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ALBANIA 🇦🇱Food & First Impressions | Tirana Food Tour & Travel Vlog
welcome to Albania we've just spent a
few weeks of full-blown adventure here
and we've got six videos to share in
this series starting right now today is
all about Albanian food and some of our
first impressions but then we'll go into
sharing the abandoned buildings and the
cool factor of the capital Tirana
renting a car crazy local drivers
castles views for days and missions to
beautiful beaches so stay tuned for the
next few videos because they're going to
open your eyes to a seriously underrated
country so there's something that we
preach about every single time that we
come to a new country and that is to
take a food tour when you first get your
plate so you can find out where to go
for the rest of your trip basically
helps you find these undiscovered little
streets and these local markets and just
actually get like a walking tour at the
same time so today we're going with
Albanian food tours and we're just on
our way to meet Linda who's our guide
for the day
well we're just gonna end up eating
loads of food that we want to show us
but it's going to me
are you go inside not sure if you're
allowed up here anyone see arrows on the
ground so I just quality yeah yeah I
keep going yeah
this place is known as the cloud it's
our meeting point over early but so it
exploring I'm on top from what we can
tell this is a like an offering to
promote art and everything in Tirana
which from the reading that we've done
on this city in particular it seems like
it's going to be a little bit of a
common theme thank you
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I can tell you one thing we're instantly
blown away this place is very very cool
there is that I won't even say that it's
hep there's all of these little
restaurants and cafes and bars you can
see over there like there's just so much
style here and like I said the art thing
is really gonna shine through there's
like art installations and art paintings
and all sorts everywhere there's a big
story behind that which we'll talk about
a little bit more but we'll just come
down this really awesome little walking
street that had these trees hanging over
the top
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yeah it'll be nice
calm down moonstone it's
as a slow restaurant which basically
means that it's the ingredients that
they use locally sourced at 70% of the
ingredients here are organic and we have
got some traditional Albania Britain
spoon what's really but what I'm most
excited about is the Albanian pancakes
which looked like little fried doughnuts
and they come with wither and honey as
well and then we've got some mountain
team which is known for curing every
kind of sickness on a kind of apparently
human and then another one that Danes
gonna try that I don't know how to
pronounce the name I asked about the
technique of eating these and apparently
if you're a local just Duncan and a
whole bunch of honey but I don't think
that anyone wants to see me do that I'm
gonna work but I've got my bitter cheese
my honey that's delicious that is I
always start with things I like that to
be my favorite holiday this is literally
the first thing
and we've got more that's so much more
got another one this one is like
buckwheat with goats was a quote milk
it's fermented and it's
it helps healthy digestive tract it's
amazing if you have this for breakfast
it will help you you can have like a
light lunch and then still I keep the
traditional because we don't have
so we're gonna try Wow
which is like a yogurt drink it's not
salty like others like that our arm that
we had in Turkey and this is like a
traditional on the go grab something
when you don't really want water we're
smelling it like it's wine actually is
really refreshing that's a really nice
touch so the one that stays couldn't or
didn't want to explain is called book
vowel I don't know how well I'm doing
when I say that but we're the try about
violet well darling
okay I did a point I kind of like
looking at it it looks like it's got
breadcrumbs
I think there's some honey in here yeah
it's almost like a soft kind of french
toast it's not very crunchy which I
thought that it might be in there
because there's nuts and everything in
there yeah it's quite a breeze
yeah and it's quite simple but it tastes
kind of granola and just like very easy
like they could just be a lot of that
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but we are off to a flying start that
was amazing every every part of that
meal was just so minute so much better
than I anticipated is gonna be the
donuts of course are always gonna be an
absolute winner anyway I'm always
impressed with breakfast anywhere I go
but there was a particularly nice I
think there's something so the first
thing that I'm picking up is Albanians
are like the loveliest people the the
welcome and the hospitality the
friendliness of everybody that we've
spoken to everyone in that restaurant
just wanted to like chat great English
as well such good English it's so nice
like sitting down with Linda and finding
out about like Albanian life about
families I feel like we're just on this
private casual chat with a friend
showing us around so we've got a lot
more to go I feel like we've probably
already ate too much that only yeah I
did not interrupt you I did not pace
myself
well the temptation is strong it's so
