Brit Reacts to Swedish Food in Stockholm: Melt-In-Your-Mouth Dill Cured Salmon! | PRT 1 

No, smoked salmon and cured salmon are two very different things! You should definitely try it whenever you come to Sweden.

The facial expression does not surprise me: I am born and raised in Sweden and after 58 years I still reacts like this guy when I get really good versions of the three first dishes he tried :)

Yes, I believe that Sweden is the second country after Finland for coffee drinking

Those seeds and hazelnuts also look a little funny on that blank plate. Most swedes would probaly put them on top of a bowl of filmjölk ("fermented milk") often together with something like corn flakes or similar.

That breakfast is not a typical Swedish one haha. What he ate looks like alot of what we eat at midsummer dinner.

"That looks very random", says the man from the country of the English breakfast. 🤪

Most supermarkets are open at Sundays but fresh deli markets are often closed as we don't have deliveries of fresh ingredients during the weekend.

I don’t drink coffee and am considered weird here 😂 people are always asking me when I’m going to grow up, and if growing up means drinking coffee, then NEVVA! 😂 I drink buckets of tea every day though.

Cured salmon: You coat a big piece of raw salmon (fillet) in a salt and sugar mixture and dill and white pepper, put it in a bag and into the fridge for a period of time (some do 1 day, some do 3... the recipe I just checked said 2 days). And then you turn it and knead it 3-4 times, during the whole time. When you're done, you just wipe away the salt mixture and slice it in thin slices. So it's not smoked, not actually raw, but cured :D Jamie Oliver has a few recipe videos on "Gravadlax" as he spells it :P (It's "gravlax" or "gravad lax" in Swedish)

Toast Skagen is delicious, and should be labeled as a national dish - although it's named after a place in Denmark, it was invented by the OG Swedish Chef. The fish roe on top is often real caviar. Salt and pepper are available everywhere, but the most common is the white pepper. Pepper mills with high quality black pepper is mainly found in higher quality restaurants. Yes, Östermalmshallen have opened now. It's a very prestigious market in the wealthiest part of the city.

The food he ate at his hotel felt very much like hotel food. Reminded a bit of food that we usually eat at Midsummer or Easter. Skagen batter contains: red onion, lemon, shrimp, creme fraiche, mayonnaise, salt, pepper and dill. It's really good. Then I see on the video that he got red caviar and a little extra dill on it. But it will never be as luxurious as it is for him when I eat it at home. I hardly think I ate everything on those plates but it looked good. Yes, salt and pepper is something that is usually on hand. There are also those here in Sweden who love pepper with ketchup. $43 I usually round to about 430 sek. Checked the converter and if it's US dollars then it's 456 sek. If it is Canadian or Australian dollars, the price is a little more accurate.

Yes, black pepper is compulsory at the restaurants. Even at McDonalds 😋😋

When will you react to geography now UK??

Yes, Iove mustard and put it in a lot of different dishes, and sauces. And I am not the general Swede, because I never drink coffee, but love tea

the S in HötorgShallen and ÖstermalmShallen are genitive, and should not be combined with the H when pronounced. So it is not [Shallen] as he says it, but hötorgs-hallen. Where "hall" is the Swedish word for a large volume building, as in English. "en" at the end is the definite form, So it is like "The Royal Albert Hall" - "ÖstermalmshallEN".

Okay, many questions throughout this clip, so I'm not sure I remember all of them, but I'll try to answer most. Yes, here in Sweden a lot of people drinks Loooads of coffee. I myself don't really drink either coffee or tea though. I'm not a big fan of hot drinks. And yes, over all here in Sweden it's very common to see people riding bikes and so on. Especially in the bigger cities since it's a good and easy way to get around. The black pepper thing is very common, I do believe many of us eat a lot of it. I don't often eat ketchup, but when I do I love to have some black pepper mixed into it. Mustard.. It's a pretty common condiment here, but I wouldn't say it's a big thing. As for the price of the food at the first market. I'd say it's fairly expensive compared to other places that you could decide to eat at in Stockholm, BUT it is super fresh and high quality products, so I'm not very surprised and pretty sure it's worth it if you'd like to splurge a little and get yourself a Really good meal.

Gummy textured herring?..must have been old,no way herring is gummy textured..

