HOW CZECH REPUBLIC HAS CHANGED ME - Been here too long?

Hello and welcome to my channel! My name is Andrea and I’m so happy you are stopping by here! My husband Jan and I live in Prague, Czech Republic. I work from home so all my videos are home-related, cooking and lifestyle! I also love to share things about Czech Republic and how it is like to live here! I love cooking and preparing, delicious yet cheap dinner ideas, with ingredients you can find almost anywhere! I also do grocery hauls to show you what I buy each week… I know how hard is to get organized in the cooking/eating part of life, so I hope my videos can help you out! I hope you will stick around and subscribe for more videos like this!!
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[@jancech1216]

The "Venezuelan coconut" made me laugh :D

[@reprodrozd_live6445]

Ahoj

[@OndraMike]

it made may day when you said "Pantofles" 😂

[@MrMajsterixx]

protože to je z němčiny, pantofel nebo nějak tak to je, což je samozžejmě germánskej jazyk stejně jako angličtina takže ten výraz je možná vic originální než ten náš :D takže nevím, mě to moc nepřekvapilo :D

[@Je1imanek]

Avocado, healthy food...became czech...sausaggues, bread.... :D :D

[@soniquecat4745]

We meet at coffee places and pubs because lots of people have small condos. Also, if more people meet, usually meeting somewhere in city center is most convenient and shorter trip as opposed to people traveling to the other end of Prague. Like it takes me over hour to get to my friend's place, but if we meet in the center, it's just 30 or 20 minutes journey. ANd we don't have to worry about cleaning up and making food. ANd I think lots of people are private persons and like their place be their own. If you invite guests to a house party it often tends to drag on longer than you intended (my grandma used to do houseparties and she was always stressed about the cooking and then the people sat and talked and talked... and we all were like "how ot politely tell them it has been enough").

[@escalanteofficialx]

Hi Andrea, cool channel, you seem to be turning into Czech :)

[@teasaki]

She's not that alcoholic......yet.

[@rundaneperu9334]

@@teasaki Just wait year or two, she will adapt for sure.

[@majatesarova1618]

Yeah actually few my friends have never been in my house 😂.

[@kilometersupshore]

Try going in different towns than Prague, some are even prettier i think 😅(you dont need to tho-....) Im just sad that people only talk about prague, when i tell people im from Frýdek Místek they say it does not exist- xdd

[@ArepasforDinner]

No no check my normal content I travel so much and often inside Prague. I love it!! Honestly my favorite thing about living here is to do road trips!! Just that with quarantine we are staying more in Prague for now. But we always go to Kunžak, Kál, The town where Sneska is cause I love to go there and have lunch over there too!

[@Kilinho98]

@@ArepasforDinner Thats cool. Im glad you are enjoying your time here in Czechia

[@ArepasforDinner]

Stacha Stochmol mmmm I think is cause the work requires them to wear them... and yes in South America we would call everything on the east side of the iron curtain Eastern Europe. My most educated friends called my husband the Russian for quite a while... I guess is as ignorant as calling Mexican South Americans or South Americans Mexicans 😭

[@ArepasforDinner]

Stacha Stochmol oh my I’m sorry yeah we fall it sweat pants 😂😂😂 British vs American English!... mmmm I haven’t seen it as much in Prague tho. I have seen it in UK quite more tbh haha

[@75yado]

Hmm so hiking it is... Be careful when going to High Tatras :D :D :D mountains could consider you as Czech person :)

[@AUS5113]

Taking your shoes off is a good thing to keep your place cleaner, I adopted this also. I would never give up wine completely for beer. I still have wine with my meats. The beer is really good but not out of this world, they just make so much of it that it is cheaper than drinking soda. As far as meeting outside in Czechia as opposed to inside, now that I am here i would agree with you and I hate to say this but I think culturally people here are not accustomed to treating their friends to dinner at a restaurant. People tend to go more Dutch here at restaurants. My father told me that if I am inviting someone to dinner at a restaurant then I am paying for the bill. Since being here I have yet to be invited to my wife's siblings places for dinner. Even long before covid. I honestly think it has to do with the amount of income people make here that they can't afford to invite people over for dinner.

[@ArepasforDinner]

I also adopted the taking shoes off (in my own home only if I can) cause now I live in a house and wow the mud and snow are no joke! And we also keep a nice wine fridge fill 😂

[@AUS5113]

@@ArepasforDinner what was the name of that wine website you talked about in one of your videos?

