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Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 6, 2003 09:27 AM UTC
Lucky you!
Try the savoury pancakes (with deer or other meat). There are of course dessert pancakes too - in fact, some times the dessert menu is very long :-)))
Fruit booze such as with peach is gorgeous and often served in connection to meals in good restaurants. Then of course Tokaj wine.
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Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 6, 2003 09:29 AM UTC
Hi welcome to hungary...I assume that you will be in Budapest :)
For the local drink, you should taste the unikum. There are 2 groups of people, one who likes it, and the other who does not like it :) It tastes like medicine. In fact it is prepared from some medicinal herbs. You should find it in any eatery in Hungary.
Sayan
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 6, 2003 02:38 PM UTC
"you should taste the unikum. There are 2 groups of people, one who likes it, and the other who does not like it "
...who likes it and the other who hates it. :)))
Beware of pacal! :))))
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Thu August 7, 2003 06:28 AM UTC
The pacal sounds good. Looks like tripe is a delicacy in quite a number of countries. In Malaysia we have black pepper tripe soup. Very tasty.
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Thu August 7, 2003 06:28 AM UTC
The pacal sounds good. Looks like tripe is a delicacy in quite a number of countries. In Malaysia we have black pepper tripe soup. Very tasty.
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Re: Food and drinks Posted: Sat August 9, 2003 04:37 AM UTC
In Poland we suppose that more typical national dishes is Hungary are: halaszle - fish soup; goulash; lecso - mix of wegetables (mostly paprika and tomatoes), meat or sausages. Very popular are langos cakes with cream and garlic sauce. And the most important: everywhere you can buy garlands of paprikas. They are masters in paprika!
The most famous wines are that from cities of Tokaj (tikaji) and Eger (egri bikaver). Also wines from Balaton region are tasty (especially from Badacsony and Balatonfured).
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Re: Food and drinks Posted: Tue August 12, 2003 10:52 AM UTC
if you go to Budapest, I would recommend 'Fatál' restaurant in Vaci utca 67 (tel (+361) 266 2607) (open every day 11:30-02:00)..
I love it too, there are traditional Hungarian dishes, oooh, yesss:-)))
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Tue August 12, 2003 10:56 AM UTC
oh, and once you checked out this restaurant, just walk a few meters and you will find the Market at Fovam ter (Fovam square) where you can buy lots of Hungarian foods for takeaway...
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Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 13, 2003 10:05 AM UTC
Hi all,
Thanks for all the tips. How about the Gerbeaud pastry. Is it worth the try?
YuenK
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 13, 2003 10:11 AM UTC
i think those cakes are fine, or you can try Europa Kavezo at V district, at Szt Istvan krt 9-11
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 13, 2003 10:14 AM UTC
I see, Gerbuaud is recommended in Rough Guide. So Europa is better. Thanks
YuenK
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 13, 2003 10:26 AM UTC
both of them are good!:-) but you know, Gerbaud is for tourists while Europa is much more well known of local people... :-))
if you want to takaway, i recommend Daubner Cukraszda at II. district: at the cross of Szépvölgyi út - Ürömi út - Pusztaszeri út.. it is excellent, but there are a lot of people all the time and no place to sit down...
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Thu August 14, 2003 05:34 AM UTC
I see. Thanks for the info. :)
YuenK
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Re: Food and drinks Posted: Wed August 20, 2003 09:19 PM UTC
A nice restaurant in Budapest is the Szaves (Sahz-avesh) which means "100 years" because it's been there at least that long. Good food, reasonable, and gypsy music entertainment.
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Thu August 21, 2003 08:32 AM UTC
<b>Százéves Étterem</b>
1052 Budapest, V. kerület, Pesti Barnabás u. 2.
open every day 12:00-24:00
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Re: Food and drinks Posted: Thu August 21, 2003 12:56 PM UTC
Hello,
try hungarian national drink <i>pálinka</i>!
It is made of different types of fruits, most commonly of peach (barack), pear (körte, császárkörte) or plum (szilva).
At least 40% alcohol, just like in case of vodka or whisky, etc.
It's fabulous! Just be careful with it! ;o)
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Re: Re: Food and drinks Posted: Thu August 21, 2003 01:08 PM UTC
and also try Unicum.. and Hungarian wines:-)
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