Typical finnish behavior😂😂 lets not even try to make traditional stuff from better quality ingredients because everything has to be fucking miserable here😂
elite is such a good restaurant. i went there right before my ears got so sensitive that i couldn't go to restaurants anymore, but i am very glad that i did. probably the best steak and red wine sauce i will ever have there.
Sorry to say, but the only traditional food in this video was the salmon soup or "fish soup" as we mainly call it :) Runeberg torte is also a short seasonal pastry/dessert.
Fun facts about the tomatoes you mentioned around the 10:50 mark, these tomatoes are produced about 400 kilometers north from Ekenäs in a small town called Närpes, that town is quite famous for having large areas of greenhouses where they are producing around 80% of all greenhouse vegetables in Finland. Those are of course tomatoes, cucumber, paprika (bell pepper), different chillis, beans, and grapes but also I know a farmer who is trying his hands on olives now and they seem to be working to produce with greenhouse climate. My dad was actually born in the Ekenäs region and I'm from Närpes so it's nice to see that town being featured in your video. I do recognize many of your locations from when I was a child and I visited my relatives in Southern Finland.
Is Ekenäs the Swedish name of the town, the official name too? Or is it just because it is easier to say for an English speaker than Tammisaari? I see it a lot referenced as Ekenäs in anything that is in English.
@@Ziegeri Ekenäs is the official name, because Finland is officially a bilingual country. You can see when you are in the Swedish majority part when road and street sing's have Swedish name on top and Finnish at the bottom. Also Ekenäs in English is Cape Oak and Tammisaari is Oak Island. I have been to Ekenäs several times and can confirm that it is not a island. A very lovely place to visit in summer.
As a Finn its almost mindblowing to see the selection of food you have in this video. That Crawfish sandwitch is god tier its been over a decade the last time I had something similar and thats about to change after seeing that :D
That lamprey was pretty dead cold because it had to travel 350km to you in Helsinki ... if you want freshly smoked lampreys you have to travel to Nakkila near Pori where the smokeries are located they are normally sold in batches of 15 and 30 and very seasonal like the cray fish.
The beef dish (@16:32) with the orange berries didn't have lingon berries but buckthorn berries I think. The lingon berries are red and have faintly similar taste, but to me the buckthorn berries taste a lot more tart.
Im from the Gulf coast of the USA. From Louisiana into the surrounding states crawfish boils are very common but usually with live bags (think a knee high potato bag type thing) of crawfish. Usually we boil small potatoes and corn with "crab boil" which is a cajun seasoning spice mix, bay leaves, onions, garlic, and lemons and then add the live crawfish. Crawfish is fairly cheap and supplying about a kilo per person is normal. Though it is almost always for a special event due to the amount of effort it requires What kind of seasoning do you guys use over there? I heard you say Dill which is interesting and sounds like it could be pretty good
From what I've seen, the boiling happens in just plain salt and maybe sugar seasoned water and the dill is kinda a garnish, a lot of Finnish cooking is just about letting the ingredients speak for themselves.
Onion, dill, sugar, lemon, mustard seed, coriander, black pepper and white pepper goes well with salmon. However, traditional Finnish dishes are bland, excluding lingonberry jam with reindeer. Karelian stew, Oatmeal, berry wine, mushrooms, fried vendace, cabbage casserole, "fish cock" or cake are traditional in Eastern Finland. Chili grows in Bulgaria, so it was not popular until the 1990s.
Yesss!! Def would love to hit up some spots on the gulf coast!! If you have recommendations let me know 🙂 looks like you got a couple good answers regarding the ingredients of the Finnish crayfish marinade. Definitely smelled lots of dill when I was in the crayfish room 😍
Eating Crayfish that way actually comes from Sweden 🇸🇪. But Finland 🇫🇮 was Swedish before. In Sweden, people's have eaten it since the 16th century. It was Upper Class Food. Common people's started eating it in the 1900's. 😍🇵🇭
Olisiko se Ulkomaalainen Suomessa TH-cam-video ilman himmeetä besserwisseröintiä kommenttiosiossa? 😅 Tosin varmaan sama ilmiö toistuu maassa sun toisessakin.
