you can taste the flavors and the meat just cooked into the vegetables
vegetarians nightmare
I got pear rakia this time
cheers apricot, apricot, apricot
you have to say apricot because my name is April
so it's apri just like in April so it's always apricot
because it's like april-cot. you're like a blood clot
what's that mean?!
the april-cot was smoother than any of the rakias i've
ever had. this is the salad but this is a
winter salad right? yes. and what's in the winter salad? uh
it's cabbage cauliflower peppers carrots
is it warm it looks warm? no it's cold. oh okay
we first we make a warm like sauce put it on top and after this
we package it for winter so this is in jar. oh okay. mm-hmm it's in a jar.
oh okay okay so it's only for winter. pickled. yes yes a kind of this but we make
separate pickles and this is without a pickles inside
oh okay. okay great thank you, thank you
i'm just taking a little bit for starters. okay
this is the spices for the tripe soup. this is hot pepper and this is garlic with vinegar okay. oh
wow smell that. this is the garlic bread. you can smell the
herbs--and the tripe soup. yes. thank you so much
go for it
what is that? i think she'll say garlic i'll eat all the bread. you can't eat all
the bread i haven't even had any bread. you can get some more, ask
i'm just gonna get more bread. and that should put the right amount of flavor
that's about what i would cook. just to where it burns your mouth
so you don't really taste it. no it's not spicy... oh my god, you guys--if you could smell the herbs that are coming off of this plate right here
well and it's this too. it's the bread? mm-hmm
okay so these look like crazy hot peppers. okay i was gonna have some of that soup too
we'll just put a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of spice in there
stir it around i think we need to put some more of that second one but let's
taste it and see. needless to say as Americans we don't
really eat tripe. not that often i've had it when i've
been down in mexico it's definitely not my favorite
but we're gonna live on the edge and see how the creamy soup
in Bulgaria tastes with tripe in it
there you go so it takes away from the tripe taste. what do you think?
it's good it's really creamy um i think it needs more of the
whatever this is and some more pepper but
the salad is amazing
so are these chunks from the stomach? yeah
well the tripe is the lining. oh god... i don't know if i can do this... you can do it... it's not bad...it's not bad, it's not great
i'm too much in my head about it. salad's great
the salad is so amazing. the thing with the salad is
it's like a flavor sensation
bam it's in your mouth like i like honestly this is
it's like the best salad i've ever had but it's not too hot
a lot of times you like--Wayne likes spice for the flavor sensation the spicy hot
not in salad--i know but i'm just saying this is flavor that isn't
over the top. i lived in Louisiana for a while so i do like some spice
you ate your mom's cooking, so you...
okay my mom was the worst cook on the planet so you
learned how to--you went the opposite--yeah i learned how to cook
it's um it's not quite pickled it's not pickled no it's like a
a very light vinegar. yes. not but a sweet vinegar--yes--i mean it is like a
sweet vinegar, not not like sugar vinegar but like a
like an apple cider vinegar--a sweet tang--yeah but not apple either it's definitely different
it's tasty, it is really tasty
it's got just the right tart to the sweet. it's just like flavor
i would like to learn how to make this i actually really like this. yeah this is
good. we haven't seen this on the menu since
we've been to Bulgaria have we? maybe we have hey you eat all the bread
bread? yeah! no
it's still over here. what'd they put on the bread? i told you it was the bread
oh that is so good that's not just garlic
garlic onions peppers you can put that in any recipe and it'll
make it taste better even Belgian waffles just joking. you're such a dork
um cheers thank you uh can we have another bread too please? yes
again yeah that was really good was that just garlic on there?
or other herbs? garlic and spices for Bulgarian for bread.
uh special mix of spices with salt so that we put it on the bread. yes it
was really good. that was really good yes
i've got so much editing to do
with no computer!
it's not funny--oh you gotta laugh about it
okay i'm gonna give you the inside story on this one. so my buddy Luke in Florida owns
pc recyclers and i was sending my computer down there to
put a two terabyte ssd in there right because i've run out
of storage i mean you do not believe how much
pc power you need to actually edit video!
sent it to the us post office i was being cheap
like usual like Go Travel On The Cheap. he was being
excessively cheap yeah well i put twelve hundred dollars insurance on a three
thousand dollar computer... my computer is lost
and the u.s post office has no idea where it's at
I'm going home in two days i've been gone for three weeks i don't want the insurance i want
my pc back. but i'll put the link down to Luke's uh
little business he does a great job he'll send you computers anywhere in the
u.s. hell he'll send it anywhere he don't
care i've i've known Luke since i was 16.
i think we may have to just check booking.com
okay check booking.com lower your standards to 7.3
give me a $20 place we're there. you can stay there and i'll stay somewhere else
so just to let you know we could have been staying in places literally
half the price that we've been paying but April's got high standards
we have done very well. you have done well we've had some really great places
on this trip. we needed a nice place to rest
and we've also been traveling for Christmas
so everything basically was closed so we needed a nice place to hang out
for Christmas yeah that was that was nice we'll put a card above for the
our Christmas episode if you feel festive of course
can i try this one? oh of course i'm gonna make a whole reel of just you
tasting rakia. oh that wasn't even crazy April--oh there
you go
she's going to be white girl wasted in about 10 minute.s oh my god no i'm not
if i kept drinking it i would maybe. but i'm not going to keep drinking it
it's no wonder you have an upset stomach that's like pure acid in
your gut. this beautiful kerosene if i lived in
the Baltic nations i would drink rakia every night. oh my
goodness you can hear the sizzle
oh my! smell this oh wow oh you guys at home are wishing
you had this. smell-o-vision. smell-o-vision for sure
oh man that smells so good!
