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FIRST TIME TRYING ROMANIAN FOOD! | EATING OUR WAY THROUGH BRASOV TRANSYLVANIA ??
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Sep 6, 2023
Salut from Brasov, Transylvania! ?? We didn't know what to expect about Romanian food, since we've never tried it before but it really blew our minds! We had the most amazing recommendations from friendly locals and spent the day trying delicious Romanian foods we've never even heard of before. And this is just the beginning! We can't wait to see what else this country has to offer. So far so good Romania. We love you! Thanks so much for watching and for being here. We don't take your time for granted. If you have any questions, don't be shy and ask us in the comments. We are always happy to help! See you guys on Sunday with a new Romania video from Transylvania! XO, Aimara & Gordon 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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Hi guys, welcome to Brashe of Transylvania
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Today we're taking you with us to try the most incredible traditional Romanian foods
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I already see your first off. Salud
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Uh, just giveal? No, nothing? Okay, nothing. Uh, paddam, yes. Ah, okay
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Okay, do you have Branza de vood? Uno? Do you chocolate? Chocolate
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We got our placinte and this is just a little shack in a corner
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so there's nowhere to sit, so we're just eating on the street. And this was actually a recommendation from my sister's neighbor who is from Romania
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She's actually from Brashoff. So she said you have to go to that place
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Oh my god, this is fresh out the friar. So I think the name of this place basically translates to the house of pies
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But these are not really pies. It's more like a pancake that is like fried and then like folded with different stuff
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Like on the inside it can be sweet or savory. This one is sheep's cheese
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Take my first bite. I think you did like this from this side. Bite where the cheese is
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This is so good. Like the dough is so fresh. It's kind of like crispy on the outside, but soft on the inside
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It's a really, really good dough and the cheese is delicious, super fresh
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This was a great recommendation. Aneli, thank you so much. I don't think we would have ever found this place if it wasn't for you
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Thank you. I'm covered in Nutella. How's this sweet one? Nutella with fried bread
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That's delicious. I wanted to get another one with yellow cheese, but they were out of it
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So I panicked because I didn't know what anything else on the menu meant, except like chocolate. So that's what I went for
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And yeah, fried dough with Nutella. This is delicious. There's no more. Mm-mm
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We made it to Rastov's beautiful city center and we're heading to our second stop
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We're gonna try like some, it's kind of like a street food so it's like Romania's version of like a pretzel and it's called gaudy and it should be delicious and I'm sure I'm gonna like it because I love friend
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I think we're gonna do this one and that one over there
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Stop it! No! I'm being a I'm being a tap! Hi
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She's gonna need it. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't
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I'm being a tap. Hi! No
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We're gonna rush. We're kind of rushed to like explain you guys this because we're being attacked by wasps right now because this is sweet
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And it's just like basically like a pretzel with like sugar and walnuts on top and the dough. I don't know if you can see it
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It's kind of like a phylo dough sort of it's not like super dense like a pretzel. It's really good
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Covety This one looks super familiar if you know me you know why
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This used to be my street food or like travel day snack when we were in Turkey and
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This one has a cherry jam filling and it looks really good and I think this has the potential to become my new travel day snack here
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Mmm, hmm! That jam! That is so good. That is really really good Oops problem You want to try it Let see
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Let's see what you have to say. Simmit with jam, huh? The wastes are back. Here. Hmm. Mmm. Mmm. See
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That was really good. Jam's kind of like serpy. We don't know if this comes from cement, but we think it does
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If you do know, let us know. If you do know, people get sensitive with foods
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So I don't know if this is inspired by the Turkish. But we also love it
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One of the narrowest streets in all Europe and the world
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Never doubt yourself again. Do you know the story here? That this street was built for firemen
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Do it. So we are in Brashov's famous Rope Street, and this was built for firemen to connect the two main avenues
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I think it was built in like 1700s or so, or 1600, 17th century, and some parts were like a meter wide
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In your arms? I can touch with my elbows. We're going to be
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We're basically hanging out in the town until we get hungry again because we have a lot going on for lunch
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We're going to try some of the best traditional Romanian foods that you could
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ever think of. Yeah, could we start with the bean soup? Yes, the meat soup. Yes
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And also the eggplant salad with tomatoes. Will do. Is that like a dip or not
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It's like a pasta. It's mashed. Okay. Okay. Yeah, can we start with that and then a little bit later have the Charma, like the cabbage wraps? Cermane. Cermane. Yeah
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Yeah, and also the bulls was smoked sausage. So we're at this restaurant called La Seul question
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I don't know how to pronounce it, I'll put the name here. This was recommended by several locals and we're very excited because it's supposed to be like homemade like traditional foods
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And we have here, I also don't know how to say it. How do you say it
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Chorva faso. Chorva faso. short bar basso and it's like a white bean soup with like paprika and like mince like pork or ham
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and it comes inside an entire bread like look at that you can like pick it up
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look at that that is so cool I can see like all the veggies in there and I can already like
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smell the pork smells very very good This is so good that you can like the work really comes through like it's nice and smoky and it's so flavorful and it comes with like a bunch of like red onions like on the side
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I don't know if you just like throw in in there. I don't know. Let's see. I mean this can be wrong
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Mmm. The red onions by the way the ones we tried so far we cook a lot with them They delicious delicious here in Romania This is quite addictive I can see us having this several times during the month that we going to spend here
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Oh my gosh. Like it's so good with the onion. I don't know if I can like scoop it
