THIS IS BULGARIAN FOOD? (Sofia Bulgaria Food Tour) 

it's so weird that I enjoy watching foreigners try/do things that we do every day and are so used to here in Bulgaria

I am English and been Living in Sofia for a few years now. I love this country, the city is amazing. The food is incredible. So Glad you liked it here. I consider it more home than London these days.

Bulgarian food blew us away too! We can’t wait to go back 😄🇧🇬

I just randomly stumbled onto one of your vlogs here in Bulgaria and I've got to say that I really love how you enjoyed yourselves here in our small and humble country and in this video - my hometown. There is something really powerful and eye opening when a foreigner comes to visit your country and you see it through their eyes. It gives you a new perspective and makes you appreciate the country you live in, a lot more. Thank you for visiting and and enjoying Bulgaria. You are welcome anytime.

I'm from Bulgaria and I'm happy for two influencers from another country to come and explore it and see the Bulgarian culture and appreciate the Bulgarian

I envy you nobly because you have the honor to walk in the most ancient European lands, where European civilization begins. Bulgaria is so steeped in history and spirituality that you can feel it even in the air.

Texas! Is bulgarian underground graffitti artist.

04:03 "Sofiiska Banica"....a very good choice....I absolutely love their food (the banica with pumpkin or with apple is amazing) and boza. It is also a very old shop, founded in the early 1950s. Thank you for visiting Sofia and showing it to other people. Stay safe and have an amazing day ❤

The tripe soup (shkembe chorba) is normally quite rich, the vinegar dressing should have a lot of garlic inside, and the chili flakes make it strong. You are supposed to sweat as you are eating it. It's a hangover cure.

Really didn’t know what to expect of Bulgarian food but it looks delicious! Thanks for the tour o Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Love a good food tour!! Everything looked so yummy and delicious , that veg stew at the end looked incredible! Ashley squeaking up the stairs soaking wet 🥺

Somebody did their research beforehand, nice! Glad you liked our country and food, be sure to come back and explore more of our nature and other traditional food!!

Great vlog! Everything looked sooooo good. Food is such a big part of culture it's a must when traveling.

Filiq s luteniza! As a bulgarian that is my favorite! You tried someting like it in 19:42 ! It is a slise of bred whit tomato, pepper and aubergine on top! Whit the clasic bulgarian cheese it is purfect!

Your intuitive understanding about what the food is and how is supposed to be eaten are very spot on! You're right, boza is quite divisive. Not all bulgarians like it and many don't like drinking it at all. I personally find it alright and have it on occasion.

You cant go wrong with banitsa/boza combo or mekica for breakfast, or afternoon... or midnight snack when you went out with your buddies specifically for that banitsa haha

Love that you try all the specialty foods 😋 from a country & even region that you're in. Really adventurous & a major & often overlooked benefit of traveling. Nice !

I didn't watched this food video because i watched Luke's Martin video about Turkey. You guys totally rocked Bulgaria and you know more than me.Sadly this year for summer i was unable to come back for summer.Also sea festival is amazing in Lithuania always happens in July.Those mouthwatering foods were really mind blowing.I have tried many cuisines,but i cant find more better than Western or European cuisine.Thai food i rarely eat, even if i am in Thailand.Also Japanese food had enough, probably Chinese too.So basically we in Europe dont add bad stuff in food like in Asia.I know in Us people add so much additives into food,but i would say have many healthy options in Us for eat.Those mekitsas oh yes and that stew,then those other foods simply astonishing.Looking forward your video guys from my hometown country Lithuania.

Thank you for popularizing our beautifull country.

You forgot to visit the Bulgarian seaside, it is magnificent there! :)

Glad you liked our food! My personal favourite is also banitsa, the homemade ones are even better! About boza (which by the way is pronounced with the last syllable stressed, more like boZA) , I guess it's kinda divisive. I'm personally not a fan and many people I know aren't. I'd still say the majority of Bulgarians love it but there's definitely some who dislike it.

