Amazing ALBANIAN SEAFOOD!! Exploring Ancient Attractions | Durrës, Albania
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My second full day in Albania continued after I arrived in the seaside port city of Durrës, the second-most populous city in the country! I hit the ground running immediately to dive right into the incredible sites and flavors of this beautiful city. Join me as I try some amazing Albanian seafood and explore the ancient attractions of Durrës, Albania!
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Durrës is an ancient city with Hellenistic roots that was founded on the Illyrian coast back in the 7th century BC. There’s so much history there and I couldn’t wait to explore it all with my friend Ani from Balkan Pearls Tour Operator.
We started at the Venetian Tower, which was built in the 15th century on top of the ruins of a Byzantine tower. It’s is connected to the Roman Byzantine walls, which had been built and rebuilt several times. There’s only a small section of wall left.
Through part of the walls is an arch leading to the Amphitheatre of Durrës, built by Emperor Trajan in the second century. It used to seat 20,000 people and was converted into a church in the 5th century! Underground, we saw some of the original stairs and the interconnected hallways, as well as a chapel and some beautiful mosaics.
In the center of the amphitheatre is a grassy area, which also serves as a graveyard for members of the church. Parts of the amphitheatre have been restored, but most of the seats are weathered and worn. The amphitheatre was completely covered until 1966!
Then, we visited the Emperor’s entrance tunnel, which had super high ceilings and was really wide. You can get great views of the amphitheatre from the street above the theatre.
Next, we went to eat at a small restaurant called Ferra Shijak. Along the way, I could see lots of restaurants, bars, lounges, and businesses. It was super hot out, but Ani told me it gets even hotter! Luckily, the restaurant was on the boardwalk right next to the beach!
I could see lots of seafood on ice including fish, mussels, shrimp, clams, and crab. They also have pasta because of the Italian influence. In the kitchen, I watched them cook clams, mussels, risotto, bruschetta, and more! It only costs 400 leke (about $4 USD) for a massive plate of mussels! It was an Albanian seafood extravaganza!
At our table, we had seafood linguine, octopus and shrimp crudo, steamed mussels, grilled and fried fish, and bruschetta! The linguine was overloaded with shrimp, squid, and mussels. It was insanely good and one of my favorite pasta dishes ever. It was so creamy, fresh, and salty!
I enjoyed it with some amazing white wine called Duka. Then, I went for the raw shrimp crudo, which just had an oil-and-lemon marinade on it. It was the most succulent thing I’ve ever eaten! It was tangy and citrusy and so unbelievably fresh! The crudo octopus also had some nice oil on it. It was super basic but so phenomenal!
Then, I jumped on the mussels and ate about 20 of them in a row. The broth at the bottom of the platter was the best! I went non-stop!
The bruschetta topped with tomato and cheese was also amazing. I also loved the fried fish. You have to be careful removing the spines, but the crunch and oiliness are so worth it! The baked fish was beautiful and so meaty. It tasted different from the fried and grilled fish! Then, I ended my meal with a lot more mussels!
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I met someone who said they don’t like seafood ... we are no longer friends 😂 Cheers David thanks girl keeping my sane during the lockdown
That girls voice so Animetic... damnn🤭🤭
Definitely one of the best seafood!
amazing video.. 😍😋
Take some historical lessions
Nish was Albania
And the first Byzanthine Emperator was Illyrian
Dont forget this !!!
David brings amazing new countries, their culture and most importantly the food to us! I love the videos 🧡
always!
Dude I've been to a lot of different places and I can tell you Albania offers some of the best food period. And the prices you can't beat them!
Albania is in my bucket list by now, love me some David when having a bad day.
thank you so much!
You know the food must be really good, when someone from Miami says that "possibly the best seafood i'v ever had" awesome videos, loving the Albania tour!!!
thank you bro!!
Bro no other traveler has shown albania like you. Well done. The food- the kitchen, history, and the modern beauty. Also, the way you devoured that food while describing the taste - you remind me of my all time favorite traveler - Anthony Bourdain (RIP) Awesome cant wait to go.
thank you so much! My goal is to inspire you to see the beauty in every country. This food was so BOMB!
Davidsbeenhere You sure did inspire me 👍
I am albanian and I live in Germany. One of the things I miss most here is the amazing sea food and dishes we have in Albania. Glad you enjoyed the food, the wine and the beautiful city of Durres. Thumbs up!!