Sweden is the home for coffee drinkers for sure! But I'm caffeine sensitive, so I drink coffee very rarely. And if I do I put milk or heavy cream in it. But I drink tea (mostly rooibos or green tea) twice a day, in a big cup, with a teaspoon of honey. So I personally consume around 1,5 litres of tea a day. It's the best. 😁🍵

He certainly hit the Swedish trifector for lunch. Cured salmon, poached salmon, and toast Skagen. If you really want to eat genuinly local while visiting Sweden then this is it (plus maybe some moose steak and reindeer...) and Melanders is not a bad place to get it from. I think we are the second highest consumers of coffee in the world per capita after Finland. Greetings from Stockholm

Cured means cured in salt. So in that way its""raw" when it comes to consistency its very close to cold smoked salmon though. You should try the crackerbread the next time you go to ikea though. It's super swedish, so they sell it there😊

Swedish guy here. He killed the salmon a second time with the blackpepper. We drink a lot of coffe, us and Norway competing, cup by cup. Stockholm is great but it´s not the best place, I´d choose chopenhagen first everyday in the week, Gothenburg second and third Stockholm

We used to be the highest by capita coffee drinkers but Finland, and maybe the Netherlands too, are ahead of us now. And no, he didn't pronounce Hötorgshallen correct :p Edit: You will allways have access to salt and black pepper. Often some other kinds of seasoning too.

Finland, Norway and Sweden are all high on the coffee consumption list.

Mustard is really good with smoked salmon and herring too. Scandinavians drink alot of coffee. Dwayne, it s not cold all the time. Is same weather as Britian. Not far away you know. 2 hour flight. Check on maps, the globe. Hot summer, rainy falls and cold winters. Like UK. Far up north it s really cold winters, but nice summer. Fly here Dwayne, if possible. Stockholm is so worth it. Safe and clean.

Sweden actually has the fifth most lakes in the entire world only falling behind the US, China, India and Canada(please note that these specific countries are the biggest four countries in the world), so yeah, we bathe a lot in lakes here, the cool thing with lakes are that they are often very warm and also almost alway surrounded by beutiful huge forests with almost no people around at all. It is almost magical swimming around in a lake surrounded by nothing but nature for several kilometers!

pickled herring has many different flavors, not just mustard. myself, I prefer mustard with new potatoes and sour cream. at least once a month. 8.2 kg of coffee per person per year. and then not everyone drinks coffee. in Finland it is 12 kg per person

Hötorgshallen literally means Hay Market Square Hall (Galleria). I dare to compare Hay Market Square (of old times) to Londons Camden Town although a lot smaller in size. Think of it as "The Petty Square" where farmers would come into the city to sell their products.

Yes, Melanders fisk is one of the best fish and seafood restaurants.

There are two food markets here in Stockholm , world renowned for their quality and range. Eat there from time to time and for lunch the restaurang in Hötorgshallen whose speciality is fish dishes and fish soups are absolutely incredible . the other restaurants as well . Everything is topp quality goods that you by or eat there and that applies to most of the resaurants in Stockholm , Gothenburg and Malmö. When it comes to coffee , we are second only to Finland in the world in terms of coffee drinking. We also drink a lot of tea but have a lot to learn from the UK in terms of quqlity and flavors . Pepper and spices are i would say extremely important in the swedish kitchen , and swedes are very careful about what they eat , and eat as healthy as possible and want to keep thier health at its peak. Finally Greater Stockholm is full of cycle paths and swedes like to be out in nature moving in wet or dry , summer and winter.

I am so happy that I found your channel. It so interesting to see your reaction to Swedish stuff because I am Swedish myself. I hope you react to more Swedish stuff in the future.

9:28 Hötorgshallen is OLD . The first Hötorgshallen was built in 1884 . Then it was demolished in 1954 and rebuilt in 1958 . But got its name Hötorget 1644 .

There are so many beautiful places, besides Stockholm, to see in Sweden but they are almost forgotten and thats a shame. Almost everybody concentrates on Stockholm. Enough of that........I LOVE SALMON!

Mustard is quite common, we do have a lot of variety. My 13 yo is a mustard lover, I think we have 14 different bottles in the fridge.

Tubes! Bacon or reindeer cheese in tubes!!! On TOAST! Swedish heaven!

