We had an amazing first time in Krakow and think it easily ranks as not only one of the most beautiful cities in Poland, but in all of Europe. It feels so great to be back in Poland, and we can't wait to show you all what else we got up to during this trip. This will be a SIX video series featuring three cities, two food tours, and a Polish snack video. Next up will be our Krakow food tour, so stay tuned! Thanks for watching, everybody! - Brandon & Anja
It's great to immerse yourself even a little bit in Poland, Poland is a country of diverse culinary traditions. Each redion has its own iconic dishes and products. Kraków includes Obwarzaniki Krakowskie, bajgle, sausage Krakowska, Macanka Krakowska, etc.
W Polsce przez szacunek dla jedzenia i tych co go wytwarzają w trudzie i znoju oraz gości przy sąsiednim stoliku nie spożywa się jedzenia w lokalu w ,,czapce na głowie ,, .
I’m Hungarian, but this video made me miss Poland very much. Krakow really is a wonderful place. By the way, if you like beetroot and you’re back in Hungary, Brill pálinkahouse makes beetroot pálinka. It literally tastes like the earth 😅
Beetroot pálinka?! That definitely sounds like something we'd love to try. Unfortunately, we won't be back in Hungary any time soon, as we're traveling here in the Balkans, then slowly making our way towards Asia. But we'll have to save that location for the future! And yes, Krakow is amazing. It was great being back in Poland. Budapest and Berlin are two place that feel like home in Europe for us (I mean, Anja is from Berlin and all), but if we didn't move back to either of those, Krakow or Warsaw would be up there for places we'd live.
I am English, I was in Krakow for 3 days at the invitation of my Polish friends in Leeds. It's amazing, I visited a lot and learned about the history of the city and Poland. Now I have an invitation for a winter holiday to Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains.
That sounds like a great invitation! It really is amazing. We've never been to Zakopane, but it's certainly on the list. We try some Tatra Cheese in our next video, actually!
GREAT city. Was there for four days and couldn't get bored of the food and craft beer spots. I hope in the next episode you got to sausages at the blue nyssa
Hi! A Pole from Kraków here. It's not a sin to add stuff to your obwarzanek. Some places in KRK have a toasted obwarzanek with cheese, salami and side dips on their breakfast menus. It's just that for most Poles, obwarzanek is a quick bite you buy on the street and eat on the go.
Explains why Anja loved them so much! 😂 I wanted to order pierogi ruskie, but I compromised because I thought they would be a savory cheese pierogi. Hahaha. They were still delicious though! I don't think there's a pierogi we wouldn't love. We actually try three more types in the next video!
I usually liked my hard liquor in mixed drinks until I visited Poland in 2022 for a brief visit, and last year I went back, well Vodka and I are now friends, love the fruity ones, LOL.
Hahaha. Totally! We would NEVER choose vodka shots before this trip. We grew to enjoy it quite a bit during our three weeks in Poland. The fruity ones are great and super easy to drink, but even high-quality vodka can be super nice. 👌
Aaite, I'm your most recent Polish subscriber and 'liker' :D ! Well, I don't drink vodka at all, but I love beer! What kind of food fits perfect with a beer? Eggs! Jeez! Just amazing! Try everything: a soft boiled egg, a hard boiled egg, a scrambled eggs, fried eggs with a beer! Please, just try it! :D Pozdrawiam! :)
Polish kitchen for lots influence from far east like spices and cooking way as Poland was historically on silk road from china to Rome and Paris, where caravans were going there and back bringing spices to trade and silk for exchange for amber and other goods. For example sukiennice( trade old market building) in Krakow are named partially like Suki in turkey which is exactly same type of place in places like Istanbul or Ankara.
There are days when the entrance to Wawel museums is free you just need to pick up a free ticket for the entrance (there's limited amount of those each day for preservation reasons) so check that out next time 😉 also to see everything at Wawel you would need a whole day, there's a lot to see😉
Ham hock/ pork knuckle in ANY form is one of our absolute favorite things in the world. With wódka would be even better. Placek po węgiersku looks delicious! We still have two Polish food videos coming up, including one in Krakow and one in Warsaw. We also have a Wroclaw video, and a Polish snack video where we try a bunch of Polish snacks. We tried a pretty large array of Polish dishes, and not just the most common dishes like pierogi (though we try four types of them, too). We try pączki in one of those videos! Polish food in some of our favorite, so we're looking forward to releasing those videos. Thanks for watching!
There's not much we don't like! Anja often does like jelly/super fatty textures or things that taste super organy. I don't like licorice (though I don't HATE it anymore, slowly coming around to it, and there are some organ meats like lung that I'm not fan of. We're quite adventurous eaters, though, and we like most things. We just love food. 🤣
You are making a terrible mistake. Obwarzanek krakowski is not a bagel. These are two different baked goods. Bagel also comes from Krakow. Obwarzanki Krakowskie have been produced since the 14th century. Krakow Jews started baking bagels in the 17th century.It were given to women after a successful delivery in the beginning. Bagels came to the USA at the turn of the 20th century. Today they are a symbol of New York.
So then was the Bagel derived from the Obwarzanki? They are quite similar! I had seen others refer to them as a "Polish bagel" in other videos and comments section. Either way, they are delicious. And I'd still like to know if it's allowed to put things on them. Haha.
@@wherearewe-yt This is inscrutable. Obwarzanki appear in accounts from the royal court in the 14th century. The privilege of baking bagels was granted by King Jan II Sobieski in the 17th century. The technology is similar, but the composition of the dough is different. What unites them is only place.
@@wherearewe-yt Bagels (or bajgle as we call them in polish), obwarzanki and pretzels share a same baking technique of pre-boling the dough before baking that originated probably in Germany/Bavaria, so we can say that obwarzanek is a "father of bagels", and pretzel is a "grandfather of bagels". But those are different breads (using different dough) and if you would go to 17th century bakery in Krakow you would be able to but all three of them, they existed at the same time, and polish bagels are just the same as north american one.
