Georgian Food Taste Test - 5 dishes to try in Kiev, Ukraine

Come join us in Kiev, Ukraine as we have a Georgian Food taste test sampling Georgian Cuisine for the 1st time trying xxx dishes at Mama Manana (Mama Mahaha). This popular Georgian restaurant in Kyiv, Ukraine ended up being one of our favorite spots in the whole. We ended up going back a couple of times because the food was just so delicious. In total we tried the following Georgian dishes:
1) Georgian Salad with walnut dressing (xxx)
2) Badrijani Nigvzit (ბადრიჯანი) - Georgian eggplant rolls with walnut paste
3) Khachapuri (ხაჭაპური) with Sulguni cheese (სულგუნი) Georgian pizza style bread
4) Dolma (tolma: ტოლმა) Georgian stuffed grape leaf
5) Georgian dessert platter
Drinks: Georgian Red Wine (Saperavi dry) and Georgian black tea
MAMA MANANA  
Georgian Restaurant
Address: вул. Велика Васильківська, 44, Київ, Kyiv city, Ukraine, 01004
Hours: 9AM-11PM (weekdays) and 11AM-11PM (Weekends)
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Georgian Food Taste Test - 5 dishes to try in Kiev, Ukraine travel food video transcript:
So it is lunchtime here in Kiev. We've been here in the city
for about a week and today we've decided to take you for Georgian food because we've noticed Georgian cuisine (ქართული სამზარეულო) is super popular in the city there's actually
this one street where there's like a whole bunch of Georgian restaurants right next to each other so we figured we need to make a food video. We're on our way for lunch. And this is how you cross busy streets in Kiev and Sam is a man on a mission marching towards the Georgian restaurant.
So what do we know about Georgian food? Well we've never actually traveled to Georgia at least not yet so we're not
that familiar with this food. But what we do know is that Georgian cuisine is a mix of European and Middle Eastern influences. The first thing has arrived and that is my Georgian red wine it is a Saperavi a dry red wine.
Yes, so ordered a Georgian salad here and it has basic ingredients. It's just tomatoes, cucumbers and onions and you can see all those quite clearly. And it comes with a kind of a nutty walnut dressing.
Time for the next course and I'm actually gonna have to read the name for this one because it's a little complicated. It's called Badrijani Nigvzit (ბადრიჯანი). And this is eggplant rolls with a walnut paste and it just looks beautiful. Basically they cook the walnut until it's soft and then they roll it up with a walnut paste that also has spices and vinegar.
The next dish is here it is the Khachapuri (ხაჭაპური) and it comes with Sulguni cheese (სულგუნი) which is similar to mozzarella. Basically if you take a look over here this kind of looks like a like a Georgian pizza. It's even been sliced like one it's sliced like little triangles.
It's very filling it's very dense so yeah if you're looking to get filled up eating Georgian food (ქართული სამზარეულო) you'll definitely want to order this with one of your dishes.
Next up we are trying dolma (tolma: ტოლმა) which if you have a look over here it's basically like a grape leaf that has been stuffed with minced beef rice some spices and it comes with this white
sauce it almost looks like I don't know some yogurt or sour cream based sauce.
We are having four different Georgian desserts so I don't
know the names of these individually so I'm just gonna read them right off the menu. So we are having Bagrationi (Napoleon). No, bagriationi. Yes. Pastilla Gozinaki (გოზინაყი) and baked cookies with pelamushi (ფელამუში) and custard I've actually seen this
called like a Napoleon (Наполеонний торт - ნაპოლეონის ნამცხვარი) or Napolitan.
Here is the letter from Mama Manana (Mama Mahaha). It came to 819 which is 31 US dollars
This is part of our Travel in Ukraine video series showcasing Georgian food, Georgian culture and Georgian cuisine from the country of Georgia.
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