AMERICAN Trying BULGARIAN FOOD | Bulgarian Cuisine | Bulgaria Travel Show
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Watch this Bulgaria travel vlog to see Wayne the American trying Bulgarian food! (April the American tries the food too, haha.) We are not sure what to think of some of this Bulgarian cuisine, but we are happy to try traditional Bulgarian food and overall we enjoyed our taste of Bulgaria at this Veliko Tarnovo restaurant, MEXAHA. Bulgarian food has some flavors all their own, and we hope to be able to take part in some Bulgaria travel again to try more food of Bulgaria! We hope you get a few chuckles while viewing our Bulgarian taste test...do let us know how you imagine you would like (or not like) one thing we try--food or drink?! 🤔😃
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the thing you called bacon is actually just fat, sometimes with skin, some people eat it just like that (it's been cured), some smoke it or you can grill it, which I think would be more to your liking
Yes, we have since been schooled in the pork fat... 😇 We'd definitely prefer it grilled, ha. Thank you for watching our video and commenting!
It's called "slanina"in bulgarian language.
Ohh give me a think pieces of Slanina grilled directly on burning ember with some nice homemade bread and bulgarian red wine .... drolling my mouth here
Hey greetings from a Bulgarian that lives in Atlanta Georgia USA I was born in Bulgaria I go back every 2 years at least this is an amazing vid
Hey! Thank you so much for watching & commenting, we are glad to hear from you! How long have you lived in Atlanta? (We are both from FL, so have been to Atlanta so many times...)
I’ve lived in Atlanta 14 almost 15 years now
Cool. How do you like it? Where in Bulgaria is home for you? What are a few things you miss most?
I love going back to Bulgaria it is so fun I’m from Burgas it’s a city on the black sea there is so much to do there
Nice! We did not make it to the coast on this trip, but plan to go back someday and visit there! What do you like to do the most in your home region on the Black Sea?
I'm bulgarian and have been missing it lately, (live in UK) and im watching a buncha travel vids. This is nice
Oh, cool! Thank you so much for watching & commenting...feel free to check out our Bulgarian series... And take care!
Thank you so much!❤️❤️🇧🇬
You are so welcome! We loved our time in Bulgaria and hope to visit again someday! Thank you for for watching 😇
Thanks for not only showing the landscape of my country but also the culture! These shows that travel around the world rarely get here. Well done!
I'm here from Kubrat. It might not seem like much but it was the birth town of Lili Ivanova. A very popular singer who did many tours. My grandma also had coffee with her!
Our pleasure! 😊 Feel free to check out our entire Bulgarian series playlist on our channel...
Nice! Are you presently living in Bulgaria?
nobody cares
Looks like you hit gold with this video idea. That bread sounds really delicious, never seen it before too. I agree with you, trying new foods when you are travelling is all part of the great travel experience. What is the worst thing you have eaten during your vast travels?
Yes, we have been lucky... 😇 Chicken feet heated up by a butane torch in South Korea. 😵 What about you?
Fat and pickled cabbage really compliment each other when cooked
We can imagine so! Hopefully we can return to Bulgaria someday soon and try it
That is fat not bacon it’s called “сланина” not “бекон” and we eat it raw or in winter meals
Yes, we have learned that since returning. 😇 Thank you for watching our travel show!
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap If you have the chance, next time try a smoked "slanina/bacon", sometimes they come infused with herbs and stuff. The difference is huge. Also if you ever come to Athens, I can cook for you authentic Bulgarian and Greek food that you don't usually get anywhere else.
Good to know, thank you! We were in Athens a year and a half ago...next time, we will definitely take you up on your offer! 😀
Thanks for visiting my homeland and I wish you great and joyful experience whenever your travels take you.
So nice of you, thanks! It was our pleasure to explore Bulgaria; hope to go back again someday. What part do you reside in?
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap From the very center of the country, Plovdiv, the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe. You will be always welcome to Bulgaria.
Very nice! What is your favorite part about Plovdiv?
I’m Bulgarian 🇧🇬thank you for. Visiting my home place ❤️❤️
Our pleasure! Thank you for watching our video & commenting! What area in BG are you from?
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap well I used to live there but now I live in Varna Bulgaria
I see. Hope you are doing okay, especially during these crazy times 😊
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap ye I’m trying my best
What is helping you stay healthy physically & mentally at this time?
Thank you for sharing! Hi from Travelly 👍👍
Thank you for watching & commenting!
Cool video! Greetings from a Bulgarian living in the Netherlands!
I could also never try the cold bacon (slanina) even though I was born in Bulgaria 😁😁 but that is the best foundation your stomach needs for the strong rakia.
Enjoy!
