Southerners Experience Real Winter and Finnish Food-Helsinki Food Tour and The City Rules!

We apologize for the sound guys. Once again our external mic port is broken.
Finland Winter....brrrr!!!! Learn the Helsinki Rules and watch two southerners experience our first real winter. These Southern peeps are not used to cold, and this is more snow than we have ever seen in our lives! How cold is it in Finland? We aren't telling you. Watch the video and find out at the end! We teach you "The Dos and Don'ts" of Helsinki and take you on a mini Helsinki Food Tour. We check out Vanha Kauppahalli Market and Cella Traditional Restaurant where we tried Traditional Finnish Food like Karelian Pie, Lohikeitto (Finnish Salmon soup), and minced Reindeer with Lingonberry Sauce. It all exceeded our expectations! So, if you are searching, "what to do in Helsinki," our recommendation is to eat!
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[@k.l.7788]

Heavy music (= Nightwish, Stam1na etc.) makes us happy. 🇫🇮

[@OTWD_yt]

Looks very cold 🥶 but food looks very good yum 🤤

[@lostamonglocals5382]

You are correct on both accounts!

[@zami8827]

Well it just Helsinki, so its get way colder and winterier in North of Finland.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

True

[@thetravellingwelshman]

Wow you weren't kidding about it being a real winter! And such hearty food to keep you warm too 😍✌🏻

[@lostamonglocals5382]

The food saved us!!

[@samihyleh865]

And this winter will last something like 4 months or even more at some parts of Finland.

[@samihyleh865]

@Saul's Cart Webstore oh yeah that's true

[@somberlight]

as a local, a little hint: layers layers layers layers. a thing to move the moisture out (merino rocks, probably some technical wear too), a thing of wool / fleece (or whatever you find warming up to your standards) and top it off with something with perhaps small insulation but get the bits with the most windblock you can find. thats what i wear when snowboarding under -25c -13f and my only problem has been that the scarf gets moisture from my breath and it freezes lmao

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Thanks for the tips! We are so glad it was not -25. The worst we saw was -9, but we got lucky. It was not windy or wet while we were there, so it was really pleasant. I can't imagine boarding in -25!!!!!🥶

[@samihyleh865]

@@lostamonglocals5382 Depends that if the cold weather is humid, or dry. I mean if u are next to sea or big open lake IT IS COLD. But when lakes and sea frozes it is dry, so it doesn't feel so cold.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

That is true. We live in a humid environment and when it get cold here (which is rare) it is miserable!!

[@GladysandKenny]

Hi guys!! We haven’t been in cold weather in a while! The food looks delicious 🤤

[@lostamonglocals5382]

This was our first REAL experience with true cold. It is a lot of work!

[@moonliteX]

OH MY GOD THAT LAST BIT WAS THE CUTEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN ON KZbin 😅 (reading facts a bit tipsy omg omg ❤️)

[@lostamonglocals5382]

😁😁 she is just cute (ryan here) she was exhausted, but actually hadn't been drinking this night.🤣 Thanks for watching until the end. Sorry bout the sound! Hopefully it will be better soon.

[@inkatuiskula4407]

My thoughts exactly!!

[@TravelingTramps]

Helsinki looks beautiful with the snow! All the food certainly looked interesting and I'd love to try them. It sounds like you enjoyed most of them and we probably would too. Being from Wisconsin we have eaten both bear and deer meat and a lot of fish! It's not bad. They obey the traffic rules while walking because they don't want to dart out into traffic when the car's aren't able to stop on the ice! They certainly have a lot of saunas but then they have a lot of snow banks too. Quite often it's traditional to jump in the snow banks after using the sauna. Wisconsin has a lot of people of Finnish decent who used to do that. My (Dave) grandmother was one! That's mostly obsolete now though. Can't figure out why? Loved the video. Thanks so much for bringing us along.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

I didn't realize there was a large Finn pop in Wisconsin but that makes sense. The snow or ice lake plunge is still very alive and well in Finland...you might see a couple of southerners brave it soon 😉

[@lostamonglocals5382]

We are very impressed with what you can do with two spices!

