🇷🇴 TRYING TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN FOOD | SIGHISOARA FOOD TOUR | ROMANIA
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- Romanian food tour time!!. Romanian food is up there with the best but rarely gets a mention! Today we run through one of the most stunning towns we've seen in Romania (Sighișoara) and get to try a list of all the best local Romanian food, our list definitely became one of Must try Romanian food.
Trying to not be slowed down by the jaw-droppingly beautiful town, we try a delicious and traditional donut called a Papanasi (Papanași). Then head straight to lunch where we get to try Polenta for the first time as well as some more Mici (Mititei - Which we knew we loved before today) and some of the Romanian national dish or Sarmale!
We finish the day in a 500 year old cellar at 'Teos Cellar' and try a brandy with a recipe that's 300 years old! Thats older than the United States! Crazy.
We LOVED trying all these foods so thanks for watching along!
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Chapters:
00:00 - The beginning of the mission (And cats) let the sighisoara food tour begin!
01:50 - Papanași at Cafe Martini (cafe martini sighisoara)
04:12 - Polenta, Sarmale and Mici at Gasthaus Altepost Sighisoara
08:37 - 300 year old Brandy at Teo's Cellar (500 year old cellar in Sighisoara)
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Thanks for watching! What's your favourite Romanian food?!
Mai poftiti si la iarnă ...
Incercati piftia de porc , jumările , cirnatii ....etc .😋😋😋😘🥰
Mici and ciorba de burta
@@antontamas2070 😊🤗
Ciorba de burta , radauteana soup and more tasty food 🥰🥰🥰
@@nelutu6506 we did! So good! Got so confused when two came out but I guess that’s normal??
I have never been to Romania but the biggest RUclipsr who studies food named Mark says about Romania it is very tasty he is a food specialist
It is incredible food - completely understand where he is coming from!
The funny thing is that you guys did everything in reverse order: Usually when about to eat you take a shot of brandy to get you warmed up and prepare to burn all the fat from the meal, we say a shot of palinca/rachiu is ment to open up the appetite, then you eat the sarmale (which are either pickled cabbage or pickled grapevine leaves) and the polenta is not ment as a standalone meal, here we eat everything on either bread or polenta (is the old traditional way) usually if we see someone just eat their meal with no bread or not even polenta is really weird, and then at the end once the sarmale countered the burn from the brandy you eat the dessert which is the papanași. Oh well guess now you will have to do it all over again:)
We really wish we knew this before we ate it all, 😆you're right though, I guess we will need to do it all again! I'm up for papanași anytime!
without a bit of sour cream on top of the cabbage rolls, it doesn't taste 100% romanian
One portion of papanasi is made off of two papanasi. So if you order one, you get two. If you order two, you get four. :)
We only found this out after posting the video! Nobody has been able to give us a reason why that is though!? is it just a language thing? like Papanasi is a plural and there's another word for a single one?
@@JordanandEmily Yeah, papanasi is plural. Singular would be papanas. But the standard portion of papanasi is 2. To get only one would be half a portion. Usually, people get one portion, and they will share. 95% of all restaurants in Romania will serve 2 papanasi when you order one portion. It's just the way it is. It's not a language barrier. The same would happen if a Romanian would be ordering too. Very few will serve just one, but that one papanas would be bigger, so it's like getting two smaller ones. :)
I think it's because they don't want to waste the dough or something like that. Papanasi are always made on the spot. That's why you should order them in advance, right when you sit at the table and make your first order.
Some more Romanian food recommendations for you guys would be: bulz, salata de vinete, carne de la oala, fasole cu ciolan afumat. And then there are some other dishes that Romanians eat, but they are only served in Xmas time, like racitura or piftie. But just try the ones above. You'll love it.
I'm romanian living in Australia and quite often I make mici, which my family and friends enjoy very much. We also love making (and eating 😉) beef salad, meat ball soup, stuffed capsicums and pumpkin strudel.👌😋
Mmmmm sounds so good. This part of Europe has some incredible food. Should be in the discussion for best cuisines in the world in our opinion!
