When my family came to USA , we had no jobs for the first couple months , so we were invited to work in blueberry farm with a lot of other immigrants (some were Ukrainian immigrants). This is my first real job that I got paid in real American dollars when I was 10 years old. I ate so many blueberries until my stomach exploded. 🤣 This made me appreciate fruits and how its being handled before going to grocery stores. Vareniki looks so good at 13:48 with blueberries. 😋
My Russian grandmother used to make these dishes as well how I dearly miss her and her cooking , her piroushki (sp) were wonderful, blini as well. Borscht was great .She used to make a fried dough with powdered sugar topping can’t spell it ( xrustiki) her baked goods were just as good . Alina thank you for reviving memories
Hello Alina,this is Joe from Athens if you still remember me.Odessa is one of my favourite cities in your country of birth.I have been there many times and I know the places you went and many more.I like it very much when you speak Russian with your cousin.As a matter of fact I know how to speak some and I continue to learn Russian and Ukrainian.Too bad I didn't get to meet you for I was in Lviv until the end of last month.I'm glad that you have a good time.I always do when I come over there.I have been watching you for some time.
WOW, you know I am most a weakling when it comes to great food dishes. I really liked your video here, and thanks for bringing your cousin along for sharing. As you know I am a new resident of Odessa and so I have to rely on Alona for holding me back in eating too much. 😀 We did try a few new restaurants here, but can't wait to experience the places you shared, your lunch looks like a great place to try here, and believe it or not I will when I am out of the interruption of quantine. Thanks so much for your smiles and great content, you are amazing in all your travels. Only 8 days to go for my freedom once again, and feel great! You made my day today! Cheers!! 💗😊
Hi Alina, All those food looks absolutely delicious. I see you are enjoying your time back home and you look so happy. Hope to see more from your trip to the Ukraine 🇺🇦.
What an amazing city and incredible food. I like most anything pickled so that would have been my favorite Ukrainian food. Really enjoyed this video and thank you!
Thank you for this video! My grandparents were from Ukraine and although my mother never had the chance to visit (she was born in Canada) I have always wanted to go, and I will finally be going next June. I believe I will be spending three days in Odessa and you gave me insight on what to look forward to!
Zdravstvuyte, oh Alina, so good to see more from Odessa. I need to go there, soon. Stepped up and down the Potemkin and the food looks like delicious. Stay safe and healthy, always.
A week ago I was in Odessa and I am happy to say Sophie Cafe is still working! When they heard I visited them based on your video, they were glad to hear that and one of the waiters told me he also saw this video and they were happy that you reviewed them. :)
Odessa is such a beautiful looking city. And what delicious looking food. I really like the blueberry dish, looks amazing. You are glowing and as gorgeous as ever, my sweet friend. Stay safe and glad you're having a wonderful time. 🌹🥰💋♥️
Your cousin is very beautiful just like you Alina! Great video! Nice to follow you on your journeys as some of these places I have never even heard of before!
Great eats from Great Odessa from a Great Vlogger. Enjoy your time in Ukraine. By the way, favorite food, the potato pancakes. Thank you for taking us along. Harriet and Jim Richmond, Va.
Great video Alina! I hope to visit Ukraine some day. See where my father and mother were born and try some of the great food you have shown in the video.
Hi Alina, I have to Agree.. Two Girls from Odessa are better than one...I like the way that you find ways to include your Family... I've always liked that about you.... You have a Beautiful Family .. Your Food Touring is a lot of Fun... and you pick the best Places and Menu Items .. The " Mini Pancakes " at Sophie Café Looked Sooo Delicious and I'm a big Fan of Fresh Fruit with Breakfast ..So Colorful... I liked the Casual Patio and the Artistic Restaurant Kumanet for Lunch.... WOW, They are so Generous with the Beer Glass... Odessa has so much Hospitality ... Cant wait to Visit such an Amazing Place and People.. Alina, You always make it Fun! I love your Passion and Enthusiasm ... Michael, Las Vegas
I just got back from a near month-long trip in Ukraine, and my final week was in Odessa. Lovely city, even when winter starts creeping in. All the dishes you tried are classics of Ukraine. When I was there, I discovered a very nice restaurant called Svoї, located about a block from the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, that specializes in local cuisine, and by local, I mean cuisine local to the area of Odessa. This includes many dishes that are Bessarabian in nature, so they offer dishes I had previously encountered in Moldova and Romania such as mamalyga, placinte, and mititie. Everything was very fresh, since the owners have their own farm. They also offer some really lovely local wine.
