No need to worry about accidentally stumble onto Surströmming. You would struggle to find it in the southern half of Sweden. I'm sure you could find it in Gothenburg, but you'd have to know where to search. Crash course Swedish then ÅÄÖ. Å is like the O in "Fore", Ä, like the AI in Fair and Ö like the U in Furn. So Fore/Fair/Furn.
We really tried hard to find some Surströmming! Went into over 5 supermarkets and was told it was out of season so maybe we’ll find some on our next visit! Will definitely take note of those pronunciations, so helpful. Thank you!
@@CezandGaz Traditionally latter part of August and into September is when people that are so inclined eat surströmming. Just please for the love of... open the can under water, in a big enough bucket, or you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. The cans are quite overpressured due to the fermenting process. I would recommend trying to be invited to a party with people that seriously enjoy it. Sorry, can't help you with that, I would run the other direction... I can share another trick though if you want to figure out ÅÄÖ, and that is to use Google translate, Swedish to any language really, copy some Swedish words from somewhere and use the little speaker icon on the Swedish side. Or just throw in "Å, Ä, Ö".
Was fun to be back! We know you definitely cannot compare them, we have seen enough videos 🤣 I think Cerys’ sarcasm did not quite come across in the video. Thanks for watching 😁
First of all, amazing video guys, loved you showing a few unique and different places in and around Gothenburg!! Secondly, im in this video and want to defend a few things 🤣 The princess cake had spent a bit of time outside the fridge and that may have contributed to it tasting off 😳 secondly, the surstromming comparison to skagenrora was british sarcasm as we knew they werent close, but i dont think it came across in the video very well 🤦 also our potato salad in the UK is atrocious compared to the Swedish potato salad so we love the ICA stuff even if you guys consider it rubbish, hopefully we can redeem ourselves next visit!❤
You should probably give Princesstårta a second chance. Your descriptions make it sound like something was off with the one you had. Next time you could try going to Alingsås, which is a town 40 km outside of Gothenburg. They're famous for their many classical cafés and bakeries. Buy the cakes there and eat them fresh straight away. Can't go wrong! And also, if you would like to try some very traditional swedish fish you could buy regular pickled herring ("Sill"). The cans are sold all year round in every supermarket and they come in a wide variety of flavours, such as onion, mustard, anchovy... The most classic one is probably "Matjessill". It's nowhere near as aggressive as Surströmming, but probably still a lot to take for someone not too keen on fish. I prefer having my sill on a traditional sweet rye bread called Kavring, but that's up to personal taste of course.
Yes we will definitely have to give it a second chance, thank you for the recommendations! We hope to find Surstromming next time, but Sill sounds like a good alternative 😁
Nice video, but few people in Gothenburg would agree those are the best things to eat in the city, although that sandwich shop is well-renowned. Seriously, I'm pretty impressed you managed to find a princess cake that, for some very strange reason, tasted like cottage cheese 😂. Well done! So what actually are the best things to eat in Gothenburg? Gothenburg is the seafood capital of Sweden, so if you "don't like fish" this is the place to get to know how seafood really should taste. But if you want "the best" it will be costly. Two famous (and expensive) restaurants are Sjömagasinet and Fiskekrogen. Fortunately, there's also a lot of affordable restaurants all over the city serving excellent food. The Gothenburg restaurant scene is very diverse so the best thing to eat really depends on what you're looking for and how much you're willing to pay. Many visitors to Sweden find the country expensive, but don't wish to sustain themselves solely on McDonald's food while here. Is it a good idea to go to a big supermarket instead? While you could find nice products there (like the unique Västerbotten cheese and smoked reindeer heart), I would advice against it. Instead, go to a lunch restaurant which serves husmanskost, which basically are traditional Swedish every day meals. A good lunch restaurant (on two locations) in the city center of Gothenburg is Löfqvist å vi. In the evening try a kebab pizza. You can find them everywhere. Last but not least, Gothenburg is known for its mashed potatoes. You can't get better food in Gbg for around 25 crowns! Three great places are Franks, Frank's (two separate establishments, but equally good) and Oves Gatukök. These hole-in-the-wall restaurants also serve hot dogs, hamburgers and some other stuff. Thank you for making this video and welcome back to Gothenburg!