Hello! How are things going there? Yes, so we have learned since filming this video... 😊
I really enjoyed your video...👍🏼 ⭐️
Greetings from Albania. 👋🏼 🇦🇱
Also, Let’s build each other Up. 💪🏼
Hello! Thank you for watching & commenting; we appreciate the support. 😊 How are things going there for you amid this pandemic?
Really cool snow shots! Hope to make it to Bulgaria soon and try some of that smooth stuff! ;-)
Thanks! Hope you do get to Bulgaria soon...it is awesome and we only had time to scratch the surface on this trip! LOL, have you tried rakia or palinka in another country?
Go Travel On The Cheap currently in Georgia enjoying the ol’ Chacha!
First time we are hearing about this! Yet another reason I want to visit Georgia, lol. How are things there?
We do not use cream in Bulgaria. This is unheard of in Bulgarian cuisine. I am sure there was no cream in your soup. You tried a lot of winter food like the sauerkraut with slanina, lard! Good that you are drinking rakia! Palinka is the Romanian rakia and is made exactly in the same way. the difference is the fruit they used, the level of distillation. every country and family have their own styles!
Good to know, thank you. We were there in December, so mainly winter food, yes. Hopefully someday we can return to Bulgaria in the spring or summer! We have enjoyed trying more than a few countries' rakia/palinka now... What kind of fruit do you prefer in the kind you like to drink?
I'm Bulgarian
Hello! Thank you for watching & commenting. What area do you reside in?
I would never be able to pronounce the name of that restaurant haha. It's so unusual to see you both so subdued. I mean hats off to you both for still persisting with the trip and still trying new experiences even whilst both massively under the weather. Surprisingly I love the look of the weird bacon dish at 4:11. Definitely unique! and I love bacon. and I find the rawer the better with meat lol. I understand how you'd be worried about eating something if you were already sick to begin with! I love how polite April was about the bacon lol. My favourite part was when April tried the Rakia. Happy birthday Bruno!
Lol, note how Wayne gave up trying to say it! Thanks, you wonder on days like that if you should even be filming but then you're like, "we only have a few more days left here"... Even though it was cured pork fat, we had such a mental block, hahaha. We would definitely try it again, and with more sips of rakia. 😄 Wayne says he doesn't know how you can like raw/rare meats, ha! Don't you love how Wayne zoomed in on my reaction to the rakia??! 😆
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap Haha it may be a European thing to like rarer meat. One of my favourite dishes is 'steak tartare' which is just raw beef with raw egg and spices. It's a must-try in France, hehe! Yes, I do love that part! The zooming in added to the funniness of it
We are usually game to try things at least once... But Wayne would likely draw the line at the tartare dish! Maybe not, for the sake of filming "good footage" though, hahaha!
My digestive system is the same. I love trying to local food. But sometimes my stomach is like why did you do that. I hope the bacon was cured also! And I’m impressed you all still made it even though you were feeling a little under the weather.
Lol April your face after trying the drink!!!!!! Now that’s even more fun than trying food is trying to local drinks!
It was cured, yes...we just couldn't get past our mental blocks with it. I think we'd like it better trying it again someday, especially with more rakia, lol. We love to try local drinks, yep!
Just a friendly put-in from me. This isn't really bacon but rather just fat. It's called ''slanina''. And of course it is cured and smoked. Its a common traditional food here and its liked by many. Its also deemed healthy and a ''positive'' cholesterol and goes well with alcohol. But I am on the same page with you here and as a bulgarian I cant really stomach it either. :)
Yes, so we have learned since returning from this trip! 😇 Perhaps we will try it again when we visit Bulgaria again someday. Hahaha, glad to know there is a Bulgarian who has a hard time eating it too!
Hi.Really good video.I love it.We are from Bulgaria, but now we live in Mallorca,Spain
Thank you for watching & commenting; we appreciate the support. What dishes/drinks do y'all miss the most since you have been living in Spain?
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap Bulgarian home made Rakia😍
We can see why! Well, at least I (Wayne) can...you saw April's reaction, hahaha!
Loved that snowy montage at the start, it looks beautiful there! The castle/ruins on the hill looks incredible. The soups look perfect for that cold weather. That pickled cabbage and bacon looks interesting... Never seen something like that before. Totally agree that you need to try the local food! April's face when she drank the Rakia made me laugh hahaha. I'm pretty Palinka is a fruit brandy from Hungary, but there's versions of it all over that region. Massively varies depending on the fruit it's made with!
Thank you so much! Would you try the cured pork fat? ;-) LOL, note how I zoomed in on her facial expression when she reacted to the rakia! 😂 Oh, did not know it came from Hungary--interesting! Have you had some? If so, where?
