UKRAINIAN FOOD IS...(secret underground restaurant)

We are Karen Nate, we have been traveling the world full time for the last three and a half years and have had the opportunity to try local cuisine in over 90 countries. Wow, most of it has been incredibly delicious. It has been interesting. I never thought I would eat lamb vegetables and some just weren't for us. Do I have to eat my head? We are currently in our 94th country of Ukraine in the capital city of kyiv and today we are going to be Trying as much Ukrainian

food

as our stomach can handle, we have created a list of 11 traditional Ukrainian dishes that we have to try to prepare well to see how far We can get on the list because we have heard that the cuisine here is very heavy.

We're starting today's DIY

food

tour at a

restaurant

that has become our favorite this week while we were in Cube and we have lovingly referred to it as Grandma's House for multiple reasons, as soon as you walk in the door main smells like You can see grandma's cooking in the kitchen and you can literally see Ukrainian grandmas making dough by hand and what would be in your grandma's house that she decorated in the 80's and didn't update it. I'm pretty sure we could get all 11 things on our list at this

restaurant

. We've narrowed it down to four things on our goal, starting with Scott's okra.

I have no idea if I'm saying that correctly. I'm going to go ahead and apologize in advance for mispronouncing all the other things on this list, so this is what they call a summer shoe in Russia, but it's very popular in the summer in Ukraine because it's cold and based on yoga, it tastes like soup salad, it literally tastes like you're eating a salad in corn soup. I like all the things that The ass has onions, little pieces of chicken, celery, cucumber and dill, and then it's like the dressing. There are many variations of dumplings in this part of the world, they are all called different and they are all very similar.

I just ordered a loaf and what could be the national dish in Ukraine, it's not positive here, so we got some Bahraini legs stuffed with cabbage and mushrooms topped with caramelized onion and these beautiful pieces of fried pork and the freshly made skull rails in the kitchen. Seriously, it's the best thing I've put in my mouth since we got here. We actually had them in Poland too, but they call them pierogi, they're pretty much the same thing, so I like to make the perfect bite. with some of that salty, chewy, crispy bacon with the caroline onions for sweetness and then toss in the handmade joey with grandma's love dough with the tasty veggies inside.

Can you see someone salivating as if she's not talking? the best combination, let's relax, take another type of dumplings that we have seen on almost every menu is the police. These were originally in Russia and it was a way to store meat in the winter so they would make it raw and put the meat in. in the middle and then they put it in the snow so that it has some chicken paninis, we have some Siberians please and we have ordered them fried so that they are very crispy on the outside and like many dishes that we have found here in Ukraine it comes with a garnish of sour cream, they put it on top what a mystery I eat Polly at first, it doesn't matter what's in the middle, cold sour cream with hot crispy dumplings, you just can't go, our last dish is the famous borscht.

We first ate soup on the Trans-Siberian Railway, so it's something I've always associated with Russia, but apparently it actually originated here in Ukraine, so we had to try the country where the first part of this soup originated. dish that was a suit with beet broth and it's like everything turned red on the plate it doesn't look very appetizing it didn't sound very appetizing to me but it's something that I loved there are tons of onions beans potatoes some kind of meat good sausage yes , a sausage thank you, we have come around the corner to try one of the most famous street foods in Kiev, as I understand it, it is like a mix between a corn dog and a hot dog, but it smells like a donut, it is a yeast bun with a hot dog put inside and then fried all up into a steaming burger, the first bite tastes like a sugar-free donut, it seriously tastes like a sugar-free donut stuffed with an American hot dog.

I fancy the drinking culture is quite big here, there is a lot of vodka and this looks like exactly what you would want after a night of drinking a lot of drinks, just a guess. I don't know from experience. I really like the breath. sour yeast dough is rising a lot, look at yours, do you want it? Uh-huh okay and I can say okay, nice to meet you, nice to meet you, what just happened. I actually thought, oh, this is funny, he's giving me a thumbs up and then he had like a hammer in his hand.

I will not accept that goal. Oh, God, it's a good thing you don't like Hot Dog City, where he tried it anyway. I think his favorite part of the whole interaction was that he forced himself to hurt the girl he was with. She thought she would talk to him. I don't know how she didn't give him the microphone that I tried and he liked it. We just crossed the street to this restaurant that so many people told us to go to. Since everything costs 1 euro, none of these things are on our list. things to eat today, but everything was a euro and they only had 5 things on the menu, so we ordered 4 of the 5 things because the best thing was the hot dogs, which we just ate, we were a little scared that the guy with the hammer out to come in just kidding but it's actually a random menu it has some kind of appletini there's apple cider apple brandy apple pie and oysters I have no idea where they came from and it's your dollar and why not it's the Russian language what accompanies it this this is good it's like apple juice for adults I don't think you're really coming here this is like the best food ever I think it's more like a cheap fresh barrel of vine like the In the tables next to us we were going to get Kiev chicken and we've heard that the best place to get it is in Po Deal which is like old kyiv and is probably at least a 20 minute walk away which is probably a good thing we need. lose some calories and it feels amazing you appreciate that there is a party in the street civil things like the best days of being here I'm going to open it if you don't the meat was very hot when he put it on the table and then all this beautiful beautiful butter melted only but all this is called chicken kids and from what we understand they take a chicken fillet they pound it they roll it in cold water and then they separate it with rolled dill and they fry it how beautiful that is so good fried to perfection the dill and the bottom tips I'm savoring it a lot I really wish you two still had all the butter in there I hate it but it's still very good we're so sorry I'm really not the first one to make a mess like this that makes me feel better.

