- That's delicious. Better than IHOP, for sure.
- I'm a little scared of this one, but.
- What are you? Oh, that's--
oh my God, it's a potato.
♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) We're gonna be visiting Europe today
and we're gonna be trying some Hungarian dishes.
- Nice. Very cool.
I do like to travel.
- My best friend's mom is actually Hungarian,
so maybe I've already eaten it.
- I've never been to Europe.
I don't even know what "Hungarian food" means.
- Not a single thing comes to my mind
when you say the word "Hungarian."
I have no idea what they eat.
- I've never even heard about Hungarian cuisine,
so that's pretty interesting.
I'm excited to see what's in store.
- The Polish one was pretty good,
so I'm hoping we're staying on that streak of good European food.
- (FBE) Here's your first dish. - Cool.
What in the world is that?
- It actually looks a lot like regular American chili.
- I think there's meat in here. It looks like there's beans in here.
Mmm, this smells really good!
I'm actually really excited to try it.
- Yeah, it's good. I don't taste any spices.
I wanna say that's chicken.
- It literally just tastes like chili.
Ooh, a little spicy too. Okay.
It's got a little kick. I like it.
- It's actually really good!
It's meaty. It's a little bit saucy.
- This is chicken, for sure, and I like this sauce thing.
- I'm not sure what the sauce or whatever it is really is.
It's just really meaty. It's really hearty.
- I just feel like this is something I'd probably have eaten
as a kid, as like a comfort food sort of thing.
- (FBE) This is chicken paprikash.
It is a light stew made with sweet paprika,
chicken, and dumplings known as "nokedli"
which are small pieces of egg and flour
hand-made and formed into the stew while it's cooking.
- What? Wow.
This is really good. I finished it all.
I kinda want more.
- I really like this.
This is definitely something that I would like to learn
how to make, 'cause I feel like
I would really enjoy it at my own house.
- (FBE) Here's your second dish.
- Hmm, this looks a little different.
- It looks like more meat-based lasagna.
- It looks like we got a mixture of lasagna
and an enchilada.
- Wow. This is really good, too!
It kind of tastes like a meatball.
- I'm a little scared of this one, but.
Shouldn't have been scared. That's really nice.
It's very tomato-y. It almost tastes Italian.
- Tastes like cabbage, meatloaf,
a little bit of tomato, a little onion.
- It has a leafy vegetable that's wrapped around
almost like-- would taste like
a meatball, meatloaf kind of thing.
- I don't know what they did to this cabbage leaf,
but it's a really good concoction. I like this.
- (FBE) This is rakottkáposzta, or "layered cabbage"
stuffed with pork, rice, and sour cream.
- I like two thirds of those things that you said.
I don't like sour cream.
- I'm not a fan of sour cream, so that's pretty--
it's cool that it's masked in there somewhere.
- It tastes delicious. I'm obsessed with this.
I'd probably go to Europe just for Hungary.
- (FBE) Here is your next one.
- (gasps) Oh, you shouldn't have.
- Looks like a crepe.
I don't know what's gonna be inside of it,
so that's what I'm curious about, but it seems quite sticky.
- Smells like honey.
What is that? Oh, a little--
little walnuts or almonds.
- Initially, I tasted nuts, and then, there's this sweet,
almost kind of sour, taste that came with it.
- Whoa, whoa. What is that taste?
There's like seeds in this or something.
- I'm curious. I'm gonna open this.
So there's some kind of syrupy jam in it.
There's crushed up nuts, maybe walnuts.
It's good! It's really light.
- Maybe a little bit of honey or apricot sort of thing
with a little bit of nuttiness to it.
The blueberries fit really, really well as well.
It's really nice. I like it.
- It was really sweet.
I could eat this for breakfast and not feel fancy.
- (FBE) So this one is called palacsinta
and it is basically a Hungarian crepe.
They are made with a thin layer of batter,
hand-spread with apricot preserves and crushed walnuts,
topped with powdered sugar.
- Apricots, got it. Awesome.
Never had that before, but delicious.
- If we haven't started putting nuts in crepes,
we need to start doing it.
The Hungarians know what they're doing.
- That's delicious. Better than IHOP, for sure.
- (FBE) Here's another very popular dish.
- Is this cake?
That's not cake. What are you?
Oh that's-- oh my God, it's a potato.
- Eggs? Cheese.
Bacon, ham? Breakfast!
Breakfast burrito minus the burrito.
- This definitely smells kind of like a breakfasty thing,
'cause I smell cheese.
Smells kind of like-- I don't want to say bacon.
It looks like sausage-- looks like sausage in there.
- Oh yes. I love potatoes,
and then, just the mixture with egg in it, too.
That was really good.
- This is really good, too! I love the sausage.
It tastes kind of smoky.
- That's good. Potatoes and sausage,
man, you can't get too-- you can't get wrong with that.
- It's very heavy with the potatoes and stuff.
It looks like it has some sort of cream
sort of texture in it, and it has potato,
a sausage sort of thing. But it's nice!
- (FBE) This is rakottkrumpli,
also known as "layered potatoes."
This is a well known casserole made with potatoes,
Hungarian sausage, hard-boiled eggs,
cream, and cheese.
- Delicious. Good, good.
Denny's should serve this.
- They're all very simple ingredients,
but the taste is amazing.
- I feel like I could eat this every single day for breakfast
and I'll be really happy.
- (FBE) Last one. - Alright.
This looks like a stew.
- It smells really good. It reminds me of a stew.
- Mmm, that melts in your mouth. I like the meat a lot.
It's a little more pungent than the other meats,
I would say.
- Ooh, I really like that. It tastes so flavorful
and also, once again, a really comfort food sort of thing.
- It's not bad.
It tastes like a beef stew, basically.
- I hate to say this, 'cause everything else
has tasted so good, but it tastes like canned stew.
- It's different from the first sort of stew dish that I tried.
The other one had more-- kind of a kick to it.
- (FBE) So this is called gulyásleves.
It is a gulyás soup.
This is a staple in Hungarian cuisine
and is one of the country's national dishes.
Gulyás can be made from beef, veal, pork, or lamb,
which is then cut into chunks, cooked with onions,
and stewed with paprika and vegetables.
- I feel bad now. This didn't end off with a bang.
I was expecting to have a little dance party in my mouth.
- I gotta go to Hungary now,
'cause, shit, all this food is amazing.
- (FBE) So which of these Hungarian dishes
would you recommend people try?
- Um, I like the last one. I think it's called "goulash."
- The rakottkrumpli.
- The gulyás stew.
- The potato stack thing. Rakottkrumpli.
- Palacsinta. That was amazing.
- I liked the layered cabbage one. Whenever you get an opportunity
to try something different, I think everyone should.
One of the few things that brings all people together,
aside from laughter and music, is food.
- Thanks for watching us try Hungarian food
on the React channel.
- What country should we visit next?
Let us know in the comments.
- Bye everyone!
- Szervusz everyone! Alyssa here,
a producer from the React channel.
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