FIRST TIME in SLOVENIA! 🇸🇮 - Exploring MARIBOR and eating the BEST Slovenian FOOD

[@wherearewe-yt]

After living in Hungary for a few years, we visited every neighboring country, apart from Slovenia! We are happy that has changed now because we truly enjoyed our time there! 😊 Most people seem to only visit the capita Ljubljana, but we really feel that Maribor shouldn't be missed. The city was beautiful and the food was delicious. Since we couldn't find many Slovenian restaurants in Maribor, let us know in the comments which traditional dishes we need to eat in the future. In our next video, we'll be in another Slovenian town (a very cute one), so stay tuned! Thanks for watching🙂 - Brandon & Anja

[@Nine49_49]

Still, I would also recommend visiting Ljubljana, it is more lively but still pleasant. If you want to have great local wine experience, I would definitely recommend dolenjska region. A jump to quaint little towns on the coast is also highly recommended ❤

[@wherearewe-yt]

@@Nine49_49 We really wanted to visit Ljubljana, but we were under a bit of a time constraint this time around. It looks super nice there! We will go some day, for sure.

[@anjastanc]

"Potica" (rolled dough Slovenian cake), "Kranjska klobasa" (Carniolan sausage) and "Prekmurska gibanica" (Prekmurian layer cake) are the 3 dishes that you deffinitely shuldn't miss next time you're visiting. Potica is almost the most traditional, you can get it with plenty of fillings, but we eat the most of Potica with wallnutt filling. Meanwhile Kranjska klobasa and Prekmurska gibanica are also under protected geographical indication, which means that they have to be produced according to the rules (there sholdn't be any variations in recepies). I'm glad you enjoyed in Maribor, and it's also good for us to look at a video like this, to see how tourists are seeing our city and all the things we're used to, but definitely shouldn't be! Thank you both for remembering me in what a beautiful place I live.

[@wherearewe-yt]

We actually have another video coming up next, in Ptuj, where we try Potica! We were also looking for a place to try Prekmurska gibanica, but we didn't find it. 😅 We loved both Maribor and Ptuj. There were almost no good videos showing these cities when we were trying to research and get the vibe of them, so we were very pleasantly surprised when we visit and saw for ourselves. Super beautiful! Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for the next Slovenia video!

[@saviola01]

(se počutim enako) i feel the same seeing my city from another prespective is very cool 👍

[@capecccc]

Looking forward for the Ptuj video! Thanks for visiting Maribor 😄

[@wherearewe-yt]

It's finally out tomorrow! Thanks for watching.

[@joeatheist3545]

My parents were from Slovenia and they told me that they incorporated dishes from all of the neighboring countries as well as customs. Go to Slovenia and experience all of Europe. I visited a number of times and it's a wonderful experience.

[@wherearewe-yt]

It certainly felt like that! That was one of the reasons why we really enjoyed it.

[@lukawho8503]

Fun fact about maribor, that gentleman at 17:50 is a well known street performer and that is practically "his corner". I'm sure that EVERYBODY in maribor knows him.

[@wherearewe-yt]

He was very nice! We asked if we could film, and he was happy to have us do so, and give us a little show. Gave him a little tip, of course. He was there every day we walked by, always smiling and happy.

[@peterminiutti9553]

We took your advice and ate at la Cantina and yes we had the charcuterie board (yummo!) the next day we tracked down the sirovi struklji and it too was delicious. Thank you guys so much for making the culinary part of our trip to Maribor so enjoyable 😋

[@wherearewe-yt]

La Cantina was so freakin' good! Did you go to the same struklji place as well, or did you manage to find it somewhere else? Curious to hear what flavor you got! I imagine it's pretty seasonal. We're glad you enjoyed both our suggestions and your time in Maribor. It's such a beautiful city!

[@klarajagodic1386]

Orange wine also known or amber wine, is a type of wine made from white grapes where the grape skins are not removed, as in typical white wine production, and stay in contact with the juice for days or even months.This contrasts with conventional white wine production, which involves crushing the grapes and quickly moving the juice off the skins into the vessel. The skins contain color pigment, and tannins that would normally be considered undesirable for white wines, while for red wines skin contact and maceration is a vital part of the winemaking process that gives red wine its color, flavor, and texture.

[@wherearewe-yt]

Thanks for letting us know! We may enjoy drinking wine, but it's certainly not our area of expertise. 😅

[@goodiezgrigis]

It's called maceration, and it's done for a few days before pressing the crushed grapes so the skins release the colour into non fermented juice.

[@radmansdorf]

I come from Slovenia, but never heard of Beetroot soup here, haha!