My favourite thing Ive ever had with vodka was my fathers smoked meats. We had a nice evening, with my brother and him, when he finished smoking hams, bacon and trout. My brother got us vodka made from apples so it had that aftertaste, it was craft vodka, I would like to find this brand even thiugh I hardly ever drink. So we were standung next to the smoker that also had a stove, like old kind one, with live fire. And we fried this smoked bacon and had shots and than we just chilled and had fun. Good memory.
Polish food is quite filling and it is connected with the old climate. My pierogi are made with cheese and forest berries, of course it is sweet. A pork chop is not a schnitzel, it is made differently. Pierogi ruskie are not made with mashed potatoes but with boiled potatoes and cottage cheese. You do not have to drink vodka in one go and it is drunk at feasts after a hearty and fatty meal for better digestion, but also as a social treat (it is definitely not drunk every day only at birthdays, name days, weddings, meetings in a narrow group). This rumor that Poles drink it by the liters is nonsense. Poles make lard with cracklings and put it on bread and add sliced pickled cucumber and a small vodka to burn the consumed lard better.😃
That sounds delicious! We'd love to try some home made pierogi one day. Thanks for all of the information. We love Polish food. So much so, that we had to make two videos because we couldn't fit all of the things we wanted to try into one video. Filling food, yes, but we had a great time! Thanks for watching.
@@wherearewe-yt I will tell you that Polish dishes may not have the refinement of French ones, but they are good because they are made from fresh products. Poles will eat dishes from the previous day. Poles rather eat in their homes. Typical Polish dishes consist of two dishes, soup and there are plenty of them and a second course - pork chop, potatoes (never mashed), something sour, sour squash, pickled cucumber, sauerkraut, mushrooms marinated in vinegar, from meats - minced cutlet, pork chop, chicken legs, fish with potatoes, sauce, goulash. from flour - handmade pierogi. For Christmas I always wait for pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms and for dessert, apart from cakes, a specificity that is rather unknown in the world, it is ,,Kutia''. It is made of soft-boiled, thick, ,,barley'' wheat and ground poppy seeds and lots of raisins, nuts, figs and dates are added to it and it is served very cold. And if you ask what dishes I recommend, it is chicken liver fried with onion, Polish duck and bigos. Bigos is a hunting dish known in Poland since the Middle Ages and was eaten by Polish kings after hunting, now it is made for special family occasions. Unfortunately, nothing compares to home-made culinary pastries.
Sounds like we need to visit Poland during Christmas one year! That all sounds amazing. We try bigos in either our next video, or the one after. Plus a bunch of other things.
Studiowalem w Krakowie i staralem sie 1 x w roku tam byc. 1923 udalo mi sie z poludnia do Jury dojechac przez Miasto. Cholerny scisk ! Nie zatrzymalem sie tam. Kilka lat tam nie zawitam. Moze sie to uspokoi. Pozdro z Erkrath, Germanistan.
Bagels are prepared in a similar way. Though we've been told already that bagels and Obwarzanki are different from each other. I don't know that we've had any other type of bagel and Poland, so I'm not sure how they compare to what I'm used to in Canada. 🤔
Obwarzanek and bagels are two different baked goods, but both "come" from Kraków. The first mention of bagels comes from Krakow documents from 1610. Wawel has been inhabited since prehistoric times, it has been inhabited since at least the Middle Paleolithic period. Romanesque and pre-Romanesque buildings can be seen, among others, on the "underground" route.
Dragon is cool. Great it breathes fire! The cheese perogi was probably filled with farmer's cheese. It's like cottage cheese but dryer. St. Mary's Basilica was amazing. Jellied pork did remind me of head cheese. Anja is right, prunes in the bacon. It's a marketing thing, people "don't like prunes" so they now call them plums. LOL That snack is called Devils on Horseback here. Popular party food for decades.
Yeah, the dragon is a pretty cool attraction! And we love a good fairy tale. Yeah, that's likely what the cheese was. We have had them in the past, but with fruit inside, and on top. We hadn't had them before with this type of milky, sweet sauce. Super tasty! The whole sharing platter was so good. Just wish we had others to share us with. We were still full from the Milk Bar at this point, but it was just too cool to pass up. 😎
The Google translate of this says, "To be precise, Krakow is the Old Town, not the Old Town". Not particularly helpful! Haha. Maybe someone can explain the meaning.
And we love each and every one of them! So good. Being Canadian, I grew up with Montreal style bages mostly, so they will always hold a special place in my heart.
I can't speak for every single Polish person, however I think you'd be okay putting something on that obwarzanek. Granted, I'm not from the south and my family isn't extremely traditional, but I don't see any harm in people enjoying our classic food in their own way. Who knows, maybe we could learn a thing or two from other nations? ;) Glad you enjoyed Poland. I appreciate your kind words, smiles, sharing facts and of course pronunciation! I won't lie, it makes my little Polish heart feel so respected. Also, thank you for handling going to Auschwitz in a respectful way. Take care of yourselves guys, all the best on your travels. [Edit] My favourite pierogi are the cheese ones as well! Except I have them topped with melted butter and sugar.
It was delicious either way! A great snack in the morning. We're very curious what others will say about that, though. We didn't want to be committing a Polish food crime on our first video of the series. 😂 Poland is easily one of our favorite countries in Europe, with some of our favorite food as well. We have a LOT more food stuff coming, so make sure to subscribe and check it all out. We tried to make sure we sampled a mix of more popular dishes, and those that tourists don't often try in videos. 😄 Those cheese pierogi were so good. Definitely not at all what we were expecting when we translated the name, but a pleasant surprise for sure. Thanks for watching and commenting!
milk bars are no longer cheap. At that price you can eat in a cheaper restaurant. A few years ago, you could eat dinner in a milk bar for $3. And pierogi for a dollar.
That would have been nice! It's true, we actually ate it some normal restaurants for a similar price (and better quality). It was still worth it for those sweet pierogi!
I can say with 100% honestly, that this trip slowly grew my love for vodka. I was never much of a vodka drinker, but when the quality is good, it is quite smooth and enjoyable!
