Texture depends if its cold smoked or cold smoked. Cold smoked texture reminds cured, but warm smoked does not. Warm smoked texture are more like oven baked texture 😊
The facial expression does not surprise me: I am born and raised in Sweden and after 58 years I still reacts like this guy when I get really good versions of the three first dishes he tried :)
Cured salmon: You coat a big piece of raw salmon (fillet) in a salt and sugar mixture and dill and white pepper, put it in a bag and into the fridge for a period of time (some do 1 day, some do 3... the recipe I just checked said 2 days). And then you turn it and knead it 3-4 times, during the whole time. When you're done, you just wipe away the salt mixture and slice it in thin slices. So it's not smoked, not actually raw, but cured :D Jamie Oliver has a few recipe videos on "Gravadlax" as he spells it :P (It's "gravlax" or "gravad lax" in Swedish)
I find that it gets smoother if you cure it for 4-5 days. As it is technically raw, it should be frozen first to be 100% sure that there is no parasite in the fish(not really a problem with cultivated salmon, but still). Don't be shy with the amount of dill!
@@dwaynesview If you get the chance, try kokkaffe, it's coarsly ground coffee beans put in the kettle with the water and boiled. It's quite different from brewed coffee. Also fun fact, the famous word "fika" is a slang term when words are turned backwards, Kaffe - Feka - Fika. It is common for foreigners to think that fika means a coffee and a biquit, but it just means coffee
Toast Skagen is delicious, and should be labeled as a national dish - although it's named after a place in Denmark, it was invented by the OG Swedish Chef. The fish roe on top is often real caviar. Salt and pepper are available everywhere, but the most common is the white pepper. Pepper mills with high quality black pepper is mainly found in higher quality restaurants. Yes, Östermalmshallen have opened now. It's a very prestigious market in the wealthiest part of the city.
I couldn't agree more, that Toast is something EVERYONE should have at least once in their lifetime cause it's so damn good! Especially now during summer times, best one i've had so far was in "Kungshamn" on the coast and i'm so sad i don't live anywhere close to there!
Those seeds and hazelnuts also look a little funny on that blank plate. Most swedes would probaly put them on top of a bowl of filmjölk ("fermented milk") often together with something like corn flakes or similar.
I am so happy that I found your channel. It so interesting to see your reaction to Swedish stuff because I am Swedish myself. I hope you react to more Swedish stuff in the future.
I don’t drink coffee and am considered weird here 😂 people are always asking me when I’m going to grow up, and if growing up means drinking coffee, then NEVVA! 😂 I drink buckets of tea every day though.
He certainly hit the Swedish trifector for lunch. Cured salmon, poached salmon, and toast Skagen. If you really want to eat genuinly local while visiting Sweden then this is it (plus maybe some moose steak and reindeer...) and Melanders is not a bad place to get it from. I think we are the second highest consumers of coffee in the world per capita after Finland. Greetings from Stockholm
There are two food markets here in Stockholm , world renowned for their quality and range. Eat there from time to time and for lunch the restaurang in Hötorgshallen whose speciality is fish dishes and fish soups are absolutely incredible . the other restaurants as well . Everything is topp quality goods that you by or eat there and that applies to most of the resaurants in Stockholm , Gothenburg and Malmö. When it comes to coffee , we are second only to Finland in the world in terms of coffee drinking. We also drink a lot of tea but have a lot to learn from the UK in terms of quqlity and flavors . Pepper and spices are i would say extremely important in the swedish kitchen , and swedes are very careful about what they eat , and eat as healthy as possible and want to keep thier health at its peak. Finally Greater Stockholm is full of cycle paths and swedes like to be out in nature moving in wet or dry , summer and winter.
Okay, many questions throughout this clip, so I'm not sure I remember all of them, but I'll try to answer most. Yes, here in Sweden a lot of people drinks Loooads of coffee. I myself don't really drink either coffee or tea though. I'm not a big fan of hot drinks. And yes, over all here in Sweden it's very common to see people riding bikes and so on. Especially in the bigger cities since it's a good and easy way to get around. The black pepper thing is very common, I do believe many of us eat a lot of it. I don't often eat ketchup, but when I do I love to have some black pepper mixed into it. Mustard.. It's a pretty common condiment here, but I wouldn't say it's a big thing. As for the price of the food at the first market. I'd say it's fairly expensive compared to other places that you could decide to eat at in Stockholm, BUT it is super fresh and high quality products, so I'm not very surprised and pretty sure it's worth it if you'd like to splurge a little and get yourself a Really good meal.
I live just across the street from where Mark started his tour. The bay is called Riddarfjärden and the water side walk down to City Hall is even more stunning in real life. There are also swans and grebes and all kinds of water fowl. On warmer days I usually take the bike to work, alongside the water, crossing bridges, to the southern island. It's just as fast and less expensive than public transport.
You can easily find the recepie on Google and make your own Toast Skagen. It was invented by a famous swedish chef named Tore Wretman when he was out sailing with friends and they asked him to make them a little snack. Inecreadibly nice dish!
The food he ate at his hotel felt very much like hotel food. Reminded a bit of food that we usually eat at Midsummer or Easter. Skagen batter contains: red onion, lemon, shrimp, creme fraiche, mayonnaise, salt, pepper and dill. It's really good. Then I see on the video that he got red caviar and a little extra dill on it. But it will never be as luxurious as it is for him when I eat it at home. I hardly think I ate everything on those plates but it looked good. Yes, salt and pepper is something that is usually on hand. There are also those here in Sweden who love pepper with ketchup. $43 I usually round to about 430 sek. Checked the converter and if it's US dollars then it's 456 sek. If it is Canadian or Australian dollars, the price is a little more accurate.
Mustard is really good with smoked salmon and herring too. Scandinavians drink alot of coffee. Dwayne, it s not cold all the time. Is same weather as Britian. Not far away you know. 2 hour flight. Check on maps, the globe. Hot summer, rainy falls and cold winters. Like UK. Far up north it s really cold winters, but nice summer. Fly here Dwayne, if possible. Stockholm is so worth it. Safe and clean.
