Our first time trying Bulgarian food!
We tried both traditional food and street food in Bulgaria, and it was insanely delicious, WOW!
The food we tried on this Bulgarian food vlog:
– Banitsa (cheese pie/borek) & boza at Banica, Sofia
– Shopska salad, kofte, kebab and RAKI at local Serbian BBQ shop, 124 Aleksandar Staboliyski, Sofia
– Shopska salad, shkembe corba (tripe soup), tarator (cucumber soup), pork knuckle, and stuffed peppers at Contessa, Sofia
– Kavarma (pork stew), baked chicken and rice, mousakka (potato pie), and sarmi (stuffed grape leaves) at Safa Sofia
– Beef tongue, mish-mash (baked scrambled eggs), and grilled pork belly at Shtastliveca, Veliko Tarnovo
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – Banitsa & boza (fermented wheat drink?)
5:58 – Window shopping for shopska salad, kofte, kebab and RAKI!
19:59 – Traditional soup in a nice restaurant (& shopska salad redemption!)
33:04 – Best restaurant in Sofia right now!!
40:51 – Beef tongue (BEST!) & Bulgaria mish mash
40 Comments
You guys pay alot for salad and kebabcheta that's way to much
Bulgarian Customs like this video! 😀
Kofte is usually mixed minced pork and beef onion and spices
Kebabche is pure pork minced and predominant spice in it is cumin
OMG YOUR BOZA IMPRESSIONS! JUST LOVE YOUR FOOD REACTIONS GUYS – GLAD YOU LIKED EVERYTHING!!! CHEERS 🥃
Boza goes with banitsa. Try it together and thank me later.
The shopska salad usually should be flavoured with sunflower seed depending on the customers taste to even greater taste, but foriengers dont know that
You call it yogurt but we call it sour milk and I bet you haven't tried it before and when it's good it's also a bit fatty because of the butter in the milk and it kinda looks like cream cheese but better, ha-ha.
Nazdrave!
I prefer stuffed peppers without yoghurt but maybe i am exception.
Кой реално пие боза 😅 даже и аз не я харесвам
Аз не ги гледам тия как плюскат а Е36та зад тях!
Next time try tarator with walnuts and garlic. Also you have to try bread with butter and sharena sol mmmmm so good. All the other food reminds me of my childhood yum yum yum.
Elon Musk was going to visit but there was too much hate and everybody was hating the country. 🙁
You guys are so respectful and curious, It made me wish I was your guide <3 I hope you enjoy your time here and all over the world
8:37 Oh boy, I think I'm in love! I want to marry that woman! Bulgaria here I come!
Legend has it that after drinking booze, you shouldn't drive a car because a blood alcohol level will be measured. 😀
in turkish cuisine they have also sarma without tomato sauce: it ‘s called oliveoil sarma and it ‘s actually pretty popular.. the problem with turkish cuisine is it’s rare to find local restaurants that cook good turkish food.. what I see in neighbouring countries, in greece or in bulgaria, it ‘s different from what it is in TR..
I'm a bulgarian living in China…You make me so homesick. I'm actually flying home next Sunday! 😉 And I'm from around Veliko Tarnovo, been in the last restaurant many times haha
The place where you ate the tripe soup is one of the best places for tripe soup in Sofia. Also I love how you immediately did the most bulgarian thing, putting lots of garlic and vinegar in it :D. Only thing missing is dipping bread in it, that specific pub serves homemade bread.
Red boza is with aspartame, orange one with sugar.
I like the places you have chosen, they indeed are authentic, kudos! I didn't know all them to be honest, even as a local :)) In general, our cuisine indeed has a lot of fresh seasonal ingredients and veggies, which I love. Bulgarian musaka has potatoes, carrots, minced meat, tomatoes, and the topping is made from eggs an yogurt (which we call sour milk actually)
Greetings from Bulgaria! We love to see that people enjoy our food!
A simple guide:
1. Kebab is not the same as kebabche
2. Kebabche is similar to a meatball with a different shape and using different spices.
3. Meatballs and Kebabche are usually not chicken. It's pork, beef, or a mix of the two so you kind of need to ask what it is to know precisely 😀
4. Meatballs and Kebabche are both something you'd want to eat with this Bulgarian dip called Lyutenitsa (not sure if there's a correct way to spell this word in English). They offered you that dip but you missed it, which is kind of sad. It's sort of like ketchup, but tastes very different and most people prefer it over ketchup. It's often homemade.