@@wherearewe-yt it's nice to hear it but remember please, wódka is very strong Well if you would like to try something stronger try this: Śliwowica for example Śliwowica Łącka Have a nice tongue tho
1) One Mistake: 800K alone in Krakow maybe, but with the whole agglomeration(so called "metropolitan area" in the video) it would be for sure over 1 Milon people. The official site of Krakow says that alone in 2023 there was 806,201 in the city . The metropolitan area as I just have checked has a little bit over 1,5 million inhabitants. In the research I also found info that the whole Małopolska voivodship Has 3,3 milion inhabitants (data from 2015). 2) Thanks! I really appreciate the work you have done with all of the polish words, they sounded like you actually made some research to be able to pronounce them, there were some that sounded a bit off, but I think afterall you did a great job. 3) With to mention Food: one typically polish sweet food is Chrust (called Faworki in other parts of Poland) I would recommend to try this one when visiting Poland. 4) you can't drink in public because Poland has a problem with alcoholism. 5) Less popular places to visit: In point 5 I will just list some places that are usually not that popular when it comes to visiting Krakow, but I think some of the would be worth seeing. All of them are accessible by public transport, they won't be in a city centre mostly. - Sanktuarium Jana Pawła II and Sanktuarium Bożego miłosierdzia (big churches wircha nice area around them) (you van get there with trams that go through the stop 'Sanktuarium Bożego miłosierdzia" or by train that ISN'T included in the daily pass) - kopiec Kościuszki or in English, Kościuszko's mounds, a really nice place to see Krakow from above, it is not free, but by buying theticket you also get to see the Kościuszko's museum (you can get there by route 100 and 101) - this position on the list might be wierd, but going to Plac centralny im. R. Reagana also might see other part of Krakowa history (the communist era). You can eat at a great milk bar in Nuwa huta district called 'Bieńczycki'. If you are in nowa huta, you can also see the gates to a steelwork, nothing is really there(except the gate and a big sing, but if uo uwalk on thevroght side of the road, you will get to zalew nowohucki which is generally a really nice public place. Nowa huta is entirely different than the city centre, it used to be a separate city more than 100 year ago. - Piłsudskiego's bridge and the Podgórki park. If you they off on a stop "Korona", you can take a pretty nice picture with a characteristic blue bridge and the Wawel castle. You will have to enter to the park that's where the street isn't and if you go on a bower, you'll see the view. All of the places I talked above are within the I zone of public transport. 6) Public Transport: You have to validate every paper ticket inside of a vehicle, if it is a 24h or just 60 minutes one, it never prints validated. You need to validate it only once, then you can forget it exists, BUT never throw them out before they expire. I personally recommend buying tickets either in apps, or on the stops, Couse you never know if there I'll be only card or only cash payment inside. Regional trains (Koleje małopolskie / Polregio) are NOT included in the ticket, there are special tickets but it would be A lot to explain... 20min, 60min*, 90min tickets and longer term like 24h all include both trams and busses, when buying longer term tickets, pay attention to the zones. Going to Wieliczka Salt Mine by bus requires you to have zone I+II ticket (all short term tickets are for I+II+III zones.) * 60minutes ticket it also one ride ticket, you can either go to the end of the route of one bus (no time limit) or change busses and ride on then within the 60 minutes after validation
Thanks for all the information and great suggestion! Though it will be a while before we're back, we would definitely love to return some day. It's a great city, and we only scratched the surface.
Hi again. Wanted to mention I have some trouble finding your older vids. If I search for you with a city name, other vids come up, not you. Think it's a Ytb algorithm thing, you are new. Recently I watched one where you mention Graz Austria. Cannot find it. If you could, when mentioning an older vid please add a link below. Thanks!
Our Graz video is the Krampus video we made! The first part is mostly showing the city and Christmas Markets, while the rest is the festival: ua-cam.com/video/YBKNHddMySY/v-deo.htmlsi=EE3otOIW5PbT8hLs
We have a lot of dishes in Poland, and soups are our specialty. And here's a Polish dish that even all Poles don't know - ua-cam.com/video/BU2xfjJP77Y/v-deo.html
Tym co wyróżnia kuchnię polską są zupy kwaśne. Szczawiowa, kapuśniak oraz żurek. Pierogi sa w wielu kuchniach. Szczawiowa zdumiewa wszystkich i jest tylko u nas
@@filipek124 Masz rację szczawiowa z jajeczkiem super i zapomniałeś o ogórkowej , a na południu kraju kwaśnica jak jestem u kumpla w górach to czasem przygotowuje dla mnie.🥣🥣👍👍
ur drinking wrong. First you take the shot and then you eat the food as a chaser. thats why its called zakaski. the fatty and sour is supposed to cut the alcohol. for that board for 2 ppl you should have had like a 0,5L
As a Pole, I don't like steak tartare (how can you eat raw meat?), I don't like herring, I don't like jelly, I don't like vodka, I don't like tripe, I don't like white kiełbasa. The other Polish dishes are ok. I would like to remind you that in the multi-ethnic Kingdom of Poland there were Polish, Lithuanian, Ruthenian, Jewish, German, Czech, Armenian, Greek, Dutch, Scottish, Gypsy, Hungarian, Tatar, Wallachian, Italian, French, Swedish and other influences, and Polish cuisine is a reflection of this.
What are some of your favorite Polish dishes then? We try a pretty large variety of things in these next few videos. Anja is German, so she definitely noticed a lot of similarities with foods she grew up with!
@@wherearewe-yt mamy pyszne ciasta i inne wypieki, makowiec, sernik, jabłecznik, mazurek i 1000 innych :) i moje ukochane faworki - szczególnie popularne w okresie karnawału, w Tłusty Czwartek i Ostatki (wtorek przed Środą Popielcową, która w katolicyzmie rozpoczyna okres Wielkiego Postu przed Wielkanocą). Niektórych pysznych rzeczy nie uda się wam spróbować, bo są mocno regionalne. Można je wprawdzie dostać na terenie całego kraju, ale nie dorównują lokalnym potrawom. Na przykład kiszka ziemniaczana czy kartoflak (baba ziemniaczana). Na Mazurach: wędzone ryby - węgorz czy sielawa, marynowane ryby, np. okoń w occie, smazony sandacz, lin w śmietanie z koperkiem. Kochamy leśne grzyby, zbieranie grzybów to polski sport narodowy. Rydze na maśle prosto z patelni, mniam! Smażone kanie w panierce. Borowiki w śmietanie. Pyszności!
