Western Armenian food is different from Eastern Armenian. My ancestors came from Urfa, in Turkey. We are used to very spicy food. Many Armenians were from Aintab, Urfa, and all over present day Eastern Turkey. The food is similar to Syrian cuisine along the southern border of Turkey. My surviving family fled across the border from Urfa to Aleppo. The food was pretty much the same.
Exactly. Genuine Armenian cuisine contains a lot of spices. Under the USSR, many of those recipes were lost and changed due to the situation of those times 😞
@@atkatk9355 Nothing belongs to Turkey originally. You came in tribal hordes from the Altai, Asiatic Steppes, Mongolia & occupied the whole of the Byzantine lands. From the Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians & many more smaller communities. You coppied & stole their culture, traditions & their cuisines. You have also coppied a lot from the Persians, Arabs, the Balkans, Lebanese & the Mediterraneans. DON'T DENY your true ancestral heritage, because then you become a Peoples with everything falsified & no truth to your existence. That is definitely VERY BAD KARMA!
As Armenian fron Aleppo, each ethnicity in Aleppo had a bit different cuisine and that was the beauty of it. Armenians in Aleppo had a special cuisine that was famous in Syria itself to be special. I love seeing it added to the culture in Armenia like it should. Thanks for sharing!
as Persian Armenian i got big respect for Syrian Armenians they hard working people, most of them own businesses in LA , resturants , liquor shops etc...
I think when that lady says that they don't use many spices in Armenia, she's referring Only to Armenians that live in Armenia. I believe they stopped using many spices because they were not available during the USSR and therefore did what they could with limited spices and russianized the cuisine. But all Armenians from Western Armenia are using a lot of spices their food.
Such a wonderful video! Thank you! Now I want to go to Dilijan and I’ll definitely visit Halep shop! My best friend lived in Syria for many years. She was so happy there! TY to Syrian ppl for their kindness, culture and for helping so many Armenians!
My great grandfather was an orphaned kid who ended up in iraq. Its Unfortunate what happened to my people. Everything was forced upon them, food, religion and language.
@ SUDAPPY VLOGS Christian crusades ? People being accused of witchcraft being burned by the church ? Christianity has done worse things to humanity and this is definitelyt not religion
I am Azerbaijani and like how the cultures have something in common. Wish we were fighting in creating, cooking, building and doing any better things rather than in war arenas.
Totally agree with you. When I first saw the list of soldiers who died in the 2020 war, my heart sank. Born in 2000, 2001, 1999 even 2022, these kids who were younger than me, died for their country. Its sad, but if not them, who will protect Artsakh? That's when I truly realized the kind of privilege I have living in the West....
Well, normal people know how dirty and selfish politicians are. Doesn't matter whether it is Azerbaijan, its neighbor or any western country there is dictatorship everywhere. If you will understand what democracy is in its pure containment you will get what Im talking about. There is no possible way making peace all over the world without supporting and putting normal people in the power, not the ones introduced and promoted by parties or someone else. Peace ☮️
@@asgae6374 democracy is the greatest lie ever told. It does not exist anywhere. Wake up. As for governments: yes, they are all corrupt but mine didn’t teach me to see Turks/Azeris as not human like they do to their kindergarteners. I still see them as human: but the most evil and disgusting that ever existed. Taxem dranc. Azgovi.
I'm sorry to say this but we don't have anything in Common. You Azerbaijanis have no history or culture, so nothing is in common. We are maximum 12 million people around the world and the things we have, we created, invented, the things we are Good at sports for a small country with 12 million people is huge achievement, not even turkey and azeri combined have it.
Likewise I can’t tell you how grateful Armenians are to India for helping us after the Karabagh war by sending weapons to Armenia when we were left defenseless with no other country selling us weapons. Its not surprising as our two peoples have a long history together with Indian communities in Armenia since ancient times and likewise Armenian communities in India which were the only foreigners trusted to freely travel anywhere in India free of taxes so this relationship is only natural and nothing new. In our more vulnerable and desperate time India of all countries stood by our side we will forever be grateful 🇮🇳 🇦🇲
@@krissoez9268 you guys don’t have food every Armenian I ever met tells me the samething is not me making it up !! Kabab is from Turkey and Persian !!! You guys obviously eat it just how we eat Italian food In America just how we eat Indian food in America just how we eat Mexican food in America just how we eat china people in America ! So plz check your history who cares how old is your small little Country if no one even knows about it
Indeed, I love the new flavors our Syrian & Lebanese Armenians bring to Armenia. My favorite Restaurant is Rehan in Yerevan. I will defined try Tigrans Restaurant (Halep) in Dilijan ❤️🙏.