Thank you so much for those recommendations. I’m sure anyone reading the comments will be able to take some notes. We definitely will be for we next visit! That kebab pizza you mentioned sounds very intriguing! We have 4 more videos on Gothenburg and have tried a variety of dishes, some traditional and some more modern. We would really love to try out Gothenburg’s seafood next time!
You shouldnt have potato sallad on knäckebröd, potatissallad is used as a cold dish to for example bbq Meat instead of chips or Rice Or sausages its very typical to cold roast beef. And you also put roasted unions on top. And when you explain the Princesstårta smelled like cottage Cheese sounds like the cream got bad. It should absolutly not stand out the warm room temp. Makes it go bad fast. Also the skagenröra should be on a toast. Not knäckebröd either 🙂 google Toast Skagen enjoy 🎉
Skagen is a small town in northernmost Denmark (not Sweden) known for its sandy beaches and a group of impressionist painters that lived and painted there in the late 1800s. For some reason people in Sweden associate it with seafood.
Skagen is known for being a fishing port and Swedish visitors have feasted on heavenly seafood there for a long time. Toast Skagen was created by the legendary restaurateur Tore Wretman in the 1950s. While he didn't create the dish on location in Skagen, he was well acquainted with the Danish port town being a sailing enthusiast. In a book he authored he wrote that once the dish was born the next step was to find a suitable name. After a while he came to think of Skagen which many Swedes associate with its especially large and delicious shrimps. Nowadays, there's a product in Denmark which is very similar to Skagenröra called Skagenssalat. I wonder what it's origin is. Perhaps hoards of Swedish tourists to Skagen in the past demanded to be served Skagenröra/Toast Skagen and Danish restaurants arrived at the conclusion it was wise to incude it on menus? I don't know. Anyhow, Tore Wretman was a fascinating person who lived a rich life. Read more about him in this Wikipedia article (in English): en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore_Wretman
@@CezandGazIf you have the slightest interest in art, you really should get to know the Skagen painters referred to above. Some of their works can be admired at the Gothenburg Museum of Art (which also houses masterpieces by painters like Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Picasso and many others). Skagen is worth a visit for several reasons. It's a very popular holiday destination, especially for Swedes, Danes and Norwegians, but it's not overrun by tourism. It's a beautiful, tranquil little town with a unique atmosphere. A true gem. About the Skagen painters: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagen_Painters
I have never ever seen someone dislike skagenröra. I think it is how you presented it, comparing it to surströmming like it's even remotely close, or like something people outside Sweden don't like to eat. Skagenröra is a delicacy. Why is fishy a bad thing? Don't you like fish?
The comparison to Surströmming was only a joke, I don’t think my sarcasm came through well enough! We have prawn cocktail here which is quite similar. We enjoyed the skagenröra but you’re right, our friends don’t like fish in general so not the best choice for them 🤣 We have another video of us all trying your salty liquorice, you might like that one!
Only shame is that your tried icas skagen, best to make it yourself or buy a bit more expensive brand. Same goes for potato sallad. Ica basics is basically unedible imo. If you have to go with a premade one, i'd recommend rydbergs brand but just barely. Enjoyed the vlog though! Question, are you friends with someone from göteborg since it's the 3rd time you're all there? Figure you might wanna check out stockholm or even further north. :) Oh and a shame about the princess cake, by the sounds of it yours had gone bad or was a weird version of it.
Ah well we love the ICA products so we will really love the good stuff! We will have to try it next time 🙂! We hope to go to some other areas next time, and probably try princess cake again 😋
@@CezandGaz Yea it's great that you loved it still :p And yea the "real" stuff will be 10x if not 100x better for ya guys then. :) Especially so homemade skagen / restaurant made. Potato sallad will probably differ by whom made it due there's so many ways it can be made. That said if you're going premade again, like i said rydbergs brand is pretty decent, definetly a step up from ica basics :) You've probably heard this already, but one thing you guys definetly should try next visit is sandwich cake, called smörgåstårta. The traditional one is my favorite with shrimp, salmon and stuff like that. There's also a ham based one but i don't like that as much. Smörgåstårta is something we usualy eat during birthdays or midsummer / some parties.
I have to tell you that you bought the budget brands of potatosalad and skagenröra, also strange that englishmen have problem whith fish, you invented fish and chips, very odd. Nice video all the best to you.
