What Do They Eat in Latvia?? Visiting Largest Market Hall in Riga 🇱🇻

The LARGEST market hall in Europe is in Riga, Latvia! The Riga Central Market Hall is the largest market hall in the continent of Europe.
It is located inside what used to be the largest collection of zeppelin hangars during World War I. It is now full of all sorts of shopping and food vendors, including traditonal Latvian food!
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[@LindaKaposta]

any kind of potato belongs. we as a nation are huge lovers of potatoes. we have potatoes in our mind, body and soul 💜 thanks for the awesome video :)

[@MaxandSidney]

Love this!! We love potatoes too ❤️

[@alise4041]

Are you telling me you never seen Persimmons? It's massive in China and India. They get imported to Europe during winter time.

[@MaxandSidney]

We really haven’t! It is not very common in our markets in the US! We wished they were, it was so delicious!

[@alise4041]

@@MaxandSidney I'm very surprised they don't import them to USA. They are pretty delicious!

[@Srw-em6iq]

@@alise4041 Persimmons grow wild in the US. He must be a city boy.

[@davebeat]

You got some really great things to try. Happy you enjoyed them. That meat filled donut is a belashi they're awesome. A chebureki is a flat, D-shaped, pastry (also meat filled) the vendor probably sells both. Užavas is a really nice Latvian beer. It's my wife's favourite, she's a native, I'm British. I prefer Brenguļu alus, but it's not so easy to find, it's only served on tap.

[@MaxandSidney]

Thanks for the tips, we have kept a list of all the things we will have to try next time we visit! Really enjoyed our time there 🇱🇻❤️

[@adidzis]

actually that orange fruit Hurma doesn't belong to Latvian food at all. Of course you can buy this in Latvia as well as pineaple, passion fruit or litchi, but they are all imported.

[@paulk8072]

My Latvian grandmother made the best piragi and potato salad. Also, Riga sprats and black bread is famous. Pickled herring and for an alcoholic drink, Riga Balsams. A lot of German food is popular too, due to historical events, this includes sauerkraut and a variety of boiling sausages.

[@DarkSailor7]

Basicly - if cucumber is marinaded/pickled for the longer period of time, or as we say here "for winter", they become more softer. We usually use them in salads. While ones that pickle for smaller period of time (a day or for a week) are more crunchy. Also if you want to try Latvian cusine, try going to LIDO. Paldies par video 🥰 (Thank you for the video in Latvian)

[@MaxandSidney]

Ahh, that makes sense! Thank you for the info! We definitely didn't get to try enough traditional Latvian food. Next time, we will definitely give LIDO a try! Thanks for checking out our channel 😊

[@danethorson7992]

@@MaxandSidney there's also a salted cucumbers and during summer - also slightly salted, meant for immediate consumption.

[@witlof5492]

Surely you should cook that sauerkraut?

[@dreamthedream8929]

Marinated is not pickled. Two different flavors. In latvia pickling of mushrooms, cucumbers and other things is a big thing. In addition there is the in between version available, I guess it's called the slightly salted one. Both are good. Yes in salads but also pickles are used a lot in soups and as a snack or included in your meal. It's not mainly for salads. They are used very widely

[@vilnis-pavilssalzemnieks3051]

@@MaxandSidney 4:30 It's not Cheburek, it's Belash - McDonald's grandfather. Before the First World War, they were called tartar buns and the idea of ​​beef meatballs was brought from Riga by sailors.

[@59Martita]

Persimmon my Fathers Favorite Fruit. He immigrated from Chile to California. Luckily for him they were readily available there 😊

[@cryzcryz2345]

Oh my goodness! What a huge market! I love it! I know pickled cucumbers and sauerkraut and I eat them often, but I have never eaten this fruit 🙃 Greetings from Yorkshire 🤗

[@MaxandSidney]

Thanks for watching! The pickles and sauerkraut were very high quality, but we just couldn’t get over how sweet the fruit was! 😁

[@latvian9355]

try it. but look for ready fruits.

[@kriikruu413]

super nice ! loved your video abaut LV ,..

[@MaxandSidney]

So glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

[@kraanz]

Most people assume LV stands for Las Vegas. Just FYI.

[@TotalRookie_LV]

The fruit is "hurma", looked up for it's English names: _Diospyros kaki,_ the Oriental persimmon, Chinese persimmon, Japanese persimmon or kaki persimmon. So, in short, just call it "persimmon".

[@MaxandSidney]

So interesting that we have literally never heard of this before 😅 it was really good though! So sweet!

[@Phonk-God0]

Next time u should try homemade meals here is what i recommend: Boiled potatos with cooked ground beef sauce or maybe use a recipe Macaroni with ground beef cooked no sauce And my favorite store bought reeva noodles Btw try making scrambled eggs with ketchup i tried it yesterday and its so good Enjoy!

[@MaxandSidney]

Thanks for the suggestions! 😁

[@kraanz]

Your taste sounds horrible.

[@hannakerr]

Did each of you have a favorite food from the market? The persimmon looks very interesting...

[@MaxandSidney]

Probably the meat pastry for Max 😅 Sidney loved the persimmon! Actually, we both did, it was so unique! Never tasted anything like it 😍

[@T_MT]

Max and Sid, beautiful channel, Riga nice....🙏👍

[@MaxandSidney]

Thank you! Thanks for watching!

