The Most EPIC ROMANIAN FOOD TOUR in BUCHAREST! 🇷🇴 Local Markets + Street Food Romania
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- If you want to know what to eat when you travel to Romania, come with us as we take you along on an epic Romanian Food and Market Tour around Bucharest to show you all the favorite local hidden gems and food spots around the city, visit some of their local neighborhoods and markets, and of course try some amazing local Romanian food and drinks that you have to try when you travel Bucharest, Romania!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
02:13 Trying Covrigi / Pretzel
03:24 Trying Merdenele / Cheese Puff
04:50 Exploring Piata Obor Market
07:05 Trying Romanian Beer
07:53 Trying Local Vegetables and Cheese
10:47 Trying Palinka
11:23 Trying Romanian Sausages
15:16 Trying Local Fruits
17:34 Buying Local Wine
18:25 Trying Delicious Gogoasa / Donut
21:44 Exploring the Jewish/ Armenian Quarters
22:47 Final Food and Wine Stop at Old Town
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Hey there! We’re Cary and Cris. Earlier this year we decided to quit our jobs and leave our beautiful island of Kauai to pursue a life of full-time travel. Being ex-chefs, our worlds pretty much revolve around food and beverage. So, we thought it would be fun to take you with us as we eat, drink, and explore the world.
Oh man! I'll be in Romania in June, can't wait to have all of that and more!!
Oh how exciting!! Enjoy your trip!
Romania is paradise of tasty food ❤❤
Agreed!! 👍🏽
Hi I like Rumenia piupiles tradition, I am a sanatanah sikhi from Africa ilands of Mauritius 🚩🚩🚩🇲🇺🇷🇴
Hi, I'm a romanian, I would advise you to come during the summer around august-september to taste our own grown tomatoes in the actual season, if you found those tomatoes sweet, you will definitely be impressed during the summer. I would recommend all vegetables during their actual ripe season locally grown, you could find them in all the local "Piata". During the winter I would recommend all the pickled vegetables (tomatoes , cucumber , cabbage, "gogosari" a sort of bell peppers (my favorite are the red fat ones) Try all meat dishes and especially the soups "ciorba" . As a local, we honestly love good food and our culture revolves around quality food. Anywhere you would go in Romania you will find amazing local dishes, guaranteed.
That sounds amazing! I can’t imagine how much sweeter the fruits and vegetables would be during summer. Getting hungry just thinking about it! 😋
man they forgot to add onion with that cheese and tomato , the onion is a gamechanger
Oooh that sounds good! Hope we get to try it next time!
Spring onion and fresh cucumbers
@@XXI_Rapax yummmm 😋
No se que hago mirando estas cosas a estas horas!!! 😂Que bueno todo!!
❤Rumania!!
Everything is so delicious!!! Thank you for watching! 🙏🏽❤️
@dabueltaacasa8811, its Romania, not Rumania, there is no U fuckker
Hey happy to see you enjoyed all the local treats we sampled together. And thank you so much for sharing our love of supporting less touristy local businesses xoxo Elena
Thanks so much for the experience! It was wonderful ❤️
Your way of eating is realy contagious.. glad to see that you are enjoying the romanian food..
Haha thank you so much! And yes we are absolutely LOVING Romanian food ❤️❤️
@@TheTravelingChefs min 13:09 🤦♂️ if I’d knew you’re in Bucharest that time I would’ve taken you both in many other better places where you can eat like a king /maybe some other time /im subscribing (I’m a chef 👨🍳too) and a foodie 🤪
@@GeeGoodman hopefully when we come back you can take us to these places! 😆
@@TheTravelingChefs al be back to Romania at end of may/beginning of June … happy to show you around guys 👍🫶👌
@@GeeGoodman aww man we wish we were still there by then! Unfortunately we’ve already left 😆
Pofta buna 💕
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It's a pity that I discovered your trip to Romania so late... if you want to know and feel Romanian, look for Bucovina, especially during the winter holidays... hospitality and tradition at home. Farewell
Hopefully when we come back again!! 😊
16:22 these were round peppers (gogoşari), not tomatoes. You must try them. They are only seasonal and extremely delicious.
Oh wow! They were huge and looked so fresh! Hopefully we could try one next time!
