As a romanian I'm amazed how similar the bulgarian dishes are with ours. Love BG from RO ! 🇷🇴❤️🇧🇬

A simple guide: 1. Kebab is not the same as kebabche 2. Kebabche is similar to a meatball with a different shape and using different spices. 3. Meatballs and Kebabche are usually not chicken. It's pork, beef, or a mix of the two so you kind of need to ask what it is to know precisely :D 4. Meatballs and Kebabche are both something you'd want to eat with this Bulgarian dip called Lyutenitsa (not sure if there's a correct way to spell this word in English). They offered you that dip but you missed it, which is kind of sad. It's sort of like ketchup, but tastes very different and most people prefer it over ketchup. It's often homemade. 5. The Boza is one of those things that you either love or hate. It's something you usually drink with banitsa. If you don't like it (like me for example), the perfect drinkable addition to the banitsa is Airan (pronounced "I ran") which is a simple drink made with yogurt, water, and salt. So, basically, Airan is like a simplified version of Tarator. 6. The Shopska salad is something that every place makes its own version of, so you need to try it in different restaurants and pick your favorite. The dressing is in the form of oil and vinegar. Sometimes salt as well, but in most cases the cheese should be salty enough for the whole salad 7. VERY IMPORTANT! You often eat out, in places that offer food outside, unlike actual restaurants. This is great for a quick bite but you don't always get the best version of the dish you're trying. So, I recommend you try actual restaurants as well :) 8. There are different kinds of that cheese in the Shopska salad. All have slightly different flavors, textures, and moisture so you'd want to go to a cheese store and try a few types. 9. Shopska salad is not always served with cheese sprinkled over it (as you saw). That's because some people like the cheese in the form of a block (like the one you got) and they decide how much of it they want with each bite. 10. Note: Tarator is not really a soup. It's called a soup because it's easier to explain but most people don't think of it as a soup, it's more like its own thing :D 11. The stuffed peppers also have a version with different kinds of meat. You might want to try and pick whichever suits your flavor 12. Musaka is something you want to eat with yogurt. I know... every Bulgarian dish you eat with yogurt, but this one is meant to be eaten that way. 13. Sarmi - same deal like with musaka. Meant to be eaten with yogurt. Both dishes without yogurt are good as well but incomplete. 14. Finally, Rakia is something that many people have a homemade version of. It's a drink that you can make using all kinds of fruits: grape is the most common one, apple, peach, apricot, pear, quince many more! It's often on the menu but you don't need to be a tourist to get a free cup on the open market for example. 15. Honorable mention is that grapes are also often used by people to make their own wine. That's it from me! I apologize for the giant comment but I hope this can help anyone coming to Bulgaria with high hopes for a good meal!

I'm very glad that you are showing one of the most underrated country in Europe which has the best nature , best rivers , lakes , mountains, food , bars , people who are warm , and a country with one of the most dramatic and colourful history in the World ! Thank you ! ❤

I am Romanian. Amazing food. Lots of my favorite childhood food right there: musaca, stuffed peppers with yogurt, sarmale wrapped in grape leaves. I eat a lot of tomatoes and cheese, I would just steal your national food/salad and run away with it. Its amazing that it can still be found everywhere in Bulgaria normal yogurt and cheese, in Romania not so much anymore, just the supermarket thingies. The first thing I learned about Bulgaria and not shown in the video are the famous Bulgarian PICKLES. Where are the PICKLES? In my house, I have 2 traits: I do not eat steak with pickles, I eat a whole jar of pickles with a steak. And I do not eat food with yogurt, I eat 1 kilogram of yogurt with 1-2 stuffed peppers/ grape leaves sarmale.

Bulgaria is one of these countries that I feel gets minimal attention overseas, but is severely under-rated. Everything looks so good and natural. It feels like a hybrid of Greek, Turkish and Eastern European food. I have only heard before a little bit about the yoghurt and salamis but had no idea until u visited the supermarket and was blown away by the variety and choices they have. All the food you have had at the restaurants looks so so good especially the cafeteria style one. It is now on my bucket list of places to visit for sure!