Cured means cured in salt. So in that way its""raw" when it comes to consistency its very close to cold smoked salmon though. You should try the crackerbread the next time you go to ikea though. It's super swedish, so they sell it there😊
Sweden actually has the fifth most lakes in the entire world only falling behind the US, China, India and Canada(please note that these specific countries are the biggest four countries in the world), so yeah, we bathe a lot in lakes here, the cool thing with lakes are that they are often very warm and also almost alway surrounded by beutiful huge forests with almost no people around at all. It is almost magical swimming around in a lake surrounded by nothing but nature for several kilometers!
Traditional Swedish seasonings: Mustard Dill Horseradish White pepper We have a long tradition of using spices from all over the world. Saffron and clove for eg. are strongly associated with christmas.
I'm Swedish, and I don't drink coffee... but tgat is unusual. We do drink coffee second only to Finland. .. and not so much Starbucks-sugar-drinks. We do have mustard to sausages and such, but not to everything.
Hi Dwayne! I'm going try to and answer your questions as best as I can. Even though smoked and cured salmon look similar, they are rather different. Cured salmon has a more vinegary taste and is a bit more mushy in its consistency. I prefer smoked salmon. Cured salmon is usually served with a mustardy sauce called Hovmästarsås (Head waiter sauce), and yes, mustard is a very common condiment here. Most people have it on hot dogs, hamburgers or on mashed potatoes. It is also very common at Christmas for the Christmas ham. Sweden has the 2nd higest coffee consumption per capita in the world after Finland. I used to drink a lot of tea when I was younger, but now I prefer coffee. Also, despite beig a cold country, iced coffee is very popular here. More so when it is warm out. And when it is warm we love to go for a swim. Stockholm is a city built on 14 islands, and a lot of those islands have popular public beaches. My home town of Gothenburg sits at the estuary of the Göta älv river and also has a few beaches in the city centre, but not as many as in Stockholm. In the past, stores and restaurants used to be closed on Sundays, even the grocery stores, and that is because Sweden, just Like the UK, is a mostly protestant country. Nowadays most stores and restaurants are open on Sundays, but most close earlier than usual. Yes bike riding is very common throughout Sweden, and bike riding lanes are everywhere. Here in Gothenburg there are many places where you can rent bikes for a low cost. The best thing about Gothenburg's rental bikes is that you don't have to return the bike to where you got it, instead you just park it at the nearest bike rental place to where you are. No he didn't pronounce Hötorgshallen (or Östermalmshallen) correctly. It is pronounced Hötorgs-hallen. He said Hötorg-shallen. I've been to Stockholm, but never to Melanders so I can't say if it is good or not. Have put it on my bucket list for my next Stockholm trip though. Yes those are fish eggs. Yes ground black pepper is a common condiment in restaurants, but white pepper is more common in cooking. Accoring to Swedish Wikipedia, Östermalmshallen wasn't reopened until 2020 because the cost of the renovation was higher than anticipated.
Cycling is super common in Sweden and yes it is safe, there are pretty much always bike lanes everywhere. However, Denmark is even more bike-friendly, probably the world's most bike-friendly country.
the S in HötorgShallen and ÖstermalmShallen are genitive, and should not be combined with the H when pronounced. So it is not [Shallen] as he says it, but hötorgs-hallen. Where "hall" is the Swedish word for a large volume building, as in English. "en" at the end is the definite form, So it is like "The Royal Albert Hall" - "ÖstermalmshallEN".
8:13 riding bikes is something that very common all over Sweden and it's honestly getting even bigger since we've spent a lot on making roads for bike's between cities even in some places to make sure it's safe cause back in the day you'd have to bike on the side of highways which made it dangerous! Bikes and electric scooters are prob the most common means of transportation rn to get around since a lot of major cities are closing of certain areas of their towns from cars (especially civilian cars, with the exception for taxi's and stuff like that).. I'm from a very small town in Sweden but i've been to all the major cities in Sweden and my favorite is definitely Gothenburg, it's so beautiful and i've personally found that people living there are a bit more friendly then Stockholm where at least in my own experience feel like Stockholm's citizens can come of as very "posh" and snobby compared to Gothenburg. But that's just my personal opinion on it, and both places is definitely worth a visit
the water you see at the beach cimes from the baltic sea, stocholm is built on many islands, so the water in betveen the island originates from the baltic sea. Biking is quit easy in sweden, most citys has bike lanes along the roads. it is common at resturants that you have both salt and pepper on the table.
Sweden is the home for coffee drinkers for sure! But I'm caffeine sensitive, so I drink coffee very rarely. And if I do I put milk or heavy cream in it. But I drink tea (mostly rooibos or green tea) twice a day, in a big cup, with a teaspoon of honey. So I personally consume around 1,5 litres of tea a day. It's the best. 😁🍵
@@dwaynesview our tube cheese is a soft creamy cheese infused with different flavors/meats, like reindeer. It has that gamy taste to it, deep flavor, heaven on a toast lol along with the bacon cheese its my fav. We love our cheese in tubes!
Mustard is very common to and in our food, but i would say it is used less by the younger generations. Pepper is common, but having fresh grind is more common in restaurants. than in the home. Coffee drinking is almost a religion in sweden. Stockholms archipelago is amazing, and the heavy use of trees and foliage in swedish cities makes it beautiful. Bike riding is encouraged all over the country. We often have dedicated bicycle roads in and between areas, some even several miles.
In Stockholm we do ride alot of bikes. We have good infrastucture. So we have good bike tracks next to roads. Also our trafic is not hectic as other big city. We have also last five six years rental scooter. So you will see more people on those scooters than bike. Salmon is big in Sweden but bigger in Norway. We have alot of salmon from Norway. And alot of food culture with it. So you could technically eat salmon prepared differently every day and not be tired of it. Toast skagen is our national dish after meatballs. It is prawn in mayo with dill on toast with fish roe and it is DELICIOUS. Our husmanskost (household cooking) is like nothing you have taste like. Its very good.
