Trying ARMENIAN LAVASH for the FIRST TIME + Visiting the Matendaran | Yerevan, Armenia
After arriving in Yerevan, Armenia in the wee hours of the morning, I woke up bright and early to begin my 10-day adventure through the country with Armenia Travel. Come along with me as I try Armenian lavash for the first time and visit the Matendaran Museum in Yerevan!
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I met up with my guide, Gayane from Armenia Travel, and rode through Yerevan. It’s one of the oldest cities in the world at 2,800 years old. The area has been continuously inhabited for 8,000 years!
The Matendaran is a huge museum that houses over 17,000 manuscripts. Inside, I met my museum guide, Nadia. Only 1% of the manuscripts are available to be viewed by the public. I learned that the Armenian alphabet was created in the year 405. The alphabet didn’t have numbers until the 16th century. They used letters as numbers.
There were several ancient, beautiful manuscripts, including some made of parchment. There was even a petrified manuscript, as well as the largest and smallest manuscripts in the country.
I also saw the first printed Armenian book from 1512 and the first printed Bible from 1666. They started coloring the manuscripts around the 8th centuries and the dyes were made from all kinds of materials!
I also saw an impressive ivory book from the 6th century. There are only 3 of them in the world. There was also a book with gold and silver binding, a manuscript of criminal law, a huge silver Bible, and more! You can also see restored manuscripts.
You can see how they made the dyes for the books in another hall. Most of the silver books were New Testaments.
Then, it was time to eat lunch at Restaurant Lavash, which focuses on traditional Armenian cuisine. Lavash is an Armenian flatbread. I loved the setting. Next to our table, I could watch the women in the kitchen make the bread and bake it in a tandoor.
I started with some delicious homemade pomegranate wine. I’d never had it before. It was the house wine and was so good! I was in love with it!
Then, I had some lavash, puri (Georgian bread), walnut paste, and Greek salad with walnuts, olives, and tomatoes. Then, there was also an Asian salad. The Greek salad had some delicious, string-cheese-style feta cheese and I loved the crunch from the walnuts.
The walnut paste was almost like a walnut hummus and came with cucumbers and tomatoes. You eat it with the puri. It was full of walnut flavor that comes out later and had a nice texture mixed with the oil. I loved the super thin lavash with the walnut paste. It was thin like a crepe and is actually a UNESCO dish!
The Asian salad had eggplant, carrots, tomatoes, herbs, bacon, mushrooms, and a nice glaze. The salad was so refreshing and crunchy! The combination gave it a nice Caspian vibe!
Next, I tried kufta, a beef and tomato dish that almost looks like eggs. It’s fresh, buttery ground beef with an egg-like taste. After that was Armenian a grainy porridge with nice mushrooms. Next was pumpkin stuffed with beef, beans, and vegetables. The beef was like a beef stew while the pumpkin was a little hard and dense. It was super unique!
I followed that with a delicious, semi-sweet red wine made from pomegranate. I could feel the alcohol in it!
For dessert, I had gata, which was part of the biggest gata in the world! There was also a huge, layered Armenian dessert called milfoy.
The gata is stuffed with dried fruit and has lots of layers of dough. The top is crunchy, while the inside is very creamy. It’s a delicious, layered cake that reminded me of Greek baked dishes.
I hope you enjoyed visiting the Matendaran and trying Armenian lavash for the first time with me in Yerevan! If you did, please give this video a thumbs up and leave a comment. Also, please subscribe to my KZread channel so you don’t miss any of my upcoming travel/food adventures!
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My big respect for the Armenian nations, from 👉🇹🇯Dushanbe, Tajikistan 🇹🇯👈.
@achabibian5492
4 жыл бұрын
Ofcourse what people has a better finer more exquisite reputation n history footprint than the Armenians ..both Diaspora and non diaspora...
@lommol2969
4 жыл бұрын
ty bro
@mirojan917
4 жыл бұрын
Ay bacha raxmadikalon
@suren2313
4 жыл бұрын
Sbs SAB big respect to Arian Tajikistan
yo Mate, Thanks for the compliments, we are always happy to receive guests.
My first introduction to Armenian food, culture and heritage. Thank you David, I am loving it.
Wow Armenian culture is beautiful packed with history ,churches from the 5th century 600 years before the Turks, Great episode as always
Հայաստան այս աշխարհում ամենա գեղեցիկ և սիրուն երկիրը ♥💙🧡
@topsakalYAN
4 жыл бұрын
David where you from ?
