I love how international the Sorted audience is! All I have to do is read the comments and the awesome people from whatever country will give me the history and all the wonderful variations of the dish you’re talking about.
Hungarian here. It’s kind of a main dish, not a dessert. We usually eat it after a hearty soup or as a quick lunch/dinner. I never had it with butter. It’s just poppyseeds grinded together with sugar. Or just walnuts grinded with sugar. An other version is breadcrumbs browned with a bit of oil, that goes on the pasta than you add some homemade apricot jam.
Yeah, my mom used to make it for me when I was a child and it was never as a dessert. From my experience sugary main courses are quite common in Hungary
Same in Czech republic. From my experience we don't really stray away from the poppy seed. This dish (and also a very similar one that uses boiled potatoes mashed with flour instead of pasta) was my favourite when I was a child.
The poppy seed pasta is served in my country, Czech Republic, as well. We share a history with Hungary (Austrian-Hungarian Empire). The poppy seed should be ground finely and it's a main course for us. My country has a great tradition of sweet main dishes - all kinds of pancakes, crepes, dumplings etc. They are still served in school cantines and families.
Austrian here, can confirm. Just not pasta. Here, they usually make "potato pasta" like.. roll potato dough into a long sausage, then cut into noodles. poppy seeds, sugar. And possibly the butter to make the stuff stick, but it really doesn't need it.
In Austria, we use a different kind of pasta - made from potato and usually thicker. (mohnnudeln). Babies were given a "Mohnzutz" Poppyseed passivier. This was obviously not good for the mental development and was stopped.
I will never forget Sao Tome and principe because I had the pleasure of meeting and teaching a boy from there when I was working in the UK. He was one of the most inquisitive and bright boys I've ever taught.
Hungarian here, but I would like comment on the apricot kernel-almond similarity. I remember my grandfather saving the seeds of apricots (we had an apricot tree), after we ate the fruit, drying them, then cracking them for the kernel. It was the only treat that he gave me in strict moderation (no more than 3 or 4 pieces), because it contains cyanide (which gives it the almond flavor) and more than that amount could give you mild poisoning. (I mean like a stomach ache, not like rushing to the ER and dying poisoning). He did this beacues we had no almond tree and you couldn't really get in a store, or if yes it was very expensive.
when I was pregnant with my son, I craved almond jello. Ate it 3-4 times a week. But now I know it was the cheap version. The real thing is made from nothing but almonds, rice & sugar. Cecilia Chiang, a renown Chinese=American resturanteur, drank it regularly & claimed it helped her reach 100 years of age.
As a hungarian, we tend to have a very heavy soup like Jókai bean soup or goulash and this is the second dish. We also have walnut with apricot jam pasta. Or just apricot jam pasta. But for me the poppy is clearly not crushed enough. 😅
@stapuft no, never on a dessert menu and also when eating out we will order a third dessert course. Here you go soup second dish and rarely any desserts. Hooooowever for some reason on Fridays we tend to have a sweet second dish in the schools and traditional daily lunch menu places as an option. Some like aranygaluska can be in a smaller portion just dessert. But you would never order màkos tészta as a desert. Also another option after a heavy soup is làngos. So yeah not dessert just not the main attraction either
i’m from the czech republic and we eat noodles with poppy seeds a lot here! we also eat “šišky s mákem”, which are sort of like potato “gnocchi” with poppy seeds, butter and sugar. there’s also a different noodle dish with grated hard quark cheese, butter and sugar called “nudle s tvarohem” 😊
I want to share some of Thai desserts that are very exquisite in their taste and look. 1. "ขนมช่อม่วง (kha-nom-chor-muang; meaning, "Purple bouquet")" is a very beautiful purple flower-shape snack. It looks like a dumpling with a savory filling, made of chicken with other seasonings and herbs. 2. "ขนมผกากรอง (ฺkha-nom-bha-ga-grong; meaning "Latana plant")" shares a similar look with the first one, but its filling is made of sweet mung bean paste.
Hungarian poppy seed pasta is indeed an everyday classic. On Christmas Eve, however, a slightly more difficult variety is traditional in some Hungarian families, which is called "mákos guba". To make it, pieces of baked leavened dough, or at a pinch, a stale crescent roll cut into rings are scalded with hot milk or just water, ground poppy seeds are added and thoroughly mixed, taking care that the pastry pieces shouldn't turn into mush, then honey is poured over. It is good as is, however, some serve it with vanilla custard.
@@SortedFood Also we don't really eat it with Ricotta :D Maybe in some fine dining restaurants. But as Erzsébet said we also have "mákos guba" and that tastes much better.
I grew up in Austria (living in the US for 25 years now). This was one of my favorite things growing up, yum, Mohn Nudeln! Delicious. As everyone else has been saying, this is eaten throughout the region, and yes, growing up we had a poppy seed grinder in the kitchen.
love the Hungary representation! Ebbers' pronounciation is almost okay too, loved the effort :D but it is not a dessert, it is a main dish, poppy seeds are ground together with (powdered) sugar, tossed with the cooked pasta, and there you go. rarely have any butter or syrup or oil on it. I tried to make it when i was little, like 7 or 8, didn't know you have to grind the poppy seeds. it was terrible, learned my lesson and never messed up again :D I'd like to recommend some more interesting pasta dishes: pasta with semolina and apricot jam, pasta with cottage cheese, sour cream, bacon (the proper lardy one) bits and loads of dill; pasta with cottage cheese and sour cream and sugar, and my personal favourit, pasta, cabbage, onions, loads of pepper and some sugar.
It's so cool. Here in the Philippines, we also have a dessert called "bukayo" (pronounced as "boo-kah-yoh") and the only differences are the form and the addition of lemon. Bukayo is made with coconut strips, while Açucarinhas look like they're finely shredded. Açucarinhas 🤝 Bukayo. ✨🥥✨
Was looking for the Austria comment in here, was screaming Austria at the screen when they came up. Loved them as a kid(and yes we use potatoes, flower, egg, semolina) to make thicker "noodles")
My partner's family are Polish and they serve poppy seed pasta as part of their Christmas ensemble. I first tried it a couple of years ago and I look forward to having it every year!
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Lots of Hungarian desserts made with poppy seeds and those are the best ones. You should really try the "Mákos Beigli" and the "Mákos rétes", but you need a poppy seed grinder for it.
These are so wonderful. Thanks Sorted crew! Kind of makes me realize how little I know of geography and how ingredients came to countries, be it via battles, settlers, or trade. Learn a ton of stuff.