are you supposed to put the lemon on the meat or
uh yes you could put if you like lemon you can put it
or if you don't want it not look like the lemon you can cook just
like you can get you if like you not if you don't. okay sounds good thank you. thank you i
am going to put some lemon on mine. there you go. actually this is probably
i'm not sure how to do it, it's hot!
i'm gonna try it with and without lemon
it's like fajitas on steroids
better than fajitas
yes this is really really good. you can taste the flavors and the meat just
cooked into the vegetables vegetarians nightmare
it tastes so amazing. again the flavor isn't like
crazy. it's not super heavily spiced. spicy hot it's just a lot of flavor
right right flavor. oh my god that's good okay i'm gonna try
a little bit with the lemon i'm not that much a--it's good--citrusy
person but i'm gonna try it. i have it with lemon
because i love my i love my fruit. if it changes the flavor---did you try some with
bite of tomato? yeah okay
now i've got a little bit of everything here some meat some onions some peppers
some cheese lemon juice. the lemon really gives it
some zest
actually i kind of think i like it better with the lemon
i mean it's good the other way but--the acidity brings it to another level, it does bring it to a different level
sausage is good!
what would you say the cheese is like?
it's really mild cheese
it's more like a-- i would hate to try to guess what kind
of cheese it is but it's a mild cheese like a mozzarella or something it's not
like a stinky cheese
how is it doing, do you need something? oh it's very good
very amazing very good this has been the best
meal that we've had in Bulgaria i will give them that.
would you say that? yes. it has been by part of the best.
and there's been a lot of great meals don't get me wrong
oh my god that mushroom tastes divine!
have you gotten a good chunk of mushroom?
i picked all the mushrooms out and threw them on my plate
hey!
i'll eat the cheese, go for it
oh thank you. okay so what what does this homemade ice cream have in it?
so inside this kind of caramel-ed nuts walnuts hazelnuts and almonds with a blueberry jam on top
this is her favorite
homemade ice cream. in December. oh my god
oh my god! not like a little
oh my god like i don't even know what that was in my mouth but--i think i'm having a food-gasm
okay i don't ever go in for three bites but i'm going in for three.
especially this late. yeah i'll be up all night. oh my god!
oh not that look at that it's like a giant nut too
the crunch of the nuts is like so fresh
in the ice cream it's not like american ice cream where the
nuts are like soggy, stale. no this isn't like--this is like fresh. back off
i'm not used to sharing my dessert so much
it's so good, right?!
it's not too sweet
by far the best ice cream ever. ever? if you're in Bulgaria i don't care like
you need to drive to get here just to get some food
you um you say it's the best ever? well you know i don't i'm not i'm not--
you used to eat a lot of ice cream-- i did but i've never been an ice cream
connoisseur--really?--i just ate ice cream. oh i, see i'm an ice cream
connoisseur. no you're a sugar connoisseur i am
me i've never had a great sweet tooth but
i quit all sugar four years ago. i have back problems and i realized that
in America we have not sugar we have high fructose corn syrup and you're
addicted to it. processed. crap. it took my pain levels
from
tens down to like fours... by quitting, by quitting
sugar yes so i usually only have a bite or two
now four years later if i have more than a couple bites of
sugar high fructose corn sugar any of that stuff
i'm up the whole entire night it's like crack cocaine well i never did
crack cocaine but that's what i imagined it would be
okay. how is ice cream? oh it's so good
and i eat a lot of ice cream but this-- she eats a lot of ice cream--
so good i'm like saving my last bite. tell us how to pronounce the restaurant
in Bulgarian so we have one traditional word in
Bulgarian for restaurants and it's ....
but we have also the word restaurant but it's
the places where this different type of kitchen not only traditional
Bulgarian the name is mexaha it means that if you go in this
restaurant the uh kitchen and the food inside will
be traditional Bulgarian ...... never mind, i can't say anything other than English ......
Chakova House...
the house house the name of the family is ...
so it's coming from the name of the family. oh okay
it's typical for our city in Melnik the houses bring the names of the
families. oh okay okay so how long has this
restaurant been here? uh so we work here from 10 years this
house is worked before but the restaurant is from 10 years ago
oh wow okay. amazing food yeah i mean we have been all over Bulgaria
and the food is by far
way above everywhere else--we've had some good meals
we've had some good meals--this is definitely the best, this is definitely the top. thank you it's special for us
and i don't throw that around so you should...
i don't know if it'll translate uh food snob?
he's very particular about what he likes. and he cooks and he cooks as well yeah
so i always go somewhere and try to cook and i would love to try to learn how to
cook your salad. okay we got to tell you about we got to
tell you about our dinner okay so you can tell i've had four rakia
you think? not little baby rakias either
full big rakias she had two glasses of wine
and a soup and an amazing salad oh my god that was the best salad i've ever
had in my life. ice cream oh yeah and the ice cream
and of course our main dish oh and the bread don't forget the bread!
oh that bread was so amazing and it was 67 Bulgarian lei
which is the equivalent of how much in u.s dollars?
like 38 and change. yeah that'd have been a couple hundred
dollars in the u.s yep. and it wouldn't have been this good
either. nope I want to thank you guys for watching
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