5 Best Czech Pastries to Try in Prague
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2022
- Let's explore the world of Amazing Traditional Czech Pastries! We will show you what they look like, what they are made of and where you can buy them during your visit to Prague.
The no.1 pastry everyone should try is Kolache, in Czech "Koláč". Kolache, is super popular in Texas today, but we wonder whether people in Texas know that this popular pastry is originally from the Czech Republic! And oh boy did it change its appearance.
Other unique pastries we will cover in this video are "buchta", "bábovka", strudel, and "kobliha". Yummy!
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You are doing a grand job in bridging the real gap, between folk whose first / only language is English, and the extraordinarily difficult language, which is Czech.
Kolache’s is why I married a Bohemian Czech 45 years ago. The Czech Slovak National Museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa was only 30 miles away. My wife introduced me to Sokora’s Bakery in Czech Village on 16th Avenue. They still sell all kinds of Czech pastries every day.
Sadly, Sykora's changed hands several years ago and it is not the same. They still sell kolaches but aren't the great ones I remember from my childhood growing up down the street!
I'm definitely going to try it on my next visit to Czech. Very soon
I've been to that museum! From the QC area and it was a nice experience.
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Valery, you are the best Buchta of all Czech Republic !
My favorite channel from Prague just made me hungry... I am a little old to say buchta to you Valerie, but I still look forward to Thursday for your video's!
You know what is funny, is that in St. Petersburg, Russia, there was a Christmas market this past Christmas, and at the market was a section for traditional Czech foods, and there were stalls for Czech sausages and Trdelniik...
Loving the fact that you have ventured into the wonderful world of food reviewing. Well done and thanks for another wonderful video.
Lol that was such a funny And informative video, thanx so much! Have a wonderful, prosperous and healthy 2023!
OMG Valery !!! , I think this was the best video you have made ... I am still drooling. It brings me so much memories ... Forget the castles, but kolace, buchty a babovky ... "to je historie"
Currently sat in Antoninovo working our way through the list.
Amazing.
Thank you Valery
I’m moving to Prague in November and have been loving your videos, you’re so delightful! ❤
Thank you for presenting my country "treasures" and puting so hard work into pronunciation. I am happy to see that someone loves our food so much!
My wife and I are visiting from Canada. We are binge-watching your videos and finding them extremely helpful - thank you !!!
Excellent Prague videos and very helpful ❤
Another great video, keep producing these videos and I will be back to Czech Rep soon.
Went to Prague last week. I already miss it. Thank you for making this lovely video. Can't wait to go again! Keep the recommendations coming!
I saw your 'trdelník action' in the beginning and you got my like immediately!
Thank you dear Valérie. I really like it. 👍💯🔥❤️🥰
Thanks, Valery. I'm looking forward to eating all of these 🙂
As a Hungarian I like to think that Trdelník is originally a Hungarian pastry called "kürtőskalács". In Poland they sell it as "kołacz węgierski".
Pontosan! Erdélyből származik. Már az 1600-as években megemlítették a könyvekben. A csehek megtöltik mindenféle dologgal, mostanában vanilia fagylaltot nyomnak bele.
Coming from Texas I have to admit I've always been confused why the sausage roll things are also called kolaches. When I think of kolache I think of a sweet pastry w fruit filling and it's closer to the traditonal pastry (but made with white flour and missing the poppy seed). Now I really feel the need to travel back to Prague and do a more in depth comparison between our imitation kolaches and the real thing. 😀
iam czech and i dont think theyr imitation, theyr just americanized its like that with lots of food in lot of countries
In the Czech part of Texas we call them klobasnek and it pisses us off to no end when people continue to call them kolaches. The real kolaches are fruit, nut, cheese, or cabbage. The klobasnek (pig in a blanket) was invented in West TX. So it is a Texas original not be confused with kolache.
@@slickwillie97 You are 100% right. It drives me nuts too. Bohemians settled other places than Texas and we stayed true to what a kolache is. Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and Chicago all had large amounts of Czech immigrants.
@@MrMajsterixx You just don't know the Americans, they srew up every meal, spoil the name or give it another one and even brazenly claim that it is theirs tradition. One Yankee even sells "Texas koláče" in Prague. It's like a Czech selling Czech sushi in Tokyo. Usually they screw up the recipes, bcs they don't know how to combine food properly, and pretend they invented something new.
I loved all the sneks! Especially the sinple ones with just cheese and leek
You guys made me very hungry!!! I can’t wait to go back and try them.
Loved it. Just did 23 days in Czech and can’t wait to get back.
Think you enjoyed that episode Valery. You are definitely like the first Pastry 🤗
I love the humour you include in your videos. 🤣🤣
czech-slovak means family to me 🤗 great video!
