BULGARIAN STREET FOOD TOUR – THE BEST PORK RIBS EVER!! Trying out local food in Plovdiv, Bulgaria!

BULGARIAN STREET FOOD TOUR – THE BEST PORK RIBS EVER!! Trying out local food in Plovdiv, Bulgaria!

Good morning guys and welcome back to another  video here from Bulgaria today we are in the city   of Plovdiv this is a city that has a lot of pretty  good food and um I’m very very excited we this is  

Our first time having food here in Bulgaria so  I’m excited to show you what Bulgarian food is   like I don’t even know what Bulgarian food is  like from what I understand it is very similar   to Turkish food simply because Bulgaria was part  of the Ottoman Empire it was taken over um and  

Which is why when we were in Romania we saw so  much history about how the they were fighting   the Ottomans because Bulgaria which is south of  Romania was already taken away it was already   um taken away by the Ottomans a lot of Turkish  food a lot of Turkish influences but nonetheless  

There should still be some Eastern European  influences that we’re going to try out while   we’re here in Bulgaria but let’s go ahead it’s  kind of lunchtime now so I feel like the best   way to get into Bulgarian Cuisine is to try  to visit a local little cafeteria so let’s  

Go find one and let’s go ahead and get our  lunch in for for the day you want more yes please [Music] little chicken can I have one chicken  soup please here here this prise please I get  

One of the peppers as well and then some the meats  all right first stop of the day we’ve come to a   place this is a place known as chili um no this  is not American Chili’s this is Bulgarian chili  

And they’re a cafeteria that sort of serves  different types of food um cafeteria style   very very good and by the way I got like four  plates of food the price 17 that is ridiculous  

How affordable the food is here in Bulgaria I got  a soup I got some rice I got a fried fish thing I   got some stuffed pepper which is traditional  here in Bulgaria and of course meatballs and   potatoes something like that honestly I don’t  know the Bulgarian name so do not ask me for  

The Bulgarian names but without further Ado let’s  go ahead and start off with the chicken soup again   you can see it’s got that yellowish orangish color  which is what we had when we were in uh Romania  

So that sort of color is the same let’s see if it  tastes the same as well let’s go ahead and try it out oh hard Hardy oily soup there that is  delicious it’s so smooth I love how oily  

And smooth is it just sort of coats your mouth  in most amazing flavor it’s almost like chicken   fat just coats your entire mouth you can see  the top layer there it’s it’s quite oily it’s   not the healthiest sort of cleanest soup but is  it delicious absolutely I would eat that in a  

Heartbeat now let’s go on with the rice this is  chicken rice um I don’t know what it is chicken   and rice probably with maybe some carrots it looks  like it’s a cold dish I don’t know let’s go ahead  

And try it [Music] out very interesting the rice  is a little bit creamy there’s a bit of like a   mayonnaise sauce on it but really really just not  too warm not not too warm it almost feels like a  

Rice salad but the chicken really nice really soft  very very tender that’s what I see about the rice   and the chicken as well it’s all coated in this  sort of creamy sauce so that’s good is all right  

Let’s go for the fish this looks like a fried fish  stick that’s all it looks like let’s go ahead and see that is literally a fried fish stick  it doesn’t have anything else but a fried   fish stick on the inside very very fried fish  sticky um but I love the little cracklings on  

The outside really really crispy and finally the  main thing here this is the main plate here T rest   though with the Peppers this is peppers stuffed  with rice and meat this is about as traditional   as a get and even though this just the pepper  it’s coated in this like sauce that’s on the  

Outside um it looks really good and it’s about to  fall off my Fork so let’s go ahead and give it a [Music] bite oh that is delicious I’ve had a  lot of stuffed peppers in my life this might  

Be one of my favorite favorites I love the flavor  of the rice on the inside it’s very frequent it’s   almost got like an Herby sort of oregano and  you can see the sauce itself the sauce has a  

Bit of herbs on it it’s got these little leaves  inside that show you that you know it’s not just   a simple sauce you’ve got some flavor to it of  course next to peppers I’ve got a load of fried  

Potatoes and meatballs meat balls are a very  common thing here they CED it which is what you   know it’s based off the Turkish style meatballs  let’s go ahead and just get some of the potatoes  