You can call me dirty ,but i have a jar with salt in the garden and a knife,just to eat gogosari,peppers,cucumbers,tomatoes on spot,LOL
@@draculakickyourass ahh for a quick snack - love it! 😆
Que rico todo! 🤩
Delicious!! 😋
enjoy Romania...has to offer much more ..
Thank you! 🙏🏽 ❤️
Just by looking at you makes me hungry...i'll go get some mici for myself as well :):)
Haha it’s making me so hungry re-watching it too! 😆😆
@@TheTravelingChefs thats hard ... make u hugry rewatchig ... thats ....soo hard ...also 4 viewers ,,, make us hungry tooo !!!
@@geogeo6657 😆😆😆
Amazing food...
Incredible 🙌🏽 🙌🏽 🙌🏽
@@TheTravelingChefs awesome market grill food
@@cinamar221 yes some of the best we’ve ever had! 👌🏽
@@TheTravelingChefs good & cheap, paradise
@@cinamar221 everything was seriously so fresh, amazing quality, and we cannot get over how affordable they were even though it is such good quality! The markets there are on another level 🙌🏽
Great to have u guyz!
Welcome and full enjoy!!!
Thanks so much!! 🤗
Loved the video and that you enjoyed our country. Much love from Romania!
P.S. On a special note, I really love that you enjoyed the Gogoasa! Many of us grow up with Grandma making at home the version you ate in store, not a traditional donut in the Western sense (although Romania is full of those now as well), but just soft super fresh dough with a bit of sugar on. If you are feeling adventurous you can throw some salty Telemea cheese in the donuts for that lovely sweet and salty taste.
I was born before the Iron Curtain fell in '89 and man, if you could find the ingredients (which are not demanding at all) Grandma would fix you up a big bowl of Gogosi to take you through the weekend. 😋
Aww man the gogoasa with cheese sounds amazing 😋🤤
Thank you for watching! 🙏🏽
looked great! people love seeing the food in action.
Thank you!! Glad you liked it 😊
❤Woww you surprised me how much I liked it in my country! Thank you for visiting us! I appreciate ❤
Thank you for watching, we’re glad you enjoyed it ❤️🙏🏽
Beautiful story!
Thank you 🙏🏽 ❤️
wow Guys mici look amazing
Sooooo good! 👍🏽
You gave me nostalgia for my good old Romanian food. Our cities aren't that great imo but the food is just top tier.
I think I'll raid my local Romanian supermarket next time I get the chance!
Romanian food is definitely one of our new favorites!! I wish I could eat those fresh fruits and vegetables every day 😋
gogoasa ,micii ,sarmalele si vinul de butuc sant extra
Ne bucurăm că v-au plăcut mâncărurile noastre!❤
Thank you!! ❤️❤️
Am urmarit postarea voastra Sunteti cei mai simpatici, cei mai adevarati dintre toti cei care au facut turul Bucurestiului ,Imi pare bine ca v-au placut placut preparatele noastre si va multumesc ca le-ati apreciat sincer,Nu pareti oamenii care daca nu le place ceva sa nu spuna Va multumesc ca ati vizitat tara mea si sper ca va-ti simtit bine Multa sanatate
Thank you so much! That means a lot 🙏🏽❤️
@@TheTravelingChefs vă mulțumesc mult pentru răspuns, asta mi-a demonstrat încă o dată că sunteți speciali ,nemaipomeniți și niste oameni foarte buni ,cu foarte mult bun simt ,Astăzi v-am descoperit ,v-am urmărit postările cu țara mea m-am abonat la voi pentru că i sunteți dragi și sinceri ,Drum bun in urătoarele voastre călătorii ,să fiți sănătoși și distracție maximă
We appreciate your kind words! Thank you for welcoming us into your beautiful country 🙏🏽❤️
13:10 Mici are the original Romanian food. verydiferent than Kebab. Mici are 100% romanian. Glad to see you enjoying my Country. Wait for you in Transilvania.
The mici was delicious!! We are loving Romanian food ❤️
Next time you need to try pear nectar ;) and btw that are the romanian type of pears, we call it "winter pears".
Those pears were AMAZING! Sweetest pears we’ve ever tasted for real 😋 hopefully we can try the pear nectar next time!
