@@teflontravelsI have a friend which son lived in London. He used his vacations to Bulgaria to watch movies because the cinema is expensive in London.
@@teflontravels That is a classic combination here, I mean this certain. Even more than banitza with ayran. I was raised with this. Sadly the quality of the boza is not like before. Also, many banitza makers use cottage cheese instead of white cheese, the taste is not the same.
@@teflontravelsWhen you return you should definitely try the doners in Donerstag (means Thursday in German). The owner is the winner in one of Bulgarian Master Chef seasons.
You have to pit some olive oil or sunflower oil and vinegar on the shpska salad to have the full flavour of it! And may be a little bit of some extra salt. The Shpopsja salad goes very well with our national drink rakia. Ib the summer, in the evening order a shopsaka salad, put the olive oil, salt and vinegar and order a cup of rakia with ice as starter and a new universe will open for you ! Enjoy!
The restaurant you ate in manastirska magernica,means the place in the monastery where the monks eat,and the recipies are collected from monasteries from arround bulgaria and these recipies were acumulated by the monks from thousand years our oldest monasteries are from the 800s a.d.....and as you probably know the monks cook a real gurme food and they produce the best wine and rakia and have the best honey and forest fruits jem,cheese yellow cheese and many more stuff they are selfsufficiant
Many people say that ayrian is a Turkish drink, but many people forget that ayrian is mainly composed of yogurt, which is a natural product of the fermentation of fresh milk with the bacterium Lactobacillus Bulgaricus founded only on the modern Bulgarian territory, which means that ayrian is a typical Bulgarian drink because the bacteria is available only in Bulgaria, not other region and place in the Earth. And the conclusion is that, most likely, ayrian as a name was renamed during the 500 years of Ottoman slavery in Bulgaria, as most probably many other drinks and dishes, because before 500 years of Ottoman slavery in Bulgaria, our country was empire for centruries.
You should’ve had the tribe soup… This place is famous with its great tribe soup and I really hoped you would try it.. But, hopefully, next time you will! 🙏
The "Contessa" restaurant is one of the really old and traditional restaurants for ordinary people. It is located in a nabourhood that once was populated by Jewish and Armenian people and working class Bulgarians. The food there is very good!
When i was a kid, here in Bulgaria they played american kids shows, and in there was like a trend that "salad is disgusting" and the actors "hate salad" while playing. I was really confused whey would somebody hate a salad. And when i grew up i just realized that americans and brits dont have Shopska salad
Tarator, boza, tripe soup and the national spirit - rakia are the things foreigners sometimes struggle with. I myself only like 1 of those 4, even though I'm Bulgarian. Apart from those they seem to enjoy most other dishes. You should try some of the oven baked claypot dishes with meat and vegetables known as "gyuvech". Have a good one.
22:45 😂😂😂you are right you are straight in the trenches😂😂,just a hundred meters ahead of where are you here in the video saying this ,is a big church,infront of it a realy low kind of people gather and you can find all kind illigel subsances ,i got arrested for the first and the last time in my life there and had 24 hours in the jail because they caught me buying stuff.... i was wondering how you managed to pop righ on this place its so low....all youtubers show the same things ,next time visit the litle streets downtown to see some beautiful homes from the beggining of the 20th century and the end of the 19th
Hahaha, seems like I got lucky 😂 I’m aiming to start going to very local non touristy places. Your story had me laughing 😅. You don’t really wanna get detained in Bulgaria , they look like they don’t play 😅
@@teflontravels imagine me arrested for the first time,but i am calm and cooperative and the cops were not rude to me ,when they see a inteligent and normal person they act also inteligent,but there was a gipsy thief that had stolen rails from the rail way and this is very dangerous for the people in the train,arrested in the sell next to mine and he was resisting and the cops electricuted him😂😂😂i was shocked to hear that,after 24 hours they let you go home ,just confiscated a litle hashish
The liquid in the last food is water with a ton of sugar. Otherwise, tarator is basically ayran with cucumbers, dill and garlic. It's strange that you liked ayran, but not tarator (unless you didn't like some of the other ingredients). Glad that you loved Sofia!
That’s a good comparison, and I think I didn’t like it as much because of the other ingredients. It wasn’t that bad but just wasn’t easy to get use to 🤦🏾♂️
You seems like a nice guy, thanks for visiting my country, but Sofia is not Bulgaria you missed the 90% of the bulgarian expirience, so you`re welcome again!
