Some clarifications about ciorbă de burtă: it is not cooked intestines, it literally means belly soup, so it's the stomach that is the main ingredient. Nothing is fermented, we don't cook that way. The sour taste was either vinegar or smântână (sour cream). We also use garlic or peppers to cut that heavy taste of the dish, so that was a correct observation you made. All in all, ciorbă de burtă is not for everyone, but it is not that bad either 😅
It seems lots of American Vloggers label ciorba de burta as intestines.I think they just watch each others channels and repeat false information without doing their own homework.They all go to the same places,eat the same food and try the same activities.
I'm from San Diego too! And was just in Bucharest for the month of April. I can't wait to be back there preferably much longer. Also, I found that pretty much all the farmers markets have great mici. Timosoreana and Ursus beer had to be my favorite. And yes, the US Dollar goes very far in RO!
Nice! A true San Diegan gives beer recommendations 💯. We were only able to visit Bucharest this time but we want to go back to Romania and see other cities as well!
Without a doubt. We’ve gotten some recommendations that we’ve added to our list. We had such a fun time in Bucharest but can’t wait to return to Romania to see more cities!
100 percent! Honestly traveling all over the world the US might be the least safe we’ve ever felt. We had a fantastic time in Bucharest and can’t wait to explore more of Romania!
@@HeresGoodTravel Well to be honest, Romania is 32th safest country in the world, while the US is 129th, even behind countries in Africa or South America... Murder rate in Romania is 1.46 per 100k while in the US is 6.52 per 100k, basically you are 5 times more likely to be killed in the US than in Romania.... So it's really funny when Americans are wondering if they will be safe in Romania.. no offense :))
Some clarifications. I know people have said it, but I want to just synthesize. Ciorba de burta, tripe soup, is not made from pork and they're not intestines. It's made from cow stomach. Nothing is fermented. We just add some vinegar and garlic and sour cream. I've heard that sour cream tastes a little different in the USA. So think of it as a fatter yogurt. Most of the soups in Romania are sour. We don't like sweet soups, in general, with a few exceptions. Actually the word "ciorba" is often understood as "sour soup". The sour taste can be from vinegar, lemon juice, lemon salt, etc. Sometimes we may add some pickled cabbage in beans soup, for example, but that's in winter time.
Amazing! Yeah even the ham and bean soup had a bit of sour flavor too! We loved that! It’s so interesting I can only think of one sour soup in the states. I could definitely sop how the combination of fatty cream and tart broth would be something to be craved. I think next time I will try the chicken version until I can get courage to eat the tripe again. Thank you kindly for watching our video and for the helpful info. Cheers!
@@HeresGoodTravel Don't worry, I am 100% Romanian and I never eat the tripe soup, I tried it a few times but no, it's not for me. I do love the chicken version however :)
The lady at the coffee shop wasn't mad, that's how they talk in Bucharest 😂 I'm from the west side and I sometimes feel as they are angry with me when I speak with people from the south.
You must visit Brasov, Sibiu, Alba Iulia, Timisoara, Oradea, Cluj, Iasi and pass by the Black Sea - Constanța. After all this you can discover the "Cazanele Dunarii" (Decebal King), Salina Turda, the Castles/citadels in Romania are super and full of history. Romania is a beautiful country, and the villages still maintain their traditions and you should enter their life, the food made in the villages from local products is so tasty that you cannot find anywhere in the world. Pleasant trip!
Amazing! We are adding these places to our list. Using the information we’ve received to plan a return trip to Romania to explore more of the beautiful country. Thanks again for watching, we love Romania!
We enjoyed our time there so much. We are researching other cities in Romania to visit the next time we travel there. Delicious food, amazing people and beautiful architecture. It was a highlight of our trip!
Wow that’s crazy. We went to Sweden right after Bucharest, what a difference! We ate a lot of instant noodles and canned soup there because we could barely afford to eat. We would’ve eaten more at the Christmas market too but we felt intimidated because we didn’t know what anything was called and everyone seemed to know what they were doing. We try not to get in the way or bother anyone when we are traveling and sometimes we miss out on things being too nervous. Thank you kindly for watching Bucharest was a gem and we can’t wait to visit other cities on our next trip to Romania!
The tripe soup (ciorbă de burtă) is made from beef stomach, scalded and washed with vinegar to remove its strong smell, it's made with smântână (a sourer and fattier sour cream), you must "prepare it" before eating, add a spoon of white vinegar, some ground pepper and a spoon of ... sour cream 😆 maybe a small pepper also .... try next time a "ciorbă de pui a la grec" or "ciorbă de vită" with a spoon of sour cream in it 😀
We knew we messed up when editing but said “nobody will notice” … We were wrong😂. That’s so cool thanks for sharing the prep. We have a long list of Romanian dishes to try the next time we visit we want to go to new cities but Bucharest was incredible. Thanks a million for watching, can’t wait to return.