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Those traditional foods are from the era when the mount of ingredients and spices available where limited and couldn't even be imported during winters, because the seas were frozen. The emphasis was that the food was nutritious and energy-rich and kept people going. Since there was a lot of things to do, food being simple to prepare was probably a plus too. So not the best starting point for a culinary culture. Reindeer meat being gain and all, is kinda exotic for most Finns too. Definitely not everyday food for the most. Even the nature goes quiet in the winters. Even trees are silent. It's like everyone's on energy-save mode or hibernating. Except them children who get to play in snow. Also people tend to stay indoors and the snow muffles noises. You need that coffee or a dip in the icy water to wake up. Maybe Metal music helps too. Finnish Metal music is quite heavily influences by other genres, though, so Metal might not be quite so own separate genre in Finland like it perhaps is somewhere else. Finnish Metal musicians often do also other music than just Metal. Getting dressed up in the winter gets quicker when it becomes a routine. I'd say that jail-walking is allowed, when it's safe, but not mandatory. In general the idea is that respecting the common rules is the basis of mutual trust and having a functioning society. Architecture looks newish mostly because wood has been the main building material, so the buildings haven't lasted or they have been easy to demolished for the sake of progress. Not that the progress has always been good. There are still some medieval parts of wooden towns left in some cities, like in Porvoo and Rauma. There's also some saunas in cars. Not sure how those are put into the statistics, but yes, sauna is pretty much a must thing for most of the Finns and definitely embedded in the Finnish culture.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Awesome summation of our experience. We sure loved the quiet of Finland in winter. We will have to revisit during warm months to see the difference! 😊

[@hepolaroth]

Really enjoyed your visit, thanks for sharing. Thought you should know Finland is not part of Scandinavia, but part of the Nordic countries. Did you try mämmi, or glogi? I’m curious what these are like. Hope you make it North to see the aurora’s? If not, hopefully next time (On my list)

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Hey! Thank you so much. We didn't get to either of these. They were hard to find when we were visiting. I think they are more popular around the holidays. We did get to go north and that is our next video...if we ever finish it!!😬

[@peterwesterback5875]

The reindeer was on Santa's naugty list😊

[@lostamonglocals5382]

😂🤣

[@RobertLeitonas]

Welcome to the finland nortic Vikings

[@HoseTheBeast]

There is a very classic restaurant: Restaurant Elite which has been in business since 1932. It is a more expensive restaurant but it’s legendary and they serve very finnish dishes. Just a tip for anyone looking for well made finnish food made from quality ingredients in Helsinki.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Very good to know! Thank you for the info!

[@vpuik]

Come on! I was in Finland on July 10 and it wasn't that cold. :)

[@lostamonglocals5382]

🤣🤣 we were there in February. We have just been busy and are behind on video releasing🙈

[@lostamonglocals5382]

I bet it's really nice right now! We are home visiting family in Arkansas and man we could use some cool Finland air.

[@vpuik]

@@lostamonglocals5382 same here, back in Utah in the toasty 93° weather. :)

[@lostamonglocals5382]

A whopping 102 here today🤒

[@cookbookdiary9534]

❤❤❤

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Thank you

[@explorinwithlaurin]

We are texans and have definitely not experienced a real winter! That food certainty looks like some cold weather food tho!

[@lostamonglocals5382]

We had never been in cold like this for sure but you know it wasn't really that bad. It was dry at least. I think that's why we loved the food so much. Everything was made to warm you!

[@moonliteX]

yepp but try going 1000 miles north into the arctic circle. we have real proper cities there.. i mean the arctic circle cuts finland in half almost in the middle. even to us finns here in helsinki it's like a new yorker going to the northernmost city in canada. but it's just normal countryside. roads go everywhere just like normal and no eskimos or even higher prices basically.

[@ArchieArpeggio]

Good food choices. All were very traditionals finnish foods. As a local i can say i like those all. At the wintertime i like to eat lot of soop. Doesn´t realy matter is it salmon, meat, chicken or sausage soop. Those all are good and warms from inside at the cold season. I hope that Karelian pie was heated before serving. T hose have best taste when those are warm and of course with the egg butter on top.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Thank you! We found it all to be wonderful...and yes , they did heat it for us🥰

[@ArchieArpeggio]

@@lostamonglocals5382 Great! I have seen few videos where people try those pies from supermarket without heating and nothing top of those. Not so pleasent to eat at all 😂.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Oh yes. I would imagine that would not be nearly as tasty. That egg butter was delighful!

[@snoopdoggo8596]

Yea finnish food is very, very simple with the spices. The reindeer meat is really fresh if you suddenly bite into a bullet! Haha

[@lostamonglocals5382]

😆thankfully, ours wasn't THAT fresh

[@darlaverkamp324]

Hi from Charleston

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Well howdy!

[@mantelikukkapenkki2368]

I used to live in the same building with restaurant Cella in the 90s, been there like dozens of times 🥰 P.S. You've been lied to, there's 3,2 million saunas in Finland 😂

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Oh nice! We really liked it there. We actually talk more about saunas in a later video. That the guesstimate is more like 3.5 million now. Estimates online are all over the place😆. Anyway, guess you can't have too much of a good thing!

[@mantelikukkapenkki2368]

@@lostamonglocals5382 To my opinion, sauna is one the greatest inventions in the world, especially in winter time. Going to the sauna does wonders for the skin. I hope you enjoyed your time in our little country and welcome back 🙂

[@lostamonglocals5382]

We must say we agree on the sauna! We loved Finland and will certainly come back to explore the North someday!