[@ArepasforDinner]

@@AUS5113 oh yes elvino.cz they have amazing wines really!

[@AUS5113]

@@ArepasforDinner Thank you because I miss my American wines.

[@martinmracek6885]

Venezuelan coconut :-) LOL

[@rehorekMichal]

Wait what? Are not electric kettles common place in Venezuela or Spain??

[@ArepasforDinner]

Nope. Not at all nor in Spain or USA

[@rehorekMichal]

Wow, it never occurred to me nor have I noticed that... Thanks.

[@martinmracek6885]

@@rehorekMichal they warm or boil water in microwave owens believed or not I was shocked too .-)

[@JanPavlikdr]

Actually Andrea I bought mine on US eBay, but they do promote them more as tea kettle. But Latin America really don’t use them at all

[@tomasmalin]

How can people live without it? :D

[@teasaki]

If you are used to use electric kattle, have you ever heard about Remoska? It's Compact electric owen - czech invention. Lowering your electric consumption.

[@filipprudentio645]

People from Venezuela are very nice and friendly.They respect czech culture as well. In future hopefuly more Venezuelans will live and work in Czech Republic.

[@ArepasforDinner]

Oooh I would like that too! 💞 thanks for watching 😀

[@tomasmalin]

True, I had Venezuelan housemate and she was really cool.

[@jirikozel4873]

Very good, very good Andrea

[@ArepasforDinner]

Hahaha almost

[@shiro_21]

People in Venezuela don't use kettle? O.o

[@ondrejprokop5091]

I really would love to meet you and show some another amazing places about prague,.. and discuss about th is indescribable places..

[@janmacek1648]

I usually hike becouse of castles and ruins on the top of the mountain.

[@hemanroczko1799]

And of course mountain pubs.

[@surikata3044]

Try Moravian wine :)

[@pioneersaigon]

Tohle je víno? Tenhle kvas?! Vždyť křiví ústa, láme vaz!

[@surikata3044]

pioneersaigon říká kdo ?

[@pioneersaigon]

Surikata Jan Neruda ;)

[@m4rt4n]

Tak čecháčkům sa vždycky leje takové, které sa ani do svařáku už nehodí :)

[@VladaPersonal]

i suggest adding timestamps for the items of your list :D

[@davidbohem6524]

Hi I'm Czech guy living in Thailand and I'm glad that Thailand changed me a lot.

[@ArepasforDinner]

It's the best part of living abroad isn't it?!

[@paisano-mf2yx]

Hola! What do you do in CZ? I am planning on moving there. How easy is to get Venezuelan treats over there?

[@inesacastillo4637]

Hi I will send you a Venezuelan cafe/ Restaurant. You can eat arepas, platanos fritos, caraotas negras, bueno un pabellón. Arepas De Lyna, Ostrovni 7

[@mirous_quiny]

Это очень интересно, спасибо за видео. Надеюсь видео про Чехию станет больше. И Вы очень красивая 😍

[@stanleyyyyyyyyyyy]

you are such a cute person :)

[@kvr_adventure940]

One reason why Dislike..?

[@Anym0]

I think almost every family in czechia will offer you 'pantofle' when you come to visit them.. Or it is usuall for my family and our friends etc.. ;)

[@ArepasforDinner]

Yes indeed they do :')

[@MartinDrey]

Hi, I had to send your vide to my Philipina’s wife

[@vlk75]

Hola Andrea, muy bien, como esta tu peso con los habitos checos? ;-) Conoces a Jen? kzbin.info/door/eV4rGWFAevPTQw4jN2hLNA Ella es un ejemplo perfecto de la adaptación a la cultura checa. Estadounidense incluso hablando checo.

[@ArepasforDinner]

Siii conozco a Jen! En persona! She is super nice 😅🤩 yo hablo checo baby pero no para hacer un vídeo de KZbin! Also remember not all you see online is true 💜

[@non9886]

very nice video! and very nice to hear it all! thank you!

[@ArepasforDinner]

non thanks for watching! I live in Prague and usually share my experience here! More videos like this one are about to come!!! 😄

[@non9886]

@@ArepasforDinner it will be good. it is obvious you like to make videos :-) good luck to your channel!

