I’m American and going back in June for my third trip to Bulgaria. This is getting me excited for my trip ! I even understand a few Bulgarian words now.

@getov1147

Ай бұрын

Great!

As a Bulgarian I am really surprised some of these market vendors actually knew sufficient English to talk to foreign clients.

@user-xc3tr7ld6k

2 ай бұрын

They already know english because most of them are ex-workers from England, Germany, Italy, Spain and so on. We are 2024 after all. I don't know someone who doesn't speak english at least on a street level

I've heard you a couple of times now refering to Banitsa being made from puff pastry, but it's not. It's from pastry sheets. They don't fluff and the whole preparing process is very different than what is made with fluff pastry - бутерка (butter-ka). Everyone can make a butterka, but I assure you making a proper Banitsa is much, much more difficult. It's a benchmark in rating a woman! 😃

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

A bulgarian viewwer here. Loving the content mate. Keep it up. Fun fact :One of the first orders from AMAZON in 1995 was actually from Bulgaria :)

@kumchavalcha

Ай бұрын

pioneers again;) mr. Bezos needs to invest here anf open an big office😅

I recognized that man with the two shops from a Kurt Caz Video from 4 years ago. What are the odds lol

@privacidadezerogoogle1852

3 ай бұрын

me too haha

@user-fe5er4tl4f

3 ай бұрын

i am from Sofia, and yes it is him. LOL

@dubmonkeyy

15 күн бұрын

i was wondering why this shop looks familiar

Yooo,your pronunciation is perfeeect

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, i am doing my best !! 👍😃

Love your videos mate! BTW we have a lot history with Italy. After the Proto-bulgarians left Volgan Bulgaria the 5 sons of Chan Kubrat went on their separate ways, one stayed there, one Chan Asparukh made it to modern day Bulgaria, one went to Northern Macedonia, one to Northern Serbia AAAnd one in Southern Italy. Till this day they have Bulgarian names of villages and places. It would be cool to go there and find the Bulgarian link there :)

The small onions are called "arpadjik" and are used for planting.

@jassenjj

3 ай бұрын

And for "попска яхния" :)

@lliomm9193

3 ай бұрын

And for the people from Pazardjik city!!! ;)

@jordan9339

3 ай бұрын

@@lliomm9193 No, we don't plant people from Pazardjik

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

Another fine production, produced by the Honorable Justin. Cheers Those little onions are very good in soups and stews. When they slow cook they become very tender and delicious. You can cook a nice roast with those and other veggies as well. My mother would do that growing up.

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

Always enjoy your videos mate. You keep it interesting. Enjoy your travels always. I'm glad you are out and about again. I was having Justin Eastern Europe withdrawls.

Thanks, Justin, I am seeing my own country from a completely new point of view with your videos. Next time you should definitely visit a small town or a village, or even a few. So you can see another Bulgaria. And also some outddors in nature... in Rhodopes or Stara Planina. Even hiking in the mountains or forests! You're gonna like it. 👍 Best regards

Great to see you back on your feet! That was a lovely market! Mekica reminds me of funnel cake. I love that style of music too. The pottery shop was outstanding! Definitely shared to all 3 of my social media platforms 😅 oh, and my mom made great galupci, but she used boiled cabbage.

Love your unfiltered and straight approach mate:) Glad you are visiting us again:) Cheers!

@J.E.E

22 күн бұрын

Thank you, my friend.👍🙂

so good video justin friend! I shared the previous video in my Facebook group and i need to share this too

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Awesome thank you so much, i really appreciate it !! 👍😃

Great video!

@J.E.E

15 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! 👍🙂

Great video as always

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, my friend!!👍😃

Lovely, thank you!

Happy to see your video 👏🏻 Hope you’re better and ready to travel🤞👍🏻

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much my friend, i appreciate the kind comment!! 👍😃

Fascinating videos. Came across your videos by chance. I can't stop watching the Bulgaria ones

Thank you for the wonderful tour. Glad to have you back, whatever you recovered from im happy you’re better. Every day is a new day.

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind comment, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

Always a pleasure to watch your videos Ciao from Pisa

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much my friend, i appreciate the kind comment!! 👍😃

Nice to see you again dear Justin

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much my friend, i appreciate the kind comment!! 👍😃

There is this sweet in Bulgaria called "tolumbichka", it is similar to churos, except soaked in sugar syrup

Keep them coming Justin we missed you !

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, always nice to hear from you. Stay tuned for plenty more, all the best! 👍😃

Justin - always a pleasure watching your travels.

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for you feedback, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

yeey...another justinian video :-)

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, my friend!!👍😃

Thank you for the great overview of our beautiful country🎉🎉🎉

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. 👍👌

Your BG is pretty good, you got some things wrong, Banitsa is not made from puff pastry it is made from filo pastry, Boza is generally made from rye/wheat mix. With banitsa I much prefer ayran which is like watered down plain yogurt. Overall good work.

