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I was 7-8 years ago at " Gura Portiței" in front is the Black Sea and behind is the Danube Delta. I ate everything shown in the video cooked by the locals and it was something unique and delicious. Thanks for the reaction and have a great day 👍🏼

Romania has a lot of influences in its cuisine, but they have their own twist on food. We are great gourmands and love to eat good food. We love soups and sour soups (in fact we like sour savoury foods more that sweet foods, like for example our Hungarian neighbours). We have Ottoman, Greek, Austro-Hungarian, French, Balkan influences in our cuisine, and now we get Italian influences, Asian influences... About fish, although we have a border on the Black Sea, most of our fish is river fish, like trout, Danube carp, Danube sturgeons, catfish, mackerel. Freshly caught wild trout tastes divine. Our carp has sweet meat and we fry it covered in maize grit; or we grill it and cover it with grilled red peppers, onions, tomatoes, other grilled vegetables and hot salted water and crushed garlic. We call this saramura and we eat it with polenta. About onion: yellow ones are for cooking, to eat raw one used red onions or white "water" onions as we call them, that are sweeter and not that pungent.

Thank you Mr. Giant for reacting to another Romania video. The song in the beginning is Russian. Those are Lipovan people who left the Russian Empire because of religious persecution and settled here. Very nice people, very nice culture. I had the chance of seeing them with my own eyes a couple of times. The food has various influences depending on the region. In the West we have foods like Gulash which is Hungarian, in the South we have foods like Musaca which is Turkish or Greek (depending who you ask).

Yes, in the Danube Delta area also live Ukrainians, Russians, Turkish and Tatars ....thus the recipes there are a mixture of all these cultures

After passing the city of Galatzi at Cotul Pisicii the Danube separates in 3 arms in its flow towards the Black Sea. They form a perfect greek D delta shape a triangle!, so the name Delta !!

Hi my friend! I’m Romanian so let me explain a few things 1) he was smashing red onions. Onions are better smashed than cut 2) we like to drink this traditional home made drink called Palincă/Rakia 3) we love garlic and onions 4) soup and ciorbă (sour soup) is our favorite food specially in the winter 5) good restaurants use to have live traditional music and dancers 6) we like lemon, lime is too sweet

The beauty of the Danube Delta is that's where the Danube meets the Black Sea, so you get both sweet water and salt water fish in the area close to the sea.

200years ago, some russians comunities (hundreds of russians) run and hide in the Danube Delta due to the war politic of the Tzar as they were looking for a peaceful life. They live in the Delta since, preserving their culture and language while they are also well integrated to the country. Is an act of culture display every time you go to the Delta as they will enchant you with their beautiful songs, outfits, dances.

Mr Giant, I enjoy your deep way of thinking. Your are natural. God bless you sir.

We eat mostly River fishes,and some ocean and sea fishes.we love to eat it

Gracias por los vídeos de mi país .Estoy del Delta del Danubio la tierra más joven y más bonita por mi .❤

5:36 yes, Romanian cuisine is sort of a fusion of many local influences, Russian and Ukranian in the East and South East Romania ( especially in the Danube Delta, where there's a sizable Russian community ), Greek and Turkish in the South, German and Hungarian in the West, lots of influences from the wider Balkan penninsula that Romania is a part of, and even French influences owed to Romania's strong cultural affiliation with France at the turn of the 20st century. The food is great what with so many influences, it really needs to be tasted to be believed :)

We Romanians, like to share kitchen recipes with our neighbors, in this case the dishes cooked there are influenced by our neighbors from the N-E, the Ukrainians, whose community you will find in this video, when folk music from Ukraine will be played. Edit: Yes, you're right...mostly is river fish. One of my favorite is the carp and above this...the crucian carp, with the unique sweet taste. Bon appetite. 😜😜

We love you Mr.Giant greetings from România 💙💛❤️

18:31 it is red onion, have sweet taste than regular one. Cuisine în Delta Danube is: romanian cuisine, ucrainean-rusian cuisine (lipoveni) . And yes in Romania drink is high, first 10-15 places in world. If you want more documentary about romanian culture, food etc. Watch youtube channel Free documentary -> playlist -> Wild Carpathia by Charley Ottley with King Charles of UK.

Eggplant salad is great and caviar salad is marvelous.

România fishing and fish food in Danube Delta 🇷🇴❤ ! I am Romanian 🇷🇴🎣 !