Could not agree more. Americans especially have an unrealistic view of the outside world. It’s sad it prevents people from visiting some of the most amazing places in the world. It’s sad that we even had to mention it but wanted to show Bucharest in a positive light so hopefully people will understand how safe it is. Cheers! Thanks a million for taking the time to watch
@@HeresGoodTravel Americans truly have a big lack of memory of where they come from, form where the civilizations comes from. They need to read more, educate themselves more. Is really sad to see people with this mentality in 2023.
Hey guys, nice reaction and awesome vibes, you blend in nicely with Ro vibe! For the "ciorba de burta" part, even in romania some love it and some hate it(me) so don't beat yourself to much over it! Next time go for the safer ones - Ciorba Radauteana or Ciorba de pui a la grec - they are kinda similar but without the beef belly/tripe taste :D Cheers!
Totally! We could see how it’s something you could grow to crave. When we return we promise to visit some new cities and try some new foods. We always say we will try anything 3 times! Thanks a million for your kind words and watching our travels! We eat a tripe taco in our hometown of San Diego in our latest video, you might like it! Cheers!
U did a great job trying to spend 100$ but it's not that easy🤣 The tripe soup it's made from beef not pork😆 i hate it for long time but now i love it❤️Good job guys ,love ur positive approach on things,hope u like Romania ❤️❤️❤️👉🇷🇴🇺🇸💪
We were saying that it’s one of those things that you could come to crave. We realized that we messed up while editing and said “nobody will notice”. We were wrong😂 Any way thank you for the kind words, we fell in love with Bucharest and had an incredible time. So much so that we are researching cities to explore the next time we are able to visit beautiful Romania. Thanks again, have a fantastic day!
the four signs of a serial killer : wets the bed past childhood , likes torturing small animals ,is an arsonist ,doesnt like ciorba de burta ... some creepy shit
Haha thanks for watching and for the comment! We are going to try the chicken version of that soup next time we visit Romania. Can’t wait to return and explore even more cities!
I can totally see how the creamy sour broth could be something that people would crave. I think next time we will try the chicken version. Thanks so much for watching we had an amazing experience in Bucharest!
cool videos, i really enjoyed them, if you plan on coming back in the future, please feel free to let me know down here, i'd love to give you some local recommendations on food to eat, places to visit, and overall exciting/fun things to do here. also a huuuge tip, the countryside has so much more to offer (just to keep you interested 😂)
Yes yes yes!!! Thank you so much. We are looking at going back but won’t be until the coming summer at the earliest. We will save your comment and reach out if and when we plan our return to Romania! Thank you so so much!
Great! We love this recommendation! Thanks for giving it to us. We can’t wait to explore outside of Bucharest our next visit and we will be sure to visit this spot!
Thanks so much for the kind words! We call San Diego home when we aren’t traveling! If we ever get caught up on our travel blogs we are gonna make some SD food videos! We did make one last Comic Con if you’re interested. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1-7izay6pf8.htmlsi=bsGd0euBE6nFzLbZ Thanks again🤙
😭we know! So sorry but the music service we use for copyright free songs didn’t have any Romanian music and that one kinda sounded like a restaurant😂. Next time we visit we will find a way to get some Romanian tunes in there. Thanks for watching!
tripe soup is my favorite, maybe it's an acquired taste and we're more used to eating organs and stomach of animals but it's so savory in the best of ways, a little sour, a little creamy, the flavor of the meat(the stomach has a bit of meat too). should definitely try to go visit places not all other youtubers/tourists go to in Romania and even in Bucharest, because a lot of those places are the most kitchy ones(like for example Bran castle for me is not worth it, see it from outside and go to the mountain villages nearby instead(Magura/Pestera, Sirnea) beautiful nature, a taste of traditional, trails that cross these villages and offer panoramic views of 2 mountain ranges and the hills, some other cute easy trails. Around Zarnesti there's cute places and the town is a better example of small quaint old transylvanian town, with a car you can easily go to other villages and places between Brasov and Sibiu. You could also go to Sfanta Ana lake, only volcanic lake in Romania and very beautiful, lots of bears. In Bucharest I always tell people to try and go walk the streets in the old neighborhoods with houses like in Cotroceni area, left and right of Victoria avenue, left and right of Aviatorilor/Dorobanti, the old town/unirii is maybe the worst part. Oh and Caru' cu bere restaurant looks great but it's not the best food because of how touristy it is. October is the best month, weather tends to be nice and the autumn colors start to pop. I'd avoid June to August, our summers have become unbearable, it's over 33-35 almost every day and a lot of the time it's even worse
We definitely want to plan a return trip to Romania and hit some different cities as well. These are such helpful tips. We will be sure doing corporate them when we finally get to book our return visit. I think next time when we try this sour soup will try the chicken variety and and work our way back up to the tribe version. I can see how it is addictive and we will try at least three times. Thanks again for this comment.
