Alright guys, it is lunchtime here in Lviv (Львів) and we tried to find the most
traditional Ukrainian restaurant that we could and that is how we ended up at Seven Piggies
(Сім поросят) and yeah I can tell you taxidermy is really popular.
Lots of stuffed animals.
There is like beavers and squirrels and owls.
Um, it is very colorful.
It is all white walls but is is like decorated with these bright flowers.
So yeah, it is super cool.
We're the only ones here and our food has arrived.
Okay.
Banosh (Банош).
So Sam neglected to tell me the waitress was standing next to me while I'm rambling on
camera.
That was awesome.
Anyways look at you carrying on like a pro.
She brought us something called Banusz and I believe this is some kind of sheep's cheese
(brynza) with like looks like bacon so I'm just going to try it on bread.
I'm not entirely sure how you're supposed to eat this.
Yeah, we got a bread basket.
But you know bread and cheese seems like a pretty good idea so let's go for it.
Oh, and isn't it egg.
Yeah, it is egg.
Egg, sheep's cheese and this looks like some kind of bacon.
Mmmm.
Is it tasty?
That is quite nice.
Our first time to try it.
I feel like I could eat this on its own.
I don't even need the bread.
Try a bite on its own.
Mmmm.
Good stuff.
First time having this.
Sam with the fancy waterwheel right behind him.
Right behind me.
Alright, time to try this.
Banosh (Банош).
I'm going to have a nice big bite.
And it is kind of like divided into layers.
Like over here you have the cheese and then you have the egg and then the sprinkled bacon
bits.
Yeah.
So I've tried to get a bit of everything on here.
It kind of looks like a fluffy omelette.
Yeah.
First bite.
Mmmm.
Isn't that good.
Oh my gosh that is awesome.
That is better than an omelette.
Yeah.
And I like how crunchy the bacon is.
Mmmhmm.
It is really that is the first thing I taste and then the cheese is really nice.
The salty cheese and then with the egg.
It kind of reminds me a bit of a premium omelette or something.
Alright, and we also ordered wine.
And we got a bread basket.
And yeah, usually I found when you order a bread baskets here in Ukraine (Україна)
you get both brown and white bread which is cool.
Yeah.
But you know what mistake we made?
What?
We pointed at the cheaper price for the wine and it turns out it is only 50 ml of wine.
Oh yeah, look at that.
It is really small.
I haven't even touched it yet.
We need like half a liter between us.
This is a taste.
Well we do in all fairness we do have to do a lot of filming today so yeah.
So we shouldn't be having too much.
But anyways we got a Cabernet it is made from the Ukraine and most of the wine from Ukraine
apparently comes from Odessa so I'm guessing this might be from Odessa.
Also really popular wines that you can order at restaurants in Ukraine (Україна)
include Georgian and Moldovan wine but we decided to go for something super local made
in the country.
It smells good.
Mmm.
it is pretty good.
That is a decent dry red yeah.
Yeah, it kind of has a cherry taste to it.
Oh, look at him getting fancy.
Let's try the brown bread.
No butter so I'm just going to take a bite.
You should use the banosh (Банош).
It is pretty good with bread.
Yeah, I think I'll do that.
That is nice.
It is nice having it as an accompanying side dish.
Work of art right here.
I believe we've ordered something called Kremslyky (КРЕМЗЛИКИ В ГЛЕЧИКУ) and
I need to break this baby.
I can't actually lift the bread off so we're going to have to break it.
Borrow your way in huh?
How do they do this?
Oh my gosh look at that.
OMG.
OMG.
You can do it Audrey.
It is like they cooked the bread over the ceramic bowl.
Oh my gosh, the camera just totally fogged up.
Okay, so now that we've managed to break all the bread off.
Yeah.
We should show you what is inside.
The defogging of the lens.
Defogging of the lens.
So in here we've got some pork.
We have potato pancakes (КРЕМЗЛИКИ В ГЛЕЧИКУ) . We have this like creamy
sauce with dill and carrots and garlic and it all looks really really good.
Yes, it does.
Let's go in for some pancake.
I've really been enjoying these like fried pancakes with like savory mushroom sauces
on top.
It has been so good.
Yeah, we haven't shown them before in videos but we've been eating them a lot just kind
of our own.
That is so hot.
Too hot?
So so hot.
Yeah, I mean it is piping hot it fogged up the lens so.
It is good though?
But it is so creamy.
So creamy.
It is good.
So creamy and yummy?
This is one of my favorites.
Sam is going in.
Yeah, my turn to try it.
He's fishing something out.
Just breaking off the potatoes.
Yeah, oh my gosh it is so hot.
I can feel the heat.
I can feel that heat.
There we go.
I'm just going to try mine with a little bit of bread.
