced cheap ingredients.
overrated tourist traps
@@alexnhan8527 lmao you think THAT was "french food"? btw, going to a nice restaurant in paris and ordering snails and calling them expensive is like going to a high end bar in manhattan and claiming that the $15 beer is expensive. no shit sherlock. and a $5 pack of cigarettes is $20 at LAX airport. "french food is overpriced cheap ingredients" lmao what a moron
Love French food from Italy 🇫🇷🤝🏻🇮🇹
i love italian food too ! especially in sicilia ! (yes i m french)
Siamo vicini (sono di Monte-Carlo) è mi piace molto la cucina della grande Italia
to be honest, in my taste Italia is the only country who can rival our french cuisine.
Love Italian food, from France
Love Italy from France :)
As a french, i would like to thank you for exploring our food culture with respect
ouais surtout les ris de veau - c'est quand même très spécial. Tks Sydney and come back when you want. Here to Toulon, we have much weird food to make you explore.
@@juxbertrandRis de veau... une tuerie
As an eastern european, everything in the menu was perfectly fine to eat... exept 1dish... snails do not look all that appealing to me!
@@rockmcdwayne1710 You have to try once the snails with persilla and butter or with curry.
You should travel around France and try the regional specialties. It's incredible how each region has its own products, dishes, and food customs. Highly recommended!
👍Tartiflette, bouillabaisse, choucroute, cassoulet, and soooo more !
just like every country
@@abheceshabemuskk3531 stfu, not at all, here its absolutly different from every region
@@abheceshabemuskk3531 nope not every country. Some countries, like France (or Italy), have more diversity between each region
@@naelgodefroy2535 like most countries
French viewer here ~ Been watching your show for a long time and it made me sooooo happy watching you enjoy some classic french dishes !
La même 😉
he didn't knew what Béarnaise sauce was xDDDDD
@@platterhof Because of course, what's best to compliment your extra-fatty porc than an egg and butter sauce ?! haha
la même! mais dommage qu'il n'est pas visiter lyon qui est la capital gastrronomique de notre pays :c
Same here!
I'm English and I've tasted everything and enjoy French cooking.
Glad to see an american that can appreciate french cooking. You're not just making fun of us. You have my respect.
Yeah actually most of them appreciate but they can’t resist to make fun for nothing of us. + it has something to do with the war in Irak
french cooking kinda sucks tho, snail, frog legs and whatever that stuff was at the beginning, sweet bread? yeah that's all weird
@@ridgefrost it's just, with japanese gastronomy, the only gastronomy protected by the unesco. So... and if you only know frogs and those kind of things, you absolutly don't know french cooking, even not 1%. We are masters of cheese, wine, bread, venoisserie... but, yeah, french cooking sucks
@@Tristan.Raymondpersonally i do appreciate good cooking but i do not appreciate exotic meals which the french seem to focus on heavily, anything out of the ordinary or with a strong taste isn't really for me which is why i've had a hard time finishing even one bite of liver, and the funny thing is i'm from a french speaking background
@@ridgefrost gratin dophinois is absolutly not exotic, or jambon persillé, or andouillette de Lyon, or ratatouille, or foie de veau, or cassoulet, or boeuf bourguinon etc etc. French cooking do not focusing on anything, it's even the strengh of the french gastronomy, there is so many different type of meal, there's plenty meals for everyone.
While studying abroad a crew of Americans went to a high end French restaurant to get some snails. We thought the "special tool" was supposed to be used like a crab cracker. So a table of 6 naïve Americans were sitting around "cracking snails." Eventually one of us looked up and pointed out the whole restaurant was staring at us. Some in disgust. Some in laughter. Good times. Fond memories. Now anytime we make a faux pas we call it "cracking snails."
From one MN boy to another...I love the show. Keep it up. Dontcha know!
Whahahaha that's one of the best restaurant anecdotes I've ever heard xD Thanks for the good laugh!
Haha did you even succeed cracking the shells?
@@iagreewithyou3478 Still likely the funniest thing I've ever done. I got one! And that's because the exact moment everyone looked at us was when I went full "oonga boonga," gripped the sunabitch hard down at the base and cracked the shell into a million little pieces.
Not my brightest moment considering the utensil obviously isn't meant to crush..in my defense, it was week 4 into an Amsterdam study abroad and I was high 102% of the time.
French here, that is hilarious and sweet!
That's really funny! Sometimes French people aren't very kind or patient with foreigners unfortunately! Someone should've told you.
Bernaise sauce goes really well with cuts of steak and other red meats. Fun fact, it’s basically a hollandaise sauce, just with added herbs, shallots and usually vinegar.
