What to eat in Stockholm, Sweden / American tries Swedish Food

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These are my TOP 8 Foods to try in Stockholm, Sweden!
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*The Princess Cake is topped with marzipan not fondant.
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@LILLALAUMAN Жыл бұрын

The princess cake is covered with marzipan, not fondant 😊

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have no idea why I said fondant 🤦

@LILLALAUMAN Жыл бұрын

@@aWanderlustForLife no problem! Easy mistake to make tbh 😊

@tepsan Жыл бұрын

@@aWanderlustForLife Maybe because you are american :D

@Fertho Жыл бұрын

The kladdkaka is something you can very easily make at home and requires basically no effort. If you make it, serve it fresh out the oven with some vanilla ice cream. It's heavenly!

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

I need to try this!

@PerfectInzanity82 Ай бұрын

Tip for next time you are in Stockholm, there is a restaurant called Sjätte Tunnan in Gamla Stan that serves authentic medieval dishes (the kind nobles ate not simple peasant food). It is not even commonly known by most locals, never seen any travel food channels cover it when they visit.

@aWanderlustForLife Ай бұрын

Ahhhhh. Thank you!!

@erik.... Жыл бұрын

As a swede I would suggest you try a Tunnbrödsrulle at Nyhetsgrillen (Kungsholmen). That's traditional swedish fastfood that has been developed a lot the last years to an extremely nice dish. There are other places too but that's the best one in central Stockholm i would say.

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'll try it next time 🙂

@penttitapper 11 ай бұрын

@@aWanderlustForLifeDon't forget the only thing that matters when eating a Tunnbrödsrulle: RÄKSALLAD!!Shrimp sallad)😂

@ViffeNify 11 ай бұрын

@@penttitapper as a swede i suggest trying shrimps on the west coast, only idiots eats it on the other side.

@1Dreamking 9 ай бұрын

@@penttitapperMy go to is double sausage, shrimp sallad AND cucumber mayo (or minced pickled cucumber)

@northbreeze0198 3 ай бұрын

Indeed. Tunnbrödsrrulle is THE Swedish fast food. It's just awesome and is liked by all Swedes.

@per-olamjomark7452 15 күн бұрын

4:20 Visit a fast food cart with a big sign that says freshly fried herring. Become disappointed that it is not pickled. (There are few eateries in Sweden that sell pickled herring as street food, it is probably more common in the Netherlands. Fried herring is the way to go.)

@scottman895 Жыл бұрын

Everything looks quite good! The meatballs, the cinnamon bun, and the princess cake all are items I'm sure I would quite enjoy!

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a foodie city! I can't wait to go back ☺️

@rasmuswi Жыл бұрын

The corrent name of the "biskvi" is actually "chokladbiskvi", which translates directly into "chocolate biscuit", because the Swedish word biskvi and the English word biscuit both come from the French word Biscuit.

@prageruwu69 10 ай бұрын

jag har aldrig hört talat om ordet "biskvi", är det gammalt?

@Diabolus1978 8 ай бұрын

The filling in the biskvi is straigh up butter whiped with powdered sugar

@matshjalmarsson3008 Жыл бұрын

The meatballs looks a bit Americanized, traditionally they are made much smaller, like half an inch in diameter. The same goes for the cinnamon rolls, quite common with those huge rolls in cafés, but that's not the traditional way

@Bleckman666 11 ай бұрын

It's the way Pelikan usually serves them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For more traditional Swedish meatballs, I think Operakällarns Bakficka or Tennstopet is a safer bet. (Sometimes I REALLY miss Nils Emil's...)

@matshjalmarsson3008 11 ай бұрын

@@Bleckman666 I've never really had meatballs in a restaurant, it's more of a home cook for me. Man, it was a long time since I went to Pelikan or Tennstopet, I should do that the next time I come back to Stockholm

@FinMeg Жыл бұрын

YUM 😋 Stockholm looks awesome too 😲

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

It was an unexpected foodie destination! We went to so many amazing spots that we didn't film but made it in the Thatch guide. Including a couple Michelin recommend restaurants, burgers, and sushi 🤤

@Aa-xx4fl 10 ай бұрын

nice video keep up the good work

@omnibusification 3 ай бұрын

the best herring is fried like that and then pickled with tons of red onion.

@natiashavladze3634 8 ай бұрын

Nice upload 🇸🇪 💛

@aWanderlustForLife 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@Taxi58 6 ай бұрын

Try the herring, you had on hard flat bread, with mashed potatoes, lingonberries and pickled cucumber and if possible melted butter. That's the traditional way to eat it. My favourite from that food cart you visited is "Specialare" containing two fried herrings and mash. - A sort of half size portion but enough anyway. When you eat your mudcake - add some whipped cream and it brings your cake to a totally new level. Your Princess Cake was a celebration to the new born princess Sibylla in the 1920's. Before this it was called just Green Cake. But is, next to a proper strawberry cake, decorated with whipped cream, the most Swedish cake there is. And our pride. Strawberry cake is mandatory at every midsummer feast. The brown filling on your bisqvie is buttercream and cacao.