Nice that you enjoyed your time and food in Finland! Also tell your Finnish friend that avoiding gluten is silly if he's not allergic or doesn't have a celiac disease. All of the gluten-free and "gluten is bad for you" fad is just BS, it is literally just another protein. Bying into the fad is like saying that soy-protein is bad for you because some people have soy-intolerance
He probably does have celiac, it's somewhat common here in Finland - and there's less of the insane 'I can't eat gluten, except when it's in a pastry' fake 'gluten intolerance' fad.
Beautiful, mellow (?) *trip and fare. Would imagine Finland a good place to really get present, slow it down a little, as well - breathe. Thanks Stephan.
You should never eat nahkiainen's (lamprey) head. Nobody who has before eaten nahkiainen does so. Nahkianen is very delicious but without head. In Pori you will find best nahkiainens.
Not lingonberry = puolukka, not cloudberry (artic cloudberry)= lakka.. This is sea buckthorn berry = tyrni, joka on tosi hapan, kun taas Lakka on aika makea. sea buckthorn berry is very sour, cloudberry is much more sweet, but very unique of taste.. Both are very often used in Finnish cuisine
You've done your pre-research, which is always great. "Real" Finnish food is a very, very vague conception. We don't eat reindeer, but only very, very special occasions. Or never. Better value feeding it to tourists. Restaurant-wise we eat Norwegian and Finnish in that order, whitefish and arctic charr, which are very expensive. Baltic herring and vendace are cheaper for now and always more exciting. . Pyttipannu is best had in a sat/sun morning with a pounding hangover in a small, smokey apartment. Pyttipannu looking that tidy isn't real. But eyes on the prize. You went to Elite which was a great move. Never seen any youtuber do that. I ride past it when I go towards the city centre but is out of my price league. "Sikala" (Sea Horse) and Kosmos are among the (artist) Classics. But that' what they are now, elite is there. You can get so much more. Ask a food-ite. Helsinki is great.
Joo ei oo jokapäiväistä etelän vetelillä mutta kyllä sitä syödään ihan perusruokana, siksi outoa sano että suomalaiset ei syö poroa kuin harvoin koska kyllä me syödään, keski- ja pohjois-Suomessa useamminkin, jopa viikottain 😆
Eating crayfish that way actually comes from Sweden. But Finland was Swedish before. In Sweden, people have eaten it since the 16th century. It was upper class food. Common people started eating it in the 1900s
The first part of the video was located in a Swedish-speaking area, and a crayfish party is a stereotypical Swedish-speaking occurrence in Finland. The cameraman's first language was probably also Swedish, given his pronunciation of Runeberg's name (who was Swedish-speaking himself). There's nothing wrong with that, but it's good to know for context that this video leaned heavily on the Swedish-speaking realm of Finland.
Good to know! Further into the trip, my friend told me about the difference between Helsinki culture (which seems to be intertwined with Swedish culture) and the other parts of Finland. Looking back, I wish I could've mentioned this in the video. Cheers 😊
@@butterflies655 also: reindeer are hearded WAYYYYYY below the border of lapland. for instance the Syöte-area is ABSOLUTELY full of reindeer. lots of reindeer in ruka too. and below that.
To be honest as a Finn, I really don´t see any tradition in here... If you want some traditional Finnish food go have some Hernekeitto, Kalakukko, Karjalanpaisti, Makaronilaatikko, Poronkäristys, Mämmi.... Oh wait.... It´s Helsinki.... Not too Finnish anymore...
Put the damn plate on the table and eat with fork and KNIFE ffs. 😆 Those are not lingonberries those are buckthorns and Vorschmack is beef with a hint of fish in it so who told you it is herring?