I'm surprised he didn't know what it was.
it is really similar but not quite the same, the vinegar reduction for example
Sauce Béarnaise isn't a sauce hollandaise with added ingredients.
The lemon juice is also replaced by a reduction of vinegar and wine.
I’ve seen a chef doing a bernaise in a blender. When l studied cooking in France during my youth l had to do a bernaise in my A level culinary test and also one in my professional BTS. I remember getting a tiny pass. Probably freaked out too much.
My mother was French. Thru and thru. We went to Paris and tried everything at the best restaurants. I didn't think about WHAT I was eating, but Mon dieu! It's ALL so good
For my part, I'm 100% french but living in Tokyo. When I'm back to France (one or two times a year) I want to eat the Real McCoy of french cuisine, I hate the "nouvelle cuisine" which is just a hype thing full of Japanese cuisine influences for the ingredients as well as for the picky-tiny decoration of superlative plates full of nothing: NO WAY !!!
From UK moving to France very shortly. Dordogne region. Had to miss my my family's most recent trip dew to illness, watching this hurt! the food has to be one of my most favourite things about that lovely country!
Sonny,
I'm happy to say that I recreate this whole video while on my honeymoon last week! My air BNB was literally next door to Au pied de Cochon by pure coincidence. Loved the first restaurants snails so much that we went back a 2nd time! Thank you for the recommendation, and I think I got you beat as i was there for the world cup celebrations!
Glad you enjoyed France man
Congrats on the wedding!
I'm French and I'm so happy you enjoyed some of our gastronomy ! We have many more dishes for each regions 😋
You and every other country in the whole world…
@@congresssux9766 The video so about France so.....
Croatian here - French food is the best in the world.
@@congresssux9766 no need to be jealous
A simple bearnaise and a beure blanc are two of the best sauces ever created. France and Mexico and south east asia have the best condiments/sauces on the planet
My Dad is French.. As a Canadian girl, I grew up with these amazing delicacies. Don’t rob yourself of culinary experiences... Enjoy foods from around the world!! 😍🥰❤️👍🇨🇦
as a Vietnamese, i can see so many similarities between our gastronomy culture. most of these dishes have a Vietnamese counterpart
Well of course France did colonize Vietnam 😂
@@jsparky249 its stupid to say that many countries were eating pigs and sheeps back then... they arent called household animals for nothing lol
hello how are you, i really do love your comment, i must confess i was impressed by your world.
Vitenamese food is a very healthy. With a lot of rawness vegetable.
French food is very rich, lot of butter, rich sauce etc…i think you can’t find a country who is more opposite of the french food than vietnam.
@@doncho We have a lot of healthy food in france too ^^
True story: my father travelled to Paris on the Eurostar for just one day in August (many businesses close for the grandes vacances) about 25/ 30 years ago with my mother specifically to eat lunch at the Pied de Cochon and it was closed🤦🏻♀️ My father is obsessed with pig’s trotters. He still talks about Le Pied de Cochon to this very day; pulling on those brass door handles shaped like pig trotters was the closest he was going to get to trying the famed delicacy. My Dad is 83 years now… maybe I will make it happen for him.
Please take him there
don't wait to bring him there! at 83 you're still in shape :)
Make it happen bro....I got your back
Make it happen!
sounds disgusting
travel in France is just a spiritual experience !:) the food is so good ! there are a lot of different gorgeous specialities!
Bro your 100% of my entertainment! I wait for your videos I can’t afford the Patreon but I wish I could see more. Love your videos!
Keep doing anything brother!!! I’m from India originally and I loved the way you covered everything you did a great job I’m North Indian so I’m Punjabi. Thank you for not being disrespectful and covering everything the way you did. Keep doing your thing! Love you brother.
wrr
je suis heureux, de voir un américain découvrir notre cuisine, heureux et fier!
perso jamais je tenterais les escargots... par contre pourquoi ils trouvent que le cheval et le foi de veau c'est bizarre?
@@rathalos4783 pour le cheval, la consommation de cheval est strictement interdit aux Etats Unis, et pour le foie, les américains trouveraient bizarre de manger des abats
I remembered one time you said Europe wasn't interesting for you in terms of cuisine and I'm glad you changed your mind. France is an amazing country full of surprises and hope you can visit other parts of France, like, if you like guts, go to the city of Caen for some chef kiss, or the region of Alsace for some choucroute, the South and Marseille for the bouillabaisse etc etc
And tbh, the restaurants you choose are gold 🌟
Yes, I also remembered when he said that Europe wasn't interesting for him culinary talking. That comes to the conclusion that we can always change our mind.
Dordogne, lot et Garonne, Burgundy region all with its colors fragrances and memories to pill . Should I add the Mediterranean coastline?
