Copies? Not a big deal because things wear out, erode, and fall into disrepair. I’m glad that people value their heritage enough to repair and replace them as needed.
This is true. If you go to Japan, you’ll see a lot of new wood at historic sites, like castles and temples. The sites are still being used and restored. Also, in Japan, things tend to get destroyed by earthquakes, so they have to be rebuilt. “Fake” is such a rude term.
@@murphydouglas Title of this video. These tourist spots are fake! Of course time takes it's toll on artifacts and need to be repaired/replaced. Understandable. However, if the artifacts are completely or even partially (restored) to the point that they are unrecognizable from the original design or intent of the builder/artist, like add to or take away details that made it exceptional to begin with, then to me it's fake.
Trdelník is originally a Transylvanian-Hungarian Szekely dessert (Kürtőskalács) influenced by German settlers who popularised using leavened sweetened pastry dough. Popularised across the Austro-Hungarian empire in the 19th Century by the spread of regional cookbooks via the nobility, but was already present in the Slovak-Czech border region, where the name Trdelník comes from. Hope this helps 👍
I think this is a very good explanation. Think also on Siebenbürgen/ Transsylvania. It was also a part of Austro-Hungaria (on the Hungarian Part/ Cisleithania).
I was thinking I didn’t know there was a desert in Hungary and what does pastry dough have to do with it, then realised there’s an ‘s’ missing from dessert!
In Belgium we have our famous Manneke Pis statue which is also a fake one. Fun story, the statue was so often stolen that they didn’t know if the so called original statue they have in a museum in Brussels was even the real one. After a research of 5 years, they finally came to the conclusion in 2020 that the one in the museum was the real one. The statue was stolen often during war by soldiers, as student pranks and even to collect money for a good cause.
We are just back from Prague having spent a week there. We found your channel a few weeks before and it helped us immensely. Thank you so much from Scotland :)
Yes, yes, yes!!! Make this stream! In December, when I will be visiting Prague for the fifth time, I will follow every step in your guides!!! Waiting for this.
Trdelník is popular in Transylvania too, where it's called "kürtos", short from its Hungarian name "kürtoskalacs", the 2nd part of the name being "koláč" 😀. So I would say it's traditional as long as it's plain. Perfect on cold weather with hot wine - svařák. However the versions filled with ice creams, fruit and Nutella are not traditional. And if you eat one after a full Czech meal of goulash or pork with sauerkraut and dumplings... God help your stomach.
Its been eaten here for a while, there has been imigration from todays Romania in the 17th century (there are still traces today) and we have a Czech coockbook from the 19th century whre it was described as popular cheap pastry, I dont understand this strange puritanism Janek has with this one, its less traditional than Goulash, but it still has history and a lot of our foods are imported. Sure its super touristy and they overplay the traditionional value but its been eaten here for ceturies and ive been eating it since I was a kid during winter markets, far away from tourists.
@@yo5947 Yes I agree, I've been living in Prague for 30 years and have always enjoyed it during winter months, it's great with a hot drink. There is a difference in the pastry, the Romanian one being closer to the dough from Vánočka (traditional Christmas bun) but it's been here forever, absolutely true. I don't remember when the "chimney cake" craze started. Trdelnik is excellent hot, I would never eat it cold. I guess it makes business sense to use the cold unsold pastries so what better way than to fill it with ice cream or some special yogurt, (so I heard, to this day I have never eaten a filled trdelnik), add fruit or Nutella and triple the price! When the weather gets cold I always look for a traditional trdelnik, if possible not one from the touristy spots, maybe Janek can find one.
Hungarian wikipedia site is much more detailed. First mention of Chimney cake is a manuscript from heidelberg around 1450. "In the 16th century, the development of the cake family was divided into three branches. The first branch includes those cakes in which a strip of dough similar to the one above, rolled up in the shape of a helix on a drum, has been preserved. These include the Székely-Hungarian chimney-cake (kürtöskalács), trdelnik from Szakolca and the essentially identical Czech-Moravian trdlo/trdelnice/trdelnik, as well as "kürtösfánk" (or chimney dougnut fried in oil)."
I’m visiting for two weeks (16th visit) early November. I love Prague but there are so many beautiful places to visit outside the capital. Olomouc is my hidden gem of a city, keep it quiet.
just home from Prague, what a beautiful city. We found your videos to be so, informative, useful with advice and ideas, while also witty and entertaining. Thanks to you we searched for and found a paternoster lift (great fun!) ate at a workers canteen (not so much fun, the food was a bit grim but we enjoyed the experience!) and avoided using ATMs. We kept an eye out for you hoping to see you in person to say thanks but no luck - so I`ll say it now, many thanks from an Irish family, we had a wonderful time in your city and felt better informed and prepared by watching your channel, keep up the great work!
@@auadisian I’ve only been to the airport and the main train station in Budapest, there was a kürtőskalács vendor outside the station last time I was there. My local town centre is full of them though. Wouldn’t know about the touristy areas 🤷🏻♂️
Going to be there in a week and I have learned so much about Prague from this channel. Thank you for all the helpful videos, maybe I'll bump into you on the Charles Bridge and thank you in person.
I went to Prague earlier this year and posted a story in Instagram saying "traditional food" for the Trdelnik as a joke and a Romanian friend was very quick to correct me and tell the story about how it is something for tourists. It was very good and I was touristing around 🤷
So love these videos :) I can't travel so I live vicariously through other people's existence. Praha is so beautiful and you and Honza make it better for everyone :) Please stay safe when exposing exchange fraudsters and keep on showing amazing things about Praha that your average guide book would gloss over. Much love from a fellow slavic country of Slovenia. :) Stay awesome, both of you, and I hope you are well!