That monument, we call it "testicle on a stick" :)) Really close by, there's a nice restaurant called Excalibur (medieval type, encouraged to eat using your hands, tons of food for cheap). Anyways, really glad that you enjoyed your trip here! Hope the rest of your journey goes well! (if it did not end already)
🤣of course they call it that! It was a really cool monument to bump into. We will add Excalibur to our list without a doubt! That’s right up our alley. Thank you kindly for watching and having fun with our videos! Cheers!
I think you will enjoy to go to fair. Try the one from Valea Cascadelor, is in the west part of Bucharest, between Militari and Drumul Taberei hoods. Almost forgot fair is open only in weekend until like 2 PM.
We have visited Budapest before we started to do RU-vid! We absolutely have to get back to share that amazing beautiful city! Thanks a million for watching!
Yeah, the tripe soup is not my favorite either. I hated it for the longest time because the first one I tried at some summer camp, made by an inept cook, was atrocious. Yours looked much better btw. I rediscovered tripe soup lately, but I only like it from certain restaurants, as the taste can vary significantly due to the recipe. So maybe you will like it better from somewhere else, who knows? You don't HAVE to like it, personal taste is personal taste. The point of exploring is to find what you do like. Wherever you're going next, enjoy, have fun and don't fret about what you "should" do! You two are fun to watch, mishaps included. Thank you for sharing! 🤗
Thank you so much for the kind words. Looking back the pair of creaminess and sour could be a flavor to be craved so maybe we will try the chicken version next visit to Romania. Thanks again for watching, it means the world to us!
Deobicei e frumos la noi, ce veseli sunteți deși e mohorât și plouă. Ce drăguț și molipsitor este entuziasmul vostru ! Dacă n-ați nimerit o ciorbă rădăuțeană cu o țuică; prinde bine pe vreme rea ❤😊
Thank you so much! We actually found the weather to be very nice considering we visited in November. The old town looked so beautiful with the rain on the cobblestone streets!
In the NE side of romania you can find a place called Bucovina.The montains are insane and the lifestyle is verry traditional It's my onor to reprezent
Bucovina was recommended by a couple viewers and it really looks incredible. We will add it to our list of must see spots on our next trip to Romania! Thanks for watching!
I keep reading comments that says it's hard to spend 100$ or that Romania is cheap. It's not, not in Bucharest. You ate street food. Go to a nice (and i don't mean fancy, or fine dining or touristy) restaurant and have 2 nice meals, one dessert to share and one bottle of wine. There you go, 50-100$ gone!
We planned on going to a nice restaurant to end our day but we aren’t big on fancy dinners anyway and we figured we could afford to eat and drink more at the Christmas market. The restaurants we got to try there were really amazing and we can’t wait to return to try more of them!
I watched some of your videos and I really love the honesty and how nice you guys are! You even visited some places I never visited and I was born in Bucharest... but i'm mostly living at my computer... And how could anyone here mugg you? Seeing you so nice, they might take you out for some beers instead! The pick pocketers exist, but they prefer crowded busses and places, not rainy weather :)) I wanted to point out that the "Ciorba de burta" is made with beef belly and boiled beef bones, not from pork. It's not fermented and it could be gross if not cooked properly. I didn't liked it before I tasted one that was really well made. It's not an easy dish to make and as a Romanian, I wouldn't try it at "Ciorbarie" they are some sort of soup fast food made for corporate employees. Not a real traditional place. If you ever get the chance to come back to Romania, try it at "Restaurant Potcoava", a place where our former presidents love to eat (and no, it's not an expensive place, it's just a secret and good taste place). Or give me a message so I will ask my dad to cook it for you at no cost. Also, I wanted to point regarding the other video, Goulash is not a romanian dish.
Thank you so much for watching. We truly loved Bucharest and can’t wait to go back to Romania to visit other cities! The soup I think is an acquired taste, we could totally see how it was something that you would crave. I think next time we will try the chicken version. Thanks for the restaurant recommendation, we will add this to our list for our next. Is it but a home cooked meal sounds even better! We will be sure to reach out if we head back that way! Thanks again for watching and the true hospitality
Haha we will be the happiest people ever if we ever get a sponsor for one of our videos. That’s how we will know we have made it😂. We do have some tough times and get into arguments but they are usually short lived and mostly because we are hungry. That’s why we eat so much lol. Thanks again for watching your comments mean the world to us.