Not crackets, it's hard bread or as we call it knäckebröd. You don't eat Skagenröra on knäckebröd. You're not the most knowledgable people, shrimps are not fish. Welsh? Yeah, stick to laverbread.
Skagen on knäckebröd is actually realy tasty as well, altho should be home made or atleast not ica basics. That said, it's not as good as a real toast skagen ofc. :) Same goes with potato sallad, i tend to use potato sallad instead of potato when i eat surströmming. Noticed another commenter reacted on it as well. I guess it's something us ppl in the north do more than southerners do.
I vilken värld kan man inte ha skagenröra på knäckemackan? Är ju extremt vanligt bland folk vare sig det är en sleten skogaholmlimpa, ett bryt Vasa till en bit rostbröd.
Don't really understand.English people when they come to Sweden and eating something whith fish 🐠 🐠 in it they often making funny faces like this one🤮ore this one👎makes me womder about the English classical dish fish and chips.Don't they eat that either?
No need to worry about accidentally stumble onto Surströmming. You would struggle to find it in the southern half of Sweden. I'm sure you could find it in Gothenburg, but you'd have to know where to search.
Crash course Swedish then ÅÄÖ. Å is like the O in "Fore", Ä, like the AI in Fair and Ö like the U in Furn. So Fore/Fair/Furn.
We really tried hard to find some Surströmming! Went into over 5 supermarkets and was told it was out of season so maybe we’ll find some on our next visit!
Will definitely take note of those pronunciations, so helpful. Thank you!
@@CezandGaz Traditionally latter part of August and into September is when people that are so inclined eat surströmming. Just please for the love of... open the can under water, in a big enough bucket, or you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. The cans are quite overpressured due to the fermenting process. I would recommend trying to be invited to a party with people that seriously enjoy it. Sorry, can't help you with that, I would run the other direction...
I can share another trick though if you want to figure out ÅÄÖ, and that is to use Google translate, Swedish to any language really, copy some Swedish words from somewhere and use the little speaker icon on the Swedish side. Or just throw in "Å, Ä, Ö".
@@CezandGaz There is a fish store inside Nordstan in Göteborg where you will find Suströmming the year around.
Nice to see you back. Skagenrora has absolutely nothing to do with Surstromming. You can't compare them.
Was fun to be back! We know you definitely cannot compare them, we have seen enough videos 🤣 I think Cerys’ sarcasm did not quite come across in the video. Thanks for watching 😁
First of all, amazing video guys, loved you showing a few unique and different places in and around Gothenburg!! Secondly, im in this video and want to defend a few things 🤣 The princess cake had spent a bit of time outside the fridge and that may have contributed to it tasting off 😳 secondly, the surstromming comparison to skagenrora was british sarcasm as we knew they werent close, but i dont think it came across in the video very well 🤦 also our potato salad in the UK is atrocious compared to the Swedish potato salad so we love the ICA stuff even if you guys consider it rubbish, hopefully we can redeem ourselves next visit!❤
You should probably give Princesstårta a second chance. Your descriptions make it sound like something was off with the one you had. Next time you could try going to Alingsås, which is a town 40 km outside of Gothenburg. They're famous for their many classical cafés and bakeries. Buy the cakes there and eat them fresh straight away. Can't go wrong!
And also, if you would like to try some very traditional swedish fish you could buy regular pickled herring ("Sill"). The cans are sold all year round in every supermarket and they come in a wide variety of flavours, such as onion, mustard, anchovy... The most classic one is probably "Matjessill". It's nowhere near as aggressive as Surströmming, but probably still a lot to take for someone not too keen on fish. I prefer having my sill on a traditional sweet rye bread called Kavring, but that's up to personal taste of course.
Yes we will definitely have to give it a second chance, thank you for the recommendations! We hope to find Surstromming next time, but Sill sounds like a good alternative 😁
Nice video, but few people in Gothenburg would agree those are the best things to eat in the city, although that sandwich shop is well-renowned.
Seriously, I'm pretty impressed you managed to find a princess cake that, for some very strange reason, tasted like cottage cheese 😂. Well done!
So what actually are the best things to eat in Gothenburg?