I don’t think it matters if something is a replica/ copy, most older sites do need updating, or maintenance; we expect sites to be kept well maintained. I spent a wonderful time in Praha earlier this year. For me soaking in the feeling of a beautiful place that comes with the history of the place, (particularly when the place s so different from my own home in regional Australia) was the most important thing.
Fun fact (not only) for tourists - a COPY in EN has two meanings (and thus different translations); 1 - Kopie = as what Janek said, when you copy something (you know, copypasta :D) 2 - Výtisk = printout. This creates a massive headache with anyone learning with Windows on PC, because it is asking you "how many copies you want to print out" and usually is shortened to a one word "Copy/copies". In CZ the right word would be "Výtisků" as in "Kolik výtisků/kolikrát chcete vytisknout", but in 99,9% your print window will show word like "kopií" with numbers behind it, which implies a question of "how many copies do you want to make AFTER printing out originals" and nonability to set this number to zero can usually feels strange, same as when you are printing sets of things and you need to have 5 pieces, so 1 original and 4 copies for other people (like with paperworks etc.) Bonus quote for SW fans - in SW Republic Commando, when one of your squadmates gets frequently incapacitated, some other Clone commando will say "maybe 07 is a copy .. of copy, of a copy of a copy ...?" :D
Fun fact. St. Václav Statue is not the original one from the square. The original is at Vyšehrad and he is pointed directly to the square as a rememberance
Hi guys, I’m currently in Prague for the first time with my Fiancee. I was supposed to be proposing to her in January but because of covid uncertainty I ended up cancelling and proposing in Cornwall, UK. Currently here to give her a ‘proper’ proposal, possibly on Charles Bridge (if we can ever find a quiet space). In any case, thank you so much for your vids. They really helped introduce us to the city and we have tried a number of your recomendations 😉
I'm a Czech in my thirties and I concurr. But I think there are some who say it did have a tradition in small areas of Czechia... but those close to the border with Slovakia, definitely not Prague. :-)
I am 30 years old originaly from Prague and I saw trdelník for the first time probably already on youtube. 😀 Maybe it was there even earlier, but I never noticed that and I never even tried that, we think about that as typical tourist food which native people just don't buy, definitely not for those prices.
in são paulo there's a local chain that sells trdelník under the name trudel, claiming to be romanian… i suspect it’s one of those dishes that appeared somewhere in time immemorial and spread across a wide area over time
Copies on display is common. In the U.S. many people visit the "Constitution" display, which is heavily protected. But come to find out it is a COPY, the real Constitution is hidden away in a vault.
for Trdelnik you have to go to Transylvania (to Szekely land as its even called Szekely Cake in Romanian aka Colac secuiesc) as it got to Skalica city from there and then from Skalica to Czechia....in Skalica they started to roll it into walnuts etc. what was not common before it got there....
it's a shame there are some stupid tourists who can't appreciate the artwork. they are more concerned with taking selfies of themselves to be exhibited on social media rather than keeping the beauty of the artwork from being damaged.
I lived in Prague in 2003 to study and it’s interesting to me the things like the chimney cake and cars which were not even very present. Not to say that it’s not a traditional Czech dish but it definitely wasn’t a common or popular thing at that time. Great vids, really makes me want to go back. I looked on google and apparently the pub we used to eat most of our meals at is even still there.
When I visited Prague, my tour-guide said Prague was one of the few cities that wasn't damaged in WW2, and that's why there are still so many nice buildings. Did she lie?
@@1982lalaland Hi. I like Paternoster lifts. Salford University used to have some. They were good for moving a lot of people from floor to flor quickly provided the people were nimble enough!. I will keep an eye out for them. They are indeed fun. Thank you.
When I traveled to Prague with my high school class our teachers took us to watch the astronomical watch, I think it might have been the year before the replaced it (so 2017 I believe). I will admit that me and a few friends ate Trdelník and original or not it was quite good. Believe we walked on the Charles Bridge but it was during the late evening so, while still beautiful, I wish we had seen it properly during the day too. Only saw the lookout tower from a distance. Hopefully I can visit Prague again in the future and explore more than I did 5 years ago, any chance I can hire you guys as guides? Not only do you know the city well but you seem like amazing people. Great video!
Charles Bridge during the day is usually so full of tourists that you can't really see it _properly,_ anyway... I once walked across it at around 11 PM, in winter, many many years ago, and I think that was the only time I ever saw it in its entirety. So maybe you were actually lucky to be there in the evening. :-)
@@beth12svist It was actually quite dark out and a bunch of people so except the spots that were lit up you couldn't really see much + we walked in a big group so couldn't stay for long and look around like I wanted but someday I will see it again
I don't know if I would classify a repair or a preservation as a "copy". You wouldn't say that your car was a copy if the windshield was damaged and then replaced.
"copy" is such a harsh word. Usually implies that it was created to "trick." I feel that the word "reproduction" would fit these better, as the city is trying to preserve the originals while still maintaining the sanctity of the location where the originals sat.
We just got back from Prague, it was our first visit and this channel really helped us, especially the airport to Mustek video. A bargain on public transport 🙂
People in the Czech Republic are very creative when it comes to following laws & regulations. Not only Czech people, to be clear. The Eastern Orthodox prayer house at the Russian embassy is registered as a car repair service station.
Czech food historiographer Marie Úlehlová-Tilschová wrote about trdelník in her book Česká strava lidová (Czech folk food) from 1945. According to her, it was traditional pastry from Slovácko, area in eastern part of Moravia, next to the Slovak borders. This seems more traditional than Mc Donalds to me :)
The hamburger has had many names but it dates back to rome and was made popular in the 17th and 18th century buy Hamburg city and their trips to America.
@@luisdanielmesa Czech (Czechoslovakia) as a republic is only 100 years old. Czech lands and people are here for over a thousand years. So 75 years could be some family tradition, not something we would consider national or even local tradition.
It literally reads " old car" 🤣, I been to Prague twice and the first thing I noticed on the "olds cars" was the dash boards and instrument clusters were from a 90s car, dead giveaway it's a fake.