Cycling is super common in Sweden and yes it is safe, there are pretty much always bike lanes everywhere. However, Denmark is even more bike-friendly, probably the world's most bike-friendly country.

Yes the coffee is a Daily bass in Swedish morning rutin

10:20 Melanders is very good in many things but especially in sea food . They have some restaurants that are 5/5

Per captia we are number two! when it comes to coffe, Finland is number one! :D I like my coffe to be like my life, dark and bitter. ;)

You can easily find the recepie on Google and make your own Toast Skagen. It was invented by a famous swedish chef named Tore Wretman when he was out sailing with friends and they asked him to make them a little snack. Inecreadibly nice dish!

I'm from Stockholm but Gothenburg got us beat when it comes to seafood markets.

as a swede , it would be nice to see u talk about uk :)

I'm Swedish, and I don't drink coffee... but tgat is unusual. We do drink coffee second only to Finland. .. and not so much Starbucks-sugar-drinks. We do have mustard to sausages and such, but not to everything.

Haha! Sitting here eating coffie flavord icecream whaiting for my sauna to get heated, as you wonder if we only have hot coffe here in Sweden. The summers get hot here is Sweden some times. We even get "tropical Summers" when the temperature don't drop below 20 degrees Celsius. Stockholm is quite a good city for bike riding. Yet again most Swedish citys are, theese days.

Sweden defenitly is pretty Christian and we have a LOT of churches and some stuff can be closed on sundays, tho i think Sweden is one of the least religius countries for some reson so its not that common for ppl to go to church on sundays

Sweden is not the highest per capita on coffee, we are only the second biggest, Finland is number one on that front

I don't even like most of the food shown, but it looks absolutely delicious.

Dwayne is on his way to saluhallarna right now

most restaurants I been to here in sweden always got some course pepper and salt. We love thoes 2 things on everything ^^

Gravad lax! ❤❤ Mmhhh Yeah, they drink sooooo much coffe and it's very strong too. Especially in the morning and fika, after lunch and any break really. Sure! You can just swim. ❤❤

i prefer dijon mustard as swedish. i saw his vlog and i didn't felt he eat so typical swedish food. yes we prefer coffee and strong once compares to what we get in usa that taste tea for us haha

I'm a swede and I buy about 13 kgs of coffee per year. But then I drink more than just the coffee I make at home of course. I also have coffee at work or at cafés.

I live just across the street from where Mark started his tour. The bay is called Riddarfjärden and the water side walk down to City Hall is even more stunning in real life. There are also swans and grebes and all kinds of water fowl. On warmer days I usually take the bike to work, alongside the water, crossing bridges, to the southern island. It's just as fast and less expensive than public transport.

Black coffe no suger no milk 8-10 cups a day. Yummy😎

WHEN you come to Sweden you must try lightly salted salmon with dillstuved potatoes and a slice off lemon,yummy

We need the coffee since it's dark almost the whole year around up here except during the summer. And I prefer tea over coffee I live the sent but the taste is to much for me.

Östermals-HALLEN not shallen :d

Salmon is very good,in Finland we eat it lots of.

swedenn drinksss A LOT off coffee, but we do have tea also, and drink often tea too... i drink both it depends on what kind of mood i am.. but often coffee

370 Swedish Krona equals 27,25 Pound sterling

Mustard, no, Coffee, yes. But I try not to drink coffee past 15:00 or I will get trouble sleeping from the caffeine. Evening tea is nice though. Hötorgshallen is good pronounced, but there should not be any "sh"-sound because it's a compound word Hö-torgs-hallen = The Hay-marketsquares-hall. It's a genetive "-s"