The thing about the boza is not to drink it like this, but to combine it with the banitza. The sweetness of the boza matches perfectly the saltiness of the cheese in the banitza.

Shopska salad-cheese, cucumber, tomato is like the flag of Bulgaria - white, green, red.

I'm Bulgarian. I'm glad to see you happy with our food

България ❤ Всичко родно е прекрасно...❤

Like а Bulgarian I can say that these meals are the most typical for Bulgarian people and we cook them in almost every home. I am glad that you enjoyed so much! Our kitchen is simple, practical, with good ingredients and in my opinion very delicious ❤

Добре дошли в България, мили хора! Радвам се, че българската кухня ви е харесала!❤

Love Bulgaria from Ro ❤ I feel so good everytime I go to their amazing country ❤

Greetings from Bulgaria! We love to see that people enjoy our food!

In Bulgaria we eat everything with yogurt - musaca, stuffed peppers, different salads, tarator - which is cold soup with yogurt, water, salt, garlic, parsley, cucumbers and sometimes nuts, also airan - which is again yogurt with water and salt and is good with banitsa or for hangover 😂 We have a our own bacteria (lactobacillus bulgaricus) which is found only in this region and thats why we are so proud with our sour yogurt 😀. I remember when i was young my grandmothers had goats and sheep and they were making tons of yogurt every year...good times.

Kudos to you guys, for making the effort to learn and showcase our craft and cuisine for the world to see! Greetings from Bulgaria, to you , and to our dear Romanian friends!

As a Bulgarian to see how much you enjoy the regular food we have here on a daily basis is kind of eye-opening. Even the simpliest things one should not take for granted.

Whoever suggested Контеса restaurant (with the tripe soup) really wanted you to experience authentic bulgarian tavern, and they cook really well there. So happy you enjoyed the soup :)

I only visited the Bulgarian seaside and Veliko Tirnovo, but I got impressed with their stews (kavarma and kuvech, I know, the last one is called guvec in Turkish, but, as the Romanians, the Bulgarians put pork meat in the original recipe), they are so... comfort food, reminding you of you granny's food. At least for a Romanian granny :)) The cow's tongue is a great dish, too. Excellent with a tomato sauce aand black olives in the oven, mmm... The tripe ciorba contest is like choosing what's better, kebab, shawarma or gyros, they're simmilar but different and all good, depending on your taste. Of course, in the meatball on a grill sausage, Romanian mici wins by far :P I guess the balkan cuisine is like the history of the whole region, a melting pot full of flavors, from afar the same, but yet so different. I just want to end with two funny Romanian sayings: Boza (a drink which used to be popular in Romania at the beginning of the 20th century (on a Albanian tradition, or aromanian, as far as I know) is called Braga. The saying for something really cheap is "cheap as braga" (ieftin ca braga). Also, when you had too much to drink the night before, in Romanian the next day you have "a head like a banitza", possibly big and round :)) Have fun in Bulgaria, it's a very beautiful country, very green, with kind people, if you have a little patience to get to their hearts!

Fun fact is we bulgarians eat shkembe chorba + beer morning after hard drunken night and after that and then we feel like a 6 stars 😂🤣 . Thanks for video u are amazing guys . Enjoy 🤩😍

This is my favorite video about our national cuisine EVER! You two are so sweet, so humble people, who appreciate every single thing, even the small things... you are so kind, nice and open to try new things! I absolutely love you and your videos!

If you think our spring tomatoes are good, the once that we have in August will blow your minds 😂

Bulgarian yogurt is the only yogurt that contain starter bacteria "Bacillus Bulgaricus" (thus the name) which gives unique taste, and it's, if not number 1, then top 3 foods Bulgaria is most proud of. Other than that, you have noted cleverly that we also love cheese, sweet pepper and dill :) ps - Be sure to visit the Tsarevets Fortress while in Veliko Tarnovo.

The place where you ate the tripe soup is one of the best places for tripe soup in Sofia. Also I love how you immediately did the most bulgarian thing, putting lots of garlic and vinegar in it :D. Only thing missing is dipping bread in it, that specific pub serves homemade bread.