Throughtout my childhood/ teenage years by the banks of the Danube, we've always made a bbq when going out fishing. We sometimes went camping and even dived for mussels and crayfish.

In terms of purchased alcohol we are ranking among the top. What the ranking doesn't count is the home-made liquors and wine. We like to drink but just enough to have a good time, not to fall under the table.

I learned in school that sturgeon fishing was permanently banned in Romania, especially because the 3 species of rare sturgeons that are sought after reproduce only once every 15-20 years, so caviar here was always imported, not local. Apparently, this rule has changed by the time Mark visited the Danube Delta and had the rare occasion of eating sturgeon. The good news is that Romania voted back the permanent ban in 2021. It's illegal to fish sturgeons again.

2:18 I totally get what you mean, overcast rainy days somehow tend to give you a sense of calm and inner peace, it's like an opportunity to slow down and chill

Romania has a lot of culinary influences, especially Turkish, since the Ottoman Empire was present for a lot of centuries here, but we also have Serbian, Hungarian and eastern slavic culinary influences.

We are waiting for you in Romania my friend hope you will have the best experience

Lipovenii noștri ,buni oameni veseli

Hi again man. I see now your vlog from Danube delta. I want to tell you that there are thousands of types of river fish, but also from Bkack Sea, because the Danube delta comes into contact with the Black Sea. Also, there are thousands of fish dishes in România, with influences from ukrainian, turkish and greek cuisine. The war in Ukraine is miles away, but people go on with their lives. There are many fishing villages there, and people live from fishing and tourism. The Danube delta is protected by UNESCO, but turism can be done in some places. There are thousands of unique types of fish and birds. The fish soup ( ciorba de pește) from the Danube delta is one of the best in the world. People drink a lot in eastern Europe, especially fruit drink ( plums, apples, pears ) distilled twice, at 50-60 degrees. Yes, we Romanians have manage to preserve our traditions and way of life in the countryside. There are many minorities in România, and in the Danube delta too ( romanians, ukrainians, lipovians, tatars ). What you see is the Lipovian minority, wich is a mixture of Slavic people and who live in the eastern part of the Danube delta. I told you once, that you are welcome in Romania. Respectly, Cristian

Did you notice that Romania is shaped like a fish? 😊

There are all kind of soups and borsh. The borsh is made with something 100% romanian a liquid named borsh - water, wheat-bran, sour cherries small branches.

is across the rivers, the first is called (ştiucă) and the second is (carp)

In different parts of the country there are different communities from the outside of romania and every community has left its mark on the cousin. In the delta part there is a russian/ucranian community.

The Balkans (the region Romania is a part of) are very similar so when you perhaps see food from Serbia or Russia in Romania or food from romania in Russia then its normal especially serbia since Romania and them have a pretty nice history together. For example the drink in the little cup or glass is called Palinca/Rachiu/Rakia, its very common here(sorry if i don't make sense english is not my 1st language)

Hello, mr Giant! 😊 În the begining dance and songs are not romanian. În our Delta lives a lot of other ethnic people. În special ( we call them ) LIPOVENI. they are like russians, they talk an old russian dialect. It is river Fish . And, yes, that you Call " catfish", here we say SOMN ( sleep 😂 ) because this Fishe is...lazy 😅

I love to go on fișhing trip on danube. To stay in the nature day and night with tent. Nice video

From 2860 km of Danube 1075 is in Romania.

In transilvania we have also German and Italian influence, this from 100 y ago, my family is settled here for 7 generations and I’ve spoke with a Sicilian, south Italy and they had also a lot of dishes like us, what my grandma made, also Greek influence is present in our cuisine that we adapt in what our land gives us.

I'll probably annoy my fellow nationals with this statement, but we didn't really have any real complicated dishes that you could say this is the recipe for this, it was mostly bbq open fire stuff, stews you know really basic food that was probably common worldwide whatever was around the house or you could farm as that was the main occupation, farmer or shepherd. Most if not all of the dishes that we call national dishes nowadays have their origins from foreign lands by way of invading forces, like we have that cabbage roll stuffed with minced meat that has its origins in the middle east, but if you compare the two nowadays they're almost entirely different dishes, and we usually combine this dish with a side dish which is made with corn that comes from south america, to exemplify how we combined and gave things a personal spin. But in general a combination of middle eastern, slavic, balkan, mediterranean and germanic cuisines, can't go wrong with that. In Romania we do our dumplings from wheat semolina don't know if you guys use it there, has a similar texture to couscous, but imagine a big couscous dumpling, absorbs that liquid and you bite into it and all that soup explodes in your mouth, usually we do them with chicken soup but now you got me thinking it would be delicious with some fish soup as well. For Romanian sweets i think you'd have more luck grabbing the recipes off the net and making it, or if you do ever find a Romanian restaurant you have to try our probably #1 desert, fried cheese donuts topped with sour cream and jam - preferably some sour fruit jam like sour cherries ( Papanasi is the name of the desert)