nice to see that the city is broken up
with there's obviously the busyness of
the buses and the cities and this is
quite a busy quite a busy intersection
but that's a big park over there there's
more greenery and everything right here
and then we just spotted this most
random building it looks like someone's
taking a bite out of it something like a
fraction of it is missing we just saw
these girls down there that were like
taking photos for Instagram or something
and then we've got these pillars and
everything right in front of it it's
just very very random but but we're
digging it
our next stop is the new bazaar it is a
little farmers market so it's not really
little it's big it's a it's a market
surrounded by lots of different bars and
restaurants and cafes apparently the
prices here are a little bit higher so
more batarus less for locals but it
looks like there's so much fresh fruit
and nuts every everything
it also looks very I mean I know it's
called the new bazaar so you would
expect that but it does look very new
and very fresh look at the presentation
and everything it's all very elegant the
way that it's set up and almost very
good saying as a design that it's
exactly what you'd be looking at
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so just off the square we're coming to a
really cute little shop and we're gonna
try something called bows our bow is
that it's come out and this glass jar
it's got a mixture of this corn flour
kind of I thought it looked like braids
but I'm not convinced that it is I've
been there's some ice cream and stuff in
there as well a sorbet rather than like
a than an ice cream surprisingly the
cornflour and water almost has a fist to
it like a mini foods I can't understand
how that flavor comes out when you sort
of mix the two together it reminded me
of this almost ginger beer kind of
fermented fresh cider kind of sweet
mixture it's probably a really terrible
way of describing it but that's pretty
the closest thing I can relate it to and
just the fact that it's so hot now it
was almost like a little bit refreshing
at the same time on to our next stop
already I've got to mention about the
buckle over as well we didn't really
talk too much about it while we were in
in there last spot we have tried back
loud before including in Turkey but that
was fresher than I think that we had in
Turkey
nothing serious a Turkish who's watching
but it wasn't as wasn't as Serbia tasted
like fresher and crispier and just it's
made of walnut so it was no it's just
you could really taste this like
freshness this is a very random place
who kid with a sword behind me
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people my history others injured yeah
even though the tablecloth is like a
sick horse like a ride like a kitten
so first time trying right here which
apparently we can hit for breakfast with
Coakley yes I like that before going to
work just I was gonna say shooting you
don't closest relationship I'd say I'll
think about my kid would me like a nice
smooth vodka you're the closest thing I
don't think I can relate it to so what I
say is no breakfast material but but
still quite nice and refreshing
translates terrific to fry but they
actually can really nicely together and
then yeah we we try to be serious
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like any good food tool so to try
something we're gonna have this one the
poka poka hook a bit cook a bit boy
always down fence we're back in and
around that new Bazaar area because this
is where there's like that a little bit
more of that vibrance that coupe back
there in and around this area so it
seems like a good place to sit down and
our first Albanian beer
wow-whee and a little bit of a food coma
now in fact not a little bit we are at a
full-blown food coma that was an awesome
way to get a feel for what Tirana is
like and an amazing food tour as well
which of course I'll link below we
always do whenever we do a a tool like
this find hanging out with Linda and
honestly we've got to see so much of
Tirana
I feel like we're very surprised and
impressed with what the city has to
offer the whole goal of coming to
Albania was sort of to use Tirana as a
little bit of a base because as you can
see laptops it's the perfect place to
like sit down catch up on life after we
spend that week on the sailing boat then
the goal was to go to the coast which
we're still gonna do because the the
water here is absolutely stunning it's
the same sea as what we had in Greece
and I feel like it's really gonna
surprise us and a lot of you guys
watching as well just how beautiful it
really is but I think we're actually
gonna really dig to run as well we've
got just over a week here or close to
two weeks before we should probably go
out and explore so I think there's a lot
more that we want to actually film and
go and find out about this place because
there's all sorts of things like these
bunkers and like these paintings and
there's a story behind all of this art
and everything and the elements that I
think Linda would normally include in
the tours but today was a little bit of
a shorter one for us because we were
filming or as we're gonna go off and
explore those things separately but I'm
blabbering now we're just really excited
that this is a cool place that we get to
spend some time and check out so we'll
probably film more than what we planned
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