Favorite foods | Ukraine

Video 1 Transcript

I have so many favorite foods from Ukraine. I absolutely love their food. They use really basic spices, garlic, salt, pepper, and that's basically it, and I loved it. They had pelmeni, which are meat-stuffed noodles, vareniki, which are basically noodles stuffed with anything else, which are amazing, khinkali, which are a different kind of meat-stuffed noodles, which, I mean, you can buy them for, you know, a kilo for a dollar. So we had those. We had which are these filled rolls of cabbage, and they're phenomenal. My favorite was definitely shawarma. I got kind of a reputation for eating a lot of that. It's this big fried burrito with stuff on the inside, and they're insanely good, especially if you can find a good one. The food is really wonderful, certainly not something to be concerned about, not something that will scare an American's palate away. It's really, really good.

Video 2 Transcript

Ukrainian food generally is somewhat mild and maybe a pessimist would say bland, but I really really enjoyed it. Some of my favorite and some of the most common foods that you'll see if you get invited to someone's house are borscht, which is a soup that has beets and other root vegetables like potatoes and carrots and often has cabbage as well. One other thing that I loved about Ukrainian food is that they're really into dairy. They seem to have more dairy categories than United States cuisine does, so you'll find that you'll be given sour cream with all sorts of things you've never eaten sour cream with before. They also have different like yogurt slash buttermilk type drinks that I really loved.