Gothenburg is the seafood capital of Sweden, so if you "don't like fish" this is the place to get to know how seafood really should taste. But if you want "the best" it will be costly. Two famous (and expensive) restaurants are Sjömagasinet and Fiskekrogen. Fortunately, there's also a lot of affordable restaurants all over the city serving excellent food. The Gothenburg restaurant scene is very diverse so the best thing to eat really depends on what you're looking for and how much you're willing to pay.
Many visitors to Sweden find the country expensive, but don't wish to sustain themselves solely on McDonald's food while here. Is it a good idea to go to a big supermarket instead? While you could find nice products there (like the unique Västerbotten cheese and smoked reindeer heart), I would advice against it. Instead, go to a lunch restaurant which serves husmanskost, which basically are traditional Swedish every day meals. A good lunch restaurant (on two locations) in the city center of Gothenburg is Löfqvist å vi. In the evening try a kebab pizza. You can find them everywhere. Last but not least, Gothenburg is known for its mashed potatoes. You can't get better food in Gbg for around 25 crowns! Three great places are Franks, Frank's (two separate establishments, but equally good) and Oves Gatukök. These hole-in-the-wall restaurants also serve hot dogs, hamburgers and some other stuff.
Thank you for making this video and welcome back to Gothenburg!
Thank you so much for those recommendations. I’m sure anyone reading the comments will be able to take some notes. We definitely will be for we next visit! That kebab pizza you mentioned sounds very intriguing!
We have 4 more videos on Gothenburg and have tried a variety of dishes, some traditional and some more modern. We would really love to try out Gothenburg’s seafood next time!
You shouldnt have potato sallad on knäckebröd, potatissallad is used as a cold dish to for example bbq Meat instead of chips or Rice Or sausages its very typical to cold roast beef. And you also put roasted unions on top.
And when you explain the Princesstårta smelled like cottage Cheese sounds like the cream got bad. It should absolutly not stand out the warm room temp. Makes it go bad fast.
Also the skagenröra should be on a toast. Not knäckebröd either 🙂 google Toast Skagen enjoy 🎉
Skagen works wonderfully on knäckebröd though, as do potato sallad :D
I live in the north, so i guess it might be more common here to do so? idk.
We did have it alongside a bbq meal, we love the potatissallad! We will definitely try the princess cake again, and toast skagen! 😋
Skagen is a small town in northernmost Denmark (not Sweden) known for its sandy beaches and a group of impressionist painters that lived and painted there in the late 1800s. For some reason people in Sweden associate it with seafood.
We did not know that! Interesting 😮
Skagen is known for being a fishing port and Swedish visitors have feasted on heavenly seafood there for a long time. Toast Skagen was created by the legendary restaurateur Tore Wretman in the 1950s. While he didn't create the dish on location in Skagen, he was well acquainted with the Danish port town being a sailing enthusiast. In a book he authored he wrote that once the dish was born the next step was to find a suitable name. After a while he came to think of Skagen which many Swedes associate with its especially large and delicious shrimps.
Nowadays, there's a product in Denmark which is very similar to Skagenröra called Skagenssalat. I wonder what it's origin is. Perhaps hoards of Swedish tourists to Skagen in the past demanded to be served Skagenröra/Toast Skagen and Danish restaurants arrived at the conclusion it was wise to incude it on menus? I don't know. Anyhow, Tore Wretman was a fascinating person who lived a rich life. Read more about him in this Wikipedia article (in English):
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore_Wretman
@@CezandGazIf you have the slightest interest in art, you really should get to know the Skagen painters referred to above. Some of their works can be admired at the Gothenburg Museum of Art (which also houses masterpieces by painters like Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Picasso and many others).
Skagen is worth a visit for several reasons. It's a very popular holiday destination, especially for Swedes, Danes and Norwegians, but it's not overrun by tourism. It's a beautiful, tranquil little town with a unique atmosphere. A true gem.
About the Skagen painters:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagen_Painters
That prinsesstårta was off, you should try it again.
Yes I think we will have to! 😁
@@CezandGaz my absolute favorite swedish food. def give it another whirl
Sounds like an experimental princess cake. I can't relate to any of your descriptions of it.
Eh.. it's exactly whats in a princess cake, marsipan, vaniljkräm, hallonsylt, grädde och tårtbotten. Eller?
Though their tasting made no sense if that was what was in it...