Polenta is not eaten by itself, it simply replaces bread. It has a bland taste, so its role is to accompany the main dish, namely sarmale.
Polenta can be eaten with cheese and sour cream (mămăligă cu brânză şi smântână). You can also try out "bulz de mămăligă", that is delicious as well.
oohhh that makes sense! we definitely tried polenta wrong 😂
@@JordanandEmily
You can also eat polenta with kefir, or milk if you need a light meal. It's good for digestion.
Well explained, Gabriela 👍
@@JordanandEmily You don't know what an amazing taste you missed :)), the polenta is just like the last step to heaven when eating sarmale :))))
You guessed the essence of Romanian food! It is a simple food that makes you think of the comfort of your home and the fire of the fireplace!
It is honestly amazing!! So comforting 😍🤤
Do you have any recommendations of things we missed??
@@JordanandEmily You can try peppers stuffed with sour cream, eggplant salad, zacusca, ram pastrami with polenta and if you get to the Danube Delta, I recommend storceag! Good appetite!
@@stanciuflorin5328 oooohhh sounds delicious 😋
@@JordanandEmily I would recommend you mamaliga(polenta) combined with cheese (branza de burduf) and cream (smantana). This is the usual sheperds meal. Very good!
@@JordanandEmily You missed tomatoe salad with fried eggs and cow cheese, it's the perfect breakfast, also meat ball soup(ciorba de perisoare), stomach cow soup(ciorba de burta), pepper filled with meat(ardei umplut).
you need to eat Polenta-Mamaliga together with Sarmale-Cabbage rolls, not separate, eventually you can put sour cream on Sarmale
like the Mici also who need bread and moustard!
also the Plum Brandy is preferable to drink with food (at the table)
Oooohhhh so we got the correct things we just didn't eat them with the right combinations or in the right order! Whoooopsies! That's a great excuse to go back and do it properly though 😄
Shut up,not everyone here eats Sarmale with Polenta🤣
@@kovacsfilip4513 da unii mănâncă și rahat simplu... după cum se vede mai sus...
Palenta is not to be eaten separately. It takes place of bread. You wouldn't eat just bread on its own. The same with palenta. So one bite of palenta, then one bite of sarmale.
Makes a lot more sense now haha, thank you!
@@JordanandEmily I am romanian and I eat sarmale with some bread 😄 ..so you can choose both versions. (with mămăligă or with bread / it depends on personal preference).
Somehow they forgot the sour cream.... 🤦🏻♂️
*polenta
Skip the big city traditional dishes, they tend to do them "stylish". Next time go to Maramures, or Bucovina and have a traditional feast there, in a random village. Actually, if you go to different regions, you will experience very different food recipes. There are specific dishes in Transilvania, specific in Oltenia, and all other historical regions. You will not find a same named dish exactly the same if you travel around the country. I reckon that you need some 1-2 months of intensive travel just to scratch the surface of our country. Thanks for visiting !
We absolutely agree, we though we were doing a decent trip with 2 weeks, but 2 months will be the time frame next time. There is SO much to see and eat!
Good idea about finding a traditional feast somewhere, that sounds great!
Papanasi is not regular fried or boiled donut. It is a dough with cheese, traditionally boiled, toped over with sour cream and jam. And yes, that food we eat mainly in the winter, we do it in the warmer seasons as well, but not that much. In the summer we are eating tons of bread spreads, cheese with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and young onion, fresh and light ciorbas. Palinca is present in every season 😂
I still think about the Papanasi 😅🤤
I like the calm, comfortable and wholesome sense of your videos. Also learning a lot about the European cities and their food that I'll be planning to visit sometime in my life!
Thank you so much!! We have LOVED trying all different food from the places we visit!
