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SIGHETU MARMATIEI 🇷🇴 | TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN FOODS & MORE! off the beaten path in Northern Romania!
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Sep 6, 2023
We made it to Northern Romania! 🇷🇴 We even saw Ukraine from our train, which felt pretty surreal honestly... 🤯 Sighetu Marmatiei (Sighet) is exactly the type of place we love discovering whenever we are in a new country. Not a lot of other tourist know about it, so we end up basically being the only ones and it really gives us a true sense of what life is like... in a raw way, unspoiled by mass tourism. Don't get us wrong, we love most touristy places too, but having the time and flexibility to spend some time in places like this, definitely feels special 💕 We learned more about communism in Romania, tried delicious Romanian foods we hadn't tried yet and also learned about Jewish history in this part of Romania. It was a really awesome that and we hope you enjoy this Romania vlog :) Thanks so much for watching our videos and for being here! See you guys in the merry cemetery next! XO, Aimara & Gordon - Other Useful Links: ★ SIGN UP TO OUR 'FRIENDS OF THE WORLD' NEWSLETTER FOR EXCLUSIVE CONTENT! https://bit.ly/WOTWweeklynewsletter (it's a good one!) ★ FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM FOR LIVE UPDATES! https://bit.ly/waysoftheworldinstagram ★ OUR EQUIPMENT & PACKING ESSENTIALS: https://bit.ly/whatsinoursuitcases ★ LEARN MORE ABOUT US ON THE BLOG: https://bit.ly/aboutusWOTW
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Good morning from Chile, Romania. After spending over two weeks exploring the beautiful Transylvania region
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a seven-hour train ride brought us to the north part of the country. So right now we're in a city called Siggett to Marmatsay, I think that's how you say it
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But all the cool people call it Siget, so that's how we're going to call it for the rest of the video
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And this is exactly the kind of place that we like to explore because not a lot of people end up coming here, so we're basically the only tourists in town
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But the city also has kind of like a heavy history that we're really excited to learn about and share it with you
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And we're also going to try some traditional foods because we need to warm up our souls because it's going to be cold and a little bit rainy later today
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So let's start. So today is Sunday
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So today is Sunday. It's about 10.30 in the morning. But Siggott is completely dead
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I don't know if everyone's still in bed or in church, but there is not a soul in the streets
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Don't know what's happening in this town today. So our first stop today is the memorial to the victims of communism and the resistance
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We haven't really spoken much about Romania's communist past since the Bucres video
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but right now where we're standing was one of the most well-known political prisons in the 1950s during the first dictatorship after World War II
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All of these names here were victims of communism and people that fought during the resistance
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It's very intense. I think the old Prime Minister, the first Prime Minister of Romania, he was held here and he died here
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Religious leaders, professors, like any political opponents held in this prison, many never made him
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it out. This place is intense. So there were basically two famous communist dictators in Romania
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I don't know if famous is the right word, but anyway, most people know Shishescu, but before
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him in the late 40s to the mid-50s was a guy named Georgesh
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I also don't know if I'm pronouncing his thing correctly. But he's the one that was in power when this political prison was kind of like imprisoning
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all the people across Romania. So he was super, super evil, super paranoid, and he was the one in charge when all of this stuff
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was happening in Romania. and like most people forget about him but he deserves to recognize in history because he was a total ass It says here that 600 people were arrested and sentenced to imprisonment during the communist period in Romania
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so from after World War II to 1989. But the terror reached its peak in 1948 to 1953
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So that was under George George Ditch. This is so tense. Like all these people, like this whole hallway, this like cover and like phases and
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photos and I saw some people like crying too. Maybe their families were here. I don't know this is intense
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You guys this place is crazy. There's basically three floors of old prison cells and you can go into each one and there's like different information. Most of it's in Romanian but they gave us like
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like a pamphlet or so that translates most of it to English. But being here and learning about the Romanian history
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it makes me feel so grateful for being in the exact spot that it happened
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because, like, coming from the U.S., we don't know that much about it. Even though it's, like, really heavy, it still feels good to learn about it
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I think we did the right thing. We're coming here, even though I'm out of suffering. This is so sad
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It's really sad. I don't like this. I'm not exactly, we're not encouraging you to come here
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You should come, but it's just very sad. It does affect me like it's intense
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And I'm hungry. Well, it seems like the sun is out
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and this is kind of like an awkward transition, but we're going to have some lunch and show you guys
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some traditional Romanian foods that we haven't tried yet, so we're very excited
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Ready to eat? And then the goulash. Is it possible to have this one for appetizer also
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No, only here. This is it for forest mushrooms. Yes, meat pork
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Oh, with pork? Yes, meat pork. Ah, okay. Do you want that
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Yeah, we'll try that one. Yes? Yes. Yes. It's normal Russian. Okay
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Is this traditional? It's from the chef. Yes. Okay. You still want that one
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Okay. Then this one? The cutlets? Okay. Is enough? Yes. Okay. Thank you
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So my doulash. So the first dish that we're going to try to
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The first dish that we're going to try today is goulash. The name might be familiar to a lot of people
