Traditional POLISH FOOD TOUR! (First Time in Warsaw, Poland!)
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- Traditional Polish Food Tour! We continue our travel through Poland, from Katowice to the country's capital, Warsaw! We have a FULL DAY of eating traditional Polish cuisine at several local restaurants, bakeries and cafes. We'll give you a tour of the apartment we are staying and along with some sights of the city! What is your favorite Polish dish? #PolishFood #Warsaw #Poland
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Traditional Polish Food
00:04 - Travel to Warsaw Poland
00:27 - Restaurant 1
00:49 - Food 1
02:08 - Food 2
03:06 - First Impressions of Warsaw
04:50 - Restaurant 2
05:49 - Food 3
07:55 - Food 4
08:30 - Food 5
10:20 - Please & Thank You!
10:50 - Restaurant 3
11:05 - Food 6
12:47 - Apartment Tour
14:05 - Restaurant 4
14:33 - Food 7 (4 Types of Pierogi)
17:28 - Old Town, River & Sunset
18:23 - Restaurant 5
18:40 - Food 8
19:34 - Food 9
20:38 - Food 10 (Polish Classic)
22:45 - What is your favorite Polish dish?
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Both, depending on the mood and time available.
Bigos is for long storage, usually. Cabbage rolls (Gołąbli) you consume the next day.
Cabbage rolls .
Rolled cabbage is a favorite of Polish, I make mine with ground pork and rice, I add onions and garlic, salt and pepper to make mine.
That’s real cheese cake. Bakeries are so good.
I am from Chicago, where there are lots of Poles. Polish food and Czech food feel to me like really tasty hearty home cooking. Like, wherever you go to eat, it's always like you're at grandmas house.
Dokładnie :D
Im from suburbs of Chicago.
Babci's house!!!!! Always smelled soooooo good!!!!
I am polish and im very happy that other ppl from other country like our food thank you👍 u earned a sub
And tho food is epic!
Ty for liking our food
I’m Polish and I absolutely love polish food and polish donuts can be for breakfast.
Your country has some delicious food!
What a surprise , you’re polish and you absolutely love polish food …,😅
With cappuccino without sugar. So yummy!
Polska Donuts?
Not typically. Of course, you can eat anything you like, but I wouldn't eat a donut for breakfast. 🤣 Usually, people eat eggs, sandwiches, oatmeal and sausages for breakfast.
I am German and have been to Poland several times. I absolutely love Bigos!
Polish food in general is delicious.
👍👍👍
Hi. The staple Polish 'pierogi' are ruskie, sauerkraut & mushroom, with meat, and with sweet white cheese. Also the ones filled with plums or strawaberries. These 6 types.
Bigos.... My favorite. I make it (about 5 liter batch) every few weeks. I pack it in containers and freeze, then defrost a container or two at a time. I use half fresh cabbage and half sauerkraut, with added smoked sausage, bacon, carrots, wild mushrooms, onions, and various spices. It's a great multi-purpose meal. If you add enough chopped meats into it, it can be a meal itself, or use it as a side, or filler for baked potatoes, or just serve over garlic mashed potatoes... it's perfect.
Add smoked and dried plums and red wine.😉
OMG, the cabbage roll looks amazing.
My fav dish in my country ❤
It's filled with meat and... rice.
@@witekd.1021 where is the rice?
@@bigal6755 inside. This is mixed with the meat. There are versions without rice, but the traditional, most popular recipe is with rice.
Thanks for showing us all the delicious food of poland. Everything looked absolutely fantastic. You two are the best! ❤🇺🇸🙏🏻
I wanna visit poland so badly!
To przyjeżdżaj, 😁
Warsaw was leveled in WWII that's why you can see so many gray-block houses. Warshaw does not have many old homes. If they are old they have not been preserved, not repaired for years and years.
wow, the oldtown looks so beautiful!
Warsaw is not rough. You just happened to end up in a district with communist blocks. Warsaw is very large - it has 18 districts and each one is different. But it is a fact that in all countries under Soviet rule, large-frame residential buildings were built. In Poland, from what people who come to Poland from the east say, they are the best maintained and renovated (e.g. they are insulated and painted in different colors - we like colors after the terrible gray period under communism). However, this is a process (it takes time and a lot of money) and the renovation of these buildings is still ongoing. Warsaw is a mix of modern buildings, old pre-WW2 buildings and communist blocks. In the summer it all looks much better when the trees are green and flowers are blooming everywhere.