Loved the tour and video Alina.! It all looks amazing and want to get to Ukraine one day. As far as my favorites, the borscht and pelmeni. Not sure Salo would be something I want, but I would try it. It was nice seeing your cousin in this one. Looking forward to more Alina adventures soon. Cheers 🍻
With Ukrainian/Russian grandparents on my Moms side I recognized the borscht the most, the others not so much. Great tour of typical cuisine and enjoyed all the different foods you tried.
While I am watching your video especially this Odessa, keep comparing my Odessa video I made. I felt huge difference between people who study hard to make their video contents better and people who like to make just killing their time with it. I better check the skillshare. Thank you Alina!
Very interesting video in the sense that you are eating everything I normally don't eat when in that region. I'm sure it is very good, but for some reason I seldom fancy those things. And I still feel that it is very hard to not eat well in Ukraine. Simple fried potatoes, fried liver, various kotleti, stews, non-mayo salads, and of course more "modern" things like grilled chicken breast etc. Various things with mushrooms are usually very good. Pork chops or "golonka" (can't remember if it is called that in Ukr or Rus), really most things made with love from pork is good.
Beautiful place, I like a 2nd dish of breakfast, it looks like Thai dessert, and a big meal, a bowl of beet soup ,a big glass of UKRAINE beer and potato pancake, but a Watermelon pickled ,it is a pickled fruit that I just seen in this video. Thank you all you guys.
You make me miss Ukraine 🇺🇦 so much, 😥😥😥😥😥, Looks to be so Beautiful plants and Green, Wonderful, Food, I’ve never been to Odessa but have a few friends there, Your so Ukraine Alina 😊☺️☺️☺️☺️! God Bless, Belus
Oh how lovely all those foods when I was growing up I lived in Ukrainian neighborhood in Minneapolis Mn and I remember all their traditional dishes simply delicious food and looking at you and your lovely cousin Natasha eating is making remember and feeling hungry for their food especially Pierogi that my Grandma made yum , stay safe beautiful ladies 🌹🍀🌹❤️
Everything looks delicious Alina! :). Although I'm not a big an of Salo but I know my hubby would love it. haha! I'd say my favorite Ukrainian dish would be Cabbage rolls (golubtsi). I also love Borsh and cherry Vareniki. :)
Hi Alina! Neighbors often borrow and share, typically adding their own nuances to a given delicacy. I recognize most of the Ukrainian menu selections as traditional and popular Lithuanian meals. We’re also big on potatoes, onions, cabbage, beets, cucumbers (plain and pickled), and pork! Cold beetroot soup (šaltibarščiai) - with a kefir- or buttermilk-based broth - is the ultimate summer refreshment for Lithuanians. Growing up in Canada, plain potato pancakes (bulviniai blynai) were a staple among Lithuanian Catholics - when abstinence from all meats every Friday was still obligatory. Lithuanians refer to the little meat-filled dumplings as ‘koldūnai’. And our huge meat-filled potato dumpling delight - ‘cepelinai’ (zeppelins) - will satiate any ‘big man’ appetite. Of course, all of us enjoy meat-filled cabbage rolls (‘balandėliai’ or ‘little pigeons’ in English). In short, Ukrainians and Lithuanians share numerous food and other cultural / historical traditions, often nuanced by our own unique touches. Of course, we also have our own unique cultural / historical stories and elements, which makes discovery travel a fantastic learning experience! Alina, hopefully you will have the opportunity to visit and tour Lithuania and the Baltics relatively soon!
I watched a whole documentary about it on Russian TV awhile back. OMG. You see the problem is that it's not clear what was Russia and what was Ukraine at the time, so you can't really say whether it's one or the other because "Ukraine" itself means borderland. So anyway it started in the west and the recipe was apparently fiddled with as it moved further east, so the geographical location of the actual recipe when it was perfected is basically impossible to say.