Trdelnik, prdelnik... So i heard in Prague. Trdlo is a wood block and in my opinion its from slovakia/transsylvania. In slovakia it is geographically protected by EU i think. If you go into an original romanian/transsylvanian supermarket here nearby in Nürnberg/ Nuremberg you will find so called "Baumstrietzel" which have the same origin. Sometimes i eat trdelnik and i like them with cinamom and sugar and i do not care, if they come from Prague or Slovakia in that moment. But i prefer livance (small pancakes) with blue berries and a kind of a sour cream. They are more typical and i love them. Janek/ Honza please take over: best livance of Prague/ Prag.
If your investigating the origin also go to Valašsko - my region. Here it is traditional & has been part of the culture since the Vlach colonization in the 1600s. Ondrej Hladky a famous trdelnik baker is using a recipe that has been in his family since they arrived. You insinuate that Moravia is not part of the Czech Republic …
I don't care if the lady on the corner restaurant at Karlova and Jilská is a replica or not. She's beautiful, and I lover her! She belongs there! Even though I'm 70, I managed to climb to the top of the observation tower on Petřín hill on a hot day in July (2022). Splendid view of the city and the castle! I met some fellow Nederlanders there. There's a small, free historical museum downstairs with friendly attendants who can answer your questions in several languages. A ride with the funicular up Petřín hill is well worth it. There are beautiful gardens, and also a modern astronomical observatory.
Two weeks ago I was in Prague for the first time, I was looking forward to have some fun with the money hustlers but I couldn't find them 😂 Are they all gone now after you exposed them?
I’m just back after a few days in Prague. I haven’t seen any moneyhustlers too and I was looking very much for them :). Also the first time I paid everything with card thanks to the helpful video of Janek.
I went in 2016 and I didn't find any and I was there for 10 days. But Janek was busting them heavily back then too so that explains it😂. His tips really helped my experience, I saved money, saw alot, and felt prepared
Sure there is. Maybe two years ago a couple of US or German guys, can't remember, did a huge grafitti on a lower side of the Charles bridge. It was quite an affair, with city historians making a fuss how it might be non.remowable and how it most likely seeped deep into the old stones. Then during a night a guy from a specialised company just showed there on his own and cleaned them completely, for free...
Looking forward to seeing that eventual video on trdelník! If there's one question that should absolutely be answered, it's "when did it become a tourist food?" because I feel like at this point folks are growing increasingly unanimous on its origins (a Transylvanian-Hungarian Szekely cake that then spread across the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, reaching Prague through Slovakia and across Moravia; even finding them in Serbia, whether in Vojvodina and down in Belgrade), but something you see way more vaguely discussed is this transition, with only simple statements of it becoming popular in this century. What was the first trdelník place in Prague, was it the one to popularize trdelník as a tourist sweet and if not who was, how did it spread in the city than then beyond to all touristy cities in the country, and so on. I've even seen trdelník stands pop up in non-touristy places now with how steadily normalized they've gotten in the country! Not that I have an issue with that, I personally love the stuff on occasion, even if it isn't traditionally Bohemian, but having the true hidden history of trdelník and its relationship to tourism would be amazing to have, documenting one part of modern Czech tourist/popular culture.
I like that they create new facades to look like the old style. I don't like it when buildings from the pre ww2 era are knocked down and some ugly "modern" building replaces it. I also can't wait to be taken on the full Trdelnik odyssey.
The problem is, as far as I know that wooden style of shop front isn't really much of an old style in Czechia... and definitely not on a really, really old house like that. It really is fake-old, creating a sort of "old city" atmosphere that's more in place in, say, Britain, than Prague.
Hey! The Pillar became much more interesting now, it is art and it is made by an artist that do amazing work, and the first idea with the art was to have something nice and not to be the original, so if I go there I will visit all the fake art to look at the craftsmanship, and I wish the city had been written who the current artist are.
A copy is not the same as a fake. You do not understand the difference. Historical sites all over the world are full of copies, reconstructions, restaurations and new additions. All this does not reduce their historical value.
Trdelník are as original as "Sarmale" in Romania, that is Hungarian as I know but it can be considered original in a way when a territory was under Austro-Hungarian empire I guess
At least they rebuild the stuff and maintain the atmosphere of the more artistically enlightened days. In the UK in these places there would by now be multi architectural award winning characterless spires of glass and concrete reaching for the sky and empty windblown streets and developers pockets stuffed with money. The US hasn't much history to copy. Prague was lovely and if it was rebuilt who really cares. Good for them. Nice to see people hanging on to and treasuring their history.
You did 'forget' to include the national theater on narodni. Although the original has never been used because it burned down before opening, it can still be regarded as a copy, or rather a remake. Unless i understood it incorrectly from my Czech friends who live in Prague.
I was very fortunate to visit Prague in 2011. I saw the Astronomical Clock Tower up close. Had no idea that the calendar was no longer the original though. You learn something new everyday. :)
Imagine a city totally destroyed during WW2 like Warsaw. The national self-eteem requires reconstruction of the historical old town and the royal palace.
You only mention the statues on the Charles Bridge. What about the ones up on Vyšehrad? Are they copies too? If so, where are the originals. (Miniatures are on display in the sculpture gallery of the Národní galerie Praha, Veletržní Palác.)
8:55 old white dude to the left with the glasses and backpack in the white button down, long sleeved shirt, he looks absolutely less than thrilled with the manner in which you were speaking and waving your finger around LMAO
Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is not the real Checkpoint Charlie nor is it in the original location of where Checkpoint Charlie was. The real check point Charlie is in a museum, the land where the original check point charlie was is now privately owned.
I do wonder at what point in time you'll consider the Trdelnik as 'traditional'. They've created something probably out of thin air as you've mentioned many times in your videos but surely at some point it becomes self fulfilling. In that eventually this will become something traditional despite not being an old tradition.
