World’s Best Vegetarian Food - $2.78 | Banana Leaf Sadhya - Kerala, India! REACTION!! 

Few interesting facts about this video... 1.\ When you eat with your hands the probability of burning your tongue or lips is minimum. 2.\ There are a lot of nerves which converge on your finger tips and palm. Means that your taste buds and brain already gets a signal about the texture, hardness, crispiness, softness and sometimes spiciness of the food that is just about to enter your mouth. Assumption here is you eat slowly which is eventually good for digestion too. 3.\ The narrow side of the banana leaf is always reserved for pickles and starters whose sole purpose is just to stimulate and tickle your taste buds from time to time. 4.\ The hot rasam when served on a banana leaf creates a unique appetizing aroma which you will never experience on a steel or a ceramic plate. 5.\ Finally after the meal, the banana leaf is either fed to the cows or buffaloes in the backyard or are dumped into a pit in the backyard. Naturally bio degradable with no toxic waste to pollute the nature. Subtle way of giving it back to the nature that takes care of us. 6.\ Traditionally you sit on the floor while having meal on a banana leaf. Thats because it gently forces the movement of your stomach muscles and intestines as you lean forward and back to eat from the banana leaf. So waist up your body is in total control of the food that you consume. Our ancestors were a lot more concious about nature and a lot wiser for sure!

Kerala sadhya is designed according to Ayurveda. The dishes are arranged in the order of Acidic to Alkaline.

4:18 All these years and Korbin still calls it Naan bread. It's like saying Chai Tea.

Yes Korbin, the banana leaves are thrown away after people eat on it. 90% of India usually serve food on biodegradable plates and this has been going on for centuries. No worries, West is working on it in their universities and gonna claim/patent it as some wild innovation in a few years.

That is in my home town Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Welcome in advance. The person telling about brown rice to mark weins is also an amazing you tuber called Ebin Jose from food and Travel.

Korbin, don't think it is dirty, it is food anyway. When we mix the food with hand on the banana leaf and have, the taste is definitely different from eating with cutlery. If you're a person like to explore different stuff, try this too. Eating like this is one of things I feel I am blessed to be born in South India and practicing it naturally.

I am of Malayalee descent living in the US. We get our banana leaves for Onam from Mexican stores. I have lived in 3 continents, love food from around the world and a meat lover but hands down Onam Sadya is my most favorite meal. I could become a vegetarian if someone could cook 21 curries everyday 😂. My family doesn’t add too much chilies. We use lots of various spices but heat spice is moderate. All flavors matter!! I can’t handle heat spicy burning food. Even our achars, you taste more tang than heat, you are even able to get a hint of the future sweetness of the unripe fruit that the Achar is made from …if you can picture that. Korbin would enjoy my mom’s cooking.

Sambhar is very famous south indian cuisine but one intersting fact about samber is that it is named after 2nd Maratha king chatrapati sambhaji. Sambhaji - Sambhar. It has very interesting story also.

🤣🤣it's not adapraman , it's adaprathaman 🤤🤤 love from kerala ❤️🥰

Alternate Title for the video: The Slow Death of Korbin Miles! This is truly a Halloween video for him. 🤣

The five fingers are the supplier of five elements to the food while you mix and squeeze! The five tastes are included in the food as well such as sweet, sour, bitter, salty and astringent! All put together, you just balanced your energy through the food that you consumed! And it then really becomes ‘finger licking good’!

Rick / Korbin - buttermilk with curry leaves can be used as a plain drink or mixed with rice. This is prevalent in south india where it acts as a cooler and helps the stomach settle down. It is the last item on the menu. Along with curry leaves, there are versions of it with Fenugreek seeds and tempered/tadka with mustard seeds.

So happy that you watched Mark Wiens. Mark is one of the best food reviewers who loves food and is so humble. He is one of the very few reviewers I watch, and is my number 1 fav person.

Am from Bangalore...I have been here... Its AMAZING food... Indians when you go to Trivandrum.. don't forget to visit this .. MOTHERS VEG PLAZA...

Buttermilk with curry leaves in rice is not bad taste.. It's awesome... When u just drink it after having a sadya... It is superb. 🤤 Butter milk which had after having payasam.. Sweet dish reduces the kick provided by the high sugar payasam and also cleanses the system.. And rasam also reduces acidity

It’s ok Korbin. You can eat with cutlery, we don’t mind. It’s not a big deal. We’re very considerate people.

I loved the payasam with banana and lemon achar. Remembering the days back in Kerala, having the sadhya after weddings, especially after hindu weddings. Those 23 years in Kerala were my best time. Miss everything. Still eat with hands.. 🤩🤩. You should try it.

dont know how Korbin is managing 3 children without getting messy 🤣🤣

Not pani poori water . It is rasam , a watery spicy soup which enhances digestion. And buttermilk and curry leaves is called "Sambaaram" .

As much as I love eating with my hands, I can totally relate to Korbin. Also, about showering right after Holi or being messy.