@@steven-k. This is what Ukrainian people differentiate from Russian. Russian "NEWS " love to spread the fake news to make it like its theirs but in reality its 100 percent Ukrainian. Its in russian interest to say things that is fake. Come on we see that everyday.
@@UkraineDude88 read up on it. Russia and Ukraine weren't countries at the time. It originated in Kievan Rus and moved east as the Slavs moved east. Kievan Rus included territory which straddles the border of Russia and Ukraine. The modern borders didn't exist until 1917. Also the recipe changed as it moved east, so it's basically a pub argument. There are no detailed records from the time and even the languages were different. Russian and Ukrainian weren't even nationalities until centuries later. Ukraine literally means "at the edge". У краины. I.e. at the edge of the empire.
@@steven-k. the border with the "wild field" was called Ukraine. nomadic tribes from Asia lived in the south of Ukraine, and the Slavs in the north. Ukraine never meant the border of the empire
Nice video, Alina. I spent a week in Odessa so your video had a little memory lane aspect to it Salo.....what saved my day in relation to vodka 😂 After next week when I have my periodical 17 day off from work, I will go on skillshare through your link 😀 Came to think about something, midway between Odessa and Kiev, there is a nuclear missile base from soviet times, now laid out as a museum. I visited it as a tour out from Kiev. Very interesting, even more so because the on site guides were people who worked there when the base was in operation. That might not be the case any more, I visited a decade ago.... Could land you an interesting video.
Always good to see new foods which the locals enjoy some did look really nice too.its always a good deal when you get an idea of what the traveller or tourist sees what he or she might like to try or eat before going somewhere where you don't have a clue what to eat.thanks for that Alina much appreciated.
I like lots of the food in Ukraine…. Red Borsht, pork dishes, beef dishes, and also the fish. And i think the good atmosphere of the cafes and restaurants play a huge part of the overall experience.
Despite probably not being that well off economically, but when it comes to food - this is where Ukraine can surprise many tourists and make them want to come back)
I am coming to Odessa next year, ask your cousin if she would show me around, of course i pay for everything, and tour guide fee $50... i think its reasonable, thats what i paid in Prag per day....
So hungry, now. I absolutely love Borscht and perogies. Are cabbage rolls a Ukrainian dish (cabbage, rice and bacon with tomato sauce or source cream)?
Ukrainian Borscht with carlic Pampushkas.Rolls - Golubtcy.Gorilka( vodka with honey 🍯 and pepper)!And many differents Salo.This is good ukrainian lunch.
This is something that took me a while to figure out, so I'm going to save you all the effort as it's quite confusing: пирог (pirog) - this is a pie, any kind of pie пирожки (pirozhki) - diminutive of пирог, so in English you would probably say a pasty but it depends on what it is, frankly a hot pocket is one as well and various other things So then there's пельмены (pelmeni), which are sort of like ravioli, but usually served with sour cream and then there's вареники (vareniki) which are also dumplings but they're a bit more likely to have a non-meat filling, although I've eaten plenty that did have meat in them. I think the word literally means "boiled things". Where it gets confusing is that вареники are usually sold as pierogi in the west, this is a Polish word and has got nothing to do with пирожки. Then there's also манты (manti) which are Tatar and хинкали (khinkali) which are Georgian. And also take the time to learn how these words sound, because Russian words in Latin characters are often gibberish. The Cyrillic alphabet has more letters.
Good summary! I've also always wondered about vareniki and the words relation to words for warm/hot. Why the Polish word pierogi came to dominate North America seems a mystery to me - and it was highly confusing when I first started reading NA-dominated forums - what ARE these weird people really eating? The word is loaned into Finnish and Swedish in the Russian sense, not the Polish one. Always more like pie than pasta. Then if we want to even further complicate it, in Slovakia it is pirohy, but they are subtly different from the Polish pierogi, and also different from pelmeni and vareniki. Manti is also Turkish, but also don't seem have to be filled with anything, just noticed a bag of it in Lidl the other day, and it looked like dry unfilled mini tortellini. Khinkali I know very little of, but aren't those usually bigger?