@@ismailgultekin9768 Maybe, we associate croissants with France even though they originated in Austria or sauerkraut with Germany even though it's from China. Traditions evolve maybe we wont forget in this case where the Trdelnik comes from since we have the internet and global communication but it's not out of the question.
@@toms2oo8 people in china dont eat sauerkraut, you will not find that in a chino restaurant. In my country letonia/latvia its a traditional food and found in traditional restaurants. In estonia and lituania too. Pizza and kebab are not in traditional cousine restaurants even though they have been sold for decades. Wanna eat piza then go to italian restaurante. Same in prague, you go to traditional czech restaurante and you will not see kebab and pizza there
@@dreamthedream8929 small correction: Chinese people DO eat fermented cabbage, it may not be called Sauerkraut instead it's referred to as suancai (酸菜). I even found some sources that say Sauerkraut came to Germany from China. Going off of what Chinese restaurants serve in foreign countries as indicator for what is authentic to a countries cuisine is a bit silly 🙈 Chinese cuisine has tons of pickled & fermented stuff and each province has its own unique cuisine :)
Great part of Czechs feel a strong aversion to them ,altough they are tasty. It's mostly because of the "traditional Czech food" hype aimed at tourists. Now half of the people will readily inform you that the trdelník is originally from Slovakia and Romania and they never saw one just until maybe 20 years ago. Kebab on the other hand we already adopted as ours.
We call Trdelnik "kürtőskalács" in Hungary and we know the original Szekler Kürtőskalács as well. By the way I find it almost impossible to pronounce your word for it. :)
The replicas of old cars reminds me of the classic cars in Cuba. Not so much of the original cars left. A tour guide said one such car was powered by a boat motor.
@4:48 It most definitely is original but not the original. @6:40 The reason is that there are different timelines intersecting with eachother. If you want to copy something, there has to be something that existed before that you try to replicate.
5:12 It's funny how they mention references from the 20th century, because less than 100 years ago means, historically, it's extremely recent and traditional at all 😅
Dude, all those nice looking historical attractions all over the world are copies and the originals are in museums. The so-called originals have been restored so heavily that the original part isn't visible anymore. People know this, surely.
It's spelled 'site', not 'sight'. They are both words, but sight means something different. Even though one would use sight (the sense of seeing) to experience a site (a location). Love your work.
People climbing on iconic statues are like house guests that put their muddy shoes up on your sofa. Maybe not the end of the world but showing absolute lack of respect.
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Copies? Not a big deal because things wear out, erode, and fall into disrepair. I’m glad that people value their heritage enough to repair and replace them as needed.
This is true. If you go to Japan, you’ll see a lot of new wood at historic sites, like castles and temples. The sites are still being used and restored. Also, in Japan, things tend to get destroyed by earthquakes, so they have to be rebuilt. “Fake” is such a rude term.
Why go? Fake everything!
@@ratdad48 if you view such facilities as “fake” you should not visit them. I’m guessing the locals won’t miss your judgmental attitude.
@@murphydouglas Title of this video. These tourist spots are fake! Of course time takes it's toll on artifacts and need to be repaired/replaced. Understandable. However, if the artifacts are completely or even partially (restored) to the point that they are unrecognizable from the original design or intent of the builder/artist, like add to or take away details that made it exceptional to begin with, then to me it's fake.
@@ratdad48 Give it a rest, rat! If you think it’s fake, just don’t go.
Trdelník is originally a Transylvanian-Hungarian Szekely dessert (Kürtőskalács) influenced by German settlers who popularised using leavened sweetened pastry dough. Popularised across the Austro-Hungarian empire in the 19th Century by the spread of regional cookbooks via the nobility, but was already present in the Slovak-Czech border region, where the name Trdelník comes from. Hope this helps 👍
I think this is a very good explanation. Think also on Siebenbürgen/ Transsylvania. It was also a part of Austro-Hungaria (on the Hungarian Part/ Cisleithania).
Köszönöm just needed this commend
I was thinking I didn’t know there was a desert in Hungary and what does pastry dough have to do with it, then realised there’s an ‘s’ missing from dessert!
@@John-pn4rt sorry that not everyones first language is english
@@gabriellevanbreugel1303 I was being slightly tongue in cheek in that one letter can change the word completely!
In Belgium we have our famous Manneke Pis statue which is also a fake one. Fun story, the statue was so often stolen that they didn’t know if the so called original statue they have in a museum in Brussels was even the real one. After a research of 5 years, they finally came to the conclusion in 2020 that the one in the museum was the real one. The statue was stolen often during war by soldiers, as student pranks and even to collect money for a good cause.
I love this because it proves people can still make beautiful things, even if they are copies sometimes
We are just back from Prague having spent a week there. We found your channel a few weeks before and it helped us immensely. Thank you so much from Scotland :)
Yes, yes, yes!!! Make this stream! In December, when I will be visiting Prague for the fifth time, I will follow every step in your guides!!! Waiting for this.
Trdelník is popular in Transylvania too, where it's called "kürtos", short from its Hungarian name "kürtoskalacs", the 2nd part of the name being "koláč" 😀. So I would say it's traditional as long as it's plain. Perfect on cold weather with hot wine - svařák. However the versions filled with ice creams, fruit and Nutella are not traditional. And if you eat one after a full Czech meal of goulash or pork with sauerkraut and dumplings... God help your stomach.
Its been eaten here for a while, there has been imigration from todays Romania in the 17th century (there are still traces today) and we have a Czech coockbook from the 19th century whre it was described as popular cheap pastry, I dont understand this strange puritanism Janek has with this one, its less traditional than Goulash, but it still has history and a lot of our foods are imported. Sure its super touristy and they overplay the traditionional value but its been eaten here for ceturies and ive been eating it since I was a kid during winter markets, far away from tourists.