Mothers Veg Plaza... It's in my city. Thiruvananthapuram or Trivandrum 😃.. I visit there often not to taste sadya but to try different types of dosa along with sambar, coconut chutney, tomato chutney 🤤 . btw we get non veg sadya also in some other restaurants here thats served in banana leaf.. the veg dishes are basically the same but we get fish, beef and chicken along with the sadya 😋

Korbin don't worryThose liquid dishes you can directly sip from the bowl🥣.😅

Actually indian gooseberry (Amla) is a superfood with the highest antioxidant content of any foods. It has an antioxidant content 125 times that of blueberries as per a scientific study which measured antioxidant content of over 13000 foods. So it should help extend lifespan (I think that is what the server was trying to say in his not so-good-English, when he said “eat this, life is short” Meaning since our life is short, we should eat this to improve it or extend it”

You should visit Kerala😁

awww man! looking at this makes me feel that we should appreciate what we have man! all these foods are made everyday in our household and we be like "mummaa, always cooking this ?? ain't no special cooking?"

Indian food is all about mix and match of items. By the way it's not dirty. It's food.

When my mother make sambar at home, it's like clearing out all left over vegetables in the fridge. Once a week make a spicy vegetable soup to use up any vegetables at home.

Please react to Aranmula Vallasadya... Largest vegetarian feast in the world.

Korbin, god gave us hands for this mainly. Not for any other “job” 😂 The joy in eating a sadya with your hands is the greatest in this world. I have travelled to many countries and had so much variety of food. Nothing beats a Kerala Sadya!

Nan bread is not part of South Indian food .. so in traditional south Indian meals (hotels or at home) u don't find any kind of bread, but full of Rice 😋😋..

Absolutely MISS Korbin's food vlogs!!

That's rasam not pani puri water.. South Indian cuisine is entirely different from North,

You should try and cook a South Indian banana leaf meal just with a poriyal, kootu, a pickle, three curries and rice

അണ്ണാ നമ്മൾ തിരുവനന്തപുരത്ത് ക്കാരും ഇവിടെ ഉണ്ട് കേട്ടോ 😁

My favorite Kerala sadhya😋😘🥰👍

Rasam and panipuri water is different. Rasam is a hot watery sambar and panipuri water is a mixture of mint chilli coriander water etc.

I like how uncomfortable Korbin was 😂

Kerala piravi Ashamsakal 🌴 Happy 66th Birthday Kerala

Gooseberry pickles are made with cooked or steamed ones hence the “life” ie shelf life is smaller ie two weeks refrigerate than other ones that can stay for 2 years outside… also the meal is in courses - dal rice/ sambar/ rasam and ends with yogurt Curds based curries …

One will literally feel dozy after having a stomach full Sadhya in Kerala 🥰

I pity the ones who never experienced the satisfaction of eating a full meal using their own hand - They do not know what they are missing out

This is the best vegetarian meal I ever had in a restaurant. I am from North India and I get to travel a lot in India. Best sadhya in Kerala, it was like home cooked food. The owner here is a great guy. Please react to Best ever food review - dal baati for school kids.

I love kerala 🇮🇳🙏🏻

The yellow flat bread kind of thing is called boli. It's sweet in taste. It's chick pea mixed with jaggery and cardamom flavoured stuffing inside a flat bread made out of refined flour or wheat. It's made on a flat plan , shallow fried in khee, clarified butter Payasam,the milk rice flakes sweet desert, normally poured over it and mix all together and eat. This is a special dish in Southern most areas of Kerala.

In Miami, many many restaurants of indian food, you can't try the food in 1 time, u have to go many times for end the list, veg / non-veg, spices/sweet.........

Korbin's having a silent panic attck! Bless him.

120₹ is less even in Indian standards for that whole meal to be honest. Where I'm from, that would cost atleast 200₹

i love Korbin's reaction when he look at the fingers with stuff on it

I had fun watching this reaction video :)

he was talking about shelf life of gooseberry pikel I guess..

there is a scientif proof if you eat with your hands it will help you in good digestion thats why our ancestors eat with their hands

There is a significance of folding banana leaf after your meal is completed if you fold it towards you it represents that you like the meal and your our well wisher if you fold opposite it is opposite sign

These foods are feeling the stomach as well as giving satisfaction to the soul.

Really wish If you guys can do a Q&A session video also for us, where we can post questions in the comments and you can answer them in the session. For authentication, pls put the snapshot of the question with you channel name visible so that we have genuine questions. ☺️🙏 Just a request .

Banana leaves adds flavour, nutrition and antioxidants to food placed on it. After having a meal on a banana leaf it should be folded towards our side on a normal or a good occasion as a sense of celebration . If the occasion is a funeral then it should be folded away from our side as a sense of mourning. Thrown banana leaves and leftover foods are fed to cows which provide them with good nutrition and in turn they produce good quality and good quantity milk. Hence not only there is no wastage but it also helps to cut costs from buying cattle feeds.