Russian dumplings are real cottage cheese, potatoes, onions and spices... salt and pepper. Nothing more. I don't make dumplings because I don't feel like sticking and kneading dough. It is easier to make a good filling and fill the pancakes with it, and then fry the whole thing in a pan. You can find ways of making stuffing on UA-cam, and there are plenty of them.
I would love to try to make them at home some day. If we lived in Poland, there would be no point..I'd never be able to make them better than restaurants, and it wouldn't be worth the effort. Especially since even the store bought ones are pretty decent! We tried a few pre-made versions while we were there.
@@igorwoek502 Od zawsze odkąd pamiętam były ruskie choć ruskie nie są. Taka nazwa i już. Skąd pochodzą i kto wymyślił recepturę to mam gdzieś mówiąc szczerze.
@@zorzyk6790Są ruskie i zawsze były, zwyczajnie słabo znasz język polski. Ruskie oznacza że pochodzą z Rusi a ty zwyczajnie mylisz "ruskie" z "rosyjskie". Ruś czerwona to kraina historyczna jak wielkopolska, małopolska itd. Część rusi znajduję się w polsce na granicy z Ukrainą i Białorusią, a pierogi Ruskie są i zawsze były Polskie.
@@diablo4624 Nie ucz mnie czym jest Ruś i czym była w przeszłości. Dla mnie jest bez znaczenia pochodzenie nazwy potrawy. Ważne jak smakuje. Dywagacje na ten temat to zwyczajne bicie piany.
I (Anja) have been to Gdansk but Brandon hasn't. I really loved it there, too, and we'll definitely go back there together next time we're in Poland. To be honest, there hasn't been a polish city that we did not enjoy. I think Poland is quite underrated. Thanks for watching! 😊
Please don’t call the Pierogi filled with cottage cheese, sweet. They are filled with standard cottage cheese, in a doughy casing ie t pierogi, and boiled in a milky liquid. There is no sugars added, nor is it a sweet. The cooking process brings out the natural flavour of the cottage cheese. This may give a sweet flavour, but it’s a main, not a desert for many people.
They were sweet. There was definitely some sort of sugar added to these. Our taste buds know the difference between sweet and savoury..and these were definitely sweet. Not just milky from the cheese.
Comparing, German to Polish food all the time is bit annoying, it is different. Please focus on the experience, do not compare all the time. Beside I enjoyed your both video, thank you!
I'm unfortunately German, and I therefore grew up eating mostly German food so that's naturally my experience when eating foreign foods. That can't be changed. Thanks for watching, though! 😊
They are certainly very similar! When explaining what they are, I've seen many locals refer to them as such. Maybe to make it easier to understand for tourists.
Depends on where you get your information. Many sources online say it's the second biggest city by population. Others say it's Łódź. The difference is quite small.
"Bary mleczne" to sa bary dla emerytow i osob samotnych, charakteryzujace sie niskimi cenami przy jak widac skromnym wyposazeniu sali konsumocyjnej - za czasow komuny dotowane przez panstwo. W Krakowie jadles kotlet schabowy, najlepszy "sznycel" w europie a moze i na swiecie.
We had an amazing first time in Krakow and think it easily ranks as not only one of the most beautiful cities in Poland, but in all of Europe. It feels so great to be back in Poland, and we can't wait to show you all what else we got up to during this trip. This will be a SIX video series featuring three cities, two food tours, and a Polish snack video. Next up will be our Krakow food tour, so stay tuned! Thanks for watching, everybody! - Brandon & Anja
Can't wait for the food tour. Always so much fun.
There was so much food we wanted to try, we made TWO separate food tours for the first time. One for Krakow, one for Warsaw.
It's great to immerse yourself even a little bit in Poland, Poland is a country of diverse culinary traditions. Each redion has its own iconic dishes and products. Kraków includes Obwarzaniki Krakowskie, bajgle, sausage Krakowska, Macanka Krakowska, etc.
@@yakeosicki8965 We try Macanka Krakowska in our next video, actually! It was amazing.
W Polsce przez szacunek dla jedzenia i tych co go wytwarzają w trudzie i znoju oraz gości przy sąsiednim stoliku nie spożywa się jedzenia w lokalu w ,,czapce na głowie ,, .
I’m Hungarian, but this video made me miss Poland very much. Krakow really is a wonderful place. By the way, if you like beetroot and you’re back in Hungary, Brill pálinkahouse makes beetroot pálinka. It literally tastes like the earth 😅
Beetroot pálinka?! That definitely sounds like something we'd love to try. Unfortunately, we won't be back in Hungary any time soon, as we're traveling here in the Balkans, then slowly making our way towards Asia. But we'll have to save that location for the future!
And yes, Krakow is amazing. It was great being back in Poland. Budapest and Berlin are two place that feel like home in Europe for us (I mean, Anja is from Berlin and all), but if we didn't move back to either of those, Krakow or Warsaw would be up there for places we'd live.
@@wherearewe-yt Have fun! I’m sure the beetroot pálinka will still be here for you to try next time around 😉
Pozdro węgierscy bracia.❤Nie patrzmy na polityków i nie dajmy się podzielić.❤❤❤Hungary.
I am English, I was in Krakow for 3 days at the invitation of my Polish friends in Leeds. It's amazing, I visited a lot and learned about the history of the city and Poland. Now I have an invitation for a winter holiday to Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains.
That sounds like a great invitation!
It really is amazing. We've never been to Zakopane, but it's certainly on the list. We try some Tatra Cheese in our next video, actually!
Krakow is beautiful 🤩
Wroclaw is another amazing city
We have a Wroclaw video coming up as well! It'll likely be the 5th video in this series. 😃
@@wherearewe-yt fantastic 🤩
@@wherearewe-yt Just please don't call the dwarves gnomes.
GREAT city. Was there for four days and couldn't get bored of the food and craft beer spots.
