Moussaka and Mish Mash place were definitely a more "high end" place than the other places you visited in BG. Maybe thats why you also loved it. Good luck around the world glad you visited our country.
The restaurant definitely has great reviews! We also have never had anything like it before so it was delicious ☺️ And thanks so much! We will be back ☺️
@@TheAdventuringArtists Shtastlivaca Veliko Tarnovo is best restaurant I have ever visit in Bulgaria, never miss to go there when I am in Veliko Tarnovo...
Glad to have had you here, if you are in Veliko Turnovo again I strongly advice you to watch the Sound and Lights show projected on the Tsarevets fortress as well as do a quick hike (20-30 minutes tops) to the Love Swing overlooking the entire city and the river.
Thank you! Shaun was able to see the light show a few weeks before this (I flew to Morocco so sadly I didn’t) but when we go back we definitely will check out the love swing!
@@TheAdventuringArtists on top of that the Bulgarian djodjen (pronounced joe-jen) is supposedly spearmint but I find that it doesn't have the same taste as spearmint in the US. It's some variety of it with a particular taste. However in some regions the soup is made with lovage instead of mint. Lovage tastes kind of like celery so if you're cool with celery you may like it more.
Regarding tribe soup however or it is not good chef. Garlic must be mixed with red vinegar. There is legend "The sultan palace was across a tavern. The aroma from tribe soup traveled true the air. The sultan sent his shef to check what is secret to the good smell of the soup. Shef reported that tavern did not clean the tribe very well, as they do in palace kitchen"😂
Wow that Moussaka looked so good! Love the sound of the Indian flavours with Eastern European dishes. Perfect match! Another fantastic food tour video guys!
Guys, the MISH-MASH is actualy baked SHOPSKA SALAD, only with added CHUBRITZA spice. And the added meat on the top is not traditional. The traditional is pan fried, not baked as you tryed. So this is my advice to you: next time, find some Bulgarians to take you around the villages and towns in different regions of Bulgaria, but to people's homes, so you can try the original homemade dishes. This way you will be able to meet genuine Bulgarians and touch the real hidden treasures of Bulgaria. Great video. Thank you!
I love you guys. Thank you for the reviews. There is some misconception. Mish Mash is strictly vegetarian. NO meat. Musaka is turkish creation. Can be with potatoes or egg plant. Balkans were 500 years under aotoman empire. Greeks have many claims over food, but they have no true ones. They clam that shish kabab is greek food.❤ Sopska salad is one of the best in the world. The ones tourist try it they fell in love with it. Baniza has two versions. Baniza and Burek. Yogurt is the best for both. Try water bufalo yogurt, is better than ice cream. ❤
Hi it's me again with the banitsa , airan and boza things. I saw you were drinking the boza after u eated a piece of the banitsa. U need to drink the boza or airan while the piece of the banitsa is still in ur mouth and chew it together then u will see how the magic happens. Thank you again for visiting our country hope u enjoyed it at max. Have fun around the world ! ❤
The next time you come to Bulgaria, write me, I will prepare you traditional Shopski dishes, as they were prepared in the past, and I will also show you the beautiful nature of the Rila mountain!
Thank you for visiting Bulgaria and enjoying your stay! Though, just for pronunciation (wouldn't wanna be that guy, sorry) Айрян (The milky yogurt drink) is pronounced airyan (open a like in "cat" AE) Skembe' chorba' and Veli'ko Tu'rnovo (with the "u" substatuting the "ъ" sound) Also I think in English it is pronounced bani'tsa, but in Bulgarian it's ba'nitsa. It's more up to preference and authenticity - you'd be understood if you said either of them Other words in the gray area are as you said musa'ka, which in Bulgarian is musaka' and kacha'mak is kachama'k (as a general rule of thumb, most Bulgarian dishes with three or more syllables have an accent on the last vowel. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I can't think of any at the moment) Hope you visit again! From Burgas❤
15:53 Actually, you're right. My favorite type of kavarma is chicken kavarma in a pancake. Bulgarian pancakes are different from American ones, they are big and thin and look like a tortilla.
The biggest mistake was, that when you both was in Rhodope mountain, you didn`t taste home made domestic (not from the shop) yogurt, especially from sheep milk...
Cilantro?? Maybe it was djodjen.. (giozum) джоджен , гьозум as some people call it. Usually we put this one with a bean stew, not cilantro. Cilantro is basically almost non-existent in the Bulgarian cuisine.