Comment from the Czech Republick. The pasta dish with poppy seeds is common sweet dish in my country as well. Not as a dessert but as a main dish. Just as someone from Hungary pointed out. Once I saw it, I was hit with instant nostalgia. This dish was frequently served as one of the options at school,
to piggyback off of 13:35, i think adding a rule if you are a certain distance wrong away (eg 4500 miles away) you shouldnt get the point, just to add extra pressure to get it at least close!
1:30 - Barry and Mike are probably thinking about making it for Austin and Lottie cuz they may enjoy it. 1:40 - Barry and Mike are thinking "WTF EBBERS?!?!?!"
poppy seed noodles served in austria are typically served with thick nooodles made of cooked potatoes, served with apple sauce, important for the flavour are of course butter and sugar, but i think you guys forgot to grind the poppy seeds, so the oils with flavour come out better
The almond tofu dish is lovely & pretty gentle on the stomach if not feeling well. Conversely some of the Asian sodas/cans of pop can be a bit of a surprise to Westerners not expecting it. Remember bringing a case of mixed cans from a Chinese supermarket to work for my staff to try. They liked the flavour, but gave some odd reactions when they tipped the cans to finish & a pile of jelly cubes rushed down their gullets. 😆
I really love the story behind the dish, its so interesting and beautiful. I wonder, where in China is this dish famous from ? I have been in China for a year in different trips, and never had it (but then, I dont like desserts, so maybe thats why).
@@swissfoodie3542 Don't have a huge sweet tooth either, but the texture & delicate flavour of xing ren tou fu is nice. Seemingly popular in a lot of provinces but a favourite in Beijing and Guangdong. Seemingly popular outside of China as I found this: - "𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘧𝘶 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘸𝘢𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘪, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 "𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦".
@@swissfoodie3542 Immediate guess is the Canton region (so Guangdong and its surroundings, Hong Kong, etc). Googling says there and Beijing as well, though recipes may vary.
yes, same in Czech republic. Hearty soup and then some sweet dish (poppy seed pasta, bread pudding, sweet dumplings, pancakes...) as a main entrée. It certainly baffles foreign visitors :)
@@SortedFood "entrée" would mean that it is served before something heartier , although the opposite is happening, it is actually served after it - when you already had a hearty soup or "creamy vegetables with some sort of toppings" (good luck to find and translate the latter one to English!)
Entrees are the "main course" they are hearty filling and furfilling, what you describe is a dessert, as it is both sweet and come AFTER the hearty, fillingz and furfilling course
I did actually get Japan spot on. Not only because it seemed very Japanese and the convenience store clue. Also, their cafe culture. It very much reminded me of the sort of dishes in the cafes in animes and mangas.
Açucarinhas are also very consumed in Brazil, we call them "cocadas". And can also be made with other tropical fruits mixed with the coconut and sugar, like pineapple and passion fruit.
I wouldn't be surprised if it actually stems from the colonial periode and there are versions of it in all former colonies. I was thinking Angola, Mozambique or East Timor. Sao Tomé and Principe never came into my mind. You hardy ever hear about them, so it's nice they found something to put attention to them.
In Venezuela we also have something similar, we call them conservas de coco. My favorites are the ones made with papelón (panela) instead of sugar. Here cocada would be a coconut and condensed milk drink
In Poland we eat the poppy seed pasta on Christmas. It's called "makiełki" and we also add nuts and dried fruit to it. Personally, I'm not a fan but so many people loves it.
first dish: as a child (germany), my mom gave me a pretty similar dish, but with butter, sugar and cinnemon. I liked it. so it's not that unusual to me to see this
There's a dessert dish in Belgium (I think you'll also find it in the Netherlands) which is macaronipap. Basically pasta (usually Chiocciole incidentally) cooked in milk, with sugar, raisins, chocolate,custard powder, egg sometimes...
I lived with a dutch couple for a year, and they used to make a savoury/sweet dish. A kind of swiss roll made of a layer of mashed potatoes, topped with a layer of peanut butter and salad leaves. It was strange but delicious. Do you maybe know the name of the dish ? Is this also something in Belgium ?
@@swissfoodie3542 As a Dutch person I can assure you that that is not a very common dish. Probably something those people thought up for themselves, but even then 🤔. If anything, I would rather do fries (frites/patat) and peanut butter sauce (pinda saus), which you could wrap into salad leaves. We do have a combination of (leftover) warm rice, with butter, sugar and cinnamon though.
18:36 Did not get to see Hawaii’s mochi or haupia pie, but we did get to Japan jelly, which is a great consolation prize. I grew up in Hawaii and I am part Japanese!
Canada here but from Romanian and Hungarian ancestors. Every Sunday as a child my great-grandmother fed me pastries and cakes HEAVILY laden with poppyseeds because “it is time for a nap for the children” I thought it was a well known sedative. Very cool segment. HAPPY HOLIDAYS BOYS
come on, Hungary 😍😍 next time you will try - túrós tészta szalonnával (pasta with hungarian ricotta, with fatty bacon) - túrógombóc cukros tejföllel (cottage cheese dumplings, with sweetened sour cream) from the hungarian cousine. :)
Yes, the second he mentioned the inside of Apricot seeds being used interchangeably with almonds I knew it was China... finally my boba obsession paid off for something!
that's exactly what i was thinking when i heard the doctor story hahaha! even as someone half-chinese, i couldn't have explained to you at the time WHY it felt like SUCH a chinese story, it just does. maybe because it has kind of a collectivist message to it and is very much valuing community and others over the self. then the recipe itself being supposedly 2000 years old (so a country old enough to have a pretty ancient civilisation), plus it being called tofu and having such a strong almond component (cos like plant-based milks including almond milk were already common in Asia before plant-based milk became a popular trend/alternative for vegans)
That first one was so interesting! It made me think of a sweet dish we eat in Germany (it's probably more from the south, maybe even Austria, not sure). It's called "Dampfnudeln", literally translated "steam noodles". But it isn't actually noodles. It's steamed buns, similar to japanese anpan or to bao, filled with e.g. plum jam or cherries. "Now, where is the connection?" you may ask. It's served with melting butter on top and a tiny mountain of a poppy seeds powdered sugar mix. Seeing actual noodles/pasta with exactly that had me amazed!
0:20 dude the poppy seeds are supposed to be ground up, we have a special grinder for that,.... you never eat it with raw whole seeds like that,... must be like eating sand
There is a wallnut version of that Mákos Tészta, which simply means Poppy seed pasta. Replace the grinded poppy seed with grinded wallnut. Both are very jummy.