Once you have done that slowly you can retire , rewind and replay till you return to check it out a bit deeper, eh eh. Have a safe journey.
He means North Western Europe and Scandinavia. Not France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Greece etc......
@@Unsweetened8618 Turkey is not really in Europe ! Turkey is a transcontinental country that is located in both Europe and Asia. BUT the European part of Turkey, called East Thrace, accounts for 3% of the country's total area, or 23,764 square kilometers. The population of East Thrace is approximately 10 million people, or just 14% of Turkey's total population.
To sum up: Turkey that is located in Europe is just a tiny 3% !
@@hermes3386 Turkey can be throwin in that Euro pot too
Still Southern Europeans have Better food
So nice to see Sonny in Paris, the City of Lights! This was a fun and visually beautiful video to watch. The French do have a magical way of making "bizarre" food look elegant, beautiful (and even spiritual by putting their patron saints on the plate). And it's cute how they tend to force people to drink their wine (because no wine or the wrong wine means you don't know how to live). Hope Sonny will eat regular French foods and not just weird foods in France. Looking forward to more videos from France.
isnt it the city of love
@@flatweee6066 It's both, and more...
They douse with a heavy cream based sauce.
The wrong wine doesn't mean "you don't know how to live" but that you have terrible taste :/
Some flavors go together some don't, nothing complicated here :D
For sure white wine is not made for these kind of associations. It is lighter so it goes with seafood, fish, cheese or dessert. Red wine is an absolute match when it comes to (red) meat and game
You need to do the reverse for American foods! I'm American and have been living in France for over 35 years.
When I return to the US, there's corn dogs, hamburgers on glazed donuts, and so many bizarre things. Everything is fried!
🤣🤣🤣 👍
Nice to see a very adventurous person who doesn’t shy about trying everything out of our (sometimes) questionable cuisine ! ❤️🇫🇷🌸
il a déjà bu du sang coagulé cru avec des tribues de je sais plus où, donc franchement rien ne lui fait peur
WHAT is questionnable? What are you trying to say, here, hiding beyond that insulting silly name ANY Germs could only muster queer of their own jesty while sinking they too should be known as French thanks to Charlemagne founding their capital in the first and even second place, for that matter : koenigsberg Port-Royale.
@@messire9837 what
@@lefr33man What what? Keep minding your own unfrench business, you madmelad.That last mullet is not for you...
@@lefr33man shuddup young won, I beg of you so you don't have two.
Nice video indeed, it's interesting, funny and shows the real thing, what local people would invite you to try. I'm Italian but I absolutely love French cuisine too. Keep up the good work.
I spent 10 days in Paris this summer and I miss it so much. We ate at Pied de Cochon also. Sonny being my favorite TH-camr serving up a video of food in Paris? Pure gold! Thank you, Sonny!
What did you do to have a great trip?
@@deadinside8781 Luxembourg Garden was my fave. Also, Versaille. Picnic in grass at Eiffel tower. Sienne boat dinner cruise. walked cool neighborhoods like Pigalle, Montmarte and Le Marais. Ate amazing food. ate charcuterie on our airbnb terrace, took the Metro everywhere, visited museums galore.
hello how are you, i really do love your comment, i must confess i was impressed by your world.
@@chriscatton705 so you didn't do anything interesting 😃
@@chriscatton705 relax it was a joke
The way his eyes pop when trying the mashed potatoes is everything! Love him!
Love the snails! Definitely goes to my top5 dishes of all time. I introduced veil liver to my parents as a sidedish for christmas table, everyone loved it. It was cold smoked and served with smetana, a type of sour cream. You got to add some cranberry jam to the cut too.
Damn, that actually sounds delightful. Invite me over next time. 😉
Did you k is that Smetana is sour cream in Czech
@@Londoner37 yeah i knew, just made it clear to some people who just call it sour cream
Beautiful.
Don't confuse crème and Smetana prosim
fun fact : i’m parisian and my mom used to make calf liver alllll the time. The thing is : it’s smell so good when it’s cooking but i HATE the taste ! It doesn’t taste like meat at all ! I think it’s the first time of my life that i understood that if something smell really good, it doesn’t mean it’s going to be my taste after all. Thanks mom for keeping doing this dish for the rest of my childhood even after i said i hated it ❤️
Exactly like me ! I love so much the smell, i tried to eat it many times, but the taste is disgusting to me.
Growing in rural Midwest in a family with mostly Germanic roots, there was never any waste when it came to foods..."throw-away" cuts like sweetbreads, tongue, heart, etc... were regularly prepared, and they were delicious.