During the 90s a lot of Albanians went to Italy for work, they got a lot of experience in cooking and came back to Albania to open their own restorants.
That's why you can find so many good Italian restaurants in Albania.
are u promoting italy lol
@@virtuallifter2438 I know and thats why i writed in the end LOL cuz i was joking.
You've done such an amazing job of showing Albania! It's not what most people assume it is and I don't blame them but at least we now have more people exploring it
Im happy that you come in albania and enjoyed our culture beautiful view sea food everything 😍🇦🇱. Much love from albania
Angela save ur glorious Christian culture and Christian land from islamisation. It's swallowing such great civilization slowly like a python..
@@mayankkumar5696 are you idiot??? We have our own culture... this is not christian land....
Thank you for showing this video this is my city I’m missing every thing love Durres. 🇦🇱🇺🇸
But why the US flag?
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Travel is my THERAPY!! You are such an inspiration and I love watching your videos. Because of you Albania is now on my travel wish list and I'll be sharing my travel content too. BTW, congratulations you've just made my mouth water lol. That food looks sooooo delicious. Thanks for sharing with us!
I recommend Ksamil 😊
The seafood looks amazing, thanks for showing us places we would never normally get a chance to see!
WoW. Such a wonderful place and the food looked SUBLIME. 🌹🌹💕🌹🌹
Iv been in so many countries and the sea food in albania is soooo delicious i dont know how they make it but it just blows my mind everytime i eat and for a unbelievable prices
Amazing views and food ! Much respect David for going there and sharing it with us
David. Nice information and the culture from Albania 🇦🇱 👌 very nice to know! Interesting places and beautiful Tours!..and good food😋 Awesome .🙌 love from Houston, Texas. USA ❤ 🇺🇲
You are welcome in albania
So nice to see you are back at it again David....beautiful country....love your videos....❤👍
Awesome video, Thanks for sharing your journeys with us!
Miss Albanian so much, thank you for the videos mate and your description is fantastic.
Great Video! ❤️
Oh bro ,my mouth is watering mad now 😋😋🤣so happy u enjoying albania, keep it up with great videos
Nish or Naissus was not Serbia because this time sllav peoples have started to come in ballkan who's named prefecture ILLIRYCUM and not ballkan. Nishi was part of dardania occupied from the invasion of slaves later ...
Yes, but he is saying where it is situated now.
shut the fuck up you was not alive during that time to really know albania is 4 million now by that time albania used to be 100k so shush. Nish it is in serbia and stop[ hating you rrot kari yes we used to be illyria but does not mean Konstandin was albanian he was not. albanians are converted to muslims
Nish in albanians language of geg dialect meas 1 part of serbia today. The first man who made Christianity of word was albanian costandine the great. And that is a fact.
@@mendjelire8392 but he didnt mention that he was Illyrian, big difference..say it would be talking about old cultures in Americas but failing to mention that they were Native Americans or Mayas..
@@internet4543 Oh, did I hurt your feelings? Nis was the capital city of the Albanian aka Illyrian kingdom of Dardania. Now go play the broken flute..
Hello David
You are an eating machine, well done!
Great videos, very inspiring for my travel ideas, thanks
I love seeing all the food but there is nothing better then pasta and seafood 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 xxx
Great video David✌
History + food = perfection
Wow, fresh seafood!
Looks good!
Love these videos.. Learning about culture, food.. Great job.
You are awesome bro ! Great that you visit Albania we such a great history and nice tasty foods 😋
love your videos watching all the way in New Zealand 🇳🇿 😍
I miss the city where I was born and raised .🇦🇱🇺🇸
AND U LIVE AND NEVER COME BACKK ??? WHYY I CANT LIVE ANOTHER COUNTRY BY THE FACT THAT I WANT TO SPEAK ALL MY LIFE MY LANGUAGE ✌
That's delicious. Reminded me of UAE seafood tour I guess.
oh soooo good!
@@Davidsbeenhere constandin born at nish but it was illyrian family, serbs come to balcan at Vl centuri, so you cant say nish serbia, becouse before serbs com here all territores were illyrian land so albanian lands.
@@ROMAN-qn2ez stop this non sense, not all Illyrian were only Albanian, we r Illyrian but so are Bosnian n Croatian too, have been scientifically proven, historically n geographically u are right Nish belong to Kosovo
@@miritoska6955 croatian???, how can be croatian when croatian peoples cam to balcan in the Vl century ac..??