@citizenkane4831 Жыл бұрын

What you did miss was visiting the restaurang Aifur. They serve (what is believed to be) viking food. Beside the exellent menu you have the upportunety to taste axcellent mead. Mead is not beer, mead is vine made of honey.

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'll add it for next time. Ice had lots of a mead in the US as there was a place that made it not far from where we lived. It's very cool and I love this history behind it. Thank you for sharing!

@tovep9573 7 ай бұрын

It is a very Larpy place and quite a tourist trap. I wouldn't call it authentically Swedish. But might be worth a visit for the mead.

@peterhylten8930 11 ай бұрын

You should not miss to taste the reindeer saute with mashed potatoes and lingonberry, absolutely delicious with a slight taste of wild meat! Highly recommended!

@aWanderlustForLife 11 ай бұрын

Hi! We didn't miss it, but also didn't film it because it was too dark and the sound wasn't going to work 😔 But it was a treat!

@kajsakarlsson9553 9 күн бұрын

A reason we can have kladdkaka in sweden is because our eggs don’t have salmonella. Don’t know how or why but we can eat raw eggs without worry.

@ge_mig_nat_som_kanns Жыл бұрын

Kladdkaka should be served with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Otherwise it gets a bit rich

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

Makes sense!

@petter5721 2 ай бұрын

Try Kalops, it is a traditional Swedish dish 👍🏻

@TheJonasbz Жыл бұрын

Anyone that coes to Stockholm should make a visit to Böderna Ohlsson Garlic and Shots, great bar with great music and great food, and its garlic in everything

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

You know, it was on our list and just didn't make it somehow 😞

@jackvandersluis1723 Жыл бұрын

Did you try the smorgasboard, no idea how you write it, it's a sort of buffet with several small treats sweet and not sweet, it's some of the best things I eat! Try it! 👍

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

We did, just not this time. It's so hard to choose which foods making it in the video, but definitely that's a good one!

@beorlingo Жыл бұрын

"smörgåsbord"

@tovep9573 7 ай бұрын

Kladdkaka isn't that old. I actually think it came to Sweden in the early nineties or late eighties. Chocolateballs are a more traditional take on the concept of easy chocolate treats kids can make at home. Just a mix of plain oats, butter, cocoa powder and sugar and rolled in pearl sugar or coconut flarns.

@Moonland408 Жыл бұрын

Sweden ois a great Life here in sweden

@beorlingo Жыл бұрын

Good selection of different dishes! The "strömming" was maybe not your favourite though? To bad you didn't try "renskav". But I obviously understand that you can't try it all. And coffee (should be Swedish style coffee) is never as good as with some pastry or other! "Vete-katten" is sort of a pun. Means cat of wheat. But is also an idiomatic expression for not knowing, approximately: knoweth the cat.

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think I just like strömming prepared differently. We had herring two other times and they were good. I just don't understand that one stall. Is it usually good? I do so much research before these videos that I'm very surprised when something doesn't live up to expectation. Thank you for the other information! I find it so helpful for when I go back ☺️

@beorlingo Жыл бұрын

@@aWanderlustForLife actually there's a difference between "strömming" and "sill". In English they will both be referred to as herring. Strömming is the smaller native to the Baltic sea. Will be served fried most the times. Or fermented in nortern Sweden: "surströmming". More rarely smoked - "böckling". The pickeled herring will normally be the Atlantic bigger type, referred to as sill. Which could also be served fried, btw. A special sort of pickeled herring is the "matjessill" (matjes is a Dutch loneword, the Swedish matjessill is allegedly very different from the Dutch though), more salty than other pickeled herring. Matjessill is my favourite. Oh well, you didn't even ask for this info, but there it is! Thank you for introducing our cuisine to the world!

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate this information! I want to learn and I want to help others learn as well. Thank you SO MUCH for the explanation 😊

@herrbonk3635 Жыл бұрын

May I ask why you didn't had coffee (or tea) to the pastries?

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

We usually did.

@herrbonk3635 Жыл бұрын

@@aWanderlustForLife You hide it well on camera though ;)

@RosaMannen Жыл бұрын

Yeah. The thing that I've been thinking about for a month now

@herrbonk3635 Жыл бұрын

@@RosaMannen Var inte så spydig.

@RosaMannen Жыл бұрын

@@herrbonk3635 Det var ett skämt för tusan. du tror att det fanns något allvar bakom det?

