14 AMAZING Hungarian dishes you MUST try in BUDAPEST 🇭🇺 - ULTIMATE Food Tour 

Thanks for watching this week's food vlog. We've lived in Hungary for a few years and we love the food so we want to share it with the world 😁. Make sure to leave us a comment to let us know what else we should try. There will be more videos coming up in Hungary, so don't forget to subscribe! Köszönöm! - Brandon & Anja

A füstölt csülkös babgulyást, a töltött káposztát, a rakott krumplit, a lebbencs levest, a túrós csuszát, a székelykáposztát, a máglyarakást, a resztelt májat, és a somlói galuskát kihagytátok!

OMG 14 dishes? Wow, what an ultimate guide. Everything looks delicious 😋 Great video guys!

Usually they add "hegyes erős" to the fishermens soup to make it spicy, which is a pointy green spicy pepper. Usually you can ask for it, or at least as for some "Erős Pista" which is a salty spicy paprika paste

Looks delicious! We've recently started trying out cold soups and they are a game changer 🙌 I don't know if I'd be brave enough to try the rooster... lol awesome video guys! ♥

We needed some foodie guidance! We are loving Budapest! Thanks guys ❤

I enjoyed your video. You had a really good attitude about trying all sorts of dishes. Some were my favorites. Your pronunciation was pretty good for a short visit to Hungary. My wife has been studying Hungarian for some time and has a really tough time with it. I live in Colorado and make "lecsó" and "chicken paprikás" fairly frequently. The fish soup you had can be made super hot, but it's typically done by adding whole hot peppers during cooking. If someone likes their soup hot, then they serve the soup with those whole hot peppers. The guest would break the stem off and squeeze the fleshy part out along with the seeds using their spoon. If you like your soup very hot, you squeeze more hot peppers as noted. ( That's my preference. ) There are regional variations of this soup. The town of Baja has a festival each year where people gather on the main square to enjoy this soup ( Bajai Halfőző Fesztivál ), which is made in cauldrons over fire. As for the rooster testicle stew, it's probably not that common. I've had it as part of a rooster comb/testicle stew and I liked it. If you've had Rocky Mountain Oysters, the idea should not be that strange. I think the eating of less desirable parts of animals came about due to people's economic circumstances. When my family slaughtered a pig, only it's hair was discarded. Everything else was used for something. I agree with you that the original version of chicken paprikás is just fine. I'm not sure why some restaurants mess with it. I think in the last 20 or so years, Hungarian cooking has changed. I don't recall people eating melted cheese, for example. Perhaps it's the pizza adoption after the fall of communism that started that. Lángos used to be served plain, where you could spread garlic sauce on top with a brush as an option--but that was it. At least that was my experience. I left Hungary in the 70's.

Once again you delivered! Kudos for making us drool over the screen lol:) As always, excellent job guys! Love from Greece xo

Great video once again! The food was definitely interesting. Love you! ❤️

Thanks for sharing!! Greetings from Holland!

Nice video guys 😃

I can’t wait to try when we come there!

WOW THE CAKE IS SOO GOOD

Thanks for showing those Hungarian every day foods. Good show.

I'm Hungary 🇭🇺 from Australia 🇦🇺 Thanks your video. Magyar etelek legfinom. Good luck 👍 Take care 👋

Out of all the restaurants, we have only been to Regős Vendéglő. It was really good there. Thanks for suggesting some other places and foods to try. Stay Fluffy! (Eric)

Thank you!👍👍👍

Hi, strapacky is traditional Slovak food. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing.

Nagyon jó videó volt!❤🇭🇺

Guys, you are hilarious and this was great! I love how you really set the scene with each of the restaurants, it feels like we’re there. Also, you always try so many unique dishes. Way more brave than either of us! 😅 Half the things you had in this video we would stay away from… 😂

Ya a dude!! So cool!!!🙌

OHHH DOBOS TORTA !!!!!!!!!! I AM CRYING NOW ,, I LOOVE IS SO MUCH !