@ These are very simple a very delicious dishes. Pasta, grinded poppy seeds or walnut and granulated sugar mixed while it is hot, so the sugar dissolves, and a pinch of salt. Salt is important, as usual in every sweet dessert. We have special grinder for the poppy seed, which is kinda crush the seeds.
Austrian here... No.1 I only know with small long-shaped potato dumplings, called "Mohnnudeln" or "Schupfnudeln". As for calming down children...poppy seeds were often used for pacifiers made of linen, the children sucked on that, we call it "Mohnzutz" (Mohn= german for poppy seeds)
Ooh mákostészta! It's pretty traditional in Romania too :) It's cheap, easy and quick. I'm Hungarian and lice in Romania, and it's a dish everyone had as a kid.
Harking back to the Kush Unleashed comfort food recipe from a few days ago, I think the almond tofu dessert would exactly hit my comfort spot. I've found a recipe, I'm going to make that. Actually, all four of them sound pretty comforting. I had a really nice time with this one - it's got such a gentle, comfortable feel to it. Many, many thanks, it's just exactly what I need today.
We have a pasta "pudding" (we'd call it a dessert) in the U.S. called "Frog Eye Salad". It uses acini de pepe, some sort of creamy sauce, and canned fruit (sometimes pineapple, sometimes mandarin oranges, at worst fruit cocktail). It often has miniature marshmallows as well.
In Germany we have ready made poppy seed sugar fillings for cakes and I mix it with browned butter and potato noodles called Schupfnudeln. Its a quick pick me up when the blood sugar drops during a stressful Homeoffice day with no time for lunch. Because it is shelf stable I have both bags at home at all times.
1:39 I mean, children used to be given opium for sedation. Also, maybe the boys should try a bit of Aloo Posto (Potatoes and Poppy Seeds) given the poppy seeds in this episode (or maybe they’ve tried it idk)
Poppy seeds are very popular in Lithuania as well. We have a traditional Christmas Eve dessert that's made from soaked and grinded poppy seeds, mixed with sweetened water and small hard leavened dough cookies (also with poppy seeds) . It's eaten pretty much only during Christmas period and it really gets you a bit sedated.
As a Hungarian I was SOOO happy for our "mákos tészta". (Also I was VERY surprised that you felt like you had to show our country on a map.) We have other interesting desserts, like "csörögefánk", which is thinly rolled out doughnut dough fried until the outside is crispy and golden. We serve it with apricot jam. Or there is "hájas", which is a sweet "cookie" made out of a dough that has pork lard as a main ingredient, and acts somewhat like a puff pastry. It is filled with jelly-like marmalade, and has a very unique shape I have recommended it already several times, but you should also try some of our crazy savoury dishes like "hagymás vér" (translates as blood with onion) which is fried pig blood (like fried eggs) on sauteéd onion. Also you should try to use marjoram sometimes, it is a very common spice in Hungarian cuisine.
@@SortedFood I also think you would love our "gyümölcsleves" (fruit-soup), too. It is sweet soup with a lot of seasonal fruits (most common are cherry, plum, peach, apple and pear), that has a consistency of a thin cream soup. You should spice it with cinnamon and vanilla (optionally with some ginger, cardamom and/or clove), and it should have a bright pink colour. Also, you must serve it cold. It is such a refreshing dish.
I'd had almond tofu before. I had a friend in HS who's parents were first generation japanese immigrants, and his mom served us those when a bunch of us were at his house to play games and she made us an amazing dinner. the little cups of almond tofu were the desert. She told us the story about the doctor telling people to plant trees.
Both annin dofu and koohii zerii? You’re really taking me back to my days in Japan. The coffee jelly is sold in convenience stores in cups with little coffee cream containers attached. You lift the lid, pour in the cream, and mix it up. Annin dofu is so good, too.
so what's funny is i knew immediately what dish #2 was, not because i've ever had it, but because i'm a gamer, and one of the big game titles that's been out for years now is genshin impact from hoyoverse in china. food is a major gameplay aspect of genshin, and every character (and yes, i do mean EVERY CHARACTER; all 91) have a favorite dish. my personal fav character is Xiao, and his fav dish (and canonically one of the only things he'll eat) is almond tofu. so when ben said the name, i had to run around the room screaming "I KNEW IT!!" from the top of my lungs. just had to be done. so thanks for making me feel smart guys 😊
@@SortedFood I loved the live show, but missed parts of it. Before I answer your mail about the review of it, I want to make sure that I have watched everything, so that my review is fair.
Thank you for finally adding a Hungarian dish, I've been feeling lately that you tend to do more dishes from exotic places and abandon Europe. But as many people said before me, we don't eat this as dessert, it's a main dish :)
Volt mar langos is. Azt reggelinek hivtak. London tele van kivalo magyar szakacsokkal. Igazan talalhatnanak egyet, aki korrigalja a receptjeiket es az etelek tortenetet.
9:50 - Random tip: In Mandarin "X" is pronounced like "S" instead of "Z"-like. The version that I'm familiar with is commonly made with almond powder/syrup (or flavouring extract) in soy milk that is then turned into something like tofu.
The first dish is something that I had years and years ago from a university cafeteria when visiting Hungary. I think they also do other sweet pasta dishes (remember tasting some pasta dish with some sort of jam as well.
8:55 Just like the folks who guessed the coffee jelly came from Japan because of Saiki K., the almond tofu coming from China was a no-brainer for me because of Genshin Impact. The connection comes from the fact that Almond Tofu is a regional dish in the game that is served in the Liyue region, which was directly inspired by the culture and cuisine of China.
I love it when you include Hungary. Mákos tészta is very good indeed. But it is most commonly eaten as a main dish. We have a couple of sweet main dishes, I don't really understand why :D Probobly designed to go after a hearty soup which we have quite a lot of.
That sugar and coconut combination is something we have in Trinidad and Tobago as well, called sugar cake. We were also colonized by the Portuguese so I won't be surprised if the influence is the same. For that reason I assumed Mike was closer lol
Oh my god, long time fan, this feels like a Christmas Miracle! Hungary is so rarely on this channel :O For some added context, we Hungarians LOVE poppy seeds! For any dessert that you would add a filling to (like jam filling, chocolate filling, etc), instead we fill it with either poppy seeds, walnuts, or chestnuts! We use poppy seed topping/fillling (always finely ground, with powdered sugar, sometimes even cooked in milk to make it into a delicious sweet pase) in baked goods, in thin pancakes, in strudel/pie, on pasta, on sweet dough... It's a comfort food for so many of us :)
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I've never met anyone who put butter on the poppy seed pasta. Only grinded poppy seeds and sugar. It is a main dish, usually after a gulash or similar soup. The sedative effect is a myth because seeds are washed and processed, only the fresh bulb of the plant contains opium(and not all variants).
in czechia we definitely put melted butter on our poppy seed pasta. (And on other sweet dishes. And some savoury dishes like mashed potatoes. Butter is a must.)
