Traditional ALBANIAN BREAKFAST in Tirana & Rakija Flight | Tirana, Albania
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2020
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After arriving in Tirana the previous night, I was so stoked to start exploring my 78th country, Albania! Over the next 14 days, I’d go on an epic road trip through the entire country, but for now, it was time to explore the capital city! Come along with me as I have a traditional Albanian breakfast and a rakija flight in Tirana, Albania!
My morning began in Skanderbeg Square! The square is dedicated to Skanderbeg, the national hero, who has a statue in his honor there.
I met up with my guide Ani from Balkan Pearls Tour Operator. She explained that the square represents the unity of Albania and that the marble squares on the ground, the plants, and trees in the square are from cities and areas all over the country.
We headed to the 18th-century Tirana Castle for breakfast. We saw some colorful, Italian-style buildings in the city center along the way. It felt very European! Inside are restaurants, souvenir shops, and outdoor seating. There, we went to Ceren Ismet Shehu, a rustic restaurant with a farm-like feel.
I started with a strong double espresso and some strong rakija, the national drink. In the kitchen, I watched them make trahana, petulla, and more!
Back at the table, we had eggs, tomato, goat cheese, cucumbers, fig jam, blueberry jam, and more!
I started with the over easy eggs with goat cheese. I loved the salty, feta-like cheese! The kofta was soft and smoky. I also really enjoyed the hearty, grits-like tarhana.
It’s a hearty dish that people eat on farms. It was stellar and so filling. I loved the bread in it!
Then, I tried the fërgesë (an Albanian pepper and tomato dish with ricotta cheese, meat, and olive oil) with bread. I loved the stew-like consistency and the gooey cheese!
Next was the savory French toast, which was great with the honey. Then, I tried the petulla with fig jam. It’s basically an Albanian pancake and is super fluffy.
Then, I tried the beef salami, which was smoky and similar to Armenian basturma before I dug into the yogurt with oats and honey. It was like Greek yogurt and had a nice sweetness from the honey and thickness from the oats. Lastly was a fruit yogurt with pomegranate seeds and nuts.
Then, we headed to the New Bazaar, the largest market in Tirana. This open-air market sells fish, vegetables, meat, dried fruits, wine, and more. It dates back to 1931! I tried some Greek and Albanian olives and bought a spoon for my wife for 300 lekes. Further on were antiques and other items.
Then, we headed into the fish, meat, and dairy market. I could see lots of fresh organ meat, goat legs, and more. There was also lots of seafood!
We visited a souvenir shop where I tried on an Albanian World Cup jersey and played a traditional instrument called a çifteli. The jersey cost me $12 USD! Then, we drove through a trendy neighborhood to Mother Teresa Square, the 2nd-biggest square in Tirana. Then, we went to have some rakija at Komiteti Kafe - Muzeum, where you can see glasses from the Communist era, wood items, and more.
There is an open-air bar in the back, where I tried a flight of 10 different rakijas! The honey and cinnamon was strong and cinnamon-y! The clear one from a tree tasted like bark and was very strong! The spicy one tasted like black pepper, while the saffron was very floral and light. The kumquat was tangy and citrusy. The anise was good and I loved the blackberry. The passion seven sensations was floral and berry-like!
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Have been to Tirana in 2000. Looks beautiful and has grown for the better. Nice People. Hello from Juzna Afrika - South Africa
Yep it is much much better now.There is still a bit of work to be done, but it has changed a lot in 20 years. Thank you friend from south africa. Mandela is the best.
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Thank you my friend! Come again and visit us!
Mandela, Malema and Mugabe are best! I love South Africa!
Im albainan
Im from albania
Iam from Macedonia, i put politics aside, i love Albania and people, very nice sincere common people, i like their food and hospitality!!, thumbs up for Albanian people!! 👍👍👍☝️ Ps. The guide Lady is fenomenal!! 😊
Your are not Greek and you are not from Macedonia. You are slavic and you are from Skopje.Ok?
@@eponymousv1131 Bancropt egjupt go away!
@Running lion Η παλινδρομική κίνηση ισχύως επί καθέτου αξόνως, βαίνουσα συνεχώς αυξανόμενης εντάσεως και εκπέμπουσα υδάτινα βλήματα επί φανταστικού στόχου!
Thats how I see it too, politics make things for the worst. People just want to get along and have fun. Cheers
You're killing me! I have been to Albania four times and you are making me want to go again. The food, being all organic and fresh is simple but more flavourful than anything this side of the Atlantic. Faleminderit shume!! (I think the locals would prefer you to say "raki", not "rakija".) I first had raki at 9 in the morning on a Tuesday and never forgot it. It really "opens up the sluices at both ends"! Magical.