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That's because it's Hungary's national dish, and I think it generally kind of popular in the region But Manamudish the region where we in just like Transylvania was part of the Hungarian kingdom for many many years so that why a lot of foods here had Hungarian influence So I think there a ton of paprika and that why it has this red color chunks of beef
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What else? I think beef tripe. It's very soul-warming food, which is good, because it is a little bit chilly today
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The sun did come out, but it's still a little bit cool. There's something in it because like my throat a tickle
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I think it's like a ton of paprika, but it also has like dill and other spices
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I really love the flavors. I love the stewed beef in there
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I don't love the tribe. I don't think I'm going to eat that. And it also comes with all the bread you can ever want
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In a cute little bowl. I'm a fan of borsh, but the tripe is kind of throwing me off
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This is the third time I ordered it here in Romania, but this is the first time that it comes chunks of the insides
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That you know. Mm-hmm. That I know. The flavor is awesome. I like Porsche a lot
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It's so bourche. Goulash. What, have I been saying Borch the whole time
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This is a third. Now I'm trying something called paprika, which is a Hungarian dish again
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and this is forest mushrooms with cream, and it's served with polenta on the side
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Forest mushrooms are very very, are very popular here in Romania we have seen them all over the markets and we
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this is the first time we order anything with forest mushrooms so let's see I don't
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know what the cream is it smells really good and it's like warm and like very like cozy
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and it's I'm very cold right now so this is gonna be awesome it tastes like a mushroom
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I feel like the cream like this should be like a pasta sauce Is it going to freda
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No, like it's better. It's like, I don't even know like with the cream, like with the bases
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Maybe like that sour cream that they use here that it's like not too sour
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I don't know. The mushrooms are delicious. This is very good. It doesn't look that good, but it is good
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So what I'm trying, I think, is called Tochitura Maramushenia. So this is actually from the region of Manamudish
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And I think this is the cream that I might I was talking about. It's probably with the basis for that forest mushroom soup, whatever there is
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And the food in Manamurisha is like very very rich. It's because it's the most northern point in all of Romania
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So it's all like kind of like mountain food and all very like hearty This has at least three different types of meats in it has sausage
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Chicken. I think this is beef or pork. You might have pork and pork with the polenta and the cream and I think some cheese
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Good thing I'm hungry. We're gonna start with the sausage Sausage is everywhere in Normania. It's probably their national dish. I'm gonna claim it
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Let's see how it is. Mmm. It has a very nice flavor It like a smoky sausage I think the brown sauce it kind of like a gravy also with a little bit of like probably a lot of butter It also a very nice flavor It like a smoky sausage I think the brown sausage kind of like a gravy also with a little bit of like Something got probably a lot of butter It also a very hearty dish now I gonna show you guys the pork
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This is Romania's favorite meat, so I can't not show you guys the pork. It's always very like slow cooked
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Mm-hmm. It's always yeah, it's very tender Mm-hmm Mm-hmm
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Finally it arrived the one and only not by the half We have been waiting like 45 minutes for this
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So Papanash is very popular here in Romania and I haven't had it since Brasho
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And I really really liked it there and it's basically just like a fried donut, like a bowl with jam, very fresh, homemade, and a delicious cream that is like sweet but not too sweet, sour but not too sour
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It's perfect. Papannash, this is what you have to eat, so you can't remember how many you eat this
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Many times. So, Siggett is also known for being the birthplace of Elie Waisel
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And right now we're actually standing inside his old home. So Elie Waisel, that name might sound familiar
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most known, I guess, Holocaust survivor. He also became a very important activist, human
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arts activist, an author, Nobel Peace Prize winner, professor, etc. A very, very remarkable
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human. Most people don't know that he is Romanian and definitely most people don't know that he is
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from Siggott. But here we are, standing in his old home. Oh. Yeah, it's a very, very small
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museum. We're not going to bore you with the details of it, but we wanted to stop by because we were in
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Sigitt and when are we going to come back? I don't know. So, this is Elie Waisal's childhood home
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There was a huge Jewish population here in Siggitz before World War II, but then during the occupation they were removed and sent away
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So there's not really a Jewish population here anymore, which is very, very sad obviously, but it's nice to, I guess, be here and remember them
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Yeah, we'll see you guys at the bar, we're not going to do from see. Yeah, awkward transition number two. Nice. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers
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We know this video was a little bit random, but we hope you enjoyed it
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We really wanted to show you like an off-the-vied-path location here, Romania
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With the intention for you to like come here, I mean, you can come if you want, but for us it's more like sharing like our journey and our experience in places like this where we're basically the only tours
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because we really, really love places like this. And if you guys like Romania videos
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make sure to check the travel series. And we'll see you guys in the Mary Cemetery in the next video
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Thank you for watching. You have questions. Let us know. Bye
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