We had leipajuusto (squeaky cheese) every winter, my grandmother would send it to use every year during the Christmas season. You can still buy it in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where there is a large Finnish population. My grandfather would make us watch “Finland Calling” on the weekends.
Hi Aleksi, Im Todd from USA... half - FINN. LOVE your channel, love your open personality and the fun way you live life and share Finland with us! You are awesome!
I tried nearly everything on this list when I went to Finland this summer, except the bloodsausage 🙁. My favorites though are karjalanpirakka and leipajuusto with coffee 😋😋. So so good!
Se lihapiirakka syödää kahel nakil ja kaikil mausteil vikisemättä saatana. :D Tääl Haminassa sai aina yhen nakin lisää. En oo nytvaikoihin käyny nakkaril ni en tiiä saako enää. :D
As a non-Finn American, I find I like salmiakki very much, and all of my friends and family wonder how I can stand to eat it. You either like it or you don’t, I guess. I always preferred black licorice to red, and I enjoy salty foods (like Japanese Miso) so there you go.
Salmiakki IS #1 candy in Finland ! Everybody LOVES salmiakki ! There are many TH-camrs - that has travelled to Finland to buy some ! Buy some and Film Your Friends taste some - some may never talk to you anymore ?
I'm an American living here in Finland I've been watching your videos since I moved here. I also live in Tampere! My sister is coming to visit so I liked the video for food ideas to make here try! Never had blood sausage yet despite living in Tampere, I'll have to give it a go! Great video as always!
Hello from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA! My grandparents fled Finland around the turn of the century, to avoid advancing Russian overtaking. I am half Finntastic, but didn't know it until I was in my late 50s. My grandparents arrived at Ellis Island, and sent to Hibbing, Minnesota, whi by still has an intact Finnish population.
for the english speakers in here who are watching this video: Viili is really weird stuff as its sort of like sour milk or sour cream BUT the main difference is as you can see in the video that its really "gooey" or "stringy" and it sort of has this slimey consistency :D its really hard to describe but it tastes good and you can get them flavoured too if you want! :P
Leipäjuusto looks very similar to a squeaky cheese we have in Brazil, called queijo coalho. We also have it grilled or baked, but usually with savory stuff. The viili texture seems so weird for a yogurt, I would love to try it. Also the rye chips, I wish there was something similar around here... I have a serious potato chip problem. (:
Aleksi, it will be nice if you can make a video of how to pronounce R of the Finnish language. It is way too much strong and difficult to get it correctly.
@@and.i.wonder The R pronounciation you use in "perro" is perfect for finnish. People don't really pay that much attention to it here. There are many different ways people say/pronounce "R" in Finland.
I once tried baking karjalanpiirakat at home on your Independence Day and they tasted nothing like those I had in Finland afterwards. :))) I think I'll try again with another recipe this December. I also baked pannukakku once (that one was a success). And I can't believe I visited Tampere this year and forgot to try mustamakkara (maybe my brain was deliberately trying to avoid it).
I also bake the Karjalanpiirakat at home, a lot actually. But what I found out is that the rye flour you use is really important and it can change how the final product taste. Once I baked using the finnish rye flour and it was reaaaally similar to what I had it Finland, but when I used the (in my case Czech) not Finnish rye flour - it was still pretty good but never as good as those from when I used the Finnish flour.
This was really interesting to watch HAHAH, I’m currently on a year exchange in Finland and have tried a bunch of these foods and ahh leipäjuusto would have to be one of my favourites.
I eat Rye bread 5 days a week when I'm at work. Growing up I would eat all the rye bread at my grandma's Christmas gathering. She didn't mind cuz I was the only one eating it! I wish I could've met my great great grandparents. Just for some food ideas, I'd like to find some dishes to try and bring to my work. I'm a lead line cook, so I get the ability to run specials where I work.
I think Finland is one of the best kept secrets in gastronomy. The food is pure and of excellent quality whether it's bread, cheese, meat products, drinks (including both brewed and dairy drinks) and fruits. I know i'd like to grab some Leipajuusto and Makkara when I next go shopping. I even like Mammi.
Some say that We are too far away ? They still say IT today - Even Man has been to moon and back ! Turkus - Suomen Joutsen sailed to Australia - to get wheat - before Australia was too far away... Old sayings - are just too OLD !
Its fun to watch this video before and after living in Finland for more than a year :D I would say to me its seems like a rather peculiar selection of foods, but most of them indeed seem quite unique either to Finland or at least northern europe. I definitely have to try that squeaky cheese! :) I haven't eaten specifically Finnish blood sausage, but overall I would say the blood sausage is one of my favorite foods ever. When i first tried villi it was a big surprise to me. I though i have bought a normal sour cream for my soup, but it crawled into my soup from the spoon like a little snot monster :D I guess I have to try with a different mindset and try to perceive it as a desert
I haven't been to Finland but I've been in Sweden before and the people I stayed with ate cloudberry and lingonberry on ice cream and I liked that a lot. I also really loved that yogurt like stuff you had. There's nothing like that in the states. The thickest yogurt you can get is Greek yogurt but that's still not the same. I loved it so much that I can almost taste it just thinking about it. And I'm sure I'd like the meat pies since I got hooked on another type of meat pie that has more of a crispy pot pie type of crust that I found when I was in New Zealand and the UK. But they do sell Jamaican meat pies at the Dollar Tree which are similar except very very spicy. But I'm fat so obviously there's not too many foods I don't enjoy. LOL
When I went to Finland, I really enjoyed lakka and mesimarja... cannot find these guys in Switzerland. And of course salmiakipippuri (not sure of the name, but you know hat I'm talking about 😊).
