Cretans have a diet which is a little bit different than main land Greece. In this video I explore the town of Chania Crete and what the local cuisine has to offer.
@@GorgeousGeorge97 but you’re not old enough to realize that taste is subjective. I feel the same way you do about Japanese food, but I’m not obtuse, so I understand other people love it
Nice video man!I was watching you eat and my appetite was aroused...😁I am from Crete, I live in Heraklion,and I can say with confidence that you know what to eat...
Charma beer!!! Easily the BEST lager I have ever tasted (and I have sampled some of the supposed "best" of Germany, Netherlands and local Greek ones - NONE come close!). Make sure the glass (half liter or full liter) is ice cold, makes the effect even better on a hot day.
Please avoid En Plo restaurant, 20 portou old town. You will be persuaded by a charming man onto the terrace, you will not be offered a menu just suggestions. You will then be charged double the price of other restaurants. Please check trip advisor
I think you've been tricked a little bit by editing. I edit out a lot of the chewing because nothing is really happening and it's just "dead air" otherwise. Believe me, all these meals have me sitting and enjoying the food for awhile, got to edit out a lot.
Sorry to tell you but lamb and beef, are not greek suvlaki at all. I don't say it is not tasty, this is subjective for everyone. However, it cannot be named greek food. It is very rare to be found. Gyros and souvlaki are either pork or chicken (chicken appeared only the last 20-25 years or so). This is the main difference acctually between greek gyros and oriental kebab. This but also the thinner, sliced more grilled pieces of meat ++more greesy
What are you buzzing about? "Souvlaki" only descipts its cooking reference, not content. This differs very locally in Greece. A "Pita Souvlaki" means that the meat are on a spit and charcoal grilled, served in a bread (pita). A "Gyro Pita" means that the meat are from a rotating (vertical) spit. A "Pita" often means that the place serves porkmeat or whatever they have at the moment, grilled or from a rotating (vertical) spit. (Chicken in a pita are a special vary served at tourist places...) And, no. "Kebab" are made of minced meat, often lamb. And "Döner Kebab" are served in bread from rotating spit are called "Döner". You can even get kebab fried in a pan or stew, called "Tas Kebab". And in Crete, traditionally "Souvlaki" are served with goat meat, not lamb or mutton (sheep), cooked "Antichristo". The difference is not in the meat between a pita or kebab, don't match Oranges and Apples buddy...
@@robertobaath5304 As a greek who has lived in Chania for 6 years, I have NEVER seen souvlaki or gyro made by lamb or goat!!! EVER! Maybe in touristic restaurants, but only because foreigners are used to that because of the turkish/greek restaurants in their country! I have no idea why you'd say that goat meat is traditional souvlaki in Crete. All of Greece eats lamb and goat meat but not in souvlaki or gyro form! Either the whole animal is roasten on a big skewer or cooked in the oven with vegetables or local pasta... By the way by your definition Gyro and Donner kebab are the same because it's meat from the vertical rottiserie. Which is wrong! Gyros is pork or chicken grilled in a vertical rottiserie spices with some very specific spices that they don't use for souvlaki of the same meat... Hence the difference in taste, or else why would both exist? Donner and Gyros are different as well, mainly because Donner is never pork, and also different spices.
Ok I did look up "Antikristo", that is not souvlaki!!! Every easter the whole of Greece roasts lamb or goat on a big skewer, NO ONE has ever said that it is souvlaki! We roast whole chickens, we never said they are souvlaki, just like "kontosouvli" has it;s own name rather than souvlaki... Souvlaki is very specific, the technic in general is called "sti souvla"
@@pmparda i confirm too. I am Greek and I have lived in Heraklion and spent many summers in Chania. As for the meat-skewers (either from pork or chicken) the whole Greece north of Athens and in most of the islands it is called souvlaki (as well as the whole of the planet calls it like that, but Athenians got stuck with it for the last 30 years. Till the 70s suvlaki had only one meaning even in Athens and it was meat skewers ). Suvlaki out of lamb is nowhere to be found anywhere in Greece, including Crete. Maybe in some restaurants for tourists as you say. To Greeks this is unheard of. Generally except twice per year in special circumstances, lamb is really low in consumption. I think I saw some EU stats and only 1-2% of the meat consumption of Greeks is lamb or goat. For a strange reason in America Greeks eat lamb gyros and lamb souvlaki, maybe the explanation is that in the 50s and 60s people in Greece were consuming more lamb and they stayed with the old habits and developed their own recipes in the USA. This is normal I guess
"This differs very locally in Greece.", "Maybe in touristic restaurants": "has lived in Chania for 6 years" "and spent many summers in Chania" You guys both greeks and you have to look up antikristo? There you go.
Scene 1st:"Οινομαγειρειον Αγαπηνης".........eat freakase, drink; ......eat stifatho, drink; ?? DIONYSUS demands that you pay with your life. O.K. I make jocks.Ha ha!We laugh. With no WINE you dont understand food! With no OUZO you dont unterstand fish and sea foods.-
Swallowing food without chewing is the best way to eat!
I like the food.
Amazing trip to Χανιά Κριτι
Fantastic video, beautiful images!👌👍 Good editing! I liked to remember Crete (2019).😊
A hug!
The wild greens are a much older tradition,in almost all of Greece!!
Great video man. Greek food is heaven
@@GorgeousGeorge97 but you’re not old enough to realize that taste is subjective. I feel the same way you do about Japanese food, but I’m not obtuse, so I understand other people love it
Nice video man!I was watching you eat and my appetite was aroused...😁I am from Crete, I live in Heraklion,and I can say with confidence that you know what to eat...