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap I would try it for sure, not sure I'd like it though haha. Yeah I've tried quite a few variations in Hungary over the years. I think Elderflower Palinka is the nicest!
Ooo, that sounds nice! We did not know you have been to Hungary, let alone a few times--cool. We hope to get there someday
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap I have friends who live there so I've been quite often (I love Budapest) - just never made a video there haha
Awesome! Hopefully you can make a video there someday, sooner than later--Must.Travel.Again.Or.Will.Combust..!!
Subscribed. Love this.
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Also if you make crispy slanina chops on the pan then they turn into djumerki we eat it salted as a snack
Thank you for sharing!
Next time we are in Bulgaria, we will have to try that :)
First of all I need to say that your drone shots are on point! Really loved seeing the old castle ruins and the shot at 0:26. Could you tell me where that shot is taken? I need to put that on my travel list. Furthermore the Frame of the shot at 0:48 was just amazing! The bacon dice at 4:05 really had me fouled first. I thought it was something else like cheese hahah. Don't know if I would have tried that either although I am always in for trying new and foreign food. I do prefer my bacon crispy like you said too. All with all a great video. Really love the idea of doing food tours or reviews in different countries.
Thank you! It is Tsarevets Fortress...we give a bit of info on it in our first Veliko Tarnovo vlog. We actually thought it was cheese too when they first brought it out to us, hahaha. We are glad we tried it and would have some again--it was just very foreign for us mentally! Food is such a pivotal part of experiencing a culture, and we were invited to this restaurant, so we jumped at this opportunity!
Veliko Tarnovo actually has three huge fortresses with Tsarevets (you can find it spelled in different ways) is the main one and best restored. The other two fortresses were on the neighboring hills looking at each other. It is an astonishing Medieval complex. Many people don't even know about the third fortress.
Excellent travel vlog video 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Glad you liked it! Thank you for watching & commenting, we are grateful 😇
Everything 😀😜😀
Anything you do not like? ;-)
Next time drink the Rakia or the Palinka first, two shots of each, then go for the bacon. I think that will solve your problem with the bacon....at least until it makes you sick. Really nice job with the video, you've struck a little bit of gold here! Glad to see the video doing so well.
Yes, we have learned that since returning...now we need to go back and try it again the right way! Thank you, we are grateful for any and all positives with all of our very hard work! 😊
ok so thats cured pork fat, something people nibble at while they are drinking or having it with sauerkraut like you are in winter time
Definitely an acquired taste, but one that all of us Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria miss very very much!
Thanks for your comment; we did think it went well with our drinks and with the sauerkraut! Do you have a favorite flavor of rakia?
We can relate to that; comfort-type dishes from home are so important to us! When is the last time you got to have some of this?
Go Travel On The Cheap I took my wife to visit Bulgaria and meet my extended family there the summer before last and we enjoyed some “Slanina” (cured pork fat) and “lukanka” (one of the Bulgarian types of salami).
My wife, who is American, didn’t love the Slanina either, but she really fell for the lukanka ;)
We even enjoyed some in the airport while waiting for our departing flight from Sofia.
We both can’t wait to go back when the pandemic is over :D
As far as rakia, my favorite is grape rakia made from muskat grapes, but we had a really delicious apricot rakia while visiting Ruse at a restaurant right along the Danube :)
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap Plum rakia tend to be the best and most well regarded and is usually best home made. Its no coincidence that all kinds of plum trees are growing wild all over bulgaria - they don't go to waste and get turned into rakia! Burgas 63 is really close to the real deal that is available in the states and abroad
Hello April and Wayne,
I hope you had a good time I the Tichiat Kat, the Quiet Corner and enjoy some local Rakia and food.
The Turschia called vegetables, you tried the most popular cabbage, which was served in the cold winter months in the mountain areas with the lard, gave a lot of energy for the traditional hard work.
Did you try the Graina Rakai too, usally the Rakia served hot with some honey ? And what kind of pork soup do you had, this is unusual to find in restaurants and normally they served tripe soup with milk and sour garlic.
The bread is a bit a miss, a lot of restaurant's in Bulgaria use these deep frozen greek pitta, If they don't have the place and time to preserve Sesam bread or Parlenka called Bulgarian plain bread.
But nice to see the town with some snowflakes and the nice restaurant.
Sune
Hello! Thank you for all of your information...good to know these things. We did not know about Graina Rakia; we would have really enjoyed trying it, as we were sick... Not sure now about the pork soup, and we may have been mistaken, haha. The Greek pita bread was still tastier than some of the bread you get here in America! 😆 Do you live near Veliko Tarnovo?
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@@GoTravelOnTheCheap the graina Rakai is a kind of medicine... makes you sleep well and help to heal.