Moikka :D I'm from Poland and my fav Finnish food is Karialanpiirakka and vispipuuro, I like reindeer also ;D but I enjoy all of those you mentioned, besides bloodysausage.... we have similar here and I dont like it at all ;d
Hi! I had a childhood friend in Canada whose mom would make a drink called sima and a bread called pulla. Also what you were showing were raspberries not strawberries. I think the vili is healthy because it's soured ie fermented. It is a natural source of probiotics. Thanks!
Pulla IS sweet bread ! When You drink Coffee - You have pulla with IT ! Korvapuusti IS a cinemon pulla - and IT could be like tung twister - to learn how to order IT !
So interesting, that finnish word for ,,pie”- ,,piirakka”, sounds so simmilar to lithuanian word for ,,pie”- ,,pyragas” :D even the pronouncation very simmilar, but in our language the ending of the word ends with ,,as”, masculine form. :)
For the lihapiirakka you should try to stick cheese in in then microwave it. Take it out and put some ketsupi on it!! delicious! Im actually Swedish but all of my parents and grandparents are finnish so im common with the language, culture and the country. I feel way more finnish then swedish even do i dont speak finnish, All though i understand finnish with hearing. Hyvää ystävänpäivää
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your top 10 foods! I'm from Iowa, USA and curious about Finland. Love your accent! Hope I can visit Finland sometime! Keep sharing about fabulous Finland! 😁
Finnish ruisleipä is awesome. I come from Germany, we have masses of different bread sorts, but nothing like this. And leipäjuusto is also delicious, I ate it mainly in Lapland as a dessert (with cloudberries). Poronkäristys as main course (sautéed reindeer).
The berries looked amazing and it's so cool you can just pick them wherever! I also love rye bread. I've never had or seen rye chips but I bet they're tasty too!😊
Can’t believe I am laughing watching a guy eat! This is so great. The berries, white stuff in a carton and chips all looked yummy and you seemed to enjoy them. I came to Texas from North Dakota. Lots of bbq! Nice meeting you. Thanks
Wow.. I like any kind of healthy food. And I gotta say.. your Finnish little snacks look so awesome.. like they would be even more boosted up from the classic ones 😊 I love also raspberries as you do... 😂 there's no summer I wouldn't eat them 😂 we have them too everywhere.. however i think I have already eaten leipäjuusto and I liked it quite a lot 😊 but.. there's definitelly one thing I need to taste in my life.. and that's viili or viilis 😊 it looked so tasty.. and by the way.. here in the Czech Republic you can also find mustamakkara on some places.. I have no idea how we call it here haha 😂 and I cannot imagine how you can eat it with some jam on it.. but it could be nice try for me next time 😂 however in this vid viili won for me 😊
One or two years ago I got a recipe from the internet and made some Karelian Pies. It was pretty nice. I will wait until I visit Finland this year to try the original one.
Maksalaatikko is really good, Mämmi is in my opinion the best thing ever created :D but Karjalanpiirakat are my ultimate favourite finnish food. And Lohikeitto is the best kind of soup.
ps. if you eat "leipäjuusto" I suggest you heat it (on a pan or even in a microwave oven). I think its tons better that way. But yes with cloudberries or cloudberryjam. Good stuff.
Great video!! Does anyone know where I might order some Finnish foods to be delivered in the United States? I’m going to throw a dinner party with Finland as the theme. I can make many dishes but I’d love to be able to order some of the snacks.
Great video ... one of the worst things about coming home to Australia is having to make my own rye bread, leipajuusto and Karelian pies ... you are so lucky that they are really accessible :)
Wah! Berries! In Indonesia, any kind of berries equals luxury 🤣 soo expensive. Btw, you have lots of healthy snacks. But the names are incredibly long and difficult 😅
I love leipäjuusto! I was in finland last year, in Lieksa. And it was the best vacation in my life. Now i learn finnish and i hope that i will come to finland again.
I’m looking forward to trying Finnish squeaky cheese. My dad said when he was younger and would attend any special family occasions (weddings, funerals😆, etc) there would be squeaky cheese. One day I will be blessed 😂😭 But that texture of that “yogurt” is making me uncomfortable but intrigued to try! 😂😂
Nostalgia and munchies. I miss bread cheese, I miss karelia pies, I miss meat pies, I miss rye chips and berries As for raspberries, Im from Serbia, we are a great exporter of raspberries. Got some yummies at home.
I am in Ohio and I tried Bread Cheese (sqeaky cheese). THE BEST CHEESE, everyone should try it, make sure u heat it up. It actually does sqeak. By the way, Finns drink more coffee per capita than any other country.