Hey Just to say, every one is calling Airan is Turkish, but is not, they have it from when the Ottoman Empire was occupied the Balkans, the name its self is coming from one of the Ancient word for white, like the milk color, and other thing is that the yoghurt from which is made the Airan, is also coming from the Balkan population, so how someone who came thousands of years later will have a drink from something created in ancient times in the territory way before the newcomers, its same with the Baklava, all the people know is Turkish, and other foods too, because when they took over that lands they adopted some of the traditions and the food and even some words, as well as the dna in the north of they country, and because the Ottoman Empire was ruling 500 years the lands, the whole world knows its coming from them, there are a lot of things like that which are famous in the wrong way Also i see in the comments, Plovdiv is the oldest city in the records, but also there are other candidates in Bulgaira, which are coming to be even older, and probably someday they will say it, like the town under the Veliko Tarnovo, was build on and some other places
That’s interesting because most articles I’ve researched said Sofia is the oldest and I’ve seen the same in Bulgarian forums. Did this change over the years?
@@teflontravels Sofia is old, yes, but the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe is Plovdiv and even that I am living in Sofia for me Plovdiv is much, much nice place to live or explore.
@@teflontravels Please skip these anti-Turk comments. Some of my compatriots still live 2 centuries ago. I don't like they and their hate to be the image of Bulgaria. Balkan countries cuisines has much in common. Such quarrels are pointless. For example, Greeks also have moussaka, just theirs is with added cinnamon.
Bro, I'm from America and been living here in Sofia for 6 years. Came to visit and never left! Love living here in Bulgaria.
It’s definitely a vibe there and transports cheaper than London 😅👌🏾
@@teflontravelsCheap transport? In Sofia? Sadly, it's not.
I wish I could switch with you and going to America. 😊
@@vessto it’s definitely a lot cheaper than here in London.
@@teflontravelsI have a friend which son lived in London. He used his vacations to Bulgaria to watch movies because the cinema is expensive in London.
Banitsa with airyan = best combo
Facts
Better = banitza with boza. 👍👍 But boza with sugar, not with sweeteners.
@@vessto you sure salt and sweet will go together?
@@teflontravels That is a classic combination here, I mean this certain. Even more than banitza with ayran. I was raised with this. Sadly the quality of the boza is not like before. Also, many banitza makers use cottage cheese instead of white cheese, the taste is not the same.
PLOVDIV IS THE OLDEST CITY!
Hey man, Im the guy from the tram. Nice video, I hope you liked it here in Sofia
Hey Martin, nice to hear from you. I really enjoyed Sofia and will be back again to visit other parts. Thanks for the chat 😎👌🏾
@@teflontravelsWhen you return you should definitely try the doners in Donerstag (means Thursday in German). The owner is the winner in one of Bulgarian Master Chef seasons.
@@teflontravelsGood you didn't use tram 11. 😂😂
@@vessto oh nice. Thanks
I’m coming back soon to visit Plovdiv
@@vessto what’s the story behind tram 11?😆
Here watching from Barbados🇧🇧
Blessed up bro
You have to pit some olive oil or sunflower oil and vinegar on the shpska salad to have the full flavour of it! And may be a little bit of some extra salt. The Shpopsja salad goes very well with our national drink rakia. Ib the summer, in the evening order a shopsaka salad, put the olive oil, salt and vinegar and order a cup of rakia with ice as starter and a new universe will open for you ! Enjoy!
Yummy , vinegar and olive oil sounds really tasty, those are one of my favourite flavours. Need to try it next time
@@teflontravels next time when you visit Bulgaria in summer buy tomatoes from the women market. I am guarantee you`ll thanks me later.
The restaurant you ate in manastirska magernica,means the place in the monastery where the monks eat,and the recipies are collected from monasteries from arround bulgaria and these recipies were acumulated by the monks from thousand years our oldest monasteries are from the 800s a.d.....and as you probably know the monks cook a real gurme food and they produce the best wine and rakia and have the best honey and forest fruits jem,cheese yellow cheese and many more stuff they are selfsufficiant
Nice interesting facts. I had a feeling it would have monk affiliation. Thanks for that
Many people say that ayrian is a Turkish drink, but many people forget that ayrian is mainly composed of yogurt, which is a natural product of the fermentation of fresh milk with the bacterium Lactobacillus Bulgaricus founded only on the modern Bulgarian territory, which means that ayrian is a typical Bulgarian drink because the bacteria is available only in Bulgaria, not other region and place in the Earth. And the conclusion is that, most likely, ayrian as a name was renamed during the 500 years of Ottoman slavery in Bulgaria, as most probably many other drinks and dishes, because before 500 years of Ottoman slavery in Bulgaria, our country was empire for centruries.