Thanks for this video! I'll be in Budapest in late March 2024 🍻🫖🥘🍲

new subbies here to support :D thanks for sharing this the food looks AMAZING.

Love your videos Guys 😊 Fried cheese forever 😊 Love from Hungary 😊

And yes that was a bad one!(paprikash)Love to watch you guys!❤👍👌

nice video

I was born in Budapest, always lived here. I've never tried rooster balls, nor tripe. Both are quite popular comfort foods, maybe a bit overhyped. We have a vibrant foodie culture as most European cities do, but traditional Hungarian foods are mostly relegated to homecooked comfort dish role or for tourist's consumption. As you eluded to it: all that paprika is a bit boring after a while.

Brandon! Hi! Wow! Long time no see! Subscribed.

I recommend you guys try "örség zöld aranya" cake. Every year there is a cake of the country competition, and this cake won a couple years ago, but remained a crowd favourite. One of the best place to try is Szamos, you already know where to go :)

Chicken paprikash is basically Chicken stew. Paprika means 🌶 kasha means stew.❤

you should eat 'túrógombóc' with sweet (from powdered sugar) sour cream 😭

try it next time: "bean goulash" or "Jókai bean soup" deep-fried liver, deep-fried marrow, plum dumplings. Gundel pancakes and chestnut puree are unmissable desserts.

Just some correction. That wasn't strapachka, strapachka is a Slavic dumbings wich had goat cheese mixed in it. What you ate was túrós csusza. Wich is pasta with cottage cheese kind of thing kalled túró, a kind of raw chees but it isn't fermented and we don't consider it a cheese. You can eat it sweet or Savery, sweet is with powder sugar and sourcream, the savery one is salty with bacon and sourcream. The secret hungarian combination wich they don't serve in restaurants is with sugar, bacon and sourcream. Túrógombóc is dumpling mixed with túró and after coocked they coat it with roasted bread crumbs. Túrós gombóc is different, it's filled with túró in the middle, Szilás gombóc has a cinamon sugar coated plum on the inside. In hungarian spicy is tricky because we have two concepts fűszeres literally means spicy (have lot of spices in it, flavourfull) and csípős or erős (strong) for spices that burns your mouth.

1:54, i love it how you almost blew at the cold soup😂

Hello dear friend gift 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁 Very tasty recipe

Such a nce couple explaning various foods in a natural way and quite realistically.t hey are not. Boring and catch your attention throughout the video.very interestin!i

Damn, I'm glad I can cook my own food. I'm in Budapest for 5 months for my exchange experience in my studies and the only problem here is the unflavored food...

Azt a paprikást jól elcseszték

I love your food vlogs, I admirte your courage to try new things and your pronounciation of hungarian words is great! About the chicken balls, I have never had it, but the few times we had to cull our chickens, the roosters balls traditionally go to either the person who buthered the chickens or the head of the household. It is seen as an 'honor' and a reward and seen as a good thing to get. Apparently people like it a lot, but I just can't

There are túrógombóc and túrós(!) gombóc. The difference between them is the sphere itself. At túrógombóc they make a sphere from flavoured túró and covering it with a relatíve thin pasta (around 50 mm) while at túrós gombóc they mix the túró and pasta then made sphere from this mixture. After you get spheres in any way written before the rest of the process the same. So in the túrógombóc you can find a massive core of pure túró inside. You ate in the video túrós gombóc. I liked your video, thanks.

It is refreshing to see tourists visit and think that Hungarian food is more than gulyas, langos and "chimney cakes." The most authentic Hungarian food will be found on the side streets (excellent that you went to Regös in my neighborhood!) but I do also recommend a restaurant 100 Kiraly in the same area. Oh and we do not all eat the rooster testicles.