Here I want to try out and see if these crispy  potatoes really live up to the hyp let’s try them [Music] out oh very delicious garlicky flavor  to these fried potatoes they’re like garlic   roasted potatoes which I absolutely love  no complaints about at all garlic roasted  

Potatoes are some of my favorite things in  the world to have so that it’s delicious all   right let’s of course try out the meatball the  main thing here the meatball let’s see how it

Tastes that’s actually got some spice to it it’s  got like a not like a heat sort of spice but like   a Turkish sort of spice flavor to it like I  said Turkish influence really really big in  

Bulgaria this tastes like a meatball that I would  have in Turkey you know filled with spices filled   with herbs filled with all that flavor that you  usually get from Turkish Cuisine but it’s right   here in bulgar area I mean for me my favorite  thing here the soup delicious absolutely love  

The soup the meatballs and the potatoes that’s  what you really should come for and the stuffed   pepper also really really good but for me the  price is really what you’re here for 17 Le for  

All of this I thought it was going to be at  least like 30 left but for the amount you’re   getting here and the quantity that you have and  the quality of it as well there’s a reason that  

People like to come here and have lunch in the  middle of the day it’s cheap good home cooking   and it is about as delicious as it when you want  to get traditional authentic Bulgarian food here   in the city which is not something that’s  easy to get considering puff is kind of a  

Well visited touristy area but very very delicious  I want to finish this up and let’s go see where   else we can eat oh that was a delicious meal and  honestly after that meal I’m stuffed I thought I   could eat a little bit more and somewhere  else but I am literally stuffed from that  

That was delicious like I said the price of  that 17 left I mean just extremely extremely   affordable I I thought they were lying to me I  didn’t think that that could actually possibly   be the price of so much food but apparently  here in Bulgaria that is the price um but  

Anyways we’re going to walk around the city and  uh when I’m hungry again I’ll let you guys know   and I will see what we can eat [Music] then all  right next place we’ve come to is a place that  

Is called Juma and it is a Turkish sweet and  Coffee House that has been around since let’s   get this straight 1364 that’s like what 800 700  years of History that’s pretty insane now this   place serves traditional Turkish sweets Turkish  coffee Turkish drinks anything Turkish you can  

Probably have here and the reason is because  the mosque uh the main mosque here in ped is   actually right behind it so it’s actually  sort of housed under the mosque itself um   for stuff Cold Lemonade it’s hot day here in PL  I need a cold lemonade let’s go and give it a

Try oh delicious citrusy refreshing and cold  that is exactly what you want on a hot day here   in now I’ve gotten something which is very very  interesting um it’s called catre and what is catm   catmere is a Bulgarian pastry called banita with  pistachios now banit I don’t know what banit was  

But from what I understand it kind of looks like  kif it kind of looks like the Turkish karif that   I had when I was in Istanbul when I was in  Turkey so it looks like a very traditional  

Turkish thing and if I had this in Istanbul I  wouldn’t question it at all as Turkish the fact   I have it here in Bulgaria even more surprising  all right I’m just going to go ahead and cut off  

A little piece you can see K is that cheesiness  you know with that syrup oh look at how stretchy   that cheese is one of the best things about  Turkish desserts is that cheesy um sort of   crispiness on the outside all right let’s go  ahead and try out our first catre um here in

Bulgaria I never thought I was going to get  K as good as I had in the sand bowl and I am   wrong because this is straight out from Turkey it  is warm it is crumbly it is so so comfortable the  

Cheese it’s melty it’s stretchy it’s soft it just  disintegrates in your mouth the crispiness of the   K on the outside creates like a biscuit layer  like fried noodles the sweetness the tender   sweetness of the cheese is delicious topped off  with pistachio powder which is amazing for the K  

It’s perfect for the catm oh my goodness that  is honestly something straight out from the   streets of aano I’m not even kidding about  how authentic and how good this tastes I am   genuinely shocked by the quality of the food  um that that I’m getting here it’s honestly  

Like I was in turkey again that’s how good this  is this is delicious I mean honestly hands down   one of the best desserts I’ve had in Eastern  Europe the Ottomans really put their influence   here whether it’s religion politics food they  definitely got their food in cuz this is just  

As good as they want to have it in in in  stanbul but that is incredible and like I   said it’s in Bulgaria we aren’t in Turkey  we are in Bulgaria and yet we can still   get something that is basically straight  out Froman bow it’s warm it’s comfortable  