That’s some interesting history and I can understand it better now. It all makes sense now
Beautiful restaurant!!! (where you had the local beer) Sofia looks wonderful!
Beautiful indeed. Such a beautiful place.
Thanks for watching 😉
You can try also Franch fries with Bulgarian white cheese
They go very well as a side dish to beer.
Les frites belges aussi 😂
You should’ve had the tribe soup… This place is famous with its great tribe soup and I really hoped you would try it.. But, hopefully, next time you will! 🙏
I wanted to try but I struggle with tripe meat 😅
The "Contessa" restaurant is one of the really old and traditional restaurants for ordinary people. It is located in a nabourhood that once was populated by Jewish and Armenian people and working class Bulgarians. The food there is very good!
Interesting facts. Their food was really good and very nice people 😊
Thank you for the review. The one thing you eat was cream brulee.😅
Very similar 😅
Looks like you struggled with the white cold soup 🤣. I like how you described it , I could taste it virtually. Great content
😂😂😂😂😂
It wasn’t easy my bro , but always try my best to appreciate new flavours 🤦🏾♂️
@@teflontravelsThe "harvester's tarator" (old times poor people dish) is made by water and vinegar instead of yogurt.
nice vid; good to see UK bruddas going to some non typical places
Thanks for watching. And it’s good to venture out. Going to visit more places like this. 😎🙌🏾
Hi , Contesa is really good place! Thumbs up
Definitely. Really nice place
When i was a kid, here in Bulgaria they played american kids shows, and in there was like a trend that "salad is disgusting" and the actors "hate salad" while playing. I was really confused whey would somebody hate a salad. And when i grew up i just realized that americans and brits dont have Shopska salad
We don’t have shopsky salad but we have our variations of salad but I must say I prefer shopsky salad because of the grated cheese yum 😋
Tarator, boza, tripe soup and the national spirit - rakia are the things foreigners sometimes struggle with.
I myself only like 1 of those 4, even though I'm Bulgarian.
Apart from those they seem to enjoy most other dishes.
You should try some of the oven baked claypot dishes with meat and vegetables known as "gyuvech".
Have a good one.
Thanks for the recommendations. I’ve added to my list for when I next visit
Good stuffs 👍
Bless up yourself bro 😎
Salad looked nice 🤤🤤
Was amazing
Heading to Bulgaria next week for 10 days (mostly Sofia), really looking forward to it. My 13 y/o son will be very happy with the variety of food
10 days is a good amount of time to get the full experience. Try and visit Plovdiv , definitely worth it. Enjoy 😎👌🏾
@@teflontravelsThanks! Actually in Plovdiv right now, love it here. Enjoying a beer at the Cafe overlooking the Roman theater
That sounds so dope. I do like a good beer
I had some nice beer in Copenhagen Carlsberg and tuborg classic 😋
Enjoy
the banitsa is delicious, not healthy and with a lot of butter, but it's something delicious.
Thanks for visiting Bulgaria and sharing
Very delicious indeed and goes nice with a nice drink of Aryan 😋
Thanks for watching 🙌🏾
@@teflontravels In fact, most people once preferred a boza, but lately, Airyan is a good and light option and refreshing
I think it’s mainly because savoury goes with savoury for most people. Boza in my wouldn’t go well because of the sweetness
bro speed was literally at the same restaurant on 8:05
Wow ok . I’m not surprised tho, that place is really dope and get alot good exposure
Plovdiv is considered to be one of the oldest inhabited cities in Europe. Sofia is anciend but not that ancient. You got it wrong.
I know that sweet at the end as tolumbichka, as a kid i thought it was made from an old pumpkin's stem 😅
It’s very moist but nice 🤤
@@teflontravels and giga sweet 🙂
For sure 🤤
Please how will I move to Bulgaria with schooling
Not sure how but Theres should be UA-cam videos on this topic. Good luck
Bro here is the law : banitza joints airan as man meet a woman, just natural wedding.
I see 😅
Just quick one- Plovdiv us the oldest not Sofia
hihi come to good old Plovdiv,to see real oldest city in Europe,mate hihi.Healt and happynes
I’ll be there soon, I didn’t have enough time when I was in Sofia.
Софийските скамери които си мислят ,че говорят английски :) Същото по морето:) ден година храни
you have to season your shopska salad with oil.
