They forgot "Lübecker Marzipan" . It s a delicious Candy from Lübeck. It s a Almond paste with chocolate. Labskaus is also a northern Meal. Franzbrötchen are very nice.❤ I m happy to see, you are interessed to North Germany and their meals,the most People always looked to the south... Greetings from Schleswig Holstein 🎉
Not strictly a local North German dish, as it's also popular in Scandinavia. But Rote Grütze is one of the most amazing things ever created in a kitchen. Lots of mixed red berries cooked with plenty of sugar to make something similar to marmalade. Fantastic with vanilla ice cream.
Franzbrötchen are delicious and very popular, Mattjes and Scholle also! Krabben (shrimps) are very expensive... Grünkohl is my favorite! But they forgot the Hamburg national meal: Labskaus. This is corned beef with potatoes stirred and a Bismarckhering + Beetroot and above fried egg. Greetings from Hamburg.
Yes, Labskaus is a very delicious meal and one of my favorite. I was a sailors meal back in the days, when there was no fresh stuff to get. So canned meat potatos and beetroot and hering in vinegar ( Bismarckhering) was easy to store on a ship.
I love Labskaus, but many people might be upset when they took a look at it. It tastes good but doesn't look like tasting good. But don't be afraid, just taste it, you won't regret.
Of course "Grünkohl mit Pinkel" is not common in Schleswig-Holstein (more in the Bremen and Oldenburg area) - we eat it with small Mettwurst. The fried potatoes are quartered and fried with sugar. Labskaus is a very tasty food from October through the winter. This includes Rollmops or Matjes, fried eggs and beetroot. Labskaus consists of potatoes, cucumbers and cured meat in our region (Kiel area). Fish is extra. Another dish is "Pears, Beans and Bacon". It's eaten with cooked (special green) pears and fatty bacon. Sour meat with fried potatoes is also missing. The sour meat is marinated in gelatine and served cold. In summer there is also hot or cold cherry soup and semolina dumplings. "Rote Grütze" (rød grød med fløde 🥰) from Denmark is also very popular - with custard warm or cold milk, whipped cream or whatever.
Fresh matjes herring in a bun, with green salad, sweet onions, a slice of tomato and pickle is always a good choice. Fresh crab on buttered brown bread is also a good choice.
If you ever been fishing on a Krabbenkutter, a midsize crab catching boat with enormous trawls that sometimes are out on the water for 12 - 16 hours, you would instantly understand why the portions are on the bigger side of the spectrum. (Bigger portion ≈ less frequent meal breaks and less weight loss due to heavy manual labour) 😂
I am from Schleswig-Holstein, my favorite local dish is probably Krabbenbrötchen or Scholle, which was shown in the video. Franzbrötchen is really tasty, but i´m not that much of a sweettooth in the morning, so i like it better as an afternoon snack with some oat milk or coffee.
here in Hannover, grünkohl is mostly eaten with bregenwurst. A sausage that's originally made with brain (bregen is low german for brain). But after the mad mad cow disease scandal in the early 2000's , german law banned the use of it and bregenwurst is made without brain. We eat it normally in late autumn or winter.
Nothing but checking out in Husum when the trawlers will come in and you buy your pint of north sea shrimps directly from the trawler. They are being cooked in seawater right after being caught and you just head of to the next bench and starting to peel
I am from a small town in Dithmarschen, which lies in Schleswig-Holstein. We are located on the coast of the north sea but I know more people that don't like fish than people who actually like it. We eat a lot of pork, cabbage/ kale and potatoes in a vast amount of variations.
A Franzbrötchen is not a croissant. Completely different dough. It’s more like a flattened cinnamon roll. I love Franzbrötchen and get one or two almost every morning on my way to work in Hamburg. I work right opposite Miniatur Wunderland! 🙂
Favorite northern German food: Either Kale with sausage (easily able to be found here, even if not as presented in the video, but mostly using a Mettwurst sausage) or shrimps with Bratkartoffeln (pan fried potatoes) and a frieg egg (or two). Anything with shrimps, really. Especially when fresh off the boat like in my childhood holidays. As I lived in the North for over a year, not trying Pinkel wasn't really an option. I prefer the Mettwurst combination, though.
So fish is definitely one of my favourite foods here in northern Germany. I used to work in a company where we made the fish cakes fresh every day, fried them and sold them in the snack bar. Or salmon fillets pickled in brine. In the morning, fishmongers would come and place their orders with us for the market. Mackerel, trout, Bismarck herring, in various infusions. Fish meatballs on a roll, baked fish in beer batter (a different version than in the video), matjes, smoked eel, crabs on brown bread, or a simple fish roll. But what we are also known for are the fish fingers. Especially for children. The prices at the fishmongers are quite expensive, of course. At the supermarket, too, but there are also cheap suppliers where you get about the same for half the price. But as an example, a smoked trout of about 120g costs only 1.99€, which you don't get at the fishmonger for that price. Well, the crabs are small crabs. There are also the giant prawns. They are three times as big. Here in our region, they are often bought fresh from the cutter fisherman (directly, when the cutter docks in the harbour, he offers the crabs unpulled), which you then pull at home and make yourself a portion on brown bread. Then you can really taste the sea. You can't get any fish fresher than this, as most of the fish arrive deep-frozen. Kale? Definitely. A must-have on every kale tour. After drinking a lot of alcohol, a really good portion of kale with pinkel is definitely the right thing to do. A cold Mümmelmann, Jägermeister or Kümmerling is also just the right drink for such hearty meals. This is supposed to settle the stomach. A small tradition.