[@wherearewe-yt]

That's funny! I guess what makes it Slovenian, is that they made it in house with Slovenian local ingredients. 🤣 They also had a tripe soup, but we've had tripe soup many times in other places - and though it's not bad, it's not of favorite. And especially for 10 in the morning. 😆

[@valentintapata2268]

@@wherearewe-yt We have rutabaga soup, beetroot is eaten as a pickled salad. And turnips are used in many ways, but most widly as substitute for sauerkraut (fermented turnips).

[@valentintapata2268]

@@wherearewe-yt Orange wine is macerated white wine. The skins of the grapes are soaked in the wine, giving it an orange color and affecting the taste of the wine.

[@wherearewe-yt]

@@valentintapata2268 That sounds delicious! We would have loved to try that as well. We weren't even sure what we were going to get at that restaurant until we arrived, given that the menu changes weekly. We went there specifically to try the pasta/ dumpling dish - so the soup was a bonus.

[@valentintapata2268]

@@wherearewe-yt The pasta dish is called žlikrofi, they came from Idrija. Žlikrofi are filled with potatoes and served in various ways (with meat, cracklings, mushrooms). Idrijski žlikrofi were the first Slovene traditional food to became protected inside of EU.

[@orisdr1935]

I wanna live there ❤ Is a beautiful country. ❤

[@wherearewe-yt]

It really is! We'd love to see more in the future.

[@Final_Cut_FF]

Maribor is in Stajerska or Steinmark in German. Graz is also part of that region. Pumpkin seed oil is all over that region, it's the best. Aussie Slovenian who loves that oil in salad.

[@wherearewe-yt]

It's so good! We never got to have it on ice-cream like we planned. We saw it on menus, but were always too full by the time dinner was finished. I bet it would have been amazing.

[@zoranmarkovic1123]

There are many domestic inns in Slovenia, which in the Slovenian language are written as "krčema", "gostišče", but most of them have the title "gostilna", which of course means an inn, for example, "gostilna pr'šestic" and almost everywhere you will find very, very tasty food. You won't go wrong if you go to local environments that are not exposed to tourism, but are located in some village, hills and the like. If you have the chance to find au gratin pancakes with cheese, grape slices and vanilla cream, baked in a bread oven, I advise you to try them. Enjoy the beauty of Slovenia.

[@wherearewe-yt]

In our next video we go to a place called "Gostlina Amadeus" in Ptuj. The food was very local, and VERY good! We hope to come back and see more of Slovenia in the future because we really loved it!

[@JurijKozjak-r2k]

Krčma,not krčema!

[@zoranmarkovic1123]

@@JurijKozjak-r2k Ja, zatipkal sem se, hvala za popravek.

[@passatB5turbo]

You shoul visit GreenGoldBrewing close to Celje city, amazing brewery, cheers

[@wherearewe-yt]

If we're ever in that area, we will! We love trying local breweries. In our next video, in Ptuj, we tried some local drinks made by the two brothers at GRBrowery. They make kombucha, coffees, and had some alcoholic drinks as well. 😁

[@tinastankovic5748]

Dough for žlikrofi is actually made with potatoes so it’s less pasta and more like gnocchi, that’s why it reminded you of pierogi. Thanks for showing us the places, going to Maribor from Ljubljana once a year for the Lent festival, we always go to the same place, this year we’ll have some options! :)

[@wherearewe-yt]

Ahh, that makes sense! We loved that dish. I wish we were also able to go to Ljubljana on this trip, but we were strapped for time. We really enjoyed Maribor though. 😃

[@tadejcvetko4502]

žlikrofi are made from pasta dough and the filling is made with potatoes and some type of lard...

[@passatB5turbo]

City of my studying years :) Malca mimogrede means--> brunch by the way, enjoy

[@wherearewe-yt]

We went there without really knowing, or seeing much about the city - so we were pleasantly surprised. It was super nice!

[@RahulAhmed-f1p]

Love from Bangladesh

[@wherearewe-yt]

Thanks for watching! We will definitely visit Bangladesh some day.

[@silvanjancic1672]

🙂respect, you visited my city, you have a lot to explore next Pohorje or the region of Slovenske Gorice very good wine of various kinds🤗👍

[@wherearewe-yt]

We would love to see more of the country. Slovenia seems beautiful!

[@ntcrb]

I don't think žlikrofi are usually served like that. I've really only ever seen them with golaž

[@wherearewe-yt]

Really?? That would be delicious as well.

[@sebastianpalma6493]

So beautiful love form Dhaka,Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️

[@RandomZShorts15]

Marrriborrrr im Serbian wne live here its so cool to know you guys were here!❤

[@wherearewe-yt]

We really enjoyed Maribor! It was a great city.