I have to agree. And add to that the Frog Legs; well, there wasn't much in this video that was bizarre. Except maybe the really fatty pig portions of the trotter and snout. I have never learned to handle pure fat!!!. Just a personal aversion. Texture, perhaps. But I was surprised he didn't have more dishes of wild animals like rabbit, squab, dove, or pheasant. As for fried liver, that has been a favorite of mine since I was a young child. Although we always had the heathen version of liver and onions!
For the next video please try Andouillette Sausage. I would love to see your thoughts on that “delicacy”!
The food looks AMAZING!! I've always wanted to try French cuisine but was unsure on what to start with. Now I know!! Gracias Sonny!!
These are well known specialties but we don't eat them everyday. You have sommaire things to try
Hi from 🇦🇺 sweetbreads we’re my favourite as a kid. Crumbed and made into ‘chicken nuggets’ with a garlic chive and lemon aioli for dipping, they were melt in mouth delicious. My kids loved ‘mamas special chicken nuggets’ until they found out what they were 😂
It all looked really good to me. Simon and Garfunkel were awesome. Was fun to watch. Great video
Au Pied de Cochon in Paris has the absolute best French Onion soup I’ve ever had. I’ve been trying to find one better for 42 years with no success. My hats off to Paris!
this is exactly how i imagined french food would look like, very classy dishes indeed
@V for good reason
Would you say the same about the exotic foods in Vietnam?
France is the most beautiful and has the true beautiful people
@V it's not difficult to find great cheap menus in the countryside of france, of course in the tourist parts of paris it is going to be pricier
@@hangxoft2925 Each food has its own identity and upsides, vietnamese food is amazing and in terms of street food probably more varied than french food. But in terms of looking classy in high end restaurants, french food probably wins. 1-1.
Whats crazy was when I went to paris in August. That was the first restaurant I ate at to try out escargot, frog legs, and salmon. Also the same exact seat I sat at next to the entrance. Love the videos Sonny.
Thanks!
in Louisiana most of the frog legs i see are basically seasoned the same way we do fish with spices and breading and deep fried. they are so good
There's a reason why Louisiana is called after Louis the XIVth of France.
@@LuxMortis_ i guess majority of mericanos do not know that :)
Un ami visite régulièrement "l'Amérique profonde" ,celle loin des grandes villes ,et il apprécie énormément la nourriture qu'on y cuisine.
Prenez le temps de cuisiner ,trouvez des aliments sains loin des usines à bouffe et avec un peu de talent ça ne peut être que bon.
Frog legs & Beef tartare, escargot or sweet breads, I love them all. I'm from Ottawa Canada and got the chance to try those foods at different times but they are very pricey. As for your comment on how they know what piece(s) of the animal to cut, I can say that the slaughter house I worked at 50 years ago actually had 2 men doing just that. Of course there were many doing the actual cutting up the animal (I was the man who put their lights out) but they also carefully carved the skull to scrape that meat which was used for some medicinal purpose.
you can find more authentical version and less pricey in the countryside. Parisian restaurant are expensive because the tax are crazy.
Love how sonny always describes the food as he eats it
God... I adore escargot. That looks delicious! I havent had frog legs in years, but they were lovely and very mild flavored. It's hard to go wrong with some butter and herbs. This episode makes me want to go back to France.
As a highschooler in drama club, we performed Shrek the musical, hear me out lol, and we had a banquet dinner after the show to celebrate. Our schools chef at the time prepared blooming onions along with a ton of other shrek themed food but out of everyting, she prepared frog legs, which no teen in our backwoods upstate ny town had ever had before, and i still think about that meal like once a month bare minimum. thankfully she moved onto a job where her culinary skills were very much valued. just had to share a nice memory this reminded me of
aw i love that
I was in Paris 20 years ago. We stayed there for one week. OMG that snail and frog is so good and the plate presentation is wonderful.
Thank you for coming to Paris ! You should do a trip around France, each region has unique and amazing dishes ! 🙂
I was incredibly spoiled by an incredible cook for a mother - she made me sweet bread and escargot as a child and they became my favorites ❤
Sweetbread! My father used to prepare this when I was a kid. He would slice it thin, bread and pan fry it. Serve it with lemon and parsley. Very tasty! Thanks for the memory.
French chicken chasseur in early spring feels heavenly. I have a good culinary experience and when it comes to eating escargot or any edible snail, I know the best season where the eggs can put any premium caviar into shame. They're some of the finest things in life, I've experienced.
@OB1 Look how much butter is in all this Cuisine! I love butter, don’t get me wrong.
You could eat anything cooked with this much butter.
Pig Ear & Snout……disgusting.
hello how are you, i really do love your comment, i must confess i was impressed by your world.