Gogoasa Number One ❤👏💕
So yummy!!! We need to learn how to make those 😆
great
Thanks! ❤️
You should come to Oradea,see some great part of our architecture😊🙃
Hopefully one day!
So,we have hipermarkets and then we have the local markets(piata) which we prefer.It's the place where you can get all those clean stuff,made with clean and pure old agriculture,old and clean recipes.We still appreciate this kind of living.
We LOVE that! We wish there were more of these amazing fresh markets in other countries!
lol keep believing that
Gogoasa cu Nutella
Yummmm!!! 😋
We are definitely experimenting with cheese in Mici. Trying to improve on the original is hard.
It’s delicious on its own for sure! It’s already so flavorful and juicy that it would be hard to try a new style that people would appreciate 😆
The 0 marker is how distances are measured in Romania, for example the distance from Bucharest to Constanta starts at that point to km 0 in Constanta
Ahh thanks for that! 👍🏽
My Hometown and Obor Market, where I used to go with my Mom. And I ate Mici, always 👌🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️
Obor market is amazing!! How great it must be to have that as your hometown 🙌🏽🙌🏽
you need to try a Langos..thats a donut with sour cream and cheese on top
Langos is our FAVORITE!! We ate it multiple times while we were in Hungary! It’s in our Budapest Food Tour video 😊
Yumo Breads Dears...
Soooo good! 😋
@@TheTravelingChefs lovely
@@PradeepRaajkumar1981 thank you ❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽
Cheers Dears @@TheTravelingChefs
Fun act actualy we use less pesticides and meny natural flavors that in US especially for the marketing products and our chocholate have a lot of natural cacao... I got to travel a bit and honestly there is o food that makes me feel more good and energized than Romania food, I love that! ❤❤
Romanian food is incredible! Awesome to know all those facts, thank you 🙌🏽
😊 probably you must go to 2 or 3 round of gim after this 😂❤.
Correct 😆😆😆
you have to take care with grape juice, if you drink too much will make you go fast to toilet, and if you let in fridge for too much will transform in wine in couple of days
Ahh yes don’t worry, we enjoyed it in the proper amount 😆
To be honest, as a native of Bucharest, I don't know what to recommend you... But I have an idea... If you have some time to spare, you can go to a small city called Lehliu, 70km from Bucharest, and you can find there a good restaurant called "La partid" ("Partid" means (political) "party")...
Thank you for the recommendation! Unfortunately we are not in Bucharest anymore, but we had a great time and we hope to come back again soon! Thank you for watching 🙏🏽❤️
Come to Iași:)
Hopefully we can visit!
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Get some locals to take you around...next time give me a ring :)
Oh that would be great! Hopefully when we come back and visit again ❤️
4:40 You were already there, hahah
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Bro... you found Mark Weins sister with double appetite to bring here? She's gonna eat everything, WE'RE RUINED !
Nah, joking, we've got plenty of good food.
HAHAHAHA no more food left for everyone else!! 😆😆
@@TheTravelingChefs Laugh all you want, but we've survived the Roman Empire, The Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Empire, Mongolian Empire, Russian Empire, ...but not sure we're going to survive you and your woman ...i'm going to involve the UN on this one...
The ground zero at Universitate is not the ground zero of Bucharest, which is at Unirii Square. It just marks the place of anticommunist protests.
Oh interesting! Thank you for clearing that up!
În Romania, avem produse de la producatori locali .sănatoase si crescute bio.👍
Where do they usually sell them?
@@TheTravelingChefs Puteți alege dintr-o varietate de produse în funcție de sezon(fructe,legume,Nuci fructe uscate,produce din lapte,miere ,suc natural și multe altele etc adică ceea ce spun este că nu sunt forțate să crească sau pesticide...produsele Se vând în piețe locale , și la oraș și la țară ,cheia este să vedeți produsul și să întrebați
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Best food, at the best prices always at my place wherever I am in the world. Learn to cook guys, invite your friends, have fun. Even the drinks are much cheaper at home 🤓 🎉
Can’t argue with that! 😆😆
@@TheTravelingChefs 😁👍👏
@@fernando7517 ❤️❤️❤️
How the Micii,teste like?I will never eat again...but i do not remember.
