Filled Chicken steak with processed cheese, anyone? (midway down on the left) Also notice the reference to "yellow cheese" on the right hand side. Apparently cheese in K's country is either cheese or white cheese or yellow cheese or processed cheese. And I guess there's that French cheese at the bottom of the right hand face. We didn't order that. At first I thought something was lost in translation, but according to Filip, that's just what it is. One night at a different place we had some really good crusty thin bread with cheese and white cheese. Hm. But I think the best part of this particular spread of the menu is on the top of the right hand side. How about a Nervous (appetizing) meatball??? We asked Filip about this one. He looked in his menu, and after a thoughtful moment, told us that's just what it is - a nervous meatball! So we asked Jaclyn's translator on a different night (Jaclyn was the other mom who was there visiting her son with her father along - they were with a different agency, and had a different translator - a very sociable translator!) and her response was the same as Filip's. We were too nervous to try the meatball, no matter how appetizing it might have been!
Or perhaps you're not that hungry, and would like to go with a simple salad instead? Those of you still hankering after processed cheese can go for the Four tastes salad, but the more adventurous may like to select the Salad amphibian instead. Mmmmm. Nothing like tunny fish to get your mouth watering!
Perhaps you're a little more reserved, and would prefer a safer option, such as the one on the top of this page which is made with "sterilized cucumbers." We weren't quite sure what they meant by that. Pickles? Seedless? Washed really well? Anyway, if you're interested, but don't really like to choose a dish with mayonnaise as the first ingredient, you can always choose the Mexican salad and have your sterilized cucumbers with "turkey's fillet." (And see, you can get cucumbers that are not sterilized, as in the Greek salad at the bottom!) Many choices. And if you like cucumbers and tomatoes, you're set at any meal, even breakfast.
After all this, I'm certain you're hungry for something sweet, so here's the dessert menu. I photographed this not primarily for the humor (though I sure do wonder about Omelette "Surprise" for dessert! Maybe it's good after Chicken "Surprise"?) but rather because Chocolate "Tato" is something I'm definitely going to try to figure out how to make back here at home. Yummmmmmm!!! For two people who were trying to not go nuts with spending over the week, we ate Chocolate "Tato" rather frequently. At just under US $4, thought, it wasn't too costly! (Especially since we split one.)
But, the fun aside, we really did enjoy the food - good variety, fresh and tasty, the french fries with white cheese are REALLY good, too, and be forewarned that if you order pizza, they will serve ketchup and mayonnaise on the side.
This is one reason why we often prefer to get the menus in the native language! Sometimes you can identify cognates and get a better understanding of what you're going to order. (This is harder in languages which don't use the Latin alphabet, but my meager Cyrillic skills were sufficient for me to figure out "rice" on a menu in Russian. That was the only thing I ever identified. We just always went to the same restaurant in groups and ordered different things to ensure that there was always something each person could eat).
ReplyDeleteThe cucumber and tomatoes thing goes beyond Bulgaria, it's staple breakfast food in Germany too. The other day I dropped Gwen off at daycare early enough for her to get breakfast there, and on the table was a big plate of cucumber and tomato slices. :)