The food is awesome - Ukrainians seem incapable of producing shit food.
The coffee - so long as you like Sthn European expresso - is as good as anything
you can get in Northern Italy.
Ukrainians are absolutely convinced that their wine is bad. Please encourage
them to think that way, so it can stay so incredibly cheap. When Ukrainians moan
about not being able to buy Crimean wine - nod your head - and say - "Da - sad".
Try not to smirk when you do. Crimean wine is made for Russian "taste". When it
comes to food and drink, the words "taste" and Russian, should never be in the same
sentence. Crimean wine is crap - they ferment it with sugar added to increase the
alcohol content, and make it sickly sweet for export to Russia.
Wine from around Kherson, and Nikolaev - along the lower Bug and lower Dnieper basins
is so, so, good - and so, so, cheap.
Every city in Ukraine has some local beers, and most are great. In Odessa, see if you
can find a local beer whose name translates to 'Odessan dark Ale".
And if you care to notice, there are also some very, very, pretty girls.
But Ukraine and Russia are very religious countries. The girls will smile, and if they
know some English may try and talk with you to practice their English, but very few
would have sex with a strange man.
It is a poor country, with a lot of official unemployment, and even more unofficial
unemployment. So, there will be people who will steal from you, cheat you, and they
have some prostitution. But you will feel a hell of a lot safer there, than in some
Asian countries.
It is a great country - visit. But dont believe all this "City of Brides" nonsense.
Kherson is a great town - and I recommend the Hotel Diligence. The rooms are good,
and the evening/lunch time chef there is great. Dont have breakfast there, though.
There are just too many good cafes only a few blocks away.
"Ukrainians seem incapable of producing shit food."
I disagree. Why do they have to add mayonnaise to everything? Mayonnaise on pizza? Mayonnaise in sushi rolls? Seems that they ruin everything by dousing it in mayonnaise.
"Kherson is a great town - and I recommend the Hotel Diligence. The rooms are good,
and the evening/lunch time chef there is great. Dont have breakfast there, though.
There are just too many good cafes only a few blocks away."
I checked Booking.com and rooms are start at 490 uah incl. breakfast. So what I should just waste this? Something that's already included and go somewhere else? If the lunch and dinner are good then the breakfast is probably too.
"Why do they have to add mayonnaise to everything? Mayonnaise on pizza? Mayonnaise in sushi rolls? Seems that they ruin everything by dousing it in mayonnaise."
Filipinos are worse ...
They add sugar to pretty much everything, Nescafe make a "3 in 1" that already has the creamer and sugar added so one gets no choice in the matter, Filipinos make bread with sugar, sausages with sugar, pizza bases with sugar, you name it then it is likely it has sugar added.
When they cook they won't season their cooking with so much as salt and/or pepper and because it tastes so shite they buy and add Maggi's 'Magic Sarap', which contains all those unhealthy ingredients, to add some flavouring to their otherwise shite cooking.
I had some cleaners in the other day, telling them to clean the toilets they were asking me for laundry powder to clean the toilets with ..... But that's another dumbass Filipino story :)
"bread with sugar, sausages with sugar, pizza bases with sugar, you name it then it is likely it has sugar added."
That Filipinos add sugar to everything is false. I am not a cook, but I do know Filipino recipes. I have helped in cooking at parties many times. Sugar is present, but I have never seen it used, not to say that it isn't. I can name the FILIPINO MAIN DISHES and it won't have sugar: tinola, adobo, lumpia, sinigang... I had to look up these recipes, because as I said, I am not a cook. Bread and pizza are not Filipino dishes. I had to loo up
Mayonaise to everything? Not to say that it wasn't present, but I have not noticed mayonaise. I ate pizza in Yalta. I ate at a Japanese restaurant in Kiev. I don't remember mayonaise.
"Ukrainians seem incapable of producing shit food."
I will disagree with that statement for myself. That Ukrainians like it, makes it NOT "shit food". Two foods do come to mind.... .
As a fast food, my lady friend came back with "fast food" while traveling from Kiev to Yalta. It was liver: beef or pork, I don't know. It was cooked, but I didn't taste any flavoring. It was just plain, bland black liver. I suppose it could have tasted better with some soy sauce and lemon.
The second was fish. She and her daughter went to the market to buy fish. She cut it up, salted it and served it. She did not cook it. Again, it would have tasted better with soy sauce and lemon, but it had nothing else.
2 lbs. chicken, cut into serving pieces
3 pieces dried bay leaves
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp vinegar
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 to 2 cups water
¼ cup cooking oil
½ tablespoon white sugar
Salt and whole peppercorn
You should try it, when I saw that girlfriend (qualified commercial chef) adding sugar I thought the worst but, as much as I despise sugar, it made the adobo, the sauce became sticky and stuck to the chicken, 100% recommended.
But no sugar in bread, pizza, sausages, coffee etc. etc. etc. thank you very much