@@LythaWausW Wait a minute, you just wrote that you don't mean shrimps. What now? The king crab does exist, but they are often only bought to order because they are also very expensive. And you don't see them that often. It also depends on the catch of the wholesaler. Otherwise, I recommend Fiedler's sea delicacies. If you're lucky, there's something there. Otherwise you'll have to look in your neighbourhood. When we had our annual fish festival, I once drove a 100kg tuna to the exhibition, and the boss said to me: "Watch out, you're driving fish worth 1000 euros around. "
@@DJone4one Tuna is a delicacy. On pizza, not so much. Honest question for you - is it a different part of the fish that goes to the tuna steak vs. the tuna on a pizza/in a can? I'm curious, since you seem to know what you're talking about, why crab is not offered in Germany at supermarkets. The cost is the reason? Wiki says that "Stalin's crabs" are taking over the oceans of Europe, and yet they are unaffordable? I don't get it please tell me why. In my opinion, crab and lobster are the most perfect foods on earth. Why hasn't Europe embraced Stalin's "problem"? TIA.
@@LythaWausW Firstly, what does Stalin have to do with it, and secondly, there are crabs and lobsters in Germany, just not in supermarkets, because no normal person buys them (because a supermarket naturally also thinks about sales). That's why there are marine delicatessen shops or wholesalers. A colleague at work once ordered tuna steak, but I don't know what he had to pay for it. I just looked at the Fiedler website. A 400g lobster costs €22.50 there. The kneepers, the crab claws 1kg, cost 28€ there. Also because of the price, I guess, because as I saw in a video by Scor (a rapper from Germany who lives in China), he found such huge crabs in a Chinese supermarket there, and the price of their currency is roughly what it would cost here in Germany, at least 50 euros. So if the claws of a crab alone cost 28€, that's about the same as the total price. But it can also be much more expensive. No normal German would pay that, unless he had the money and wanted to try it. I wouldn't want to buy it either, because the preparation or far too little meat would be there for so much money. The price-performance ratio is decisive for many people. So I don't quite understand the tuna steak, or is that more of a trick question, because the meat is the same. It only looks that way because it is cooked. The steak is just raw meat that is sold directly like that. So here in Germany, it's more like limandes, plaice, salmon, eel, cod, mackerel, haddock, pangasius, rainbow trout and a few other fish species. Crayfish, lobster, mussels and caviar are considered delicacies.
I'm born in Hamburg and lived in Lübeck for most of my life, and fish just never did anything for me. I'll eat it when I'm invited and that's what's being served, but all the raw fish dishes are pretty gross.
in the region i live in northern germany i can buy the "krabben" directly from the incoming boats. also i have everything eaten that was shown in the video. nothing disappoints. but thats just a small overview. many more to discover. for example a very pricy one is the "helgoländer Hummer" or a "seezunge". greetings
I was wondering how far I'd have to travel in Germany to find lobster. Thanks for answering that question! Can you get crab there too? (Not shrimp, crab)
@@LythaWausW well, you can have both in every good restaurant here. but only a few have it regular on its menu. best is to call them before, make a reservation and order what you like to have. this will also make sure is absolute fresh. if you are interestet in about the lobster there are a few vids out that shows how they support the grow of the population of them by growing up in farms for 2-3 years and planting them back into the sea. mostly in the offshore windturbine parks. also in Hamburg are some very high class seafood restaurants where you can order everything you want. the seafood is bought daily at the "hamburger fischmarkt". thats an other location i highly recommend to visit if you are interestet in seafood. greetings
Gruenkohl and Pinkel, the best thing ever. I am going to Germany end of November, I will be in Hamburg and Bremen. The first thing I will do is find a good restaurant.
Green kale is awesome, with a whole culture around it. Like a "Kohlfahrt", a journey towards the cale, where a bunch of people towing a hand-wagon behind themselfs on the way through the northern german fields and plains. The wagon is filles with hard northern german alcohol. One you've arrived at the restaurant where the cale gots served (at this point your quite "happy" from many shots taken) you not only eat and drink, but you crown the cale king / the cale queen, depending on who drunkt / ate / danced the most etc. Having said this: one dish was missing: Labskaus (one source tells the name might origin from the english "lubbers course"). Very tasty, stomped potato and corned beef, served with a pickled herring and a scrambled egg, often accompanied by beetroot
I never actually knew Franzbrötchen are a regional thing. It's one of my favorite pastries. It's soft but neither mushy, flaky, or crumbly. And while it is quite sweet and cinnamony, the dough has plenty of flavor of its own to make it not overwhelming.
Franzbrötchen is not a croissant, is a cinnamon roll, pressed a little flat. it my favourite breakfast pastry. you can even get good quality franzbrötchen at most bigger gas stations in Hamburg.
I wasborn and raised in the south-east of Hamburg.the franzbrötchen were sweet and so tasty not compareble with others. Bäckerei Heinz Bahn is the specialist❤❤
In northern Germany we have a bakery chain called franz and friends and they are specialized in franzbrötchen and you can buy all kinds of franzbrötchen, they all have the classic cinnamon, sugar and butter base but there are different varieties such as caramel, strawberry and cream, pumpkin spice and seeds, chocolate, apple and so on. So delicious
I have friends from southern Germany and I don't like it that much when I'm called a North German fishhead. It's meant as a joke, but it still annoys me a bit. But nice to see that you are interested in North German cuisine. I think there is a second part of this video. But there is more here alls just fish. My favorite is pears, beans and bacon, a typical Schleswig-Holstein meal, and I also really like Labskaus. And it's hard to believe, but I love fish in all variations. Greetings from Schleswig-Holstein🙂😊
Well, if you're only called a fish head, it's not as bad as if you stink like a fish. At least here in the port, when you work in production, you often get the smell of fish even if you take a shower. There is also an extra bus line they call the Fishtown Bus. But that was a long time ago. Now it's not so bad, at most in the summer.
I'm from northern Germany, specificaly EASTfriesa (Ostfriesland; The place with the tea museum from the north german travel video), and grew up around these foods. Sadly I have a fish intollerance so I cannot eat most of it, despite liking it. But I can eat the Northseeshrimp and even if they cost an arm and a leg, I cannot get enough of that nice salty sweetness. You definitely need to try them!