Hötorgshallen literally means Hay Market Square Hall (Galleria). I dare to compare Hay Market Square (of old times) to Londons Camden Town although a lot smaller in size. Think of it as "The Petty Square" where farmers would come into the city to sell their products.
We used to be the highest by capita coffee drinkers but Finland, and maybe the Netherlands too, are ahead of us now. And no, he didn't pronounce Hötorgshallen correct :p Edit: You will allways have access to salt and black pepper. Often some other kinds of seasoning too.
Haha! Sitting here eating coffie flavord icecream whaiting for my sauna to get heated, as you wonder if we only have hot coffe here in Sweden. The summers get hot here is Sweden some times. We even get "tropical Summers" when the temperature don't drop below 20 degrees Celsius. Stockholm is quite a good city for bike riding. Yet again most Swedish citys are, theese days.
@@oxigen85 Just bought a package of Kaffeböna (Coffie bean) from Alvesta Glass at the lokal supermarket. I found it at the supermarcet called Willys, but thera are other brands, makes and stores to get it from. It is quite usual with coffe ice cream och mocca ice cream at the stores here in Sweden. If you don't find it just buy some vanilla ice cream an add coffie too it your self. But if you add to hot coffie to it there whill be ice crystals so a luke varm coffie is best. If you don't like the icy lunps in your ice cream.
where i live i have about 4 diffrent lakes within a 5-10min drive with Atv in the summer i used to go down to the nearest lake (100m) in the middle of the night just to take a Nightbath so refreshing
pickled herring has many different flavors, not just mustard. myself, I prefer mustard with new potatoes and sour cream. at least once a month. 8.2 kg of coffee per person per year. and then not everyone drinks coffee. in Finland it is 12 kg per person
Östermalmshallen is open now, and the temporary building has since been taken down again. These markets are nice, but they are pretty upscale and definitely on the pricey side.
Hi Dwayne if you live in UK you are not far from Scandinavia. Just come on over. Max 2 hours from London to Oslo. Then 1 hour from Oslo til Stockholm. Not expensive flights either. In the summer Dwayne you should tour around Scandinavia. If you prefer flying you can fly to Bergen first. Closest to England. Beautiful Bergen by the sea and fjord. Eat alot of fish and seafood in Bergen. Check at the city and the mountain sorroundings. Then 1 hour flight to Oslo. Capital of Norway. Lot to see and do. Lot of food, international and norwegian food. Then you can take flight or train to Stockholm from Oslo. 1 hour flight. Not expensive. Stocholm is such a beautiful city . Lots to see and do. Abba museum. Boattrips, seaside and old town is a must. From Stockholm you can take a flight to Copenhagen. Fantastic city, so beautiful. Town center walking walking, restaurants, cafes, museums, danish food is best in Scandinavia I think. Fish, meat, pork is danish speciallity. Danish smørbrød, shrimps, prawns with fryed fish on bread with remulade and lemon. Beer in Denmark if you like , Soft ice in Copenhagen is a must. Huge icescreem in cones. Walk through the main street to the habour, Nyhavn. By the sea in the middle of Copenhage6, capital of Denmark. Restaurants and Lots of cafes
if you have the chance you should deffinetly try some swedish food. we have alot of great food here. the markets he went to are some of the high end markets in Stockholms inner city. its a bit more expensive but you also get really good quality stuff :) Toast skagen is a must try, its not super hard to do at home if you dont have the chance to travel here. we do love seafood here so alot of fish and alot meat as well. a dish that is super simple to do at home is boiled potatoes, fry salmon in a pan or stick in to a oven, make a rom sauce with some creme yoghurt, diced red onion, smoked fish rom(the orange kind), and just some salt and pepper. maybe serve with a simple sallad with cucumber, tomato, paprika
Yeas people drink coffee here a lot. IIce coffeee mostly in the summer. And the most of the stores are closed on sundays. No mustard is not to everything, just to that kind of fish. Depends if you use the bike mostly we are using the subway. Not pronounced it right Högtorgsmarknaden. Toast skagen creme fraiche and mayo some lemon an dill chrimps. Salt and pepper yeas on the table. The mall are open now.
9:28 Hötorgshallen is OLD . The first Hötorgshallen was built in 1884 . Then it was demolished in 1954 and rebuilt in 1958 . But got its name Hötorget 1644 .
Swedish guy here. He killed the salmon a second time with the blackpepper. We drink a lot of coffe, us and Norway competing, cup by cup. Stockholm is great but it´s not the best place, I´d choose chopenhagen first everyday in the week, Gothenburg second and third Stockholm
I love English food like Fish and chips, made of Norweigian cod and french potatoes.. or at breakfast, Danish bacon with spanish white beans, whit dutch eggs! All great english food like your French oysters. Actualy.. is there any british food.. exept of mutton, but that was frome New Zeeland.
Gravad lax! ❤❤ Mmhhh Yeah, they drink sooooo much coffe and it's very strong too. Especially in the morning and fika, after lunch and any break really. Sure! You can just swim. ❤❤
The salmon looks lovely I'm not sure if Ive had cured salmon before but certainly is something id love to try. Never been to Sweden, would love to visit. One thing I love love is pickled herring - rollmops - and certainly would love to try the varieties of sauce the Swedes serve herring in - the mustard sauce I imagine goes so well.
If you like pickled herring and smoked salmon you will absolutely love cured salmon. If you find good fresh salmon you can make it at home. It's not that difficult to be honest. Picked herring comes in hundreds of flavors like mustard, garlic, whiskey, onion, regional, lingonberry, lime, cream, you name it. For Christmas when you go to the Christmas "julbord" (like a type of smörgåsbord) the good places will always have many different (often home made) pickled herring. You go roughly 3 round. You start with the cold cuts and fish buffet, then the hot food buffet and then the dessert buffet.
