Favorite foods - Russia Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Russian food is pretty good, just make sure you know. They add dill to just about everything they make, so if you're not a dill fan, watch that. I had some really good soup and stuff, but it was super pickley, super dill, but we also had some amazing meat pies in Russia that were incredible and 100% worth eating. They didn't have dill in them, and they had dessert pies as well. It was a little tricky because everything was in Russian on the menu, but we went with what looked good in the pictures, and it was all delicious. Everything we got was really good.
Video 2 Transcript
Probably one of the most iconic Russian foods would be borscht, which is beet soup. Lots of beets, meat, potatoes, carrots, super tasty. But all their soups are amazing. They've got borscht, salyanka, shi, all sorts of other soups. They've got super good salads like vinaigrette. They've got one with crab and lots of mayonnaise and corn and carrot little chunks. I love that one. That one's amazing. But the best food they have there is the ice cream. Like even in the winter you can get it when it's minus 40 outside and it's creamy, delicious. You don't even care that it's cold. Also they come in big tubes and they've got SSSR, which is USSR on it. So you've got communist ice cream. Pretty tasty. Trust me.
Video 3 Transcript
I would say probably Samsa. I think it's Uzbekian or from like Kazakhstan or one of the stands. It's super good. It's like a baked, it's like breaded, crispy breaded something with like meat and potatoes and onions and seasonings just stuffed in the middle and it's, if you get them from the right people they're like some of the best things you'll ever have.
Video 4 Transcript
Okay, for one, it's ice cream. It is super cheap there, and you can buy an individual one. We'd honestly buy one bi-weekly, but it was so good. Their ice cream was so delicious. Even when it's snowing and negative 20 degrees, you'll still love ice cream. And also the bakeries, they bake everything fresh. They'll have meat pies, fruit pastries. It's so good. They love their bread. It's pretty, they kind of stick to a basic bread recipe, but they do wonders with it, and it's amazing, so I would definitely stop by the bakery as often as you can. It's really cheap.
Video 5 Transcript
Borscht, it's like the red beetroot soup. It doesn't taste at all like beets. It's got like chicken and potatoes and carrots and cabbage. It's so good, incredibly good. The bread's so good. They have little pastries that are on the streets like everywhere in like every city. They're like super cheap too, like a dime for a pastry. It's so good. Also food, they eat lots of cabbage and potatoes and chicken. Russia has a lot of, well at least Moscow, they have a lot of good stores. So I don't think that you'll starve or anything like that because they got plenty of food and everything. It's totally normal. Yeah, one of the stores is called the Shon's. It's like a big, it's almost like a Walmart kind of, except they have a little less of a selection than like a normal Walmart. So yeah, there'll be plenty of food and it's cheap food. So you always have food to eat. So don't worry about going hungry.
Video 6 Transcript
So the two favorite foods that come to mind are, number one, shawarma, which is not Russian, it's like Middle Eastern, but it's so good. There are so many nice, friendly Uzbekistani people who come over, or from other, like, Stan countries, and they'll make the most incredible shawarma. It's so good. You have to find, like, the best places, but if you do, it's money. And the other one, of course, is borscht. I love borscht. Borscht is literally just, like, a vegetable soup. Usually it has beets, which makes it pink, but usually it has meat, and it's so, so good if you do it right. And try to find some babushki, and they'll teach you their ways.
Video 7 Transcript
Russian food for the most part is super, super good. I loved most all of it, but if I had to pick a favorite, I'd probably say it was a dead tie between borscht, which is this beet vegetable soup. Sometimes there's meat in it, but it's all beet-based. It's super good and each person has their own borscht recipe. And also plov, which is rice and vegetables and meat. And that comes from one of the post-Soviet states, like one of the stands, I'm pretty sure. But it's super good.
Video 8 Transcript
Russians eat a lot of bread and a lot of carbohydrates and a lot of their food is dough wrapped in meat some way, whether it's baked or boiled or fried or things like that. My favorite food is probably vareniki, which is kind of, they look like little ravioli or dumplings that have mashed potatoes inside, sometimes they have meat, sometimes they have some other stuff, but my favorite thing to do with them was just to fry them up and to put some seasonings on them and just eat them like that, it was super good. Their soups are also very, very good, you'll hear of borscht or shi a lot of the time, their cabbage soups, definitely try that, eat it, and especially borscht is so good with their beets and with everything that they put inside.
Video 9 Transcript
I love borscht. Oh my gosh, it's the best food. I didn't love Russian food, if I'm being honest, but borscht is so good. It's, um, yeah, it's just this beet soup, and it sounds disgusting, but it's, they put so much oil in it that it's really good. They also have this buckwheat that they make sometimes, and the way that they make it, it actually tastes pretty good. Another thing, they have ice cream during the summer. They have ice cream everywhere. They have an ice cream stand, like you can't go two minutes walking without running into an ice cream stand, and it's so cheap. It's like, you can spend 10 cents on an ice cream cone. So cheap. So that's what I loved about Russia during the summer.
Video 10 Transcript
Borscht is always a number one. That's beet soup. There's charma, which is a... It's not Russian. It's from the Stanian countries, but it's like a meat burrito kind of thing. Belmini is really good.
Video 11 Transcript
One of my favorite foods from Russia is not actually a Russian food. It's kind of like how here in America we have a lot of a lot of food from South America. In Russia they have a lot of food from the Middle East and from Northwestern Asia. And it's this thing called plov. I think originally it's from Uzbekistan, which is kind of near Afghanistan and Iraq. It's so good. They make it with chicken or with beef or with mutton. And it's basically rice and mutton and all sorts of spices like saffron and curry and cumin and all these really good Middle Eastern spices. And these little special Siberian berries, which kind of sounds weird, but it really adds to the flavor. And it's just so rich and juicy and it just fills you up. It's so good.