[@mjrzeman]

Mno trošku nám Andrea za ty 2 roky nabrala tvary. Asi tím pivem :-)

[@smy693]

hahaha, I can't be more agree on losing fashion sense actually. I lost it completely and to be honest, it's a double-sided dagger, well you don't feel pressure to be trendy and spend too much money on fast fashion but the other way around is: if you want to be trendy for some occasions, then you really struggle to do it. As a Persian girl, back in my home country, I had to dress up always, and now when I am going back to my country, I am who is not dressed up and all of the friends have nicer clothes and wearing makeup. So, a bit downside here.

[@ArepasforDinner]

I get you 100%. Czech Republic was a very poor nation for many decades. So they gave up on that (you had to pick your fights) nowadays they still struggle to get it back. But they are coming there. Slowly but steady. I would give them 5/7 more years to start noticing more fashionistas 😁

[@smy693]

@@ArepasforDinner right, tnx for the info

[@mramor393]

Ahoj, dobré video

[@ArepasforDinner]

LolecEu 👌🏼 thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@janmoravek820]

yy, Kutná Hora (St. Barbora´s temple etc.) and Litomyšl (Chateu, Monastery gardens etc.) are beautiful czech cities as well Andrea :)

[@JosefKLL]

The first three words Bud / Budweiser is from the name of the czech city České BUDějovice. Bud weiser :-)

[@vecernicek2]

So you picked up some good habits, after all. Never too late! :-)

[@petrskalak5070]

Venezuelan coconut :D :D :D

[@ArepasforDinner]

😂😜

[@benvra]

I love your comments! ❤ The point 3 was very funny 😄

[@Witiok1992]

I also like Budweiser)

[@ArepasforDinner]

I miss it so much!

A Magallanero Czech hubby, hahah. Great! Saludos desde Praga.

[@LonskiBig]

.....Czechs drink lots of Pilsner....!!

[@DushanBauer]

"I am a big fan of Budweiser" That broke my hearth!! :(((

[@ArepasforDinner]

Hahaha proč?? I like Pilsner too of course but Czech Budwiser... Ufffffff

[@akiraevil6682]

Why?....100 people, 100 tastes.

[@MrBoombastyc]

@@ArepasforDinner It's regarded as one of the worst tasting beers Czechia has to offer. But maybe for someone who isn't used to level of Czech beers' deliciousness, Budweiser is still good... :)

[@dominikvacha8417]

@@MrBoombastyc 10 a 12 jsou hrozný (a to říkám jako Budějčák) ale kroužek a 33 jsou fakt dobrý

[@miroslavmusalek9194]

@@ArepasforDinner lepsi je zkusit male lokalni pivovary .. ne tyto velke neceske firmy

[@andrewmiller6754]

#1, #3, #4, #5, #7, #10, people from the UK do too 😅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@ArepasforDinner]

Woke yes some no. I lived in Oxford for a while. The shoes off were suggested not mandatory, they are soooo loud all the time. They do have good fashion sense. (Even tho I didn’t live in London) the rest yeah the kettle and the meeting outside of home. But I also went to so many house parties when living there. In Prague I’ve been to maybe 2 in 2 years

[@emilsevcik5042]

Saludos de nueva andrea me entcantaria conocerles ti y a tu espososaludos de un compatriota

[@demonofmordor4405]

Oh and I just got an amazing idea 😀 winter is coming... ehm, sorry I couldn't help myself 😀 anyway, summer is coming, music festivals all cancelled, which means everyone's gonna have some money left, so why not use it meaningfully and have a little get-together with Andrea in Prague? 🙂 you know, everyone will buy her a beer, or maybe something stronger as thanks for her videos... but then there could be 60 of us and that would be a solid alcohol poisoning, bad idea 😂 or just pay for her, that could be reasonable 😀

[@ArepasforDinner]

Aaaaw we will do it one day

[@demonofmordor4405]

Now let's hope others like this idea too 🙂 or maybe suggesting it in a future video could do the trick 🙂 you know, just a hint, "one of my subscribers had this idea..." 🙂 and I'm Michal btw, don't care about the account name and the picture, it's just that I listen to metal music and I'm fucking idiot so... yeah 😂😂

I have a question about the change of your diet 😊. I am not Czech, but I lived most of my life in Prague. Now I live abroad at the Mediterranean Sea. The diet is so so much lighter and healthier here compared to typically carnivorous and heavy diet of Czechs. So do you feel differently once you switched to Czech diet? Do you notice it on your body, your physical and mental stability? 😊. Good luck!