He said rougher than Katowice and Wrozlaw. Warsaw is definitely the roughest out of those.
At this time of the year in looks kinda rough let's be honest.
warszawa to male miasto ale Polacy którzy nigdy nie byli w duzych miastach myslą ze warszawa jest jest duzym miastem. 😂😂😂
@@PaulPaul-bq2wkWitzbold😂
@@PaulPaul-bq2wk W Europie jest tylko 13 liczniej zamieszkanych miast więc na europejskie standardy to jest duże miasto
My Polish grandmother made amazing home cooked food (of course she did!) and taught my Vietnamese mother how to make these dishes! The cabbage roll is pronounced "go-woom-kee"
That is correct
My grandmother was from Poland and my mother was polish and we always called stuffed cabbage galumpkis.
@@jeffhampton2767 Gołąbki 😉 without 's' at the end. Singular is gołąbek, plural are gołąbki😂😂🤣
@@yakeosicki8965też mówimy chipsy, a powinniśmy chipy 😉
gołąbki = pigeons
There’s this really special way of eating gołąbki that every child in Poland knows. When the dish is served, you have to very carefully unroll it, so no cabbage is left and then put this cabbage on your mum's plate. I'm over 30 and I'm still doing it!
😂😂😂 mój syn ,jak byl mały to mu tak robiłam .
Teraz już nie marudzi i je gołąbki w całości.😊
Noo, the cabbage is the best part for me! 😅
To chyba tylko dzieci, które były zmuszanane "dokończyć posiłek". Moja mama mówiła, że jak nie chcę to talerz zostaje na stole jeżeli później będę głodny, a podtekst był taki, że skoro nie jestem głodny to nie trzeba sobie zawracać głowy słodyczami czy deserem (choć świeże owoce zawsze były opcją) przynajmniej tak mi się wydaje. Oczywiście mogłem powiedzieć, że mi nie smakuje lub coś podobnego i wtedy nie było problemu zamknąć temat. Ale jakoś tak czułem, że uczciwe będzie powiedzieć "nie chcę tego" tylko jeżeli zawsze faktycznie mi to przez gardło nie przechodziło a nie tylko dlatego, że miałem ochotę na coś innego.
@@potencjalnypracownik2966 raczej nie o to chodzi😁
If you don't like cabbage what's even the point of eating gołąbki?
I've been traveling around Europe and I've eaten various local dishes, but I like our Polish dishes and desserts the best, maybe it's subjective because I grew up with them.🍜
My mother used to make here in the United States potato cheddar pierogi, sauerkraut pierogi and prune pierogi. We ate all our perogi with sour cream.
We typically eat our Pierogies with sour cream and/or sautéed onions.
Because your mother couldn't buy curd - twaróg. You have to go to Canada for that. This is a different type of cheese. It can be fat, semi-fat or lean. We use it for dumplings, pancakes, breakfast spreads and baked goods. The easiest way is to put it on bread with butter, slices of cucumber, tomato and fresh herbs. 😉
Pierogi is a plural form of pieróg. Why would you add an "es" at the end?
@@yakeosicki8965 My grandmother came straight from Poland and she was making curd twarog from scratch. My grandparents owned a large farm and a restaurant in Southern New Jersey. You do not know what my mother did and you should not assume anything. She was born in 1924 and she was a great cook she cooked up a storm. My grandparents fed dozens of people during the Depression on their Farm. Canada has around a million people with Polish ancestry and the United States has almost 9 million people with Polish ancestry. To this day we have polish delicatessens. Americans do not have to go to Canada for anything but Canada gets 70% of its food from the United States and Mexico since Canada is covered in ice 7 months out of the year. Most of Canada is just like Siberia. Curd twarog is easy to make there are recipes for it all over the internet. We have a large polish population here in Eastern Pennsylvania not far from the Amish Pennsylvania Dutch Country. There is also a large polish population in New Jersey and New York and the Chicago area.
@@yakeosicki8965 We also have wonderful Polish restaurants right here in Pennsylvania. Not far from me is a fantastic Polish restaurant called Babuni's Table in Brodheadsville Pennsylvania, ( look it up ), there is also an attached Polish deli where I can get anything from Poland right there. The chef is straight from Poland I personally spoke to him.