Ah Valery, I don't care if it's sexist and you're married, I still think you're buchta! 🥰 Thanks V&V, this was fun!
YUMM!!! I saw this pop up just as I was going to lunch. Should I watch it before, or get my lunch then watch it? I made the wrong choice and watched it first. I love the variety of content, all with a focus on Czech culture. How could anyone watch this and not want to jump a plane and go to Prague. I think I will go out and get me a klobasniky. That is what we call a sausage kolache here in Texas.
Oh I was hoping for Valerie to give a baking lesson 🤔……🤣🤣🤣 only teasing. My wife and I love our cakes so will definitely be checking your recommendations out when we come over👍. Brilliant video as always guy’s 😉
Well done Valery, now I'm terribly hungry!!!
Im So happy because im from the Czech Republic And you Gonna try the foods yaaay 😀😀😀😀
yum! great video
Oh yes. Every morning in Prague we went to the bakery, bought a cake and drank milk for it. Our accommodation was near Hastalska.
More food videos with Valery. That's what we want to see!
Valary - if there was a non sexiest word for buchta, that is you! 😍 Thanks for the great content, your videos are help planning my itinerary.
Amazing
I love babovka the most. It’s very similar to indonesian traditional homemade cake that my mom used to make for me when i was a kid 🙂🤤❤️
A this is good to know. Going to Prague coming weekend and looking forward to tasting bobovka. I am indonesian myself so very curious to the taste as after reading your comment.
new plan...I'll eat dinner 1st then watch your next show, you're making me hungry.
I visited the town of West in Texas for the first time with my czech wife, she was so excited to see kolaches being sold there but it was short lived once she saw the American versions but we made it work :)
I would blame the rupture of the bag on the sharp edges of the trdelnik...
Thank you for featuring other baked products. In my hectic schedule there, didn't manage to look for bakeshops. Though we have something similar to Buchta, no filling and baked together, though separately served called Dinner rolls (or in Spanish is called Pan de Leche); Babobka like our crumbly, chiffon-like marble cake; Makovec similar to the texture of Carrot Cake with some variation having sweet, dry syrup on top too; Kolache but with the sausage inside with so soft bread (but said it's Klobasnek in one comment) & has a variation with quick-melt cheese on top of bread; Kobliha, we got the same tall, round shape but so soft called Bonete only, there are scattered raisins in it. Some names are in Spanish because we have many Spanish terms after being ruled by Spain for 300 years in the earlier centuries.
Where are you from?
Oh... Pastries my favorite !!! Mmmmm!
I'm Czech and I do like trdelník! Smokey sweet crunchy but soft in the middle.. gets too much hate. Needs to be fresh off the flame though. And hold the Ice cream.
Trdelník is a Hungarian cake from Transylvania, called 'horn cake' (kürtőskalács).
ok, yes, fresh they are not bad, but is it traditional?
Is it overpriced?
Are they made in the countryside villages, or only in Prague?
@@rogerflorida1498 Who cares? They are tasty and a great snack before a night out...
@@rogerflorida1498 Maybe not original czech or with old tradition, but for me It is christmas tradition. I had tham for the first time 20 years ago in Lysa nad Labem (Central Bohemia), when we sold gingerbreads on christmas market, and afther that on some castle i dont remember its name i was a little girl. But it is true that at this time Trdelniks werent in Prague yet, its started about 10 or 5 years and i was very surprised that i can see this "market snack" on every corner there.
But the best Trdelník what I ever had, I had last summer when I was in Babiččino údolí (Grandmas Valley). So yes the Trdelníks you can see almost everywhere, but for me it stays still such as market thing for special occasions. Something like our Chlebíčky (open sandwiches) are for special celebrations or schnitzel in bread is for travelling.
@@rogerflorida1498 they are for sure made outside of Prague, they appear on every Christmas market even in my village and there is a trdelnik bakery in a small town near us.. might not be traditional but that doesn't make it nonexistent or eaten only by tourists
valery, you look intoxicated 😉
in the thumbnail picture
Yes, she comes across that way in a number of her videos. The girl enjoys her Pilsner a bit too much.
Rose,
There was an ad in the NYC free paper for an S&M business.
Czech Republuc, A country of delicious pastries and flimsy plastic bags. 😋
I'm in Prague right now after 17 years. Last time was in 2006.
I recomend Větrník and Medovník, this two dessert are the best
I love them but they don't come from Czechia - however větrník at least has some tradition here, unlike trdelník.
@@chanterelle483 But you can get them everywhere... they do not have to come from Czechia to call it home, right?