If you appreciate the tommatoes in the city, your chin will drop if you somehow manage to find a trustable person to sell you tomatoes raised by some random granny in a village. Sometimes even village tomatoes aren't good so it's hard even for us locals to find good vegatables that actually have a taste and do not taste like plastic This goes for about any vegatable and fruit you can think of. Sweet sweet watermelons and melons, peaches, apricots, white and red grapes, cucumbers, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries And oh my, a farmed pig or а wild boar with all its parts used to make various sausages and dishes The last one especially since i am such a fan of meat, brothers and sisters that thing makes your mouth and other things drool (sorry if that's too much 😂)
Mish mash is vegetarian dish, no sausages, and Musaka is just potato and mince meat, no tomato❗ Kachamak is Bulgarian mamaliga❗ But you don't try Cheverme or Drob Sarma❗ There is so many dishes in Bulgaria, the Mediterranean cousin come out from the Bulgaria❗
@@TheAdventuringArtists That's too bad. You were actually right next to the city center, both the old and new one. The old one is now a small park surrounded by museums, and the new one with the spectacular architecture was just a 5 minute walk in the opposite direction. I should know because I pass by that restaurant on the way to work every day. :D
I understand that you have never cooked beans, because the recipe is never with parsley! The spice for beans is spearmint, also known as garden mint or common mint, or lamb mint, etc, in Bulgarian we call it djodjen, or giozum. That is the spice that Ryss and Shaun confuse with cilantro.
@@TheAdventuringArtists Sirene in Bulgarian means cheese, so you actually say cheese cheese. This type of cheese translated into English is called white brine cheese.
I like my banitza with airan. Don't like boza at all. My hubby like boza a lot..But please try to pronounce the names of the items correctly. Just ask. U pretty much pronounced all foods wrong
Seriously? Give them a break. They did very well for newcomers to BG culture. Most bulgarians pronounce english words incorrectly or with heavy accent and they have practiced for years. I see it every time I go to BG and even the Bulgarians in the states pronounce english words funny.
Boza is the most disgusting bulgarian drink. I am 32 years old and have lived in Bulgaria all my life. I tried this crap once when I was a kid, and I haven't had it again since. Airyan on the other hand is great.
Actually, boza is not a Bulgarian drink. This drink, which is most often made from millet and rye (wheat) has a history of the 9th century BC from the region of Anatolia and Mesopotamia, today it is produced in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Tatarstan, Bashkiria and Romania, as in Romania it is called braga, and in all the rest it is called boza. Some people say that the best boza masters are in Albania. I personally don't think that the boza is disgusting when it is well made. On the other hand, didn't mom teach you that when a dish or drink doesn't match your personal taste, the most you can affort то say is that it tastes weird. A matter of upbringing.
You people deserve our government to pay you for excellent advertising.❤
We are just happy to do it ❤️
@RyssandShaun Ineed. I thought the same thing many times while watching.
Girl, please a black woman just indicated two Bulgaria men trying to kill her fuck that country
Respect for your bravery to try boza and shkembe chorba!
Thank you 💪🏼
Moussaka and Mish Mash place were definitely a more "high end" place than the other places you visited in BG. Maybe thats why you also loved it. Good luck around the world glad you visited our country.
The restaurant definitely has great reviews! We also have never had anything like it before so it was delicious ☺️
And thanks so much! We will be back ☺️
@@TheAdventuringArtists Hit me up next time I can give you some ideas depending on your budget.
Hi they made it very clear that they are going to explore the street type of food........
@@TheAdventuringArtists Shtastlivaca Veliko Tarnovo is best restaurant I have ever visit in Bulgaria, never miss to go there when I am in Veliko Tarnovo...
Brother, Sister, Thank you!
Big Like👍from a bulgarian!
Beautiful young guy & girl 👩❤👨
You are always welcome!
Thanks so much! We hope to come back!
I am 1:30 into the video and already excited for the rest as I've lived in VT for over a year and hadn't discovered that bakery 😅
Aww hope you enjoyed the video!!
Glad to have had you here, if you are in Veliko Turnovo again I strongly advice you to watch the Sound and Lights show projected on the Tsarevets fortress as well as do a quick hike (20-30 minutes tops) to the Love Swing overlooking the entire city and the river.
Thank you! Shaun was able to see the light show a few weeks before this (I flew to Morocco so sadly I didn’t) but when we go back we definitely will check out the love swing!
I love their sausages very tasty! I mean the cooked sausage 😅😅😅🙏👌❤️
Hahaha same ☺️😂
The white beans stew has savoury inside.
Hey, I just watched I few videos for your Bulgarian travels and I loved your energy
That would make sense!! Maryssa isn’t a fan of cilantro or mint, so that’s probably the underlying flavor she tasted ☺️ thanks so much!!
@@TheAdventuringArtists on top of that the Bulgarian djodjen (pronounced joe-jen) is supposedly spearmint but I find that it doesn't have the same taste as spearmint in the US. It's some variety of it with a particular taste. However in some regions the soup is made with lovage instead of mint. Lovage tastes kind of like celery so if you're cool with celery you may like it more.
No one puts coriander in beans in Bulgaria. We use mint instead. And just for the record it is not beans soup, it is more like a stew.