Omg! You guys went to Zapiecek 💞 It’s our family’s tradition every time we go to Warsaw. The staff is magnificent and the food even better and bigger.
I am German/American but looooove Polish food. So very good. Wish I could snag a couple of bites. LOL 😂
Polish food is so similar to German food though.
Happy to see you in my home country! But of the cheesecake, we in Poland really don't use cream cheese, it's farmers cheese usually! But polish cheesecake is my all time favorite! Plus "bar mleczny" is very common nowadays for a quick lunch for workers and students!
Yes .No cream cheese in Poland. Twarog.Something close to farmers cheese
Polish donuts (Paczki)are a major deal in the Detroit area around Fat Tuesday.
Non-traditional Pierogi fillings I’ve seen in Metro Detroit: Philly cheesesteak, Ruben, jalapeño popper, chili cheese coney, pulled pork, buffalo chicken.
I like my potato and/or kraut ones.
Czwartku tłustego...
My mom's side of the family is Polish- Ukrainian American that we still make traditional dishes that the holidays around here is our beloved dishes on full display. My family was originally from The Krakow- Lviv region. Pierogi can be savory or sweet. We still have my great grandmother's old cookbook in Polish.
😅"savory dumplings"? What's this ?
Hey Deana. Two things about pierogi you`ve got to try. First - of course - "uszka" - mainstream Christmas Eve dish, traditionally filled with dried forest mushroom, and put into Polish borscht (barszcz). Of course the best in welcoming Polish home, but some good restaurant maybe does it good enough.
Second - more obscure: regular pierogi with dried plums, cinnamon and powdered sugar. Not many people makes those, our family always makes it on Christmas Eve too, but it is not regular Christmas food. But it is winter dish (as dried fruit traditionally were used to get some vitamins during long winters).
I'm from Poland and I haven't eaten dumplings with cheese mixed with fruit or cheese and honey yet 😄
Try dumplings with only blueberries or strawberries, they are really good.
I always eat "russian" dumplings with fried onion in butter and cream.
Polish cooking is the best 👌
I've been to Poland on a concert tour years ago and remember the food was very good and affordable. That grey Ikea cabinet, I got the same one! Also live on a 10th floor. ;)
You two are a cute couple and I really enjoy the videos. You're getting very good at videos where they are now moving at very good pace, more streamlined, interesting with funny little comments that appear, more sophisticated in a way probably having to do with very accurate descriptions of places and food and getting better at video editing. Nice.
loving your Poland trip!
I could eat like that every day! 😊
Really look forward to seeing the two of you on a regular basis. While you have been entertaining since the beginning, your experience and professionalism is really starting to shine through. So enjoy your tours, look forward to many more!
Can’t wait to see you guys in Krakow
Best city in Poland.
FOOD PARADISE!
Go to Yudah food market and you will be amazed! So many choices of food and everything taste sooo good!
Taaa na pewno Kraków najlepsze miasto w Polsce chyba dla wyznawców judaizmu….Kraków tylko bazuje na historii …i z tego zyje …chytrość krakusów oraz ich beznadziejna mentalność jest znana w całej Polsce …walić Kraków 😂😂
Raczej średnie.Kraków mnie rozczarował jeśli chodzi o jedzenie.
As an American of Polish decent, I grew up eating Golumpki my mom made. One of my favorite dishes! I make red cabbage with apples and onions.
Absolutely loved this tour! Deana I love anything dense and dumpling-like too! Yum! The way you guys kiss your bites before you eat them is couple goals💗
Welcome to Poland, I wish you a pleasant stay and great taste experience 🙂🙂 I invite you to visit the city of Wrocław🙂🙂
What a delicious journey through Warsaw's culinary delights! From pierogi to złoty pancakes, every bite was a taste of Poland's rich gastronomic heritage. Can't wait to explore more of Poland's culinary treasures on my next visit! 🍽️🇵🇱 #FoodieAdventures #PolishCuisine
My local grocery store here in the Chicagoland area of the US has 14 flavors of perogies in the frozen section. Potato, cheese, three different types of meat, apple, and a bunch more I cannot remember.
