Hungarian food is good
Max and I went to Budapest a couple of weeks after September 11. While we were there, the anthrax attacks happened. We thought the world was ending. And then we saw The Simpsons, dubbed in Hungarian, and that was so hilarious we stopped worrying about the anthrax.
Hungarian food is excellent. We had a number of great, inexpensive restaurant meals in Budapest. We rode some trams, and two men tried to pickpocket us on a hill above town. One of them managed to get Max's wallet, and Max yelled "He's got my wallet" and, intrepid soul that I am, leaped onto the man in question, wrapped my arms around him in a bear hug, and hung on for dear life. This gave Max a chance to retrieve the wallet. Then we ran all the way back down the hill and took a tram to see a synagogue that was built entirely inside the courtyard of an apartment building. I should put links in to information about all these places, but that would involve actually finding those links.
Oh yeah. Bela Kun. Anything to do with Bela Bartok?
Well, I talked about Hungary, anyway.
posted by AmyN @ 9/11/2006 05:11:00 PM
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Don't forget that to get into the apartment complex housing the synagogue, we had to attempt dialogue with a somewhat dotty old man who tried to determine whether you were a Jew, and then switched from Hungarian into Hebrew. Had he tried Yiddish, I might have been able to catch more than one word of what he was saying. Amazingly, I may actually know more Hungarian than I do Hebrew, and I don't know Hungarian. Nem.
Hungarian food is making a resurgence here in Chicago. Goulash is among the more famous dishes, but America is learning about langos (like elephant ears), chicken paprikash (chunks of chicken in a delicious sour cream-onion-paprika sauce over spaetzle, and Tokjai (yummy wine).
While it hardly rivals Chinese or Mexican food as far as restaurant options are concerned, we have seen a number of places picking up a few dishes. Also, two new Hungarian restaurants opened, as well as a Hungarian grocery store. All are in the suburbs, and not in a niche/cultural area... nonHungarians are getting in on it as a result.
http://www.hungarianbookstore.com/restaurants.htm
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