Hungary Local Custom Tips by Skeptic-jr

Wines

In Polish we have a proverb "There is no wine over the Hungarian one" (Nie masz wina nad Wegrzyna). And they actually are very good.

The most famous are that from cities of Tokaj (tikaji) and Eger (egri bikaver). These from the Balaton region also have a good opinion (Badacsony, Balatonfured) . Sometimes buying a bottle of wine in the department store you can have a problem to recognize what kind of wine it is. All of because of a lack of any other inscriptions than that in Hungarian language. So you'd better remember at least words: edes (sweet), feledes (semi-sweet), szaraz (dry), felszaraz (semi-dry).

The best place to try Hungarian wines are cellars (hung.: Pince) placed in many town and villages. Sometimes you can also buy them direct from the locals.

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Cuisine

In Poland we suppose that more typical national dishes is Hungary are: halaszle - fish soup; goulash - mix of meats; lecso - mix of wegetables, mostly red peppers and tomatoes, some sausages or meat. Very popular are the salami and the langos cakes with cream and garlic sauce. Everywhere you can buy garlandes made of paprikas (they eat paprika prepared in many various ways). Fruit are delicious, especially water melons and of course grapes (from the end of the Summer). Coffee - definetely strong.

Langos

Lángos (read: Langosh) is a traditional Hungarian crumpet, eaten as a popular snack. You can buy it in snack-bars, gastronomic points on the streets and pavements etc.

The paste is fried on the oil, sometimes you can see how it is made (what I recommend you to be sure that both - the oil and then the crumpet - are fresh). It is sold alone, or enriched with cheese, garlic sauce, cream and even ham.

Langoses for sure are not the most healthy kind of food (fat!), but they can be really tasty and without any doubt better than hamburger or other junk-food.