Great video. Thanks for putting the prices in at the end as that is always of interest. Not sure if you are familiar with Bald's buddy Johnny FD, an American who has an apartment in Kiev and who visited Odessa this past summer. He highlighted some of the restaurant and bar scams that target western tourists, and which has given Odessa a bit of a bad reputation. Because you speak the language more or less (recognizing you speak Russian and not Ukrainian), you are probably ok, but I recall him mentioning the 'two menu' scam, where they show one menu with the low prices when you come in and order, and another menu with inflated prices when you go to pay. Looked like the police were in on it as well. Anyway, thanks for the great entertainment, as usual. Safe travels.
Love the videos from Ukraine. I live in Nova Scotia, and have never visited Ukraine. Watching the videos makes me sad to know that it probably doesn't look like this anymore 😪 So devastating. I hope your family is ok.
If I ate 3 meals a day there plus snacks plus alcohol I would bloat up like the Michelin Tire man. The food looks so good (except the pickled stuff & salads) and cheap it would be hard to resist. Oh well, I guess I'll find out next summer when I go.
Eating impressions from Odessa won't be full without visiting some of Savva Libkin's saloons, I personally could recommend Dacha/Дача. Not the cheapest place but not overpriced though. Anyway have a good time both in this city and in Ukraine overall, nice and friendly people are always welcomed here^
I always wondered why "salo" is very popular in Ukraine. Me personally , I don't like it but it makes you wonder why people love it. When I grew up in Ukraine we did not have a lot of food and that lead to being hungry all the time. Having a slice of "salo" stores fat in your body and it lasts longer not being hungry.💡
Hope you guys enjoyed the video! :) The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/alinamcleod09211
I always enjoy your content and am loving this!
@@briannabee812 thanks so much lovely!
@@AlinaMcleod I am not sure what will happen when we stay in the same hotel.
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When my family came to USA , we had no jobs for the first couple months , so we were invited to work in blueberry farm with a lot of other immigrants (some were Ukrainian immigrants). This is my first real job that I got paid in real American dollars when I was 10 years old. I ate so many blueberries until my stomach exploded. 🤣
This made me appreciate fruits and how its being handled before going to grocery stores. Vareniki looks so good at 13:48 with blueberries. 😋
My Russian grandmother used to make these dishes as well how I dearly miss her and her cooking , her piroushki (sp) were wonderful, blini as well. Borscht was great .She used to make a fried dough with powdered sugar topping can’t spell it ( xrustiki) her baked goods were just as good . Alina thank you for reviving memories
My pleasure :)
Odesa looks quite awesome, I’ve put on five pounds watching this video, once again thank you for making them.
GOD BLESS MY FAVOURITE TRAVEL TH-camR AND HER COUSIN!
Ok, I give in, is it me, or are these videos just getting better and better? Alina, professional as ever and so informative.
What a coincidence, a beautiful city and 2 beautiful girls :) very lively music too...
Hello Alina,this is Joe from Athens if you still remember me.Odessa is one of my favourite cities in your country of birth.I have been there many times and I know the places you went and many more.I like it very much when you speak Russian with your cousin.As a matter of fact I know how to speak some and I continue to learn Russian and Ukrainian.Too bad I didn't get to meet you for I was in
Lviv until the end of last month.I'm glad that you have a good time.I always do when I come over there.I have been watching you for some time.
Loved the video - thank you for taking us through local restaurants and local food
WOW, you know I am most a weakling when it comes to great food dishes. I really liked your video here, and thanks for bringing your cousin along for sharing. As you know I am a new resident of Odessa and so I have to rely on Alona for holding me back in eating too much. 😀 We did try a few new restaurants here, but can't wait to experience the places you shared, your lunch looks like a great place to try here, and believe it or not I will when I am out of the interruption of quantine. Thanks so much for your smiles and great content, you are amazing in all your travels. Only 8 days to go for my freedom once again, and feel great! You made my day today! Cheers!! 💗😊
Glad to hear you're almost in the clear! Yes, you guys definitely need to try Kumanets! One of the best Ukrainian restaurants I've ever been to :)
Great video, greetings from your fan in Argentina!!!
Hi Alina, All those food looks absolutely delicious. I see you are enjoying your time back home and you look so happy.
Hope to see more from your trip to the Ukraine 🇺🇦.