Part of my sadness was how disappointed our path was going to be when he saw the. I'm going to keep running and enjoying it, so I think I've discovered my new favorite. The food here in kyiv is called Sir Nietzsche and the cottage cheese pancakes after him. What I really love is that you can order salty or sweet, so like many things here in Ukraine, it comes with sour cream, but it also comes with a side of jam and that's my favorite way to go wrong with double sauce here, just imagine a cheesecake without a crust and then gooey in the pan and frying it on both sides until it's a little crispy and then dipping it is a challenge, that's what I'm eating right now and it's amazing who would put sour cream on it .

I would do it. I would eliminate those calories just doing this for you. Well, we started this adventure at lunch time. Now it's getting dark. We're not there or on the list yet. We don't throw in the towel. However, even though it's the US and I guess I like getting sad just walking around right now, this is a very heavy quiz. I'm pretty sure our next stop is the most popular place in town. Look at this line, well, I was there for a long time and then I made friends. with this really nice lady in her husband and she said we'll stay with them, she said we'd evaluate 40 minutes longer than ever and it turns out you can't actually order the drink we came here for when you're sitting at the table so now I'm downstairs and the husband, oh, I speak Ukrainian, and we're trying our drinks, so he fills it to the top and apparently you have to drink it so you can put the cherries in it is that, probably the lady worries here and I have to do both stuff, okay this restaurant is so cool we just can't use this traditional cherry liqueur we heard something we had no idea or upstairs is this really cool restaurant.

Oh, there is no summer where they draw a plate with a fork on the sauce on the table, which is a piece of paper. Some of everyone has these offers and they also drew some older things and you just see the sidewalk and our new friend is donated. is this card tests the ceiling those are the times you just can't land poor so I have no idea there are all these people I think are you in line are you in line? I read like uh huh like no one knows what I'm saying and then this angel came up to me and said are you asking who's last in line?

And I said yes and she said, go over there, tell them your name, they write it down on a piece of paper and I'm like, oh no. I don't know, but oh, like if you put your name on a list, turns out you only have to do that if you were eating, yeah, there were two separate lines, you're in the food line and then there's the bar where you get the drink. was the reason we came to the rest, that's the mistake I ever made because, when we finished dinner last night with our new friends, we already had the last two places we really wanted to go or close, but we saw that there were three left things. on the list, so now it's time for dinner, our stomachs are much emptier, we are going to finish what we started, we will not give up, so this place has also been one of our small opening places in kyiv, we have been calling. the Ukrainian MacDonald because it's a chain and we've seen them on every street it seems like it's called who's on the Hudson and it's so cheap this whole tray of food cost like five dollars their cafeteria style, let's use it, point to whatever you want and No. is wrong and the reason we came here is because it's on our list, it's called a knowledge sheet and it's pretty good.

The third thing here we thought, but instead of holding it like a normal crepe, they rolled it up and it looks like it has caramel in it. and chocolate drizzled on top and it's filled with something, I have no idea what that is and believe it or not, it's served with a side of sour cream, although it's sweet, great, it's really fair. I don't like candy lessons. the billing is really fruity but really wow but the strange room works strangely so we think our last stop in this whole food tour is located somewhere small but it is a speakeasy and we have heard that it is located in a

secret

floor and you I need a password and the password is Ukrainian, so we're going to have to do some fragmentation, it's not what it looks like.

More Tessie Proper Tessie in Seeger's apartment. Wow, you keep fighting and you're going to win or keep fighting, yes, exactly. Wow. Wow, I feel really uncomfortable. I don't know where to get it, like everyone knows what's going on. This is much more elegant than I expected. I thought we were entering a dark dungeon. We have been ordered to sit at the bar. Until now because you can't find a job for Anelka Wow I feel like it's very obvious that we are new here this is like the best thing when you take advantage or go to the wall with all the hands there are 72 hands which is the 72 years that Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and then once you go through that door you are in free Ukraine, this shows a lot of things on the wall, it shows that it is the kitchen, everything here is Ukrainian, like there are no foreign foods or drinks, like that which is great, all exciting up. and now we're back in the room now I just have to have the last two notebook items there okay so they didn't have deroun II but they did have Solow and they had this whole tray of local needs so Solow is nice .

Largely just pork fat, which sounds extremely unhealthy, but apparently here in Ukraine they really think it has a lot of health benefits. A little skeptical about it, but our waitress told me that if you eat alone, it's like 50%, so what you do is you take the bread and then you spread some horseradish on top, she said it was Ukrainian wasabi and then you stick the Solow on top and eat it all as one cohesive unit, uh oh, it burns so much I have no idea what it is like all it takes is horseradish. I shouldn't have known that he was a heavy, lumbering inspection horse;

It tastes like salty bacon, it's the closest thing I can compare to bacon with a really weird texture, not bad okay? I heard that the only way to accompany your solo is with what the waitress said, this was the best thing in all of Ukraine, sorry, outline, the key rhythms, food, mom, good mom, wow, that seemed like the best way appropriate way to end conversations about food

ukrainian

so close up and something else you've never seen before and make your own garlic bread so this jar is just butter a ton of garlic and dill and then we thought it was dinner it's actually going to be there like five minutes without have ordered before.

It was like a hot dog, like there was no sausage, it's like the most American hot dog. I'm pretty sure. An egg stop. Hey, when we first saw that she's like where you're from and we're like American cheese, like then. You are your best friend, it felt like that. We are famous, I can't believe how strong Ukrainian was even after the dumplings, the bread, the meat, everything we have eaten and I still feel it, don't you wonder if that's why Well? It already burns a better nose.