[@RandomZShorts15]

@@wherearewe-yt meh i kinda hate it here to be honest.

[@histriamagna1014]

Potem pa pojdi nazaj v Srbijo, če si nacionalist. Takih ne potrebujemo tukaj.​@@RandomZShorts15

[@RandomZShorts15]

@@histriamagna1014 nisn nacionalist to je vec... Pac brezveze da ime zglea bolj kul

[@Meliitak]

Bled cream cake is best in Bled, becouse they have unique recepie and it is lighter than this you have tried. Swiss rolls are usuall in Slovenia and the dish its called Rolada. Štruklji can be eaten with sweet or savery filling.

[@wherearewe-yt]

We would love to return to Slovenia some day. Next time we would definitely visit Ljubljana, and Lake Bled. Thanks for the info! No one else actually addressed that question. We were wondering if those rolls were popular in Slovenia because we had seen them a few times. We'd love to try a savory Štruklji.

[@melissalambert7615]

Orange wine? It was a thing for a while, like red wine you leave the skin in the blend. Lovely town, beautiful buildings. All the food at La Cantina looked delish. Not sure about horseradish on pizza. The area is one of the most interesting to me. So many N. Italy foods are Austrian. Croatia was once part of Italy. Did not know about Slovenia. Recipes cross borders

[@wherearewe-yt]

That was one of our favorite things about Slovenia! The food was such a great mix of its bordering countries. We were told by some locals that to get proper "Slovenian" food, we must visit the capital. It was surprisingly tough to find restaurants in Maribor that served purely Slovenian food. Everything was delicious, though. Even the horseradish on pizza!

[@Mountainlover390]

Nice video

[@wherearewe-yt]

Thank you! 😁

[@Mountainlover390]

@wherearewe-yt you are welcome my friend 🙏🙏

[@meineuhren]

Slowenija, moja dežela ❤

[@wherearewe-yt]

It's an amazing country! We want to come back and explore more.

[@adrianbialowas]

Hi! When slovenian snacks? ;-) Best's!

[@wherearewe-yt]

We were only in Slovenia for a few days, so unfortunately, we didn't have time for one! What should we have tried?

[@adrianbialowas]

quick one;s: Cockta (drink), Teta frida (sweets), Gorenjka (choco), leone ( ice cream), Frutabela (snacks), Viky cream (bead spread), Polli ( like "morrtadella"), Donat (water), Argenta (bread spread), Sumi (sweets),Pingo (the Fructal drink) etc ;-)@@wherearewe-yt

[@FrancBizilj]

Slovenija❤❤❤

[@ExpatJourneyOnline]

How do you not weigh 400 pounds apiece???? So much food, but it all looks greeat. Considering a move to Maribor, so found your video particularly interesting and enchanting. Well done!

[@wherearewe-yt]

We are! We just suck it in for the camera. Hahaha. Glad you enjoyed it! It's a really charming city. It seems like it would be a really relaxed, safe place to live. And Slovenia in general is just really beautiful!

[@ivoraduha318]

this is our orange wine

[@wherearewe-yt]

We don't know much about it, but we enjoyed all of the wine we had while in Slovenia!

[@hypatiatv1]

17:30 Greatings from Serbia, small mountian vilage in central Serbia. Slovenia is mutch more like Austria then Serbia. They are just our cousins, Slavs, but mentality is completely different. Serbs is more like a Balcans, like mediteranian people. Slovenian are more like Germans. About food. Lot of Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats living in Slovenia, this is one of reaosons of lot of restaurants with serbian, Balcan food. Architecture is very simmilar to northern Serbia but buildings are in better shape and cities and towns are cleaner. Ok, Serbia isnt dirty but Slovenia is proclamed as the most cleanest country in Europe couple years at row + Slovenia is proclamed as a ecological state, whatever it means. Sorry, my english isnt so good.

[@wherearewe-yt]

Your English is great! That was the vibe we got there. Anja is German, and the vibe felt very familiar to us! Much like Germany and Austria, and less like any of the Balkan countries we had previously visit. It was a nice mix, which we really enjoyed!

[@hypatiatv1]

@@wherearewe-yt Yep, it is resonable, Slovenia is geographicaly closest or closer? to Austria. In my opinion, modern Germany is something different, Germany isnt the same as Austria, Germany is mutch more like some mix of Austria, America and midle East. Im speaking about biger cities. About Slovenia. I can feel that Balcan vibe in Slovenia, trough architecture, how houses and other infrastructure looks, trough language... But everything is mucth cleaner, in better shape, with more taste(my subjective sensibility) for nice. Also, as i sayed. Almost 150 000 Balcans(Balcan people) works and lives in Slovenia, mostly Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. Croats are some mix between Slovenians and Balcanians, lets call us like that, it is almost 10% of population in Slovenia. I can feel that influence on almost every step in biger cities in Slovenia. The most works in Ljubljana but signif. number in Maribor or even Nova Gorica also, slovenian adriatic caoast. In latest times, that process of Balcan people going to Slovenia was almost stoped but number of Balcans are huge alredy, huge for slovenians measurements.