We drink a lot of coffee, we have something called (Fika) we do this 3-5 times a day, at work, outside work with friends, etc., then coffee is always the best. We have one of Scandinavia's best fish dishes and food, so you can come here to Sweden and try our food Yes, we have a lot of pepper in our food
I'm a swede and I buy about 13 kgs of coffee per year. But then I drink more than just the coffee I make at home of course. I also have coffee at work or at cafés.
i prefer dijon mustard as swedish. i saw his vlog and i didn't felt he eat so typical swedish food. yes we prefer coffee and strong once compares to what we get in usa that taste tea for us haha
Swedes drink a LOT of (hot) coffee. It's part of the fika-culture (to have coffee and pastry/biscuits/rolls, chat and forget about work). Depending on where in the country you're from you swear by the local brand. The cured salmon is very different from smoked. Different flavor notes and especially the texture. Cured is basically raw fish, just like the picked types of herring. Mustard, dill and salt are very national type flavors. You should come here, there is a lot of similarities and plenty of differences as well. All good. Cheers
Stockholm have many bikes, and have a lot of bikelanes. Not like Denmark or The Netherlands, but quite a lot. It's quite safe biking - the biggest threat are the bikers, many bikers have no sense of traffic at all, and a person was killed in a bike hit-n-run last year.
Stockholm Is surrounded by water and build on water. It standing on poles or called stocks in Swedish. There by its name Stockholm. Holme is another word for small island. The west part Gamla Stan the water is sweat water and the east is the brackish water and the Baltic Sea. He is at the sweat water lake and a part of the lake Mälaren runs down to Old Town or Gamla Stan.
There are so many beautiful places, besides Stockholm, to see in Sweden but they are almost forgotten and thats a shame. Almost everybody concentrates on Stockholm. Enough of that........I LOVE SALMON!
swedenn drinksss A LOT off coffee, but we do have tea also, and drink often tea too... i drink both it depends on what kind of mood i am.. but often coffee
We need the coffee since it's dark almost the whole year around up here except during the summer. And I prefer tea over coffee I live the sent but the taste is to much for me.
Hi Dwayne 👍🏼 this guy eating Skagen toast just like a swede..his prononce on HÖTORGS HALLEN was wrong but fun... yes the red is caviar (fish eggs) this caviar is just very easy salted..not hardsalted as or KALLES caviar.. this guy is pro on Eating..ha ha ha ha ha fresh crossed pepper on fresh food higher the taste really high....yes Dwayne ÖSTERMALMS HALLEN..& HÖTORGS HALLEN + one more now SÖDERS HALLEN hi missed that HALLEN think they open 2010 first time
No, smoked salmon and cured salmon are two very different things! You should definitely try it whenever you come to Sweden.
Oh I really want to, they look similar. But if it tastes different then I need to try it.
@@dwaynesview texture is similar, taste profile is very different
Cured salmon is often made with salt or sugar and salt, and not smoked
Texture depends if its cold smoked or cold smoked. Cold smoked texture reminds cured, but warm smoked does not. Warm smoked texture are more like oven baked texture 😊
That breakfast is not a typical Swedish one haha. What he ate looks like alot of what we eat at midsummer dinner.
Yeah we dont eat sasuages for breakfast in sweden, thats more english
The facial expression does not surprise me: I am born and raised in Sweden and after 58 years I still reacts like this guy when I get really good versions of the three first dishes he tried :)
swedish fish (not the candy) is so fresh and clean and just has all the flavour you could want
Cured salmon: You coat a big piece of raw salmon (fillet) in a salt and sugar mixture and dill and white pepper, put it in a bag and into the fridge for a period of time (some do 1 day, some do 3... the recipe I just checked said 2 days). And then you turn it and knead it 3-4 times, during the whole time. When you're done, you just wipe away the salt mixture and slice it in thin slices.
So it's not smoked, not actually raw, but cured :D
Jamie Oliver has a few recipe videos on "Gravadlax" as he spells it :P (It's "gravlax" or "gravad lax" in Swedish)
I find that it gets smoother if you cure it for 4-5 days. As it is technically raw, it should be frozen first to be 100% sure that there is no parasite in the fish(not really a problem with cultivated salmon, but still). Don't be shy with the amount of dill!
Come our the boarder and learn about all kind of good salmon. If you wish... catch wild salon. You do know sushi with salmon is a norwegian thing?
Yes, I believe that Sweden is the second country after Finland for coffee drinking
And I love Coffee, another reason to go :)
Absolut ! finns drink more coffie than sweden does, but the difference is not that big.
@@dwaynesview If you get the chance, try kokkaffe, it's coarsly ground coffee beans put in the kettle with the water and boiled. It's quite different from brewed coffee.
Also fun fact, the famous word "fika" is a slang term when words are turned backwards, Kaffe - Feka - Fika. It is common for foreigners to think that fika means a coffee and a biquit, but it just means coffee
@@runner1086 Kinda like vodka ;)
@@matshjalmarsson3008 Absolut :)
Toast Skagen is delicious, and should be labeled as a national dish - although it's named after a place in Denmark, it was invented by the OG Swedish Chef.
The fish roe on top is often real caviar.
Salt and pepper are available everywhere, but the most common is the white pepper. Pepper mills with high quality black pepper is mainly found in higher quality restaurants.
Yes, Östermalmshallen have opened now. It's a very prestigious market in the wealthiest part of the city.
I couldn't agree more, that Toast is something EVERYONE should have at least once in their lifetime cause it's so damn good! Especially now during summer times, best one i've had so far was in "Kungshamn" on the coast and i'm so sad i don't live anywhere close to there!
Those seeds and hazelnuts also look a little funny on that blank plate. Most swedes would probaly put them on top of a bowl of filmjölk ("fermented milk") often together with something like corn flakes or similar.