Näkkäri sound like something called knekkebrød, its like näkkäri. You can find ones who are made frome white oat and one who are much more healthier ones too. We do have rye bread here too. I think its normal to have at least one type of rye bread in store up in north. One thing you shuld not do, is mess with cloudberries and the jam. It's super delicious
I have been to Finland many times. My wife is Finnish, from Kerava, in Southern Finland. I have had all of these foods. For my very Americaized tastes, skip all of these foods except the Berries, buy they from the local farmer's stalls, not the supermarkets. All the other foods would not sell in America, other than to Finnish people. What should you really try when you are in Finland? Salmon! Any kind of Salmon, sold in Finland! My favorites were the flavored smoked salmon! Even the supermarket smoked salmon was GREAT! I loved the Peppercorn & Blue Cheese flavored one the best. If you want to spend more money, they also have a "Salmon Cake" that is made of smoked salmon & layers of a soft fuffy cake. It's not a desert or sweet, but it is so good. The Finns don't know that the rest of the world's salmon is sub-par compared to theirs. Tips on enjoying traditional Finnish foods: add a lot of butter & even pickled herring, if you like raw fish. The best way to eat Traditional Finnish foods are with a local Finnish family that has cooked it fresh(this is true of almost everyone's traditional foods, no surprise) & copy how the real Finns eat it. I did also like their meat pies, but they are very close to Russian style meat pies. The main thing about Finnish foods are that the ingredients are all so fresh & un-processed/preserved & much healthier than American foods. They are also not overly seasoned & the flavor from the actual ingredients shine through in every bite.
And I'm finding myself in need of that a branded t-shirt. Thank you for bringing out the authentic Finnish life. I have tried all the foods you've mentioned 😆. Kiitos paljon.
Karjalanpiirakka is good with munavoi, chopped soft boiled egg with butter. Leipäjuusto you can find here in Southern California. Lihapiirakka, lihis, is similar to what we can find in Chinese markets here. It is Northern Chinese style, they say.
I can buy Cloudberry jam at Ikea. My grandmas and mom made rye bread. My son is making rye bread now that they have passed on. We ate that sausage when I visited Finland in 1993. I can buy Finnish mustard in a tube from a Finnish store about an hour and a half away from my home.
Karjalanpiirakka is great. Indeed usually marketed as Riisipiirakka in Finnish and Estonian supermarkets. Simple and good stuff. And btw dough is made of rye flour. Kiitos!
I remember my Mummo making karjalanpiirakka for me as a kid and and for years i tried making from scratch back in the states and failed every time only to find out as an adult she just bought it at the supermarket frozen. XD
I go to a week of total emersion Finnish language usually once a year. All the food is Finnish, for the whole week. It is amazing!!! I love, love, love Finnish food!
Moi Aleksi, loved your video! My favorite Finnish food is näkkäri. My sister and I eat it almost every day. My grandpa always talked about blood sausage, fish soup and reindeer! I don’t like mustard either. I am stuck on that Lidl kesä kreisi- Gen-chan talked about it on his channel, will you talk about it? I just love it! 😍
What about places to visit from head to toe...common Finnish names...what to do with less many in winter time...both indoors and outdoors...how to practise social skills and get touch with people than voluuntery work and Red Cross friend service...what Finn people think about foreign outside of Capital and big cities...friendliest places for foreign to live...
Have you tried the new linssisipsi? They're helvetin hyvä. Perhaps in the future sometime, you could also talk about Finnish drinks, like sima, gloggi, joulu olut, Koskenkorva, kotikalja, potato wine from Tyrnävä, and the Finnish love of cider.
What a surprise; here in Colombia we also have like a kind of sausage, which is made of blood and rice, of course, it's combined with other ingredients, but it's basically the same as the black sausage. Here it's called "morcilla" or "rellena"
Aaaw yeah, all the good stuff right there! Rruischips with a dab of savory mixture of ham/sourcreme(or viili) "salad" ... Or a dab of shrimp/mayo is always a great apetizer or just snackos deluxe. Huh! Weird, I've never stumbled across this black sausage, I'd probably enjoy it too since I regularly eat Swedish blood pudding (black pudding). The finnish rye näkkileipä made super thin like long rectangular wafers are slowly creeping out and taking market shares in Europe. I can find this thin Finnish crisp bread all the way down into Germany! Seen it in stores as far south as Cologne. The problem is, once you pop the packet you just can't stop eating it... just one more... yes, thats all I need... a li'l butter, some tasty cheese, a li'l finely chopped onions 😍😍😍
Making it is simple but you need a little bit viili as a base. Add milk. Leave it in room temperature. It's done when it remains still even if you try to shake it. Just remember to leave a bit and keep re-filling it with milk. That way you never run out.
Well, i'll never find those foods to try since I'm from Brazil, but I like your channel, I love Finland and it's nice to be in touch with all the things about thy country.
I really like your site so am not complaining. I just noticed that when I was ordering some of your merchandise that I am planning to buy for my friends who live in Finland that the delivery cost is higher to deliver in Finland than it is to send it to the Uk which seemed strange.
I guess if we're gonna have kalsarikännit, we should eat well? 🙂 (Sorry... loving your content! Loving the food! Loving the land of my ancestors! Greetings from Canada!)
Korvarna där är inte alltid så fantastiska. Så hoppade du över det bästa, memmi! Annat glömt är surskorpa och en del annat. Av det som visades är brödrost bäst. Den gnissliga....