Hey Doug, did you have any issues with the language while you were there, or does everyone speak English for the most part? How were you able to get around? I'm interested in visiting but don't know how to speak Albanian.
@@FM-xr5nj In Tirana, you can get by with English. But you should get the Simon & Schuster (sp?) How to Speak Albanian. 10 lessons of 20 minutes each. Good primer and it will charm people as well as being practical.
Hahah nice one, you are more than welcome .
Raik and rakija are both correct in albanian, they mean the same thing here. The base noun for the drink is raki. U can ad the -ja suffix sometimes. It's interchangeablefor example we can say both
"Rakia eshte e mire" or "rakija eshte e mire" to mean "(the) rakija is good/delicious"
I guess it depends from the region. But simply "raki" is the "non-the" form of the noun
So
Albanian - English
Raki = rakija
Rakija/rakia = the rakija
@@FatShady15 tosk dialect 🤢
Awesome! I don't understand how you can eat that much, but how you survived all rakijas just blew my mind!!! Hahaha!
I was thinking about rakia same thing for this guy hahaha 😂
True maybe he never drinks
He got used to it, lol
He is the man hopefully he gets to visit the mother city of Rakia Skrapari
training maybe?...hahahhhhh
I have seen all your videos I can't believe that now I am watching you visiting my city my country 😍 I hope you enjoy it 💖
Albanian? Love your country 🙏
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I'D like going to Albania, I hope that can be soon, greetings from México 🇲🇽
I am coming to visit Albania for 2 weeks next Saturday and i am exited. Thank you for sharing this beautiful information video with us.
With love and respect from the Netherlands.
@Matte Matte 🤣🤣🤣🤣 KY gjithmon i komenton video-t per shqiprin si i huaj🤣🤣🤣
@Matte Matte how do you know he is albanian?
@Matte Matte by his name he cuold be romanian too.. i don't know about his head lol
Ushqime tradicionale shqipe..👉th-cam.com/video/kS8B4v31br8/w-d-xo.html
O mentor e shyeve youtubin vlla
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Feeling so relieved after watching this vlog..it's really amazing.. everything is so normal and no one is wearing a mask!!! That's a great blessing indeed.. in india it's really hard time passing for us.. but this video really helped me to detox my mind.. thank you so much for such a lovely video.. stay safe bro..keep posting such nice vlogs..💝💝💝
Trahana is very good but not without olive oil wrong place for
Nice video dude.. I lived in Tirana best years of my life. Still haven't found a city in the world that has that quality of life.
@@gentianx123 are you gonna start a trahana war now..im assuming you are Greek. It has to be..no one else politicizes every fg thing. I am Albanian..and that dish is not how i remember it..but it was never with olive oil but with butter..so get over it tzatziki..
@@glen80elezi46 actually we do add olive oil when we eat the trahana
sa e mire kjo goca ,me shpirt i shpjego te gjitha god blees you bukoroshe suksese
good cuisine, greetings from Bulgaria ;)
Nice city nice people and very delicious food Respect from 🇺🇸🥂🇦🇱
David, thank you for coming in Albania and promoting our country! Your videos are beautiful and at the same time very informative for foreigners. You spread good and positive vibes. You are very funny, especially when you drink Rakia our traditional drink. Enjoy your time here! Best of all, Krisi
David, I love watching travel vlogs. And I have to say yours are superb. Keep em coming.
Gavin,
Ireland
This video is the fresh taste of good'ol memories, man alot has changed. Went there in Summer! We were in Kukes also.
Balkan honey the best no Matter where!
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Ahh. I am Albanian. And yes, there is some very high quality honey around Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. But also in Germany they have crazy quality. The best probably is in Arabia. But that is something to argue about. I love honey. So much more than all this alcohol.
@@PrizrenaliZH best honey is in new zealand! High grade in the world and its medicanal
@@donnydixem8968 aight. Where can I buy and try?
@@PrizrenaliZH go to the local BIO shop n ask for Mjalt From New Zealand! ✌🏻
Great video, there are so many more things to see and experience!
Well actually we don’t eat all that stuff in the morning, some of that dishes are for lunch or dinner usually.
Terhana and eggs and beef sausage are for lunch and dinner? What an idiot.
That breakfast looked awesome! Nice video DBH.
David its great to see you exploring again. Felt like life is being normal again after the quarantine. Keep going ❤
Albania is a great place, easy going good food and people,and the girls are the best ,i know , regards Richard originally from London UK 🇬🇧🏴
No, we were not under Italian "influence" in the 90's. We immigrated to Italy in the early 90s in mass, and brought back what we seen there. Albania has had a "coffee culture" before the 90's.