Hi Dwayne! I'm going try to and answer your questions as best as I can. Even though smoked and cured salmon look similar, they are rather different. Cured salmon has a more vinegary taste and is a bit more mushy in its consistency. I prefer smoked salmon. Cured salmon is usually served with a mustardy sauce called Hovmästarsås (Head waiter sauce), and yes, mustard is a very common condiment here. Most people have it on hot dogs, hamburgers or on mashed potatoes. It is also very common at Christmas for the Christmas ham. Sweden has the 2nd higest coffee consumption per capita in the world after Finland. I used to drink a lot of tea when I was younger, but now I prefer coffee. Also, despite beig a cold country, iced coffee is very popular here. More so when it is warm out. And when it is warm we love to go for a swim. Stockholm is a city built on 14 islands, and a lot of those islands have popular public beaches. My home town of Gothenburg sits at the estuary of the Göta älv river and also has a few beaches in the city centre, but not as many as in Stockholm. In the past, stores and restaurants used to be closed on Sundays, even the grocery stores, and that is because Sweden, just Like the UK, is a mostly protestant country. Nowadays most stores and restaurants are open on Sundays, but most close earlier than usual. Yes bike riding is very common throughout Sweden, and bike riding lanes are everywhere. Here in Gothenburg there are many places where you can rent bikes for a low cost. The best thing about Gothenburg's rental bikes is that you don't have to return the bike to where you got it, instead you just park it at the nearest bike rental place to where you are. No he didn't pronounce Hötorgshallen (or Östermalmshallen) correctly. It is pronounced Hötorgs-hallen. He said Hötorg-shallen. I've been to Stockholm, but never to Melanders so I can't say if it is good or not. Have put it on my bucket list for my next Stockholm trip though. Yes those are fish eggs. Yes ground black pepper is a common condiment in restaurants, but white pepper is more common in cooking. Accoring to Swedish Wikipedia, Östermalmshallen wasn't reopened until 2020 because the cost of the renovation was higher than anticipated.

I love English food like Fish and chips, made of Norweigian cod and french potatoes.. or at breakfast, Danish bacon with spanish white beans, whit dutch eggs! All great english food like your French oysters. Actualy.. is there any british food.. exept of mutton, but that was frome New Zeeland.

Traditional Swedish seasonings: Mustard Dill Horseradish White pepper We have a long tradition of using spices from all over the world. Saffron and clove for eg. are strongly associated with christmas.

Why not just take a trip to Sweden... London to Stockholm is about 100 GBP, round trip

yes, Östermalmshallen re-opened earlier this year (or late last year) IIRC. I grew up around there, so it is very iconic for me.

You can have the salmon rhymed, cold smoked, warm smoked, cured, pickled, poached or grilled. 😋😋

6:00 This waters are connected to the Baltic sea

We are kind of deep into salmon in Sweden. We have so many ways to prepare it, it's not even funny :) About the mustard - in the south it is a very serious matter. It is a real thing of pride. Sure, several hundred years of war, invasions and counter invasions beating back the Danes...but oh no, that is not the thing of pride for the Scanians. Mustard!! Always mustard... And then there is the Toast Skagen. A well made Skagen is in the top 3 of entrés - I use to make it with freshly coocked lobster instead of shrimp, with a hint of yellow onion and bread fried brown in butter - to that I serve a very creamy lobster soup, salty as the sea it lived in. It is to die for.

8:13 riding bikes is something that very common all over Sweden and it's honestly getting even bigger since we've spent a lot on making roads for bike's between cities even in some places to make sure it's safe cause back in the day you'd have to bike on the side of highways which made it dangerous! Bikes and electric scooters are prob the most common means of transportation rn to get around since a lot of major cities are closing of certain areas of their towns from cars (especially civilian cars, with the exception for taxi's and stuff like that).. I'm from a very small town in Sweden but i've been to all the major cities in Sweden and my favorite is definitely Gothenburg, it's so beautiful and i've personally found that people living there are a bit more friendly then Stockholm where at least in my own experience feel like Stockholm's citizens can come of as very "posh" and snobby compared to Gothenburg. But that's just my personal opinion on it, and both places is definitely worth a visit

Don't visit Sweden on a Sunday. Unless you enjoy taking it slow and just walk around in parks. Most things are closed, and anything that is open will only be open a couple of hours. The only worse time to visist would be during Midsummer (unless you are invited by some native Swedes to their country home or something). The cities will be more or less empty and absolutely nothing will be open.

Yeas people drink coffee here a lot. IIce coffeee mostly in the summer. And the most of the stores are closed on sundays. No mustard is not to everything, just to that kind of fish. Depends if you use the bike mostly we are using the subway. Not pronounced it right Högtorgsmarknaden. Toast skagen creme fraiche and mayo some lemon an dill chrimps. Salt and pepper yeas on the table. The mall are open now.