Bread cheese is best cheese I have eaten. Keeping it in a micro while it little bit melted. After that a touch of salt to it and having enjoy any jam. It is our family favorite.
I don't want to try salmiakki, but I do want to go on the "Pub Tram" when in Helsinki... can you do a video on where to catch it and what route it takes?
Hey Aleksi.. My daughter treated my wife and myself to a new year holiday to helsinki..2007.. Maaan.. You guys are so frosty.. but once you get under that ice..gee !! We went into this rock bar and by the end of the night the place was in an uproar.. Made so many friends.i am from scotland fraserburgh And we were called scottish hooligans Lol. Mikka !! you know who you are. Thing i remember from our food trip was THE BIG DOG..Fuck me they were massive... MY daughter always holidays in helsinki and we will be back with her again in this fantastic city.. Cheers n beers fae the broch and i just subbed
I basically survived on justto makkara the entire two years I was in Kokkola. You can never go wrong with pulla and ruisleipa with some oivarini and oltermanni on top. Good old days.
We had leipajuusto (squeaky cheese) every winter, my grandmother would send it to use every year during the Christmas season. You can still buy it in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where there is a large Finnish population. My grandfather would make us watch “Finland Calling” on the weekends.
That's great! Do you like it?
We had it at my sister's wedding in minnesota....it was the only food the groom requested
You can also heat in oven leipäjuusto.
i know it is kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good site to stream new series online ?
@Emory Parker Flixportal =)
Hei Aleksi, I went to Tampere last week and tried mustamakkara with lingonberry jam. Deeeelicious! :D
That's great!
When its cold it looks like a stick
@@AleksiHimself Does it taste like Swedish blodpudding?
@@MissSylvia67 No it doesnt at all. Im finnish from Tampere but living in Sweden, so I know.. :)
@@LordiS87 Tack för svaret! I'll have to try it sometime, I don't like blodpudding tho 😁
Hi Aleksi, Im Todd from USA... half - FINN.
LOVE your channel, love your open personality and the fun way you live life and share Finland with us!
You are awesome!
Thanks for the comment ToddAndelin!
I tried nearly everything on this list when I went to Finland this summer, except the bloodsausage 🙁. My favorites though are karjalanpirakka and leipajuusto with coffee 😋😋. So so good!
That's great! Mustamakkara can be bought anywhere from the meat counters of supermarkets as far as I know.
Karjalanpirakka XDD
They have even baked bread - with blood ! On The Åland Islas - to Your knowledge !
Jos syö lihistä tolleen, ilman kepsuttia, kurkkusalaattia ja sinappia. Saatana, selekääsi sietäsit saara! :D
Kieltämättä tuosta ois voinu mainita. :D
Se lihapiirakka syödää kahel nakil ja kaikil mausteil vikisemättä saatana. :D
Tääl Haminassa sai aina yhen nakin lisää. En oo nytvaikoihin käyny nakkaril ni en tiiä saako enää. :D
@@blackheavyblans ja se puuro syödään vikisemättä saatana :D
ei kannata huudella, jos unohtaa nakit!
Sen voi lämmittää myös. Maistuu silloin paremmalle.
As a non-Finn American, I find I like salmiakki very much, and all of my friends and family wonder how I can stand to eat it. You either like it or you don’t, I guess. I always preferred black licorice to red, and I enjoy salty foods (like Japanese Miso) so there you go.
Salmiakki IS #1 candy in Finland ! Everybody LOVES salmiakki ! There are many TH-camrs - that has travelled to Finland to buy some ! Buy some and Film Your Friends taste some - some may never talk to you anymore ?
I'm an American living here in Finland I've been watching your videos since I moved here. I also live in Tampere! My sister is coming to visit so I liked the video for food ideas to make here try! Never had blood sausage yet despite living in Tampere, I'll have to give it a go! Great video as always!
THanks! Try Mustamakkara. ;)
Mr Tapola - was The One WHO started MUSTAMAKKARA - and now those are sold all over !
Hello from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA! My grandparents fled Finland around the turn of the century, to avoid advancing Russian overtaking. I am half Finntastic, but didn't know it until I was in my late 50s. My grandparents arrived at Ellis Island, and sent to Hibbing, Minnesota, whi by still has an intact Finnish population.
I also tried the Vispipuuro. I don’t know if it’s a finnish food but was delicious and pink 🥰
I live in Upper Michigan in the US. We have a large Finnish-American population. Many of these foods are at our local grocery stores.
Wow that’s nice 😊
Hello beautiful, hope you’re doing good today?
for the english speakers in here who are watching this video: Viili is really weird stuff as its sort of like sour milk or sour cream BUT the main difference is as you can see in the video that its really "gooey" or "stringy" and it sort of has this slimey consistency :D its really hard to describe but it tastes good and you can get them flavoured too if you want! :P
Leipäjuusto looks very similar to a squeaky cheese we have in Brazil, called queijo coalho. We also have it grilled or baked, but usually with savory stuff.
The viili texture seems so weird for a yogurt, I would love to try it. Also the rye chips, I wish there was something similar around here... I have a serious potato chip problem. (:
Aleksi, it will be nice if you can make a video of how to pronounce R of the Finnish language. It is way too much strong and difficult to get it correctly.