5. The Boza is one of those things that you either love or hate. It's something you usually drink with banitsa. If you don't like it (like me for example), the perfect drinkable addition to the banitsa is Airan (pronounced "I ran") which is a simple drink made with yogurt, water, and salt. So, basically, Airan is like a simplified version of Tarator.
6. The Shopska salad is something that every place makes its own version of, so you need to try it in different restaurants and pick your favorite. The dressing is in the form of oil and vinegar. Sometimes salt as well, but in most cases the cheese should be salty enough for the whole salad
7. VERY IMPORTANT! You often eat out, in places that offer food outside, unlike actual restaurants. This is great for a quick bite but you don't always get the best version of the dish you're trying. So, I recommend you try actual restaurants as well 🙂
8. There are different kinds of that cheese in the Shopska salad. All have slightly different flavors, textures, and moisture so you'd want to go to a cheese store and try a few types.
9. Shopska salad is not always served with cheese sprinkled over it (as you saw). That's because some people like the cheese in the form of a block (like the one you got) and they decide how much of it they want with each bite.
10. Note: Tarator is not really a soup. It's called a soup because it's easier to explain but most people don't think of it as a soup, it's more like its own thing 😀
11. The stuffed peppers also have a version with different kinds of meat. You might want to try and pick whichever suits your flavor
12. Musaka is something you want to eat with yogurt. I know… every Bulgarian dish you eat with yogurt, but this one is meant to be eaten that way.
13. Sarmi – same deal like with musaka. Meant to be eaten with yogurt. Both dishes without yogurt are good as well but incomplete.
14. Finally, Rakia is something that many people have a homemade version of. It's a drink that you can make using all kinds of fruits: grape is the most common one, apple, peach, apricot, pear, quince many more! It's often on the menu but you don't need to be a tourist to get a free cup on the open market for example.
15. Honorable mention is that grapes are also often used by people to make their own wine.
That's it from me! I apologize for the giant comment but I hope this can help anyone coming to Bulgaria with high hopes for a good meal!
Boza without sugar is not good.
Love the video. Thank you 48:57
Kebab, Kevabche, Cevapi (or its dimunitive Cevapcici) and Mititei/Miciby their origin are obviously the same thing- Kebab and little Kebabs in Bulgarian or Serbo-Croatian and its translation into Romanian
As a Romanian :
Ciorbe , borș and soups
The difference between ciorbe and borș on the one hand and soups on the other is that ciorbe and borș are sour whereas soups aren't.
The Iskembe çorba (turkish) ot Ciorbă de burtă(Romanian) is typically eaten slightly sour and vinegar very iften used for that.
For borș variety there exist a liquid called borș which is a naturally sour and is made out of fermented grain.
Try the "Shepard's Salad"!!!
To be honest, serving/selling homemade rakia like that is illegal. I'm glad you enjoyed our food, though.
Do you mind putting the locations of the places you go? Thanks a lot
Place is called Veliko Trnovo & the Bulgarian food is great 👍 u guys enjoyed keep up with the great vids..
you really nailed boza, i never liked it, its used specially with banitza, as a combo, however i always go for ayran instead of boza. this shopska salad is far away from real one( the first one) and you normally put oil in your salad. Maybe find a local next time to show you the good places 🙂
What a great video! Next time try seasoning your shopska salad with oil and vinegar though 😂
Boza is one of Bulgaria's traditional drinks like the Airian. They are the two most common. It can be non or just a tiny bit fermented drink with mixed alcoholic-lactic fermentation of flour and oats like you said. But it's not really a meal replacement. Most commonly with a breakfast like a banica. BTW you must try Airian its amazing!
The difference between the two types of boza is that one is with a sweetener, and the other one is with sugar. I doubt it matters much as it's mostly carbs anyway.
U have to drink the boza while you take a bite from the banitsa at the same time, that is the best way. And guess what on top of the musaka are not eggs.. its yogurt.
Home-made Bulgarian kyofte and kebabche are usually made of a mix of pork and beef, but there is a chicken variety, too. In some restaurants, you can find purely beef or purely pork ones, but they're usually noted as such. The store-bought minced meat, especially the cheap one, can often be a mix of chicken, pork, and soy, so my best guess is that the cheap off-the-shelf kyofte and kebabche are made of that.
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You can try your tarator in a glass instead of a bowl, then it becomes an accompanying drink to pretty much any main course. The downside is that you get full quickly if you do that, so you can't eat much of the main course, but it's worth it.
IN tarator normally there are also ground wallnuts and garlic, and some vinegar
In tribe soup you can add vinegar, garlic and some chilli peppers
It is famous for getting sober in the morning after drinking binges