About "halászlé", or fisherman's soup (not fish soup!), usually what we do is that we boil it together with some cseresznyepaprika, so that it would not get hot automatically, but whoever wants to make it spicy would take the boiled cseresznyepaprika and squeeze it into the soup, then it would turn spicy, guaranteed.

Thanks for the video, it was really great! :) And to answer one of your questions about the rooster testicle stew, where you was courious about its status like outdated or not, i have the answer :) Same as the chicken heart stew, or chicken heart rizotto, its a rural food (they just cannot print there its for rural people). Its not a common food(not even at rural areas), but if you want to produce tons of chicken breast to fulfill city consumptions you are producing a lot of other parts that are not really mainstream at the markets. I can calm everyone down and tell you that, you eat this as well in form of chicken nuggets or similar products, but that dish was an example of the usuage of non-mainstream butchery products at the old times(you can immagine if someone cooked this, they are not slaughtered 50 roosters just to have the 100 balls, but it was a side-product even at old times). Nowadays its an exotic food, because in this example its directly used in a dish, and those balls were saved for this meal, but anyone who read this comment ate much more balls than they can immagine in form of grinded meat products. And as a summary that dish is a much more higher quality food(and much more honest) compared to some common foods even if they mark it as outdated.

I've had Unicum, but always as a liquer/aperitif, not as a shot. I told a Hungarian colleague once that it tasted like a cough medicine we have in the UK (Benylin). He said "we use it for that too".🤣

Hello again! Fruit juice is made from frozen fruit because it is always available. It can also be made from fresh fruit. About the sausages. The only thing that has meat is the sausage. The other two sausages are not. Those hurka. It has cooked offal with cooked seasoned rice. It is also variant known for its breadcrumbs and barley. But rice is common. Blood or liver can be added to this base. There is nothing but spicy meat in the sausage. Yes, the sausage needs fat, because without it there is no sauce. Without fat, it's like sawdust. 5:28 almapaprika (apple pepper. This berry is shaped like an apple, hence its name. I cut it in half before biting it, so the juice flows out. I think the spicy version is the real one. Bread is usually eaten with sausages. In fact, it is also eaten with all fatty foods. Classic street food is sausage + mustard + bread. Korhely means drunk person. An old word is now considered more humorous while retaining its original meaning. ly = j at the end of the word, about the beginning of the English yep) strapacska=strapachka is originally a Slovak dish. Velő=Marrow. As you can see, this is not the same as the brain. Tripe is usually prepared as a stew here. There is also knuckle version too. "Koccintás" = when you gently knock your glasses together before drinking. Actually, it originates from the other's greeting and challenge to a duel. It is also customary to say " fenékig ! (to the bottom !), which means that the level of the drink must be at the bottom of the glass. In other words, you have to drink the drink at the same time. "Egészségedre" (To your health) This is a good wish. It means to be in good health from what was given to you with good intentions. Lecsó . It has many variations. As you said, there is also a meaty version, usually with soft sausage. The name of this sausage is Lecsó sausage. The proportion of tomatoes and peppers can also change. One such version is served with rice. The saying that there are as many customs as there are houses is especially true for this dish. Actually, the onions are fried in bacon fat, so I wouldn't call it a vegetarian dish. Brandon said it right. Fish soup. Always soup. Today it is mainly made from one type of fish, but the old recipes used at least 3 types. Consumption around Christmas is based on religious reasons. On the one hand, fish was an easily available ingredient at this time, and on the other hand, fish was always a fasting food. Fasting is prescribed in the liturgy before Christmas. Of course, fishermen also ate this at other times, because it was the cheapest food for them. The subject of constant debate is the original form of the food. so there are differences between the dish stocks. Spicy or not? On the one hand, spicy means something different to everyone, and on the other hand, the same dish can be prepared hot or not hot. You can usually ask for Erős Pista or dry strong paprika. The latter is also a dried small pepper. You soak it in food and the capsaicin dissolves. But just be careful, because it can surprise you... Rooster = kakas :) Rooster's testicles are said to be an aphrodisiac... I ate it once, it wasn't popular with me. Dobos cake. I read a book on the subject. It's called "Kakastaréj". The author researched the origins of several legendary dishes (e.g. goulash, fish soup, Jókai bean soup, Újházi chicken soup, Dobos cake, Gundel pancakes...), reviewed menus, recipe descriptions, newspaper reports, so he did a fairly thorough job. This book is my source. József Dobos was a businessman. He distributed the predecessor of this cake in Hungary. He also sold many other things, so the name Dobos became a brand. The recipe for the original Dobos cake is also known, which is a little different from today's version. Bon appetit and good luck! ​