Аз съм от България- I'm from Bulgaria 🇧🇬 😎 😍 ♥ 😋

I've spent the last five months here. You should go to Sozopol on the black sea. Everyone talks about Sunny Beach and Burgas but Sozopol is where the locals go.

That “veggie stew “ is called lute Zia and it’s eaten mostly with bread

Looking forward to your next stop!! Love your videos!

We make our own wine AND rakia. Bulgariangrapes are also delicious to eat. The region south of Rila has some exceptional wines. Rakia can be made of any fruit, but most commonly plums and grapes!

5:11 this is because in the diffrent regions, they make the banica a little bit diffrent. veliko tarnovo is in the north east region. and sofia is in the west. in my region, we make it really diffrent than than in sofia. nice video! :)

Guys you're awesome! For the short time you were in our country you created an amazing content, very well prepared with history, research and awesome drone footige. unfortunately you didn't have time to go to Plovdiv which I believe among with Tarnovo is the best place to visit, but next time when you come ;)

Banitsa is done differently in different parts of the country. I prefer the Sofyiska Banitsa. They've really perfected it. They even do deliveries 1kg Banitsa with a 1L Boza xD

You are awesome guys! You deserve way more subscribers!

Welcome to Bulgaria

България е номер 1 :)

You come to Bulgaria in the summer and miss the sea side? You're miss A LOT! The white cheese is not just traditional, we invent it along with yogurt ;) (lactobacilicus Bulgaricus - the name of bacteria making those milk products all over the world). Boza is very Bulgarian specific morning breakfast drink that goes well with Banitsa and Gevrek or Kifla wiith jam or Mekitsa, 75% of bulgarian people love it and drink it since they were kids, other 25% along with most of the tourists hate it and never drink it, but i love it. Tribe soup is made of pig's stomac, but i love it with garlic, it is veeery tasty. Oh we're making one of the best wines in the world, but the Rakia is our traditional invention, but we have a lot of both.

9:38 Most restaurants make Tarator with long flakes of cucumbers and they make the yougurt very diluted which makes it more of a "soup" rather than a salad. They are also a bit stingy on the fennel (or dill, I'm not sure about the english translation, just ask for pure "Kopar" if you are in Bulgaria and make sure it isn't "Anason" which looks the same but smells way differently and is mostly used for alcoholic drinks). Try making one yourself with cucumbers in small cubes and dilute your yogurt a little bit less. Put some garlic, salt, oil and the most important thing - a lot of fennel. The fresh smell will fill up the whole room! There is also a Russian salad similar to this - Snezhanka, meaning Snow White. It's not the same. The yogurt is way thicker and I don't know if garlic is even a thing. Tarator all the way! :)

Tarator is good but have you imagined it with bread,water, garlic especially fresh one without yoghurt also there's one with lettuce and yes walnuts

The boza drink is basically 50 50 yea either hate it or love it.I hope yall have a wonderful time here!

Glad you enjoyed it. If you decide to come back sometime, we can hangout

I live abroad, but I miss my Sofia ❤️ Thank you for this delicious video 😘

Yeah, Boza is very much a 50-50 thing - kids love drinking it, but as they grow up most will opt for Ayran (savoury yoghurt drink).

Glad to hear that you are like my home country and also interested to see opinion on your upcoming and my girlfried country Lithuania i will sugges maybe to go to the oldest city in Europe Plovdiv

Браво.Thanksfor Filming Sofia

You should try banitsa with airan :)

So you guys did go to Moma! This was the place that had amazing dips I mentioned in a past comment! Hahaha. That place was amazing. 🤤 It was also raining like freakin' crazy while we were there. Got trapped in it ourselves. Snow, sun and rain. Experienced all three in Bulgaria within 24 hours!