@DanielleUK Жыл бұрын

I love Swedish fish ( candy ) 😅

@RosaMannen Жыл бұрын

That is something we don't have in Sweden. Wait, I think IKEA are selling them now. But only at IKEA.

@Annamay199 15 күн бұрын

I saw another video of a Canadian couple visiting Sweden. They made the same horrible mistake! Visiting Sweden the wrong time of year... Swedes only want to be Swedes between May and September: that is heaven, but we pay for it the rest of the year. And Stockholm too! Cold is colder in Stockholm due to the sea-air. That moisture seeps through your clothes and you can't protect yourself. Writing this on May 26. Just four months of life left.

@thewildwomanofthewoods Жыл бұрын

the green layer of the princess is actually marsipan, not fondant!

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

I know 🤦 I have no idea why I said fondant.

@thewildwomanofthewoods Жыл бұрын

@@aWanderlustForLife well it kind of looks the same so it makes sense!

@stiglarsson8405 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, strange country, strange people, strange food!? In anyway you tryed it out in our capital city on good resturantes/cafes so you got the best of it! Stekt strömming, (fried baltic herring was former a poor mans diet), now its a delicasy! Then you have to try "inlagd sill", its cured atlantic herring, a staple on traditional swedish dishes!

@mikaelarvidsson9242 Жыл бұрын

nja real meatballs are done best in the country side

@freja462 3 ай бұрын

Biskvi has got a butter cream inside.. NOT whipped chocolate cream..

@hannie1301 6 ай бұрын

The meatballs look a bit disappointing actually. Its not very common to make them that big. Part of the appeal of proper home made meatballs is the nice crust, and since you traditionally make the meatballs small, they have lots of crust to meat ratio, giving that great taste! You are on the spot though, when you say the star of the dish is usually the sauce (or gravy, some might call it).

@Templarofsteel88 7 ай бұрын

Kladdkaka is one of the first thing most children learn to make here in Sweden.

@aWanderlustForLife 7 ай бұрын

I used to bake a lot and now I must try and make this!

@fonsterruta163 Жыл бұрын

it was probably horseradish that you had in your gravad lax sandwish not mustard

@MrTappo82 Жыл бұрын

Nah it was hovmästarsås 😊

@bengt-erikandersson6276 Жыл бұрын

I'ts not a kladdcake, with no cream

@crissdiamond1907 Жыл бұрын

To eat fresh seafood in Stockholm is impossible due it comes from Gothenburg and has to be loaded on trucks and be transported 430km.

@peternaglitschluthier2247 10 ай бұрын

that is actually not per se a princess cake, is per definition an opera cake. The princess cake does not have the raspberry filling. But then again, very few of my fellow swedes know the difference...

@Microsization 6 ай бұрын

This is some new thing. It has been called princess cake all my life. I understand why but I think it's a bit ridiculous to call it Opera cake nowadays. The original from Jenny Åkerströms book "Prinsessornas kokbok" was called green cake and did not have raspberry jam. Jenny Åkerström ran a household school for young girls in Stockholm during the first half of the 20th century. Among the students were the princesses Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid. I had princess cake without jam at pretentious bakeries and it is just annoying and disappointing (I didn't know as I am not living in Sweden). Sorry for the rant.

@peternaglitschluthier2247 6 ай бұрын

@@Microsization As you mentione yourself, the Jenny Åkerström book (the princess cook book) recepie does not contain jam, hense "Princesstårta" is without jam. Quite simple. But again, very few of my fellow swedes know this. Not a new thing. A very old thing. However collective memory is a strange thing and nowadays very few people seems to know/remember this. So again, a very old and traditional thing that is being forgotten rather than "a new thing"

@PUTDEVICE 4 ай бұрын

searched for opera cake and it definitely did not look like a princess cake. and the jam gives it that extra bit of flavor.

@peternaglitschluthier2247 4 ай бұрын

@@PUTDEVICE What ever! I prefer it with jam too, but it is still not a princess cake per definition. Sorry man

@annicaesplund6613 Жыл бұрын

Why can't Americans use knife and fork?

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

Why do people have to comment on how other people eat?

@annicaesplund6613 Жыл бұрын

@@aWanderlustForLife it was a serious question. I've met a lot of americans both in Sweden and in other countries and they only use the fork. 🤔

@aWanderlustForLife Жыл бұрын

Personally, I use whatever I want to in each case. i use a knife and fork when I feel it's needed.

@Bentzel75 Жыл бұрын

You are not supposed to eat the Biskvi with utensils anyway. Stop being so judgemental fellow swede.

@what8562 11 ай бұрын

@@annicaesplund6613Okay. Consider me another "American (we capitalize both nationality and ethnicity) you've met". I'm known for eating burritos with a knife and a fork 😊 Americans are pretty flexible with spoons, forks, knives, chopsticks.