Yes, eastern Sweden is not Scandinavian. Doesn’t mean they aren’t included in the Nordic brotherhood, along with Iceland and sometimes the Baltic states. ❤
Crab culture is kinda rare to Finns here, or to have even that kind of parties anymore. Plus at crab parties they tend to wear the "best", which is kinda lame. As an example I'm Finn and never been to crab party. Old-fashioned.
Yeah but that's not an excuse to burn it. Accidents happen, of course, but personally i wouldnt have eaten it cause i definitely did not order burnt pizza, so why is it burnt? you know @@stephaneats3944
@@Wulf44445 this discount-sweden of a country would be bankrupt without the money we get from tourists that want to see some nature, that even urbanites in helsinki see as alien so dont act cocky
@@donquaviuslaquariusdinglen3066 If you are referring at the money we get from tourists visiting Lapland, thats not big money. Helsinki brings around the same amount of tourists as the whole Lapland. Helsinki and Espoo are economical powerhouses (in the perspective of Finland) and these are the economical cities holding this shitty leftists country together with financing pretty much all the all the other cities. Obviously the surrounding are of Helsinki is doing alright economically.
Pyttipannu is leftovers with egg, that was pretty fancy pyttipannu. :D
same here in Sweden (pyttipanna)
even name of that dish is same. it is so good.@@Templarofsteel88
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oh u also have same dish in sweden? :o typically some sausages and potatoes chopped on pan and that's about it? :D@@Templarofsteel88
Typical finnish behavior😂😂 lets not even try to make traditional stuff from better quality ingredients because everything has to be fucking miserable here😂
This was probably the best video about the Finnish food's I've seen. Not the basic Carelian Pie and Reindeer in whatever form. 😄🇵🇭
Finns don't eat much reindeer.
Yes. Lohikeitto is "pretty much" salmon soup.
Finnish food is often overlooked. It's usually very simple but very good. 😍🇵🇭
Agreed!
Yes. Tauno Pano. Most definitely one of the most reveered finnish actors of all time!
elite is such a good restaurant. i went there right before my ears got so sensitive that i couldn't go to restaurants anymore, but i am very glad that i did. probably the best steak and red wine sauce i will ever have there.
Sorry to say, but the only traditional food in this video was the salmon soup or "fish soup" as we mainly call it :) Runeberg torte is also a short seasonal pastry/dessert.
This was probably the best vid sbout finnish food I’ve seen. Not the basic carelian pie and reindeer in whatever form😂
Nice to see how much you clearly enjoying while eating our foods.
Fun facts about the tomatoes you mentioned around the 10:50 mark, these tomatoes are produced about 400 kilometers north from Ekenäs in a small town called Närpes, that town is quite famous for having large areas of greenhouses where they are producing around 80% of all greenhouse vegetables in Finland. Those are of course tomatoes, cucumber, paprika (bell pepper), different chillis, beans, and grapes but also I know a farmer who is trying his hands on olives now and they seem to be working to produce with greenhouse climate. My dad was actually born in the Ekenäs region and I'm from Närpes so it's nice to see that town being featured in your video. I do recognize many of your locations from when I was a child and I visited my relatives in Southern Finland.
Is Ekenäs the Swedish name of the town, the official name too?
Or is it just because it is easier to say for an English speaker than Tammisaari?
I see it a lot referenced as Ekenäs in anything that is in English.
@@Ziegeri Ekenäs is the official name, because Finland is officially a bilingual country. You can see when you are in the Swedish majority part when road and street sing's have Swedish name on top and Finnish at the bottom. Also Ekenäs in English is Cape Oak and Tammisaari is Oak Island. I have been to Ekenäs several times and can confirm that it is not a island. A very lovely place to visit in summer.
The berries in the beef dish look more like sea buckthorn to me and not lingonberries.
I was looking for this comment, definitely not lingonberries, they would be dark red coloured.
Yes…and the red berries he called “some berries” near the end of this video were actually lingonberries…
As a Finn its almost mindblowing to see the selection of food you have in this video. That Crawfish sandwitch is god tier its been over a decade the last time I had something similar and thats about to change after seeing that :D
There is a small probability the "rhumbaybab" or whatever actually originates from that cake.