Wish I could get that in my area in Pennsylvania
Please. Not PIEROGIES. PIEROGI is a plural from singular PIERÓG.
Polecam pączki czy drożdżówkę z maślanka lub kefirem..mistrzostwo świata 🎉.. I recommend donuts or a bun with buttermilk or kefir... world championship 🎉...
For a big city, the meals are very well priced.
For the first time in 9 years, i see a compote with lots of fruits in it.
I am Dutch but i see that this type of milkbar restaurant are all over Poland.
We even went and still go to a good place next to a construction market in Przemyl near the Ukraine border.
When you order you have to wait with your number like a bingo evening but is fun and well worth waiting for because the food mostly for workers there is very good!
You again missed the delicious sausages from Poland like Krakauer, Breslauer (Bratwurst), Serdelek (Bockwurst), Slaska or Cabanossi. .❤️ I tried some more on SÜFFA (butcher fair in Stuttgart) last Sunday....We are a manufacturer of machines for butchers, fish smokers etc., so I got a free ticket and also visited our exihibition stand to drink some beers...🍻🍺
Amazing Thank you for a Great video
Pączki are good in the morning, they are good in the evening, in the afternoon too. With tea, coffee, or on they own. Always is good time for pączek.
There is a reason why we dont have Donkin Donuts in Poland. This reason is pączki.
I’m in the States (Metro Detroit), I don’t care for donuts that much but when Fat Tuesday rolls around, I make it a point to get a Paczki.
@@mrs.sloffee6359Fat Tuesday? 🤔 In Poland we eat pączki on Fat Thursday...
@@witekd.1021 it’s the day before Ash Wednesday. Wikipedia says Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday.
@@witekd.1021 I just looked it up, it seems like it’s the same idea, just different days.
@@mrs.sloffee6359 In Poland and the Catholic part of Germany, this custom falls on the last Thursday before Lent and is called Fat Thursday. I don't know why this is the case, but it would seem more sensible for this day to fall on the Tuesday immediately before the beginning of Lent (Ash Wednesday) ;)
If you are still in Poland, you must try Placek po Węgiersku. It is a potato cake with goulash and a bouquet of salads. Try to look for a recommended place with this dish. However, you won't eat nowhere like my mom makes it😉.
I love the donut you ate 😮 gosh that looked fabulous. So did the cheesecake. Polish food looks delicious
The pistachio cheesecake looks delicious. I have had pistachio cheesecake in the United States in a fine restaurant in Rehoboth Beach Delaware a few years back. The pistachios were chopped up smaller and covering the top and there was a sauce drizzled over the top running down the sides and it had a New York style taste to it. In my opinion New York style cheesecake is one of the best cheesecakes in the world.
In Poland every "babcia" has her own version of cheeskake but most common is the one called Łzy Wałęsy in english Tears od Walesa (former president)
@@topebin9076 very cool just like in the United States there are many versions of cheesecake
Cheesecake was invented by the Romans. He came to Poland from Vienna, brought by the troops of Jan III Sobieski. It was probably brought to New York by Germans, unless, like bagels, it was brought by a Polish Jew.
You will enjoy watching it with great pleasure! Poland is still being discovered and conquered through food, leftovers, pleasure and cleanliness! I am very glad that Jeremy Renner came to Poland with a beautiful partner!😜
I love it!! As Pole that bigos looks so good more real then average home made bigos!! Very well made video.Growing up in Poland I only knew sauerkraut/meat,cabbage/onion/forest mushrooms, blueberry, strawberry or cottage cheese pierogi. Sweet version of pierogi was only during the summer time and was served with sour cream and sugar.
Oh my gosh.
Memory unlocked right here. Was born in East Germany, Gera, Thüringen. My dad worked as a firefighter and my mom was a retail department manager.
On many occasions did we pick either up from work for their lunch break to go to a "Suppentopf" Kantine. Same style of eating (just like lunch at a school cafeteria or IKEA😂). Pick your meal, grab your drink, get your napkins and utensils and sit at the plastic covered cracking table and squeaky chair and chow down.
Such good food! Such great prices! Favorite was always the cabbage roll or the Schnitzel. But the soups and stews on a cold day always hit the spot.🍽
Super!😀
Did you know Cabbage Roles are named "gołąbki", which literally means "little pigeons"?