Thank you! We have a long list of places to visit when we return to Romania. We were blown away and had such a fun time exploring Bucharest. Thanks for watching!
Trype soup is actually made of cow stomach, so you are eating "beef" not pork :) . The sournes varies as it can be eighter from the cream or from the vinegar but it should be mild in taste withe garlic flavour at the end, never overpower. Enjoy your stay-and please try some cakes
Bucharest had very affordable public transit and it was also super efficient so we didn’t see the need for a weekly pass. And unfortunately, we didn’t even really look into it because we had such a good experience on the transit.
Ciorba de burta 🤮 i know most people like it but not me so I don't blame you 😅 you guys are awesome and glad you had a great experience in Romania and Bucharest Romania 🇷🇴 Safe traveling 🙏❤
I noticed you had greek music playing from about 5:23 on and wanted to recommend using Romanian music instead. There are so so so many options you could choose from, but for instance, for the section from 6:28 and on you could use George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody, (for reference, here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1l3uA-lQFS4.htmlsi=x7FgmaQCYnM6VrEU )
It was so hard to find Romanian music on the platform that we use to find music without copyright restrictions. That is a very beautiful song thank you for reccomending it. We’ve saved it and will include it in our video when we return to Romania, thank you!
Yeah! We recorded for 2 months before we decided to share our trip on RU-vid and traveling full time it became harder to edit while on the move almost every day. We decided to spend the time exploring, instead of editing full time. Our next trip we will be posting much more up to date but it’s a lot of work so for the time being we are on a bit of a delay. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Honestly we were blown away that almost everywhere took cars even the busses and trains. We were even able to pay with our card at the Christmas market. I would say to take some out but not to be nervous about paying by card.
Thank you kindly for watching us struggle to pronounce Romanian words😂. We really had the best time and can’t wait to get back to Romania to explore even more cities since we were only able to see Bucharest this time around.
Interesting. We were in so many countries with different languages in a short ti E ir was hard to keep up. It’s crazy how different they all are even though everyone lives close proximity. How are you like if California? We live in San Diego! Are there any Romanian restaurants in socal?
@@HeresGoodTravel I'm Hungarian from Romania(Transylvania-Cluj-Napoca). I haven't checked out restaurants, since my wife can cook all those foods at home, but I know a store in Garden Grove that sells "langos", "kurtos", "sarmale", etc. International Meat and deli.
the black church in Brasov it's said that in the 1600s occult practices happened in there. And there was a fire. Probably their WI FI shorted in the attic and burned.
Oh my gosh that is so cool. Brasov is on the top of our list for places to visit the next time we can make it to Romania! It looks incredible! People have been so nice and given us a long list of things and places we need to see
Love this, it’s crazy that it’s only sour cream because it is so creamy. We will try the chicken version on our next visit. We had so many great things to eat in Romania we can’t wait to return.
10 lei 2 coffees ?! 15 one now. Carturesti is good (I spend a lot of money going there). Nowadays prices are lower in France and USA. With 100$ you cannot do much. Yet a beautiful country to visit, no dracula, no warewolves, we don't eat people, nothing is mystic in Transilvania, sould you observe some tradition manifestations, they are not on a day to day basis( just for christmas, 1 th of March), we are welcoming people, safety is high.
😂We were lucky to pack so light we couldn’t buy anything extra. Thanks for this awesome comment and for watching our video! We promise to promote Romania to our viewers and friends! We will be back to explore Marie cities in the future!❤️
We tried so hard! RU-vid has copyright restrictions on a lot of music and the service we were using at the time had a shamefully low amount of Romanian music to choose from. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, please don’t hate us! We will do our very best to find some Romanian music we are able to use the next time we visit your Amazon country. Cheers!
As a Romanian American I’m happy you haven’t been pick pocketed. As a precaution my Romanian Parents will leave their wallets wherever we are staying and take only what we need in vets breast pockets or front facing cross bags
I’m sure that it’s always good to be safe. We felt very comfortable there and didn’t run into any issues. The Romanian people were so hospitable and fun to be around. We enjoyed our visit.
It's sad, but it seems that tourists have a more correct idea about safety in Romania than Romanians who have been disconnected from reality here for a long time. I don't know about the US, but Bucharest, although very crowded and "diverse" compared to smaller Romanian cities, is much safer than Western European capitals.
That makes total sense. We are lucky to be able to work humble bar jobs and make a comfortable living in the us. We worked hard for 3 years to save up money so that we could spend this year traveling. We are back home and broke again but it was worth the experience and we feel immensely grateful for the opportunity and never take it for granted.
We worked hard to save money for years so we were able to take our trip. Every pen y we spent was very important to us which is why we didn’t even complete our challenge. We do need to spend some of that money so we are able to experience as much within our budget while traveling. We spend much less frivolously when we are home.