As a southern German I am envious how much fish ( fresh and cured ) is readily available in the North . Down here, it’s just way harder to find and almost always more expensive , and seafood is considered a thing for fancy people . Also since we don’t eat fish much at a young age , many refuse to eat it when they’re older .
Everything she presented is really excellent, if you like seafood. The same goes for the kale and the special sausage version served with it (for me it has to be with spicy mustard). The latter is a seasonal soul food for around September/October. I'm from the northern half of Germany, but not from the coastal regions. However, my family and I love to spend our summer vacation up there and of course enjoy the delicious food. Best from Germany
My father actually is from Kappeln. Every time we visited, my parents brought home with them some smoked eel from the local smokery (is that a word?). It's regarded as the best one in northern Germany by some. Unfortunate I didn't like fish at all. Also popular is Brathering, which is like a vinegary fish party made with herring
Franzbrötchen are the best. but its not a crosaint. Its more like a cinnamonroll get hit. And yes its very popuar, especially around Hamburg. Your get it at every bakery, and everyone makes it bit diffrent. But most of them are great. if our unlucky and its bad its to dry. Also very nice in the north or mabe just hamburg is "rundstück warm" its bread roll or any other bread, with a slice of roast (beef or pork) and sauce over it. Mostly eaten when theres roast left over from the day before. Also as a cake its "butterkuchen" translated to Buttercake. its a flat sheetcake, with a topping out of almonds sugar and butter. Eaten in the north to every family occasion, from birth to grave. If baptismen, confermations, bdays or funerals, thers mostly Butterkuchen. Best with whipped cream. And yeah fish is a thing in North Germany, because of the easy acces to both north and baltic sea. So region cousine is often resutling from the landscapes around. In Southern Germany fish is expensive and harder to get of course. so they fokused more on other meats. but i think the video fokused very much on Fish. If someone is intressed in it, wikipedia has some nice stuff about it, look for Regional cousine of Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein...
what I think of our traditional food ? relatively simple hearty and sometimes slightly odd 😂 Schwarzsauer for instance is like the northern answer to spartan Melas Zomos and Mehlbeutel like some basic english pudding picked me some Salicorna (marsh samphire) yesterday at Lundenbergsand which I simply gonna sprinkle over the first super potatory potatoes of this season and freshly harvested leek, pan fried in bacon fat and together with Frikadellen also preparing some steam cake dough currently, made with an odd mixture of cream + fresh wine and jam made from my garden mulberries ......gonna add lots of different other berries as well but don't know which yet...... pro tip for adding some honey/bitter-almond/vanilla flavour to sweet dough: a well calculated amount of meadowsweet flowerpowder too much makes the dough bitterish but the right amount will result in a subtle but noticeable nice flavour and it's currently in season ...add also sweet-grass powder as much as you want.....or melilot powder if you ain't got sweet-grass
I’m from northern Germany and I like Spargel the most I would say. I live in a Region were it’s big in agriculture (Niedersächsische Spargelstraße). Franzbrötchen is also delicious or Rote Grütze…
Franzbrötchen kenne ich nur aus den "Buddenbrooks" - Scholle Finkenwerder Art ist grossartig, esse ich, wenn immer ich es auf der Karte finde. Aber Fisch kriegt man in der Tat nicht in so vielen Restaurants, ist auch eher teuer.
The shrimps are not as fresh and regional as you would expect. They catch them in the german sea, but 90% of the shrimps go then to Morocco, where they get prepared. Then they get back to germany and are sold as fresh regional product. Globalisation at work
For fresh crabs (North Sea shrimps) you go to Husum or Dagebüll and skip the Morocco North Sea crabs. They are freshly caught. They are regional and fresh. Your comment is slightly incorrect.
As a German living in the Southwest at the German-French boarder, I'm going to plan my next visit im Hamburg in Augist 2023. And I still can't wait for all of these Northern delicacies😍 But to be honest: Since I had my very first original fish and chips in London, I'm addicted to this British dish!!!
Wenn wir ans Meer fahren essen wir Scholle. Auf dem Rückweg nehmen wir noch ein Kistchen Räucherfisch und Krabben mit. Aber die Krabben immer selber pulen. Nicht schummeln 😊
I live in north Germany in East Frisia forty kilometers away from the North Sea coast and love to eat fish. Whether it`s shrimp soup, fresh fish with lemon , fish rolls , very delicious. North German butter cake with vanilla pudding or East Frisian cake with rum raisins also tastes very good. Franzbrötchen eaten in Hamburg and in the Hamburg room.
That`s true the east -frisian tea ceremony shouldn`t be forgotten when you`ve sitting comfortably together and talking to each other.@@tigeriussvarne177
The clock shows 23.27 and now I am hungry. By the way, for me the best way to eat brown shrimps (Nordseekrabben) is with fried potatoes and scrambled eggs. 🤤
Gosh, I knew that would happen, but now I'm brutally hungry and I'm not even a fan of northern dishes, maybe just because, I got always got stroppy, but expensive fish-dishes in my region, which is in the middle of Germany without access to the sea or the fish-cooks here in my surrounding are just not very well.
There's a chain of sea food shops and restaurants called "Nordsee" (North Sea). You can find them in many towns and cities all over Germany. They are quite good and affordable. However the dishes in that video are looking much better. There are also some popular dishes with sweet water fish like "Forelle blau" and "Forelle nach Müllerin Art" (trout) and a couple more with other kinds of fish, eg carp. They're offered in south Germany too, yet not in every restaurant. At the Lake of Constance I'd recommend dishes with Egli filets for example.