I only knew Coffee Jelly was from Japan because I watch the anime "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K." It's his absolute favorite dish...Sort of a running joke on how much he loves it.
Ah ! I got the first one with Hungary!! My father come from Hungary and i remembered seeing grinder for poppy seed several places and also one of their famous Christmas cake (beigli) have a version with poppy seed.
Almond tofu is a very common dessert here at both Chinese and Japanese restaurants so I was very surprised it wasn't common in London. It's absolutely one of my favourite. I guessed the pasta dish was Poland because of their sweet strawberry pasta dishes.
In Austria we have a dish that is called 'Mohnnudeln' which literally translates to poppy noodles. The noodles in question more resemble Spätzle though. It's usually eaten in the context of skiing and or mountaineering. Think after a long day of skiing in the cold, you go into a cozy 'Almhüttn' and order this sugary, poppy-seed-y noodle goodness. I suppose the dish might also trace back to the Austro-Hungarian empire, which would definitely make sense, historically speaking.
How about having MIke, Barry and Jamie Recreate a dish. Where the the 3 would have to make the dish. By what they see and taste from the known dish. And see how close they are to replicating it.
The poppyseed pasta is similar to the Austrian potato dumplings with sugar, poppyseed and butter. They look like finger shaped dumpling and interestingly enough we call them "Mohnnudeln" - poppyseed noodles
1:45 FUN FACT TIME! That scene from *Wizard of Oz* Ben is talking about here? The snow falling at the end, that wakes Dorothy and the Lion up? That's our good ol' friend Asbestos!
Man, I love this game. It is always a delight to see familiar dishes, and some I never even heard of. This time around, I got 2 spot on, almond tofu as I am originally from china, and coffee jelly since I remembered a few friends saying how popular it is in Japan. The first pasta dish had me thinking it was some where in Greece or Turkey. For the third dish I never even heard of the country, so I went generic Brazil based on the name on Portuguese influence. Anyways, good game lads, can't wait for the next.
I Got the second (almond) and 4th ones right! Mike's logic was spot on with older civilizations, but if you factor in countries that would call something tofu and that also have enough land for cattle (milk), you pretty much come up with China. I also got the Japan one right, which really surprised me. After being there, the texture they were talking about just screamed Japan at me.
I love how international the Sorted audience is! All I have to do is read the comments and the awesome people from whatever country will give me the history and all the wonderful variations of the dish you’re talking about.
Totally agree, so wonderful to have all this knowledge in the comments :)
It really is! ❤
Hungarian here. It’s kind of a main dish, not a dessert. We usually eat it after a hearty soup or as a quick lunch/dinner. I never had it with butter. It’s just poppyseeds grinded together with sugar. Or just walnuts grinded with sugar. An other version is breadcrumbs browned with a bit of oil, that goes on the pasta than you add some homemade apricot jam.
In eastern Austria, we eat it exactly as shown :) Greetings from Felsőőrvidék!
Yeah, my mom used to make it for me when I was a child and it was never as a dessert. From my experience sugary main courses are quite common in Hungary
Thanks so much for the information!
Same in Czech republic. From my experience we don't really stray away from the poppy seed. This dish (and also a very similar one that uses boiled potatoes mashed with flour instead of pasta) was my favourite when I was a child.
In Czechia, we either do poppy seeds and sugar, or cocoa and sugar, or browned bread crumbs and sugar. Always with butter.
This is feels correct.
The poppy seed pasta is served in my country, Czech Republic, as well. We share a history with Hungary (Austrian-Hungarian Empire). The poppy seed should be ground finely and it's a main course for us. My country has a great tradition of sweet main dishes - all kinds of pancakes, crepes, dumplings etc. They are still served in school cantines and families.
Austrian here, can confirm. Just not pasta. Here, they usually make "potato pasta" like.. roll potato dough into a long sausage, then cut into noodles. poppy seeds, sugar. And possibly the butter to make the stuff stick, but it really doesn't need it.
@@Gametherapist You can actually have both in Czech Republic
@@Gametherapist in Czech we call the potato stuff šišky : pinecone
Nudle s makem Czech
In Austria, we use a different kind of pasta - made from potato and usually thicker. (mohnnudeln). Babies were given a "Mohnzutz" Poppyseed passivier. This was obviously not good for the mental development and was stopped.
I will never forget Sao Tome and principe because I had the pleasure of meeting and teaching a boy from there when I was working in the UK. He was one of the most inquisitive and bright boys I've ever taught.
Hungarian here, but I would like comment on the apricot kernel-almond similarity. I remember my grandfather saving the seeds of apricots (we had an apricot tree), after we ate the fruit, drying them, then cracking them for the kernel. It was the only treat that he gave me in strict moderation (no more than 3 or 4 pieces), because it contains cyanide (which gives it the almond flavor) and more than that amount could give you mild poisoning. (I mean like a stomach ache, not like rushing to the ER and dying poisoning). He did this beacues we had no almond tree and you couldn't really get in a store, or if yes it was very expensive.
Thank you everybody at Sorted for bringing joy, laughter, fun and interesting facts about food every day into our homes during advent
You're very welcome! Thanks for tuning in 😁
@@SortedFood Thanks Ben for the last clue (about being impressed if they got it) on dish 3, that made it clear for me.
when I was pregnant with my son, I craved almond jello. Ate it 3-4 times a week. But now I know it was the cheap version. The real thing is made from nothing but almonds, rice & sugar. Cecilia Chiang, a renown Chinese=American resturanteur, drank it regularly & claimed it helped her reach 100 years of age.
As a hungarian, we tend to have a very heavy soup like Jókai bean soup or goulash and this is the second dish. We also have walnut with apricot jam pasta. Or just apricot jam pasta. But for me the poppy is clearly not crushed enough. 😅
agree. Poppy seeds need to be finely ground.
Meaning 6ou have it as a dessert.
@@stapuft no! it's not a dessert portion.
@@stef.828 it is though, you have it AFTER a "hearty filling course" AND its sweet, its the literal definition of a dessert.