Your fascination for mămăliga (that’s the name of polenta) is just 😂😂😂 actually you eat sarmale(that stuffed cabbage) together with smântâna (sour cream) and polenta(mămăliga)
This comment has made us hungry again 😄 we definitely need to try all the Romanian foods again and eat them properly!
One portion of papanaşi is 2 papanaşi actually 😄
I've seen other foreigners order one plate and they couldn't finish it, they are very rich and hearty.
I find that so strange! is there a reason why Papanasi always comes in a set of two?
Definitely not complaining though, the ones we tried were delicious !
@@JordanandEmily Good question, maybe because when we make them we usually fry two of them in the pan. Also, the term itself is a plural, the singular would be "1 papanaş".
Fun fact, apparently the desert originated from food prepared for children, "papa" literally means "baby food". I do remember eating a lot of them in kindergarten (the light version, boiled, not fried).
@@JordanandEmily Because papanași have the aspect of boobies so they always come two of them....maybe😁
One portion of papanași means that You get 2 of them in the same plate ...the hostess didn't mistake anything ...and they put it in two plates this way You share the same portion ..i really don't think that You paid two papanași
Ooooh! No way!! that makes so much more sense 😂 we only ended up paying for one so we’re just so confused by the whole thing!
Thank you so much for letting us know 😊
@@JordanandEmily actually the portion of papanași is really big...most of the people can't eat both of them ...that's why usually they split the portion ...but they to this at the client request
One serving of papanasi is actually comprised of 2 pcs, 9 times out of 10. So, if you ordered 1 papanasi, the waiter got it right and she was also quite thoughtful bringing you two plates and two sets of cutlery.
We've only learnt that recently! So confusing for us hahaha what do you call it if you only want one!?
The mici are quite popular in Romania and can be eated during the whole year.. whenever you feel like wanting to eat some. They are easier to be cooked compared to sarmale. You can fry them either in sunflower oil OR (the more popular way) on the GRILL. They are always served with MUSTARD + some bread and I will also add a BEER (or at least something like a Cola if you want to avoid alcohol). 😁 But sometimes it can also depend from where you try them (some people make them better.. some.. less better 😄 Guess this is why it is important to try some foods at least 2 times and from different places / different cook or restaurant). 😁
Definitely add a beer! 🍻
Oh yes - we have found all foods can differ from place to place! Its also hard to say if we like something just because it was the first time we tried it
So much food, it’s great your trying all the different local cuisines. So many pussy cats and no puppy dogs, very cute and friendly. Stay safe, miss you both, love you, mum.xx 🐈⬛🐈
Love you miss you! X
Welcome to Romania,you make such a nice pair❤️.There are și Manu food tasty foods in our cuisine and some of my favorita are varză călită cu afumătură (fried cabbage with smoked pork) fasole cu ciolan(beans with pork),home made pork sausages, ciorbă de văcuță (bref sour soup) and many more...
Thank you so much! 😊
Those all sound great 😄 we loved so much of the food, scenery and people in Romania! Cannot wait to see more of it!!
I am glad you enjoyed visiting Romania! You are welcome anytime
Thank you so much! It was a dream trip! 😊
Guys, there is no portion of one papanași. When you ordered one, she brought you guys a single portion, which consists of two papanași. :)
We messed up haha! only learnd that Papanasi is a plural once we posted this video! Oh well, it was delicious!
Cabage rolls has to be mix in your mounth with polenta and sour cream. 🥰
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Thank you for your visit and beautiful videos! România has manny beautiful small villages, and i hope you will explore them all. Try Bucovina all the area so on. Delta Danube ,some amazing castlles..send you love from Bucharest! I hope you will have a nice stay in our country! God bless🥰🥰
We must get to the Danube! It's on our list for our return trip 😄
First time watching your videos. I've been watching some other Canadians that are currently in Romania too. Jetlag warriors. You have a very refined talent to present your vlogs. Very nice. How long are you staying in Romania? Maybe you'll have time to visit "Raven's nest"
Close but we are Australian! 😅
We aren’t in Romania anymore unfortunately - hope we can come back one day though because it was amazing!!