What an amazing city and incredible food. I like most anything pickled so that would have been my favorite Ukrainian food. Really enjoyed this video and thank you!
hi big fan from Ethiopia , u are such an empowering woman , i love u
Home sweet home
beautiful! all are beautiful, Alina is beautiful, beautiful city and beautiful environment! a big wow!!!
Thank you for this video! My grandparents were from Ukraine and although my mother never had the chance to visit (she was born in Canada) I have always wanted to go, and I will finally be going next June. I believe I will be spending three days in Odessa and you gave me insight on what to look forward to!
That's wonderful! Hope you have a great time!
How times have changed...
Zdravstvuyte, oh Alina, so good to see more from Odessa. I need to go there, soon. Stepped up and down the Potemkin and the food looks like delicious. Stay safe and healthy, always.
Greetings to Nastya, really nice company
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A week ago I was in Odessa and I am happy to say Sophie Cafe is still working! When they heard I visited them based on your video, they were glad to hear that and one of the waiters told me he also saw this video and they were happy that you reviewed them. :)
Aw thanks for letting me know :)
Now this is what I'm looking for. I gotta try all of them when I'm visiting my friend in Ukraine.
You sure do
Really really interesting. Learning a lot.
Odessa is such a beautiful looking city. And what delicious looking food. I really like the blueberry dish, looks amazing. You are glowing and as gorgeous as ever, my sweet friend. Stay safe and glad you're having a wonderful time. 🌹🥰💋♥️
Beautiful video Alina ........looks professional (editing etc)
Your cousin is very beautiful just like you Alina! Great video! Nice to follow you on your journeys as some of these places I have never even heard of before!
Great eats from Great Odessa from a Great Vlogger. Enjoy your time in Ukraine. By the way, favorite food, the potato pancakes. Thank you for taking us along. Harriet and Jim Richmond, Va.
They're definitely very tasty
Great video Alina! I hope to visit Ukraine some day. See where my father and mother were born and try some of the great food you have shown in the video.
The Amazing Nastya !! Food looks sooooooooo good ...... !!!
This video is something else. It seems like one but It has its own attracting power.This video is just amazing!!!!!
Thank you very much!
Very interesting video, Alina 💯
After watching this video, I feel hungry ... perogies mmmm .... Also the two breakfast dishes looked so yummy .... I am tempted to go there .....
Yum! I'm in Odessa now, and had good vegan meals at Vegano Hooligano and Vitary. I'll try Kumanets tomorrow. Thanks, Alina!
Love Vegano Hooligano!
Hi Alina! Mmmm, the dishes look delicious.
Take care Alina.
How delicious food one can eat in these wonderful restaurants! Odessa is marvellous and its coastline on the Black Sea, too. Thanks a lot
Hi Alina,
I have to Agree.. Two Girls from Odessa are better than one...I like the way that you find ways to include your Family... I've always liked that about you.... You have a Beautiful Family ..
Your Food Touring is a lot of Fun... and you pick the best Places and Menu Items ..
The " Mini Pancakes " at Sophie Café Looked Sooo Delicious and I'm a big Fan of Fresh Fruit with Breakfast ..So Colorful...
I liked the Casual Patio and the Artistic Restaurant Kumanet for Lunch.... WOW, They are so Generous with the Beer Glass...
Odessa has so much Hospitality ... Cant wait to Visit such an Amazing Place and People..
Alina, You always make it Fun!
I love your Passion and Enthusiasm ...
Michael,
Las Vegas
Thank you!
I really want to visit Odessa during the summer.
Great video. Loved it.
I just got back from a near month-long trip in Ukraine, and my final week was in Odessa. Lovely city, even when winter starts creeping in. All the dishes you tried are classics of Ukraine. When I was there, I discovered a very nice restaurant called Svoї, located about a block from the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, that specializes in local cuisine, and by local, I mean cuisine local to the area of Odessa. This includes many dishes that are Bessarabian in nature, so they offer dishes I had previously encountered in Moldova and Romania such as mamalyga, placinte, and mititie. Everything was very fresh, since the owners have their own farm. They also offer some really lovely local wine.
My mouth was literally watering .. 😋 That potato cuisine looked delicious.
Buen provecho Alina y Nastya 🥰🥰
i would like to try the breakfast.morning is my favorite time of day.