@stapuft no, never on a dessert menu and also when eating out we will order a third dessert course. Here you go soup second dish and rarely any desserts. Hooooowever for some reason on Fridays we tend to have a sweet second dish in the schools and traditional daily lunch menu places as an option. Some like aranygaluska can be in a smaller portion just dessert. But you would never order màkos tészta as a desert. Also another option after a heavy soup is làngos. So yeah not dessert just not the main attraction either
i’m from the czech republic and we eat noodles with poppy seeds a lot here! we also eat “šišky s mákem”, which are sort of like potato “gnocchi” with poppy seeds, butter and sugar. there’s also a different noodle dish with grated hard quark cheese, butter and sugar called “nudle s tvarohem” 😊
have you seen the episode where they showed dumplings filled with fruit for Czech dish? they put whole peach into it :D
I’m Polish and we have it too.
I'm hungarian and we have it too and it's one of my fave dishes!!
I want to share some of Thai desserts that are very exquisite in their taste and look.
1. "ขนมช่อม่วง (kha-nom-chor-muang; meaning, "Purple bouquet")" is a very beautiful purple flower-shape snack. It looks like a dumpling with a savory filling, made of chicken with other seasonings and herbs.
2. "ขนมผกากรอง (ฺkha-nom-bha-ga-grong; meaning "Latana plant")" shares a similar look with the first one, but its filling is made of sweet mung bean paste.
These all sound incredible! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us 🫶
Hungarian poppy seed pasta is indeed an everyday classic. On Christmas Eve, however, a slightly more difficult variety is traditional in some Hungarian families, which is called "mákos guba". To make it, pieces of baked leavened dough, or at a pinch, a stale crescent roll cut into rings are scalded with hot milk or just water, ground poppy seeds are added and thoroughly mixed, taking care that the pastry pieces shouldn't turn into mush, then honey is poured over. It is good as is, however, some serve it with vanilla custard.
We do the same in Slovakia but we also add caramel :D
that sounds amazing!
This sounds utterly delicious, thanks so much for sharing 😁
@@SortedFood Also we don't really eat it with Ricotta :D Maybe in some fine dining restaurants. But as Erzsébet said we also have "mákos guba" and that tastes much better.
That vanilla custard sounds like the perfect thing with this
I grew up in Austria (living in the US for 25 years now). This was one of my favorite things growing up, yum, Mohn Nudeln! Delicious. As everyone else has been saying, this is eaten throughout the region, and yes, growing up we had a poppy seed grinder in the kitchen.
love the Hungary representation! Ebbers' pronounciation is almost okay too, loved the effort :D but it is not a dessert, it is a main dish, poppy seeds are ground together with (powdered) sugar, tossed with the cooked pasta, and there you go. rarely have any butter or syrup or oil on it. I tried to make it when i was little, like 7 or 8, didn't know you have to grind the poppy seeds. it was terrible, learned my lesson and never messed up again :D
I'd like to recommend some more interesting pasta dishes: pasta with semolina and apricot jam, pasta with cottage cheese, sour cream, bacon (the proper lardy one) bits and loads of dill; pasta with cottage cheese and sour cream and sugar, and my personal favourit, pasta, cabbage, onions, loads of pepper and some sugar.
It's so cool. Here in the Philippines, we also have a dessert called "bukayo" (pronounced as "boo-kah-yoh") and the only differences are the form and the addition of lemon. Bukayo is made with coconut strips, while Açucarinhas look like they're finely shredded.
Açucarinhas 🤝 Bukayo.
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Jup, poppy seed pasta (although we use potatoe based pasta or Gnocchi) is also quite popular in Austria. What a treat
Was looking for the Austria comment in here, was screaming Austria at the screen when they came up. Loved them as a kid(and yes we use potatoes, flower, egg, semolina) to make thicker "noodles")
My partner's family are Polish and they serve poppy seed pasta as part of their Christmas ensemble. I first tried it a couple of years ago and I look forward to having it every year!
Sortedfood Christmas Advent Calendar makes my December so festive and cozy. Thanks you guys!
I saw poppy seed pasta and had to click it immediately, haha. Sending all the love from Poland
Haha! Have you had poppy seed pasta before?
@SortedFood Hell yes! It's quite a popular dish in Poland, usually prepared for Christmas. Most of the time it comes with raisins in it too.
In some regions of Poland poppy seed pasta is a christmas dish 😅
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po-o-o twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
Na mleko mam alergię
Po twojej pysznej zupie, nie ruszam dupy z klopa
Ta zupa była z mlekiem
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@@SortedFood Poppy seed pasta is quite popular in the Czech republic too! I remember it was often served to us kids back in elementary school.
14:09 YES! Been waiting For this one to appear! Japan! Learned about this from anime and i LOVE it! Thanks For showing it! 🇯🇵🇯🇵☕☕
Lots of Hungarian desserts made with poppy seeds and those are the best ones. You should really try the "Mákos Beigli" and the "Mákos rétes", but you need a poppy seed grinder for it.
These are so wonderful. Thanks Sorted crew! Kind of makes me realize how little I know of geography and how ingredients came to countries, be it via battles, settlers, or trade. Learn a ton of stuff.
Comment from the Czech Republick. The pasta dish with poppy seeds is common sweet dish in my country as well. Not as a dessert but as a main dish. Just as someone from Hungary pointed out. Once I saw it, I was hit with instant nostalgia. This dish was frequently served as one of the options at school,
to piggyback off of 13:35, i think adding a rule if you are a certain distance wrong away (eg 4500 miles away) you shouldnt get the point, just to add extra pressure to get it at least close!
1:30 - Barry and Mike are probably thinking about making it for Austin and Lottie cuz they may enjoy it.
1:40 - Barry and Mike are thinking "WTF EBBERS?!?!?!"
poppy seed noodles served in austria are typically served with thick nooodles made of cooked potatoes, served with apple sauce,
important for the flavour are of course butter and sugar, but i think you guys forgot to grind the poppy seeds, so the oils with flavour come out better
Those cubes were so satisfying to look at
We know right?
The almond tofu dish is lovely & pretty gentle on the stomach if not feeling well. Conversely some of the Asian sodas/cans of pop can be a bit of a surprise to Westerners not expecting it. Remember bringing a case of mixed cans from a Chinese supermarket to work for my staff to try. They liked the flavour, but gave some odd reactions when they tipped the cans to finish & a pile of jelly cubes rushed down their gullets. 😆
I really love the story behind the dish, its so interesting and beautiful. I wonder, where in China is this dish famous from ? I have been in China for a year in different trips, and never had it (but then, I dont like desserts, so maybe thats why).