I might do at some point!
@@AleksiHimself You need to se Perkele :D
@@and.i.wonder The R pronounciation you use in "perro" is perfect for finnish. People don't really pay that much attention to it here. There are many different ways people say/pronounce "R" in Finland.
I once tried baking karjalanpiirakat at home on your Independence Day and they tasted nothing like those I had in Finland afterwards. :))) I think I'll try again with another recipe this December. I also baked pannukakku once (that one was a success). And I can't believe I visited Tampere this year and forgot to try mustamakkara (maybe my brain was deliberately trying to avoid it).
No problem you can try it next time!
I also bake the Karjalanpiirakat at home, a lot actually. But what I found out is that the rye flour you use is really important and it can change how the final product taste. Once I baked using the finnish rye flour and it was reaaaally similar to what I had it Finland, but when I used the (in my case Czech) not Finnish rye flour - it was still pretty good but never as good as those from when I used the Finnish flour.
@@TheMonis25 aaah I see, thanks for the tip. I was actually wondering where I had gone wrong. I'll ask my Finnish friend to send me some flower. :)))
you're welcome. And it's not your fault actually, it's a fault of the flour ;-) anyways, good luck with baking in the future :)
Straight up thought the screen said TORTILLA. I was like, "Ah shit, the Finns have tortillas?!"
Haha :D
This was really interesting to watch HAHAH, I’m currently on a year exchange in Finland and have tried a bunch of these foods and ahh leipäjuusto would have to be one of my favourites.
That's amazing! Leipäjuusto is good. :)
I eat Rye bread 5 days a week when I'm at work. Growing up I would eat all the rye bread at my grandma's Christmas gathering. She didn't mind cuz I was the only one eating it! I wish I could've met my great great grandparents. Just for some food ideas, I'd like to find some dishes to try and bring to my work. I'm a lead line cook, so I get the ability to run specials where I work.
I think Finland is one of the best kept secrets in gastronomy. The food is pure and of excellent quality whether it's bread, cheese, meat products, drinks (including both brewed and dairy drinks) and fruits. I know i'd like to grab some Leipajuusto and Makkara when I next go shopping. I even like Mammi.
Some say that We are too far away ? They still say IT today - Even Man has been to moon and back ! Turkus - Suomen Joutsen sailed to Australia - to get wheat - before Australia was too far away... Old sayings - are just too OLD !
Its fun to watch this video before and after living in Finland for more than a year :D I would say to me its seems like a rather peculiar selection of foods, but most of them indeed seem quite unique either to Finland or at least northern europe. I definitely have to try that squeaky cheese! :) I haven't eaten specifically Finnish blood sausage, but overall I would say the blood sausage is one of my favorite foods ever. When i first tried villi it was a big surprise to me. I though i have bought a normal sour cream for my soup, but it crawled into my soup from the spoon like a little snot monster :D I guess I have to try with a different mindset and try to perceive it as a desert
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I must confess you’re so beautiful 🥰😊😊😍😍
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I haven't been to Finland but I've been in Sweden before and the people I stayed with ate cloudberry and lingonberry on ice cream and I liked that a lot. I also really loved that yogurt like stuff you had. There's nothing like that in the states. The thickest yogurt you can get is Greek yogurt but that's still not the same. I loved it so much that I can almost taste it just thinking about it. And I'm sure I'd like the meat pies since I got hooked on another type of meat pie that has more of a crispy pot pie type of crust that I found when I was in New Zealand and the UK. But they do sell Jamaican meat pies at the Dollar Tree which are similar except very very spicy. But I'm fat so obviously there's not too many foods I don't enjoy. LOL
Thanks for the comment Seth Perry!
When I went to Finland, I really enjoyed lakka and mesimarja... cannot find these guys in Switzerland. And of course salmiakipippuri (not sure of the name, but you know hat I'm talking about 😊).
It seems that I tried all of these. But one thing which I want to try and which is not mentioned in this video is Mämmi.
Mämmi is mentioned in another video.
Moikka :D I'm from Poland and my fav Finnish food is Karialanpiirakka and vispipuuro, I like reindeer also ;D but I enjoy all of those you mentioned, besides bloodysausage.... we have similar here and I dont like it at all ;d
Thanks for the comment neverbeyourwoman!
I really liked the Karajalanpiirakka when I was in Finland. I went to Tampere but never had a chance to try the mustamakkara. For sure next time!
Sounds like a plan!
Hi!
I had a childhood friend in Canada whose mom would make a drink called sima and a bread called pulla.
Also what you were showing were raspberries not strawberries. I think the vili is healthy because it's soured ie fermented. It is a natural source of probiotics.
Thanks!
Pulla IS sweet bread ! When You drink Coffee - You have pulla with IT ! Korvapuusti IS a cinemon pulla - and IT could be like tung twister - to learn how to order IT !