You have seen very little and tasted very little food. You should know that Hungary borders itself, so you can taste Hungarian food on the other side of the Hungarian border. In 1920, we lost 3/4 of our country. You said the Hungarian words intelligibly. The "Cheers!" clear. It's about health. I'm glad you had a good time.

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Did you know Buddha lived in Budapesjt? He was so hungry that he went to Hungary.

Minuto 25:12. El queso frito no es de Francia. Originalmente es del país vecino - Eslovaquia.

I answer your ask. The kakashere pörkölt we often eating. I recommend bird's milk for dessert.

please try palacsintas!

"egészségedre" literally means "for your health", so it's not a total equivalent of "cheers", but we say that when drinking alcohol.

Lol. That guy is really funny. Lol.

I detect a German accent. Gutes Video. Ich habe das genossen. Es war interessant zu sehen. Budapest ist grossartig. Das ist meine lieblings Stadt. Das Essen Angebot is auch sehr gut in Ungarn. Leider zu viel Fleisch haha

Next time please try Gundel pancake!

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They rarely make the soups spicy in restaurants, you have to ask for some hot peppers or Erős Pista to make it nice and spicy if you like it. Be careful with erős pista as it is very salty though. Good pronounciation on Hungarian words btw!

I dont know if somebody already commented it, but you are supposed to put erös pista in the halasz le

Kolbász and hurka is eaten with bread or mashed potatoes not just with pickles...

Hello! The origin of certain food is questionable for historical reasons. I do not want to drank the food of another nation, I just mention it as a note. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was in the 1800s. The historical map had a huge empire, especially Hungary. Many nations lived together. To the later Trianon Peace dictate. There are typical Hungarian dishes and Slavic, Saxon, Transylvanian dishes, names with a little Hungarian seasoning and name. For example, the staple, Brasov, chimney cake, Vienna slice..ect.

' let's just shut up and try this' lol

We want to try all of these when we visit. Except the rooster nuggets....hard pass!

to be honest as a hungarian a never seen that type of Chicken Paprikas before, its kinda strange. Also the price of that Lángos... Man as a hungarian i am ashamed, its overpriced as hell sadly. Btw in Hungary if you wanna taste the best versions of traditional hungarian food, sadly you have to get invited to a family dinner. Cuz our mommas and grandmas are the best. What you can eat in the restaurants they are usually the mainstream version. Every single fatty dish on a family dinner is even more fattier and spicy. We love it:D

I like, when not hungarians try our food, but honestly, when you try some hungarian dish, what divides the locals like pacal, kakashere (cock balls 😆) and you like some, thats respectfull for me. Thank you all of this.

A kolbászhoz és a hurkához nem ártott volna egy kis kenyér! :)

úristen bika pp ettek😳

Unicum is a Latin word, not German. It's considered quite rude to "talk" with your utensils, that is pointing and waving your fork/knife. Just FYI. Excellent video!

Again : )), we have the same exact cuisine in Romania, moreover Transilvania. And yes Palinca too, but Hungarians spell everything with a K and we do with a C (the Latin way). And oh yes, the tripe soup. Just made it 2 weeks ago, ciorba de burta. Just made that Lecho or ghiveci we call it in Romanian. The rice is usually mixed in. Dobos (pronounced dobosh, long o sounds) is one of my favourite cakes.

