Armenian Food BLEW OUR MINDS! | Would You Try This?! 🇦🇲

Welcome to Yerevan in Armenia. Armenian food is supposed to be incredible but it's hardly really known outside of Armenia or the diaspora itself. So today we're gonna make it a prerogative to get to know it better and to understand what it's all about. So let's do it! Our tummies are rumbling so the first stop we're gonna make is in a place called Taverna Yerevan. We just ordered everything and the waiters were laughing at us they're like don't order don't order anymore don't order anymore that's enough but we need it for the picture I think we've got quite a lot of food coming. We ordered Atzakh salad, dolma, horovats and hapama. This is not a traditional version of hapama. This one has meat, beans, carrots, onion and spices and it's all baked inside a pumpkin. The original version is for about 14 people and it's got rice, nuts, raisins, other dried fruits and spices which we would love to try when we have a big hungry company with us. This version though was still delicious. The meat was just falling apart everything is cooked in the pumpkin juice with fragrant spices unusual and very hearty. Next up is horovats which is basically Armenian barbecued meat. We ordered lamb chops that were served with new potatoes and this absolutely mind-blowing stuffed pepper with spiced aubergine stew. The meat's been marinated in honey and mustard and it just falls apart it's so fatty and it just falls off the bone that is so nice. Dolma is stuffed vine or cabbage leaves. We had stuffed vine leaves with meat, rice and raisins inside. The flavor and texture of everything is very gentle and you get the sourness from the vine leaf as well. I'm definitely a fan. Artsakh salad is carrots, cucumber, salad leaves, beef and peppers. Like a salty seasoning, really nice, really meaty, beautiful. That was incredible and this is only the beginning. Okay we've got enough for a few days now we're gonna see you again when we get hungry. Right we've been working all day we are hungry again so we're back off out. Right we're off to the place called Karas. You can see them all over Armenia and it's a local cafe chain. They do good quality cheap Armenian food so see you when we're there. I ordered a tan which is a savory yogurt drink. I didn't need to go out the back for a spray. We got some harissa which is a thick porridge made with chicken and loads of butter. We're told that harissa goes well with pickles so we got them as well. The porridge is so hearty and delicious, very satisfying and it goes really well with the pickles. The texture of it is soft but it's pleasant not like gloopy or stodgy you know and pickles just give it a nice crunch along with a beautiful kick. We ordered spas which is a traditional Armenian soup. It's made of yogurt and wheat, it's very smooth and really filling. We're having it warm but apparently you can get it cold too. We never tried anything like this before. You get the sourness from the yogurt, the fresh herbs and the soft grains. It all combines perfectly. It is delicious and very soothing. Sometimes I wish I could just pass you the food through the lens to try yourself. I'm sure we are not the only ones that rip off pieces of bread, throw it in the soup and eat it soggy like that. That's the beauty of ordering soup in the bread. It's already done for you. I know it doesn't look sexy but it's delicious. This is dovzhik which is finely chopped beef lungs, liver and onions. It's cooked in a fragrant tomato sauce, topped with fresh herbs and we got some mash to go with it too. To be honest we didn't expect much but this completely blew our mind. The sauce is just out of this world. It tastes like the most delicious meat stew you can imagine and actually if you didn't know which part of the meat it was, you would never guess. It was falling apart and together with the mash it is heaven. We're out of the restaurant. Food was amazing. It was delicious especially you know what? Dovzhik was the biggest surprise for me. I didn't expect it to be that awesome. We found out from the waitress as well by the way. We were going to say if you're in Armenia you have to come here but there's also one in LA. So if you're in LA you also have to go there. Karas. Hit it up. And also we were talking to the waitress and she told us that they do the best Armenian baklava in the city of Gavar and the shop where they sell it is open all day round so 24 hours and we're on the way there now. It's called Yerevan city. Let's go. There's something not right about that sign. That's better. Right we've got the goods. Let's have them tomorrow for breakfast. Good morning. So we're up at quarter past six. We're off to film our Yerevan video today. We've got a coffee. We thought we'd try the baklavas. Also we got an Armenian cake called Mikado here. So this baklava that we have it's called Gavarian baklava. It's from a specific region. Apparently they're famous for their baklavas and apparently it's the best one. And let's try it. Listen to the crunch. It's incredibly fresh and just full of nuts and it's got so much honey. It's literally I just taken them out of the fridge. It's just melting everywhere. It's very very delicious. So Mikado is a layered cake and apparently you can have any types of cream inside but more often than not you will have some crème de laiche. Yeah Julia's right. It's got layers of dulce de leche in there and layers of chocolate. It's not like a soft cake at all. It's really got a nice crunch to it. It's almost like a biscuit texture and then with the chocolate sprinkled on top. Gotta have a bit of