Lots of Love from Trivandrum🥰🥰

Rick that is not rose water. It's roots of the tree boiled in water. Contains Ayurvedic benefits

I liked koben's expressions throughout the video and laughed like hell 🤣 😂

Korban sounds like Sheldon Cooper talking about hygiene reproduction 😜

Imagine what banana leaf have been gone through this entire time.

I couldn’t take my eyes off Korbin’ face throughout the video😅

Both of you are Invited to my home in Long Beach for Onam or Vishu festival haha. I make same Sadhya!

Habibi come to Kerala ❣️💜

And Today is the birth of Kerala🌴 November 1

Korbin was trying hard to not look at that.. finding excuses to look away😂😂😂

It's not Rose water, it's Jeera water good for digestion. Rose water's colour won't be rose. It's transparent.

The way Rick talks about Indrani is so wholesome... Like u can feel the warmth!

Hey korbin u aren't alone I eat with hands but u know what sometimes foreigners eating with hand grosses me even more.... 😂 And everything was so syrupy i would have used a spoon

We proud of our best veg food,it is incredible indian culture jai hind, jai bharat

I loved whenever your partner got grossed out. I just couldn't hold my laughter back lol also dw I know he didn't mean to disrespect :)

A sadhya is such a fulfilling experience.

Its not Rose water but it is made by boiling a red root in water ithas digestive properties

In India, the biggest market of spices in New Delhi, Apposite to RED FORT, GO WITH MASK, to much smells of spices

It's nice that old thumbnails are back. Don't know which noob did you hire for last few videos 😂🌚

There are two types of people in world . those who had a Sadya and those who not had one.

In kerala we don't have nan bread, this is pure kerala food

Goose berry infact gives longevity. It is immunity boost, rich in Vitamin C, one goose berry is equal to 4 oranges.

Hey Korbin! EVERY Indian dish has some element (paneer) that is neutral in flavour among the boiling heat. ONCE you notice this fact, you can eat almost any dish with adequate amount of gravy. Your tongue have to develop a resistance to heat which will come eventually.

Not only watch also just try 'sadhya'it awesome

Rasam became Pani Puri water

It’s a perfect eco system when you serve in banana leaves and use your hands to eat (tasting the food while enjoying the texture and it’s more hygienic then eating on a plate with spoons or fork). After you finish eating and when you throw the banana leaf, it becomes a natural organic good for cows and goats that gaze on the streets. All the rich traditions are almost dead in India now due to the greedy minded and selfish (majority of the) population (and thankfully not everyone is greedy or selfish ) 🙏🏻🙏🏻 And when you eat in banana leaf, you get an added unique flavor. whenever I visit India for vacation? I always request my dad to serve hot idli with ghee on banana leaf and it tastes super delicious (and my mouth is watering when I type this). 😋😋 And you cannot use fork or spoon to eat in a banana leaf. 😂 The first dish you both were trying to pronounce is adaprathaman. The yellow color (tortilla kind of dish) is sweet poli and served with semiya payasam (vermicelli kheer). Towards the end, the first thing he drank was rasam (which you thought is pani like pani puri). And butter milk with curry leaves has amazing flavor. They would add salt also in the butter milk. You can drink it as is while chewing the whole curry leaves (I am used to it and love it) or you can mix with rice and eat it. As he said, ending the meal with ginger pickle helps in faster digestion after such a heavy meal. This is famously called Onam Sadya and Onam or Thiruvonam ( Thiru + Onam) is the biggest and famous festivals mainly for Keralites. I am surprised that the guy in the video is able to handle so much heat (spice) 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻

Korbin had trauma watching the video. 😂

Only south india will have these type of different dishes,and this was the afternoon lunch we eat 😋

15:26 smile 🤣👍

there are foure kinds of food.charviam.khadhyam.chuooyam.and peyam

In my knowledge PAISAM made from Rice flour with coconut water and banana and beggary

It is not rose water it is jeers or cumin water to aid digestion.

Now it's around 240rs.. (2.9Us dollars)

thumbnail look like johny sins with his signature pose 😂

Korbin. You have a long way to go!! 😅

Not a panipuri water that is rasam Rasam and buttermilk is help in digestion

Pls don't call Naan a Naan bread😂😂 it hurts my soul that it is getting westernized as "bread" also in South India they don't eat Naans

I don't know why they have to show messy eating with hands. Even with hand, one can eat really neat. Even neater than what people eat with spoon.

It’s rasam which means pepper water...

Mouth watering, want to go back to Thiruvananthapuram 👍

Yes we can get banana leaves in most Mexican stotes because they make Thamales in it. Then chilly, potatoes, pineapple, yuca/tapioca it is all mexican and introduced into indian cuisine by Portuguese so there is many similarities. Especially in kerala and goa culture n food

Me rn eating from Mothers Veg Plaza, Trivandrum, Kerala -- "DeJavu"😅

Heavenly..................

OMG !! thats close to my home :)

Its rasam / turmerind juice with spices