@@swissfoodie3542 Don't have a huge sweet tooth either, but the texture & delicate flavour of xing ren tou fu is nice. Seemingly popular in a lot of provinces but a favourite in Beijing and Guangdong. Seemingly popular outside of China as I found this: - "𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘧𝘶 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘸𝘢𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘪, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 "𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦".
@@swissfoodie3542 Immediate guess is the Canton region (so Guangdong and its surroundings, Hong Kong, etc). Googling says there and Beijing as well, though recipes may vary.
As a hungarian, I am so proud that You guys sometimes show my/our cousine. I have figured out 3 out of 4 correctly. Hungary, China and Japan.
4:28 we know about the poppies we wear for remembrance day, but Flanders Fields were in Belgium, nowhere near Hungary.
Haha this was the comment I was looking for! In terms of Europe, Hungary and Belgium aren't exactly close together.
Poppy seed pasta is usually served as an "entrée" in Hungary when the soup is hearty (like a goulash soup)
Thanks for the added context :)
yes, same in Czech republic. Hearty soup and then some sweet dish (poppy seed pasta, bread pudding, sweet dumplings, pancakes...) as a main entrée.
It certainly baffles foreign visitors :)
@@SortedFood "entrée" would mean that it is served before something heartier , although the opposite is happening, it is actually served after it - when you already had a hearty soup or "creamy vegetables with some sort of toppings" (good luck to find and translate the latter one to English!)
Entrees are the "main course" they are hearty filling and furfilling, what you describe is a dessert, as it is both sweet and come AFTER the hearty, fillingz and furfilling course
@@stapuftdon’t correct people about their own culture? Sounds like they mean it’s part of the main meal…
You should review Tepache! The Mexican street drink made from pineapple!
Definitely!
@@SortedFood Please do a recipe as well as it's such an easy way of using pineapple rinds, so good way of reducing food waste
I did actually get Japan spot on. Not only because it seemed very Japanese and the convenience store clue. Also, their cafe culture. It very much reminded me of the sort of dishes in the cafes in animes and mangas.
Culture is culture. Gotta get those wins where you can, especially after that almond milk one. That felt like an Ebber's "gotcha".
It's mentioned by name in the Disastrous Life of Saiki K. That's how I knew lol.
Açucarinhas are also very consumed in Brazil, we call them "cocadas". And can also be made with other tropical fruits mixed with the coconut and sugar, like pineapple and passion fruit.
I thought maybe Cabo Verde
I wouldn't be surprised if it actually stems from the colonial periode and there are versions of it in all former colonies. I was thinking Angola, Mozambique or East Timor. Sao Tomé and Principe never came into my mind. You hardy ever hear about them, so it's nice they found something to put attention to them.
In Venezuela we also have something similar, we call them conservas de coco. My favorites are the ones made with papelón (panela) instead of sugar. Here cocada would be a coconut and condensed milk drink
18:41 I guessed it spot on because of anime. Mostly because the main character in Saiki k is obsessed with coffee jelly
Same
Yep
I was waiting for a Saiki K comment
I had a chocolate pasta pudding dish in Europe, Germany I think at a Christmas market (sadly can’t remember where) and it was so so good.
In Poland we eat the poppy seed pasta on Christmas. It's called "makiełki" and we also add nuts and dried fruit to it. Personally, I'm not a fan but so many people loves it.
Thanks for everything you are, boys. Love you so mucho, and have the happiest Christmas and new year! 🖤
first dish: as a child (germany), my mom gave me a pretty similar dish, but with butter, sugar and cinnemon. I liked it. so it's not that unusual to me to see this
Every time I watch this kind of video, it impresses me on their geography without a map.
The way i felt so proud knowing the almond tofu on sight because of a video game XD... and the Coffee Jelly from an anime
I'm guessing, Xiao's favourite food?
I got so excited once I heard the name. My favorite character's favorite dish! 😂
There's a dessert dish in Belgium (I think you'll also find it in the Netherlands) which is macaronipap. Basically pasta (usually Chiocciole incidentally) cooked in milk, with sugar, raisins, chocolate,custard powder, egg sometimes...
Ooooh this sounds delicious! Thanks so much for sharing :)
Huh, I've never heard of that 😮 Regional thing?
I lived with a dutch couple for a year, and they used to make a savoury/sweet dish. A kind of swiss roll made of a layer of mashed potatoes, topped with a layer of peanut butter and salad leaves. It was strange but delicious. Do you maybe know the name of the dish ? Is this also something in Belgium ?
@@swissfoodie3542 no, never heard of that :) sounds awful, but then I've never tried it
@@swissfoodie3542 As a Dutch person I can assure you that that is not a very common dish. Probably something those people thought up for themselves, but even then 🤔. If anything, I would rather do fries (frites/patat) and peanut butter sauce (pinda saus), which you could wrap into salad leaves.
We do have a combination of (leftover) warm rice, with butter, sugar and cinnamon though.
Barry saying "wibbly-wobbly" is my second favorite use of the phrase 😄
Is the first the guy who burned down the parliament?
wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey
lovely jubbly
18:36
Did not get to see Hawaii’s mochi or haupia pie, but we did get to Japan jelly, which is a great consolation prize. I grew up in Hawaii and I am part Japanese!
Love the addition to showing the country on the map..(educational!!)
I'm liking the showing the map afterwards!
Canada here but from Romanian and Hungarian ancestors. Every Sunday as a child my great-grandmother fed me pastries and cakes HEAVILY laden with poppyseeds because “it is time for a nap for the children” I thought it was a well known sedative. Very cool segment. HAPPY HOLIDAYS BOYS
come on, Hungary 😍😍
next time you will try
- túrós tészta szalonnával (pasta with hungarian ricotta, with fatty bacon)
- túrógombóc cukros tejföllel (cottage cheese dumplings, with sweetened sour cream)
from the hungarian cousine. :)
Those sound delicious! Thanks so much for the suggestions 😁
Hungarian cusine is wonderful.
don't forget the cheese too with túrós tészta!
the sweet version is sour cream, cottage cheese and powered sugar
Got China bang on but this one was a tough episode!!
That doctor story has got to be the chiniesiest story ever 😂
Yes, the second he mentioned the inside of Apricot seeds being used interchangeably with almonds I knew it was China... finally my boba obsession paid off for something!