[@hypatiatv1]

I can feel that Balcan vibe in Slovenia, trough architecture, how houses and other infrastructure looks, especially trough SOCIAL BRUTALISM architecture(architecture specific for former Yugoslavia. All apartment buildings, train stations, hospitals,.. looks the same, very simmilar or the same), socialistic architecture in Slovenia and every of republics in former Yugolsavia.

[@blotski]

Bit more like Austrians than Germans but they and the southern Germans are a lot more laid back than the typical German stereotype. Serbs find Slovenes to be fairly Germanic (normally saying ‘ja’ for ‘yes’ rather than ‘da’ helps with that impression). But I think Germans find Slovenes to be fairly Slavic. Maybe Slovenes are just Slovenes. Btw, the yoghurt in the soup was sour cream not yoghurt.

[@borax92]

Next time try blue beer

[@wherearewe-yt]

I don't know if that actually exists or not, but if it did, we would. Hahaha.

[@5rovic353]

Bro zvrst is wine of bad Quality.We always mixed with mineral water😮

[@wherearewe-yt]

Hahaha. Really? Woops! It tasted alright to us - but we'll drink pretty much anything. 😂

[@Languagegirl-rv9bk]

its žlikrofi and malca means snack time

[@blazvodisek2252]

10:30 is late for wine in slovenia😂

[@wherearewe-yt]

Hahaha. Our kind of place! 🥂

[@levoxtutorials1506]

Lublana and bohin are moust beutifull citys in world belive me😍

[@wherearewe-yt]

We need to check out more of Slovenia in the future. It looks super beautiful!

[@anseal9298]

Slovenija ✌️

[@bengalcafuta7117]

Just a friendly advice, if you really wanna enjoy your glass of wine, learn how to hold it correctly because you don't want to warm up the wine with your hands :)

[@wherearewe-yt]

@bengalcafuta7117 Usually the wine is gone so fast it doesn't have a chance to get warm. Because we're classy like that. 😂

[@bengalcafuta7117]

@@wherearewe-yt Such a classy answer ;) Man with zero appreciation for quality and hard work that is put into a glass of wine. Next time just get a plastic cup, apparently it's gonna suit your character better. And as a cook, you could have a little bit more knowledge about food pairings. You are never gonna get a glass of sweet wine with main course. It ruins your ability to taste food. Sweet wine is for pairing with desserts; it's not that Slovenia doesn't have them. There is no depth behind these videos, just a bunch of weird comments, which aren't educational nor funny. And you two are constantly making excuses for lack of preparation and story telling with: "We are not a history channel". You sure aren't, just sloppy.😵

[@hypatiatv1]

02:26 hmmm, i am from Serbia, one of former republics of former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is also one of it. I didnt know slovenian food is more like russian food then serbian. We do not have that dishes in our couisine but russian has something simmilar like this soup and like this main dish.

[@hypatiatv1]

10:26 this cake is very popular in Serbia, serbian name for this cake is KREM PITA=CREAM PIE. Every sweet store has it. Second cake, i do not know what is it. CREAM PIE was maked from egs, flower, sugar, milk, vanila... Somehing like homemade puding but texture is better, by me.

[@hypatiatv1]

16:16 We also have very simmilar almost the same holiday in Serbia like these two, in Slovenia and Hunagry. Very very simmilar cloding like these people in Maribor.

[@wherearewe-yt]

Is it like Borscht? We absolutely love this soup. We didn't really know what was going to be in this soup, since there wasn't much information online about it - it was really good, but we prefer beetroot soup with cabbage and meats in it as well. That's even better!

[@hypatiatv1]

@@wherearewe-yt You alredy know, yep, borsch. We do not have it in Serbia but Russians in Serbia makes it and eat it a lot and i belive restaurants in Serbi will include it in menu.

[@hypatiatv1]

@@wherearewe-yt Also, main dish, it is russian dumplings or something like that. Russians and Georgians has it in domestic cousine.

[@aleksandarjovanovic9811]

🤘

[@wherearewe-yt]

Thanks for watching! 😃

[@aleksandarjovanovic9811]

you are great

[@andreasadi591]

rose wine

[@wherearewe-yt]

Which wine? The Zvrst??