So interesting, that finnish word for ,,pie”- ,,piirakka”, sounds so simmilar to lithuanian word for ,,pie”- ,,pyragas” :D even the pronouncation very simmilar, but in our language the ending of the word ends with ,,as”, masculine form. :)
For the lihapiirakka you should try to stick cheese in in then microwave it. Take it out and put some ketsupi on it!! delicious! Im actually Swedish but all of my parents and grandparents are finnish so im common with the language, culture and the country. I feel way more finnish then swedish even do i dont speak finnish, All though i understand finnish with hearing. Hyvää ystävänpäivää
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your top 10 foods! I'm from Iowa, USA and curious about Finland. Love your accent! Hope I can visit Finland sometime! Keep sharing about fabulous Finland! 😁
Hi 👋
Finnish ruisleipä is awesome. I come from Germany, we have masses of different bread sorts, but nothing like this.
And leipäjuusto is also delicious, I ate it mainly in Lapland as a dessert (with cloudberries). Poronkäristys as main course (sautéed reindeer).
The berries looked amazing and it's so cool you can just pick them wherever! I also love rye bread. I've never had or seen rye chips but I bet they're tasty too!😊
Good stuff!
Aleksi, et maininnut Fazerin Sinistä!!!! Siis sitä maitosuklaa klassikkoa?? MIelestäni maailman parasta maitosuklaata.
Can’t believe I am laughing watching a guy eat! This is so great. The berries, white stuff in a carton and chips all looked yummy and you seemed to enjoy them. I came to Texas from North Dakota. Lots of bbq! Nice meeting you. Thanks
Thanks for the comment Shirley Baughman!
Wow.. I like any kind of healthy food. And I gotta say.. your Finnish little snacks look so awesome.. like they would be even more boosted up from the classic ones 😊 I love also raspberries as you do... 😂 there's no summer I wouldn't eat them 😂 we have them too everywhere.. however i think I have already eaten leipäjuusto and I liked it quite a lot 😊 but.. there's definitelly one thing I need to taste in my life.. and that's viili or viilis 😊 it looked so tasty.. and by the way.. here in the Czech Republic you can also find mustamakkara on some places.. I have no idea how we call it here haha 😂 and I cannot imagine how you can eat it with some jam on it.. but it could be nice try for me next time 😂 however in this vid viili won for me 😊
Thanks for the comment VlastYs Music!
You use too many emojis
One or two years ago I got a recipe from the internet and made some Karelian Pies. It was pretty nice. I will wait until I visit Finland this year to try the original one.
Maksalaatikko is really good, Mämmi is in my opinion the best thing ever created :D but Karjalanpiirakat are my ultimate favourite finnish food. And Lohikeitto is the best kind of soup.
I like all of those!
Another mämmi lover 😁😁😁😁
ps. if you eat "leipäjuusto" I suggest you heat it (on a pan or even in a microwave oven). I think its tons better that way. But yes with cloudberries or cloudberryjam. Good stuff.
Thanks for the tip!
Great video!! Does anyone know where I might order some Finnish foods to be delivered in the United States? I’m going to throw a dinner party with Finland as the theme. I can make many dishes but I’d love to be able to order some of the snacks.
You can check out Taste of Finland: bit.ly/2sMOtII
Great video ... one of the worst things about coming home to Australia is having to make my own rye bread, leipajuusto and Karelian pies ... you are so lucky that they are really accessible :)
Thanks for the comment Ian Bishop!
Wah! Berries!
In Indonesia, any kind of berries equals luxury 🤣 soo expensive.
Btw, you have lots of healthy snacks. But the names are incredibly long and difficult 😅
Thanks for the comment Rininta!
I love leipäjuusto! I was in finland last year, in Lieksa. And it was the best vacation in my life. Now i learn finnish and i hope that i will come to finland again.
Hello beautiful 😍
Hope you’re doing good today??
Very good list of traditional Finnish foods! 💎
I’m looking forward to trying Finnish squeaky cheese. My dad said when he was younger and would attend any special family occasions (weddings, funerals😆, etc) there would be squeaky cheese. One day I will be blessed 😂😭
But that texture of that “yogurt” is making me uncomfortable but intrigued to try! 😂😂
Lol I was literally like wtf, the entire video. Great to see how and what people eat all over world. Hope to try these different foods one day.
Nostalgia and munchies. I miss bread cheese, I miss karelia pies, I miss meat pies, I miss rye chips and berries
As for raspberries, Im from Serbia, we are a great exporter of raspberries. Got some yummies at home.
Good stuff!
I am in Ohio and I tried Bread Cheese (sqeaky cheese). THE BEST CHEESE, everyone should try it, make sure u heat it up. It actually does sqeak. By the way, Finns drink more coffee per capita than any other country.
Good stuff!
Näkkäri sound like something called knekkebrød, its like näkkäri. You can find ones who are made frome white oat and one who are much more healthier ones too. We do have rye bread here too. I think its normal to have at least one type of rye bread in store up in north. One thing you shuld not do, is mess with cloudberries and the jam. It's super delicious
It's the same thing. Näkkileipä, knäckebröd.
Teppo oh, thanks for clearing up and for the info
Yep it's the same stuff!