Yes, black pepper is compulsory at the restaurants. Even at McDonalds 😋😋
Most supermarkets are open at Sundays but fresh deli markets are often closed as we don't have deliveries of fresh ingredients during the weekend.
"That looks very random", says the man from the country of the English breakfast. 🤪
I am so happy that I found your channel. It so interesting to see your reaction to Swedish stuff because I am Swedish myself. I hope you react to more Swedish stuff in the future.
Yes, Iove mustard and put it in a lot of different dishes, and sauces. And I am not the general Swede, because I never drink coffee, but love tea
I don’t drink coffee and am considered weird here 😂 people are always asking me when I’m going to grow up, and if growing up means drinking coffee, then NEVVA! 😂 I drink buckets of tea every day though.
I, too, don't drink coffee - and boy have I heard a lot about it...
Breaking the norm in any way is regarded as sus by most Swedes. Jantelagen and all that.
When my x's sister heard I didn't like coffee her first reaction was "well I guess we can't hang out then" and alas, we really never did 😏
He certainly hit the Swedish trifector for lunch. Cured salmon, poached salmon, and toast Skagen. If you really want to eat genuinly local while visiting Sweden then this is it (plus maybe some moose steak and reindeer...) and Melanders is not a bad place to get it from.
I think we are the second highest consumers of coffee in the world per capita after Finland.
Greetings from Stockholm
There are two food markets here in Stockholm , world renowned for their quality and range. Eat there from time to time and for lunch the restaurang in Hötorgshallen whose speciality is fish dishes and fish soups are absolutely incredible . the other restaurants as well . Everything is topp quality goods that you by or eat there and that applies to most of the resaurants in Stockholm , Gothenburg and Malmö. When it comes to coffee , we are second only to Finland in the world in terms of coffee drinking. We also drink a lot of tea but have a lot to learn from the UK in terms of quqlity and flavors . Pepper and spices are i would say extremely important in the swedish kitchen , and swedes are very careful about what they eat , and eat as healthy as possible and want to keep thier health at its peak. Finally Greater Stockholm is full of cycle paths and swedes like to be out in nature moving in wet or dry , summer and winter.
Okay, many questions throughout this clip, so I'm not sure I remember all of them, but I'll try to answer most.
Yes, here in Sweden a lot of people drinks Loooads of coffee. I myself don't really drink either coffee or tea though. I'm not a big fan of hot drinks.
And yes, over all here in Sweden it's very common to see people riding bikes and so on. Especially in the bigger cities since it's a good and easy way to get around.
The black pepper thing is very common, I do believe many of us eat a lot of it. I don't often eat ketchup, but when I do I love to have some black pepper mixed into it.
Mustard.. It's a pretty common condiment here, but I wouldn't say it's a big thing.
As for the price of the food at the first market. I'd say it's fairly expensive compared to other places that you could decide to eat at in Stockholm, BUT it is super fresh and high quality products, so I'm not very surprised and pretty sure it's worth it if you'd like to splurge a little and get yourself a Really good meal.
I live just across the street from where Mark started his tour. The bay is called Riddarfjärden and the water side walk down to City Hall is even more stunning in real life. There are also swans and grebes and all kinds of water fowl.
On warmer days I usually take the bike to work, alongside the water, crossing bridges, to the southern island. It's just as fast and less expensive than public transport.
You can easily find the recepie on Google and make your own Toast Skagen. It was invented by a famous swedish chef named Tore Wretman when he was out sailing with friends and they asked him to make them a little snack. Inecreadibly nice dish!
The food he ate at his hotel felt very much like hotel food. Reminded a bit of food that we usually eat at Midsummer or Easter.
Skagen batter contains: red onion, lemon, shrimp, creme fraiche, mayonnaise, salt, pepper and dill.
It's really good. Then I see on the video that he got red caviar and a little extra dill on it. But it will never be as luxurious as it is for him when I eat it at home. I hardly think I ate everything on those plates but it looked good.
Yes, salt and pepper is something that is usually on hand. There are also those here in Sweden who love pepper with ketchup.
$43 I usually round to about 430 sek.
Checked the converter and if it's US dollars then it's 456 sek. If it is Canadian or Australian dollars, the price is a little more accurate.
Mustard is really good with smoked salmon and herring too. Scandinavians drink alot of coffee. Dwayne, it s not cold all the time. Is same weather as Britian. Not far away you know. 2 hour flight. Check on maps, the globe. Hot summer, rainy falls and cold winters. Like UK. Far up north it s really cold winters, but nice summer. Fly here Dwayne, if possible. Stockholm is so worth it. Safe and clean.
Cured means cured in salt. So in that way its""raw" when it comes to consistency its very close to cold smoked salmon though. You should try the crackerbread the next time you go to ikea though. It's super swedish, so they sell it there😊
Yeah I'm going to, I think a trip to Ikea is in order. This video made me crave Swedish food lol!
Allso buy swedish caviar, we are all looking forward to that reaction🙄😅
@@hakanjonsson1478 Really? I actually like the Swedish "caviar" very much. Greetings from Vienna, Austria!🙂
@@tubekulose guess it's a love or hate thing. But I'm glad you do😊❤️
You can translate knäckebröd (crackerbread you said) to crisp bread. Its the right way, its not a cracker.
Yes, Melanders fisk is one of the best fish and seafood restaurants.
yes, Östermalmshallen re-opened earlier this year (or late last year) IIRC. I grew up around there, so it is very iconic for me.
I'm from Stockholm but Gothenburg got us beat when it comes to seafood markets.
10:20 Melanders is very good in many things but especially in sea food .
They have some restaurants that are 5/5
most restaurants I been to here in sweden always got some course pepper and salt. We love thoes 2 things on everything ^^
Sweden actually has the fifth most lakes in the entire world only falling behind the US, China, India and Canada(please note that these specific countries are the biggest four countries in the world), so yeah, we bathe a lot in lakes here, the cool thing with lakes are that they are often very warm and also almost alway surrounded by beutiful huge forests with almost no people around at all. It is almost magical swimming around in a lake surrounded by nothing but nature for several kilometers!