@@JordanandEmily Raven's nest is an amazing place and experience. For couples is even more so. I would recomand it
Hey guys ! Aussies are some of my favorite people ! So , 1 by 1 - Papanasi sometime are 2 to a serving , you should have asked in advance . And Cipaku is right , you started in reverse . You have to work out a hunger when you want to eat in Romania . Although we have to admit that Serbians are eating larger qty than us . A steak in Belgrade is around 400 grams ( 0.4 kg :-) ) . Polenta is not made in Romania from corn flour , this is a misconception done by many foreigners . Is made from grinded corn , which is not same thing . Grinded coffee is not coffee flour :-) That's why is yellowish . Regarding sour cream to top of sarmale , it can be too greasy sometime. I prefer 10% fat yoghurt , is "cutting "the pork meat in sarmale , but , well , I'm from Constanta , different tastes 🙂
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments! Give us more to think about when we get back to Romania one day! Which we will!
About the small glasses of brandy! The tradition is to drink the hole glass from one sip 😊. Glad you loved it!
But that Forrest one tasted so good! 😄 I guess we'd have to get multiple glasses to really have more of the flavour 😋
@@JordanandEmily yea, the forest one is more pleasant as it is more intended for women 😊
Yes, Romanian food is all comfort food! And so incredibly deliciousade witb high quality ingredients.
100% agree!! Super delicious! 😋
* * Amazing place to visit...FOOD and PEOPLE are FANTASTIC !
...BUT - you must love those flip-flops so much as you wear them EVERYWHERE ! * *
😄 we do! Such an amazing place to visit, your right!
You guys are amazing, really enjoying to watch your videos.
Thank you so much ☺️
You got a new follower! Keep it up🎉
Thank you so much!! ❤️
Very nice video thanks for showing our country
Thanks for watching! ☺️
Welcome to România you are a luky guy. Cuz you have a nice lady beside you
Very lucky! 😊 She's great!
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Thank you! 😊
You picked some restaurants that were quite expensive. You can eat even better in less expensive restaurants. Or, as other people suggested, in villages. If you befriend some locals, they will take you home and cook for you. Home-made traditional dishes are excellent.
Thats the dream! We should have tried to befriend more locals for sure. We still loved the food but abetted price for better traditional food would have made it unbeatable! 😋
Polenta is really nice and easy to make. You can get it here in Aus.
Just boil water, put polenta in a pot > pour the hot water in and turn the stove on > add one table spoon of salt and stir....😊 goes super nice with Greek yoghurt!
Ooohhh thanks for the tip!
The polenta it's not meant to be eaten by itself - it's bread correspondent made by corn. It is meant to be eaten with the cabbage rolls. :)
Haha lesson learned the hard way 😞 😄
Sighisoara is such a cute city. Hope you had fun in Romania! ✌🤙
A beautiful city with Beautiful animals and food! haha We had the best time in Romania, always thinking about a return trip!
7:58 Yeah.. the sarmale are usually very popular during the winter time (or during holidays likes Easter and especially during Christmas time). During Christmas for example.. MANY romanian families makes or have sarmale to be served (either for themselves or for guests too).
Oooh! Sounds so nice! They really are such a warming and comforting food!
My beautiful old town! I hope you like it.
We LOVED it! Such a stunning town 😍
''cold romanian winters ?'' :)) here in South West Romania we have sub mediteranean climate.
If it gets below freezing it's cold to us!! 😆
One portion of "papanasi" always has 2, so they brought what you ordered, but on 2 plates and you can both enjoy :) And yes, "sarmale" in cabbage rolls are better in the winter; they are usually quite greasy, so they are better in colder weather.
Hahaha we were a bit silly. But it worked in our favour, the papanasi was so good im glad there was enough for us both!