It was so good!!!! Very tender and juicy, extremely flavorful and went so well with the mustard and bread 👍🏽
Come to Las Fierbinti
We would love to visit!!
Hi guys , you are a nice pair ! The tomatoes , you say are the sweetest you tasted ! We use to have other species of tomatoes , but the " supermarkets " made us give up on them . Tomatoes that after picking , can be still ok , even if kept in refrigerator , only 5-6 days. Supermarkets were not happy with this !!! So , the commercial pressure forced our farmers to stop growing them . But they were the REAL tomatoes , believe me . Romania was , million years ago , the bottom of a sea. The black ground on most of our plains is able to provide for the best vegetables in the world. This is not patriotic , is plain fact . In the times between the 2 WW , the Romanian vegetables were considered the best in Europe and only rich people from other countries could afford to buy them. Then came the communism ..... 🙂
The vegetables and fruits in Romania are some of the FRESHEST and SWEETEST we’ve ever tasted! We would be eating so healthy if we lived here 😆
On the other hand, people started going only for those perfect, huge veggies and fruits, like the ones they were seeing in the movies. Our usual fruits and vegetables weren't good anymore. I still remember how towards the end of the 90's, people went to the market and they were choosing to buy from those who brought their merchandise from turkey etc.Just because they were big and perfect. And today everyone is complaining that you can't really find tasty fruits and vegetables...oh, well...
@@fetitadepeterra5319 yes we could definitely see that happening everywhere, especially with the genetically modified fruits and vegetables that look more appealing. However there is still such an amazing quality to naturally-grown fruits and veggies as well. They taste so much fresher and healthier!
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'' shorich'' instead of pork skin 😂😂😂 . Wellcome folks! ❤
Thank you!! Is shorich another name for pork skin?
@@TheTravelingChefsin fact, is the actual name. Everybody loves it , specially during Christmas holidays
@@vancedvanced1741 ahh shorich! It’s amazing! We loved eating it with the cheese and fruits/ veggies - such a perfect combination with the salty and sweet 😋
in the US you can find fried pork skin just as good ,same thing but made in a chips
@@LatinSlav ahh yes Ike chicharrones!
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I miss my country România. I’m hungry for the mici and any pastry with cheese etc🇺🇸
Everything was delicious!! 😋
pork skin is just for a massive hangover 🤣. anyways, welcome guys and a piece of advice: read the comments. romanians are friendly and you'll get good tips for
your journey
Thank you! Yes we’ve been loving all the amazing tips and comments, and we’re very grateful!! 🙌🏽
Go to LUCA !!!!
Is that a restaurant?
@@TheTravelingChefs
Why?
Your guide needs to be imprisoned for saying mici are a sausage lol
But really, they are NOT sausages, there is no skin at any point. Just like hamburger buns don't have one. And if you can contact your guide, please tell her to stop calling them that as it's sacrilegious Also, she should not say that papanasi are doughnuts - highly likely she does that.
And the gogosi, those are the romanian doughnuts but as they are sold on the street cos the home made ones are radically different. And nowadays there are also gogosele, that's a diminutive for gogosi and those are just small balls, similar daught to the gogosi you tried.
I think they try to make it more understandable for tourists who don’t know the local language and terms - they did explain that it’s a loose translation and it’s probably the closest term they could use that would let others (foreigners) understand. They do explain also how they are made, and what they are, so saying it’s a “sausage” or a doughnut” is really just to simplify it and help describe what the dishes are instead of labeling them as such 😊
@@TheTravelingChefs It's plain insulting to call them sausages and it's just laziness, so they don't have to explain- people do that a lot in Romania. And if the guide does that, then she's gonna do it in other situations too and provide a lot of false information. When it comes to mici, her main job is to point out tat they are not sausages as people see the shape and they have the tendency to label them that way.
And the gogosi are dougnuts, that's the correct term, with that remark I was referring to papanasi as some people are gonna use the term doughnuts for those
Anyway, the food tour was more of a snack tour. You didn't had a single proper main dish.
Breakfast, I suppose the most typical would be some cold cuts, some cheese and some green things plus bread. Boiled eggs, jam,, that works too. And dinner could be similar, cold cuts/cheese/veggies or maybe for some it's more similar to lunch.