[@ArepasforDinner]

Tbh I had anemia when living in València. The lack of meat made me very fat and unhealthy. We are all different. The place where I’ve being the best health wise was in US (I used to buy everything in Whole Foods haha) and now I always eat the local bread that’s much more healthy than the white one. But I do miss sea food like nothing else. I grew up eating fish (from the sea) and sea food 1/2 times a week. That change was hard 😁 thanks for watching. PS: Be careful assuming less animal protein is better for you. New studies have shown than women tend to eat less animal protein than they should

@@ArepasforDinner wow I'm really happy that you're a good fit for Czech cuisine! But you're entirely right about the fact that everybody is different, I've grown up on practically no meat because my parents were pescarians, and my mom never cooked Czech meals (unfortunately), so maybe that's why I can't process the food there very well 😊. But also there's nothing like Czech Svíčková am I right 😂❤️. Great videos 😊

[@inesacastillo4637]

Hola.

[@anetajaneckova1939]

Good channel, I like that Prague has got such a positive people like you =))

[@ArepasforDinner]

Ohhhh you are so sweet! I’m not always so positive. Look at me now. In Italy for summer vacation crying over the fact that I can’t find ice anywhere! But I do like Prague maybe that’s why I look so positive! 🤗💕💕

[@anetajaneckova1939]

Arepas for Dinner I like Prague because of foreigners and visitors who brings different opinion maybe than native Czechs ...I lived in Oxford too and many other cities but Pragues has got the best atmosphere in the Summer and winter Look at the christmas markets - Food and Drinks and Decorations😻

[@hanakratochvilova142]

👏👏👏

[@mikeman787]

Truth

[@drakvaclav826]

Budweiser... Clear that you're not a Czech.

[@ArepasforDinner]

Proč is my husbands fav as well!..

[@drakvaclav826]

@@ArepasforDinner Is he from České Budějovice? Usually czech people don't really like Budweiser that much... But It might be just a Pilsner thing, we're very proud of our Pilsner beer :D No hate though, it's still very good in comparison to most foreign beers. :D

[@ArepasforDinner]

Drak Václav and with good reason Pilsner urquel (I’m sorry I can’t write it haha) is delicious!!

[@ArepasforDinner]

Drak Václav but no no he is from Prague. Even his great grandparents were from here 😅

[@petrlazar5877]

budweiser is not bad - but you have headache next day when you drink much - thats why Czechs dont like it so much :-)

[@pokornyvit]

Tu ingles es increible :) Comprendes tambien algo en el checo?

[@ArepasforDinner]

Ano!!! Mam vídeo about it

[@pokornyvit]

@@ArepasforDinner Si, Yo yalo visto :)

[@Zelych]

It is a pity that Czech subtitles are missing

[@ArepasforDinner]

Yes in this video I erased them by accident and you can’t put them back on 😭

[@aronaax]

Budweiser je sračka xd

[@noeat9961]

Hello, if u like Czech beer, dont drink Pilsner or even Budweiser ;-) ..its maybe good, but not best from czech beers. Try some local beers like Kacov, Svijany, Kocour, Matuska, etc.. lot of villages in CZ make their own beer. if u wanna try them, u can go to Zly Casy, where they usually have lot of beers.. www.zlycasy.eu/index.php?page=2

[@smy693]

would love to try local beers not industrial ones, tnx for sharing.

[@martinizarias8155]

Maybe it´s only me, but I think we Czechs are like beasts. The house or a flat is like a den for us and only the best friends have the permission to enter this sacred place. That´s the reason we like to meet in public area. And maybe it´s the years of communism that still echoes in our minds, that if you take somebody to your place, he could be jealous of some thing you have and tell it to the secret service, which could give you a lot of problems. I´m not that old, but I remember my parent could have problems with that. Well maybe I´am that old. :D

[@yagotsumbeanz4946]

i dont like czech republic D: 1. we are the most racist country i think in Eu 2. Czech people are agressive bad to others 3. we are the most like "drunk" country btw i am czech too so ik how is it going

[@RudySanErik]

Most drunk people? Lol you must kidding me ... what about Russians? Most racist and/or bad to others... common wth do you talking about xD you must be too young or never leave internet space OR Kavárna :D

[@petrlazar5877]

Have you ever been in different coutry?? Try to ask Tonya Graves why she - as a blackwoman - live 25 years in most racistic coutry in Europe...

[@daliborklapka2684]

How long have you lived in the Czech Republic ??? .. Learn Czech or give subtitles .... !!! Why didn't your old man learn Czech ???Dream Prague at least has captions !!!... Venezuela, Cambodia, North Korea ... It doesn't matter