What Do They Eat in Latvia?? Visiting Largest Market Hall in Riga 🇱🇻

The LARGEST market hall in Europe is in Riga, Latvia! The Riga Central Market Hall is the largest market hall in the continent of Europe.

It is located inside what used to be the largest collection of zeppelin hangars during World War I. It is now full of all sorts of shopping and food vendors, including traditonal Latvian food!

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[LindaKaposta]

any kind of potato belongs. we as a nation are huge lovers of potatoes. we have potatoes in our mind, body and soul 💜 thanks for the awesome video :)

[kriikruu]

super nice ! loved your video abaut LV, ..

[Phonk-God]

Next time u should try homemade meals here is what i recommend:
Boiled potatos with cooked ground beef sauce or maybe use a recipe

Macaroni with ground beef cooked no sauce

And my favorite store bought reeva noodles

Btw try making scrambled eggs with ketchup i tried it yesterday and its so good
Enjoy!

[gregz]

It's a persimmon been there in very nice

[davebeat]

You got some really great things to try. Happy you enjoyed them. That meat filled donut is a belashi they're awesome. A chebureki is a flat, D-shaped, pastry (also meat filled) the vendor probably sells both. Užavas is a really nice Latvian beer. It's my wife's favourite, she's a native, I'm British. I prefer Brenguļu alus, but it's not so easy to find, it's only served on tap.

[alexastorm]

Are you telling me you never seen Persimmons? It's massive in China and India. They get imported to Europe during winter time.

[paulk]

My Latvian grandmother made the best piragi and potato salad. Also, Riga sprats and black bread is famous. Pickled herring and for an alcoholic drink, Riga Balsams. A lot of German food is popular too, due to historical events, this includes sauerkraut and a variety of boiling sausages.

[riproar]

My favorite item from the fish zeppelin hangar is smoked mackerel. You eat it cold with lemon juice squeezed on it. Sublime! Every deli section of Latvian stores has a great variety of fresh pickles that are very good.

[T_MT]

Max and Sid, beautiful channel, Riga nice....🙏👍

[adidzis]

actually that orange fruit Hurma doesn't belong to Latvian food at all. Of course you can buy this in Latvia as well as pineaple, passion fruit or litchi, but they are all imported.

[cryzcryz]

Oh my goodness! What a huge market! I love it! I know pickled cucumbers and sauerkraut and I eat them often, but I have never eaten this fruit 🙃
Greetings from Yorkshire 🤗

[kristinrae]

Great video! Can you please tell me truthfully were you warm enough in that jacket - the Patagonia nano puff? My husband has that same jacket and we’re coming to Riga in December for Christmas markets. Should he get another coat? What’s your best advice? Thanks! x

[DarkSailor]

Basicly - if cucumber is marinaded/pickled for the longer period of time, or as we say here "for winter", they become more softer. We usually use them in salads. While ones that pickle for smaller period of time (a day or for a week) are more crunchy.
Also if you want to try Latvian cusine, try going to LIDO.

Paldies par video 🥰 (Thank you for the video in Latvian)

[TotalRookie_LV]

The fruit is "hurma", looked up for it's English names: _Diospyros kaki, _ the Oriental persimmon, Chinese persimmon, Japanese persimmon or kaki persimmon. So, in short, just call it "persimmon".

[Martita]

Persimmon my Fathers Favorite Fruit. He immigrated from Chile to California. Luckily for him they were readily available there 😊

[hannakerr]

Did each of you have a favorite food from the market? The persimmon looks very interesting...

[mkraulis]

Uzavas beer is pretty good. Both the light and dark varieties.

[arturass]

Much smaller than Gariūnai in Vilnius. :)

[darkestalmond]

Going to Latvia to eat a persimmon is like going to the DC zoo to pet a Panda. 😂😂😂

[latvian]

Hurma is from georgia. very very tasty fruits when is ready. I see this not ready. Need find little soft and very orange.
4:40 wtf. belash. WTF. that not try it. beeter is from market cheburek or piradzini. thats is buy puzzle and then bend .... cat... ok its a joke. but this market not that place where buy that. Fish, fruits, pickles, cabbage, galic, smoking meet and fish that is for gourmets. but you must know how to buy. when this is hot from "pans" then