Loved your videos and your energy ! Love from Bulgaria ! P.S. we put cheese on everything, don't we...
Thank you and we love cheese 😍
If you wind up in Bulgaria again, do try chicken liver too. Loved your videos ❤
Sounds perfect and thanks so much!
Regarding tribe soup however or it is not good chef. Garlic must be mixed with red vinegar. There is legend "The sultan palace was across a tavern. The aroma from tribe soup traveled true the air. The sultan sent his shef to check what is secret to the good smell of the soup. Shef reported that tavern did not clean the tribe very well, as they do in palace kitchen"😂
So glad you enjoyed it. By the way, the seasoning in the beans is spearmint, not cilantro.
Thank you!
Wow that Moussaka looked so good! Love the sound of the Indian flavours with Eastern European dishes. Perfect match! Another fantastic food tour video guys!
Moussaka is one of our favorite foods EVER 😍
Thanks guys can’t wait to watch your next episode ☺️
Nice! thank you for visiting my country
Our pleasure! Thank you!
Guys, the MISH-MASH is actualy baked SHOPSKA SALAD, only with added CHUBRITZA spice. And the added meat on the top is not traditional. The traditional is pan fried, not baked as you tryed. So this is my advice to you: next time, find some Bulgarians to take you around the villages and towns in different regions of Bulgaria, but to people's homes, so you can try the original homemade dishes. This way you will be able to meet genuine Bulgarians and touch the real hidden treasures of Bulgaria.
Great video. Thank you!
In the beans it is actually parsley, we do not use cilantro as much we are more of a parsley type of people here. Glad to hear you enjoyed the dishes
Ahh that makes sense! It was a flavor I couldn’t quite place but still good ☺️ thank you!
Beans are usually cooked with spearmint in Bulgaria, but it could have been a combination with parsley as well.
The white bean soup does not have cilantro but a specific type of mint that grows only in the balkans
Absolutely! I am a big fan of BOB!
The salads are served with no oil or vinegar. But you should definetely add oil to the salad according your taste.
Thank you for giving our food a try and also thank you for deciding to visit our country!
We had a blast thank you for the kind words!
I hope you liked your last day here. Would love to see you come to Bulgaria again! Amazing content.
Thank you ❤️❤️ we will definitely be back we loved our 3 weeks so much!
Red sauce is a chilly powder, gently roasted in sunflower oil
Love the banitsa!
I love you guys. Thank you for the reviews. There is some misconception. Mish Mash is strictly vegetarian. NO meat. Musaka is turkish creation. Can be with potatoes or egg plant. Balkans were 500 years under aotoman empire. Greeks have many claims over food, but they have no true ones. They clam that shish kabab is greek food.❤ Sopska salad is one of the best in the world. The ones tourist try it they fell in love with it. Baniza has two versions. Baniza and Burek. Yogurt is the best for both. Try water bufalo yogurt, is better than ice cream. ❤
you guys are awesome, keep doing this!
Thanks so much!
❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing
Hi it's me again with the banitsa , airan and boza things. I saw you were drinking the boza after u eated a piece of the banitsa. U need to drink the boza or airan while the piece of the banitsa is still in ur mouth and chew it together then u will see how the magic happens. Thank you again for visiting our country hope u enjoyed it at max. Have fun around the world ! ❤
Hi im bulgarian and i really like that you enjoy it there.
Next time visit Plovdiv,hotly recommend!
Love these videos!
Aww thank you so much ❤️❤️
boza and iryan combined is a great recepy for stomach issues.🤭
Oh is this ‘Shtastlivetsa’ …: great ! ❤️
The next time you come to Bulgaria, write me, I will prepare you traditional Shopski dishes, as they were prepared in the past, and I will also show you the beautiful nature of the Rila mountain!
That would be wonderful thank you!!
Thank you for visiting Bulgaria and enjoying your stay!
Though, just for pronunciation (wouldn't wanna be that guy, sorry) Айрян (The milky yogurt drink) is pronounced airyan (open a like in "cat" AE)
Skembe' chorba' and Veli'ko Tu'rnovo (with the "u" substatuting the "ъ" sound)
Also I think in English it is pronounced bani'tsa, but in Bulgarian it's ba'nitsa. It's more up to preference and authenticity - you'd be understood if you said either of them
Other words in the gray area are as you said musa'ka, which in Bulgarian is musaka' and kacha'mak is kachama'k (as a general rule of thumb, most Bulgarian dishes with three or more syllables have an accent on the last vowel. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I can't think of any at the moment)
Hope you visit again! From Burgas❤
We don't put coriander in the beans, we put jojan.
great video guys !
Thank you ❤️
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The Belly Chorba is amazing :D
Adding the garlic and chili definitely made it more yummy 😋
15:53 Actually, you're right. My favorite type of kavarma is chicken kavarma in a pancake. Bulgarian pancakes are different from American ones, they are big and thin and look like a tortilla.