Shopska is good we also do pepper and leek salad and tons of other salads

I love mekichka because it`s so yummy with chocalate

Very well done channel,im learning alot from this debs xx

Let me explain you, bosa is made from lightly baked flour, sugar and water. If it`s fresh it`s not fermented and it`s only sweet, but if it`s original withouth preservatives after 2-3 days become bit sour....very different taste and little bit alcoholic.

Thanks for trying bulgarian food! My favorite is the banitza! We’re very glad to see both of you trying our food!

Great video

Hi :) Texas is a graffiti artist, he does them in his own style . Thanks for noticing!

im born here i live here and when you live here enough it starts to feel like alright but not fully like crazy

Students from Bulgaria worked in Corpus Christi Texas

Boza is made from fermented barley...and banitza have butter and feta- cheese, eggs, milk...

I love how amazed foreigners are when they try our food! I've grown used do it very much and the exciting taste fades away, but seeing videos of our country is somehow weird to me because I don't expect many people to know our country, or even if they knew it, try it instead of others! You guys also visited all the restaurants/shops I visit every day which I also find fascinating somehow... Also It's Banits*a*, Boz*a* , Tarat*o*r. Basically every letter is pronounced the same in almost every word, and you don't change it's sound. Also I think that the TEXAS! is just someone's nickname or tag, as those are very common in the country. Even I have some tags around. I hope you enjoyed your stay! Come back again! 😄

5:40 This is „Izvara“ (Cottage cheese)

I Bulgaria and Hi ❤

4:02 It's just to write something on the wall so to be ruined (such vandal acts but not only here-it's all around the world). 10:13 vinegar and garlic mix with you put on the skembe chorpa (skembe is a dialect form of the word stomach). 15:28 Also instead of grapes you can use plums,apricots and other fruits but usually these 3. P.S. This banitsa is one of the best (no one can beat grandmas's ones). About the boza-it's a beverage made by fermentation of millet or other grains like rye (most common), corn, oats or wheat. It's a emblema,like the banitsa but some like it others don't,they prefer ayrian (milk diluted with water and if you want you can add a pinch of salt). I don't wanna insult the company that made it but they're better bozas especially from my town (we're the makers of this drink;one interesting fact-genetically the natives have different lenght of their hands with left being the longer because of our ancestors holding the gyum with the boza). Hope you come back and visit more places (recommodation:Pirin and Rodopa mountains)

You need to try mekitsa with cheese 😋

Hearing shopska salad instead of shopska salata feels so weird XD.

7:09 - You hit it on the head, bro. It's exactly that. It's fermented bread + water + milk + sweetener/sugar + preservatives.

Next time you're in Sofia, hit me up, imma make you a homemade banitsa. It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy different than bought banitsa, they are nothing like each other. And also - go to soul kitchen restaurant, there u can eat vegan tarator, which is freaking amazing!

Please you have to try Rakia with Airqn

Hi I'm from Bulgaria

Mushrooms have nothing to do with cows belly though, shkembe chorba with garlic, vinegar and chilli flakes....😍

Hi guys, Texas ( graffiti artist) is one of the most active artists in Sofia. From what I know he has no relations to the state or the USA.

I personally enjoy this drink, no, no beans :)

I am from Bulgaria

""Texas" is the tag name of a local graffiti artist. As well, some people in Bulgaria refer to you as if you are from Texas if you're acting like a village, tough, chalga guy :D

Texas! that you keep seeing is just someone's tag.

i used to hate boza when i was a kid, maybe because of the consistency🤣because it's not actually that bad taste wise, it's sweet. but with banitsa, i prefer ayran

Благодаря, че оценявате високо нашата храна, но толкова ли е трудно да произнесете бАница ( ударението е на А )?

Banitsa from a bakery on the street is one of my favorite foods in Bulgaria

The mikitza is fried, but not deep fried. There's difference between the two methods!

Boza is made mainly of wheat. The best one I tried was in Etara, Gabrovo, the ethnic historical village-museum. People make boza in different ways with different flavors.

Should try Vkisnal Hui soon ,you will really enjoy it😏

MY BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL AND AMAZING SOFIA!