[@Pyllymysli]

I guarantee you that there is at least one more than that number shows. I'm not telling where.

[@eagletay1]

What is the restaurant name where you have the dinner?

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Hello. It's called Cella. Cute cute place.🥰

[@HeavymetalHillbilly]

Heavy metal makes us happy. Most of us atleast.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

We love that about you guys. 🥰

[@mantailuaa]

Just a small correction to the fact about saunas and cars: There are about 5,1 million cars and 3,2 million saunas in Finland. Nice to see Helsinki in winter time like this, in the middle of the summer. Last winter was coldest one in a long time so you had a good snow experience. Before the winters have been kind of mild and slushy and just rainy and wet.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Oh that's interesting about the snow. We didn't realized. Glad we got to see a good one!! Thanks for watching

[@katrinlausch3078]

Sorry I really want to understand you but everything else is so loud (background, your voices are not hearable) , would you add subtitles please?🥰 (Or is the sound quality a problem of mine only?😳)

[@lostamonglocals5382]

It's not just you. This was a period of a few videos when our external microphone was broken. I'm so sorry. Believe it or not we have done all the sound editing we could and it just is still loud. KZbin should get the subtitles up soon. Thanks for being patient.

[@katrinlausch3078]

Oh I see, sorry to hear that and thank you for your effort ❤️

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Yes it has been a recurring issue on our Sony unfortunately. It is being sent to the shop as we speak!😊

[@lisbethfaldetta8006]

Today 13.8.22 the sound was good, nice to listen! Nice video too, thank you.

[@peterarmoton2685]

we dont spoil fish ir meat too much spices

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Sooooo tasty

[@dennislindqvist8443]

I understand Finnish but definitely not Hungarian. Estonian, on the other hand, is very similar to Finnish.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

We found Hungarian very difficult! I'm not sure we even learned one word in our travels there.

[@Pyllymysli]

Estonian I think resembles finnish the most. They even use many of same words as we do. Tho they often mean something completely different and can be hilariously misunderstood.

[@annmilland421]

Haha, just started watchin and you say all traditional food in finland 😆 in Helsinki? 😅 nooo.... there is many regions in finland, with traditional foods.. and helsinki has the tourist ones 😅

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Wow. Just a turn of phrase in the opening. Obviously, we aren't going to eat ALL the traditional Finnish foods on a random one day food tour...of Helsinki...but if that's what you want to focus on and comment about... cool. Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos.

[@js0988]

Southerners? South Africa? Italians? Australian?

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Southern portion of USA ☺️

[@erikforss1223]

Actually nobody knows for sure what Suomi means and where it comes from. Another correction; Estonia is the closest related language to Finnish.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Good to know. We definitely found some conflicting info on those. Thanks for watching.😊 Hope you enjoyed it.

[@user-yi4nw2us3l]

تحياتي لك من مصر فيديو رائع جدا ومميز أنا ادعمك بالتوفيق

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Thank you so much!! We look forward to visiting Egypt some day!

[@Deltroyer1963]

So you filmed this 6 months ago (?) in winter time and posted it in summer time. Weird.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Yes. We are very behind. We had several months we were working on other projects and weren't editing films. That's life

[@holoholopainen1627]

This IS how You may see The SEASONS ! Not Everybody makes to Finland - during The Summer !

[@moonliteX]

ohhhh you need better microphones... sometimes i can't hear a word you say.

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Uggg we know😮‍💨 It's not the mic. We found out our microphone jack was broken during this series unfortunately. It is a common problem with Sonys and the second time it has happened to us. It's in the shop for repairs now!!

[@moonliteX]

@@lostamonglocals5382 no i'm actually a sound guy and what i meant was that you need to get an external microphone in loud environments. like reporters have. or maybe lav mikes? they don't even have to be cordless. just hook a cheap external mike to the camera what you can keep near your mouth.

[@moonliteX]

or if you have the energy, get a supercheap zoom recorder and synch the sound to the video while editing

[@moonliteX]

anyway. you should keep your microphone like a foot from your mouth or much closer if it's loud in the environment. no matter how cheap the mic is. the quality of the mic doesnt really matter at all

[@lostamonglocals5382]

@@moonliteX thanks for the input. We have external shotgun mics right now. Our Rode one is broken due to the port issue. The hotshoe Sony is what this filmed on and it just totally crap. We think it actually amplifies background noise and makes it worse😬. This is after some sound editing. The noise on that thing is just heinous!! We have been researching some lapel or wireless ones too. Undecided so far. Do you have a favorite? It has to be small. We travel full time out of backpacks. It had to be easy to use in multiple situations.

[@bearpolar90210]

Most European foods are bland

[@lostamonglocals5382]

Compared to a lot of other parts of the world...yah. We do love original Italian and more Eastern European foods though😋