Poppy seed rolls are great.
Another superb presentation! That comment from an Irish, German and French American. My family household was in Buffalo NY just 8 miles from the Canadian border.
My neighborhood was near a Polish American neighborhood. The Polish-American kids were brilliant and hard working; and the girls beautiful. Legal drinking age was 18 so I could say "Jedno zimne piwo" by the time I was 17! Long ago and far away.
My maternal grandparents were from Warsaw before WWl and she used to bake us stuffed cabbage with beef and rice rolls she called golomkys (sp), potato pancakes and a fried cookie dessert called kruschykys. It's doe shaped like a bow tie and then sprinkled in powered sugar. All delicious!
My favorite place in Warsaw is the Radio Cafe, half a block from the Marriott. It is owned by the people who worked for Radio Free Europe. I also would visit the shops in the railroad station for my pastries.
Cant wait for Cracow!
i like the last place you have been.the wood inviroment,the dimmed light and than this food...great place
My belly is rumbling.. a big hello from a fellow potato lover 🤝🏻
The food looked delicious. I like the savory pierogy the most especially the saurkraut ones with sour cream and fried onions. Try some sour cream on your cabbage rolls, really good. Thanks and take care.
Smacznego!
Love Pierogi! My ex husband is Polish and his family introduced me to this wonderful food culture 😊
I love seeing people try my countrys food and voice their opinions! gołąbki actually translates to pigeons which is pretty funny i guess. Its one of my favorites haha
I've never heard of a dish called Golasy, though. The typical potato dumplings are called kopytka and they're often served with cooked sauerkraut, bigos works as well.
Damn...You had me a Pierogis! Safe travels D&P. Cheers.
Greetz from Katowice, yeah you have probably tasted 80-90% of what you should try:))) and pączki are the best here in Poland!
I am slovakian and we do sweet pierogi (pirohy in slovak) often with jam cottage cheese or what ever you want and on top we put heated bread crumbles with sugar. Its really nice
Giving you Like for cheesecake comment. I was born and raised in Poland. Always remember my mother's cheesecake as a child. Good polish cheesecake is equal to gold.!!! Glad, you guys enjoy polish cousin.
Pierogi with cabagge and mushroms its legendary 💪😎🇵🇱 enjoy guys
Omg ❤❤❤❤ thank you. I love this makes me want to cook my family meals ( I have always pronounced stuffed cabbage ... phonetic gloo um ba key but I could be totally wrong 😢
Go om B key maybe
Milky bars are very common and it's very popular to eat lunch in those places. Cheap, healthy and tasty. That's all we need for a lunch.
As for the pierogies - the taste of my childhood is the taste of pierogies with strawberries or blueberries served with sourcream. But if we're talking about savory pierogies - my no.1 are pierogies with sauerkraut and mushrooms (not champignon, only regular forest mushrooms, boletes aka porcini e.g.).
Nice episode btw.
I love to watch your videos because Deana looks a lot like my lovely mulat 21 yo daughter who lives/studies in the Netherlands.
Hi. Guys. Just spotted you channel!
I'm next follower!
Happy time in Poland.
The cabbage rolls should have a rice with mince inside. I didn't know you had a rice there?
This is the proper one !
I've also eaten the filled dumplings before. They are really delicious with cream cheese and honey!
The milk bars are great, they are staffed by Granma's so it like going to Granma's house for dinner. I had so really good food for great prices.
I have an idea for you. You should try a series where you compare home cooked meals versus restaurant meals. It would be harder to organize but if you did it would be incredibly good videos. 😊
Thank you for showing part of Warsaw. I would recomand some of Polish classics like "zimne nozki" bądź "flaki" but be prepered fo second one becauce its triwes. Good luck.
We make dumplings and soups from almost everything ;) For most people, dumplings with fruit are a childhood memory. You should try cold soup "chłodnik" or fruit soup ;)
I plan to retire in eastern Europe, so thanks for covering what kind of food I can expect. (Looks delicious!)
It is. Fair warning though - Polish food can be hearty and heavy on fat, sour cream and meat. Definitely not Mediterranean diet, though in winter you will appreciate our hearty dishes. But there are options catering to vegetarian or vegan tastes, or simply for weight-conscious people.