It’s delicious and with a cold lemonade on the  side it’s the best afternoon snack I could ask for what is this this yeah potato bowl potato  bowl is it just potato potato cheese t uh potato  

Cheese what about that one uh to the yes this  is a pork pork pork me B and spice all right   well the sun has set there’s a little doggy who  has seen my food and is craving when I’m about  

To eat because I’ve got meat lots and lots of  meat I’ve gone to a place called BC 90 I don’t   know what the other words are there but it’s  a big red sign it’s a big red store and it’s  

Located right on the main walking Street the  longest walking Street in all of Europe and   I’ve gotten ribs and a little beef no not pork  meatball but these ribs first off can we just   admire how tender these ribs are I mean I’m just  ripping it off right now it is the softest like  

Softest meat ever um they have this big grill on  the inside which they grill out in the morning   so they have all the meats cooked and this  is just whatever’s left over at the end of  

The day I mean they’re closing in like 5 minutes  right now so that’s why I’m eating it out here on   the main street but without further Ado let’s go  ahead and try out our first pork rib here in PIV

Bulgaria that pork is just coated in the  most luscious in the most flavorful in the   most delicious fatty sort of oil looking at  it you can see how tender it is it literally   not part the each strand of muscle there is  just going to break apart once it enters in  

Your mouth that is one of the best bites of  pork ribs I’ve ever had in my life it is so   insanely tender I mean wow the flavor on that  pork it’s so Smoky I can it’s like I can still  

Taste the smoke from that flavor there that is  incredible and the marbling between the meat   and the fat it’s incredibly well done really  really good okay finally of course we’ve got   the meat pork patty this is a meatball with  spices in it um let’s go ahead and try it out

That is incredible that might be a Bulgarian  meatball but that tast something like Indian   it’s got like spices and lots of spice it actually  it’s got quite like a heat spice like I think they   might have put some chilies or something on there  but that is delicious it’s also a very very dense  

Meatball there’s not a lot of air it’s not a lot  of bounciness it’s very very dense meat in there   and that is delicious wow and by the way total  price for all this 10 lay that’s like what five  

Bucks that is insanely affordable for two of  these massive ribs I mean look at the size of   these ribs they are like the size of my face  like that is pretty pretty insane if you ask  

Me and then of course the meatball on the side  which is absolutely delicious as well I mean 100%   recommend this place the food the meat is just  so so tender like I said the flavor of the meat  

The smokiness of the pork that’s what you really  really come here for because it’s honestly off the   chart tender and off the hook good honestly  after all that meat I’m pretty stuffed I am   really meated out I’ve got the meat sweats um I’m  definitely full for today but what an amazing food  

Day it has been here in Plovdiv Bulgaria so many  delicious foods that we’ve tried I mean from the   cafeteria the stuffed peppers were amazing the the  meatballs and the meatballs that we had just now   also really good um the banit pastry uh which is  basically really a Turkish Katmer they’ve just had  

A different name for it here in Bulgaria um but  it’s like something that’s straight out from you   know what I would expect in Istanbul I mean that  is the type of food that we have here in Bulgaria  

And and obviously that is really what appeals to  me about Bulgarian food it’s so similar to some   of the best cuisines in the world Turkish Cuisine  Greek cuisine um and is a mix of all those Balkan   influences together that creates the beautiful  Bulgarian Cuisine um but what an amazing way to  

End off our night here in Bulgaria with that meal  just now the pork ribs so so tender I am stuffed   I’m really really full so that’s how you know it’s  been a good food day um if you enjoyed this video  

Definitely give it a thumbs up and subscribe  for more food and travel videos we got more   videos coming here from Bulgaria so make sure to  stay tuned but for now that’s it for this video I  

Hope you guys have enjoyed food here in Plovdiv  and I will see see you guys on the next one bye [Music] guys

Plovdiv, Buglaria – The oldest city in all of Europe also happens to have some of the best food in the world. With some of the best mixture of culture I have seen anywhere in the world, Bulgarian food happens to be the best mixture of Turkish and European influences to create the incredible cuisine that exists in Bulgaria. In this video, we explore all the street food on offer in this incredible city. From delicious juicy pork ribs to Turkish desserts, this is the most insane food tour in all of Bulgaria that you won’t want to miss!

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