[@gregz3796]

It's a persimmon fruit...... been there in April..... very nice place.....

[@MaxandSidney]

Ahh interesting!! We couldn’t find the name of the fruit for the longest time! Yes we agree, great city and great market!

[@zw4732]

⁠@@MaxandSidneyyou can see the name persimmon in your b-footage of those fruits - and the Latvian name “Hurma” 3:00

[@mkraulis]

Uzavas beer is pretty good. Both the light and dark varieties.

[@kraanz]

It's ridiculously expensive and, when bottled, tastes way different than in the brewery itself.

[@HakkoChannel]

BTW you shouldn't eat hurma (orange fruit) unpeeled - it has traveled long time to get to Latvia - no-one knows what have touched it also no-one knows what chemicals have been used to grow it - and most of it mostly would accumulate in the peel. About pickles - there are million recipes in Latvia for pickles - each housewife has it's own - so you picked just one of them - I also like crunchy ones and best are made by my wife and her mother - I wouldn't buy ones at the market ;)

[@WINGSANDRAILS]

Will visit it!

[@amirainva]

I got the same soup!

[@MaxandSidney]

It was perfect for a cold day!

[@amirainva]

@@MaxandSidney I will be there again at the end of the month and looking forward to it

[@dereknicholl4300]

The fruit is called SHARON fruit.

[@arturass3896]

Much smaller than Gariūnai in Vilnius. :)

[@xxDrain]

4:50 As a Latvian, I never liked those. I think they've been around as a street food for decades. I never liked the meat. Dough was good tho :D

[@SeR-y2r]

اول عربي😂

[@GOATMENTATOR]

That fruit is originally from China and people usually don't eat the skin

[@latvian9355]

Hurma is from georgia. very very tasty fruits when is ready. I see this not ready. Need find little soft and very orange. 4:40 wtf. belash. WTF. that not try it. beeter is from market cheburek or piradzini. thats is buy puzzle and then bend .... cat... ok its a joke. but this market not that place where buy that. Fish, fruits, pickles, cabbage, galic, smoking meet and fish mmmmm that is for gourmets. but you must know how to buy. when this is hot from "pans" then mmmmmmmmmmmm

[@MaxandSidney]

Thanks for the info! It was definitely an interesting market and we wished we could have tried more!

[@shakostarsun]

The largest market thing is debatable seems like everywhere says it has largest market in europe like in Bucharest and in Odessa.

[@MaxandSidney]

Yes, I suppose it is a hard claim to verify

[@Srw-em6iq]

If you eat a persimmon before it is fully ripe, it will turn your face inside out.

[@MaxandSidney]

Oh dear! We will definitely try to avoid that at all costs! 😫

[@marutakelers1856]

Suruga persimmon

[@RobertssU]

:0

[@MaxandSidney]

😊

[@kraanz]

Why the hell do foreigners go to the Riga Central Market? Just WHY?!?!? The only thing interesting about is the fact it used to house zeppelins. That's it. Take a look at them from the outside and try not to get pickpocketed. I'm not saying there's a problem of pickpocketing there, but I, a Latvian, always get the vibe of "I might get pickpocketed here, this place seems shady." And saying the place smells? Not really, the word I would use is "reeks." The meat pavilion is bad, but the fish one? IT. REEKS. The place is not charming. It's not even interesting.

[@cikuuzis]

Where have you seen a fish market that does not smell of fish? OK, fresh fish may not be that intense, but smoked/marinated/dried definitely is and this market is full of that type of fish.

[@kraanz]

@@cikuuzis Labs niks, lol =] Ko tas noziimee? Dzirdeets, bet nevaru atcereeties.

[@kristapszs1]

Local fish? Man, the Baltic sea has the nickname of "dead sea" because it is the worlds largest dead zone.

[@MaxandSidney]

Really?? Wow, I had no idea!

[@udensatminaanda352]

Herrings and sprats are typical fish of the Baltic Sea.Flounderis definitely from the Baltic Sea coast. In Liepāja, they are even fished from the shore. In addition, I also saw the fish of Latvian rivers. Don't talk nonsense.

[@kraanz]

@@MaxandSidney He's a idiot. Thinks the Baltic is the Aral Sea.

[@sbmedex3421]

video would have been better if u did not psychoanalyze all the foods u ate...stop being a gordon ramsay and just say good or bad and move on....u must have lived in a basement in the US if u have never seen persimmon in the USA. they can be bought from almost any grocery store during winter..most come from spain but today they are widely grown in the southern and eastern USA...Chinese stores in the US have been selling persimmon for decades.....very sweet when ripe but sour when they are not..need to peel the skin first to make the taste even better.......

[@kvassman_]

Somebody had a bad day lmao

[@shakeelkhan3119]

THIS FRUITE IS CALLED PERSIMMON THIS IS NATIONAL FRUITE OF JAPAN

[@kraanz]

WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING?

[@shakeelkhan3119]

MY FRIEND GOOGLE IT 😆

[@kraanz]

@@shakeelkhan3119 Google what? The reason for your Caps Lock button being stuck? I can draw my own conclusions. The dominant being - your self-esteem is so low, you are afraid of not being heard, of being ignored. Which, to be honest, is exactly what everyone was doing until I came along and decided to be annoyed by your childish behavior.. Do you do this in public as well? You scream when talking? Are you THIS insecure, on an almost clinical level?