Original souvlaki eater!!!
Raki and loukoumi was a monastery treat,normally!!
Charma beer!!! Easily the BEST lager I have ever tasted (and I have sampled some of the supposed "best" of Germany, Netherlands and local Greek ones - NONE come close!). Make sure the glass (half liter or full liter) is ice cold, makes the effect even better on a hot day.
Maby it's called Karma!
It is not Karma,it is Harma or Charma!And it is local!
I’m really Impressed with your choices. Thank you! I guess you are lucky really that you didn’t share the raki 😉
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3.08 that is gyros not slouvaki.slouvaki is chicken on skewer.gyros is pitta with meat tomatoes onions tzatziki and fried potatoes
Loukoumi and raki? Then Game over
Well done for having eaten snails!!!
its Cretan food ,not Cretian
Please avoid En Plo restaurant, 20 portou old town. You will be persuaded by a charming man onto the terrace, you will not be offered a menu just suggestions. You will then be charged double the price of other restaurants. Please check trip advisor
When you are offered raki at theend of your meal you are supposed to drink only one shot, not the bottle!
This market (26.2.2024) exists only as a shell of a building!
That's sad to hear 😞.
pronounced CRE_TAN
You should savour the food more. As you are shovelling it in really quick before you have chewed it.
I think you've been tricked a little bit by editing. I edit out a lot of the chewing because nothing is really happening and it's just "dead air" otherwise. Believe me, all these meals have me sitting and enjoying the food for awhile, got to edit out a lot.
Lucky bstrd... LoL~!
Sorry to tell you but lamb and beef, are not greek suvlaki at all. I don't say it is not tasty, this is subjective for everyone. However, it cannot be named greek food. It is very rare to be found. Gyros and souvlaki are either pork or chicken (chicken appeared only the last 20-25 years or so). This is the main difference acctually between greek gyros and oriental kebab. This but also the thinner, sliced more grilled pieces of meat ++more greesy
What are you buzzing about?
"Souvlaki" only descipts its cooking reference, not content. This differs very locally in Greece.
A "Pita Souvlaki" means that the meat are on a spit and charcoal grilled, served in a bread (pita).
A "Gyro Pita" means that the meat are from a rotating (vertical) spit.
A "Pita" often means that the place serves porkmeat or whatever they have at the moment, grilled or from a rotating (vertical) spit.
(Chicken in a pita are a special vary served at tourist places...)
And, no.
"Kebab" are made of minced meat, often lamb. And "Döner Kebab" are served in bread from rotating spit are called "Döner".
You can even get kebab fried in a pan or stew, called "Tas Kebab".
And in Crete, traditionally "Souvlaki" are served with goat meat, not lamb or mutton (sheep), cooked "Antichristo".
The difference is not in the meat between a pita or kebab, don't match Oranges and Apples buddy...
@@robertobaath5304 As a greek who has lived in Chania for 6 years, I have NEVER seen souvlaki or gyro made by lamb or goat!!! EVER! Maybe in touristic restaurants, but only because foreigners are used to that because of the turkish/greek restaurants in their country! I have no idea why you'd say that goat meat is traditional souvlaki in Crete. All of Greece eats lamb and goat meat but not in souvlaki or gyro form! Either the whole animal is roasten on a big skewer or cooked in the oven with vegetables or local pasta...
By the way by your definition Gyro and Donner kebab are the same because it's meat from the vertical rottiserie. Which is wrong! Gyros is pork or chicken grilled in a vertical rottiserie spices with some very specific spices that they don't use for souvlaki of the same meat... Hence the difference in taste, or else why would both exist? Donner and Gyros are different as well, mainly because Donner is never pork, and also different spices.
Ok I did look up "Antikristo", that is not souvlaki!!! Every easter the whole of Greece roasts lamb or goat on a big skewer, NO ONE has ever said that it is souvlaki! We roast whole chickens, we never said they are souvlaki, just like "kontosouvli" has it;s own name rather than souvlaki...
Souvlaki is very specific, the technic in general is called "sti souvla"
@@pmparda i confirm too. I am Greek and I have lived in Heraklion and spent many summers in Chania. As for the meat-skewers (either from pork or chicken) the whole Greece north of Athens and in most of the islands it is called souvlaki (as well as the whole of the planet calls it like that, but Athenians got stuck with it for the last 30 years. Till the 70s suvlaki had only one meaning even in Athens and it was meat skewers ). Suvlaki out of lamb is nowhere to be found anywhere in Greece, including Crete. Maybe in some restaurants for tourists as you say. To Greeks this is unheard of. Generally except twice per year in special circumstances, lamb is really low in consumption. I think I saw some EU stats and only 1-2% of the meat consumption of Greeks is lamb or goat. For a strange reason in America Greeks eat lamb gyros and lamb souvlaki, maybe the explanation is that in the 50s and 60s people in Greece were consuming more lamb and they stayed with the old habits and developed their own recipes in the USA. This is normal I guess
"This differs very locally in Greece.",
"Maybe in touristic restaurants":
"has lived in Chania for 6 years"
"and spent many summers in Chania"
You guys both greeks and you have to look up antikristo?
There you go.
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Scene 1st:"Οινομαγειρειον Αγαπηνης".........eat freakase, drink;
......eat stifatho, drink; ??
DIONYSUS demands that you pay with your life.
O.K. I make jocks.Ha ha!We laugh.
With no WINE you dont understand food!
With no OUZO you dont unterstand fish and sea foods.-
Oh believe me, I loved every minute of the food, wine, and alcohol. Just wish some times I didn't drink so much before the raki came out LOL.
Fricassee and Stew