I hope in the next episode you got to sausages at the blue nyssa
We loved it there! Such a beautiful city. And we could never get sick of Polish food.
We do grab a sausage in the next video! Stay tuned. 🌭
Hi! A Pole from Kraków here. It's not a sin to add stuff to your obwarzanek. Some places in KRK have a toasted obwarzanek with cheese, salami and side dips on their breakfast menus. It's just that for most Poles, obwarzanek is a quick bite you buy on the street and eat on the go.
Really?? That sounds amazing. We'd love to try it that way next time.
Gorąco pozdrawiam z Krakowa
Thanks! 😄
Pierogi ruskie are savory but with potatoes and cheese. What you've ordered were sweet cheese dumplings, usually eaten by children ;-).
Explains why Anja loved them so much! 😂
I wanted to order pierogi ruskie, but I compromised because I thought they would be a savory cheese pierogi. Hahaha. They were still delicious though! I don't think there's a pierogi we wouldn't love. We actually try three more types in the next video!
I usually liked my hard liquor in mixed drinks until I visited Poland in 2022 for a brief visit, and last year I went back, well Vodka and I are now friends, love the fruity ones, LOL.
Hahaha. Totally! We would NEVER choose vodka shots before this trip. We grew to enjoy it quite a bit during our three weeks in Poland. The fruity ones are great and super easy to drink, but even high-quality vodka can be super nice. 👌
Aaite, I'm your most recent Polish subscriber and 'liker' :D !
Well, I don't drink vodka at all, but I love beer! What kind of food fits perfect with a beer?
Eggs!
Jeez! Just amazing! Try everything: a soft boiled egg, a hard boiled egg, a scrambled eggs, fried eggs with a beer! Please, just try it! :D
Pozdrawiam! :)
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Don't know that we've ever eaten just eggs and beers together..haha. Guess we'll have to try it!
Polish kitchen for lots influence from far east like spices and cooking way as Poland was historically on silk road from china to Rome and Paris, where caravans were going there and back bringing spices to trade and silk for exchange for amber and other goods.
For example sukiennice( trade old market building) in Krakow are named partially like Suki in turkey which is exactly same type of place in places like Istanbul or Ankara.
There are days when the entrance to Wawel museums is free you just need to pick up a free ticket for the entrance (there's limited amount of those each day for preservation reasons) so check that out next time 😉 also to see everything at Wawel you would need a whole day, there's a lot to see😉
That would be great! We will have to try that next time.
Golonka!! Wódka with golonka !!! Try placek po węgiersku go for pączki also !! Basically try everything!! Best of luck from your new Polish fan
Ham hock/ pork knuckle in ANY form is one of our absolute favorite things in the world. With wódka would be even better. Placek po węgiersku looks delicious!
We still have two Polish food videos coming up, including one in Krakow and one in Warsaw. We also have a Wroclaw video, and a Polish snack video where we try a bunch of Polish snacks. We tried a pretty large array of Polish dishes, and not just the most common dishes like pierogi (though we try four types of them, too). We try pączki in one of those videos! Polish food in some of our favorite, so we're looking forward to releasing those videos.
Thanks for watching!
Smacznego, mili młodzi ludzie!
Dziękuję! 😃
Love you guys ❤❤❤
Thanks so much for watching!
You two are good sports when it comes to food.
There's not much we don't like! Anja often does like jelly/super fatty textures or things that taste super organy. I don't like licorice (though I don't HATE it anymore, slowly coming around to it, and there are some organ meats like lung that I'm not fan of. We're quite adventurous eaters, though, and we like most things. We just love food. 🤣
You are making a terrible mistake. Obwarzanek krakowski is not a bagel. These are two different baked goods. Bagel also comes from Krakow. Obwarzanki Krakowskie have been produced since the 14th century. Krakow Jews started baking bagels in the 17th century.It were given to women after a successful delivery in the beginning. Bagels came to the USA at the turn of the 20th century. Today they are a symbol of New York.
So then was the Bagel derived from the Obwarzanki? They are quite similar! I had seen others refer to them as a "Polish bagel" in other videos and comments section.
Either way, they are delicious. And I'd still like to know if it's allowed to put things on them. Haha.
@@wherearewe-yt This is inscrutable. Obwarzanki appear in accounts from the royal court in the 14th century. The privilege of baking bagels was granted by King Jan II Sobieski in the 17th century. The technology is similar, but the composition of the dough is different. What unites them is only place.
@@yakeosicki8965 Very interesting! Thanks for letting us know.
@@wherearewe-yt Bagels (or bajgle as we call them in polish), obwarzanki and pretzels share a same baking technique of pre-boling the dough before baking that originated probably in Germany/Bavaria, so we can say that obwarzanek is a "father of bagels", and pretzel is a "grandfather of bagels". But those are different breads (using different dough) and if you would go to 17th century bakery in Krakow you would be able to but all three of them, they existed at the same time, and polish bagels are just the same as north american one.
My favourite thing Ive ever had with vodka was my fathers smoked meats. We had a nice evening, with my brother and him, when he finished smoking hams, bacon and trout. My brother got us vodka made from apples so it had that aftertaste, it was craft vodka, I would like to find this brand even thiugh I hardly ever drink. So we were standung next to the smoker that also had a stove, like old kind one, with live fire. And we fried this smoked bacon and had shots and than we just chilled and had fun. Good memory.
That sounds like the perfect evening. 😊
Polish food is quite filling and it is connected with the old climate. My pierogi are made with cheese and forest berries, of course it is sweet. A pork chop is not a schnitzel, it is made differently. Pierogi ruskie are not made with mashed potatoes but with boiled potatoes and cottage cheese. You do not have to drink vodka in one go and it is drunk at feasts after a hearty and fatty meal for better digestion, but also as a social treat (it is definitely not drunk every day only at birthdays, name days, weddings, meetings in a narrow group). This rumor that Poles drink it by the liters is nonsense. Poles make lard with cracklings and put it on bread and add sliced pickled cucumber and a small vodka to burn the consumed lard better.😃
That sounds delicious! We'd love to try some home made pierogi one day.
