Trying Russian Food in New York | Part 5

Good morning. We are on our way to Brooklyn. Yeah, we're going to the Brooklyn first time. Okay, so we did arrive in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn and straight away there's like Russians everywhere. You can hear them. I just want to film the buns. So this is says you can get all sorts of things over here with different fillings and you've got even Khachapuri and this is just a fresh one that's just been made look at that just been brought over Wow with egg there it is the first one Tel Avivi, vareniki, shashlyk. So that's uh this is the place Varenitsa. Should we go in Flora? It looks very interesting. Nice and small. Oh very nice and homey. This is all in Russian so you can get all different things and then they have English translation on the other side. So you've got dumplings, vareniki soup salads hot entries blinis kebabs side dishes compote is a fruity drink this is cool i'm excited to try all this Flora are you excited yeah there's an english version so this is our first course it looks interesting it doesn't look the color that i was thinking for isn't it yeah yeah yeah it's supposed to be red so we just had borscht and it's very different it had like red have cream type that is um has like giant chunks of potato it's not like this traditional one that i'm used to but there's like literally two three hundred variations of porsche so now this came pork tomatoes these are manti manti so these are different ones um never seen them like this so we're just waiting for sour cream and usually you eat them with your hand but i'm not sure what we're gonna do with these yeah i'm not sure i'm not sure how we're gonna do that let's dig in you're supposed to eat with hand but yeah oh lovely very good oh there's some sour cream if you want oh yeah wow that looks like some yeah good good yeah it's very meaty yeah let's try this mm-hmm it's good it's warm it shows a bit thick sour cream on my shirt you don't all right yeah not bad yeah oh nice so these are oh they look really cute these are the siberian dumplings and these are the potato vareniki and i think we're gonna have the cherries for the dessert oh yeah dip in the sour cream oh there's extra something yeah cheers see what you think oh no yeah something makes a different is it yeah can taste vinegar oh no way yeah um that didn't go well they had vinegar i hate vinegar like literally i just had the flavors that i had to spit that out so i didn't want to film that so i'm not going to actually be eating anymore even though they look nice just i'm going to try the potato one away oh there you go taste the flavor in my mouth yes you've got caramelized onion on here and um i'm just going to add a bit of sour cream i love sour cream yeah usually it should be a little more sour cream here all right let's try potato fillings in the weird it tastes very powdery all right it doesn't taste like real potato honestly tastes like the you know that instant mashed egg one and that is not really good i'm starting to get disappointed yeah see what you think maybe i'm just really picky because i eat this but i could just taste like a brown potato or do you know what i mean right it doesn't taste like real potato no i'm not sure i like it no i don't know i don't know i'm so disappointed not so good okay so these are the cherry dumplings is it is it meant to be with sour cream oh yeah yeah you can have oh you're careful they're hot and they're really hot yeah but the cherry filling is quite nice i don't think you should go with sour cream though yeah can you taste the vinegar i'm scared i'm not sure god so the the cherry vareniki are okay the dough is extremely over salted and the filling is nice um yeah this is probably the best dish so far i mean out of the bunch but yeah no hi guys so we have actually uh found another russian place called volna we decided to try dumplings second time we're gonna go for the fried version before we got excited about the fried and we're gonna try that because we did want to try the pancakes with cottage cheese in the other one but they didn't have it so luckily actually for us it's just the food was average below average there so we're going to try it here yes we'll show you it's actually a really nice sunny day and we're right on the beach so we got our drink it comes in a nice cool glass okay flory have you tried compote before i think i haven't oh my god matches your top oh yeah yeah i think it's supposed to be but sometimes they don't make it too sweet let's try i know right refreshing there's a lot of different fruit in here it's nice actually it's good yeah good start so far guys so we're here at our second place we ordered fried dumplings so these are the meats they look good we shall try do we need some sour cream yeah we do need sour cream that's a good shot for the view yeah we just got ourselves and we had to ask for sour cream so I don't think the dish comes with sour cream so you need to ask for it it's a very thick sour cream all right oh yeah it is It's like, oh, I think that's cream cheese. Let's try. Definitely tastes better. It's much better. Oh my god, it's so much better. It's so much better. It's just good. Definitely the first one. It's like really crispy in there. It's not really crispy. Very crispy outside, nice juicy filling in the middle. Approved. this is our second dish this is how it looks we even got the jam so they look really really nice actually gonna have to cut inside and see how it looks i wouldn't say it's a lot of cottage cheese filling no it doesn't very not generous amount but it's nice very nice so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna add a bit of jam on there the jam looks very interesting it looks more american actually than russian you see it's got like a jellifying it's quite um It's quite sunny, so it's hard to see the consistency. It smells like a bit of sour cream. To top it all off. Right, now we're going to try it. The jam is definitely not Russian. Yeah, I was going to say. This is quite nice, but I wouldn't say this is Russian. Yeah, it doesn't taste very Russian. At all. It's lovely. I'm going to try the cottage cheese. filling you know what's interesting the cottage cheese filling actually is salty okay it's interesting like salty sweet it tastes more like a cheesecake cheesecake with pancakes definitely doesn't taste russian i don't know why it's okay it's not like the best i've ever tried you know what i mean so we met bill and jill right jim jim sorry jim and jill and they offered to uh for us to try another set of uh crepe here filled with apple flour do you want to cut that through let's have a look okay it's got like apple filling type it actually looks like apple filling that's definitely more American than Russian, let's try a little bit of this, it looks good and that's it's cream i don't think that's that's cream rather than yeah apple pie and the pancake yeah again it's quite nice actually but um i wouldn't say it's a no it's definitely not sure a little bit it's definitely i can see the filling because you know i used to get these i'm ashamed to say this but i used to get these like apple pies from McDonald's so it looks exactly like this oh no back in the day it's not gonna be the same though it's very nice it's nice yeah it's good right guys we are on a train to and we stopped by to get a traditional pie so it's it's the rash and it's made with meat oh my god smells very strongly and it's looking like that Flory's never tried it before so what we're gonna do you can actually start biting it. It smells very meaty. It's very good. It's like the dough really smells like in a good way, I think. But she's never tried it. When you get to the meaty part. No, it's good. I would say it's quite heavy. Yeah, it's like basically a doughnut. It's a very popular Russian street food. And actually we did visit a lady before, didn't we? In the very beginning of this trip. It's actually still very full, isn't it? Dough. We got a little dough. The dough is really nice, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It's very heavy. I can see the meat. Hang on. I'm gonna get that. It's very nice. Did it say it was beef? I don't think it's pork. Yeah, it's definitely not beef. It's definitely not beef. It's pork. It's really nice. What do you think? Yeah, it's nice. It's very big. Look at that. It's very heavy. We had a lot of food already today. We had a lot of food. It's very heavy. Honey, this was only like $3, $3.50. three dollars fifty. Yeah my God look my lips they're like shiny from them all right guys but you definitely must try this it's a must I think this one is a must guys so I decided to try another Russian restaurant here in New York Marivanna so we'll see what kind of food they have here and hopefully better than the other places I've tried so I am here I met these awesome girls here Kathy Kate, Lexi and of course Alice she went to my class today but now she invited me over for Russian dinner look at all this Russian food here we've got olivier we've got caviar Russian music in the background Shuba and of course blinchiki yum look at that julienchuk this is blini with salmon and caviar yeah look at this super thin crepe so so far so good this was good look at that creamy sauce i liked the design also this is sweet canela we have some jam