What is quite interresting about french food is that there are different specialities in each region...so you basicaly tasted one 10th of our specialities 😁
The choice of parisian restaurants is perfect though 👌 but come to Toulouse or Lyon or any other french city and you'll discover much more 😉
True, but isn’t it like that basically everywhere? In Europe it is at least.
@@michieljuta976 Probably true indeed
@@michieljuta976 Let's say that France is the only country in Europe where, thanks to the mild climate in winter, and good fertile soil, you find such large herds. there is such a wide variety of cheeses, meats and poultry, fish, seafood, wines, fruits and vegetables from the north and south, cereals, pastries, high-end confectionery, chocolates... Probably the most productive and complete territory in Europe in food production. And stable for 2000 years, with a gastronomic history strongly influenced by the Romans, who were already very refined cooks. We eat very well everywhere in Europe, but France has the largest choice of quality raw materials. And a know-how, a passion for food and the pleasures of life. The Romans disappeared as the dominant civilization, but they transmitted this gastronomic heritage to us, and we adapted it to our regions. I think we are the best in charcuterie. Also in pastry. In wines and cheeses. Thanks to the richness of the terroir, unique in Europe.
I admire you for being adventurous and curious! & I'm glad that you enjoyed french food, thank you for coming by!
Only Sonny can make a banger video like this in Paris! 😂😂😂 loved it guys!
France is such a unique place. Wish I could visit one day.
Had me laughing when he "traveled" through Paris from the first to the second restaurants wich happen to be 5 mins walk away from each other :D
Also, the second one is open 24/7 so definitely a good place to end up after a long night partying in city center, to wash the booze away.
I would suggest not hanging out for too long in this area after a long night partying. A lot of scumbags in this area and it's getting worse every day.
we usually wash down the food with booze over here. But yeah hahaha
how much is the food
Well, you have to drink to forget. Argentina campeon franchute, a llorar a la iglesia.
@@alainportant6412 It is in a very safe area actually
When I was a kid, all summer we would hunt for several hours every evening catching these huge bullfrogs. Then we would take them back, clean them, brine them in buttermilk overnight, and then mom would season, bread, and fry them. Damn, they were delicious.
Thanks a lot for sharing our cuisine !!!!! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂. You should now travel in France (out of Paris) to show the other dishes we have in the countryside !!! you'll love them all, with the wines of course !!!
simply the best cuisine in the world ❤️
Yes it is....
No way. I’m French and to me Korean, Thai and Moroccan food are the best
@@juliad368I prefer lunar cuisine from this place on the moo...oooops I said too much you guys don't know yet.
I've had sweetbreads, my sister made it in culinary school and it was fantastic. It wasn't bitter the way she made it. We went to Le Cordon Bleu. If you eat it well done the texture is better.
Sweetbreads, frogs legs, snails, it has to be tried, all delicious, I need to try Pied de Cochon for those crispy ears, not eaten there and I've lived here for 28 years !
i guess "bizarre" is subjective and in this case is relative to the north american palate/viewer, but i didn't perceive anything remotely such in this entire segment- in fact, i can't recall the last time a food program made my mouth water as much. everything looked absolutely incredible and made we want to plan a whole food tour in paris (and france in general). thanks so much for this incredible content.
I'm Swissgerman and I wasn't surprised at all. The veal liver and the pork cuts he ate, exist here too. But they are eaten very rarely because they take a long time to prepare, the young generation likes the quickly prepared stuff sadly.
I'm not sure what part of the pig snout he ate, but the one I made a while ago had some extremely tender meat under the thick skin.
I was a bit surpised that he didn't eat cow stomach stew, that would fit perfectly in the ambiente of the restaurent. Maybe they don't offer it?
In the winter there is the "Gnagi" here in Switzerlnad, which is the ankle and a bit upwards of the pig. Excellent taste and I usually make it in the oven for the crispy skin and then use the bones in a stew the next day.
Liver is certainly NOT a strange food, and it's very delicious (a southern dish). My grandparents on both sides were ethnic and we enjoyed all manner of organs meats and odd bits. It's the care and preparation of "anything" which determines how amazing it is.
It's also very common in many countries in Europe. Pork, veal and lamb liver taste almost the same (a bit gamey), while the chickens liver is lighter in flavor.
If you were french you would not believe that it is a strange food which and you having heritage and family that eats that food makes it more of a regular food whereas some people may not have had liver and eating liver isn't as ubiquitous as other parts of the animal which I think is the comparison as it is "strange" to the majority of the people watching his videos. :D
Living in QC, Canada, we can buy escargot at the grocery store for something like 3$/115g ( around 36-42 escargot in the can ).