@garoarabian3017
4 жыл бұрын
@@topsakalYAN Ancestors from Western Armenia (modern day Turkey). Currently in Australia.
Man what a beautiful and interesting country I would love to travel there, cheers to Armenia from spain, my girlfriend from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴🇦🇲❤️
Ever since I first tasted the Armenian pomegranate wine 6 years ago, no other wine interests me any more..I give them to my friends as gifts all the time.
@Vinrx7
3 жыл бұрын
I brought a couple bottles back to the US from Areni winery. It's very tasty! 😋
Greats from Serbia 🇷🇸🦅💪
@vandamyan
4 жыл бұрын
🇷🇸🤝🇦🇲
Amazing video - brought back memories of my trip in 2011. Give me lots of reasons to go back - especially to Lavash restaurant. Thanks for the fun video.
thanks for the tips i am going to travel to Armenia :-)
OMG, I want some of that bread that was stuffed with the dried fruits. My eyes almost popped out of my head when that was brought out No s- - -. And the pumpkin with the meat looked really insane. Take care from Bethlehem Pa.
@club5896
4 жыл бұрын
Узбекистан также красив. Мечтаю попасть Ташкент, Самарканд и т.д
@lillyk8830
4 жыл бұрын
I’m Armenian and I live in New York,my big respect for you,very nice videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Армения, конечно, красавица, но ещё эти армяне такие черти все талантливые! У меня армяне друзья, знакомые: врачи, актёры, продюсеры, учителя, режиссёры....и все с большим чувством юмора! Обожаю вас!
I'm glad I found you David 👍Cool place would love to visit and the food yummy 😋 I love the details bless 💯 cheers from Oman 🍷
Wow😍 I came to know about Armenia from your video & I'm impressed with their architecture and their food.
Да Армения красивая страна, особенно понравилось достопримечательность! Красава Давид привет из Узбекистана)
@armenartur3669
4 жыл бұрын
Привет, Узбекистану 👋👍👍👍
@user-jy2is3pj8z
4 жыл бұрын
Wellcome добро пожаловать дорогой всегда рады хорошим гостям 🥂
David brother it's a treat to watch you eating and enjoying the food. 😊😊
ARMENIA👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That Museum tour guide talks faster than Siri lol
So very amazing ,interesting CULTURE .Fantastic video Thank YOU.❤️🌹
Armenia 🇦🇲 getting better . Скоро я буду визит этот ресторан . 35 лет живу Лос-Анджелес и пара идти Армения . God bless Armenia 🇦🇲 & USA 🇺🇸.
@tenqri2761
2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣..dosixpor yedish??. İli dumaesh?.. ne qubi sebya
Nice video davids keep up it i am indian sikh i from california i watch all ur video i am ur fan god bless u brother
Awesome video, David!
ոչ ոք չի կարող խլել եւ սպանել մեր հավատը❤🙏🇦🇲
Omg, I miss our food so much. 😭😭😭 So mouthwatering!!!
Armenia beautiful! ❤️
Thanks tor making nice quality program ,we enjoy to watching
thanks David
Pomegranate juice is delicious. I can imagine the wine. Yum yum...
Thank you David. Great video very informative.
Love the video, going to Yerevan in May and driving to Stepanakert, Artsakh and stopping at interesting places along the way.
@brewd1974
4 жыл бұрын
@The Incredible Incognito I can't wait, I will be driving around the country vlogging the whole thing.
So good. So good. So good. I’ve never tried this before. So good. So good. So good. Such a descriptive vocabulary you have. You’re truly a cunning linguist.
Armenia is soo beautiful...i hope to visit Armenia someday..🙏🙏....greetings from South America🇸🇷🇸🇷
WOW....