I fully clicked after Ben said Almond Tofu and immediately thought that is SUCH a Chinese story. Loved it.
that's exactly what i was thinking when i heard the doctor story hahaha! even as someone half-chinese, i couldn't have explained to you at the time WHY it felt like SUCH a chinese story, it just does. maybe because it has kind of a collectivist message to it and is very much valuing community and others over the self.
then the recipe itself being supposedly 2000 years old (so a country old enough to have a pretty ancient civilisation), plus it being called tofu and having such a strong almond component (cos like plant-based milks including almond milk were already common in Asia before plant-based milk became a popular trend/alternative for vegans)
That first one was so interesting! It made me think of a sweet dish we eat in Germany (it's probably more from the south, maybe even Austria, not sure). It's called "Dampfnudeln", literally translated "steam noodles". But it isn't actually noodles. It's steamed buns, similar to japanese anpan or to bao, filled with e.g. plum jam or cherries. "Now, where is the connection?" you may ask. It's served with melting butter on top and a tiny mountain of a poppy seeds powdered sugar mix. Seeing actual noodles/pasta with exactly that had me amazed!
0:20 dude the poppy seeds are supposed to be ground up, we have a special grinder for that,.... you never eat it with raw whole seeds like that,... must be like eating sand
19:09 good guess Baz - anyone who watches K-Drama knows that coffee is a huge deal in S.Korea they even have a coffee candy. 🍬
I was tempted to go with Taiwan for similar reasons than Baz gave for South Korea.
There is a wallnut version of that Mákos Tészta, which simply means Poppy seed pasta. Replace the grinded poppy seed with grinded wallnut. Both are very jummy.
Add a bit of apricot jam and its 10/10
then it's walnut pasta simply
@ These are very simple a very delicious dishes. Pasta, grinded poppy seeds or walnut and granulated sugar mixed while it is hot, so the sugar dissolves, and a pinch of salt. Salt is important, as usual in every sweet dessert. We have special grinder for the poppy seed, which is kinda crush the seeds.
Austrian here... No.1 I only know with small long-shaped potato dumplings, called "Mohnnudeln" or "Schupfnudeln". As for calming down children...poppy seeds were often used for pacifiers made of linen, the children sucked on that, we call it "Mohnzutz" (Mohn= german for poppy seeds)
We also have it with the dumplings, it’s called nudli :) we Hungarians love poppy seeds with a lot of things haha
Ooh mákostészta! It's pretty traditional in Romania too :) It's cheap, easy and quick. I'm Hungarian and lice in Romania, and it's a dish everyone had as a kid.
Do they have lice in Romania?
Harking back to the Kush Unleashed comfort food recipe from a few days ago, I think the almond tofu dessert would exactly hit my comfort spot. I've found a recipe, I'm going to make that.
Actually, all four of them sound pretty comforting.
I had a really nice time with this one - it's got such a gentle, comfortable feel to it. Many, many thanks, it's just exactly what I need today.
A dip one of these could be fun. Kiwi onion, Bagna Cauda, skordalia
We have a pasta "pudding" (we'd call it a dessert) in the U.S. called "Frog Eye Salad". It uses acini de pepe, some sort of creamy sauce, and canned fruit (sometimes pineapple, sometimes mandarin oranges, at worst fruit cocktail). It often has miniature marshmallows as well.
In Germany we have ready made poppy seed sugar fillings for cakes and I mix it with browned butter and potato noodles called Schupfnudeln. Its a quick pick me up when the blood sugar drops during a stressful Homeoffice day with no time for lunch. Because it is shelf stable I have both bags at home at all times.
Ebbers mentioned the cream over coffee jelly and "Oh !@#$ this was in some weird anime, wasn't it?"
Saiki K anime for me, it was pretty weird.
1:39 I mean, children used to be given opium for sedation. Also, maybe the boys should try a bit of Aloo Posto (Potatoes and Poppy Seeds) given the poppy seeds in this episode (or maybe they’ve tried it idk)
Poppy seeds are very popular in Lithuania as well. We have a traditional Christmas Eve dessert that's made from soaked and grinded poppy seeds, mixed with sweetened water and small hard leavened dough cookies (also with poppy seeds) . It's eaten pretty much only during Christmas period and it really gets you a bit sedated.
Poppy seeds also popular in Austria - mohnstrudel, mohnnoodle, mohnkuchen etc. I sometimes mange to find pre-ground in polish shops in the UK.
Enjoyed this so much. Knew none of them. Enjoyed them how much they truly try.
As a Hungarian I was SOOO happy for our "mákos tészta". (Also I was VERY surprised that you felt like you had to show our country on a map.)
We have other interesting desserts, like "csörögefánk", which is thinly rolled out doughnut dough fried until the outside is crispy and golden. We serve it with apricot jam.
Or there is "hájas", which is a sweet "cookie" made out of a dough that has pork lard as a main ingredient, and acts somewhat like a puff pastry. It is filled with jelly-like marmalade, and has a very unique shape
I have recommended it already several times, but you should also try some of our crazy savoury dishes like "hagymás vér" (translates as blood with onion) which is fried pig blood (like fried eggs) on sauteéd onion. Also you should try to use marjoram sometimes, it is a very common spice in Hungarian cuisine.
Oooooh interesting recommendations.... thank you so much for sharing! :)
They've been showing all the countries on a map in the latest videos. To show those (please don't say USA😂) geo challenged people, I think.
@@SortedFood I also think you would love our "gyümölcsleves" (fruit-soup), too. It is sweet soup with a lot of seasonal fruits (most common are cherry, plum, peach, apple and pear), that has a consistency of a thin cream soup. You should spice it with cinnamon and vanilla (optionally with some ginger, cardamom and/or clove), and it should have a bright pink colour. Also, you must serve it cold. It is such a refreshing dish.
This format is entertaining and educational. Big praise!
I'd had almond tofu before. I had a friend in HS who's parents were first generation japanese immigrants, and his mom served us those when a bunch of us were at his house to play games and she made us an amazing dinner. the little cups of almond tofu were the desert. She told us the story about the doctor telling people to plant trees.
Adding to comments about poppy seed pasta - in Poland we eat this as one of the Christmas Eve dinner dishes
Both annin dofu and koohii zerii? You’re really taking me back to my days in Japan. The coffee jelly is sold in convenience stores in cups with little coffee cream containers attached. You lift the lid, pour in the cream, and mix it up. Annin dofu is so good, too.
so what's funny is i knew immediately what dish #2 was, not because i've ever had it, but because i'm a gamer, and one of the big game titles that's been out for years now is genshin impact from hoyoverse in china. food is a major gameplay aspect of genshin, and every character (and yes, i do mean EVERY CHARACTER; all 91) have a favorite dish. my personal fav character is Xiao, and his fav dish (and canonically one of the only things he'll eat) is almond tofu.
so when ben said the name, i had to run around the room screaming "I KNEW IT!!" from the top of my lungs. just had to be done. so thanks for making me feel smart guys 😊
Barry looks happy! This is gonna be good! Pasta with the poppy seeds looks delicious
Its been a Sorted day for me.. catching up on all the things I missed from the Weekend Live and came to this video after pausing Ben's game show!