It's so cheap and easy to bake... in a plate with garlic butter and cheese over it. eat it with a good crispy bread like Ciabatta.. its delicious ! :)
There is a difference between store snails and fresh snails bro.
Even more when its prepare by a chief in Paris, which is the most expensive city in France.
For exemple, this snails recipe is from burgundy, and in burgundy you can eat it for a small price and it gonna taste better than any parisian restaurant
make sure they are Helix pomatia , if not they are Lissachatina fulica african snail which are very chewy
Most hilarious food review I've ever seen. I already had tears in my eyes when he said "That frog must have been a gymnast". But when it came to the comparison between "Simon Art Garfunkel" vs. the porc trotter with Sauce Bearnaise, it just blew me off. Thanks for the really great entertainment!
And by the way: now I'm hungry, too!
So fun to see your reactions! Both restaurants were my favorite hangouts in 1996, watching you tear through that pigs trotter had my mouth watering at 0800AM in Seattle this morning, to say nothing about the escargot, Oh to have that for breakfast!
I want to go to France to try out their tasty cuisine.
You mean amazing
Welcome 🙂
I hope you can book 2 monthes then, because as France is a very old country, each 100km you will find completely new different specialties (North, West, East, South-West and South-East of France look and taste like whole different countries) !
You are more than welcome !!! come over here :-) Restaurant are much cheaper in France than in the UK or in the US, trust me ;-) Happy & proud that some of you like our cuisine. thank-you
You should try "Canard au sang" a recipe you can only find in France with a whole duck pressed to extract its blood and juices to make a sauce.
Also try "ortolan" a delicacy forbidden now.
Ortolan may be awesome but it is an endangered specie, so no don’t eat it. But canard au sang is one of the best dish ever!
I love frog legs & Beef tartare. I’ve never had escargot or sweet breads. Though I have prepared sweet breads quite a lot…while in culinary school and during my days working in restaurants. If there were a place close to me that made escargot I’d absolutely try it. Anyway, much love to y’all. Love the video, as always. ✌🏻🥰😊
I ate escargot and i think he overexaggerated them a bit. They mostly taste like the butter you stuff them with. They just give a small amount of "different oil/fat" and texture to it.
But basically you could replicate this with any spongy food - like tofu for example - and the same butter.
How can you have cooked them but not tried them?
That sounds really odd
@@sneer0101 two different things said by two different people. The host comment diferentiates to the thread.
@@sneer0101 yes I know it does. At the time of my cooking them I was part of a religion where it is forbidden to eat certain things….thymus glands being one of them….as they are seen as unclean.
Now that I’m older I’m no longer part of any religion and I eat what I like. I just haven’t tried sweetbreads as of yet as they are difficult to find where I live. ✌🏻😊
@@sneer0101 p.s. I only recently had liver and I didn’t like it. Though I’ve prepared it many time and it always smells so tasty….I did not like it at all. 😂😂😂😂
I also never ate shellfish or pork until I was an adult. Of course I wouldn’t prepare pork either as it was unclean and we weren’t even permitted to touch the flesh. But I realized that those food laws were necessary to keep ppl from getting ill before refrigeration and before understanding safe cooking temps. So…now I’ll try just about anything…tho I do have a line I won’t cross because of my own tastes. ✌🏻
calf sweetbreads (or "ris de veau" in French) are my absolute favorite meal. Unfortunately, it's quite expensive and you have to order them from the butcher because it's rarely on the shelves.
It is indeed the thymus of the calf (there is the same thing with lambs) which is a gland which only exists in children because it produces growth hormone and disappears in adults (it's the same in humans).
It doesn't disappear in adults.It just becomes smaller.
for those of you that havent tryed snails, the taste is amazing, the textur is a bit like a gummybear, so If you dont like to eat snails, just try the green garnish cooked in the snail, that is the best part.
They're similar in preparation and taste to mussels.
I love 90% everything you ate and would love to try the last 10% (the last dish).
Someone said you have to try canard au sang. Oh yes do it is so good.
Among the unusual dish, try the tablier de sapeur. It is more or less fried pig fat. :)
You also have to try all the kind of pâtés and other terrines. Charcuterie in France is no joke.
Man, that pig ear looked so good. 39 year old German here, I still remember an older story from around 19 years ago. Our boss back then invited the whole team to a farm after we've spent 2 years on a restoration project of a historical farmhouse ( Carpenter / woodworker ) and the farmer family that was living there had a butchers license and they grew, slaughtered and prepared their animals inhouse. They held a really nice BBQ for us, imagine gigantic plates chock full of nice, tender organically grown meats of all varieties. One thing I still vividly remember were the smoked and charcoal grilled pig ears, was the first time in my life I've tried something like that and they were absolutely delicious. Thanks for taking me on a trip down memorylane Sunny!