Thank for visiting my city! I live in Florida but I really miss my city! Thank so much for bringing to me a pice of this life!
Awesome! I am from and live in Miami 🇺🇸
That breakfast looks sensational 😍😍
it was the best!
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Love your positive energy!
Great video,so nice to see Tirana taking some positive feedback. Great job!
I’m in Lezhë now. I’ll go to this restaurant next Saturday.
Great video, really enjoyed it!
Wow! This meal looks outstanding! I enjoy your straight forward take on how everything tastes and your expressions are very convincing! I’ve eaten food from most cuisines (from Montreal) but never tried Albanian. Hopefully one day soon!
Wow Superb David. Beautiful place and food.
Ohhh my god everything looks so delicious. Next year when I will go to Albania, I will eat like you. I love seeing you enjoy Albanian food.
dayum! albanian breakfast is hardcore. loved the video, makes me want to visit albania.
Try byrek its the best for breakfeast wirh cheese or meat
Love Ya Dave !!! Great Videos !! You are living my LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!
Great tour and informative guide!
Omg Albania food looks good 👍 😋 Their pancakes are like Malasada without the sugar.
Thanks bro for showing me another side a the world watching from Jamaica
Ohhh... You're travelling now?! Enjoy. Stay safe and healthy!!!
Great vlog 👏👏👏
When you tried rakija in the end , it was hilarious. I really enjoyed it lol.
Bingo!You have won a new subscriber. 👏👏👏
Thank you David for Advertising my Country !!!!!!
Ja ke qi ropt sa ke honger hahah t'boft mir😋
*Promoting my country
Love your videos! Great to see you in Albania. I'm Albanian myself. I've been to Tirana many times myself, it looks like it's changed a lot for the better. I was there in the ninety's and then again in 2005.Beautiful place, lake ohrid area is also beautiful!!! And the the city of ohrid in Macedonia is also a nice place. Loved the food. Wow that was great!!! That's a lot of raki!!! I don't think I could have survived that lol.Nice shirt to btw. Stay safe and be well, thanks for the videos). All the best!
I'm from albania ,and this is exactly the breakfast which u eat every day . Lovely video good job
Pilaf per breakfast ??
@@elizabetae3028 I don’t know what they have now for breakfast, but when I was little (30 some years ago), I recall my mother making Trahana (porridge or oatmeal with lard and not cheese), petulla or French toast for breakfast. Don’t believe pilaf is a breakfast item, but then again I’m from the southwest originally. Whereas my breakfast in the US consists of coffee. Lol
Love your videos dude ❣️
Great video!!!!!
Thank`s a lot for this beautiful Albanian tour. Only one thing. When you say Albania is on the Adriatic sea 19.16, maybe you forgot to say that is also on the Ionian sea. So on the Adriatic and Ionian sea. Thank`s again!
You deserved my like david super tour :)
Thanks for visiting my country my City, I'm surprised after that heavy breakfast which is delicious you didn't call the emergency, hahaha
Bravissima ragazzo bellissimo documentario tutti originali.
Great videos David👍
Now that's a Delicious breakfast 😋
Enjoy watching your Eating ♥️
*BLESSINGS* ❣️❣️
You got sharp memory
I notice it everytime you mention a reference from your travel history
If you visit albania try zgara and byrek. Greetings from serbia
bukur u kenaqa shume mu duk sikur isha vet,, faleminderit per reklamat
Great Video!!!
Good to see you traveling back.
Love from India.
Thank you for bringing my country Albania in your TH-cam channel,miss all this food and my city Durres. I'm freezing here in northeast United States.
Te pershendes patriot nga vapa e jugut USA. Kurbet te lehte!
Damn man....I really want to explore Balkans someday 😮
@Meyer Mica You would be surprised that Slavic people of the Balkans are really tall.
@666 ha ha. I am 189 cm and 90 kg not too tall and not so weak. The fact is that we are very mixed and that mixture gives us an advantage. (By we Is consider all ppl fro the Balkans). Life hasn't been easy on the Balkans and only the strongest survived endless wars and maltreatments that we have suffered.
@@tangocash342 malesor albanians are the tallest in the balkans aswell as albanians in kosova
Thanks you vizit Albania😍
Love the foods and drinks.
very enjoyable looks a very nice country i was surprised
That bar tender was awesomely beautiful
Ladies were too cute❤️
Thank you for you visited Albania i hopp you enjoyit you days in diferent parts of Albania,thank you so much for this amaizing vidio i,m Albanian but i leav abroud in Sweden !
I was in pogradec, berar, tirana and durres
Hope you loved our hospitality from the people around. Cheers bro! 🙌🏻
Beautiful country. So much to offer :)
Amazing!