😂😭 god I miss Prague 🇨🇿
Hoping to visit Prague next year. My great grandfather was from Prague. And other great grandparents were from Ceske Budejovice area.
Zdravím z města České Budějovice! ❤️
Here in Melbourne Australia we have a tradition of donuts filled with hot jam which are sold from white vans by the side of the road. Yum!
Hi guys. That made me hungry. Love your channel and I live here... Slagr not mentioned? Cakes from the first republic. ACH JO.
Do something with Janek and Honza from honest guide. It should be great.
I'm a fan of Honest Guide, too! Just by chance, I ran into Janek in the Karlova street a couple of months ago! I LOVE Real Prague Guides, of course, and I've learned a lot of Czech and Central European history from their informative videos. Keep up the good work, Vaclev, Valery and Nico! Here's the url to an amateur video I made with photos of my visits to Prague late last year (2021).
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Ha! Yes. Kolache are very popular here in Texas. I like going on road trips in Texas. You can find more traditional kolache with fruit jam or cream cheese in the smaller towns.
Can't wait for my vacation next month, this channel got me fully covered 😁
I can recommend the restaurant and micro brewery that is U Medviku! I had a starter of slow roast pig tails cooked in beer. Absolutely yummy.
My favorite Czech dish is traditional Czech Poutine. You order french fries, fried cheese and svickova. You use the fries as a base, put the svickova on top of the fries, cut the fried cheese into cubes and put them on top of the svickova. It's a perfect dish to accompany beer...
Are you ok??
Fuj
Where the Americans come, there they fuck everything. Experience confirmed a million times over.
Much better than PopTarts, I'd say!
Oddly, the two Czech bakeries near me (New Prague and Montgomery, MN) seem to sell Buchta but call them Kolace. I was a little shocked when I first saw them. However, they are still tasty.
"Buchta" also exists in Austria, its named "Buchtel(n)", Babovka also exists in Austria under the name "Gugelhupf", a bit different, but i think still stemming from the same product (i believe) is the Austrian "Golatsche", but in Austria its closed on the topside (mostly preferred: Powidlgolatsche (filled with a very dense kind of plum jam). (not to mention the strudel and the last one (called Krapfen in AT).
Really fascinating. I was not aware that so much of our countries is common.
As a German I thought the same. Only thing missing here is the Golatsche. Although I have to admit that at least the Buchtel and Strudel definitely made there way to Germany from Austria.
Yes the Austrian names are derived from the Czech ones (except strudel, which came into Czech from the Austrian). Other Austrian terms, like Marille or Kren also derive from Czech. In General Austrian Cuisine and Czech cuisine is identical - mainly due to our shared history. In the 19th century bourgeois and upper class Austrian (especially Viennese) households required service staff, and Bohemia had many literate young women who quickly became popular as maids and cooks. They cooked the food they knew, and early Czech language cookbooks from the 1830s became standard and popular in Austria. On the other hand, Knödel, which is typical and emblematic for both Austria and Czechia as well, is etymologically of German origin (tranformed in Czech into knedlík). cultural exchange in Central Europe was/is of course very intense.
I'd argue that Czechia and Austria are actually culturally closest to each other, even more so than Czechia and Slovakia or Austria and Germany. Aside from language, the norms of these societies are very similar.
@@ChicaTiquita "Buchtel and Strudel" indeed go come by way of Austrian influence, though ultimately Czech. The 'proper' term in German, at least in Bavaria and the Palatinate were the dishes had already historically spread to is Rohrnudeln.
Krapfen are koblihy and the closed "Golatsche" are šátečky, there are several types of them.
@@tigroussibirak8006 "Golatsche" are the Austrian-German calque (German-Germans call it Kolatsche) of the original Czech pastry Koláč (derived from the radical kol-, meaning wheel or circle). Šátečky indeed use the same dough and fillings as koláče and are called as such because they are "tied" in a similar way one would tie a 'small scarf' - which in Czech is a 'šáteček'. A variant of the šáteček in Vienna like the Topfenkolatsche, was spread to Denmark in the 18th century, where it was called Wienerbröd (Viennese Bread). It then was spread internationally and became known as "Danish Pastry", which I find hilarious, as many bakeries in Prague now sell what they call "Danishes".
Krapfen is a specific type of Berliner, that is made by Viennese methods. It is called that way in Czech as well, but most people do not recognize the difference and call all donuts koblihy, except for perhaps the "bavorské vdolky" variant. Kobliha most likely originates from a calque of the Russian word "kovriga", which means "fried bread", which became popular in Czechoslovakia from the Ukrainian-Russian children's story "O Koblížkovi".