Hello! We are following your journey from
Perth WA and are enjoying your videos 💕. We are planning on travelling Europe ourselves for a year - or like you, till the money runs out… I like how you have added the money that you spend at the end of each video. Any chance of a break down of the costs e.g how much of your spend is accommodation, or food, or car hire?
Hello! Thanks so much for following!
And the short answer is yes 😄 we have all the numbers for every cent we've spent but are just figuring out the best way to show it!
Stay tuned! 😃 if theres anything you want to know specifically we are more than happy to answer that in the comments too!
Emily this is the 3rd video of Jordan and you that I've been watching and there is a pattern I'm seeing: all the cute animals come to you (dogs, cats, donkeys).
Are you sure your name is not Snow-white? :)
Oh gosh I wish!!! Hahaha I seek them out because they (clearly) bring me all the joy 🥹
winter season = sarmale season in romania ^^ its meat with rice stuffed into a pickled cabbage leaf :P u top that off with a hunk of smoked pork meat while it boils and u have magic ^^
Oh gosh - sounds so perfect!! I can't even imagine how warming it would be on a winters day ☺️
After SARMALE (two kind of sarmale: cabagge leaves or vine leaves-the best) try ARDEI UMPLUTI (stuffed peppers) with fresh green chili peppers. Is an amaizing dish. Single condition to drink a TZUICA/PALINCA before...
Stuffed peppers spund awesome. We will add it to the list for next time! We've not heard of Tzuica before! Is it alcoholic?
@@JordanandEmily Yes.. it is. Țuica in Romania is (kinda) like what Vodka is for russian people 😅
I stayed at the guy with the brandy a few years back. He also has rooms for rent in that house. Really nice place. Being a Romanian living in Romania, I'm sure to visit him again some time in the future. Nice videos, guys!
Thats so great! He was super nice and his brandy was simply amazing 😄 we will be returning when we come back to Romania!
Glad you liked our food. But as a Romanian, I would eat heavy pork based dishes during the cold weather, during summer we eat a lot of lighter meals, eggplant dip, light soups.
We need to get back to Romania in all the seasons to try a little bit of everything!
Cute cats 🐈⬛ 🐈
So cute! we never got tired of them 😆
Bravo ragazzi.
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The "Papanasi" you guys had, usually came 2 in one plate, so they split it for you, one each. 🙂
We so didn't realise this was a thing - love it though!
it seems that the biggest RUclipsr in America has done studies about Romanian food and it is the tastiest food in the world the biggest RUclipsr named Mark Wiens
Love Mark! And Romanian food is incredible!
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and the most appreciated food in Romania according to Mark the biggest RUclipsr is traditional food
Love this!
Sarmalele se mananca cu mamaliga inpreună .Mici se chiama acel carnat mic se maninca cu paine si mustar
The food is amazing!!!
How you do drive with wrong side steering wheel here in Romania? :)
He actually did amazing! Even with the car being a manual 😅
romanian food yummii
So good!
Polenta you don't judge it individually... it's like you'd have an oppinion about the white rice only in asian cooking. You are supposed to construct every single bite with a part of polenta and a part of the cabbage roll. Romanian can eat polenta with almost anything, even soup... In this sense it is seen more like a bread replacement, or noodles, or rice... it's carbs after all :-)
Ooh - that makes more sense! Thanks for letting us know
My advice: have sarmale with Romanian bread. Mamaliga is not meant to be eaten by itself, and even we, at home, prefer to serve sarmale with plain bread and (Romanian - I couldn’t stress this more) sourcream. Another word of advice: mamaliga is best prepared at home, with lots of other stuff in it.
We love sour cream and would honestly have it with most things! I think we need to try a few different places and options to get a real sense of Romanian food!
I happen to be married to a Romanian. Usually an order of Papanasi is 2, so they probably split them on 2 plates. Were you actually charged for 2 orders?
no we weren't! we were sooooo confused about this whole thing until the video posted 😅
Welcome to my Hometown.