I have watched your videos for a long time I couldn't expect that one day you would stop in our country so welcome although it's clear that video was done pretty early as weather quite different now..🤗🤗
Awesome video my man and keep it up
@hungrytourist169
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, Walter, I have been to your channel too and love Sydney food videos
David I don't know whether you can recall or not but whenever you ask for a name of a place to visit I always said Armenia.. Now you know why... You will also get more food which reflect northwestern part of India..armenia is best examole of indo european (Indo-aryan) culture with soviet architecture. Waiting for Kerala vlogs..love from Kolkata
Great video 👏🏻😃I'm Armenian but haven't been to Armenia yet. It was really nice to see shots of the city and learn about the manuscripts. I've also heard some good things about Lavash restaurant, and that food looked amazing 🤤Btw your pronunciation improved throughout the video! 👍🏻👏🏻
Welcome to Most beautiful and amazing country David ,my Armenia love you ❤️🇦🇲 first Christian country
@kentishtowncomputer
4 жыл бұрын
u people are ill in the head with the first christian country nonsense.
@kingmike7965
4 жыл бұрын
@@kentishtowncomputer and you people are ill in the end thinking your natives to the land you live on now .
Great video!
Nice video Sir.... Thank u
the museum is fascinating!
Love your video!
Like !!!👍👍👍👍
Love the back music at 13:42
Welcome to Armenia 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲
Yummy video........Luv that man who presents.......Luv u dave ....
My LOVE ARMENIA My LOVE YEREVAN 🇦🇲 ❤ 💋🍷❤🍷💋 ❤🇦🇲🗼🇫🇷
Never had look such a delicious food 😊
Armenia es un pais NUMERO 1 del mundo!!!
Իմ Հայաստան ( My Armenia ) ❤❤❤❤
In Iran we also have lavash bread, we even have a snack made from Pulp of sour fruits called Lavashek which means little Lavash
@georgeevernight2814
4 жыл бұрын
Lavashik means littile lavash in armenian too, jusy every word+ik means a little Also we have that snack too, but we call it - kaghcr lavash,that means- sweet lavash.
@kentishtowncomputer
4 жыл бұрын
@Sirush Levonyan no armenians copy a lot from Turkish Iranian and Arabic cuisine. the wallnut paste is muhammara its a arabic dish. lavas is a Turkic and Persian bread.
@kentishtowncomputer
4 жыл бұрын
@Sirush Levonyan im Turkish but Lavas is a persian word...these armenians are very narrow minded...sucuk pastirma dolma sarma are turkish...armenians learned all those dishes because they lived and still live in countries like turkey lebanon syrian iran etc..
@shakehsimonyan301
4 жыл бұрын
Freedom Is Not Free lavash is Armenia bread and was always Armenian Turkish would stoke all ideas of food music from Arabs, Armenians and Greeks so calm down there. Armenians until now keep everything Armenian and not trying to copy any other nation. We are not coping anyone else and always teach the same to our new generation.!!!!
@shakehsimonyan301
4 жыл бұрын
Iranians has Lavash because we are neighbors and we use lots of same words also in Iran we have lots of Armenians living and of course we make sure everywhere. I live in USA but I make our Armenia Tolma not Dolma. I make all the Armenian yummy dishes in USA and it lavash and only lavash, harissa, gata, my kids speak fluent Armenian and know how to read and write. And they know their history, they are Christian and only !!!! Armenians love their culture and respect others but won’t let any haters to say anything bad . So stop there and calm down
fantastic
ARMENIAAAA❤️🇦🇲🤙🏼
Amazing
That paper like roti looks buetiful
best 💯
Armenia besttttttt🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖
Viva Armenia 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍class
Heeeyyyyy I’ve been waiting for a new vlog for over a month, then find them on your homepage?!?!! WTH KZread!!!
BEAUTIFUL CAMERA WORK. YOU CAN MAKE ANY ONE ALCOHOLIC BY THE WAY IN WHICH YOU ROTATE THE WINE GLASS AND THEN SHAKE IT VERY CLOSE TO THE LENS.
Yummmm
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Bravo we love it will be🇦🇲🇦🇲 and eta yummy! yummy !God bless you😇😇😇😇🤙💥💥💥
Матенадаран шикарен. Такие сокровища
Very good presentation of Armenian Bible.
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LA CULTURA HERMOSA, LA COMIDA SE VE DELICIOSA!! QUIÉN CÓMO TÚ, Y YO EN CUARENTENA POR ESTA MALDITA PANDEMIA COVID-19
David, It look like Tortilla Sobaquera from Sonora México... Cheers👍✌️
@achabibian5492
4 жыл бұрын
But much much much muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better than a lousy tortilla. Night and day flavour n taste
@csalgado6228
4 жыл бұрын
@@achabibian5492 come on buddy! you need to taste before to comment...