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The onion nach? Mm-hmm. Mmm. Wow. You have to try this. The soup is really, really, really good
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So we learned that you can like scoop some of the soggy bread
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So I get all those flavors in there. Look these chunks of ham. This is awesome
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This is not like this wasp is gonna kill me. It's not like American ham
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It's like thick chunks. Mmm, this is... Mmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm
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Oh, that ham is awesome. It's so smoking delicious. This is really good
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Oh, I would order another one of these. Mm-hmm. I don't want to like poke too much in the bread, I don't want it to spill out
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It's going to be very careful. This is very, very nice. I don't think you're going to get it back
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And that's the after shot. Are you going to eat your plate? I don't know if you're supposed to eat all the bread
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I don't think so. Let us know if you're Romanian. Just going to keep scooping out this soggy bread
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So this is an eggplant curate. It looks very nice. You just spread everything here in Rums
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Romanian on bread. Try this baby out. Very nice. We've heard from a lot of people that
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Romanian has great vegetables. And this is very good. I think you would like this a lot
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And all the vegetables we have have been incredible. Cute. I do like it a lot. What
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Um, more sweet. Okay, this is one very, very good. Okay. Thank you. Okay
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So, good. So good. So good. So this is one of Romania's most iconic dishes
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I'm not going to try to pronounce it, because the waiter just said like something else completely different than what we tried to say
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So these are basically. like cabbage rolls with minced meat and pork inside and they smell incredible and the way they
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serve them here is with like a polenta puree on the side and sourcrow and they give to the
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sour cream because you're supposed to build oh my gosh look at this as i was saying you're supposed
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to like put a little piece of bacon that comes on top with some herds and sour cream
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Oh my gosh, I think this is gonna be amazing. There's so much yes in this
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It's minced meat with like some fil-up, some rice. And it's delicious, like you can barely taste the cabbage
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It's mostly like about the meat. And the sour cream is so different than the sour cream in the US
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the US like it's not that strong this is really and obviously the bacon he's
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delicious and we've noticed that most of the like animal protein that you see here in Romania it's boring ah so good Romanian food for the wind today
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so this is our last entree of the afternoon this is called waltz which is also one of
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many of the most traditional dishes, which I think is like polenta usually mixed with cheese
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and this time it's topped with like a smoky pork sausage. It looks very good, also very heavy
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It's really good
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It's just like the smoked sausage and cheese. those too, like always go well together
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Very rich This is very very happy too I don think I can finish this whole thing but the flavor is awesome so fun fact about pork in Romania they started
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introducing pork into their recipes like during the Ottoman occupation of this land because the Ottomans don't eat pork so that was to keep them away
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from the livestock so they wouldn't steal it and that's something that we learned from our friend Eddie on our train ride from Bucades to Russia so thank you Eddie
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for that hot tip on pork in Romania and we're thankful for it
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Could we order the Papunush? Yeah, just one? Cheers. Thank you. More food
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Romanian donuts. It's for you. This one's for you. I'm here with the sausage
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I'm here for the sausage. I'm here for the sausage. Nice. Nice
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Thank you. Thank you. That looks amazing. So this is called Papanash and it's basically the Romania's most famous dessert
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and it's like a donut pretty much. It's like sweet cream on top and like jam
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And it smells delicious and I think it's just made fresh because it took them a little bit to bring it
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And I gave like I just like caught through it and it's just like crispy on the outside and like doughy on the inside and it looks perfect
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I'm gonna stop talking and I'm gonna eat it. Mmm. Mm-hmm
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This is so good. It's so good. I really had like high expectations for this because everyone like says that it's delicious and that you really have to try it
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And it lives up to the hype. This is really really good. It's not too sweet. It's like perfectly balanced
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We're gonna have a lot of these in the next 30 days. Hey, stop it
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Just a flight, stop it. You want some? Mm-hmm. That was still good, but we still have one more stuff
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We couldn't have a Romanian food tour video without trying the local spirit
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This is Palinka, I think it's like 43% alcohol which is pretty light. I understand for Balinka, it's often homemade and pretty strong
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This is apricot, Palinka. It smells very, very pretty, very good. We also ordered it with some cheeses and we wanted to get sausages
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But unfortunately they didn't have sausages. But when you go to the supermarkets here in Romania, there's like a cooler that goes
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on for like a kilometer filled with sausages. I think they beat Italy with like the number and the variety
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So we'll show that in a different video. But for now, we'll just try the panica
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I'm excited. It is very good. It obviously has like the alcohol bite to it, but like the apricot flavor is awesome
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They recommended that. They also had like pear and plum, I think. It's very pretty and delicious. This might be my new racke
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For the next 30 days. Yeah. Very good. They recommended it with a cigarette
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I said no. I'm really in. I love cheese with wine. This place is awesome because it's like a wine bar
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And they don't really have like a menu. but there's a sommelier and he comes to the table and explains like the wines they have
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and he recommended this kind of noir from Transylvania and it's delicious and we're going to end the
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video here we're going to enjoy like this beautiful evening but if you guys like to watch like future videos and then leave like a playlist here that you guys can check out next and if you
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want to watch like other Romania videos I'm going to leave that playlist here too thank you so much
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for watching and we'll see you in the next video bye
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