"Birnen, Bohnen und Speck" ... (= Pears, beans and bacon) . However, you have how to do it right and chose the correct pears. Don´t trust the internet recipes! I made that mistake. They can get it wrong and all different aromes mix in a watery sauce ... which is wrong and doesnt taste well. Instead, ASK MY MOTHER! :-)
Depending on the type of fish, it can get very expensive. A "crab roll" (dt: "Krabbenbrötchen") might cost you 10€ or more ... last time I paid 13€ for it ... man, sure: It's worth every cent, of course, but ... quite an expensive bread roll snack! :) But anyway: All this fish dishes and stuff are very tasty! You can't go wrong with it - just get poor! *lol Just kidding - most of the stuff is quite cheap! :)
@@ole7236 A kind of white pudding mainly made from oatmeal and pork meat. Fried and served with bread, potatoes and sometimes with fried egg. Eine Art Grützwurst hauptsächlich aus Hackgrütze und Schweinefleisch allerdings nicht unbedingt in Wurstform. Wird kross angebraten und mit (Brat)-Kartoffeln oder einfach auf Schwarzbrot gegessen manchmal mit Spiegelei.
Kale always in combination with Pinkel - please, no. I'm from Hanover and we combine the kale with Bregenwurst (lit. translated: brain saussage but nowadays brain is no longer used). This one is more spicy and I do like it more than Pinkel and you will as well. But yes, there is a lot of lovely and hearty and amazingly good food around here. By the way if you're here try our special drink. It's called Lüttje Lagen - look out for it. We brought a gift set of these to Scotland for our dear friend William who lives in Dunfermline, one of the historic capitals of Scotland. It was incredibly fun to practice this special drinking. Love from Hanover. Klaus
All of this is considered as a baltic food and also as a silesian food. Bacon with a fish is called surf and turn around the world. Yeah Europeans are rather tall. But Scotts are stronger 🍻
That is mainly my point! If you watch those "Typical German food" videos on YT, you always only find this Bavarian stereotypical crap - and never ever see soups, fish dishes, or venison/game dishes, really expensive German cuisine. The North of Germany (and the East, for that matter) is always underrepresented. And the reason for that is that most UA-camrs only take on stereotypes, mainly American ... because Bavaria was occupied by US forces. If they had occupied Hamburg and North instead of the British forces, the worldwide image of Germany would be different. Just keep in mind: Bavaria does everything differently than the rest of the country, on purpose. Therefore, Bavarian culture is the least representation for the whole of the country. I'm so sick and tired of all that.
Europe's best seafood is in Croatia to be found, Mate. The North Germans are, when it comes to fish, like the British. They have no clue how to prepare them properly and deep fried battered is all they can apparently. That's the worst way to prepare fish.
Sorry, but your comment is as superfluous as a wart on the ass. Sorry for my direct nature, ultimately food is always a matter of taste and should not be overrated. Every country has its preferences. Your way of preparing fish may suit you, but we love it our way. To say we have the better one is pretty narrow minded.😉😊
The best seafood is Basque Country, Galicia and Portugal. Basically, all along the atlantic coast. Crotia is a close second. Your comment about north german fish dishes is ignorant but then again, it's the internet, so that is kind of a given.
@@MrMucera It would be an ignorant comment, if I haven't been to Hamburg, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Lübbeck and North Frisia to get a taste of what they call fish dishes. But I was at all those places and ate fish, so it is not ignorant, it is from experience. I agree though with the seafood on the Iberic Peninsula. You guys know how to prepare fish and we share a dish on top of that. You call it bakalao, we call it bakalar.
@@Kivas_Fajo THere are so many fish dishes in the north, fried is just the easiest, so it is common to find. Croatia probably shares a lot of food, many ingredients are the same. Arroz negro would come to mind.
There are 2 things that absolutely don't go together fish and dairy products, such as cream, milk, etc I don't want the taste of whey in my mouth when I eat fish.And by the way i don,t like fish
They forgot "Lübecker Marzipan" . It s a delicious Candy from Lübeck. It s a Almond paste with chocolate. Labskaus is also a northern Meal. Franzbrötchen are very nice.❤ I m happy to see, you are interessed to North Germany and their meals,the most People always looked to the south... Greetings from Schleswig Holstein 🎉
Not strictly a local North German dish, as it's also popular in Scandinavia. But Rote Grütze is one of the most amazing things ever created in a kitchen. Lots of mixed red berries cooked with plenty of sugar to make something similar to marmalade. Fantastic with vanilla ice cream.
The one my mother made was always so sour that I needed a lot of vanilla sauce to be able to eat it... Gods how I miss it.
Franzbrötchen are delicious and very popular, Mattjes and Scholle also! Krabben (shrimps) are very expensive... Grünkohl is my favorite! But they forgot the Hamburg national meal: Labskaus. This is corned beef with potatoes stirred and a Bismarckhering + Beetroot and above fried egg. Greetings from Hamburg.
Yes, Labskaus is a very delicious meal and one of my favorite. I was a sailors meal back in the days, when there was no fresh stuff to get. So canned meat potatos and beetroot and hering in vinegar ( Bismarckhering) was easy to store on a ship.
I love Labskaus, but many people might be upset when they took a look at it. It tastes good but doesn't look like tasting good. But don't be afraid, just taste it, you won't regret.
Of course "Grünkohl mit Pinkel" is not common in Schleswig-Holstein (more in the Bremen and Oldenburg area) - we eat it with small Mettwurst. The fried potatoes are quartered and fried with sugar. Labskaus is a very tasty food from October through the winter. This includes Rollmops or Matjes, fried eggs and beetroot. Labskaus consists of potatoes, cucumbers and cured meat in our region (Kiel area). Fish is extra. Another dish is "Pears, Beans and Bacon". It's eaten with cooked (special green) pears and fatty bacon. Sour meat with fried potatoes is also missing. The sour meat is marinated in gelatine and served cold. In summer there is also hot or cold cherry soup and semolina dumplings. "Rote Grütze" (rød grød med fløde 🥰) from Denmark is also very popular - with custard warm or cold milk, whipped cream or whatever.
Fresh matjes herring in a bun, with green salad, sweet onions, a slice of tomato and pickle is always a good choice.
Fresh crab on buttered brown bread is also a good choice.