@@yo5947 Yes I agree, I've been living in Prague for 30 years and have always enjoyed it during winter months, it's great with a hot drink. There is a difference in the pastry, the Romanian one being closer to the dough from Vánočka (traditional Christmas bun) but it's been here forever, absolutely true. I don't remember when the "chimney cake" craze started. Trdelnik is excellent hot, I would never eat it cold. I guess it makes business sense to use the cold unsold pastries so what better way than to fill it with ice cream or some special yogurt, (so I heard, to this day I have never eaten a filled trdelnik), add fruit or Nutella and triple the price! When the weather gets cold I always look for a traditional trdelnik, if possible not one from the touristy spots, maybe Janek can find one.
Κυρτό σκάλα it's also a Greek world
Hungarians stole most of their "culture" from neighbouring countries. So, that kurtos is probably "borrowed" as well.
Hungarian wikipedia site is much more detailed. First mention of Chimney cake is a manuscript from heidelberg around 1450.
"In the 16th century, the development of the cake family was divided into three branches. The first branch includes those cakes in which a strip of dough similar to the one above, rolled up in the shape of a helix on a drum, has been preserved. These include the Székely-Hungarian chimney-cake (kürtöskalács), trdelnik from Szakolca and the essentially identical Czech-Moravian trdlo/trdelnice/trdelnik, as well as "kürtösfánk" (or chimney dougnut fried in oil)."
I’m visiting for two weeks (16th visit) early November. I love Prague but there are so many beautiful places to visit outside the capital. Olomouc is my hidden gem of a city, keep it quiet.
just home from Prague, what a beautiful city. We found your videos to be so, informative, useful with advice and ideas, while also witty and entertaining. Thanks to you we searched for and found a paternoster lift (great fun!) ate at a workers canteen (not so much fun, the food was a bit grim but we enjoyed the experience!) and avoided using ATMs. We kept an eye out for you hoping to see you in person to say thanks but no luck - so I`ll say it now, many thanks from an Irish family, we had a wonderful time in your city and felt better informed and prepared by watching your channel, keep up the great work!
I went to Budapest and hardly found a Kürtőskalács stand there! I think the Czechs have stolen it and the Hungarians did not care!!
Tbf most regional capital areas I go to, there is always a Kürtőskalács sellers in booths outside stores like Tesco.
you didn't look too hard. one right in front of Nyugati train station
@@ckramer1385 I went there and it was closed... It was around 7pm
@@9wowable what about Budapest, especially touristic areas?
@@auadisian I’ve only been to the airport and the main train station in Budapest, there was a kürtőskalács vendor outside the station last time I was there. My local town centre is full of them though. Wouldn’t know about the touristy areas 🤷🏻♂️
Going to be there in a week and I have learned so much about Prague from this channel. Thank you for all the helpful videos, maybe I'll bump into you on the Charles Bridge and thank you in person.
I went to Prague earlier this year and posted a story in Instagram saying "traditional food" for the Trdelnik as a joke and a Romanian friend was very quick to correct me and tell the story about how it is something for tourists. It was very good and I was touristing around 🤷
So love these videos :) I can't travel so I live vicariously through other people's existence. Praha is so beautiful and you and Honza make it better for everyone :) Please stay safe when exposing exchange fraudsters and keep on showing amazing things about Praha that your average guide book would gloss over. Much love from a fellow slavic country of Slovenia. :) Stay awesome, both of you, and I hope you are well!
I travelled Slovenia in April, it is a beautiful country!
I don’t think it matters if something is a replica/ copy, most older sites do need updating, or maintenance; we expect sites to be kept well maintained. I spent a wonderful time in Praha earlier this year. For me soaking in the feeling of a beautiful place that comes with the history of the place, (particularly when the place s so different from my own home in regional Australia) was the most important thing.
Fun fact (not only) for tourists - a COPY in EN has two meanings (and thus different translations);
1 - Kopie = as what Janek said, when you copy something (you know, copypasta :D)
2 - Výtisk = printout. This creates a massive headache with anyone learning with Windows on PC, because it is asking you "how many copies you want to print out" and usually is shortened to a one word "Copy/copies". In CZ the right word would be "Výtisků" as in "Kolik výtisků/kolikrát chcete vytisknout", but in 99,9% your print window will show word like "kopií" with numbers behind it, which implies a question of "how many copies do you want to make AFTER printing out originals" and nonability to set this number to zero can usually feels strange, same as when you are printing sets of things and you need to have 5 pieces, so 1 original and 4 copies for other people (like with paperworks etc.)
Bonus quote for SW fans - in SW Republic Commando, when one of your squadmates gets frequently incapacitated, some other Clone commando will say "maybe 07 is a copy .. of copy, of a copy of a copy ...?" :D
Trdelnik is really good but I just tried it once. After I saw your video I stopped buying it and drank more pivo instead 🍻
You can make your own Trdelník with Janek´s help (Covid lockdown has made him do a video recipe on this channel :D )
@@siriusczech I saw :) i might try it !
I had one in Budapest, so I'm fine, right?
Fun fact. St. Václav Statue is not the original one from the square. The original is at Vyšehrad and he is pointed directly to the square as a rememberance
I'd argue that the original astronomical clock of 1865 was itself a pseudo-medieval artefact.
Hi guys, I’m currently in Prague for the first time with my Fiancee. I was supposed to be proposing to her in January but because of covid uncertainty I ended up cancelling and proposing in Cornwall, UK. Currently here to give her a ‘proper’ proposal, possibly on Charles Bridge (if we can ever find a quiet space).
In any case, thank you so much for your vids. They really helped introduce us to the city and we have tried a number of your recomendations 😉
Charles Bridge is quiet in the early morning hours. Don't forget to text us if she said yes, good luck!
czech friends say trdelnik's not traditional as they never saw it as they grew up (and this is for people in their 30's)...