I've never been into seafood so I was more into the vegetables and bread beside the fish than the main fish itself, lol. Growing up 300 miles inland I got a taste for land meat rather than sea meat. Only fish I ever had growing up was the Catholic Church fish fry during Lent, and I ate a BUNCH of that 🤣🤣🤣. That Kentucky catfish story gave me a laugh. They do drink a bunch in Eastern Europe and from the stories I've been told by Eastern Europeans they start young. The broth in that waters looks delicious, I'll have to try it in one of my vegetaable soups sometime. Have a good weekend.

Generaly there is no meal, exception breakfast , without some'tin some'tin, , etiher palinca or wine or beer, not to get drunk (but it can happend) just to wash down the food :)))😅😅. Depending on what is going on, it can easily turn into a party. But if work is involved, then work doesn't stop

Having a little "boost" at some times makes you be more inspiring :)

That's not Caviar, just normal fish eggs.

9:00 River's Delta

No , In Delta Dunarii are only local dishes, not influenced by anywhere around.

33:28 poorman's caviar lol, it's fish roe with mayo or flour.

in Danube Delta I was born :D

The melody from the begining is in Russian there lots of Russian and Turkeys and Greeks in the Danube delta so the traditions there are a mix of Romanians and other nations we are a peaceful kind so we do talk ruff but we're not rasist at all.

According to a recent study, Romania was number 11 in rank, for alcohol consumption. That's pretty high... 12.34 liters of pure alcohol consumed per person over 15, in 2019 (world average is under 6 liters). Now, I don't know how those studies are made, and I wonder if they take into account all the booze made by people for personal use. And the inhabitants of the Danube Delta are notorious around here, for the amount of alcohol they consume. Overall, we do have a drinking problem - at least according to statistics. I've traveled around Europe quite a bit, and for me it looked much worse in England and in Germany (Germany is above us, in the ranking I mentioned). But maybe we're just better at drinking without getting drunk :)

All the fish is local, as far i coul distnguish the have : fried anchovies, marinated carp with tomsto sauce, fish roe salad, fish chutney ( zacusca de peste) stuffed pike, turbot, and i think I saw some plaice Yeh it is a very good variety of fish

If you sit down for a meal after work , but mostly on weekends or holidays , the meals will start with a a couple of shots plum brandy tzuica or in the transylvania s double distilled palinca, then the entries are served along with wines! If the there is a big celebration wine, beer and other drinks will flow freely along with party music and dance and little breaks with more appetizers and drinks. ... when they bring out the coffee and dessert its time to you to leave unless you found a cozy spot under a table where t you said you'll just rest few moments!

Wa gwaneth homie I see you have a bunch of videos about my country like you're feeling it, I'm going soon to build a house hopefully if wanna reach and cook some proper tings uzimmi. Romanian bbq on the fire with mountains and everything, homemade wine, tastes like sweet grape juice but it will twist you up if you drink it too fast. Bless

I've written this before. It's hard to talk about Romanian cuisine, just like it's hard to talk about any specific country cuisine in the Balkans. We share most of the foods, but we all have regional twists in the way we make them. It will depend mostly on what is naturally available in each region. Take sarmale as a classic example. It's ground meat in cabbage rolls. Except it can be done with pork, sheep, beef, fish, poultry or even no meat at all. It can be cabbage leaves, or vine leaves, or any other leave. It's the same dish, but the details can vary a lot.

Mr you really need to do a food travel to Romania

In delta ppls eat fish alot

An explanation for anybody Those region who include Danube Delta was from thousands of years a centarl hub for civilization meet. Before train and truks Danube was the most transport route of goods from far east to central Europe. Greeks colonized the shores 3000 years ago, after coms the romans, bulgarians, turks; in the time of Romanian Kingdom it becomes a safety place for deflectors from Russian empire, Today there are not only romanians but also ancient communities of rusians, ucrainians, tatars, turks, greeks, armenians. There is not a mirage that they deal in so manny ways with fish product. Recepies and spice from orient and mediteraneean was meeting here and everybody learned something from other. Speaking about palinka/tuica/rachia is not big deal. Its made from fruits not from wheat like vodka or wiskey, and for us it is like a precursor of red bull. Ordinary people use it as a booster for hard works, drinking it wisely, only for getting strong not to get drunk. Those people who are drunk in the street they are losers or dummyes. And nobody respect them.