If you ever been fishing on a Krabbenkutter, a midsize crab catching boat with enormous trawls that sometimes are out on the water for 12 - 16 hours, you would instantly understand why the portions are on the bigger side of the spectrum. (Bigger portion ≈ less frequent meal breaks and less weight loss due to heavy manual labour) 😂
Another very tasty northgerman food from the sailors is Labskaus,that you must check out too !^^
Oldenburger Grünkohl is my favorite, but it's a winterdish only.
Labskaus and Knipp is also very delicious, or Strammer Max.
I am from Schleswig-Holstein, my favorite local dish is probably Krabbenbrötchen or Scholle, which was shown in the video.
Franzbrötchen is really tasty, but i´m not that much of a sweettooth in the morning, so i like it better as an afternoon snack with some oat milk or coffee.
They forgot to show Labskaus. Hmm😢
Daß sie es nicht gezeigt haben, ist ja nicht so schlimm, sieht ja auch nicht wirklich gut aus 😂
Aber ist sooo gut….
Gute Idee, habe ich schon viel zu lange nicht mehr gegessen. 👍
Typical 😢
Yes! I think it could be, because it is verybl9cal, basically just Hamburg, and lesser known elsewhere. 😊
@@GrouchyBear411 yeah Labskaus is more a east friesian dish
here in Hannover, grünkohl is mostly eaten with bregenwurst. A sausage that's originally made with brain (bregen is low german for brain). But after the mad mad cow disease scandal in the early 2000's , german law banned the use of it and bregenwurst is made without brain.
We eat it normally in late autumn or winter.
Nothing but checking out in Husum when the trawlers will come in and you buy your pint of north sea shrimps directly from the trawler. They are being cooked in seawater right after being caught and you just head of to the next bench and starting to peel
yes and they are so Delicious mjam..
Northern German food is the best 😋
If you are ever in East Frisia, you need to try Snirtjebraten, it's sooo good. 🤤
I am from a small town in Dithmarschen, which lies in Schleswig-Holstein. We are located on the coast of the north sea but I know more people that don't like fish than people who actually like it. We eat a lot of pork, cabbage/ kale and potatoes in a vast amount of variations.
A Franzbrötchen is not a croissant. Completely different dough. It’s more like a flattened cinnamon roll. I love Franzbrötchen and get one or two almost every morning on my way to work in Hamburg. I work right opposite Miniatur Wunderland! 🙂
As a northern german: Franzbrötchen are amazing
You gotta try one if you get the possiblity
I am not big on Seafood, it sure is refreshing to see something about german food, and it is not just Schnitzel and Sausage
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Favorite northern German food: Either Kale with sausage (easily able to be found here, even if not as presented in the video, but mostly using a Mettwurst sausage) or shrimps with Bratkartoffeln (pan fried potatoes) and a frieg egg (or two). Anything with shrimps, really. Especially when fresh off the boat like in my childhood holidays.
As I lived in the North for over a year, not trying Pinkel wasn't really an option. I prefer the Mettwurst combination, though.
So fish is definitely one of my favourite foods here in northern Germany. I used to work in a company where we made the fish cakes fresh every day, fried them and sold them in the snack bar. Or salmon fillets pickled in brine. In the morning, fishmongers would come and place their orders with us for the market. Mackerel, trout, Bismarck herring, in various infusions.
Fish meatballs on a roll, baked fish in beer batter (a different version than in the video), matjes, smoked eel, crabs on brown bread, or a simple fish roll.
But what we are also known for are the fish fingers. Especially for children.
The prices at the fishmongers are quite expensive, of course. At the supermarket, too, but there are also cheap suppliers where you get about the same for half the price.
But as an example, a smoked trout of about 120g costs only 1.99€, which you don't get at the fishmonger for that price.
Well, the crabs are small crabs. There are also the giant prawns. They are three times as big. Here in our region, they are often bought fresh from the cutter fisherman (directly, when the cutter docks in the harbour, he offers the crabs unpulled), which you then pull at home and make yourself a portion on brown bread. Then you can really taste the sea. You can't get any fish fresher than this, as most of the fish arrive deep-frozen.
Kale? Definitely. A must-have on every kale tour. After drinking a lot of alcohol, a really good portion of kale with pinkel is definitely the right thing to do.
A cold Mümmelmann, Jägermeister or Kümmerling is also just the right drink for such hearty meals. This is supposed to settle the stomach. A small tradition.
There is no crab in this video. I watched it just to see if it would be: (
@@LythaWausW Wait a minute, you just wrote that you don't mean shrimps. What now? The king crab does exist, but they are often only bought to order because they are also very expensive. And you don't see them that often. It also depends on the catch of the wholesaler.
Otherwise, I recommend Fiedler's sea delicacies. If you're lucky, there's something there. Otherwise you'll have to look in your neighbourhood.
When we had our annual fish festival, I once drove a 100kg tuna to the exhibition, and the boss said to me: "Watch out, you're driving fish worth 1000 euros around. "
@@DJone4one Tuna is a delicacy. On pizza, not so much. Honest question for you - is it a different part of the fish that goes to the tuna steak vs. the tuna on a pizza/in a can? I'm curious, since you seem to know what you're talking about, why crab is not offered in Germany at supermarkets. The cost is the reason? Wiki says that "Stalin's crabs" are taking over the oceans of Europe, and yet they are unaffordable? I don't get it please tell me why. In my opinion, crab and lobster are the most perfect foods on earth. Why hasn't Europe embraced Stalin's "problem"? TIA.
@@LythaWausW Firstly, what does Stalin have to do with it, and secondly, there are crabs and lobsters in Germany, just not in supermarkets, because no normal person buys them (because a supermarket naturally also thinks about sales). That's why there are marine delicatessen shops or wholesalers.
A colleague at work once ordered tuna steak, but I don't know what he had to pay for it.
I just looked at the Fiedler website. A 400g lobster costs €22.50 there.
The kneepers, the crab claws 1kg, cost 28€ there.