@J.E.E

22 күн бұрын

Thank you, my friend, for watching and commenting.

Another great video. I need to visit Bulgaria. Next time I'm in Greece, I'll make a short trip I think. I recently made a vlog video in a food market in northern Greece, in Veroia. Great places to get a sense of the culture as you said.

Yeah that guy was following you. This place there is generally considered actually one of the most dangerous places in Bulgaria especially for pitpocketing.

Why don't you explore the deep province sometime? You will see the difference between the modern lifestyle and the past. In the Rhodopes mountains there are still people who live 200 years in the past and its amasing to learn more about them and i'm pretty sure people will find it interesting. If you need help with finding places like that you might just make a online meeting with some bulgarian subscribers of yours and decide where to go. Also, amasing video!

Welcome back! Hoping whatever was ailing, you is bagged up and gone. Be well.

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words, i appreciate the support!! 👍😃

Now im hungry 😂😂😂😂 I need to trt it bro! Excellent video as always 👌

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, my friend!! 👍😃

always watch ur bg videos, weirdly enough you're walkign around my neighbourhood but havent seen you, next time I guess :D

keep it up i love your videos

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, i appreciate the support!! 👍😃

I always get hungry watching your videos, keep it up master of fun and friendship. 🙂

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind comment, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

Yo, Justin!!! I've been following your channel for awhile now and i'm honestly intrigued what a marvelous and nice person you seem to be. When I saw you covering Varna, Golden Sands and some other Bulgarian cities I felt proud and also a little giddy, cause I thought to myself "Yo, it would be so nice to grab a nice beer and some Banitsa (haha) with Justin if he came to Sofia one day". Imagine my suprise, seeing you just randomly pass Lion's Bridge and the Women's market, considering the fact that I live 5 minutes from there by foot. :D Great job, man! Ping me if you wanna grab a beer for real next time you visit! By the way, the women's market might not be best representation of a bulgarian market. I mean, it is more than a little bit dodgy - lots of drunks, pickpockets and gypsies, and finding anyone who speaks English there is literally a miracle. You are incredibly friendly to everyone, I just hope you're being safe. I'm sure you're anything but naive, considering your enormous travelling experience. ;)

How come so you speak Bulgarian so well, my friend? As you might notice i follow you and wish you to live here one day! Best place for retirement, quite honestly. You can like in many houses here un Bulgaria, they're actually cheap (20K euro can buy you a great house)

Bravo a quel signore gentile di Yambol

Wow you speak really good Bulgarian 😊

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, i try my best!! 😃👍

Your Bulgarian accent is almost native!!! I am super surprised!

@J.E.E

22 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, i really appreciate it! 👍😃

My friend go to town Vidin north west tern Bulgaria , I think that would have many staff for another video ! Go to central station "centralnna gara" and you can get bus or train there!

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Hi my friend, Thank you for the idea, i appreciate it!! 👍😃

Nice one mate, where abouts from London are you and how did you learn to speak so many languages ?

Great video

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!👍😃

Good job 💪👌 Regards from Poland

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and commenting!! 👍😃

Good job Justin! Make a collaboration with Ben- Bald and Bankrupt, please. It would be awesome.

Great to see you back on form mate...actually talking of empty shop units, most towns in uk a common site.Just got back from Leipzig ,Germany, didnt see one in the city centre.. oh loved the only built theatre in the old DDR ,what a beautiful design

@ashleyupshall7641

3 ай бұрын

Leipzig one cool city. 😊

@andysm1964

3 ай бұрын

@@ashleyupshall7641 you are right,loved the city,still a tad traditional ..would go back without hesitation

1:30 well we actually had Lions living in the Balkans, but they went extinct in II-III century

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!! 👍😃

Wonderful video Nice food Market. jk

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much my friend! 👍😃

Ihave from Bulgaria Neighbor Armenian man every time say hi His nice

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

👍😃

I recommend you to visit Plovdiv if you are not somewhere else already. I am sure you will be amazed. Поздрави, прекрасен човеко!

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Hi my friend, Thank you for the idea, i appreciate it!! 👍😃

Good afternoon sir!

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Hello my friend! 😃👍

The paper which is wrapped around the Banitsa ,is to take all the grease from it, without getting on your fingers and hands, that`s why its ruff and thick.

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

Hi Justin 👋 Lovely video once again 🎉 How can I reach out to you if I don't have Instagram?

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Hello mate, So happy you like the content. You can email me on justin@justineasterneurope.com

That last restaurant seems abandoned for decades lol! But an amazing couple of traditional shops before that!

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Agreed… thanks for watching my friend! 👍👌

Me as well!

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

👍🙂

We bought plates from this guy. Such a character.

