Don't Eat Chinese Food In Daugavpils Latvia

Yeah that food looks pretty plain.....
And I can really cook brilliant stuff - when I feel like it....

But at least I didn't cook it - so I will give it a 9 out of 10..

I'd be quite happy with that.

My idea of a great desert is pears and or bananas etc., chopped into big chunks, with a bit of thickened cream on top...

Easy to please....

Riga, which rhymes with nigga.
Daugavpils, which sounds like dog pills.
Latvia, a magical place.

The dogpill is a city in Ukraine ROFL

The flavourless Chinese fake food...

Could it be that:

a) The ingredients are not available or are expensive so they leave some things out?

b) The cook is basically a shit cook.

c) In some cultures, the food is really spicy / pungent / rich - and in other cultures it's really bland and plain - meaning that they might have found that the local tastes are for plainer bland food, because that is what sells well, where as the rich and spicy and very tasty food, doesn't sell well - so they just make the plain versions.

I have been to one town where they do not sell / stock / supply / cannot be bought any hot chilli's as in fresh / in hot sauces etc., because no one in the whole town of like 500 people eats hot chillies....

Yeah not a super duper expert on Ukranian food, but in Poland etc., where crops like cabbage and potatoes and fairly plain foods are, I can't imagine the strongly flavoured and highly spiced foods selling that well.

All the more regular Polish / Latvian / Russian foods, that I have seen, tend to be potatoes, meat, cabbage and a few plain spices like capers, salt and pepper etc..

But here is something to look at:

https://www.whatkateandkrisdid.....com/asian-food-in-k

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What spices are more commonly used in Ukraine?


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Yuliya Ko

The most popular spice in Ukraine or aromatic vegetable, as you might call it, is garlic. We eat it raw, add to soups, salads, chicken, pork meat, salted bacon known as salo etc.
We also like dill and parsley to add to everything in summer time. And dry laurel leaves to soups.

Usual black pepper and salt. In the west of Ukraine they also use paprika and red pepper according to the Hungarian tradition.

We add sour cream to a lot of dishes to improve their taste.
And recently some new spices appeared on the market from abroad, like curry, ginger, cinnamon, coriander, basil, oregano, rosemary etc.

The King of all Russian spices is, without any doubt or competition, dill. I know it is an herb, but it is used in EVERYTHING , soups, salads, meat dishes, just not dessert . And when I say dill, I mean the real green herb, not anything dry in a bottle. After dill it is bay leaves, garlic and onion. Salt and pepper, of course as well.


Yuliya Ko

I live in the Ukraine and I want to start cooking. What are the spices I should have?

Ukrainians are not very much into spices. We prefer natural taste of food.

However there are some. First, dill. It is added fresh chopped to soups, salads, pickles and some meat dishes. Same goes for parsley.

Garlic, very popular. You add to salted lard (salo), to be eaten with borscht soup, to chicken and meat dishes, in salads.

Pepper and salt, add to taste, not too much.

Vinegar, add to pickles and sometimes salads.

New arrivals, basil, oregano. Add to pizza and pasta dishes.

Dry coriander, paprika and nutmeg, add to meat and chicken dishes.

Bay leaves, good for soups.


Evangelina

Why doesn't Russian cuisine use many spices or peppers despite Russia having some warm sub-tropical areas like Krasnodar and Crimea?

First of all, history and geography greatly impacted on Russian cuisine. Let’s remember some facts:

In the beginning old Russian state was located far from these warm regions, thus people couldn’t cultivate spices and peppers. The most useful and important preservative was salt, which, surprisingly, wasn’t also so common.

Methods of tillage were quite old and haven’t changed for centuries (slash-and-burn and shifting agriculture). They couldn’t provide specific conditions for cultivation of different crops.

The only way people could get spices was «the route from the Varangians to the Greeks» (merchants went from north to Byzantine empire by rivers). However, because of it (hard to get there; goods are not cheap and etc.) spices costed A LOT. Thus, they were available only for wealthy people.

That is why, in my opinion, lots of recipes of traditional food don’t include using of various peppers/spices. Nevertheless, famous Slavic dish called “borsch” (“борщ”) may contain numerous spices like black pepper, juniper, cumin, marjoram, rosemary, red sweet pepper, Basil, lovage, Bay leaf, kupyr, dried parsley, Cayenne pepper.