Armenian dishes are some of the tastiest, healthiest and full of variety. My parents are from Lebanon but we made food that goes back to our ancestors in western Armenia. It's a shame that in Armenia they dont use as much spices, weve always been great middlemen and traders. I think 70 years of Soviet rule brought Russian influences but gradually that is changing. More Armenians are using spices and drinking wine instead of liquor.
Great to know that coming from place which exports 70-75% of all world spices, I congratulate you all for having created such fusions without losing your own roots. Love from India, hope the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan is significantly reduced if not obliterated completely. I would also be able to love Armenian food with all those spices, because Arab and Persian food is kind of bland for us.
Armenians come from such a tiny country, but man, they’ve got a huge footprint in the world. They can cook their asses off. And they sure do have some pretty women!!
@@Hh-op5vi Armenians are and will remain tiny but dream big. The dreams of larger Armenia is what made then small. And it still continues. Karabakh = Azerbaijan.
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ If that's the case, then I'm sorry to hear. Armenia shouldn't be a slave to anybody, especially not the anti-White Russian oligarchs who are just as bad as if not worse than the oligarchs who run Western Europe.
Wow those azeri have no history on their own, so they have to intervene with Armenian videos. That's actually proves the point who has culture and traditions and who is foreigner in Armenian Highlands.
Cher had contributed her dark complexion to her mother’s supposedly Cherokee blood. I could tell by looking at her, that she didn’t have native DNA. It was her mysterious father who turn out to be Armenian.
I'm an Armenian whose parents are from the modern republic but our ancestors go back to northwestern Iran and Eastern Turkey. The thing is, we don't really consider most of these Arabic. Armenians were always neighbors with Arabs, even before the genocide, so we consider it Ottoman influence that spans even further back than this misconception that most likely roots during the Russianification of the Soviet union.
Eastern Armenian food has also been heavily influenced by Russia as we were part of the USSR we all ate the same things, things that were easily grown and distributed throughout the USSR so noting exotic or exciting, meanwhile Armenians living outside Armenia kept their traditions and added to them.
@@Kickboxer7267 get over yourself would you, all countries from iraq to syria to lebanon to palestine cook food like this, get out of your trkish bubble. Thie is aleppian Armenian food
I think the lady in the spice shop is exaggerating a bit too much. Ofcourse Armenians use spices. I think she really means they use different types of spices to the ones she is use to using in the middle east.
Vice usually does a decent job, I really don't get it, sure they can get bad info if one side wants them to have it and they accept it as real but that can happen to anybody, and if the person viewing has the wrong truth it often requires in person facts to change their opinion which many people aren't willing to do. Most people don't form their opinion on things they've seen in person I mean, and vice at least tries to.
One thing Armenians, Azerbaijanis, tadzhiks, turkmeni, and Kazakhs all have in common was the Ottomans crushed them and then the Russians did it again and held them as republics until the 1980s. Most ex Soviet states have never truly recovered financially, militarily, or spiritually. The Russians stifled religion and culture other than Soviet propaganda. Yet they will never be held accountable for ruthless dictatorship or forced to pay any reparations to these proud people. Shame on the red bear 🐻. Their entire history Russia has been crushed by one empire after another, and now they have done it to their own neighbors. They have learned nothing from history other than to be as cruel to others as their enemies were to them.
@@SsemTexx they only let them have peace after they defeated them in battle. They didn't call it the ottoman empire for nothing. Sorry if it hurts your feelings to hear that the Ottomans were not always so nice.
@@user-id9bn1ic9v wait for it, because history will repeat again! Greece will be our new playground! The ottoman empire is coming back! Armenia already knows our power. :))) We are waiting for Armenia or Greece to make A wrong move, so we can get back what was already ours!!!
Granted not the most gentle deportation, when you throw people on the road, drive them into the desert with sometimes no food or water it's a grey area between deportation and extermination. I personally don't think its a serious attempt at genocide but they clearly didnt really care whether they left the country alive or left the world altogether. It's not that far from killing them with your knife, perhaps a bit more hypocritical.
Nice Turkish narrative. We're are the documents before 1915? You know the ones written in Arabic before you changes your alphabet to Latin? They no longer exist. Everything was destroyed by the Pashas at the collapse of the empire.
There's no such thing as Ottoman cuisine. In Turkey, everything is stolen cuisine. Your cuisine was red meat wrapped in a cloth under the horse's belly.