How to survive Eastern European food

okay so here is nomad's guide on how to

survive Eastern Europe culinarily

gastronomically what do you do uh I love

Eastern Europe it's what is there not to

love look at these Castle spires

beautiful Parks trees wonderful

buildings from all kinds of eras

colorful well preserved nice people nice

friendly faces Services lack of kind of

Western European cynicism about

everything uh in the spring blooming

lilacs trees lovely everything's lovely

except three times a day you have to eat

and eating in Eastern Europe Central

Europe Eastern Europe and as you get

further into Russia is not for everyone

I know there are people that love meat

and potatoes and kind of tubers and

beets and all of those things and I know

there are people that think

that cabbage is a green vegetable but

I'm not one of them and I don't like

these things so much uh I can't and I

can't handle them um digestively they

just don't feel great neither the same

day nor the next day so what do you do

there are plenty of solutions one of

them is in fact they're not plenty of

solutions there are few solutions they

very few Solutions one of them is to go

on a liquid diet very much like the

locals do which means that they have

great beer in some of these countries

especially in the Czech Republic the

beer is Sensational so you can do like

the locals and kind of have I mean look

at this PL look how pretty everything

old streets churches buildings

everything beautiful cobblestones I mean

visit these countries but do something

about the food if you can't SLE it so

one of the things to do is you have

beers beer is a food so you can drink

instead of it and kind of have liquid

meals this can also of course lead to

significant troubles including

alcoholism so that's not very good

long-term solution it's a partial

solution um beer will also of course

make what you're about to eat afterwards

seem more tasty at least if not more

tasty but the problems will propagate

themselves the next day next thing to do

in big cities such as this beautiful

city um you can find some ethnic food um

I'm always on the hunt for a good thae

restaurant because I love Thai food and

noodles uh and you can usually find a

good Thai place and sometimes a good

Chinese place so that's solution number

two and that works in the big cities in

the small cities you're out of luck

there's not going to be a good Thai

place and there's not going to be a good

Chinese place so what are you going to

do you have to be like the locals but

you can be

selective uh the more Saucy and

elaborate the meal is the more Dreadful

it's going to be so go for simple stuff

do not trust the Italian restaurant

which usually means Pizza and Pasta and

believe me neither the pizza nor the

pasta will remind you of anything youve

ever eaten in Italy so forget it um the

best way is to e the local stuff if you

can find grilled stuff grilled meat

that's a great choice and The Last

Choice the biggest advice that I have to

give you especially also for if you go

hiking and you want to pack something

good um they have ham hwks and basically

portions of pork that they cook or smoke

like ham like Thanksgiving ham and

that's kind of delicious it exists

everywhere it's super cheap and it's

tasty and relatively healthy and there's

no sauce and no horrible attempts to

make it gastronomic it's not it's just

basic ham but it's good and cheap so

these are my three solutions if you have

any better ones than that uh let me know

this of course is for all of those of

you that are like me not meat and

potatoes people uh and you have a thirst

for vegetables for some kind of spice

for some kind of U noodles and fine

dining if you like meat and potatoes

you're in Paradise here and as I said

before the beer is great nitri from prag

Czech Republic