coffee with that. Right we're gonna stuff all this down because it's quarter past six and we need to get out soon. So we'll see you when we get hungry again. We're here at Gahat Monastery and they sell the best gyoza in Armenia right here. And we're going to purchase it now, take it with our coach and eat it when we get back. I actually wonder if they're fighting for the first place in the queue because as soon as you walk up to them they're all like trying to get you literally so hard and when you buy it with one the rest of them still trying to sell it to you and if you don't buy it they're gonna turn on you. Right we're back home and let's try gata. Gata is an Armenian sweet treat. It's basically a sweet bread. There is a dough and in the middle there is a paste of butter and sugar and sometimes you can get them with nuts usually walnuts or without nuts. I think our one has got nuts in them. Let's try it. And always it looks so pretty and so giant. I remember that when I tried it first time I thought that the when you hear the combination of like butter and sugar inside something it doesn't really sound you know that exciting but it's so delicious and I was surprised then of how beautiful it is and it's just simply delicious. It's such a simple thing you'd say but it's actually really nice especially with some cup of tea or coffee. So we're in a place called Mayrig to try a couple of really special Armenian dishes. We're well excited. This is a cherry compote and it's so delicious. Right the first thing we ordered is called hagetov basturma. Basturma is an Armenian cured meat similar to Italian brassiola and basically it's really well spiced and then this is served with a tonne of bread and a quail egg on top and then some I think it's sumac. Looks amazing. Smells amazing. The meat is so well spiced. You can tell it's really good quality as well. It's really strong tasting. Smells incredible and then with the egg on top and the burst of that yolk and the toasted bread. Amazing. Perfect appetizer. We also ordered bibirov khats and khats means bread and here we've got pepper paste with cheese and sesame seeds. The bread is so thin and crispy and so much filling. You can really taste how fresh and delicious peppers are and onion, garlic, sesame seeds. Everything blended together really really well. This is actually the main reason why we chose to come to this place. This is Armenian manti and there is little boats of dough with meat inside and there is some sauce over the top of it like tomato sauce and matsun which is an Armenian yogurt and some sumac on top. Let's try it. I'm super excited for this. Let's make sure we get all of it. The combination of everything together is just incredible and I actually really love that they're so tiny. The big difference between Armenian manti and the rest is that majority of the time mantis are boiled or steamed and these ones are baked in the oven and they're definitely worth it. They're so incredible. Was worth a search. Just another thing. We cannot get over this manti. It's so good. If you come to Yerevan, come to this place. Meyrik seems to be the only place we could find them and they are incredible. That was incredible but we are both starved. Dessert? Yep. We just ordered something really interesting. Right we forgot the name of this but it's basically a pistachio dessert with a like a milk... Pudding? Yeah like almost like a cottage cheese isn't it? But it's like a bit lighter and sweeter. Yeah it's like that. Pistachios are my favorite nuts anyway but that is amazing. You can taste there is some rose water as well. The combination is actually really interesting. These pistachios with rose water, this milky substance and the fruit as well. It's actually very delicious. It didn't, to be honest, it tastes a lot better than it looks. It's very unusual. When it came out we were thinking oh okay it's really good. Okay Armenian food video was the most surprising one yet. We were aware of some dishes. There were some that took us completely by surprise that we weren't aware of at all. It's such an amazing blend of flavors with sort of Middle Eastern influence and the Caucasian influence, European influence. It is just incredible, incredible. Delicious! Well hope you enjoyed this video and learned something new. Giving you some ideas to try and thanks for watching. See you in the next one! By the way in Armenia they make most delicious pomegranate wine. We were going to pick some up in the restaurant we were in earlier but there it costs about six thousand. Whereas in the supermarket it's about one and a half. So we've got something to drink at home. We don't have any wine glasses so we're going straight out the bottle. And we don't have a bottle opener. So we're gonna go downstairs and ask the man that works in the shop there to help us out. Sorted! It's got such a strong pomegranate smell. It's just so tasty. Good? Love it. I think it's my favorite wine. So yeah you can really smell the pomegranate and really you can like really taste it. It's delicious. The best wine. Is it your favorite wine would you say? Oh yeah I would think so too to be honest. Yeah just I mean we love pomegranates anyway so yeah amazing, amazing. Hello I'm an Armenian daughter. I have wine that suits my taste. I am very delicious. I can't I can't even take a piss with that hair. I was gonna say sometimes I worry about you but when I look like that. Come here. Do you want to try it or do you want me to try it? Go for it. Ladies first. Yep. That is really light isn't it? Amazing. We have got tea. You can't see it but we have. We don't lie.