Thanks for all of the information. We love Polish food. So much so, that we had to make two videos because we couldn't fit all of the things we wanted to try into one video. Filling food, yes, but we had a great time!
Thanks for watching.
@@wherearewe-yt I will tell you that Polish dishes may not have the refinement of French ones, but they are good because they are made from fresh products. Poles will eat dishes from the previous day. Poles rather eat in their homes. Typical Polish dishes consist of two dishes, soup and there are plenty of them and a second course - pork chop, potatoes (never mashed), something sour, sour squash, pickled cucumber, sauerkraut, mushrooms marinated in vinegar, from meats - minced cutlet, pork chop, chicken legs, fish with potatoes, sauce, goulash. from flour - handmade pierogi. For Christmas I always wait for pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms and for dessert, apart from cakes, a specificity that is rather unknown in the world, it is ,,Kutia''. It is made of soft-boiled, thick, ,,barley'' wheat and ground poppy seeds and lots of raisins, nuts, figs and dates are added to it and it is served very cold. And if you ask what dishes I recommend, it is chicken liver fried with onion, Polish duck and bigos. Bigos is a hunting dish known in Poland since the Middle Ages and was eaten by Polish kings after hunting, now it is made for special family occasions. Unfortunately, nothing compares to home-made culinary pastries.
Sounds like we need to visit Poland during Christmas one year! That all sounds amazing.
We try bigos in either our next video, or the one after. Plus a bunch of other things.
You have beautiful sunglasses!
Haha, thanks. I lost my old ones and these were my 7 dollar back up ones 😆
Studiowalem w Krakowie i staralem sie 1 x w roku tam byc. 1923 udalo mi sie z poludnia do Jury dojechac przez Miasto. Cholerny scisk ! Nie zatrzymalem sie tam. Kilka lat tam nie zawitam. Moze sie to uspokoi. Pozdro z Erkrath, Germanistan.
Krakowski obwarzanek is first boiled and only then baked.
Their name comes from first boiling (obwarzanie).
Bagels are prepared in a similar way. Though we've been told already that bagels and Obwarzanki are different from each other. I don't know that we've had any other type of bagel and Poland, so I'm not sure how they compare to what I'm used to in Canada. 🤔
Obwarzanek and bagels are two different baked goods, but both "come" from Kraków. The first mention of bagels comes from Krakow documents from 1610. Wawel has been inhabited since prehistoric times, it has been inhabited since at least the Middle Paleolithic period. Romanesque and pre-Romanesque buildings can be seen, among others, on the "underground" route.
We will have to try a bagel next time we're there, to see how it compares to the obwarzanek!
nice
Thanks for watching!
Dragon is cool. Great it breathes fire! The cheese perogi was probably filled with farmer's cheese. It's like cottage cheese but dryer. St. Mary's Basilica was amazing. Jellied pork did remind me of head cheese. Anja is right, prunes in the bacon. It's a marketing thing, people "don't like prunes" so they now call them plums. LOL That snack is called Devils on Horseback here. Popular party food for decades.
Yeah, the dragon is a pretty cool attraction! And we love a good fairy tale.
Yeah, that's likely what the cheese was. We have had them in the past, but with fruit inside, and on top. We hadn't had them before with this type of milky, sweet sauce. Super tasty!
The whole sharing platter was so good. Just wish we had others to share us with. We were still full from the Milk Bar at this point, but it was just too cool to pass up. 😎
Dla ścisłości w Krakowie jest Stare Miasto nie Starówka :]
The Google translate of this says, "To be precise, Krakow is the Old Town, not the Old Town". Not particularly helpful! Haha. Maybe someone can explain the meaning.
No to masz nowego subskrybenta pozdrawiam i odwiedź wschodnią Polskę też jest ciekawie
Thanks for watching and subscribing! We have a lot more Polish content to come. 😄
Before WWII bagels in Poland looked more (large opening) like obwarzanek. Montreal bagels also have larger holes than NY bagels.
And we love each and every one of them! So good. Being Canadian, I grew up with Montreal style bages mostly, so they will always hold a special place in my heart.
Thanks for You visit in Kraków ❤❤😊
Thanks for having us! We loved it.
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You can cut bagle and spread with butter. Then its perfect.
We will have to do that next time. It was still tasty anyway. 😋
I can't speak for every single Polish person, however I think you'd be okay putting something on that obwarzanek. Granted, I'm not from the south and my family isn't extremely traditional, but I don't see any harm in people enjoying our classic food in their own way. Who knows, maybe we could learn a thing or two from other nations? ;)
Glad you enjoyed Poland. I appreciate your kind words, smiles, sharing facts and of course pronunciation! I won't lie, it makes my little Polish heart feel so respected.
Also, thank you for handling going to Auschwitz in a respectful way.
Take care of yourselves guys, all the best on your travels.
[Edit] My favourite pierogi are the cheese ones as well! Except I have them topped with melted butter and sugar.
It was delicious either way! A great snack in the morning. We're very curious what others will say about that, though. We didn't want to be committing a Polish food crime on our first video of the series. 😂
Poland is easily one of our favorite countries in Europe, with some of our favorite food as well. We have a LOT more food stuff coming, so make sure to subscribe and check it all out. We tried to make sure we sampled a mix of more popular dishes, and those that tourists don't often try in videos. 😄
Those cheese pierogi were so good. Definitely not at all what we were expecting when we translated the name, but a pleasant surprise for sure.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
milk bars are no longer cheap. At that price you can eat in a cheaper restaurant. A few years ago, you could eat dinner in a milk bar for $3. And pierogi for a dollar.
That would have been nice! It's true, we actually ate it some normal restaurants for a similar price (and better quality). It was still worth it for those sweet pierogi!
Try beef Tatar with vodka ( or without ) :)
It was on our list of things we wanted to try, but we missed out this time. Next visit, for sure!
Please, never ever drink a beer after wódka
Have a good time
Definitely a recipe for a hangover! 😅
@@wherearewe-yt good one
but more for huge puke
By the way there is no hangover after polish wòdka
Hangovers give only russian vodka😁
Cheers
@@wherearewe-yt always from lower % to higer if u mix
but mix mostly gives hangover
I can say with 100% honestly, that this trip slowly grew my love for vodka. I was never much of a vodka drinker, but when the quality is good, it is quite smooth and enjoyable!