Hello, 40yo French here ! When I was a young teenager my mother used to go to the German market in Aix en Provence and she brought me pork rind sausages. I love that. these are the best sausages (along with morteau sausage;)) in the world.
Can you certify to me that it is something German and that you also have it at home? pork rind sausage \0/ I'm calling your name!
@@shivas3003 Hmmmm. we have a pretty big variety of pork sausages here. What you're describing sounds a lot like "Cotechino" though. Maybe it's that?
@@TwiztedHarlequin Ooooh , maybe I don't know ! She said to me it was german. But maybe every country have his own rind sausages ^^
And Oh my god, this is Sooooo Good.
Note for the snails:
We usually do not put the bread in the shell.
First we eat the snail, and then we put the shell in a way that the butter drip in the plate.
Once all the snails are eaten, we sauce the plate with bread.
Nice to see American people loving our cuisine. However its funny how you ask how to telle the words "in French" but "tartare" or "sauce" are literally French words haha. In fact most of the technical terms used in cuisine (French word also ;) ) are French !
I would bet green backs he is Canadian.
@@jenniferrollison4377 Minnesota..close!
You are in the right place for great food mate. The Latin quarter for me a few years ago remains an unforgettable experience ! And those snails are lit! Damn good…Creme de Cassis also not to be forgotten!
Love it when you get in the kitchen and we get to learn some cooking hacks. Free culinary lessons. 😊
A great selection of eats! Has been years since I've been to Paris ..want to go back even more now!
I’ve watched every episode I love watching your shows….. education, relaxing and intriguing
Lyon and the restaurants named "Bouchons" are a great way to taste some original weird french food. It's amazing 😉
La cuisine Lyonnaise. Formidable!
''Bouchons'' are the equivalent of Pubs or old Taverns in England/Ireland. It designate a place where you can eat & have a drink. Wine being more popular in France (since the Romans) than beer (which was the Ancient Gauls Celts main alcoholic beverage) a bouchon is 'slang' a wine bottle stopper.
Snail and frog legs - reminiscing on my time in Mauban PH, foraging snails during low tide and had them cooked in coconut milk along with some squash “ginataang kuhol”🤤
My mom used to cook frog legs, adobo-style sans the traditional soy sauce but with all the other traditional ingredients. Uber good😋
Are you talking about snails or winkles?
Béarnaise is a butter and egg yokk emulsion (as a mayonnaise) seasoned with tarragon, Shallot and a touch of vinegar.
It's a speciality from a region in south west France, called "Béarn", it is traditionally served with prime rib.
Ironically the first time I ever had frog legs was in Minnesota in the mid 70's, The restaurant had a frog leg fry night. I was a kid but found them to be delicious. Still do!
Really making me want to go back to Paris :D it's been too long and that Tartar looks amazing 🤤
The snail thing is a horrendous concept, but it’s absolutely delicious. It isn’t something weird that kind of tastes ok, it’s tastes wonderful.
French food doesn't get enough love!
in what world ? ^^
I have a booking at this restaurant and had planned to try these dishes. Now I'm even more excited!
I love how he’s at fine dining but eats with his hands. Priceless
Honestly, you can't eat frogs legs with fork and knife
@@aikifab I’ve seen people do it. My mother made use eat literally every single thing with utensils. I got teased so bad for eating sandwiches, pizza, cookies, chicken legs/wings, and even more with a fork and knife. My roommates use to hide the utensils to force me to eat pizza with my hands because they found my manners so ridiculous. So I’m sure if someone tried hard enough they could eat anything with utensils. I just thought it was amusing to see eating with hands in a fine dining establishment lol.
As someone who's never been to France, i think you did a pretty good video about the foods that they have over there.. We're always shown about fencn pastries and sweets.. But they do have such unique foods as well.. Thank you for teaching us so much
Oh and btw, all of the regions in France have so much specialities, or products in term of food !
Like u can find "Quiche lorraine" "choucroute" / "cassoulet" / "andouillette" / "bouillabaisse" / "tartiflette" / "Waterzooi"
AND SO MANY MORE !!
If one day u go in France, please visit Paris yes, and others regions if you can, for the mountains, the sea, the view of beautiful things, different cultures and architecture types ALL around the country.
In "Alsace" or "Moselle" you can find germans architecture due to the german occupation in 1940.
In the north, red bricks in buildings AND.... I think you know for Paris.
It's not because I'm french but except the politic, French is a very good country (to visit at least, living here is a bit different but better than much countries)
It's great, but I still love Vietnamese food
2:02 : it's "bouchées à la reine au ris de veau", a famous classical french recipe.