Undoubtedly, one of the BEST and fun videos about Bulgarian food. Your reactions are priceless and Ivana should have Balkan ancestry, she understands quite well 😁Thank you for visiting and promoting our country and cuisine, lovely couple 😘Hopefully you return to discover the 7 Rila lakes and monastery, Bansko, Plovdiv, Burgas and Nesebar.

Само като гледам ме събаря носталгията bg forever 🇧🇬♥️

OMG YOUR BOZA IMPRESSIONS! JUST LOVE YOUR FOOD REACTIONS GUYS - GLAD YOU LIKED EVERYTHING!!! CHEERS 🥃

I'm a bulgarian living in China...You make me so homesick. I'm actually flying home next Sunday! ;) And I'm from around Veliko Tarnovo, been in the last restaurant many times haha

It's always nice to see people enjoying our food. Greetings from Bulgaria! 😊

I'm glad you like Bulgarian food! Stay healthy both of you! ❤️

Bulgarian food is one of the best European food, very tasty, with variety of dishes and fresh vegetables.

Big thumbs up for your great vlogs guys, this is awesome! Also, cheers to our bulgarian and serbian neighbours for their foods, we all share the same turkish roots but with different twists. I will come to visit Bulgaria at one point for sure, love from Romania!

To be fair, the place you had Bulgarian Shkembe Chorba is probably one of the top 5 places to have that. They make it really, really good, so you didn't do dirty on our Romanian brothers ;) Also, trying traditional restaurants, next time when you're in Sofia, try out "Moma" or "Mamin Koliu" restaurants. Just know that no restaurant cooks traditional Bulgarian like Bulgarians home cook it. You will only taste true Shpska Salad if a Bulgarian Babushka makes it for you ;)

Thanks for the video guys. Flying to Sofia next Friday 😊. Going to spend a week in the Bulgarian country side where everything is homemade. I am Bulgarian so kind of know my way around the kitchen 😅. Hope that we manage to keep it real for the future generations too. Cheers for the relaxing video. Keep up the good work!

You now must try the tripe soup from all over the world!!!! It’s also common in Asia, with different style. Bulgarian food looks delicious. I’d like to try one day.

Yogurt in Bulgaria is different because we invented it. And we are very proud with it. I was searching for this comment 😅

We have joke in Bulgaria about balkan food. A stake is given to the balkan people. Turks put sugar on it. Greeks put olive oil on it. Bulgaria put cheese on it. And the Serbs put on another stake😂😂 So just get food with cheese/ dairy in Bulgaria and you will be fine. Loving your videos of my country ❤️

it would've been so cool if you had a local bulgarian to guide you towards the traditional, historical and cultural stuff, i bet you'd find it so interesting! Also about the food and alcohol, you need to know about its history haha I appreciate the way you two are so respectful and interested in every country you visit, amazing!

I’m from Bulgaria, and I’m glad to see you how eating our food! ❤ The best of our culture is the greatest food! You missed to try “milk with rice and cinnamon”, “tikvenik” (sweet banitsa), “kartofeni kufteta” (potatoes balls), “sarmi s kiselo zele”, “Panaguyrski eegs”... We die for our traditional food❤❤❤😊

Greetings from bulgaria too! The food you choosed to eat are my favorite and thank you for enjoying our food and visiting our country

КОНТЕСА is one of the best hidden neighbourly restaurants in Sofia. The food is absolutely delicious and they offer home made RAKIA from quince.

25:10 they gave you a vinegar with garlic and chili to put it in your shkembe soup! Greatings from Vratsa one of the most beautiful small towns in Bulgaria!🇧🇬

I am so glad you guys are appreciating all these foods. You can see just how similar the foods are in this part of the world but every country adds their own stuff. I hate like half the foods you tried in this video, but I am glad you have the stomach to try them.

I'm Serbian and every time I watch your guys blogs and makes me hungry for my mom's cooking LOL

I must admit - it is really an ultimate BG food tour. I am impressed.

Bulgaria is the best place in the world!

You guys are so respectful and curious, It made me wish I was your guide

Thank you for sharing this amazing video with us. I miss my country and i am happy to see it even on you tube Chanel. You're both perfect in every way :the way you comment the traditional food, the way you describe it, the way you joke... You re just an amazing couple!!! Thank you❤

Thank you for the honest and great review of our country's food!