The crawfish dish/festivity is traditionally Swedish, not Finnish. The Swedish-speaking minority in Finland brought it over and it has since spread.
Swedish speaking minority didn't "brought it over" as they have almost always been here.
The Swedish-speaking minority is finns.
Love the shirt
Ohhh that grizzly-joke 😂😂🎉
That lamprey was pretty dead cold because it had to travel 350km to you in Helsinki ... if you want freshly smoked lampreys you have to travel to Nakkila near Pori where the smokeries are located they are normally sold in batches of 15 and 30 and very seasonal like the cray fish.
The beef dish (@16:32) with the orange berries didn't have lingon berries but buckthorn berries I think. The lingon berries are red and have faintly similar taste, but to me the buckthorn berries taste a lot more tart.
glad to have you hear torilla tavataan
Im from the Gulf coast of the USA. From Louisiana into the surrounding states crawfish boils are very common but usually with live bags (think a knee high potato bag type thing) of crawfish.
Usually we boil small potatoes and corn with "crab boil" which is a cajun seasoning spice mix, bay leaves, onions, garlic, and lemons and then add the live crawfish. Crawfish is fairly cheap and supplying about a kilo per person is normal. Though it is almost always for a special event due to the amount of effort it requires
What kind of seasoning do you guys use over there? I heard you say Dill which is interesting and sounds like it could be pretty good
From what I've seen, the boiling happens in just plain salt and maybe sugar seasoned water and the dill is kinda a garnish, a lot of Finnish cooking is just about letting the ingredients speak for themselves.
Onion, dill, sugar, lemon, mustard seed, coriander, black pepper and white pepper goes well with salmon. However, traditional Finnish dishes are bland, excluding lingonberry jam with reindeer. Karelian stew, Oatmeal, berry wine, mushrooms, fried vendace, cabbage casserole, "fish cock" or cake are traditional in Eastern Finland. Chili grows in Bulgaria, so it was not popular until the 1990s.
Yesss!! Def would love to hit up some spots on the gulf coast!! If you have recommendations let me know 🙂 looks like you got a couple good answers regarding the ingredients of the Finnish crayfish marinade. Definitely smelled lots of dill when I was in the crayfish room 😍
Reps! Tauno PANO 🤣😂
For those whom arent from Finland actor was actually Tauno Palo (fire), not PANO (F#CK) 😂❤
Tauno Fack.
Did it really say lingonberry on the menu? That looks like sea buckthorn to me. Lingonberries are red, not orange.
Finnish food is often overlooked. Its usually very simple but very good :D
oh you mean swedish food lol
E.g that "traditional Finnish crawfish meal". Nothing but BullShit.
@@Mahiro497 No no, he said it's very good. :P
@Ambander1Finn-Swedes do and they are part of Finns.
@Ambander1 No? I think every finn that has access to lake with crawfishes eats them
Finnish tradition of eating crayfish is to take shot of frozen kossu in between every crayfish. Did you try that?
That seems like a fun tradition 😉 will try next time
Best video about finnish food i have seen
Bruk does not mean manor. It's more lake "the ironworks of" or similar.
You had swedish vodka with crawfish :D Perkele
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Eating Crayfish that way actually comes from Sweden 🇸🇪. But Finland 🇫🇮 was Swedish before. In Sweden, people's have eaten it since the 16th century. It was Upper Class Food. Common people's started eating it in the 1900's. 😍🇵🇭
The *local" crawfish are a canadian variety.
Can't find them on Canada 🤔🤔 might need to look harder
Bilnäs bruk is old axe factory.
Pyttipannu!
…the aioili from a can 😢 -but otherwise one of the best Fi food clipps, well done!
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Very good night
Finnish tradition of eating Crayfish is to take shot of frozen kossu in between every Crayfish. Did you try that? 😍🇵🇭
Sealamprays are a thing.
Vorschmack is mostly lamb.
Ah yes a traditional finnish dish, a pizza.
