hey fellow travelers Dutchified here and this time we're in Krakow in Poland. So Krakow
is actually the most popular tourist destination in Poland
which actually makes it the perfect place to experience Polish food. As you
know whenever we travel we look out for food and in this video I'm going to show
you the best Polish food or the Polish food you must try when you come to Krakow.
Throughout Krakow these things called Obwarzanki. It's basically like a bagel and they come
with various toppings this one's got poppy seeds and you see them everywhere
They've got these little carts covered in like a protective thing for the cold of course
Slightly warm, and slightly denser than normal bagel. It's kind of okay it costs two zloty
which is about fifty cents so they're really cheap, inexpensive. It's kind of a
filler snack, I guess. They're okay.
One of the things that are very typical out here in
Poland is something called Pierogi and it's a kind of dumpling with different
fillings. We've got a meat Pierogi which is typical, but the come with different
fillings, cream cheese or with a sweet filling. There's all sorts.
You see them all over the place most restaurants selling traditional
Polish food will have them, but you also have shops where you can buy them and make
them at home. That's the Pierogi dumpling.
It's very nice, it's normally topped with some sort of either cream cheese sour cream
or in this case chives and fried onions really delicious
One thing you need to look out for when you come to Krakow is these donuts and
they've got a hard pronunciation asked as she pronounces it but everything in
Polish is hard to pronounce. How do you call it? pączki But essentially what
makes these difference is that they've got a bit of alcohol in them and so it
absorbs less oil so they're typically less oily
This one's got like a rose marmalade and powdered sugar on top. Very nice.
Much lighter than American style donuts
We're here at Plac Nowy which is just outside the old town in Krakow really
interesting place it's kind of like a market and in the center they've got
this building and they sell this thing it's called a Zapiekanka and that's
why we've come out here actually and it's really just like
a bread baguette type bread which they grill with various fillings toppings cheese is
the one we've got we got a thing called chicken from hell which sounds amazing
it's this long thing though delicious full sauce, full of cheese. You've gotta try this.
It's funny that building in the middle actually sells only the Zapiekanka
So every window you go to they've got the Zapiekanka with different things.
Essentially it's like a pizza and well worth trying out here. It's really cheap
actually it's like twelve Zloty is the most expensive one
which is around three or four euros so it's actually good
value for money. If you want to come out and try this, it's worth having.
This one's pretty spicy. They're not joking when they say chicken from hell.
That's the Zapiekanka in Plac Nowy. Good.
One of the things you must try when you come to Poland is the sour rye soup Zurek.
It normally comes in a rye bread but also with smoked sausage and also an egg mmm
it's really good the sour flavor is kind of unexpected. It's really tasty.
It's kind of a savoury sour flavour.
one of the other things you have to try, typical of
Polish cuisine is beef tartare and here they mix it with like chives and some mustard
We're at quite a fancy place so they've got a smoked tartare. They brought it to
the table encapsulated in like a glass globe which they lifted so quite nice if
you come to a fancy place it'll be nicer than the normal stuff but beef tartare
is something you need to try when you come out here
Nice clean flavours.
We've been to a number of Michelin Guide mentioned
restaurants here and phenomenal the quality of the food is just amazing
Most of the places have done kind of like a modern take on Polish cuisine so
We've had things like wild boar, deer the dumplings and always delicious. What I
also like about the restaurants here is the bread. They give you a basket of
bread like you cannot believe, usually with three different types of bread a bit
Three different types of bread, different kinds of butter so
that's been a real highlight so definitely check out the restaurants
here and the prices are very reasonable for European standards, prices here for
the quality of food is unbelievable. So the quality of the cuisine and good
restaurants here is something really worth noting and checking out. I'll put
comments in below in the description below that you can see which restaurants we went to.
Throughout Krakow you'll find places selling ice cream
they call it Lody here and it's got a higher fat percentage and they keep
it at a colder temperature...I can barely speak...colder temperature so it tends to
be a richer ice cream than the normal one you're used to, so look out for that. You should
have it when you're here it's very very tasty.
We're walking in the central
square of the old town in Krakow and this is the perfect place to close off
the food video. We've managed to eat a lot of Polish food while we've been out here
Let me know in the comments below if there's anything we've missed or if you tried
some of the stuff that we tried if you enjoyed that don't forget to take a look
at some of our other videos we travel all over the world and we're always
eating so this is one of many travel videos and food videos that we do thanks
for watching see you next time bye