For sure 💯
22:45 😂😂😂you are right you are straight in the trenches😂😂,just a hundred meters ahead of where are you here in the video saying this ,is a big church,infront of it a realy low kind of people gather and you can find all kind illigel subsances ,i got arrested for the first and the last time in my life there and had 24 hours in the jail because they caught me buying stuff.... i was wondering how you managed to pop righ on this place its so low....all youtubers show the same things ,next time visit the litle streets downtown to see some beautiful homes from the beggining of the 20th century and the end of the 19th
Hahaha, seems like I got lucky 😂
I’m aiming to start going to very local non touristy places.
Your story had me laughing 😅. You don’t really wanna get detained in Bulgaria , they look like they don’t play 😅
@@teflontravels imagine me arrested for the first time,but i am calm and cooperative and the cops were not rude to me ,when they see a inteligent and normal person they act also inteligent,but there was a gipsy thief that had stolen rails from the rail way and this is very dangerous for the people in the train,arrested in the sell next to mine and he was resisting and the cops electricuted him😂😂😂i was shocked to hear that,after 24 hours they let you go home ,just confiscated a litle hashish
The liquid in the last food is water with a ton of sugar. Otherwise, tarator is basically ayran with cucumbers, dill and garlic. It's strange that you liked ayran, but not tarator (unless you didn't like some of the other ingredients). Glad that you loved Sofia!
That’s a good comparison, and I think I didn’t like it as much because of the other ingredients. It wasn’t that bad but just wasn’t easy to get use to 🤦🏾♂️
You seems like a nice guy, thanks for visiting my country, but Sofia is not Bulgaria you missed the 90% of the bulgarian expirience, so you`re welcome again!
Thanks for your comment. I’ll be back again soon . Want to visit Plovdiv next time
@@teflontravels you`ll like it!
Stay safe in UK, lets hope nothing bad will happen.
Cheers fam 😎🙌🏾
@@teflontravels dude you must go to the country side there is the best food in the world :) god bless you !
Will do next time 😎
33:10 is tulumba
Thanks fam 😊👌🏾
33:05 was it juicy??
It’s soaked in sweetened water
The Oldest City In Europe is Plovdiv and 6th in the whole world
I been corrected. Thanks 😉
in some rankings is from 1st to 3rd place in the world, depends in which ranking you watching and depend on what
@@teflontravels No problem, but you must visit Plovdiv- this is the best city in Bulgaria!
I’m definitely coming back . I was supposed to go there but didn’t have enough time plus I was really sick when I was in Sofia was recovering
@@tanyastoyanova2850 И кое му е най доброто на Пловдив?
Hey
Just to say, every one is calling Airan is Turkish, but is not, they have it from when the Ottoman Empire was occupied the Balkans, the name its self is coming from one of the Ancient word for white, like the milk color, and other thing is that the yoghurt from which is made the Airan, is also coming from the Balkan population, so how someone who came thousands of years later will have a drink from something created in ancient times in the territory way before the newcomers, its same with the Baklava, all the people know is Turkish, and other foods too, because when they took over that lands they adopted some of the traditions and the food and even some words, as well as the dna in the north of they country, and because the Ottoman Empire was ruling 500 years the lands, the whole world knows its coming from them, there are a lot of things like that which are famous in the wrong way
Also i see in the comments, Plovdiv is the oldest city in the records, but also there are other candidates in Bulgaira, which are coming to be even older, and probably someday they will say it, like the town under the Veliko Tarnovo, was build on and some other places
Interesting facts and history, thanks for sharing 👏🏾👏🏾
🤣🤣🤣🤣😉🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 BANICA OLE
Actually Plovdiv is the oldest city in Europe
That’s interesting because most articles I’ve researched said Sofia is the oldest and I’ve seen the same in Bulgarian forums. Did this change over the years?
@@teflontravels Sofia is old, yes, but the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe is Plovdiv and even that I am living in Sofia for me Plovdiv is much, much nice place to live or explore.
Don’t listen to the Turks, man, banitsa and boza is much better than airyan
Interesting. I’ll have to try it when I next visit again
@@nazariyamaleva8798 Boza is also Turkish. No need to show your hate here, we have enough bad name in Europe. And no, I am not Turk.
@@teflontravels Please skip these anti-Turk comments. Some of my compatriots still live 2 centuries ago. I don't like they and their hate to be the image of Bulgaria. Balkan countries cuisines has much in common. Such quarrels are pointless. For example, Greeks also have moussaka, just theirs is with added cinnamon.
The oldest city in Europe is Plovdiv, also in Bulgaria, but it's not Sofia. :)
You’re right. I stand corrected
Ayran is Turkish, Sofia oldest city in Europe....Dude please!
Ayran is Turkish, I stand corrected with the oldest city part😎
Sofia is crazy old but Plovdiv is the oldest yeah
💯👌🏾