Either our tastebuds are very different or some of the cream/custard had gone off 🤣
@@CezandGaz haha ah well, next time buy a frozen one at the supermarket, Frödinge Prinsesstårta, that way we will know for sure!
I have never ever seen someone dislike skagenröra. I think it is how you presented it, comparing it to surströmming like it's even remotely close, or like something people outside Sweden don't like to eat. Skagenröra is a delicacy. Why is fishy a bad thing? Don't you like fish?
The comparison to Surströmming was only a joke, I don’t think my sarcasm came through well enough! We have prawn cocktail here which is quite similar.
We enjoyed the skagenröra but you’re right, our friends don’t like fish in general so not the best choice for them 🤣 We have another video of us all trying your salty liquorice, you might like that one!
Another great video! Love the Sweden content ❤
I would say you get a better experience if you order a Toast Skagen in a restaurant 😊
Thank you for a fun video 😃
Thank you for watching! We will have to try that next time 😁
@@CezandGaz thank you for a lovely video. Looking forward to the next 😄
Never seen anyone eat potato salad on a cracker before
It’s tasty! You should try it 😅
Im going to say like the rest here, you guys must have gotten a bad princess cake. You should give it another try.
Yeah from the comments, it seems it must have gone bad! We will have to try it again 👀
Very good video :)
Thank you so much ❤️
You went to all the right places.
Aw that’s good! Do you recommend any others?
Only shame is that your tried icas skagen, best to make it yourself or buy a bit more expensive brand. Same goes for potato sallad. Ica basics is basically unedible imo. If you have to go with a premade one, i'd recommend rydbergs brand but just barely.
Enjoyed the vlog though!
Question, are you friends with someone from göteborg since it's the 3rd time you're all there?
Figure you might wanna check out stockholm or even further north. :)
Oh and a shame about the princess cake, by the sounds of it yours had gone bad or was a weird version of it.
Ah well we love the ICA products so we will really love the good stuff! We will have to try it next time 🙂! We hope to go to some other areas next time, and probably try princess cake again 😋
@@CezandGaz Yea it's great that you loved it still :p And yea the "real" stuff will be 10x if not 100x better for ya guys then. :)
Especially so homemade skagen / restaurant made. Potato sallad will probably differ by whom made it due there's so many ways it can be made. That said if you're going premade again, like i said rydbergs brand is pretty decent, definetly a step up from ica basics :)
You've probably heard this already, but one thing you guys definetly should try next visit is sandwich cake, called smörgåstårta.
The traditional one is my favorite with shrimp, salmon and stuff like that. There's also a ham based one but i don't like that as much.
Smörgåstårta is something we usualy eat during birthdays or midsummer / some parties.
I have to tell you that you bought the budget brands of potatosalad and skagenröra, also strange that englishmen have problem whith fish, you invented fish and chips, very odd. Nice video all the best to you.
Don't buy the ICA Basic stuff. All products under that brand are horrendous
We love them! The food quality must be much better in Sweden compared to our home 🤣
Bread and potatosallad only? atleast put some meatballs or salomon on there to!
There's something seriously wrong with your taste buds!😂😂
This is very possible! 😂
The prinsesstårta should be refrigerated. Yours must have gone bad.
Yes we think it did go bad. We will have to try it again!
Not crackets, it's hard bread or as we call it knäckebröd. You don't eat Skagenröra on knäckebröd.
You're not the most knowledgable people, shrimps are not fish.
Welsh? Yeah, stick to laverbread.
We will try Toast Skagen next time!
Skagen on knäckebröd is actually realy tasty as well, altho should be home made or atleast not ica basics.
That said, it's not as good as a real toast skagen ofc. :)
Same goes with potato sallad, i tend to use potato sallad instead of potato when i eat surströmming.
Noticed another commenter reacted on it as well. I guess it's something us ppl in the north do more than southerners do.
Not sure anyone said they were eating fish? And besides, what does shrimp taste like...kinda fishy, right?
I vilken värld kan man inte ha skagenröra på knäckemackan? Är ju extremt vanligt bland folk vare sig det är en sleten skogaholmlimpa, ett bryt Vasa till en bit rostbröd.
Don't really understand.English people when they come to Sweden and eating something whith fish 🐠 🐠 in it they often making funny faces like this one🤮ore this one👎makes me womder about the English classical dish fish and chips.Don't they eat that either?