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😄 we saw the house you were born in! Nice corner house, congrats 👏
@@JordanandEmily Long Time ago 🤗
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That.s my land you make me hungry i mist my land Greeting from Autria
How good is the food!
Is Austrian food good? We haven't made it there yet!
You must try Savarina,it's the best dessert
OMG how are we only hearing about this now!! that looks incredible!!
They also have room to rent. I stay few years ago.
That would have been pretty cool, so close to all that history!
1 portion of papanasi consists of 2 pieces. So you ordered 1 portion, they just split the portion on 2 plates for you.
Makes a lot of sense 😄
I guess that you did not know that a portion of papanasi in romania is always made of 2 donuts. so what you bought there was just a portion split for 2 people.
We only learnt after 😄 really not complaining though, they were incredible!!
Papanasi always comes in two i think
I think you're right!
we got a bit confused
They ordered one mic :)))
Haha our mistake!
hi, if you two come can giuoc town? you can buy for me 1 cooffe tree ( 15000vn/ 1 tree), 1 green tea tree ( 35000vnd/1 tree)? i want grown tree at home? in gardent small?thanks
That's a great deal!
@@JordanandEmily i am not microscop ? to see ecoli bacteria?
@@chinhtai9792 not ecoli, only acoli, bcoli and zcoli. Microscopes big.
@@JordanandEmily you see chicken can not breath yet?
Did no one tell you you eat mici with hands not with fork and knife? 😂
Really?!
@@JordanandEmily no kidding, you’d get laughed at in 99% of Romania. 😄
That papanasi has 3k calories 😂😂that's why taste that good 😂😂
Hahaha 😄 that'll do it!!
And speaking of sarmale , you tried in wrong region. Transylvanians will hate me , but they don't know what they do , so they will be forgiven. My grandmother was from Arges and moved to Dobrogea as a kid. She was later paid to cook sarmale for weddings , like 200-300 servings , so you imagine they did not pay her for nothing. My father is cooking sarmale by her recipe ( she passed away long time ago ) and everybody , I mean everybody , that tasted my father's sarmale said they are the best they ever have ever ate.
Pretty good videos. Jealous of your lifestyle.
Thanks for the compliment!
I do not find expensive 5 euro is home made desert and elaborated
I see!
Polenta is not meant to be eaten alone. Its meant to be eaten together with other foods, as a replacement for bread. Alone it doesn't taste much but bread alone also doesnt taste much... together with sarmale though.... they are a unseparable. You cannot eat sarmale without polenta.... its like eating mici without mustard! A crime against humanity! 😂😂😂
We are genuinely upset we didnt know this when we were eating it 😄
Makes a lot of sense that it's supposed to be eaten with other things. Next time we come to Romania we will definitely do it properly!
The forest fruit liqueur that you drank, is not that special. Its simple plum brandy poured over a bottle half filled with forest fruits and some sugar. after 2, 3 month, fruits start to disintegrate inside, sugar its diluted, and that's all.
really? he made it seem like the recipe was hundreds of years old!
@@JordanandEmily Possible for the recipe for brandy. Romanians dont make hard liqueurs from cereals. NEVER. Also brandy its something else, distilled wine. What you guys drink, its called Palinca ,Tuica or Horinca. If you vizit Transilvania, Maramures or Moldova , its called diffrent. Basically its the same thing, but diffrent fruits used. From what I heard, there is a guy, very passionate about this craft, who supplies Royal House from UK with such treats.
@@andreipascal7967 ooohhhhh i see - ges a bit confusing with all the different types and names! haha
First of all, Papanasi are not doughnuts. The dough from which they are prepared contains sweet cheese, sour cream does not mean that it is sour like a lemon, it is only slightly fermented and has natural bacteria. A PORTION of Papanasi means 2 pieces. MAMALIGA is never eaten by it self , Italians put cheese or something in it, Sarmalele are not an easy kind of food, and in most houses they are eaten with onions, hot peppers and sour cream of your choice, no, it does not resemble anything VIETNAMESE .
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