Nice food and fantastic video
Loved the tour and video Alina.! It all looks amazing and want to get to Ukraine one day. As far as my favorites, the borscht and pelmeni. Not sure Salo would be something I want, but I would try it. It was nice seeing your cousin in this one. Looking forward to more Alina adventures soon. Cheers 🍻
Love the music in the first 15 seconds
The food looks so GOOD!!!
Food looks amazing
Great thanks for the video
Very beautiful place
Awesome vedio💯
Beautiful place
With Ukrainian/Russian grandparents on my Moms side I recognized the borscht the most, the others not so much. Great tour of typical cuisine and enjoyed all the different foods you tried.
While I am watching your video especially this Odessa, keep comparing my Odessa video I made.
I felt huge difference between people who study hard to make their video contents better and people who like to make just killing their time with it.
I better check the skillshare. Thank you Alina!
My pleasure. We all have to start something. The first couple of years my videos were a bit sad to say the least lol. Hope you enjoy Skillshare!
Great food! Love Borsh! Next time try Georgian)))
love to see your vlogs 💕 love from india ❣️
Very beautiful place
Beautiful 🥰 food and country looks fantastic 😍
What a dish! Oh, the food is great too! :)
Alina, you could be perfectly play as a stand-in for our (NL) crown princess. About the food: pilmeni of course! So delicious!
Haha😁It was so nice to watch a special eating tour of two lovely beauties in Odessa☺️ I am looking forward to the episode 2 in Kyiv😁
Coming very soon!
Very interesting video in the sense that you are eating everything I normally don't eat when in that region. I'm sure it is very good, but for some reason I seldom fancy those things. And I still feel that it is very hard to not eat well in Ukraine. Simple fried potatoes, fried liver, various kotleti, stews, non-mayo salads, and of course more "modern" things like grilled chicken breast etc. Various things with mushrooms are usually very good. Pork chops or "golonka" (can't remember if it is called that in Ukr or Rus), really most things made with love from pork is good.
Beautiful place, I like a 2nd dish of breakfast, it looks like Thai dessert,
and a big meal, a bowl of beet soup ,a big glass of UKRAINE beer and potato pancake, but a Watermelon pickled ,it is a pickled fruit that I just seen in this video. Thank you all you guys.
You make me miss Ukraine 🇺🇦 so much, 😥😥😥😥😥, Looks to be so Beautiful plants and Green, Wonderful, Food, I’ve never been to Odessa but have a few friends there, Your so Ukraine Alina 😊☺️☺️☺️☺️! God Bless, Belus
I am partial to sour cream so I think I would like Ukrainian food. Thanks for posting!
Oh how lovely all those foods when I was growing up I lived in Ukrainian neighborhood in Minneapolis Mn and I remember all their traditional dishes simply delicious food and looking at you and your lovely cousin Natasha eating is making remember and feeling hungry for their food especially Pierogi that my Grandma made yum , stay safe beautiful ladies 🌹🍀🌹❤️
Happy watching your video channel. I'm from the philippines. You have a nice channel. Good luck. God bless.
Extremely happy to see Odesa again especially Kumamets and Chernigivski Another good beer is Lavivski❤️
Everything looks delicious Alina! :). Although I'm not a big an of Salo but I know my hubby would love it. haha! I'd say my favorite Ukrainian dish would be Cabbage rolls (golubtsi). I also love Borsh and cherry Vareniki. :)
Golubtsi are SO GOOD 🤤❤️ we were actually going to order them at lunch as well but Nastya said we already ordered too much lol
Hi Alina! Neighbors often borrow and share, typically adding their own nuances to a given delicacy. I recognize most of the Ukrainian menu selections as traditional and popular Lithuanian meals. We’re also big on potatoes, onions, cabbage, beets, cucumbers (plain and pickled), and pork!
Cold beetroot soup (šaltibarščiai) - with a kefir- or buttermilk-based broth - is the ultimate summer refreshment for Lithuanians. Growing up in Canada, plain potato pancakes (bulviniai blynai) were a staple among Lithuanian Catholics - when abstinence from all meats every Friday was still obligatory. Lithuanians refer to the little meat-filled dumplings as ‘koldūnai’. And our huge meat-filled potato dumpling delight - ‘cepelinai’ (zeppelins) - will satiate any ‘big man’ appetite. Of course, all of us enjoy meat-filled cabbage rolls (‘balandėliai’ or ‘little pigeons’ in English).