That soup tarator soup looks and sounds delicious 😋! I'm adding Bulgaria to my list of places to visit. I was raised by my Czech 🇨🇿 grandparents in US and grew up with alot of yummy food , different from other kids in class lololol. Bulgaria looks like a magical place ✨️ gorgeous place and the mountains and blue lakes . Looks like Switzerland, but way way better place.

You tried boza , rakia and tarator and you enjoyed it - you are honorary Bulgarian in my eyes 😂 Thank you for trying so many dishes and being so respectful towards our national cusine and our beautiful country ❤️ There are different types of banitza , make sure you try some of them next time you have a chanse. I can recommend the pumpkin and the spinach one.

You said Sofia correctly! Really good! Most words have their stress on different syllables than an English native speaker would expect: it’s bozA, bAnitsa, Veliko taRnovo, taratOr. Also, a tip - Bulgarian is entirely phonetic, so you pronounce every letter that is written and it doesn’t really change its sound. So, when a word ends with “e”, it is still pronounced as an “e”, like in “end”. The cheese is called sirene - it’s white brine cheese and it’s the default Bulgarian cheese.

I don't know if anybody from Sofia commented about the thunderstorm, but Sofia is kinda famous for its sudden summer thunderstorms. They happen because the city is located in a valley and surrounded by high mountains on all sides. So it's a regular pattern that in the summer, when the air in the city has been heated by the sun during the day and the cold mountain air comes crashing down in the afternoon, sudden thunderstorms happen. They happen very quickly, they're very harsh and they're not very long (only 20 minutes on average). Some people from Sofia love them. These are also why the city is so green, the vegetation gets enough water during the summer.

Greetings to my Bulgarian neighbours.Being Serbian (from the south), Bulgaria sounds like home, and the most of the food is something what an average Serb would eat on the daily basis.I hope you decide to visit Serbia as well if you didn't.You got my subscription :)

Watching someone tasting boza for the first time always brings a smile on my face. I'm Bulgarian and I love it, but it is rare to see a foreigner who likes it :D

Да Ви е сладко с българска национална кухня! Това е закуска за шампиони. Баница, боза, мекици, качамак, пататник, палачинки, шопска салата, мусака, кюфте и кебапче и много други, са наша, българска кухня и традиция. Храна за делник и празник! Бъдете здрави и пак елате в България!

Reminder that the Balkans region has a lot of shared culture including food: Sarmi/ Sarma and Dolmas/Dolmades are the same with slight regional/national variations from Romania to Bulgaria, to Greece and Turkey. For example Sarma is derived from Turkish and means something like wrapped. Tripe soup in Romanian is called ciorba de burtă ( in Turkish iskembe ciorbasi )and ciorbe are a type of sour soups hence the vinegar. Similarly white brined cheese (mostly from sheep but also cow milk) is typical for Balkans and will be called differently depending on country: Sirene in Bulgrian, Feta in Greek, Telemea in Romanian etc.

Also yes, the boza is very divisive, you either love it or hate it, there are many who hate it, many who love it, I'm one of the lovers, to the point where I sometimes use " Boza " as a nickname in games and such, no joke, people presume it's something indian, lmao but yeah :D

As a Bulgarian living abroad (and away from these treasures) for most of the year, this series just warmed my heart and reminded me of how happy I am for having been born here. Thank you so so much for researching, exploring and sharing our cousine, it really made me observe and appreciate it in a whole new way! This video was such a pleasure to watch, I loved your reactions. You are always welcome back, Bulgaria has much more to offer!

I’m from Sofia and I’d be glad if someone explain to me the Texas graffiti, too. About the boza, most people like drinking it. It is very common for pregnant ladies to crave it. We joke about how in countries where there isn’t any the local women fulfil this craving.

The boza you've tried is actually terrible :) Nothing like the real stuff, maybe that's why most people don;t like it nowadays. I recommend the boza made by Harmonica, because they don't add artificial stuff.