Also because of the price, I guess, because as I saw in a video by Scor (a rapper from Germany who lives in China), he found such huge crabs in a Chinese supermarket there, and the price of their currency is roughly what it would cost here in Germany, at least 50 euros.
So if the claws of a crab alone cost 28€, that's about the same as the total price. But it can also be much more expensive.
No normal German would pay that, unless he had the money and wanted to try it.
I wouldn't want to buy it either, because the preparation or far too little meat would be there for so much money. The price-performance ratio is decisive for many people.
So I don't quite understand the tuna steak, or is that more of a trick question, because the meat is the same. It only looks that way because it is cooked. The steak is just raw meat that is sold directly like that.
So here in Germany, it's more like limandes, plaice, salmon, eel, cod, mackerel, haddock, pangasius, rainbow trout and a few other fish species.
Crayfish, lobster, mussels and caviar are considered delicacies.
I'm born in Hamburg and lived in Lübeck for most of my life, and fish just never did anything for me. I'll eat it when I'm invited and that's what's being served, but all the raw fish dishes are pretty gross.
in the region i live in northern germany i can buy the "krabben" directly from the incoming boats. also i have everything eaten that was shown in the video. nothing disappoints. but thats just a small overview. many more to discover. for example a very pricy one is the "helgoländer Hummer" or a "seezunge".
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nicht zu vergessen Fischbratwurst oder Fischfrikadellen.
I was wondering how far I'd have to travel in Germany to find lobster. Thanks for answering that question! Can you get crab there too? (Not shrimp, crab)
@@LythaWausW well, you can have both in every good restaurant here. but only a few have it regular on its menu. best is to call them before, make a reservation and order what you like to have. this will also make sure is absolute fresh. if you are interestet in about the lobster there are a few vids out that shows how they support the grow of the population of them by growing up in farms for 2-3 years and planting them back into the sea. mostly in the offshore windturbine parks.
also in Hamburg are some very high class seafood restaurants where you can order everything you want. the seafood is bought daily at the "hamburger fischmarkt". thats an other location i highly recommend to visit if you are interestet in seafood.
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Gruenkohl and Pinkel, the best thing ever. I am going to Germany end of November, I will be in Hamburg and Bremen. The first thing I will do is find a good restaurant.
You will find the best Grünkohl and Pinkel in Oldenburg! 😅
Green kale is awesome, with a whole culture around it. Like a "Kohlfahrt", a journey towards the cale, where a bunch of people towing a hand-wagon behind themselfs on the way through the northern german fields and plains. The wagon is filles with hard northern german alcohol. One you've arrived at the restaurant where the cale gots served (at this point your quite "happy" from many shots taken) you not only eat and drink, but you crown the cale king / the cale queen, depending on who drunkt / ate / danced the most etc. Having said this: one dish was missing: Labskaus (one source tells the name might origin from the english "lubbers course"). Very tasty, stomped potato and corned beef, served with a pickled herring and a scrambled egg, often accompanied by beetroot
I never actually knew Franzbrötchen are a regional thing. It's one of my favorite pastries. It's soft but neither mushy, flaky, or crumbly. And while it is quite sweet and cinnamony, the dough has plenty of flavor of its own to make it not overwhelming.
Franzbrötchen is not a croissant, is a cinnamon roll, pressed a little flat. it my favourite breakfast pastry. you can even get good quality franzbrötchen at most bigger gas stations in Hamburg.
I wasborn and raised in the south-east of Hamburg.the franzbrötchen were sweet and so tasty not compareble with others. Bäckerei Heinz Bahn is the specialist❤❤
In northern Germany we have a bakery chain called franz and friends and they are specialized in franzbrötchen and you can buy all kinds of franzbrötchen, they all have the classic cinnamon, sugar and butter base but there are different varieties such as caramel, strawberry and cream, pumpkin spice and seeds, chocolate, apple and so on. So delicious
Smoked mackerel, plain smoked mackerel together with potatoes in a sauce bechamel with parsley in it.
I have friends from southern Germany and I don't like it that much when I'm called a North German fishhead. It's meant as a joke, but it still annoys me a bit. But nice to see that you are interested in North German cuisine. I think there is a second part of this video. But there is more here alls just fish. My favorite is pears, beans and bacon, a typical Schleswig-Holstein meal, and I also really like Labskaus.
And it's hard to believe, but I love fish in all variations.
Greetings from Schleswig-Holstein🙂😊
your southern german friends are even wrong. fishheads are only the germans from bremen.
Well, if you're only called a fish head, it's not as bad as if you stink like a fish. At least here in the port, when you work in production, you often get the smell of fish even if you take a shower.
There is also an extra bus line they call the Fishtown Bus. But that was a long time ago. Now it's not so bad, at most in the summer.
As a native of Baden, I also don't like being called Swabian by people from Norderner (above Rhineland-Palatinate)!😂
@@arnodobler1096 I haven't made this mistake since the 90s after I asked a Badenser if he was Swabian.😅
@@michaelkuschnefsky362 👍🤣
For all,of you that mentioned that this or that is missing:
There is a Part 2 to the source video ;-)😊
I'm from northern Germany, specificaly EASTfriesa (Ostfriesland; The place with the tea museum from the north german travel video), and grew up around these foods. Sadly I have a fish intollerance so I cannot eat most of it, despite liking it. But I can eat the Northseeshrimp and even if they cost an arm and a leg, I cannot get enough of that nice salty sweetness. You definitely need to try them!
As a southern German I am envious how much fish ( fresh and cured ) is readily available in the North . Down here, it’s just way harder to find and almost always more expensive , and seafood is considered a thing for fancy people . Also since we don’t eat fish much at a young age , many refuse to eat it when they’re older .
It's a travesty. Bad parenting. I wish my husband could enjoy seafood but he just won't eat it. He's from Wuppertal.
The most fancy things which are expansive today, used to be a poormans meal back in the days.
@@Butterstulle Oh, brisket! Back in the day, poor man's food. Today, southern delicacy.