In short, Ukrainians and Lithuanians share numerous food and other cultural / historical traditions, often nuanced by our own unique touches. Of course, we also have our own unique cultural / historical stories and elements, which makes discovery travel a fantastic learning experience! Alina, hopefully you will have the opportunity to visit and tour Lithuania and the Baltics relatively soon!
haha that's fantastic. Definitely so many similarities between Eastern European countries.
Borscht is 100 percent Ukrainian at 6:06 ( main cuisine dish in Ukraine) . No doubt about it.
I watched a whole documentary about it on Russian TV awhile back. OMG. You see the problem is that it's not clear what was Russia and what was Ukraine at the time, so you can't really say whether it's one or the other because "Ukraine" itself means borderland. So anyway it started in the west and the recipe was apparently fiddled with as it moved further east, so the geographical location of the actual recipe when it was perfected is basically impossible to say.
@@steven-k. This is what Ukrainian people differentiate from Russian. Russian "NEWS " love to spread the fake news to make it like its theirs but in reality its 100 percent Ukrainian.
Its in russian interest to say things that is fake. Come on we see that everyday.
@@UkraineDude88 read up on it. Russia and Ukraine weren't countries at the time. It originated in Kievan Rus and moved east as the Slavs moved east. Kievan Rus included territory which straddles the border of Russia and Ukraine. The modern borders didn't exist until 1917. Also the recipe changed as it moved east, so it's basically a pub argument. There are no detailed records from the time and even the languages were different. Russian and Ukrainian weren't even nationalities until centuries later. Ukraine literally means "at the edge". У краины. I.e. at the edge of the empire.
@@steven-k. You should watch "mr.jones" movie and let me know what you think.
@@steven-k. the border with the "wild field" was called Ukraine.
nomadic tribes from Asia lived in the south of Ukraine, and the Slavs in the north.
Ukraine never meant the border of the empire
Nice video, Alina. I spent a week in Odessa so your video had a little memory lane aspect to it
Salo.....what saved my day in relation to vodka 😂
After next week when I have my periodical 17 day off from work, I will go on skillshare through your link 😀
Came to think about something, midway between Odessa and Kiev, there is a nuclear missile base from soviet times, now laid out as a museum. I visited it as a tour out from Kiev. Very interesting, even more so because the on site guides were people who worked there when the base was in operation. That might not be the case any more, I visited a decade ago....
Could land you an interesting video.
That's awesome! Hope you have a great time and enjoy Skillshare! :)
beautiful food and beautiful red lipstick!
Nicki. Ur saying absolutely right.
Borscht,sashlik, and Pelmeni you can’t go wrong. Also that pea salad kind of like potato salad I forget the name.
Really love potato pancakes and blintzes.
you were feeling like a mermaid... it reminded you of the movie: ""a mermaid in my life"" with Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks ..very cool .. great Alina
Always good to see new foods which the locals enjoy some did look really nice too.its always a good deal when you get an idea of what the traveller or tourist sees what he or she might like to try or eat before going somewhere where you don't have a clue what to eat.thanks for that Alina much appreciated.
Good work
Buffalo 99 is my favorite in Odessa. Treated very good there. 👍
I like lots of the food in Ukraine…. Red Borsht, pork dishes, beef dishes, and also the fish. And i think the good atmosphere of the cafes and restaurants play a huge part of the overall experience.
Yeah the restaurant scene is a world of difference compared to 20 years ago.
great place, so close to me :), great food, people and lovely bold lipstick, wonderful cousin
Despite probably not being that well off economically, but when it comes to food - this is where Ukraine can surprise many tourists and make them want to come back)
Prettier cousin, good food, beautiful Odessa, see you soon Alina!#
Picturization very good
Please go to Santorini Restaurant. Right on the seaside but well above see level. My favourite.
I am coming to Odessa next year, ask your cousin if she would show me around, of course i pay for everything, and tour guide fee $50... i think its reasonable, thats what i paid in Prag per day....
So hungry, now. I absolutely love Borscht and perogies. Are cabbage rolls a Ukrainian dish (cabbage, rice and bacon with tomato sauce or source cream)?