Oh man that seafood looks delicious 🤤 making me sooo hungry 😋 amazing video in amazing Albania by amazing MAN 👨
OMG ... 😱😱 I'm drooling 🤤😍
100% RECOMENDED !!! Durres is the best place for holidays , beautiful beaches , delicious food , gut people ....LOVE IT
You killing me with this food videos bro 😀
Anyway all your videos are great 👍
Costandin the great was illirian / albanian , from nish ( first ) in that time serbia didn’t exist
That‘s right.
Just wanted to say the same. True fact
Nish it means in Albanian lenguage number 1 one
Bro I love your vdos...and it just become a part of my daily routine
Bro again hat's off to your hard work
All the love from Dibrugarh, Assam(India).
Best channel ever.👏👏👏
Amazing video 👍👍
wooww.. it's looking so yummy seafood. 😍😍😋😋
Amazing
wonderful
Beautiful💗
David your reactions are so geniune that's why i love to watch ur videos. Love from pakistan
Beautiful Albania!
Miss my beautiful Durres
Hello David we hope all is well. we really do love watching your videos you always seem to find some great food . may we ask do you go into the restaurant and just ask them if you can film them? Many thanks for sharing this video. we love seeing new places. Kind Regards Sarah and Glenn
I love the way you taste the food. It’s hilarious when you do like this: close your eyes and you go hmmmm. 👌🏼🇦🇱
He has sex with food lol
My husband and I were there last year during the 6.6 earthquake! It rocked me out of my bed.
I bet thats once in a lifetime to experience while on vacation and it had to be Albania lol 😂 i hope you were ok and had a good vacation.
U HAVE TO COME THIS YEAR MAN SUMMER WILL BE CRAZY ✌
Watching him eat all this amazing food I was like ‘I’m having a food orgasm’ 🤣 dying to dine there, like now! ❤️ food is life! And what a beautiful country apart from that, definitely next holiday spot!
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Awesome👍 episode David... Love❤ from Assam🙏..
We used to pick mussels off the rocks on the shore of our waterfront on the RI coast in the summer at low tide when I was little and steam them and have them with melted butter. The water was a lot cleaner back then and needless to say, they were FREE. The 1960s and 1970s were great times.
Lets go he went in durres
you are so lucky to be there really
YAY MY CITY
Constantine the great was also an Illyrian...not a Serb.!
Of course Illyrian. Serbs wasn’t there when time was Naissus.
Period
fake facts lol
@@istealurgf hows it fake facts? slavic people came to balkans 300 year after constantine the great?
@@umbertofirmino177 Okay show me the proof :D
Thank you David for the wonderful presentation you have made to our country. I am sure that you will learn better the history of our country and you will be our ambassador. You will understand that this region has been very important to the world and that it has produced many emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, including Constantine the Great who was from Nis, today is under Serbia, but its origin was Albanian.
Wow
Bellissimo documentario bravo tutto originalità respeto cuestto ragazzo i camba.
You with the mussels is like me with the popcorn shrimp. 👍
Super albenia😋
Albania is 101% in your heart :D
Im so jealous,the travel which I can't do but the seafood..i love seafood here in nd a small plate of mussels about 10 ct would cost you 19.00 usd
nice video
hi david very nice video i wonder what is the name of the restaurant you eat seafood and thank you
Excellent videos and insights..can you tell me about how much was the cost of that seafood feast?
I miss my country for all these kindness....but our politicians sucks..
Thanks for the appetizing video but how much did that feast cost in total??
You are the greatest guy ever.your always welcome to albania and kosovo.
NISH= miens ONE in Albanian. In that time whose Illirian , so Justinian is an ILLIRIAN and the illirians are the Albanians . Slavs come in ballkan after 6-th century
That's true 👍
You shouldnt public that much lies Toni.
Albanians are not descendet from the Illyrians. Albanians come from the Caucasus.
@@dexxxy89 here we go again with stupid people like u... slvas and greeks love to comment on albanian things. Keep it up with the propaganda 🤯🤥
D you are just a shittt illyria albanien words Illyria = new star slavic shittt
D yess.. and slavs are orignally from the balkans.. come on you know you came from the carpats in ukraine.. its nothing bad, also the black or whites came from europe and are now americans.. you can also be emmigrants at the 6./7. century.. its not a bad thing but tell the truth..