@annashekoyan2153
4 жыл бұрын
@@csalgado6228 no shortening in Armenian lavash unlike the tortilla
@csalgado6228
4 жыл бұрын
@@annashekoyan2153Hi Anna, I'm just saying that it seems a particular type of tortilla what we only do in the small town of northern Mexico, we call it Sobaquera tortilla kzread.info/dash/bejne/kXujy82JdN3Tdbw.html Cheers👍
@kingmike7965
4 жыл бұрын
@@csalgado6228 Tortilla is freaking good , I usually spray some limon on the Asada on the grill then put some cheese in the tortilla and toast it a little and man ain't nothing better than that especially with a cervesa. Mucho gracias hermano , much love from an Armenian . I've been to Mexico about 12 times already and never get tired of it 👍
Erebuni mountain
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Yummy
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ahhhh i miss my grandma making gata and baklava :(
Ehi !! look !! Listen !!
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A country which honors mathematicians and scientists will always prosper and a country which honors only corrupt politicians needs to take lessons from Armenia
Hi! David ... Also mention another ancient scrip "Sanskrit" from next time ... Just fun facts or fyi kind o things...
I’armenia BOY i will show you the oldest place in the world 🌎
I’m Indian ,according to you I will like these foods or not ?
Yeah 🇦🇲 👏 🇦🇲 👏
торт называется Наполеон Джян
If you don't Like cucumbers, then you should try "Armenian cucumbers", which are actually not like regular cucumbers, they are more like savory long greenish melons without the sweetnees. Then you will probably not just Like cucumbers, but you will probably Love them. :)
💛💙ARMENIA 💙💛 AMAZING SPECIALS EVER DAY EVERTIME SUPEEEEEEER HOT PEOPLE IST ARMENIANS IN DER WORLD FIRST CHRISTIANS LAND GOD BLESS ARMENIAN PEOPLE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 DJ.ISKO ISKENDER ERSOY KZread PLAYLIST ☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝ 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
myanmar also has its own kind of lettering.
@goednieuwskrantje-nl
2 жыл бұрын
not sure about nepal, but i think so also.
When are you coming Kerala David??
@Davidsbeenhere
4 жыл бұрын
THE COMMON VIBES I am here! Videos post late
@hemant5918
4 жыл бұрын
@@Davidsbeenhere Great!!
That museum chick would be a great salesperson
When i can see you
God I love Armenian history and Matenadaran, but the guide in Matenadaran speaks so unpleasently
@brewd1974
4 жыл бұрын
She was speaking a little fast, probably just nervous.
@SToroX8
4 жыл бұрын
Guides everywhere are like that it's smth that you have to get used to
@rubo1964
4 жыл бұрын
Did not find her unpleasant she did have Russian accent I assume she was Russian Armenian.Please dont judge people superficially!
@YALQUZAQ_AZ
4 жыл бұрын
How can she talk pleasently that you don't have History? History of Coca-cola is older than Armenia. Armenia only existed in 1918 thx to Stalin
@DarkSideOfTheGame22
4 жыл бұрын
Shade of Ghost 1928 Azerbaijan by Lenin
Puri is not Georgian either. It is an Indo-European word, which means bread. Georgian is from the Caucasian language family, not Indo-European (which was called Aryan before the 3rd Reich's crimes). But Puri is the most popular bread in Georgia so it can indirectly be called Georgian
Lavash in India is known as "rumali roti".......
@araksa9623
4 жыл бұрын
What does it mean?
@shakehsimonyan301
4 жыл бұрын
Vivek Chary lavash has different taste and lavash is way bigger and we make it different way so has nothing to do with your bread. But India has very good food Too.
you get all kinds of fruit-related wine in Nagaland and sikkim
Lavash is very thin .
@rupasisanyal9967
4 жыл бұрын
Lavash is very thin . No need to apply butter because it is so thin .
չեմ հասկանում ինչու է Մատենադարանի աշխատակցուհին անընդհատ ասում՝ look!, yes?...շատ տգեղ է, սխալ է։
Kardesleri dusman etmeyi basardi bati. Kina yaksin artik.Love armenians from turkey
WOULD LIKE TO EAT THE ARMENIAN ROTI WITH PANEER MASALA GRAVY
The guide in Matenadaran has a schottisch accent :)
You eat like my grandma. And I'm 52...