I have been to Finland many times. My wife is Finnish, from Kerava, in Southern Finland. I have had all of these foods. For my very Americaized tastes, skip all of these foods except the Berries, buy they from the local farmer's stalls, not the supermarkets. All the other foods would not sell in America, other than to Finnish people. What should you really try when you are in Finland? Salmon! Any kind of Salmon, sold in Finland! My favorites were the flavored smoked salmon! Even the supermarket smoked salmon was GREAT! I loved the Peppercorn & Blue Cheese flavored one the best. If you want to spend more money, they also have a "Salmon Cake" that is made of smoked salmon & layers of a soft fuffy cake. It's not a desert or sweet, but it is so good. The Finns don't know that the rest of the world's salmon is sub-par compared to theirs. Tips on enjoying traditional Finnish foods: add a lot of butter & even pickled herring, if you like raw fish. The best way to eat Traditional Finnish foods are with a local Finnish family that has cooked it fresh(this is true of almost everyone's traditional foods, no surprise) & copy how the real Finns eat it. I did also like their meat pies, but they are very close to Russian style meat pies. The main thing about Finnish foods are that the ingredients are all so fresh & un-processed/preserved & much healthier than American foods. They are also not overly seasoned & the flavor from the actual ingredients shine through in every bite.
Ifucking love Karjalan piraka... Eggs and butter on that.
And I'm finding myself in need of that a branded t-shirt.
Thank you for bringing out the authentic Finnish life. I have tried all the foods you've mentioned 😆.
Kiitos paljon.
As a Chinese, I really like blood sausage with berry jam, wonderful favor, but I know most of the Chinese never want to eat it.
the Mustamakkara is also a french sausage, it's called : boudin noir with some cooked apples 😄 very delicious
The only finnish food I have ever eaten was Mokkapalat (kid-variant with milk instead of coffee), it is delicious😍
Karjalanpiirakka is good with munavoi, chopped soft boiled egg with butter. Leipäjuusto you can find here in Southern California. Lihapiirakka, lihis, is similar to what we can find in Chinese markets here. It is Northern Chinese style, they say.
I'm starving after watching this, is anyone else hungry?? XD Enjoyed the vid Aleksi because it felt like having snacks with friends.
PS: Lakka rules
Thanks for the comment vampiresca!
I can buy Cloudberry jam at Ikea. My grandmas and mom made rye bread. My son is making rye bread now that they have passed on. We ate that sausage when I visited Finland in 1993. I can buy Finnish mustard in a tube from a Finnish store about an hour and a half away from my home.
I just made riisipiirakka and they are delicious thank you for introducing theese to me! Kiitos
Glad you like them!
I love karjalan piirakka, ruisleipä, leipajuustu, all berries, with Kahvi. I ate these frequently in Finland. Got to like viilis and makkara too.
Karjalanpiirakka is great. Indeed usually marketed as Riisipiirakka in Finnish and Estonian supermarkets. Simple and good stuff. And btw dough is made of rye flour. Kiitos!
Good stuff! 😃🙌
I remember my Mummo making karjalanpiirakka for me as a kid and and for years i tried making from scratch back in the states and failed every time only to find out as an adult she just bought it at the supermarket frozen. XD
Good stuff! 😃🙌
I go to a week of total emersion Finnish language usually once a year. All the food is Finnish, for the whole week. It is amazing!!! I love, love, love Finnish food!
That's great!
Really enjoyed your video, very interesting and hello from England👋
Thanks Carlos!
Leipäjuusto is also good if you warm it up on a pan with cream and add some cinnamon. Delicious!
Mustarakkarra ( black sausage) similar in the UK to the black pudding which is sliced and eaten for breakfast.
Moi Aleksi, loved your video! My favorite Finnish food is näkkäri. My sister and I eat it almost every day. My grandpa always talked about blood sausage, fish soup and reindeer! I don’t like mustard either. I am stuck on that Lidl kesä kreisi- Gen-chan talked about it on his channel, will you talk about it? I just love it! 😍
That's great! The song never really got stuck on me tho. 😅
Aleksi Himself - Videos about Finland 🤣 who is the boy with the tattoo? Is he a famous actor?
Probably something like that. I don't know.
What about places to visit from head to toe...common Finnish names...what to do with less many in winter time...both indoors and outdoors...how to practise social skills and get touch with people than voluuntery work and Red Cross friend service...what Finn people think about foreign outside of Capital and big cities...friendliest places for foreign to live...
I bought mustamakkara in slovakia and i was like ewwww blood sausage?? And then i tried and i was like: SOOO TASTY
Mustamakkara really reminds me of something we have in the UK called black pudding, which I love so much but almost never actually have.
Thanks for sharing!
4:45 start to wonder, how many meals does making the video correspond to?
Have you tried the new linssisipsi? They're helvetin hyvä.
Perhaps in the future sometime, you could also talk about Finnish drinks, like sima, gloggi, joulu olut, Koskenkorva, kotikalja, potato wine from Tyrnävä, and the Finnish love of cider.