[@riktrink]

Vijolčna je ljubezen večna

[@tomislavciganovic1244]

Slovenian is understandable its kinda like Serbian language will ar least some words... I'm sure you'll come across some words that Latin Serbian or the meaning in Serbian but in Slovenian language... I'm not sire i might be wrong at least that's what i been told..

[@paradoxofgodexisting]

Of course, we were the part of the same country (Yugoslavia). Thats also why the food is great in Slovenia 🤫🤭

[@paradoxofgodexisting]

Now i remembered, i was at the lake Bled in Slovenia last year and a young waitress in the restaurant switched to Serbian when she found out where we come from. If i remember, Slovenian is very different, but the roots are almost the same and its easy for us to learn each others language, there is just not much point in doing it without reason, same as Macedonian.

[@wherearewe-yt]

And it was equally as hard for us there to pronounce and remember all the names! Hahaha. 😅

[@tienshinhan2524]

Slovene language is similar to Serbo-Croatian, but partially. Although it have a lot of similar words. Macedonian & Bulgarian is much more similar/same than Slovene.@@paradoxofgodexisting

[@tienshinhan2524]

I am native Serbo-Croatian speaker. Slovene is even not so much similar to Serbo-Croatian, although it have a lot of similar words. They pick a lot of Serbo-Croatian words via Yugoslav times. Bulgarian & Macedonian are a way more similar. Especially Macedonian.

[@PinchOfLuck]

Welllll. The true "cuisine" is found mostly in Ljubljana because all the regional chef honchos tend to open restaurants over there. Not many regional family owned restaurants are left. So yeh, capitalism is telling them "GO LJUBLJANA" if you don't want to go bust. And trust me, THAT is not a Bled cake. It may look like one, but it does not taste like one. :D You need to go there to taste it. Everyone else makes vanilla replicas. It is like seeing a Chinese Bugatti,.. looks like one, but it is more like a Hyundai.

[@wherearewe-yt]

Unfortunately, we didn't make it there on this trip! We really wanted to, but Maribor was already pushing it for bus length from Budapest. We definitely plan on visiting some time. That makes sense. It was hard to find any proper "Slovenian" restaurants in both Maribor and Ptuj. You're not the first to say the Bled Cake looked wrong. Haha. A dish is always best in the place it came from, so we will re-try it when we visit Bled. This one was just okay. 🫤

[@GoranRadic]

A guy with tatoos all over him thinks orange wine is bizzare. 😂

[@wherearewe-yt]

What does that have to do with anything? 😂

[@GoranRadic]

@@wherearewe-yt Since when is orange wine bizzare? There are zillions of orange wine types.

[@wherearewe-yt]

@@GoranRadic You know what's more bizarre? Following a channel, commenting on video after video with only negative things, or criticism. 😂

[@GoranRadic]

@@wherearewe-yt What are you saying? Democratic freedom of opinion is bizzare? Good for you and your future as youtuber. I am followin because of my curiosity in how different youtubers are presenting my neighborhood. Many of them are ignorant and bizzare.

[@lucijababnik8267]

Poskusi baticev sivi pinot.ni ga boljsega.za oci in usta

[@Kristijan-b8z]

Kremšniza is croatian cake

[@wherearewe-yt]

It exists in Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and all over the Balkans. Many countries claim it as their own.

[@JurijKozjak-r2k]

It was "invented" in Bled,SR Slovenija by a Hungarian chef back in the 50s, so how the heck is it Croatian??!

[@Gamingshulker-h4s]

GO TO NIŠ NEXT IN SERBIA

[@wherearewe-yt]

We've had a few people say we should go there. We may have to check it out!

[@KetobyDanielDumitriu]

You ate just craps... I know a restaurant with very good wine and tomahawk steak cocked witout seed oils....

[@wherearewe-yt]

Everyone we ate was quite tasty! That sounds good as well, but likely out of our budget. We do love a good steak, though. 🥩

[@ZuvsS]

I recommend you don’t go to Maribor ever again.In simple terms it is the worst city in slovenia.You were lucky that nothing bad happened to you this time.

[@wherearewe-yt]

It seemed quite nice to us! Definitely didn't seem dangerous at all.

[@bverbovsek]

😂😂😂😂

[@ZuvsS]

@@wherearewe-yt Yes, as I've said you were extremely lucky.

[@maticbergant9226]

Lol bro on what drugs are you, in what world is Maribor dangerous, even at night there is no real danger.

[@ab-gp1lr]

@@ZuvsS Najnevarnejše mesto v Sloveniji je Ljubljana. Tam se stalno streljajo.