Traditional Swedish seasonings: Mustard
Dill
Horseradish
White pepper
We have a long tradition of using spices from all over the world. Saffron and clove for eg. are strongly associated with christmas.
I'm Swedish, and I don't drink coffee... but tgat is unusual. We do drink coffee second only to Finland. .. and not so much Starbucks-sugar-drinks.
We do have mustard to sausages and such, but not to everything.
Hi Dwayne! I'm going try to and answer your questions as best as I can.
Even though smoked and cured salmon look similar, they are rather different. Cured salmon has a more vinegary taste and is a bit more mushy in its consistency. I prefer smoked salmon. Cured salmon is usually served with a mustardy sauce called Hovmästarsås (Head waiter sauce), and yes, mustard is a very common condiment here. Most people have it on hot dogs, hamburgers or on mashed potatoes. It is also very common at Christmas for the Christmas ham.
Sweden has the 2nd higest coffee consumption per capita in the world after Finland. I used to drink a lot of tea when I was younger, but now I prefer coffee. Also, despite beig a cold country, iced coffee is very popular here. More so when it is warm out. And when it is warm we love to go for a swim. Stockholm is a city built on 14 islands, and a lot of those islands have popular public beaches. My home town of Gothenburg sits at the estuary of the Göta älv river and also has a few beaches in the city centre, but not as many as in Stockholm.
In the past, stores and restaurants used to be closed on Sundays, even the grocery stores, and that is because Sweden, just Like the UK, is a mostly protestant country. Nowadays most stores and restaurants are open on Sundays, but most close earlier than usual.
Yes bike riding is very common throughout Sweden, and bike riding lanes are everywhere. Here in Gothenburg there are many places where you can rent bikes for a low cost. The best thing about Gothenburg's rental bikes is that you don't have to return the bike to where you got it, instead you just park it at the nearest bike rental place to where you are.
No he didn't pronounce Hötorgshallen (or Östermalmshallen) correctly. It is pronounced Hötorgs-hallen. He said Hötorg-shallen.
I've been to Stockholm, but never to Melanders so I can't say if it is good or not. Have put it on my bucket list for my next Stockholm trip though.
Yes those are fish eggs.
Yes ground black pepper is a common condiment in restaurants, but white pepper is more common in cooking.
Accoring to Swedish Wikipedia, Östermalmshallen wasn't reopened until 2020 because the cost of the renovation was higher than anticipated.
Cycling is super common in Sweden and yes it is safe, there are pretty much always bike lanes everywhere. However, Denmark is even more bike-friendly, probably the world's most bike-friendly country.
the S in HötorgShallen and ÖstermalmShallen are genitive, and should not be combined with the H when pronounced. So it is not [Shallen] as he says it, but hötorgs-hallen. Where "hall" is the Swedish word for a large volume building, as in English. "en" at the end is the definite form, So it is like "The Royal Albert Hall" - "ÖstermalmshallEN".
8:13 riding bikes is something that very common all over Sweden and it's honestly getting even bigger since we've spent a lot on making roads for bike's between cities even in some places to make sure it's safe cause back in the day you'd have to bike on the side of highways which made it dangerous! Bikes and electric scooters are prob the most common means of transportation rn to get around since a lot of major cities are closing of certain areas of their towns from cars (especially civilian cars, with the exception for taxi's and stuff like that)..
I'm from a very small town in Sweden but i've been to all the major cities in Sweden and my favorite is definitely Gothenburg, it's so beautiful and i've personally found that people living there are a bit more friendly then Stockholm where at least in my own experience feel like Stockholm's citizens can come of as very "posh" and snobby compared to Gothenburg. But that's just my personal opinion on it, and both places is definitely worth a visit
When will you react to geography now UK??
He will
the water you see at the beach cimes from the baltic sea, stocholm is built on many islands, so the water in betveen the island originates from the baltic sea. Biking is quit easy in sweden, most citys has bike lanes along the roads. it is common at resturants that you have both salt and pepper on the table.
Sweden is the home for coffee drinkers for sure! But I'm caffeine sensitive, so I drink coffee very rarely. And if I do I put milk or heavy cream in it. But I drink tea (mostly rooibos or green tea) twice a day, in a big cup, with a teaspoon of honey. So I personally consume around 1,5 litres of tea a day. It's the best. 😁🍵
I don't even like most of the food shown, but it looks absolutely delicious.
Tubes! Bacon or reindeer cheese in tubes!!! On TOAST! Swedish heaven!
Reindeer Cheese?? WOW! What does that taste like? As in compared to dairy cheese?
@@dwaynesview our tube cheese is a soft creamy cheese infused with different flavors/meats, like reindeer. It has that gamy taste to it, deep flavor, heaven on a toast lol along with the bacon cheese its my fav. We love our cheese in tubes!
WHEN you come to Sweden you must try lightly salted salmon with dillstuved potatoes and a slice off lemon,yummy
Smoked!
@@herrbonk3635 na,lightly salted
Melanders is the best! They have a soup with mussels and fish and it is fantastic. And the skagen toast is amazing! ❤❤❤
Mustard is very common to and in our food, but i would say it is used less by the younger generations. Pepper is common, but having fresh grind is more common in restaurants. than in the home. Coffee drinking is almost a religion in sweden. Stockholms archipelago is amazing, and the heavy use of trees and foliage in swedish cities makes it beautiful. Bike riding is encouraged all over the country. We often have dedicated bicycle roads in and between areas, some even several miles.
All people I know use fresh grinded pepper. Who doesn't have a pepper mill in the kitchen nowadays?
@@thedryparn1279 You would be surprised. I think it is dependant on the region and generation as well, but many i know still uses pre-grind :(
In Stockholm we do ride alot of bikes. We have good infrastucture. So we have good bike tracks next to roads. Also our trafic is not hectic as other big city. We have also last five six years rental scooter. So you will see more people on those scooters than bike.