What a surprise; here in Colombia we also have like a kind of sausage, which is made of blood and rice, of course, it's combined with other ingredients, but it's basically the same as the black sausage. Here it's called "morcilla" or "rellena"
Thanks for sharing! 😀👌
I forgot mentioning that it's cow's blood 🤗
I used to eat viili with sugar and cinnamon, but tell me Aleksi why that fork cos now people think we eat viili with fork and not with spoon :D
I dunno I just happened to have it there. :D
Aaaw yeah, all the good stuff right there! Rruischips with a dab of savory mixture of ham/sourcreme(or viili) "salad" ... Or a dab of shrimp/mayo is always a great apetizer or just snackos deluxe. Huh! Weird, I've never stumbled across this black sausage, I'd probably enjoy it too since I regularly eat Swedish blood pudding (black pudding). The finnish rye näkkileipä made super thin like long rectangular wafers are slowly creeping out and taking market shares in Europe. I can find this thin Finnish crisp bread all the way down into Germany! Seen it in stores as far south as Cologne. The problem is, once you pop the packet you just can't stop eating it... just one more... yes, thats all I need... a li'l butter, some tasty cheese, a li'l finely chopped onions 😍😍😍
In English we just called viili Finnish yogurt. My grandmother used to make it. I haven't had it since she died.
That's interesting! Yogurt and viili are two different things, but seems you made a good name for viili.
Making it is simple but you need a little bit viili as a base. Add milk. Leave it in room temperature. It's done when it remains still even if you try to shake it. Just remember to leave a bit and keep re-filling it with milk. That way you never run out.
Well, i'll never find those foods to try since I'm from Brazil, but I like your channel, I love Finland and it's nice to be in touch with all the things about thy country.
You can visit Finland some day and try them!
@@AleksiHimself Not that easy, but it is on the plans.
I really like your site so am not complaining. I just noticed that when I was ordering some of your merchandise that I am planning to buy for my friends who live in Finland that the delivery cost is higher to deliver in Finland than it is to send it to the Uk which seemed strange.
Kiitos! My favorite would have to be the cloudberry jam maybe with some cheese on rye bread. 👍😋
So good!
The rye chips. Had them yesterday. They were fantastic. I am obsessed
I love Finnish foods.
Saya suka makanan Finnish.
*Greeting from Malaysia*
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Good stuff!
@@AleksiHimself thank you
I guess if we're gonna have kalsarikännit, we should eat well? 🙂
(Sorry... loving your content! Loving the food! Loving the land of my ancestors! Greetings from Canada!)
'blood sausage' is 'black pudding' in England and 'boudin noir' in France.
Thanks for the comment Beta Vulgaris!
No worries, it's one of my staples ! Gotta have HP sauce on it though ;)
In Finland blood sausage and blood pudding and blood bread are all different types of blood dishes. Blood bread was more common before.
Just fyi... those were NOT strawberries you were showing in the video with yogurt
i regularly order those rye crisps, theyre just so good
so happy we have a finnish shop nearby haha
So good!
Great vid, miss hangin out in Tampere on a summer night! Dont say bbq say barbecue lol
Deal!
Mun aivot vasta nyt sai tietää, että muun maalaiset ei oo todennäköisesti maistanut näitä ruokia. Ne on mulle perus kamaa.
i live in estonia and we eat all the foods. also we have the blood sausage as a traditional xmas food :) it all is super tasty
I remember getting lihapiirakka at the train station in Helsinki- when they were freshly made they were delicious !
Good stuff!
Korvarna där är inte alltid så fantastiska. Så hoppade du över det bästa, memmi! Annat glömt är surskorpa och en del annat. Av det som visades är brödrost bäst. Den gnissliga....
Bread cheese is best cheese I have eaten. Keeping it in a micro while it little bit melted. After that a touch of salt to it and having enjoy any jam. It is our family favorite.
Awesome!
I do love Finnish bread cheese. Much nicer than halloumi (less oddly salty).
Good stuff!
I don't want to try salmiakki, but I do want to go on the "Pub Tram" when in Helsinki... can you do a video on where to catch it and what route it takes?
Hey Aleksi..
My daughter treated my wife and myself to a new year holiday to helsinki..2007..
Maaan.. You guys are so frosty.. but once you get under that ice..gee !!
We went into this rock bar and by the end of the night the place was in an uproar..
Made so many friends.i am from scotland fraserburgh And we were called scottish hooligans
Lol. Mikka !! you know who you are.
Thing i remember from our food trip was THE BIG DOG..Fuck me they were massive...
MY daughter always holidays in helsinki and we will be back with her again in this fantastic city..
Cheers n beers
fae the broch
and i just subbed
Mustamakkara; in Croatia we have something similar - Krvavica (literally bloody sausage), just what looks much bloodier :-)
Good stuff!
And if you ever visit Savo-region you have to try mykyrokka and kalakukko
Good stuff!
Hello from USA, This was Finntastic. Thank You.
What about mammi runerberign cakes Laskiais pullat..tippa leipa...maksa laatiiko makorooni laatikko ...sima..korvapuustit
"Porilainen" is great fast food from Osterbothnia. Specially when we stand in Kahuoki, where an 24/7 open kiosk had the best "Porilainen".
Good stuff! 😃🙌
I basically survived on justto makkara the entire two years I was in Kokkola. You can never go wrong with pulla and ruisleipa with some oivarini and oltermanni on top. Good old days.
I'm from Kokkola. :D Juustomakkara isn't that healthy diet on the long run tho.
I miss kokkola. Had my first smoke sauna in Kalvia and used to distribute kokkola lehti twice a week. Pietersaari is also awesome.
I dont know anything yet , but where is pulla ? Or is that a too common (word / thing .)
Karjalan Paisti ? Rosolli ? Borscht ? Kalamojakka ?