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$4 Nitrogen Ice Cream In Pakistan🇵🇰
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$4 Nitrogen Ice Cream In Pakistan🇵🇰
Back to the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, this time inside it and in daylight, with Mac — and it turns into the clearest demonstration in the cluster of what being a Western tourist at a Pakistani landmark is like. Around a hundred people over an hour, twenty in the first few minutes: selfies, filters, slow-motion walking videos, and a FaceTime call to somebody’s family.
Harry’s advice out of it is plain and unbothered: if you are a visitor from a Western country, expect this at the places tourists gather, and take it as friendliness.
The rest is ice cream. In an F8 markaz they find nitrogen ice cream made to order — mixed and frozen in front of them with liquid nitrogen, about $4 — and he rates the texture well above ordinary ice cream because it is minutes old.
Obs: this page is based on auto-generated subtitles; amounts the transcript leaves ambiguous are marked unverified.
Key moments
- [00:00] His description of the mosque: like something out of Hogwarts. He gives its size three different ways in the same video — sixth largest in Pakistan, sixth largest in the world, largest in Asia (from video – unverified) — and none is adopted here.
- [01:39] His selfie stick breaks, which he takes philosophically on the grounds that Islamabad is the one city where he can replace it.
- [02:10] Shoes off, into a cloakroom; it is government premises, so retrieving them afterwards is slow.
- [04:04] Being mobbed, quantified: about twenty photo requests within minutes, roughly a hundred people over the hour. Harry’s note is that it makes sense at a landmark, that everyone is kind, and that some are very full-on.
- [06:46] Leaving at sunset with the Margalla Hills behind it, which he calls one of the most beautiful things he has seen in a while.
- [07:46] 600 rupees for a 5–10 minute taxi to the F8 markaz.
- [08:51] Nitrogen ice cream, about $4: frozen to order in front of them, Nutella flavour, and better than standard ice cream in his view because it is fresh rather than stored.
- [13:24] 250 rupees quoted for the taxi back; he pays 1,000. Same reason as Lahore — the driver quoted honestly, so he rewards it. See reward honesty and hard work.