Weren't tomatoes invented in Finland? 🙃
Olisiko se Ulkomaalainen Suomessa TH-cam-video ilman himmeetä besserwisseröintiä kommenttiosiossa? 😅 Tosin varmaan sama ilmiö toistuu maassa sun toisessakin.
Nice that you enjoyed your time and food in Finland! Also tell your Finnish friend that avoiding gluten is silly if he's not allergic or doesn't have a celiac disease. All of the gluten-free and "gluten is bad for you" fad is just BS, it is literally just another protein. Bying into the fad is like saying that soy-protein is bad for you because some people have soy-intolerance
He probably does have celiac, it's somewhat common here in Finland - and there's less of the insane 'I can't eat gluten, except when it's in a pastry' fake 'gluten intolerance' fad.
Beautiful, mellow (?) *trip and fare. Would imagine Finland a good place to really get present, slow it down a little, as well - breathe. Thanks Stephan.
pyttipannu is already f up cause you should never fry egg on a hot pan! :D
🤔🤔 how do you fry an egg if the pan isn't hot?
people just overloock finland as a vacation tbh
Because there are other more interesting places to go to?
@@Mahiro497 - _- bruh
Finland is still an unknown country. That's why. Once they come to Finland ppl are very impressed.
@@butterflies655 yeah probably
I really enjoyed it as a vacation!
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Ohhhhhh that's not morel mushrooms. Those are the poisonous ones. The "false morel".
The morel or 'korvasieni' is a delicacy, yes, it's poisonous, but it's also edible after you boil it enough times to get the poison out.
3:30 Does anyone know the song ?
pyttipannu needs ketchup! BLASPHEMY
You should never eat nahkiainen's (lamprey) head. Nobody who has before eaten nahkiainen does so. Nahkianen is very delicious but without head. In Pori you will find best nahkiainens.
The lady told me to eat the whole thing 🤬
those berries in that dish is not lingonberry its cloudberry=lakka
Not lingonberry = puolukka, not cloudberry (artic cloudberry)= lakka.. This is
sea buckthorn berry = tyrni, joka on tosi hapan, kun taas Lakka on aika makea.
sea buckthorn berry is very sour, cloudberry is much more sweet, but very unique of taste.. Both are very often used in Finnish cuisine
I swear the menu said lingonberries but now looking up the sea buckthorn, it was def that 👌 my bad 🙃
You've done your pre-research, which is always great. "Real" Finnish food is a very, very vague conception. We don't eat reindeer, but only very, very special occasions. Or never. Better value feeding it to tourists.
Restaurant-wise we eat Norwegian and Finnish in that order, whitefish and arctic charr, which are very expensive. Baltic herring and vendace are cheaper for now and always more exciting. .
Pyttipannu is best had in a sat/sun morning with a pounding hangover in a small, smokey apartment. Pyttipannu looking that tidy isn't real.
But eyes on the prize. You went to Elite which was a great move. Never seen any youtuber do that. I ride past it when I go towards the city centre but is out of my price league. "Sikala" (Sea Horse) and Kosmos are among the (artist) Classics.
But that' what they are now, elite is there.
You can get so much more. Ask a food-ite. Helsinki is great.
_You_ don't eat reindeer. Most finns love poronkäristys (reindeer roast). Also wtf is that BS about eating norwegian first??
Not an everyday food, as it's very expensive. Are you really bossing a Finn about Finnish food?
Antti, a bit random. Open up your argument.
Joo ei oo jokapäiväistä etelän vetelillä mutta kyllä sitä syödään ihan perusruokana, siksi outoa sano että suomalaiset ei syö poroa kuin harvoin koska kyllä me syödään, keski- ja pohjois-Suomessa useamminkin, jopa viikottain 😆
Eating crayfish that way actually comes from Sweden. But Finland was Swedish before. In Sweden, people have eaten it since the 16th century. It was upper class food. Common people started eating it in the 1900s
The first part of the video was located in a Swedish-speaking area, and a crayfish party is a stereotypical Swedish-speaking occurrence in Finland. The cameraman's first language was probably also Swedish, given his pronunciation of Runeberg's name (who was Swedish-speaking himself). There's nothing wrong with that, but it's good to know for context that this video leaned heavily on the Swedish-speaking realm of Finland.