And lunch, it's first a soup, than a main dish followed by an optional dessert
Romania has lots of soups, lots of pickles. Slanina (salo) is a must but it's not touristy. What you tried is fine but it's more of a snack tour. The bread spreads that's good, mabe less so the beans one as that can be a spread but it's not really, it's normally part of the main dish instead of mach potatoes next to some meat or sausages - for tourists it's presented as a bread spread to simplify things.
The mandatory dishes are sarmale and cozonac, those are for celebrations. And a lot more but w/e/.
@@realjx313 all those dishes sound amazing! We did try some of them (although we weren’t filming that day!) and honestly we’ve LOVED most of the things we ate there. We had no idea how delicious the food there is - it was such a pleasant surprise 😆
@@TheTravelingChefs The dishes in the tour were not things you shouldn't have tried, all were ok but none was a proper dish and it's more of a snack selection or something.
And yeah the food is gaining more and more exposure nowadays and there are lots and lots of dishes you can try. Mark Wiens did a few vids in RO if you wanna check them out, those are pretty good but just a start, so not that many dishes.
Those were paprika, not tomatoes. It is a special type of pepper that is from Romania.
Ahh good to know! Thank you!!
@@TheTravelingChefs we use them for winter time. We pickle them in vinegar water with parsley and carrot roots and some spices and sugar and they are perfect next to a stew in the middle of the winter. They are called GOGOȘARI.
@@alexia2189 wow that sounds delicious 🤤 we should come back for that!
Săracii zici ca e prima oara când încearcă mancare adevărată. 😂
Pro tip: Make sure your guide is actually resident of that city( was born or has more than 10 years living in that place). Unfortunatelly the one you guys had, wasn`t neaither. :(
The tour organizer is actually a history teacher living there, so she picks and chooses historically significant places and instructs the guides on where to bring us and what to say. Not sure if our guide was born in Bucharest, but they do follow the local organizer's recommendations 😄
Whos the creepy old guy in the background? 😂
That’s my uncle! Haha just kidding 😂😂
This guy clearly said Armenia
No Kardashian here, mister..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cartierul Armenesc din București.
ati dat bani la boschetari si la biserica ??
I honestly don’t remember! Our tour guide will usually let us know the proper custom for these (like if it’s polite to give money or not), so it was different for different places
@@TheTravelingChefs e bine sa nu dați:)
@@stoiancristian5790 thanks for the tip! 👍🏽
That girl must be severely punished for eating mici with cheese ... What on earth was going on in her mind????? Does she want to cause a heart attack to all Romanians??? :OOOOO :))))
Oh no, was that the wrong thing to do?? Honestly meat + cheese sounded like a good idea at the time! 😆 so sorry to cause you a heart attack, I didn’t know you were not supposed to eat them together 😬😬
@@TheTravelingChefs Not sure honestly, it's just that mici is always eaten with mustard and bread and that's it... I have never heard of anyone eating it with cheese :)
@@RaduRadonys ahh yes it was great with the mustard and bread! Such a great combination of flavors and so simple 👍🏽
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@@GeeGoodman 😬😬😬
Those are not sausages!! OMG
Ahh yes the mici 😬 sorry for mis-labeling!
no worries, I hope you enjoyed your trip!@@TheTravelingChefs
@@taotao4470 thank you!! 🙏🏽
lies! the sesame pretzel is best!
😆😆😆 they are quite delicious!!
@@TheTravelingChefs I know! I have to get some because yall had me craving just watching yall munchin
@@helen2U man I wish I could have some right now 🥲
@@TheTravelingChefs I wish I could send u some x
@@helen2U I would cry if you did 😆😆
This is USUAL FOOD. On what planet do you LIVE ? All clip is full of "hmm", "this is god", "delicios" and so on.
Just because it’s usual food for you, doesn’t mean others would not find it delicious though, right? We appreciate ALL food - street food, fancy food, cheap food, expensive food, etc. If it tastes good, we say so 😊
Get out of your bubble and let people appreciate things.
@@gabrieladaescu8771 thank you for this 🙌🏽🙌🏽
You discovered a country that before you didn't know existed,; GO HOME..!😢
Why would you think that we didn’t know it existed before?
I am coming to Romania
Enjoy Romania! ❤️
Romania good food
Amazing food! 👌🏽