I used to live in the same building with restaurant Cella in the 90s, been there like dozens of times 🥰 P.S. You've been lied to, there's 3,2 million saunas in Finland 😂
Oh nice! We really liked it there. We actually talk more about saunas in a later video. That the guesstimate is more like 3.5 million now. Estimates online are all over the place😆. Anyway, guess you can't have too much of a good thing!
@@lostamonglocals5382 To my opinion, sauna is one the greatest inventions in the world, especially in winter time. Going to the sauna does wonders for the skin. I hope you enjoyed your time in our little country and welcome back 🙂
Sorry I really want to understand you but everything else is so loud (background, your voices are not hearable) , would you add subtitles please?🥰 (Or is the sound quality a problem of mine only?😳)
It's not just you. This was a period of a few videos when our external microphone was broken. I'm so sorry. Believe it or not we have done all the sound editing we could and it just is still loud. RU-vid should get the subtitles up soon. Thanks for being patient.
Uggg we know😮💨 It's not the mic. We found out our microphone jack was broken during this series unfortunately. It is a common problem with Sonys and the second time it has happened to us. It's in the shop for repairs now!!
@@lostamonglocals5382 no i'm actually a sound guy and what i meant was that you need to get an external microphone in loud environments. like reporters have. or maybe lav mikes? they don't even have to be cordless. just hook a cheap external mike to the camera what you can keep near your mouth.
anyway. you should keep your microphone like a foot from your mouth or much closer if it's loud in the environment. no matter how cheap the mic is. the quality of the mic doesnt really matter at all
@@moonliteX thanks for the input. We have external shotgun mics right now. Our Rode one is broken due to the port issue. The hotshoe Sony is what this filmed on and it just totally crap. We think it actually amplifies background noise and makes it worse😬. This is after some sound editing. The noise on that thing is just heinous!! We have been researching some lapel or wireless ones too. Undecided so far. Do you have a favorite? It has to be small. We travel full time out of backpacks. It had to be easy to use in multiple situations.
Helsinki looks beautiful with the snow! All the food certainly looked interesting and I'd love to try them. It sounds like you enjoyed most of them and we probably would too. Being from Wisconsin we have eaten both bear and deer meat and a lot of fish! It's not bad. They obey the traffic rules while walking because they don't want to dart out into traffic when the car's aren't able to stop on the ice! They certainly have a lot of saunas but then they have a lot of snow banks too. Quite often it's traditional to jump in the snow banks after using the sauna. Wisconsin has a lot of people of Finnish decent who used to do that. My (Dave) grandmother was one! That's mostly obsolete now though. Can't figure out why? Loved the video. Thanks so much for bringing us along.
I didn't realize there was a large Finn pop in Wisconsin but that makes sense. The snow or ice lake plunge is still very alive and well in Finland...you might see a couple of southerners brave it soon 😉
as a local, a little hint: layers layers layers layers. a thing to move the moisture out (merino rocks, probably some technical wear too), a thing of wool / fleece (or whatever you find warming up to your standards) and top it off with something with perhaps small insulation but get the bits with the most windblock you can find. thats what i wear when snowboarding under -25c -13f and my only problem has been that the scarf gets moisture from my breath and it freezes lmao
Thanks for the tips! We are so glad it was not -25. The worst we saw was -9, but we got lucky. It was not windy or wet while we were there, so it was really pleasant. I can't imagine boarding in -25!!!!!🥶
@@lostamonglocals5382 Depends that if the cold weather is humid, or dry. I mean if u are next to sea or big open lake IT IS COLD. But when lakes and sea frozes it is dry, so it doesn't feel so cold.
Those traditional foods are from the era when the mount of ingredients and spices available where limited and couldn't even be imported during winters, because the seas were frozen. The emphasis was that the food was nutritious and energy-rich and kept people going. Since there was a lot of things to do, food being simple to prepare was probably a plus too. So not the best starting point for a culinary culture. Reindeer meat being gain and all, is kinda exotic for most Finns too. Definitely not everyday food for the most. Even the nature goes quiet in the winters. Even trees are silent. It's like everyone's on energy-save mode or hibernating. Except them children who get to play in snow. Also people tend to stay indoors and the snow muffles noises. You need that coffee or a dip in the icy water to wake up. Maybe Metal music helps too. Finnish Metal music is quite heavily influences by other genres, though, so Metal might not be quite so own separate genre in Finland like it perhaps is somewhere else. Finnish Metal musicians often do also other music than just Metal. Getting dressed up in the winter gets quicker when it becomes a routine. I'd say that jail-walking is allowed, when it's safe, but not mandatory. In general the idea is that respecting the common rules is the basis of mutual trust and having a functioning society. Architecture looks newish mostly because wood has been the main building material, so the buildings haven't lasted or they have been easy to demolished for the sake of progress. Not that the progress has always been good. There are still some medieval parts of wooden towns left in some cities, like in Porvoo and Rauma. There's also some saunas in cars. Not sure how those are put into the statistics, but yes, sauna is pretty much a must thing for most of the Finns and definitely embedded in the Finnish culture.
Really enjoyed your visit, thanks for sharing. Thought you should know Finland is not part of Scandinavia, but part of the Nordic countries. Did you try mämmi, or glogi? I’m curious what these are like. Hope you make it North to see the aurora’s? If not, hopefully next time (On my list)
Hey! Thank you so much. We didn't get to either of these. They were hard to find when we were visiting. I think they are more popular around the holidays. We did get to go north and that is our next video...if we ever finish it!!😬
Estonian I think resembles finnish the most. They even use many of same words as we do. Tho they often mean something completely different and can be hilariously misunderstood.
😁😁 she is just cute (ryan here) she was exhausted, but actually hadn't been drinking this night.🤣 Thanks for watching until the end. Sorry bout the sound! Hopefully it will be better soon.
We had never been in cold like this for sure but you know it wasn't really that bad. It was dry at least. I think that's why we loved the food so much. Everything was made to warm you!
yepp but try going 1000 miles north into the arctic circle. we have real proper cities there.. i mean the arctic circle cuts finland in half almost in the middle. even to us finns here in helsinki it's like a new yorker going to the northernmost city in canada. but it's just normal countryside. roads go everywhere just like normal and no eskimos or even higher prices basically.
Haha, just started watchin and you say all traditional food in finland 😆 in Helsinki? 😅 nooo.... there is many regions in finland, with traditional foods.. and helsinki has the tourist ones 😅
Wow. Just a turn of phrase in the opening. Obviously, we aren't going to eat ALL the traditional Finnish foods on a random one day food tour...of Helsinki...but if that's what you want to focus on and comment about... cool. Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos.
There is a very classic restaurant: Restaurant Elite which has been in business since 1932. It is a more expensive restaurant but it’s legendary and they serve very finnish dishes. Just a tip for anyone looking for well made finnish food made from quality ingredients in Helsinki.
Just a small correction to the fact about saunas and cars: There are about 5,1 million cars and 3,2 million saunas in Finland. Nice to see Helsinki in winter time like this, in the middle of the summer. Last winter was coldest one in a long time so you had a good snow experience. Before the winters have been kind of mild and slushy and just rainy and wet.
Good food choices. All were very traditionals finnish foods. As a local i can say i like those all. At the wintertime i like to eat lot of soop. Doesn´t realy matter is it salmon, meat, chicken or sausage soop. Those all are good and warms from inside at the cold season. I hope that Karelian pie was heated before serving. T hose have best taste when those are warm and of course with the egg butter on top.
@@lostamonglocals5382 Great! I have seen few videos where people try those pies from supermarket without heating and nothing top of those. Not so pleasent to eat at all 😂.