България❤моята родина,липсва ми много😢🇧🇬❤

So impressed that you found the right food to eat and even went beyond my expectations and tried the tripe soup (shkembe chorba) or pork knuckles, something I've never eaten.

I'm genuinely happy to see that you've enjoyed our foods! Please, feel welcome to come back again! Our traditional food is truly amazing! Thank you for this video, you guys~

IN Bulgaria we says if the bottle is from coca colla and the cap is from fanta inside is rakia

Finally in my beautiful home country!! I hope you had a great time :))

Hey guys, looking at you tasting Mousaka and Sarmi WITHOUT yogurt is properly hurting my soul. Nice videos, I'm so happy you liked it here.

I am so pleased to see that foreigners like our Bulgarian food. I now live in England and you can't eat anything tasty here. I miss Bulgarian food and Bulgaria

Amazing Bulgaria , the food is delicious! ❤

The difference between the two bottles of boza is that one is with sugar, one is with sweetners.

You are right...Boza was traditionally a meal replacement! It is a very healthy probiotic drink! At the kebap place you had pavlaka, which is Serbian!

I am very happy, you loved most of the dishes. Thanks for sharing your experience and you are always welcome to come back.

Баница и боза - the clasik bulgerian breckfast

Bulgaria, lots of love from Romania....

This is a very good food video. I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to trying your recommendations.

Now that vlog was EPIC😂 From your natural reactions and emotions while tasting the dishes to your smiles. You did a great job. Good content. Thumbs up from me !😊

Great video! Really appreciate the how respectful you are to the different culture and happy to see that you like our cuisine! Greetings from Bulgaria :)

Oh I'm so glad you're trying the bosa, we grew up with it and banitza for breakfast. Yeah lol "liquid breakfast" is a good definition because the ingredients with fermented rye or wheat. The difference between the red and orange labels were that the orange one had sugar, the other had sweetener. The store should have explained this to you, its written on the label. I hope it was tasty, because I haven't tried this brand, not all of them are good. :) About kebabche haha is not like turkish, because ours are from pork, but yes Balcan food is very mixed, we influence each other, but nevertheless, each country has its own specifics

Some dishes of Bulgarian cuisine are similar with turkish cuisine but we changed jt little bit. Added some Bulgaria ln vibe in them :) Mostly of Bulgarian food is different than turkish one. :) Kebapche is different than Kebap. Its not same. Shopska salad is absolutely traditional Bulgarian salad. We created that in 50s during the commnism period in Bulgaria :) and we are so proud of this salad 🥰 The rakia that you got is home made 😅 of rakia is not in original bottle, its 100% home made. The cheese is also home made. It looks different than cheese in supermarket. This ladies didnt lie you. The gave you very high quality of food :)

QUICK TIP: For those who are going to try the Banitsa with Boza, you have to eat them basically together. First you eat the banitsa and you can take a small sip of the Boza, or just wait until you are about to finish with the bite, and then drink a bit more of the Boza! This is how you enjoy those two!

You guys filled my heart with happiness. I'm from Veliko Tarnovo but i live abroad and the places you visited and showed in your video brought me so many good memories. I really miss my hometown. Thank you for bringing me back home 🙏🏻🇧🇬❤️

As a Romanian : Ciorbe , borș and soups The difference between ciorbe and borș on the one hand and soups on the other is that ciorbe and borș are sour whereas soups aren't. The Iskembe çorba (turkish) ot Ciorbă de burtă(Romanian) is typically eaten slightly sour and vinegar very iften used for that. For borș variety there exist a liquid called borș which is a naturally sour and is made out of fermented grain.

They're really into healthy food, it seems. That banitsa reminds me our "pastel" here in Brazil

I would rarely write comments, and I'm just gonna say you did an amazing job with the video it's super natural. Just superb stuff. Honestly, the thing that made me do my input tho is how this video ends where you said "The former capital of the Second Bulgarian empire"! Brilliant, Keep the them videos coming guys, you rock!