First I'm going to blow on it.
Mmmm.
Good stuff.
That is one of my favorite things to eat here in Ukraine for sure.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
I've now had it about 3 or 4 times and it is dish now that whenever we go out and order
like traditional Ukrainian food (українська кухня).
It is a stample.
We have to get that one.
The pancakes.
This is so nice.
It is that sauce that makes it.
So moving on to the main.
The meat dish.
The meat dish.
What did you get?
Well, this meal is kind of the classic case of us our eyes being a little bit bigger than
our stomachs because this thing is huge.
This apparently is the house specialty.
They have actually named this dish after the restaurant and it is the 7 pigs and it is
a huge pork leg (ГОМІЛОЧКА "СІМ ПОРОСЯТ").
It appears like they have like a cheese or melted cheese.
Melted cheese sauce and I'm just going to like carve off a huge.
That looks good.
Look how big that is.
Oh man, the meat looks so tender.
It does.
It looks really tender.
So I'm going to get some sauce on that and take a huge bite.
Ooh.
My gosh that is such nice meat.
So tender and actually it is not a cheese sauce it is a mustard sauce.
Oh, it has got a kick to it.
Yeah.
Totally different than what I thought.
Alright, let's do this.
Let's do this.
Going to grab some meat.
I also want to get a bit of skin.
Try to get some of the skin because it is really nice and some of the sauce.
And make sure you get some of the mustard sauce.
A little bit of everything in one bite.
Oh my gosh I know this looks messy but it actually looks more appetizing.
It reminds me of roast chicken where you keep the skin on it but of course it is with pork.
Mmmm.
Isn't that good?
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
The meat is quite tender like it reminds me of pulled pork a little bit.
Yeah, it has that kind of texture.
Mmm.
And the mustard, I mean it has got some kick but also a bit of sweetness to it as well.
It really balances out.
It balances it well huh?
This is really good.
It is tasty.
Mmmhmm.
Oh my gosh and we still have another dish and dessert coming.
Like and we're getting animalistic.
Oh boy.
So another side dish we ordered is Varenyky (ПЕЛЬМЕНІ "ВІД ВУЙКА КОЦЬО")
which are the dumplings but these ones are black.
Yeah.
So we haven't had this before.
It looked interesting.
Yeah, we've never tried the black dumplings (ПЕЛЬМЕНІ "ВІД ВУЙКА КОЦЬО").
All I know is that they are stuffed with pork and veal.
There you have it.
Oh, that looks good.
Mmmm.
Nice?
That is quite good.
But we have no idea why they're black.
How did they make them black?
The only black food I've had before used squid ink.
Squid ink.
I called it ink squid.
Squid ink.
But I don't know if they'd put squid ink.
Yeah, good question with a pork and veal dish.
But yeah, help us solve this mystery guys if you know.
One of a kind.
If you know.
Sam going in for the black dumplings.
My turn.
Whoops.
Oh, they are quite dense.
Yeah, they are heavy.
They look heavy.
The meat is heavy.
Mmmm.
Oh wow.
Those are really different than the ones we've tried before.
Yeah.
We've mostly had potato and cheese ones but this is like just entirely meat.
They are denser for sure.
Yeah, do you know what?
These ones almost look like they've been steamed instead of boiled.
Yeah, I think they may have.
Yeah.
One more.
They're really good.
They remind me a little bit of dim sum.
I was just thinking that.
Yeah.
Wow.
Seriously.
Tasty though.
All we need is some soy sauce and a pair of chopsticks.
Haha.
Bring out the sour cream.
There you go.
Well, thankfully dessert is a smaller portion than everything else because yeah we're stuffed.
We're stuffed.
And this is like a Ukrainian cake style of cheesecake (ТОРТ "СИРНИК").
And it has got like a chocolate topping and I think I've been able to see what might potentially
be dried pieces of fruit in the middle.
I think on the other side.
Yeah, I think I actually have one in my bite.
Well there you go.
Raisins.
Raisin.
Mmmm.
Cheesecake with raisins.
Mmmm.
That is so good.
Because like this is just like pure cheesecake.
There isn't really a bottom layer.
It is just pure dense thick cheesecake (ТОРТ "СИРНИК").
Just the way I like it.
Uh huh huh.
So I can of feel at this point the meal has sort of turning into a challenge.
Oh my gosh.
A challenge meal.
We're so full.
But this is like an endurance sport.
I always have room for cheesecake though.
We need to start ordering less.
That is the problem.
Haha.
Mmmm.
Isn't that good?
Mmmmm.
Dense huh?
Is there a bit of alcohol in there?
It could be.
It could be.
I wonder if those raisins have been soaked in rum soaked raisins in like vodka or something.
Haha.
I taste a little something something.
Good stuff.
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