Salmon is big in Sweden but bigger in Norway. We have alot of salmon from Norway. And alot of food culture with it. So you could technically eat salmon prepared differently every day and not be tired of it.
Toast skagen is our national dish after meatballs. It is prawn in mayo with dill on toast with fish roe and it is DELICIOUS.
Our husmanskost (household cooking) is like nothing you have taste like. Its very good.
Finland, Norway and Sweden are all high on the coffee consumption list.
Hötorgshallen literally means Hay Market Square Hall (Galleria). I dare to compare Hay Market Square (of old times) to Londons Camden Town although a lot smaller in size. Think of it as "The Petty Square" where farmers would come into the city to sell their products.
A very wierd swedish pastry is "slabang". Its a roll cake but with whipped cream, marzipan and an uncutt, pealed banana in the middle.
We used to be the highest by capita coffee drinkers but Finland, and maybe the Netherlands too, are ahead of us now.
And no, he didn't pronounce Hötorgshallen correct :p
Edit: You will allways have access to salt and black pepper. Often some other kinds of seasoning too.
Haha! Sitting here eating coffie flavord icecream whaiting for my sauna to get heated, as you wonder if we only have hot coffe here in Sweden. The summers get hot here is Sweden some times. We even get "tropical Summers" when the temperature don't drop below 20 degrees Celsius.
Stockholm is quite a good city for bike riding. Yet again most Swedish citys are, theese days.
Where did you get coffee favoured ice cream? Sounds delish, need to try!
@@oxigen85 Just bought a package of Kaffeböna (Coffie bean) from Alvesta Glass at the lokal supermarket. I found it at the supermarcet called Willys, but thera are other brands, makes and stores to get it from. It is quite usual with coffe ice cream och mocca ice cream at the stores here in Sweden.
If you don't find it just buy some vanilla ice cream an add coffie too it your self. But if you add to hot coffie to it there whill be ice crystals so a luke varm coffie is best. If you don't like the icy lunps in your ice cream.
where i live i have about 4 diffrent lakes within a 5-10min drive with Atv in the summer i used to go down to the nearest lake (100m) in the middle of the night just to take a Nightbath so refreshing
pickled herring has many different flavors, not just mustard. myself, I prefer mustard with new potatoes and sour cream. at least once a month. 8.2 kg of coffee per person per year. and then not everyone drinks coffee. in Finland it is 12 kg per person
I live in Stockholm, did pass by this places several times but never stopped to eat there, might need to go eat there some day. :D
Per captia we are number two! when it comes to coffe, Finland is number one! :D I like my coffe to be like my life, dark and bitter. ;)
Östermalmshallen is open now, and the temporary building has since been taken down again. These markets are nice, but they are pretty upscale and definitely on the pricey side.
Hi Dwayne if you live in UK you are not far from Scandinavia. Just come on over. Max 2 hours from London to Oslo. Then 1 hour from Oslo til Stockholm. Not expensive flights either. In the summer Dwayne you should tour around Scandinavia. If you prefer flying you can fly to Bergen first. Closest to England. Beautiful Bergen by the sea and fjord. Eat alot of fish and seafood in Bergen. Check at the city and the mountain sorroundings. Then 1 hour flight to Oslo. Capital of Norway. Lot to see and do. Lot of food, international and norwegian food. Then you can take flight or train to Stockholm from Oslo. 1 hour flight. Not expensive. Stocholm is such a beautiful city . Lots to see and do. Abba museum. Boattrips, seaside and old town is a must. From Stockholm you can take a flight to Copenhagen. Fantastic city, so beautiful. Town center walking walking, restaurants, cafes, museums, danish food is best in Scandinavia I think. Fish, meat, pork is danish speciallity. Danish smørbrød, shrimps, prawns with fryed fish on bread with remulade and lemon. Beer in Denmark if you like , Soft ice in Copenhagen is a must. Huge icescreem in cones. Walk through the main street to the habour, Nyhavn. By the sea in the middle of Copenhage6, capital of Denmark. Restaurants and Lots of cafes
I just got back from Alaska where I had the most tender moose toast..so good! Jerry made from other animals as well. Moose is very good!
Definitely a coffee drinker here lol. 🇸🇪 One large cup in the morning, 1-2 at work and one more when I come home. 😅
if you have the chance you should deffinetly try some swedish food. we have alot of great food here. the markets he went to are some of the high end markets in Stockholms inner city. its a bit more expensive but you also get really good quality stuff :)
Toast skagen is a must try, its not super hard to do at home if you dont have the chance to travel here. we do love seafood here so alot of fish and alot meat as well.
a dish that is super simple to do at home is boiled potatoes, fry salmon in a pan or stick in to a oven, make a rom sauce with some creme yoghurt, diced red onion, smoked fish rom(the orange kind), and just some salt and pepper. maybe serve with a simple sallad with cucumber, tomato, paprika
Yeas people drink coffee here a lot. IIce coffeee mostly in the summer. And the most of the stores are closed on sundays. No mustard is not to everything, just to that kind of fish. Depends if you use the bike mostly we are using the subway. Not pronounced it right Högtorgsmarknaden. Toast skagen creme fraiche and mayo some lemon an dill chrimps. Salt and pepper yeas on the table. The mall are open now.
Our stores have open all day, but Sunday and Saturday the have open fewer hours,
Mark Wiens! Happiest guy ever. No wonder considering his job though. :P
Mustard is quite common, we do have a lot of variety. My 13 yo is a mustard lover, I think we have 14 different bottles in the fridge.
I like ice coffee and the best coffee is a ice Espresso with salted caramel so good 🤤
9:41 This frame reminds me of a Pretty new Inside Japanese fish market. Not the old school Outside stands It’s weird because it’s Sweden.😅
Cured means often rubbed in salt, with various spices on it but mostly parsley or dill or a mix of both.