That's not caviar. Caviar is sturgeon eggs only. That's fish eggs salad, pike in this case, but very tasty nonetheless; you can buy it from shops or prepare it yourself if you manage to catch a fish that has eggs. We also eat many species of fresh water fish, like carp, catfish and others. Barbel eggs are not edible, they are toxic.

There is another video by Mark Wiens, at "Ferma Dacilor" Romania, I don't know if you have seen it. Worth watching...

We drink enough!

CAVIAR IS FISH EGS.

Romania is a verry verry big country with a huge conscientnes with a long past. We are the civilization who built the planet Earth! We are from Drako constelation!so we are Drakonian civilization! We want peace in the world! This country is wanted and hounted!we are every moment attact! They want to stole awer identitie!

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"What is that ?" That is red onion.

The fishes they are cook for guests are bouth ,living in the see and the Danube

Being an ethnic group of Slavic origins, the Lipovian Russians are descendants of the Starovers, i.e. followers of the Old Rite Orthodox faith in Russia, who left their homeland in the 17th-18th centuries following the schism in the Official Russian Church, as a tragic consequence of the reform of cult initiated by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (father of Peter the Great) and Patriarch Nikon of Russia (1652-1658). The reform, started in 1954, which aimed to change the church ritual, was adopted by the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1667. Those who did not obey the new canons were anathematized, being considered heretics, rascals (erroneously called so, because they did not they were the ones who initiated the schism). Among those who opposed the reform. For their steadfast faith, some of them were burned at the stake, others subjected to tsarist persecution; at the end of the century 17th century, more than 20,000 Staroveri burned at the stake in this festive Orthodox inquisition in Eastern Europe. After the legalization of the persecutions by the decree of Regent Sofia (Peter I's older sister), in 1685, the Starovers took the path of wandering, spreading throughout the world (Turkey, Prussia, Austria, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Baltic countries, Poland, USA, Romanian countries, Bulgaria, Finland, Ukraine, Belarus, etc.) Palinca or tuica is an alcohol distilled from fermented fruits, mainly plums, but also apples, pears, etc., in almost every village household, everyone makes their own palinca for consumption with friends, neighbors or guests.

19:00 YES, Romanians do drink a lot. We have a lot of good wines with centuries of history. We have good beer, and our traditional drinks (tuica, palinca, visinata, etc) they are all very alcohol heavy. Tuica can get to 60-70% alcohol!

If you are an occasional drinker, palinca/tuica will waste you after 3 shots. Palinca is usually at 60 degrees. Speaking from a low class Romanian point of view, this stuff is not affordable for me. This is somewhat the high end of life in Romania.

That was " red onion" we eat red onion & white onion raw like that on sone dishes❤

Gastronomy of Romania has been greatly influenced by the Ottoman cuisine, but also includes influences from the cuisines of other neighbors, such as the Germans, Hungarians, Serbians and Hungarians. There are also traces of French, Viennese, and other Western European cuisines in Romanian cuisine.

Come to România to visit❤. And keep us inform when you are here❤ May be we can meet and i invite you to meal, made in home. ❤

BLACK SEA CONSTANTA AND TULCEA

A lot of russia and turkysh people is in Danube delta and Tulcea!

The foods differ from one region to another because there are several nations that live in certain areas, and the traditions are different from one region to another, precisely for the same reason. I WRITE FROM ROMANIA

Hi Mr. Giant. You should to make a vlog after Mark Wiens vlog, " Inside Transilvania - Epic Romanians Food, Brașov ". It's unbelievebel !!🎉❤ Cristian

If you go to visit România my country You're going to move there

i love your face

That fish is carp fried in a pan in the oven

Hi good man! Those are not sweet patato!

show some dark reality to!

We drink a lot. We are in top 5 alcohol consumption per capita and there are some alcohol homemade. Every fruit became a liquer: apricot, blueberry, cherries, blackberry, sour cherries and so on. The list is endless. I don't like alchool.

please teach that gentleman how to properly use the silverware

the guy always have the left arm under the table he is not going to loose his balls in Romania

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