Everything she presented is really excellent, if you like seafood. The same goes for the kale and the special sausage version served with it (for me it has to be with spicy mustard). The latter is a seasonal soul food for around September/October.
I'm from the northern half of Germany, but not from the coastal regions. However, my family and I love to spend our summer vacation up there and of course enjoy the delicious food.
Best from Germany
I'm from Greifswald near the island Usedom and I never saw that 15. cake before 😅
You have to try a good Franzbrötchen 🤤 I love them and try to keep my consumption low ... once in a while I have one every morning before work.
My father actually is from Kappeln. Every time we visited, my parents brought home with them some smoked eel from the local smokery (is that a word?). It's regarded as the best one in northern Germany by some. Unfortunate I didn't like fish at all.
Also popular is Brathering, which is like a vinegary fish party made with herring
Butterkuchen!!!😍 Knipp und Mockturtle! This is very common in Bremen, Northern Germany. Mockturtle is originally from England.
Franzbrötchen are the best. but its not a crosaint. Its more like a cinnamonroll get hit. And yes its very popuar, especially around Hamburg. Your get it at every bakery, and everyone makes it bit diffrent. But most of them are great. if our unlucky and its bad its to dry.
Also very nice in the north or mabe just hamburg is "rundstück warm" its bread roll or any other bread, with a slice of roast (beef or pork) and sauce over it. Mostly eaten when theres roast left over from the day before.
Also as a cake its "butterkuchen" translated to Buttercake. its a flat sheetcake, with a topping out of almonds sugar and butter. Eaten in the north to every family occasion, from birth to grave. If baptismen, confermations, bdays or funerals, thers mostly Butterkuchen. Best with whipped cream.
And yeah fish is a thing in North Germany, because of the easy acces to both north and baltic sea. So region cousine is often resutling from the landscapes around. In Southern Germany fish is expensive and harder to get of course. so they fokused more on other meats. but i think the video fokused very much on Fish.
If someone is intressed in it, wikipedia has some nice stuff about it, look for Regional cousine of Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein...
what I think of our traditional food ? relatively simple hearty and sometimes slightly odd 😂
Schwarzsauer for instance is like the northern answer to spartan Melas Zomos and Mehlbeutel like some basic english pudding
picked me some Salicorna (marsh samphire) yesterday at Lundenbergsand which I simply gonna sprinkle over the first super potatory potatoes of this season and freshly harvested leek, pan fried in bacon fat and together with Frikadellen
also preparing some steam cake dough currently, made with an odd mixture of cream + fresh wine and jam made from my garden mulberries ......gonna add lots of different other berries as well but don't know which yet......
pro tip for adding some honey/bitter-almond/vanilla flavour to sweet dough: a well calculated amount of meadowsweet flowerpowder
too much makes the dough bitterish but the right amount will result in a subtle but noticeable nice flavour and it's currently in season
...add also sweet-grass powder as much as you want.....or melilot powder if you ain't got sweet-grass
I’m from northern Germany and I like Spargel the most I would say. I live in a Region were it’s big in agriculture (Niedersächsische Spargelstraße). Franzbrötchen is also delicious or Rote Grütze…
Franzbrötchen kenne ich nur aus den "Buddenbrooks" - Scholle Finkenwerder Art ist grossartig, esse ich, wenn immer ich es auf der Karte finde. Aber Fisch kriegt man in der Tat nicht in so vielen Restaurants, ist auch eher teuer.
The shrimps are not as fresh and regional as you would expect. They catch them in the german sea, but 90% of the shrimps go then to Morocco, where they get prepared. Then they get back to germany and are sold as fresh regional product. Globalisation at work
For fresh crabs (North Sea shrimps) you go to Husum or Dagebüll and skip the Morocco North Sea crabs. They are freshly caught. They are regional and fresh. Your comment is slightly incorrect.
Rollmops and Backfisch.....the seafood we ate living 1000 km from the sea...
As a German living in the Southwest at the German-French boarder, I'm going to plan my next visit im Hamburg in Augist 2023. And I still can't wait for all of these Northern delicacies😍 But to be honest: Since I had my very first original fish and chips in London, I'm addicted to this British dish!!!
I’m coming from the same region in Germany and a trip to the coast is always a good Idea. (I love fish food)
Wenn wir ans Meer fahren essen wir Scholle. Auf dem Rückweg nehmen wir noch ein Kistchen Räucherfisch und Krabben mit. Aber die Krabben immer selber pulen. Nicht schummeln 😊
I live in north Germany in East Frisia forty kilometers away from the North Sea coast and love to eat fish. Whether it`s shrimp soup, fresh fish with lemon , fish rolls , very delicious. North German butter cake with vanilla pudding or East Frisian cake with rum raisins also tastes very good. Franzbrötchen eaten in Hamburg and in the Hamburg room.
Not mentioning the east-frisian tea ceremony? ;D
That`s true the east -frisian tea ceremony shouldn`t be forgotten when you`ve sitting comfortably together and talking to each other.@@tigeriussvarne177
Try Nordseekrabben (Brown Shrimps) with Scrambled Eggs on dark Bread! 😋
The german equivalent of "Fish & Chips" is "Backfisch (und Pommes)".
They forgot "Labskaus" and "Rübenmuß"!
northern Germany is quiet similar to the north of UK and the coastal regions of Scotland and Irland.
Finally my home game in a footage, thank you Mööört! ❤
The clock shows 23.27 and now I am hungry. By the way, for me the best way to eat brown shrimps (Nordseekrabben) is with fried potatoes and scrambled eggs. 🤤
she forgot labskaus and mettbrötchen (breadroll with raw minced porkmeat and onions)
90% the same as the fish and seafood in the Netherlands. My favorite is the Plaice (Schol)!
Fishsoup..i Love IT ❤😊
Northern Germany & Schleswig-Holstein?!? Schleswig-Holstein IS part of northern Germany. It’s the northernmost of northern Germany 😅
as a northerner, i could eat Fischbrötchen every day.