No never been to Melanders. Because i dont live in Stockholm. When forengiers go to Sweden most go to our capital or the second biggest city of Göteborg (Gothenburg)- But Sweden so much more then the biggest citys. Stockholm is the capital and tourist hub so prices there is more expensive then other places in Sweden. I bet thoese meals he had woud be much cheaper if he left the big stockholm area and travled in to the country

This breakfast sausage looks like Thüringer Rostbratwurst🌭.. How is it called and tastes it different?

Stockholm have many bikes, and have a lot of bikelanes. Not like Denmark or The Netherlands, but quite a lot. It's quite safe biking - the biggest threat are the bikers, many bikers have no sense of traffic at all, and a person was killed in a bike hit-n-run last year.

If you wanna eat fish you should come to Gothenburg. Bc Gothenburg has a pure coast while stockholm has a dead puddle.

Raw salmon is delicious. The problem is that the farmed salmon is fed with fish meal; made from wild fish from the baltic sea - and they’re taking 90% percent of the fish in the baltic sea only to make pellets for the farmed salmon. Its unacceptable.

If you looked at mr Mark Wiens videos as I have you will see that pattern, he can eat pure blood soup with tripe in any country and use the same face :D

9:41 This frame reminds me of a Pretty new Inside Japanese fish market. Not the old school Outside stands It’s weird because it’s Sweden.😅

I prefere tea, but grew up with my family we drank coffe so black (and strong) that it was almost viscous 🤣.

9:30 no, he was pretty off on the pronounciation but it was a good try :) I don't blame him though, it's hard to know when sh should be pronounced together or separately if you are not familiar with the text language.

A very wierd swedish pastry is "slabang". Its a roll cake but with whipped cream, marzipan and an uncutt, pealed banana in the middle.

No... Cured salmon is one part salt and two and a half part of sugar...agreat deal of crushed blackpepper and the same with dill, add some lemon and let it cure in the refrigerator in a plasticbag in 3 days. And the toast skagen must be handpeeled shrimps, the others are mushy. And whitepepper is out of bounds in my restaurant...😁

He's having the knife and fork in wrong hands, and therefore it seems like he doesn't know how to use them :D, also having so much pepper on quality salmon just kills the subtle tastes, he added too much imho. Nuts go with porridge or mysli or cereal not just like that on the plate as separate meal :D

Stockholm Is surrounded by water and build on water. It standing on poles or called stocks in Swedish. There by its name Stockholm. Holme is another word for small island. The west part Gamla Stan the water is sweat water and the east is the brackish water and the Baltic Sea. He is at the sweat water lake and a part of the lake Mälaren runs down to Old Town or Gamla Stan.

where i live i have about 4 diffrent lakes within a 5-10min drive with Atv in the summer i used to go down to the nearest lake (100m) in the middle of the night just to take a Nightbath so refreshing

Östermalmshallen is open now, and the temporary building has since been taken down again. These markets are nice, but they are pretty upscale and definitely on the pricey side.

Melanders is the best! They have a soup with mussels and fish and it is fantastic. And the skagen toast is amazing! ❤❤❤

The food the restaurant with salmon meal was quality food for 2 persons, several dishes. Not expensive

You simply have to try Toast Skagen, it's to die for, trust me!!

yes Stockholm is really biker friendly, it is actually sometimes faster to navigate by bike.

Cured salmon is raw. Smoked salmon is cooked by smoking.

We do have ice Coffee but I personaly as a ragger prefer 1.5 L of hot black Coffee to start of the day. Just to have energy for highschool

The new Östermalmshallen is open since 2020-01-23

No! Sweden is *one* of the most high consumers per capita on coffee. *Finland* is the #1!

the water you see at the beach cimes from the baltic sea, stocholm is built on many islands, so the water in betveen the island originates from the baltic sea. Biking is quit easy in sweden, most citys has bike lanes along the roads. it is common at resturants that you have both salt and pepper on the table.

I live in Stockholm, did pass by this places several times but never stopped to eat there, might need to go eat there some day. :D

sweden is second highest after finand in drinking the black gold and no he butcherd the name Hötorgs hallen and btw its translate to roughly hay squer hall

Swedes swim everywhere, the sea, lakes, even a fountain will do if we can't find anything else : D

Dwain pls visit Gothenburg and go to some of fish restaurant Its the best if you like fish

Swedes drink a ton of straight black coffee.