Fun fact, the EU tried to stop Bulgarians from making their own rakiq, they saw this is not going to happen, so they are letting it slide as long as it's for personal use. Also some of the grape vines are really for wine :)

BTW, Bosa is made from Millet flour, sugar and water - nothing strange. 😀

Most of us grew up with mekica banitsa and boza. Back in the days when i was a kid 90s early 2000 we had banitsa with boza everyday in school and mekitsa every weekend, nobody cared much about healthy food, there were not that much computers and no mobile phones, so everyone was out playing for whole day...no fat kids, no eye problems, everyone was healthy and strong.

One suggestion: Don't drink boza if you're thinking about driving afterwards. There's no alcohol in the drink, but the police's drug testers will read your blood levels if you drink too much.

Thirty years in the US, and among the things I miss most about Bulgaria is the food. I'm surprised you liked boza -- it's unusual to like it unless you grew up with it. It was the most popular thing to drink when I was growing up, and I still love it. Shopska salad is perhaps the most famous food, and it was created by the communist Ministry of Tourism as a "traditional" salad. But everyone loves it, so there's one thing the communists did right (by the way, cheese fondue was created by the Swiss for basically the same reason). Did you not try the mixed grill (kyufte, kebapche, etc) with traditional sides (lyutenitsa, beans)? If you are still in Bulgaria, don't miss that -- it has got to be among the best things to eat.

I just wanna put that out there, there are many variations of Banitsa, home made especially is usually the most distinguished among all :D

14:37 You are so cute

In fact, "boza" is the mother of what is called "ale" in Western Europe.

Bosa is a non-fermented or slightly fermented drink prepared by boiling cereal mash, then mashing (to remove the bran), diluting it with water and sweetening it with sugar. In addition to taste, boza also has nutritional value, as it contains a lot of carbohydrates (10-17%), proteins, mineral salts, vitamins from the B complex, etc. According to the raw materials used, bosa is either simple - made from rye or wheat or mixed - from millet and rye (wheat) in a ratio of 50:50. Recently, Bulgaria has also produced cocoa - mixed bosa, produced with the addition of cocoa powder. A good-quality bosa should be a uniform colloidal suspension without signs of sedimentation and clarification. Immediately after production, the bosa is unfermented and must contain a minimum of 10% sugar (cocoa - 14.5%). As a result, the bosa can slightly ferment and become carbonated. Commercially available boza must contain a minimum of 8.3% sugar (cocoa - 13.5%) and have a maximum alcohol content of 6%. The boza is exported for sale packed in gummies or in wide-necked bottles closed with plastic or cardboard stoppers. During the winter period, the durability of the boza is up to 48 hours, and during the summer (from May 1 to October 10) - up to 24 hours. During this period, it is not allowed to sell the boza without it being cooled.

Congratulations! Thanks God you didn't know, but 90+% of foreigners hate boza to death. Even Bulgarians that were raised in another country hate it. It seems like a cultural thing. Most people just don't have anything closer to it. I love boza myself. But banitsa is best with ayran. It's based on Bulgarian yogurt. Some foreigners hate it as well, but it's awesome. It's like tarator without the cucumbers, dill, garlic, oil and wallnuts. It's far better option for banitsa for me. As well you could try many more varieties of banitsa. The one with sirene is the predominant one, but the one with leek is outstanding. You could buy it from Sofiiska banitsa.

The recipe for tarator is: main ingredients - yogurt diluted with water (some times in the hot summer days, just ice cubes) and cucumber. The added ingredients are walnuts, dill, garlic and sometimes oil, but any of those can be omitted according to preference. There are some good videos how to prepare it. Its the perfect cold summer "soup".

Hey yall, just randomly stumbled on this video and I'm so happy you enjoyed Sofia, Bulgaria - my hometown. Loved your video, and I have to say, back in 2018 when I was in high school I lived in Dallas, Texas for one year and had the time of my life, so I'm really happy to see you enjoying my home, just like I did yours!