@@wherearewe-yt it's nice to hear it but remember please, wódka is very strong
Well if you would like to try something stronger try this:
Śliwowica for example
Śliwowica Łącka
Have a nice tongue tho
The cheese pierogi probably had a melted butter with sugar + sour cream
Yeah, that seems likely. That's what it tasted like. It was delicious!
1) One Mistake:
800K alone in Krakow maybe, but with the whole agglomeration(so called "metropolitan area" in the video) it would be for sure over 1 Milon people.
The official site of Krakow says that alone in 2023 there was 806,201 in the city .
The metropolitan area as I just have checked has a little bit over 1,5 million inhabitants.
In the research I also found info that the whole Małopolska voivodship Has 3,3 milion inhabitants (data from 2015).
2) Thanks!
I really appreciate the work you have done with all of the polish words, they sounded like you actually made some research to be able to pronounce them, there were some that sounded a bit off, but I think afterall you did a great job.
3) With to mention Food:
one typically polish sweet food is Chrust (called Faworki in other parts of Poland) I would recommend to try this one when visiting Poland.
4) you can't drink in public because Poland has a problem with alcoholism.
5) Less popular places to visit:
In point 5 I will just list some places that are usually not that popular when it comes to visiting Krakow, but I think some of the would be worth seeing. All of them are accessible by public transport, they won't be in a city centre mostly.
- Sanktuarium Jana Pawła II and Sanktuarium Bożego miłosierdzia (big churches wircha nice area around them) (you van get there with trams that go through the stop 'Sanktuarium Bożego miłosierdzia" or by train that ISN'T included in the daily pass)
- kopiec Kościuszki or in English, Kościuszko's mounds, a really nice place to see Krakow from above, it is not free, but by buying theticket you also get to see the Kościuszko's museum (you can get there by route 100 and 101)
- this position on the list might be wierd, but going to Plac centralny im. R. Reagana also might see other part of Krakowa history (the communist era). You can eat at a great milk bar in Nuwa huta district called 'Bieńczycki'. If you are in nowa huta, you can also see the gates to a steelwork, nothing is really there(except the gate and a big sing, but if uo uwalk on thevroght side of the road, you will get to zalew nowohucki which is generally a really nice public place. Nowa huta is entirely different than the city centre, it used to be a separate city more than 100 year ago.
- Piłsudskiego's bridge and the Podgórki park. If you they off on a stop "Korona", you can take a pretty nice picture with a characteristic blue bridge and the Wawel castle. You will have to enter to the park that's where the street isn't and if you go on a bower, you'll see the view.
All of the places I talked above are within the I zone of public transport.
6) Public Transport:
You have to validate every paper ticket inside of a vehicle, if it is a 24h or just 60 minutes one, it never prints validated. You need to validate it only once, then you can forget it exists, BUT never throw them out before they expire.
I personally recommend buying tickets either in apps, or on the stops, Couse you never know if there I'll be only card or only cash payment inside.
Regional trains (Koleje małopolskie / Polregio) are NOT included in the ticket, there are special tickets but it would be
A lot to explain...
20min, 60min*, 90min tickets and longer term like 24h all include both trams and busses, when buying longer term tickets, pay attention to the zones. Going to Wieliczka Salt Mine by bus requires you to have zone I+II ticket (all short term tickets are for I+II+III zones.)
* 60minutes ticket it also one ride ticket, you can either go to the end of the route of one bus (no time limit) or change busses and ride on then within the 60 minutes after validation
a wincyj 1.2 miliona a sam kraków wg gus 806tys
Thanks for all the information and great suggestion! Though it will be a while before we're back, we would definitely love to return some day. It's a great city, and we only scratched the surface.
Hi again. Wanted to mention I have some trouble finding your older vids. If I search for you with a city name, other vids come up, not you. Think it's a Ytb algorithm thing, you are new. Recently I watched one where you mention Graz Austria. Cannot find it. If you could, when mentioning an older vid please add a link below. Thanks!
Our Graz video is the Krampus video we made! The first part is mostly showing the city and Christmas Markets, while the rest is the festival:
ua-cam.com/video/YBKNHddMySY/v-deo.htmlsi=EE3otOIW5PbT8hLs
We have a lot of dishes in Poland, and soups are our specialty. And here's a Polish dish that even all Poles don't know - ua-cam.com/video/BU2xfjJP77Y/v-deo.html
That sounds so good! We try flaki in an upcoming video, and also chłodnik!
@@wherearewe-yt 🥣🥣🥩🥩😋😋👍👍
Tym co wyróżnia kuchnię polską są zupy kwaśne. Szczawiowa, kapuśniak oraz żurek. Pierogi sa w wielu kuchniach. Szczawiowa zdumiewa wszystkich i jest tylko u nas
@@filipek124 Masz rację szczawiowa z jajeczkiem super i zapomniałeś o ogórkowej , a na południu kraju kwaśnica jak jestem u kumpla w górach to czasem przygotowuje dla mnie.🥣🥣👍👍
I forgot! We actually tried three soups. We try zurek in the next video, during out Krakow food tour.
Herring and pickles with vodka and with beer i prefer pork knuckle.
We really enjoyed having pickled snacks with the vodka. Paired really well! Definitely better than with the pork jelly.
I could kill for head cheese!!!! Best with vinegar!!!!!
It went well with all of the other pickled items. Almost like having it with some vinegar!
16.49-For this you need vodka 🤣🤣
Hahaha. I mean..vodka makes everything better.
@@wherearewe-yt digestive
try żołądkowa gorzka miętowa
We tried that at some point while we were there, and enjoyed it!
ur drinking wrong. First you take the shot and then you eat the food as a chaser. thats why its called zakaski. the fatty and sour is supposed to cut the alcohol. for that board for 2 ppl you should have had like a 0,5L
As a Pole, I don't like steak tartare (how can you eat raw meat?), I don't like herring, I don't like jelly, I don't like vodka, I don't like tripe, I don't like white kiełbasa.