That restaurant was situated in a beautiful town with an amazing view. The beef tongue would taste so good between 2 pieces of fresh crusty bread 🍞 . Steve you’re getting more adventurous with food 🎉🙏👍🏽. Nice T-shirt 🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁🍁

All of these dishes looked amazing! 😮

Greetings from Bulgaria, its my 1st video of yours . actually on half the video, so happy to watch you guys enjoying the food, actually doing an amazing orders ! i would like to see you order MUSAKA with yogurt ofc. Thanks for the video you fullfill my hearth . aaaand dont forget to try homemade wine

Very nice job, guys! This is a true food presentation with a good choice of everyday foods eaten by the bulgarians. Real classics, a must when you visit Bulgaria 😊

Place is called Veliko Trnovo & the Bulgarian food is great 👍 u guys enjoyed keep up with the great vids..

Interesting how you hit the mark every time you eat an unfamiliar food, and you eat it just like us. You also hit on the spices of the tripe soup, as well as the rice for the kavarma, we always put a ball of rice in the kavarma plate. :)

Home-made Bulgarian kyofte and kebabche are usually made of a mix of pork and beef, but there is a chicken variety, too. In some restaurants, you can find purely beef or purely pork ones, but they're usually noted as such. The store-bought minced meat, especially the cheap one, can often be a mix of chicken, pork, and soy, so my best guess is that the cheap off-the-shelf kyofte and kebabche are made of that.

Oh man, did you get me salivating big time😂 Glad you guys appreciate good food.

Nice filming and video,bravo 👍👏😊

Kofte is usually mixed minced pork and beef onion and spices Kebabche is pure pork minced and predominant spice in it is cumin

I like the places you have chosen, they indeed are authentic, kudos! I didn't know all them to be honest, even as a local :)) In general, our cuisine indeed has a lot of fresh seasonal ingredients and veggies, which I love. Bulgarian musaka has potatoes, carrots, minced meat, tomatoes, and the topping is made from eggs an yogurt (which we call sour milk actually)

Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

Welcome back ! 😊

Hi guys :) thank you for showing my country :) god bless you 💞🙏 You need to go to the country side to find the best jems on food culture :) dont miss it

2:30 boza is "kid's beer". Back up to the late 80s it was the number one drink for kids (lack of alternatives?😅)... The legend says breast grow from boza consumption... Slang for breasts is boz-ki...

I’m really glad you liked our food and there is a lot more to try

Hello, Have a nice day.Best regards, Janusz from Warsaw Poland 💪🇵🇱

I am glad you are enjoying our food guys!

Excellent wine is produced in Bulgaria. You have to try it.

As a Bulgarian, I cannot imagine a world without tarator or yogurt for that matter. We use yogurt in a lot of our recipes now when I think about it. Either as a main ingredient or as garnish. On the topic of the taste 37:47, I think it's because our yogurt is more sour in taste, which gives that additional flavor

I'm Bulgarian living abroad and I am salivating watching this video. You've made me hungry for all the food I can only have like twice a year :D Especially loved your comment about it being "heavy in a light way" because we use real and fresh ingredients. Yes, dairy is prevalent in a lot of our dishes.

Very nice food tour of Bulgaria, also that pink top looks very good on you Y

At the end in Veliko Tarnovo, the only thing you’ve been missing is yogurt on top of the musaka and sarma 🤭

Hey guys, love your videos. Not even sure I came up to your channel but you got 5 stars ***** from me ! Thanks for covering our part of the world and our beautiful country!

Hi guys! Thanks for shooting this nice video! 🙏🏼🌹🇧🇬You did one mistake though- the filled grape leaves and the musaka are to enjoy with Joghurt 😉 try it out next time! Cheers!

Next time try tarator with walnuts and garlic. Also you have to try bread with butter and sharena sol mmmmm so good. All the other food reminds me of my childhood yum yum yum.

Hey guys, a Bulgarian girl here. I love your video 😊

as a Bulgarian im really happy you guys enjoy our food :D

Boza is one of Bulgaria's traditional drinks like the Airian. They are the two most common. It can be non or just a tiny bit fermented drink with mixed alcoholic-lactic fermentation of flour and oats like you said. But it's not really a meal replacement. Most commonly with a breakfast like a banica. BTW you must try Airian its amazing!