Can you tell me what Povedal (sp) is
Chybí vám tam bublanina. Rozhodně je (minimálně v domácnostech) běžnější než makovec.
There is actually a restaurant chain in the United States called the Kolache Factory, and it’s so good! Not as good as my grandma’s kolaches though :)
hi honey is your grandmother still with us? if not, i can comfort you if you need a friend. kindest regards you are beautiful like angel
Rose,
How do I tell my dad about Fiona, the woman I met at a NYC bordello?
ahoj baba content suggestion valerie checking out the luna park rides in holesovice
There were Czech Bakerys in Dresden Striesen and Dresden Löbtau. But unfortunately they closed down.
Where can we find Kobliha??
Because I watched this delicious video on Prague pastries, I am no longer BUCHTA after gaining 100 lbs.🤣❤👌
Yummy
👍 👍 👍!!!!
"Buhta" - in Croatia it is called "Buhtla" 😉
Great video, I recommend everyone who comes to Czech Republic to try all of these❤ I just have a note about the word “buchta”. In my opinion it’s a word to describe just very ordinary woman, probably only young woman/girl. Secondly, which is more important, well behaved people would never ever use this word, it’s more a word used by kind of “rednecks” or young boys that aren’t polite on purpose.
But we have different words to describe “hot chicks” - roštěnka (transl. beefsteak) or kost/kůstka (= bone/little bone).
Sadly the bakery in Václavská pasáž we showed in the video is closed as of 2.6.2023.
I visited Prague 11 times and I've never tasted a trdelnik. Guess why.
I want to make bread 🍞 like this
Nope, "bábovka" isn't another word for "bába", but for "baba" in a "coward" meaning, or for someone clumsy.
And "strúdl" has also more Czech version of its name "závin".
Is poppy seeds are with morphine content
Bez pracy nie ma kołaczy.
Ahoj z Polska.
tak
The thumbnail 😂
Thumbnail can be used to make best meme of the 21st century 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
All good but Koláče the best 👍
Poppy Seed Kolache
I was too scared to try czech food especially as I travel alone >
if i remember correctly, trdelnik is hungarian, not czech. and basically a tourist trap
Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey
Your first sweet kiss thrilled me so
Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey
I'll never ever let you go
👌👌👌👌👌
Valery, prosím neříkejte NAŠE koláče, NAŠE buchty. Říkejte alespoň české koláče, české buchty. Nebo vy jste snad Češka?! Jinak jsou to hezká videa.
Dobře, omlouváme se. Videa jsou kolektivní práce dvou lidí, z toho Václav je Čech, ale Valerie není. Jenže před kamerou je Valerie a kdo je za kamerou to nikoho nezajímá 😅Pokusíme si na to dát pozor, Valerie se do toho prostě vždycky strašně zažere a zapomene, že má říkat “Czech” místo “our” a já na to pozor nedávám, protože se soustředím na kameru. A pak si to vyžereme v komentářích.
Kamila: I fail to see what is wrong with our lovely presenters use of the word "our". Can you or anyone enlighten me?
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On a trip to Prague once I was seduced by the delicious smell of the trdelnik baking. The taste, however, was another story. Ugh. Haven't made that mistake since!
buchty is slang for a six pack
Trdlo 😂🤣🤣😂🤪😝
Dude, party the fuck up.
2:10 That looks… cursed
you are very buchta
Is it ok to say "He is hot" "He is a Hunk"?
Is that sexist?
Yes, it is sexist but noone gives a sh*t. Political correctivity is gereally seen as insincerity and it's better for you to be seen as sexist/raceist/whatever-ist than politicaly correct. Wellcome to the Czech Republic. ;)
@@Geker3 OK. We here in Hungary also avoid side-talk and political correctness.
If you don't like trdelnik i have no problem, but don't
Throw it away
Saying hot chick is sexist? What?!
We meant to say, that you should not say the Czech version to a Czech girl, because it can come across as rude 😅
@@RealPragueGuides I am 75 years old, but I still really like Czech girls. Most of them are in good shape, they have humor, Valery has extra humor.
@@RealPragueGuides Lol, I get it! A hot chick is a hot chick. Haha
@@sandor7594 I’m moving to Poznań this September and will check Czech ladies out. Haha
@@sandor7594 Maybe that extra humour was imported from Russia...no, couldn't be...must have been learnt in Prague.
your english does not sound czech , rather ukrainian or russian
Valery is not claiming she is Czech :). Vaclav the camera guy is Czech, Valery isn't. Have a great day!
Please...boycott Trdelník. It has absolutelly nothing to do with traditional czech cousine. And all of you...welcome in Czech Republic!
Buchta is so bland and boring, sorry my czech friends