Ukrainian food?!
Ukrainian food?
Okay I am going overseas. I need help with what are some good dishes. Additionally, if you could spell the words (with the English letters) for beef, chicken, fish, lamb and pork so I at least have some kind of idea what I am ordering that would be great.
Answers:
Caroline W gives a good site, with many popular foods, but misses some "must haves".
Pelminy is very similar to varenyky, except it has no meat in it. Both are very similar to Italian tortellini. You can not leave Ukraine without eating borshch - and it is a good time of year to have cold borshch. Fish is popular this time of year, but you will find beef based foods not as popular because of the exceptionally high cost of beef in Ukraine.
Knowing the words for the foods you desire is much more important than knowing "beef, chicken, fish, lamb, and pork" though - and you will not find them in Latin (English) letters on menus. But, they are:рыба/ryba (fish), говядина/gov'adina (beef), свинина/svinina (pork), ягненок/yagnenok (lamb), цыпленок/cyplenok (chicken). These are actually in Russian, and will be understood in Ukraine (East and West Ukraine).
Here is a link to a good site, with some basic phrases you should know to buy food in Ukraine or Russia (and despite what some may tell you, all Ukrainians understand Russian, but not all Ukrainians understand Ukrainian):
http://www.waytorussia.net/whatisrussia/...
It has the words in Russian (Cyrillic), spelled phonetically in English letters, and audio so you can hear it pronounced.