Awesome! We hope you're enjoying the LIVE show :)
@@SortedFood It is taking me forever to finish watching it cuz I keep pausing and replaying stuff cuz it's soooooo good. I'm literally savoring it!
@@SortedFood I loved the live show, but missed parts of it. Before I answer your mail about the review of it, I want to make sure that I have watched everything, so that my review is fair.
best live show yet thx boys :) loved this one too
Thank you for finally adding a Hungarian dish, I've been feeling lately that you tend to do more dishes from exotic places and abandon Europe. But as many people said before me, we don't eat this as dessert, it's a main dish :)
Volt mar langos is. Azt reggelinek hivtak. London tele van kivalo magyar szakacsokkal. Igazan talalhatnanak egyet, aki korrigalja a receptjeiket es az etelek tortenetet.
9:50 - Random tip: In Mandarin "X" is pronounced like "S" instead of "Z"-like. The version that I'm familiar with is commonly made with almond powder/syrup (or flavouring extract) in soy milk that is then turned into something like tofu.
The first dish is something that I had years and years ago from a university cafeteria when visiting Hungary. I think they also do other sweet pasta dishes (remember tasting some pasta dish with some sort of jam as well.
8:55 Just like the folks who guessed the coffee jelly came from Japan because of Saiki K., the almond tofu coming from China was a no-brainer for me because of Genshin Impact. The connection comes from the fact that Almond Tofu is a regional dish in the game that is served in the Liyue region, which was directly inspired by the culture and cuisine of China.
I'm a little proud for instantly recognizing th last dish.
Dessert episode, first reveal - PASTA?!
You so know this is going to be a mind blowing brilliant episode
It is a main dish.
I love it when you include Hungary. Mákos tészta is very good indeed. But it is most commonly eaten as a main dish. We have a couple of sweet main dishes, I don't really understand why :D Probobly designed to go after a hearty soup which we have quite a lot of.
That sugar and coconut combination is something we have in Trinidad and Tobago as well, called sugar cake. We were also colonized by the Portuguese so I won't be surprised if the influence is the same. For that reason I assumed Mike was closer lol
Oh my god, long time fan, this feels like a Christmas Miracle! Hungary is so rarely on this channel :O For some added context, we Hungarians LOVE poppy seeds! For any dessert that you would add a filling to (like jam filling, chocolate filling, etc), instead we fill it with either poppy seeds, walnuts, or chestnuts! We use poppy seed topping/fillling (always finely ground, with powdered sugar, sometimes even cooked in milk to make it into a delicious sweet pase) in baked goods, in thin pancakes, in strudel/pie, on pasta, on sweet dough... It's a comfort food for so many of us :)
I've never met anyone who put butter on the poppy seed pasta. Only grinded poppy seeds and sugar. It is a main dish, usually after a gulash or similar soup. The sedative effect is a myth because seeds are washed and processed, only the fresh bulb of the plant contains opium(and not all variants).
in czechia we definitely put melted butter on our poppy seed pasta.
(And on other sweet dishes. And some savoury dishes like mashed potatoes. Butter is a must.)
I only knew Coffee Jelly was from Japan because I watch the anime "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K." It's his absolute favorite dish...Sort of a running joke on how much he loves it.
Ah ! I got the first one with Hungary!! My father come from Hungary and i remembered seeing grinder for poppy seed several places and also one of their famous Christmas cake (beigli) have a version with poppy seed.
The way I got so excited over the coffee jelly saiki k really came in clutch with that knowledge while all my other guesses were way off
Almond tofu is a very common dessert here at both Chinese and Japanese restaurants so I was very surprised it wasn't common in London. It's absolutely one of my favourite.
I guessed the pasta dish was Poland because of their sweet strawberry pasta dishes.
In Austria we have a dish that is called 'Mohnnudeln' which literally translates to poppy noodles. The noodles in question more resemble Spätzle though. It's usually eaten in the context of skiing and or mountaineering. Think after a long day of skiing in the cold, you go into a cozy 'Almhüttn' and order this sugary, poppy-seed-y noodle goodness.
I suppose the dish might also trace back to the Austro-Hungarian empire, which would definitely make sense, historically speaking.
Fantastic video, these were some great finds!
Always puts a smile on my face when Tunisia is mentioned 😁
How about having MIke, Barry and Jamie Recreate a dish. Where the the 3 would have to make the dish. By what they see and taste from the known dish. And see how close they are to replicating it.
Great idea! I'll pass your comment onto the production team :)
I live in China and had some of the almond tofu yesterday as our dessert at lunch! It's so good! I highly recommend it to anyone!
Immediately recognized the first dish, so nostalgic
Did you used to have this as a kid?
I used to have it and sometimes still do occasionally after a hearty soup
The poppyseed pasta is similar to the Austrian potato dumplings with sugar, poppyseed and butter. They look like finger shaped dumpling and interestingly enough we call them "Mohnnudeln" - poppyseed noodles
So proud of myself for knowing one of those dishes for the first time and got Japan straight away. Very interesting episode.
Love these, such fun and no ridiculous time pressure. Have you done a Global Christmas video before? Ah yes, I see you have.
Love the colander sugar. We make t hat in my country, and sometimes we add ginger or nutmeg and cinnamon.
1:45 FUN FACT TIME! That scene from *Wizard of Oz* Ben is talking about here?
The snow falling at the end, that wakes Dorothy and the Lion up? That's our good ol' friend Asbestos!
Man, I love this game. It is always a delight to see familiar dishes, and some I never even heard of. This time around, I got 2 spot on, almond tofu as I am originally from china, and coffee jelly since I remembered a few friends saying how popular it is in Japan. The first pasta dish had me thinking it was some where in Greece or Turkey. For the third dish I never even heard of the country, so I went generic Brazil based on the name on Portuguese influence. Anyways, good game lads, can't wait for the next.
I Got the second (almond) and 4th ones right! Mike's logic was spot on with older civilizations, but if you factor in countries that would call something tofu and that also have enough land for cattle (milk), you pretty much come up with China. I also got the Japan one right, which really surprised me. After being there, the texture they were talking about just screamed Japan at me.
I love this series. You learn so much !