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Romanian Food

Let’s face it, nobody travels to Romania for the food. As with most of the Balkans the vast majority of what’s on offer is a diluted version of Turkish cuisine, with Hungarian and Germanic influences clearly discernable in Transylvania.


Romanian Food comments

  • 16

    February

    2010
    barbara deets - cochranton

    I have a student that has been adopted from Romania. She is always talking about this food that they drank. It was like a creamy milk and it had something in it like spaghetti. I would appreciate any help in finding the recipe. Thank you.
  • 19

    October

    2009
    Sam - Antofagastasa

    you are!



  • 16

    October

    2009
    delicious -

    Hi. I do agree with all comments though. The romanian food is delicious, but not the one you would usually order in restaurants. Unfortunatelly there is no such a thing as public cuisine served in restaturants culture, because there was not a big public demand in the close past. So if you go to some restaurants will get exactly what teh author described.But if you take a more rural venture you would enter the true food flavor land. I've been to a lot of places around the world but none povides the flavour of Romania countryside.So the Romanian cuisine is wonderfull but you'll not dind it in the majority of restaurants. That's a petty.The cheese is indeed wonderful just to know where to get it.
  • 03

    August

    2009
    Thomas Hiergens - Ghent - Brussels

    Sorry Mr. Author, you couldn't be more wrong. Sometimes the food is very poor, especially in the south in Wallachia, but most of the time the food is just wonderful. Fresh berries, natural jam, wild mushrooms, home made lemonade, bear sausage, fresh eggs, paprika's, sun baked tomatoes, stew, lamb chops... mmmmmmm
  • 12

    July

    2009
    Dorin - Montreal

    My name is Dorin. Thanks for providing this wonderful information about my culture: I am originally from Romania and have lived in Canada for 6 years now. However, I'd like to say that it is not true that Romanian cheese is "tasteless". Every kind of cheese that you buy in there, not to mention the one you can buy on the market, produced locally in small communities, has its OWN SPECIFIC taste. There are no two cheeses alike. We also have a kind of cheese, "smoked cheese", that people love and that you can also grate on the fries if you wish. Very good indeed, it melts on the fries. Why would that be "strange"? :-)I personally find Canadian cheese(s) tasteless, and there's no or almost no difference between the sorts of cheese available in the stores, except for the aged cheese. Thanks !