They eat fish with walnuts and with petzmez something from grapes or plums and cook it with something like lavashaq in Armenia they add basil and rosemary and garlic you have to try chomlek in Albania tave dishes
I ate bureks from d local bakery for breakfast each day....and jumped in the water each morning around 8 o clock in Sarande ...dinner was a feast ..moussaka is unreal ...the people are cool
I am jeloos and hungry at the same time watching the video 😀.. Thank you for exploring my country
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AMAZING...
Very nice vlog idol David every day I hope you have an upload your vlog ❤💕❤💕
Same here
Welcome ❤🖤
Best youtuber ever.....love from india
I love kerala food! :)
Your voice is amazing 😉 love from Assam, India 🇮🇳
Ur great man keep it up! Thanks for visiting us🤝🏻🇦🇱🇦🇱 u visited the main city part u should see the other parts tho lol
great place
Raki looks great I need to visit
I can't believe Albanian cuisine has so many similarities with Turkish cuisine .Specially bread egg is called ekmek balığı in Turkey . Wow ı am so happy to learn these things.
I mean Albania was under the Turks for 500 years so its not surprising lol
Albania the best cuntry in the world, and l am from Albania.Albania have soo dilisuous food. I am from Albania!!!!
Rakija is also our national drink in Bulgaria we do with grapes too
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We the balkan countries are very similar, but our politicians try to convince us otherwise
Кад Србин измисли, сви се тиме ките.
Im from ialbanin the best vlog e ever seen men you are a good men
skanderberg square is my fav chill square
we doo love outdoor seating
Epic!
Good 😌 video on Albania 🇦🇱. I look to visit in 2022.
Thank you for educating the world about Albanians with your beautiful videos. Next stop to Kosovo 🥰 we have great rakia and wine who should be sell to the world but unfortunately no one do that it’s sad!!
You never miss opportunity to sell something huh? 😂
Btw serbian wines were never that good so...it's not that sad lol
@@thedonn138 what Serbia
kosova have really good wine
But I don’t know about Serbian wine
🇦🇱Kosova is Albania🇦🇱
Lol the third girl he gave a hand to was mad blushing , super cute heheh
Black whole in your stomach? How on earth can you take in all that food? I'd basically be done after the first dish 😂 great food presentation! Albanians are warm and very hospitable people! I enjoyed the video.
Best regards,
Gjon Buzuku
Good video. You do eat a lot ..in a hurry😄😄. Rakhija in the morning...way to go. Ani is so engaging. Eat on, travel on...
David TRAHANA is a dough made with wheat flour and yoghurt which is then dried and crumbled. This is then boiled with water and salted and poured on bread cut in bite sizes, on top of it we crumble feta cheese and drizzle generous amount of olive oil or fried butter or lard (some times with paprika) and small pieces of meat.
If lard, a touch of olive oil. Yum
Love you Albania ♥️
My husband is Czech, his favorite breakfast dish is Trahana. It looks like a regular porridge but far more tasty. Especially when is prepared with goat yoghurt.
they have that in Czech republic?
I never ate rice for breakfast and I am Albanian.
Ne elbasan eshte tradite te hane pilaf ne mengjes.
Pilaf dhe pace ne mengjes eshte tradite kudo neper Shqiperi. Ne shtepi s'behet, po cdo restorant/gjelletore i ka gati ne mengjes per shoferet, ata qe punojne heret, etj. Ku jeton ti? 😂
@@EmilyDickmesome per shofer jam dakord qe kshu hajn mengjesin ,por jo ne shpi apo nje restorant te mirefillte.
The way how you make a face during drinking rakia 😁, btw Albanians are 👌👌
Very nice video, have a happy and safe day
Can I get a heart.
Iam new in your channel and Albania my country,is really incredible!You should visit Berat definitely
You pronounce faleminderit very good, good job man 😁
When you get to Elbasan, cemite me bugaçe, (I think that's who u spell it) it's AMAZINGGG
Simite me bugace
Pogace Jo bugace
@@bujaremini5621 Per mu esht bugace. Un jam nga elbasani. Loj tjeter dialekt
@@ema.mp3 nejse me nder qofsh, kurse Neve tosket i themi pogace
Simite me bugace bugacja bahet vetem ne Elbasan dhe vetem elbasanllijte dine ta bajne jabanxhijte nuk e kan haberin domethane nuk dine ta bajne
Legend says he's still drinking new flavor Rakija all over Balkan 🤣
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Fergese is basically what we call mish mash in Bulgaria and theres strapatsada in Greece ,menemen in Turkey and in Serbia they do such thing too but spicy
good video......I miss my Tirana I miss the fresh and tasty food...David you are funny.....