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

HI from London😊. Yes, the lion is the symbol of Bulgaria, but unfortunately Bulgaria is now ruled only by hyenas. Thank you for the video👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

dude ur Bulgarian is amazing

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, i try my best! 👍😃

Bonjour Justin, Les Bulgares disent "merci" et "bon appétit", comme en français ? Cela m'a surpris 🤔 Have a nice day ! Please continue your videos 🙂

@jordan9339

3 ай бұрын

merci is widely used since more than a century when French was most modern language in Europe. "bon appétit" is rare, "priaten apetit" is much more common. Priaten means pleasant in Bulgarian. But there are a lot of French loan words in Bulgarian that most of the Bulgarians even don't know that they are french.

@victorploux

3 ай бұрын

@@jordan9339 thank you very much ! 🙂

Justin, you went to the women's market, a woman got impressed by you and you ignored her... It's the shortest love story with unhappy ending :D 16:23

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

😆😆😆

Hey Justin, talking about bein aware look at this big beard guy, we can see him following you at 9:53, and 10:20, and he is still there 11:36 , looking to pull something out of your bag ...bata

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

I think it is women shopping place in the past. Well it is not the best place to visit in Sofia, but still unique and good.

yeah they sell the banitsa without anything as an option if you're bringing it home and eating it with a block of cheese and some jam, The closest thing I had to a mekitsa is a bignet maybe?

Nice video, but one correction: Amazon has long been available in Bulgaria. In fact, the first order with Amazon, came from Bulgaria in 1995. Jeff Bezos has mentioned that in several interviews over the years.

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the input, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

@D.S.-uy7rb

3 ай бұрын

@@J.E.E you're welcome, brother! Keep up the good work!

fucking finally someone having banitsa with boza instead of ayran, thats the way to go my dude

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

👍😃

I think the small onions are to put in the ground in ur garden no?

Bulgaria has its own version of amazon called emag its basically the same

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input, i really appreciate it! 👍😃

boza - weetabix smoothie :D

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

👍🙂

Looks like a pretty affordable place. How is the nightlife and the summer activities for singles?

@atanasstoilov421

3 ай бұрын

Very ok.

@kumchavalcha

Ай бұрын

best in EU😅

The litlle onion is for sowinгg.BTW,the tomatos is from Turkey.....(come sumer to eat the best tomato! :P )

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input! 👍🙂

Yoto knows - this is the best banitca on the market! 👍👍👍🙂

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks you so much for your input, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

I had to check you as you wasn't on recommandation

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and commenting!! 👍😃

@shutyourmouthnow

3 ай бұрын

no problem@@J.E.E If you wanna eat that (sarma) cabbage roll , I suggest you to pass the border from Bulgaria, thru Romania. In Brasov, there's Stana Turistica. Have a look if you wanna eat amazing things like sarmale :)

Its not the just a city it is the capital of Bulgaria ..

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input!

its actually точени кори, not a puff pastry. i dont know the word in english, but its the same one they use in baklava.

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i really appreciate it!! 👍😃

Omg this guy speak very good Bulgarian language .In Bulgaria there is no more real Boza :(

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. 👍👌

I cant believe u found so cheap tomatoes and peppers😂

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

👍🙂

Good video but the correct pronunciation is SofIA in one go (not Sofi.A...) and you should use fewer superlatives😉

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Hi my friend, Thank you for the tip, i appreciate it!! 👍😃

I don't think the banitsas are made with puff pastry. Those are different. The homemade banitsa is definitely made with filo dough, that's what I buy when I want to make it here in the US and it tastes like home

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!! 👍😃

dai my ot nai dobrite :D :D ::D toi e anglichanin HAHAHAHAHAhahahaha

Congrats for speaking bulgarian 🎉 but just a side note: traditional bulgarian white cheese is not feta 😊 feta is a greek version of white cheese 😊

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍😃

Sofia is supposed to be pronounced with a stress the first syllable. I was causing locals to cringe when stressing the I.

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input! 👍😃

:)

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

👍🙂

ur mistaking puff pastry dough for phyllo dough, yes we have puff pastries but the result is more like a croissant, banitsa is made with phyllo dough

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input! 👍🙂

Im suprized that u liked the the женски пазар,its a little scary for me.

Banitsa is made from filo pastry not puff pastry, just saying.

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input! 👍🙂

@feechlamanna676

3 ай бұрын

love your work@@J.E.E

Imagine if one of the pigs feet were manicured 💅

What's the story with destroying everyplace with graffiti in Eastern Europe. Be proud of your history don't destroy.

Where are the women? :-)

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Apparently they left hundred years ago!! Thanks for watching ! 👍😃

Този пазар е нищо подобно на това което беше 30 години назад

Avoid that market, full of scams, low-life people around, pickpocket thieves...

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input! 👍🙂

No offence but Sofia looks horrible🤣

@J.E.E

2 ай бұрын

🤔

Evala, brato. I like you. Continue to travel in Bulgaria, but try other cities, Sofia is the worst... You can go to Rila mountain - the best place I have ever been... 🫣

@J.E.E

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the advice, i will try it next time!! 👍😃

I am Bulgarian and I hate it