I'm a Czech in my thirties and I concurr. But I think there are some who say it did have a tradition in small areas of Czechia... but those close to the border with Slovakia, definitely not Prague. :-)
I am 30 years old originaly from Prague and I saw trdelník for the first time probably already on youtube. 😀 Maybe it was there even earlier, but I never noticed that and I never even tried that, we think about that as typical tourist food which native people just don't buy, definitely not for those prices.
in são paulo there's a local chain that sells trdelník under the name trudel, claiming to be romanian… i suspect it’s one of those dishes that appeared somewhere in time immemorial and spread across a wide area over time
People respect the art. FFS.
Please, parents, teachers, adults of any kind show kids how to behave decently around artwork.
Look for the copy of the earlier St Wenceslas equestrian statue (Baroque era) in Vyšehrad. The original is in the Lapidarium.
Copies on display is common. In the U.S. many people visit the "Constitution" display, which is heavily protected. But come to find out it is a COPY, the real Constitution is hidden away in a vault.
for Trdelnik you have to go to Transylvania (to Szekely land as its even called Szekely Cake in Romanian aka Colac secuiesc) as it got to Skalica city from there and then from Skalica to Czechia....in Skalica they started to roll it into walnuts etc. what was not common before it got there....
I don’t know what you are talking about. In Romanian it’s called ‘curtos’
@@CodeRipple "curtos" is slang from Kurtoskalacs in Ardeal, officially its called as I written...even in Bucharest it was under that name....
@@Simi822It's called Erdély.
@@tamaszlav no nemond...beszarok...ez szatira akart lenni?
it's a shame there are some stupid tourists who can't appreciate the artwork. they are more concerned with taking selfies of themselves to be exhibited on social media rather than keeping the beauty of the artwork from being damaged.
In German we say also to copy "Kopie"
I lived in Prague in 2003 to study and it’s interesting to me the things like the chimney cake and cars which were not even very present. Not to say that it’s not a traditional Czech dish but it definitely wasn’t a common or popular thing at that time.
Great vids, really makes me want to go back. I looked on google and apparently the pub we used to eat most of our meals at is even still there.
When I visited Prague, my tour-guide said Prague was one of the few cities that wasn't damaged in WW2, and that's why there are still so many nice buildings. Did she lie?
When i visited Prague a few years ago i ate so many Trdelnik but i just always felt that they're just for tourist.
We are on our way to Prague next week. Can't wait. Just trying to distil down all the great things you have shown us for our visit. Cheers!
If you can, eat at Cafe Slavia (it's next to the National Theater)--trust me, you won't regret it, especially, if you get the svickova !
@@rogersneed Thank you! I will put it on my list. Cheers.
@@EarnshawUK and find a paternoster lift, look for the honest guide video about it, we had great fun with it!
@@1982lalaland Hi. I like Paternoster lifts. Salford University used to have some. They were good for moving a lot of people from floor to flor quickly provided the people were nimble enough!. I will keep an eye out for them. They are indeed fun. Thank you.
I love the historical livestreams! Bring it on! I remember the waterfront walk one, it was great!
Yous are legends in Prague. Helping the tourist from these forginers street gangsters bringing bad name to Prague.
When someone says they can trust wikipedia, they truly display cluelessness on an epic scale.
3:39 In that snazzy car, you'd feel like that German fella that just waltzed in and acted like he owned the place!
When I traveled to Prague with my high school class our teachers took us to watch the astronomical watch, I think it might have been the year before the replaced it (so 2017 I believe). I will admit that me and a few friends ate Trdelník and original or not it was quite good. Believe we walked on the Charles Bridge but it was during the late evening so, while still beautiful, I wish we had seen it properly during the day too. Only saw the lookout tower from a distance. Hopefully I can visit Prague again in the future and explore more than I did 5 years ago, any chance I can hire you guys as guides? Not only do you know the city well but you seem like amazing people. Great video!
Charles Bridge during the day is usually so full of tourists that you can't really see it _properly,_ anyway... I once walked across it at around 11 PM, in winter, many many years ago, and I think that was the only time I ever saw it in its entirety. So maybe you were actually lucky to be there in the evening. :-)
they are not amazing, they are full of shit
@@beth12svist It was actually quite dark out and a bunch of people so except the spots that were lit up you couldn't really see much + we walked in a big group so couldn't stay for long and look around like I wanted but someday I will see it again
@@NinaThoren Yeah, travelling in a big group and especially with school is never conductive to seeing what you want to see...
The part about Charles Bridge is outstanding. Very interesting subject!
The Chimney Cake (kűrtőskalács) is a Hungarian food.
You ever think of being a tour guide? I could listen to you all day
I don't know if I would classify a repair or a preservation as a "copy". You wouldn't say that your car was a copy if the windshield was damaged and then replaced.
"copy" is such a harsh word. Usually implies that it was created to "trick." I feel that the word "reproduction" would fit these better, as the city is trying to preserve the originals while still maintaining the sanctity of the location where the originals sat.
I saw trdelník maybe in 2010-2012 for the first time and it was not everywhere like today, that tradition is like 10-15 year old max in Prague.
@@marekkelin1181 I have no idea, I don't remember any trdelník in zoo and I am visiting zoos very often, do you mean some specific ZOO?
@@marekkelin1181 I don't remember any trdelníks in our ZOOs, but maybe it's because I am not looking for it.
We just got back from Prague, it was our first visit and this channel really helped us, especially the airport to Mustek video. A bargain on public transport 🙂
To register a car as a tractor or snowmobile probably saves a lot of taxes 🙂
People in the Czech Republic are very creative when it comes to following laws & regulations. Not only Czech people, to be clear. The Eastern Orthodox prayer house at the Russian embassy is registered as a car repair service station.