That sounds wonderful we have to try it 😍
Can I ask what the name for this in cyrillic would be so I can look for it next time I'm eating out please? :)
@@wanderwiththerese "Кавърма в палачинка", There are pork and chicken, but I personally prefer chicken, so "Пилешка кавърма в палачинка"...
I Like Veliko Tarnovo. In Serbia there are many delicious things to eat you can go there too.
We definitely want to visit!
The biggest mistake was, that when you both was in Rhodope mountain, you didn`t taste home made domestic (not from the shop) yogurt, especially from sheep milk...
It’s so hard!! We did go to a few local family restaurants tho ☺️
Even the Kavarma doesn't look like it should so yeah that restaurant wasn't traditional despite the setting. Awesome vlog tho!
Thanks so much! Yeah we definitely want to try it again more authentically ☺️
Cilantro?? Maybe it was djodjen.. (giozum) джоджен , гьозум as some people call it. Usually we put this one with a bean stew, not cilantro. Cilantro is basically almost non-existent in the Bulgarian cuisine.
That could explain its unique flavor!
If you appreciate the tommatoes in the city, your chin will drop if you somehow manage to find a trustable person to sell you tomatoes raised by some random granny in a village. Sometimes even village tomatoes aren't good so it's hard even for us locals to find good vegatables that actually have a taste and do not taste like plastic
This goes for about any vegatable and fruit you can think of. Sweet sweet watermelons and melons, peaches, apricots, white and red grapes, cucumbers, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries
And oh my, a farmed pig or а wild boar with all its parts used to make various sausages and dishes
The last one especially since i am such a fan of meat, brothers and sisters that thing makes your mouth and other things drool (sorry if that's too much 😂)
Mish mash is vegetarian dish, no sausages, and Musaka is just potato and mince meat, no tomato❗ Kachamak is Bulgarian mamaliga❗ But you don't try Cheverme or Drob Sarma❗ There is so many dishes in Bulgaria, the Mediterranean cousin come out from the Bulgaria❗
Did you have time to explore Ruse itself? What did you think :)
Sadly we didn’t get to see much but we drove through twice from the border and it looks beautiful!
@@TheAdventuringArtists That's too bad. You were actually right next to the city center, both the old and new one. The old one is now a small park surrounded by museums, and the new one with the spectacular architecture was just a 5 minute walk in the opposite direction. I should know because I pass by that restaurant on the way to work every day. :D
What bad about cilantro lol???
In Bulgaria if the girl can't cook Musaka it is a deal braker 😂
In Ruse you pronounce the e :)
Thx for the like
where are you from?
We are from USA.
@@TheAdventuringArtists are you thinking of coming to Bulgaria again?
Parsley, not cilantro
Makes sense just had a weird flavoring that made Maryssa think there could be a cilantro in it
I understand that you have never cooked beans, because the recipe is never with parsley! The spice for beans is spearmint, also known as garden mint or common mint, or lamb mint, etc, in Bulgarian we call it djodjen, or giozum. That is the spice that Ryss and Shaun confuse with cilantro.
People know cilantro when they taste it because it taste like soap
That sausage have no place in the mish-mash !
😂tasted really good! Also, it’s called mish mash doesn’t that kinda mean add what you want?
Sirene cheesе 😁😁😁😁
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@@TheAdventuringArtists Sirene in Bulgarian means cheese, so you actually say cheese cheese. This type of cheese translated into English is called white brine cheese.
I like my banitza with airan. Don't like boza at all. My hubby like boza a lot..But please try to pronounce the names of the items correctly. Just ask. U pretty much pronounced all foods wrong
Seriously? Give them a break. They did very well for newcomers to BG culture. Most bulgarians pronounce english words incorrectly or with heavy accent and they have practiced for years. I see it every time I go to BG and even the Bulgarians in the states pronounce english words funny.
Boza is the most disgusting bulgarian drink. I am 32 years old and have lived in Bulgaria all my life. I tried this crap once when I was a kid, and I haven't had it again since. Airyan on the other hand is great.
😂😂 you should try it again, it wasn’t that bad!
Actually, boza is not a Bulgarian drink. This drink, which is most often made from millet and rye (wheat) has a history of the 9th century BC from the region of Anatolia and Mesopotamia, today it is produced in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Tatarstan, Bashkiria and Romania, as in Romania it is called braga, and in all the rest it is called boza. Some people say that the best boza masters are in Albania. I personally don't think that the boza is disgusting when it is well made. On the other hand, didn't mom teach you that when a dish or drink doesn't match your personal taste, the most you can affort то say is that it tastes weird. A matter of upbringing.
А да ми ядеш уя ?
Защо да ям нещо,което не същесвува??