@@FrikInCasualMode"have on fat", you always can decide what sort of food do you prefer. Mostly is has a waaay less fat that typical american food.
Bigos usually has both sauerkraut and fresh cabbage mixed together so it won’t be a strongly flavored.
We love our perogies fried after they are boiled, so at least one side has a bit of crisp brown on it, then served with lots of sautéed Onions & sour cream; sometimes crumbled bacon and green onion. Never tried dessert perogies.
try some classic Polish street food called zapiekanka. Also try taking sour cucamber to some of your main dish. Poland is known for its soup dishes. Rosół, pomidorowa, barszcz biały/żurek, ogórkowa and many more
the drink you had at 8:20 is also known in the netherlands,(watergruwel)you can get in the supermarket(hard to find!!)
In Warsaw and many bigger cities there ara bars called ("pierogarnia").This is a chain of course. They offer any kind of dumplings you can imagine.
Pasckes are very popular in Detroit for Ash Wednesday, several bakeries in Hamtramck are open almost 24 hrs then to sell them. Even people that dont normally eat donuts eat pasckes on Ash Wednesday, it's a Detroit tradition!
thank you :)food is like a grandmother thought us,taste first looks second eheheheh
everything looks super tasty but i'm really interested in the last dish with cabbage, meat, mushrooms.
Its great especially in Winter time. Every holiday on every table in Poland.
Bigos- hunters stew
It's made half of a fresh cabbage, and half of sauerkraut. To cook a really good bigos you must boil it few days in a row.
Poland is great ❤❤❤
Yes, we like mash/mesh potato with or without butter/sour cream or joghurt
Hi I'm Polish living in the UK, you should go to place called Toruń beautiful Town lovely food and most important best Ginger bread Pierniki.❤
Golasy z twarogiem is something similar to dish from Greater Poland called pyra z gzikiem (it is potatoes with White cheese)
As for me, the three most interesting flavors of dumplings I have tried are: d
umplings with apple and cinnamon topped with sour cream,
dumplings with groats and cracklings
and (my favorite) dumplings with mozzarella and spinach with garlic dip
The best and basic, and oldschool's way of filling pączek is with rose (yes, a flower) jam. And the donut you ate had been too long in oil and it coused the damage of the structure of the donut: it wasn't fluffy enought and dry 😕. Kotlet schabowy in Polish cousine comes always with mashed potatoes.
Combining kotlet with potatoes' cold salad is a typical Austrian's dish.
Yes, you made exellent choices in Katowice and in Warszawa concerning typical Polish dishes. And the best (for me) cake in Upper Silesia is makowiec - cake with crashed poppy seed. Yes, you tried drożdżówka z makiem (the cake after the donut), but makowiec and drożdżówka z makiem are two totally -(!) different cakes. Belive me 😊. BTW the whole Silesia region (Katowice is the capital city of Upper Silesia region) was a part of German for more than 120 years. So Silesian cousine has a lot of similarities with German and Austrian's cousine. Greetings from Katowice 🙂.
Thanks
Thank you!! 💜
It is from our lovely groundmothers recipes 🤗😘👍
Cabbage rolls are the best!
The german cheesecake *"Käsekuchen"* is made with Quark, that's the reason of the different consistency
Well New York style cheese cakes and Basque one are very popular now in Poland. Especially in this year I think.
My background is polish, so I ate a lot pierogi and cabbage rolls lol. My favourite pierogi has to be cherry and served with a sprinkle of sugar and drizzled with warm sweet cream. Mmm❤
The fruit dumplings are good only in season; at least that is what I think and have tested. If you are ever in Poland around June or August, try strawberry or European blueberry (common names: bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry). Those are my favorite ones.
Yeah, the cheap diners are very common in Poland. We have a lot of high end restaurants as well, though.
As for pierogi, there is a huge array of fillings, but for more interesting types you need mid-high end restaurant that digs into truly traditional pre-war polish cousine. For example, quite popular and delicious fillings were made from slow cooked organ meats: kidneys, lungs, hearts, tongues. They were usually seasoned with thyme, sage and/or marjoram or served with herbal sauce. Sometimes buckwheat was added to filling.
Other delicious but rather high end pierogi are with crayfish meat. My all time favourite, however, are duck meat pierogi in orange or pear sauce.
Welcome to Poland :D
To Poland not in