Czech food historiographer Marie Úlehlová-Tilschová wrote about trdelník in her book Česká strava lidová (Czech folk food) from 1945. According to her, it was traditional pastry from Slovácko, area in eastern part of Moravia, next to the Slovak borders. This seems more traditional than Mc Donalds to me :)
Ofcourse it is someone's tradition, but it is not traditional in Prague and most of Czechs from Bohemia region never even tried it.
@@luisdanielmesa Czech Republic exists since 1993 and this is more like Slovak or Hungarian thing than Czech.
The hamburger has had many names but it dates back to rome and was made popular in the 17th and 18th century buy Hamburg city and their trips to America.
@@luisdanielmesa Czech (Czechoslovakia) as a republic is only 100 years old. Czech lands and people are here for over a thousand years. So 75 years could be some family tradition, not something we would consider national or even local tradition.
just a little clarification, the horn cake comes from Transylvania, more precisely Székelyföld. Anyway, the videos are very good!
Welcome to Warsaw. Our city during WWII was destroyed in ~90% so actually around 90% is copy.
😂😂😂
I have often wonder this,so much was also lost in WWII.
Prague seems to have become the tourist horror that it was in 2019, once again. A real turn-off !
Disagree. The place is still beautiful.
i love your love for prague and czech republic, makes me want to go there, thanks for these kinds of videos!!!
It literally reads " old car" 🤣, I been to Prague twice and the first thing I noticed on the "olds cars" was the dash boards and instrument clusters were from a 90s car, dead giveaway it's a fake.
I'm in Prague now, and it's really funny and useful to learn all this! Love this channel😊
Trdelnik, prdelnik...
So i heard in Prague. Trdlo is a wood block and in my opinion its from slovakia/transsylvania. In slovakia it is geographically protected by EU i think. If you go into an original romanian/transsylvanian supermarket here nearby in Nürnberg/ Nuremberg you will find so called "Baumstrietzel" which have the same origin.
Sometimes i eat trdelnik and i like them with cinamom and sugar and i do not care, if they come from Prague or Slovakia in that moment. But i prefer livance (small pancakes) with blue berries and a kind of a sour cream. They are more typical and i love them.
Janek/ Honza please take over: best livance of Prague/ Prag.
I enjoy your humor. Thank you for making me smile!
Nothing says fake/replica old car more than a car actually labelled ‘old car’
If your investigating the origin also go to Valašsko - my region. Here it is traditional & has been part of the culture since the Vlach colonization in the 1600s. Ondrej Hladky a famous trdelnik baker is using a recipe that has been in his family since they arrived. You insinuate that Moravia is not part of the Czech Republic …
I don't care if the lady on the corner restaurant at Karlova and Jilská is a replica or not. She's beautiful, and I lover her! She belongs there!
Even though I'm 70, I managed to climb to the top of the observation tower on Petřín hill on a hot day in July (2022). Splendid view of the city and the castle! I met some fellow Nederlanders there. There's a small, free historical museum downstairs with friendly attendants who can answer your questions in several languages. A ride with the funicular up Petřín hill is well worth it. There are beautiful gardens, and also a modern astronomical observatory.
Two weeks ago I was in Prague for the first time, I was looking forward to have some fun with the money hustlers but I couldn't find them 😂 Are they all gone now after you exposed them?
I’m just back after a few days in Prague. I haven’t seen any moneyhustlers too and I was looking very much for them :). Also the first time I paid everything with card thanks to the helpful video of Janek.
I went in 2016 and I didn't find any and I was there for 10 days. But Janek was busting them heavily back then too so that explains it😂. His tips really helped my experience, I saved money, saw alot, and felt prepared
My girlfriend does art restoration on stone, there's ways to get that paint off without damage.
Sure there is. Maybe two years ago a couple of US or German guys, can't remember, did a huge grafitti on a lower side of the Charles bridge. It was quite an affair, with city historians making a fuss how it might be non.remowable and how it most likely seeped deep into the old stones. Then during a night a guy from a specialised company just showed there on his own and cleaned them completely, for free...
Looking forward to seeing that eventual video on trdelník! If there's one question that should absolutely be answered, it's "when did it become a tourist food?" because I feel like at this point folks are growing increasingly unanimous on its origins (a Transylvanian-Hungarian Szekely cake that then spread across the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, reaching Prague through Slovakia and across Moravia; even finding them in Serbia, whether in Vojvodina and down in Belgrade), but something you see way more vaguely discussed is this transition, with only simple statements of it becoming popular in this century. What was the first trdelník place in Prague, was it the one to popularize trdelník as a tourist sweet and if not who was, how did it spread in the city than then beyond to all touristy cities in the country, and so on.
I've even seen trdelník stands pop up in non-touristy places now with how steadily normalized they've gotten in the country! Not that I have an issue with that, I personally love the stuff on occasion, even if it isn't traditionally Bohemian, but having the true hidden history of trdelník and its relationship to tourism would be amazing to have, documenting one part of modern Czech tourist/popular culture.
I kinda feel like they should make a new copy closer to the original. The "new" one looks less detailed and almost like a lazy re-tread.
It was even said that one of the figures on that clock now looks like Obama... He even replaced a hunting dog with his own lapdog.
As a tourist like me I don't care if this is original or not important is it represents the culture and history of the place.
I like that they create new facades to look like the old style. I don't like it when buildings from the pre ww2 era are knocked down and some ugly "modern" building replaces it. I also can't wait to be taken on the full Trdelnik odyssey.
The problem is, as far as I know that wooden style of shop front isn't really much of an old style in Czechia... and definitely not on a really, really old house like that. It really is fake-old, creating a sort of "old city" atmosphere that's more in place in, say, Britain, than Prague.
Hey! The Pillar became much more interesting now, it is art and it is made by an artist that do amazing work, and the first idea with the art was to have something nice and not to be the original, so if I go there I will visit all the fake art to look at the craftsmanship, and I wish the city had been written who the current artist are.