Albanians are a mediterenean population and slavs look more like a nordic ethnicity cause they camre from north.. a few of them mixed with the autochton people.. or the illyrians(albanians) get assimilated by the Slavs -> see the croatian coast like dubrovnik, split or zadar.. their looking is not slavic ..
This place seems that no affect of covid...I really need this life back..
Oh man, I'm so envious of you right now! That red small fish we call it BARBUN in Albania, might be the RED MULLET in English but is not quite the same. Its meat is sweet and delicious. It only exist in the Mediterranean unfortunately we do not have it in the Americas. When I go to Albania my list of food wishes that I miss the most and must have when there are:
Albanian variety of GREEN PEPPERS AND TOMATOES (ESPECIALLY ZEMER KAU-BEEFSTEAK),
LOTS OF FIGS generally but especially the PERDHIKUL (an Albanian variety that grows only in the southern Ionic shores, smaller than walnuts but a burst of heaven in your mouth)
BARBUN,
GJIZE and all the Albanian dishes that are made with it (Albanian ricotta which is dryer, saltier and and the texture I do not have another example to compare it with for you to understand),
SHEEP'S YOGURT WITH HONEY AND WALNUTS IN LLOGARA-VLORE,
THANA,
MARE.
BYREK all kinds, no discriminating. We fill them with anything and everything and mix and match ingredients: leeks, pumkin, broad beans, spinach, nene (another green leaf vegetable that I do not know the English name for), tomatoes and onions, minced meat and onions, milk and eggs and sugar, cheese and eggs, yogurt and eggs, gjize (ricotta) and eggs, wheat grain and sugar (which is then eaten with a kind of thick grape syrup), rice and sugar, rice and shredded baked chicken, potatoes, kockulla (some kind of yellow split peas) and stinging nettle (best of all), etc. etc. ....
mmmmm I'm salivating.
Ciao David 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱.. sto guardando di nuovo i tuoi video....in Albania.....sei grande David 😋😋😋😋
You are my favorite jutuber because you like thet much my contry when you come again go to verrtigo it is in flor 15
I have "acqualina in bocca" watching these videos. Albanian and Italian have a lot in common
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Thanks for visiting my home Dave. Have you been to the north? Shkodra?
Yes you can see next video
15:18 if you really want to go like crazy you don’t use the spoon, but a large mussel shell instead. It tastes a lot better.
When did u record this
Did they take the beards off the mussels? The first time I tried one still had the beard and I can’t consider eating one again. The texture really put me off.
David clear my doubt.. Is the turtle farm is in your backyard in Miami or in tirana Albania.. I am confused??
Albania
Hello bro ♥️from northeast India 🇮🇳
Yummy😋
David can u go at Tamara in Malësia e madhe. It's very cool place
Byzantines were Albanians sweetheart as well and the emperors that you spoke about were Albanians)
Albania and Dardania = Ilyria The Great.
In everyway all the way, anytime all the time, anything everything, anywhere everywhere.
ciao fra un po devo andare a Durazzo, mi dici nome del locale grazie
Any food u go only with big bite man ..... that's good
Albania is so underestimated
Bro please come india and visit Mizoram I love you man you are amazing and kind yeah friendly too
Durresi eshte qyteti me i bukuri ne shqiperi,
That looked amazing! If you dont mind me asking what was total cost for that epic meal?
60 euro or 70 dollars i think wine included
@@renaldrenald2926 more like 20 dollars lol
@@seyl717 lol
I Love dhem
According to some Serbs here Neil Armstrong was first Serb and human to land on the moon! 😆 😆 😆
Correction , Albanians were the strong Pillar of Byzantine Empire Romans did not Invade them but were allies , the strongest Elite Army of Byzantine was Albanians also Constantin was Albanian , Nis (Nish) means Number one in Albanian it was an Albanian territory.
I live in Durres
Anastasius, the builder of the castle in Durres was also Illyrian from Durrres. Lots of Illyrians were great emperors in the Roman empire both East (byzantine ) and West (roman) like Constantine the Great, Justiniani, Anastasius etc..they werent "greek" nor "italian"..so sad how a big group of people, the Illyrians, are so ignored in history.
We accept what ever you want!!!