4:55 : it's not oil, but butter, caus' it's a "persillade", a french sauce made with butter, garlic and parsley. (You can eat everything with that sauce, that'll always taste delicious with a persillade!)
Frankly none of those foods were what I would call weird. They were all classic foods and I was amazed that you had never had calves liver. I grew up eating pretty much all of those foods myself and then later cooked them as I became trained in classic French cooking in culinarily arts.
I'm a 39 year-old Frenchman and I haven't eaten any of these foods aside from snails a few times with our Christmas dinner. My grandfather loved odd pork cuts, but the rest of my family doesn't. None of these foods ever come up in my casual conversations with other French people and aside from snails, I don't even think that I've seen them on a menu.
@@Alsacien Interesting. In our home we ate these foods but I didn’t eat them in restaurants. I did cook them however.
On Réunion island ( French territory) its a very common dishes call "patte cochon" a lot of Young this day prefer to eat at burger king than traditional cuisine
39 year old German here, never had calf liver either. I do like pork liver though, my mom used to make it a lot when I was still a bit younger. Just cut it into bitesized pieces, rolled in a flour / cornstarch / salt mix, then fried in a cast iron skillet with butter and plenty of onions until the onions start to caramelize and the liver get some color too. Then she served it with homemade mashed potatoes and a homemade elderberry jam.
Well most of the calves liver aren’t from calf.
You they slaughter calves just for the liver?
We used to have a buffet in town (I live in Northern Indiana) that served frog legs and they were amazing. They shut down, unfortunately, so they are a lot harder to find now.
All look so yummy again, i love French cuisine ❤❤❤❤
I think I want to go france because of the food in this video that makes me hungry already 🤤👍
There was nothing in the video that made me hungry... except for the mashed potatoes and fries. I don't really like liver, escargot or extremely fatty cuts of meat. I cannot say that I don't like frogs legs, or beef tartare because I have yet to try it. And although these are foods that, I have never tried and are not common at all to me... I will try anything once. Well, anything except horse.
@@ImNotInLoveItsJustAGameWeDo horse tartare is mindblowing
Been in France didn't like those foods at all brrrrrrr
@@barrydeiter1192 you're the problem then not the food
@@pbz4994 different taste.
Bro I've never had snails and this made me want to try them! 🤤 This was awesome 👍
actually snails are not interesting , it's the butter sauce which make the whole flavor
its uper normal and tasty you will not be disappointed
RESPECT to that female chef's hand... those bruises and cuts are badges of hard work and passion.
Dans les foyers Français c'était presque toujours les femmes qui cuisinaient.
De nos jours les " grands mères" sont les gardiennes des vieilles recettes et sont extrêmement respectées pour leur savoir.
Interesting to see how frog legs are made in France compared to South Carolina! Either way they are delicious, almost like a light fish.
I think you may find it interesting how they cook anything in France compared to South Carolina...😆😆😆
So some US folks are « frog eaters »… welcome to the club, (French man here) anyone to tell to the Brits?
Sonny has such enchanting eyes.
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Was just thinking the same 🤣
I thought the same but I preferred not to say so and I have never paid attention to his eyes until today!!
I loved France, I used to go get the wine for Christmas, but always got horse kebab's whilst there, yum! 👍👍❤❤
The calf liver is cooked to absolute perfection. The frog legs are 120% on the point but the pork leg should be filled, italian style. When I was a kid my dad always threatened me to prepare a filled pork foot, called zampone. Now, as I‘m 58ys, I love the dish.
hello how are you, i really do love your comment, i must confess i was impressed by your world.
Everything about this video was amazing, up until 3:50 when I noticed that the chef was preping and cooking food with a very large, fresh wound, on the top of her hand between forefinger and thumb, with NO gloves or bandaid covering the wound. LIKE... WHAAAT?! I don't care how many times you wash your hands, there's a semi open wound on the part of your hand that is constantly moving, therefore opening each time she moves her hand. And then preping food with this open wound.... 🤢 I'm sorry, after that, the tasting menu would be finished for me. You have a MUCH stronger stomach than I, Sunny.
Thank you for your amazing work Sunny! Your channel is still one of my absolute favorites, hands down! I have been a subscriber since you had under 50k subscribers. And now you are well over 1M! Way to go Sunny! I hope you keep growing and succeeding! ❤️🥰
You're leaving Paris with a bit of Parisian in you. Sounds like quite the experience.
@@canchero724 Quite literally! 🤣
Glad that you appreciate our gastronomy. And calf sweetbreads are my favorite meal, but it's quite expensive.