I'm going to Prague next week. See you there!
A copy is not the same as a fake. You do not understand the difference. Historical sites all over the world are full of copies, reconstructions, restaurations and new additions. All this does not reduce their historical value.
Nostalgia for me... Walked through the same roads.... You should have shown the dancing building too😊
Trdelník are as original as "Sarmale" in Romania, that is Hungarian as I know but it can be considered original in a way when a territory was under Austro-Hungarian empire I guess
At least they rebuild the stuff and maintain the atmosphere of the more artistically enlightened days. In the UK in these places there would by now be multi architectural award winning characterless spires of glass and concrete reaching for the sky and empty windblown streets and developers pockets stuffed with money. The US hasn't much history to copy. Prague was lovely and if it was rebuilt who really cares. Good for them. Nice to see people hanging on to and treasuring their history.
Jesus, I freakin love your videos!
Despite copies or originals, there's nothing worse than tourists climbing things for photos.
Do not travel to high hrothgar. In actuality it does not have 7000 steps.
You did 'forget' to include the national theater on narodni. Although the original has never been used because it burned down before opening, it can still be regarded as a copy, or rather a remake. Unless i understood it incorrectly from my Czech friends who live in Prague.
9:01 i hate it when tourists grab my sword
I was very fortunate to visit Prague in 2011. I saw the Astronomical Clock Tower up close. Had no idea that the calendar was no longer the original though. You learn something new everyday. :)
Your channel is one of the biggest reasons for my future visit to Prague. So excited to visit Prague soon, hopefully early of January.
As a traveller, thank you, for your knowledge and understanding. Also for standing up to the scammers
Thanks for calling out that guy climbing on it 🤣🤣
Imagine a city totally destroyed during WW2 like Warsaw. The national self-eteem requires reconstruction of the historical old town and the royal palace.
Trdelnik might not be traditional but I'd still recommend getting one they're very nice
Ahhhhh the clock! ❤️
You only mention the statues on the Charles Bridge. What about the ones up on Vyšehrad? Are they copies too? If so, where are the originals. (Miniatures are on display in the sculpture gallery of the Národní galerie Praha, Veletržní Palác.)
I'm happy about all the tourists going to Prague - and will enjoy the more quieter and also nice city Bratislava next year. ;)
8:55 old white dude to the left with the glasses and backpack in the white button down, long sleeved shirt, he looks absolutely less than thrilled with the manner in which you were speaking and waving your finger around LMAO
I'll be in Prague again next week. Can't wait.
Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is not the real Checkpoint Charlie nor is it in the original location of where Checkpoint Charlie was. The real check point Charlie is in a museum, the land where the original check point charlie was is now privately owned.
Thanks for the great information Janek and Honza! Well done!
Very interesting.
I do wonder at what point in time you'll consider the Trdelnik as 'traditional'. They've created something probably out of thin air as you've mentioned many times in your videos but surely at some point it becomes self fulfilling. In that eventually this will become something traditional despite not being an old tradition.
If you use the same logic, then we can call Pizza and Kebab as Czech food, bcs they are selling them for several decades.
@@ismailgultekin9768 Maybe, we associate croissants with France even though they originated in Austria or sauerkraut with Germany even though it's from China.
Traditions evolve maybe we wont forget in this case where the Trdelnik comes from since we have the internet and global communication but it's not out of the question.
@@toms2oo8 people in china dont eat sauerkraut, you will not find that in a chino restaurant. In my country letonia/latvia its a traditional food and found in traditional restaurants. In estonia and lituania too. Pizza and kebab are not in traditional cousine restaurants even though they have been sold for decades. Wanna eat piza then go to italian restaurante. Same in prague, you go to traditional czech restaurante and you will not see kebab and pizza there
@@dreamthedream8929 small correction: Chinese people DO eat fermented cabbage, it may not be called Sauerkraut instead it's referred to as suancai (酸菜). I even found some sources that say Sauerkraut came to Germany from China. Going off of what Chinese restaurants serve in foreign countries as indicator for what is authentic to a countries cuisine is a bit silly 🙈 Chinese cuisine has tons of pickled & fermented stuff and each province has its own unique cuisine :)
Great part of Czechs feel a strong aversion to them ,altough they are tasty. It's mostly because of the "traditional Czech food" hype aimed at tourists. Now half of the people will readily inform you that the trdelník is originally from Slovakia and Romania and they never saw one just until maybe 20 years ago.
Kebab on the other hand we already adopted as ours.
You Sir, are truly an originál ! :-) Love your show !
We call Trdelnik "kürtőskalács" in Hungary and we know the original Szekler Kürtőskalács as well. By the way I find it almost impossible to pronounce your word for it. :)
Had the Tredelnik while in Prague and thanks for note on its origins
The replicas of old cars reminds me of the classic cars in Cuba. Not so much of the original cars left. A tour guide said one such car was powered by a boat motor.
I’m literally visiting prague just because of this dude while I’m watching his videos on the train
@4:48 It most definitely is original but not the original.
@6:40 The reason is that there are different timelines intersecting with eachother. If you want to copy something, there has to be something that existed before that you try to replicate.
5:12 It's funny how they mention references from the 20th century, because less than 100 years ago means, historically, it's extremely recent and traditional at all 😅
Dude, all those nice looking historical attractions all over the world are copies and the originals are in museums. The so-called originals have been restored so heavily that the original part isn't visible anymore. People know this, surely.
It's spelled 'site', not 'sight'. They are both words, but sight means something different. Even though one would use sight (the sense of seeing) to experience a site (a location). Love your work.
People climbing on iconic statues are like house guests that put their muddy shoes up on your sofa. Maybe not the end of the world but showing absolute lack of respect.
what an amazing episode !! ( pls, as a texan, do one about Kolaches !... or should I say, kolac , koblasnik ? )