Lángost félbehajtva eszük mint a pizzát😂

Yuck pacal :S That is a food here which you either like, or not, no between. But i feel 75% or even more ppl here in hungary dont like it. (me neither) great video guys! :) I love to see you 2 enjoying the food here.

Meg a kelt tésztákat (aranygaluska vanília sodóval, mákos guba vagy kalács (mondjuk én inkább diós kalács párti vagyok), borzos/borzas kifli, a különböző leveseket (paradicsomleves, borsóleves, zöldbableves, kapros tökleves, klasszikus tyúkhúsleves, palócleves, esetleg karalábé, vagy karfiolleves) is ki lehet próbálni. Töltött paprika is népszerű. És amihez kicsit nehezebb hozzájutni, ahhoz részt kell venni egy magyaros disznótoron, vannak erre lehetőségek inkább télen , pl, a hagymás vér, toros káposzta illetve kissé drága, de a hízott liba/kacsamáj sütve saját zsírjában, nyers (kevésbé csípős, lila) hagymával kenyérrel.

Ú, de ennék egy halászlevet fél kiló kenyérrel, meg kokasherepörköttet....

I don't know where you read that's how they eat a langos but that was silly.

You should have gone out of the centre of the city to get the best food. The Harapó Mókus in Óbuda is one of the best restaurants I know and I know a few others in Farkasrét and Csepel where grandma is running the kitchen and they’re all very good. They’re the best and the most authentic. (And most of the time, also the cheapest) Trappista sajt isn’t from France, it’s from Belgium, always ready to defend my southern neighbors … That lecsó looked horrible, it isn’t even lecsó Halászlé should be very spicy, but if you go to touristy places, there they cut down on the spice because most tourists don’t like it And lastly, you missed so much in this video, Hortobágyi palacsinta, paprikás csirke, Bakonyi szertésszelet, all the varieties of rétes, lángos (the real ones, not the ones they sell to tourists), Somlói galuska and so much more. I invite you to explore all of Hungarian cuisine and enjoy. Eating and especially dinner, is a moment to meet your family and friends and have a good time …

Budim - Pest ~ Budapest. Budim used to be a Serbian city... Dobosh 🥁or Drum cake is a Serbian cake. The meaning of the name is a drum worn around the neck. It is also made with chocolate cream (Chocolate butter and sugar) in Serbia..

Only the brave ones eat rooster balls in Hungary. Honestly i am coward 😅

Slovakia was part of Hungary for more than 1000 years. For this reason, it does not really make sense for him to look for a country of enumeration. However, it is certain that sztrapacska is more popular in the northern part of the Carpathian basin.

Srbi bi rekli boranija

In actuality, Hungarian cuisine is actually a combination of nearby German and Polish cuisines. And their main seasoning is paprika. In the United States, paprika is just a flavorless seasoning that tastes like a very weak red pepper. Goulash. I don’t know any country in mainland Europe that uses beef as a main meat; it’s always pork and maybe lamb. And Americans? Many from the south and Midwest think goulash is a casserole of ground beef, macaroni, and tomatoes.

NOOOOO!!!!!! I AM A HUNGARIEN AND I WILL NEVER NEVER EAT THIS SHI-----T🤮

The Trappist Dutch monastic order. So the cheese is Dutch.

Én soha nem ettem kakashere pörköltet, de nem is fogok. :))) És valóban nem a legjobb helyeken ettek. Például a halászlét sem. Én nem szeretem a külföldieknek készült éttermeket. Szerintem nem jók ott a kaják, mert már túlcifrázzák, nem egészen magyar ízekkel dolgoznak, és kurva drágák. Sokkal jobb helyek vannak ezeknél.

You managed to choose the worst places to eat...