The other Polish dishes are ok. I would like to remind you that in the multi-ethnic Kingdom of Poland there were Polish, Lithuanian, Ruthenian, Jewish, German, Czech, Armenian, Greek, Dutch, Scottish, Gypsy, Hungarian, Tatar, Wallachian, Italian, French, Swedish and other influences, and Polish cuisine is a reflection of this.
What are some of your favorite Polish dishes then? We try a pretty large variety of things in these next few videos.
Anja is German, so she definitely noticed a lot of similarities with foods she grew up with!
@@wherearewe-yt All possible potato dishes and Polish soups. I also like bigos.
@@PiotrJaser We try three Polish soups in this series, if I'm not mistaken. We also try bigos at some point. 😁
You should imigrate!
@@wherearewe-yt mamy pyszne ciasta i inne wypieki, makowiec, sernik, jabłecznik, mazurek i 1000 innych :) i moje ukochane faworki - szczególnie popularne w okresie karnawału, w Tłusty Czwartek i Ostatki (wtorek przed Środą Popielcową, która w katolicyzmie rozpoczyna okres Wielkiego Postu przed Wielkanocą). Niektórych pysznych rzeczy nie uda się wam spróbować, bo są mocno regionalne. Można je wprawdzie dostać na terenie całego kraju, ale nie dorównują lokalnym potrawom. Na przykład kiszka ziemniaczana czy kartoflak (baba ziemniaczana). Na Mazurach: wędzone ryby - węgorz czy sielawa, marynowane ryby, np. okoń w occie, smazony sandacz, lin w śmietanie z koperkiem. Kochamy leśne grzyby, zbieranie grzybów to polski sport narodowy. Rydze na maśle prosto z patelni, mniam! Smażone kanie w panierce. Borowiki w śmietanie. Pyszności!
Russian dumplings are real cottage cheese, potatoes, onions and spices... salt and pepper. Nothing more. I don't make dumplings because I don't feel like sticking and kneading dough. It is easier to make a good filling and fill the pancakes with it, and then fry the whole thing in a pan. You can find ways of making stuffing on UA-cam, and there are plenty of them.
I would love to try to make them at home some day. If we lived in Poland, there would be no point..I'd never be able to make them better than restaurants, and it wouldn't be worth the effort. Especially since even the store bought ones are pretty decent! We tried a few pre-made versions while we were there.
They're not russian dumplings, that's a common mistranslation. Pierogi ruskie means ruthenian dumplings. Ruthenia is an old timey name for Kievan Rus.
@@igorwoek502 Od zawsze odkąd pamiętam były ruskie choć ruskie nie są. Taka nazwa i już. Skąd pochodzą i kto wymyślił recepturę to mam gdzieś mówiąc szczerze.
@@zorzyk6790Są ruskie i zawsze były, zwyczajnie słabo znasz język polski.
Ruskie oznacza że pochodzą z Rusi a ty zwyczajnie mylisz "ruskie" z "rosyjskie". Ruś czerwona to kraina historyczna jak wielkopolska, małopolska itd. Część rusi znajduję się w polsce na granicy z Ukrainą i Białorusią, a pierogi Ruskie są i zawsze były Polskie.
@@diablo4624 Nie ucz mnie czym jest Ruś i czym była w przeszłości. Dla mnie jest bez znaczenia pochodzenie nazwy potrawy. Ważne jak smakuje. Dywagacje na ten temat to zwyczajne bicie piany.
Gdansk is the best city I've visited in Poland 😊
I (Anja) have been to Gdansk but Brandon hasn't. I really loved it there, too, and we'll definitely go back there together next time we're in Poland. To be honest, there hasn't been a polish city that we did not enjoy. I think Poland is quite underrated. Thanks for watching! 😊
@@wherearewe-yt agree totally underrated. I like Krakow too. I'd like to visit Wroclaw next.
Please don’t call the Pierogi filled with cottage cheese, sweet. They are filled with standard cottage cheese, in a doughy casing ie t pierogi, and boiled in a milky liquid. There is no sugars added, nor is it a sweet. The cooking process brings out the natural flavour of the cottage cheese. This may give a sweet flavour, but it’s a main, not a desert for many people.
They were sweet. There was definitely some sort of sugar added to these. Our taste buds know the difference between sweet and savoury..and these were definitely sweet. Not just milky from the cheese.
@@wherearewe-ytI’d also like to add a correction. They’re not boiled in milk. It’s water.
jelly is not for everyone I personly hate it
We had jellied eels in the UK, and that was much worse. 😂
I can definitely see the appeal for the jellied pork!
Comparing, German to Polish food all the time is bit annoying, it is different.
Please focus on the experience, do not compare all the time.
Beside I enjoyed your both video, thank you!
I'm unfortunately German, and I therefore grew up eating mostly German food so that's naturally my experience when eating foreign foods. That can't be changed. Thanks for watching, though! 😊
Not a bagel
They are certainly very similar! When explaining what they are, I've seen many locals refer to them as such. Maybe to make it easier to understand for tourists.
Is not second largest city
Depends on where you get your information. Many sources online say it's the second biggest city by population. Others say it's Łódź. The difference is quite small.
@@wherearewe-yt probably during school year,because of thousands students :)
@@urszuladomanska7380 Never thought about that! Interesting. We need to visit Łódź at some point. And much more of Poland in general. We love it. 😀
meat gelatin originates from the polish jews and still popular in ukraine. in poland, it is mostly considered "boomer" food
I feel like foods in gelatin like this are often "boomer" food. 😂
This same information for milion and one times
So we should make up some new information instead? 😂
"Bary mleczne" to sa bary dla emerytow i osob samotnych, charakteryzujace sie niskimi cenami przy jak widac skromnym wyposazeniu sali konsumocyjnej - za czasow komuny dotowane przez panstwo.
W Krakowie jadles kotlet schabowy, najlepszy "sznycel" w europie a moze i na swiecie.
kolega ma chyba cos polskiego w sobie bo wypił caly kieliszek na raz gratulacje 😂
Hahaha. Na Zdrowie! 🍻