Yes they definitely are very popular in Ukraine!
Ukrainian Borscht with carlic Pampushkas.Rolls - Golubtcy.Gorilka( vodka with honey 🍯 and pepper)!And many differents Salo.This is good ukrainian lunch.
This is something that took me a while to figure out, so I'm going to save you all the effort as it's quite confusing:
пирог (pirog) - this is a pie, any kind of pie
пирожки (pirozhki) - diminutive of пирог, so in English you would probably say a pasty but it depends on what it is, frankly a hot pocket is one as well and various other things
So then there's пельмены (pelmeni), which are sort of like ravioli, but usually served with sour cream and then there's вареники (vareniki) which are also dumplings but they're a bit more likely to have a non-meat filling, although I've eaten plenty that did have meat in them. I think the word literally means "boiled things".
Where it gets confusing is that вареники are usually sold as pierogi in the west, this is a Polish word and has got nothing to do with пирожки. Then there's also манты (manti) which are Tatar and хинкали (khinkali) which are Georgian. And also take the time to learn how these words sound, because Russian words in Latin characters are often gibberish. The Cyrillic alphabet has more letters.
Good summary!
I've also always wondered about vareniki and the words relation to words for warm/hot.
Why the Polish word pierogi came to dominate North America seems a mystery to me - and it was highly confusing when I first started reading NA-dominated forums - what ARE these weird people really eating? The word is loaned into Finnish and Swedish in the Russian sense, not the Polish one. Always more like pie than pasta.
Then if we want to even further complicate it, in Slovakia it is pirohy, but they are subtly different from the Polish pierogi, and also different from pelmeni and vareniki.
Manti is also Turkish, but also don't seem have to be filled with anything, just noticed a bag of it in Lidl the other day, and it looked like dry unfilled mini tortellini.
Khinkali I know very little of, but aren't those usually bigger?
Great video. Thanks for putting the prices in at the end as that is always of interest. Not sure if you are familiar with Bald's buddy Johnny FD, an American who has an apartment in Kiev and who visited Odessa this past summer. He highlighted some of the restaurant and bar scams that target western tourists, and which has given Odessa a bit of a bad reputation. Because you speak the language more or less (recognizing you speak Russian and not Ukrainian), you are probably ok, but I recall him mentioning the 'two menu' scam, where they show one menu with the low prices when you come in and order, and another menu with inflated prices when you go to pay. Looked like the police were in on it as well. Anyway, thanks for the great entertainment, as usual. Safe travels.
haha yeah he seems like a nice guy. The restaurant scam really only happens to men not women ;)
Love the videos from Ukraine. I live in Nova Scotia, and have never visited Ukraine. Watching the videos makes me sad to know that it probably doesn't look like this anymore 😪 So devastating. I hope your family is ok.
Haha😀😀 last part so nice with your cousin.
Nice to eat in Ukraine! BTW Alina, Happy Labour Day in Canada!❤️❤️
Thank you!
You’re welcome, Alina!
If I ate 3 meals a day there plus snacks plus alcohol I would bloat up like the Michelin Tire man. The food looks so good (except the pickled stuff & salads) and cheap it would be hard to resist. Oh well, I guess I'll find out next summer when I go.
Eating impressions from Odessa won't be full without visiting some of Savva Libkin's saloons, I personally could recommend Dacha/Дача. Not the cheapest place but not overpriced though. Anyway have a good time both in this city and in Ukraine overall, nice and friendly people are always welcomed here^
In Soviet Union salad Olivier was usually made with Bologna sausage.
I miss eating my grandmother and great grandmother ukraine dishes.
Hey Alina McLeod nice food , city, temperature, beach , beautiful friend and you look beautiful drinking your beer
Thank You !
Yes I liked it I have dream settling down in Odessa Ukraine
Thank you very much
Спасибо за Одессу.
Superb 👍
Thank you, very nice. 🤗
I always wondered why "salo" is very popular in Ukraine. Me personally , I don't like it but it makes you wonder why people love it. When I grew up in Ukraine we did not have a lot of food and that lead to being hungry all the time. Having a slice of "salo" stores fat in your body and it lasts longer not being hungry.💡
I liked your vlog and I wish a great day