9:28 Hötorgshallen is OLD .
The first Hötorgshallen was built in 1884 .
Then it was demolished in 1954 and rebuilt in 1958 .
But got its name Hötorget 1644 .
Swedish guy here. He killed the salmon a second time with the blackpepper.
We drink a lot of coffe, us and Norway competing, cup by cup.
Stockholm is great but it´s not the best place, I´d choose chopenhagen first everyday in the week, Gothenburg second and third Stockholm
I love English food like Fish and chips, made of Norweigian cod and french potatoes.. or at breakfast, Danish bacon with spanish white beans, whit dutch eggs! All great english food like your French oysters.
Actualy.. is there any british food.. exept of mutton, but that was frome New Zeeland.
yes Stockholm is really biker friendly, it is actually sometimes faster to navigate by bike.
Gravad lax! ❤❤ Mmhhh
Yeah, they drink sooooo much coffe and it's very strong too. Especially in the morning and fika, after lunch and any break really.
Sure! You can just swim. ❤❤
Yes the coffee is a Daily bass in Swedish morning rutin
The salmon looks lovely I'm not sure if Ive had cured salmon before but certainly is something id love to try. Never been to Sweden, would love to visit. One thing I love love is pickled herring - rollmops - and certainly would love to try the varieties of sauce the Swedes serve herring in - the mustard sauce I imagine goes so well.
If you like pickled herring and smoked salmon you will absolutely love cured salmon. If you find good fresh salmon you can make it at home. It's not that difficult to be honest.
Picked herring comes in hundreds of flavors like mustard, garlic, whiskey, onion, regional, lingonberry, lime, cream, you name it. For Christmas when you go to the Christmas "julbord" (like a type of smörgåsbord) the good places will always have many different (often home made) pickled herring. You go roughly 3 round. You start with the cold cuts and fish buffet, then the hot food buffet and then the dessert buffet.
You can have the salmon rhymed, cold smoked, warm smoked, cured, pickled, poached or grilled. 😋😋
I prefere tea, but grew up with my family we drank coffe so black (and strong) that it was almost viscous 🤣.
We drink a lot of coffee, we have something called (Fika) we do this 3-5 times a day, at work, outside work with friends, etc., then coffee is always the best.
We have one of Scandinavia's best fish dishes and food, so you can come here to Sweden and try our food
Yes, we have a lot of pepper in our food
I love coffee so Fika sounds like my kind of thing lol!
I'm a swede and I buy about 13 kgs of coffee per year. But then I drink more than just the coffee I make at home of course. I also have coffee at work or at cafés.
Oooooowwwooowww the toastskagen its sooooooo Good
i prefer dijon mustard as swedish. i saw his vlog and i didn't felt he eat so typical swedish food. yes we prefer coffee and strong once compares to what we get in usa that taste tea for us haha
Yes and we like strong coffee 😊
We do have ice Coffee but I personaly as a ragger prefer 1.5 L of hot black Coffee to start of the day. Just to have energy for highschool
You simply have to try Toast Skagen, it's to die for, trust me!!
Swedes drink a LOT of (hot) coffee. It's part of the fika-culture (to have coffee and pastry/biscuits/rolls, chat and forget about work). Depending on where in the country you're from you swear by the local brand.
The cured salmon is very different from smoked. Different flavor notes and especially the texture. Cured is basically raw fish, just like the picked types of herring. Mustard, dill and salt are very national type flavors. You should come here, there is a lot of similarities and plenty of differences as well. All good.
Cheers
Coffee is definitely the most popular.
i do my own Mustard. It is stong as hell, but good. Yes we have all diffrent sort.
as a swede , it would be nice to see u talk about uk :)
Stockholm have many bikes, and have a lot of bikelanes. Not like Denmark or The Netherlands, but quite a lot. It's quite safe biking - the biggest threat are the bikers, many bikers have no sense of traffic at all, and a person was killed in a bike hit-n-run last year.
9:15 That is our high street Drottninggatan
ure soo welcome here and go for a food treat:)
Dwayne is on his way to saluhallarna right now
Stockholm Is surrounded by water and build on water. It standing on poles or called stocks in Swedish. There by its name Stockholm. Holme is another word for small island.
The west part Gamla Stan the water is sweat water and the east is the brackish water and the Baltic Sea.
He is at the sweat water lake and a part of the lake Mälaren runs down to Old Town or Gamla Stan.
There are so many beautiful places, besides Stockholm, to see in Sweden but they are almost forgotten and thats a shame. Almost everybody concentrates on Stockholm. Enough of that........I LOVE SALMON!
Black coffe no suger no milk 8-10 cups a day. Yummy😎
swedenn drinksss A LOT off coffee, but we do have tea also, and drink often tea too... i drink both it depends on what kind of mood i am.. but often coffee
We need the coffee since it's dark almost the whole year around up here except during the summer. And I prefer tea over coffee I live the sent but the taste is to much for me.
The food the restaurant with salmon meal was quality food for 2 persons, several dishes. Not expensive
Melander's is top notch
I think we are second in the world after Finland, when it comes to coffee per capita.
Salmon is very good,in Finland we eat it lots of.
Sweden is not the highest per capita on coffee, we are only the second biggest, Finland is number one on that front
Hi Dwayne 👍🏼 this guy eating Skagen toast just like a swede..his prononce on HÖTORGS HALLEN was wrong but fun... yes the red is caviar (fish eggs) this caviar is just very easy salted..not hardsalted as or KALLES caviar.. this guy is pro on Eating..ha ha ha ha ha fresh crossed pepper on fresh food higher the taste really high....yes Dwayne ÖSTERMALMS HALLEN..& HÖTORGS HALLEN + one more now SÖDERS HALLEN hi missed that HALLEN think they open 2010 first time
The new Östermalmshallen is open since 2020-01-23
Great… now I’m hungry… 🙈