Gosh, I knew that would happen, but now I'm brutally hungry and I'm not even a fan of northern dishes, maybe just because, I got always got stroppy, but expensive fish-dishes in my region, which is in the middle of Germany without access to the sea or the fish-cooks here in my surrounding are just not very well.
There's a chain of sea food shops and restaurants called "Nordsee" (North Sea). You can find them in many towns and cities all over Germany. They are quite good and affordable. However the dishes in that video are looking much better.
There are also some popular dishes with sweet water fish like "Forelle blau" and "Forelle nach Müllerin Art" (trout) and a couple more with other kinds of fish, eg carp. They're offered in south Germany too, yet not in every restaurant.
At the Lake of Constance I'd recommend dishes with Egli filets for example.
Nordsee is seafood fast food.
But I've to say it's my favorite fast food chain by far.
Your German Sounds Perfekt!!!
The "Backfisch" is not made from Alascan pollock, but from Codfish. I think it`s similar to your "Fish&Chips".
All the backfisch I've seen in Germany is pollock. I'd consider myself very lucky to find cod.
Mock Turtle + Labskaus ;-)
"Birnen, Bohnen und Speck" ... (= Pears, beans and bacon) . However, you have how to do it right and chose the correct pears. Don´t trust the internet recipes! I made that mistake. They can get it wrong and all different aromes mix in a watery sauce ... which is wrong and doesnt taste well. Instead, ASK MY MOTHER! :-)
I come from northern Germany, but I thought Franzbrötchen were popular in whole Germany ^^
Now I feel the lack of good ol' Omega-3 in oily red fish like Matjes Hering.
Northern Germany is in the sea side so of course they have plenty of fish.
Where is Labskaus? :D
Backfisch is more like the fish and chipin Britan
Depending on the type of fish, it can get very expensive. A "crab roll" (dt: "Krabbenbrötchen") might cost you 10€ or more ... last time I paid 13€ for it ... man, sure: It's worth every cent, of course, but ... quite an expensive bread roll snack! :) But anyway: All this fish dishes and stuff are very tasty! You can't go wrong with it - just get poor! *lol Just kidding - most of the stuff is quite cheap! :)
Crab trawlers need fuel, too. Everything connected with transport got more expensive lately.
Frisian here...smoked Makarel....lekka lekka lekka
No Knipp?
What is Knipp? I'm from NRW, by the way.
@@ole7236 A kind of white pudding mainly made from oatmeal and pork meat. Fried and served with bread, potatoes and sometimes with fried egg.
Eine Art Grützwurst hauptsächlich aus Hackgrütze und Schweinefleisch allerdings nicht unbedingt in Wurstform. Wird kross angebraten und mit (Brat)-Kartoffeln oder einfach auf Schwarzbrot gegessen manchmal mit Spiegelei.
@@Punki001 Hört sich gut an. Danke.
Kale always in combination with Pinkel - please, no. I'm from Hanover and we combine the kale with Bregenwurst (lit. translated: brain saussage but nowadays brain is no longer used). This one is more spicy and I do like it more than Pinkel and you will as well. But yes, there is a lot of lovely and hearty and amazingly good food around here. By the way if you're here try our special drink. It's called Lüttje Lagen - look out for it. We brought a gift set of these to Scotland for our dear friend William who lives in Dunfermline, one of the historic capitals of Scotland. It was incredibly fun to practice this special drinking.
Love from Hanover.
Klaus
All of this is considered as a baltic food and also as a silesian food. Bacon with a fish is called surf and turn around the world. Yeah Europeans are rather tall. But Scotts are stronger 🍻
Video volume too low, can hartlz hear her.
The best food of northern germany is ... Kale. :)
Boah ey Nu Hann ich Schmacht.
...if you really want delicious food in Germany...come to the River Rhein in Baden-Württemberg...
That is mainly my point! If you watch those "Typical German food" videos on YT, you always only find this Bavarian stereotypical crap - and never ever see soups, fish dishes, or venison/game dishes, really expensive German cuisine. The North of Germany (and the East, for that matter) is always underrepresented. And the reason for that is that most UA-camrs only take on stereotypes, mainly American ... because Bavaria was occupied by US forces. If they had occupied Hamburg and North instead of the British forces, the worldwide image of Germany would be different. Just keep in mind: Bavaria does everything differently than the rest of the country, on purpose. Therefore, Bavarian culture is the least representation for the whole of the country. I'm so sick and tired of all that.
Europe's best seafood is in Croatia to be found, Mate.
The North Germans are, when it comes to fish, like the British. They have no clue how to prepare them properly and deep fried battered is all they can apparently.
That's the worst way to prepare fish.
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Sorry, but your comment is as superfluous as a wart on the ass. Sorry for my direct nature, ultimately food is always a matter of taste and should not be overrated. Every country has its preferences. Your way of preparing fish may suit you, but we love it our way. To say we have the better one is pretty narrow minded.😉😊
The best seafood is Basque Country, Galicia and Portugal. Basically, all along the atlantic coast.
Crotia is a close second.
Your comment about north german fish dishes is ignorant but then again, it's the internet, so that is kind of a given.
@@MrMucera It would be an ignorant comment, if I haven't been to Hamburg, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Lübbeck and North Frisia to get a taste of what they call fish dishes.
But I was at all those places and ate fish, so it is not ignorant, it is from experience.
I agree though with the seafood on the Iberic Peninsula. You guys know how to prepare fish and we share a dish on top of that. You call it bakalao, we call it bakalar.
@@Kivas_Fajo THere are so many fish dishes in the north, fried is just the easiest, so it is common to find.
Croatia probably shares a lot of food, many ingredients are the same.
Arroz negro would come to mind.
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There are 2 things that absolutely don't go together fish and dairy products, such as cream, milk, etc I don't want the taste of whey in my mouth when I eat fish.And by the way i don,t like fish
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