No I'm not from Veliko Tarnovo, I'm from Berlin. But I really like Veliko Tarnovo and Bulgaria at all and visit it some times.
Okay, the thing with the bread is another story, the Bulgarian eat usally soft and smooth white dough bread and they have there Banitza in different types of dough and fillings.
Hope you had some of these hearty snacks and some of the fantastic wine.
Sune
It sounds similar to a hot toddy drink; have you ever had one of those? Oh nice! We have only briefly been to Germany, but hope to get back someday to spend more time there. We did have some amazing bread while in BG, and even more amazing wine! Thanks
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap Something as a hot toddy, we have in Germany called Grog and but without whiskey, we use Rum.
In southern Germany and Austria they used a kind of spiced sweet rum and make Jagertee.
But in Bulgaria they don't use water, they take a little Dschesve, a small copper pot, usually to make coffee; put the Rakia, a tea spoon of honey and a lemon slice and put it near the fire, and warm it up slowly till the hot Rakai burn on the top.
Stop the fire and enjoy the drink, carefully
1. Breath in
2. Breath out
3. Sip some Graina Rakia
Sune
Sounds tasty and comforting! Thanks
Its not bacon guys, its cured pork fat. it melts like butter when you eat it and we like it with the sour cabbage and paprika. anyways we know not everyone likes it first time. :)
Haha, yes we realize that! ;-)
We hope to return and we will try it again...maybe we will like it better.
Thanks for watching our video!
" Tихия кът" in english mean " The Quite corner"...but can have also different meaning " Роден кът" can be as a birth place.." Домашен кът" can mean coziness..
Good to know; thank you for sharing! And thanks for watching 😊
The food was pretty good...it felt more like a locals restaurant, so that was neat. Thank you for watching!
How long did you two stay in Bulgaria? Did you guys try Airan? its a yogurt based drink ...
We were only there for 6 days, after having been in Romania for about the same and Greece for a few days before that. We did not know about airyan to try it...next time we visit! Do you like the taste of it?
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap I do not like airyan, I find it to be sour and bitter.
Noted
@@OmegaWalple , then you probably wont like Tarator too :D
None of them are cream based - first food, the bacon is not bacon but cured lard .
Yes, we have since learned this since filming our episode. ;-) Do you enjoy eating the cured pork fat?
Greating from tutrakan
More specific
The village shumenchi
Hello! Thank you for watching our video. How are things going there?
Is Sofia a city suitable for moving and living in it?
In our limited opinion, yes! (We invite you to go watch our Sofia video episode...) We had a really great time there 🙂
Bacon and cabbage are best friends, ahahahah What was the weirdest food that you've tried during your trips?
The cabbage did help the cured pork fat go down easier, lol! Chicken feet in Korea for Wayne... How about you?
this is not a bacon its not supposed too eat it like that u have too eat t whit union and a lot of salt and drink rakia whit this
So we have learned since being there. 😇 Whenever we get back, we will properly try it again. What is one of your favorite Bulgarian dishes?
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap you shuld try pork giuvedje
Next time! What does that pork taste like?
me beaing bulgarian:lm hungryyyyy
We would love to get back to Bulgaria and try more cuisine! What part of Bulgaria do you reside in?
Lol, when you say traditional Bulgarian food. They will serve you food people ate 100 years ago. I will never eat this and I am Bulgarian lol
Hahaha! We are willing to at least try almost all dishes and drinks... 😁 We can see why you never eat this 😎 Thank you for watching our travel show!
It´s not bacon. It´s "slanina".
Yes, we have since learned this many times over from our viewers... 😉 Thank you so much for watching our video!
Next time make sure the camera is facing on the food no on the faces becouse we can see what kind of food is
We actually did have a camera on the food as well but unfortunately it did not film... 😬😎 So it goes sometimes as travel vloggers, hahaha. Thanks for watching & commenting! Hope you are doing well wherever in the word you are 🙂
45 dollars for airbnb?
😂😂😂
Omg. That's half the monthly rent for the average Bulgarian.
You guys are so gullible thinking you're traveling cheap.
😂
If we may ask, how much do you typically pay to stay in a hotel whilst traveling through Bulgaria? 😇
This was a very good deal for us Americans for a very nice Airbnb right in the city, which is what we needed since we were so sick and had laundry to do...
Travel accommodations are usually more than yearly rental costs...
You must take your Rakia slowly!
Hahaha, yes you are right! Thank you for watching! Hope things are well for you wherever in the world you are 😀
Rakia??? Lol....put an "e" instead of the "a" and make it sound more like raw......rawkia.
Got it, thanks 😁
@@GoTravelOnTheCheap Wonderful video! Made me feel like I was there.
@margiethomas8 Thank you so much!