Good to know! Further into the trip, my friend told me about the difference between Helsinki culture (which seems to be intertwined with Swedish culture) and the other parts of Finland. Looking back, I wish I could've mentioned this in the video. Cheers 😊
Why not go to real Finland
damn they done burnt yo pizza lmao
no reindeer? :/
They appear in Lapland.
@@butterflies655on my plate in Helsinki they appear every now and then.
@@butterflies655even live ones "appear" in the metropolitan area of Helsinki.
@@butterflies655 also: reindeer are hearded WAYYYYYY below the border of lapland. for instance the Syöte-area is ABSOLUTELY full of reindeer. lots of reindeer in ruka too. and below that.
To be honest as a Finn, I really don´t see any tradition in here... If you want some traditional Finnish food go have some Hernekeitto, Kalakukko, Karjalanpaisti, Makaronilaatikko, Poronkäristys, Mämmi.... Oh wait.... It´s Helsinki.... Not too Finnish anymore...
So you go to finland to eat swedish food???
I didn't see any Surströmming or Sibylla food there. What is your point? Pizza is not swedish either. (It comes from Norway...😂)
@@FyodorUshakovSuka pyttipanna.. i didnt see any barkbread either isnt that what finns eat?
@@danielkallman8600 barkbread No idea, but sounds like those childish meatball which I had to eat in ikea. Is it the same?
@@danielkallman8600 I didn''t see any kebab or curries in there, so no Swedish food was eaten.
Put the damn plate on the table and eat with fork and KNIFE ffs. 😆 Those are not lingonberries those are buckthorns and Vorschmack is beef with a hint of fish in it so who told you it is herring?
Some versions of vorschmack are made with herring are they not? I'll take the correction for the sea buckthorn, that was .y bad 😭
I dont like this food😊😊
Don't you even know, Finland isn't in Skandinavia? Not even a part of it!
Yes, eastern Sweden is not Scandinavian. Doesn’t mean they aren’t included in the Nordic brotherhood, along with Iceland and sometimes the Baltic states. ❤
@@johankaewberg8162 "Eastern Sweden"... Nej helvete!
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@@artoeloranta2810 Swedish lil bros get very angsty sometimes.
Crab culture is kinda rare to Finns here, or to have even that kind of parties anymore. Plus at crab parties
they tend to wear the "best", which is kinda lame.
As an example I'm Finn and never been to crab party. Old-fashioned.
It depends on where you live in. It's very common in Southwest Finland.
It's very common among Swedish speaking Finns, finlandssvenskar.
@@anna8282 Bättrefolket meal. :P
That's because it's a Swedish tradition and not a Finnish one to eat crayfish that way.
They burnt your pizza badly - you should have sent it back lol
The gluten free one had quite a bit of char but that's likely due to the cracker like crust. My glutenous pizza was perfect though 🙂
Yeah but that's not an excuse to burn it. Accidents happen, of course, but personally i wouldnt have eaten it cause i definitely did not order burnt pizza, so why is it burnt? you know @@stephaneats3944
Helsinki is not a part of Finland.
Your town would be banktrupt without Helsinki's and Espoo's money. You should be grateful and not salty.
For heaven's sake.
@@Wulf44445 this discount-sweden of a country would be bankrupt without the money we get from tourists that want to see some nature, that even urbanites in helsinki see as alien so dont act cocky
@@donquaviuslaquariusdinglen3066 If you are referring at the money we get from tourists visiting Lapland, thats not big money. Helsinki brings around the same amount of tourists as the whole Lapland.
Helsinki and Espoo are economical powerhouses (in the perspective of Finland) and these are the economical cities holding this shitty leftists country together with financing pretty much all the all the other cities. Obviously the surrounding are of Helsinki is doing alright economically.
Yes it is, fucking juntti :D